48 
JAN 47 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Wntrs of tf|C XX\di, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, January 10. 
A mimic civil war is raging in Potter Co., 
Dakota, between Gettysburg and Forest City, 
each wanting to be the county seat, and to 
hare the public records About 150 men are 
under arms on each side. Hitherto Gettys¬ 
burg is ahead, having siezed the records by 
breaking into the building that contained 
them, last Wednesday. The Forest City men 
threateu bloodshed.A Dynamite Bro¬ 
therhood, in the style of the Molly Maguire 
secret society, is reported to have been dis¬ 
covered with headquarters in Westmoreland 
Co., Pa., its object being to “dynamite-’Eng¬ 
land, and some of the recent explosions there 
are attributed to it.. Logan says the 
Republicans will have a majority in the Illi¬ 
nois Legislature, and that his chances of re- 
election to the LT. S. Senate are good.. 
Whisky rows between illicit distillers and 
revenue officers reported from Livingston, 
Ky.: several deaths and many wounded . 
The indications are that a defalcation in the 
Virginia auditor’s office will amount to $100,- 
000. Official rascality knows no sectional 
bouuds.President Arthur has accepted 
the invitation to attend the opening of the 
Universal Cotton Convention at New Orleans, 
February 10. President Garrett of the Balti¬ 
more and Ohio road has tendered his private 
cars ..... —.Grover Cleveland resigned the 
Governorship of the Empire State in a mes¬ 
sage of 13 words sent to the Legislature last 
Monday.Russell Hancock, the only 
surviving child of God. Hancock, died the 
other day on his plantation at Clarksdale, 
Miss., aged 34. He left a wife and three chil¬ 
dren....Election frauds, in favor of the 
Democrats in Chicago, and in favor of the 
Republicans at- Cincinnati, have aroused much 
indignation wherever their turpitude has be¬ 
come known,... It is now gravely pro¬ 
posed that the Government shall “buy” the 
Erie Canal, although this State would jump 
at a chance to pass it over without price, if 
the Government would take the ditch and 
enlarge it......The Swaim court-martial 
still drags on at Washington, having lasted 
32 days, and the end is not yet in sight. 
The next international race will probably be 
for the America cup, now held by the New 
York Yacht Club, and for which two chal¬ 
lenges are shortly to be sent in behalf of very 
large English cutter yachts.The coin¬ 
age at the United States mint at Philadelphia 
last year aggregated 52,370,000 pieces, repre 
senting $10,949,009. Of this amount $1,740,210 
was in gold, $14,412,309 in silver, and $790,483 
in baser metals. During the year there were 
11,273,942 five cent pieces, and 23,201,742 
pennies coined .It is said that the late 
Gov. Coburn has left $1,100,000 in public be¬ 
quests in Maine. He leaves $60,000 for a pub¬ 
lic library in his native town of Skowhegan, 
and the Waterville College and the State Col¬ 
lege are generously remembered.No¬ 
tice of a 10 per cent, reduction will be posted 
in all the mills of Fall River to-day. It will 
apply to all employes of the corporations, 
from the treasurers down .The annual 
report of the Mississippi River Commission 
was sent to Congress on Tuesday. The amount 
of money called for by the commission for the 
next fiscal year is $10,717,600. The Missouri 
River Commission calls for $1,310.000........ 
The Western Union Telegraph Company has 
been forced to pay for a mistake over its wires 
in spite of the iron-clad contract on the mes¬ 
sage blanks.During last year 1,665 new 
enterprises were started in the 14 Southern 
States, with a combined capital of $105,269,- 
500 .Mrs. Clarissa C, Peck leaves nearly 
half a million dollars for the foundation of a 
home for incurables in Chicago.A re¬ 
port, first started in Toronto, Ont., that Wil¬ 
liam Churchill, a carpenter, of Toronto, and 
his four brothers, who live in Newfoundland, 
had fallen heirs to a fortune estimated at 
$35,000,000. left by a relative in England, and 
which had been for years awaiting a claim¬ 
ant, has been revived. The Milwaukee 
flour mills manufactured 1,177,676 barrels of 
flour during 18S4...Chief Justice Waite’s 
health does not. improve, and he will not 
occupy his seat on the United States Court 
Bench during the present term.The 
wife of Senator Lamar died Monday night 
at Oxford, Miss.The St. Lawrence 
river is falling, and all danger of a flood is 
thought to be past. 
.... Congress is again being overwhelmed with 
bills, nine-tenths of which will never come to 
anything, nor do their introducers think they 
ever wilL Last Monday alone more were in¬ 
troduced than will be definitely acted upon at 
this session. Of those introduced into the 
House the most notable were bills appropria¬ 
ting $1,000,000 for a public building in New 
Orleans; throwing open mineral lands on 
Indian reservations; authorizing the Barthol¬ 
di statue to be used as a light house; increas¬ 
ing the number of United States Supreme 
Court judges; for the creation of a River and 
Harbor Department; appropriating $75,000,- 
000 for the improvement of the Mississippi. 
Two resolutions of inquiry were introduced 
asking for information relative to the part 
taken by the United States in the Congo con¬ 
ference Motions to suspend the rules and 
pass the following lacked the necessary two- 
thirds; abolishing the whiskey and tobacco 
tax; the Mexican pension bill, with Senate 
amendment to pension all Federal soldiers of 
the late war; the Senate bankruptcy bill, the 
latter by a vote of 136 to 76 .The fire 
losses for the “States” and the Dominion are 
estimated at $112,000,000 for the last year. 
This is the heaviest loss for nine years .The 
armed Socialists in Chicago are said to num¬ 
ber 2,000 .Wednesday, in the Execu¬ 
tive Sessiou of the Senate, the Committee on 
Foreign Relations reported back the Nicara¬ 
gua Treaty, with the recommendation that it 
be ratified. This provides for the building of 
a railroad through Nicaragua by the United 
States Government, connecting the Atlantic 
and Pacific, The American-Spanish-Cuba- 
Porto-Rico Treaty will certainly not be rati¬ 
fied, if farmers strenuously protest against it. 
.... Gen. Grant has declined the subscription 
of $100,000, that was being raised for him 
by his wealthy admirers.. ....A lot of rowdy 
Orangemen have been creating an auti- 
Catholic riot at Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, 
A British man-of-war had to be dispatched 
from St. Johns to quell the tumult.The 
Exhibitors' Association of the New Orleans 
Exposition have resolved to build a railway 
from the city to the grounds at a cost of $25,- 
000. A large sum has been subscribed for the 
purpose. Everything is expected to be in 
place between January 10th and 15th. 
....Sec. McCulloch has given the whiskey 
men seven months’ time for paying taxes on 
registering their intention toexport. “Brew¬ 
ster, Attorney-General,” decided that this 
could he done; most others don’t think so. It 
virtually gives the distilling interest seven 
months’ interest ou the tax upon 20,000,000 
gallons, amounting to$18,000,000...Con¬ 
gressman Randall, of Pennsylvania, has been 
“swinging around the circle’' in the South 
ostensibly in the interest of “protection;” out 
doubtless also with a view to promoting the 
success of his eaudidacy for the Speakership 
of the House after March 4, next, and for the 
Presidency in 1888. “A long way ahead, 
eh?” Yes, but Randall is long-headed. His 
speeches and himself have been well received. 
.... The two houses of Congress are at logger- 
heads over the mode of counting the electoral 
vote. The Edmunds Hoar Bill which has 
passed the Senate, requires both Houses to 
agree to count the same vote of a State: if 
they can’t agree, the vote of the State is not 
to be counted. The Eaton Bill, now before 
the House, gives a preponderance of weight 
to that body, on the ground that the Constitu¬ 
tion gives the election of a President to that 
branch on a failure to elect by the people. 
There is a Conference Committee, but it is 
at a deadlock ..Although with the new 
year business is reviving somewhat in places, 
yet on the whole, manufacturing and mining 
are gettiug duller, and more families are be¬ 
ing reduced to distress owing to the stoppage 
or curtailment of work. Here are only a 
few specimen announcements, but what a 
world of distress and misery do they imply. 
The Pittsburg Bessemer Steel Works have 
notified the employes in the rail mill of thirty- 
three per cent., those in the converting mill 
of twenty per cent., and all laborers of ten per 
cent, reductions in wages-..... The condi¬ 
tion of affairs in the Hocking Valley coal 
regions, where the miners have been on strike 
for “living” wages for months,is very serious. 
The strikers are being supplied with arms and 
ammunition, and an outbreak is reported to 
be imminent. The famishing wretches are 
kept from absolute starvation principally by 
contributions from laboring men elsewhere... 
....The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad 
Company has ordered a reduction in the 
wages of all employes except conductors, en¬ 
gineers and firemen.The cigar makers 
at Henry Feltmao’s factory, Covington, Ky., 
have gone out on a strike because of a reduc¬ 
tion of one dollar per thousand on all classes 
of work.Six hundred men and boys 
at the Belmont colliery, Mt. Carmel, Pa., 
have struck agaiust a reduction of ten per 
cent in wages... Ford & Kimball, pro¬ 
prietors of the largest fouudry in Concord, 
N, H., have discharged all but five of their 
employes on account of dull times. 
... .There is great destitution at Newark, O., 
owing to the reduction of force by the manu¬ 
facturing enterprises.Gingham weavers 
at North Adams, Mass., struck against a re¬ 
duction of ten per cent, in wages .It 
will be seen that the wretchedness is often 
aggravated by the “striking” of the men—a 
foolish proceeding at such a dull season. 
Warning Symptoms. 
Don’t neglect these. If you have symptoms 
of Consumtlou. Catarrh, Bronchitis. Neural¬ 
gia, or the indications of auy other disease 
which may keep its. hold upon you until it be¬ 
comes chronic, do not neglect the warning in¬ 
dications. M eet the enern v upon the very thres¬ 
hold. and whileyout vitality is yet unimpaired. 
If your regular physician fails to reach the 
case, then we advise you to try the new Vital¬ 
izing Treatment of Drs Starkey &Palen. U09 
Girard st, Philadelphia. It will be found in 
almost certain means of restoration—the way 
hack to health —an agent that may save you 
from a life of invalidism, or from premature 
death, in saying this, we are not speaking 
lightly, nor from mere professional interest, 
nor from theory or general assumptions. In 
proof, you are offered an array of facts and 
results so laree, so well authenticated, and so 
positive, that no one in the habit, of weighing 
evidence can doubt them. If you write to 
Drs. Starkey & Palen, they will send you 
such documents and reports of cases as will 
enable you to decide for yourself whether this 
treatment will benefit you.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, January 10. 
The Bishop of Melbourne has ordered 
prayers to be offered that rabbits uiay not be¬ 
come mothers, all endeavors to exterminate 
them having proved fiuitless. What next?. 
....A huge lemon was recently picked at 
Pauasoffkee, Fla. It measured 24 inches in 
circumference one way, 22 inches the other, 
and weighed four pounds thirteen ounces. 
A bounty of $1 per head for each wolf des¬ 
troyed in Northwest Canada is now being paid 
by ranchmen in that section, who have suf¬ 
fered considerable loss lately by the ravages 
of those animals.North Carolina has 
gone to work in earnest to reclaim, by means 
of convict labor, some of the valuable swamp 
lands owned by its public school system. 
The Board of Directors of the American Jer¬ 
sey Cattle Club offers a premium of $300 for 
the best, and one of $200 for the second best 
essay on Jersey Cattle, all competing essays 
to be the property of the Club; all essays for 
competition to be sent to the Secretary on or 
before Feb. 1,18S5; the awards to be decided 
by a committee to be appointed by the Direc¬ 
tors. It is required that each author shall 
send, with the manuscript copy of his essay, 
his name in a separate sealed envelop. The 
Secretary will number each essay and place a 
corresponding number upon the envelop, 
which he will deliver to the committee, after 
they shall have made the a wax-ds. Thomas J. 
Hand, See’y, 3 John Street, N. Y. Re¬ 
cent cold weather in the Southwest has doue 
much harm on the cattle mages .Sugar- 
making has ceased in Franklin Parish, La.... 
A scheme has actually been put forward at 
Ramsgate, Eugland, to reclaim the Goodwin 
quicksands, and fertilize them by conveying 
thither the sewage of Ramsgate through a 
tunnel. Donald Cameron, of Locbiel, 
a great Highland owner and a member of 
Parliment, has called a conference of land¬ 
lords to consider the demands of the crofters. 
Many landloi’ds favor concessions . 
Gov Robinson, of Massachusetts, has nomi¬ 
nated, and the Council confirmed William H. 
Bowker, of Boston, and Arthur A. Brigham, 
of Marlboro, as trustees of the Agricultural 
College. Mr. Bowker is a graduate of that 
institution, and has done it very practical 
service by inspiring some recent legislation. 
....Welsh farmers are dissatisfied with the 
present land laws and are agitating to obtain 
an act like that in force in Ireland. Mauy 
are joining the English Farmers’ Alliance and 
a Welsh league is forming. Mr. Parnell 
promises the support of the nationalist party 
to the agitation. He has wi-itten a letter in 
which he says; “The farmers of England, 
Wales and Scotland will accept nothing less 
than the Irish act. with an additional provi¬ 
sion that rents shall not be chargeable on im¬ 
provements made by tenants.”.Oshkosh, 
Wis., has a factory which last season turned 
out 00 000 pounds of genuine Bwiss cheese. 
For years Americans have furnished England 
with the greater part of her old Stilton cheese 
and Westphalia with her celebrated hams.... 
A mil’, at Toronto, Canada, shut down, stat¬ 
ing as a reason that Minneapolis millers are 
now selling flour in Canada at less than the 
price of Canadian wheat.Mr. C. 8. 
Read, M. P.,said, at a meeting in Norwich. 
England, that the laborers were much more 
interested in knowing whut they were going 
to eat this Winter than in having a right to 
vote.The Fairbanks Company, 
of St. Johnsbury, Vt., tho other day sent to 
the Boston market the lurgesr, pair of oxen 
ever seen there When started (or market 
they weighed 0,052 pounds, and they sold for 
cents per pound, dre.-sed weight.. 
The Jersey cow Mary Anna of St. Lamberts, 
has made ooe pound of butter from seven 
pouuds of milk!.It is said that fully 
$5,000,000 have been invested in Montana 
ranches by English capitalists within the last 
year. This was almost entirely for stock and 
fencing, as the land belongs almost entirely 
to Uncle Bam .South America has as 
many cattle in round numbers as this country, 
but her 50,000,000 are hardly worth two-thirds 
of what ours aro worth.In 1883 thex’e 
were 200 transfers of recorded Berkshires re¬ 
ported to the office of the American Berk¬ 
shire Association. In 1834 there were over 
000 reported.A total of 1.013 Short¬ 
horn cattle were sold in Eugland last year, at 
an overage of about $239. This shows a gain 
of $20 a head over 1883. and $75 a head over 
1881 .From the milk records of the 
Michigan State Farm the avernee annual 
yield of six Short-horns was 5.009.10 pounds; 
of six Ayrshires, 8,525,38 pounds, and of two 
Jerseys. 4.919.5.Tho health officer at. 
the Chicago Stock yards last year condemned 
and caused to be sent, to the rendering tanks 
1.978 diseased hogs. 816 diseased and “lumpy - 
jawed” cattle. 463 scabby and emaciated 
sheep, and 51 slunk calves.." .. 
It is said that the Canadian authorities, 
who refused to favor the Frewen scheme of 
exporting Wvomipg cattle through the Do¬ 
minion. would agree to such passage rather 
than have stock go by any other route, in 
case the English Government should assent to 
the movement ....During the season just 
closed there were received at the Chicago 
stock yards 357.574 Texas through cattle and 
231.734 northern range cattle, or a total of 
589, 80S head. For 1883 there were 250.340 of 
the former, and 179.080 of the latter, making 
433.020 altogether, or 150,288 head less than for 
1884 .Of all the dressed beef, cattle, 
hogs, sheep, horses, and mules received in the 
New England States and in the cities of New 
York.Boston, Philadelphia and Ralti more since 
the beginning of the year 1881. Chicago sent 
.6803 per cent. Of dressed beef Chicago sent 
.8897 percent, of cattle..8311 per cent., and of 
hogs .5283 per cent.One man has bought 
400,000 barrels of apples in New Hampshire 
for shipment.According to conserva¬ 
tive estimates we have a total of 3.000.000 
colonies of bees, which annually yield 120,000, 
000 pounds of honey. 
-—« « ♦ 
Every one interested in Firearms and Sport¬ 
ing Goodsshould send for the Catalogue issued 
by Messrs. J. A Ross Co., also their 1885 
Calendar. See advert’m’t. in this issue.—Adv. 
Cougli#. Brown’s Bronchial Troches, 
are used with advantage to alleviate Coughs. 
Sore Throat, and Bronchial Affections. Sold 
only in boxes. — Adv. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, Jan. 10. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly re¬ 
view of the grain trade says: The autumn 
sown acreage of 1884 is from 10 to 15 per cent, 
below that of 1883 Young crops continue to 
show a healthy and promising appearance. 
Farmers’ deliveries are greatly diminished, 
enabling holders to obtain from Is to 2s, and 
sometimes 3s per quarter advance. The sales 
of English wheat the past week were 35.021 
quarters, at, 3ls lid, against 35.130 quarters at 
39s the corresponding week last year. Flour 
was 6d to lOd higher. Barley Is higher, and 
foreign wheat Is to 2s dearer. The market 
was against buyers. It is evident that water¬ 
side stocks have been reduced to their normal 
level Foi'eign flour is generally Is hieber. 
American Is to 2s higher. Quotations for 
maize are unaltered. Barley is (inner and 
oats steady and slow. Cargoes off the coast 
have materially advanced. One cargo of 
American red winter, per sail, brought 34s 
per quarter. There were four arrivals and 
seven sales; two cargoes remained, one of 
which was from California. Trade forward 
was livelier; there was a large business at ad¬ 
vanced x ates. No. I California afloat is worth 
•37s per quarter. which represents an advance 
of 2s. At to day’s market wheat was excited. 
There was a general advance of 2s to 2s 6d. 
Some sorts advanced3s. There was a moder¬ 
ate business transacted Flour was generally 
2s dearer. American flour was 2s Otl dearer. 
Maize is scarce, and Od to Is higher. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday. January 10. 
Chicago. —Compared with prices two weeks 
ago, “regulai’” wheat is 8c. higher; No. 
2 Chicago Spring, 8c. higher; No. 2 Red 
Winter, 5J^e. higher. Corn, Ic. higher. 
Oats. ltge. higher. Rye. 3c. higher. Pork, 
$l,05c. higher. Cattle about the sarno. Hogs 
15c. higher. Sheep, about 50c. higher. 
- Wheat. — “Active" sales ranged: Junuary. ~:1V$ 
7 <i 7 h c ; doslnir at 7Mtf®7Uc February, : 
March. : Mov. kWKfiUje: v<i. 2 Chicago 
Spring, 79%aTlUtfc: No 3 do. CSriOe- No. 2 Red 79e; 
So, 8 >!'•„ CORN—active sales ranged: Cash, 
xtfW-SHStoc. January, »k7«s February, ««tf<at87«*cs 
Oats Firm, nulcs ranged: January. *>140. Febru¬ 
ary. 26 l i May. “c. iivi Steady at Si*. LIabley — 
N . 8, transit' Pork- Active, sales minted Cush, 
*12.1 lal'i n .January. *12.H) * 11.25 February. *l2.-.‘7l<i 
toi'.cm- March, *i2.m«ri2.03V« Laud active- sales 
minted Cash. *?.!45 a 7: January *6.9'«i7.i , !l: Febru¬ 
ary. *7.10 (<i7.12**e.; March, tl-'iH CATrt.it.—Market 
steady Good to choiceshipping, *5,40 *5,60: Common 
to medium. *4.25 <tS: Texuns, *8.20*4.lx Hogs.— 
Market active, rough packing. *4.20a4.35* packing 
nod shipping, *1(06(4 65. light, #1.25 r I..NI; skips, 
*3,80*4. 0, Market steady: Interior to fair, 
*2,7942.60; medium to Rood, 8,5004: choice to extra, 
*44*4.60. 
St. Louis —Compared with cash prices a 
fortnight ago, No. 2 Red W bout, is 0y<\ higher. 
Corn, le. higher. Oats. 2c. higher. Rye. 3c. 
higher. Barley, 5c. higher. Flaxseed, 2%c. 
higher. 
WnitAT.—No. 7 Red, 86^9664(0. cash and January; 
February 86*JF®87v(je! March. Vh- May, 824tf38R4c. 
Cons -Moreactlv ; cash. 34&4'»SPV<<e: January, so* <0 
3«*c-* February. TlVaSlUcc March, 85t*c May, 87Vs 
(a 3i l (C. Oats slow cn-ti. 3iv«t*o. 'lay 8Wtjii«804<ie. 
Kvk-F irmer at Nic Baki.kt -Quiet at WRJ4e. Kuos 
quiet III v'l'f. FlaXSBXO steady nt *1 JU*4. Hay 
Firm; prairie llmothv, *12.00* 15fSR Bkan 
Steady at .Vie. «t mill. Cous meal- strong fit *2'<42 05. 
Hoick' At *12 5 ca*b: *12 4o February. Lakh -Strong 
n s;'<■<«,le. I iutlb Market steady F.xutjrts, **i75a.s: 
good to choice shippings, *4 25(*l 90- fair to medium. 
1450'S4 60; Texans, *8 5s4 25. Sheep Common to 
medium. *2 3V<t8: fair to choice, *8 ■!*"» 4. IIuuh Light 
at *4 30to®4 SO: packing at I4.30tfp4.45; heavy at *4.40 
(<« 4 CU. 
Boston.— Compared with cash prices a 
week ugo, com is 1c. higher. Oat#, from lc. 
to ljAjc. higher. Rye, lc higher. 
Grain.—Corn— In moderate demand at. steady 
prices. Swami’r Mixed. 3lVp>a53c; Steamer Yellow, 
52<«53o: and No Grade, 4S,^,rdc. per bunk. Oats are 
steady; gules of No. 1 White and bnrlcy nt 39@44V<jc: 
No. i White, 8iVft@3So; No. 3 ut 36>a«#3?c, and of rnlxod 
