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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
AUG 45 
Metus of tl)c lX\ck. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 8,1885. 
Modest, private funeral services were held 
over Gen. Grant’s body at Mt. McGregor on 
the fourth: after lying in state a day at Al¬ 
bany. the body reached this city on Wednes¬ 
day evening, where it has lain in state in the 
City Hall. Two rows of people, meu, women 
and children of all conditions, are constantly 
passing the coffin, one on each side, from six 
in the morning to one o’clock at night, at the 
rate of about 140 a minute, the speed varying 
from 120 to 170 a minute. Over 175,000 
passed the first day. The stream is constant. 
We are having the grandest funeral ever seen 
on this continent. All honor is being paid to 
the hero who deserved all honor from this na¬ 
tion and humanity everywhere. 
The past week has been remarkable for very 
heavy rain storms in nearly all parts of the 
country. Here we bad 2% inches of rain, 
last Sunday, in 40 minutes, and a great deal 
of rain at other times during the week. All 
the Atlantic States have been dreucbed. In 
Chicago an unprecedented rainfall stopped at 
midnight on Monday, 5.58 inches of water 
having fallen in the preceding 24 hours—an 
inch more than the entire rainfall iu any Aug¬ 
ust for the preceding three years. Chinamen 
and rats everywhere flooded out V ery heavy 
rains in the Northwest also—where indeed 
were there none ? Considerable iujury to 
growing crops here and there by “washing” 
and flooding, and to stacked grain and hay 
not properly protected; but the raiu has been 
a blessing worth millions to the agriculture of 
the country...In Maryland a tornado, 
the most disastrous that ever visited that sec¬ 
tion, did a world of damage last Monday. A 
tornado, 300 feet wide, swept past Smyrna, 
Delaware, same day, and a tremendous water¬ 
spout flooded Transylvania County, N. C., 
doing much injury to crops. The list of re¬ 
ported “storms” in the West Is half a column 
long....Boston’s new Court House is to 
be erected iu Pemberton Square. Building 
will begin next Spring. The estimated cost 
is $1,500,000.Shortly after 12 o’clock 
on Monday uigbt a fire broke out in Toronto. 
Canada, and destroyed half a mile of build¬ 
ings, from Princess to Yonge Streets. Loss 
variously estimated at from $500,000 to $1,000,- 
000—chiefly factories and warehouses. 
.... State elections will be held this year as 
follows: Connecticut, Nov. 4; Iowa, Nov. 3; 
Minnesota, Nov. 3; New York and New Jersey, 
Nov. 3; Ohio, Oct. 11; Pennsylvania and 
Massachusetts, Nov. 3; Virginia, Nov. 2. 
....TheTreasury Department has just com¬ 
pleted a statement of the distilleries in opera¬ 
tion in the country and their production 
daily. There are 327 distilleries running, pro¬ 
ducing 164.424 gallons daily.Maud 
S, the famous trotter, one day last week trot¬ 
ted a mile on a slow track at Cleveland in 
2.08%. ......All the Presidents before 
Grant sleep near tbeir respective homes. 
Washington sleeps at his home at Mt. Vernon; 
the Adamses sleep at their Quincy home: Jef¬ 
ferson rests at Mouticello; Madison at Mont¬ 
pelier; Mouroeand Tyler at Richmond: Jack- 
son at the Hermitage; Van Buren at Kinder- 
hook; Harrison at North Bend: Polk at Nash¬ 
ville; Taylor at Baton Rouge, although first 
buried at Washington; Fillmore at Buffalo; 
Pierce at Concord;'Buchanan at Lancaster; 
Lincoln at Springfield; Johnson at Greenville 
and Garfield at Cleveland The same hither¬ 
to unbroken rule would make Galena the 
resting place of Grant... 
_Hon. Gideon T. Stewart, the Prohibition 
candidate for Judge of the Ohio Supreme 
Court, is of the opinion that the Prohibition 
sentiment is rapidly growing, not only in 
Ohio but throughout the Union. He thinks 
that the Prohibition party could muster at 
the present time a quarter of a million voters. 
With regard to the coming election in Ohio, 
he expects to see the vote of bis party at least 
doubled, and would not be surprised should it 
run up to 100,000.The Supreme Court 
of Indiana has just decided that where prop¬ 
erty has been destroyed by Are from sparks 
negligently permitted to escape from a loco¬ 
motive, the owner may recover its full value 
from the railway company, notwithstanding 
the fact that the property was fully iusured and 
the insurance company bad paid the loss. 
.... Dallas, Texas, claims to be the most strik¬ 
ing example of growth in the Southern 
States. In 1872-13 it was only a clump of un¬ 
pretentious warehouses and shanties on the 
Trinity; now it is solidly built over an area 
extending back two miles from the river, and 
has a population of over 85,000.....The 
municipal debts of the five principal cities of 
this State are; New York, $90,844,055; Brook¬ 
lyn, $37,775,630; Buffalo, $7,071,267; Roches¬ 
ter, $5,284,000 and Albany, 3,103,000. 
There are 11,000 lawyers in this State.A 
cement company at Mankato, Minn., has been 
given an order for 2,500,000 barrels of cement 
for the new Croton River aqueduct, to be 
built for tbis city. 
The following letter from a well-known 
distiller aud breeder in Pennsylvania, to Dr. 
Jos. Haas of Indianapolis, Ind., speaks for it¬ 
self.—“About a year ago our herd here num¬ 
bered about 2.700 head. Disease broke out, 
and no remedy we had would arrest the 
trouhle. Our losses were heavy, aud we had 
to give up feeding altogether for about threo 
months. We then heard of your Remedy, and 
bought a trial lot and beean feeding again. 
We have used it constantly ever since. We 
have, since April last, received into our herd 
about 5,000 bead of hogs, and have not had a 
single death from swine disease. This is our 
experience. Our opinion is that the Remefiv 
has prevented disease and we would not think 
of being without it. As an aid in fattening 
pork we believe it to be good. On tbis point, 
however, we have not made an actual test, as 
we would uot risk feeding a pen of hogs with¬ 
out the Remedy. Yours very truly, 
February 2, 1885. White & Co. 
Gibson ton, Westmoreland, Co., Pa.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, August 8, 1885. 
Representative deputations from the 
conventions lately held at Kansas City and 
St. Louis by the cattle barons of the Cheyenne 
and Arapahoe Reservations, called ou the 
President last Tuesday, urging him to extend 
the time for removing their cattle from the 
reservations till next Spring. Of at any rate 
for three months instead of 40 days. He 
firmly declined to do so, after consulting with 
Gen. Sheridan, who had lately investigated 
the matter. The President reproached the 
delegates for wasting time in going to Wash¬ 
ington, instead of going straight to the Indian 
Territory and beginning work there. Com¬ 
pliance with the proclamation must undoubt¬ 
edly result in considerable loss to the “barons,” 
but will help to pacify the Indians and thus 
benefit the adjacent settlers. If the cattlemen 
honestly exert themselves to comply with the 
proclamation, it is not unlikely that an exten¬ 
sion of time will be given to those who have 
been doing their level best, aud yet have 
failed to remove all their stock; but no 
concession is likely to be made to the dila¬ 
tory or the obstinate. Of the “barons,” some 
say they will make no attempt to re¬ 
move their stock, so that the U. S. troops will 
have to do the job. But it is not improbable 
that the Indians will sweep over the country 
as soon as the restraint of the U. S. authority 
is removed; in that case there would be few 
cattle for anybody else to dispose of. It ap 
pears that of the 4,400,000 acres appropriated 
to the Cheyennes and Arapaboes, so insatiable 
was the greed of the cattle kings, that only 
400,000 acres were left for the Indians. Many 
of them who had settled within the land ap- 
priated by the cattlemen, were either fenced 
in,driven violently out, or murdered; while 
the small “bunches" of stock owned by many 
of them were purposely “mixed up” with the 
vast herds of their oppressors—hence Indian 
troubles and outrages.. 
..A hail and rain storm in Sargent County, 
Dakota, on Sunday evening, damaged 2,000 
acres of wheat. Part of it is a total loss. 
There was also a destructive hail storm in 
the James Valley.Count’d Ester- 
hazy has offered to colonize a tract of land In 
the Qu’ Appelle Valley, Manitoba, with 20,000 
Hungarians, who are dissatisfied with their 
present location in Pennsylvania aud Ohio. 
In view of serious charges made against the 
Count by the Hungarian Protective Society 
of New York, the Dominion Government is 
moving cautiously .Thomas White, 
M. P. for Cardwell, was sworn in as Canadian 
Minister of the Interior last Thursday, at 
Toronto .From an examination of the 
public documents stored in the Capitol at 
Washington it appears also that there has not 
been sucb a general demand for the agricul¬ 
tural reports as some persons believe; for some 
years as many as 10,000 copies have been left 
undisturbed.The Canadian Govern¬ 
ment has lowered the grain tolls on the St. 
Lawreuce canals to compete with the free 
Erie Canal of this State. The harbor dues at 
Montreal also are to be considerably reduced 
in order to compete with the port of New 
York.The total number of bushels of 
wheat and com carried by the Erie Caual 
during the week ending July 25 was 1,020,649. 
For the corresponding time the total amouut 
carried by all the railroa Is from Buffalo was 
308,275 bushels. The caual ahead 712,374 
bushels, and all in a single week . 
.The highest villages in Vermont are 
Lunenburg, Danville and Randolph. The 
highest cultivated laud is in those towns. 
It is cultivated in LuneDbbrg to the bight of 
about 3.000 feet. The lowest land is about 
Lake Champlain.Nebraska has now 
about 250,000 acres of growing forests, in 
which have been set 600,000 young trees. Be¬ 
sides this there have been planted over 12,000,- 
000 fruit trees, over 2,500,000 grape-vines, a 
vast number of berry bushes and plants, and 
countless quantities of ornamental shrubs.... 
....In favorable seasons, California counts its 
boney crop by the thousand tons, and bee¬ 
keepers find a good profit when extracted 
honey commands no more than four or five 
cents per pound, and comb honey seven cents 
or eight cents. This year, however, the honey 
yield will be light—flowers are few and nectar 
scant....The export of wine from the 
Champagne districts during the year ending 
July 1 was the largest on record, and exceeded 
21,000,000 bottles. But that over-production 
prevails in this branch of industry as iu all 
the others, can be seen from the fact that 
there are nearly 185,000,000 bottles, or a sup¬ 
ply equal to seven year’s consumption, still 
left in the producers’ bands. 
... .The Massachusetts Legislature has made 
the following appropriations to further the 
interests of agriculture in that State: For the 
experiment station, $10,000; for laboratory 
of station, $6,000; to replace burned buildings 
at the Agricultural College, $20,000; heating 
and scientific apparatus, $9,000; tower and 
chapel building, $6,000; apparatus and gas in 
chapel, $3,000; furnishing chapel, $1,000; 
furnishing library rooms, $1,000; coloring 
walls of new chapel and repairing the old, 
$2,500; Board of Agriculture, $22,000; for the 
Cattle Commission, if needed, $5,000. Here 
is a total of nearly $90,000 to be expended with¬ 
in the year in behalf of agriculture. 
. ..The late Missouri Legislature has added 
another straw to the back of the oleomarga¬ 
rine trade. A law is now in effect making it 
a misdemeauor for any hotel, inn, or board¬ 
ing house keeper to set before his guests, at 
any meal, any compound resembling butter, 
manufactured from cattle fat or beef suet, or 
any article known as oleomargarine, unless 
the same shall be indelibly marked on the dish 
or plate containing it, with its true name.... 
....Sir Joseph Cbamberlaiu, in a speech at 
Wiltshire, England, Thursday, advised the 
workingmeu to press for a reform of the land 
laws in favor of small life holders. He said he 
believed the farming grievances in England 
were as great as those in Ireland. The time was 
coming, he said, when a revision of the rela¬ 
tions between Church aud State would be 
made...Among the exports from New York 
last week were 1,990 live cattle, 5,100 quar¬ 
ters of beef and 570 carcasses of mutton. 
.American cattle are still slow in Liver¬ 
pool, at phenomenally low prices. 
.... By an order of the Canadian council dated 
July 25, tolls on the 8t. Lawrence canals on 
wheat, corn, oats, peas, barley and rye, ship¬ 
ped from Montreal or any other Canadian 
porteast of Montreal, are reduced to two cents 
from the first of July to the end of the present 
season.Tbe exports of live cattle 
and dressed meats per steamer from the port 
of Boston for the English markets last week 
were 914 cattle aud 1,076 quarters of beef. 
....The annual hegira of dairy calves from 
New York, Penusylvania. Ohio and Michigan 
to Chicago has commenced. Large numbers 
have already been sold at $13 per head. 
... A London paper says that in a very few 
years three-fourths of the receipts of bread- 
stuffs from the United States will probably 
come in the shape of flour. 
The army worm is reported in East and West 
Carrol and other parishes in Louisiana, and 
There is no reason why evaporators may not 
expect fully as good prices for their evaporated 
stock as ruled last season. Raspberries.—The 
crop of black caps is an abundant oue and 
prices will no doubt rule low. Good 1884 stock 
is going out at about 20c , and the new fruit, 
which willsoon begintocomeiu. will probably 
open at about ihat. figure, and it is possible, of 
course, ihat they mav go below 20c. in case of 
heavy receipts, etc. Cherries.—Fair crop but 
less than last year. Plenty of old stock carried 
over. Pitted cherries will probably range 
from eight cents to eteveu cents. Black¬ 
berries.—Crop fully equal to that of 1884. 
«- - 
About a Broken-Down Invalid, ami Ilow he 
Recovered his Health. 
Onk of the busiest editors in Philadelphia, 
and one most thoroughly devoted to his work, 
is Rev. Victor L. Conrad, of that wideiv cir¬ 
culated religious paper, the Lutheran Observ¬ 
er. He is the office-editor, with nil of the 
most exacting work on his hands. He became, 
in consequence, a broken down invalid: but 
is now in a* good health, and as aide to go 
through with its arduous duties, as at at. any 
time in his life. A press reporter who called 
upon Mr. Conrad gives, in substance. th« fol¬ 
lowing account, of his interview with that 
gentleman, in which h« spoke of ' i- loss of 
health through over-wotk. and of his subse¬ 
quent complete restoration: and consented, in 
Hie interest, of overworked editors, broken- 
down literary men. and exhausted men of 
business, to have bis narrative made public. 
He said; 
“Hy long and unremitting overwork T was 
brought into a condition of (/rent nervous 
weakness. My digestion was bad. I had a 
general feeling of good-for nothingness, and 
was unable to perform mv editorial duties 
with satisfaction, I realized that something 
must be done promptly or I would heroine a 
confirmed invalid. Tbis was seven or eight 
years ago. From the experience of others I 
knew something of Compound Oxveen; espec¬ 
ially iu the case of a .Mrs. Kellev daughter of 
Col. Hornbrook. of Wheeling, Va., who was 
hrouebt to this citv on a tied, n complete 
wreck from paralysis and a fearful sufferer 
from nenrttfffia I knew now apparently 
hopeless her case wti*; and I knew of her com¬ 
plete rest oral ion to health through the use of 
Compound Oxygen. 
“To make a long story short. I began tbe 
treatment* Improvement, was slow, hut very 
apparent. Before long that miserable feeling 
of good for nothingness was gone. Mg nerves 
were toned up. Mr stomach improved and 
eating was no 1 oncer a cause of tormeut. Re¬ 
covery was a simple "iid pleasant process. I 
could experience the pleasure of restoration 
and still attend to mv literary duties. I con¬ 
tinued the treatment until my health was 
fitlfy restored, and I could perform my editor¬ 
ial duties as well as ever. This restoration 
to health took place several years ago, and has 
been permanent. 
“A case even more wonderful than my own 
is that of mv brother, Rev. F. VI. Conrad. 
His nervous system was completely shattered. 
by overwork and the use of too powerful 
drugs. For several months he was entirely 
laid aside. The first effect of Compound 
Oxvgen in his case was the ability to obtain 
healthy sleep to which he had long been a 
stranger. Then his whole system ivus toned 
up. ills digestion, which had been greatly 
disordered, became henltby. A marked im¬ 
provement in bis eyeaivbt was one of tbe most 
notable indications, lie is now busy among 
the churches, as well as attending to his duties 
os Editor-in-chief of the Observer. 
“The overworked thousands who cannot take 
a week's, or a day’s rest, from their wearying 
labors, ought to know more about tbis Com¬ 
pound Oxvgen.” 
A “ Treatise on Compound Oxygen." con¬ 
taining a history of the discovery nod mode 
of action of this remarkable curative agent, 
will be sent free, on application to Drs. 
Starkey & Palkn, 1529 Arch St., Philadel¬ 
phia.— Adv. 
great alarm exists among planters. A letter re¬ 
ceived from Homer says that on many planta¬ 
tions iu the parishes mentioned the crops have 
been seriously damaged by the worm.. 
The experiment that was tried by California 
fruit growers two years ago in the shipment 
of apples to China has in tbe past six months 
assumed large proportions. ..A telegram from 
Austin, Texas, last Wednesday, says, “The 
complaint to President Cleveland by Kan¬ 
sas cattlemen leasing lands in Indian Territory, 
that Texas was already stocked to its utmost 
capacity, sounds strange in the face of the well 
established fact that there are 80,000,000 acres 
of school aud university lands subject to sale 
and lease in Texas.”.Tbe Chicago Dried 
Fruit and Produce Company bus carefully 
investigated the condition of tbe fruit crop jn 
all sections of the country and presents herein 
tbe result. Apples—Iu general tbe crop is 
fully equal to last year's, but there will un¬ 
doubtedly be a smaller proportion of the crop 
evaporated owing to two causes:—1st, Tbe uu- 
satisfactory and unprofitable business of last 
year, aud 2d, in the sections where the evapor¬ 
ators are most numerous, the crop Is consider¬ 
ably lighter. It does uot, however, consider 
it safe for evaporators to figure on any better 
prices titan prevailed last year. There will be 
a large quantity of 1884 stock carried over, 
and the general depreciation iu values iu all 
lines, together with the prevailing lack of con¬ 
fidence in general business, will all tend to 
prevent any advance to speak or. Peaches.— 
Despite the destruction of the crop in the 
North and West, the crop in the warmer peach¬ 
growing. States will make up the deficiency. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, August 8, 1885. 
CHICAGO. —Compared with cash prices a 
sek ago, “regular” wheat is higher; No. 
Spring, He higher; No. 2 Red, 2e. lower; 
irn, lc. higher; Oats, \%c. higher; Rye 
id Bariev, unchanged. Cattle, stoekers and 
eders, 25c. higher; others from 5c. to 25c. 
wer. Hogs, from 15c. to 30c. lower. Sheep, 
•ady. 
tVnmT. Active anil steady- sale* rnneed: August, 
aVttKSqc- 8 cpieiui>er, S'Jl4®90i<c; October, 92.a92«i\ 
i 2 Hrirltur. S|iye- No 1 do. S0e No. 2 Red. 91c- No 
itivi. S 7 Ue. Corn- Firm; ('mb. tFl* 3 , ' 6 L 4 e- Autrust. 
viifiU'" September, at tv* %U«4*o: October, -Htv® 
tec i)it‘ Firm ; sales ran buiI Oash ,“<>'40 • Au- 
e iWJWr Sept ember, RvK-KIrm: 
I i »8Wt» Burley—No J, (U-tfiV. Point.-Steady: 
L ah’ MfllMlt!) r -0' Auttust, »950. September, 
•*m 70- October. *9 LAim-Active; Sales 
ntreil- tfl VSatS 9IU' AUKU*t. tfi'llW” Septeril- 
r, M •wwuf.mc October. M 40* « uw; iip lkmeats* 
Shoulder*, al *'t:v*tv5: Short, lull *id«, V *™4l 
ort rienr. *5S(i.«n r »S R e CATTI.lt — Murker active) 
port •» S0-AB30* cows and mixed, at stock- 
jn |)n ..ti 90: feeders. *1 00*4 90; Texans. #9 ,0'3> •] 11 . 
w'-a—lumch mixed. *M9I1»4 2<1 DOCK In* midship- 
'* i 4 So“" MS - light" *4 Y, «>5 Hi skips. *301X94 00. 
ihef Market sternly Inferior, $275®360; natives 
$4 00.91 25; Texan*, *1 75(9.1 75. 
St. Louis.—C ompared with cash prices a 
eek ago, No. 2 red wheat is lc higher. Corn 
.higher. Oats, He. higher. Cattle, steady, 
jeep, unchanged. Hogs, from I5e. to 30c. 
wer. 
Wheat—W heat oulet: No. 2 Red. cb«Ii, <K»-V«99o: 
mtust 99t6L" September, ti t'Obiwt te-W: October. 
uxuai on*. OottH-Oulef Cash,4jW«August. 42s4« 
UjCi September. iWattbc : October. 41t**49e. 
kTB-OuUd Cash, 'Jl-W-'-te' Auitu-t. He; Serdcm- 
•r 23«C. Rvb, 54c. Baulky. .•leail.v at Nkadlc. 
,us, * teii.lv at T«Tme Ki.axsbro -Stmulv «!« 
>bk. *10 00 10 uoieats t.omt Oh-ar, *.50 short 
I, Mioiirte. short clear, *5 90- turd *' rl " , Ir’ 
S HO C’ATTt.K-Market llrui Exports, *4 b »4 in . 
iod to choice shipping, *4 503)5: fair to medium, 
ino'9-100: Texans, #2 80(94 00. Shkki'—C tyiniiMi to 
ledlum *2 60(92 65 • fair to choice, *-’ 75'9» SO. 
oos. -bight. $1 60@1 65; Packing, $4 15@4 50; Uoavy 
1 50®4 65. 
