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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JULY 46 
Mows of tl)e Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Satubday July 11, 1885. 
The new managers of the late New Orleans 
Exposition are pressing railroads to contrib¬ 
ute liberally towards the fund to pay for the 
revival of the show next Fall. The President 
of the Illinois Central has increased his sub¬ 
scription from $18,0<XI to $25,000, and other 
roads are expected to contribute liberally.... 
....The Standard Oil Company, by purchase, 
has secured the full gas business of the Oil 
City (Pa.) section, and will supply over four 
cities and towns in that vicinity.A gen¬ 
eral reduction of thirty per cent, in the force 
of laborers about the Government buildings 
will be made to conform to the reduced appro¬ 
priations.,.The Government receipts of 
the fiscal jmar ending June 30, show a falling 
off of 626,889.093 from the receipts of the pre¬ 
vious year, while the expenditures have in¬ 
creased over $18,500,000.The issue of sil¬ 
ver standard dollars for the week ending 
July 4 was $467,908, as compared with $200,- 
495 for the corresponding period of 1S84 ..... 
The estimated decrease in the public debt for 
June is $10 000.000,and for the fiscal year ended 
June 30, $65,000,000 —A Mormon elder says 
his people now number 150.000. They have 
about 150 missionaries at work............... 
.... The Fourth of July was held as a' ‘day of 
mourning” by the “Saints” of Utah. At the 
City Hall and other public buildings at Salt 
Lake City, the American flag was half-mast¬ 
ed, much to the indignation of the “Gentiles.” 
The insult to to the United States would have 
caused a riot were it not that the Sheriff and 
Mayor finally ordered the flags to be run up 
properly. The polygamists are fiercely angry 
at the “persecutions” they are suffering under 
the Edmunds 1 Law.It is thought likely 
that Prof. C. K. Adams, President of the 
Michigan University, will obtain the Presi¬ 
dency of Cornell University, to succeed 
Andrew White, who has lately resigned. 
_The new State constitution which is being 
formed in Florida, will exempt manufactories 
from taxation for 10 years, and will establish 
a $2 poll-tax to be devoted to the public 
schools ... The committee oftheVassar Col¬ 
lege Trustees, who are charged with selecting 
a new president for the institution at Pough¬ 
keepsie, N. Y., have settled upon Rev. Dr. 
Galusha Anderson, President of the Univer¬ 
sity of Chicago. Their choice will probably be 
ratified in about a fortnight by the full Board. 
.The Interior Department has received 
propositions from settlers on the Crow Creek 
reservation for a compromise. Secretary 
Lamar says the propositions will be rejected, 
and that the President’s proclamation will he 
enforced. The Senate Committee which has 
been visiting the Indian reservations will soon 
visit that of Crow Creek, and until that time, 
the Interior Department will postpone action. 
.Myriads of frogs infest Eagle Pass. 
Tex., and vicinity. They have multiplied bo 
rapidly that the earth is literally covered with 
them. This unusual phenomenon in a country 
where frogs are a rarity is regarded by the 
superstitious Mexicans as the forerunner of 
some dire calamity.The settlements on 
the Dolores and Mancos Rivers, in Western 
Colorado, are threatened by the Ute Indians, 
and the settlers are deserting their homes in 
fear of a massacre.The South American 
Commission report that the feeling of the 
people of Lima is in favor of the annexation 
of Peru to the United States, while the news¬ 
papers opeuly advocate a United States pro¬ 
tectorate .Fora wager, a member of 
the New York Produce Exchange obtaiued.in 
two hours on Saturday last, 50 signatures of 
prominent dealers to a petition asking Queen 
Victoria to declare war on Russia for the ben¬ 
efit of American grain growers and specula¬ 
tors.On Saturday evening at a picnic 
at Fort Worth, Kan., 11 people, 10 white and 
one negro, were poisoned from eating canned 
meat purchased from a lunch counter on the 
ground. The meat was put In lead cases. 
All suffered excruciatingly, but on Sunday 
night they were pronounced out of danger... 
.On and after the first day of October no 
person will be permitted to marry formally 
in Pennsylvania without obtaining a license 
from the Clerk of the Orphans 1 Court of the 
county in which the marriage takes place.... 
_After the most protracted and bitter con¬ 
test ever known in Canada, the Parliament 
has passed a uniform franchise bill applicable 
to all general elections. This marks an as¬ 
sumption of federal authority over the Pro¬ 
vincial Parliaments upon this subject. The 
Government bill broadens the rule of the 
franchise in some Provinces and narrows it in 
others. In Prince Edward Island and British 
Columbia, for example, where “manhood 
suffrage” is the rule, and in the great com¬ 
monwealth of Ontario, and the growing pro¬ 
vince of Manitoba,'where the property quali¬ 
fications are small,ttbe Dominion Bill is very 
unpopular. The Indians in the older Pro¬ 
vinces are given the ballot if otherwise quali¬ 
fied, the Superintendent-General of Indian 
Affairs being the judge as to their holdings. 
The most unpopular phase of the bill is the 
system of revising officers appointed bv the 
Government, an innovation which the Oppo¬ 
sition, aided by many French Conservatives, 
were uuable to prevent.The Ohio Pro¬ 
hibitionists nominated a full State ticket, in¬ 
cluding Rev. A. B. Leonard for Governor 
and Prof. William G. Frost, of Oberlin, for 
Lieutenant-Governor. Four of the nominees 
are ex Republicans and two ex-Democrats.... 
....Tbelvicious system of convict labor is 
made revoltingly prominent in 8outh Caro¬ 
lina, where the Governor has caused an inves¬ 
tigation, resulting' in showing the grossest 
cruelty on the part of overseers in charge of 
convicts employed on the Savannah Railroad. 
Sixteen deaths had taken place since January 
1, owing mainly to over-work, brutal flog¬ 
gings and bad food. A. W. Jackson, a guard, 
charged with inhuman floggings, has fled. 
.... The State censuses this year give great 
chances for Western State pride. Iowa claims 
an increase of 60,000 in five years, and Ne¬ 
braska of 800,000. Omaha with 60,000 people 
laughs at Des Moines with 40,000, Kansas is 
just now drawing thousands of desirable set¬ 
tlers, the tide having set heavily in that direc¬ 
tion.The best piece of good luck that 
has come to New Orleans for some time is the 
discovery of a good supply of pure water at a 
depth of about 400 feet, which can be tapped 
by the old artesian well process. There is 
talk of public bath-houses and a variety of 
cleansing enterprises if this water supply can 
be utilized.The back counties of Ken¬ 
tucky are the Corsicas of America in the way 
of revengeful feuds. Gov. Knott has just had 
to order out the State troops to put down a 
vendetta in Rowan County.The Chey¬ 
enne Indians,goaded to anger by the encroach¬ 
ments of cattle kings and syndicates, are go¬ 
ing on the “war path,” and small bands have 
already begun a course of outrage aud murder 
among the peaceable settlers of Southern Kan¬ 
sas. Thus the cattle monopolists are injuring 
settlers not only by direct oppression, but by 
arousing against them the indiscriminating 
ferocity of these savages. The settlers in 
Pratt County are reported to have fled or been 
killed, while their stock has been driven off. 
Neocatunga, a place of 150 inhabitants in 
Kingman County, is in the possession of the 
Indians, and Caldwell is 3aid to be surrounded 
by them. There is a regular scare throughout 
Southwestern Kansas, and the farmers are 
fleeing to strong positions. The U. S. troops 
are being concentrated for the protection of 
the settlers, among whom there is great dis¬ 
content at the dilatoriness of the authorities, 
and the insufficient number of their protectors. 
Gov. Martin, of Kansas, is forwarding arms 
and some of the State militia to the dis¬ 
turbed districts. Yesterday the President 
directed Gen. Sheridan to go in person to the 
threatened country, and he has started for 
Fort Reno in the Indian Territory. The 
Cheyennes and other Indians are to be dis¬ 
armed and forced to peace; even if every one 
of them must be "wiped out” in the process... 
.A great strike of street-car drivers 
and conductors in Chicago, after caus¬ 
ing a world of inconvenience to the public, 
considerable rioting among the disorder¬ 
ly classes, and some destruction of prop¬ 
erty, has been brought to an end by ar¬ 
bitration.An extensive strike of 
rolling mill operatives is uDder way in Cleve¬ 
land, Ohio. The strikers, mainly Poles, have 
forced the workmen in all the manufacturing 
works in the city to tarn out, and the man¬ 
agers to close the works. Much rioting; 
special policemen enrolled; two regiments of 
State troops ready to aid the civil authorities. 
.The weight of the Bartholdi Statue is 
about 400,000 pounds, and of this 40 per cent., 
or 160,000 pounds, is copper. The statue pro¬ 
per cost about $40,000, the total cost reaching 
fully $200,000, and by the time it is erected on 
its pedestal $500,000 will have been expended 
in thus honoring Liberty. As erected on Bed- 
loe’s Island, the torch will be about 300 feet 
above the water level, the pedestal being of 
nearly the same bight as the statue. 
The President is determined that all the auti- 
polygamy laws shall be honestly and earnest¬ 
ly enforced.The heirs of the late Ste¬ 
phen Douglas have recovered the valuable 
land on which the University of Chicago 
stands. It was given for University purposes 
solely, and the court decided that the terms 
of the bequest had been violated in mortgag¬ 
ing the land for $150,000.A call has 
issued at Denver for a mass-meeting to urge 
the appointment of a commission by the 
United States Government to go to Mexico 
and offer to buy the rich northern States of 
Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango and Coahuila. 
It is .said the Diaz Government is willing 
to sell the northern part of Mexico to enable 
the Republic to tide over its financial embar¬ 
rassments; but so proud a people as the Mexi¬ 
cans are hardly likely to consent to such a 
measure. The Newfoundland Govern¬ 
ment has imposed an import, duty of $1 per 
barrel on Canadian flour and $2 per barrel on 
Canadian pork. The Dominion authorities 
are considering what action shall be taken... 
.... At the main office of the Western Union 
Telegraph Company, in New York, 83.275 
messages were handled on Mondav, the 
largest dav’s business on record, the next 
being 81,305 messages. September 10, 1881, 
the time of Garfield’s death. 
The half-breed and Indian rebellion in the 
Northwest Territory came to an end bv the 
capture of Big Bear, the comhative Indian 
chief, a week ago. His band were about to 
surrender, having been starved into submis¬ 
sion, Other “rebs.” Indian and half-breed, 
are surrendering in small bodies, and the 
trouble now is virtually over. Riel’s trial is 
deferred till September. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Satubday, July 11. 
A Fbenchwan has patented a process of 
making butter by passing a current of elec¬ 
tricity through milk, thus rendering the 
operation of churning unnecessary. A similar 
method is to be used for cheese making, and 
to restore ancient butter to its original sweet¬ 
ness of flavor. An insect called the 
dumb locust is committing ravages on the 
apple trees in Southwestern Virginia.The 
cicada has disappeared fro n the neighborhood 
of Cincinnati.The first cargo of new 
wheat this year was received in St Louis 
June 20 from Waco, Tex., and sold on call at 
$1.06 only. But it was not clean and inspect¬ 
ed only No. 3. The first new wheat from 
North Carolina sold in Baltimore at $2 per 
bushel.The late frosts of May aud 
June have shortened the cranberry crop this 
year to 338.000 barrels, against 400,000 in 
1888.Almost 100 per cent, more wool has 
been received in the St. Louis market thus 
far this year, than up to the same time last 
year.The Massachusetts State Board 
of Health, from recent investigations, find, 
that there is very little pare honey in the 
State. That sold in little glass jars is not 
honey at all, but simply glucose, with just a 
littte honeycomb put in. 
There are 20 large • lucose establishments 
located in seven different States, with an in¬ 
vested capital of over $10,000,000 and a capa¬ 
city to consume 61,000 bushels of corn a day, 
giving employment to 4,575 workmen, paying 
annually $258,750 in wages, consuming $13,- 
703,000 worth of materials, and yielding a 
product worth $18,270 000 . Reports 
from all points in Kansas make the recent 
damage by floods very great. The Neosho 
River was five feet higher than was ever 
known before. Manv farmers have lost their 
wheat, bogs, sheep and cattle, and in many 
instances houses and fences, the families 
barely escaping with their lives. The loss of 
life has been greater than usual.East¬ 
ern Kansas and Western Missouri have suf¬ 
fered severely from almost continuous cold 
rains of late. Work in the harvest field has 
been brought to a complete standstill, aud 
much of the wheat in stacks has been ruined. 
The loss is placed at 1,000,000 bushels in Kan¬ 
sas alone. It is feared that the minor crops 
will suffer in the same proportion, and that 
potatoes will rot in the ground. Cyclones 
have also been very destructive to crops dur¬ 
ing the week in various parts of the country; 
but particularly in the West.Ten out 
of 13 large tobacco warehouses at Stoughton, 
Wis., were burned Sunday with the St. Paul 
depot, and about. 20 freight cars loaded with 
wheat and merehand ise. The loss is estimated 
at from $500,000 to $1,000,000, partly insured. 
The fire probably caused the heaviest destruc¬ 
tion of tobacco that has ever occurred in the 
United States at one time. It is estimated 
that fully one-third of the entire Wisconsin 
tobacco crop of last year was consumed. 
There were about 9,000 cases stored in the 
warehouses ready for shipment. The cases 
were worth about $50 f a niece, thus making 
the loss on tobacco about $450,000 . 
A bill to facilitate the trausfer of real pro¬ 
perty in England by establishing a general 
system of registration of titles has been pre¬ 
sented to the House of Lords by the Duke of 
Marlborough.The Boston Journal 
prints these estimates of the hay crop in 
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont based 
upon returns received from nearly 300 points 
in those States: Maine, 963 000 tons, a loss of 
about J5 per cent, as compared with the larg¬ 
est crop; New Hampshire, 401.000 tons, 
against 447,000 tons lu 1884 and 681,000 in 
1883; Vermont, 850,000 tons, the smallest in 
10 years, during which the average has been 
1,000,000...The experiment, for the mak¬ 
ing of sorghum sugar, at Franklin, in Teu- 
uessee, has proved a disastrous failure, and 
has resulted in the nearly complete loss of all 
the capital invested, amounting to $50,000. 
The natural advantages of soil and climate 
were so confessedly superior that failure was 
not anticipated.The sale of horse flesh 
In Paris is a recognized industry, 8.000 ani¬ 
mals being the number credited as annually 
slaughtered for sale in that city. From four 
to twenty cents per pound is stated to be the 
range in price, according to the quality of 
the cuts. Very old horses are said to be 
ground up into sausage of the Lorraine varie¬ 
ty.Another drought is reported in 
Australia, calculated to still further deplete 
the wool industry there. The removal 
of the cattle quarantine station from Walt¬ 
ham, Mass., partly accomplished bv Commis¬ 
sioner Loriug, still bangs fire under Commis¬ 
sioner Colruan. Shipments are said to be held 
back until the matter is defiuitelv decided — 
... Central Illinois is reported to have again 
engBged in the cultivation of hemp, to furnish 
material for the twine-biuding harvesters_ 
....Barnwell Countv. South Carolina, alone 
is said to have 2 343 acres of melons, from 
which it is estimated that, $1,000,000 of the 
fruit will this year be shipped North. 
The tobacco acreage, says the Connecticut 
Farmer, will be somewhat reduced this year 
in that State .For the first six months 
of 1885, at the West Albanv Cattle Yards, 
the receipts of cattle have fallen off 10,000 
head as compared with the first half of 1884, 
and are less than those for anv similar period 
since the cattle yards were established there. 
Sheep and lambs have been in greater abun¬ 
dance than last rear or anv othor film period, 
excepting in 1883. since 1879. Hogs ran 
nearly the same' as in previous years. The 
receipts for six mnn'bs have been; Cattle, 
144.925: sheep, 758 310; hogs, 470 900: horses, 
8.462. The receipts of lambs jn the la«t few 
weeks have been large, the demand has keot 
up well and dealers report the largest sales in 
years, and prnhably the largest ever recorded 
in the West Albauv market. The stock is of 
excellent quality and moves off freely. The 
weekly sales average 8.000 head, nearly 
double those of a year ago .. 
The Hessian fly is doing a world of damage 
to whpat in Western New York, flvpr 40.000 
bushels of wheat, hare thus far been lost in the 
town of Junius: and the loss about Lvons is 
pntat$85.000 Tn Arcadia, on an area of three 
miles square 25,000 bushels have he»n ruined. 
The pests are moving northward into Wayne 
County. 
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Rt.arkey Palen. 1109 and 111 l Girnrd street, 
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Oxygen. It will be mailed free — Adv. 
CROPS AND MARKETS. 
The warm, bright weather reported in the 
United Kingdom has improved the wheat 
crop prospects there and prevented any 
marked gam in prices, in the face of the 
heavy stocks of wheat and of flour at Liver¬ 
pool and London, Tu the heavy wheat-grow¬ 
ing districts in France, the center and north, 
the plant has been progressing satisfactorily. 
The early spring drought has made some of 
the ears short, but no other bad effects have 
been reported. In the central districts the 
rye harvest thus far does not indicate a large 
crop. Rain is needed. Crop reports from 
Germany are generally favorable, except as 
to rye. The advices from Austro-Hungarv as 
to both rye and wheat, are less favorable. 
In the south of Russia there is reported an¬ 
other severe drought. In the Punjab. India, 
the Mark Lane Express says the wheat crop 
is not likely to be as large as has been ex¬ 
pected. 
The Mark Lane Express, of July 6, in its 
weekly review of the British grain trade, says: 
The easterly winds, with accompanying 
drought, which have prevailed during the 
Bummer, make the outlook serious for the 
spring sown crops. The wheat acreage is in 
good form. The sales of English wheat, dur¬ 
ing the week were 38.837 quarters at S3* 3d 
per quarter, agaiust 28,294 quarters at 37s Id 
during the corresponding week last year. 
The Galveston Npws. of last Wednesday, 
published crop reports from 70 counties in 
Texas, compiled by its own correspondents. 
They show that the yield of small giaitis. has 
never before been surpassed in Texas, while 
the corn crop bids fair also to be the largest 
ever grown in the Rtate. The cotton yield of 
the State is variously estimated upon the pre¬ 
sent basis of the crop prospects at from 1,500,- 
000 to 1,800,000 bales. 
The Oirmhu Bee, of the same date, prints 
crop reports from every county in Nebraska, 
which show flattering prospects. Corn is still 
king by a large majority, hoth in acreage and 
condition. The wheat acreage has decreased 
in the older settled counties, but the new ones 
make up the deficiency. The outlook is gene¬ 
rally for a 90 par cent. crop. Oats and flax have 
an increased acreage, and the condition of 
lK>th is excellent. Fanners sre enthusiastic, 
and have the encouragement of good weather. 
California contributes a semi-official esti¬ 
mate that, the yield of that State will fall be¬ 
low 35,000,000 bushels, which would be only 
about three-sevenths of last year’s ciop. This 
