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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
JUNE 27 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 20. 
Last Tuesday, at 9am., Gen. Grant, with 
his family, started from this city for Mount 
McGregor, in Vanderbilt’s special car on a 
special train. The place is 11 miles north of 
Saratoga. N. Y., and the old hero is domiciled 
in the “cottage” of Joseph W. Drexel, the 
banker. There’s a fine view of the Adiron- 
dacks and the Catskills as welias of the Hud¬ 
son Valley; BDd the house is splendidly 
furnished. Grant arrived at 2:40 p.M , and 
was less fatigued than was expected. The re¬ 
moval was due to his inability to sleep and 
weakness, owing to the hot weather here. On 
Wednesday a reaction set in, and he became 
very feeble aud despondent. A great swell¬ 
ing on the right side of his neck is on a line 
with bis eai\ For a week he has been unable 
to speak, though he has been able to more 
about a little. All that is hoped is that his 
life may be prolonged for a time. A perman¬ 
ent cure is no longer hoped for even by the 
most sanguine. Late telegrams say he 
is much easier and resting somewhat better.. 
...Sir John Macdonald, in the Dominion 
House of Parliament, said last Tuesday, that 
there was a strong hope that negotiations 
would soon take place between Canada and 
this country, not only with regard to the fish¬ 
eries, of paramount interest to Nova Scotians; 
but also for the revival of the reciprocity 
treaty. Cheers!_TbeCbippewayan Indians 
have surrendered near Fort Pit, Northwest 
Territory; but Big Bear is still “on the war 
path.”.As a debt of nearly 1200.000 ex¬ 
isted in the Mission Boards of the Presbyte¬ 
rian Church on May 1, the General Assembly 
recommended that “every church take a spec¬ 
ial collection, or adopt such other measures as 
shall seem best in each case to cancel the debt.” 
_In the N H. House last Tuesday, a reso¬ 
lution, which was concurred in by the Senate, 
thanking Congress for forfeiting the Texas 
Pacific Railroad unearned grant, was adopted, 
with an amendment thanking the members of 
the New Hamsbire delegation who voted in 
favor of the motion.. .The iron-workers* 
strike at Pittsburg, Pa., came to an end on 
Tuesday. The scale of wages of the amalga¬ 
mated laboring societies was signed by the 
manufacturers, with the exception of the 
price for working up old rail and sheet iron. 
There was a break in the Manufacturers' As¬ 
sociation an hour before a settlement was 
reacted, and the Cincinnati, Wheeling, 
Mahoning Valley and Chenango Valley man 
ufacturers on the Wage Committee withdrew 
from the conference. They positively refused 
to accept anything but the scale presented by 
the manufacturers on Saturday..The 
French transport Isfere, which saile 1 from 
Rouen May 21 with the Bartholdi statue of 
Liberty Enlightening the World, arrived at 
Faval on June 2, and reached this port on 
Wednesday last, June 17.President 
White, of Cornell University, intends to re¬ 
sign on account of ill health..Roscoe 
Conkling sails for Europe to-day. Smce his 
retirement from the Senate four years ago, 
he has attended so diligently to his law prac¬ 
tice. that his doctor has advised him to take 
absolute rest. He will go for three weeks to 
Carlsbad for the waters.. .. 
The old Liberty Bell has come back to Phil¬ 
adelphia from New Orleans, accompanied by 
an escort consisting of the Mayor, members 
of the Common Council, the Continental 
Guard and a fire company. An appropriation 
of $5,000 to pay for the junketing trip was 
made; but one of the courts forbade its use. 
Then they found they conld get along on 
$2,500 raised by subscription........ The idea 
of reopening the Exposition in the Fall is still 
popular in the Crescent City; but although 
exhibitors promise to show up there again, all 
are busy taking their goods away. Only 
about one-third of the inhabitants of New Or¬ 
leans took the trouble to visit the Grandest 
Show on Earth at their very doors. 
Channcev M. Depew, long the chief lawyer of 
the Vanderbilt system of railroads, has been 
appointed President of the Hudson River and 
New York Central Railroad, to succeed Mr. 
Rutter, who died early in the week. Depew 
is already a millionaire.The report that 
the President will stop seeing office-seeking 
visitors after July 1, is officially contradicted. 
The President will continue throughout the 
Summer to see and devote as much time a» 
possible to his callers.It is asserted 
that Gen. G. W. C Lee, President of Wash¬ 
ington and Lee University, has tendered his 
resignation on account of ill health. He suc¬ 
ceeded bis father, Gen. R. E. Lee, as Presi¬ 
dent of the University.Judge J. B. 
Foraker has been nominated by the Republi¬ 
cans for Governor of Ohio.Judge 
McCue, Solicitor of the United States Trea¬ 
sury, ha* given an opinion that shadines or 
herrings, caught in Canadian waters by 
American fishermen, in boats of less than five 
tons burden, can be admitted to the United 
States free of duty. The last chapter in 
the Star Route cases has doubtless been 
reached by tbe failure of the civil suits brought 
in Topeka, Ran., to recover money from the 
Parkers. The cases included the notorious 
route from Vioita, Indian Territory, to Las 
Vegas, New Mexico, where tbe pay of the 
contractors was raised by Brady, within nine 
months, from $6,830 annually to $150,501, 
The total amount estimated by the prosecu¬ 
tion as unlawfully taken from the Govern¬ 
ment by this route was $179,340, As the jury 
decided in favor of the accused, to try other 
cases would be hopeless. What a bonanza 
this whole Star Route business has been to the 
lawyers—nearly as great a one as to tbe con¬ 
tractors ... In nearly all the cases where Mor¬ 
mons have been convicted of polygamy re¬ 
cently, the chief witness has been the second 
or third wife, and not the first... 
North Carolina has lately passed an act con¬ 
ferring pensions on wounded Confederate 
soldiers. Union men are grumbling at hav¬ 
ing to contribute... 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 20. 
The American Institute having rented 
and moved into new quarters, tbe Farm¬ 
ers’ Club connected therewith took oc¬ 
casion to celebrate the event by bolding a 
strawberry and flower show on the 18th and 
19th of the present month. Owing to the dis¬ 
astrous season, but comparatively few ber¬ 
ries were on exhibition, among which were the 
newer ones, Jewel. Parry, May Queen, Hen¬ 
derson, Prince of Berries aDd Parker Earle. 
Besides these, were several new seedlings not 
yet offered, which we hope to illustrate soon. 
The first premium, quality alone to rule, was 
awarded to Prince of Berries, and the second 
to Henderson. The first premium for best 
quart is yet undetermined between Jewel and 
a new seedling of Mr. Durand’s, called King 
Cluster. The show of roses and peeonies was 
not large, but was exceedingly good, and the 
orchids were said to be the finest and most 
valuable collection of its size ever shown. A 
single plant was valued at $2,000. and 14 
plants were said to be worth $14,000. We 
have read of the Dutch Hyacinth madness, 
of the Moms multicaulus craze, of the 
blooded stock booms, in which thousands of 
dollars are paid for a single animal, but this 
orchid business gets awav with them all. We 
noticed also a fine collection of textile pro¬ 
ducts from the West Indies, embracing those 
from some 30 odd plants, some of them very 
fine.Dairy Commissioner Brown, of this 
State say? that, in enforcing tbe anti oleo laws 
here, the first legal proceedings were brought 
against retail dealers, who, tempted by the 
great profits to be made, were selling im¬ 
itation butter to their customers. After a few 
convictions of retail dealers, wholesalers were 
attacked ; and finally several manufacturers 
were indicted for making bogus butter, and 
compelled to stop work. In all, 67 arrests 
were made, 11 convictions secured and four 
discharged, between September and January. 
The rest of tbe 67 were still in the courts 
at tbe time of tbe decision of the Court of 
Appeals last Tuesday.. 
.Assistant Commissioner for New York 
and Brooklyn, Mr. B. F. VanValkenhurgh, 
reports that over 75 per cent of the sales of 
spurious blitter, as compared with 18SS, were 
suppressed in 1884; that tbe reduction of sales 
in January, 1885, amounted to 50.000 pounds 
daily; and that the prices of butter were 
favorab’y affected, notwithstanding the re¬ 
ceipt of 7,000,000 more pounds of butter in the 
New York market in 1884 than were brought 
in 1883.Mr. Brown says that oleomar¬ 
garine is not manufactured any more, heoause 
it is too expensive and can not be produced 
and sold at a profit for much less than butter, 
while butterine can be put upon the market 
at 10 cents per pound, and for that reason is 
the article that so disastrously affects the 
dairy interests of the country. 
....Tbe oleomargarine men are jubilant; and 
flaunted a whirlwind of flags here after the 
decision. They say they have all along been 
making and selling about the usual quantity of 
the concoctions; but in New Jersey.uotin New 
York; but they are coming back triumphantly. 
They say they will agree with dairymen, how- 
ever.in urging the passage of a law against the 
sale of oleomargarine as butter, providing 
tbe same provision shall apply to the sale 
of butter as oleomargarine!!! . 
Farmers in 8aratoga Co., N, Y., are de¬ 
pressed in regard to the prica for wool. Buy¬ 
ers offer 20 cent* per pound. Last year 28 to 
S3 eents per pound were paid. 
The tenth annual meeting of the Georgia 
State Horticultural Society will be held at 
Augusta on July.29th to Slst inclusive. A very 
“fat,, programme has been arranged, and we 
are sure every fruit grower in the State will 
regret being absent. Our friend Berekmans 
is the President, and T. L. Kinsey, Secretary, 
with P. O at Savannah. Ga.Gov. Hill 
has appointed James McCann of Elmira. J. S. 
Woodward of Lookport aDd also of the Rural 
New-Yorker, Daniel Batchelor of Utica, 
and C. C. B. Walker of Corning, as trustees of 
the New York Experiment Station. This is a 
re-appointment of Messrs.McCami, Wood ward, 
and Bachelor; and Mr, Walker is a new mem¬ 
ber. The Board of Trustees is comprised as 
follows; Robt. J. Swan, of Geneva: W. A. 
Armstrong and James McCann, of Elmira; 
Patrick Barry, of Rochester; N. M. Curtis, of 
Ogdensburgb; John O'Donnell, of Jamaica. 
L- T.; J, S. Woodward, of Lockport and 
New York; Daniel Batchelor, of Utica, 
and C. C. B. Walker of Corning; and 
Gov. D. B. Hill, ex officio ... 
The grain rate on the railroads from Kansas 
City to St. Louis—280 miles—is 15 cents, and 
from St. Louis to New York—1,000 miles—17 
cents.At Thursday's meeting of the 
American Association of Nurserymen, Flor¬ 
ists and Seedsmen, held at Chicago, Norman J. 
Colman, United States Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture. was chosen president. The associa¬ 
tion adjourned to meet in Washington next 
year.The Milwaukee Board of Trade 
has adopted resolutions requesting the New 
York Produce Exchange and the Chicago 
Board of Trade not to include stocks of grain 
in transit in their statements of the “visible 
supply.”. McGeoeh bolds caEh oats in 
Chicago while Lester holds cash corn, hence 
present advance, and probability of more ... 
Tbe number of agrarian outrages committed 
in Ireland during the last quarter of the 
year 1884 was 142, of which 93 were in 
MuRster (County Cork being at the head of 
the list with 26), 23 were in Leinster, 16 In 
Connaught, and 11 in Ulster. The counties 
Antrim, Armagh and Londonderry, in the 
last mentioned province, and Carlow, King’s, 
Louth and Meath, in Leinster, were abso¬ 
lutely free from any crimes of the kind known 
as agrarian. These crimes are divided into 
three classes—against the person, against pro¬ 
perty and against the public peace. Of the 
first class there were odIt four in the whole 
of Ireland.A telegram from Parsons, 
Kansas, says: “A scourge equal to the grass¬ 
hopper is making its appearance in tbisueigh- 
borhnod. Large fields of corn, standing on 
an average eight inches high, looking fresh 
and green in the morning, beforenight become 
withered aud dead. Examination discloses 
in each hill a myriad of worms, ranging from 
an inch and a quarter down to one eighth of 
an inch in length. Apparently tbev become 
completely distributed over a field, then be¬ 
gin simultaneously to work, and wit hin avpry 
short time the whole is devastated. Nearly 
every piece of corn is more or less infested. 
The eggs from which the worms are hatched 
are supposed to be deposited by a small yel¬ 
lowish white miller.An American 
Shire Horse Association has been formed at 
Chicago, for the purpose of promoting the 
interests of breeders and importers of Shire 
horses. The President is Mr. A. G. Danforth, 
of Washington. Illinois; Vice-President. Mr. 
George E. Brown. Aurora, Illinois: Secretary, 
Mr. Charles Burgess, of Wenona, Illinois ... 
.. The Hessian flv lias made its appearance 
in Lehigh County, Pa., and in part of North¬ 
ampton, after an absence of several years. 
The flies are making sad havoc with the grow¬ 
ing crops in some places, and the indications 
are that the wheat will he greatlv damaged. 
Last year the potato bugs appeared in such 
small numbers, that the farmers congratulat¬ 
ed themselves upon the prospect of the early 
total disappearance of the pest, but it now ap¬ 
pears that this hope is not to be realized. Tbe 
bugs have appeared in both counties this 
year in greater numbers than before. 
.A new insect is ravishing tbe vineyards 
of Roumania and Bessarabia .. 
While the 17-vear locusts are alarming our 
farmers, a far more terrible enemy, the Ori¬ 
ental locusts, have settled in immense swarms 
in various parts of Roumsnia. They came 
from the distant southeast in cloud* - ,and have 
destroyed all the crops in large sections of 
country. The Prime Minister repaired to 
the devastated districts with a view of or¬ 
ganizing schemes for destroying the insects 
and affording relief to the impoverished 
farmers. But he found that he could accom¬ 
plish little good. The desolation was greater 
than that produced bv the advance of the 
Russian army a few years ago. All the crops 
planted tosupplv food for man had been de¬ 
stroyed. The trees and vines were bare of 
leaves and fruit Tbe fields and pastures 
looked as if a fire had passed over them. The 
flocks and herds were wandering about in 
search of food, but could find none. The lo¬ 
custs had destroyed everything.Crop 
reports from the principal wheat-growing 
I counties of California, show that] the yield 
will not exceed 24,000,000 bushels, or about 
three-sevenths of last year’s crop. 
Tbe Bureau of Statistics reports that the 
total value of exports of beef, pork,and dairy 
products for the five months ended May 31, 
1885, were $40,172,549, against, $34,464,076 
during the same period in 1884 ..Last 
Monday Commissioner Colman summoned to 
his office the entire force of the Statistical 
Bureau of the Agricultural Department, 
numbering 21 persons of both sexes, and an¬ 
nounced that, there would be no money to pay 
their salaries after the 20th inst. They were 
nil furloughed without pay from the 20th 
inst. until July 1.Great distress threatens 
the people of the border counties of South¬ 
west Virginia. The corn supply, which istheir 
main support, is almost exhausted and selling 
at $2 a hushel. The wheat crop, now ready 
for harvesting, is so meager that it will afford 
little relief. The same counties suffered heavily 
from drought andthescourge last, year. 
....Cotton worms are playing great havoc 
with the cotton crop in portions of Texas, 
many fields having been completely devas¬ 
tated .The Administration has hitherto 
failed to redeem its promise to exclude the 
cattle kings as well as the settlers from Okla¬ 
homa, or to issue a proclamation against ille¬ 
gal fencing.The average farmer of the 
country has $2,864 of fixed farm capital, ex¬ 
clusive of household furniture, carriages and 
other personal property of tbe farm . 
The actual number of persons engaged in 
agriculture in the United States, including 
their families, is placed at 25,060,000, an in¬ 
crease of 3,000,000 since the last census. 
.. ..The Mark Lane Express in its review of the 
grain trade during last week, says: A heavy 
rainfall during the week has generally benefit¬ 
ed spring-sown grain, which was so backward 
that the semi-tropical weather which prevailed 
in the first week of June injured it considerably. 
Best wheats look exceedingly well and are 
growing fast. Trade seems to have collapsed. 
The sales of English wheat, during the week 
were 36.796 quarters at S3s 3d, against 46.060 
quarters at 37s 4d during the corresponding 
week last year. Foreign wheat is further de¬ 
pressed : quotations are nominal .The 
Whitman Agricultural Company, of St. Louis, 
won the first diploma at the World’s Fair at 
New Orleans on the best hay press, with their 
Rebound Plunger Press........ Tbe celebrated 
Jersey cow Faith, of Oaklands, tlie property 
of Valanenv E Fuller. E c q . on tbe 16th of 
June dropped a solid-colored bull calf, sired 
by Prince Pogis, only son of Mary ADne, of 
8t. Lambert... 
A PhyeiclwttV Eatimntr. 
Dr. John W, Williamson, Danville. Va , has 
been using Compound Oxygen in his own case 
and in a number of cases which he was not 
able to cure under ordinary medical treatment. 
He snvs: 
ms rertainlii the most valuable and reli¬ 
able I refitment I know in all chronic diseases. 
It cures diseases of different, tvpnq from those 
for which it is prescribed ns in mv own case. 
For twentv-five Tears I bud suffered with 
hemorrhoids, which had resisted all treatment, 
and I never expected to he relieved, hnttnmv 
surprise, after I teas cured of my bronchial 
and Inna trouble by t he use of Compound Oxy¬ 
gon for three weeks, T found myself entirely 
relieved of piles, and thev have not returned. 
Ihnnariitv is under inestimable oblirjationsto 
yon for the introduction of a treatment so 
valuable to cure them.” 
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etc., and n wide rnnge of diseases, will he sent 
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and 1111 Girard St, Philadelphia.—Ade. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
Saturday, June 20. 
The wheat market is dull and dragging, 
and it is becoming more evident, daily that 
the winter-wheat crop is to he a verv short 
one. The damage since May 1 has exceeded 
all precedent. Just how short the crop will 
he, it would be hazardous to predict, when 
the margin between the various “reliable” re¬ 
ports thereon is 90 000,000 bushels, tbe totals 
given ranging from 360 000.000 to 270,000,000 
bushels. Tt, is also likelv that the stocks on 
hand, visible and invisible, have been over¬ 
estimated. If the reports of the shortage are 
t wo-thirds verified, the United Rt.atps is likelv 
to have only its present surplus (visible and 
invisible) for export,. This, with light stocks 
in Engiaud. with shortages in Australia and 
New Zealand, an under average in Austria 
and Russia. and no gain in India, and with 
40 , 000.000 bushels deficiency in France and 
the United Kingdom, is likelv to push wheat 
prices well up before July 1. 1886, No. 2 red 
closed yesterday at. $1.01 against $102 last 
week, and No. 2 mixed corn closed at 551^ 
cents, against cents last week. Corn has 
heen firm on light, supplies and a fair demand. 
Provisions have been dull and lower. Heavy 
receipts of hogs and free sales have prevented 
any advance. 
| The New York market fer breadstuff* has 
