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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
lottos of % TUcdi. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 10,1885. 
For some time there has been a strike of 
drivers and conductors on nearly all the street 
car lines at St. Louis. The cars all stopped 
running at first; bnt as the companies got 
other drivers and conductors, some of the 
cars began to run, and nearly all were running 
as usual yesterday. The strikers, however, 
assembled in large numbers here and there, 
threw the cars off the tracks and upset them, 
unmercifully beat the “scabs” who had taken 
their places, and often maltreated the pas¬ 
sengers. The police made a number of arrests, 
and killed as usual, not a rioter, but an in¬ 
nocent man. Several hundred were injured 
more or less severely. Much fear is felt of 
greater damage from the mob; an influx of 
Socialists and roughs is reported from Chicago 
and other cities. These and those in the city 
are arming; 500 special police have been en¬ 
rolled; and troops will be called out if neces¬ 
sary.. Cardinal McCloskey, the first 
American “Prince of the Church' 7 died here 
at four minutes to one this morning, leaving 
the Archdiocese of New York, over which he 
has presided for more than 30 years, and all 
the Catholics in the country, in mourning. 
He had long been very feeble, but his final 
illness lasted only a few days. Born at Brook¬ 
lyn, March 30, 1810; ordained priest at St. 
Mary’s College, Emmettsburg, Maryland, in 
1834; appointed coadjustor to Bishop Hughes 
in 1843, with the title of Bishop of Axiere, 
made Bishop of Albany in 1847; and created 
Archbishop of New York in 1804, and Cardinal 
on March 15, 1875... 
President Cleveland said last Wednesday 
to Major Burke, of New Orleans: “Public 
officers are not expected, and they will not be 
permitted, to use their official positions or the 
patronage of their offices in the interest of 
party factions. They have been invested with 
public trust for the execution of which they 
will be held to a rigid accountability. Partisan 
interference or use of their offices in political 
contests will not be tolerated.”. 
Mary Anderson, the actress, has arrived here 
after her two years’ brilliant career in Eng¬ 
land.The Ohio River Commission 
composed of five members from each of the 
seven States tributary to the “Beautiful 
River,” at its 18th session at Pittsburg the 
other day, decided to appeal urgently to Con¬ 
gress for an appropriation of $4,000,000 to 
$5,000,000 annually 10 or 12 years, “uDtilthe 
stream is made navigable at all seasons from 
the head-waters to the mouth.". 
The Baltimore grand jury reports that the 
introduction of the whipping post to punish 
wife-beaters has had a salutary effect. 
.... The order of United American Mechanics, 
at their recent convention in New York City, 
reported a balance of $365,310 in their treas¬ 
ury. The membership numbers 20,000. Labor 
organizations are growing marvelously in 
number, solidarity and power.Six 
crematories are *‘in full blast" in the United 
States, yet they can hardly incinerate the 
bodies offered to them, so popular has “cre¬ 
mation” become.The death rate in 
the South is 14.84 per 1,000 among whites, and 
17.28 among blacks.At Salt Lake 
City Monday and Tuesday eight persons— 
Groo, Best, Davis, Seal, Coley, White, Con¬ 
nelly, and Minor—either pleaded guilty to 
the charge of unlawful cohabitation or were 
tried and convicted of it, and, having re¬ 
fused to pledge obedience to the law in the 
future, were all, except Mi nor, whose sentence 
was postponed, sentenced to its extreme 
penalty, six months in prison and a fine of 
$300. The trials are still going on. and at this 
rate it is only a question of time when a good 
part of Mormondom will take its turn in jail. 
Mormons must evidently either find another 
Deseret in some other country or give up poly¬ 
gamy. They can’t do the first, as no other 
country will tolerate plurality of wives,there¬ 
fore..President Cleveland has 
been elected a trustee of the Peabody Fund to 
succeed General Grant. During the year 
$57,705 of the FuDd were paid cut iu the 
Southern States for educational purposes ... 
....The grand jury has refused to indict 
any of the murderers of the Chinese at Rock 
Springs,Wyoming, Nearly all who joined in 
the crime are foreigners. Mormons are now 
working iu the mines. The war against the 
Chinese is still urged in Montana, Wyoming, 
California and Oregon.It is pro¬ 
posed to utilize the motive power of the Mont¬ 
morency Falls, near Quebec, to operate a rail¬ 
road to that miraculous shrine of St. Anne, 
which attracts 80,000 or 100,000 visitors an 
nually............ There is no diminution in 
the small-pox ravages iu Montreal; indeed 
cold weather seems to increase the mortality. 
The authorities persist in their vaccination 
crusade, despite occasional tumults and con¬ 
stant resistance by the French-Canadians. 
The police count it a good day if not more 
than 20 concealed cases are brought to light. 
Hospital accommodations are inadequate. The 
judges have begun to fine all who in any way 
obstruct the sanitary police. A considerable 
number of cases make the surrounding country 
dangerous, and vaccination is the “order of 
the day” in most parts of Canada. A few 
scattering cases have appeared in the “States” 
owing to the tardiness and inefficiency with 
which our frontier has been quarantined- 
.The marine Provinces of Canada 
have just, been promised a subsidy of $172,000 
per annum for 20 years in aid of the long pro¬ 
posed ship canal across the isthmus of Cbig- 
necto, which lies between Nova Scotia and 
New Brunswick. The total cost of this enter¬ 
prise will be about $5,000,000, and it is a 
matter of no little motneut in New England 
and especially Boston. Propellers that now 
take a week to run outside Nova Scotia from 
Boston to Charlottetown, can make two trips 
a week through the canal, bringing fish and 
potatoes to the Boston market.The 
energy with which the people of Southern 
Dakota have undertaken the work of securing 
the admission of that part of the territory 
south of the 40th parallel into the sisterhood 
of States augurs the success of their project. 
The proposed constitution has been drafted by 
a convention which continued in session a 
month at Sioux Falls, working night and day, 
and completing their task at an expense of 
$10 000.The first national con¬ 
vention to urge the adoption of uniform fish 
and game laws througout the country has just 
closed its session at St. Louis. The auspices 
under which the convention was held lead to 
the belief that it will take more interest in 
securing good fancy shooting for sportsmen 
than in increasing and varying the food 
supply for the different States.The 
Imperial Government have presented 13 
bronze cannon for a statue of Indian 
Chief Joseph Brant, at Ottawa, Ont. The 
only other instance in recent years of a free 
gift of guns for such a purpose was for a 
statue of the Prince Consort in the Albert 
memorial. Brant was one of the English 
allies during the war of 1812..The 
old Cosmopolitan Hotel at San Francisco, and 
a number of adjacent buildings were burned 
on Thursday night—loss ahout $1,000,000. 
.Judge Charles F. Brown, of the 
supreme court of New York has entered a 
decree of foreclosure and sale of the West 
Shore Railroad, the referee appointed being 
required to give six weeks’ notice of the sale. 
The sale must be for not less than'$22,000.000, 
or enough to cover all receivers’ certificates 
and unpaid taxes.A terrible collision 
happened ou the Fergus Falls branch of the 
Northern Pacific Railroad, seven miles west 
of St. Paul, Minn., the other morning, by 
which five men lost their lives, and 30 or 40 
more were more or less injured.A 
battery of boilers at the Solar Iron Works of 
Clarke & Co. on Thirty-sixth street, at Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa., exploded last week. Seventeen 
people were scalded frightfully or injured in 
other ways and two of them have died. 
.Upou requests preferred by Generals 
Sheridan, Schofield, Pope and Howard, that 
their present personal aids be made exceptions 
to the recently issued order sending back to 
their regiments all officers who have been 
absent therefrom on detached or staff duty 
four years or more, Secretary Endicott has 
decided that no exceptions shall be made to 
the operations of that order.............. Mr. 
Cyrus W. Field has once again set up his 
monument to Andre, ou his estate at Tappan, 
N, Y.Four companies from Fort 
Custer are guarding the Yellowstone Valley, 
near Junction City, against depredating 
Indians. They have already captured about 
40 Crows,....Some months ago a 
sensation was created by the announcement 
that a new lake as large as Superior had been 
discovered in Northeastern Canada; surveys 
just completed show that it is only 125 miles 
long and from 15 to 20 wide. It is called Lake 
Misatissini. 
A Clergynum’s Remarkable Experience. 
The following communicationsgi ve the his¬ 
tory of one of a class of cases especially found 
among clergy, and all professional men and 
brain workers. The change wrought in three 
moDt.hs, as related liy Dr. Cushing, pastor of 
the First M. E. Church, Rochester, N. Y., (a 
clergyman of wide repute, whose statement 
will not be questioned for a moment by those 
who know him), is truly murvolous. 
10 N, Fitzhugii St-, Bochestkk, n.y. 
January 11th, 1884 
Drs. Starkby & Palkn- 
Dear Sirs;—It is nearly four years since I 
first, used Compound Oxygen. Thereare those 
doubtless, who would be glad to know of its 
effect in a case like mine. For fifteen yeurs I 
had been carrying very heavy burdens and 
doing very bard work. / found myself grade 
ually losing the power of endurance, so that 
my work left me much exhausted. 1 could se 
that my whole nervous system was,giving way; 
that there was a manifest lack of vital force. 
This was most apparent and most alarming 
when I went to my study. My mind was losing 
its grip. Sleep was insufficient, and unre- 
freshing. 
Under these circumstances I began the use 
of Compound Oxygen. At first I saw no re¬ 
sults. After a time I observed my digestion 
was much improved. More restful sleep fol¬ 
lowed. At the end of three months I found 
myself able to preach Sunday morning, teach 
a Bible class of seventy Jive or a hundred after 
sermon, attend an afternoon service often, 
and preach to a congregation of a thousand 
persons in the evening, and say in truth, at 
the close of my evening service, that t was not 
conscious of any more tcea riness than when l 
began in the morning. My mind has never 
worked better than during these four years, 
and in no other time of my life could I do as 
mnch work, or do it with as much ease. This 
is my experience, and I have much reason to 
be grateful for it. Sincerely, 
Charles W Cusuing. D D.” 
A “Treatise on Compound Oxygen," con¬ 
taining a histox-y of the discovery and mode of 
action of this remarkable curative agent, aDd 
a large record of surprising cures in Consump¬ 
tion, Catarrh. Neuralgia. Bronchitis, Asthma, 
etc., and a wide range of diseases, will be sent 
free. Address Drs. " Starkey & Palen, 1529 
Arch St., Philadelphia.— Ado. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, October 10, 1885. 
The report of the Privy Council shows that 
during 1885 there bas been in Great Britain a 
decrease of 192,720 acres in the area under 
wheat; an increase of 88,526 acres in that un¬ 
der barley; an increase of 25,317 acres in that 
under oats; a decrease of 16,317 acres in that 
under potatoes; an increase of 2,056 acres iu 
that under hops. This is the comparison with 
the year 1884.Great Britain is said to 
consume annually 4,000,000 tons of potatoes; 
of these 200,000 tons are imported.In 
the report of the Ontario (Canada) Bureau of 
Industries for September, is the following esti¬ 
mate of the crops and yields, per acre, in that 
Province, according to returns dated Sept 8. 
Fall wheat, 21,280,543 bushels, being 24.3 
bushels per acre; spring wheat, 9,226.796 
bushels, 11.5 bushels per acre; barley, 16,876,- 
532 bushels, 27 4 per acre; oats, 56,334,474 
bushels, 86 5 per acre; rye, 1,251.704 bushels, 
16 per acre; peas, 14 835,563 bushels, or 22.2 
per acre. By the official statistics, there 
were imported into this country in the year 
1883, 22,117 head of cattle, at a value of $1,- 
135,385 ; 7,601 head of horses, at a value of 
$1,906,840 ; 5,622 head of sheep, at a value of 
$123 582, For 18S4 the figures were: Cattle, 
41,021 head, value $2,809,950; horses, 18,271, 
value $2,212,591; sheep. 4,427, value $74,558. 
....A dispatch from Ottawa, Canada, dated 
Sept. 27th, reports that by an Order in Coun¬ 
cil, the passage of neat cattle through Mani¬ 
toba, from Dokota to Minnesota, via Oak 
Lake Station, or Gretna, is permitted. 
..The late Mrs. Mary D. Morgan of this city 
devoted a great part of her life and $200,000 
to collecting a choice assortment of orchids. 
They were sold at auction in this city at the 
end of last week and beginning of this, and 
fetched less than $25,000. There were 1,500, 
and the prices ranged from $1 to $750, the 
latter price having been paid by Veitch & Sods 
of London, for a Cypripedium, the finest 
probably in the world, and for which she is 
reported to have paid the same firm $2,000 
some years ago .The Texas State 
agent of the Natioual Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry has been instructed to make a careful 
Survey of the State with special reference to 
the locality of the development of the Texas 
cattle fever and determi nation of the boundary 
beyond which the disease is not supposed to 
originate...A considerable number 
of horses suffering from glanders have been 
shot near Tuscola, III .Nearly all 
the farmers in Yankton Co., Dakota, have 
lost half their hogs by hog cholera.. 
....A telegram from Albauy, N.Y., on Thurs 
day says; “Dairy Commissioner J. K. Brown 
to-day forwarded to attorneys for the prose¬ 
cution iu New York City 15 cases of violation 
of the Oleomargarine Law. Twenty-five 
other cases were sent out a few days ago, 
making 46 In all recently instituted iu that 
city. Ten arrests made previous to this week 
in New York included eight who were held 
for bail, two being discharged. Ten more cases 
are ready and will be reported through the 
Police Courts of New York at once, making 
about 60 cases since the 1st of September.”... 
.... A live stock rate war is iu progress be¬ 
tween the Fort Wayne and Baltimore and 
Ohio railroads. Drovers from the surround¬ 
ing counties report shipments of cattle from 
Chicago to Pittsburgh at 56 ceut-s per head, 
and complain that-the low rates and increased 
Western shipments are ruining business. 
.... Force is to be applied to the removal of 
some of the cattle herds yet remaining ou the 
Cheyonne and Arapahoe Reservations. 
The recent sale of Holland cattle in this city, 
by Sluiter Bros., resulted iu 81 animals bring¬ 
ing an average of $171.Barbed wire 
fences are much complained of by tanners 
and hide dealers, on the ground that they in¬ 
flict the severest injuries upon hides—injuries 
not easily discoverable until it is too late. 
....The prairie fires in Dakota have done a 
world of damage, over several bund red square 
miles in the aggregate. Homesteads, crops, 
fences, etc., have been destroyed, and hun¬ 
dreds of farmers are destitute on the approach 
of cold weather, The injury by fires on the 
ranges of Dakota, Wyoming and Montana 
are so serious and extensive that grave fears 
are entertained that many herds will find 
rustling for feed during the coming Winter 
killing work .....Texas cattlemen assembled 
at Dallas, are anxious to “formulate plans 
for avoiding the existing quarantine obstruc¬ 
tions by which the Northern buyers are en¬ 
abled to bear the market and speculators in 
Now Mexico and the Indian Territory to de- 
nress prices so as to compel sales at their 
own figures.”. 
Don’t forget, that the American Fat stock 
.Show will be held at Chicago from Nov. 10 to 
19. For butter, cheese, and dairy cattle, 
$3,500 will be given in premiums. The Aber¬ 
deen-Angus Hocietv of North Britain has 
offered a prize medal of $250 to the best 
Foiled Angus exhibited at the show. . 
... The Connecticut Tobacco Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation holds a meeting at Hartford the 3lst, 
to consider how the import duties on leaf 
tobacco can be so adjusted as to fully protect 
domestic growers. Mrs. Mark Lnthrooe, 
of Stoughton. Mass,, was completely disem¬ 
boweled the other dav by a vicious bull while 
attempting to protect a neighbor from the 
brute's attack William Ward of Gllberts- 
ville, N. Y.. was tossed and gored to death by 
a vicious bull last. Saturday Gov. Rob¬ 
inson, of Mass., has placed our old friend, 
Levi Stockbridge, at the head of the new 
Board of Cattle Commissioners. Heistobold 
the office for three years. Friend Alonzo W. 
Cheever is the second member, and Dr. John 
F. Winchester, 30. a veterinarian, and grad¬ 
uate of the State Agricultural College, is third. 
..The St Louis annual festival week began 
Monday with the opening of the Twenty-fifth 
Fair of the Agricultural and Mechauical 
Association .The Commissioner of 
the Laud Office has been informed that the 
operations of R. C. Bloomfield, an English- 
uian.Manager of the Arkansas Land and Cattle 
Company, recently convicted at Denver of 
procuring fraud ulen ten tries upon public land, 
were of the most audacious character. All of 
the cowboys in his employ were forced to 
make entries in his behalf, and then he set up 
“paper men,”or. in other words, made entries 
in the uames of persons who had no existence. 
Ills conviction, it is believed, will have a 
wholesome effect npon others who have been 
guilty of like pro i .The Third 
Annual Fat Stock Show will be held at 
Riverview Park. Kansas City, from Oct. 
29th to Nov. 5th, 1885, inclusive. The grounds 
will be open for the reception of stock on and 
after the Monday previous, and all entries 
must bo made on or before the 28th. In all 
thoroughbred classes pedigrees must be furn¬ 
ished. The fees charged will be, for each 
cattle stall, $2, and for each sheep or hog, 50 
cents. This promises to be a very full and 
interesting exhibition, and should have a full 
attendence. For fuller information write 
the Secretary, E Horen, KansasClty ? Mo. 
Tobacco is now raised in 40 of Wisconsin’s 
60 counties; but two counties, Daue and Rock, 
raise five-sixths of the crop. Total acreage 
this year is 29,260, almost double the 15,836 of 
1884. The total yield this yoar is about 100,- 
00O cases. 
As n cure tor i^ore Throat ami Coughs, 
"Brown's Bronchial 'IVocheX' lmve be u thoroughly 
tested, and maintain their good reputation.—Adu. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, October 10, 18S5. 
The Mark Lane Express in its review of the 
British grain trade during the last week says: 
Heavy gales have prevailed, with rain in the 
south and snow in the north. A material 
portion of the harvest In the uorth of Kngland 
and in Scotland remains outstanding. The 
sales of English wheat during the week were 
73,403 quarters at 30s. 5d. t against 78,940 
quarters at 82s. 41. during the corresponding 
week last year. Trade iu foreign wheat is 
slow, and values are against buyers. The off- 
coast trade is slow; six cargoes arrived, two 
cargoes were sold, four were withdrawn, and 
nine remained, including two of Californian 
and one of Oregon, 
Wheat advanced one-half cent a bushel in 
London on Wednesday and corn one eighth of 
a cent per bushel. The quantity of wheat 
“on passage” is declining considerably, and 
on the basis of “supply and demand” alone 
Euglish buyers are likely to have to pay con¬ 
siderably higher prices for grain later iu tho 
season. Compared with the corresponding 
time last year, the amount of wheat now on 
its w’ny to England from all parts of the 
world Is 4,280,000 bushels less; while there is 
an increase of 1,660,006 bushels in corn. 
The new French Chumbcr of Deputies is 
declared to be strongly protectionist in its 
views, and, it is expected, will favor very 
high if not prohibitive tariffs on cereals. 
There are no special changes to note at the 
leading cont inental grain markets. India has 
suffered from floods, but thus far wheat has 
been freely offered. 
Exhaustive reports to the New England 
Homestead from 700 correspondents indicate 
that the potato crop of New England and 
New York Is fully one-third below the aver- 
