THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JAN 31 
^ntrs of i\)t Wu\i< 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, January 24. 
The United States kw regulating the time 
of electing Senators brought out a large num¬ 
ber of elections upon tbe same day, Tuesdaju 
Among those chosen, each by two bouses in 
separate sessions, were Voorbees in Indiana, 
Jonathan A. G'baee m Rhode Island, Evarts in 
New York, Platt in Connecticut. Cameron in 
Pennsylvania, Call in Florida. Vest, in Mis¬ 
souri, Vance in North Carolina and Teller in 
Colorado. No one bad a majority of the two 
houses in Arkansas; the Illinois Legislature 
is still iu a snarl over questions of organiza¬ 
tion, and California is yet to be heard from. 
Cbace and Evarts are new members, Teller 
has been in the Senate before, and the others 
elected are how iu tbe Senate... .The Dakota 
Legislature has passed a resolution favoring 
the admission of the southern half of the Ter¬ 
ritory as a State, and seems to have gone clear 
over to the policy of separation. The northern 
part seems to despair of retaining Bismarck as 
capital of the Territory in auy other way,... 
..An experimental shaft in the new oil region 
of Wyomiug Territory, sunk only fifteen feet, 
yields six barrels of oil in twenty-four hours. 
.The will of the late Schuyler Colfax 
was admitted to probate at South Baud, Ind , 
last Tuesday. The family residence, with its 
contents, goes to Mrs. Colfax, with half the 
residue of the estate, and the rest goes to 
Schuyler Colfax, Jr. The estate is valued at 
$550,000, and is without Incumbrance. It was 
thought to be about $150,000 only.The 
United States Senate last Thursday confirmed 
Carroll D. Wright as Commissioner of Labor. 
- ..The Treasury Department established 
in this city on Thursday a Bureau for tbe su¬ 
pervision of imported rags.... ...The Post¬ 
master-General has drafted a bill providing 
for the reduction of postage on second class 
matter, or newspapers mailed by publishers, 
from two cents to one cent per pound. The 
bill allows a publisher twice a year to circu¬ 
late sample copies uot to exceed in number 
the actual circulation of the paper at the date 
of mailing .OLiver Brothers & Phillips 
have made a statement to their creditors 
showing liabilities $],608.$?S.$8; assets, $2,- 
319 352.42 A n extension of five years is asked. 
.. .The present Texas L-gislature is called the 
“Kid Legislature,” because of the youthful¬ 
ness of many of its members .... ... Twenty- 
one invalids were burned or suffocated to 
death in the blazing ward of a lunatic asylum 
at Kankakee, Ill . last Sunday There was 
absolutely do provision for extinguishing the 
fire. The corpses of the victims were so 
charred that they could not be recognized.... 
A great railroad “war” iu passenger aud 
freight rates is now iu progress between the 
trunk lines from the seaboard to the West. 
The Pennsylvania Railroad is still carrying 
immigrants from New York to Chicago" for 
$1. The other roads have cut rates severely, 
though none of them, as yet, has come down 
to $1 .Editor McClure, of the Philadel¬ 
phia Times, was welcomed at New Orleans by 
tbe sheriff, who served a summons in a $100,- 
000 libel suit brought ag-iust the Times by 
the Louisiana Lottery Company The com¬ 
pany was defeated In a similar suit brought 
about a year ago in Philadelphia—does tbe 
Swindle control the Louisiana judiciary and 
pack Louisiana juries?.On Monday the 
bill to place Gen. Grant on the “retired” list 
was defeated iu tbe House by the filibustering 
tactics of Representatives Terry, McMillan, 
Warren and Blount, and the opposition of 
Generals Slocum and Rosencrans. Slocum, 
Chairman of the Committee which had charge 
of it, deferred calling it up till 4 r M., and tbe 
rules required the vote to be taken before 5 
p.m , so that tbe “filibusters” easily talked it 
to death .... .The Indian Appropriation Bill, 
reported by the House Committe on Appro¬ 
priations, appropriates $5,664 136. The esti¬ 
mates amouuted to $7,328,049, and the appro¬ 
priation mane by the last session for the 
present fiscal year was $5,589,402 . The 
project for extending the Pacific railroad in¬ 
debtedness 60 years at three percent, interest, 
with provision for semi annual installments 
upon the principal, has been matured by the 
Senate Judiciary Committee in a bill drawn 
by Mr, Garland, which it is expected will soon 
be reported.Tbe U. S. Senate is making 
very little progress with Interstate Commerce 
legislation. What is known as the “Seuate 
Commission Bill” is strongly opposed by the 
advocates of tbe Reagan Bill .The Su¬ 
preme Court of the United States has backed 
up tbe Supreme Court of Utah in refusing 
bail to Rudger Clawson, the polygamist, who 
was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment 
and $800 fine for polygamy and unlawful co¬ 
habitation, He wanted to be bailed out 
pending a rehearing of the case.The 
Maine Prohibitionists are resolved to enforce 
the anti-liquor laws of their State, and have 
served 80 warrants against Portland dealers, 
including all tbe hotel keepers.Tbe 
Montreal Carnival is to open ou the 26th. .. 
.. By> legal decision colored gentlemen of 
Boston cannot be refused the privileges of a 
public skating rink .... An ludiau hunter 
was eaten by wolves iu the Michigan pineries 
last Thursday. The. animals are numerous 
and bold.Gen. Hatch has been ordered. 
from Washington, to remove the Oklahoma 
boomers from the Indian Territory at auy 
cost; but.not to attack tbem until he had col¬ 
lected S00 additional troops, so as to have an 
overwhelming force. The “Doomers” are 
reported to be surrounded by the troops, w ho 
permit no one to join the colonists, while they 
allow all who may choose to depart to do so 
The matter has been discussed in Congress, 
especially in the Senate, where tbe Senators 
from Kansas, Arkansas, and Missouri favor 
opening up tbe section as soon as possible; 
while others stick up for the treaty rights of 
the Indians, 
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FOREIGN. 
Across the Atlantic agrarian outrages still 
contiuue in Irelaud, the most serious lately 
being the murder of a tenant who bad takeu 
a farm from \> bieh another had been evicted. 
. In Great Britain a strong agitation is 
being got up against the present landlord 
system, and iu favor of peasant proprietor 
ship of land. Cabinet Ministers Sir Charles 
Dilke, and Mr. Chamberlain, with that old 
"Tribune of the People," John Bright, are 
leaders in the movement, and as tbe late 
Franchise Bill gave votes even to farm labor 
ers, it is expected that before long a complete, 
but peaceuhle, revolution will be effected in 
the British land system-The news from 
Wolseley’s forces in Egypt causes anxiety. A 
few day- ago Gen. Stewart, who had pushed 
across the desert with 1.500 men ou horses and 
camels, while the main forces made a great 
circuit along a large “beud" of the Nile, 
fought the followers of El Mahdl 25 miles 
northwest of Mebemneb, and forced tbem to 
retreat. The latest news says that this small 
body is surrounded in tbe desert by an “over¬ 
whelming” force of the enemy, and that 
Wolseley cannot render assistance for at 
least two days. Alarmists say that the 
whole army may get into a similar 
predicament, as the False Prophet is 
massimr all bis forces to attack the iuvaders. 
... A Conference of the Powers is to be held 
to provide that the Suez Canal shall always 
be open to navigation in war a3 well as in 
peace, to all vessels, including war vessels, 
but do act of war cau take place iu its waters. 
The Continental Powers have guaranteed a 
loan of $45,000,000 to straighten out Egyptian 
finances. This is a triumph for French diplo¬ 
macy, as England wanted to take exclusive 
control of the raising and spending of an 
Egyptian loan; now the other Powers, aud 
especially Fiance, which negotiated the pro¬ 
ject, will have a say in the matter. Prance is 
disposed to help England in her Egyptian 
troubles in return for English help in her own 
troubles iu the East. Gen. Bnfere de lTsle, in 
command in Touquin, telegraphs that 80 000 
Chinese troops are so strougly intrenched in 
front of him as to render an attack nc-ariy 
hopeless with bi3 little array of 11,000 men, 
which has been reduced from 18,000 by months 
of seiges, battles aud skirmishes, and, above 
all, by an insalubrious climate. Ci.iua is reck¬ 
less of her soldiers; one army destroyed, an¬ 
other at once springs up from the teeming 
population. It is likely that France must 
either relinquish Tonquin or march direct 
upon Pekin, to bring the war to a close by the 
capture of the capital of the Empire. 
The Danger of IllMoiitnia. 
Ik you ai e a sufferer from sleeplessness, that 
warning indication of serious nervous de¬ 
rangement', which, if not arrested, may lead 
to most disastrous consequences, send a state¬ 
ment of your case to Dt>. Starkey & Paieu, 
1109 Girard 8fc , Philadelphia, They have 
successfully treated many such cases with 
their new Vitalizing remedy, wtiich acts di¬ 
rectly on the nervous centres. An opinion 
will tie promptly given; aud they will at the 
same time furnish you with reports oi cases 
from which you will be able to judge lor 
yourself as to tbe value of their special Treat¬ 
ment in your particular case.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, January 24. 
The grass in Willamette Valley, Oregon, 
according to papers from that region, is as 
green as in May, while only a few weeks ago 
the same ground was covered with snow to 
a depth of two feet. Of the samples of 
London milk examined in 1884, 26 per cent, 
were adulterated. The public analysts cal¬ 
culated that the people pay about $400,000 for 
w-ater sold under the name of milk . A 
bill has bceu introduced iu tbe Ohio Legisla 
ture to allow a party, under whose judgmint 
real estate is sold by the Sheriff, to desigimste 
the paper in which tbe sales shall be advertised. 
At tbe annual session of the Northeastern 
Beekeepers’ Association at Syracuse, N Y., 
last Thursday, resolutions were passed. after 
sharp discussion, asking the United States 
Senate to strike out of the Spauish-American 
treaty the article admitting Cuban honey into 
this country free of duty. The resolutions de 
clare that many persons have been induced 
to engage in tbe business by the present duty 
of two cents a pouud, or twenty cents a gal¬ 
lon, on imported honey; that Cuba has the 
richest honey-producing flora iu the world, 
and will, even under the existing tariff, be¬ 
come a formidable rival .All the prop¬ 
erty, real aud personal, of the J I. Chase 
Flow Company, Racine, Wis., was sold at 
auction last Wednesday, by order of Court, 
for $175,000. Mr. Chase, himself a heavy 
creditor, has purchased the works, which, it 
is said, will soon start up again .The 
Nebraska State Senate has passed a resolu¬ 
tion indorsing DeWitt W, Smith, of Illinois, 
for Commissioner of Agriculture. The 
State Board of Agriculture has passed a sim¬ 
ilar resolution .The annual meeting of 
tbe New York State Agricultural Society was 
held at Albany ou Wednesday. Jan. 21st. Jas. 
W. Wadsworth, of Genesee, was elected 
President and the rest of tbe officers were re¬ 
elected .. ..A famine is prevailing in tbe gov- 
ernmentsof Archangel aui Vologda, Russia,.. 
A telegram from Wilmingtou. Delaware, yes 
terday, says that Thomas J Edge, Secretary 
of tbe Pennsylvania State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture; Dr. Bridges, State Veteriuariau of 
Pennsylvania, and Drs. Dyer and Miller, 
United States Veterinarians, were at that 
place tbe day before investigating contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia cases aud the measures 
taken to stamp out the disease. Drs. Dyer 
and Miller intended to renmiu a few days and 
examine all infected herds. The mission of 
Mr. Edge aud Dr, Bridges was to arrange 
with the Delaware authorities to co-operate iu 
preventing the removal of infected cuttle from 
one State to another. They will at once trace 
the cows sold from an infected Wilmington 
dairy, and have them quarantined If found iu 
Pennsylvania. Tbe disease has appeared iu a 
herd at Keunett Squar , Pa. Au amendment 
to the Delaware law now pending limits the 
amount to be paid by the State for condemned 
kine, to $50 each .A cablegram from 
Brussels on Thursday says that in the Cham¬ 
ber of Deputies M. Dumont explained the pro¬ 
posal to tax imports of cereals, etc. A reso¬ 
lution was adopted to take the subject under 
discussion. MM, Beermaert aud Jacobs spoke 
in opposition to the proposed tax ... Another 
from L/ondon on the same day says that 
Count von Munster, the German Ambassador 
to England, had just had a conference with 
Earl Granville and communicated to him 
Prince Bismarck s refusal to alter the German 
duties on sugar or the bounties to sugar man¬ 
ufacturers. Dispatches from Texas con¬ 
tinue to report great Josses of cattle and sheep 
by the late cold weather on many ranges in 
the northern and western parte of the State. 
Great numbers of cattle have drifted south¬ 
ward till stopped by wire fencing, running 
many miles east and west, and are uow dying 
by huudreds from hunger, thirst and cold. 
The loss is chiefly on ranges which had suf¬ 
fered from drought, wnere the grass aud 
water are scarce and the cattle iu poor condi¬ 
tion. It is estimated that 10 per cent, of the 
cattle and 20 per cent, of the sheep have 
perished.Reports of heavy losses among 
cattle, especially among the new-comers from 
Texas, come from Idaho und Montaua. Dur¬ 
ing the recent cold weather hundreds of cuttle, 
driven In by the biting blasts, aud suffering 
keenly from the pangs of hanger, congregated 
near various towus, os it iu expectation of 
assistance from the people. In some places 
they took possession of the streets, and stood 
for hours in the shelter of the buildings. Such 
cattle as could uot make the towns, herded on 
the railroad tracks in various places, aud in¬ 
ter ferred somewhat with travel ... S. W. 
Talmadge, the statistician of Milwaukee city, 
has important infoi oration from tbe principal 
winter wheatgiowmg States. Complaint 
seems to lie general that the condition of win¬ 
ter w heat is most unfavorable, and the prom¬ 
ise for even a fair outcome is not very flatter¬ 
ing. Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri 
and KentDeky report a large decrease in acre¬ 
age, and, owing to severity of the Winter, 
the damage has been very great In many 
counties the wheat is wholly frozen out. The 
shortage in acreage is put at fully 20 per 
cent as compared with last year. There will 
probably be a great falliug off iu spring 
wheat, too, in Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota. 
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prices a 
Oats, steady. 
use Brown s Bronchial I'roches. ‘-Have 
never changed my mind respecting them, 
except I think better of that whicti l began 
thinking well of."— Rev. Henry Ward 
Beecher. Sold only in Boxes — Adv. 
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, Jauuary 24, 1.885. 
Chicago. — Compared with prices a week 
ago, “regular" wheat is %c. lower: No. 
2 Chicago Spring, lj^c. lower; No. 2 
Red, Kc. higher. Corn and Oats, unchang¬ 
ed; Rye, 3c. higher; Barley, from 2 to 6c. 
higher. 
Wheat. — •* Active." Rales rauged: January 79 w 
February, 79W<»8i>*o: March, 
May. No. 2 Chicago 8prlnc, tvli f«ue- 
No. 'Wlo.fiJ ofiSsw- No ? Red 83c No. R Red, iolnu?' 
Corn - quite strong sales rauged: '‘ aah.RR rate Janii 
nry.SIt* .*Sc: February, 7*c- May 4IVi-»4l£c. 
Oats Strong soles ranged:January, wue Fehru 
nry. 27tj,e May, 1W,e. Ryk Steady iu fi2elurtLEY- 
N • 3. wK^fific r-.UK Steady- sales ramted Cash 
aiV.O'i - ia UV January February «i/m 
ft 12.02 k March. Si3.ir .ut.i-, r, ARtl K .,“. 
railsed Cash *6 70 72*. cattle. .Market acUve- 
a*ports at *5 7fi.»8?5 Good to choice, 1,Mu!to i 150 lbs 
40 -..SO: 1,-00 t.. 1,800 lbs *!!*»«).' . oim'. on to 
fair. *1.1X1/ 4.90: COWS. $1 r.0.4 5O bulls, JS* , 4 25 . 
Stockers. *8 50*4- feeders, *875 DUO- corn fed Texans' 
4 85. TTO08— Market strong values Urn] Vouch 
pneklug, gl_a6W.NI packing und shipping of from 
280 to 4IK) lbs., *4 :.7(S4 73, light, of from fi0 o 2I0 .bR 
*1 4 55; Skips. *3 4.80. SHFUr-Market HCt iye- 
medlUm t0 -830® 
St. Loots —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago. No. 2 Red Wheat Is higher. 
Corn, steady. Oats, higher. 
Wiuit.-NO. 2 Red, KRW/rPSkje c;»«h T*niio.„ „__ 
February, kswc: May. He. Corn-Q uiet? rn ,u mI? 
January 86Kc: Februnry. Rficv May. 38u c Oats- 
Dull-on b, 2'JT<,o. botiruary. 39c May 8t«iR vb- 
-Firm at fi.iWuB arley Market quiet at Wa 
75c. Elaxkkld-S teady at *i c., c,, XIf 
below choice wck being off fully f ? 
week Exdoits. >v good to choice Jhinni™ 
*5»«S7V common to medium, batch*; 
steers. *87504 50 cows and hciror«, S7V 
fed Texan*. *125.4(15. Sukicc Iictr uradi 
otbersdu I and weak. Common to medluVa * 2 snlsl 
good to choice. *32V- 4. H./OS Yorkers at *4 atSk« 
panting at *4.«a4.5*; heavy at * 3 ® 4 45: 
Boston.—C ompared with cash 
week ago, corn h> j^c. higher. 
Rve and barley unchanged. 
Giiain.—Corn—S teamer Mixed, Sfenmo- 
Yellow,*4W*5 e High Mixed, S’^-asfi anOnS' 
M '55e. per bush, oats are steady sale- or iK* 1 ? 
White aud barley, at 4UV*4lc: So 3 White 
3S<- No * lit*? WS'tye. and Of mixed , 
Ktb. Small snips ;t , i t ,Sc. ft bush. Bniii-v 
fil l2e- rales of Shorn, at * 1 ? V ten tor sm-mV } 4 i 
*17.30/111* for winter. Fine Feed nun Mi,i,ilin.^i and 
at* 700x21. and Cotton Seed 
ton to arrive And on the spot, u A y jErk'/L * 
Choice grades of lifly h wo. been rather quin- 
* 1 7 i er ton fate lo croud at *iaais. 
fair at *18 nl*. Rye Straw is held at k|(,,rft)f„ ’ , 'm" 1 ,0 
Swale Hay at *S*». Out 8.raw »t 
Bctter Northern creamery, extra. 2M!.M,.,X!n. n ' 
fresh, 25 ■i.i'tc ; good to choice, 
dairy, Franklin '-quo tv, Vt.. exteA a£ ,h .£ rn 
New York aud Vermont, choice, 2 S..a 3 <y 
dnlrli-*. choice, 1N<20C: fulr to good do is? f- 
eommondo, H)«l4c: Western creamery 
®tor choice. 37 ./ .Me: good f '•holce i.iImm^ ^oS® 
2o <*2le We-tern dairy, choice, 17 j-to r/.i r t. 
15 *16o imitation creamery, elinleo. is* 7 ?// 0 n,°,u d ' 
choice is-. Dc: do. common to g<,o i, ui.t>iv. 
-Sew York and Vernnni. eholeV. 'v^are S ^ 
VVeste p, choice, H'd'l'u" felt lo K oo.VM?Me * £ 
Egos— fresh cape. »9c Eastern, fresh J?;/ v 5' 
an i Vi. a..*We Western n . s, ProviuVtel 
BRaN* tVa, choice naml picked. *t.n\• K?i.' m. 'nf,’ 
large, do, do, il.fttel.65; medium choice *i 
do. 'CM-ened. *1 25.ii.4d- Yellow Eve' ' 5 ? : 
•2.104*4.17- Red Kldneva, *2.8o«3 40. * ( nnadii 
Hucij*! 4i per bush for common to choice ' ns ‘ 
Peas at 40 . Potatoes- We quote t, ,™ IS 
55e. ? bush: Northern. Ml t vv». 
Flaxseed ar Chicago Is higher, with s£les « 
bu-h Calcutta Unseed in New Vorlt , 
* bush. Ortt«s seeds show verv little chan? f 
We quote Clover Seed. Western at 
New York.at ‘JQwl°c > »; Timothy at si i./iT, J 
:U°. Pat k’Ml’ and Canary at 
OkODDOB ANDPROVIeJONS, 
new York. Saturday, January 34 8>5 
BBEADSTCKk* and provisions. —as compared with 
cash prices one week ago, No. 2 Red Wheat is iq c . 
lower- Ungraded Winter Red fsSe. lower- ungraded 
white Is2c lower. Cohn.-N o. 2. No a, and ungraded 
mixed Western are all 4$c. higher. 
ruiOR. Feed *ND uhai. siour Quotations-Flue 
Suia-rdnc, « 2 .iin,tJ.ui. Ext,a No 2 into 
*3.50 Good to Fancy Extra state, fO: Good 
to Ch l e E»t n Vestern *h.k a.common to 
fair extra Ohio, *9.10 3,75; good, '<.-0 , i K ,,od to 
pholce *4 h i .a 5.Hr comm m extra Minnesota. *8 108 
^3,«v clear, *3.7>4.iV ry- mlxtnr *3 J584 60; 
Strutehte. at.25.'4.,i‘: patent, S(.7.V«\pi- Baker’s ex 
tra, *3 au«4.J5; St. Louis common t- fair extra *3 lo 
(!*3. 5 fair to good. $8,'3«S; good la very elioteo' *5 10 
M4.,i p/leuf ivfuter wheat c xlru, $t‘f, . 7 -5-’ cltv 
mill extra lor Writ ladle*, M110 South’ Araeri- 
c i, *5 oo.«5. 10 market closing dull. Socthkhn Flour 
C.immon to good extra, »3.3v.u 4it good to choice, 
do. *4.* 'x .75. iiykKi.ouk Sur< rrtoe ut »3 4 n.a 8 .fiu. 
Hik-kwiikat Frx?pn SctUoe at *1 70ai lk>. lulter an 
extreme. FEED Quoted for lo lb* ai 
w l A Sharpsat *>Vw 
20 Kye heed. «!4wil5 LiKsnicn OIL Mkai, ear lots 
•JUO bulk,* i.iusacked. Cobs Ukxi. Bran.ivwme 
quoted at »3.35 ji 8.90 follow Western. * 3 «t, 3 . 25 . 
Chain — Wiikst - Ungraded Spring a t S9k,c. 
delivered^ No. I Northorn, u9>< alloat: ungrad¬ 
ed Wniter red, 89m 95c- No 2 red, 914.0; ungraded 
• hltc. C>e Spring.-Otic Option safes were; Vo 2 red 
TN.-.l II 1 I . iyii . .1. .1 . is_ I ... ... 11 
Wl’VUl I • 7V M VTICI II, U • UJU 1 * I f ft 1 , Hit-, III tnevu- 
tor. Baulky-Two rowed urd Mensury ''tate.fiOe- Can¬ 
ada, «2 *h:ic for ungraded aud 7Ho »,8Ue. f t)r No 2 
BaRi ky .Malt -Two-rowed State, fiSyiUke six-rowed 
Slate, 75«880e; Canada, 84<#!lje. .Sales . 10 ,OJO bushels 
