THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
1 
Woos of the TDeek. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 26,1885. 
The recent State census of Wisconsin shows 
a general, indeed almost universal, grain in the 
population of the large towns and cities of the 
State. In many casts the increase is phenom¬ 
enal. ami the papers of the State, in com¬ 
menting on the proportion of rural and urban 
gains, draw the inference that Wisconsin is 
destined to become a Commonwealth of cities 
and manufactories, as distinguished from one 
of villages and farms...The fever in 
Plymouth, Pa., has broken out afresh. New 
cases are reported, and, as far as can belearn- 
pd, one person has died since Saturday. The 
victim was Daniel Llewellyn, a contractor and 
builder, aged 45.The Constitution just 
formulated for Dakota by a constitutional 
convention at Bismarck, declares all political 
power inherent in the people; all free govern¬ 
ment founded on their authority, and that 
they have the right to alter the form of gov¬ 
ernment. Tt declares the State of Dakota in¬ 
separably a part of theUnion,and the Federal 
Constitution the supreme law of the land The 
introduction of a secessionist resolution and 
its favorable reception at. first caused much 
excitement.The Southern States will 
this year harvest, according to the best esti¬ 
mates, 50.0000,000 bushels of corn more than 
in any previous year.The assessed value 
of Illinois is 810,000,000 less than it was one 
year ago.A law goes into effect in 
Ohio this month requiring all wages to be paid 
weekly in cash. New York Republicans 
have nominated Ira Davenport as their candi¬ 
date for Governor; New York Democrats have 
given Gov. Hill a like chance of getting "whip¬ 
ped.” .Allentown, Pa , has set a brilliant 
example of economy. A jury found two noto¬ 
rious burglars innocent on the plea that it 
didn’t want to saddle the country with the 
expense of keeping them five years in prison.. 
.From the data already at hand, it is 
estimated that the growth of population for 
the entire country since the last census is not 
less than 2(1 per cent. This would be equal to 
10,000,000 for each half decade, or 20,000 000 
when the next census is taken We would 
then number 70.000,000 souls. This would be 
double the present population of Great Britain 
.... .All the mills on tha Michigan side of 
the lake have been closed by their owners on 
account of the ten hour law, which has just 
gone into effect. First, it was desired to have 
the men sign contracts waiving their right to 
reap the profit of the new law. The opposi¬ 
tion was such that the mill owners finally shut 
down to await developments. At Manistee 
1,000 men are out of employment because they 
refused to accept a proportionate reduction of 
pay with thB changed hours .The fresh¬ 
man class of Cornell University number about 
250, the number applying for registration in 
the technical courses Rbowiugan advance, and 
the number of woman students being larger 
than ever before..The wiuning sloop 
Puritau has been sold at auction for $18,500, 
having been bought in for one of the com¬ 
pany of rich young men who clubbed together 
to build her to beat the English cutter Genesta. 
(She cost over $25,000; but a boat built for 
racing purposes is good for little else. Over 
$500,000 changed hands, iu this country alone, 
on the result of the race.Galveston, 
Texas, has bad a private deluge of late. From 
September 1 to 18, 18 inches of rain fell, out 
of an average of 53. 87 inches for the whole 
year—one-tbird of this aggregate in 18 days! 
New Orleaus also had a flooding downpour— 
1.65-100 of an inch falling in three hours. 
... .For the first, time iu Marylaud history, a 
State Convention of Prohibitionists met in 
Baltimore last week. They are "going for” 
the State offices to be voted for in November. 
.The penalty for selling a cigarette to 
a boy or girl under 16 years of age in New 
Hampshire has been made $20 for each offence. 
... An agitation to change the name of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church South is 
likely to result, it is thought, in the choice of 
Episcopal Methodist.Up in Vermont 
$17,000 skating rinks are offered for $800. ... 
.The Western Reserve University, after 
letting girls into its medical department many 
years, now excludes four candidates The 
President says that the best opinion now is 
that feminine pupils in medicine or surgery 
ought to be in separate institutions. 
Secretary Lamar has called on President 
Adams and I-Iuntiugtou of the Union and 
Centra) Pacific railroads to explain why they 
cau pay nearly $1,000,000 amiually to the 
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, hut cannot 
pay the interest on their government debt. It 
is a fair question.... Theagitation against 
the Chinese is becoming more and more bitter 
on the Pacific Coast; assaults upon thorn are 
frequent; and more serious attacks are threat¬ 
ened. At Rock Springs, Wyoming, some of 
them are still working in the mines of the U. 
P. R. R. Co.: but they have to be guarded by 
U. S. troops. An inquest held on the victims 
of the late murderous outrage resulted in a 
verdict that they came to their deaths from 
some unknown cause—a farce. The Knights 
of Labor threaten to strike on the U. P. R. R. 
if it continues its support of the Celestials. 
The Order is moving against them in all parts 
of Wyoming and Montana.The Apaches 
8re still murdering and outraging in New 
Mexico, having in 10 days killed six citizens 
of Graut County. The troops are constantly 
on their heels; but the country is so rough 
that it is almost impossible to come up with 
the savages. Small pox is raging with 
unabated virulence in Montreal. Last week 
there were 216 deaths. The persistence of the 
plague is mainly due to the remissness of the 
authorities and the superstitious iguorance of 
the French-Canadians. who form a large part 
or the population. These regard it as a visi¬ 
tation from God, and being naturally inert in 
the presence of danger from disease, make no 
effort to stop the spread of the pestileuce by 
isolating the infected or by vaccinating the 
healthy. Indeed, they oppose all sanitary 
regulations looking to the suppression of the 
di'sea-e. The priests are severely blamed for 
not using the immense power they have over 
these people to induce them fight the malady. 
Compulsory vaccination is now talked about.. 
... .The Grant Monument Fund here amounts 
to only about $88,000. It was swollen by $8 
on Monday—$3 from West Virginia and $1 
from Maryland.The war against Civil 
Service Reform is getting bitter iu the Demo 
cratic party, as the "outs” are growing im¬ 
patient for the offices held by the "ins.” The 
Hon. Dorman B. Eaton, Chief of the Civil 
Service Commission, and the most prominent 
supporter of the policy it superintends, has 
resigned to attend to his private affairs; the 
President has accepted his resignation, but 
comes out strongly in favor of Civil Service. 
..George Wilkes, former editor and 
proprietor of The Spirit of the Times, died 
here on Wednesday of Bright’s Disease. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, September 26, 1885. 
Fifteen years ago. the net forest revenue of 
British India was $250,000. Now it. is $2,000,000. 
Forest culture has brought about the change... 
Over $200,000 a year is realized from the sale 
of the 50,000 tons of soot taken from London 
chimneys, which is used as a fertilizer . 
The sugar refining syndicate of San Francisco 
has advanced the price of sugar on the Pacific 
Coast one cent a pound over New York prices. 
. The New England Milk Producers’ 
Association voted at Boston the other day, 
that the price of milk for the next six months 
should be 87 cents per can—an advance of 
seven cents, caused by "higher coRt of pro¬ 
duction.” The contractors offered 85 cents— 
no agreement yet... A cargo of 7,000 carcasses 
of frozen muttou recently arrived in Liver¬ 
pool from South America, and proved a 
profitable investment .The exports of 
live stock and dressed meats from the port of 
Boston to the English markets last week were 
617 cattle, 262 sheep and 760 quarters of beef. 
.A few outbreaks of foot-and-mouth 
disease still occur in the United Kingdom 
every week, yet a9 time progresses the disease 
is evidently getting to be more nearly under 
control. Pleuro-pueumonia Is still iu exist¬ 
ence over there, too, though restricted to 
small and isolated districts. 
....There was considerable excitement last 
Saturday in the St Louis wheat market at 
the report of great injury to wheat in eleva¬ 
tors by the weevil. Examination showed 11 
bins representing 39.000 bushels damaged. 
This was "retired,” but within cents of 
the market price was at once bid for it,. 
Considerable complaint in Texas that school 
lands are beiDg used for free grazing,especially 
in Presidio County. Some stockmen are occu 
pyiug vast ranges for their cattle where they 
have not leased an acre of laud, and others 
occupy ranges only small portions of which 
they have leased from the State.There 
w&s an interesting hog trial in Georgia the 
other day. After hearing all the evidence, 
the court decided iu favor of the plaintiff, and 
then took the hogs for costs--- Cotton can 
be easily grown in the San Joaquin Valley of 
California, but there Las been no market near 
enough for practical nurposes. A big mill is 
now ready to weave the product.Statis- 
ticau Dodge of the Department of Agriculture 
says; “The aggregate exportation of corn and 
corn meal from the United States since its 
history is exceeded iu quantity by the corn 
crop of the single year of 1885.”.The 
Island of Jersey is suffering from a severe 
drought Hay is $35 per ton, ami there will be 
no turnips nor root crops.Irish landlords 
are arranging to send a deputation to the 
Marquis of Salisbury, the new English Prime 
Minister, urging that it is altogether impos¬ 
sible to collect rents and asking protection.... 
The largest cheese ever manufactured in this 
country has been made at East Aurora, N.Y. 
It was ordered by a prominent grocer of Buf¬ 
falo, who, during the process of manufacture, 
threw 10 five dollar gold pieces into the lacteal 
mass. Its weight will be 8,300 pounds. The 
milk was takeu from 2,600 cows, and it took 
300 hands to milk Iheui.Snow fell Wed¬ 
nesday in Vermont to a depth of three inches. 
Much damage was done to crops not harvest¬ 
ed. The thermometer was 30 degrees above 
zero Thursday morning.Reports are 
coming from the cotton belt districts of Texas 
showing that the heavy rains of the past week 
have worked serious damage to the standing 
cotton. Prairie fires in Dakota, at the 
end of last week and beginning of this, have 
been disastrous enough to be national calami¬ 
ties. Telegrams from Bismarck tell of them 
raging at Carrington, 150 miles to the east; at 
Sweet Briar. 50 miles to the west, and at vari¬ 
ous intermediate points. It was estimated 
early in the week that 2.000,000 bushels of 
wheat had been already lost along the line of 
the Northern Pacific Railroad. Farmers along 
the Missouri River bottom have suffered enor 
raous losses. Homesteads, fences, farm ma¬ 
chinery, barns, grain in all conditions, and 
stock have been destroyed .. 100.000 
people attended the Illinois State Fair. 
... .Contagious pleuro pneomonia is still pre¬ 
valent among cattle in Harrison County, Ky.: 
and has just broken out iu Pendleton County; 
but all affected animals are quarantined in 
one place. Stockmen could raise only $3.TOO 
of the $9,000 wanted to extirpate the disease, 
so the subscriptions have been declared void.. 
... .Hog9 are suffering severely from cholera 
in Moultrie County, 111., some farmers having 
lost their entire herds .... Texas fever has 
recently broken out among cattle near Du- 
quoin. Ill .The Kansas State Veterin¬ 
arian says 30 counties in that. State are infect¬ 
ed by bog cholera. The disease is now more 
prevalent thau at any time within the history 
of the State. He knows personally of the loss 
of $100,000 by the plague. "Treatment doesn’t 
pay. The diseased animals should be killed 
and burned”.Heavy losses from the 
same disease are reported about Beloit, Wis.. 
.Over 500 hogs have alreadv died of the 
disease near Mount Vernon, in Knox County, 
Ohio, and it is reported to have also broken 
out in Summit County. A cablegram 
from London this morning says: "The hop- 
pickers employed on the estates of the Duke of 
Elinburgh, in the County of Kent, finished 
their work to-day. The usual price for pick¬ 
ing bops is 18 pence a basket, and the Duke 
offered to pay them only a shilling a basket. 
This created a great uproar among the work¬ 
men, who made serious threats, and prepared 
to carry them out. The Duke became fright 
enod at the demonstration, and yielded to 
their demands.” The "Duke” is son of Queen 
Victoria, whose family draws over $3,000,000 
a year out of the pockets of the people. 
Almost Incredible. 
Axd yet the following relation is true in 
every particular and can be verified by any 
one who desires to do so: 
Mr. Wm. H. Wbitely is widelv known to the 
wholesale dry goods trade in this country for 
bis long and active connection with the silk 
and worsted mills of Darby, Pa., near Phila¬ 
delphia. He is a gentleman in middle life, in 
robust beulth, actively attending to business 
and enjoviug the comforts of his elegant rural 
home. No one would suppose, from his 
appearance, that for long years he was a 
martyr to that most distressing disease, sciatic 
neuralgia- By what means he was restored 
from an almost helpless condition to souud 
health, is the story we have to present, and we 
will let Mr. Whitely tell it himself. 
"I enjoyed good health,” said he to a press 
reporter who bad heard or his case and called 
upon him to make inquiry uhout it, "until 
about fourteen years ago. when one dork 
winter’s night I fell into an excavation made 
for a culvert. With roy feet in cold water 
and my log* across a log I was In u helpless 
condition for seven hours. When T was taken 
out I was insensible. For a month I w as con¬ 
fined to bed. On recovering sufficiently to sit 
lip 1 fOUUd that tnv digestion was i Omni rod 
and that l bad au obstinate sciatic trouble in 
both legs. With this came unite facial neu¬ 
ralgia, My whole-nervous system teas shat 
tered. Sometime after I was able to walk « 
little a feeling like paralysis would take hold of 
me ami 1 would fait tv the ground. At night, 
instead of sleeping soundly, 1 would roll about 
hopelessly for hours. / was in a constant, 
state of weariness and torture, I fcripd vari¬ 
ous medical treatments, without regard to ex¬ 
pense: but got. no relief. I gave up business 
fora while and went to Colorado: but It did 
not help me. 
"As I had tried almost, everything else 1 
thought I would try Compound Oxygen which 
l had seen advertised as a vitabzer. During 
my protracted illness, which bad now lasted 
for over a dozen years. I had made a close 
study of ibo nerves and had concluded that 
vitalizing was what I needed. If tbit Com¬ 
pound Oxvgen could give renewed vitality it 
was exactly what I wanted. I knew that it 
would be a severe test, for the Treatment, for 
here 1 was with my nervous system shattered, 
my digestion in bad order. my eyesight troub¬ 
ling me, my legs failing mo and my powers 
of sleep practically gone. 
“Well, X took the Treatment at Dre. Starkey 
& Palen’s office. Improvement, was soon 
visible, hut it was not.rapid. I had to be pa¬ 
tient; but bad the best of encouragement in 
doing so. For about six months T continued 
the Treatment with persistent, regularity and 
with the most satisfying results. J became 
able to attend to business. I could eat with¬ 
out. distress and 1 could obtain refreshing 
sleep. My tormenting never pains were gone. 
“Compound Oxygen had triumphed over one 
of the worst coses of sciatica and nerve pros¬ 
tration that the doctors had ever known . 
"I now enjoy excellent health: really enjoy 
it., for you can imagine what a joy it is to bo 
well again after my long venrs of snfferine.” 
Drs, Btarkey A Pa leu, 1529 Arch St. Phila 
delphia, will send free, to anv one who will 
write for it, their Treatise on Compound Oxy¬ 
gen, from which all desired information in 
regard to this wonderful Treatment can be 
obtained.— Adv. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, September 26, 1885. 
The Mark Lane Express in its review of the 
British grain trade says: Broken weather 
with occasional rains during the week have 
tended to delav the harvest. The sales of 
English wheat duriug the week were 70,441 
quarters at 31s 10d, agamst 74.135 quarters at 
33s lOd duriug the corresponding week last 
year. Foreign wheat is dull. The off coast 
market has lost its activity and has toned 
down. The first, cargo of the season of Amer¬ 
ican Red winter wheat, arrived during the 
week, and was sold at 33s lOt.j'd. Five car¬ 
goes of wheat arrived, six cargoes were sold, 
five were withdrawn and four remained, in¬ 
cluding one of California. Flour was dull; 
prices closed at 84?. Corn, beans aud peas 
were steady. Oats were dull and barley iu 
better inquiry. 
Red winter wheat has advanced 1 ceuts a 
bushel in London. There is a growing im¬ 
pression in England, and indeed in Europe 
generally, that the demand for wheat will not 
be supplied so easily and cheaply as it has 
lately been the fashion to suppose. 
Mail advices with regard to the great Vien¬ 
na Grain Fair (the 13th.) held on August 31 
and September 1. show that. over5 000 dealers 
were present, and the most trustworthy re¬ 
ports agreed that this year’s crons in Europe 
cannot be compared ns to the yield with last 
year’s. The principal figures for small grams 
have been given here. All reports agree that 
the yield of Indian corn or maize will be nu- 
usnally heavy, but not, much is grown tbpre, 
chiefly in Italy, Hungary ami the Danubian 
States. The estimate of the hop crop in 
Europe was about 752 000 pounds greater than 
last year’s yield. According to this estimate, 
should Europe consume no, mure hops this venr 
than la9t, there will be a surplus of 300.000 
cwt. At Nuremburg. however, the most im 
port,ant hop market. In Germany, the Vienna 
reports do not receive full credit. There it is 
believed that, this vear’s crop will uot be over 
a medium yield. Recently prices at Nurem¬ 
berg have risen $l.to $1.25 per cwt. New 
German hops fetch there, according to quality, 
from $11 to $18 75 per cwt: while old hops are 
sold at, $5 to $0.25 per cwt. 
It is said rainy weather, fogs and cold have 
reduced the cotton crop in Egvpt 50 per cent. 
The fellaheen are asking fabulous prices for 
their labor. 
From present indications, the Florida orange 
crop will he vaiy large, a? no serious in jury has 
yetbeeu done by the weather, and the area 
under orange groves is constantly Increasing, 
and new orchards are every rear coming into 
bearing, and hence the yield is annually grow¬ 
ing larger. Last year the prices were so low 
that growers wore greatly discouraged; the 
outlook is more hopeful now. A Fruit Ex- 
elmuge has been established at Jacksonville, 
which proposes to so distribute the fruit that 
when one market is in danger of beiug glutted, 
shipments will he diverted to other points. 
Mr. Ives, the manager, advises the growers 
not to ship any except very fine fruit before 
the latter part of October. Trees now quite 
full. As commission men charge 10 per cent, 
on amount of sales, those at Savannah and 
other old distributing points are sure to fight 
against the new Exchange. 
The annual crop returns collected by the 
Boston Journal m Mainp. New Hampshire 
and Vermont this year show that the farmers 
are getting an abundant, harvest of all the 
staple products. In Maine, everything is 
fully up to (he average, except corn, which is 
somewhat backward. In New Hampshire, 
the outlook for everything is good. The yield 
of grain and potatoes is considerably above 
the average, and there is an ubuudance of 
fruit and vegetables. Vermont has not quite 
so much hay in her barns »b she would like, 
but, plenty of grain, potatoes aud other staple 
products more than offset, the deficiency. 
Although the apple crop is good ouly for an 
“off year.” still in many sections the crop is 
quite heavy aud local prices are low. Ac¬ 
cording to our latest advices, Snuihern Illi¬ 
nois. Tennessee and Kentucky have full crops. 
Northwestern Pennsylvania has also a good 
crop. Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Missouri and 
Kansas arc reported to have light crops. 
New England and most of New York have 
fair crops, while several of the counties in 
Western New York have quite abundant 
crops. 
Wisconsin cranberry prospects this year are 
unsatisfactory. The State now sells 80.0U0 
barrels annually and is only *uir>as*pd in this 
line by New Jersey and Mas-saebusetts. The 
crop of Mass, this year will be worth $500,000, 
if not injured by frost. Bristol and Plymouth 
Counties will furnish 50,000 barrel*, 
Areola and Humboldt, 111., are in the center 
of the greatest broom enrn region in the 
United States, and the recent heavy rains 
have damaged the crop there to the extent, of 
$200,000, causing the brush to rust. However 
good the straw, this blemish will prevent its 
grading No, 1. Farmers expected *100 :i ton 
for the crop; now most of them would take 
much less. 
Most of the hops in New York State have 
now been gathered aud cured, and a consider¬ 
able quantity naa been baled for market. The 
