THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 6, 1887. 
The 205 liquor licenses of Minneapolis 
have gorged the city treasury with $205,000. 
. Committees from so many cities 
proposed to go to Washington to invite the 
President to visit their places, that ho an¬ 
nounces that invitations sent by mail will re¬ 
ceive just as much attention. There 
are reports from Ottawa that new proposals 
for the amicable settlement of the fisheries 
troubles are likely to be accepted by both par¬ 
ties. Reports neither confirmed nor denied at 
Washington.Discontent is increas¬ 
ing among the Knights of Labor. The Pope 
has decided that “there is no occasion for the 
Church to make a special deliverance”regard¬ 
ing the Order. Powder!y says the internal 
troubles of the Order arc greatly exaggerated 
by the papers.The United Labor 
Party (H. George’s) has decided that mem¬ 
bers of the Socialist Labor Party must aban¬ 
don that organization before they will be re¬ 
ceived into the other. There’s to be a Con¬ 
vention of the United Labor Party at Syra¬ 
cuse on August 17... .Banker Joseph 
W. Drexel has transferred to the Grand Army 
of the Republic free of expense, in perpetu¬ 
ity, the Mount McGregor Cottage in which 
General Grant died..It is rumored 
that the Standard Oil Company contemplates 
boring for natural gas in the vicinity of Chi¬ 
cago.The Rubber Trust is at last 
organized upon the model of the Standard 
Oil Trust, but final action will probably be 
deferred until next autumn. Under the plan 
adopted each factory is sold to the Trust by 
its owners, and the owners receive in return, 
shares in the new “Trust,” The prico at 
which the different plants are sold is to be 
fixed by appraisers who have been selected, 
and the profits from the trade will be divided 
upou the basis of capitalization. 
Jonathan Robie, Treasurer of the Soldiers’ 
Home at Bath, N. Y., used $',*,000 to $10,000 of 
the institution’s money in bis own apparently 
prosperous but embarrassed business, in the 
town. He made it good, Wednesday, but 
Frank Campbell of Bath, was at once ap¬ 
pointed Treasurer by the Trustees. 
In the Cherokee Nation, Joel B. Mayes, one- 
quarter Cherokee, and formerly Chief-Justice 
of the Nation, has been elected Principal 
Chief for four years by a small majority over 
Bunch . .Wednesday 
morning an attempt was made by a half-crazy 
Irishman or Irish-American named Mooney to 
burn the National Line steamer, Queen, at 
her pier here on the North River, by throw¬ 
ing on board, from a row-boat, a bottle con¬ 
taining a mixture of dynamite, kerosene, 
phosphorus, naphtha, and other combustible 
matters. The fire was easily extinguished, 
and the incendiary arrested. He claims to 
have done it in return for the Canadian cap¬ 
tures of American fishing vessels. A lot of 
combustibles was found in his room. He ap¬ 
pears to be more of a devil isli than of an insane 
crank... Charles Reed, Guitcnu’s defender, 
tried to commit suicide by jumping into tbe 
river here Saturday. Was taken from Bellevue 
Hospital by a friend who will put him on his 
legs again—been drinking heavily of late.. . 
....Six men were killed and one injured by 
the falling of a wall at the ruins of a burned 
elevator in Minneapolis, Minn., Wednesday.. 
.The Hon. John A. Hasson, Pres¬ 
ident of the Philadelphia Constitutional Cen¬ 
tennial Commission, states that invitations to 
the celebration have been sent to all the lead¬ 
ing men of the country, prominent, inventors, 
editors, professors and statesmen .. .. 
Cholera is reported to have broken out at 
Acapulco, Mexico, at which the Pacific Mail 
steamers call on the way between San Fran¬ 
cisco and Panama .... .Iua race 1i om 
New London, Conn., to Newport, R. I.. 
Thursday, tbe new yacht Volunteer, proved 
the fastest in the fleet, outsailing the Puritan, 
Mayflower, Atlanta, and other famous flyers. 
Breeze very light, which is common racing 
weather. The Thistle, too, now half-way 
across, is very fast in light wind. There is a 
growing impression that the Amcricus cup 
will not be carried across the Atlantic this 
y ear .The Mayor and Council of 
Williamsport, Pa., have been under arrest for 
not keeping a street in proper repair 1. .Repub¬ 
lican Lieut.-Gov Robinson, of Indiana, wasn’t 
allowed to preside in tbe State Senate at its 
last session by the Democrats; but the Attor¬ 
ney-General says be is, nevertheless, entitled 
to salary and mileage .... Geo. F. Peters, 
U. B. Attorney for the Territory of Utah, has 
instituted suit again t the trustees of the Mor¬ 
mon Church, under tbe Edmunds law, to es¬ 
cheat the property to the United States. The 
law does not allow any church to own more 
than $50,000 of property. The property of 
the Church of Latter Day Saints is valued 
at $3,000,000 .His Royal 
Highness, Derawongse, brother of the present 
King of Siam, his four nephews and the re¬ 
cently appointed Envoy Extraordinary and 
Minister Plenipotentiary to Washington and 
his suite arrived in New York Monday and 
are now in Washington ..English 
capitalists are troubled and ours are startled 
by a report that Jay Gould and a wealthy 
American syndicate are about to establish a 
bank with $200,000,000 capital in China, and 
control Chinese financial affairs in return for 
large concessions in the w ay of making rail¬ 
roads. telegraph and telephone lines, etc. 
The Virginia Democrats, in convention at 
Roanoke, Thursday, indorsed Cleveland, but 
objected to Civil Service Reform. The eighth 
resolution was 
“That tbe Democratic party will foster, 
encourage and protect the agricultural inter¬ 
ests ot Virgiuia, and believes that the success 
of that interest Is the foundation of the State’s 
prosperity.” 
Thursday the great election in Texas passed 
off quietly. Tbe saloons heat Prohibition by 
a majority of 50,000 to 75,000, Much hurrahing 
and guzzling in celebration of the victory.... 
Only two-thirds of the Panama Canal loan 
has been taken—enough, with what’s on hand, 
to last a little over a year. Then collapse or 
another loan. De Lesseps thinks work will be 
advanced enough to secure the latter. 
The promoters of the Tehuantepec Ship Rail¬ 
way met at Pittsburg, Wednesday, nml deter¬ 
mined to push the work.Blight earth¬ 
quake in Tennessee, Missouri, Indiana and 
Kentucky, Monday. Cairo, Evansville and 
Nashville felt it most. At Golden Pond, Hop¬ 
kinsville, Trigg County, Ky., amid rumblings 
and shakings, a fine farm of 250 acres of to¬ 
bacco aud com laud sank five feet and became 
covered with water from the outburst of hith¬ 
erto unknown springs. No lives, hut much 
property lost. Many Western papers are 
booming Robert T. Lincoln for President.... 
Wilfred Woodruff, as President of the Twelve 
Apostles, has become bead of tbe Mormon 
Church, at least temporarily. .A bill likely to 
be passed by the Georgia Legislature makes it 
a mfedemeauor, with a fine of $1,000 and the 
chain gang for oue year, for “any teacher or 
trustee of any public, or private School in the 
State of Georgia to allow any white pupils 
to attend a colored school or any colored 
pupils to attend a white school.”. 
..Sec. Fairchild has offered to disburse $42,- 
000,000 of the Treasury surplus if the bond¬ 
holders will take it, by paying in advance a 
large number of U. S. bonds soon to fall due, 
with a rebate of two per cent, on the amount 
prepaid. ...No more news about 
yellow fever in Memphis. In Key West there 
have been 177 cases hitherto and 43 deaths- 
Maj. A. Mackenzie of the United States En¬ 
gineer Corps estimates that $1,500,000 should 
be appropriated and expended on the Missis¬ 
sippi River between St. Paul aud the Des 
Moines Rapids for tbe fiscal year ending June 
30, 1889. • •. 
The farm buildings of S. W. Blake Biddeford, 
Me., were destroyed by lightning Mouduy; 
loss $ 3 , 000 . The homo and barns of Stephen 
Douglas of Stowe ami the barns of Sanford 
Eddy of Wftterbury, Vt., were burned by 
lightning with a lot of bay and other pro¬ 
duce .Richard Morgan, of New Lou¬ 
don, N. H.,lost his outbuildings, six horses and 
a cow; andJ. D. Wilson of Asconet, Mass., 
lost barn, horse, carriage and a lot of bay. 
Harry Luther, of North Scituate, R. I., lost a 
barn, two valuable horses and 80 tons of bay. 
Monday a cloud-burst <lid $125,000 damage 
in Wyoming Valley, Pa. The list of farm 
loses by storms, floods uud lightning could be 
prolonged to fill several columns.Ger¬ 
man Catholics are invited to meet in conven¬ 
tion in Chicago. September 6 .The 
N. H. Legislature has postponed a woman’s 
suffrage hill by a vote of 148 to 87. 
Of 187 counties in Ga., 118 have voted a 
license... The fractional currency in 
circulation in June 30. P’KO, was $7,214,954; 
and on Juue 30, 1887, $fi,94(5,904. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, August (5, 1878. 
In England the Irish question still holds the 
field, aud is sure to do so at least till the close 
of the present session of Parliament about A ug- 
ust 20. Nearly the whole of Ireland having 
been “ proclaimed” under the Coercion Act, 
only a few arrests have yet, been made. It 
was suspected that tbe National League would 
be suppressed, but yesterday Balfour, the 
Secrete! y for I rebind,declared that the Govern¬ 
ment didn’t expect to supines," any danger¬ 
ous associations in Irelund.” The Land Bill is 
still discussed in the Commons. It proposes 
to have judges decide where rents are exor¬ 
bitant, and lower them to a fair rate. The 
Liberals insist, that the seating down should 
apply to tenants’ debts due to landlords; 
otherwise a multitude of tenants will never 
be able to get clear of debt. The Government 
refuses, but hesitates to make their refus¬ 
al final. Altogether, the Conservative- 
Liberal-Union party is certainly showing a 
a more lenient feeling towards Ireland. 
This is due entirely to the revulsion of public 
sOUtiment to Great Britain, as manifested in 
the late elections. At an election of a mem¬ 
ber of Parliament for one division of Glasgow, 
Tuesday, the contest lay between a Home 
Ruler and a Liberal-Unionist,, and the returns 
showed that the Liberal party gained heavily 
on last election, while the Conservatives lost 
proportionately. The election of the Home 
Ruler by a greatly increased majority is ac¬ 
cepted by all pari les ns a proof that a change 
favorable to Gladstone's policy is rapidly and 
steadily taking place in public opinion. If a 
general election were held to-morrow if is 
thought pretty certain tbe Grand Obi Man 
would again come into power. This convic¬ 
tion rentiers a dissolution of Parliament very 
improbable, as the full term is seven years and 
the present House has vet five years to run. 
The Conservative Labor Union party has now 
over 100 majority, and the knowledge that, on 
an appeal to the people they would be defeat¬ 
ed is likely to hold the party together till the 
regular end of the term. The defeat of the 
Ministry on an important question would 
alone cause a dissolution or the resignation of 
the Ministry. Gladstone may die meanwhile, 
or a hundred other favorable things may hap¬ 
pen. Great distress aniongall clftssesof wage- 
earners owing to stagnation in trade, due to 
foreign competition promoted by bounties 
given to certain competing industries by 
foreign goverumen's. Many strikes, hun¬ 
dreds of thousands idle, poor-houses full; pub¬ 
lic and private charity heavily taxed. A 
strike of 4.000 engineers, etc., on the Mid¬ 
land R-ilway yesterday against a reduc¬ 
tion of working hours anil wages, is paralizing 
travel and traffic along one of the most im¬ 
portant lines in the country. 
..In France the sensation of the week has 
been the effort to bring about a duel between 
ex-War Minister Boulanger and ex-Prituo 
Minister Ferry. Gen. Boulanger having won 
the hearts of the populace and soldiers by his 
vigorous reorganization of the army, his out¬ 
spoken hostility to Germany, and his popu¬ 
larity-seeking conduct, has been deposed from 
the Cabinet and exiled to the southwest of 
France as commander of an army corps sta¬ 
tioned there. Populace clamor lor his return 
to power. Ferry, in a public address, refers 
to him as the St. Annual of the Concert 
Halls, Bt. Artmud having been the unscrupu¬ 
lous general who aided Napoleon 111. in de¬ 
stroying the Republic in 1851. Boulanger 
challenged Ferry, but. the seconds couldn’t 
agree on th<Jconditions of the duel, Boulanger 
wanted 20 paces, fire when ready, aud until 
one should be bit. Ferry wanted 25 paces, 
one shot uuly, quick at the word. Things 
bang fire yet,... Distress great, among 
French working people, too ..Tension 
between France aud Germany increasing by 
French hostility to resident Germans, espe¬ 
cially workmen. Beveral German factories 
already shut by the government; others to 
follow....... 
..The burden of war preparation is becoming 
intolerable all over Europe. More than $20,- 
000,000,00(1 of indebtedness, contracted almost 
entirely for war purposes, already hang like a 
millstone around the neck of every produc¬ 
tive industry. On this nearly $900,000,000 are 
paid annually in interest. Nearly 20,000.000 
of the people of Europe are trained soldiers. 
Of these upwards of 4,000.000 arc actually 
under arms on land, and 80(1,000 more on ship¬ 
board. The annual cost of supporting these 
is fully $4,000,000,000. In the prime of life they 
are taken away from industrial pursuits, and 
made a burden instead of a help to the people. 
War is doubtless horrible, buc a peace that 
requires such conditions to preserve it is hor¬ 
rible too. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Aug. (5, 1887. 
The Treasury Department has decided that 
duty is not to be collected on high-priced, 
blood stock imported for breeding purposes. 
It holds that “tbe law does not require that 
animals shall be imported solely for breeding 
purposes;” but that “they shall be specially 
Imported for breeding purposes.” It says that 
in the case of blood stock imported from 
Europe, direct or through Canada, “it may 
be generally assumed that they are imported 
for breeding purposes; because there would be 
no profit in importing them for other pur¬ 
poses,” and that “animals valuable mainly 
for their breeding qualities are uot excluded 
from free entry merely because intended for 
sale, nor because they are too young to bo 
physically qualified for breeding when im¬ 
ported.” The suit against Galbraith Brothers 
for $17,000 will therefore be droppod with 
some others; and in several cases where the 
duty has been paid it will be refunded. 
.. The Mass. State Board of Agriculture will 
hold a meeting at, its head-quarters at Boston, 
on August 23, to elect a successor to F. A. Ap¬ 
pleton who lately resigned the secretary¬ 
ship-salary $2,500 a year, and travehug 
expenses, with a $1,200 clerk to do much of 
the work. Lots of candidates, even among 
the 36 members of the Board. 
....The Maxwell Land Grant Company has 
submitted to settlers on that graut, who are 
nearly all cattle men, a proposition to 
buy them out. The form of an agreement 
between the company und the settlers i^being 
numerously signed, and promises to solve the 
difficulty now existing ... Beach and 
grape growers along the Hudson are reported 
to be jubilant at oue of the largest and finest 
fruit crops ever produced there. Smocks are 
already arriving in this city in small num¬ 
bers, but the bulk of the crop will arrive here 
in late August and September.A 
special from New Lennox, Ill., Thursday, says 
many cattle are dying from Texas fever. The 
State Veterinarian is there and has ordered a 
a number of cattle killed...The Na¬ 
tional Packing Association, incorporated un¬ 
der the laws of Maine, with a capital of 
$1,090,000, intends to build a line of packing 
houses along the border of tbe cattle range 
district.The heated term has been 
very fatal to city horses, especially those on 
the street cars. The Third Avenue Line here 
had 250 horses disabled on Wednesday last, 
aud 57 deaths had occurred. The losses on 
other lines were proportionately heavy. 
Tuesday 10,000 baskets of peaches arrived in 
the city from Delaware and Maryland. Good, 
sound fruit sold for $1 50 per basket. 
The stallion Norwood Chief, aged 12 years, 
valued at $10,000, owned by Willis, of Pater¬ 
son, N. J., and in charge of Sol Minier, of 
Elmira, N. Y., dropped dead there Thursday. 
..A blue book on the land proprietorship of 
Russian Poland has just been issued. It 
shows that of the foreigners holding laud in 
Poland 8,000 are Austrians and 29,370 are 
Prussians. One thousand of the Prussians 
are large landowners and 550 are manufactur¬ 
ers.... An immense migration movement is 
proceeding in Central Russia. Peasants and 
fanners are going in large numbers to West¬ 
ern Siberia, whore free pasture and arable 
lands abound... .The Secretary of the Interior 
has decided that twenty-six thousand acres of 
laud in Iowa which had been granted to 
the Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad com¬ 
pany have not been earned by the latter, and 
ordered the same to he opened to settlement 
aud entry. He has also directed a suit to be 
instituted against the same company for the 
recovery of 17,000 acres of land in O’Brien 
County, Iowa, claimed under its grant, but 
denies tbe petition of settlers for similar pro¬ 
ceedings against tlie Chicago, Milwaukee and 
St. Paul company to recover 37,597 acres in 
the same county... The loss of P. T>. Armour 
from the burning of his largo beef packery at 
the Union Stockyards, Chicago, the other day, 
amounts to somewhat over $300,000: insur¬ 
ance, $195,000. Second by fire in less than 
two months.,. .The most disastrous fire that 
ever occurred in Evansville, bid,, broke out 
Wednesday morning; 1,500,000feet of lumber, 
several large factories and warehouses, con¬ 
taining large quantities of tobacco, were 
burnt. Loss between $500,000, and $600,000... 
,.J. W. Sanborn, Secretary of tie Missouri 
Board of Agriculture, in his crop report for 
August, says that corn is 82 7. the sixty-two 
cards last received being 82,6, and steadily 
dropping. All late crops and pastures are 
badly suffering. Hay is 1.3 ton and clover 
1.5 tons per acre. The drought extends 
over the State. Chinch bugs are doing some 
injury to corn iti Southern Missouri... 
. .The prospects for a good cranberry crop are 
uot encouraging. Reports Croat Massachu¬ 
setts indicate a falling off of at least one-half 
from last year’s crop. The Cape Cod crop 
has been from 70,000 to 75,009 barrels for the 
last two years; previous to that It. ran at 
about 45,000 barrels for several ypars. This 
year about 40,000 barrels are the estimated 
crop. The loss is mainly due to the vine 
Worm. The crop in New Jersey has been 
much damaged by heavy rain storms, and the 
worms have also appeared for the first time in 
several years; but tbe indications ou the 
whole point to about as good a crop as last 
year.The Canadian Government inspectors 
in the various cities have been obtaining 
samples of milk to send to Ottawa for anal 3 r - 
sis. The object is to fix a standard for.the 
milk of each locality, so that jiersona selling 
milk below that standard may be fined. 
Samples have so far b°en examined from 
almost every herd of cattle in the vicinity of 
Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Halifax 
and Bt. John, and standards fixed. 
....The city ordinances of Chicago prohibit 
the keeping of more than t hree bend of cattle 
together within the city limits, but the papers 
complain that the distillerv stables are full, 
that swill milk is freely sold, and the law 
openly violated.The leading ranch 
owners and rat tle raisers of Northern Chihua¬ 
hua have taken Steps to form a protective 
cuttle association to prevent, tbe stealing of 
cattle on the border, which is netting to be 
an intolerable nuisance. All depredators 
caught will be strung up at once. 
... During July tbe price of leaf tobacco 
advanced from 50 to loo per cent, according 
to quality. Tbe Lorillards have advanced 
the price of “plug” nine cents a pound during 
the past, three weeks.. 
... .The Galveston News exults at the receipt 
of a pumpkin weighing 115 pounds, and meas¬ 
uring seven feet in eircumfereuee, grown by 
Mr. Gains, of Anderson Co, Texus.. ... .The 
New Hampshire Senate Ims passed a bill pro¬ 
hibiting the use of bar lied wire fences with¬ 
out a top rail or board of wood.Milk 
about Elgin, III., has fallen off 60 per cent., 
owing to the severe drought, the yield now 
being less than in winter. Dairymen have 
given up fev the season, and renters who pay 
so much a month for their farms ure in a fix. 
....The total Hour output at Minneapolis last 
week was 155,440 barrels the largest for a 
long time. Exports large; but prices com¬ 
paratively low. ..The oleomargarine 
revenue receipts now at Chicago, average 
$900 a day. tnough this is the dull season. 
This indicates a manufacture of 47,000 pounds 
a day. 
TIIF. FOK OF ((HACKS AND FRAUDS. 
An Editor Willi Plenty of Nerve Wlio Con- 
ntnntly Gets More by a New Method. 
Amid luxurious surroundings, L. Lum 
Smith, editor and proprietor of The Philadel¬ 
phia Public Herald, sat in his office, No. 706 
