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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
of i\)t TUcdi. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 17,1885. 
Judge Fouaker, Republican, has been 
elected Governor of Ohio by a plurality of 
about 17,688, beating the present Governor, 
Hoadly. The Legislature which is to elect a 
U. S. Senator, is still in doubt, owing to un¬ 
certainty as to the result in Hamilton County 
—Cincinnati. Gross frauds have, as usual, 
been perpetrated there, and the respectable 
citizens are resolute in prosecuting the offend¬ 
ers. Tumult is feared. If, as they claim, the 
Republicans carry the Legislature, John 
ShermaD will be elected to the U. S. Senate 
to succeed himself—in that case he will once 
more be a prominant candidate at the next 
Presidential election. 
A movement is on foot to secure the ad¬ 
mission to the Union of Southern California 
as a new State.During the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1885, the Dominion Gov¬ 
ernment spent £350,000 on immigration. As¬ 
sisted immigration since 1880, cost Canada 
about $1,500,000...There are in the 
United States more than 50 penitentiaries and 
2,400 jails. They contain over 50,000 crimma’s, 
and their estimated cost is £500,000,000. 
.... Surgeon-General Hamilton states that the 
danger of a cholera invasion of this country 
has passed.The population of Massa¬ 
chusetts is 1,041,455, a gain of 158,380 since 
1880. The males number 032,400, and the 
females 1,000,630. The population of Boston 
is 300,406 • * .The Lehigh Valley Rail¬ 
road Company has established a relief fund 
for its employes. The company puts as much 
iu the fund as the employes, and upon the 
death of one of these his contribution is given 
his wife. During sickness the employtS is to 
be taken care of out of the fund.A 
dispatch from Victoria, British Columbia,says 
that the city is full of Chinamen awaiting 
passage to China. They are discharged rail¬ 
way handR, who see no prospect of obtaining 
work on the Coast. It is estimated that 4,000 
will leave there within a month for home. 
The steamship Wilmington, ship Spartan and 
bark Alden Besse, for Hong Kong, will carry 
about 1,300.The American Com¬ 
mittee of the Statue of Liberty,have j ust issued 
a circular announcing the success of the fund 
for building the pedestal, and asking for con¬ 
tributions towards the £40,000 necessary to 
cover the expense of the putting up of the 
statue, and steel and iron anchors, etc. Con¬ 
tributions may be sent to the Secretary, 
Richard Butler, 33 Mercer street, New York. 
......Flood Rock,-in the East River, at 
the entrance to Long Island Sound, after 9 
years of preparation under the superintend- 
ency of General Newton, was destroyed by a 
charge of 300,000 pounds^ of rackarock and 
dynamite on last Saturday, The 12-year old 
daughter of General Newton set the force in 
motion which caused the explosion, as she did 
the one which destroyed Hell Gate nine years 
ago.The condition of the New¬ 
foundland fisheries is bad. While the catch 
has been small, prices have fallen off 12 per 
cent, by the demoralization of the Mediter¬ 
ranean markets through cholera. Id politics, 
party lines are strictly drawn between Catho¬ 
lics and Protestants. The elections occur on 
October SI, when serious disturbances are ex¬ 
pected ....Theranchmen and cowboys 
in Arizona and New Mexico are preparing for 
a grand Winter battue of Apaches, several 
counties have revived the old proclamations 
of the County Commissioners, offering from 
$250 to $500 reward for the scalp of a buck 
Indian .On Monday night a mob at 
Hempstead,Texas, burned tbeslaughter-houses 
and pens, with their contents, of George 
Burton and J. Ness. After this the mob 
awoke Burton and Ness, and ordered them to 
leave the county, giving them five days to 
leave the town, and 15 days to leave the coun¬ 
ty. The two met were told that there had 
been too many stolen beeves butchered at their 
pens, and the intention was to put. a stop to it 
.The Brotherhood of Locomotive 
Engineers claims a membership of 17,0H0, with 
294 sub-divisions in the United States, Canada 
and Mexico.A Canadian High Com¬ 
missioner, to reside permanently at Washing¬ 
ton, and give exclusive attention to affairs af¬ 
fecting tbe Dominion, is demanded by the To¬ 
ronto Globe and otherCanadian newspapers.. 
.. ..More of the “saints”—and big ones too— 
are getting into prison in Utah, for cohabiting 
with more than one “wife,” aud refusing to 
promise to obey the law in that respect. Those 
who promise to do so are rigorouslv boycotted 
by their fellows...Mr. Blaine will 
remain at Augusta and work on his l>ook this 
Winter, his sou Walker says ............... 
.Webster, the pnblisher, says that 
enough books have already been subscribed 
for of Gen. Grant’s life to net Mrs. Grant from 
$300,000 to $400,000. He has just returned 
from making arrangements for its publication 
at London and Leipsic. He says Gen. Grant’s 
style improved very much after he took a 
stenographer to whom be could dictate, 
as he found the effort of composition irksome 
and would often.as he said, "cramp a sentence.” 
The Grand Monument Fund here amounts 
to about $00,000; that at Chicago to $47,000.. 
.Gov. Moody gives the Oregon Legis¬ 
lature another chance to elect a United States 
Senator by calling a special session November 
0, limited by tbe constitution to 20 days. 
.... Andrew Carnegie has just won the thanks 
of the workmen at the Keystone Bridge 
works in Pittsburgh, Pa., by giving them a 
$30,000 house and lot for a public library, and 
adding$1,000 for tbe first batch of books..... 
....... Some disturbances during the week by 
the striking car drivers and conductors of St. 
Louis; but no more rioting. The strike has 
nearly collapsed. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, October 17,1885. 
The expenses of the Pennsylvania State Fair, 
which has just closed at Philadelphia, were 
about $5,000 more than the receipts, owing 
chiefly to a wet fair week. Merchants are 
contributing to make up the shortage. The 
State Agricultural Society is now over $50,000 
in debt; but the buildings, fixtures, etc., ou 
the fair grounds represent an outlay of $100.- 
000. The expenses of future fairs will not be 
so heavy.A Southern negro won’t eat 
a black sheep under any circumstances, aud 
the Southern wool-grower is talciug advant¬ 
age of this superstition to raise no other. 
.The number of florists iu the United 
States is put at 8,000, who produce 50,000,000 
plants yearly. It is estimated that, at least 24 
million rosos were grown in the Winter of 
1884-85.The New Orleans Picayune 
says that the sugar crop this year will be 
Bhort and sweet...An order was received 
by a firm in Gwinnett County, Georgia, a few 
days ago, for a ton of pennyroyal and night¬ 
shade, and the herbs were picked and shipped 
the same day.The Illinois Milk Con¬ 
densing Company, at Elgin, has contracted 
for its wiuter supply of milk for five months 
for $1 per can of 32 quarts, or cents per 
pound.The sparrow has not only lost 
caste abroad, but be is losing it at home. The 
country papers of England are filled with dis¬ 
cussion by farmers as to the best methods for 
his extermination.. Hog cholera has 
broken out at Pittsfield, Mass.The first 
car load of new corn was received at Cincin¬ 
nati on Monday, from Indiana, and sold at 
35 cents; fine quality.England is esti¬ 
mated to have lost from contagions lung 
plague, between 1842 and I860, 5,648,780 head 
of cattle, valued at $400,000,000. During the 
following nine years tbe loss is estimated at 
$1,000,000.Clothing wools amounting 
to 11,475,889 pounds, combing wool 3,780,751 
pounds, and carpet wools 56,330,530 pounds, 
were imported during the last fiscal year. 
The value, about $8,790,000, was $3,500,000 
less than that of 1884. There, were, however, 
4,000,000 pounds more of carpet wools im¬ 
ported this year than last... 
Marvelous Restorations. 
The cures which are being made by Drs. Star- 
key & Palen, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, iu 
Consumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, 
Rheumatism and all chronic, diseases, by 
their Compound Oxygen Treatment., are indeed 
marvelous. If yon are a sufferer from any 
disease which your physician has failed to cure, 
write for information about this treatment, 
and it will be promptly sent without charge. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, October 17. 1885. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly re¬ 
view of the British grain trade, says: Bad 
weather has materially affected samples of 
new wheat, aud has caused a demand for old 
red sorts, which have advanced Gd. The sales 
of English wheat during the week were 75,264 
qrs. at 30s 7d, against 73,368 qrs. at 32s 2d 
duriug tbe corresponding week last year. 
The market for foreign wheats continues to 
strengthen. Flour is more difficult to purchase, 
but is fid to Is dearer. American oats are 
firm. The supplyof whoatcargoes is restrict¬ 
ed; prices are fid higher; seven cargoes ar¬ 
rived. four cargoes were sold, four were with¬ 
drawn and three remained, including one of 
California. The market to-day was quiet 
but fair. English wheats were fid dearer; 
foreign were fid to Is dearer. Flour was 
steady aud occasionally 6d higher. B^ans 
were fully la dearer. Corn was firm. Bar¬ 
leys were quiet. Oats were steady. 
The crop report of tbe Department of Agri¬ 
culture for October, says: The high condition 
of cotton in June aud July was not maintained 
in August and September. Severe storms and 
excessive rains have prevailed, rust has des¬ 
troyed the foliage and worms have in jured the 
fruit worse than for several years. Another 
fall in the average of condition has occurred, 
from 87 on the 1st of September to 78. Tbe 
average in October in the census year was 81, 
and the ultimate yield four-tenths of a bale. 
This year the greatest decline is In the region 
of highest rate of yield, reducing the relative 
production. The Department estimates of in¬ 
crease of area since 1870 is 2fi per cent. 
The returns relate both to condition and to 
prospective yield per acre iu hundredths of a 
bale. The figures must not be considered 
final, as tbe date of killing frost and the 
autumn weather may easily cause a variation 
of 250,000 bales. Condition by States is as 
follows: Virginia, 78: North Carolina, 77; 
South Carolina, 70; Georgia. 87; Florida, 88; 
Alabama, 81; Mississippi, 8ft; Louisiana, 77; 
Texas, 78; Arkansas, 70; Tennessee, 74. 
Tbe expected yields, with average future 
conditions, are: Virginia. 32 one-hundreths of 
a bale; North Carolina, 38: South Carolina, 
35; Georgia, 35; Florida, 23; Alabama, 30; 
Mississippi. 41; Louisiana, 43; Texas, 38; Ar¬ 
kansas, 42; Tennessee. 35. Average 36% one- 
bundredths of a bale. It indicates 1.000,000 
bales more than tbe present crop, subject to 
future meteorological conditions. 
The corn crop is made with a verv little in¬ 
jury from frost, and with a yield slightly 
above an average. The general average of 
condition is the same as last month—05, a 
figure not attained in October since 1870. The 
yield per acre will be returned next month, 
but present indications point to fully 20% 
bushels per acre throughout the country. 
Nebraska stands highest. Only Wisconsin, 
Minnesota, Kansas, Virginia, North Caroliua. 
and the Pacific Const, fall below 90. 
The returns for wheat are on the basis of 
the yield per acre for the area harvested. 
The average Is about 10% bushels. It is only 
0 bushels on the area sown, which was 
nearly 40,000,000 acres. The area harvested 
is not precisely determined, but will probably 
not much exceed 34,000,000 acres. The States 
averaging 4 to 6 bushels are Virgiuia, the 
Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, 
Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky. 
Missouri returns 8 bushels, and Ohio, 8.1; 
Illinois, 0.2; California,9.5; Pennsylvania, 10; 
Indiana, 10.8; Iowa, 11.2; Minnesota and 
Maryland, 11.5; Wisconsin, 110; Texas re¬ 
ports 12.5, with a large area; New York and 
Oregon, 15.5; Michigan, 20, and Colorado, 
Montana, Utah, and Washington, 21 to 23 
bushels. 
The average yield of oats will be nearly 
28 bushels per acre, insuring a crop in ex¬ 
cess of 600,000,000 bushels. The rye average 
is 10 4 bushels; uearly 2 bushels short of the 
yield of 1S84. The average yield of barley 
will be about 22 bushels per acre. The con¬ 
dition of potatoes has seriously declined 
ou account of the prevalance of rot in New 
York and Michigan and elsewhere. The de¬ 
cline from the 1st of September was 11 points. 
Crop reports to The Times, Troy, N. Y.. in¬ 
cluding the counties about Troy, are given 
below. The averages are made in bushels for 
yield aud iu percentage for condition. These 
returns embrace 12 couuties—Reusselaer, 
Washington. Warren, Albany, Saratoga, 
Herkimer, Montgomery, Fulton, Dutchess, 
Greene, Schnectady and Columbia—and are 
for October 1, 1884, and 1885: 
1884. 1885. 
Wheat, overncr yield per acre.16.1 17. 
Wheat, average quality. 97.4 9<i. 
Rye, nverngc yield per acre. 12.8 16. 
Oats, average yield per acre.SI.4 28.3 
Oats, average quality. 92. 87. 
Barley, average yield opr acre. 25. 24.28 
Barley, average quality. 90. si.2 
Buckwheat average condition. 4s. sa.7 
Corn, avenue* condition ... 70.4 92.7 
Potatoes (Irlshl, nveraire condition_ 84.1 70.3 
Tobacco, average condition.100. 95. 
A dispatch from Auburn, N. Y.. says: Re¬ 
ports received from 15 counties in which large 
crops of potatoes are annually grown, show 
that nearlv one-half of this year’s crop will be 
destroyed by rot. These reports are from 
Tompkins, Tioga, Broome,Wayne. Onondaga, 
Monroe, Genessee, Seneca, Ontario, Oneida, 
Madison. Herkimer, Otsego. Montgomery, 
and Cayuga. The tubers rot rapidly iu aud 
out of the ground. In a few instances rare 
varities are reported as being exempt from 
destruction. Many fanners are plowing their 
potato fields and sowing wheat or rye, deem¬ 
ing the potatoes not worth digging. 
TnE buckwheat crop of this State and Penn, 
sylvania. is unusually heavy this season. 
Dealers in buckwheat flour io this city are all 
surprised at the unprecedented receipts of the 
month thus far. More than 1,500,000 pounds 
arrived here last week aud supplies are still 
coming at as full a rate. Prices have fallen 
from the opening of $3 to $3.20 per hundred 
pounds to $2 to $2.25. Some of the oldest 
dealers state that, they made no calculation on 
so large a tuniing out of flour, and nearlv all 
have bought liberally in the $3 region. Quo 
tations for this product have not been so low 
for many years, and it is likely that lots not 
contracted for will be diverted from this mar¬ 
ket until there is some recovery. The season 
is al ways a short one; the stock mainly leaves 
the farmers’ hands iu October and November, 
80,000 bags containing 100 and 125 pounds each 
have been for the last half dozen years deem¬ 
ed fully ample for consumption in this city 
and tbe immediate neighborhood. New-Eng- 
laud formerly helped piece out a shortage, but 
there will be no room for the fine milling of 
that section this Fall. 
Harvest storms and especially the recent 
gales have done much damage to the rice crop. 
Early in the season reports noted an increased 
acreage, especially in Louisiana, so that it was 
expected the present crop would exceed the 
last by fully 95 to 30 per cent. The expected 
increase, however, has been destroyed by the 
storms which, coming when the crop was 
quite ripe, thrashed out much of the grain, 
while the succeeding rains greatly injured 
what was left, rotting n good deal of it. 
Complaints on this head are numerous at the 
milling points. Much of what has been 
“dressed” was so soft that it has pounded up in 
tbe mortar and gone off into meal, aud much 
of tbe clean product is so badly broken that a 
considerable portion of it. has been screened 
out. although the clean bulk left is more 
broken than usual. A considerable part of 
the crop, too, has been swept out to sea and ia 
a total loss. Tbe est imates of tbe damage by 
tbe papers in the rice-growing sections vary 
grpatly, from 20 to 50 per cent. Conservative 
estimates, however, make this crop as large 
ns last—from 400.000 to 450 000 barrels, but 
the expectations of a large increase are cer¬ 
tainly blasted. 
The following are the receipts of winter 
wheat at, interior points for July, August and 
September, 1884 and 1885: 
Bushels. 
1R84. 27,185.001 
1835.11,760,000 
Decrease.15,425,000 
This shows the receipts of winter wheat for 
1885 t.o be but 42 per cent, of what they were 
for 1884, for three mouths. 
Here are the receipts of soring wheat at 
Chicago. Milwaukee, and Duluth for Septem¬ 
ber, 1884 and 1885: 
Bushels. 
1SS4.5,912.000 
1885. 4.402,000 
Decrease. ....1.511,000 
Or 74 per cent, in 1885 of the receipts in 1884. 
The receipts of wheat at interior points for 
the first 15 davsof October, 1885, as compared 
with 1884, both Spring and Winter, were: 
Bushels. 
1SR4.8,542 one 
1885.4,8SS,000 
Decrease.8,653,000 
Or 57 per cent, of last year’s receipts. 
There has often been a wide difference be¬ 
tween the statements of the “visible supply” 
of cereals made by tbe New York and Chicago 
Produce Exchanges, and this disagreement 
has been the cause of no little confusion 
and annoyance. As the grain in store at. St. 
Paul and Minneapolis is almost exclusively 
for milling purposes at the latter place, not 
more than eight per cent, of it having been 
shipped as grain within a number of vears, 
the New York Exchange has refused to 
include it in the “visible supply 1 ’ of marketable 
grain, while Chicago has always reckoned it in. 
There has also been a disagreement about 
counting the quantities on passage by lake and 
canak It is satisfactory therefore to learn 
that representatives of the two Exchanges 
have agreed on a uniform basis, except that 
New York may continue to omit some of the 
points inclnded in the estimates complied at, 
Chicago—St. Paul and Minneapolis, we sup¬ 
pose. 
Wheat advanced, on an average, two cents 
a bushel during the week, in spite of the fact 
that the last report of the Department of Ag¬ 
riculture thinks tbe wheat crop will'be over 
6,000,000 bushels more than the amount indi¬ 
cated in the previous report. The advance is 
mainly due to tbe higher prices offered by 
tbe Minneapolis millers, and also to the fact 
that while the visible supply in the United 
States is about 15,000,000 bushels heavier than 
it was a year ago the supplies “in sight” here 
and in the United Kingdom, and on passage 
♦o the latter, show a falling off* of over 82.000.- 
000 bushels in the movement of wheat, within 
the Inst, three months as compared with the 
like quarter in 1884. East Tndia farmers 
owing to the fall in silver, the enrrenov of 
British India, can make a profit of 2% cents a 
bushel on their wheat, and are rushing it to 
market: cargo room has already been en¬ 
gaged for 100,000 tons to be shipped before 
January 1. 
Cheese prospects in western New York are 
better, and the unusually dull season of 1885 
promises to dosu with u brighter outlook. 
The average price of cheese was never so low. 
The first six months of the season have uot 
netted the farmers over 5% cents a pound, 
deducting the expeuse of making and selling. 
A considerable number of factories in the 
“States” and Canada have discontinued mak¬ 
ing cheese owing to the low prices. Com¬ 
plaints of ruinously low prices are just as 
loud among cheese-makers in England. 
..A telegram ibis morning from Waterville. 
N. Y.. in the center of tbe “Kent of America,” 
savs bops are going up. One man has just 
sold Ih'r crop. 500 bales, at 10 cents per pound, 
the highest price paid this Fall. About four- 
fifths of the bops there are iu the hands of 
speculators anil brewers, and the former, it is 
said, will force tbe brewers to pav their 
prices, and bops are expected to advance 
ranidlv. It is stated that 14 cents have been 
offered in Cherry Vafiev. and 11 cents have 
beeu frequently refused at Sharon Springs 
and Cobleskifl. Most of the growers sold 
their hops at 7 cents to 8 cents. Some of the 
holders since 1882. who refused $1 a pound for 
their hops,have sold them this week for 4 cents! 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday, Oct. 17, 1885. 
Chicago.—C ompared with 'cash prices a 
week,ago,“regular” wheat is higher; No. 
