THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 22, 1887. 
Representatives of the American Humane 
Association, which is holding a convention at 
Rochester, N. Y, made during the past year 
12J,055 arrests for cruelty to animals, and in¬ 
vestigated 52,000 cases of alleged cruelty to 
children . It has been at last decided 
that the disease at Tampa, Fla., is yellow 
fever, and the town has been nearly deserted. 
The disease is very virulent among those that 
remain. After a protracted struggle, 
the New Hampshire Legislature, the other 
day, passed a bill enabling the Boston and 
Maine R. R. to add to its 728 miles, the 208 
miles of the Boston and Lowell lines by' leasing 
them. The struggle cost New Hampshire 
about $ 150,000 for expenses of the Legislature. 
Everybody believed the law- was secured by 
corrupting the legislators. Gov. Sawyer 
vetoed the bill Wednesday without examining 
into its merits, simply bn the ground that it. 
bad been corruptly pussed, Boodlers. and 
monopolists thwarted!. The Dow 
Liquor Law gave Ohio a revenue of $2,500,000 
from the saloons last year.John D. 
Kernan, the best cf the N, Y. railroad com¬ 
missioners. has tendered bin resignation to take 
place November 1st.. .. 
....The international military encampment 
in Chicago—which was undertaken by private 
individuals as a speculative enterprise—bas 
gone into the bauds of u Receiver and has 
proved to be oue of the most dismal failures 
of the year. The Scandinavian officers who 
came across on invitation, are going home 
disgusted with their treatment ...The 
Saint Louis Republican insists that its inter¬ 
view with Ohauncey M. Depew with regard to 
the approaching financial crash, was strictly 
accurate, in spite of Mr. Depew’s denial. It 
says the interview was granted to one of its 
editors by appointment and that Depew ap¬ 
proved of the text before it was published., 
... The Dominion Chinese Immigration Act 
provides that any person of Chinese origin, on 
entering Canada, must pay a tax of $50, ex¬ 
cept members of the diplomatic corps or other 
government servants, consuls and consular 
agents, tourists, merchants, men of science 
aiul students who are bearers of certificates 
of identity specifying their occupation and 
their object in coming into Canada, or other 
similar documents issued by the Chinese Gov¬ 
ernment or other Government whose sub¬ 
jects they ore. Wong Chin Foo, a Chinese 
lecturer on the advantages of Heathenism, 
but a naturalized American citizen, was taxed 
the other day at Suspension Bridge, and a 
good deal of hubbub is being made about it. 
. ... The Baltimore Reform League 
composed of Republicans and Democrats hav¬ 
ing secured a verdict in favor of purifying 
the registration list, began last Tuesday by 
striking off nearly 4,000 illegally reported 
names from the voting list. The good work 
is still going on.The Cotton Oil 
Trust pays no divideod to stock holders this 
term.So far 38 counties and cities 
in Missouri out of 47 holding elections, have 
decided agamst saloons under the New Local 
Option Law.Lewis Wallbridge, 
Chief Justice of Manitoba, died Thursday, 
aged 71. He was Speaker of the Dominion 
Parliament in 1803. . 
The Stafford Springs National Bank (Conn.) 
has been ruined by its trusted Cashier Hicks, 
who misappropriated $102,000 of its funds, 
arid bad debts will wipe out its capital, 
$200,000. The Director* through whose culpa 
hie carelessness the rascality was permitted to 
go on ever since 1884, hold each only $1,000 
worth of stock required by law, so that most 
Of the loss will fall upon outsiders, chiefly the 
savings bank* of the Htate which held most of 
the capital. Hicks is said Vo have lost, the 
plunder in speculation; but his fine residence, 
etc., are in hi* wife’s name. The depositors 
are likely to be paid in full the $215,000 they 
had iu the bank. Swindler Hick* wo* arrested 
October 12, and say* he will plead guilty.... 
.More tales of starvation iu Labrador. 
Newfoundland always denies such reports; 
but they come so persistently several times 
each year, that it look* as if that colony was 
ashamed to own that people are starving 
within its borders. An effort is be¬ 
ing made to induce the Freuch-Canadion* 
who have settled in the United States to re¬ 
turn to Canada..The Sugar Trust, 
it is said, bus been completed with Henry 
Havemoyor, of this city, for President. It is 
reported that $15,000,000 iu bonds and $50,- 
000,000 in stock will be shortly issued- 
_The Anarchists 1 appeal to the United 
States Supreme Court is to come up on Octo¬ 
ber iS. Randolph T. Tucker, of Virginia, 
and General Benjamin Butler, of Massachu¬ 
setts, have become associate counsel with 
Roger A. Pryor and Captain Black in their 
behalf. The type-writ ten record of their trial 
fill* 30 volumes or 8,000 pages. Butler gets a 
retaining fee of $1,500, and $2.50 a day, and 
the expense* of the other lawyers can’t be less 
than $20,000. Judge Garoy, of Chicago, who 
tried the men, though a Republican, lias been 
renominated by both Republicans and Demo¬ 
crats. He and all the other officials promi¬ 
nently connected with the trial, are specially 
guarded at home and elsewhere by police, and 
special precautions are taken to prevent all 
chances of the escape or rescue of the impris¬ 
oned Anarchists .The capital of the 
Pullman palace car company, already $15,020,- 
000. was at the annual meeting of the com¬ 
pany Thursday at Chicago increased 20 per 
cent., mukiug the aggregate amount in round 
numbers nearly $20,000,000. The surplus lor 
the year is $1,530,884 .. The Mis¬ 
souri Graud Lodge of Musuns has declared that 
liquor-dealers cannot be admitted as members 
of the order; aud that those who are now 
members must either quit the business or the 
order.The barbers are to hold a 
national convention in Buffalo. Speeches are 
to be limited to the time required for an or¬ 
dinary shave . 
_The First Comptroller of the Treasury 
recommends that United States attorneys, 
marshals, and clerks he paid salaries and the 
fee system be abolished. A scheme 
is ou'foot to induce the Highland Crofters to 
settle in British Columbia . ....During 
the past year 137 miles of new railroad have 
been built in Arizona, making 1,050 now In 
operation In the Territory.A spec¬ 
ial from Green Bay says a fearful epidemic 
of typhoid fever is raging at Iron Mountain, 
Mii'li. There are over oue hundred people 
down with the disease and from one to seven 
funerals occur daily. The local physicians 
are ill and exhausted and medical aid has 
been summoned from Chicago...... As 
an outgrowth of the late Congressional inves¬ 
tigation of the Pacific Railroad Commission, 
representatives of the holders of the consoli¬ 
dated bonds of the Kansas Pacific Railway 
Company, are bringing suit against Jay 
Gould and Russell Sage as trustee* of the 
consolidated mortgage of the Kansas Pacific 
Railway Company for $0,000,000. It is said 
they will also be prosecuted criminally for 
embezzlement.........Nearly 400 repre¬ 
sentatives of the carriage and wagon makers 
of the country met in convention hero during 
the week. Millionaire Clem Btodebaker of 
South Bend, lnd., is president. They viewed 
with alarm the fast disappearing forests, and 
have been obliged to pay higher prices for 
lumber during the past few years than the 
profits of their business will warrant. 
Judge Collins, of Chicago has decided that 
the Board of Trade cannot, prevent its quota¬ 
tions from going to the “bucket shops.” The 
quotations are hourly sent to 1,500 “approved 
correspondents,” and the Board has no right 
to discriminate. The laws and courts should 
suppress the gambling bucket-shops; but the 
Board, he says, has no right, to attempt to 
do so... Miinkacsy’s famous paint¬ 
ing “Christ, on Calvary” is on exhibition at 
the Tabernacle West 23rd street, N. Y. It is 
attracting even greater crowds than the pic¬ 
ture exhibited last year “Christ Before Pilate.” 
....The 50th exhibition of the American In¬ 
stitute is being held in Amencau Institute 
Hall, N. Y. ft, is attracting crowds of vis¬ 
itors. Having secured a good bar- 
g ain in the purchase of the Baltimore and 
»hio telegraph lines, Gould has put up the 
rales on those lines to the level of those of the 
Western Union lines, but he says the latter 
will not be raised. The Western Union has 
now a monopoly of the telegraph lines of the 
entire country, and the battle is now silently, 
but, nevertheless, strenuously raging for a 
monopoly of the trans-Atlantic cables by se¬ 
curing control of the Maekay-Bennett, cables. 
_The remains of Gen. Kilpatrick, haviug 
been brought from Peru where he died some 
months ago while United States Minister 
there, after lying iu state in the City Hall, 
opposite the Rurat, office, have been taken to 
West Point and buried. . . .. Rev Dr. 
Lyman Ahott, editor of the Christian Union, 
will supply Plymouth pulpit till a successor to 
Beecher is elected.The anti-prohi¬ 
bition majority in Tennessee turns out to have 
been over 35,000.Edison’s improved 
phonograph, which, be .says, will almost do 
away with type-writers and stenographic sec¬ 
retaries, will oe at once put on the market. A 
wealthy company utid a largo factory are to 
turn the implements out in unlimited 
quantities .. . 
.... It is stated that Secretary Lamar has 
been tendered the Supreme Court Bench va¬ 
cancy aud has accepted it.Three mil¬ 
lion women in the United States work for 
money. Of these 600,000 are agricultural 
laborers, mainly iu the cotton-fields of the 
South.. After a pleasant trip as far 
north as St. Paul, as far west as Kansas City 
and as far south as Montgomery, President 
Cleveland, wife and party returned to Wash¬ 
ington to-day... 
... .The convention of the Knight* of Labor 
at Minneapolis, Minn., ended on Wednesday, 
the 10th inst.,alter a continuous session of over 
two weeks. The uotieeable thing was that af¬ 
ter all talk of resigning aud threats of deposi¬ 
tion, Powderly’s word throughout, was law. 
Thera was some bitter opposition, of course, 
but by an overwhelming majority ull hi* acts 
were indorsed, all bis recommendations adopt¬ 
ed, and he was clothed with greater powers 
for tie' future, He thought the order should 
present only one or two measures for Congres¬ 
sional aetiou the coming winter—the crea¬ 
tion of a national Department of Labor and 
the maintenance by the Government ol u pos¬ 
tal telegraph system. The order has lost 105,- 
000 members during the past year, according 
to (Secretary Litchman’s report. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Oct. 22, 1887. 
The Irish agitation is still the most promin¬ 
ent political topic in the United Kingdom. 
Chamberlain has been very successful m stir¬ 
ring up religious auimosity in Ulster. Glad¬ 
stone has been here haranguing vastEnglish au¬ 
diences in some of the large cities, making the 
necessity for Home Rule for Ireland his chief 
topic, and promising numerous amendments 
to British legislation so soon as the burning 
Irish question can be finally settled. Churchill 
has been denouncing Gladstone, advocating 
“union” and praising hi* cousin, the Viceroy 
of Ireland and other leading Conservatives. 
The great Rocial problem is what to do with 
the immense number of unemployed men and 
women. The number of paupers supported by 
the parish in London alone is 31,0(10, against 
71,000 at the same time last, year, aud the Sec¬ 
retary of the organized Charity Society says 
that its investigation shows that there are 
1,000,000 persons in the metropolis whoso con¬ 
dition is oue of acute suffering and distress. 
Things are nearly as bad in other large cities. 
Trafalgar Square, a largo open place in the 
center of London, surrounded by some of the 
finest hotels,stores and residences in the city, is 
crammed every night with homeless wretches. 
Other open places all over the metropolis are 
similarly tenauted. All these poor wretches, 
together with thousands of other men made 
desperate by distress have been parading t he 
streets and assembling in Hyde Park during 
the week giving angry voice to their distress 
and discontent. Strong bodies of police 
march on each side of the moving rabble to 
prevent them from plundering the shops. 
Frequent fights occur between the semi 
riotous mobs aud the officers. Numerous 
arrests are made daily. Stores are closed 
along the line of march. In a total popu¬ 
lation of 4,500,000 people, there are-only 10,- 
000 police, and they are worn out with con¬ 
stant trudging. Everywhere wretchedness 
among toilers is becoming turbulent. 
Alexander James B. Beresford Hope, proprie¬ 
tor of the Saturday Review and member of 
Parliament for Cambridge University, died 
Thursday, at the age of 67 years . 
Mr. William John Evelyn (Conservative), 
member of the House of Commons for Dept¬ 
ford, has resigned because of his inability to 
agree with the Government on the Irish quet- 
tiou .....Serious riots have occurred 
between Irish aud English soldiers at Giber al¬ 
ter. Many of the rioters were injured. Several 
arrests have been made. The streets are 
guarded by strong patrols.Mrs. Garfield 
and daughter arrived in Liverpool. Wednes¬ 
day.... The Princess of Wales and 
Princess Maud and Princes* Louise, daughters 
of the Prince of Wales, are suffering from an 
attack of measles... ........ 
... .Tiie Caffarel scandal still agitates France. 
The disgraced General has been struck from 
the list of the army; his salary has been cut 
down to 8,o00 francs—about $425—a year, 
and now that the army has done, with him, he 
is to be tried by the criminal court, aud is now 
in jail. Boulanger isstillin close confinement 
nnd acknowledges that be spoke impru¬ 
dently. Grtfvy pledges hi* word that 
his 'son-iti-law, Wilson, is innocent of 
complicity in selliug civil decorations. 
There is a world of scandal and recrimination, 
all of which delights Germany, which uses 
language very irritating to French vanity. 
_ Dr. Mackenzie, an Englishman who 
is the principal physician of the Crown Prince 
of Germany, says the patient is in good condi¬ 
tion, ami that the affection of Ins throat 1* not 
cancerous. German physicians, however, in¬ 
sist that it is Has jealousy anything to do 
with tins difference of opinion? Hi* life is of 
much more importance to the world than that 
of the- venerable old Emperor; for on the 
death of the latter the Prince would 
succeed and maintain peucoj whereas if the 
Prince’s oldest son were to succeed, speedy 
war would lie probable, as he is “ every inch a 
soldier,” and very ambitious of conquest, es¬ 
pecially over France.......... 
The Discounto Gesellsehoft, a Leipsio bank 
with a capital of '.1,01)0,000 marks—$3,250,000— 
has failed, having been plundered by it* direc¬ 
tors two of whom huvo absconded, with “an 
enormous amount of .spoils.”.The 
Czar, after a prolonged stay with his father- 
in-law at Copenlmgan, is about to return to 
St. Petersburg, some say through Berlin; but 
it is far more likely he will travel in his steam 
yacht by the Baltic, as all idea of u meeting 
of the Emperors appear* to have been given 
up.Great preparations are being mode in 
Rome and throughout the Catholic world to 
celebrate the Pope’s jubilee—the 50th anni¬ 
versary of Ids ordination to the priesthood, or 
rather of the celebration of his first mass. Ho 
was ordained in December 1887, and celebrat¬ 
ed his first mass on Junuary 1, 1838. Young 
Pecci was thou secretary of Cardinal Rala..'. 
The Emperor of Germany and the Queen of 
England together with several minor Proles 
tant potentates have ulrcmly sent. His Holi¬ 
ness valuable presents; nil Catholic sovereigns 
aud princes will do likewise, while the 
whole Catholic world will make a liberal con¬ 
tribution of “Peter’s pence.”. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, October 22, 1887. 
There was much excitement lately at the 
Parkinson Sorchum Sugar Works, Fort Scott, 
Kansas, on the announcement that Prof. 
Wiley, Chemist of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture, was on his way there to take charge 
of the works. Earnest protests were wired 
to Commissioner Column, who telegraphed 
back that Wiley was going to La., anil would 
only step oil' at Fort Scott on the way. Quite 
recently Prof. Wiley repeatedly declared that 
there was no early likelihood that sorghum 
sugar could be profitably made m this coun¬ 
try. If it turns out that it can, shouldn’t 
much of the glory go to Gen, Le Due and 
some to his Chemist, Prof. Collier, both of 
whom were strenuous and persistent advo¬ 
cates of the industry.. Thu Vice¬ 
regal Council of British India has passed a 
law to check the slaughter of wild birds. The 
plumage of various species is in constant de¬ 
mand m Europe, and great numbers of birds 
arc killed every year to supply the market, to 
the great increase of insect pests and injury 
of the agricultural communities .Ad¬ 
vices from Moscow say that the land tax ha* 
been increased in 28 provinces of Russia, 
notably in the Baltic provinces. 
The report of the National Bureau of Stat- 
istics.on wool production will beissued shortly. 
It will estimate the wool clip of the United 
States for this year at $70,000 000, and will 
place the number of sheep in the country at 
40.000,000, an increase of 5,000.000 since the 
last census. Canadian fanners are 
figuring up the advantages of a commercial 
union with this country so as to secure the 
free introduction ol' their agricultural pro¬ 
ducts It Is said that the egg traffic alone 
with the States since 1870, has resulted iu a 
profit of $14,000,000 to Canadian farmers. 
Parkers have injured the trade of lute by send¬ 
ing on a large quantity of old stock which 
showed many defects. The preva¬ 
lence of hog cholera, oru disease which closely 
resembles it. in the upper part, of Warren 
County, N. J., is causing heavy losses to the 
farmers. In a few instances whole droves 
have fallen victims in the terrible scourge.... 
...... .Don’t forget that the great Chicago 
Fat Stock Show will he held from November 
S to 18. The show of horses of all kinds also, 
especially of draft animals, is likely to eclipse 
anything of the kiud ever seen on this side of 
the water ....... Pleuro having been sup¬ 
pressed in Chicago, and at. a number ot other 
Western points also, the country appears freer 
from contagious cattle diseases than for years 
past, especially as the day* of Texas fever are 
about over for this season, as the first frost 
kills it. Stock owners therefore have less 
fear than usual for their favorites at. the fairs. 
. From all indications it appears 
probable there will lie less winter feeding of 
cattle than for years, as the reaction in cattle 
prices is yet in'the future, though it must be 
nearing us 
During the week Geo. Snowburger. aged 
84, drowned himself in Antietam Creek, 
Washington township, Franklin Co., Pa, 
Born on bis fine farm; never been ns faraway 
as Chnmbersburg, the county seat; was worth 
$75,000.Jenkins Petit, 85, a well known 
farmer of Peneville, Bucks Co., Pa., hanged 
himself to an apple tree because he broke bis 
promise to his wife that he wouldn’t drink on 
a visit to Itoylestown _Ramsey Groom, 
a farmer near Mechanics ville, Bucks Co., Pa., 
lost his wife Saturday last, and on Monday 
his only child, so he hanged himself in his 
wagon shed on Thursday .Ira Kline 
a farmer living near Tbickshinny,Luzerne Co., 
Pa., recently became disturbed about relig¬ 
ion. Thursday he shot away the top of bis head 
alter pinning to his coat a piece of paper 
With the words; “I have no hope of the next 
world, and so am not fit to live in this.”. 
... Tuesday. George Henry, an old farmer 
living near Atwood. Armstrong Co.. Pa., was 
asked by hi* wife to give her a dollar to buy 
some sugar. “Your extravagance,” said 
Henry “will drive us to the poor-house, and I 
won’t stay to sec it.” Ho rose, took down 
his rifle, and before he could be prevented, 
placed the muzzle against his breast and 
pulled the trigger with his foot The hall 
passed clear t hrough bis body nnd he fell dead 
at his wife's feet ... John Klein. 73, a 
rich bachelor farmer living uear Lotiachville, 
Berk*Co., Pa., was lately accused of conspir¬ 
ing to defraud a local batik out of $700. 
Thursday he shot the top of his head off. . 
.. Henry llaines. 60. a prominent farmer of 
Douegal township, Lancaster Co., Pa., on 
Wednesday drove a nail into the end of a 
lath, and placing his loaded gnu on a table, 
with the muzzle against his breast, pushed the 
trigger with the nail in the lath, nnd the eu- 
tire charge passed through his body. His 
clothing was set on fire by the powder, aud 
the body was badly charred when discovered. 
He had long been fn poor health,. . 
The adopted daughter of a Michigan farmer 
named Henderson confesses that she set tire 
to bis house 11 vu times, poisoned his cows be¬ 
cause she didn’t want to help milk them, and 
smbthered the baby in order to get rid of it... 
The United States Government has re¬ 
scinded the order prohibiting the import of 
Nova Scotia cattle and hides, owing to the 
alleged cattle disease. The disease feared was 
a local non-contagious ailment.Assistant 
Secretary Maynard has informed the Collect¬ 
or of Customs', at Boston, that the cleaning in 
this country of peas grown in Canada does 
not constitute a manufacture within the 
meaning ol the statute*. .. At the Tuani 
(Ireland) Fair last Wednesday thousand* of 
head of cattle aud sheep were offered for sale 
at ruinous figures, but despite the exceedingly 
low prices there were no purchasers. Large 
graziers declare that they cannot continue 
business any longer and must take advantage 
of the buukrupt law ..Armour, Swift, 
Allerton, the Chicago Packing and Provision 
Company, and several other big packing 
firms have signed contracts to remove their 
business from the old Union Stock-yards at 
Chicago to thu new yards established by 
President Stickney, of the Minnesota <fe 
Northwestern Railroad. All the big rail¬ 
roads have made similar contracts. This 
means the practical abandonment of the old 
yard* with a capital of $10,000,000,tuid a total 
change in ^t.he direction of business. The 
Chicago Stuck Yards is the name of the new 
concern, and it, too, has a capital of $10,000,- 
000. An extortionate switclrng charge of $2 
a car drove the stockmen from the Union 
Yards. They are quick to kick against extor¬ 
tion when it affects their own pockets; would 
that the public were equally quick to kick 
against their extortion*!! I .AH reports 
say Western farmers are putting up their 
fodder-corn more carefully this fail than they 
have ever done before, owing to the shortage 
of other fodder crops.It is figured out 
that it cost* 18 cent* per bushel to transport 
grain from Chicago and 21). cents from Du¬ 
luth to Liverpool. Even allowing two or 
three cent* more for miscalculations, the 
rate is certainly very low.The drought 
puwfUftiittu* £avmm»0» 
DIXON’S “Carburet of Iron” Stove Polish was 
established In IS'27. aiul Is to-day. as it was then, the 
neatest and brightest In the market; u pure plumbago, 
giving off no poisonous vapors. The size Is now doub¬ 
led and cake weighs nearly half a pound, but the 
quality and price remalu the sume. Ask your grocer 
for Dixon’s big cuko 
