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THE RURAL fiEW-YORKER. 
AUG. 44 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 4, 1888. 
Further investigation by the Congressional 
Committee in session in this city, into foreign 
immigration, shows a truly disgraceful state 
of affairs. In several foreign countries there 
exist recognized societies under the patron¬ 
age of high public functionaries for the trans¬ 
portation of convicts and desperadoes to this 
country, gratis. Others make a business of 
sending paupers and chronically diseased or 
helplessly maimed wretches, and these are 
aided by the municipal authorities who thus 
get rid of a burden on the local rate-payers. 
Agents of steamship companies and of immi¬ 
gration associations swarm over Europe, 
making the most outrageous misrepresenta¬ 
tions of the vast wealth easily gainable in 
this country so as to tempt the ignorant peas¬ 
ants to cross the Atlantic. So shameful are 
the disclosures already made that Congress 
and the Executive ought to act promptly in 
checking or putting an end to the monstrous 
evil. The preliminary report of the chief of 
the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Depart¬ 
ment, shows the immigration for twelve 
months ending June 80, 1888, to have been 
589,818 persons at the principal ports, which is 
estimated to represent about 98 per cent of 
the immigration of the entire country, imply¬ 
ing a total of about 550,000 for the year—ex¬ 
clusive of arrivals from Canada and Mexico, 
of which there are no returns, and have not 
been since 1885. The following compilation 
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The Inman line’s new steamer, City of New 
York, left Liverpool Wednesday on her first 
voyage to New York. A. large crowd of 
people were at the landing stage and pier¬ 
head to see her depart. She carries 1,000 
passengers, among them James G. Blaine, his 
wife and daughter. She is expected here 
next Wednesday; but as she is considered 
the fastest of the ocean racers, she may be 
here sooner.Daniel G. Thompson, the 
New York lawyer and metaphysician, has 
been chosen president of the Nineteenth 
Oentury club of New York, to fill out the 
late Courtlandt Palmer’s term till next 
May.Gen. Sheridan’s doctor re¬ 
ports slow but steady gain in the 
General's condition from day to day. 
The following State ticket was nominated at 
the Republican State Convention at Topeka, 
Kan., this week : Governor, L. V. Humphrey, 
of Independence : Lieutenant Governor, A. J. 
Felt ; Secretary of State, William Higgins ; 
Auditor, T. J. McCarthy ; Treasurer, George 
Hamilton ; Attorney-general, Charles Kel¬ 
logg.There has been an Indian stam¬ 
pede from the San Carlos Reservation in Ari¬ 
zona, and this will doubtless be followed by 
the usual annual pocket war against the red- 
men. . Dispatches from various points in 
Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin, re¬ 
port Tuesday to have been the hottest day of 
the season, the temperature ranging from 92 
to 105 degrees. There were seven deaths at 
Kansas City from excessive heat—the tem¬ 
perature there being 97 degrees.The 
Dominion Government has remitted the fine of 
$400 imposed on each of the American vessels 
Annie Hodgson and Arthur Story for laud¬ 
ing men at Shelburne, N. S., without report¬ 
ing to the customs officers. 
There are about 40,000 more men in Chicago 
than women, according to a recent census. 
.Dr. WinslowS. Pierce, a prominent 
Forty-Niner, noted in California and after¬ 
ward in Indiana, died in Brooklyn, Sunday, 
at the age of G9. He was a native of Boston. 
.A company was formed at Pittsburg, 
Saturday evening, with a capital stock of 
$1,000,000, the object being to open a tin 
mine in Mexico, near Durango. A tract of 
land has been bought covering an area of 10 
miles square. An expert who assayed the ore 
savs it will yield from 25 to 35 per cent, tin, 
wfiich is the largest in the world. A number 
of factories will oe started to manufacture tin 
and it is believed the product from England 
which amounted to $24,000,000 last jear. 
will be shut out entirely after the 
different works are started. 
TheN. J. Court of Errors and Appeals—the 
court of last resort across the river—has 
unanimously affirmed the constitutionality 
of the High-License and Local-Option law. 
The whisky interests threaten to elect a Legis¬ 
lature which will repeal the law next year_ 
A visiting Teutonic German scientist has 
discovered that Findlay, Ohio, the great nat¬ 
ural gas center, is in danger of speedy de¬ 
struction. A mile under it a fire is raging at 
a temperature of 8,500 degrees, and is rapid¬ 
ly disintegrating the superincumbent earth. 
About 1,200 feet below the city is an immense 
cavern many miles long and in some places 
half a mile deep, which is crammed with gas 
atan almost inconceivable pressure. Findlay - 
ans, however, aren’t scared, and real estate 
hasn’t dropped a cent thereabouts... 
The Manitoba Government has made arrange¬ 
ments with our Northern Pacific R. R. to op¬ 
erate a system of railroads in Manitoba, the 
N. Pacific guaranteeing aid to the amount of 
$6,600 per mile. An extra session of the Leg¬ 
islature will be called to ratify the agreement. 
It is expected that the bulk of this year’s sur¬ 
plus crops in Manitoba will be transported to 
market on American railroads. Of course,the 
grain will be in bond, if for foreign 
markets, and will pay duty if for 
sale in the United States. 
Terrible forest fires are raging in the country 
about Ottaw a. St. Jrsepb, a village of about 
500 inhabitants, six miles from there, was 
nearly surrounded by flames, and last even¬ 
ing was believed to be doomed. It is feared 
that settlers in the outlying districts will be 
reduced to a condition of complete desti¬ 
tution. Many families have been com¬ 
pelled to flee for safety. Loss al¬ 
ready estimated at $500,000. 
The representatives of the Sioux Indians as¬ 
sembled at Standing Rock Agency, Dakota, 
to meet the three Commissioners appointed by 
the Government to induce them to sell the 
greater part of their reservation for an annuity 
of so much a year, obstinately refuse to do so. 
Under the guidance of old Sitting Bull, who 
long ago ought to have been shot for his part 
in the Custer fight, they won’t sign any paper 
—they won’t say “yes” or “no.” (Wish 
farmers would do the same for papers pre¬ 
sented by dubious folks generally). The sav¬ 
ages—ignorant beasts—won’t trust the “clev¬ 
erest ” talk of Uncle Sam’s folks, because, in 
sooth, they have been deceived so often. 
Well, they’d better take our money ; 
we’ll take their land anyhow.. 
It is said that at the time of the collapse of 
1 he Confederacy, there were about $40,000,- 
000 of its property abroad in the shape of war- 
vessels building, guns and ammunition wholly 
or partially paid for, stores of all kinds 
bought, cotton, etc , etc. A special agent has 
been hunting up this matter and he declares 
that the United States have valid claims for 
the above amount. An attempt has been made 
in Congress to make provision for the collection 
of the money or the goods represented bv it 
from the various persons who are alleged to 
have misappropriated the property; but there 
seems to be little likelihood that any honest 
effort will now be made to do so. The general 
idea appears to be that it is well to let the 
dead past rest in peace. Senator Wilson, 
of Iowa, from the Committee on Education 
and Labor, has reported favorably to the 
Senate the House bill to create boards of arbi¬ 
tration for settling controversies and differ¬ 
ences between railroad corporations and their 
employees.The House Committee on 
Manufactures, which is investigating Trusts, 
has received authority to continue its work 
during the recess. 
JohnUlaggert has been appointed Postmaster- 
General of Canada, and Hon. Edgar Dewd- 
ney Minister of the Interior and Superin¬ 
tendent General of Indian Affairs. 
Commissioner Stockslager, of the General 
Land Office, has approved and sent to patent 
11,255 cases during the mouths of June and 
July and has sent 450 cases to the board of 
Equitable Adjudication, making a total of 
11, 705 cases disposed of.It is estimated 
at the Treasury Department that there has 
been a decrease of $3,500,000 in the public 
debt during the month of July. Over 
$14,000,000 was paid out during the month for 
pensions.Captain John Ericson, the 
famous inventor, began his eighty-sixth year 
on Tuesday.—Still hale and hearty.The 
Manitoban banks have decided that American 
money cannot go there, and a big,discount 
will be made on the currency of this nation. 
The discount is 3 per cent, on all paper money. 
Silver dollars go for 95 cents; 50-cent pieces 
for 40 cents; 25-cent pieces for 20 cents. There 
is no discount on 10 and 5 cent pieces. Winni¬ 
peg is flooded with American money _ 
A movement is on foot among the soap 
manufacturers of the United States to form a 
Soap Trust. The association will regulate 
prices and production, and endeavor to secure 
legislation that will protect the best interests 
of the manufacturers _The Cable Com¬ 
panies, as told here some weeks ago, have at 
last come to an agreement. 
It will be remembered that the late Professor 
Spencer Baird served as Fish Commissioner 
for nearly 16 years without compensation for 
his services or the use of part of his residence 
for office purposes. During the time, how¬ 
ever, he drew $7,000 a year for his connection 
with the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. 
The Senate has inserted an item of $50,000 m 
the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill to 
be paid to the Professor’s widow for her hus¬ 
band’s services and expenses as Fish Commis¬ 
sioner from 1871 to 1887.The jute bag¬ 
ging manufacturers are reported to have 
formed a Trust, and they have advanced the 
price from seven to 11 cents per yard, while 
i here has been no advance in the raw mate¬ 
rial. Of this bagging at least 5,000,000 yards 
are consumed yearly for covers of cotton 
bales, etc., so that advance means a clear 
profit of $2,000,000 taken out of the pockets 
of agricultural producers!.... The Con¬ 
gregational yearbook shortly to appear places 
the total membership of the denomination at 
over 457,000, a gain in two years of 127 
churches, of 21,205 church members, of 29,709 
in the Sabbath schools, of $418,275 in contri- 
butio-s, and of $1,169,755 in home expenses. 
. Some time ago an Italian at Chi¬ 
cago induced a large number of his country¬ 
men to leave their families and go to Alaska 
to work on a railroad. There he robbed 
them, and 15 have died of exposure, and 
others are still in British Columbia, tramp¬ 
ing back to tbe“ States”.The American 
Association for the Advancement of Science 
will meet at Cleveland, August 15. Botany, 
Entomology and Agriculture will be dis¬ 
cussed. Dana and Hall, the geologists, as¬ 
tronomers Newcomb and Stone and many 
other scientists will attend. Railroads 
which have been cutting rates between Chi¬ 
cago and Missouri River points on their busi¬ 
ness from the seaboard at a meeting of the 
general managers have agreed to restore 
rates on August 13.The Pennsylvania 
Railroad Company has decided not to ad¬ 
vance the rates on dressed beef and livestock 
freight from Chicago to meet the increase an¬ 
nounced by the Reading Company. The 
rates are still four and one-half cents per 
hundred on live stock and five cents per 
hundred on dressed beef.Chairman 
Abbott, of the Western States Passenger 
Association, has notified the different rail¬ 
roads that they may charge one cent per 
mile during the Grand Army reunion 
at Columbus, Ohio, because the Bur¬ 
lington has decided upon this rate. 
Bell Boy, the two year-old trotter, with a 
record of 2 26, by Electioneer, dam Beautiful 
Bells, by The Moor, was sold at auction last 
Tuesday, near Lexington, Ky., for $50,000 
! ! ! C. C. Seaman, of San Diego, California, 
was the purchaser. Chickens have dug 
up a pile of coins dated from 1726 to 1837 on 
a Boucherville. Quebec farm. The pile is 
valued at $4,000. It was probably buried 
during the troubles of 1837. 
The State Gazetteer for 1888, just issued, gives 
California a population at the present time of 
over 1,500,000, nearly twice the population of 
1880, according to the official census. 
President Cleveland returned to Washington 
and business after a week’s fishing, last Tues¬ 
day..On Wednesday Mrs. Cleveland 
started for Washington, after a week’s holiday 
at Marion, Mass.Chief Justice Fuller 
has been visiting Washington where he has 
leased for a term of years one of the finest 
houses in the city on Fourteenth street. He 
has returned to Chicago to finish up his 
private legal business, and will not take the 
oath of office before October. 
August came in with heavy thunder and rain 
storms in many parts of the West and North¬ 
west, which were quite disastrous to crops and 
buildings. With the rain came a shower of 
strange fish at Seymour, Ind. Lightning was 
exceptionally destructive to buildings and 
people. At Sauk Rapids, Minn., the Miss¬ 
issippi rose a foot and wheat fields were 
washed away. At St Cloud the downpour 
was tremendous, and 21 houses were struck by 
lightning, causing at least two deaths. At 
Taylor’s Falls there was a landslide. At For¬ 
est Lake the water rose 98 inches, sinking a 
number of fishing boats. Similar reports from 
other sections are numerous. On the night of 
the same day—August 1—enormous swarms 
of butterflies or moths visited the section of 
country lying between Reading and Easton, 
Pa., in both of which places vast quantities 
were attracted by the electric and 
other lights and perished. Local en¬ 
tomologists say they came from the 
South and were cotton moths. 
That terrible accident at Bussey Bridge on 
the Boston and Providence railroad about a 
year ago, by which so many were maimed 
and killed, has cost the road over $1,000,000 
in damages to the victims besides injury to 
rolling stock, damage to traffic, etc. The 
highest amount received by any one injured 
in the accident was $25,000. The bills of phy¬ 
sicians paid by the company amounted to 
about $100,000. It has been stated that the 
fees of Winslow Warren, who acted for the 
company in settling claims, exceed $50,000, 
and the lawyer who acted jointly forall the vic¬ 
tims, must have cleared at least as much more. 
-.... It is said that the Century Magazine 
receives 7,000 manuscripts every month, and 
hardly 1 out of 500 can be used.... Hiram 
Sibley left $30,000 to Cornell University to 
endow a Professorship of the Mechanic Arts. 
.John L. Sullivan’s circus has burst 
up thiough bad attendance consequent on 
bad management .. The Father Mathew 
(Roman Catholic) total abstinence societies 
of America, held a convention at Boston, this 
week. Among the guests were Mayor 
O’Brien, Congressman Patrick Collins, 
Bisdop Keane, Father Colter and 
Miss O’Brien of Minnesota . 
Elkwood, the great race-horse that won the 
Suburban near this city in the fastest time in 
record for the distance, has broken down, and, 
it is said, will never be fit to race again. 
The Bard, the recent King of the Turf, 
was beaten Wednesday at Monmouth Park, 
near this city, by the California mare, Firenzi, 
in the Freehold Stakes, distance a mile and a 
half, which was made in 2 34. Value of 
stakes, $2,225. The Bard gave her seven 
pounds, and was not in suci. splendid con¬ 
dition. They will probably meet again next 
week. Senator Palmer, of Michigan, 
declines to run again for Senator, desiring to 
enter lor the Governorship. James MeMillau 
announces his candidacy for the Senate.... 
— The Misses Drexel, of Philadelphia, daugh¬ 
ters of the banker, have just opened a home 
for orphaned children, which is called the St. 
Francis de Sales Home. It stands in the cen¬ 
tre of an apple orchard, and is surrounded by 
250 acres of land.The President has 
vetoed the right for a railway to cross the 
Indian Territory on the. ground that 
it is in violation of the proper construction 
of the treaty.^.. 
A Kentucky “ scientist ” claims during the 
lunar eclipse, to have discovered another 
moon, as a satellite of Mother Earth. It is pro¬ 
nounced to be about times larger than our 
familiar moon, and situated only about thirty 
thousand miles from our terrestrial planet. 
Has Crank Wiggins perchance moved to 
Kentucky? He has a prior claim to the dis¬ 
covery of a “Dark Moon!”_ The Can¬ 
adian railways have about doubled in length in 
ten years, being now over 12,300 miles. 
The great international grain-seed market, at 
Vienna, Austria, will open on Aug. 27. 
There is a great deal of grumbling throughout 
the country among letter-carriers in towns 
and cities, because they expected that the 
late eight-hour law meant that they had to 
work only eight consecutive hours. The 
public service, however, demands that while 
they work only eight hours, these eight hours 
are not consecutive, intervals of cessation 
from work intervening between hours of 
labor. About five per cent, of the men are 
chronic grumblers and agitators, and it is 
claimed that these are the cause of all the 
trouble. The men get $1,000 a year steadily 
for eight hours’ work a day, and it is said that 
they ought to be content (with better wages 
than skilled and educated men are glad to 
get for 10 or more hours a day. . 
General Beauregard has resigned the Public 
Works Commissionership at New Orleans, 
and exceptional activity in the pernicious 
propaganda of the Louisiana State Lottery 
may be looked for.Thomas Caruey, 
who died the other day,was the second Gover¬ 
nor of Kansas, and the first to die. There have 
been ten in all. Mr. Carney took office in 
January, 1863, when the credit of the State 
was ruined and its bonds were scarcely worth 
25 cents on the dollar. He at once pledged 
his own vast wealth to the State’s credit and 
floated the bonds almost at par.Hereabouts 
there’s great excitement just now among the 
base-ballists because New York has just won 
first place in the “League” while Brooklyn is 
a “good second” in the Association. Here 
are the records of both up to yesterday 
morning:— 
Lsngne Won Lost p-c. 
New York.50 28 .641 
Detroit.47 SI .60S 
ChlcaKO .46 82 .590 
Philadelphia. . .36 40 .474 
Boston.87 43 .462 
Pittsburg. 32 40 .444 
Indianapolis. ..81 46 .408 
Washington_29 48 .377 
Leng-ue Won Lost p.c 
St. Louis.51 27 .655 
Brooklyn.5-> 29 .642 
Cincinnati.48 30 .615 
Athletic.47 30 .610 
Baltimore.85 45 .437 
Louisville.80 49 .380 
Cleveland.29 49 .372 
Kansas City ... .22 55 .'273 
“ Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit; 
there is more hope of a fool than of him ” It is 
the men who are open to conviction—who are 
teachable, who take hold of things out of the 
beaten track, and “Taking time by the forelock 
and not by the fetlock,” go forward to success. 
To this latter class we desire especially to ap¬ 
peal and urge them to write to B. F. Johuson & 
Co., 1009 Main St., Richmond, Va. They will 
do you good and not evil.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, August 4, 1888. 
When compared with the corresponding 
dates of last year, the quantity of wheat now 
on passage shows a decrease of 536,000 
bushels, and of corn a decrease of 400,000. 
... James W. Whitten, of Missouri, has been 
appointed a principal examiner of land claims 
and contests in the General Land Office. ... 
Preparations are being made at Tacoma, 
Washington Territory, for a large exporta¬ 
tion of wheat during the coming season, and 
it is estimated that fifty ships will be loaded. 
There is considerable old wheat remaining in 
store, and two ships will soon commence 
loading for the United Kingdom.A 
statement prepared at the General Land Office 
shows that 46 286 pre-emption entries were 
made during the last fiscal year, embracing 
an area of 7,265,760 acres, an increase over 
last year of 11,851 entries and 1,777,651 acres. 
The number of pre-emption entries remaining 
unacted upon at the close of the fiscal year 
was 96,864. The average number of entries 
made between 1876 and 1880 was 4,633. From 
1880 to the present time the rate of increase 
has continued until the number of entries for 
the past fiscal year is ten times greater than 
that of 1879. During the fiscal year 1885 there 
were 34,435 pre-emption entries filed and 12,- 
000 disposed of. During the last fiscal year 
16,076 pre-emption entries were acted upon. 
.Masked robbers entered the farm¬ 
house of Conrad Doup, of Knox County,Ohio, 
Sunday night, beat the old man with a club, 
bound him with a chalk line,and then stole $2,- 
600 from a trunk where Doup kept his money. 
. The first bale of Alabama new cotton 
reached Montgomery Tuesday and was classed 
“ Middling” and sold for 13 cents per pound. 
The only bale ever received earlier was last 
year on July 30th, one day ahead. On Tues¬ 
day, also, two bales of Georgia new cotton 
reached Columbus, just eight days ahead of 
any receipts on any year since 1865. At the 
same place and time a bale of new cotton was 
received from Jackson, Florida. The first 
bale of Florida new cotton arrived at Mobile, 
Ala., last Monday, July 30th. It classed 
“ Strict Middling,” and sold for 19 1-16 cents 
—the highest price since 1874. It was the 
earliest bale received at that port since the 
“ wah.” Last year the first was received 
August 18th. It appears that the cotton sea¬ 
son will be early this year.The Fruit 
Exchange at Laurel, Del., has been boycotted 
by local buyers, who refuse to buy through 
it; consequently it has been closed. 
A large pearl barley mill is to be established 
at once in Minnesota, probably at Minneapolis. 
The work of “ pearling ” the barley will be 
carried on under the new process which has 
proved highly successful in Vienna, Austria. 
This is the first mill of the kind west of Ohio. 
.Thomas Naughtou, a farmer living at 
Varna, two miles east of Ithaca, N. Y., wasat- 
tacted last Monday by a bull. Naughton is 
‘ ‘Herbrand ” Fifth Wheel for Buggies.—Adv 
