THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
of t\)C WooK. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 9, 1887. 
Secretary Whitney has effected his re¬ 
organization of the Navy Department. The 
Paymaster-General is made a general buying 
agent and the Bureau of Provisions aud Cloth¬ 
ing becomes the general warehouse of the 
Department. A saving is effected iu the num¬ 
ber of employes by reducing them from 208 to 
138. Hitherto one Bureau might have a 
wasteful excess of any commodity, while 
another would have to go into the market for 
the same goods ; while if cotton were wanted 
in New Orleans it was sent thither from 
"Washington..... 
_Judge Dendy, of Oregon, holds that rail¬ 
roads must live aud may make rates between 
termini where competing lines resort to water 
routes, which are lower than their rates for a 
much shorter haul .Minneapolis has 
passed an ordinance removing all restrictions 
as to the hours during which saloons shall he 
kept open—wants to give salooniste the most 
for their high license.Once 
more a sad affair occurs between Southern 
negroes and white people ; this time at Bay 
Ridge, La. A band of white men attempted 
to whip a negro living with a “low-down” white 
woman. Some of his uegro friends fired on 
the whites from ambush. Hence a coutlict. 
Two whites thus far killed, three wounded 
and twelve dead negroes, half of whom were 
lyuched. It is understood that the 
Dominion Government will not entertain any 
proposal for the purchase of the Intercolonial 
Railway until the effect of the construction 
of the short line through the State of Maine 
has been ascertained.. Canadian 
cholera is more prevalent in Montreal this 
season than for many years past. Children 
are dying from cholera infantum at au alarm¬ 
ing rate.A report from the law 
division of the Pension Bureau shows that on 
July 1, 188fl, there were 2,055 appealed eases 
pending in the office and that 2,049 appeals 
were filed during the year. Of this number 
3,636 have been disposed of, leaving on the 
docket, July 1, 1,618 cases. Fifty criminal 
cases have been prosecuted resulting in the 
conviction of 13 offenders. One was ac¬ 
quitted and 36 cases ftro now pending. Five 
thousand two hundred aud seventy-five dol¬ 
lars in illegal fees hnve been recovered from 
attorneys.....Owing to the reduction 
of receipts, due to the prohibitory law, the 
Government’s international revenue office for 
Mississippi has been transferred to the Louisi¬ 
ana office. The receipts have fallen below 
$50,000, and are decreasing annually. 
....It is reported from Idaho that a number 
of Chinese mining camps along Snake River 
have been raided either by Indians or whites. 
Numerous mutilated bodies of Chiuameu 
have come down stream, four or five being 
found together a lew days since. It is 
thought to bo the work of white men who 
robbed the Chinese of their gold dust. It 
is said the Chinese Minister at Washington 
has beeu informed of the outrage. 
... .T^e Ohio Prohibitionists, in convention at 
Delaware, last week, nominated Morris 
Sharpe, of Washington C. H., for Governor; 
Walter Thomas Mills, of Wooster, for Lieut. - 
Governor, and a full State ticket, besides for¬ 
mulating au excellent platform .The 
latest reports indicate that in spito of the ru¬ 
mors of great business depression aud heavy 
taxation said to be duo to Prohibition in At¬ 
lanta, Ga., the first year’s trial, just over, has 
proved so successful that many of the old op¬ 
ponents of the movement have been convert¬ 
ed; and now it is generally conceded that 
Prohibition has gone there to stay.It is 
reported that the Canadian militia is to be re¬ 
organized so as to nearly double its numbers. 
The Northwest Mouuted Police force is also 
to be increased.Jacob Sharp celebrated 
his 70th birthday, Wednesday. The as¬ 
sessed valuation of New York city for 1886 is: 
Real estate, $1,254,471,000, an increase of $50,- 
550,000; personal, $253,148,000, an increase of 
$36,121,000; total, $1,507,640,000 .. 
The Grand Army of the Republic is to bold its 
first eneamptneut. In any Southern State at St. 
Louis, from September 27 to 30, inclusive, at 
the invitation of citizens of all parties. On 
February 26 the city representatives invited 
President Cleveland to be present, aud though 
he made no official response, he verbally ac¬ 
cepted the invitation. Some time back n num¬ 
ber of the posts of the G. A. R., notably those 
of Iowa, strongly objected to his presence at 
that time, as it might appear as if he were 
seeking the favor of the organization for elec¬ 
tion purposes next year, aud they wero highly 
indignant at his numerous vetoes of iudividu- 
al pension bills and especially of the great pen¬ 
sion bill during the last session of Congress. 
About.two-thirds of the organization are Re¬ 
publicans, aud although it is theoretically 
strictly non-partisan, it is, of course, impossi¬ 
ble to restrain individual expressions of opin¬ 
ions, and some of the officers were loud aud 
bitter in their denunciations of the President. 
The “Battle Flags” trouble coming afterwards 
added greatly to the feeling of hostility,and on 
July 4 the President officially declined to be 
present on the ground that his acceptance of 
the invitation “would lead to discord iu the 
organization as well as to un interruption of 
the cordiality of the coming encampment.” 
Much indiguation among citizens of St. Louis; 
but the encampment promises to be one of the 
largest aud most enthusiastic ever held. The 
President will not go West at all this summer. 
He has promised to be present at the centen¬ 
nial of Clinton, N. Y,, July 15, and the four 
G. A. R. Posts of Utica, N. Y., have resolved 
not to parade there as they intended, if he is 
present....Hon. Duncan F. Kenner, prominent 
in La. for 50 years as a planter, politician, 
and sportsman, died at New Orleans July 3, 
aged 74. Owned four fine plantations and 
was president of the Louisiana Sugar Plant¬ 
ers’ Association, and of the Matarie Jockey 
Club. Leuves a large fortune and a good re¬ 
putation.In June, 1886, the Legislature 
of N. J. invited the Governors aud Repre¬ 
sentatives of the 18 origiunl States to meet in 
Philadelphia to consider the propriety of a 
national celebration of the centenuial anni¬ 
versary of the framing and promulgation of 
the Constitution of the United States. Fep- 
resentatives met Dec. 2,1882, and officers were 
elected. The celebration is to take place at 
Philadelphia, Sept. 17 next, and promises to 
be a grand fete for the Quaker City.. 
At a church sociable at Amboy, Ohio, Satur¬ 
day night, 200 people were poisoned by ice¬ 
cream. All have recovered. Some attri¬ 
bute the mishap to the flavoring, others to the 
crime of some miscreant who put poison in 
the cream.Since July 1, 1880,112,340 
pensions have been allowed by the Pension 
Office, and $74,000,000 have been paid to ex¬ 
soldiers and sailors.“Lucky” Baldwin, 
the California millionaire sportsman, is suing 
the St. Louis Fair Association tor $2,050. Last 
year a match was made up between Bald¬ 
win’s celebrated race-horse, Yolante, and J. 
B. Haggiu's Tyrant, aud the St. Louis Asso¬ 
ciation offered the top prize, $4,100, to have 
the race run on its grounds. Volante had a 
walk-over, as Haggins decided not to start 
Tyrant, and the Association gave Baldwin 
$2,050—half the prize. He sues for the other 
half, on the ground that as it was a special 
contract, the ordinary race rules for a walk¬ 
over do not apply.. 
.... Carrier-pigeons are earning new laurels. 
Mr. E. S. Dorman, of Plainfield, New Jersey, 
recently welcomed home a carrier-pigeon 
which had come from Washington, North 
Carolina, iu about 24 hours—a distance of 500 
miles.The Utah Constitutional Con¬ 
vention is discussing a clause of the proposed 
constitution making polygamy forever unlaw¬ 
ful should the Territory he admitted as a 
State, and making the consent of Congress 
necessary before this provision can be amend¬ 
ed. It is doubtful whether such a provision is 
sanctioned by any law, State or national. 
Thomas Ballard, the most skillful and notor¬ 
ious counterfeiter iu the country, sentenced 
January 21, 1875, at Albauy, N. Y., for count¬ 
erfeiting, has been pardoned by the President. 
Advanced age and failing health of the pris¬ 
oner are the reasons given........The annual 
convention of the order of Royal Scottish 
Clans ended at Chicago Wednesday. The 
next convention will be held iu Boston....... 
Henlon Miller, treasurer of Perry County, 
Ind., has vanished,a defaulter to the extent of 
$67,000....A villainous combination at Chi¬ 
cago called “the coal ring” has begun thus 
early to advance prices, aud $10 or more a ton 
will be demanded by winter.. ..Yellow fever 
is spreading at Key West, Fla....There are 
newspaper reports that Dr. McGlynn has 
been excommunicated by the Pope; but the 
Catholic authorities here, from Archbishop 
Corrigan down, profess to have received no 
official information on the matter as yet. 
Still this morning’s papers say the excommu¬ 
nication will be promulgated to morrow...... 
Clarendon, in the Pennsylvania oil regions, 
was burnt Monday, leaving 1,100people home¬ 
less. Supposed to have been the crime of the 
owner of tlie Weaver House, mad at being 
deprived of bis rum-selling license; 106 houses 
cremated, loss $850,000.A big new gas 
well has been opened near Fort Scott, Kansas. 
At Paoli the other day theru was a great cele¬ 
bration of discovery of nutural gas iu Kausas. 
....It is now estimated that the losses from 
destruction of the city of "Marshfield, Wis., 
will not be less than $3,000,000, and they may 
be nearly $3,500,000. Twelve blocks were de¬ 
stroyed, and but one house remains unscathed. 
.... When the N. Y. Legislature adjourned it 
left 338 bills in the hands of the Governor. He 
had 30 days to act on them,and he disapproved 
97, half because he had no .timeto give them 
proper consideration, and the rest either be¬ 
cause they were badly drafted or because he 
couldn’t approve the measures they enacted. 
. After trying for 20 years the res¬ 
idents of Northern Michigan have at last suc¬ 
ceeded in securing the passage of a bill to pro¬ 
hibit. the following of deer with hounds, and 
the Governor has signed the bill.. 
The books of the Cincinnati Fidelity Bank are 
officially stated to have been so loosely kept 
that the examination now being made will 
probably show them to be nearly $500,000 out 
of the way. This w f as before Harper scuttled 
the bank. From jail he is now accusing his 
former confederates—wealthy saints of Cincin¬ 
nati—of swindling and all sorts of turpitude, 
and says he can prove the truth of his 
charges. The Omaha Knights of 
Labor have raised $7,000 of the $100,000 
which they want for a big labor head quar¬ 
ters building. The Knights managed the 
Fourth of July celebration at Omaha, and 
added to this fund the money left over. The 
Chicago K. of L. got Dr. McGlynn to speak at 
their meeting on the glorious Fourth, and 
made $1,000 less than expenses . 
The Cherokee Nation arc having an exciting 
political campaign, with meetings aud barbe¬ 
cues and rows that sometimes end fatally. 
The election for Principal Chief, Circuit 
Judges and district officers takes place August 
I. Rabbit Bunch, a well-educated full-blood, 
is the National Party’s candidate and is sup¬ 
ported by Chief Bushyliead, who has held 
office for eight years. The opposition or 
“Downing” party favor the election of Joel 
B. Mayes, formerly Chief Justice of the Cher¬ 
okee Supreme Court. Mayes is likely to get 
the hair breed, floating, aud negro vote 
and will probably win. ....The Ga. Legis¬ 
lature met in midsummer session Wednesday, 
and the session will probably last three 
months. The sale of the State road, the con¬ 
vict leases and the local option bills will occupy 
the attention of the body.The Judge, a 
lively comic weekly of this city, is trying to 
raise money for the Grant Monument Fund 
by offering prizes for various objects. The 
last series was for those who should name the 
11 most popular persons in the United States, 
the first prize going to tho contestant naming 
the greatest number of the 11, who by com¬ 
mon consent of the voters are the most popu¬ 
lar, each voter paying 50 cents towards the 
fund. There were 050 voters and about 200 
preferences. The persons receiving the most 
votes or “mentions,” oath voter submitting 11 
names, were the following: James G. Blaine, 
779; Grover Cleveland, 761; John Sherman, 
507; W, T. Sherman, 491; David B. Hill, 434; 
T. DeWitt Tutelage, 404; Philip H. Sheridan, 
392; Chauucey M. Depow. 205; Pbineas T. 
Barnum, 225; Roscoe Coukliug. 224; William 
M. Evarts, 205. Of the 200 who are popular, 
but not popular enough to be among the first 
II, Henry George gets 157; Ben F. Butler, 
125; Dr. McGlynn, 71; Jay Gould, 64; Jeff. 
Davis, 33; “Buffalo Bill,” 27; Geo. W. Curtis, 
23; Cyrus Field, 17; Dan. Lamont, 16; Ex- 
Pres. Hayes,14, Sec. Lamar, 11; Cbas. A. Dana, 
10, and Joseph Pulitzer, 9, while a num¬ 
ber of others get lower figures dowu to one 
for “Mike Kelly,” tho base-ballist. “Judge” 
is a Republican paper which circulates chiefly 
in this city and the surrounding country. 
United States Senator Hearst's seat as Demo¬ 
crat for California, is said to be iu danger. 
Affidavits charging bribery in his election 
are said to have been filed with the Secre¬ 
tary of the Senate. .. 
On the Fourth a Sixth Ave. confectioner of 
this city sold a lot of ice-cream and 50 peo¬ 
ple were poisoned by it—18 of them seriously. 
They are all recovering, and tho confectioner 
offers $500 reward for the solution of the 
mystery.After all, only a few of 
the coke strikers in the Conuellsville, Pa. eoko 
region have returned to work, and the opera¬ 
tors have brought 150 Pinkerton men into the 
district mainly for the purpose of protecting 
“scabs” aud turning the strikers out of the hous¬ 
es belonging to the companies which own or 
control all the workingmen’s homes iu that sec¬ 
tion. Very bitter feeling engendered by the 
presence of the Pinkertons, aud bloodshed 
and loss of life feared.Between 11 
and 12 o’clock Wednesday night a fire broke 
out iu the wooden barracks within the citadel 
of Quebec, P. Q., aud extended 300 yurds. 
Barracks, stables, 26 horses, ammunition 
wagons, gun carriages, “the great field forgo” 
and many buildings were burnt. A number 
of bombs exploded aud for a time all the 
neighboring residents trembled, aud many of 
them fled for fear the magazine might ex¬ 
plode. Only a loss of $150,000 was suffered.. 
....A plank in tho platform of the new 
“American Party” started in Cal., declares 
tliut they are in favor of so amending the im¬ 
migration laws as to prevent the immigration 
of alien criminals and paupers as well as of all 
morally, bodily or mentally unfit for good 
citizenship, and of all laborers or artizans 
under contract. It favors “immediate and 
unconditional repeal of all naturalization 
laws,” so that no immigrant can ever become 
a citizen in future, but it excepts those who 
have already “declared their intentions.” No 
political controversy in other countries must 
be agitated or considered in the United States, 
norisauy non-resident alien to bo permitted to 
own or inherit land here. The boycott 
being a foreign institution, shall receive no 
indulgence in the “Amerlcau Party. 
... Cyrus Field says he and his associates did 
sell 78,000 shares of Manhattan Elevated Rail¬ 
road Stock to Jay Gould at $120 per share, 
and he further states “explicitly” that Mr. 
Gould has acted in a perfectly satisfactory 
manner, and that the most friendly feeling 
exists between them. It is reported that he 
has also sold to Gould uearlv all bis Western 
Union Telegraph stock. Gould is negotiating 
with the Baltimore Si Ohio Telegraph Com¬ 
pany (Garrett of Baltimore), with a view to 
get control of its lines also. Then he would 
control all tho great telegraph lines in the 
country....E. A. Burke, of tho New Orleans 
Times-Democrat, Col. Belo of the Galveston 
News, Col. Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, 
and W. J. Keating of the Memphis Appeal, 
are to start a new daily paper in this 
city, to be devoted chiefly to Southern inter¬ 
ests, because “no existing journal finds it to its 
iuterestto give due notice of the development 
of the Southern States.”.Locusts have 
eaten nearly every kind of vegetation in 
the vicinity of Perlmm, Minn.. Since the 
death of her husband, Harriet Beecher Stowe 
has been failing steadily. In her modest lit¬ 
tle house at Hartford, Conn., she awaits list¬ 
less! j’ the end of a busy life... .Powderly ad¬ 
vises tho K of L. to boycott the food gam¬ 
blers, by not buying a pound more than abso¬ 
lutely necessary of any product which they 
announce to be scarce aud consequently likely 
to increase in price, until the unhallowed 
bauds of the speculators are removed from 
the control of the commodity Terribly de¬ 
structive storms during the week in various 
parts of the country. A mere list would fill a 
column. .. ... 
The net profits of the Cotton-Oil Trust for the 
fiscal year just ended are officially reported at 
$2,489,720...A fine of $20 awaits any 
dealer who shall sell tobacco, cigars or cigar¬ 
ettes to any person under 16 years old iu 
Illinois, aud the women are likely to see that 
the new law is enforced...Wednesday 
the Missouri washed away 50 acres of laud iu 
East Atchison, Mo., within 24 hours. The 
river has been rising rapidly aud is cutting a 
new channel through the east approach to the 
Atchison bridge.An explosion of a 
large quantity of gun-cotton iu the Cel Ionite 
manufacturing company’s works, at. Arling¬ 
ton, N. J., Thursday, killed a Swede named 
August and Miss Ariuuia Muchume, and seri¬ 
ously injured 20 other persons. The works, 
composed of three brick buildings, were des¬ 
troyed. The loss is $50,000 . .Mr. 
Powderly says he is worn out with his work 
and will resign at the October convention 
of the order at Minneapolis.... 
Avoid Pulse (iiiides. 
Nothing could be more misleading than the 
theory that every uiau or woman can be his 
or her own doctor. Books aro published 
which contain loug catalogues of sytnptons, 
and lay dowu inflexible rules for treatment. 
Many Jives are sacrificed annually to such 
amateur medical treatment. The danger of 
taking any remedy without having a proper 
diagnosis of one’s case, needs only to bo inti¬ 
mated to be admitted. Drs. Starkey & Pulen, 
1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, l’a. found 
when they introduced their Compound Oxy¬ 
gon totho public, that wisdom, as well as hon¬ 
esty, demanded the frankest statements to 
their patients. A correspondence soon brings 
out all the important facts regarding the suf¬ 
ferer’s condition. If the physicians discover 
that Compound Oxygen ami its associated 
remedies will not reach the disease under con¬ 
sideration, they make it an unvarying rule to 
say so. This precept of frank and uiauly deal¬ 
ing has not been departed from throughout 
seventeen yoarsof active and remarkably suc¬ 
cessful practice. During that long period 
their Home Treatment by Compound Oxygen 
for consumption, bronchitis, rheumatism, 
paralysis, asthma, and associated diseases ha 
been introduced luto forty thousand families, 
and its remarkable success warrants every 
recommendation that has been uttered in its 
behalf, it is not a cure-all remedy, but where 
prescribed, ufter careful investigation of the 
patient’s case, it rarely fulls to effect a cure. 
Drs. Starkey & Palen, send a very interesting 
book, free, to anybody who writes for it.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 9, 1887. 
Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out among 
the cattle at Throgg’s Neck, N. Y. A strict 
quarantine .Las teen established.The 
