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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. JUNE 6 
furors of tl)c TtVck. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 30. 
Gov. Pierce, of Dakota, has received a 
letter from President Cleveland, regretting 
the necessity of enforcing the executive order 
for vacating the Winnebago Reservation, and 
he (the Governor) asks the settlers as a favor 
that they observe the provisions of the same, 
so as to prevent trouble. Between 3,000 and 
4,000 settlers who took up land prematurely 
in the Reservation will be dispossessed. Much 
discontent and loud grumbling, with threats 
of resistance.. At Blackf oot, Idaho, 
Bishop Stuart and four other Mormons, who 
pleaded guilty of polygamous practices, were 
each fined *300 and sentenced to four months’ 
imprisonment Saturday. These are the first 
convictions in the Territory.. 
_Siuee the first of last October, there have 
been 2,039 deaths from pneumonia in this city. 
This is the largest number of deaths from auy 
one cause, except consumption, during that 
period.The French frigate, Is<5re, bear¬ 
ing the Statue of Liberty, left Rouen last 
week, and is expected to arrive at this port 
about the 10th prox.The assets and 
liabilities of James R. Osgood & Co,, of Bos¬ 
ton, are respectively *100,000 and *170,000.... 
.It is not denied that the illness and death 
of Secretary Frelinghuysen were owing to 
a quantity of aconite that, in some unaccount¬ 
able manner, was bottled with mineral water 
that he drank.The American Bible 
Society reports that during the past year, 
1,548,175 Bibles and Testaments had been 
issued, of which, 508,719 were circulated in 
foreign lauds. The total issues of the society 
number 44,440,206 volumes. The cost of trans¬ 
lating, publishing and distributing the Scrip¬ 
tures during the past year amounted to $142,- 
292.There may be more fighting in the 
Northwest between the Canadian troops and 
the Indians, but it does not seem probable. 
Poundmaker, with his chief counsellors, is a 
prisoner; and 240 of his followers, who sur¬ 
rendered to Gen. Middleton with him, have 
been allowed to return to their reservations, 
where they will not be molested as long as 
they behave themselves well. Iudians who 
killed settlers are held as prisoners So long 
as Poundmaker was in arms, the other chiefs 
naturally felt brave, and there was serious 
danger of a general uprising. But the capture 
of Poundmaker has had a discouraging effect 
upon them, and they have all surrendered but 
Big Bear. General Middleton expect® him to 
give up as soon as he hears of the failure of 
Poundmaker’s schemes. There has not been 
much of a chance for great generalship in this 
campaign, but good luck has attended most of 
General Middleton’s movements, and he will 
doubtless soon be home again to enjoy his 
laurels. Riel is a “white elephant.” on the 
Government’s hands. Nearly all the people, 
except the French Canadians, are in favor of 
hanging him;the latter, however, are strongly 
opposed to this; and if it is done, there will be 
trouble, resulting probably in the overthrow 
of the Macdonald Government. His late de¬ 
nunciations of the priests may, however, 
change the opinions of bis compatriots.. .... 
... .Mr. Veazey, the new Postmaster of Balti¬ 
more, declares that be will appoint no lady 
clerks during bis administration, and that the 
places of the three ladies now employed will 
be filled as soon as possible by persons of the 
other sex ...Snyder, a New York pensioner, 
who on Tuesday went to the Commissioner of 
Pensions and offered to relinquish his pension 
of $72 a month, turns out to be insane. A 
pensioner must be a lunatic to do such an un¬ 
heard of thing!.The condition of Gen. 
Grant is still favorable; but the opinions of 
his physicians, that the relief is only tempor¬ 
ary, remain unchanged. He takes a good deal 
of carriage exercise nearly every day; and a 
little walking exercise now and then. 
....Two Judges of Kansas have already de¬ 
cided an important section of the Prohibitory 
Law of that State to be unconstitutional; but 
now comes another Judge, who declares the 
same section to be constitutional!. 
_The high-license liquor bill was killed in 
the Pennsylvania Assembly Tuesday. 
Lincoln’s monument at Springfield, Ill,, is 
said to be sadly decayed and in great need of 
repairs.During the year ending May 
1 there were distributed in the United States 
78,245,612 pounds of tea, 80 per cent, of which 
went through the port of New York. Not 
one pound received at New York came on a 
ship flying the American flag.The 
debt of the State of Ohio on May 15, 1885, 
was $4,070,229,19 .The contention over 
the disposition of the estate of the late Wilbur 
F. Storey, of the Chicago Times, is made more 
interesting by the reappearance of his di¬ 
vorced wife for the express purpose of getting 
a share beforelit is too late. She is believed 
to have some sort of claim, but the exact na¬ 
ture of it is not known.Yielding to the 
demands of the labor organizations, the Leg 
islature of New Jersey has abolished the con¬ 
tract plan of labor in the State Penitentiary, 
and substituted the piece-price system. Under 
the old style the penitentiary was more than 
soft-supporting.The Governor of Penn¬ 
sylvania has approved the act prohibiting the 
manufacture and sale of imitation butter in 
that State.Geronimo’s Apache Indian 
renegades are making for Sonora. Mexico, 
marking their course along the Gila River 
with murder and all sorts of outrages. The 
troops are in close pursuit, and a battle is ex¬ 
pected at auy moment.The Queen’s 
birthday was on Monday celebrated through¬ 
out Canada as a holiday.The Niagara 
Park Commissioners have appointed V. Welch 
Assistant Secretary, with power to look after 
the interests of the State until a Superinten¬ 
dent is appoiuted. The Comptroller expects 
to be at the Falls between July 10 and 15 to 
pay for land taken. The expectation now is 
that the Park will be opened to the public 
about July 15 with appropriate services. 
....Among the western cities, Chicago ex¬ 
pended the most in new buildings last year, 
the sum aggregating $20,689,600. Minneapolis 
comes next with $7,621,000; St, Paul, $7,206,- 
000; St. Louis, $6,764,791; Kansas City. $6,- 
680,600: Omaha. $4,170,400; Detroit, $3,676,227, 
and Milwaukee, $3,062,631. No others reached 
$3.000,000.The national Democratic 
Committee is in debt over $20,000 ... The 
two cents which were missed in the count of 
the cash in the United States Treasury were 
discovered in the recount which disclosed the 
error.The receipts of the greatest day 
of the Centennial were $118,673, while the best 
day of the New Orleans Exposition has brought 
only $ll,000.hardly more than half the average 
daily receipts in Philadelphia .Harry 
A. Garfield, son of tho late President, has ac¬ 
cepted a position as teacher in St. Paul’s 
School, Concord, N. H.Mr. Henry 
Bergh, the humanitarian, wants a law passed 
making it a felony for young people to get 
married before the age of 25, and he would 
have clergymen scourged who marry young 
people with no visible means of support. 
....A combination of speculators is in Wash¬ 
ington, trying to persuade the Government 
to buy Cuba for $150,000,000.... 
New Mexico gets a resident Governor in Ed¬ 
mund G. Ross, formerly United States Sena 
tor from Kansas. He was a printer and 
editor in Wisconsin; moved to Kansas in 
1856, where he shared actively in local affairs, 
entered the war as a private and came out a 
major; and then, in 1866, when an editor at 
Lawrence, he was appoiuted to serve out 
James H. Lane’s term in the United States 
Senate. After his term expired in 1871, Ross 
became foreman of a printing establishment 
in Lawrence, and subsequently removed to 
New Mexico.The Postmaster-General 
has awarded to the American Bank Note 
Company of New York, the contract for fur¬ 
nishing postage stamps for the next four 
years at $101,516 a year for the ordinary 
stamps (which will be printed entirely by 
steam) and $2,442 for postage due and other 
issues of stamps, making a total of $103,959 a 
year. The price paid for ordinary stamps 
under the new contract will be 6.99 
cents per thousand, as against 9.19 cents un¬ 
der the present contract. Nearly 4,000,000,000 
stamps are required annually.. 
A general strike, June 1, of the Pittsburg 
iron-workers now seems inevitable. Both sides 
appear determined to hold out, and a bitter 
straggle is anticipated. If the mills close 
down nearly 100,000 men will be thrown out 
of employment.A vast grave-yard in¬ 
surance company, known as the Bloomington 
Mutual Insurance Company, in which a num¬ 
ber of prominent citizens of Metropolis, Ill , 
are implicated, is said to have been unearthed. 
Many losses have been paid by the victimized 
companies on certificates ascertained to have 
been fraudulent or forged, and the total pro¬ 
fits made by the conspirators are said to ex¬ 
ceed $20,000, while the total amount of fraud¬ 
ulent insurance they obtained does not fall 
shore of $100,000 .The commercial con¬ 
vention in seseiou at Atlanta, Ga., sat down 
upon the continued coinage of silver last week, 
the motion in its favor l>emg overwhelmingly 
defeated. This action is very important, as 
the South has been disposed to take the Colo¬ 
rado view of the question. The convention 
has also done a goad stroke to strengthen the 
Southern opinion in favor of a bankruptcy 
law.The Inman Steamship Company 
announces that Sts New York office will be 
discontinued from June 1. Its New York 
husiness will be continued by Peter Wright & 
Co., agents of the Red Star line, A series of 
misfortunes for many years past, and the 
present dullness and competition between 
transatlantic steamship lines, make this step 
necessary..Gen. Mahone’s Washington 
friends claim that he secured an intimation in 
advance, of what the decision of the Supreme 
Court on the Virginia bond cases would be, 
and that he “bought for a rise,” and cleared 
$50,000.. ... The Commercial Commission 
constituted by Congress to examine into the 
trade relations of the United States aud Cen¬ 
tral and South America, has now dwindled 
down to one—Mr. Thaober, who, with a 
secretary, has visited Peru and is now in 
Chili.Mias Cleveland has returned to 
Washington as quietly as she went away, aud 
the President will decline to admit to the 
White House the correspondents who manu¬ 
factured stories of a quarrel between him and 
his sister.Senator Edmunds has been 
unexpectedly summoned to testify on points 
in American law before the Euglish House of 
Lords, aud will sail to-day....Since March 4th 
2.300 federal appointments have been made. 
Democrats in nearly evpry case succeeding Re¬ 
publicans. . ..The New York Legislature passed 
the Census Bill again last week, in substantially 
the same form as wbeu vetoed by Governor 
Hill, and adjourned without delay. Governor 
Hill vetoed the bill again this week. Public 
opinion seems divided as to whether the Gov¬ 
ernor has helped or hurt himself by the veto. 
Had he signed the bill the Democrats would 
have gained two Senators and four or five 
Assemblymen in the Legislature; therefore 
many of the Democratic mauagers nre blam¬ 
ing him for his action. The Republicans are 
jubilant, as there is discord among the Demo¬ 
crats, and there can ha no gerrymandering of 
the State uuder a new apportionment. 
When Michigan, two years ago, authorized 
the probate of wills during the life of the tes¬ 
tator, the experiment awakened considerable 
interest. The Supreme Court of the State 
throws the law overhoard, on the ground that 
it gives the wife no opportunity to be heard 
as to the disposition of property, in which she 
has vital rights ........Justice Miller, of the 
U. S. Supreme Court, has decided that the 
proper person to whom to deliver a telegraph 
dispatch to a business man, when be is out of 
town, is to his wife at home. The case came 
up in Do* Moines, Iowa.Lieutenant- 
General Sheridan has returned to Washington 
from his western trip.The annual report 
of the Pacific Mail Steamship company shows 
net earnings $1,617,000. 
A Wonderful Substance. 
The results which are attending the ad¬ 
ministration bv Dr«. Starkey & Paleu, 1100 
Girard St., Philadelphia, of their Compound 
Oxygen for Chronic diseases, give surprise to 
both patients aud physicians every day. Noth¬ 
ing like these result® has heretofore been 
known in the treatment of disease. If you 
have any ailment about which you are con¬ 
cerned. write to them for information about 
their new Treatment and it will be promptly 
furnished.— Ado. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 30. 
Horse raising is a rapidly growing indus¬ 
try in Montana. The pasturage is excellent 
and the thin air increases the animol’s lung 
capacity. Breeders are using finely bred stal- 
lions.and they confidently expect that in a few 
years the Blue Grass region will have a form¬ 
idable rival iu the Bunch Grass plains. 
The first arrival of grain from Buffalo this 
season via canal, reached this port last week 
by three steamers aud their consorts, having 
45,000 bushels...Locusts are discovered 
in thousands, and in an almost matured state, 
in the newly-plowed fields about Marshall, Ill. 
.... Owing to drought, the Kentucky tobacco 
crop is 30 days behind, and several planters 
are putting in corn.Pleuro-pneumonia 
has broken out afresh among the herds iu the 
Brandywine and Christiana districts, Dela¬ 
ware.The rapid fruit traiu to Chicago 
from Chattanooga, via Nashville, has boen 
abandoned. The rates were $1.50 only per 
crate, but when it came to the test, the grow¬ 
ers became afraid of slow time, and the entire 
shipment—2,295 crates, or five car-loads of 
strawberries—was sent by express. Some 
members of the fruit men’s committee on 
transportation were the first to fly the con¬ 
tract ... ...An anti-oleomargarine bill passed 
the Illinois Senate, Thursday, providing a 
penalty of from $25 to $200 for each violation. 
. ...The Cincinnati Price Current of yesterday, 
one of the best “authorities” on the hog busi¬ 
ness, says: Liberal receipts of hogs were 
expected for this week, and the supply has 
been fully up to tho expectations, showing 
considerable gain over the preceding week. 
Our returns indicate a total of 210,000 hogs 
handled during the week by Western packers. 
From March 1 to date the total is 1,520.000 
hogs compared with 1.265,006 last year. With 
the increased supply there has been a marked 
decline in values, amounting to 25 to 30 cent*. 
Hogs packed at the following points since 
March 1 are: Chicago, 865,000; Kansas City, 
235,015; St. Louis, 68,000; Cincinnati, 40,500; 
Indianapolis, 34,500; Milwaukee, 74,500; Cedar 
liapids, 58,700 ^[Cleveland, 37,500 ^Ottumwa, 
owa, 13,360: Sioux City, Iowa. 13,670; Keo¬ 
kuk, Iowa, 14,150; St. Joseph, Mo., 3,000. 
... Millions of young grasshoppers are re¬ 
ported coming out of the sandy soil on the 
south side of the Arkausas River, above Pueb¬ 
lo, devouring earlv vegetables and tender 
shrubs. Their appearance is said to be simi¬ 
lar to that of 1872. when they were swept east 
bv winds, and consumed an immense amouut 
of growing crops in Kansas. The pests are 
also appearing in great numbers at German¬ 
town. Pa., and ranking the trees resonant 
with their cries of “Pharoab ” The “W” 
upon their backs portends war to the super¬ 
stitious. The 13-year locust®, duo also this 
year, have not yet been reported from any¬ 
where. The last time these two kinds of 
locusts appeared together was in 1664. 
Russian flour, equal in quality to that made 
from choice Minnesota spring wheat, is 
offered for delivery in New York at $6 per 
barrel.The leading fruit growers of 
the Hudson River Valley estimate that, with 
the exception of peaches, the yield of small 
fruits will be one of the largest and best in 
many years. The peach crop is reported as 
nearly a total failure. The yield of grapes 
promises to bo enormous, especially Concords. 
_Oil of peppermint is a favorite article of 
speculation in Wavue County, New York, 
where the plant is largely grown, and a recent 
and unusual shrinkage in price has filled many 
people with alarm. A few weeks ago the 
price was $4.05 and $4.85 a pound, and now it 
is only $3.50 to $3.60. Scores of people in the 
county purchased large quantities of the oi 
as a speculation, expecting a rise to $8 or $10 
a pound.In the vicinity of Lake Prov¬ 
idence, La., the 17-year locusts have appeared 
in great, numbers. Thus far crops have not 
been injured. They have also startled the 
grounds of the Smithsonian Institute, 
Washington. D. C.American cattle 
are steady in Liverpool, at 11cents for best. 
..The exports of live stock and dressed 
meats from the port of Roston for the English 
markets, last week, were 1.084 cattle and 230 
quarters of beef .Exports from New 
York last week included 2,550 live cattle. 
8,020 quarters of beef and 1,550 carcasses of 
mutton. 
Prof. Homford** linking Powder 
contains no in juriou« ingredients, but is health¬ 
ful and nutritious.— Adv. 
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. 
Saturday. May 30. 1885. 
Chicago. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, “regular” wheat is 31-/0. lower; No 
2 Spring. 5%c. lower; No. 2 Red 1c. lower; 
Corn. l%c. lower. Oats. ?/c. lower. Pork. 
65c. lower. Cattle, a trifle higher on most 
grades Hogs, from 20c. to 45c lower. Sheep, 
from 5o. to 25c, lower. 
Wheat. — Active- Sales reused: May. 85ihi®8«yc; 
June. 8«Vij®S7!4c: July. No. 3 Spring. *W<;® 
SVMc: No 3 do, 75m®7fio: No. 2 Red. 95e - No. S 
Red, H4(a«r»c. Corn—S ales mused; Cash, 4«i*®4fi$<c: 
May. 4AW®47e: June. 45V$0k4fle; July. 45a<;®4fiKc. 
Oats -Sales reused: Cash- 88<iMSt£e,- Mav, 32V£® 
83cr June, M2li<asSe Rye— No. 1, al 7ne Barley 
— No 9, nt «4®«!te Pork.—A ctive. Cnali. *10 50® 
ainfUVi- Mav, *40 «fl®10 MW* June. *10 50®10 70: .Tulv, 
*10 Attain sn<, Laud.—Q illet. Sales ranged Cash, 
*M7\4®«5?W- May, «* 17 u.-«b.v." v : .Tune, 
JulV. «fi 536*1 BlitKMEATS.— Shoulders, *391® 
4 00- Slinrt. Rth. *5 S’U®'. 3*.; Short Clear, go®5<>5. 
CATTUt-rcxnorte. US Wt cows and mixed, *9 45 
®s AO • Stockers. $S5a®l75- feeders. $4 45®*4 75: 
Texan*. #H7l5®4fi0. TTooa — Rough mixed, $8 «ttaa 85; 
packing aud shipping, *3*5®®4.00: light. $T7B®4 05: 
skins. •3.®3 80. SinrEP—Market lower. Inferior. 
•2 Via.3 7.7: medium. $3 50(64 50; good, *4 80: choice, 
• 4 SO. 
St. Louis. —Compared with cash prices a 
week ago, No. 2 red wheat is 8c lower. Corn 
21/c- lower. Oats, 2%c, lower. Pork, 25c. 
lower. Cattle, steady. Sheep, steady. 
Wheat.—N o. 2 Red, cash, $103; May $103: June, 
$1021/ July. $H>3V. Corn.—D ull- Cash, 44*/>® 
4Ha'c: May, 444Ae-June,417xc- July,44760. Oat*—D ull 
Cash, WiWrv May. 3?S<C; Jllue, 3*lc. Rvk, lower at 74c. 
UARI.EV—Steady at 50®70r, Kofis, firmer at O'-paiOc. 
Ki.axhkkd— steady at *t.vs Br an lower at 5fi®57V6o. 
Pork. «ii ffUi. Rin.mntATS—Long clear •'ll- short 
rfii. 70: short clear, 03.90. I.AttI> Ktrm at *5 V) 
fflfi r.v Cattle Market firm. Kxports. V>*<5<»5 85; 
good to choice ahloplue. $4 USAS NO- fair to medium, 
(tTMT-4 r .O Texans. $( AO$M *0 SHItHI- -Common to 
medium. *2ooa>2 7V. fair to choice, ri Y>®4 Ml Hoos 
—Light, $3 854*8 70; parking, $8 59(33 75; heavy. $3 85 
m os. 
Boston Grain— Corn In good demand and prices 
are steady. Steamer Yellow at HSU/»fi!lo.: Stenm»r 
Mixed at 5S®5ta*<5i High mixed, 59W®Aflc. n nd No 
Grade, ut *'5<*i57p per lmslml Oats - Steady • 
sales of No. 1 white and barley at I'HgfcMo. No. 9 
white. 47<a47l<c: No. '< and of mixed at 
44U.' t t*ic. oer bushel Kvv. -Small sale* at on 398". per 
bushel. IUui.kv - Canada West No. 1 choice extra 
light. iWIMMlr No. 1 do. 8v»8*c • No 9 rj». 7A®8tt>: 
six rowed State. 70®79e and two rowed do, «t so® 
use. BltAN At ••*. * ton Tor Spring, aud $11 5fV*s 17 for 
Winter. Klne Petal and MIddllug*. at $11f»90. »n<l 
Cotton Keed Meal. *91.75 w ton to nrrlvr. and *27 50 
<39*. on the Spot. PnontlOS,—N kW Rotter—N orthern 
ereamery Sl<*$2o, oer It, for extra’ 18»20c, for 
good to choice : Northern dairy New York nnd 
Vermont choice to extra. fair to good. 12® 
KSc: common. 9f»1tc. oer a- Western creamery, 21® 
22o, for extra; 18®<9o. for choice: 1 valla, for com¬ 
mon to good • Imitation creamery, 1S®14c for 
choice: choice ladle packed. It/SMJo per ft>: fair to 
good. *® 10 O' choice dairy 14°MlkV fair to good do, 
ut 12® 18c oer pound. Ot.p Hotter- Common to 
choice. itt«l?c. low grades. 7®9c. CnEESE— New, 
choice full cream *<$(*•• fair to good, 1 *7o- skims. 
V«4r: old Northern extrn 1<>e: mval to choice, 8®9c- 
common to fair l®> Western choice. 8®9c- fair 
t a good (k»7i- coin man. 8<$5e. per It Enus-Fresh 
Cape 15c Eastern. 1 New York and Vermont. 13hi® 
14c* Western, 1S*14c provincial. !2®1Hc. TIKANS— 
fjholoi' hitttd picket) pea *1 *5® I 75 p hi!,- large do, do, 
$1 55® 1 SO: medium, choice. $t.55®i.so- do, screened, 
*1 30®1 40: yellow eves, Improved, $1 95®2- Red kld- 
noys.SI 95®2. Canada peas,IK>e(3*l 15 V bushel for com¬ 
mon to choice. Green Peas. $1 15(16150. Potatoes— 
i Eastern, Wttftlio; NorUiuag, 
