THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Urars of t!|c IPtA, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, January 31. 
The Oklahoma “boomers.’’ some 400 strong:, 
have unconditionally surrendered to the United 
States troops under Gen. Hatch, and are being 
convoyed from their camp at Stillwater, in 
the Territory, to the nearest point in Kansas. 
Having been surrounded by the troops, their 
surrender was peremptorily demanded, and 
they quietly yielded Copt. Couch, their 
leader, says, “It was all a game of bluff.” 
They are highly exasperated against the Ad¬ 
ministration. however, but declare that they 
will not agaiu invade the country, at any rate 
until Cleveland is President. Much excite 
ment in Kansas and Arkansas, especially the 
former. The State Convention, to be held at 
Topeka on Feb. 3rd, will probably adopt plans 
by which they hope to secure the lauds. The 
House of Representatives in session there, 
by a vote of 79 to 24, has passed a resolution 
requesting the Senators and Representatives 
of Kansas in Congress to use their best efforts 
to secure the enactment of a law that will 
open for settlement so much of the Indian 
Territory as is not needed by the Indians. 
The Dominion Parliament opened on Thurs¬ 
day at 3 P M. The Governor General in his 
speech congratulated the members on the 
prosperity of the country, and suggested legis¬ 
lation on land transfers in the Northwestern 
territories; for the extension of railways; on 
the subject of Chinese immigration, and ad¬ 
vised the sending of a Canadian exhibit to the 
International Exhibition in Antwerp. 
“High license” is declared to be a success in 
Nebraska. The minimum fee is $500; and in 
larger places it rises to $1,000, Gov. Click, 
of Kansas, insists that prohibition there is a 
“failure;” some staunch prohibitionists, how¬ 
ever, emphatically deny this: but the “bal¬ 
ance” of evidence is against the enforcement 
of the law. In Iowa prohibition is also said 
to be a “failure,” though here again there are 
many deniers of the statement. “High 
license,” however, seems to give satis¬ 
faction everywhere it has been introduced... 
. .. The commercial stabil¬ 
ity of Galveston. Texas, is shaken by the fail¬ 
ure of Wolston. Wells & Vidor, cotton factors, 
and through them the Island City Savings 
Bank. The assets of Wolston. Wells & Vidor 
will scarcely reach $25,000; their liabilities 
exceed $300,000. The liabilities of ibe bank, 
including deposits, are $543,000; assets $425,- 
000; deficit, $117,400 The directors say that 
a liquidation of 70 ceuts on $1 is possible. 
_Senator Edmunds last Saturday introduc¬ 
ed a bill in the Senate to punish acts in this 
country accessory to the criminal use of ex¬ 
plosives in foreign countries. The dynamite 
outrages in England were severely condemn¬ 
ed .The Columbian University of 
Washington has decided to admit women to 
the study of medicine, with the same privi¬ 
leges accorded to men .The Lieu enant- 
Governor of Ontario, Canada, in bis speech 
on the opening of the Provincial Legislature, 
among other matters, commends for consider¬ 
ation the subject of the extension of the fran¬ 
chise .In 1834. 60.000 people settled in 
the north western country tributary to St, 
Paul, of whom 20.000 were Scandinavians, 20,- 
000 Germans, and 10.000 Britons ... . When 
the Kansas Legislature assembled enthusiastic 
granger members had a huge banner up be¬ 
hind the speaker's desk, with a legend thus; 
“Praise God from whom all blessings flow. 
Corn, 190.870,866 bushels; wheat. 48,050.431 
bushels; cattle, 1.858,925; fruit, 331.715 acres: 
hay. 7.107 369 tons”. 
....The Democrats made a desperate attempt 
Wednesday to get at the Northern Pacific 
land grant forfeiture. The Republicans, led 
by Tom Reed, Horr and a Mississippi Demo¬ 
crat, Van Eaton, filihustered all the after 
noou, and after a sharp skirmish, prevented 
it from being reached, although a clear ma¬ 
jority evidently wanted to pass it.A 
young mau named Otto Funk has been ar¬ 
rested at Chicago for having in his possession 
over 3,000 valuable books stolen from the 
public library. The books were seized at bis 
house in large boxes, which upon being re¬ 
moved to the new city hall building, were 
found to contain six or eight infernal ma¬ 
chines with dynamite, any one sufficient to 
blow up an entire building .The Piute 
Indians are said to he starving on their reser¬ 
vation in Nevada. Not a cent of the Con¬ 
gressional appropriation of $7,000, secured by 
Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, has reached 
them. The Winter in Nevada has been very 
severe. The reservation is so barren that 
nothing could be grown on the land. The In¬ 
dians number 7.C00 .The director of the 
mint says that nearly $31,000,000 of gold were 
obtained from the mines of the United States 
during the year, or 800,000 more than the pre¬ 
vious year........A sharp shock of earth 
quake was felt all over California at 1 35 a m. 
Tuesday. No damage has been reported 
There was another sharp shock at San Fran¬ 
cisco at 9 p. M. All the high buildings in the 
city were severely shaken ... The silver vaults 
of the Sub Treasury at San Francisco are 
full. The Secretary of the Treasury wishes 
to tranfer from them about $40,000,000 in 
standard dollars to the new silver vault in (be 
Treasury Department. It will cost $100,000 
and Congress will he asked to provide funds 
for the transfer....Victoriano Nievez, of Car¬ 
men, Mexico, is one of the luckiest men in the 
world, and is worth several million dollars. 
On Saturday be and bis wife celebrated their 
golden wedding anniversary. It was a great- 
day for Sig. Nievez. He gave a ban met. aDd 
scattered dollars right and left: $500,000 in 
one lump were sent to the locust-eaten district, 
and $10,000 were given to the Republic to help 
pay off its debt. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Across the Atlantic, dvnamite in London 
and gun-powder on the Upper Nile and the 
coast of Formosa, have divided pubtic atten 
tion during the week. Last Saturday three 
disastrous dynamite explosions terrified Lon¬ 
don—ODe in the Tower in the "East End”; 
another, about four miles to the west, in West 
minster Hall, the old seat of “high justice,” 
adjoining the Houses of Parliament, and the 
third in the “Lobby” of the latter, a large, 
“high-vaulted” chamber somewhat like the 
rotunda of the Capitol at Washington, 
between the House of Lords and the House of 
Commons, and connecting both with West¬ 
minster Hall. Saturday is “visitors’ day” in 
the Tower, so that many of the crowd present 
were more or less severely injured, and con¬ 
siderable damage was done to one wing of the 
large building. No trifling injury was also 
done in Westminster Hall; but the greatest 
havoc was wrought with the Parliament 
building, though the amount of harm done 
there was at first greatly exaggerated. We 
now learn that $5,000 will coverall the injury, 
and that all traces of tbs explosion will be 
removed in “three weeks.”. 
London, nay. all England, with Scotland to 
boot, were at once thrown into a fit of terror, 
indignation and fierce anger. The “outrages’’ 
are, of course, attributed to Irish malcon¬ 
tents, and no doubt justly. Threats of popu 
lar vengeance on resident Irishmen are loud. 
Many of them have been thrown out of 
employment, and a general “sacking” is 
threatened. All public buildiugs, monuments, 
arsenals, etc., etc., are strongly guarded. 
Passengers with bundles are stopped iD the 
streets by the police and “investigated.” 
People dressed in “American clothes," or talk¬ 
ing with an “American accent.” and particu¬ 
larly an •'Irish-American accent,’’ are espe¬ 
cially subject to su-pieiou Threats of more 
‘ outrages.” Two arrests of “suspects ”...... 
In Upper Egypt, Gen. Stewart, after the 
fierce battle with the followers of El Mabdi, 
25 miles northwest of Metemneh. pushed for¬ 
wards towards the Nile, on approaching 
which his small force was enveloped by a 
fierce array of dusky warriors. The square 
which the British had formed was temporari¬ 
ly broken, and during the terrible melbe, a 
number of soldiers and prominent officers 
were killed, together with “Khiva” Burnaby, 
and Mr. Herbert, correspondents for two Lon¬ 
don papers. Though wearied by a long march 
in a broiling sun over on arid waste of saud, 
the Br tish troops “fought nobly,” and finally 
repulsed the euemy, who fought no less “no 
hly”aud more patriotically in defence of their 
invaded country. Stewart, severely wounded ) 
is strongly entrenched on the Nile; communi¬ 
cations with Gordon, at Khartoum, have beeD 
“opened;" Wolseley. with the main body of 
bis force, is hurrying forward, and success is 
almost assured to the English invaders of the 
Soudan.Repoi ts of a severe battle near 
Keeling, Formosa, lietweeu the French and 
Chinese fleets: no particulars vet. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, January 31. 
A farmer named W. Priest, near Martins- 
burg, W. Va., having been much annoyed 
with chicken thieves, placed some dynamite 
torpedoes near his hen-house. Last Wednes¬ 
day night he heard a terrible explosion, and 
on reaching the spot where bis heD bouse had 
stood, he found the scattered fragments of a 
"darkey" named Bracy .A Califorria 
breeder of Angora goats cleared $40,000 in 
the last few years This year his sales of 
mohair amount to 15,000 pounds. .. A 
telegram from Nashville says that owing to 
the spread of pleuro-pneumonia in some south¬ 
ern counties of Tennessee. D. E Salmon, 
Chief of the National Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry, is about to visit Tennessee to investi¬ 
gate the disease .A Vermout farmer 
made a net profit of $43.50 from the produce 
of a single hen turkey during the past season. 
This is equal to 100 bushels of wheat in Kan 
sas ot 43 cents per bushel, with this difference: 
It would cost as much to raise and harvest 
the wheat as it would bring, while tbe pro¬ 
ceeds of the turkey were gain.It is said 
that had not an explanation been given, which 
caused the Commissioners of Awards to re¬ 
voke their decision, the second prize for butter 
at the Calcutta Exhibition would have been 
given to a fine sample of American oleomar¬ 
garine. Tbe American Devon Cattle 
Club met in New York January 21. The 
following directors were elected: E. D. Hicks, 
Nashville, Tenn.; J. M. Millerv, Hickory. 
Pa ; James Buckingham, Zanesville, Ohio; 
L. P. Sisson, Roney’s Point, W. Va. The di¬ 
rectors elected for President, E. D Hicks, 
Nashville, Tenn,; Vice-President, John M. 
Miller, Hickory, Pa.; Treasurer, James Buck¬ 
ingham. Zanesville, O.; Secretary, Krauk W. 
Reed, Zanesville, O. The Grand Pacific Ho¬ 
tel, at Chicago, was designated as the next 
place of meeting; time, third We Inesday of 
January, 1886 .The shipments of live 
stock and dressed meats per steamers from 
Boston for tbe English markets last week 
were lighter than for the two weeks previous, 
there having beeD but 920 cattle, 376 sheep, 
3114 quarters of beef, and ISO carcasses of 
mutton.The recent appearance of au 
infectious disease among sheep in the Province 
of Quebec was met by an order ot tbe Govern¬ 
ment to slaughter ail suffering animals on an 
al'owance of two-thirds of their value ... The 
steamship Elderslie recently was in the 
Thames, London, from New Zealand, with 
25.000 carcasses of sheep on board, in prime 
condition .W. W. Ogilvie, the grain 
king of Manitoba, has closed bis mills from in¬ 
ability to compete with Minneapolis millers. 
Since the season began 600.000 barrels of 
American flour have been shipped to the Do¬ 
minion. principally for consumption in tbe 
Province of Quebec. Grain, according to this 
Manitoba authority, can be had by tbe Minne¬ 
apolis millers at 60 cents a bushel, while he ha 
to pay 72, and even with the duty on flour at 
50 cents a barrel, they can still undersell him 
in Canadian markets. 
Brown’* Bronoliial Troches will re¬ 
lieve Bronchitis, Asthma. Catarrh, Consump 
tion and Throat Diseases. They are used 
ahvays with■ good success. — Adv. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, Jan. 31st. 
According to the Department of Agricul 
ture’s report the price of corn is highest in 
Florida. 80 cents per bushel, and the lowest 
price is 18 cents in Nebraska: Kansas 22, Iowa 
23. Missouri 26, Illinois SI, Minnesota 38. In¬ 
diana and Wiscousin'Sb, Michigan 40, Dakota 
41, Kentucky 43. It. is 52 iu Pennsylvania, 54 
in New Jersey and 60 in New York. The 
range of values in the Souih Atlantic States 
is from 63 in Delaware to 88 in South Caro¬ 
lina. and 80 in Florida, increasing in the or¬ 
der of movement, except that Georgia reports 
70 cents In the more Western States it is 45 
in Tennessee, 54 iu Arkansas. 81 in Alabama, 
62 iu Mississippi and Texas and 67 in Louis 
iaua. According to the same authority the 
average price of wheat is 42 cents in Nebras¬ 
ka, 45 in Kansas, 46 in Dakota, 50 in Minne¬ 
sota. 55 in Iowa, 62 in Missouri, 63 in Illinois, 
67 in Indiana, 74 in Michigan u> <1 75 in Onio 
Tbe average home grown wheat in New 
England exceeds $1, in New York it is 85 
cents in Pennsylvania 86. It is 30 cents in 
Virginia and 83 iu Maryland. 
Tbe Mark Lane Express, in its weekly re¬ 
view of the British corn trade, says: Frosts, 
light easterly winds aud fogs had a wholesome 
check upon vegetation, aud crops are in good 
condition for tbe time of year. Wheat is 
strong iu plunt and healthy in color. Favor¬ 
able thrashing weather has increased farmers’ 
deliveries of wheat the past three weeks, but 
values have been gradually declining. Prices 
generally are Is below last week’s. The sales 
of English wheat during tbe week were 83,- 
145 quarters at 34s lid, ugalust 02,380quarters 
at 88s the corresponding week of last year. 
Tbe extremely severe weather in the West 
has lately caused all sorts of traffic to drag 
heavily. Wheat has been dull, aDd specula¬ 
tive and export demand is quiet. Prices have 
declined, and Indian corn quotations have 
fnilowed suit, t hough to a proportionately less 
extent. The flour market has also been weaker 
through absence of demand from exporters. 
No. 2 red closed last night at 92 cents against 
95)^ cents last, week, and No. 2 mixed corn at 
50 cents, as compared with 56% cents a week 
ago. The tendency of hog products has been 
upwards, owing to the decrease of receipts of 
hogs at the West, though a weakness in grain 
has exercised a depressing effect. Refined lard 
closed at 7.45 cents, against 7.45 cents a week 
agu 
Official reports of the condition of the wheat 
crop in the northwestern provinces and Oudh, 
iu India, dated December 16 state that there 
n au estimated increase of 558,000 acres over 
normal area, and an estimated increase of 
337,000 acres over last year’s area up to 30th 
November. Sowing finished in all districts 
except in lowlands. Seed has germinated well 
everywhere, and prospects of the crop gener¬ 
ally very promising. 
A marked feature of the meat imports into 
Great Britain during 1884. is tbe decrease in 
all salted meats, except hams, and in tbe 
quantity of preserved (tinned) meats also, part¬ 
ly on account of exaggerated reports of bad 
effects that have resulted from consuming 
them in a few instances. Oo the other hand, 
tbe fresh meat receipts have largely increased, 
especially those of mutton, chiefly foreign 
mutton from New Zealand and Australia. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday. January 31.1885. 
Chicago. — Compared with prices a week 
ago, “regular” wheat is 2%e. lower; No. 
2 Chicago Spring, 2J^c. lower; No. 2 
Red Winter, 31^e. lower. Corn. l%c. lower. 
Oats. %c. lower. Pork, 20c. higher. 
Wheat. — 'Active.'* ^ales ranged: Januorj. 769 * 
<s,7794c: Fehruary, March, 
Mav °Sa t HW: 80. 2 rtalcngo Spring, i * • <t*c: 
No. S do, fi'v^r.'lr; No. ? Red 79t*c No. S Red. 70c. 
p OR j f _q ) ||e( Sites ramred: r 'ash, 7694 Janu¬ 
ary WVt'Sfc! Fe lioary, 9<c- May 40^'■'4014c. 
O>T4 otilet sales ranged: January, ’.44c F, bru- 
ory. 27V' May. 1e. Rye Steady ot «14 c IUrlet- 
v 2 65'.- We Pork Sales ranted Cash 
nij wv-rivr, January. *1220 t 13.’s February. 
avtl\4 March. *<2.2i'<»i’.82'«s Lard Sa|p« ranged: 
Cash 'ac«>-fiS'R* January, «>*U*6*21* Fehruary, 
#f, sil <r, S2V March. *<S 90. ’ ’attt.r. -Market brisk; 
Good to choice shipping «5 20 *5.60- common to me¬ 
dium *4 W • 4 4(1 Texans, SPa R Rons -Market dull. 
Roush packing, *1.3 <*1.55 packing and shipping, 
*4 f> '-5 light, *4 3.V- 4 <5; 8k 1[>8, *3 .■HK- 4.25. Shff.P. 
—Inferior lo fair. *3.80683.00: inedlumlto good. .310 
®3.75- choice lo extra, #4.30®5 23. 
St. Louis —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 Red Wheat is 3c. lower. 
Corn. 3^c lower. Oats. >gc. lower Cattle, a 
trifle lower. Sheep, unchanged. Hogs, 15 to 
25c higher. 
w „e»t.—N o ? Rcd.ssq vsvwe. cash January, 83Vc; 
Fcbrunrv VMc: Mav, Wrc. Corn -Slow:cash. Sfitjjc: 
January, S6W.C- February, SfUkc. May, 874»e Oats— 
Quiet on b, -Okie February. Wr- Mnyriq S't*c. Rye 
—D ull el i4w«a'e Barley—M arket quiet ot w® 
8(V. FKA.XKF.T-n steady at *'.C Ca tlk Market 
oulet Exuortfl, *3.80 1*.30- good to choice ship¬ 
ping *S.73 *r>.7V fair to medium, *4.40*3: Texans, 
*1 <('*. suf.kc Common to medium. *2.30*3.25: 
fair to choice, *3 5IV4. TIuOS Lteht. #4.45'«4.*0; pack¬ 
ing at I4.nui.iv. heavy at #4.70®4.8S. 
Boston —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago. corn if- K c - higher. Oats, lc. higher. 
Rye. a shade higher. Barley, steady. Hay 
and straw unchauged. Butter, ditto. 
Grain.—Corn Is In a moderate demand at 'teady 
prices Steam-r Mixed. '4 -MW-c Rreamer Yellow, 
S3-5914c High Mixed.'>6i* *77 and No Grade‘8 54c. 
ncr Viuah. Oats are steady; sale- nf No. 1 white 
and barley, at tOVaO. Vo 7 White. No. 
Sat 37 t 371*<*. and Of mixed r»t3»i»97e. V bush. Rye.— 
Small -"ile*- "t 2 -75c P bn-h. Kar-.ky, nf 4l-»42c: 
sales ot snorts, ot #’S 50 V ton for "firing, and 
*1:91 T« for winter. Fine Feed and Middlings range 
at *"T0O *2'. and Cotton •kfd Meal. *M.5'V* *99.00 is 
ton to arrive and on Iho spot. Hay »xd ^traw— 
Choice grades of hoy h - re been rather qule' «' 81*ws 
*'7 -er inn fair to good nt »’4 ri3. an- 1 common to 
fnirat *llt*1\. Rvp Straw Is held at *1&'"QOfnr choice. 
Swi'r flav ai *8*9. Oat R’rsw at »s - in per ton. 
Butter -Northern creamery extra 28 t20c choice, 
fresh 23"270- good to '•holce, Whl'e : Northern 
dairy, Franklin “0"Dtv. Vt.. extra 24*250; 
New" Yor» and Vrrnvnt clio're. TS'^vsc: straight 
dairies chide 4 -, 'WdJOe; fair to good do. iv»17e: 
common do, Ul'tlte; Western creamery, extra, 
34c- choice. 37 ki'Me: gm>d (■ ' holce summer make, 
2o r24c We«tcrn d*lry, choice. t7 lie fair to good, 
'3 ■ 16c tmltnthm creamprv, choice 18 J 1 ,, indie, 
choice 1* He; do. cojunjen fr> cool. Ill 4 IV. Cheese 
— New York and Wrnr'nl. choice. "’V* »1'c. » 
WestP n, choice, l"»l2 l 4c fair fo good, Me V lb. 
E008—Fresh Cape, Me F.astern. fresh. aJir'Me N. Y. 
an 1 Vt.. 3' 1 saw western H *^6; Provincial, Vfi'»2‘c. 
Beans °ea, choice Rand picked, *1.6' -‘.8" * bushel: 
large do, no, medium choice, kl.vw.55; 
do -creonpd. *1 2s *1.40- Yellow Kye«. Improved. 
•2.111®’IV Red Kldnevs, *2.3iv-?n, Canada peas, 
gneft*) n per bush for common to choice Green 
pcif at i'111®' I". Pota’OKS-W e quote East,urn, 53® 
55c. V bush; Northern, 60»B8e. 
PRODUCED ANb “ROVI8JONS. 
New York. Saturday. January at, '8*5. 
Brkadstufes AND PROVISIONS. 3* compared with 
cash prices one week ago. Ungraded Winter Red 
Is 3c. higher; No. 2 Red Is 2c- lower- ungraded white 
Is3c lower. Co«N.—Ungraded mixed Is lower: 
no *, Is 1 * 4 C. lower-steamer mixed Is itfe lower; 
steamer yellow Is lHic. lower; steamer white is un- 
anged. 
K'OUR. Feed and meal Flour Quotations: Fine, 
8,g<Ji2.73; Sungrflnc, «2.Sn«3 00- Extra No. ?, *3(XVij 
30 flood to FMiey K"tra state, • ’.60 »I 5”: Good 
’ Ch-1'a K'trii western *H.H.3-as.90- common to 
Ir extra Ohio *3.ir, . 3.73; good, VtlVI 2*. g'-od to 
olce *a isi./3.50 - comm in extra Minnesota, *3.”0'<a 
clear, »».;v*|.is* ry inlxtur , *3 50'*4'0; 
rale tills Ai.?vs4.fi". patent, »t.7va5.8V Bakers ex- 
•i »i 2va4.iVSt. Louts coutfiion t fair extra, •S-OJ) 
1. v fair to go-"' *3.s. r >*5; good »o very choice, *5 10 
l.Vj' ir'lent winter wli**al extra, f-1.5’'"V*5: city 
ill ex'ta for Wc»| Indies. *1 '5 South Amerl 
*4 8o.rt3‘0 murket closing dulL SorTtiFRN FLOUR 
fivJiuniOn to goo" extra, *3.25 i 4 25; good t’’ •’hoi"®' 
> (4 II *1 75. UveFiour Sup rtlne at »3 £’43.70. 
ickwheat Flour Selling at *1 63 -1 Feed— 
noted for I" lbs nl *13 5"(a !S,*0 t<» 30 H>*‘ at *14® 
100lbs at *15c* 17 Sharps at *'**20. I.in-eed Ou. 
kal car lot* #25.40 In bulk, .#27.40 sacked. Corn 
