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SEPT 5 
THE BUBAL HEW-YORKEB. 
Iws of the XUeek 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 29,18S5. 
Engineer Menocal’s report of bis observa¬ 
tion of tbe Panama canal, as be found it in 
January and May. states that at the latter 
date not over 8,000 000 cubic meters of ma¬ 
terial had been moved, though tbe officers of 
the work claimed to have excavated 12.000,- 
000: on bis estimate, six percent, and ontbeir 
estimate nine per cent, of tbe work had been 
doue, costing over $100,000,000. This, more¬ 
over, was the easiest part of the work. Tbe 
lowest estimate be places on the cost is >375,- 
000,000 cash, which at tbe discount at which 
securities are placed on tbe market, and in¬ 
cluding interest for 14 years, represents a 
nominal capitalization of $661,000,000. Of 
course, Mr. Menocal is an advocate of the 
Nicaraguan route, but there can be but very 
little doubt that there will soon be in the 
market a bankrupt hole in the ground on tbe 
Isthmus.Last Tuesday a terrible cy¬ 
clone struck Charleston, S. C., and raged from 
1:30 A. M., until 1 V, M., inflicting losses to the 
amount of $1,123,000 at least. The wind was 
25 miles an hour at a. m., increasing to 35, 
40 and 50, which was reached at about eight 
o’clock, finally running up to 75 or 80 miles an 
hour. The water from the harbor and river 
swept over the granite wall on tbe Battery 
and flooded the streets; most of tbe wharves 
were destroyed or greatly injured, and tbe 
vessels lying by them were, with few excep¬ 
tions, either sunk or seriously damaged, Two 
sloops of 30 to 40 tons each, were blown 
high and dry out of tbe water. Miles of rail¬ 
road track were tornnp; trees blown down; 
houses, churches and public buildings un¬ 
roofed, steeples overthrown, and havoc let 
loose generally. The News and Courier 
makes the following rough estimate of the 
losses: Wharf property. $350 000; private 
property, $300 000; cotton presses, $80,000; 
churches. $30 000; city property, (streets and 
parks), $35 000; railroads, $50 000; Ashley 
River Bridge. $8,000; shipping, $150,000; 
lumber mills, $20,000; miscellaneous, $100,000; 
total. $1,123,000. The cyclone swept over Sa¬ 
vannah. Ga.. Beaufort. S C..and intervening 
coast country; all suffered heavily, and a num¬ 
ber of wrecks are reported on the beach. This 
mornings’ revised estimates of the losses at 
Charleston foot up $1 690,000 including one of 
$50 000 at the phosphate mills.*- 
_Tbe small pox plague in Montreal is still 
alarming; but abating somewhat.The 
great strike of the Knights of Labor agaiust 
tbe Wabash Railroad, implicating the other 
roads of the general system still “hangs fire.” 
Meetings are being held in this city and St. 
Louis between representatives of both parties, 
and an amicable adjustment of difficulties is 
expected.Tbe “Grant Memorial Fund” 
in tin's city now amounts to $65,983 05. Chi¬ 
cago’s liberality was overestimated by tbe 
telegraph; only about $13,000 have been col¬ 
lected there for the local monument. 
_The Western Export Association, better 
known as the "wbiskev poot.” expires by lim¬ 
itation on September 1. and all efforts so far 
for a reorganization have failed ... According 
to the census recently taken, the population 
of Dakota, in round numbers, is 415.000. of 
which South Dakota claims 263.000. Tbe total 
number of farms in the Territory is 80.000, 
varying in area from 6,000 acres down.. 
... .The whole number of Postmasters in the 
classes appointed by the President is 2,233. 
Tbe whole number in the class appointed by 
tbe Postmaster-General is 51,000. President 
Cleveland has already appointed 450, and 
Postmaster General Vilas 3.500.Three 
hundred and fifty-eight criminals, who have 
escaped from Georgia in tbe course of the 
last 13 years, are “wanted" in that State. The 
rewards offered for them aggregate $100,000. 
.Tbe Manitoba Court of Appeals will 
hear Riel’s case. The fund for bis defense is 
rapidlv increasing.Returns from all 
parts of Kentucky give Tate (Dem.). candidate 
for Treasurer, a majority of 67.597 over Pox, 
Prohibition candidate supported by Republi¬ 
cans.The Northwestern Lumber Deal¬ 
ers’ Association, with representatives from 
Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and other points, 
met in St. Paul. Investigation revealed the 
fact that less lumber has heen left over this 
season than last, aud a resolution was passed 
advancing rates $1 per 1.000 feet on all grades. 
.It is said that the California refining 
companies now have Bpreckles on tbe hip. 
but they do not propose to let in the general 
public. This is perfectly characteristic of 
California. Everybody bas been complain¬ 
ing that Spreckles controlled the rates so as 
to make sugar two or three cents higher a 
pound'at San Francisco'than at New York, 
Probably he did;' but'so'did the refining com¬ 
panies before him, and so they propose to do 
again.'..Arkansas has a high license 
] aw _$300 for a State and $400 for a County 
license, thus making $700 in all, A local 
option law is voted on every two years, and 
there is in addition a three mile law. which is 
put in operation by petition to county court. 
Between the local option aud tbe three-mile 
laws, three-fourths of the State is prohibition 
country. _ _ _ 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, August 29, 1885. 
At tbe Government trial of self-binding 
reapers at Chartres, France, on August 1. the 
Wood self-binder won first honors; the Bims- 
ley, second, aud the Osborne third. This was 
the only Government trial, and the most im¬ 
portant European binder trial held this season. 
At another trial held at La Ferto, Sous Jou- 
varre, France, on the same date, the Wood 
was first; the McCormick second, tbe Hornsby 
and Jobuson third, and the Osborne fourth... 
....The Russian thistle, brought to this coun¬ 
try by tbe Mennonites in t.beir first importa¬ 
tion of seed wheat, is becoming so thickly 
spread in tbe locality of Yankton, Dag., as to 
cause serious alarm.Au easy method 
has been invented iu Germany of removing 
tbe fiber of the hop plant from its rough 
coating, and as the bop is botanieally classed 
with textile plants, and yields a fiber not un¬ 
like hemp or flax, it is expected that the val¬ 
ue of the hop crop will goon be enhanced ow¬ 
ing to the commercial value of the fiber from 
the vines.The use of grindstones by the 
farmers in the United States is no small item 
in the trade. Each year they take about 
18,000 tons of grindstones, varying in weight 
from 40 to 150 pounds, besides some 30,000 
stones mounted on frames ready for use All 
the latter are made in Cleveland and Berea, 
Ohio.Much agrarian 
trouble has been caused in County Limerick, 
Ireland, by the refusal of the Earl of Devon, 
a large land owner there, to lower the rents 
on his estate. Some time ago, he offered a re¬ 
duction of 10 per cent ; the tenants demanded 
a decrease of 30 per cent., aud refused to pay 
any rent until their demand should be 
granted. The Earl then declared he would 
make no reduction whatever, and would col¬ 
lect his rents by force of law. Last Wednes¬ 
day, however, he Anally made au offer to ten 
of bis tenants to grant their demand for a 
reduction of 30 per cent. Tbe tenants are 
taking their time to decide whether to pay or 
to resist. A defence fund has been raised and 
much excitement prevails.An Irish 
settler who bas amassed a handsome iode- 
pendendeuee in tbe cattle ranches iu the West, 
advises all intending Irish emigrants, when 
they reach America, to go to Nebraska, 
Wyoming. Kansas, Ohio, Minnssota, Illinois, 
or Washington Territory. Labor is in great 
demand, and a workman who would only get 
$15 a month and board in the Eastern States 
would get $30 a mouth aud board there. The 
climate is good, and there are no Irish poor 
who cannot, by sobriety md industry, attain 
independence.A number of hotels and 
restaurauts in this city have just had to make 
new arrangements to dispose of their garbage. 
Until within a short, time the garbage has 
been removed by farmers in Long Island, 
Westchester County, and New Jersey, who 
have carted it away as food for swine. The 
health officers in the towns where they belong 
have put a stop to the business of importing 
city garbage.The factory at Alvarado, 
Cal., bas made 1,250 tons of refined beet sugar 
this season. This is said to be four times 
greater than the total sorghum sugar in the 
United States. The Alvarado factory has 
been in operation six years, and its profits are 
computed at $ 104.000 on an investment of $125,- 
000. Tbe growers get $4.50 a ton for beets, and 
tbe yield is said to average 20 tons to the acre. 
Tbe factory pays $90,000 a year for beets — 
....The death is announced of the celebrated 
Polled Aberdeen Angus cow, Sybil 2d of 
Tillyfour (3256), one of the prize group shown 
by Mr. MeCombie at Paris. She dropped a 
heifer calf a few days before her death, but 
it did not live.The Western Freight 
Association (Commissioner Faithorn), has 
fixed the rate from Council Bluffs to Chicago 
on dressed beef, hogB, aud mutton, at 39)£ 
cents per 100 pounds in car-load lots.The 
announcement is made that a company of 
foreign capitalists have leased Madison Square 
Garden, New York City, from Mr. W. II. 
Vanderbilt at a rental of $75,000. It will be 
used principally for the purpose of holding 
shows and sales of fiue stock........Ihe 
Wabash General Association of Horse-Thief 
Detective Companies of Indiana and Eastern 
Illinois, held a convention at Crawfordsville, 
Iud., on August 1L The organization con¬ 
ducted its business with closed doors, but was 
reported to be in splendid working order, and 
the treasury is plethoric. The next annual 
meeting will be held at Frankfort, Ind.A 
telegram from Erie, Pa., on Tuesday last, 
says; “Texas fever broke out here this week 
among a number of valuable herds of cattle. 
Tbe cattle were infected by diseased stock in 
transit over the railroads for New York City. 
All cases have been fatal. Au official investi¬ 
gation verifies the diagnosis. Tbe districts 
where the disease prevails have been posted.” 
.A heavy nut crop in Pennsylvania is 
accepted as a biut of a coming hard Winter. 
.The latest charge against incubator- 
hatched chickens comes from the cooks of the 
Saratoga hotels, and is that they are tough 
aud stringy. The incubator broods are fed 
upon corn meal and boiled potatoes instead of 
their natural diet of grubs and worms, and 
are kept in contracted and dirty quarters, 
which is held to account for the inferior 
flavor. Accordingly ben raised chickens 
command a premium in the Saratoga mar¬ 
ket .Many of the half-breeds in tbe 
Turtle Mountains of Dakota have lately made 
from $35 to $40 a week hauling buffalo bones 
to Minnewaukon. Competition among buyers 
ran the price up to over $20 a ton, for the 
manufacture of fertilizers .. 
A heavy rain Sunday night submerged nearly 
all the celery fields about Kalamazoo, Mich., 
doing about $100,000 damage.The Earl 
of Devon, who possesses 53.075 acres in Ire¬ 
land, with an annual rental of £45,520, has 
consented to a reduction of 30 per cent, on 
the rents of his tenants after a threat on their 
side that, unless be did so, they would pay ab¬ 
solutely uo rent. He also offers to sell them 
their holdings under the Land Purchase Act, 
which fixes the amount of purchase money, 
extends payments over a series of years, and 
lends a part of tbe money to the purchaser, 
taking a lien on the laud as security. 
The new code of rules of practice of the Gen¬ 
eral Land Office, which goes iuto effect next 
month, extends the right to initiate contests 
to any one, and does not confine it to the 
party in interest, as under the old rules. The 
power of local laud offices to order hearings 
is extended to all cases wnerein entry has not 
been perfected and no certificate has been 
issued. 
- »»« - 
A Narrow Escape trom Death. 
One of the largest houses iu the artistic por¬ 
celain and glass business of New York is that 
of Davis, Collmore & Co. Their head sales¬ 
man is Mr. AI 0 U 20 Clark, a gentleman of 
about forty years of age. Notlong since they 
came near losing him by death But he is 
again at his important post, and in a very fair 
state of health. 
To one who recently called on Mr. Clark, to 
inquire about his recovery, he said: 
“About a year and a half ago I caught a se¬ 
vere cold. My lungs became. inflamed and 
my whole system was prostrated. Soon 1 
showed all the symptoms of consumption. I 
was entirety disabled. 1 was iu the care of 
one of the best-known physicians in the city 
and one of the mostexpensive ones. But phy¬ 
sicians could do little or nothing for me. The 
nearest they came to finding out what wasthe 
matter with rue was when they advised me if 
l had any business affairs to settle , to see 
about it as early as possible, as I could not 
last. long. 
“After I got rid of the doctors who had given 
me up to die t grew a little better and was 
able to drag myself down to the store Two 
lady-customers spoke to me about Compound 
Oxygen and advised me to go to the New 
York tffiee of Drs. Starkey <& Falen. 1 knew 
nothing about the remedy, but concluded to 
try it at a venture. On taking a few inhal¬ 
ations / was surprised at the effect on me 
"When 1 commenced with the Oxygen l had 
not for months slept in a bed. 1 had beeu 
compelled to take such sleep us I could get by 
reclining in a chair. After inhaling thu Oxy¬ 
gen awhile, 1 begun to enjoy retreating steep 
for twoor three Hours at a time. Soon / found 
mysel f able, to my great delight, to attend to 
business as of old. 1 lu»d notoll my former 
s'reugto of course, but 1 was rapidly gaming 
and kept on gaining ever since , 1 cannot say 
too much for Compound Oxygen, for it has 
brought me back to the eoudition of health in 
which you see me uow, after the physicians 
had told me that 1 must die.” 
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CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, August 29, 1885. 
Telegraphic reports from the spring wheat 
region tell of cool, cloudy weather during the 
past week, with two or three heavy frosts iu 
Northern Minnesota aud Dakota. Late sowed 
wheat may suffer; but the bulk of the crop is 
out of the way; and little corn is grown there. 
On the average, harvesting is two thirds over 
in the uortb, and farmers report wheat a poor¬ 
er crop than was expected. Iu many localities 
the heads, though looking well, are not filled 
out; iu general, the grain is of good quality, 
but there will be a larger percentage of light 
wheat thau usual iu that section. Estimates 
range from 12 to 20 bushels per acre, the aver¬ 
age being about 15. It is supposed that, on the 
whole, lb© crop yield will be about 25 per 
ceut. light. Further south, wheat is nearly all 
stacked and safe from wet weather. Thrashing 
is very lively, aud the crop will probably be 
short in quality aud quantity. Flax is au 
nverage yield. Oats generally are good, and 
barley is poor. It remains to be seen whether 
the corn crop will follow wheat in its disap¬ 
pointment of great expectations. Up to date 
there has been promise of the largest yield 
ever known in South Minnesota and Dakota. 
Recent cool weather bas kept it from ripening, 
and heavy frost now would be fatal. It is 
uow warmer and danger is past, but there 
remain two or three weeks of uncertainty. 
Tbe yield of hay throughout Few England 
has turned out much better than it seemed 
likely to in June. Apples aud other fruits are 
abundant, and co r n is generally progressing 
well. In the Connecticut Valley, hail has 
damaged thegrowiug tobacco somewhat, aud 
the cold nights of the past week have oc¬ 
casioned alarm. 
Special reports of tbe condition of the 
crops in Albany, Greene. Columbia, Rensse¬ 
laer, Washington, Saratoga, Warren, Essex, 
Clinton, Franklin, Otsego, Schoharie, Sche¬ 
nectady, Montgomery, Herkimer and Fulton 
Counties, N. Y., show that iu general the 
yield will be better than in 1884. The recent 
heavy rains have interfered considerably 
with the harvesting and have injured hops, 
oats and potatoes to some extent, but the 
damage is not regarded as serious. Hops are 
so plentiful that prices are, in many cases, be¬ 
low the cost of production. There is a light 
yield of hav, A good crop of rye and oats is 
assured. Buckwheat promises unusually well. 
Many hundred acres of potatoes in Washing¬ 
ton County were destroyed by the storm 10 
days ago. The total yield will be about the 
average one. Corn is fair. Fruits are very 
abundant, especially plums, pears and grapes. 
Apples are plentiful in half the district, 
covered and scarce in the other half. Vege¬ 
tables and garden truck have made a very 
satisfactory return to farmers. 
The Chicago statement of visible supply 
shows an increase of 253,085 bushels of wheat 
as compared with the preceding week, which 
is a gain very much short of expectations. 
The New York statement indicates an in¬ 
crease of 861.424 bushels. The former state¬ 
ment includes St. Paul and Minneapolis stocks 
and excludes stocks in transit, while the New 
York report omits the St. Paul and Minne¬ 
apolis figures and embraces the estimated 
quantity in transit. 
Lower prices for Indian wheat aud con¬ 
sequently a lower foreign market, coupled 
with a large increase in the “visible sup¬ 
ply" at home, aud the heavy aroouut of 
wheat in transit to Europe, have had a de¬ 
pressing effect on our wheat markets during 
the week. A slight rise her* stops exporta¬ 
tion as prices of wheat iu Eugland allow no 
margin of profit to exporters at present prices 
here. Reports of frosts in the Northwest 
have tended to stiffen tbe prices of corn; but 
where the frosts were severe little or no corn 
is raised, and this consideration, coupled with 
an increase of 1,037.000 bushels in lb© visible 
supply, checked the advance. Present indi¬ 
cations point to an unprecedented corn crop. 
Oats have been fairly steady in sympathy 
with corn. 
The cotton market has held its own with 
difficulty during the week, between unfavor¬ 
able reports from Europe regarding the de¬ 
mand, and reports of damage to the crop at 
the South. The talk is still of 7,000,000 bales. 
The trade In wool at Boston continues very 
large, the sales for tbe week being 4 275.000 
pounds, and for the year nearly 95,000,000 
pounds against 73.000,000 a year ago. There 
is still au active demand, and some grades 
have been advanced in price or are fii mly 
held. One year ago, Ohio No. 1 was selling 
at 35; to-day at 32 and 33. 
The Mark Lane Express in its weekly re¬ 
view of the British grain trade, says: “Forty- 
two per ceut. of the returns received represent 
the wheat crop to be over the average. 
Fifty-six ;>er cent, of the oats returns, 73 per 
cent, of the beans returns, and 81 per cent, of 
the peas returns show those crops to be uuder 
the average. There will be an average crop 
of barley. Wheat growers are of the opinion 
that tbe crop of 1884 was better than that of 
1885 will be. The trade iu foreign wheat is 
almost nothing. The huge visible supply iu 
America is depressing trade here," 
In England the opinion is general that a 
bushel of wheat from the present crop will 
yield considerably loss flour than a bushel 
from last year's crop. The potato crop, how¬ 
ever, will there greatly influence the consump¬ 
tion of wheat, for in rural districts a small 
crop of potatoes enormously increases the con¬ 
sumption of bread, and it is to bo feared that 
the potato crop stands now to be either small 
or nou keeping. 
The wheat crop of Austria aud Hungary is 
estimated to be 2,113,094 hectolitres short of 
1884, equivalent to 6 000,000 bushels. 
The rye crop of Germany, which is about 
three times the importance of wheat, is esti¬ 
mated to be 91 per cent, of an average crop, 
compared w T ith 98 in 1884. 
