THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 18,1887. 
Most of the silversmiths here have resolved 
to abandon the K. of L., and go to work on 
the conditions offered by the “bosses.”.... 
A $30,000 statue of President Arthur is to be 
raised in this city; over $15,000 already sub¬ 
scribed, and more money pouring in steadily. 
.The probability grows stronger that 
the Panama Canal will be a fiasco. After He 
Lesseps has been forced to abandon it, how¬ 
ever, and his subscribers have lost their in¬ 
vestment, other parties are likely to complete 
the unfinished work. It would seem that this 
opening is just what American speculators 
and capitalists are expecting or praying for.. 
.Ex-Vice-President Wheeler left a few 
bequests to individuals, and $25,000—most of 
his property—to home missions. The will, of 
course, is to be contested, as the lawyers are 
sure of their pay so long as anything is left... 
.Friends of Attorney-General Garland 
say that he was offered the position on the 
United States Supreme bench, but declined it. 
It is now said that Sec. Lamar can have the 
place if he wants it. The convention to 
consider the division of Dakota has been, cal 1- 
ed for July 7.........., The Dominion Parlia¬ 
ment has appropriated a million dollars to 
build the new Sault Ste Marie Canal. 
.A lodge of Anarchists, numbering 90, 
has been discovered in Columbus, Ohio. 
.Before BJajne left he had received over 
500 invitations from prominent people in the 
United Kingdom and the Continent asking 
him to visit them. Last visit to Europe to 
atteud the Paris Exposition of 1807. Beached 
England safely on Tuesday.. 
West Point graduated 04 cadets Saturday.... 
.The trial of the Bell Telephone case in 
Boston was concluded Wednesday. The Court 
reserved decision. . .Foreigners visiting 
Cuba must henceforth be furnished with pass¬ 
ports: cost, $L..Mr. W. W. Corcoran, 
of Washington, continues to improve. 
The statement of the public debt of the Do¬ 
minion for May shows the net debt, after de¬ 
ducting assets of $44,420,125, to be $225,476,- 
940, an increase since April 31st of $370,985. 
The total expenditure of the Dominion on 
capital account to date is $4,914,310.Judge 
Bond, of the U. S. District Court, sitting at 
Raleigh, has just decided that the N. C. State 
officials must levy a special tax to pay the 
overdue interest ou the $ 10 , 000,000 loan made 
in 1809. The State has tried to repudiate this 
debt, and the iuterest has remained unpaid so 
long that it must now amount to almost as 
much as the origiual loan. 
....The Logan Fund amounts to $03,034, of 
which $18,000 were raised in Chicago. The 
remaining $53,000 came from all over the 
country. New York contributed most. 
There were 87 $1,000-subscriptions.At¬ 
torney-General Clapp, of Minnesota, says the 
New High-license law, which goes into effect 
next month, does not affect wholesalers, being 
confined to those having a license for the sale 
of liquors in quantities less than five gallons 
.A London friend of Stanley’s says the 
explorer has bought land enough iu Africa to 
make him the largest white land owner in the 
Dark Continent before he dies. He has white 
witnesses to all his purchases from the chiefs 
and the transactions are in writing. 
For some months very little Rio coffee hus 
been sold to dealers, as speculators here bol¬ 
stered up the prices so high that jobbers and 
retailers “lived from hand-to-mouth,” aud i 
other brands of coffee sympathized with Rio. 
Last Monday the corner collapsed and coffee 
fell six cents a pound, and would have gone 
lower, were it not that the two largest coffee 
firms jumped to the rescue of tottering houses 
and between them bought in $4,000,000 worth. 
The day’s sales were 412,000 bags—more tliau 
twice as much as the sales of auy other day 
in the history of the trade. It was not till 
Thursday that the market regained confidence 
and in the interval fortunes were lost aud 
made, one firm—Arnold & Co.—losing about 
$1,000,000. The coffee markets of the world 
were at once affected by the collapse; but 
trade is now healthy and coffee selling at fail- 
prices. ...-The silver vault at Washington 
is crammed to its utmost capacity, and over 
8,000,000 standard dollars are piled in sacks 
in the passageways for want of room in the 
vaults. A new silver vault with a capacity 
of 100,000,000 staudard dollars will be ready 
iu September. The Statue of Nathan 
Hale, the Patriot Spy of the Revolution, was 
unveiled at Hartford, Conn., Tuesday. 
.Tuesday Ex-Sec. W. E. Chandler was 
elected United States Senator from N. H., to 
fill the uuexpired term of the late Senator 
Pike; term expires March 4,1389. Republi¬ 
cans voted unanimously in favor.Tuesday 
was the 110th anniversary of the adoption 
of the Stars and Stripes as the national 
emblem.A New York picnic party of 
3,000 Anarchists, at Guttenbcrg, N. J., last 
Sunday, maddened by the sight of the Stars 
and Stripes pinned on a reporter’s coat, 
mauled him unmercifully, attacked a number 
of others and played havoc generally with 
stenes aud pistols. Local police powerless. 
Many injured more or less severely.The 
newspapers have laid out an extensive West¬ 
ern electioneering tour for the President in 
the fall; but there’s nothing official about the 
reports.The losses by the great Have- 
meyer sugar refinery fire, at Greeu Point, 
L. I , Saturday morning, amounted to fully 
$1,750,000—property insured to a fair percent¬ 
age of its value. Six constitutional 
ameudmeuts will be submitted to the people 
of Texas on August 4. Five relate to a reor¬ 
ganization of the judiciary, aud the sixth, 
which transeeuds all the others in popular 
interest, provides for a State Prohibitory Con¬ 
stitutional Amendment. In spite of the great 
efforts of the “rum power,” it now seems 
likely to pass. .. . Before starting on his 
late fishiug trip, the President ordered all the 
captured rebel battle-flags, now in charge of 
the War Department, to be returned to the 
authorities of the respective States in which 
the regiments that bore them were organized 
for the rebellion. The matter was kept quiet 
until Tuesday, when it became generally 
known. Great indignation among the 
Grand Army of the Republic aud many other 
classes in the North. Violent protests; much 
questioning as to whether the President or 
Secretary of War had uny legitimate author¬ 
ity to do such a thing without the consent of 
Congress. Several ol' the States, especially 
Ohio, were about to appeal to the courts to 
prevent the “outrage.” On Wednesday the 
President countermanded the order, on the 
ground that the “return of the flags in the 
manner contemplated is not authorized by ex¬ 
isting law nor justified as an executive act.” 
“Any direction as to the final disposition of 
them should originate with Congress.” A bad 
political blunder.The law of Wyoming 
not only allows women to vote, but specially 
provides that there shall be no discrimination 
on account of sex in the pay for any kind of 
work.There are said to be 2,000,000 
native-born Irish in the United States, besides 
4,500,000 native Americans of Irish parentage. 
Green Erin has but 3,54)0,000 Irish, about a 
half of the number at the beginning of the 
century.Tramps are becoming a very 
lively issue about Duluth, Minn. Last week 
the police raided several resorts of vagabonds 
iu the outskirts of the city, and fought with 
the rascals, driving them away. Thursday 
the baud re-appeared at the Northern Pacific 
Junction, aud were driven out of town. That 
evening they reached Spirit Luke and began 
terrorizing the inhabitants. A fanner uarned 
Swanson was hanged by the neck until he was 
nearly dead A special train manned by rail¬ 
way police, fully armed, went to the seoue 
from Duluth, but the tramps had fled. Some¬ 
what similar reports have been coming fre¬ 
quently from various other places since the 
opening of flue weather... 
Massachusetts is to receive $12,903, Con¬ 
necticut aud Maiue each $5,529 and New 
Hampshire, Rhode Island aud Vermont each 
$3,080 of the $400,000 appropriated by Con¬ 
gress to pi ovide arms aud equipments for the 
militia.. Louis Schmidt, who was 
prominent in the Riel rising of 1870, is said to 
be fanning the discontent still existing among 
half-breeds in the Canadian Northwest, and 
unless prompt measures are taken to pacify 
them, trouble is feared.Tombstone, 
Ariz., has a curfew ordinance which requires 
every one under 18 years of age to go home 
at the ringing of a bell at 8:30 p, m.. 
Greater numbers of Cbiuese than ever before 
are said to be leaving the Pacific coast this 
year and coming East. Most of them are 
bound for New York... A bill for un extra ap¬ 
propriation of $200,000 for the Michigan Uni¬ 
versity has been vetoed by Gov. Luce, About 
a third of the amount was for an experiment. 
al laboratory.Omaha’s Fourth of 
July celebration is to bo managed by the 
Knights of Labor—.Mr. Blake has 
withdrawn from the leadership of the Liberal 
Party iu Canada on account of ill health— 
rather awkward for the L. P.The 
coal monopolists of Pa., have announced an 
advance of 10 to 15 cents a ton to take effect 
July 1—yards nearly empty, as strikes and 
their own action have been limiting produc¬ 
tion.Attorney-General Garland haH 
issued an order reducing the salaries of assist¬ 
ant district attorneys 20 per cent, after July 1, 
and ordering the discharge of all assistants 
whose services can be dispensed with. Ap¬ 
propriations insufficient . 
. .No doubt of a serious split iu the Order of 
IC. of L. The anti-Powderly-District-49 ele¬ 
ment appears resolved, unless they can have 
their own way, to join the Improved K. of L., 
an organization started in Boston two or three 
years ago, but which has hitherto had only a 
small membership.Four thousand barbers 
in Illinois have petitioned the State Senate for 
a law closing all shops in that State on Sun¬ 
day..., An officer of the Kentucky Distillers’ 
Association states that there are now in bond 
iu Kentucky 89,000,000 gallons of whiskey, 
18,000,000 gallons of which were distilled last 
year, and that there are in foreign ports 
5,000,000 gallons belonging to Kentucky men, 
iu all making a supply great enough to last, 
three years. The association, which repre¬ 
sents 95 per cent, of the producing capacity of 
the State, has voted to cease the production of 
whiskey uutil October 1, 1888....... Ex-Seere- 
tary Manning arrived here from Europe on 
Saturday, improved in health and ready to 
start in the banking business....The powers 
of the Illinois Live Stock Commissioners have 
been enlarged by the Legislature...Land 
Commissioner Sparks declares that no more 
patents can bo issued to the Burliugtou aud 
Missouri River R. R. Co. for lands north of 
the line iu Nebraska, because the Co. received 
under former Administrations, 200,000 acres 
more than it is entitled to President Cleve¬ 
land resumed his usual routine at the White 
House Saturday.The insane passenger by 
the Cunard steamer Cepbalonia, on account of 
whose escape in Boston last week the captain 
was fined $1,000, haviug been captured and 
taken back t.o England on another Cunarder, 
the fine has been remitted. 
..The members of the Massachusetts Legisla¬ 
ture have raised their own salaries from $750 
to $850—a bad “ salary grab.”... The murder¬ 
ing Apaches are still on the war trail. Miles 
himself is after them.Several of the Hud¬ 
son River steamers have begun to toll their 
bells on passing Grant’s tomb at Riverside 
Park, after the fashion of the Potomac steam- 
el's passing Mt. Vernon. Most of the Hudson 
River steamers use whistles instead of bells, 
and it is hardly thought right to blow them on 
passing... .Some of the Canadian members of 
Parliament angrily accuse the U. S. consular 
agents iu the Dominion of being active emi¬ 
gration agents for the United States. Others 
accuse the Grand Trunk Railway of being the 
worst agent; for as it isn’t allowed to extend its 
lines into the Northwest, it has no iuterest in 
building up that section, and offers great in¬ 
ducements to emigrants to travel over its lines 
into this country.. . Findlay, Ohio, has a popu¬ 
lation of 10,000 and doesn’t use a ton of coal 
ora cord of wood for light or fuel iu a month. 
It has struck gas—natural sort—abundantly, 
and has just held a jubilee to celebrate the 
anniversary of the “strike.” Price about $10 
a year for fuel aud light—10 cents a month for 
a stove aud five cents per burner. The noise 
of the Karg well can be heard 10 miles away 
aud the pressure of the gas is eight times that 
allowed to steam boilers. Natural gas excite¬ 
ment is growing iu a multitude of sections of 
the West.... Lieut. J. W. Graydon is reported 
to have discovered a new explosive which 
he claims to be cheaper than dynamite, much 
less dangerous to make aud handle, and six or 
seven times more powerful as an explosive: 
to be used eheilly for blasting purposes, and 
also for artillery shells. Graydon is to experi¬ 
ment for the government at Sandy Hook. He 
claims to he able to fire the shells from can¬ 
nons loaded with powder. 
..It is estimated that upward of 100,000 stran¬ 
gers assisted at the dedication of the New 
Haven Soldiers’ and Sailors’ monument at. 
East Rock Park in that city_This morn¬ 
ing’s Brad.street says but 0,000 strikers are 
recorded in the first half of June, uu average 
of 400 daily, against about 05,000, or 4,000 
daily, in the first half of May. The coke 
strike has finally collapsed, and the record is 
worth noting. The strikers have lost from 
$000,000 to $8o0,000 in wages, and one-quarter 
of their number have received uu advance 
in wages equivalent to $200,000 per annum. 
About 20,000 others forced iuto idleness by 
the coko strike have lost $1,400,000 in wages. 
,...A National statute protects importers of 
liquors from prosecution under any State law 
for selling such goods in the original unbroken 
packages. An enterprising “rum fiend” of 
Augusta, Maine, taking advantage of this 
statute, lias publicly exposed for sale in that 
town a choice lot of Irish whiskey and Ja¬ 
maica mm. Prohibitionists puzzled how to 
act....The Bay State Gas Company, a Now 
York corporation, expects to get control of 
all the Boston gas companies at a cost of 
$10,000,009, after the fashion of the Philadel¬ 
phia syndicate that has got a monopoly of 
lighting up Chicago-Jake Sharp’s jury was 
at last completed on Tuesday after 1,923 tales¬ 
men had been summoned in the 21 days the 
Court sat. Trial now ou. 
.Nina Van Zandt, the proxy bride 
of Anarchist Spies, is failing rapidly in 
health, uud will nurdly live long enough to 
learn the decision of the Supreme Court with 
regard to the Anarchists’ fate.. The 
Supreme Court of Georgia has just sustained 
the Will of the lutu David Dickson who died a 
bachelor and left seven-eighths of his fortune 
of $600,000 to his colored mistress aud daugh¬ 
ter. His numerous white relations contested 
the will, but the court rules that negroes 
have the same civil rights as the white people 
and that the will must stand.The 
backbone of the great Pennsylvania coke 
strike is broken, and 12,000 of the men who 
have been “out” for the past three months 
will go to work Monday. This will soon set 
to work upwards of 20.000 other men forced 
into idleness by scarcity of coke for iron 
works.. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday. June 18, 1887. 
The Michigan House has passed a bill mak¬ 
ing a provision of the State constitution 
operative, providing that corporations owning 
unoccupied lands shall he compelled to sell 
them after holding ten years so as to limit the 
opportunities for land speculation all over the 
State.... A plague of insects resembling can- 
tharides, or Spanish flies, has been afflicting 
the region round Trenton, Mo. They came in 
perfect swarms, greedily devouring vegeta¬ 
tion, while their blistering power on the 
human body was fully equal to that of cantha- 
rides. Fully 1,000 persons were nursing blis¬ 
ters at last accounts, and lights were almost 
abandoned in residences at night for fear of 
attracting the poisonous pests.A plan is 
now under consideration of the Fruit Dealers’ 
League of this city to reorganize under a new 
name and modified by-laws iu order to em¬ 
brace the confectionery trade.The Secre¬ 
tary of tho Interior has rescinded his order of 
March 26, 1886, withdrawing from the opera¬ 
tion of the public land laws fractional range 
41 in the State of Colorado for the purposes of 
a national cattle trail.The Duke of Port¬ 
land has sold his famous Clydesdale stallion 
Cairnbrogie Keir to Gailbraith Brothers, of 
Janesville, Wis,, for so large a figure that the 
purchasers insisted on keeping it secret. 
United States Consul Eckstein, at Amsterdam, 
in a report to the Department of State upon 
the acqusition of land in Sumatra by foreign¬ 
ers, notes as an interesting fact that the two 
principal companies in Holland engaged iu 
the culture of tobacco in Sumatra have just 
declared yearly dividends amounting to 108>£ 
per cent, and 100 per cent . 
In 1869 the proportion ofwool exported in the 
grease from Australia amounted to only 30 
per cent, of the whole; in 1886 it amounted to 
70 per cent, of the whole. At this rate wash¬ 
ing will soon be wholly out of date in Australia 
... .The number of horses exported from the 
port of New York during the past four years 
and their value were as follows: Iu 1888, 510 
head; value, $101,750. In 1884, 488 head; 
value, $181,635. In 1885, 875 head; value, 
$143,481, In 1886, 888 head; value, $159,858.. 
.... The number of horses in Australia is given 
as 348,300, against 837,172 in 1885, an increase 
of 11,128.. -..Sweden sent abroad more 
than $4,000,000 worth of butter last year. 
Free trade is said to be playing the mischief 
with hop growing in England. The free in¬ 
troduction of foreign hops lias reduced the 
price of the article from 300 shillings to 30 
shillings per cwt., and threatens to destroy an 
industry that gives employment to 3,000,000 
English men, women and children.The 
value of alleged genuine butter exported from 
the United States during the period of live 
years and nine months, from July 1, 1881, to 
March 31, 1887, was $17,200,058. The value of 
oleo. oil exported during the same period was 
$22,683,263, and of artificial butter $417,185, 
in all $23,000,438.. Gov. Adams, of 
Colo., has revoked the cattle quarantine 
against Town, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas. 
... .The National Bureau of Animal Industry 
and the nuthoritiesof infected .States are busily 
and earnestly at work stamping out conta¬ 
gious pleuro-pucurnonia at Chicago and in the 
Atlantic States. Whon the plague is sup¬ 
pressed at Chicago, Prof. Law and the other 
veterinarians now engaged there will come 
East to help in its eradication... 
The other day a special vegetable train of 12 
cars, on the Union Pacific, arrived at Chicago 
from San Francisco loaded with potatoes— 
freight rate $1 per 100 pounds. The Atlantic 
aud Pacific is likely to run similar traius from 
Southern California. It pays the roads, and 
is pretty certain to pay the California garden¬ 
ers and j.»otato raisers.Tho first new 
wheat of the season was sold iu Baltimore 
yesterday at $1 per bushel. It was Virginia- 
grown grain of very poor quality and in had 
condition.Guv Webber, of Cincin¬ 
nati, acting for Eastern capitalists, yesterday 
concluded the purchase of 2,000 ,000 acres of 
land in Sonora, Mexico. Tho purchase was 
made from different persons, and tho purpose 
is to establish an American colony.. 
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Saturday, June, 18, 1887. 
According to the latest European mail ad¬ 
vices the crops are as follows: 
The English grain crops are very backward 
§jtU#rfUuurou# ^Uvcvtitfing. 
DIXON’S “Carburet of Iron” Stove Polish was 
established In 1B17, anil la to day, as it was then, the 
neatest and brightest iu the market; a pure plumbago, 
giving olt no poisonous vapors. The size Is now doub 
ed aud eake weighs nearly half a pound, but the quail- 
tt and price remain the same. Ask your grocer for 
Dlxou’s big cake. 
