THE RURAL WEW-YORSCER, 
subsequently confirmed, that the Municipal 
Government was exceedingly corrupt, and 
had been so since the war Taxes (city and 
State), *31.45 per $1,000—over three per cent. 
Democratic government, chiefly run by Irish, 
which recalled what the Chinese Minister is 
reported to have said, that it struck him as 
being very unaccountable that the Irish were 
able to govern every country but their own. 
The architecture of New Orleans is pleasing, 
old-fashioned and “classic” in a way, many 
buildings having Doric and Corinthian col¬ 
umns. The magnolia trees were the tallest 
we had seen. Flowers were in profusion— 
superb roses cost only one cent apiece—every 
other man at night carried home a bouquet 
wrapped in tissue paper. Ladies carried 
huge bouquets in riding at the fashionable 
hour in their carriages, and yet in no city did 
I ever bear so many complaints of poverty. 
“The people are so poor,” was the universal 
expression, but there were no outward indi¬ 
cations of it. 
The statue to General Lee is very imposing 
and simplicity itself—a granite Doric col¬ 
umn surmounted with his statue: the base is 
large, of granite and placed ou a raised ter¬ 
race. About it are ueithor trees nor shade. 
Another monument which interested me most 
of all, probably cast the least, and is very un¬ 
pretentious, but it was erected not long ago to 
the houor of an Irish woman named Margaret 
Haugbessey—with only “Margaret” on the 
base of the statue, however, and the neighbor¬ 
hood in which it is erected—in front of a 
Catholic orphan asylum—is called “Margaret 
Place.” Margaret was a poor woman of com¬ 
mon birth, who by her industry and frugality 
amassed a very considerable fortune and 
then dispensed it in charity ou all classes 
alike—Jew, Gentile, Catholic and Protestant. 
“She was as plain and common-looking an 
Irish woman as you ever saw,” said a man to 
me who had known her welL “She kept at 
one time a bakery, and she went around sell¬ 
ing milk in a cart just as you see women 
doing to-day.” And it is a very plain woman 
done in marble who si fa on a marble chair 
with one of her arms about a marble little 
girl that forms the Margaret statue—but it 
is an interesting thing to see (the statue was 
raised by a public subscription!, for it is not 
every day that Americans honor in “endur¬ 
ing bronze,” or cracking marble, the noble 
deeds of their women. 
The milk cartsof New (Irloans are uniformly 
the same thing as to style—ou two wheels, 
with a seat for the driver (nmu or woman) and 
in front of the seat two large cans with a 
spigot at the bottom to draw olT the milk— 
ten cents the quart. The street cars are also 
characteristic. In none did I see an advertise¬ 
ment and all bear a label “Smoker” or “No 
Smoker," the latter often emphasized with “No 
smoking allowed either in or on this car.” 
That suited me admirably, for I believe in 
herding all the cigars, with a “fool at one 
end,” together, and in New Orleans and all 
through the South, everything in pantaloons 
smokes—chiefly cigarettes. 
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RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Dakota. 
Northwestern Notes, May 7th.—The 
present outlook for spring wheat in the Red 
River River Valley is very favorable. When 
spring opened up, the ground was uuusually 
dry for this country at this time of the year. 
Farmers took advantage of the opportunity 
and hurried their seed iu as fast as possible. 
Our general experience at seeding time is a 
good deal of mud and wuter. Cool weather 
and timely rains have helped to give grain a 
good start, and put hope into the farmer's 
heart. Notwithstanding the low price of wheat, 
a lull acreage will probably lie sown in this 
sectiou. It would be hard to find a farmer 
here who has not got lots of faith iu No. I. 
Hard. Prices of all products raised for local 
demand are high, as, for example, oats, 50c.; 
potatoes, 50c.; pork, 7c. A glut or a famine 
seems to la- the rule with most of the second¬ 
ary crops. Owing to the burning of vast quan¬ 
tities of hay by prairie tires last full, I pre- 
sunn- more cattle have been wintered on straw 
than ever before in the history of this section. 
Taking into consideration their feed, they 
appear to lie in remarkably fine condition. 
Chemists would say that a stack of wheat 
straw anil chall’ was of little value for feed; 
but practical Northwestern experience says 
that the sumo straw stack will keep quite a 
number of cattle from getting either very hun¬ 
gry or very thin. It is worthy of note that 
high-grade cattle seem to keep iu far better 
condition on poor feed than the scrubs iu the 
same lot—another inducement for farmers 
to grade up. H. 
Illinois. 
Chicauo, Cook Co., May 17.—The areas 
which I reported suffering for want of rain 
have been greatly refreshed since my dispatch 
of May 10. The season has been such an un 
even one, and very dry here, dry somewhere 
else and again wet in other portions of the 
Northwest., that it has been almost impossible 
so far to give a condensed statement of the 
general outlook, and although I report rain 
to-day as having fallen very recently iu Min¬ 
nesota, Dakota, portions of Nebraska, por¬ 
tions of Iowa, and also Kansas, the ground is 
still dry. Very few persons realize the fact 
that we had an exceedingly dry summer in 
1886. and it has been followed by an unpre¬ 
cedentedly dry spring, and the moisture in 
the soil has dried out to a greater degree thau 
usual. Although the spring wheat belt has 
started out under unusually favorable auspi¬ 
ces, at the same time the weather during the 
past week in the Red River Valley was so in¬ 
tensely hot that the crop, even before it had 
fairly made a stand, was threatened with seri¬ 
ous disaster. These conditions are now for the 
time being all relieved, hence I took particu¬ 
lar pains in my last dispatch to make the 
statement that seasonable rains, frequent and 
copious, seemed to me to be more than usually 
essential to the successful outcome of the 
growing cropsof 1887. Winter wheat has also 
held its own. The effect of the rains of 
four weeks ago has beeu to save it from 
further depreciation, but they have not had 
the general marked good effect that was 
expected. I cannot see much difference in the 
outlook between Kansas and Ohio, although 
they are very wide apart and subjected to 
very different conditions. Kansas has, in ad¬ 
dition to dry weather, had to contend very 
seriously during the last two or three weeks 
with insects. The recent rain, however, has 
had a very beneficial effect so far as checking 
the work of the chinch bugs. This is the only 
State so far where they have been reported 
in numbers sufficient to do general injury. 
The outlook in Missouri still continues very 
fair, and I am looking for the best crop of 
winter wheat from Illinois, sooth of the Ohio 
and Mississippi Railway. The weather iu 
Michigan is reported still as dry and cold, and 
the wheat has run down considerably in this 
State during the last ten days. The outlook 
in Indiana is better thau iu Ohio. This con¬ 
densed statement shows that there is no even¬ 
ness in the character of the crop. My last 
dispatch showed that we were finishing up 
corn planting. That work is now all done 
everywhere. I cannot remember a season 
when the corn planting of the country as a 
whole has been done as early uuder condi¬ 
tions as favorable, aud with the prospects of 
so good a stand as at the present time. There 
is very little grain of any kind moving out of 
farmers’ hands at the present time, and with 
the exception of oats I do not think the re¬ 
serves are in excess. N. w. 
New York. 
Apalachin, Tioga Co., May, 14.— The 
weather is hot during the day aud cold at 
night. We had frost the night of May 13. 
Very dry; no rain since oat sowing. A large 
area of potatoes will be planted in this vicin¬ 
ity. Potatoes have beeu selling at 75 cents; 
but are somewhat lower at present. Veal 
calves 4% cents; other things proportionately 
low. c. T. G. 
Utica, Oneida Co., May 17.—The butter 
market has been very dull for the past week; 
receipts are small. The outlook for the pres¬ 
ent. week is not encouraging, and prices may 
take a lower drop yet. From 16 to 18 cents 
are paid for butter, and it is selling at from 20 
to 22 ceuts, with some extra at 23 cents, and 
one fine lot held at 24 cents. The receipts 
have beeu 115 packages. Little Falls sold 30 
packages, mainly at 21 ceuts, The cheese 
market was a trifie dull, ruling % cents less 
than last week, selling, however, 1,053 boxes 
more. The prospects are for a market more 
active next week. Several large factories and 
considerable cheese have beeu destroyed by 
fire in this vicinity lately. Board quotations 
have 150 boxes at 10 c p nts; 50 boxes at 10% 
820 boxes at 10%; 1,205 boxes at 10%; 350 
boxes at 10%; 210 boxes at 10%; ?J boxes at 
10%; 1,267 boxes on commission; total, 5,370 
boxes, ruling at 10%. Domestic receipts, 60 
boxes. Total market, 5,480 boxes. Little 
Falls sold 4,114 boxes, ruling 10%'. Reports 
from the hop country continue to confirm the 
statement that many hop yards are in bad 
condition, with feeble roots, and that many 
others have beeu plowed up. The roots look 
better on the surface than deep down. A 
dealer in East Springfield has 12,000 pounds 
of ’85s on hand', waiting for results. Contin¬ 
ued ravages have discouraged many. Roots 
are worth about $2 per bushel. If this year’s 
crop fails it will kill the busiucss very largely. 
R. J. 
Tennessee. 
Tullahoma, Coffee Co., May 9.—Al¬ 
though this has been a very cool, back¬ 
ward spring, the farmers are well up with 
their work. The earliest planted corn is now 
ready for the plow. Strawberries are ripe, 
with a prospect of fair crop, and we are selling 
them in our home market for 70 cents a gal 
Ion. Peaches and apples will be about half 
crops. This country is fast filling up with 
Northern people, and land is rapidly advanc¬ 
ing in price. Our winters are short and mild, 
the summers long and pleasant, the mercury 
seldom falling below zero in winter, and 
rarely rising alwve 95 degrees in summer, 
while a constant breeze from the mountains 
makes it cool in the shade. c. a. 
Virginia. 
Richmond, Henrico Co., May 16.—The at¬ 
tention of dealers and manufacturers of 
tobacco is directed more towards the crops 
being planted than the stock on hand, and not 
much will be done in leaf tobacco till it is cer¬ 
tain that the crop will not exceed one half an 
average. The next two or three weeks will 
determine what the quantity will be. There 
is, however, but little hope of an advance on 
common fillet's and nondescript grades until 
the stocks are decreased by consumption. 
Common shipping plugs and leaf show more 
strength in several Virginia markets this 
week, while fine leaf is improving in this 
market more than lower grades. Receipts 
are comparatively small. New cutters are 
accumulating, and few sales have been made. 
Prices are high—from 22% cents to 30 cents 
for good to line cigarette stock. Rome new 
wrappers are selling and a few old ones, but 
the market is uot by any means brisk. There 
is but little buying on the Austrian, German 
and Italian orders. Thus far sampling has 
been light of the class wanted. The Italian 
order is for about 2,000 hogsheads Virginia 
only, and it was awarded to the same two 
parties who controlled it last year. The manu¬ 
facturing interest is very quiet, a natural 
result of heavy shipments in March aud April 
prior to the new railroad tariff. The export 
cigarette trade in noted Richmond brands has 
been very good. Plug dull, with foreign 
buyers demanding still lower prices. 
_T. H. M. 
COMMCXICATIOSS R EC RIVED FOB THE WEEK ENDING 
Mat M, 1887. 
T J. K.. potatoes and strawberry plants received— 
B. J.—F. E. S.—J. B. L.—C. B.—J. J. H. G., potato re¬ 
ceived.—N. W. 8.. peas received—T. F. B.—N?H.—P. H. 
J.—W. J. B.—H. S.-B. B.-G. H. W.—W. S. B—W. S. C. 
—H. J. C., thanks.—M. L. D.—T. B. B„ Jr.-A. M. B —W. 
O. F.-J. W. R.-F. K. B.-A. E. M. B.-K. B.-H. S.-E. 
L. T.-P. n. J.-A. C.C.-O. H. J.-J. L F.-F. E' S.-A. 
C. C., the B. G. are full o( trial things for this season.— 
H. S.-L. T.-A. E. M. C.-A. B. 
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