THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
fCeuts of i\)t Wuh,, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 20, 1887. 
The fishery trouble still drags on unsettled. 
The Canadians are still seizing American fish¬ 
ers in the North Atlantic aud the Americans 
are gobbling up Canadian “sealers” in the 
North Pacific, and each stoutly maintains 
the other is In the wrong. Admiral Luce, 
commanding the American North Atlantic 
Squadron, wishing to tell our fishermen what 
they might do aud could not legally, instead 
of applying to our own State Department for 
information, applied to Capt. Scott, chief 
officer of the Canadian cruisers, and issued in¬ 
structions to our fishermen, based on Scott’s 
views of what (bey should do. Much indig¬ 
nation on lids side of the line and a sharp 
rebuke from Sec. of the Navy Whitney ruf¬ 
fle • Luce and evoke much Canadian sympa¬ 
thy for him, TTis request to be transferred to 
another command is likely to be granted. A 
cock and-luill yarn about a Canadian vessel 
firing upon and sinkiug a Yankee fishing boat, 
after filling much space In the papers, has 
been exploded. Little apparent progress in 
negotiations toward a settlement of the trou¬ 
bles. Some English war vessels, which lately 
arrived at, Halifax are reported to be about to 
reinforce the sovcu Canadian cruisers in pro¬ 
tecting the fisbinggrounds.. .Repeated reports 
of intense distress in Newfoundland have been 
officially contradicted. 
....Over a week ago a couple of 11te Indians 
were indicted for theft at Meeker^ Col.: but 
when the officers tried to arrest them, Chief 
Colorow refused to permit the arrest. Then 
the troublesome old rascal started on the war¬ 
path with his own following of 30, and enough 
malcontents to make a total of 87. Report 
says this was soon swelled to 150 by malcon¬ 
tents from other reservations. The sheriIT has 
raised a force of citizens aud cowboys, etc., 
and lias had several skirmishes with the reds. 
Some companies of the State militia have been 
reluctantly sent forward by the Governor 
who is mightily afraid some of them may get 
hurt. Genera is Cook and Merritt are holding 
the U. S. troops ready to move if necessary. 
Colorow has sent runners to all the other acces¬ 
sible Indian tribes to incite them to a general 
wav, and threatens to move up into Wyom¬ 
ing, where the cowboys, etc., are preparing 
to give him a warm reception. The Indians 
are well armed with the best weapons, know 
every foot of the country, and are thought to 
be favored by the Mormons. All the ranches 
aud farms in that section are being abandoned, 
and unless an overwhelming force soon sup¬ 
presses the movement, widespread havoc and 
sulTeiiug are likely to follow.The 
George MoGlynu Anti-Poverty-Uultod Labor 
Party met in convention at Syracuse, N. Y., 
Wednesday and had a fervid time as to the 
admission or exclusion of the Socialist Rep¬ 
resentatives from this city. Finally on Wed¬ 
nesday the Socialists were bounced, and now 
threaten to knife or disrupt the less radical 
section. Yesterday the convention completed 
its labors, adopting u characteristic platform, 
and nominating a full State ticket, with 
Henry George for Secretary of State, the high¬ 
est officer to be elected this year.............. 
... . The Nicaragua Cunal would 
cost $04,000,000, six years would be required 
to construct ft, aud when completed a steamer 
could pass from end to end m 80 hours. 
... .The details of the systematic ruin of little 
girls from edght upward, at Ottawa, Canada, 
arc horrible. Judge Lynch should practice 
on some of the officers, Government dorks, 
storekeepers, and professional men there, who 
have been guilty of bond hie immorality. So 
many “big bugs” are implicated that efforts 
are being made to hush the matter up. The 
Home of the Good Shepherd alone, has within 
a little over u week rescued SO girls aged be¬ 
tween eight and 12.A heavy 
storm on Thursday did immense damage in 
New England by washing out railway tracks, 
floating bridges. Hooding crops, etc. In Hart¬ 
ford, the rainfall from 8 to 10 a. m.. was 2.23 
inches.George Brinski, who was 
President Cleveland’s army substitute, died of 
consumption Thursday, August 18, at the 
Soldiers’ Homo at Bath, N. Y. He was f>4 
years old. . Teenier beat Ranlan in 
the Toronto boat race on Saturday by three 
boat lengths .The Coroner’s J ury 
on the horrible railroad accident at Chats- 
worth, Ill., has settled that the bridge was set 
on fire by burning grass which had been 
culpably left along the track, and laid all the 
blame on the soction foreman who, they say, 
failed to properly inspect the road and bridge. 
Seems as if the railroad had mnuuged to get 
many friends on that jury. Other juries, in 
suits for damages, are much more likely to 
give impartial verdicts..... 
In two years the administration has appoint¬ 
ed postmasters to 45,878 out of the 55, 157 post- 
offices in the country.... The week 
has been prolific ill railroad accidents of all 
kinds, from collisions and plunging down em¬ 
bankments to the running away of railroad 
engines. We have noticed 18 such “accidents” 
since Sunday, involving l!i deaths and many 
injuries more or less severe. A great deal of 
mismanagement somewhere.. 
_“The Brotherhood" is the name of a new 
secret organization of labor, which has been in 
existence in Now England for over a year, 
and there it has a number of local councils. 
It declares it isn’t, like the K. of L., “a strik¬ 
ing machine”; but an organization seeking to 
remove the cause of strikes by establishing 
practical co-operation... .A1 van Clark, the 
telescope maker, died yesterday at his home 
in Cambridge, Mass_The Distillers’ and 
Cattle Feeders’ Trust, just formed, is the 
largest mounpoly yet sprung upon the public 
—that, is, the largest at the outset; for doubt¬ 
less the .Standard Oil is the largest m exist¬ 
ence. The new concern starts with a capital 
of $40,0(10,000, und its business pays $70,000,000 
out of the $118,000,000 annual Internal Reve¬ 
nue taxes. 
... The Inman steamer, City of Montreal, 
which left this port for Liverpool on Satur¬ 
day, August 6, with 135 passengers, all steer¬ 
age or “mte’Tiiediate,” and a crew of 84, was 
totally destroyed by fire on August 11. On 
the morning of the 11th, a heavy sea running, 
the boats were lowered and passengers aud 
crew transferred to thorn. One of the boats, 
with 13persons, went off by itself, and has not 
since been heard of. Those oil hoard the 
others were taken on board the German hark 
Tribant, from which they were soon trans¬ 
shipped to the steamer New York City, run¬ 
ning between Baltimore aud London. She 
lauded them at Queenstown Friday morning. 
Origin of the tin-still unknown . ..... 
The Scotch cutter,Thistle, has arrived here, 
after asail of 21 days. General opinion is loud 
in her praise. The Volunteer, which is almost 
certain to bo selected as her competitor, has 
hosts of backers. Still, it must he remem¬ 
bered that the Mayflower which heat the 
Puritan last year, is, for some reason, doing 
very badly this year; so that the Volunteer's 
chief competitor hitherto has been the Furi- 
tan, which has proved nearly a* good u sec¬ 
ond to the Volunteer this season ns she did to 
the Muyflower last. There would be more 
confidence in the new flyer if she had beaten 
the Mayflower in as good a trim ns she was 
last year • .Professor Spencer F. 
Baird, head of the Smithsonian Institute, and 
U. S. Fish Commissioner, died at 8.45 P. M., 
August IP, at Wood’s Hoi I, Mass., where lie 
had been sick for some time. Of mixed 
Scotch, English and German descent, though 
his ancestors were here before the Revolution. 
Born at Reading, Pa., Feb. 3, 1823. Gradu¬ 
ated at Dickinson College in 1846. and became 
Professor of Natural .Sciences there. Ap¬ 
pointed Assistant Secretary of Smithsonian 
lustitute in Washington, in 1850, and on the 
death of Prof. Henry lie became the head of 
it. Was appointed Commissioner of Fisheries 
with no audit,ional salary in 1878, A hard work¬ 
er and earnest seeker after truth, a brilliant sci¬ 
entist, a friend and co-worker of Audubon and 
Agassiz, a prolific author and a thoroughly 
honest man, he won high esteem ami leaves 
widespread regret. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, August 20, 1887. 
The Oladstonites have gained another 
parliamentary victory; the Tory-Harting- 
ton-Chamberlain coalition bos sustained an¬ 
other defeat. At the last election for the Nor¬ 
wich division of Cheshire, the Tory-Union¬ 
ists had 566 majority; at the by-election held a 
week ago, to fill the same place made vacant 
by the pitchforking of its occupant up into 
the House of Lords, the Gladstonian candi¬ 
date won by a majority of 1,186—5,112 
against 8,083. The victory is all the greater 
because the Tory candidate was Lord Henry 
Grosvenor, son of the Duke of Westminster, 
the richest noble in England, and perhaps in 
the world, whose ancestors for generations 
have owned vast property in the constituency, 
This was a pitched battle in which both sides 
exerted all their available forces, aud the res¬ 
ult. is considered decisive proof of a “flowing 
tide” in favor of Gladstone and Home. RuJo. 
Contrary to general expectation, the Laud 
League lias been proclaimed, according to the 
provisions of one section of the Coercion Law. 
Henceforth the Government can proceed in a 
summary way against any or all branches of 
it they may deem likely to lead to violence or 
discontent.. Much indignation a tic ng Eng¬ 
lish Liberals. The Irish say the League will 
flourish under a new uutne, or work secretly. 
On account of the “ proclamation ’ some of 
the Liberal-Unionists have left the Tory alli¬ 
ance; others threaten to do so. The Land 
Bill passed the Commons with some of the 
Loras’amendments, while others were reject¬ 
ed. Then it passed the Lords without opposi¬ 
tion. Thu Irish are much discontented with 
it in its present shat*?. 
The war scare in Eurojie has passed off—at 
least temporarily, as shown by the firm tone 
of all the money markets. English consols, 
which have been as low as 70 in a “scare,” are 
now 102}4—a certain barometer of calm finan¬ 
cial weather. . The Itouvier French 
Ministry, which boldly ousted Boulanger from 
the War Ministry, is gaining rapidly in public 
favor, and may hold on longer than any of its 
short-lived Republican predecessors. 
The Emperor of Germany is just recovering 
from a severe attack of rheumatism, which, ft 
was feared, might end bin long und eventful 
life. The Crown Prince has been ordered to 
the warm climate of Italy oil account of his 
throat trouble. Many still predict that he 
cannot recover. .. Sicily is at last free 
from cholera; but it is still raging in Southern 
Italy, and some cases have appeared in Rome. 
It still holds on in Malta, but hasn’t yet ap¬ 
peared in France or Spain. 
Prince Ferdinand has been crowned ruliug 
Prince of Bulgaria, and the Great Sobranjo 
has disolved as its functions ended with the 
installment <if n Prlooe, FwdlUOUd finds it a 
hard job to form a Cabinet. Russia and 
France are still outspokenly opposed to its ac¬ 
cession. Germany opposes if on the ground 
that, his conduct has been m direct violation 
of the Treaty of Berlin, but. not one single 
other provision of that treaty has been ob¬ 
served, and why should that relating to t-lie 
Prince? The Porte has accepted him under 
protest; Englaud, Austria and Duly recognize 
him in un underhand way. None of the for¬ 
eign official representatives in t.ho country 
have yet communicated with him offlcally. 
Plots and intrigue rather than open hostility 
will be used against him for some time. His 
position will always give ltussiu fair grounds 
lor a quarrel whenever she wants one. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Aug. 20,1887. 
There will bean exhibition of machines for 
laying aud covering drain tiles at Columbia, 
Mo., Nov. 8 aud 4. Prizes of $100 $50 aud 
$25, for the best, second and third best ma¬ 
chines.Jesse Mehany, of Tuscola, 
Ill., has just marketed 1,550 bushels of wheat, 
which he has held for four years. When 
thrashing it lie was offered $1.10 per bushel; 
he has just sold it for 65 cents. Any “terri¬ 
ble example” of the kind in your neighbor¬ 
hood ? .Du ring the last year Missouri 
lias re-organized 40 Granges, Maine has re¬ 
organized and organized about the same num¬ 
ber. Nearly all the States show a revival of 
the order...Surveyor-General Julian, a 
year ago reported as the result of his investi¬ 
gations that. 1,600,208 acres of t he public do¬ 
main in New Mexico had been unlawfully 
withdrawn from entry by the official recogni¬ 
tion of invalid titles ana fraudulent surveys. 
During the past year he has continued lus in¬ 
vestigations, and he now enlarges his estimate 
to 4,000,000 acres. Of this area 415,000 acres 
are In one fraudulent, grant, and 750,000 acres 
in another. What shall be done about it?_ 
_Last, Monday t he Secret ary of the Interior 
revoked the order of withdrawal of indemni¬ 
ty lands for the benefit of the Atlantic and 
Pacific Railroad Compauy, and in a letter to 
the Commissioner of the General Land Offic¬ 
es, directed that they may tie restored to set¬ 
tlement, under the Pre-emption and Home¬ 
stead laws. The Secretary’s reasons are given 
at great length. It is stated that between 
585,000,000 and 80,000,000 acres are Involved in 
this decision in the case of the Atlantic and 
Pacific Company alone. The order also ap¬ 
plies to all of the other railroads named in the 
Secretary's rules of May 23 Inst,except, the St. 
Paul, 'Minneapolis and Manitoba, the Hastings 
aud Dakota, the St. Paul and Pacific, the St.. 
Paul and Sioux City, the Sioux City and St. 
Paul, and the Winona and St. Peter. These 
are still under consideration. ... . 
_The Oregon State Agricultural College 
has just issued its 22nd catalogue. There were 
110 students enrolled during t.ho past year, 
but only two were graduated_About.500,000 
barrels of rice have been lost by the floods in 
South Carolina, chiefly along the Savannah 
and Santee Rivers....Thu third annual con- 
vention of the Society of American Florists 
opened at Chicago Monday. About 500 mem 
burs represented nearly every State in the 
Union... On the Chicago Board of Trade the 
commission rates for selling grain have been 
for some time officially one-eighth of one cent 
per bushel, but the bulk of the business lias 
lieeii done at 1-16 cent, or equal to $3 1234 per 
5,000 bushels. A new rule went into effect 
there Thursday, by which members of the 
Board will have to nay $5 per 5,000 bushels 
and parties outside $10 for a similar Quantity. 
If these figures are adhered to, a good deal of 
the trade is likely to Vie diverted to other mar¬ 
kets, especially New York H. C. Farnum, 
of the firm of Savage &■ Farnum, proprietors 
of Island Home Stock Farm, Grosso Isle, 
Wayne Co., Mich., importers and breeders of 
Pen-heron horses, left France August 18th an 
the Steamer Robulnnt, ilill Line, aud will 
arrive in New York, August 85th with one of 
the largest. Importations of registered Per- 
cheron stallions, brood mares aud fillies ever 
brought to America. Mr. Farnum spent the 
summer in France and selected nil the stock 
himself personally, The lot is composed of 
yie host, horses to be found in France and in¬ 
cludes many prize-winners. Those of our 
readers who contemplate the purchase of a 
stallion or mare will do well to inspect this 
stock while in New York, thus securing first 
choice out of a very largo number - The New 
Hampshire Senate 1ms defeated the bill to 
appropriate $3,000 for premiums at fairs of 
tlie State Agricultural Society and State 
Grange. Thu principal opposition was based 
upon the character of the State Society. 
Texas fever is reported to have broken out 
among cattle near Oswego, N. Y. A herd of 
28 cows was bought 10 days Vie fore the out¬ 
break from Jefferson County, where they had 
been pastured on land contaminated by a car¬ 
load of Texas cattle received two months pre¬ 
viously. The Oswego cuttle wore examined 
by State Veterinary Surgeon Heudersoo, of 
Syracuse. Ten had died and the rest were 
killed in his presence. If they were intended 
for the shambles, their slaughter would be all 
right; but it would be worse than ridiculous 
if t,hu veterinarian ordered their slaughter. 
Then the State would have to pay for them; 
whereas the only reason why the* State pays 
for cattle killed by order of t he duly appointed 
authorities, is to prevent the spread of con¬ 
tagious disease. Texas fever, however, can 
never be communicated by Northern cattle, 
however badly they may hie suffering from it. 
These were Northern cattle, not Texans. 
A convention of all persons In treated in ag¬ 
riculture is to meet at Syracuse, N. Y., on 
August 25. to protest against any outlay for 
enlarging the canals, und to urge increased 
taxation of personal proiierty for the relief of 
real estate. No Henry George doctrine here! 
. About 10,000 people, mostly far¬ 
mers, rode into Doekortown, N. J., Wednesday 
morning, to attend the fifth atiuuul farmers’ 
picnic of Essex County. Ex-Governor Ab¬ 
bott, Congressman 1'block and Mortimer 
Whitehead, Lecturer of the National Grange, 
were among the speakers. A great success 
und a splendid day. 
.. Early iu the week a symptoms of pneumo¬ 
nia appeared among eutlle about Belvedere, 
N. J., and several died. Dr. Diamond,of 
Trenton, State Veterinarian, having exam¬ 
ined the sick and dead on Wednesday, says 
they are altli -ted with the Texas fever, not 
“ pleuro.” He didn’t order nuy to bo killed as 
Texas fever cannot bo communicated by af¬ 
fected Northern cuttle.The Convention of 
Agricultural < ’hemists iu session at Washing¬ 
ton, last Thursday elected the following offi- 
cers for the ensuing year ; President, P. E 
Ohuzel, Spite Chemist of South Carolina; 
Vice-president, W. J. Gascoyne, State Cheiu 
ist, of Virginia ; Secretary, Clifford Richard¬ 
son, District Chemist ; Executive Committee, 
E. II. Jenkins, Vice-director of the Connecti¬ 
cut Agricultural Experimental Station, aud 
J. A. Myers, State Chemist of Mississippi. 
The President apjiointed the various standing 
committees, after which the convention ad¬ 
journed sine die. The next meeting will be 
held in Washington upon call of the executive 
committee. 
Crops & hets. 
Saturday, August 20, 1887. 
The weather crop bulletin of tlie Signal 
Office for the week ended August 20, says: 
The weather for the week has been fnvor- 
nble throughout the corn belt, tlie recent 
rains having greatly improved tho condition 
of that crop; but owing to the lateness of the 
rains in the principal corn-producing States, 
the yield will probably Vie Inflow the average. 
In tho cotton region, from Alabama westward 
to Texas, tho weather for the week has im¬ 
proved the crop conditions, and the cotton 
harvest Is progressing, but more rain would 
benefit, the crop in the central portions of Ar¬ 
kansas. In North and South Carolina an ex¬ 
cess of rainfall for the week is reported as un¬ 
favorable for the cotton crop. The weather 
has been generally favorable for nil crops in 
Kentucky, Tennessee. Virginia, and in the 
Middle Atlantic and New England States. In 
Mint oaota the uncut crops were improved, 
and harvested crops damaged by rains. 
Europe has harvested about 1.100,000,000 
bushels of wheat, new crop, this year, very 
nearly ; probably above an average, which 
places the. United Kingdom and the continent 
above immediate want in that direction. The 
outlook for prices here may therefore be in¬ 
ferred. At Chicago the shipping and distribu¬ 
tive demands for both grain and provisions 
are good, with more favorable crop reports. 
The area to hops in England last year, says 
Brad street’s, was 70,127 acres. The low prices 
of hops have since told upon the farmers to 
such an extent, that, it, is probable about 8,000 
acres have been grubbed up. This makes the 
a reage for 1887 about 62,000 acres, which, at 
634 cwt. to the acre, gives a crop of 403,000 
cwt. of 112 pounds. The Englidi crop of 
1886, which was variously estimated at from 
600,000 to 700,000 acres, was a phenomenal 
one. Hnnlsl, reefs put the 1885 crop at. 
“430.000 cwt., or a little over 0 cwt. per acre.” 
In 1885 the quantity of hops imported into 
England was 266,052 cwt,. The. consumption 
is said to he about 600,000 cwt. It is expected 
that there will be considerable demand for 
new American hops in England next fall, 
provided the quality is good and they are 
cleanly picked. The crop in Germany is doing 
well on the whole, though the quality is very 
uneven. Thu Belgian and Holland crops are 
in jioor condition, and vermin abound. 
Messrs. Rothbarth & Sous uf Frankfort-on 
the Main have cablet! that the English crop is 
expected to be one-third less than last year. 
The German crop expects to equal last, year’s. 
In speaking of the crop in this State Brad- 
street’s falls into an error. Tt says that 
“picklug is expected to begin a wo“k earlier 
than usual.” The truth is it will begin about 
a week later than usual, because hops a re so 
late in coming out of t he burr. 
A Chicago despatch says that late advises 
report an improvement iu the pasturage of 
many portions of the West, owing to the wel¬ 
come rnius, and already a better demand for 
stockers and feeders to ship to the country to 
fatten is witnessed. Farmers have been forced 
to ship their cattle to market und sell for 
whatever they would bring, as grass and water 
had vanished. Recent receipts had beaten 
a) I former records “all hollow.” Last week’s 
receipts “ take the cuke,” bi-mg several thous¬ 
ands the biggest, ever known, and the general 
run of stock continued to sell at the starvation 
prices recently noted. Cow sales at $1,00 to 
*1,25 were numerous-, and some stockers were 
taken at $1.25. while butchers’ steers were 
nicked un at $2,50 to $2.75, and shipping 
beeves of a common order sold around $3-oo. 
Still choice animals sold at good figures, and 
the best brought, tlie highest, prices of the sea¬ 
son, because so very few strictly choice were 
received. The export trade is improving, and 
higher prices are offered in England, on small¬ 
er receipt*. Texas cattle are reaching Chi¬ 
cago by river and rail at the rate of 10,000 
a week, and have been sold fairly well to city 
slaughterers at $1.65 to $8.40 for cows and 
$2.40 to $3.35 for steers. 
Accounts of the effects of the late rain falls 
upon crops in the West are still quite conflict¬ 
ing. The prices of corn suffered serious de¬ 
pression early in the week, portly on the 
encouraging crop reports, but rallied hero 
sharply hi sympathy with pronounced specula¬ 
tive excitement and buoyancy at Chicago aud 
liberal covering purchases. Of course tho 
rains wero highly beneficial everywhere, but in 
most cases, except in the more northerly sec¬ 
tion, they came too late tu retrieve the great 
tujury done by the previous drought, and in 
many cases were not heavy enough to do any 
great permauout good. 
Thu condition of potatoes throughout the 
country in August, 1, was the lowest ever re¬ 
ported to the Department of Agriculture for 
that. date. Tho outlook was good for a sweet po- 
fatoe crop considerably above the average, es¬ 
pecially in the South Atlantic and Western 
Gulf States. Tlie average iu the principal 
producing States are as followews: The 
Carol inas and Georgia, 1*7: Alabama, 65; Mis¬ 
sissippi aud Louisiana, 100; Texas, 64; Ar¬ 
kansas, 67; Tennessee, 87; Kentucky, 82; 
Ohio, 80. 
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liICKN AS A SURGEON’S KNIFE. 
On tho Chicago Limited Express, one of 
those splendid trains that leave New York over 
two of tho great trunk lines of this country 
aud make the dash to the metropolis of tho 
west with such remarkable speed, an elderly 
gentleman was, a few days ago, seized with a 
violent, attack of asthma. . He had been a 
sufferer for many years and his efforts to 
breathe wore dreadful to witness. A physi¬ 
cian was found on the train, but relief seemed 
impossible. Everything was dune for tho 
comfort of the passenger, but he speedily grew 
worse. His face assumed a livid hue, and it 
appeared that lie bad only a few minutes to 
