ess THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. OST10 
Wenrs of the Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 3,1885. 
There baa been a good deal of rioting in 
Montreal, as the ignorant, superstitious 
Freuch-Canadiaus are violently opposed to 
the compulsory vaccination ordinance passed 
by the authorities. A great deal of damage 
was done to property, and several people are 
believed to have been killed, and a great many 
are known to have been more or less severely 
wounded. Heaths from small-pox average 
40 a day; and there are over 2.000 known 
cases, and it is supposed 1,500 unknown—con¬ 
cealed by the French. Of the 300 deaths last 
week only six were Anglo-Saxon Protestants. 
The disease first broke out in the French quar¬ 
ter, and is chiefly confined to it. Business is 
paralyzed, as no strangers will go there to buy 
or sell. Vigorous measures are being adopted 
to force vaccination. Troops ready to sup¬ 
press rioting. Much bitterness is added to the 
quarrel owiDg to political differences between 
the English and French-Canadians, chiefly, 
just now, on account, of Riel. The two na¬ 
tionalities, however, are becoming more and 
more inimical every week.. 
..The passage of the General Local Option 
Bill by the present Legislature of Georgia is 
causing a fierce battle between tbe Prohibit¬ 
ionists and the “rum” interest in that State. 
The fight i« fiercest in Atlanta, where *6 000,- 
000 is invested in tbe liquor business by 300 
licensed saloons, etc., etc. It is said that be¬ 
fore Winter is over not a drop of liquor will 
be sold in Georgia under legal sanction. 
... ..These 40 or 50 Apache hostiles have been 
killed and captured ten times over, but they 
are still murdering and outraging in New 
Mexico and Arizona; 60 of the 40 were fight¬ 
ing our soldiers iu Southern Arizoua last week, 
losing one. In the Far Northwest, in South¬ 
ern Montana, 200 PiegaDs have left their re¬ 
servation “on a thieving expedition.”. 
Tuesday, at a large anti Chinese meeting at 
Seattle, Washington Territory, attended by 
delegates from all tbe large towns in the Ter¬ 
ritory, resolutions were passed that “the 
Chinese must go”; and that the working classes 
would not be responsible for the consequences 
of a refusal. The Chinese are going in fright¬ 
ened flocks from many places: and arming 
for resistance in others. In Wyoming and 
Montana tbe war against the Celestials is be¬ 
coming fiercer and more resolute. Petitions 
are pouring in for the removal of Gov. War¬ 
ren, of Wyoming, whose prompt and detei’- 
miued action in tbe late troubles doubtless 
prevented greater outrages. It is likely there 
will be a heavy immigration of Chinese east¬ 
ward, as those in the cis-Mississippi States are 
making money in peace... From every 
part of the Union there is the same report— 
more scholars than school-houses. Colleges 
too many: schools too few.Gregory, 
another of the Civil Service Commissioners, 
has followed Eaton’s example and resigned. 
Thomxan, tbe third, and last, is expected to 
do likewise. Then there will be a new deal!.. 
. The new Marnage License Law went 
into force in Pennsylvania on October 1, and 
for the prev’ous week the number Of mar 
riages in the Keystone State was three times 
as great as usual, as “engaged” parties and 
others hastened to take the plunge, to avoid 
the obligations imposed by the new law. 
...The Central Pacific Railroad Company has 
expended *75,000 in sinking an artesian well 
2,345 feet deep at White Plains, Nevada, with¬ 
out getting tbe desired supply of water.. 
.... Tbe Prohibitionists are making as lively a 
canvass in Ohio and New York as either the 
Republicans or Democrats.The Cana¬ 
dians ai'e to have at Niagara a National Park 
of 118 acres, about the size of ours. The pre¬ 
liminary report of tbe Commissioners has been 
accepted by the Government, and they have 
been directed to proceed with the valuation of 
the property to be purchased for the park - -. 
.A suit has been brought in MempbiR by 
the U. S. District Attorney asking tbe U. S. 
District Court to declare the Bell telephone 
patent void because it was obtained by fraudu¬ 
lent representation; that the real inventor of 
the telephone was Philip Reis, and Bell ob¬ 
tained tbesecret from an official of the Patent 
Office in violation of tbe law; that the inven¬ 
tion was known to the scientific world before 
Bell secured his patent, and that it is, and by 
right ought to be, the common property of 
tbe public. In support of tbe petition is the 
affidavit of Z. F. Wilber, the examiner in the 
Patent Office, who gave Bell the information 
which enabled him to take advantage of and 
anticipate the real inventor, Reis. The friends 
of the Bell monopoly and the enemies of the 
present Administration are uniting iu denoun¬ 
cing Attorney-Genexal Garland for having 
consented to the action of bis subordinate in 
bri nging the suit, as he bolde #1,000,000 inter¬ 
est in a rival telephone company. He says 
the Solicitor-General permitted the suit with¬ 
out consulting him .General Edward F. 
Joues, “Jones of Biughampton,” famous for 
his unsurpassable scales and gracefully flow¬ 
ing moustache, has been nominated for Lieu¬ 
tenant-Governor of New York State, vice 
Roswell P. Flower, resigned. Gen. Jones was 
Colonel of the Sixth Massacbussetts Regiment, 
which was attacked at Baltimore when on tbe 
way to Washington on April 19, 1861, and led 
the first Northern troops that entered Wash¬ 
ington. Hurrah for Jones!. Geueral 
Miles, commander of tbe Military Department 
of the Missouri, recommends that private sol- 
diers be discbai’ged, after five years' service, 
with the rank of second lieutenant, provided 
they pass a rigid examination. 
.. There were three couvictious for unlawful 
cohabitation in the Balt Lake City District 
Court this week. Bishop Hiram B. Clawson 
was seutenced to the full extent of the law, 
which is six months’ imprisonment aud 8300 
fine and costs. Truman O. Angel pleaded 
guilty and was fined #150 S. W. Sears, assist¬ 
ant superintendent of Zion’s co operative 
store, pleaded guilty, and was fined 1300. He 
promised to obey tbe law in future, and to 
counsel others to do so.An Italian bark, 
direct from Marseilles, arrived in New York 
Harbor on Friday with the cholera on board. 
Although our Consul at Marseilles, Mr. Mason, 
gave tbe bark a clean hill of health, a sailor 
was taken with the cholera three days after 
sailing and died within 24 hours. The New 
York Board of health has tbe bark iu hand, 
however, aud the cargo is already under the 
influence of sulphur The deaths from cholera 
hitherto in Southern Europe number over 
100.000 .It is estimated that there has 
been a decrease of about 12,000.000 in the pub¬ 
lic debt in the mouth of September. The 
payments on account of pensions during tbe 
month were about $4,000,000 .There 
were 615 patents issued for the week ending 
yesterday, the largest number ever issued in 
one week in the history of the Patent Office.. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, October 3, 1885. 
The orange-wine industry of Florida has 
proved a notable success, the wine being vei*y 
favorably regarded by Northern visitors and 
their friends. As the result of arbori¬ 
culture, birds are making their appearance in 
Dakota that were never seen there before. 
Quail, iu particular, are abundant.Ac¬ 
cording to the reports of American Consuls to 
tbe State Department, licorice can lie culti¬ 
vated successfully in California, Texas and 
most of the Southern States. The United 
States last year imported 40,000,000 pounds of 
the root, valued at $ Q 00,000 .At the last 
Cheshire Cheese Fair bous of cheese were sold 
at. from #5 to $7.50 per hundredweight, more 
at from #7.50 to $10, aud one or two prime 
lots at $16.25. The average drop is set down 
at #6.25 a ton—-the'results of American co rupe 
tition.The centennial anniversary of 
the settlement of Kirby Homestead, Charlton, 
N. Y., was celebrated on Thursday, Oct. L 
Our friend. Col. F. D. Curtis, entertaiueil a 
large party of friendB and well-wishers, who 
were addressed by two famoxis doctors of di¬ 
vinity. In spite of this, there was a right 
happy time all round!. 
....Unusually high prices are charged by 
English .hop-pickers this year. Hop-driers. 
£2 a week, with beer and a share of the money 
earned by pressing, quite equal to another £1 
per week, £8; tallyman and pole-pullers, per 
week, £1 2s.; women and children engaged in 
hopping are earning, on an average, per fam¬ 
ily per week, from £L 16s. to £ 2 . .... The 
National Liberty Federation, of England, at 
a meeting iu London, Thursday, adopted 
resolutions favoring tbe abolition of primo¬ 
geniture and other forms of entail, and 
security of tenure for farmers, making the 
compensation for improvements on laud com¬ 
pulsory. aud urgiug the purchase of lauds by 
the Government for allotments to laborers... 
.,, .The prominent sheep raisers in Tennessee 
have resolved to abandon the business, owing 
to the want of a dog law, asserting that 300,- 
000 sheep cannot be maintained against 500.000 
dogs.Mrs. Lathrop, tbe wife of a 
wealthy farmer, was gored by a bull in 
Stoughton, Mass., Friday. Joseph Mar- 
tid, an old cm ploy 6 on the farm of Isaiah 
Wilson, near 8ulpliur Grove, In the vicinity 
of Dayton, O., was gored by an angry bull as 
he was driving cattle from pastux-e, and died 
on Mnuday night.At Winnipeg, Mani¬ 
toba, Thomas Lumsdeu, brother of Sir Peter 
Lumsden, of Afghanistan fame, was gored 
to death by a fine bull he was taking to a fair, 
Tuesday... .The Ohio State live stock 
commissioners have quarantined against cattle 
coming from New York, Now Jersey, the 
District of Columbia aud Kentucky.The 
Illinois Live Stock Commission has laid before 
the Governor a report setting forth that the 
State is absolutely and entirely free from 
pleuro-pneumonia iu an acute or contagious 
form. The Governor is requested to inform 
the Executives of such States as have quaran¬ 
tined agaiust Illinois, with a view to having 
the restrictions removed.State Veterin¬ 
arian Paaren has killed 10 glandered hoi’ses at 
Vaudalia, HI., and quarantined some others. 
Over 100 are known to have been exposed in 
the neighborhood.Owing to a serious 
outbreak of glanders among the mules on sev¬ 
eral liues of street cars in New Orleans. 42 be¬ 
longing to one line have been shot at a loss of 
$10,500; affected animals on other lines have 
been isolated; but they will have to be shot 
as they can’t be cured..A mob of farm¬ 
ers and stockmen of Pendleton County, Ky., 
the other day killed 17 floe cattle belonging to 
D. N. Brannock, that were sick with conta¬ 
gious pleuro-pneumonia. Previously a meet¬ 
ing was held at Falmouth to raise funds to 
pay for the animals; but prominent cattlemen 
opposing this, recourse was had to “mob 
law.”.Hog cholera is very destnictive 
iu several places in Champaign County, Ill. 
It is also disastrous about Galena, in the same 
State, as well as at Red Wing, Minn., and 
River Falls and Janesville, Wis. Last week 
400 hogs died at the latter place in four days. 
Indeed, the plague is very fatal iu many 
parts of Southern Wisconsin. 
. Tbe Turkish Government, as a pre¬ 
cautionary measure to prevent the reduction 
of supplies in the event of a war with Bul¬ 
garia, has issued an order prohibiting tbe 
exportation of cereals........... Ten young 
ostriches have been hatched at Fall Brook 
farm, near Los Angeles,Cal., making 23 chicks 
in all. It is now thought that no more im¬ 
portations will be needed from South Africa 
or Paraguay.Rich deposits of mineral 
phosphate of lime (apatite) have been opened 
in the County of Lanark, Out. Tbe average 
yield from one of the mines worked is said to 
be 77 per cent, phosphate. but running as high 
as 90 per cent. The cost of the crude 
rock is $11.00 per ton.Patrick Barry 
cousiders friend T. V. Munson’s paper on 
“The Amei-ican Grape.” delivered before the 
recent meeting of the American Pomological 
Society, the most valuable paper ever read 
before this society.Heavy floods are 
reported throughout the eastern portion of 
Switzerland. The whole of the upper Rhine 
Valley has been inundated. Houses, cattle 
and other live stock, have been swept away, 
and the harvest destroyed.Disastrous 
floods covering an area of 3.500 square miles 
have occurred iu the Presidency of Bengal, 
the largest and most populous of tbe twelve 
main divisions of British India. Houses, 
crops, cattle and portable goods of every <le. 
scription have been earned away by the floods. 
A great number of human lives, too, have 
been lost. The Government authorities are 
distributing provisions and clothing,and doing 
all they can to relieve the sufferers....... The 
tenants on the estates of Sir Rowlaud Bleu- 
nerhasset, in Killarney, Ireland, have agreed 
to purchase their holdings at a price equal to 
14 years’ rental.. .The Sau Francisco 
Commercial Herald says; At tbe present our 
exports of wheat and flour are far below the 
average of past seasons and were it not for 
Oregon’s liheralitv in sending ns freely of her 
largo surplus, our Bbips would remain idle for 
want of business As it is, our sister State 
claims to have 411(1.000 tons of wheat surplus 
and her farmers are willing to sell it at cur¬ 
rent prices, while our California farmers are 
holding on to their grain, having turned 
speculators.... 
... The tobacco crop of Wisconsin is reported 
as 29.260 acres, compared with 15.836 acres in 
1884, and is expected to yield about 100,000 
cases.About IS 000 000 lambs, it. is 
estimated, are produced annually in this 
country, and the total number of sheep is said 
to tie 48.090 009. The uveroee ln<s of lambs is 
put at 1,509 000: of sheep. 1,800.000.The 
Iowa potato crop this season is estimated at 
15,000.000 bushels.. ..Commissioner Sparks, of 
the Land Office, bus prepared a statement of 
the disposal of public lands and receipts there¬ 
from during the flucal year ending June 30,1885. 
from which it appears that the total uuraber of 
entries wax 326.383; total number of acres, 
20.113.068.88; total value. #7 686.114.80. The 
number of original homestead entries was 
50,877. including 7.415,895 acres. The num¬ 
ber of final homestead entries was 22,066, in¬ 
cluding 3,0.32,670 acres. 
FRAUDS AND IMITATIONS. 
Let it be dearly understood that Compound 
Oxygen is mi ly made and dispensed by Drs. 
Starkey, & Palen 1539 Arch St. Philadelphia 
Pa. Any substance made elsewhere, aud 
called Compound Oxvgen, i« spurious and 
worthless, anil those who bun it simply throw 
away their money, as they will in the end dis¬ 
cover. Send for their Treatise on Compound 
Oxygen, it will be mailed free.— Adv. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, October 3, 1885. 
The Mark Lane Express, iu its weekly re¬ 
view of the British grain trade, says: The 
weather has been characterized by electrical 
rain storms, and in some localities by snow. 
The work of gathering the harvest is finished 
1 n England and Ireland. In Scotland a large 
proportion of the crop is uncut. The season 
favors autumn sowing. Tbe sales of English 
wheat durine the week were 08.588 quarters 
at 30s Id, against 77.639 quarters at 33s during 
the corresponding week of last year. Sellers 
of foreign wheat are firmer in their views. 
Tie demaud has not improved. In the off- 
coast market sellers are firm, while buvers 
are shy. Seventeen cargoes arrived. Nine 
cargoes were sold, four were withdrawn and 
eight remained, including two of California. 
Tt is said that about one eighth of tbe Eng¬ 
lish wheat crop was so damaged as to be fit 
only for stock-feeding by three weeks of wet 
weather preceding Suudav, September 20. 
The damage to barley is imported to liavebeeu 
much greater than that to wheat; but in view 
of the heavv supply in sight, the damage has 
not affected tbe markets. The London Econo¬ 
mist says that at all foreign outlets for wheat 
the prices are relatively higher than those 
ruling iu England. The course of foreign 
markets since the middle of tbe week—Eng¬ 
lish and French—has continued steady aud 
firm, but in tbe United Kingdom farmers’ 
deliveries have exceeedeil the current demands, 
so that the visible supplies there have been 
increased. Late cables yesterday reported 
wheat higher at Liverpool. 
Cora is now out of danger from fi’ost in all 
parts of the country, aud the injury done, 
while heavy in a few xdaoes iu the northern 
(ier of States, and therefore very sad for 
farmers : n those unfortunate localities, is 
small for the entire country. The latest esti¬ 
mate of the general outcome, wortbv of atten¬ 
tion. is that of tbe Chicago Farmers’ Review, 
which estimates the yield of the 10 great corn¬ 
growing States as follows: 
State. 
Bush. lost. 
Bush. 18 SS. 
Ohio . 
85 393 000 
131.500 000 
Indiana.. 
.. 104 757.000 
125.708 000 
Illinois. 
... 244.544 000 
294 239 000 
Town . 
.. 252.600 0(10 
296 805.000 
Missouri ... .. 
... 197 850.000 
189.360 000 
Kansas . 
.. 168 006 000 
1«8 720.000 
Nebraska. 
... 123100.000 
137.862 000 
Minnesota . 
23.6SO.000 
31 148 009 
Wisconsin . 
26 200.090 
21.209.000 
Michigan . 
... 26,022.000 
80.185,000 
Total.... 
... 1,251,596 000 
1.436 230,000 
Excess over last year. 184,640,000. 
Ou the basis that the States and Territoi’ies 
outside of the 10 named, will produce as much 
coni as they did last year, or 534,400,000 bush¬ 
els (and this would seem to be assured from a 
study of tbe reports), it will give a total crop 
of 1,970,630,000 bushels, from which total it is 
safe to estimate that the yield will uot vary in 
any appi'eeiable degree either way. 
Two weeks ago the Cincinnati Price Cur- 
reut estimated the total output at 1.990,000,- 
000 bushels, and it is probable tbe real yield 
will be somewhere between these two guesses, 
which are only a mere bagatelle of about 
20,000.000 bushels apart. 
A telegram from Tom’s River, Oceau 
County, N. J., yesterday, says: “The cran¬ 
berry crop this year will be the heaviest ever 
known in New Jersey, the vines being loaded 
with fruit. Competent judges say that the 
yield iu Ocean County alone will be over 50,- 
000 bushels. The pickers are already at work.” 
A telegram from Danville, Veu, yesterday, 
says: “The anuual report of the Tobacco As¬ 
sociation shows sales of leaf tobacco for the 
year just closed of 37,018,000 pounds at an 
average of 18.59 cents, against 27,548.000 
pounds at an average of IS ,0T cents lor the 
preceding year. In tbe last 10 years, there 
have been sold 283,760,000 pounds at au aver¬ 
age of 11.93 cents, making $33,826,000. 
From a large number of reports we have 
been collecting ter over a fortnight, it seems 
probable that a pickle famine is threatened 
this Winter. The present supply at the East 
is set down at SO.OOO.OOO—cme half only of 
what is needed for the Eastern trade. The 
Western crops have suffered, and heavy 
advances in price are looked for. 
A telegram fi'oui Rochester, N. Y , says po¬ 
tato rot is so extensive iu Wyoming County 
that less than a quarter of the crop will be 
secured. Buyers refuse to purchase and 
farmers, discouraged, are plowiug up their 
potato fields and seeding to grain. Other 
counties in that section are reported to be 
similarly affected. We also notice reports of 
j’ot in many other narts of the country; and 
were it not that the ti'ansportntion of potatoes 
to a distance costs so much, prices should be 
quite remunerative where they are plentiful, 
as they are sure to bo scarce iu many places. 
Last Saturday a very heavy frost in War¬ 
rick aud Spencer counties, Ind., did great 
damage to the tobacco crop. Farmers, fright¬ 
ened by the early frost, commenced to cut 
their tobacco while it was yet green, and the 
damage, it is thought from this source, will 
add greatly to that resulting from frost. Ad¬ 
vices from counties in Southern Kentucky 
also report great damage to tobacco, where 
the loss will be much worse than in Indiana, 
tobacco being (he principal product. 
Later advices.with regard to the honey crop 
