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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ears of t!)c Week, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 1, 1885. 
The date of Geh. Grant’s funeral has been 
fixed for August 8. Private funeral services 
will be held at Mt. McGregor on August 4; 
then the body will lie in state for one day at 
Albany: and the rest of the time in the City 
Hall here, right opposite the Rural Office. 
The obsequies will be conducted under the 
national auspices, and will be in charge of 
Gen. Hancock. The President and Cabinet, 
the Governor of this State and those of mauy 
others, together w ith most of the chief civil 
and military officials of the country will be 
present. If Hancock had accepted all the 
offers of military organizations to take part in 
the parade, the procession, wide enough to fill 
our broadest street, couldn’t pass a given point 
between sunrise and sunset. The various or¬ 
ganizations must, therefore, limit their zeal 
to a few representatives. Riverside Park, a 
narrow strip of land belonging to the city, 
situated on a bluff facing the Hudson River, 
on the northwest of Manhattan Island, about 
eight miles from the City Hall, has been chosen 
for the burial place. A brick vault, 12 by 12 
feet, and nine feet high, is being built at a 
cost of $2,000 f r the temporary resting-place 
of the body. Subscriptions are being made 
for a grand natioual monument to be raised 
ovu- its final resting-place close by, on the 
highest spot on the island. On the day of 
the funeral New York will bold the biggest 
crowd ever collected in any city on this con¬ 
tinent. All over the country manifestations 
of regard and sorrow are made by all classes, 
and foreign countries share in these sentiments. 
Governor Hill, of this State, has proclaimed 
August 8 a legal holiday, so that all may be 
able to show their respect for the dead hero. 
The Governors of rnaDy other States have 
issued official proclamations regarding the 
calamity, and official notice will generally be 
taken of the day. Commemorative funeral 
services will be widely held, and steps are 
being everywhere taken to raise funds either 
for a grand national monument here, or for 
local monuments in various large cities. 
Mrs. Grant will have a larger income than 
the widows of any of our Presidents. Of the 
survivors, Mrs. Tyler has no income but the 
$5,000 annuity paid by the Government. 
Mrs. Polk has her home iu Nashville aud a 
small income from Tennessee bonds, on which 
the State has never defaulted, in addition to 
her $5,000 annuity. Mrs. Garfield has her 
borne in Mentor and at Cleveland, with $5,000 
annuity aud the income from the $800,000 
fund contributed soon after her husband’s 
death, Though all Grant’s fortune was swept 
away by Ward’s rascality, Mrs. Grant will 
have the income from the $250,000 raised five 
years ago, mainly by Mr. Jones, of the New 
York Times, in addition to the annuity of 
$5,000 sure to be voted to her by Congresp. 
The income from Grant’s autobiography will 
be between $300,000 aud $500,000 the first 
year, and doubtless very large during the 
period of copyright. The law of 1870 makes 
this 28 years, with a right of renewal for 14 
years more.'. Insurance Commissioner 
Tarhox, of Massachusetts, is smoking out the 
American Benefit Association, alias the 
American Benefit Society, the latter name 
being the one under which it more recently 
seeks to plunder the public. The same officers 
own both concerns and Mr. Tarbox condemns 
the whole concern as a swindle and refers it 
to Attorney-General Sherman for prosecution. 
The president is C. W. Leonard; treasurer, 
G. W. Gleason; secretary, A. E. Hathaway. 
One of the dodges of this concern is to print 
the insurance contract in large type and con¬ 
ditions materially modifying it in very fine 
type .The excitement of the strike is 
over at Cleveland, neither side proposes to 
yield, and the city is settling down to the 
necessity of supporting 3,500 idle men and 
their families through the Summer, Public 
sympathy is with the strikers so long as they 
refrain from violence .—Ex-Secretary 
William Windom was elected president of 
Eads’s ship canal company, at Jersey City, 
N. J., Saturday, Eads making the nominating 
motion.A Fort Reno dispatch says 
that the eouDt of the Indians shows 1,300 
Arapaboes and 2.168 Cheyennes or nearly 
3,000 less in number than Agent Dyer has 
been drawing flour and beef for. Mr. Dyer 
resigned. The count was made by order of 
Gen. Sheridan, who said that in future ra¬ 
tions would be giveu only to the number pres- 
sent—probably all were, therefore, on hand. 
.Three times of late an effigy of Riel 
has been found hanging in the streets of 
Toronto, and in one case the mayor bad to 
issue a special order for its removal. A few 
hundred French CanadianB held an ind igna- 
tion meeting over the insult on Sunday night, 
and passed warm-blooded resolutions. Riel’s 
trial for treason was resumed at Regina, 
N. W. T., Tuesday.The New 
York Central Railroad Company has acquired 
control of the New York, West Shore and 
Buffalo Railroad. This was the line built ex¬ 
pressly to run in opposition to Vanderbilt’s 
Hudson River aDd New York Central Roads. 
It forced passenger rates down from two cents 
to one cent a mile, and freight rates propor¬ 
tionately ; but its gross receipts have been of 
late $5,000 a week less than its expenses. No 
chance of dividends for stockholders. Van¬ 
derbilt has bought it for 50 per cent, of the 
original capital payable in new shares to be is¬ 
sued. Rates now are sure to go up on both lines. 
....Mr. AndrewD. White, in defending him¬ 
self against a scurrilous aud auonymous critic, 
points out that the late Ezra Cornell was de¬ 
nounced in precisely the same fashion, and 
that his whole effort as the director of Cornell 
University has been to carry out the ideas of 
its founder and trustees Tfapse trustees, be 
thinks, are a body of men who for upright¬ 
ness and ability' cannot he easily matched any¬ 
where in the world.The nickel, which 
was until quite recently, looked upoD vs ith su¬ 
preme contempt in Saa Francisco, says an ex - 
change, hae already' revolutionized the prices 
of certain things and services in that city, and 
it is believed that copper cents will soon be 
current ..The net profits of the Can¬ 
adian Pacific Railway from Jan. 1 to June 80 
were $1,114,000.The Gulf of St. 
Lawrence fisheries are a total failure this Sum¬ 
mer. No fishing vessels are to be seen off the 
coast, all having left for Newfoundland. 
.... In order to prevent the use of foreign cut 
stone by Chicago builders, the Bricklayers’ 
and Stonemasons’ Union aud the Stonecutters’ 
Association have decided not to work on build¬ 
ings where stone cut outside of Chicago is used. 
....At the Cotton Convention at Augusta, 
Ga.,itwas decided to suspend work in all 
Southern mills for thirty days, between Aug. 
1 and Sept. 1. Fear of overproduction. 
....The total amouut of money paid John 
Roach, the shipbuilder, by the Navy Depart¬ 
ment, from 1862 to date, is $10.333,626........ 
....New York city gives $20,000 every year 
to the blind who do not beg aud are not in¬ 
mates of homes or asylums. The amount paid 
to each applicant this year was $38. Among 
the pensioners is one family of four—two sis¬ 
ters, a brother and bis wife.Niue 
Presidents aud ex-Presidents of the United 
States have died since Lincoln’s first electiou 
.... Several days ago Michael Potter, of Cum¬ 
berland County, celebrated his 101st birthday, 
one of his greetings being a letter from Presi¬ 
dent Cleveland, written to “the oldest living 
Democrat”.A Saratoga correspond 
entsays that Mrs. A. T. Stewart and Judge 
Hilton are generally seen taking their daily 
drive together. Both are still in mourning, 
the Judge for his wife. Mrs. Stewart’s face is 
said to wear a tired and pitiful expression, as 
if “her millions did not make her happy”. 
.. ..Ex- Sena tor Gordon, of Ga., denies the 
story about bis dabbling in stocks on pointers 
from Jay Gould and losing his entire fortuue. 
He says he never invested a single dollar in 
Wall Street...Col. John I. Mosby,ex- 
Consul General at Hong Kong, will presently 
take up his permanent residence in California. 
.Comtroller Chapin, of this State, did not 
apparently meet with the success he a ntiei- 
pated in disposing of the $1,000,000 Niagara 
Park bonds. He fixed the rate of interest at 
2)4 per cent., but be took all the bonds himself 
for the benefit of State trust fuuds. 
It is reported that Mexico will place a loan of 
$100,000,000 in England. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, August 1, 1885. 
Hundreds of diseased sheep, shocking spec¬ 
tacles, affected with scab, foot-rot, glanders, 
or snuffles, are daily sold in the Chicago stock- 
yards, according to the News of that city. 
This paper says that scalpers buy the animals 
for a syndicate, the transactions going on 
openly, despite the presence of inspectors, who 
seem ignorant of the sales.Thero appears 
to be a similar trade in diseased cattle which 
a>e shipped in large uumbers to Chicago from 
the surrounding country, and sold as meat to 
the inhabitants of the “Western Metropolis.’’.. 
.... Hog cholera has broken out at Ambex’st, 
Mass,, and seven of the herd have died. Levi 
Btockbridge.CattleCommissiouer, was notified, 
and G. B. Gallord, C. 8. Dickinson audG. M. 
Chamberlain were sworn as appraisers to fix 
the value of the rest of the herd. They found 
$161 worth alive. The sick hogs have been 
isolated. A telegram from Pittsburg, 
Pa., says: “A dashing individual who travels 
under the name of Adam Wilson has succeeded 
in swindling many of the farmersof Somerset, 
Fayette and Bedford Counties by taking orders 
for lightning-rods and weather-vanes, to be 
supplied by the International Manufacturing 
Company, of Chicago, which concern has no 
existence. Wilson, who is represented to be 
handsome and finely-dressed, managed to se¬ 
cure advance payments to the amount of 
nearly $8,000, aud the investors have received 
no return for their money”.To rid the 
State of a troublesome pest, two years ago the 
New Hampshire Legislature passed a law 
granting ten cents a tail on woodchucks, pro¬ 
vided none were killed on Sunday. As a con¬ 
sequence nearly every farmer went into wood¬ 
chuck raising. Since then 144,000 bounties 
have been paid, and 20,000 more remain to be 
adjusted. One hundred and sixty-five thous¬ 
and clover-fed, healthy wood chucks ought 
to average eight pounds apiece, which would 
make 1,826,000 pouuds, or 060 net tons of solid 
wood-chucks, equal to 660 cart loads, 66 car 
loads of 10 tons each, or two full trains of solid 
meat. Placed head to tail, before amputation 
of caudal extremity, they would make a con¬ 
tinuous line of wood chuck 47 miles in length. 
What an opportunity for sausage manufac¬ 
turers and proprietors of soup-houses 1 . 
....The mortality from swine fever in Eng¬ 
land has reached a point when about 2.000 
animals perish every week, or 100,000 per year 
out of 2,000,000 swine.... Cattle are be¬ 
ginning to come East from the ranges. As 
early as July 7 a lot from Nebraska reached 
Chicago, aud sold from $4 63 to $6 13 per hun¬ 
dred pouuds... 
.... At the English Apple Congress, last Fall, 
“the whole of Great Britain was polled” as to 
the best apple for dessert as well as cooking. 
Of 1,545 varieties pronounced upon, the King 
of Pippins headed the list for dessert, and 
Lord Suffield for culinary purposes. Good 
apples are rare in Great Britain. It is 
asserted that the Jersey cow, “Ethled," two- 
and-a-balf years old, belonging to John A. 
MeEwen, of Columbia, Teun., produced 31 
pounds of butter in seven days. The test was 
officially made by order of the American J. C. 
C. Ass’n. Tho cow cost Mr.McE. $890 last May, 
but the owucr now says seven times that 
amount would not buy her . John Fang- 
man, his wife and three-year-old son died in 
Baltimore last Monday from trichinosis, and 
a daughter is lying iu a dangerous condition. 
The pork was eaten on the 10th of May. These 
are the first cases of that terrible malady 
known in Baltimore .. Ex-Governor 
Gleason, of Florida, says that the culture of 
pineapples in his State will soon be more than 
the culture of oranges ....California’s raisin 
crop last year amounted to 150,000 boxes, 
and the coming crop is estimated at from 200,- 
000 boxes to 450.000. At the State Viticul- 
tural Convention last Fall, a prominent raisin 
grower stated that in three years enough new 
vineyards would he in hearing to bring the 
crop of California raisins up to 1,000,000 boxes, 
which would still be less than ouo half 
of the quantity imported. 
....Stockof grain in store in New York, July 
25: Wheat, 4,600,438 bushels; corn, 1,038.01.8 
bushels: oats, 663,162 bushels; rye, 5,874 
bushels...Amount of grain in Chicago 
July 25: Wheat, 14,870,407 bushels; corn, 
1,028,010 bushels; oats, 294,285 bushels; rje, 
0,085 bushels.Amount of grain in sight 
in the United States and Canada on Saturday, 
July 25, and the amount of increase or de¬ 
crease over tho preceding week: Wheat, 39,- 
648,050 bushels, a decrease of 11,141 bushels; 
corn, 5.308,060 bushels, u decrease of 119,936; 
oats, 2,180,417 bushels, a decrease of 367,779; 
rye, 167,032 bushels, a decrease of 16,131; bar¬ 
ley, 100,612 bushels, an increase of 6,100. 
The Consul General of the United States, at 
Montreal, Canada, has reported to the De¬ 
partment of State that glanders has assumed 
alarming proportions among the horses of 
that city. He regards it as important that 
this fact should he widely known on account 
of the large number shipped weekly to the 
United States from Canada.. It is stated 
that there are 875 full-blood Holland cattle 
within the near vicinity of Elgin.Ul., aud more 
in Illinois than any other State in the Union. 
....A wind mill, with its sails moving luzily, 
is a pretty and picturesque feature in a sum¬ 
mer landscape, and so a rich resident in a 
Maine town has his wind-mill operated by 
steam, so that the arms go rouud whether the 
wind blows or not.There are 650 butter 
aud cream factories in Iowa, 497 in Illinois, 
130 in Wiseonsoti, 100 in Kansas, 100 in Min 
nesota, 61 in Missouri, 50 in Indiana and 40 in 
Nebraska—a total of 1,788 in eight States. 
The value of the dairy products of Iowa alone 
in 1884 was $50,000,000, aud that of the United 
States was $500,000,000. The value of the 
milch cows of the United States is put at 
$700,000,000 in excess of the entire capital 
stock of all the national hanks and trust com¬ 
panies of the country.The State Veter¬ 
inarian of Pennsylvania says that there is not 
in that State, so far as the State authorities 
know, a single case of contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia,and he does not believe that a case 
can be found. The disease has been entirely 
eradicated in Chester and Delaware Counties, 
where at one'time it.threatenedlto give much 
trouble. Since 1869, when the first effort was 
made under the now existing authorities of 
the State to eradicate the disease, which 
threatened to spread to an alarming extent, 
less than $17,000 have been spent. 
A telegram from Ottawa, Canada, this morn¬ 
ing says: A deputation from Montreal in¬ 
terested in the cattle export trade, waited on 
the Minister of Agriculture to-day, and com¬ 
plained that certain stea-t ship lines were not 
alloting the space required by law for cattle. 
The Minister promised to have the matter in¬ 
quired into, and to see that there was the 
proper apportionment.Reports from 
the Pennsylvania mining and agricultural 
districts show that great.suffering is being ex¬ 
perienced from the scarcity of water... 
Simply Wonderful! 
The cures that are being made in nearly all 
chronic diseases, by Compound Oxygen.which 
is taken by inhalation and which acts directly 
on the weakened nerve centres and vital 
organs, restoring them to the normal activi¬ 
ties which bad been lost, are simply wonder¬ 
ful. If you are in need of such a treatment, 
write to Drs, Starkey & Palen, 1529 Arch 
street, Philadelphia, for such documents and 
reports of cures as will enable you to judge 
for yourself whether it will be of any use in 
your particular case — Adv. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, August 1, 1885. 
The Dakota statistician says they are now 
harvesting wheat in Dakota, and it is turning 
out excellently. 
Peanuts were never so cheap in the South 
as they now are—the price per pound being 
from to 5 cents. Last year prices were 
high, and the result was a heavily increased 
acreage and an overflowing crop this year. 
The Chicago Farmer’s Review, of July 27, 
says: “The harvest of the winter wheat, now 
nearly completed, furnishes no grounds for 
increasing our estimates already given of the 
crop, but rather the contrary, since from 
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri come 
reports of many fields not plowed up in the 
expectation of a partial crop, left standing 
because they would not pay for the labor of 
harvesting. Reports of injury to spring 
wheat from rust, insects, or other causes come 
from some localities, hut as yet do not indi¬ 
cate such injury as to appreciably affect the 
output of the crop, which is rapidly approach 
iDg harvest, aud promises an average yield 
for the acreage sowd. Taking the crop as a 
whole, it is in a critical stage now, and a few 
days of unfavorable weather might work 
great injury to it. Corn has made a wonder¬ 
ful advance since the last report. It is in 
good condition for the season of the year, and 
affords no grounds for worry. With average 
weather for tho next six weeks a magnificent 
crop will be realized,” 
H. P. Young, crop statistician of Minnesota, 
says, under date of July 28: “The wheat crop 
has suffered severely from recent storms and 
excessively hot weather. The storms have 
been individually limited to localities of com¬ 
paratively small areas, but there has been an 
unusually large number of them, hence the 
damage is extensive, The warm weather has 
caused rust in the most forward fields through¬ 
out the southern half of the State, and a good 
deal of complaint about blight comes from the 
north counties. There are reports of chinch 
bugs from two counties. The injury iu yield 
and grade already inflicted will, I think, be 
about 10 per cent, on the value of the crop, 
and the indications now are that we will have 
still more damage.” 
D. H. Wheeler, crop statistician of Nebraska, 
on the same date, says: “The wheat crop is 
coming out in good shape, aud will consider¬ 
ably exceed my former estimate, say 16,000,- 
000 bushels. 
Earlier in the season, the New Jersey Cran¬ 
berry plantations looked excellent, many 
promising over 1,000 bushels per acre. The 
“vine-worm,” however, is doing its deadly 
work, and has wrought great injury in the 
vicinity of Pemberton, Cookstown, aud Col¬ 
lins’s Mills, all great cranberry-growing 
centers, and the evil threatens to become gen¬ 
eral. The many fine bogs, all of winch gave 
promise of an enormous harvest, are rapidly 
being laid waste. The berries were so thick 
as to almost hide the vines from sight a few 
days ago, but now they are dropping from 
their stems and rotting on the ground. The 
loss cannot now ho correctly estimated, but 
it will approximate, perhaps, $150,000. All 
efforts to check the ruvages of the worms 
prove unavailing. 
There is a considerable reduction shown in 
the number of hogs handled the past week by 
Western packers, according to the Cincinnati 
l'rieo Current, although f lic aggregate exceeds 
corresponding week last year 35.000 head, the 
totals being 120,000, against 145,000 the pre¬ 
ceding week, und 85,000 a year ago. From 
March 1 the total is 3,020,000 hogs, against 2, 
515,000 a year ago—increase, 505,000. Last 
year the Western packing for the three months 
