THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ms of llje WwH. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 10,1887. 
Add Canada is to be asked to give money 
for a monument to those who fell at the bat¬ 
tle of Lundy’s Lane in the war of 1812. The 
Welland (Ont.) county couucil will be the 
executive and trust committee. 
During the fiscal year, ending June 30, there 
were 40,678 applications for patents, agai nst 
38,408 the previous year.The 
International Medical Congress, which was 
formally opened Monday at Washington by 
President Cleveland, began its labors with an 
attendance of about 5,000 physieiaus, of 
whom about one-tenth were from foreign 
countries, representing every civilized peo¬ 
ple. The convention elected as its President, 
Dr. Nathan Smith Davis, of Chicago, and as 
its Secretary, Surgeon-General Hamilton, 
U. S. A. Many valuable papers were read on 
medical topics by some of the most famous 
doctors of the world, aud much learned dis¬ 
cussion added to the knowledge of the pro¬ 
fession. The Senate approapriated $25,000 
for the entertainment or the members- but 
tbe House cut the sum down to $10,000. Wash¬ 
ington City, however, has been a liberal donor 
to the fuud .The Volunteer and Thistle, 
both here during the past, week, have amused 
themselves and piqued others by keeping out 
of each other’s way aud tryiug to conceal as 
much as possible their latent, speed, while sail¬ 
ing about and outside New York harbor. 
Some say that the Thistle has never yet shown 
what she can do, as she was able to beat all 
opponents ou tbe other side without the 
necessity of doing her best. To deceive on¬ 
lookers it is said that when she spreads all her 
canvas aud appears to be flying as fast as her 
wings can carry her, a part of a cable is being 
towed secretly below the water-line to retard 
her progress. Her managers have been scru¬ 
pulously careful not to lot outsiders see the 
shape of her hull, and it is alleged that ar¬ 
rangements have been made to force air out 
at the keel in such a wav as to form a cushion 
along the hull so as to lessen the friction of 
the water as she cuts through it—doubtless a 
canard. A pretty general impression that she 
will win is patriotically concealed by the 
papers. Mr. Bell, her owner, and Mr. Wat¬ 
son, her designer, have just arrived here. 
They say she is tbe fastest cutter ever built, 
but that there is no secret, about her.. ..... 
_“ Labor Day” was generally observed on 
Monday where workmen are abundant in 
all parts of the country. The parade num¬ 
bered 20,006 here; 32,000 in Chicago; 11,000 
in Boston, 0,000 in Cincinnati n od so on. 
Since the Charleston earthquake 0,000 now 
buildings have been erected at a cost of $4,- 
300,000, of which Charleston furnished $3,000,- 
000 ... Jefferson Davis will go to Macon, 
Ga., to attend the State Fair, October 20. An 
attempt will be made to secure a groat attend¬ 
ance of cx-Confederate soldiers, with the in¬ 
tention of giving tbe “last public demonstra¬ 
tion to the head of the late Confederate Gov¬ 
ernment.”. . A new naval war college was 
opened Monday at Coasters’ Harbor island, 
near Newport. K. T., for the purpose of giv¬ 
ing special instruction in naval warfare to 
officers of maturer years than tbe cadets at the 
National Naval Academy at Auuapolis, Md.. 
.The Treasury Department, says animals 
and articles imported for exhibition at fail's, 
etc., will be subject to entry and withdrawal 
in the same manner as other imported mer¬ 
chandise entered for warehousing, and the 
same form of entrv wiil bo used, su list! tut trig 
therein the words’“entry under special bond” 
for the words “entry for warehouse” in the 
heading.It is reported that Mr. Nor- 
quay has succeeded in raising $1,000,000 for 
the construction of the Bed River V alley 
Railway, secured by bonds of the Province of 
Manitoba. Tbe rails for the road will bo at 
once taken from Moutreat to the Northwest.. 
Two more injunctions—four in all—have been 
issued against the road, and the 20 lawyers are 
fighting about it in the courts at Winnepeg. 
Sir John Macdonald threatens to send the 
militia from tbe Eastern Provinces against 
the “disgruntled rebels,” if they persist m 
their efforst to complete the road. 
There will be a grand display at Philadelphia 
next Friday, Sept. 16, at the oue hnndreth 
anniversary of the declaration of the Consti¬ 
tution of the United States, which Gladstone, 
in declining an invitation to bo present, calls 
the most, remarkable work ever produced by 
44 tbe human iut<->lleot at a siu^ki atiroke. ' The 
President and his wife, the Governors of the 
various States and their suites, and a multi¬ 
tude of Congressmen and other notabilities of 
all kinds will be present. Gen. Sheridan will 
command the troops, uud expects that 20,000 
men will be in line. A vast multitude of 
ordinar? visitors will also celebrate the “ Con¬ 
stitutional Centennial.”. . Considerable 
trouble has lately been caused in Cuba by the 
action of Lieut. -Governor-General Martin, 
who, having complete control until a new 
Governor-General arrives, aud knowing that 
the Custom House at Havana was a deu of 
rogues who swindled the government as 
well as exporters, “ turned the rascals out” at 
one sweep the other day. The same policy has 
been enforced on dishonest revenue officers in 
other towns also, and the. ejected rascals and 
their frieuds are, of course, making a rumpus, 
which is much exaggerated in this country. 
.About a week ago a band of 16 hli- 
busters secretly left Key West, Fla., to join 
400 more already in Cuba, and to be followed 
by others. They act as guerrillas, keeping in 
the woods and mountains, but sweeping down 
by night on the cultivated country, burning 
plantations and planters’ bouses aud other 
buildings, killing all who attempt to protect 
their property. They are simply buccaneers, 
plunderiug^aud^robbing under tbe guise of 
patriotism. Most of them, however, are 
Americans or other foreigners, or desparate 
sla ves who have escaped to the mountains. Real 
Cuban patriots find it easier and safer to spout 
patriotism bere and contribute an occasional 
dollar to biro foreign filibusters to kill and 
pillage in their place. Nearly all the “in¬ 
vaders ” get shot or hung in the long run— 
usually in less than a year... 
The capital stock of t he great. Chinese-Amer¬ 
ican bank will lie only $25,000,000, instead of 
the $250,000,000 at first, spoken of. The 
Chinese Government, subscribes $5,000,000, 
Chinese merchants $7,000,000, Drexel, Morgan 
& Co. $3,000,000, and other Americans—chief¬ 
ly Philadelphians—have spoken for the rest,. 
The Americans are to have a monopoly of the 
telephone business for 50 years; they will 
negotiate all loans for the Chinese Empire and 
have the right to coin money. They will help 
to open up the country by aiding in the con¬ 
struction of railroads, canals, etc., and be in a 
general way thu financial agents of the Celes¬ 
tial Government, something the same as the 
Bauk of England is of the British Govern¬ 
ment. “Count” Mitktowicz, a Polisk-Atneri- 
ean adventurer, who married some years ago 
in this country, begot children and made 
debts, all of which he left behind him when he 
set out for adventures in China, has been tbe 
chief agent in the deal. The Chinese deputa¬ 
tion that is at Washington with him now Is of 
the highest character, however, and the “deal” 
has been ratified by the Chinese Minister. 
“There's millions in it.” for all concerned, 
especially for the dubious “Count,” who has 
already beguu to pay off old debts, as befits 
the groat Hero of Modern Adventure.. .Three 
hundred Blaekfeot warriors in the Canadian 
Northwest are reported to have gone on the 
war-path. Malcontents from other tribes are 
expected t.o join them from both sides of the 
line. Should the Blackfeet, the most power¬ 
ful tribe ou the continent, go to war. a world 
of trouble would follow. Much discontent 
due to the encroachments of settlers and 
outrages of white desperadoes. 
Washington has been selected by the trustees 
of the proposed Catholic University as the site 
of that institution. A building committee 
consisting of Archbishop Williams, of Boston, 
Bishop Keane and Thomas Wagganmn, aud a 
collecting committee, including nil the arch¬ 
bishops and bishops in the United States, are 
appointed.Gen, Butler proposes to get 
riil of the Treasury surplus by pensioning 
every Union soldier and sailor, whether he 
wants a peusiou or not, aud then distributing 
t he bulunce among needy Confederate soldiers. 
The Southern papers are struggling heroically 
with this proposal of “Spoons”.Dr. 
Orr, the Georgia State Superintendent, favors 
a law giving the $8,000 appropriation which 
tbe Atlanta University has heretofore enjoyed, 
to a colored institution taught exclusively by 
colored professors.. 
....G. W. Wilkins, a boat builder at Batten- 
kill, Pa., bus fled to Canada with $200,600 in 
his pocket, leaving debts of over half that 
sum.Of Frank McNeilly, the 10- 
year-old youngster who took $267,000 from 
the Saco-Biddeford Bauk Me., nothing has 
been beard...Marsh T. Polk, who 
while State Treasurer of Tennessee three 
years ago, robbed the State of several hun¬ 
dred thousand dollars, and was arrested but 
allowed out ou bail owing to the big “ pull” 
be had, was reported to have sickened aud 
died at Nashville ; but it is now reported that 
he fled to Mexico where he was seen and inter¬ 
viewed the other day.Attorney 
General O’Brien, of this State, holds that the 
law does not authorize the Senate or the As¬ 
sembly to send committees about the State 
wheut.be Legislature is not in session, on er¬ 
rands of investigation at. tbe expense of the 
State..The Dominion revenue and expendi¬ 
ture for the fiscal year euding J une 30th show sa 
total revenue of $35,80 ! 041. leaving a surplus 
over expenditure of $ 134,437.. .The 
Baltimore and Ohio system, so vigorously 
pushed by the late Robert Garrett, has been 
disrupted under bis son, the present Robert 
Garrett. A powerful syndicate has agreed to 
take the system off of lils hands, pay its debts 
and dispose of its various parts. The express 
business has already gone to the United States 
Company. The Western Union will take the 
telegraph portion; the Pullman Company the 
sleeping car part, aud the railroad will be 
taken in charge by the Pennsylvania Com¬ 
pany. The Baltimore aud Ohio will thus, in 
the lauguage of a member of tbe syndicate, 
cease to be au “Isbnmelite,” because it will 
cease to be the independent system tbe genius 
of the elder Garrett hud made it. Tuesday 
week the stock sold at $! 43 per share. It has 
been tumbling steadily since. Thursday it 
sold at $122 per share. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 10, 1887. 
Yesterday Editor William O’Brien, of 
Canadlau fame, was to be tried at Mitchells- 
town, County Dublin, for violation of the Co¬ 
ercion Act. He didn’t appear, arid a bench 
warrant was issued for his arrest. As it was 
the first case under tbe new law, a great crowd 
assembled in the market place, and when a 
squad of police surrounding a government 
sliort-baud writer tried to force their way to 
the platform on which a number of members 
of Parliament were to speak, they were resist¬ 
ed with sticks and stones and forced to retreat 
Returning with reinforcements, they fired 
into the crowd, wounding many and killing 
t.wo—first blood in the conflict. That meet¬ 
ing at Ennis passed off quietly, owing to the 
good sense of all parties. The presence of 
10,000 people was a protest, but they did not 
resist the efforts of constables and soldiers to 
make them “move ou.”.At Exeter, 
capital of Devonshire—a place with a popu¬ 
lation of about 40,000—during a play in the 
theatre Monday night, a fire suddenly wrapt 
the building in flames—150 dead; many more 
or less severely injured.A great 
Trades Union Congress in London, Wednes¬ 
day, resolved to agitate in favor of an eight- 
hour work day and a full holiday every Sat¬ 
urday. This would give employment to 700,- 
000 of those now compulsorily idle, whoso 
places have been filled by modern labor-saving 
inventions .All over Europe there 
is a growing disinclination to admit foreign¬ 
ers to the same rights and privileges as are 
enjoyed by natives- The working classes and 
tradesmen everywhere object the loudest. 
Hard-working, sober, steady, economical Ger¬ 
mans are denounced in England, France and 
Russia for “taking the bread out of the 
months” of less industrious and thrifty na¬ 
tives They are boycotted in Russia and 
France, and forced out of the country by pub¬ 
lic insults mid oppression, and often by Gov¬ 
ernment action. The English Govern inont 
has also promised to take some action against 
the immigration of such crowds of foreigners, 
especially Germans, who are excluding na¬ 
tives from several trades and crowding them 
closely in various voca tions. As the popula¬ 
tion grows denser, each country wants to re¬ 
serve all its resources for its own people. 
....France is jubilant at the success of tlio 
mobilization of her 17th army corps. Little 
or no hitch has occurred in’ concentrating, 
equipping and moving the troops. Out of a 
calculated total of 38,1)00 men liable to serve 
in the corps, many of them reserves, about 
35,000 are actually doing duty—a greater pro¬ 
portion than sickness and other causes usu¬ 
ally permit to be in the active ranks of any 
army. Fanners and all others at. the scene of 
the movement appear patriotically content 
with tho billeting of troops, the requisitions of 
horses, wagons and all other requirements for 
instant service. It is conceded on all bauds 
that, not only has France the largest army 
she lifts ever had, but also tho best drilled, 
equipped and prepared for action. Had her 
army been nearly so large or so well prepared 
in 1870, Germany would probably have been 
the seat of war, Berlin instead of Paris might 
have experienced the horrors of a siege. But 
since the close of the Franco-German war in 
1871, Germany has beeu as busy as France in 
preparing for future hostilities. 
Prince Ferdinand has at. last succeeded in 
forming a Cabinet, including four of the best 
known and staunchest Bulgarians. Early in 
the week he declared that if the Russo-Turk- 
ish envoy, Gen. Eroroth, entered the coun¬ 
try as an ambassador, he would be welcomed; 
if as an agent to upset the Government, he 
would be resisted. As the other powers were 
backward in approving the measure, the Ern- 
roth episode is ended, as Turkey and Russia 
do not care to net independently. The former 
declares that, if the Prince remains in Bulga¬ 
ria she will declare the treaty of Berlin,which 
now binds her hands, void, ns its terms are so 
flagrantly violated by the consent of the 
powers that, signed it. There are rumors of 
military revolts and civiliuu plots in Bulga¬ 
ria, and it is said Ferdinand will soon visit his 
estates in Hungary, from which it is hardly 
likely he will return to the country where his 
presence is a standing threat to the peace of 
Europe, 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 10,1887. 
Lucky B.,the famous racing stallion belong¬ 
ing to millionaire sportsman “Lucky” Bald¬ 
win, of California, died here last Saturday of 
cerebrospinal meningitis. He had won over 
$100,000 in stakes and wagers, and was val¬ 
ued at $50,000 for the stud to which he was 
to lie sent this year.. .Last Saturday Bonner’s 
Maud S. made a mile iu 2.17, trotting the last 
quarter iu 30 seconds ..At the Penn¬ 
sylvania State fair hold at, Philadelphia during 
the week, nothing stronger than weiss beer 
was sold, concession for selling even lager 
having been refused by the managers. 
....The bank of Nevada is said to have lost 
$12,000,000 in the wheat deal, and Flood aud 
Mackay, the owners, are said to be crippled,at 
least, temporarily.At Racine, Wis., 
“Jay-Eye-Bee” trotted one of the fastest 
miles ever made ou a half-mile course. The 
first quarter was made in 36 seconds, half 
mile in 1.00%, three-quarters in 1.40 and the 
mile in 2,17 %.Everv trace of the 
Colorado beetle has been distroyed in Germa¬ 
ny by tbe timely use of disinfectants aud til¬ 
lage of the fields in which the pests appeared. 
...Advices from Chardjui, on the 
Oxus. say that the Russian Court Chamber¬ 
lain Mitehajell', Prince Dernidoff aud a party 
of millionaires are inspecting the cotton fields 
of Bokhara with a view to selecting a suitable 
site ou the lino of the projected Samareand 
Railway fora cotton mill.Patron, 
with a record of 3.14%, by Pancoast, won the 
$10,000 special purse trot at Hartford, Conn., 
last week, best tittle 2.17.Last Sat¬ 
urday the Vermont, flattie Commissioners re¬ 
moved tho quarantine against New York cat¬ 
tle; but there is a great surplus of “pleuro" 
in tbe Btate yet.Owing to the 
scarcity of coni, caused by the continued 
drought, farmers in the vicinity of Hillsboro, 
III., urn feeding wheat to stock. Such a thing 
was never known thorn before. 
....At Lynchburg, Pa., the sales of leaf- 
tobacco for August were, 2,006,800 pounds, 
and from January 1 to September 1,1,27,(372,- 
070 pounds. The growing crop in that section 
will, from the present outlook, be the best for 
many years.Arrangements were 
made with prominent Chicago merchants, 
whereby the Dakota Farmers’ Alliance will 
be enabled to furnish members and patrons 
during the winter with third vein Lasalle and 
Hocking Valley bituminous Coal aud Lackn- 
wauua anthracite at a reduction of about 25 
per cent, from tho usual prices. 
Thirty-three cows belonging to John Clay, 
milkman, in Baltimore County, Md., affected 
with pleuro-pneninonia, were killed aud 
bruied Tuesday. Tho State paid $15 a-head 
for them. The New York State 
Fair opened at Rochester, Thursday, under 
bright skies and with a large attendance. The 
entries are larger than t hose at a previous ex¬ 
hibition, Governor Hill and other State 
officers are expected to attend the fair on Mon¬ 
day .. 
.A Montreal firm, the other day, bought 
25,000 boxes of cheese, what was left of the 
make of the Allan-Grova Combination, com¬ 
prising 66 factories. Prices paid were 12% 
cents for August and 13 cents for September 
and October. Total amount $225,000—the 
largest single sale ever made in Canada. 
..The shipments of phosphates from Montreal 
iu July were 2,191 tons A new company re¬ 
cently organized at Hallo well. Me., with a 
capital of $200,000, has purchased 200 acres of 
mining lands near Buckingham. Quc. 
..Fredericksburg, Va., has a big pickle fac¬ 
tory that is supplied with cucumbers from the 
lands adjoining the city. This season tbe sup¬ 
ply has reached 80,000,000 cucumbers, those 
engaged in their production furnishing from 
200,000 to 1,000,000 each. An acre will pro¬ 
duce 100,000, and they sell in Fredericksburg 
at 80 cents per 1,000. The best are 1 1 .j inch 
long, and a boy will pick 3,000 a day..... .... 
Crops & iTliuiifts. 
Saturday, September 10,1887. 
A Manitoba warehouse is said to be taking 
into store 50,000 bushels per day, nearly all on 
farmers’ account. This will soon fill ware¬ 
houses with offgrade wheat. It being un¬ 
graded it cannot go into bins for graded 
wheat, aud special bins are not sufficiently 
plentiful to hold it iu store aud air it by mov 
ing to prevent heating. The Minnesota State 
Board of Warehousemen has established a 
price for cleaning wheat at public elevators 
or warehouses, with rules and regulations for 
track aud other inspection and cleaning. Out 
of 132 cars of wheat inspected one day last 
week 32 were returned as no grade, which 
means the wheat was damp, resulting from 
the late heavy rains. 
Rice is one-quarter cent higher on short- 
crop reports, demand and limited supplies of 
new. Sugar, fair refining, is 3-16 of a cent 
higher; refined is relatively higher; granulat¬ 
ed three-eighths of a cent. Demand is good. 
Cotton is one-eighth of a cent higher ou un¬ 
favorable crop reports. Wool is heavy; large 
sales require concessions. The domestic wool 
clip is placed at 261,000,000 pounds against 
282,000,005 pounds last year. The movement 
of dry goods from jobbers’ hands is very 
heavy. 
A telegram Thursday from Canajoharie. N. 
Y.. in the center of the hop region,says: “Hop 
picking is about half finished, and the quality 
of hops grown in New York State was never 
better than that of the crop now being gath¬ 
ered. Tbe growers have exercised great care 
in picking the hops clean, and the yield turns 
out slightly better thau was anticipated. Buy¬ 
ers at first offered 20 cents for tho new crop, 
but 18 cents is now tlic ruling price.” The to¬ 
tal crop of hops on the Pacific coast in 1886 
was 63,701) bales. This year it is estimated at 
69.258 bales, of which California will supply 
33,197 bales ; Oregon 9.001 ; Washington Ter¬ 
ritory 26,181, nod British Columbia 86. The 
average yield per acre is estimated at 1,130 
pounds. 
The hop crop of Europe will Vic very vari¬ 
able, tho expectation being that the yield will 
be two-thirils of an average and the quality 
much better than last year. In England the 
acreage under Imps has fallen off 10 per cent, 
withiu a year. The promise of the crop had 
been quite fair up to the great storm of 
August 81, which raged with fury in Kent 
and badly damaged the prospects. 
Iu the Ohio River Valley in Kentucky the 
drought has not been broken yet, and crops, 
particularly tobacco, arc suffering severely. 
The exports of wheat, and flour from seven 
Atlantic ports and the 1‘aeifle coast, for six 
days ended September 9, as exclusively wired 
to Bradstreet’s, are equal to about 2,400,000 
bushels of wheat, against 4,010,000 bushels for 
tbe week ending September 1, and 4,015,000 
bushels in the preceding week, showing a 
heavy decline, nearly all from the four larg¬ 
er Atlantic ports. Cotton exports have de¬ 
clined 7,700 bales to 19,319 bales this week, 
and petroleum exports 2,073,000 gallons to 
10,664,172 gallons. 
Heavy ruins have fallen in nearly all por¬ 
tions of Dakota and Minnesota, and an early 
movement of the spring wheat crop from 
these States is not now expected. The qual¬ 
ity and condition of the grain will be deter¬ 
iorated, bat to what extent cannot be known 
till alter thrashing. Damp wheat is being 
offered by farmers for warehousing in many 
localities, us the) arc unwilling to accept 
prices bid by warehousemen for damp wheat. 
Brock port! N Y., is one of the greatest 
bean centers of the world. This year’s crop is 
of the usual good quality, but. will not be 
more than half of last, year’s yield. The crop 
isn’t more than from 10 to 15 bushels to the 
acre on an average. It is of superior quality, 
better, if anything, than lust. year. 
The Financial and Commercial Chrouielo 
has completed its statement of the cotton crop 
of the United States for the year, and makes 
the total 6, 513,623 bales, compared with 6,550, 
215 bales for last year and 5,669,021 bales for 
1885. 
A dispatch from Medina, N. Y., says : 
High winds in the past few days have caused 
Pi,0rctliutcou^ (Ut rtiinfl. 
DIXON'S "Carburet Of Iron" Stove Polish was 
established in 1837, amt Is to-day, as It was then, the 
neatest uud brightest In the market; a pure plumbago, 
giving off no polBouous vapors. Tho size is now doub¬ 
ted and eako weighs nearly half a pound, but the quali¬ 
ty and price remain the same. Ask your grocer for 
Dixon’s big cake. 
