588 THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. AUS 29 
Urns of t\)e Week, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 22, 1885. 
Gen. Devins, Attorney-General under 
Hayes, is showing signs of insanity. He is 
impressed with the idea that he has to write a 
life of Gen. Grant, and he has been preparing 
copy for the publishers. He wrote parts of 
his civil life iu black ink, and then when he 
wrote of bis military career, he used red ink 
entirely. He declares that the book is to 
bring $5,000 a copy when finished. 
....Seventeen years ago, the death penalty 
for murder in the first degree was abolished 
by Minnesota, and life imprisonment was 
substituted; but the gallows has just been re¬ 
erected. Michigan tried the same experi¬ 
ment, and not long since, a bill was passed by 
the lower House of the Legislature re-enacting 
the hanging policy, although it failed of 
adoption in the Senate. Maine did no hang¬ 
ing for six years, and then went back to cap 
ital punishment .. .... As a sequel to Vander¬ 
bilt’s absorbtion of the West Shore Railroad, 
comes the report that he has secured control 
of the $2.200,000 of preferred stock of the 
New York, Ontario and Western Road, and 
that the road is to be merged with the West 
Shore—that is, with the New York Central 
system. The acquisition of the preferred 
stock of the Ontario and Western gives Mr. 
Vanderbilt the power to out-vote $58,113,- 
982.84 of common stock, and to elect eight 
of th e thirteen directors... 
.... Gold discoveries in Eastern Oregon are 
attracting miners from all sections of the 
Rocky Mountains. Developments thus far 
indicate permanent veins and rich ore. The 
mines were discovered two weeks ago. and 
were sold hi Omaha parties for $70,000, and 
ore enough has been taken out since to pay 
for them. The roads are being extended 
to the mines from Baker City, and stages 
will be put on. Samples brought to Portland 
show from $40 to $200 per ton.Com¬ 
missioner Upshaw, of tbe Indian Bureau, has 
awarded the contract for furnishing 325,000 
pounds of beef and 110,000 pounds of flour to 
the Northern Cheyenne Indians to Thomas 
C. Powell, of Chicago, the former at $3 47, 
and the latter at $2,70 per hundred pounds... 
... .Warrants have already been issued by the 
Treasury Department for the payment of un¬ 
disputed claims against the World's Exposition 
at New Orleans, amountiugto $188,020. There 
remain only about $61,980 to be paid on 
account of claims the justice of which is ad¬ 
mitted by the managers of the Exposition. 
The remainder of the Congressional appropri¬ 
ation of $335,000 amounting to $85,000, will 
be reserved for the payment of such of the 
disputed claims as may be found just and 
equitable. Tbe new managers of the show for 
next Winter are “pushing things,” and express 
high hopes of a very successful season. 
....At Birmingham, Ala , tbe center of the 
heavy iron and coal business of that State, 
there is a stubborn strike iu the coal mines 
against the admission of Italian miners. The 
miners all through that region say they will 
quit work the moment foreign labor is intro¬ 
duced, and will permit none but themselves 
to work the mines. The companies are equally 
determined .Last Tbusday Gov. Hoadly 
of Ohio, was renominated for the Governor¬ 
ship by the Democratic Convention. There 
is likely to be considerable political excite¬ 
ment in the Buckeye State this Fall, and tbe 
wool-growers, who have heretofore been 
badly used by both parties, are likely to have 
a good deal to do with the issue of the elec¬ 
tions.Enthusiastic meetings are beiDg 
held by tbe French Canadians at Montreal 
and other chief points in Lower Canada in 
behalf of Louis Riel. It is stoutly maintained 
that there was o conspiracy to secure his con¬ 
viction and execution. Resolutions are gen¬ 
erally i>assed condemning the unconstitutional 
nature of his trial, and subscriptions are 
usually taken up on behalf of the “Riel 
Fund” to defray the expenses of an appeal to 
the Privy Council. The inhabitants of On¬ 
tario, and especially those of Manitoba, the 
French and half-bree h excepted, are strongly 
urging the execution of tbe “rebel,” and a 
great deal of bitterness is being developed be¬ 
tween the two parties. Frenchmen and 
Frenob-Canadiaus in this country are also 
agitating about the fate of Riel, and the ques¬ 
tion whether the Dominion Government“dare” 
execute him is of great interest across tbe bor¬ 
der and in many places in this country also... •. 
At Gorham, Governor Kobie has one of the 
finest farms in Maine, comprising about 300 
acres.Sir Francis Hicks, the Canadian 
statesman, died suddenly of small pox last 
Tuesday. He was born in Cork, Ireland, in 
1807; settled iu Canada in 1842; was Inspector- 
General for 12 years. Became Governor of 
Barbadoes and afterward of Guiana. He re¬ 
turned to Canada, however, in 1869, resigning 
an office yielding $20,000 to accept the Minis¬ 
try of Finance with a salary of $5,000, under 
Sir John A. Macdonald. He retained office 
until 1873. His last conspicuous appearance 
before tfce world was as president of the 
broken Consolidated Bank of Montreal, 
when he was couvicted of felonious decep¬ 
tion of tbe shareholders. Sentence, how¬ 
ever, was never imposed... 
.The best jumping record was exceeded 
last Monday at St. Catherines, Canada, by 
D. M. Sullivan, of East Saginaw, Michigan, 
who in a hop-step-and jump covered 31 feet, 
7}^ inches, beating the best American record 
two feet, five inches. In three standing 
jumps, without weights, he covered 33 feet, 
iDcbes, beating the best American record 
by one inch. In three standing jumps, with 
weights, he covered 39 feet three inches, beat¬ 
ing the best record by two inches .Geu. 
Black, Chief of tbe Pension Bureau, has dis¬ 
covered “gross irregularities” in tbe pension 
offices at Chicago, Philadelphia, and other 
large cities. At Chicago 650 caBes of fraudu¬ 
lent pensions have been ascertained showing 
collusion or gross carelessness. The names 
are of genuine pensioners, but of persons 
now dead or who have disappeared for years, 
or, in the case of widows, have married again. 
The Chicago pension agent is Miss Ada Sweet. 
....... Small pox continues to rage virulent¬ 
ly at Montreal, and the Governor of Michi¬ 
gan is urging the General Government to 
take immediate measures to prevent its intro¬ 
duction into the United States. At Montreal 
there are 300 known cases, and it is believed 
from 300 to 400 more cases are not reported. 
Our Government has asked the Canadian 
authorities “for more detailed information in 
regard to tbe character and extent of small¬ 
pox at Montreal, Toronto and other Canadian 
cities near the United States border”. 
.... Senator Edmunds has returned from Eng¬ 
land. There appears to be a general 
desire that Ex Senator Conkliug should be 
the principal orator in eulogizing Grant 
before CoDgress next session. He is now at 
the Baths at Carlsbad, Germany. Requests 
have already been sent to him to deliver ad¬ 
dresses ou Grant at several prospective meet¬ 
ings in honor of the dead hero.The 
Grant family are at Mt. McGregor where 
they will remain until about tbe middle of next 
month..One million dollars is the sum 
fixed upon by the Committee of 600 promi¬ 
nent men appointed to raise fUDds for the 
erection of a national Grant Memorial over 
tbe body in this city. The entire country is 
expected to contribute, although the bulk of 
the amount must, most likely, be raised here. 
The amount hitherto collected is less than 
$52,000. Contributions for local monuments 
are being raised in several other cities, not¬ 
ably in Chicago, where more has been col¬ 
lected than in New York .There are 
over 700 cases on the docket of the Supreme 
Court of the United States, and that tribuual 
only sits about 150 days in the year, hearing 
on an average two or three cases a day, while 
new cases are coming in at the rate of five to 
a dozen a day.Of the 517 students at 
the University of California, 319 intend to 
practice law.The whole number of per¬ 
sons employed in tbe brewing of beer in the 
United States is 500,000, and tbe total capital 
invested in the business is $250,000,000. 
William Sprague, sou of the ex Senator of 
Rhode Island, has married the sister of bis 
father’s wife, so that he is brother-in-law to 
his father, and being the husnand of his aunt, 
may be regarded as bis own uncle, and will 
be a great uncle to his children.Ac¬ 
cording to statistics collected by the Baltimore 
Sun, out of 3,377 murders committed last year 
in the United States, the perpetrators were 
punished with death in only 313 cases, and 
210 of these perished by lynch law. Only one 
murderer in 38, therefore, is hung accordiug 
to law in this great country, and one in about 
15 by irregular methods. Ten out of 11 es¬ 
cape tbe gallows altogether. 
....Last Monday morning the forward part 
of tbe ferryboat S M. Felton, plying between 
Philadelphia and Wilmington,Del., was blown 
up, shortly after leaving her dock in Phila¬ 
delphia with 200 persons on board, 16 of whom 
were seriously and many more slightly in¬ 
jured. It was a wonder that numbers were 
not killed. Some miscreant had purposely 
placed dynamite against the boiler. 
....Poundmaker, Chief of the Indians who 
fought Col. Otter’s flying column at Cut- 
Knife Creek, during the late Canadian trouble, 
and afterwards attacked and captured a sup¬ 
ply train of thirty-one wagons in the Eagle 
Hills, was convicted last Tuesday at Regina, 
Manitoba, of making war against the Queen, 
and sentenced to three years in the peniten¬ 
tiary. He demanded immediate death in pref¬ 
erence.In 
1840 the total quantity of opium consumed in 
tbe United States was about 20,000 pounds. In 
1880jit had increased to 533,450 pounds. x In 
1868 it is estimated that there were from 80,- 
000 to 100.000 victims of the opium habit in 
this country; now they number over 500,000. 
....The Prohibition party of Massachusetts 
will put a complete State ticket in the field 
to be supported at the polls at the coming 
election, and will hold their State convention 
at Worcester. September 10. Ex Gov. St. 
John will be present and address the conven¬ 
tion .An order similar to that re¬ 
cently issued by Secretary Endicott will 
shortly be sent out from the Navy Department, 
The navy regulations require that officers 
shall serve three years on shore, returning at 
the end of tbe latter period to sea duty. Com¬ 
plaint has been made by some officers that 
they did not receive their full time ou shore. 
_Claus Spreckles, the Pacific coast sugar 
king, whose son was acquitted outhe trial for 
shooting Do Young, is doing the proper thing 
by Judge Toohy who presided. The judge is 
visiting the Hawaiian Islands, where tbe 
Spreckles sugar plantations are, and every¬ 
thing is being done to make it pleasant for 
bisbonor. King Kalakaua even has been in¬ 
duced to gi ve Toohy a break fast.. 
.... The Executive Committee of the Knights 
of Labor has ordered all members of the Order 
not to handle Wabash rolling stock. This 
order, if fully obeyed, will throw thousands of 
railroad hands out of work all over tbe West, 
but especially on the Gould system of roads, 
covering nearly the entire Southwest, beyond 
the Mississippi. The local branches of the 
Order have resolved to support the Committee, 
but the full effects of the strike will not be 
seen for several days yet. The impeachment 
of the United States judges who have charge 
of the Wabash receivership is threatened; but 
the threat is likely to reflect on the judgment 
of the Committee . 
.The census gives Minneapolis 129.200 
population and St. Paul 111.397, bring an un¬ 
precedented gain, in five years, of 175 percent. 
.The strikers on the Saginaw River in 
Michigan have resumed work on their old 
terms, and have lost $300 000 of wages during 
their six weeks’ idleness The lumber mills 
are running 11 hours a day, as before . 
The strike of iron workers in Cleveland, O., 
still continues with fierce obstinacy on both 
sides...... Capt. Davis, of the 4th cavalry 
reports that Lieut. Day struck Goronimo’s 
camp northeast of Nakovie the 7th. aDd killed 
three bucks, a squaw and Geronimo’s son 
aged 13 years. He captured 15 women and 
children, among them three of Geronimo’s 
wives and five of his children. Gerouimo 
was wouuded. Besides the chief himself only 
two bucks aud one squaw escaped. Every¬ 
thing in the camp was captured. On July 
29 Lieut. Day ambushed a party of four 
Chiricabuas aud killed two of them and cap¬ 
tured all their horses and supplies. ..Louis¬ 
ville opeued its Southern Exposiiion this week. 
This is the third season of this congress of 
Southern industries, aud bids fair to match 
previous successes.- ... 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, August 22,1885, 
The United States troops have been ordered 
to get ready to compel obedience to the Presi¬ 
dent’s proclamation ordering tbe cattle barons 
to remove their stock from tbe Cheyenne and 
Arapahoe reservations. At the end of the 
allotted six weeks, the Government is to take 
vigorous measures. Some of the “barons” 
threaten to go to law about tbe matter with 
the Government., on the ground that the In¬ 
dians had aright to lease their lands. They 
cannot expect to gain their point; but they 
hope to gain more time. It is probable, how¬ 
ever, that they will think better of the pro¬ 
ject. All, or nearly all, of them are now 
moving their herds; but this they are doing 
in such a dilatory fashion, that the "six weeks’’ 
will be ended before the work is half com¬ 
pleted. All over the eonntry are heard pro¬ 
tests against the President’s ^rder, and plead¬ 
ings for the “Poor Indian,” who, we are told, 
must be a heavy sufferer by losing the rent of 
his land. These protests simply show the 
extent of the power and influence of tbe 
cattlemen. Tbe indorsements of the Presi¬ 
dent’s policy are ten times louder, and a 
hundred times more numerous. A telegram 
this morning says the cattlemen are hurrying 
uptbedrives; that Gen. Miles has abundance 
of troops read y to enforce the proclamation. but 
hardly expects to use them ...... A great deal 
of delay and difficulty is expected in forcing 
the cattlemen ou tbe public domain to remove 
tbe fences they have illegally erected; but 
the Government appears resolved to exact 
prompt obedience. Last Tuesday M. McMul¬ 
len. a ranchman Hviug30 miles east of Pueblo. 
Colo., was arrested by a United States Marshal 
for contempt of court iu failing to remove bis 
fences placed on Government land. He made 
a show of resisting arrest and was shot in the 
leg by tbe Marshal. He has illegally fenced 
in 30,000 acres.Last Fall 
the Suffolk County (Loud Island) Agricultural 
Society offered prizes for peanuts grown on 
Long Island, and this Summer 106 farmers in 
different sections of Suffolk County are 
experimenting with them. So far the 
crop promises remarkably well. A 
Canada dealer in hides has issued a circular 
telling farmers that calves should he partly 
skinDed before they are killed, iu order that 
the hide at the throat maynot be damaged by 
the mortal cut! .. Disastrous floods 
have ruined the crops and caused great 
distress in China and Japan.Hon. 
Milton J. Durham, First Comptroller of 
the Treasury, is not content with ex-Com- 
missioner Loring’s reasons for buying seeds 
with money specially appropriated for the 
Chemical Bureau of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture, and has instructed the Law Depart¬ 
ment to sue Dr. Loriug for the money (over 
$20,000). unless a more satisfactory explana¬ 
tion is given. Nobody suspects tbe ex-Com- 
missioner of dishonesty, but many accuse him 
of carelessness, mismanagement and too much 
confidence in the wisdom of some of his 
principal subordinates. 
..Dr. J. S. Butler, State 
Veterinarian of Ohio, says not a single case of 
contagious pleuro pneumonia has occurred in 
in Ohio since June, 1884. One or two cases of 
glanders among horses were reported from 
Ottawa and Clinton Counties, and steps had 
been taken to prevent the spread of the con¬ 
tagion ..The Governor of Wyoming 
Territory has scheduled the following local¬ 
ities as infested with contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, and forbids the shipment of 
cattle from them into or through Wyoming; 
New York—The Countlesnf Pnrnntn, West Chester, 
New York. Kings. Richmond anrl Qlleenn 
Uennsvlvnnta—The Counties of Mucks, Montgom¬ 
ery, Vhlintlolphln Delaware. Chester, anu Lancaster. 
New Jersey—The Counties of Rerjren, Hudson, 
Worrla. Essex. Union. * t omcr*ct Uuntcrtoo, Middle¬ 
sex Mercer. Monmouth. Ocean, Rurllngton. Camden, 
Glnncp*trr, P"«*ule, and Atlatitle. 
Delaware—The Countv of Newcastle. 
Maryland-The Cmint’cs of Cedi, Hartford, Balti¬ 
more. Howard* and Carroll. 
Ohio—The Connll"8 of Miami and Montgomery. 
Tlllnoh—The Counties of Cass, Kune, Du Page, 
Peoria. Whiteside. Morgan, and Schuyler. 
Osage Countv, Missouri- Harrison County, Ken¬ 
tucky; Travis County, Texas; and the Dlstrlet of 
Columbia are also Included. 
Many protest that no contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia now exists iu some of these places, 
every case having been “stamped out” some 
time ago. It is said tbat there isn’t a single 
case now in any part of Illinois. The “passed” 
claims for infected animals slaughtered by the 
State in Illinois under the old law. aggregate 
$7,000, being the amount of the appraised 
value of the animals, but. since the new law 
provides that owners of animals killed bv the 
State Veterinarian cannot receive in excess 
of $75 per bead, the Auditor cannot pay the 
full amount, and the amount will be reduced 
fully one-half .There is a Texas fever 
scare in several parts of tbe West just now; 
but no serious loss has as yet been reported... 
....The introduction of early American varie¬ 
ties of Indian Corn into some of the Austrian 
Provinces has proved so successful in Dal¬ 
matia that twice the yield of the home 
product has been reached, and the season of 
ripening is in advauce of the yearly inunda¬ 
tions that often destroy the later-ripening 
varieties..In portions of the Western 
Reserve, Ohio, it is said, milk sells for a cent 
a quart, and 12^ cents a pound isagood price 
for butter.As a proof of the great 
friendliness between Germany’ and Austria- 
Hungary, cemented by the reeeut meeting of 
the Emperors Frederick William and Francis 
Joseph, Bisnmrk has consented to the resump¬ 
tion of German importation of swine from 
the laud of the Danube—an astute move to 
conciliate Magyar hog-raisers. 
An Interesting Interview. 
A reporter recently called at Cady’s Com¬ 
mercial College, 14th St. and University 
Place, N. Y . and a«ked an interview with the 
principal of that institution, Mr. Cbas. E. 
Cady. In regard to the truth or falsity of cer¬ 
tain statements which had been made about 
bis having b^nn cured of a bad chronic nasal 
Catarrh bv Compound Oxvgen; the matter 
being one of especial interest, to the public, as 
a vpry large number of peotde in America are 
afflicted with this troublesome and often dis¬ 
gusting disease. Mr. Cady cheerfully respond¬ 
ed to bis inquiries and made substantially the 
following statement; 
“By the tii»p I was twenty -one 1 had catarrh 
deep-seated and fixed It came ou so slowly 
that I hardly knew it. was Catarrh. I was 
continually hawking and spitting. I became 
a nu isanee to myself, and 1 know l was to other 
people. There was a constant, dripping into 
my throat. I always bud a weak stomach, 
and this made it w«>ker. / was in the grip 
of this horrible Catai I it. 
“After trying sundry remedies without ad¬ 
vantage, I resolved to make an experiment 
with Compouud Oxygen, aud procured a 
Home Treatment- In the short space of four 
weeks great improvement was risible, / con¬ 
tinued the treatment, at intercuts, for nearly 
six months, when m y Catarrh which had been 
unusually obstinate was at an end. The un¬ 
pleasant secretions disappeared, and also the 
pain in mv head which had accompanied them. 
The necessity for hawking and spitting disap¬ 
peared. my stomach grew stronger and my 
digestion better. 
“This was about three years ago. Since 
then I have had no return of the Catarrh. I 
know my cure must be reasonably,permanent 
