THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 14,1S87. 
The Standard Oil officials on trial at Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., for conspiracy against a small 
rival concern, have been declared not guilty. 
... ....For weeks a sensational story bas 
been going the rounds about Walter Itidgeley, 
of Texarkana, Texas. Two Murphys who 
ran a ferry demanded $5 fare from a drum¬ 
mer instead of 50 cents. Itidgeley, a Prince¬ 
ton graduate who had fought with Custer and 
settled on the finest farm in that part of 
Texas, took the drummer’s part and killed the 
Murphys in self-defence. An uncle and 
brother of the dead men were shot to death 
while trying to avenge them. Three other 
Murphys met the same tragic fate- Many 
dramatic embellishments. J. If. Henderson, 
Mayor of Texarkana, says there never was 
such a man as Ridge-ley or such u shooting af¬ 
fair in that country. It, turns out to have 
been a drummer’s yarn, though the “picture 
papers” gave the likenesses or the parties .. 
....The Wall Paper Pool, comprising 13 of 
the largest manufacturers of wall paper in the 
country, has been in existence since 187!) and 
ends June 1st. The 15 have ponied their 
earnings and divided the profits, keeping up 
prices. Sharp cutting of prices is expected 
after the collapse of the pool.The N. Y. 
Senate Wednesday confirmed Messrs. Rogers 
and Baker for Railroad Commissioners and 
Austin Lathrop for Superintendent of State 
Prisons.W. O. Bradley has boon nomi¬ 
nated for Governor or Kentucky by the Re¬ 
publicans—a barren honor.Over 13,000 
coke workers at ConnelLsville, Pa., are on 
strike for higher wages. Many of them who 
want, to go to work are forcibly withheld by 
their associates. Railroad and blast furnace 
employes, 50.000 strong, forced to be idle by 
the action of the coke men, are indignant 
...In Illinois 
alone there are more “colleges” than in the 
whole of Europe, whereas one European Uni¬ 
versity lias more students than the entire at¬ 
tendance at all the colleges m Illinois. 
The present gas-well craze is t he Initial descen¬ 
dant of the oil well craze of a quarter of a 
century ago. Old Mottier Earth is being 
bored all over for gas. The oil-well “boom” 
hasn’t petered out vet,however, by any meuns. 
. National Rauk Examiner, Hyatt, of 
Connecticut, has 1 icon nominated as Treasurer 
of the United States, to succeed Jordan 
....Gov. Sflfty, of Alabama, is to make an 
effort to improve the Coosa River, which for 
hundreds of miles Hows through a rich coal 
and iron region—will cost $1,500,000 to make 
the river navigable.Mayor Roche, of 
Chicago, has already cleared out 275 disreput¬ 
able resorts-mosi 1 y tufamous concert-halls and 
dance houses. Many more on the “black-list. ” 
-Mayor Hewitt, of this city, has closed every 
place of the kind here, and made Sunday thor¬ 
oughly dry by hermetically sealing all lmuor 
stores ana beer shops on that day. Even 
hotels are not,allowed to sell or give their own 
guests beer, wine, or liquors af their meals or 
anywhere else.The other night Patti 
refused to sing in Baltimore because only 
$8,000 worth of tickets had been sold. Her 
own share is $5,000 a night!.A lot of 
politicians who cheated at the late elections 
nave lx-cu indicted at St. Louis ..... . .Gov. 
Hill, of New York, has signed the Holiday 
Bill. It makes legal holidavsof the first Mon¬ 
day in September (Labor Day), any general 
election day, and every Saturday from noon 
to midnight—n piece of humbuggery. “Labor” 
will work all the same or lie docked of pay .. 
.It is charged that so extensive is the 
smuggling of opium at San Francisco that in 
the last seven years the Government has been 
defrauded out of $23,000,000 there. Probably 
a great exaggeration.That earthquake 
in Arizona and across the line in Mexico was 
much more extraordinary and disastrous than 
at first announced. Though the region is 
sparsely inhabited everywhere, and altogether 
uninhabited in large ureas, nearly 200 people 
were killed, mostly in Sonora, Mex. Rivers 
were dammed up by mountain slides, und 
many rich veins ol' gold and silver are report¬ 
ed to have been laid bare. A volcanic erup¬ 
tion at Bahispe destroyed Moetezuma, killing 
150 persons. Several more earthquakes are 
expected soon in Mexico . ... 
The stove-molden having “struck” in nearly 
all stove shops in the country, except in De¬ 
troit and Cincinnati, the stove-makers 
of the former place have “locked-out” their 
hands—53,800—and those of the latter threaten 
to do so. The manufacturers have heavy 
stocks on hand, and the workers were contrib¬ 
uting liberally to the support of the strikers.. 
•_.The Retaliation Law against Canada is 
likely to be enforced ere long, and the Cana¬ 
dian Government seems to court it. The 
Americnu schooner Clara J. Friend was re¬ 
fused the privilege of buying provisions, the 
other dayy, though the purchase of bait alone 
had previously been denied. Our vessels have 
been instructed to rigidly obey the law, but 
there are indications of speedy trouble .... 
The Liberal Party in the Dominion and a “solid 
phalanx” from the Muratime Provinces and 
Manitobu, are reported to favor u “commer¬ 
cial union” with the United States: simple 
reciprocity. .The rush of European immigrants 
to the country is simply tremendous. The ar¬ 
rivals at this port lust Wednesday amounted 
to 9,003 people—the greatest number that ever 
arrived in any single day. To show the vari¬ 
ous points from which they came here is a list 
of the vessels that brought them, aud the 
ports from which they started: Baltic, from 
Liverpool, 51 cabin and 895 steerage; Elysia, 
Gibraltar, two cabin, 809 steerage: Eider, 
Bremen, 98 cabin, 1,088 steerage; Normandie, 
Havre, 90 cabin, 928 steerage; Chateau 
Yquein, Bordeaux, 1.3 cubiu, 185 steerage; 
Umbria, Liverpool, 427 steerage; Palmyra, 
Liverpool, 13 cabin, 743 steerage; Bolivia, 
Glasgow, „71J,cabin u SSO^steerage; Wyoming, 
Liverpool, 80 cabin, 809 steerage; Clieribon, 
Marseilles, 1,179 steerage; Illinois, Antwerp 
81 steerage, and Helvetia, Liverpool, 099. 
Assembly 49 of t he Knights of Labor at. 
Ncnv York, lias formed two Chinese local as¬ 
semblies. They consist of cigar-makers, laun- 
drymen and Joint keepers. Many of the 
Mongolian Knights are Sunday-school schol¬ 
ars, and the two assemblies have 000 members. 
A third .will soon bo organized ...,Tho 
University of Pennsylvania has decided that 
from the opening of next session no cigarette 
smoking will be allowed bv the students — 
.. Those British sealing schooners captured 
in Behring Sea by the United States Revenue 
cutter Corwm, which are now at Ouualaska, 
are to be sold at. public auction to the highest 
bidder, by a United States marshal.The 
total number known to have perished in the 
mining disaster at Nanaimo, Vancouver's Is¬ 
land, is 18!), of whom 82 were Chinese and 107 
whites, More than half the white men leave 
families.After all, it seems the Im¬ 
perial Govcrment has sanctioned the New¬ 
foundland Bait Bill, probihitiugtbe purchase 
of fishing bait and several minor privileges. 
Trouble is expected with France whose large 
fisheries ou the “Banks” will be much hamp¬ 
ered .Fifteen-thousand men belong¬ 
ing to the various branches of the building 
trade struck at Chicago,Thursday. 
Sir Charles Tupper, Fiuance Minister of 
the Dominion, estimates the revenue for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, at $35,000,000, and 
anticipates a deficit of $800,000. The debt of 
Cnnada on May 1, was $225,105,901. During 
t he last 15 years the balance of trade between 
the United States and Canada has been $350,- 
000,000 in favor of the former.Sir 
Churles Tupper says that if the policy of 
non intercourse sanctioned by Congress was 
carried out, it could be met by the Imperial 
Government discriminating against grain ar¬ 
riving iu England from United States ports. 
Such discrimination would greatly develop the 
grain-producing industry in Canada. Sir 
Charles seems to forget that the bill provid¬ 
ing for “non intercourse” between Canada and 
the United States failed to puss Congress. 
The bill that did pass relates merely to the 
seaeoast trade, especially the admission of 
Canadian-caught fish_. Thesuffenng 
from the drought in Western Texas is still ex¬ 
tremely severe, and even Central Texas is 
suffering. The Commissioners of Bexar 
County about San Antouio, have appropriat¬ 
ed $5,000 for public roads for t he sake of re¬ 
lieving the set t lers. Men will he employed at 
75 cents a day and paid wholly in provisions. 
Medina County advertises for a loan of $1,500 
to be wholly applied to buying meal aud 
meat. Petit ions urge the Governor to call a 
special session of the Legislature to make 
appropriations for the relief of the famishing 
people..... 
.Twelve Irish constables who resigued 
rather than aid in the evictions of Irish ten¬ 
ants, arrived here the other day aud were at 
once employed as clerks at $lA a week by r a 
Bowery Clothing merchant as an advertise¬ 
ment.The remains of u mastodon of 
the largest size have been discovered about20 
miles from Atlanta, Georgia_,It, costs only 
one dollar to become a member of the Anti- 
Poverty Association; but hitherto there has 
been no extraordinary rush to pay even thnfc. 
... Edward Hen of ibis city, owner of a se¬ 
cond-rate tobacco shop, aud a shrewd, miserly, 
poorly dressed, but, extremely lucky Wall 
Street Speculator, died the other day, leaving 
about $2,000,000 to Mrs. Wagner, a sort of 
adopted daughter and wife of his hook-keeper, 
with whom he lodged for years in a fifth-rate 
east-side street. To his nephews and niece, 
living across the river in Williumsburgli, he 
left not a cent; but Mrs. Wagner has agreed 
to be content with $1,000,000 and divide the 
rest between his penniless relatives rather 
than stand a law-suit. Up to this time 
44 railroud companies have tiled with the 
Inter-State Commerce Commissioners for¬ 
mal petitions askiug to be relieved from sec¬ 
tion 4 of the law, relatiug to the “long and 
short haul” provision. Probably us many 
more have been received and returned for 
further information. A much larger number 
have been received from trade organizations, 
private corporations and individuals 
protesting against the suspension of sec¬ 
tion 4 in particular cases.l’aul Grott- 
kau, the Milwaukee Anarchist, was last, 
Saturday sentenced to a year’s im¬ 
prisonment for his incendiary speeches.... 
.The Marquis of Lansdowne, Gover¬ 
nor-General of Canada, owns over 120,000 
acres of iund in Ireland, and his family have 
always had the reputation of being exceed¬ 
ingly harsh, rack-runtiug landlords. Always 
absentee landlords,they have had no interest iu 
the Country beyond squeezing out of their 
tenants every penny they could raise, Tho 
present lord is accused of being ns bad as the 
worst of them. While rents have beeu low¬ 
ered from 80 to 50 per cent, by other landlords, 
he has refused a decrease of 20 per cent. The 
tenants on one of Ins estates, Luggaeurmu, 
while willing to pay reasonable rents, refuse 
to pay the exorbitant rants demanded, and 
Lansdowne’s agent has been instructed to 
evict them. A short time ago the agent re¬ 
ported that the Marquis had agreed to a 
reduction; but his lordship lias gone buck on 
the agreement. W illiatu O’Brien, lately mem¬ 
ber of Parliament, editor of United Ireland, 
one of the foremost Home Rulers and Irish 
agitators, has just gone to Canada to ex¬ 
pose the great hardships aud cruelties indict¬ 
ed on his Irish tenants by the Governor-Gen- 
craL lie has been received enthusiastically 
at Montreal und Quebec, where vast audiences 
cheered him, though there has lieeii a very 
strong antagonistic element in I Kith places. 
There is likely to lie trouble iu Toronto and 
Other places iu Ontario where the English 
population is numerous and Orangemen quite 
strong. These all object to an attack upon 
the official representative of the Queen as an 
insult to her, and say that. (Canadian faction 
feeling should not be inibitteredon account of 
any real or exaggerated grievances suffered by 
a few farmers in far off Ireland. From present 
indications, public opinion in the Dominion 
seems pretty evenly divided iu the matter.... 
.. .The Interstate Commerce Law has diverted 
large contracts from the American transcon¬ 
tinental roads to the Canadian Pacific. The 
United States Commercial Agency at London, 
Can., reports it is having a most disastrous 
effect on the trade of the Dominion. 
The new Civil Service examination rules will 
pay more regard to practical than literary 
mutters. They are to bo applied first to clerk's 
in the W T nr Department.The so-called 
“Anti-fut,liras” Bill was defeated in 1 he New 
York House Thursday by a vote of 453 yens 
and 53 nays. It. made it a felony for any per¬ 
son or corporation to sell for future delivery 
in this or any other State, pork, lard, butter, 
cheese, coal, petroleum, or other “necessity of 
life” unless the transaction was accompanied 
by a bill-of-lading Had the bill become a 
law it. would have been ns vain as an enact¬ 
ment. against thundershowers in haying time, 
for rich, unscrupulous speculators would either 
find some means to evade it, or impudently 
disregard it . .The Canadian Manufactur¬ 
ers’ Association, in Convention at Toronto 
last, week, passed a resolution against “Unre¬ 
stricted Reciprocity” between the UnioD and 
the Dominion. The Canadian Central Farm- 
era’ Institute at a recent meeting passed a 
resolution binding that -body to urge the Do¬ 
minion Government to obtain a reciprocity 
treaty at the earliest possible moment; but 
the manufacturers, looking out. for their own 
interests only,are unanimously opposed to atiy 
treaty which would admit American manu¬ 
factures free of duty. They consider that 
such a measure of reciprocity would lie equiv¬ 
alent to ultimate annexation.The Gar- 
Held statue was unveiled at Washington, 
Thursday, in the presence of the President, 
Cabinet, Generals Sherman aud Sheridan anil 
other notables, military and civilian.. The 
Penn. Higli-Lieeuso Law goes into effect Juno 
20. Fee for Philadelphia, Pittsburg aud Alle¬ 
gheny, $500; smaller cities, $400: boroughs, 
$200; townships, $100. Courts of Quarter 
Sessions grant licenses. The State gets one- 
fifth, the county one-fifth and the municipal¬ 
ity three-fifths of thelicen.se fees. 
The bill providing for the holding of a consti¬ 
tutional convention in New York, which was 
passed by the Assembly some weeks ago, 
passed tho Senate on Friday of last week, 
but. as was generally expected, it has 
been vetoed by the Governor... 
-• • »- 
A Novel Treatment For Rheumatism. 
If you have ever had a touch of this disease 
you will appreciate what is said by the follow¬ 
ing correspondents in reference to the results 
of treatment by Compound Oxygen: 
Mrs. Margaretta Bair, a Philadelphia lady 
living at 19th and Filbert Streets, says; “Near¬ 
ly twenty years ago i was attacked by rheu¬ 
matism. I suffered from it for years aud was 
reduced almost to a skeleton. My condition 
led my physician to conclude that 1 could not 
live more than a few weeks. About this time, 
in 1881, a friend had beeu wonderfully helped 1 
by Compound Oxygen. With hardly a hope 
of success I began the treatment. I am no 
longer an invalid in any respect. Rheuma¬ 
tism is gone long ago." This is only a speci¬ 
men. Hundreds of letters of similar charac¬ 
ter are on file in tho offices of Drs Starkey 
& Palen, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia; some 
of them are printed in full in a monograph ou 
“Rheumatism,” aud others iu a volume of 
nearly two hundred pages, both of which you 
may receive free by mail for the asking.— Adv. 
" • »• 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 14, 1887. 
A large building has been erected near 
London, England, to make paper of stable 
manure.The farmers about Toronto, 
Canada, have established a Creameries Asso¬ 
ciation, duly officered, who employ a lecturer 
whose duty it is to visit neighborhoods where 
new creameries are desired and impart full 
instructions on the subject..A lurge 
establishment for making perfumery of roses, 
geraniums, orange blossoms, etc., bus been 
built m Jacksonville, Fla.. The report 
of the commission appointed for the purpose 
of settliug German agricultural colonists in 
the Polish provinces, states that they have 
bought a total of 7,200 hectares (17,791 acres) 
of land, costing 4,250,000 marks ($1,001,500— 
about $59 per acre). The colonists are rapidly 
assisting in tho Germanizing process. 
The Southern Express Company and the Bal¬ 
timore and Ohio Express ('ornpauy, in com¬ 
peting for strawberry shipments from Chatta¬ 
nooga to the north, have commenced a war¬ 
fare, and rates are being slashed by both, and 
have been reduced over 10 per cent, already. 
Chattanooga fruit growers are rouping the 
benefits.The health officers here 
seized two car-loads of Western beef at the 
railroad depot, and took the meat (o the dump, 
Wednesday.. . The increase in the Rus¬ 
sian duties on imports recently put iu force 
lias had the effect of bringing the German 
Government to a decision to increase the Ger¬ 
man duties ou cereals from three to six marks, 
ns a reprisal..Advices from the Black 
Sea ports state that the grain shipping trade is 
in a state of feverish activity. Exporters arc 
rushiug cargoes to Germany in order to glut 
tho markets before the new grain tariff can 
be put m operation.It is officially aunouno- 
ed that, the German Government intends to 
propose a provisional prohibitive edict against 
excessive grain imports prior to the introduc¬ 
tion of the bill raising the grain duties. 
The threatened increase of the German corn 
duty causes dismay m Austria aud Hungary, 
as an increase would entail serious loss in the 
Austro-Hungarian Empire.. ... .At the 
second annual convention of the International 
Sheep Shearers’ Association held at St. Louis, 
Wednesday, the following officers were elect¬ 
ed; President, General James A. Robiuson, of 
Ohio; Vice-President, D. E. Beatley, ol Texas; 
Executive Committee, S. B. Lusk, of New <- 
York; W. S. Sbellenberger, of Pennsylvania; 
R. M. Bell, of Missouri; John Minto, of Ore¬ 
gon; A. H. Wildeman, of Illinois: John L. 
Thompson, of Indiana: W. G. Wallbridge. of 
Kanrai; P. Jansen, of Nebraska: W. F. Wil¬ 
der, of Colorado; Hon lienlev, of California. 
.France appropriates $1.027,500 a year 
in maintaining vast horse-breeding establish¬ 
ments, chiefly to recruit her army horses. 
This sum was reduced last year to $1,348,600 
by the Idra of stallions. For the same purpose 
Austria-Hnngury spends$1,000,000 a year, and 
Prussia spends $100,000 on the royal breeding 
establishments, besides which there are 15 
other depots maintained at a corresponding 
cost.......... Tho twelfth annual meeting of 
tho Association of Nurserymen, Florists, and 
Seedsmen will be held at Chicago June 15—17. 
A large meeting is expected, D. Wilmot 
Smith. Galena. III., is Secretary .The 
new “American Cattle Trust Compnny” is 
really a fact. Its interests are to he centered 
in New York. Chicago, and the great cattle 
ranchesof the West. Millionaire Nelson Mor¬ 
ris is its conspicuous bead in Chicago, and the 
Other Western trustees just selected are Mr. 
Frank E. Vogel, of the Fairbauk Canning 
Company, Chicago; ex-Oov Routt, of Colo- 
rodo; Thomas Sturges. President of the Wyo¬ 
ming Cattle Compnny, Cheyenne: Capt.. Lytle, 
of Texas; and D. H. Hern!, President of the 
American Ranch Association. Associated 
with these are a large number of heavy East¬ 
ern capitalists. It. is said the $25,000,000 capi¬ 
tal have all been paid in... ..... Sherman & 
Marsh, barb wire manufacturers, of Chicago, 
have assigned to N B. Judah: liabilities 
$448,000, assets $258,000. The failure of Scha- 
bel <fc Co., another barb-wire firm, is also an¬ 
nounced. Their liabilities will reach $303,000, 
and their assets arc about $175,000. Mr. Marsh 
attributes his failure to tho Inter State Com¬ 
merce Law.,.Crop prospects in South 
Carolina are reported more favorable than at 
this season in any previous year since 1882_ 
.. .The famous cow “Electa,” once worth 
$10,000, was sold to an Oil City (Pa.) butcher 
the other dav for $50 by her owner, A J. 
Cowan, of Venango County. Pa. The ani¬ 
mal had been spoiled by overfeeding. 
... .The Canadian authorities have declared a 
99-days quarantine against, cattle from this 
side being taken across the line into the 
Northwestern range country... 
A Catalogue of the “Wonderful Citair,” 
combining live articles of furniture with 50 
changes, aud sold at n price within the reach 
of all, mailed on application by the Luburg 
Chair Co., Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
Crops & Atarhots. 
Saturday, May 14,1887. 
The report of the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture for May indicates a decline iu the con¬ 
dition of wheat of two points since April 1, 
the general average for the whole country 
beiug 80, against 95 at the same date in 1880, 
70 iu 1885, and 94 in 1884. The averages of 
condition of wheat by States are: New York 
86, Pennsylvania 72, Maryland 84, Virginia 80, 
North Carolina 90, Texas 00, Arkansas 98, 
Tennessee 90, West Virginia, 89, Kentucky 95, 
Ohio 71, Michigan 90, Indiana 87, Illinois 98, 
Missouri 90, Kansas 81, California 89, Oregon 
101. Ryu has suffered from tho same condi¬ 
tions which have injuriously affected wheat 
but on account of its hardier nature t he gen¬ 
eral average is considerably higher, standing 
at 90.8, against 92.0 on April 1 and 95.7 at tho 
same date iu 1880. The condition of hurley is 
low, the average being 87.8, against- 96.7 iu 
May, 1880, aim 82 in 1885. The season has 
been more generally advanced in all parts of 
the country than usual, spring plowing beiug 
seriously behind only ou the Atlantic coast 
south to Pennsylvami und ou the Pacific 
slope In these sections it has been delayed 
by cold aud excess of moisture. Elsewhere 
the work is ahead ol' an average year, the 
season, especially during April, having beeu 
generally favorable, with the temperature 
above the normal and the rainfall at a mini¬ 
mum, The proportion already done ou May 1 
is estimated at 80 per cent, of the whole, 
while the amount usually completed at that 
date is about 76 per cent. 
Potamcs are now being shipped iu very 
large quantities from Novu Scotia und New 
Brunswick to Ontario and Manitoba, The 
only drawback is the want, of the cars, which 
is owing to the receut blockades on the Inter¬ 
colonial disarranging the supply available 
Heavy shipments of potatoes are also being 
mado from Canning aud other Bay of Fuudy 
ports to Boston, Bun York, Portland, aud 
other ports in the United States, Owing to 
the increasing demands on Nova Scotia pota¬ 
toes every spring for seed purposes, the Nova 
Scotia farmers iutend planting very heavily 
this season. 
There’s a big pool in June wheat now in 
Chicago. The clique is sold to have already 
bought not less than 40,000,1)00 bushels at 
Chicago, besides owning the wheat at St. 
Louis, Toledo, New York aud San Francisco, 
and probably ball the wheat at Liverpool. 
The secrecy of the manipulation is declared on 
all hands to bo amazing What millionaires 
are workiug the movement is unknown. The 
brokers employed act ou cypher orders, all 
signed “Nelson,” and all starting from Cincin¬ 
nati. The Standard Oil men. tho Nevada 
Bank, Armour A Co., and about. 20 other 
capitalists are supposed to be iu the pool. 
Wheat prices this week have advanced ir¬ 
regularly on manipulation, dry weather, un¬ 
favorable crop reports, stronger foreign mar¬ 
kets aud free export demand. Flour, too, 
is 5 cents to 15 cents higher. Indian corn is 
more animated tor export, and the options 
have advanced. Oats weakened after an ad¬ 
vance, owiug to free offerings. 
The stock of wheat at Minneapolis and St, 
