THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
JULY 23 
ifcus of i\)£ Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 10, 1887. 
The Toledo Blade sent inquiries to its sub¬ 
scribers as to their presidential preferences, 
with this result: out of 21,000 who answered 
there were for Blaine 11,010, Sherman 0,084, 
Lincoln 2,237, Allison 384, Edmunds 117, aud 
scattering for several others. The vote for 
Lincoln is noticeable, especially at the South. 
Blaiue leads Sherman, even in Ohio, 1,114 to 
1,042. Rhode Island alone prefers Shcrniau to 
Blaiue. For second choice for president Sher¬ 
man leads, haviug 7,033, Blame 3,473. This 
indicates that a majority of the Blaine men 
vote for Sherman for their second choice. For 
tine of .85,000. The sentence would have oeeu 
lighter had Jake confessed, repented and 
made restitution of some of the millions ho 
pocketed by bis corruption of officials. He is 
likely to be pardoned by the Governor long 
before the expiration of his sentence, which 
will be reduced by commutation, to a little 
over three years, if he behaves himself well. 
The ways of the transgressor are hard, es¬ 
pecially when trodden by a feeble, ailing old 
man of 70 years.... ..... ..Assays of the 
gold prospect of the Lake Superior Iron Com¬ 
pany, near Isbpeiniug. Mich., are extremely 
rich, having given 818 in gold from 12 ounces 
of rock, or *36,000 gold to the ton. Miners 
have traced a veiu 200 feet on the surface. 
....The New York City Directory, issued 
this week, contains 2,175 pages oi names, 
numbering iu all 334,818, and indicating a 
population of 1,600,000. There are 2,300 
Smiths, 1,800 Browns, and 900 Joneses en¬ 
rolled.'.The Government receipts, so fur 
this month, amount to *10,608,507, and the 
expenditures (including nearly $12,000,00Open¬ 
sion payments), to *18,501,102, making an ex¬ 
cess of expenditures of *7,807,985, it is esti¬ 
mated that the receipts during the remainder 
of the month will average *1,000,000 a day, 
and that tlie expenditures will be correspond¬ 
ingly large.Ben. Butterworth, the Ohio 
Congressman, has been mukiug Stump speech- 
es to the farmers of Ontario, Canada, in fa¬ 
vor of a commercial union, and in most places 
resolutions were passed that those present 
would support no party or individual who 
would uot support legislation to bring about 
such a policy. However much our Canadian 
friends may desire such a measure, however, 
this country must agree to it, aud as there is 
no great urgency for it here, Ben. should start 
on a missionary tour among American farm¬ 
ers, and get thepi to pass similar resolutions,.. 
... .The Directors of the Panama Canal Com¬ 
pany decided, July 8, to issue another lottery 
loan having the par value of *100,000,000. 
But while each bond is to represent *300 of 
debt, it is to be sold for only *85; that is to 
say the loan is to be negotiated at a discount 
of 57Ja percent. If all of the bonds shall be 
taken the company’s debt will be increased 
$100,000,000, while it can hope to obtain at 
best from the loan only *42,500,000. If the 
undertaking should possibly turn out an ulti¬ 
mate success under the present management, 
the investors will make an enormous profit; if, 
as is probable, it collapses, they will lose less 
than half the face value of their securities, 
besides drawing good interest on the face 
value, meanwhile. It was just about the same 
with the U. S. bonds during the war, but the 
Great North was back of our bonds, aud M. de 
e 
Lesseps is almost alone back of those for th 
P. C. The matter is of tremendous interest 
to the Pacific Coaster’s, however . 
King Kalakaua has been forced to dismiss his 
obnoxious Cabinet, and to appoint another 
nominated by his discontented subjects, and 
to promise a new Constitution. The King and 
his old Ministers appear to have been no bet¬ 
ter than a lot of swindling “bood lemon,” hav¬ 
ing robbed the public treasury, the postal sav¬ 
ings bank deposits, etc., etc., besides accept¬ 
ing bribes on all sides. More trouble is ex¬ 
pected. Queen Kapiolani aud daughter, hav¬ 
ing arrived here from Euglaud, are hastening 
across the continent to take the first steamer 
for the distracted island. Yes, she managed 
to raise a big loan in England, but it is hardly 
likely to last long, or do much good. 
Wednesday, the President with Mrs. Cleve¬ 
land and Mias Rose Elizabeth, atteuded the 
100th anniversary of the village of Clinton, 
N. Y., where he lived iu boyhood It was a 
great occasion for the place, though the Utica 
G. A. R. men stayed away. He has been vis¬ 
iting his sister at Holland Patent, and the 
whole party have been enjoying themselves 
immensely. Gen. Fairchild, head of 
the Grand Army of the Republic, denies that 
that body officially objected to the President's 
presence at St. Louis, during its encampment 
there, and most of the officers say that there 
was never any danger that he would be insult¬ 
ed by members of the organization. His de¬ 
clination to he t here, and the reasons gi ven 
therefor, have caused much excitement iu St. 
Louis andMissouri generally. Citizens promised 
to contribute $100,000 for the entertainment of 
the Grand Army, but it is said that con¬ 
tributions amounting to $35,000, have been 
canceled as tho donors are discontented. 
They expected a large increase in trade, from 
tho advent of a multitude of Southern visit¬ 
ors, but now it is thought, intending visitors 
from the .South will stay at borne. A delegation 
representing every county in the State starts 
from St. Louis to-day to invite him to visit the 
city at the beginning of October. 
Emigrants are now flocking to the Pacific. 
Northwest at the rate of a thousand a month, 
mostly from Kansas ami Iowa. They settle 
chiefly in Eastern Oregon and Washington 
Territory....An extensive system of frauds 
upou the government, involving wholesale 
forgery and perjury, has been uuearthed in 
the horse-claims division of tho office of the 
Third Auditor of the Treasury. They were 
conceived and carried out by Oscar J. Har¬ 
vey, late chief of the division. Harvey has 
been dismissed from the service, aud arrested 
at Wilke-sbarre, Pennsylvania, where he had 
been spending his vacation, and taken to 
Washington. He has made a full confession 
of having fraudulently pocketed over $11,(MX). 
...Maxwell, the St. Louis murderer, has 
been reprieved until August 26. His attor¬ 
neys will endeavor to get the case before the 
United States Supreme Court... .Dr. McGlyuu 
was formally excommunicated last Sunday. 
Since then lie has been excessively bitter 
against all his old acquaintances who disagree 
with him and against tho authorities of the 
Church iu whose doctrines he still claims to 
believe, from the Pope downwards. 
The town of Hurley, Wis., was the scene of a 
great fire on Saturday uight,. Eleven persons 
lost their lives, and the property destroyed 
was valued at *590,000. Tho tire originated 
in a small low-down theater, and most of the 
lost were variety actresses... .An examina¬ 
tion of Bradstreet’s industrial record lor six 
months shows 533 strikes this year, affecting 
234,738 employees, against 200 strikes aud 
363,895 employees last year, a gain of 250 per 
cent, iu strikes, but a decline of 36 per cent, 
iu the number striking. In number of strikes, 
iron aud steel were most numerous this year, 
30 per cent, of the total, and transportation 
company employees, last year, 21 per cent. 
In numbers involved building trades’ em¬ 
ployees were first this year, with 27 of the 
total, and textile workers last year, with 18 
per cent.. • ... 
.... An excursion train on the Grand Trunk 
R. R. rail into an oil train on the Michigan 
Central where both hues crossed, at St, 
Thomas, Ontario, lost evening. The oil set 
fire to tho cars of both trains, and than) 
passengers were burnt to a crisp. Loss not 
known yet; supposed to be at least 25; before 
8:30 o’clock last night nine charred bodies 
were taken from the blazing cars. An oil 
Lank burst, knocking down hundreds of horror- 
stricken spectators and hurling its blazing 
contents among them, killing some and maim¬ 
ing many—an awful calamity.The 
St. Lawrence Sugar Refinery, at Montreal, 
was burned lust night; loss $650,000; insur¬ 
ance $450,000. Several workmen are missing; 
oue was killed; the others may turn up alive.. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 16, 1887. 
Farmers iu the vieiuity of the great gas- 
wells located near Kokoma, Ind., have just 
closed a grand harvest jubilee and exhibition 
of wheat-cutting by natural gas-light. Self- 
blinders were run all night and the men at¬ 
tacked the wheat under the blaze of natural 
gas_About 100 hostile Apaches are mur¬ 
dering, torturing and mutilating in Northern 
Mexico, not. more than 40 miles south of the 
boundary line. The Governor of the Mexi¬ 
can State of Chihuahua has offered *700 for 
every Apache scalp brought to him, and 
Mexican troops and miners are iu hot 
pursuit of the bounty.Land has been 
bought and a two-million-five-liundred-thou- 
sand-busbel elevator wifi be built, in Buffalo, 
N. Y., next to tho Dakota Elevator, which is 
also to be enlarged this season to the same 
capacity. The uew elevator wifi be known as 
the Minnesota, and it, like tho others under 
the same management, will bulk and grade 
grain . Contagious pleuro pneumonia has 
appeared in lower Westchester Co., this 
State. Among others, the fine blooded stock 
on the farm of William Hnvemeyer, at 
Throgg’s Neck, have become infected. The 
Bureau of Animal Iudustry has begun to 
slaughter infected animals. The disease is 
thought to have been stamped out in the 
upper part of the county after the destruc¬ 
tion of 900 cows on various dairy farms 
Tho Directors of the New York Poultry Ex¬ 
change will hold their first Exhibition in New 
York City December 14-21. The premium list 
will be ready September 1. This will bo an 
immense exhibition. 
_A Canadian Order in Council was passed 
Thursday, extending the 90 days’ cattle quar¬ 
antine to Manitoba and the Northwestern Ter¬ 
ritories .Those Minnesota “locusts” are 
reported uot to be real locusts, but ordinary 
grasshoppers. They are as destructive as lo¬ 
custs, however, but their ravages are local; 
whereas, if they were real locusts, other 
swarms would probably turn up in other 
places.That St. Louis pleuro-pneumo- 
nia is reported not to be the genuine contagious 
kind. Stock that are attacked arc suffering, 
but there is no danger of its spreading by 
contagion.A corporation has been 
formed in Sullivan Co., N. Y., to lie known 
as the Empire Sheep and Land Company, with 
a capital of $25,000, whose object in to clear 
up the sprout laud which was formerly cov¬ 
ered with forest iu Delaware and Sullivan 
Counties, seed it down to improve herbage 
and breed sheep for wool aud mutton. This 
indicates a new era in Eastern farming aud 
one which ought to he hastened.In 
a speech the other day Gladstone said that 
“England has long been the recipient of 
American alms,” meaning that great sums of 
money have for many years been seat by the 
Irish iu this country to help their relatives at 
home aud a large portion of this went into the 
pockets of the landlords, a large part of 
them are English, while nearly all the rest 
spend their incomes almost entirely in Eng- 
Jaud.Robert Griffin, the Statistician of 
the British Board of Trade, calculates 
from the figures of certain banking houses 
that the remittances from America to Ire¬ 
land in 37 years have amounted to over *150,- 
000,000 and that for six years these remit¬ 
tances have been $7,425,000 annually. Talk 
about the Chinese draining this country of its 
gold III.At the late commencement 
exercises of the Illinois University, including 
the State Agriculture College, no uiontiou was 
made of agriculture, nor did a siugle student 
graduate from the Agricultural Department, 
according to a private letter from Cham¬ 
paign, Ill.,.,..()n last Friday, July 8, 
a bale of new crop cotton, grown iu Baker 
County, (la., aud ginned and packed on July 
4, was sold iu New York at auction, realizing 
30 cents per pound; quality low middling. 
Said to have been the earliest marketing of 
Georgia cotton on record. The first bale of 
Texas cotton was sold in New York on July 
11, grade middling, and realizing 23 cents per 
pouud.A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., 
yesterday, says there have been very exten¬ 
sive and frequent showers in the tobacco belt, 
but no general and steady rain. It is proba¬ 
ble that the planting has been about finished, 
witli an area between 40 aud 50 per cent, of 
a full average .. Tlie order forbidding the 
exportation of horses'from Germany has been 
rescinded, and a similar order issued by the 
Austro-Hungarian govomuieut has been re¬ 
voked..... 
....The California wine-growers and dealers 
are at loggerheads about the enforcement of 
the now pure wine law. A dealer having 
been arrested for selling unstamped wine, the 
San Francisco Wine Dealers’ Association has 
resolved to defend his east), and tost the con¬ 
stitutionality of the law. The demand for 
stumps has almost entirely ceased. 
A bill prohibiting the sale of fruit trees, un¬ 
less raised from seed planted in Maine, New 
Hampshire, Massachusetts or Vermont, has 
been introduced iu the New Hampshire Legis¬ 
lature.Chemist Martin, of the Health 
Department, has completed the analysis of the 
ice cream which poisoned the customers of 
that Sixth avenue confectioner, of this city, 
and has found no tyrotoxieon nor other 
poisonous principle either. He concludes that 
the cream was stale, or had begun to ferment 
previous to the freezing.Grape rot is 
reported all through the Piedmont section of 
Virginia, and t.ho crop is virtually destroyed. 
Grape culture has become an important indus¬ 
try there, and tho loss will lie heavy. 
Mayor Hewitt, of New York city, favors a 
bill which shall prohibit tho keeping of dogs 
within the city limits. He’s ns bitter against 
dogs as if he were a sheep-owner. 
Crops & l^tnrkrls. 
Saturday, July 16, 1887. 
The Statistician of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture reports of the outlook for harvest 
down to July 1, an abstract of which was tel¬ 
egraphed from Washington last Monday, 
agrees very closely with the summary of our 
own reports, w hich went to press the previous 
Saturday. It estimates that there is a further 
extension of the corn area of about one and a 
half million acres, an iucrease of two per 
cent, over the acreage of 1886. In States of 
decliuiug wheat, culture, maize has advanced 
its area largely, notably in Kansas. A 
marked advance is noted iu the district be¬ 
tween the Mississippi and the Rocky Mount¬ 
ains, and a Considerable increase is reported 
in the cottou States. The season has been 
fairly favorable both for planting and growth, 
and the condition is high, averaging 95.7, 
which differs little from the July condition of 
the past three years, and is materially higher 
than for the three years preceding 1884. The 
great corn-growing States, which furnish tho 
surplus, average nearly 99 in condition. 
The condition of winter wheat on tho 1st of 
July, or at the time of harvest for the more 
Southern States, is 83.5, a reduction since the 
June report of 1.4. There has been a heavy 
decliue in Kansas, n material reduction in 
California, with soino loss in seVoral of the 
Southern States; some of the remainder have 
gained a point or two, and others have lost. 
The chinch-bug bus wrought some damage 
in most of the Western States and iu Mary¬ 
land and Virginia. Where harvested grain 
has been thrashed results are variable, with 
plump, sound grain in some localities aud a 
shrunken berry indicated iu others. 
There is reported ft somewhat serious de¬ 
cline in the condition of spring wheat, largely 
from the prevalence of cbiurh bugs. General 
average, 79.3; lust month, K7.8—a decline of 
eight, points. Condition iu July of 1886 was 
88: 3. 4 poiuts higher than the present aver¬ 
age. The average for Wisconsin is 77; Min. 
nesota, 76; Iowa, 72; Nebraska, 75, and Dako¬ 
ta, 81. The chinch bug, the Hessian fly, the 
grass-hopper iu the Northwest and the joiut 
worm in West Virginia have ali aided in re¬ 
duction of yield of wheat. 
Tlie average condition of winter rye is 88; 
that of spring rye 84.3, showiug n decline in 
condition since the last report. The average 
for barley is likewise reduced. It is 82.8, in¬ 
stead of 88,9 last month. The decline is main¬ 
ly iu the West. A reduction appears iu oat 
from 91 iu June to85.9, due to drought and in¬ 
sect ravages. It is heaviest iu Kentucky, Illi¬ 
nois, Wisconsin and the States west of the 
Mississippi. There lias been an increase of 2.7 
per cent, in the acreage of potatoes, tho larg¬ 
est, rate of advance being iu Dakota, Kansas 
and Nebraska. The condition average is 93, 
which is a little below the July averages of 
the past three years. There is apparently a 
decline of about one-sixth in the tobacco area, 
iu which nearly all the tobacco-growing 
States participate. The average of condition 
is 84, a lower July figure than for several years. 
The status of the cotton crop has not declined 
since the first report. In the South-east there is 
a slight reduction, compensated for by a small 
advance in the States west of the Mississippi. 
The average is 97, which is four poiuts higher 
than the average for July in the previous 10 
years. It was exceeded in 1878 and 1880 and 
nearly equaled iu July Of 1881 and 1884, which 
were years of small production. There have 
been but two July records below 90 since 1883. 
The State averages are: Virginia, 98; North 
(Carolina, 99; South Carolina, 97; Georgia, 96; 
Florida, 98; Alabama, 98; Mississippi, 99, 
Louisiana, 98; Texas, 93; Arkansas, 99; Ten¬ 
nessee, 98. The crop is under unusually cleau 
cultivation. There are few reports of injury 
from excessive moisture and a few of drought. 
DIXON'S “Carburet of Iron" Stove Polish was 
eMuMl8h.ll la 1st;, and Is toil ay. ns It was then, the 
nimtusi ami brightest In the market: a pure plumbago, 
giving ofT no poisonous vn parti. The site Ik now (loub 
led aiul cuke weighs nearly half a pound, but tbe duali¬ 
ty and price remain the same. Auk your grocer tot 
Dixon's big cake. 
