THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 12, 1887. 
The Chicago Anarchists are disposed of. 
Saturday last Engel poisoned himself with 
laudanum; but recovered. Sunday four gas- 
pipe bombs, enough to blow the jail, with its 
300 inmates, to pieces, were found in Liugg’s 
cell. Then more rigid guard was appointed 
over the condemned. Wednesday, in spite of 
all precautions, Lingg-who bad been here only 
two years, and could speak no English—got 
hold of a dynamite cap. placed it in his mouth, 
exploded it with a lighted caudle, blew a part 
of his face away and died shortly afterward. 
Thursday afternoon Governor Oglesby com¬ 
muted the sentences of Fielden and Schwab to 
imprisonment for life. Yesterday, shortly 
before noon, Spies, Parsons, Engel, and Fischer 
were hanged in the jail yard in presence of 
about 200 spectators. They all “died game." 
All possible precautions were taken against 
any Auarcbist outrages, not only in Chicago, 
but in nearly every large city in the Union, 
for a small baud of desperate Anarchists can 
be found iu nearly every one of them. No 
trouble anywhere; but some is expected to¬ 
morrow when the funerals take place. 
Two years ago, after an unprecedentedly 
bitter campaign, Fulton County, Ga. (capital, 
Atlantal, went “dry" by 210 majority. On 
November 2t‘. another election will be held, and 
after two years’ experience Prohibition will 
be again on trial.America is now pay¬ 
ing the highest telegraph tolls of the world.. 
.Yellow fever has almost disappeared 
from Florida, a few cases still at Tampa, how¬ 
ever.It is said ex-Benator Jones, of 
Florida, is, and for some years has been, really 
insane.There seems to be a prospect of 
a square, stand-up fight between the Railroad 
Commission and the Standard Oil Company.. 
.The President. Wednesday, issued a 
proclamation announcing the ratification of 
the new treaty with the Sandwich Islands, ex¬ 
tending the term of commercial reciprocity in 
return for the cession to us of the harbor of 
Pearl River in the Island of Oahu, as a coal¬ 
ing station. Best harbor in the islands; will 
be fortified ... .The main building of the 
Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home at Davenport. Iowa, 
was burner! Wednesday morning; loss. $80,000. 
The cause of the fire was a thunderbolt.,. ... 
.William Astor, brother of John Jacob 
Astor. has given 8100X100 to the Protestant 
Episcopal Cathedral. The site for it has been 
cboseu away up city now; but about the mid¬ 
dle of the city HO years hence. 
Contracts have recently been made by the 
Navy Department, Washington, for 10,000 
gallons navy beans, at 28.4 cents; canned roast 
beef, 7.2 cents per pound: dried peaches. 28 
cents per pound; cauued ham, 13 cents per 
pound; 25.000 pounds of pickles, 7 3 cents; 
75.000 pounds assorted vegetables, canned 0.2 
cents. Armour & Co , of Chicago, were 
among the bidders on beef, but the contract 
went to Tburber, Whviand & Co., of New 
York, who underbid the Chicago concern a 
small fraction of a cent.The Inter¬ 
state Commerce Commission has decided that 
a tributary roud is not responsible for rates it 
does not make, and that, the Northern Pacific 
railroad can give no more special tickets to 
land explorers unless it gives the same favor 
to the general public.Owing to an 
epidemic of typhoid fever in Cincinnati, 
caused by impure water, the children carry 
botl lea of boiled water to school . 
The failure of the National Rubber Company 
of Bristol, R I. has caused tin* operatives, to 
whom 887,000 is due, to demand relief for their 
physical necessities. The -itnation is alarm¬ 
ing .The stories of destitution in 
Newfoundland are repeated with emphasis, 
this time hv Very llev Dr. Hawley 
While the membership of theKnightsof Labor 
is decreasing in the United States, it is increas¬ 
ing in Canada. The increase lately iu Mon- 
treal has been phenomenal.. .Joseph 
Miller, of Newbury port, Mass, has been 
awarded a pension dating from 1363, aud re¬ 
ceives 813,000 ns his first payment. 
_The Fifth National Bank ot Bt. Louis has 
failed for over $1,000,000, due in great part to 
the failure, some time ago, of the Niobrara 
Cattle Company, with which it was intimately 
connected. The company has just made a set¬ 
tlement with its creditors at 40 cents on the 
dollar on *1,000,000. Deposits $1,150,000; many 
depositors ruined, Great dishonesty for years 
by the bank officials, just discovered. 
. ...The Governor of 
Texas offers a reward of $1,000 tor every mau 
caught robbing a train; most of the railroads 
offer $850 for each, dead or alive; and the ex¬ 
press companies arc also liberal. An express 
messenger who killed two train robbers lately 
near El Paso, netted $4,000 for his courago 
and marksmanship. A novel plan 
to promote marriage among the settlers in the 
Northwest Territory has just been adopted bv 
the Canadian Pacific Railroad. When a set¬ 
tler wants to go hi Ontario for his girl, he 
buys a matrimonial ticket at the UBual rates; 
but on presenting the ticket a few weeks later 
at the Ontario station, together with a mar¬ 
riage certificate, he will be entitled to free 
transportation for his bride.. 
The Pennsylvania railroad will expend 
$1,000,000 in getting rid of grade crossings in 
Jersey City, by elevating its tracks on the 
plan of the New York elevated roads...-- 
.. .The Post Office Department deficiency for 
the last fiscal year is $ 3 , 554,068 .The 
net imports of gold over exports during the 
past 14 months have been $35,575,000. 
Lead, Btoel and Paper Bag Trusts are the lat¬ 
est.The Third Avenue, New York, 
Railroad Company has issued $5,000,000 first 
mortgage bonds, to provide cable traction on 
Third Avenue. The road employs about 
2.500 horses.Dr. McGlynn announced 
at a meeting in Cooper Institute, New York, 
November 4, that overtures for reconciliation 
had come to him from high authority, and he 
looked for a not far distant restoration to the 
priesthood. This has beeu characterized by 
Archbishop Corriganas a mere election dodge 
to sec.ine Catholic votes for the George party. 
... .The Texas Pacific Railroad was sold Tues¬ 
day for $6.1)00,0(10 for the Eastern division 
anil $4,000,000 for the Rio Grande division. 
Jay Gould is supposed to have bought a large 
interest in it,, . Captain Warren of 
Victoria, B. C,. has hail five of his vessels 
seized by the Americans in Behr ing Sea, and 
ho has asked the Government to present his 
claims ot $130,000 for indemnity. He says 
the Alaska Commercial Company are at the 
bottom ol‘ the trouble .Mr. Joseph 
Chamberlain representing the British Govern¬ 
ment on the Fishery Commission, arrived here 
a week ago. He is reticent on the fishery 
troubles, but says a “commercial union” 
would be tantamount to a separation of the 
Dominion from the Mother Country.. 
....The Chicago official boodlers have been 
sentenced to a two years’ imprisonment, and a 
new trial bas beeu denied them .A 
movement to buy the battle-field of Shiloh 
h is started at Pittsburg Landing, Teun., the 
Grand Army posts all over the country are 
asked to aid the project. A land company is 
to be organized and a conference to arrange 
details will soou be held. Canadians 
are to be allowed, beginning next June, to 
compete for positions in the civil service of 
India, wbicb is probably the best paid service 
in the world.The college building 
that ex Governor Leland Stanford is erecting 
' iu California to the memory of his son is 000 
feet long and 200 feet wide. It is built in the 
form of a hollow square, with a cloister 1,700 
feet long. This building is only one story 
high, and is designed for the old (Spanish mis¬ 
sions, which are the most beautiful pieces of 
architecture in America . 
_The Utah Territorial Supreme Court has 
appointed United States Marshal Dyer Re¬ 
ceiver in the suits against the Church proper¬ 
ty in excess of the limit fixed by Congress, 
and to wind up the affairs of the perpetual 
emigrant fund. The Mormons have so dis¬ 
posed of most of the Church property, how¬ 
ever, that the Receiver can't touch it. 
The Crow Indians in Montanu have nearly 
always been peaceable und have helped the 
Government against the Sioux; lately* a bund 
of bucks, under young chief Swordbeurer, be¬ 
came indignant because the agent interfered 
with them for stealing horses from the Pie- 
geans. The tribe took up the quarrel. Geo. 
Rugor with about 600 troops went to the 
Reservation, and after some parley, attacked 
the bostilcs lust Saturday. Sword bearer aud 
four others were lolled. The refractory mem¬ 
bers of the tribe have surrendered to the Gov¬ 
ernment, and the rest have returned home.... 
..$50,000 have been given to Amherst 
College, Mass., for general expenses, by an 
unknown donor.The horse and mule 
sheds of the Kansas City Stock Yard were 
burned Nov. 9, together with the Viaduct Ho¬ 
tel and saloon. Loss $40,000. Incendiary.... 
Tuesday last Gen. Miles was presented with a 
*1,000 sword of honor at Tucson, Arizona, by 
the citizens of that Territory, for haviug sub¬ 
jugated the Apache Indians. 
.. Augusta. Ga., is collecting funds to open 
an Industrial Exhibition next year. Dr. 
McGlynn says he is going abroad to preach 
the George doctrine, “the whole world" beiug 
his parish.lav Gould with most of 
his family arrived quietly iu England a week 
ago. He' is studying railroads, telegraphs 
and submarine cables and manipulating the 
American stock markets just as usual .... 
_Lately Jeff Da vis championed Anti-Prohi¬ 
bition. Among the gifts presented on his 
Macon tour were 126 bottles of wine, 34 of 
whiskey, 14 of brandy, three of gin, and 
some 10 or a dozen boxes of cigars. 
Miss Phaebp Couzins retires from the position 
of United States marshal for Eastern Mis¬ 
souri to be succeeded by a hard political 
worker named Emerson. The Amer¬ 
ican shipping league is to hold its annual con¬ 
vention at Birmingham, Ala.,—200miles from 
saltwater! .Senator Stanford hav¬ 
ing become tired of having the Chinese in his 
vineyards, has concluded to import skilled la¬ 
borers from Bordeaux.... ... .The chief of 
the fire department of St. Louis is of the opin¬ 
ion that the recent explosion in that city, by 
which eight people were killed, was caused by* 
dynamite or giant pow der, and not by gas or 
gasoline_The foundering of the steamer 
Vernon in Lake Michigan over a week ago, 
caused the loss, it is thought, of 50 persons; 111 
bodies have beeu brought to Three Rivers, 
Wis, The captain was beastly drunk, 
so the ship went down...... The 
elections which have just been held present but 
few* new or unexpected features. Tukcn as a 
whole, the results seem to indicate a tighten¬ 
ing of party lines The Democratic plurality 
has been increased in New York, and the Re¬ 
publicans have increased their pluralities iu 
Ohio and Massachusetts. In Pennsylvania, 
however, there is a falling off in the Republi¬ 
can plurality as there is in the Democratic 
plurality in Maryland. There was more or 
less independent voting, chiefly based upon 
local considerations. Independent move¬ 
ments were most successful in Philadelphia 
aud Detroit.. The ITobibitiouists have made 
some gams. Perhaps the most unexpected 
outcome of the election was the decline in the 
vote of the George party in New York. The 
vote for George in the State was but little iii 
excess of that which he received in New York 
city last year, while in the city of New* Ybrk 
Ins vote was 30,1)00 less than that cast for lifru 
there lust year. On the basis of the showiug 
made by the Labor party this year their im¬ 
portance as factor ill deciding tho State 
election in New York seems to have beeu 
much overestimated. ... 
_Iowa proposes to establish “courts of con¬ 
ciliation" for the purpose of settling disputes 
without having recourse to law, and to give 
them a legul status similar to that of boards 
of arbitration in labor troubles. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Nov. 12,1887. 
All Europe, and indeed the civilized world, 
is deeply interested in the condition of the 
German Crown Prince w ho is at San Remo, 
Italy. Even Doctor Mackenzie now ow*ns that 
his trouble is genuine cancer. His general 
health is still good; but the belief is nearly 
universal that he is doomed to a speedy death. 
His father is very week and has frequent 
faintiug fits, and can’t live long. On the 
death of both the crown must go to Prince 
Frederick William Victor Albert, son of the 
Crown Prince, now* 2S ye rs old, and then 
stormy times are probable. The money 
markets of the world are seriously affected by 
the uncertainty.After a prolonged stay 
at Copenhagen, the Czar is about to return to 
St. Petersburg, by way of Berlin, where he 
will have a short interview with his grand 
uncle, the German Emperor. No political 
importance is uttaehed to it.The feeling 
betw een Germany and Russia is growing more 
hostile every day. 
Richard Berridge of Ballynahineh castle, 
Galway, Ireland, has left $1,000,600 to ad¬ 
vance education in economic aud sanitary 
science in Great Britain, but he specially ex¬ 
cluded all Irishmen from its benefits. 
The army committee of the Hungarian dele¬ 
gation has voted $6,500,000 for repeating 
rillos.1 he floods in Hou-Nan, China, are 
increasing. Hundreds of thousands of the in¬ 
habitants of that province are destitute. In 
one place 5,000 men who were repairing em¬ 
bankments were overwhelmed by the flood 
and 4,000 of them drowned . -..Six 
thousand Israelites have been expelled by the 
Russian Government from Tiflis. Iu a short 
time the work of expulsion will extend over 
the whole of the Caucasus. Never 
did any American laud in England who was 
so enthusiastically received as Boston’s Pride, 
John S. Sullivan, und never did a finer speci¬ 
men of physical manhood or a more invinci¬ 
ble pugilistic *• knocker-out" cross the A tliin- 
tic. At Liverpool and London frantic crowds 
of admirers hailed the Prince of Sluggers 
with wildest applause His boxing exhibitions 
on the stage in London, are attended by ad 
miring crowds of the nobility, gentry, com¬ 
monality and roughs, and John L. must be 
gathering a golden, or rather diamond har¬ 
vest. He says he’ll come back “ Champion of 
the World," or not at all... 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, November 12, 18S7. 
Although of the Canadian population 
two-thirds are farmers, still the non-agricul- 
tural papers give little or no attention to ag 
ricultural fairs or exhibits thereat or indeed 
to agricultural interests at all. Yet most of 
the farmers patronize them in preference to 
papers devoted exclusively to their interests. 
Do we do better on this side of the line?. 
.Of the 38,000,000 population in France 
21,000,000 are engaged in agriculture. Farms 
are generally very small. Agriculture is 
taught in the primary or national schools, and 
practical schools devoted to the interest exist. 
.. .The castor bean crop of Texas this 
year is producing from 25 to 30 bushels per 
acre, worth from $1.25 to $2 per bushel, in St. 
Louis. ..There are 3,000 Hol- 
stcm-Friesian cattle breeders in the United 
States, and 6.000 registered animals. 
.Land Commissioner Sparks bos rejected 
the selections of the Oregon and California 
Railroad Company for about 62,000 acres of 
land in Oregon within the quadrant formed 
by the restoration to the public domain of the 
forfeited portion of the Oregon Central Rail 
road grant.Judge Merrick of the 
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia 
yesterday denied the application of the Now 
Orleans Pacific Railway Company for an in¬ 
junction to restrain tue Secretary of the In¬ 
terior aud tho Commissioner of tho General 
Land Office from carrying out the orders of 
the Department restoring t he settlement and 
entry lands within the indemnity limits of the 
said road .... American gentlemen ure 
making a specialty of importing English birds 
for sporting purposes. During the past three 
years one firm alone has imported 5,000 Eng¬ 
lish pheasants, 2,000 partridges, 150 roe-deer, 
1.000 English hares. 1,000 English rah hits, and 
50 wild boars, besides a number of red deer, 
fallow-dear, and several hundred pheasant 
eggs. These were all for stocking purposes, 
the most of them going to Mr. Pierre Loril 
lard lor his farm at Jobstowu, New Jersey, 
aud Tuxedo Park. Mr. Riitherfurd Stuv- 
vesaut is another large game preserver, llis 
park is four miles in length ....The 
New England Tobacco Grower’s Association, 
at its recent, meeting in Hartford, declared 
emphatically in lav or of the entire abolition 
of the internal revenue tax upon tobacco, and 
resolved to raise a f und of $3,000 to aid in car¬ 
rying out. this and other reforms .... 
....The beechuut crop nearly everywhere is 
quite large ....The Avon Agricultural 
Society (Mich.) is paying premiums on a basis 
of 75 cents ou the dollar......Thomas 
F. Soiliam of Oaklaud County, Mich., loft 
with a herd of Hereford cattle shipped from 
New York Inst; Saturday for Buenos Ayres, 
South America. He expects to be gone four 
months.Much excitement still iu Kau- 
sus and Nebraska about the sorghum sugar 
industry.The twentieth annual meet- 
ingot the Kansas State Horticultural Society 
will be held at Marion Center. Marion county, 
Kan,, opening Tuesday Dec. 13th aud contin¬ 
uing three days.The Connecticut 
Experiment Station bulletins will henceforth 
be sent free to all applicants outride as well 
as inside the State. Hwotcfoie non residents 
have been charged 50 cents a year. 
The Western Beet Sugar Company has been 
incorporated in San Francisco, with a capital 
of $500,000 iu shares of $100 each. (.The ob¬ 
jects of the company are to carry ou iu Cali¬ 
fornia the business of manufacturing, from 
beets aud other materials, sugar and other 
articles usually or incidentally connected 
therewith, to I uy the necessary real estate 
and to equip factories mid refineries Claus 
Sprockets has subscribed lot* * 110.000 of the 
stock, the remainder being held in a few 
hands.The Board of Directors of the 
Chicago Board of trade have decided that 
“regular" pork could hereafter be made in 
October and March as well as iti the winter 
months. This will make pork 1 ‘corners’’ here¬ 
after not possible, as so much can be delivered 
ns to overstock the speculators. 
Organized labor nil over the country is called 
upon by a Texas Fanners’ Alliance to stop 
drinking coffee until the price conies down to 
124.} cents a pound.Late advices 
from Germany speak of a .scarcity of ships 
for transporting kaiuit. The supply in deal¬ 
ers’ hands hero is short und a sharp advance 
in prices is expected . . . 
... The National Wool Growers’ Association 
will hold a convention at Washington, D. C., 
December 5.The decrease iu wool¬ 
growing in California is put at 20,000.000 
pounds. The Committee of the Ohio 
Spanish Merino Sheep Breeders’ Association 
will bold their annual meeting for business 
November 20 and 80, at Cnrdingtou, O. 
... For the three months past the receipts of 
sheep at Chicago from points west of t he Mis¬ 
sissippi have been 80 per cen\ greater than iu 
the same time last year. This must indicate 
a considerable decrease of Western flocks- 
.Scarcity of feed and the approach of 
winter are sending a great many Western com¬ 
mon and inferior horses to market. und con¬ 
sequently prices for this kind are lower. Good 
horses are holding their own. however. 
.The business of exporting beef and 
mutton from the Argentine Republic is in 
such a bad way, it is stated, that the govern¬ 
ment has resolved to give export bounties oil 
these articles . In a few days Dakota 
will raise its quarantine against cattle from 
Chicago.AVitbin six months 
Chicago will have live new packing houses iu 
active operation, which, jointly with those 
already in the city, will have a capacity of 
preparing for the market daily 1,500 head of 
beef cattle and 15,000 hoes....The 
Prince Edward Island crop of potatoes is now 
reported us the best for seventeen years. 
— A joint annual meeting of the Michigan 
Horticultural Society and the Michigan Bee- 
Keepers’ Association will be belt! at East Sagi¬ 
naw. December 8 to 10. All kindred societies 
in other States and Provinces are cordially 
invited to send delegates.Farmers’ 
institutes in this State will be held at Syracuse 
on December 20and21; and at. Albion Decem¬ 
ber 22 and 23. Cl G. Francklyn, of 
this city, formerly agent for tho Cunard Liue, 
and a cousin of Sir Bacbe Cuuurd, the chief 
owner, has become greatly embarrassed, pari ly 
caused by a cattle venture in which nearly 
$1,500,000 were invested in 60,000cattle and a 
lease of 600,000 acres of land. When the cat¬ 
tle were rounded up last year only 6,000 head 
could be found. . 
The Maine cheese factories have closed for 
the season, and the following is the product 
of some: Monmouth. 37tous; Wayne, 10 tons; 
North Livermore, -tons; Winthrop. 26 
tons: Leeds.20 tons.A Canadian Order 
of Council 1ms just been passed establishing a 
quarantine station at Point Edward under the 
survey of Port Snruin, which is the only sta¬ 
tion iii t.hp Province of Ontario at which cat¬ 
tle can be imported from the United States... 
Wliat Did It? 
It often happens that, when we have been doc¬ 
toring for a new ailment, to our surprise some 
old complaint suddenly disappears, and we are 
at a loss to account for it. We cannot say 
whether it was the medicine we had taken or 
whether it was the change produced in us by 
the effort nature made to cast off our disease, 
and by the aid of some medicine reaching the 
nerve centres aud thus revitalizing the system. 
The following are two very remarkable cases, 
that seem almost too wonderful to be true; 
The first is from Mrs. Sarah Fisher, of Fish¬ 
er-town, Indian Territory, dated January 21, 
1880; 
“I have completely recovered from erysip¬ 
elas aud rheumatism by the use of your Com¬ 
pound Oxygen Treatment. 1 threw away my 
cratches three months ago, and now can 
walk as well as any one. We have a large 
store here, aud do a great deal of business, and 
some days they get so pushed that I have to 
go iu and help. Tho people are all surprised to 
to see me looking so well, after being so low 
and crippled. 1 tell thorn Compound Oxygen 
did it for me.” 
The following statement is by a mother, who 
writes from Plainfield, New Jersey, about her 
child who has not yet finished her growth: 
“We have tried Compound Oxygen with 
good results, we think in the case of our daugh¬ 
ter. For four years tlft right limb was short 
er than the other , and ire had to have her 
wear a cork shoe. Within two weeks past we 
have found the limbs at the feet to be of the 
same length; have bought the ordinary shoes, 
aud she walks as well and even better than 
during the latter part of her wearing the high 
shoes. Whether this is a direct result of the 
Compound Oxygen, I cannot say; bvt it cer- 
DIXON’S "Carburet <>f Iron” Stove Polish was 
established in 183*. umt is to-day, as il was then, the 
neatest and brightesi 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 
ouali! v and price remain the same. Ask your grocer 
for Dixon’s big cako 
