JULY 25 
506 THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Wwtrs of i\)t XUcok. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 18,1885. 
Gen. Grant’s condition re rains about 
stationary; if anything, there is an improve¬ 
ment. The swelling on the neck, which was 
“flush” with the cheek, has subsided, so that 
the neck seems now in a healthy form. On 
Wednesday and Thursday he regained his 
voice, and though he seldom uses it, he can 
make himself intelligible. The doctors say 
the present condition is a mere stoppage in 
the regular march of the disease toward a 
fatal end-,..,....... 
The Supreme Com*t of Illinois lays down 
the principle that the sale of intoxicating 
liquors is a common-law right of the vender, 
and in this respect like the common-law right 
to sell any thing else. The court added that 
it is competent for the Legislature of any 
State, unless restrained by some provision in 
the Constitution thereof, to subject the traflic 
to regulations or wholly abolish the right of 
sale as it exists under the common law. This 
view has repeatedly been taken by the courts 
of this country .Niagara Park was 
formally opened to the public by Gov. Hill of 
this State last Wednesday. An immense 
concourse of visitors celebrated the occasion. 
.The New Orleans World’s Exposition 
plant, buildings and macbinerv were sold at 
auction this week for $175,000. They were 
bought for the new Exposition Company. 
President McCann ice, of the New Exposition 
Company, save the purchase closes the last 
loop-hole of doubt as to the re-opening of the 
Exposition, as it establishes the new company 
on a definite basis, and enables it vigorously 
to push forward the enterprise to completion. 
It will be merelv a little private speculation, 
however ... Dr. Thomas Fuller, of Cape 
Cod, claims 160 acres in the heart of Phila¬ 
delphia. alleged to have been willed by 
William Penn to the Doctor’s ancestress, Pally 
Mercer Fuller. Fuller is now 70.Chief 
Signal Officer Fazen has recommended Ser¬ 
geant Brainard. of the Greely Arctic Ex¬ 
pedition. for promotion to a Lieutenantcy ... 
.The estimates of the cost to this country 
for stimulants, more or less alcoholic, inelnd- 
ing spirits, wines, and malt liquors for the 
last year, made nn hv the temperance statis¬ 
ticians, give $920,000,000 as the sum total. In 
proportion to the population, this is far behind 
theestimetes made for either England. France 
or Germ any .Sir John A. Macdonald 
in a speech at Ottawa, Monday, in answer to 
the Opposition attacks upon his fisheries ar¬ 
rangements with the United States, expressed 
his belief that the best thing for the Do¬ 
minion to do was to keep the fishing 
grounds open to Americans, even without a 
sufficient quid pro quo, in order to pave the 
way to a better commercial standing between 
the two countries further on. “I have every 
reason to believe,” continues the Premier, 
“that a general roeiprooitv treaty will be ar¬ 
ranged with the United States ” This is the 
most importantofficial utterance from Ottawa 
upon this subject since the present system of 
protection was inaugurated...The Iowa 
prohibition law has been in force a few davs 
over a vear. and the result shows that while 
it has been successful in small places, in cities 
there is more drunkenness than under the 
license system Reports from 20 leading 
cities and towns show 150 more open drinking 
places in those towns than there were a vear 
ago. Davenport has 30 more sa'oons, Bur¬ 
lington 41. Council Bluffs 13. and Ottumwa, 
where the license fee was $1,000. has 94 more, 
and this does not count the doubtful and 
secret rum-hole* tha" alwavs spring up more 
plentifully under prohibition than under li¬ 
cense. The revenue from licenses last year 
was $200 000. and there is some dissatisfaction 
at the loss of that . . According to the 
statistics compiled by the Baltimore Manufac¬ 
turers’ Record, there has been iu the Eolith 
an investment of $36,634,000 in manufactur¬ 
ing and mining enterprises, and in the en¬ 
largement of old plants and rebuilding of 
mills, during the first six months of 1885. Of 
that total. $10 621 n00 are credited to Ken¬ 
tucky. and $6,352,000 to West Virginia. 
_Last Thursday in the Canadian House of 
Commons Sir John A. Macdonald admitted 
that Messrs. Dumas, Schmidt, and Tshester, 
three of the delegates who went to Montana 
last year and fetched Riel into the country, 
were afterward offered Government positions. 
Schmidt and Dumas accepted, but Isbester 
declined. Dumas was appointed a farm in¬ 
structor and Schmidt got a clerkship in the 
Prince* Albert Land Office.To the bill 
to prevent settlers iu the Northwest from hav¬ 
ing arms in their possession, Mr. Mills moved 
an amendment to the effect that the restric¬ 
tions be relaxed so far as regards white set¬ 
tlers. 1 Sir John Macdonald opposed the amend¬ 
ment, urging that there were many disloyal 
white men in the Northwest whom it was 
necessary to watch. Mr. Casey said the Gov¬ 
ernment was going to create a second Ireland 
in the Northwest, that the Northwest settlers 
were as loyal and law-abiding as any class in 
Canada, but the Government seemed deter¬ 
mined to provoke a second rebellion if possible. 
The House divided on the amendment, which 
was lost by a vote of 88 to 35.The 
“devil’s darning needle” is preying upon the 
mosquito along the New Jersey and Long 
Island coasts in such force as to promise the 
extermination of the latter insect...The 
National Council of Education in session at 
Saratoga, New York, last, Wednesday, adopt¬ 
ed a resolution recommending that the legal 
school age be from four to 21 years, and the 
obligatory school age from six to 14 years ... 
...General Howard, who has returned to 
Omaha, Neb., from SaH Lake Citv, reports 
that the Mormons are eager to rise against 
the Gentiles. Trouble is feared on July 24, 
the anniversary of the settlement of TJtah.... 
.The balance of our foreign trade for the 
whole country in the last fiscal year was about 
$165,000,000 in favor of the United States- 
.Strikes are multitndinons and ubiquitous 
just now. At Bay City and Saginaw, Mich., 
the lumber mill hands are all “out,” and pre 
vent new hands from working. Squads of 
Pinkerton’s detectives are aiding the police to 
“maintain order” in both places.The 
bottle-blowers of the West and the flint-work¬ 
ers of the Ohio Valiev have now been “out” 
seven months, and the “Union” has already 
expended $75,000 iu their support. Over 8,000 
employes of the National Tube Works at 
McKeesport, Pa., threaten to strike unless 
thev get 10 per cent, advance.Over 
2.000 brick-makers are “out” in Chicago on 
account of a reduction of 50 cents a day in 
their wages .Quarrymen, of whom over 
800 are Poles and Hungarians, are on strike 
at Meriden. Conn., and the foreigners are 
very menacing and turbulent......... Severe 
riots and considerable destruction of property 
have occurred at Cleveland, Ohio. The strik¬ 
ers at the iron works there prevent all work, 
and terrify those willing to fill their places. 
Several fatal conflicts with the police. The 
Governor has called out the State troops to 
protect life and property. 
A rich deposit of mica, worth from $3 to $5 
per pound, has been struck near Sheridan. Pa. 
..The Apaches in Southeastern New 
Mexico are reported as becoming restless in 
consequence of the shortness of supplies, and 
General Schofield has been directed to issue 
military rations to them.The city of 
New Orleans has won a case against the West¬ 
ern Union Telegraph Company, and got judg¬ 
ment for $3,060. The company failed to pay 
its license for erecting poles in a certain por¬ 
tion of the city, and the authorities sued the 
corporation.In the novels produced 
during the past year it is estimated that 372 
of the heroines have been blondes and only 100 
bruuettes.A girl at Harvard, Miss 
Brown, of tbe Annex has led the entire col¬ 
lege in all its departments. She passed the 
examinations to enter on an equal footiug 
with her brothers, has taken instructions from 
the same professors, though at separate reci¬ 
tations, and heads them all in rank. She can¬ 
not take a diploma, but she can have a certi¬ 
ficate of testimony of what she has done. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 18. 
The new $10,000experimental station which 
is to be built at Amherst for the Mass. Ag. 
College will be 31x42 feet, and will have two 
wings, each 18x82 feet. A portion of the 
building will be devoted to the analysis de¬ 
partment, one wing for fertilizers and the 
other for milk and special subjects. 
. -. The practice of retiring to “cyclone pits” 
during a storm has led to a schism in a Georgia 
church. A majority, of the brethren consid¬ 
ered such a means of safety an evidence of 
distrust in God. The minority replied that 
they trusted in God as much as anybody, but 
when they saw an able-bodied cvclone coming, 
they were going to get out of the way. All 
efforts to bridge over the schism have failed, 
and the church is now divided into two parties 
known as Cyclone Primitives and Anti- 
Cyclone Primitives.Storms continue to 
destroy life and property in Austria. In 
hundreds of parishes there is a gloomy pros¬ 
pect of a heavy loss of crops..The har¬ 
vesting of the crops in the neighborhood of 
Berlin, Germany, is nearly completed. The 
soldiers helped, as usual, and many of the 
stone masons who are on a strike also assisted. 
Harvest good.Tbe forest fires, which 
began at Oak Knoll, N. J., have burned over 
the belt of cranberry bog property extending 
for 10 miles from Goshen, Burlington County, 
to BraddockB Camden County. Tbe 
belt in some places is five miles in width. It 
is estimated that already the loss will approx¬ 
imate half a million [dollars, and the prospects 
are that, unless a heavy rain soon comes, 
these figures may be doubled. The items of 
loss include cranberry bogs, heavy cedar 
timber, oak and pine forests, timber land 
and cord wood awaiting sale, willow swamp, 
huckleberry thickets and outbuildings. 
... Land Commissioner Sparks has rendered 
an important decision affirming the right of 
entry,'under the public land laws, and decis¬ 
ions of tbe Supreme Court of tbe United 
States, of lands heretofore withdrawn by the 
voluntary action of tbe Genera] Land Office 
for railroad indemnity purposes where no re¬ 
quirements of law existed for making such 
withdrawals. Tbe effect of this decision, if 
sustained hv the Secretary of the Interior, will 
be to restore to entry under the homestead 
and other laws many million acres of public 
land, which have been kept. out of market for 
manv years because claimed by railroad cor¬ 
porations.Sixty persons at Momence, 
Ill , have been poisoned by eating dried beef 
made from diseased cattle. Mrs. Shrouts. 
wife of a Momence physician, has died and 
many other cases are dying. The sickness is 
attended by colic, cramps, inflammation of the 
bowels and vomiting.The haveropof 
Burlington County. N. J.. will he bntone-balf 
of the usual tonnage. Tn the field hay is sold 
for $20 a ton. a figure heretofore unknown... 
... The Minister of Agriculture of Manitoba, 
having learned from Associated Press dis¬ 
patches that Commissioner Colman has au¬ 
thorized an agent to procure in Russia such 
seeds of fruit and timber trees, plants and 
shrubbery as might, in bis opiuion be accli¬ 
mated and be made to thrive in the exposed 
regions of the Northwest, haB written tbe 
Commissioner expressing a desire to experi¬ 
ment in a similar direction in Manitoba. He 
asks if the Commissioner will aid him by au¬ 
thorizing an arrangement bv which the same 
agent may procure seeds or cuttings of each 
suitable variety for the Provincial Govern¬ 
ment.Tbe fourth annual meeting of the 
Central Texas Horticultural Society wilt be 
held at Terrell. Texas, for three days, com¬ 
mencing July 28, at 11 o'clock....Out of 
65,000 persons in Massachusetts engaged in 
farming. 40.060 are said to own their farms; 
about. 23,000 are farm laborers, the balance 
being dairymen, florists, etc.The average 
wealth of Massachusetts farmers is said to be 
about $2,529 per capita.It is reported 
that, the cranberry crop of Wisconsin will fall 
30 per cent, below that of last year.It 
has beeu recently estimated that, there are 
6.000,000 miles of farm fences In the United 
States, which cost over $2,000,000,000; that in 
a number of States the fences on a farm cost 
more than the buildings on it .Con¬ 
necticut leads in longevity in this country. 
The majority of very old people are women. 
Among men, soldiers and farmers are the 
longest lived. A recent investigator found 100 
ministers who bad passed the century limit, 
but be found only 30 doctors, 10 lawyers and 
10 actors.Tbe dreadpd web-worm has 
made its appearance in several cotton fields 
south of Dallas. Texas. Thus far its ravages 
have been confined to a district only a few 
mil es square..... 
....The first entire carload of peaches this 
season came from Wilmington, Del., Thurs¬ 
day, consigned to Jersey City.The 
Cotton Convention, in sessions at Greenbrier. 
White Sulphur Springs, Va., has elected 
T. L. Airey. of New Orleans, President for 
the next two years, and Jerome Hill, of St. 
Louis. Vice-President. Tbe latter occupied 
the Chair. Several committees made reports 
which were adopted. A resolution favoring 
tbe stoppage of tbe coinage of the silver 
dollar was adopted after some discussion, 
....The exports of live stock and dressed 
meats per steamers from the port of Boston 
last week were 1,667 cattle, 500 sheep, 2,784 
quarters of beef... .Exports from New York 
last week included 2,980 live cattle, 40 live 
sheep, 8.076 quarters of beef and 1,000 car¬ 
casses of mutton .The average weight 
of the hogB received at Chicago last month was 
232 pounds, against 226 pounds for May, and 
226 pounds for June. 1884 .The export 
of cattle from Montreal to Great Britain since 
the opening of navigation has been 10,000 
head—5,000 more than last year to the same 
time.Shipments of cattle from the 
United States and Canadian points for the 
first six months of 1885 have been 102,381 head, 
of which New York is credited with 32,- 
844 head, Boston with 27,704 head, and 
Montreal with 21,399 . 
.The following is a complete list of those 
who received one of ex-Commissioner Loring’s 
$1,200 prizes, paid out of tbe Treasury for the 
“best sorghum samples sent to the Depart¬ 
ment”; The ChampedSugar Company, 
Champaign, Ill,; Magnus Stevenson. Madison, 
Wis.; Paul Stock, San Francisco. Cal.; Nel¬ 
son Maltby, Geneva, Ohio; Drummond Bros., 
Warrensburg. Mo.; A. J. Denier, Fond du 
Lac, Wis.; William Frazier iyfcioe of residence 
not given) ;* Jefferson Sugar'Company, Jeffer¬ 
son, Ohio; Oak Hill Refining Company. Ed- 
wardsville, Ill.; Clinton Bozarhn, Cedar Falls, 
Iowa. Dr. Collier, late Chemist of the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, insists that these 
prizes were given without any legal authority: 
but Comptroller Lawrence having approved 
the awards. Com. Colman declines to open the 
controversy. 
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A Deeply Interesting Narrative. 
The name of K»v, John H. Chandler is nn 
honored one in the literature and labor of the 
Baptist Church; especially in connection with 
his forty years’ devotion to missionary work 
in Burtnah and Siam: a work in which his ac¬ 
complished wife sh°rpd d urine the whole of 
this long period. For most of this time his 
residence was at Bangkok in Siam, the cap¬ 
ital of the kingdom. H»r« he rendered himself 
valuable to the king end his court, as transla¬ 
tor of important documents. Tn 1859 he was 
appointed U. S. Consul at Bangkok. He was 
also tutor to the present king of Siam. 
One of the almost inevitable results of tnis- 
sionarv labor is the breaking down of health, 
and neither Mr. nor Mrs. Chandler escaped. Tn 
1872 their condition became so serinu* that, 
they returned to this country for medioal 
treatment. Thev went back to Siam in 1872. 
intending to stav for six years, hut loth soon 
grew worse, and had to come to fits United 
States at the end of three. What Mr. Chand¬ 
lers condition was at. the time is given in his 
own words, os related to a gentleman who 
called upon him recently at his home in Cam¬ 
den. New Jersey; 
“7 tcc.s n complete ‘wreck. Mu two weak¬ 
ness tos so great that for months at. a time I 
could not write or read. The nerves nf mu 
stomach were, totally demoralized. Mu food 
would not digest. T hud tn lau aside all my 
teaching and literary labor. I was unable to 
do either physical or mental work, T was also 
troubled with palpitation of the heart and 
with an obstinate catarrh often years' stand¬ 
ing: altogether J was a eery, very sick man. 
Wbj|ethns«n(Tering.thaRev. Dr MacFarlend. 
a Presbyterian missionary, at Bangkok called 
my attention to Compound Oxvgeu Ho had 
tried it for indigestion an* general debility 
and hud fopnd it verv honeficial. 
“While I was on mv wav home T found raw- 
self in a very critioal condition T almost 
gave up hope. Op reaching Philadelphia I 
consulted Dr= Rtarkpv & Palep. T soon be¬ 
gan tbe use of Cum pound Oxygen. It acted 
like a charm . Verv soon T felt signs of re¬ 
turning strength. In the matter of diabetes 
the relief teas particularly noticeable. Im¬ 
provement went on gradually but. surelv. T 
became so that I could eat with regularity and 
really enjoy mv food. Tn time muolcl symp¬ 
toms of wretchedness and weariness passed 
away and I was myself again. 
“You mav judge of mv health and strength 
wbeu I tell yon I was with thp Siamese em¬ 
bassy in New York and Washington a Pew 
months ago. traveling with th«m and going 
about as freelv and energetically as anv of 
them. Compound Oxygen had po recruited 
rny system that the unusual exercise of travel 
had no nnp1°a««nt, effect upon me. nor was I 
in anv respect the worse for mv journey ” 
For full information as to this wonderful 
Treatment, address Drs. Starkey * Palen, 
1109 Girard St. Philadelphia, Pa.— Adn. 
_CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday. July 18. 
Secretary Chambkruain. of the Ohio 
Board of Agriculture, estimates the total 
wheat crop of lit principal States at 250,- 
054.000 bushels. These 19 States on a five- 
years’ average furnished 412 00(1,000 hushels of 
the entire total of 451.000 000 bushels produced 
in the United States and Territories Even 
if the others yield a fine average crop this 
year, the total for the United States on this 
basis will be pot quite 300,000 000 this year, 
against an average of 451.000.000 and a last 
year’s total of 513,000.000 bushels. But this 
estimate is 10 tier cent, higher than his esti¬ 
mate a month ago, as his estimate then was 
273.0O0.0iXI bushels. He must go higher still— 
sav 20 per cent, or so. Prime, the Illiuois 
crop statistician, estimates the aggreggate 
wheat crop at 322,000,000 bushels—'182.000.000 
hushels for the winter oro” and 140,000.000 
hushels for the spring—hardly a prime esti¬ 
mate. 
Tbe Indiana Farmer reports the wheat crop 
of Indiana as 64 per cent, of an average cron, 
compared with 61 reported for June. - This 
means about 20 000,000 huahels. Last year, 
33.745,000, by Department of Agriculture. 
The Michigan State estimate is 25 373.682 
bush els, as compared with 25.017.275 last vear. 
while the Department of Agriculture figures 
for last year were 29.773,000 bushels. Tt, is 
evident that the production will fully equal 
or exceed last year’s. 
The Missouri State estimate is 11,284,940 
bushels; generally well filled, and of good qual¬ 
ity. Last year. 27.500,000 bushels. 
The Kansas State estimate is 10.200.000 
hushels. Last year, 84.990.000—hv Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, The State estimates are 
exceedingly low this year—considerably be¬ 
low those of the Department of Agriculture. 
The agricultural returns of New Zealand, so 
far as they have been compiled, show that the 
amount of wheat for export will probably be 
2,5000.000 bushels less than last year, the cul. 
tivation of that cereal having been largely 
abandoned in the south in consequence of the 
low prices. On the other hand, there la an 
increase of [nearly 4,000,000 bushels of oats, 
