THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
f^jews of i\)t tWh. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 13,1887, 
Virginia republicans, under tbe lead of 
General Malione, have decided to hold no 
State Convention, but an address to tho people 
will be issued .The other day a 
tornado destroyed the fair ground buildings 
at David City. Neb., besides doing $200,000 
worth of other damage.• • ........ 
Twenty persons are in the Tombs iu this city 
awaiting trial for murder. Tin ee more have 
been convicted, and are awaiting the decision 
of the higher Court of Appeals. 
Subscription lists have been opened at New¬ 
port for a monument to the late General G. K. 
Warren, of that city, to be erected at Gettys¬ 
burg. .. .The Chicago Times has been 
watching the effect of the eight-hour move¬ 
ment in that city, and It finds that nine-ten tbs 
of the workmen spend the extra two hours 
away from home, generally in saloons, and 
that the consumption of beer has increased 
one-fifth.Cincinnati has raised her 
guaranty fund of *1*000,000 for the “centen¬ 
nial exposition of the Ohio Valley and the 
Central States.” which is to be held there next 
year: and the work of erecting tbe exposition 
building in Washington Park, will begin be¬ 
fore long.. 
The Chicago “ boodlers” (Cook County 
Commissioners) have been convicted. Seven 
have been sentenced to two years’ imprison¬ 
ment and lour to a fine of *1.000 apiece. It 
was hard work to make the rascals resign the 
positions they had disgraced. McGarigle, the 
chief “ boodler,” who, by “ grace of the Sher¬ 
iff,” escaped to Canada, is in safety near St. 
Catharines, Ont., the Provincial authorities 
having refused to surrender him either to 
Montreal, where he is “wanted” on an old 
charge, or out of courtesy to tbe United 
States. McGarigle and McDonald were tried 
first, convicted and sentenced to three years’ 
imprisonment as the worst of the gang. So a 
baker’s dozen have been found guilty. 
Natural gas in large quantities has been dis¬ 
covered around Albert Lea, Minn. 
... A syndicate of Now York and Pittsburg 
capitalists have just closed a transaction by 
which they become the owners of nearly 100,- 
000 acres of the finest pine forests in tbe South 
It is along the northern line of South Caroliua 
and the southern boundary of Georgia, most 
of it in the latter State. Price paid 
$1,000,000 cash.A hundred Mormons 
are at Ottawa trying to secure a graut from 
the Dominion for a large tract upiu British 
Northwest Territory .The majority 
or plurality for Buckner (Democrat) for Gov¬ 
ernor in Kentucky is probably from 10,000 to 
12.000. The Democratic majority in 1884 was 
abou 135. i M )0. Grea t Republ ican gains. 
The Anti-Prohibition majority in Texas is 
now probably over 100,000. Still, the Pro¬ 
hibitionists made great gains over their for¬ 
mer votes. They are next going to try their 
luck in Tennessee.Thomas J, Moony, 
the crank who tried to burn the Queen here, 
has been declared insane by one set of "ex¬ 
perts;” but another set Is to “sit on” him, to do 
away with a strong suspicion that the first set 
wished to save him from trial for his crime. 
He is suspected of other dynamite outrages 
on both sides of the Atlantic . 
.... A large body of Oklahoma boomers are at 
Glendale Springs, Southern Kansas, ready to 
make for the coveted territory though the 
Government’s rifles menacingly block the way. 
_Flood, the millionaire banker, is very 
sick at Menlo Park. Cal. Mackay, his part¬ 
ner in the Nevada Bank, who is supposed to 
huve’bern the chief backer of the late Califor¬ 
nia wheat “corner,” and to have dropped sev¬ 
eral millions in the venture, arrived here 
from Europe early in the week, and after 
considerable negotiations with Jay Gould with 
a view to raising the tariff on transatlantic 
cablegrnms to 35 or 40 cents a word, started 
for San Francisco. The tariff on the Mackay- 
Bennett cables, during the cutting of rates 
that has lasted over a year, has been 25 cents 
a word: that on the consolidated Gould cables 
12 cents. The former guaranteed not to sell 
out so as to permit a monopoly, and not to 
make rates over 40 cents a word, and therefore 
held many large customers although its rival 
offered to do the same work for less than half 
the price. People knew that if Goukl owned 
the M.-B, line or forced it to sell out, he would 
at once put rates up to 60 cents or $1 a word.. 
.Serious charges are made against the 
Immigration Commission of Now York, to 
the effect that the Commissioners are in col¬ 
lusion with a general and systematic scheme 
for defrauding the Immigrants arriving at 
Castle Garden. Government officials are in¬ 
vestigating the matter.There 
are actual and threatened strikes and lockouts 
in the leather and shoe trade at many centers 
of the business iu the Eastern States. The 
employers and the K. of L. are at irreconcil¬ 
able loggerheads just now, and much trouble 
and idleness are iu prospect. King 
Kalakua has been forced to sign the new Con¬ 
stitution of the Sandwich Islands, which 
leaves him the privilege of drawing a fat sal¬ 
ary, grauting pardons, and votoiug hills, 
which the Legislature can pass over his veto 
by a two-thirds majority. The proportion of 
Americans on the islands (area (5,100 square 
miles) is about one in 10 of the 50,000 popula¬ 
tion, but, of course , we are told that thp can¬ 
didates for the new constitutional legislature 
are mostly Americans.The Volunteer 
has been showing the way to all the fastest 
yachts in every race since she started, except 
one, when she had to stem a heavy t ide-rip 
which the others avoided... 
_Wednesday night at 11 45 au excursion 
train on tbe Toledo, Peoria and Western Rail¬ 
road, left Chatsworth, Ill., with six sleeping 
cars, two eliair cars, five passenger coaches, 
one special car, one baggage car and two en¬ 
gines, and over BOO passengers bound for Niag¬ 
ara. About four minutes afterward it ran on 
to a wooden bridge which had been fired, 
and iu its weakened condition it collapsed, 
so that the cars crashed together in a horrible 
heap of splintered wood, broken iron, aud 
crushed humanity. The overturned lamps set 
fire to the mass, and the cruel flames fed in¬ 
differently on wood, men, women and chil¬ 
dren. Tt’is morning’s telegraph tells us that 
over 170 deaths have already occurred, and 
more are expected among the 250 to 800 
maimed and moribund sufferers. It is said 
the bridge was desigueilly set on tiro by a 
gang of miscreants with the intention of rob¬ 
bing the killed and wounded passengers. A 
great deal of robbery lias occurred. Some 
terribly tragic and pathetic incidents. The 
railroad’s loss is over $1,000, IKK), aud it Will be 
sued by hundreds lor damages. Much blame 
is attached to the company. .... 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, August 13. 
Across the Atlantic the Irish muddle still 
blocks all other legislation in the British Par¬ 
liament. The Land Bill having passed the 
Commons, went to tbe Lords, where, as there 
is an overwhelming Tory majority, it was 
thought it would readily pass, having been 
indorsed by the Tory Ministry. Tho bill 
originated in the Lords, however, aud on its 
return the majority kicked vigorously against 
the amendments forced on the Cabinet b> the 
Gladstonites aud Union-Liberals iu the Com¬ 
mons. Before returning it to the Lower House 
they quashed or modified some of these 
amendments and made others, in spite of the 
protests of their own party, and these altera¬ 
tions are now meeting with a stout opposi¬ 
tion in the Commons. 
Tbe weather is so dry that many factories run 
by water power are closed, adding thousands 
to the host compulsorily idle, and intensifying 
the industrial distress. Serious talk of lessen¬ 
ing the multitude of unemployed by govern¬ 
mental assistance to immigration to the colo¬ 
nies. Occasional agrarian outrages still occur 
in Ireland—enough to show the seething mass 
of discontent and violence repressed for politi¬ 
cal purposes.Blaine is flying from 
one part of Ireland to anot her. Politicians of 
all kinds are trying to inveigle him, by ban¬ 
quets and ovations, but he is prudently es¬ 
chewing “entangling foreign alliances.”. 
On the Continent most attention is excited 
by the movements of Prince Ferdinand of 
Saxe-Coliurg, recently elected to the sover¬ 
eignty of Bulgaria. Ho is a young man of no 
marked character, 28 years old, extremely 
wealthy, a grandson of King Louis Phillip of 
France, and allied with several of the Euro¬ 
pean sovereigns. He used to be a great fa¬ 
vorite with the Czar, and is a favorite at tho 
Austrian aud German courts. By the treaty 
of Berlin tbe Sultan, still the suzerain of Bui. 
garia, mustaccept any one elected as sovereign 
there before he cun accept the position. Tbe 
treaty powers ulso must consent to the choice. 
Neither the Porte uor the powers have yet 
moved in the matter; yet Ferdinand is on his 
way to Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, to begin his 
reign. The people are receiving him with great 
enthusiusiu; but the Sultan threatens to oc¬ 
cupy the country for violating tho treaty. 
Russia, France and Turkey are outspoken in 
their opposition to the movement; Austria, 
Germany, England and Italy, though not 
openly favoring it, are supposed not to be hos¬ 
tile to it. It is hard to see why the young 
man should venture on this present course, 
unless assured of active support from some of 
the powers; for active support is likely to be 
ueceasary against very active opposition. It 
has long been the belief that Bulgaria will 
be the cause of the next war iu Europe as she 
was of the last. Is the time at hand! The 
Boulanger-Ferry embroglio has fended. 
Nothing else of general interest in “foreign 
news”. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Aug. 13, 1887. 
The experimental work at Houghton Farm, 
Orange Co., N. Y., has been discontinued by 
the owner, Mr. Lawson Valentine, because 
farmers did not really seek the results of the 
costly work done there exclusively for their 
benefit. The place is now advertised for sale. 
.Our esteemed correspondent, T. 
V. Munson, has been re-elected President of 
the Texas Horticultural Society for the coiu- 
ing year.Towards the close of the 
late California wheat corner wheat sold at 
2J'f,c. per pound in San Francisco, against 
tyjjfc. in Chicago, 1 }{c. in New York, and 
1640c. in Liverpool.The second 
annual festival and institute of the Charlton 
Agricultural Association will be held at the 
village of Charlton, Saratoga Co., N. Y., 
on Wednesday, August 17. There is an ex¬ 
cellent programme, at once instructive and 
enk rtaining. There will bo music by local 
artists, short, pithy addresses ou agricultural 
topics by such practical uieu as Hon. J. S. 
Woodward, See. State Agricultural Society; 
Col. F. D. Curtis, Prof. I P. Roberts, Hou. 
Josiali K. Brown, State Dairy Commissioner; 
Hou. Josiah Shull aud others. The public are 
cordially invited to attend. 
A New York dealer recently purchased 1,500 
tons of rock phosphate at Kingston, Canada.. 
.... The largest farmers’gathering ever held 
in North Carolina occurred at Mount Holly, 
near Charlotte, Tuesday, Wednesday and 
Thursday. From 2,500 to 3,000 were in camp, 
while the total attendance ranged from 5,(500 
to 7,500. Many speeches, various excursions, 
much jollification nnd—let’s hope—a consid¬ 
erable acquisition of practical knowledge_ 
.To July 1 there were upwards of 12,000 
fresh arrivals in Manitoba, Canada, nearly 
double tho entire immigration last year. 
.Ohio aud Wiseonsin have, sensibly, modi¬ 
fied their restrictions against Illinois cattle 
except those from Cook County; but the other 
States and Territories are still Obdurate...... 
.Sheep are a trifle lower than a year ago. 
.. .The average weight of the hogs re¬ 
ceived at Chicago during last month was 230 
pounds, against 822 pounds for June and 220 
pounds for July, 1886.The x-ange of 
prices for shipping cattle at this time last year 
was 50 to 75 cents per 100 pounds above pre¬ 
sent prices.. .During the first seven 
mouths of this year the receipts at the Union 
Stock Yanis, Chicago, showed a gain, as com¬ 
pared with tho same time last year, of cattle, 
calves, sheep, and horses to the number of 
872,205 head. This was more than offset by 
the loss iu tho number of hogs received, which 
was 841,558.The Onondaga, N. Y. 
County Fair will be held Sept, 20, 28 instead 
of Oct. 20, 23, as given in our fair list. 
.Indianapolis complains that tho Inter- 
State law r has ruined its grain-forwarding 
business. Two of its elevators are closed for 
want of business, and the others haven’t half 
ns much graiu us at the same time last year... 
. ...In Hartford, Md , alone, there are 300 corn 
and tomato canueries, and the canning busi¬ 
ness has attained enormous size in the State. 
The farmers make a big thing of it, as the 
canneries keep up prices.Dr. Hol¬ 
loway, Territorial Veterinarian of Montana, 
says glanders is quite prevalent iu a number 
of places in the Territory, aud though vigor¬ 
ous effort:, have been made to eradicate it, the 
task is rendered difficult, owing to the fact that 
Montana is larger than all New-Englattd, with 
a much smaller population than Rhode 
Island’s........The Dominion Department of 
Agriculture has decided to establish a botani¬ 
cal museum in counectiou with the experi¬ 
mental farm at Ottawa.A special 
from Salt Lake City, Utah, says that accord¬ 
ing to leading wool merchants, the Utah clip 
this year will amount to 8,000,000 pounds . . 
. ...Arrangements have been completed for a 
monster agricultural meeting at the South 
Essex fair grounds, Toronto, on August 80, at 
which Mr. Erastus W iman is to speak on 
Commercial Onion, The projectors of the 
affair say it will be the greatest meeting ever 
held in tho county .... ..A cablegram 
yesterday says that the firm of Kudrin & Co. 
has equipped aud started for Central Asia au 
expedition which will establish cottou planta¬ 
tions and make an analysis of the soil of 
Turkestan and the Transcaspian Territories. 
Has our late “cotton corner” had anything to 
do with this attempt to develop u new cotton- 
producing regiouf...The tolul re¬ 
ceipts of cattle at Chicago lust week were the 
heaviest ever known, the uggregate being 
about, 53,1100 head. Why shouldn’t prices 
drop? Cattle should be cattle next year, how¬ 
ever, and Cattle the year after . In 
the efforts to eradicate “plouro” iu Cook 
County over 8,000 cattle have been slaugh¬ 
tered.... The Illinois Live Stock Commission¬ 
ers have sent a commission to Gov. Oglesby 
declaring all danger from pleuro-pneumonia 
in Cook County past. They ask that the Gov¬ 
ernor at once initiate measures for the re¬ 
moval of the quarantine restrictions now in 
force in various States and Territories against 
Illinois .The Massachusetts Commis¬ 
sioners ou contagious diseases among domestic 
animals have declared quarantine against 
oxen, cows and store cattle from New York 
State as infected with plenrn pneumonia. 
... Cattle are dying freely ol’ Texas fever in 
Will County, III, nnd Washington nnd Mont¬ 
gomery Counties, Kan.Much of the 
live stock going abroad now is only insured 
against total loss, the owners taking the risk 
of injury or damage in transit. Freights are 
$6 to $7 per head.Farmers in Southern 
Minnesota and Dakota are offering 88 to $2.50 
a day, for help to harvest their grain; some 
of the roads arc willing to carry the help at 
two cents per mile, but there’s considerable 
danger that some of tho crops will bo lost, 
owing to lack of hands.The flax¬ 
seed inspectors of Chicago have found old flax¬ 
seed “literally swarming” with weevils that 
appear of a new variety...Dairymen 
of Southern Illinois will probably form a 
combination to put up prices, the summer 
season having been disastrous. Similar move • 
incuts among dairymen are being discussed 
in many other sections of the country. 
....Great demand for twine for self-binders 
in the Northwest lately. With twine at 11 
cents per pound, farmers wouldn’t buy in 
hopes of lower figures; jobbers, therefore, 
wouldn't order, nor would manufacturers 
make. At harvest time farmers must have 
twine at any price; supply soon exhausted. 
Country merchants aud city jobbers impor¬ 
tuned. Orders sent to sections where the 
harvest was over; factories started: $13,000 
worth sold in one day at Mi waukee alone, for 
Wisconsin farmers, when, after a week, a sup¬ 
ply arrived. Some couldn’t wait, and bound 
by hand.By orders from Secretary Lamar, 
all unlawful fences must be removed at once 
from the land strip between Kansas and Texas 
now' appropriated by cattle companies. 
.,, .The worst drought known in Belgium for 
32 years has been followed by a plague of 
locusts, and crops which survived the drought 
arc I icing devoured by these pests... .The Eng¬ 
lish Government hesitates about appointing a 
Minister of Agriculture because of the ex¬ 
pense .... Students fortunate enough to secure 
the Ohio University Centennial agricultural 
free scholarships, may enter at the opening of 
the next college year, September 12th, 18S7, or 
at the beginning of the college year in Sep¬ 
tember, 1888. All information will be fur¬ 
nished either by VY II. Scott, President of the 
University, or N. 8. Townshend, Professor of 
Agriculture, State University, Columbus, 
()bio... 
Saturday, August 13,1878. 
European cablegrams ou August s say the 
wheat crop of France is good. It is estimated 
that the yield will amount to 110,01)0,000 hec¬ 
tolitres against J05,1 (00,006 iu 1886. 
Russian harvest reports are satisfactory. 
The crop is especially good in Bessarabia aud 
Podolia; doubtful in Volhynia, Minsk aud 
Mohssk'V, owing to excessive ruin; fair in the 
provinces bordering on tho Sou of Azof and 
the River Don, and exceptionally flue in Char- 
koff and Poltava. 
The price of wheat iu the Vienna market 
fell to a lower point ou Saturday tlmu known 
in twenty three years. 
The annual crop report of the Secretary of 
Agriculture for Nova Scotia, telegraphed yes¬ 
terday, shows that tho grain crops are upon 
tho whole satisfactory, with a promise of good 
quality and perhaps over the average quan¬ 
tity. Tho apple crop compares favorably 
with wbat is promised in other parts of the 
Continent and iu Europe. American mer¬ 
chants are already looking to Nova Scotia for 
their winter supplies; but the crop will be de¬ 
cidedly under the average. 
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture givo 
estimates based upon 1,000 reports from various 
parts of the State. These reports indicate 
that the wheat crop will probably reach 31,- 
088,037 bushels, falling short of last year’s 
product about 8,000,000 bushels. Last, year’s 
crop was very nearly a full average. The 
severe drought during July seriously affected 
the corn prospects, and the next report will 
undoubtedly show a great decline in condi- 
ptyrcUHncou.s 
DIXON'S "Carburet of iron" stovo Polish wut 
established In IK17, anti In tO-(tay, a* It was thou, the 
neatest unit brightest In the market; a pure plumbago, 
giving olT no poisonous vapors. The slue Is now doub¬ 
ted and eake weighs nearly half a pound, but the quail 
tv aud price remain the same. Ask your grocer for 
Dixon’s big cuke. 
