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THI RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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ftyenrs of the Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 15,1885. 
Of the 31 national banks in this city whose 
charters expire during the present calendar 
year.20 have applied for and secured an exten¬ 
sion for 20 years. The period of the charters 
of the other two does not expire until later in 
the year....Extensions of charters of 
national banks have been made at Washington 
on $170,000,000 of capital stock since Jauuary 
1.Ten times as much money is expend¬ 
ed in the United States for liquors as is ex¬ 
pended for public education............An 
artesian well in Kern County Cal., has been 
completed, which gives a flow of 1.575,000 gal¬ 
lons in 24 hours, and the water rises 11>£ 
inches above the pine. The cost was only 
$700... Iowa contains more people who 
can read and write, in proportion to her pop¬ 
ulation, than any other State in the Union... 
_The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re¬ 
ports that the number of immigrants arrived 
in the United States during the fiscal year 
ending June 30. 1885, was 387.621, being 132,- 
013 less than tbe immigration during the pre¬ 
ceding year, and 401.701 less than during the 
year July 20, 1882. tbe year of the greatest 
immigration. A well at White Plains, 
Nev., is down over 2.300 feet and can go no 
further until the water, which is 17 per cent, 
salt and so heavy that the rope and tools float 
in it and the drill does not penetrate the rock, 
is shut off..Tbe N. Y, World fund for 
the Pedestal of the Bartholdi Statue, after 
five months of persistent effort, has reached 
$102,000, contributed by 123,000 persons. 
.... A bill has been introduced in tbe Georgia 
Legislature, to impose an annual tax of $2 50 
upon all bachelors.The White House is 
closed to visitors during the President’s ab¬ 
sence, and will not be re-opened until his 
return in September.The Executive De¬ 
partment, tbe Agricultural Department and 
the Government printing office were closed by 
order of the President on the day of Gen. 
Grant’s public funeral in New York... 
....In Ohio there is one divorce for every 20 
marriages. A telegram from Fort 
Erie. Out, Canada, last Tuesday, says : James 
Whelan, who took part in the Fenian raid of 
1866, has been appointed United States Consul 
at this port. The appointment has caused 
great, indignation, and petitions are. heing 
signed by all tbe inhabitants of the town, 
praying that he shall not be allowed to take 
office.....A telegram from Milwaukee, 
Wis., on Wednesday, says: Tbe new High- 
License Law ofWisconsin, increasing the mini¬ 
mum rate of saloon license from $75 to $200, 
has now been in force three months, and re¬ 
turns from some 100 towns in tbe State show 
that tbe aggregate number of saloons has been 
diminished bv 267: that the aggregate amount 
of annual revenue is $224,000 greater than last 
year, and that the saloons generally are under 
better regulations....A rough estimate 
of the population of Massachusetts, based on 
tbe retnrns which have been received for the 
census of 1885. will make the number of in¬ 
habitants 1.940 000, a gain of about 160,000 on 
the United States census of 1880. 
.....The soldiers’ monument at 
Atlanta is to have statues of Grant, Lee, 
Johnston and Sherman around tbe base of the 
column. Near the top will be two soldiers, 
the blue and the gray, clasping hands, and 
above the globe that, surrounds the summit 
will be the Goddess of Liberty. Tbe structure 
will be ISOfeet in higbtand will cost $100,000. 
....An officer of the Canadian Lake Mistas¬ 
sini exploring expedition reports that tbe 
lake’s extreme length is only 120 miles, and 
its average breadth 20 miles,. The 
Veterans’ Colonization Society has been or¬ 
ganized in Topeka to promote immigration 
into Kansas, and colonize veteran soldiers of 
the late war and tbeir families on government 
and other lands.A serious misunder¬ 
standing is reported to exist between tbe out¬ 
going and incoming United States sub-treas¬ 
urers of San Francisco, regarding the count 
of money in the vaults. Mr. Brooks, tbe 
newly appointed sub treasurer, is willing to 
accept the count by weight, hut Mr. Spalding, 
the incumbent, insists on every piece being 
counted before the transfer is made. There are 
$93,000,000 in the vault, and to count it all will 
take from six to eight months. A decision 
from Washington on the sub ject is looked for. 
....The Payne Oklahoma colony, which has 
been in camp near Caldwell, Kansas, some 
months, is breaking up in compliance with 
instructions from Captain Conch. He inter¬ 
prets the present action of the Administration 
as tbe inauguration of a move which will lead 
to the opening of Oklahoma in the near future 
and, with a desire to avoid causing embarrass¬ 
ment of the work, he has requested the colony 
for the present to disband. Couch and Secre¬ 
tary Blackburn will remain at Caldwell to 
look after correspondence..Mrs. Helen 
Hunt Jackson, the well known authoress, died 
Wednesday evening, at San Francisco, of 
cancer of the stomach. . .An employ^ of 
Hong Lee’s laundry, at Chicago, who arrived 
from San Francisco a week ago, is reported 
to be a leper...A petition is being cir¬ 
culated thougbout Massacbusets by Cocbitu- 
ate parties, appealing to Secretary Bayard 
to use bis influence with the Canadian gov¬ 
ernment in behalf of Louis Riel, who is to be 
hanged on September 18 next, on the ground 
that he is an American citizen. 
Up to June 7, 22.877 negroes bad obtained 
their freedom in tbe province of Santa Clara, 
Cuba....Rugby, in Tennessee, Tom 
Hughes’s experimental colony, now has be¬ 
tween 350 and 400 inhabitants, only one-balf 
of whom are English.Bankers and other 
capitalists are making strong efforts to pre¬ 
vent the coinage of silver money at the pres¬ 
ent rate.Tbe Attorney General has 
decided that pension agents are not entitled 
to a fee for paying pension attorneys their 
dues......... Attorney- General Garland roles 
that the Government, in freeing the spirits 
from an obligation to pay the tax in case it is 
exported, if it is not exported, “loses none of 
its remedies to collect its revenue debt.” The 
whisky interest, in short, has got to pay up. 
Tbe amount which has evaded paymentuuder 
Secretary McCulloch’s permission to keep it 
in store for seven months is over 1,000,000 
gallons, on which tax must now be paid at 90 
cents a gallon..Tbe death of Jame9 W. 
Marshall, the reputed discoverer of gold in 
California, at bis home in Kelsey, Cal., at the 
age of 74. has just, occurred. Marshall and 
two Mormons found gold on the Sacramento 
in February, 1848, and although the Mormons 
undertook to keep it a secret, a miuister gave 
it to the world through the American Journal 
of Science the following month. Marshall 
died in great poverty....Fort Bowie ad¬ 
vices state that Geronimo, the Apache chief, 
is now in tbe southern part of the Sierra 
Madres, 300 miles below the border, with 
two commands following him . 
... .The way smuggling is carried on in Can¬ 
ada is indicated by an advertisement in sev¬ 
eral Dominion papers, offering for sale a farm 
in the Province of Quebec near the American 
border, accompanied by this bold statement: 
The stand Is well known to the Americans, and all 
kinds of poods, such as llnuor, butter, horses, grain 
hay, etc., find on easy channel Into the States at all 
times. A good, active business man can clear his 
$100 a day. or nUcbl besides making on an average 
of $10,000 a year of net profits. 
..Rain and wind storms,hurricanes, cyclones 
and tornadoes have been very numerous all 
over the country, and terribly destructive in 
several places during the past week.. A heavy 
storm of rain followed by bail, prevailed in 
Eastern Dakota several hours, Monday night, 
devasting at least. 300 square miles of territory, 
including part of Wilkeu County, Minn. The 
strip of territory extended as far west as 
Foreman, in Sargent Country, Dali., and was 
about six miles wide. Fully 80ft farms are 
affected. Most of the standing wheat was 
injured. The same region was swept by a 
bail storm last year.A cyclone in Nor¬ 
wood, St Lawrence County, N. Y., Wednes¬ 
day afternoon, destroyed several houses and 
buildings and tbe Ogdensburg and Lake 
Champlain Railroad bridge. Eight people 
are reported killed and several fatally ip jured. 
.Secretary Endicott’s order remanding 
officers who have been absent from their com¬ 
mands on special service for a period of four 
years, is making quite a stir in army circles. 
Officers who favor the order say that favorit¬ 
ism is now ended; that officers will not be 
allowed to remain away from their commands 
10 or 15 years: that captains who have never 
seen tbeir companies will have an opportunity 
to look at them, and that men who have been 
on tbe frontier for almost a score of years will 
now be permitted to taste the sweets of army 
life.. .. . 
Why Sutler Pain? 
When by using the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment of Drs. Rtarkev &Palen, 1529 Arch 
St.. Philadelphia, tbe chances are all in favor 
of your getting prompt relief; especially if 
the’pain has its origiu in nervous derange¬ 
ment. In neuralgia, sick headache, and vari¬ 
ous nervous affections, this treatment acts 
, with remarkable promptness. Write for 
pamphlet giving information about, this Treat¬ 
ment, and it will be sent free.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, August 15, 1885. 
Commissioner Colman has been informed 
of an undoubted outbreak of plenro-pneumo- 
nia in a herd of sixty thoroughbred Holland 
cattle belonging to William Koch, of Port 
Richmond. 8taten Island. It is reported that 
four or five valuable animals died. Dr. 
McLain, United States Veterinary Inspector 
for the Bureau of Animal Industry, visited 
the [herd and [found an undoubted case of 
pleuro-pneumonia. The Commissioner has 
written to the Governor of New York asking 
whether he will co-oporate with the Depart¬ 
ment in quarantining the affected herd and 
thus preventing the spread of the disease. 
.... Of the 26.628 931 pounds of bops produced 
in this country in the last census year, the 
State of New York, mainly Oneida and the 
adjoining counties, produced 21.628 931 
pounds.The grocers of this State are 
organizing to hold a convention at. the same 
place and time as the farmers’ State Fair oc¬ 
curs. The value of the Florida orange 
crop has been estimated at over $1.730.000.... 
....A telegram from Rockford, Ill.,yesterday 
says: “William Boyd, who has been conducting 
a creamery at Peceatonica, has disappeared^ 
owing tbe farmers in that section $5,000 for 
cream. He came from the East a year ago, 
and his present whereabouts are unknown.”.. 
.The Prime Warden of the Fishmon¬ 
gers’ Company, London, told the Society of 
Arts, in a recent address, that the daily supply 
received at Billiugsgate, the great London 
fish market, amounted to 500 tons. A ton of 
fish is equal to tbe weight of 28 average sheep, 
so that 500 tons equal a consumption of 14 000 
sheep.Tbe gain in the number of hogs 
packed since March 1. over the same time 
last year, is now 535.000 bead.The 
exports of live stock and dressed meats from 
the port of Boston per steamers for tbe Eng¬ 
lish markets last week were 1.705 cattle, 430 
sheep and 2,444 quarters of beef.From 
1863 to 1873 there were 29,210 head of horses 
imported into England, and 19,700 bpad were 
imported from 1873 to 1883.It is said 
that 955 farms in Iowa are owned by women, 
and that 20 dairy farms are managed by 
women. There are 125 women physicians and 
five women attorneys-at law in tbe State. i 
...There is such a demand for arsenic, in Cali¬ 
fornia with which to destroy grasshoppers, 
that it is sold by the 100 pounds. It is found to 
be the best remedy for the scourge, as the grass¬ 
hoppers eagerly cat a mixture containing it.. 
.Hon. George B. Loring, ex-Commis- 
sioner of Agriculture, has writteu a letter in 
reply to Judge Durham’s communication 
announcing a disallowance of a portion of 
Mr. Loring’s accounts as Commissioner. He 
says the statutes never laid down definitely 
and precisely his duty in reference to the de¬ 
tails of tbe work of the Department, and that 
the Commissioner was obliged to lay out the 
work without directions in the Statute Book, 
and to use the appropriations for tbe purposes 
specified in tbe act according to his own 
judgment, and this course, he says, has been 
followed by all his predecessors in office. 
.A receut report to the British House of 
Commons showed that by tha operation of 
forest laws in India, where there was former¬ 
ly a terrible waste of timber, the revenue 
from forests has increased tenfold, yielding a 
net profit of $2 000,000.Tbe experiment 
of planting tobacco has been tried at Reno, 
Nevada. aDd has proved successful, while it is 
thought that the climate is well fitted for cur¬ 
ing the leaf .The little cluster of islands 
in the Pacific, just off the Patagouiau coast, 
furnish forage for 400,000 sheep. There are 
no bushes or trees of auy kind on the islands, 
and the entire surface is covered with a bed 
of peat which would supply the world. Over 
the peat is a thick growth of short but very 
nutritious grass, on which the sheep thrive 
wonderfully. Nearly every day there is rain, 
which seems unable to force its way down 
the bills, and tbe summits are as wet always 
as the valleys.Rabbits are such a pest in 
Buena Vista Valley, Nev , that farmers are pro¬ 
viding tbe Indians with powder and shot in or¬ 
der to kill them off.. ..John O. Snider, of Hart- 
fordCity. Ind., a year or more ago became im¬ 
bued with a desire to become a pedestrian. Ac¬ 
cordingly he laid out a circular truck near bis 
house, around which he walks many times 
every day. Since beginning the exercise he 
estimates that he has covered 10 200 miles ... 
....The managers of the New England Fair 
to be held in Bangor. Me.. August 31 to Sep¬ 
tember 4, have invited President Cleveland to 
attend, and the managers of tbe Boston and 
MaineCentral Railroads have tendered aspeeial 
train to bring him to Bangor und Bar Harbor 
if he accepts.The herds of swine in 
South Essex. Ont., are being decimated by 
hog cholera.Gen. Benjamin F. Butler 
and ex-Secretary of the Navv Robeson are the 
chief stockholders in the Union Land and 
Grazing Company, for which articles of in¬ 
corporation were filed in the office of the Cam¬ 
den County (N. J.) clerk Tuesday. Tbe paid- 
up capital of the Company is $250,000, and the 
object is to go into the stock raising business 
on a very extensive scale in New Mexico 
and Colorado, where the Company own 400,- 
000 acres of breeding and grazing lauds. 
....Our contributor. Richard Goodman of 
Lenox, Mass., one of the best and most suc¬ 
cessful farmers and stock raisers in the Old 
Buy State, has sold Mr Sloan, son-in law of 
William H. Vanderbilt. 100 acres of his farm 
for about $75 000 It is rumored that Mr. 
Vanderbilt is to build a magnificent summer 
residence ou.the;iand. 
_The Rev R G. Rail'd, Bpcretary of the 
Michigan State Board of Agriculture, died 
at bis home St the Agricultural College. Aug. 
6. Spcrptary Baird has been connected with 
the College since 1875 and was one of its 
warmest, defenders. He was a kind-hearted 
mou, thoroughly in earnest, and devoted to 
his work. He made many warm friends at 
the College as well hs throughout the State, 
who will deeply regret his death. 
HAY AND STRAW PRESSES. 
The Whitman Agricultural Co., of St,. 
Louis. Mo , are having immense success with 
their improved Continuous Press Tt, was 
awarded the First Prize Medal at World’s 
Fair, and at, everv Fair and Trial where it has 
been in competition. The Coruoanv warrant 
this Press to tie more rapid, pnwprful and dur¬ 
able than any of its class now made.— Adv. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday. August 15. 1885. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its review of 
the British grain trade during the past week, 
save: “The average lias been equal to that of 
the preceding week. There have been 
thundpr-storms in the greater part of the 
kingdom, and the nights have heen cold, 
the«e conditions ebeokine premature ripening 
of tbe crons. Harvesting, therefore, liasbpen 
slower. The sales of Eneluh wheat during 
the week were 38.070 quarters at 33*. 6d., 
against, 20.578 quarters at 37s. 6d. during the 
corresponding week last, vear. Trade in 
foreien wheat, is colorless, sellers are firm; 
buyers are few and res'rioted in tbeir pur- 
ehapps. The demands for cargoes off coast 
have been trivial. Ninp cargoes arrived, two 
cargoes were sold, four cargoes were with¬ 
drawn and five remained, including one of 
California. Thirty-seven cargoes are due. 
The market t.o-dav was very quiet Values of 
wheat were rieedv. Flour was firm Com 
was firm. Barleys were quiet. Oats were 
3d. cheaper. Beans and peas were 61. cheaper.” 
According to the August report of the De¬ 
partment, of Agriculture, the indication sub¬ 
mitted in the July report, pointing to 215,- 
000.000 bushels as an approximate forthe win¬ 
ter wheat production, seems likely to he main¬ 
tained. 
In regard to the spring crop of wheat, the 
Aug"st report, indicates a reduction of about, 
4 per cm t., or 6.000 000 bushels, tie compared 
with the July estimate. The reduction is 0 
percent, for Minnesota, 5 for Wisconsin. 4 
for iow«. und 1 for Dakota, with a gain for 
other Territories and New England. T his in¬ 
dication points to a production of 142,000:000 
bushels of soring growth, and an aggregate 
cron of 357.000 OfK)hu=hels. 
The corn crop of 1 S c 4 w«s 1.795 528,000 
bushelson an area of 69.683.780 acres, making 
an average yield of 25 6 bushels per acre. T he 
arpa this year has been increased to about 
74.000 000 acres, or 6 per cent, gain over last 
year. The conditfoo reported fnr Aiwuit 1 
bv the Department of Agriculture is 96. the 
same as a vear sen. and this average has 
been excee'ed for August but three times in 
eleven vear*. in 1875. 1879, and 1S80, when it 
was 09 in paob instance. 
On the basis of condition averaging the 
same as a year ago for the remainder of the 
season, the crop would reach 1,895 000.000 
bushels, or 100 000.000 bushel* in excess of last 
year. But in view of the fact that, the condi¬ 
tion was reduced three points last year during 
August and September, it. is suggestel by the 
Go verptn en t re por 11 h a t, wi tb sea son a hi e ni oist • 
ure and favorine temperature hereafter, the 
yield mav be 26 to 27 bushels us compared 
with 25 6 last. vpar. If it should reach 27, 
the crop would he 2 000.000 000 bushels, in 
round figures, or 200.000.000 in excess of last 
vear. This seems to be the limit of chances 
for the crop. 
The average for oats has declined from 97 to 
96. which is four points higher than io August 
of lost-year. Rye averages 94, showing con¬ 
tinued improvement, since June 1. Barley 
stands ns in the last report, at 92, which 
indicates about, an average crop for nuy series 
of five or ten years. There is an increase in 
the area of buckwheat,, and condition averages 
95. A medium crop of hav is assured, by the 
uveruee. 93. Tobacco makes a general aver¬ 
age of 91. The averuge for potatoes is 95, 
against 97 last mouth. 
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, August 15, 1885. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
feel: ago, “regular” wheat is lc lower; No. 
Spring, ljtfe. lower: No. 2 Red, l%o. higher; 
lorn, |sC. lower; Oats, %e. lower; Rye, 
£e. lower. Pork, 10o. lower. Cattle, a trifle 
igber. Hogs, a shade higher. Sheep, steady. 
umisf c;i.c/,i,|i'a 1 i i' - September, I fif <c'Hite; October, 
lo-.rtfV. Oat* yiittd- sale- ransed Cush 2SV$c: 
msust. J'W'»V. r ' l > 4 e • September. 21 -V-m .'i>t,<‘. Ryu— 
ln»! N'o.i.SRe Bariev- So 2, ill -mI.’ii-. Pork —Ac- 
ve Caxh, $" ttva*5) V>: Aiicust, *:i 2(i«9 25; September 
i hkh'. i ji*v- October, • [.Mlci Active- Sales 
inceil- Cash. S6Awturt. •aV’hie Septem- 
E>r, tuffl-ji'it lw October, Man »Ha Bui.kmeats. 
siii.ul'P’rs. nr »tiv.» t in- Short Kill aides, t5 in® 
4 *i; Short,clear. *5 U0e CATTiE— Market steady; 
ipo'I ♦ I'Ai/tS 1. r «-cow* and mixed, $1 UOOl 100 slot Ic- 
i-h, $s(iivdt0u: feeders in -it,! I mi Texan*. $3no<i>4 25. 
oim-Rouwli mixed. *»90«U5 pneMnn und ship- 
lnif. $i (A a fid ; light, *i mi l l 1 5. skips. *:t (Kko.s 90. 
incur Market steady: Ini.nor, *4 uum3u 0; natives 
t * a ) niW.1 iMl- Tcviiik ft’ I llrtH 5,0. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS, 
Nkw York. Saturday, August 15, 1885. 
BRKAD9TCTFE* Asn PR(>vi«iii*ir a » pornnnrod with 
udi prices a week in/o. flour I* nftChainfcd: No- ,1 
ed Wheat is lc. higher: UuKTnded Red Is ?c. low 
No ' Red Is Sc -lower. Co'N Unenirtrd mixed 
i’ Ko. higher: No l is le. higher. Pork 550, lower, 
hi.oi a. H’kkp **i> mrai, *umr Quotations: Fine 
■ 4l)«x SO- Superfine. 8 < 2V8» T" F.xtm No 4. *:< 65® 
nit- Good to Fancy extra Slate, $8At'eU 00: Good to 
hotc,. Kxtrn Western, $40041,5 Hi • omm u to Fair 
xtrn Ohio, SM (Ijo. I in Good, tt l',V« I Id; flood to 
holce, *1 50<8S 25: Common Extra Minnesota, *3 65® 
iSi- Clear, $4,OS@4 75- rye mixture, *4 00®4 50: 
,ra«ght, *1 3VB5 25: patent *|.75®5 5»- baker's extra. 
100415 00: St. I.ouls common to fair extra, *3 65(84 00, 
ur to good, $4 10® 1 90. good to very choice, $4 95® 
