THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Harrs of i\ )jC Week, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 15, 1887. 
The Interstate Commission has submitted to 
the Secretary of the Interior its estimates for 
the next fiscal year. They are as follows; 
Salaries of commissioners, $37,500; salary of 
secretary, $3,500; all other necessary expen¬ 
ses, $.150,000. Total, $300,000. The pres nt 
appropriation is 8100,000.A rail¬ 
road is to be built from Devil’s Lake, D. T., 
to connect with the Northern Pacific at Haw¬ 
ley, Minn., the line to furnish another direct 
outlet from the wheat lands to Duluth, The 
stockholders are principally Bostonians, and 
the capital is $5,500,000.Proctor & 
Gamble, of Cincinnati, who share the profits 
each year with their employes, made their 
first semi-annual sharing Thursday among 
their workmen, $08,000 being divided. Tho 
employes made a holiday celebration of the 
event.Clothing purchased iu Can¬ 
ada but uot used there is, it has just been decid¬ 
ed, liable to duty when brought into the United 
States. Investigation into election 
frauds in Baltimore shows that thousands 
of names are illegally registered ou the 
poll lists and that many important office¬ 
holders are ex-convicts. In one ward nine¬ 
teen out of twenty-three office-holders are 
criminals. The Superintendent of Streets 
has been under indictment nine times and in 
jail thirty-eight times. One-half of the mem¬ 
bers of the Democratic State Central Com¬ 
mittee are said to he ex-convicts who still 
walk with the gait contracted iu the peniten¬ 
tiary. Murderers, thieves, express robbers, 
and other convicted felons are found in all de¬ 
partments of the city service as representa¬ 
tives of the plug ugly class of Baltimore De¬ 
mocracy . A successful experiment 
was made at Bellevue Hospital, New York 
City, Tuesday, with a telephonic probe, a 
bullet being located iu the liver of a man who 
was shot while attempting a burglary........ 
The United States Court at Sitka. Alaska, has 
condemned the Canadian sealing vessels cap¬ 
tured this year, with their cargoes, for illegal¬ 
ly taking seals, and decreed their forfeiture 
to the United States. The case is likely to be 
taken to the United States Supreme Court by 
the Dominion authorities to obtain a decision 
on the question whether tho jurisdiction of 
the United States extends over the whole of 
Behring Sea, or is confined to within three 
miles of the cost. If the decision is adverse 
to Canada the matter is likely to be made sub¬ 
ject to negotiation and arbitration_ 
... .The opposition in Canada are 
doing all they can to discredit the new 
Fisheries Commission. Liberal meetings are 
passing resolutions condemning the appoint¬ 
ment of a commission without the express 
sauetion of the Dominion Parliament. 
-The Mormon constitutional convention at 
Salt Lake City has prepared a memorial to 
Congress praying for tho admission of Utah 
into the Union.There has been a 
great deal iu the papers about yellow fever at 
Tampa, Fla., but the latest reports say it is 
merely break-bone or dengue fever. ..... 
Mrs. Lucretia it. Garfield and her daughter 
Mollic, sailed for Liverpool Tuesday by the 
Arizona, being called across the ocean by the 
serious illness of her niece. Miss May Mason of 
Cleveland, who is iu London_,. ..A 
convention of the temperance organizations 
of Tennessee has been called for November 9 
aud 10 at Nashville. It will plan to capture 
the Legislature. Local Option is looking up 
since i he defeat of Prohibition .The 
will of the late Prof. Spencer F. Baird of the 
Smithsonian Institute, bequeaths all his 
property to his widow during her life-time 
and then to his daughter during her life-time. 
Should both die without heirs what remains is 
to revert to the Smithsonian Institute. 
- Hon, Elihu R. Washbume is recovering 
from his late illness. His mind is unimpaired 
after tho attack of paralysis.Michael 
Davitt has embarked for Ireland after a rapid 
but very successful trip here for the purpose 
of introducing Irish woolen manufactures ... 
..Ethel Sprague, daughter of Kate 
Chase Sprague and ex-Gov. Sprague of Rhode 
Island, aud grand-daughter of the late Chief 
Justice Chase, is preparing for the stage. 
She has been studying with the best foreign 
masters aud, of course, has ■‘remarkable his- 
tronic talent.”.Lyman Smith has a 
pneumatic grain transfer iii Buffalo harbor 
which he rails a cyclone. It picks up coal or 
grain aud blows it through a 15-inch tube into 
a hopper holding 3,00)1 bushels. A capacity 
of. 300 bushels a moment is claimed,.. 
The Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta, Ga., was 
opened Monday, addresses being delivered by 
H. AV. Grady, Governor Gordon, and the 
Hon. S. J. Randall ... ... .leaders of var¬ 
ious Protestant denominations have issued a 
call for a general conference of evangelical 
Christians of the United States at Washington 
December 7, 8 and ‘.I next, to consider ques¬ 
tions affecting the welfare of the whole 
church.... . . Gen Paine, tho owner of 
the Voluntt er, and Mr. Burgess, her designer, 
have been enthusiastically received and enter¬ 
tained at Boston and also in this city, Bur¬ 
gess is overwhelmed with orders for designs 
for yachts and other small vessels. Though 
the Thistle was offered for sale here not a sin¬ 
gle bid was received lor her, aud she started 
for homo yesterday. Mr. Bril, her chief 
owner, and his wife sailed by steamer for 
Liverpool ou Wednesday. Several Scotch and 
English parties say they intend to build boats 
to contast for the A i oenca Cup ugaiu next year. 
— The United States grand jury in session 
at Tucson, Arizona, has discovered that or¬ 
ganized cattle thieves have been stealing cat¬ 
tle from the Indians on the Man Carlos Reser¬ 
vation during the past year. Several very 
prominent citizens are implicated. The white 
men who stole the cattle changed the Indian 
brands into their own, which had been pur¬ 
posely made to resemble them. Hence those 
alarming reports of a probable Indian out¬ 
break. ...Boycotting has received another 
blow. Judge Snell, of Washington, has fined 
eight men for indulging in it.... The cab¬ 
in passengers of the cholera-infected steamer, 
Alesin, which is still held at Quarantine Sta¬ 
tion here, were allowed to come to the city 
Oct. 4; the steerage passengers are still de¬ 
tained at quarantine; 19of them have died. 
Rumors of carelessness in quarantining are 
strongly denied by the authorities.. 
Jueleto, Mexico, population 8,000, was totally 
destroyed, with a loss of many lives, by a ter¬ 
rible wind and rain storm on Oe.', 7and 8. 
The enti-e cpffco and orange crons in Binola 
were destroyed. On t he Chicago & At- 
1.0 "Uc R. R. at Kouts, Ill., Tuesday, a passen- 
g rand freight train collided. General smash- 
up of the passenger train; curs caught fire 
from blazing oil lamps, and from Ifi to 80 per¬ 
ished. Several were killed outright at the 
collision, but most of the dead were burned to 
a crisp by the ilames which wore so intensely 
hot between the rails, that little or no trace 
was left of some of the victims. Great com¬ 
plaints of the heartless conduct of t he railroad 
company. The coroner’s jury yesterday cen¬ 
sured the railroad company, train dispatcher 
and engineer of the freight train. 
.....P. S, Hicks, cashier of the 
.Stafford National Bank, of Stafford .Springs, 
Conn., has been arrested ou the charge of em¬ 
bezzling a large amount of the hank’s money. 
The defalcation is expected to reach $100,000, 
at least. .. . 
Over 850 delegates from the Knights of 
Labor have been in convention at Minneapo¬ 
lis, Minn.. since Oct 3. They have adopted 
Powderly’s idea that theirs is “ a private or¬ 
ganization in which the public have no con¬ 
cern,” so their sessious are secret, but occa¬ 
sionally the newspaper men are favored with 
things, “intended for publication.” A resolu¬ 
tion sympathizing with the condemned Anar¬ 
ch Lsts was defeated by a vote of 151 to 53, 
though last year at Richmond, Vn., a some¬ 
what similar resolution was heartily in¬ 
dorsed. Pow'derly spoke powerfully against 
it this year. The memherhip of the Order is 
Officially stated to be 485.000. and the money 
on hand amounts to $508,647.The 
Legislative Committee’s Report approving 
the Blair educational bill, the bill in relation 
to homesteads, and providing that settlors 
may borrow $500 from the Government, se¬ 
cured by land at 3 per cent; demanding 
weekly payment of workmen on the Govern¬ 
ment buildings, and declaring in favor of 
government control of telegraphs and tele¬ 
phones, has been adopted. 
....The well known Baltic Mills, at the town 
of the same name in Connecticut, which were 
erected by W. and E. Sprague, were totally 
destroyed by fire yesterday. Over 900 hands 
thrown out of employment.The 
Globe-Democrat of St. Louis, publishes an ac¬ 
count. of the probable organization of the 
lead smelting firms of the West, with a view 
to forming a compact to sustain the Ameri¬ 
can lead markets. The movement has been 
very quietly pushed to a successful issue and 
the details are now being perfected. It is 
known as the National Lead Trust Company, 
with headquarters iu St. Louis.Siv 
John Swinburne, M. P.; O. V. Morgan, M. 
P., and Halley Stewart, M. I\, arrived here 
yesterday. They form the advance-guard of 
a number of British Members of Parliament, 
who are coming to this country with the in¬ 
tention of presenting to tho President and 
Congress a memorial signed by over 3511 Mem¬ 
bers of Parliament advocating arbitration be¬ 
tween the two countries in reference to all 
disputes which cannot be settled by the ordin¬ 
ary course of diplomatic procedure. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 15, 1887. 
In case of the Mitchellstown (Cork) trouble 
some weeks ago, when the police killed several 
persons in an attacking crowd, the coroner’s 
jury, after a very exciting trial, has brought 
in a verdict of murder against one police in¬ 
spector, three sergeants and two constables. 
The Government has suspended sentence, 
pending an appeal to the higher courts. The 
Government seems at a loss what to do. The 
Irish are defiaut; a majority of the English 
and Scotch disapprove of extreme measures; 
Liberal-Uniouists are shaky and deserting to 
the Gladstonians; aud while the great, body 
of Conservatives urge vigorous suppression of 
the Laud League, aud stroug measures gener¬ 
ally in Ireland, the Government feels that the 
majority of the people at. large will not toler¬ 
ate such harshness.There’s a spreading 
epidemic Of scarlet fever iu London. Over 
1,000 cases are now iu the hospitals. The 
English summer was dry beyond all precedent. 
Now' hea vy snow storms prevail in England aud 
Wales, blocking travel in some places. Ireland 
is parched Like one of our Western plains..... 
-Distress among the working classes iu the 
United Kingdom is almost unprecedented ow¬ 
ing to stagnation of nil sorts or liusmass. 
Lady Brassey, wife of millionaire .Sir Thomas 
Brassey, the fatuous yachtswoman, an author- 
ess of several works, died on board her yacht 
the Sunbeam, on the wav to Australia, and 
was buried at sea.Stanley aud Emin 
Bey, by last reports, must have met each other 
by this time. Ayoub Khan wasn’t, killed or 
captured us reported some weeks ago. Since 
then he bus made several attempts to raise a 
rebellion in Afghanistan, but has always 
failed. Most ol' his small band of followers 
have either surrendered to the Ameer’s troops 
or been killed or captured, and Ayoub him¬ 
self has once more probably perished. 
.... France is once more in u hubbub. General 
Caffarel, Chief of Staff at the War Depart¬ 
ment, appointed by Boulanger one month be- 
toro he ceased to be Ministerof War, has been 
convicted of dishonorable and dishonest con¬ 
duct in selling “civil distinctions”—tho ribbon 
of the Legion of Honor. Every Frenchman 
who is “anybody” is decorated with this; 
and thousands of wealthy .(Frenchmen^ who 
are “nobodies” are anxious to be. The chief 
agent in the barter of “honors” for cash was 
a shrewed, intriguing, shriveled, yellow 
hunchback named Madame Limousin. The 
ambitious nobodies paid her big sums, partly 
in advance, for getting the decorations; some¬ 
times she got them; sometimes she didn’t, hut 
she always stuck to the advance. Besides Caf¬ 
farel, a large number of other promiuent offi¬ 
cials, including M. Wilson, son-in-law of 
President G6vv, are more or less deeply 
implicated. All not convicted stoutly deny 
their guilt. General Boulanger declared the 
exposure was intended to injure him, and 
General Ferron, Ins successor as Minister of 
War, has ordered him uuder strict arrest, 
for 30 days, lo be meanwhile suspended from 
the command of the Thirteenth Army Corps, 
for having spoken disrespectfully of his su¬ 
perior officers to a newspaper reporter. Some 
say he will be dismissed from the army; others 
say ho will resign and “enter politics.” A 
tremendous scandal generally. Frenchmen 
say that the country has been again betrayed; 
that war plans have been sold to the Germans, 
etc., etc., etc. France is busy making new 
aud improved rifles for her anny night and 
day. 
')'ho Gentian Crown Prince is again in dan¬ 
ger from “smoker’s cancer,” like Grant’s, ac¬ 
cording to German physicians. Throat again 
inflamed. Contradictory reports about 
the death of the Sultan of Morocco. Some 
say he died a fortnight ago; others that he 
was well enough to show himself on horseback 
IbOrsday. There is likely to be a general 
scramble for his territory after his actual 
death, with France aud Spain in the fore¬ 
front. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, October 15, 18S7. 
The Government of the State of Yucatan, 
Mexico, is making experiments on a new 
species of silk, produced by a wild silkworm, 
which is closely allied to the domestic silk¬ 
worm. The silk on the cocoons is clastic and 
of excellent quality, though rather uncertain 
in color, varying from white to pale-brown, 
but one difficulty is that, it is covered with a 
gum which is very difficult to dissolve. 
An international prize will lie offered for wool 
at tho Melbourne Centennial International 
Exhibition.Mr. Daggs, the Arizona 
breeder, says it has cost, 10 cents per pouud to 
grow wool in that country.Colorado 
will enter the coming year with nearly 3,000,- 
000 sheep.The 14th annual conven¬ 
tion of the National Butter, Cheese and Egg 
Association will be held at Manchester, la., 
Nov. 1, 3, 3 and 4.Frank Jackson, tbe 
well-known stockman of tbe Maple Hal) Live 
Stock Farm, near Topeka, Kan., made a hasty 
assignment a week ago aud left for parts un¬ 
known. His liabilities are placed at $75,000, 
and his father is t.Lie heaviest loser .... 
The Illinois Live Stock Commissioners say 
that, cattle brought to the American Fat Stock 
Show in Chicago will be fully protected, and 
will not be subject to rigorous quarantine reg¬ 
ulations.. ..The Niobrara Land aud Cattle 
Company, of St. Louis, assigned Wednesday; 
liabilities, $350,000; nominal assets, $850,000. 
The losses of the company were sustained last 
winter, when hundreds of thousands of cattle 
were killed by Montuua blizzards. On one 
ranch 30,000 of 39,000 head perished. Much 
of the company’s paper was held in New York. 
.Forest tires have been raging in So¬ 
noma, Alameda, Sau Mateo and Santa Cruz 
Counties, Cal., all in the vicinity of ihe Bay of 
San Francisco, for tbe past seven days. In 
Alameda 13 mills have been swept clean, and 
several line farms have been completely con¬ 
sumed Tbe ground is covered with carcasses 
of all kinds of dead animals. The tire has 
swept valuable forms out of existence, and 
thousands of cords of wood have been con¬ 
sumed. From Sonoma conics the report that 
the flames have traveled 10 miles in the past, 
34 hours and devastated everything iu their 
path. Many families have boon made home¬ 
less.About HJ0 wholesale milk dealers 
around Chicago, representing nearly the whole 
milk supply of the city, met at the Sherman 
House Tnursday and organized a "Milk 
Trust.” It is a joiul-stoek company, with a 
board of directors, whose business will be to 
buy up and control all the milk shipped to tbe 
Chicago market uud fix a price lor it. The 
first business was to put up the price from $1 
to $1.39 a can of eight, gallons to ordinary 
customers, and from 60 rents to 80 cents a can 
to factories. The city’s daily consumption is 
about 10,000 cans, aud figuring upon this basis 
a yearly profit for the “Trust” of about $800,- 
000 is estimated. One of the members said 
that before spring the retail price of milk, 
which is now six cents a quart, would be 71$ 
cents, and there would not be a dealer in the 
city outside of the “Trust.” The capital stock 
is to be distributed among the members by 
giving each a share for every can delivered 
to tho board of directors until nil tilts milk Is 
gone. The stock will be transferable only 
to milk dealers. The advance in prices will 
go into effect November I... 
....The first direct shipment of Canadian 
cattle to Aberdeen, Scotland, was made the 
other day and numbered 350 bead and aver¬ 
aged about $74 each.Tim Treasury 
Department has decided that nineteen blooded 
rams of the Shropshire breed recently im¬ 
ported at Detroit Mich., and upon which duty 
wan assessed, are eu titled to tree entry under 
the provisions of the free list for animals 
specially imported for breeding purposes, Thu 
Collector was Instructed to ret und the duties 
exacted and was informed that animals of 
this character are not excluded from free 
untry because they may bo intended for 
sale.,.. .The Deckers, largo flour deal¬ 
ers here, sold 30,000 sucks and 5,000 barrels 
of flour Thursday at one clip—the largest in¬ 
dividual sale ever made. Of the sacks 
20,000 go to Portugal, which has hitherto 
bought its supply of breadstuff* generally 
from other countries. 
.... .Douglas & Stuart’s great oat-meal mil 
has been burned at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, caus- 
ing n loss of $125,000.New orgnniza* 
tions, styled the National and State Alliances* 
have originated in some- of the Southern 
States, and become quite popular. Tbeir ob¬ 
ject is to benefit fanners socially, financially 
aud politically—a sort of combination of the 
Farmers’ Alliance and the Grange.. 
The Albuquerque Lund and Water Company 
has been incorporated in New Mexico. The 
en tcrprise contemplates the irrigation of 1,500.- 
000 acres of the choicest fruit and farming 
lauds in the central Rio Grande Valley. The 
water supply Is to come from tbe Rio Grande. 
The nuiin canal, according to tho survey al¬ 
ready completed, will bo 150 miles in length,, 
and will follow the valley, running through the 
counties of Santa Fc, Bernalillo, Valencia, 
and Socorro,to apoiut on the Rio Grande.oppo¬ 
site the city' of Socorro. The bead of this canal 
will be in the Sun lldefonso Valley, 18 miles 
west of Santa Fc, and thence the route leads 
south, on the east side of tho river. Work 
will begin within the next 60 days. . 
The latest reports from Kansas indicate that 
farmers are feeling gloomy about the agricul¬ 
tural outlook in that State. Less than half 
the usual corn crop will he secured, and there 
will be a corresponding decrease in the supply 
of beeves aud hogs. Manv of the smaller 
farmers hardly expect to make both ends 
meet till next, year's harvest.The big 
farms in Northern Dakota uro suffering from 
tbe effects of the decision in the Northern 
Pacific indemnity cases. Squatters have 
taken advantage of the doubt as to whether 
they are within the certified limit to sprinkle 
their claims and shanties all over the farms. 
If the farms are without tbe limit there will 
be quantities of lawsuits, and t he sums invest¬ 
ed will be lost, Oho of tbe large owners is 
ex-Senalor Window, who has 10,000 aces_ 
- • • • .The Western dressed beef men have es¬ 
tablished large refrigerators at Bangor. Me., 
and are selling there about 30 tons of dressed 
beef a week.The Governors of the var¬ 
ious States who have not done so before, are 
now miming the delegates from their States 
to the Farmers’ Congress to be held at Chi¬ 
cago Nov. 10 , 11 and 13. This is likely to be 
the most important representative meeting of 
the farmers of the country ever held. 
Queen Victoria has granted a UK) acre site in 
Windsor Great Park for the show of the Royal 
Agricultural Society in 1889 .It is re¬ 
ported that the Hon. Levi P. Morton is to be¬ 
come a Guernsey man on a large scale. Hon. 
Edward Burnett of Massachusetts, one of the 
most prominent members of the Jersey Cattle 
Club, is to start to the Island of Guernsey to 
buy a herd of 100 Guernseys for Mr. Morton. 
Surely the Guernseys are to have a “boom.” 
They deserve one certainly... 
.... About 50 delegates representing the “Na¬ 
tional Farmers’ Alliance,” from Dakota, Min¬ 
nesota, Wisconsin, Illinois. Iowa and Nebras¬ 
ka, have been holding a convention at Minne¬ 
apolis. They claim that the Alliance has a 
membership of about 650,000—a much greater 
membership than that of the K. of L. in ses¬ 
sion at the same place and time. Very little 
public attention has been paid to the “Alli¬ 
ance” convention, however, while a great deal 
of public attention has been bestowed on that 
of the K. of L. Indeed, the K. of L. tried to 
attach the Alliance as n tail to their Order. 
Then* was u good deal of opposition to such a 
union on behalf of the Alliance, but finally a 
committee was appointed to confer with the 
Knights in regard to the co-operation of the 
two bodies. The result has not yet reached us. 
.The Improved Black top Merino Sheep 
Breeders" Association will hold itsanmial meet¬ 
ing at tho residence of R. W. Crothers, Tay¬ 
lor stow n, Pa., Tuesday, November 1 . 
Ocean freights on export cattle are now about 
88 . 2.1 to $8 50 per bullock. Insurance rates 
are 31$ per cent .... ’J’he Cincinnati Price 
Current says of bogs: It is not to be expected 
that prices will decline much further, either 
this month or for the. winter months.. 
Our issue of August 13th contained a not ice of 
a notable sale of Short-horns that was to take 
place in September from the Earl of Bective’s 
herd in England. Reports of the sale are at 
hand, showing that, a distinguished company 
was present, comprising representatives of the 
colonies and of America, ns well as tho United 
Kingdom. The hulls sold at au average of 58 
guineas (or about $ 8 ( 10 ) each, and Ihe cows and 
heifers an average of about $350 each. Two 
of ihe bulls of 1886 brought 105 guineas each. 
The highest-priced heifers were Grand Duch¬ 
ess 59th and 00th, which brought 500 and 400 
guineas, respectively.. 
. .There has been a sensational report that the 
depression in wool is due to the existence of a 
gigantic “wool ring" among Eastern manufac¬ 
turers ami New York and Boston Custom¬ 
house officials, who have by under valuation 
passed millions of pouuds of foreign wool 
through tho ports and have loaded the mar¬ 
ket with it. It turns out, however, that the 
importations of foreign wools for the eight 
mouths ending August 81, into all the ports of 
the United States, were but 66,276,874 pounds, 
against 85,337,485 pounds for the correspond¬ 
ing period of 1886. It is certain, however, 
that a great, deal of scoured wool was ad¬ 
mitted ns “ring waste ’ nt a duty of IU cents 
per pound, whereas it ought to have paid 30 
cunts; but this fraud was detected and stopped 
some time ago. 
Crops & or lifts. 
Saturday, Oct. 15, 1887. 
There has been some improvement recent¬ 
ly in the temper of English aud continental 
PwrfUanfous gmimwtttfl. 
DIXON’S "Carburet of Iron” Stove Polish was 
established In ISA. and Is to-day, as It was then, the 
neatest and brightest In the market; a pure plumbago, 
giving "ff no poisonous vapors. The size Is now doub¬ 
led and cake weighs nearly half a pound, but tho 
quality mid price remain the same. Ask your grocer 
for Dixon’s big cake 
