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MAY 30 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Urns of llj£ IXlcdi. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 33. 
The half breed rebellion in the Northwest 
Territory of the Dominion has collapsed after 
the defeat of the “rebs” by Gen. Middleton 
and the surrender of Riel. After all, this 
fellow seems a very ordinary sort of agitator 
—a half-crazy, superstitious man. Through¬ 
out many parts of the Dominion there is a 
great clamor for his execution as a rebel and 
traitor: the French Canadians, however, sym¬ 
pathize with him and their other kin, the 
half-breeds, and it is thought the Government 
will not go to extremes in his case. This 
being his second offense of the sort, will be 
against him. He surrendered by previous 
arrangement with Middleton, who sent out 
three scouts to guard him into camp, lest some 
too zealous soldier should end the trouble with 
his rifle. Riel is undoubtedly a naturalized 
American; but naturalization in this country 
confers no right to violate the laws of another. 
The latest report is that he will be turned over 
to the civil authorities for trial in the ordinary 
way. The turbulent halt-breeds have nearly all 
surrendered, and the rebellion is virtually 
over. This morning’s telegram announces 
that Poundtnaker, the hostile Indian Chief, 
has surrendered. Great indignation exists 
throughout the Northwest at some of the 
horrible atrocities perpetrated by Indians 
upon their prisoners, especially upon women ; 
and if a tithe of the tales is true, 
the hottest indignation is luke-warm. 
....Last Tuesday ''Prof .' 1 R. E. Odium, a 
swimming master from Washington, leaped 
from the Brooklyn Bridge, joining this city 
and Brooklyn, and died a few minutes after 
he had been picked up by friends waiting for 
him on the East River. The leap 135 feet 
high; man, 33 years old; unmarried and of 
good habits. He kept upright until within 30 
or 40 feet of the water, when he turned side- 
wise and struck on his side. The lower ribs 
on each side of his body were broken, and 
nearly all the internal organs ruptured or in¬ 
jured. Time of fall, 8}g seconds. .A call 
has been issued for a reunion of the represen¬ 
tative organizations of the soldiers of the 
United States, to be held in Philadelphia from 
June 38 to July 2f> ....... ...Geu. Sheridan’s 
injuries from the upsetting of bis carriage 
May 11, are proving more serious than at first 
supposed. Nothing dangerous, however, is 
anticipated...A terrible disease prevails 
all through the Seward Valley, in New York. 
It first attacked Samuel McRoberts, who died, 
and since then funerals occur daily about the 
town of Seward. The throat swells, the 
tongue is then paralyzed, the patient cannot 
eat, and subsequently he becomes double- 
sighted, No one has recovered from the dis¬ 
ease, which is very contagious. The epidemic 
at Plymouth, Pa., is slowly decreasing. 
The New York Tribune has paid $3,000 to 
satisfy Kenward Philp, whom it falsely 
charged with writing the Morey letter ...... 
Troops and Indian scouts are in pursuit of 
Geronimo and three other Cbirieahua Chiefs 
with the 50 bucks who left their reservation 
near Fort Apache, N. M., Sunday night for 
the south. Geronimo is the “bad Indian” 
who caused so much trouble id Mexico a year 
ago, and with whom Gen. Crook carried on 
the negotiations which resulted in return of 
his band to the reservation.The West 
is a big country. While one section wrestles 
with a flood or a cyclone, another suffers from 
a Legislature, or forest fires that sweep re¬ 
gions bigger then Rhode Island. The latest 
ravages are in the pineries of Northeast¬ 
ern Wisconsin, where villages are reported 
swept away, and in the lumber region about 
Saginaw, Mich .... .The net debt of the 
United States has now gone below $1,500,- 
000,000 for the first time since the war. 
Twenty years ago it was $3,700,000,000. No¬ 
body in those days expected to live to see it • 
extinguished .Ex-Secretary Frederick 
T. Frelinghuysen died Wednesday at 5:25 
p. m., at Lis home, in Newark, N. J. He did 
not recover consciousness, but passed away 
quietly in the stupor in which he has lain al¬ 
most throughout his entire illness.The 
Confederate Soldiers’ Home, near Richmond, 
Va., was opened formally Wednesday with 
appropriate ceremonies .Gen. Hazen, 
chief signal officer, has brought suit against 
George Jones, as editor and proprietor of the 
New York Times, for $100,000 damages on 
account of two articles: the first charges him 
with falsehood and incapacity, and holds 
him responsible for the failure of Lieut. Gar- 
lington’a expedition for Greeley’s relief; the 
second maintains that he strove to shift the 
blame for his own misconduct upon some 
other man’s shoulders, and that he is not a 
sensitive and honorable soldier. Hazenlpro- 
poses to prove the falsify of the chargee, in¬ 
stead, as is customary in libel cases, compelling 
the defendant to prove the truth of them. 
President White, of Cornell University says 
the season now closing has been the most 
successful in the annals of that institution, 
....The census of the District of Columbia 
just completed shows the total population is 
now 204,000, an increase of over 26,000 in the 
last five years.Secretary Whitney has 
appointed a board to investigate the repairs 
to the Mohican, at the Mare Island (Cal.) 
Navy Yard, which have cost nearly $000,000. 
The Secrectary declares that this sum is about 
three times the cost of a new vessel of the 
same class.No late news has come from 
the “boomers” who lately entered the Indian 
Territory for Oklahoma, as the heaviest rain 
known for years fell about a week ago through - 
out south-eastern Kansas and in the northern 
part of the Territory, and this has impeded 
travel. Several companies of troops have 
started to head off the adventurers.Frank 
Siddall Jr., sent the Bartholdi Statute Fund 
$25 on his 21st birthday, with the remark that 
he was glad he was an American citizen. 
.... Gen. Grant is still having progressive and 
retrograding spells—sometimes everything 
promises a speedy restoration to good health; 
but next day, there is prostration, swallowing 
is difficult, pains in the throat are severe, and 
it is evident the cancer is eating its way 
through the tissues. The sanguine still 
expect he will ultimately “be himself again;” 
others fear that the monster gnawing at his 
throat will finally throttle him. 
.... Last Tuesday, Jobn Alexander Logan, ex¬ 
general and ex-Vice-Presidential candidate, 
was elected to succeed himself in the U. S. 
Senate by the Legislature of Illinois, after 
one of the most stubborn contests on record, 
lasting between four and five months. Most 
of the time, the Legislature was evenly divided 
between the Republicans and Democrats, and 
when death gave one side or the other a tem¬ 
porary majority, there were in each party a 
few “kickers” in the Senate or House, who re¬ 
fused to support either Logan or Morrison, the 
nominees of the parties. Finally, the Re¬ 
publicans having cleverly elected one of their 
party in a strongly Democratic district, got a 
clear majority of the Legislature; the recal¬ 
citrant members were weedled or whipped 
into the party traces, and with a hurrah, 
“Black Jack” was elected. His success has 
given great satisfaction to Republican* every¬ 
where, and even Democrats say that if they 
were fated to be beaten, they prefer to be 
whipped by so bold and gallant an opponent. 
Logan’s splendid fight, and his admirable 
“staying” qualities may give him the first 
place on the ticket at the next Presidential 
election. 
An Extraordinary Case. 
An eminent lawyer of the city of New York, 
Hon. Jos. R. Flanders, formerly law-partner 
of ex-Vice President Wheeler, and for several 
years a member of the N. Y. State Legislature, 
was called upon by a Reporter at his well-ap¬ 
pointed office in “Temple Court,” and inter¬ 
viewed in regard to Compound Oxygen. “I 
found him,” says the Reporter “disposed to 
engage in conversation regarding his illness 
and his complete restoration to health.” His 
statement was substantially as follows: 
“For many years I suffered from weak di- 
f estion and the dyspepsia consequent npon it. 
Ly health since I was twunty-one yenrsof age 
was not at any time vigorous. Gradually J 
declined into a state of physical and nervous 
prostration, in which work became almost an 
impossibility. In 1379, I was all run down in 
strength and spirits. Energy and ambition 
had departed. 
“So I kept on until the summer of 1882. 
Then I went to Thousand Islands, where I 
stayed several weekg with friends Bat I found 
that the atmosphere did not agree with me. I 
came away feeling that the battle of life was 
nearly ended. The next time I saw my old 
law partner Vice President Wheeler he told me 
that the. Doctor had said to him that he never 
expected again to see me alive. When I arrived 
at home in September, it was iu sueh a state 
of exhaustion that I was uuable to leave the 
house except on mild days, and then only to 
walk slowly a block or two. 
“Meanwhile my sou bad learned something 
about Cotnpouud Oxygen, and wrote, urging 
me to try It. Bat I had lost all faith in reme¬ 
dies. I had tried many things and had no en¬ 
ergy to try any more. In September, how¬ 
ever my son came to New York and persuaded 
me to visit Dr. Turner, who is in charge of 
Drs. Starkey & Palen’s office iu New York. I 
went, not because I bad any faith in this 
Treatment, but to gratify my son’s kind im¬ 
portunity. When Dr, Tnrner examined my 
case, he thought 1 was so far gone that be 
hardly dared to express the faintest hope. 
“On the seventh of October 1 commenced 
taking Compound Oxygen. To my great sur¬ 
prise l began to feel better within a week In 
a month I improved so qrcally t hat I was able, 
to come to my office ana do some legal work. 
1 then came to the office regularly except in 
bad weather. On the nineteenth of December 
a law matter came into my hands. It was a 
complicated case, promising to give much 
trouole and require close attention. I had no 
ambition to take it, for I had no confidence in 
my ability to attend to it. I consented .however, 
to advise concerning it, and to do a little work, 
One complication after another arose. 1 kept 
working at it all winter and into the spring. 
For three months this case required as contin¬ 
uous thought and labor as I had ever bestow ul 
on any case in all my legal experience. Yet 
under the constant pressure and anxiety I grew 
stronger, taking Compound Oxygen all the 
time. In the spring, to my astonishment and 
that of my friends, I was as fit as ever for 
hard -work. 
“My present health is such that I can with¬ 
out hardship or undue exertion attend to the 
business of my profession as of old. My di¬ 
gestion is good, my sleep is as natural and 
easy as it ever was, and my appetite is as hearty 
as 1 could desire. 
“My confluence in the restorative power of 
Compound Oxygen Is complete as also it is iu 
the ability and integrity of Drs. Starkey & 
Palen, otherwise I should not allow my name 
to be used in this connection. I have thus free¬ 
ly mads mention of the history of my case as 
a duty I owe of rendering possible service to 
some who may be as greatly in need of phys¬ 
ical recuperation as I was ” 
Drs. STARLRY& Palen, 1109 and 1111 Gi¬ 
rard St., Philadelphia, will send free to any 
one who will write for it their Treatise on Com¬ 
pound Oxygen.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 23. 
The Hessian fly and army-worm are in the 
wheat in some parts of Illinois.Reports 
from various sections of Illinois indicate a half 
crop of wheat.Late rains in Oregon 
and Washington Territory, accompanied by 
warm weather, have assured an extraordinar¬ 
ily large wheat crop.The 17-year locusts 
have been found in large numbers near the 
surface of the ground in the neighborhood of 
Bridgeport, Ill., as predicted by Prof. Riley. 
....The largest single shipment of Percheron 
horses that ever arrived here, reached port 
last Saturday from France on the steamer 
Denmark. It consisted of 47 stallions and 62 
mares which had been bought by Edward 
Blewett, of Fremont, Neb., manager of the 
Oregon Horse and Land Company. Oue three- 
year-old stallion weighed within a pound of a 
ton. One stallion cost $3,800 ; all cost over 
$1,000 apiece; and the mares cost from $500 
to $1,200 each. They started last Monday for 
Baker County, Oregon, where the company 
has the largest horse ranch in America, if 
not in the world, branding this year about 
ll.OOfi animals. Most of the stallions will 
be turned out with the other stock, to run 
at large on the Government lauds. 
.... The Hereford bull Rudolph, valued at $40,- 
000, aud claimed to be the fiuest Hereford bull 
in the world, died on Monday night at Chey¬ 
enne, Wyoming, after an operation for re¬ 
moving a tumor weighing 65 pounds had been 
performed.A telegram from Topeka, 
Kansas, last Monday, says reports from 2,000 
counties show the wheat prospect in Iowa and 
Mississippi is 66 per cent, less than last year, 
in Nebraska 60 per cent., in Kansas 58 per 
cent.Western packers handled a total 
of 1,015,000 hogs from March 1 to May 1, 
against 775,000 a year ago, an increase of 240,- 
000. This gain is all covered by Chicago op¬ 
erations, where the packing was 250,000 in 
excess of last year at corresponding date.... 
....The folly of storing farm products when 
the price is already high enough is shown in 
the fact that a lot of 200 bales of hups of the 
year 1882, were lately sold at Sheriff's sale at 
Schenevus, N. Y., at five to seven cents per 
pound. The year they were harvested they 
would have sold for upwards of $1 a pouud. 
.Crop prospects in the far Northwest 
are excellent, and the Willamette Valley of 
Oregon will have 6,000,000 bushels of wheat 
for export, and the Walla Walla region of 
Oregon and Washington 6,500,000, an increase 
of 30 per cent, Late rains accompanied 
by warm weather have made farmers juDilant. 
........The first public wool sale that ever 
took place at iSt. Louis was made last week at 
the Peper cotton press. The offerings were 
50,000 pounds of Texas wool. The attendance 
was large, and bidders were preseut from Bos¬ 
ton and Philadelphia. The wool wus disposed 
of in three lots, 20,000 pounds at 18 cents a 
pound, 25,000 pounds at 16 cents, and 5,000 
pounds at 15>£ cents. The biddiug was spir¬ 
ited, and the sale was regarded as a success... 
.The Fourth Anuual Meetiug of the 
American South-Down Association will be held 
in the Leland Hotel, Springfield, 111., on the 
3d of June, 1885, at 7.30, v. m. South Down 
breeders and others in attendance at the Cen¬ 
tral Illinois series of sales on that day, are 
cordially invited to be present,.... 
Governor Pattison, of Penn., has approved 
an act passed by the Legislature prohibiting 
the manufacture or imitation butter in that 
State ... The “scare” about contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia is dying out in the West, but a 
salutary fear of the plague still remains. The 
ravages of the disease in Missouri are now 
said to be confined to 10 miles square in Cal¬ 
loway County. Illinois has raised the embargo 
on Missouri cattle; but qualified veterinarians 
must certify to the soundness of those from 
certain districts. 
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CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, May 23. 
The weather throughout the United King¬ 
dom has not been very favorable to the 
grain crops, having been wet and cool. Prices 
of breadstuff's have been woak and lower not¬ 
withstanding, owiDg to heavy imports and 
deliveries, in the face of moderate request. 
The continued unfavorable weather is likely 
to have a bad effect on all grain crops. 
On the Continent the weather generally has 
been favorable to the growing crops. The 
prospects are good in France, but reduced 
stocks in French ports have strengthened their 
prices some. In South Russia the promise for 
a harvest is for a very moderate one, the 
drought being continuous and damaging. 
Shipments from Black Sea ports have been 
brisk. Cronstadt is reported to be closed to 
foreign vessels. Rain is wanted in several 
central Continental countries, and advancing 
rates have been quoted of late in Belgium, 
Holland and Germany. The London Miller is 
of the opinion that Iudia, after reaping an ex¬ 
cellent wheat crop, will ship freely, but will 
expect an advance as corapurod with 1883 and 
1884, Indian shipments during the first four 
months of the present year are not yet known 
with accuracy, but they are estimated to be 
double the shipments of the first four months 
of the preceding year, 1S84. Australian ex¬ 
ports for the first three months of 1885 are 
estimated to have amounted to less than 5,600, 
009 bushels (wheat aud flour.) 
Occasional storms and rain fall have re¬ 
tarded vegetation, says a leading Liverpool 
graiD circular. The wheat crop in the 
ground has suffered in strength and appear¬ 
ance, and the period of harvest will be several 
weeks backward. Trade is very dull. In the 
country markets, prices are one and two 
shillings lower on the week. 
At Chicago, receipts of cattle, hogs and 
sheep continue to keep in excess of those at 
corresponding dates last year, and sales, of 
course, are made at notably lower prices. The 
quality of the stock has of late been reported 
as improving. At Chicago, 14 hog packing 
establishments are said to be in operation. 
From March 1 to last week, the packing at 
Chicago amounted to 697,000 hogs, as com¬ 
pared with 441,000 head for the same time in 
18S4, aud 425,000 in 1883. In the entire West, 
the season’s packing so far reached 1,155,000 
hogs, against 955,000 head a year ago. The 
record was ahead of that of last year at Kan¬ 
sas City, Milwaukee, Cedar Rapids, and at 
Cleveland, and behind at St. Louis, Cincinnati 
and Indianapolis. 
A decidedly weak market has ruled in 
butter. The supplies continue to arrive in a 
fairly full proportion. With a light home and 
export demand, prices are at the reduction in 
favor of sellers. 
The market for cheese has been against the 
producer all the week, and the lowest price 
recorded for many years has been made. The 
drop on the week has been quite a ceut, and 
the demand from exporters at this figure was 
auything but satisfactory. A better felling, 
however, was evident at the close of the mar¬ 
ket. No better reports from Canada, and the 
producers there have sent large supplies to 
Liverpool on consignment. 
A Chicago item states that the reports of 
the McCormick reaper agents give much 
worse accounts of the condition of winter 
wheat than a month ago. They do not indi¬ 
cate a total yield of over about $200,009,000 
bushels of winter wheat in all the States and 
Territories. 
Other crop reports from the winter-wheat 
region continue unfavorable. The Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture has just tele¬ 
graphed to this city that his reports indicate 
a shortage of 117,000,000 bushels of winter 
wheat. The specials from Washington Terri¬ 
tory and Oregon point to a gain of 4,000,000 
bushels as compared with last year, aud there 
is now no known reason for believing that 
the total spring and Pacific coast wheat crops 
will fall much, if any, behind 1884. In that 
event the outlook for the aggregate of wheat 
this year is 396,000,000 bushels. It may run 
below this, and it is equally possible that the 
total may be larger. There are too many 
uncertainties at present for a definite forecast. 
No. 2. red wheat at- New York closed at 
$1.04j^ last night, against $1.04Ji a w eek ago. 
Indian corn receipts West are unexpectedly 
light, and visible supplies are small, yet prices 
do not advance, so confident is general belief 
that interior supplies are considerable. No. 
2 mixed closed at 55 ’4 cents, against 55 cents 
a week ago. Hog products have been very 
dull. Speculation therein is almost at a 
standstill. Stocks are ample aud demand 
light. Dairy products have again shrunk 
considerably aud close slightly more active. 
The speculative market for hog products 
has been very quiet, the only business doing 
being of a scalping variety. At New York 
the movement of quotations was hardly 
worthy of note. At the West the gains of 
oue day, small enough of themselves, have 
represented the next day’s loss. Packers 
generally have been firm holders. Europe 
