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THE RURAL 1UEW-Y0RKER. 
SEPT i 
■jfers cf llje Xt%K. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 25, 1888. 
The Chicago and Atlantic has given notice 
of the adoption of a rate on provisions from 
Chicago to New York on a basis of 30 cents 
per hundred pounds, to take effect September 
1 .. . The secrets of the Indiana White 
Caps having been divulged by a detective, 
who became a member, and the Gover¬ 
nor having adopted drastic measures a- 
gainst this conscienceless band of regulators, 
it has resolved to disband. But some of the 
members may yet have to wear the black cap 
for outrages they have perpetrated.The 
dory, Dark Secret, has been spoken 1,400 miles 
out from Boston. The captain reported all 
well.... At Chicago, Thursday, Prince Wilks, 
the great trotter, beat Clingstone in three 
straight heats, though beforehand the betting 
was $100 to $40 on CliDgstone.At the 
same time and place Axtell beat the two-year- 
old trotting record east of the Rockies. The 
best record for that age was 2.26 by Bell Boy: 
but the mare made the mile in 2.24% . 
A large band of Sioux Indians having been 
refused permission to attend a Cheyenne Sun 
Dance, left the Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota, 
the other day in defiance of the Agent’s orders. 
Troops have started in pursuit of them and a 
bloody battle is expected.Canadian 
ship owners are using every effort to compel 
the government to take action to prevent 
further shipments of logs by rafts to the 
United States. They say such monsters are 
dangerous to navigation either whole, like the 
last, or broken up like the first. The real 
trouble is that the stoppage of timber ship¬ 
ments would be a grevious loss to them. The 
Leary raft would have filled 45 ordinary 
coastmg vessels, and the freight would have 
been $30,000; whereas all the expense 
really incurred was not over $7,000.. 
The coast steamer City of Chester was sunk 
by the China steamship Oceanic at the Golden 
Gate, San Francisco, Thursday, and more 
than 20 lives were lost.The men repre¬ 
senting the principal coal companies of Ken¬ 
tucky and Virginia met at the Galt House, 
Louisville, on Tuesday, and succeeded in 
forming a gigantic combine involving about 
$3,000,000 capital, 4,000 acres of coal lands, 
including mines in operation, besides an out¬ 
side acreage of 39,000 in Virginia and 53,780 
acres in Bell county, Kentucky, near Pineville. 
... .The wind and rain storm on Tuesday was 
the widest and severest for years. From four 
to eight inches of rain fell. It appears to have 
extended over the entire country east of the 
Rockies. New Orleans and the rest of Louis¬ 
iana suffered very severely. Cotton, corn and 
sugar-cane were badly damaged, while fences, 
out-buildings, etc., .etc., were, in numerous 
cases, destroyed or greatly damaged. Reports 
of disastrous floods and prostration of grow¬ 
ing crops came from all quarters, from New 
Hampshire to Dakota and from the St. Law¬ 
rence to the Gulf. West Virginia and the 
adjacent counties in Pennsylvania have been 
extremely unlucky. The loss at Wheeling, 
including the damage to the Baltimore and 
Ohio system, is reported at $250,000; at 
Altoona,;Pa., including damage to the Pennsyl¬ 
vania road, $250,000 ; Washington County, 
$200,000 ; Westmoreland County, $100,000 
and Indiana County, $100,000. About a 
dozen deaths are reported from differ¬ 
ent parts of the country. 
It cost St. Louis $8,000 to catch and bang 
Maxwell.Candidate Harrison’s 55th 
birthday was last Monday. He has 
had an enormous number of vis¬ 
itors, but is now taking a rest from 
handshaking and speech-making. 
Jacksonville Fla., claims a population of 
about 25,000. Yellow fever has sent thousands 
to other places, and filled the adjacent woods 
with fugitives. Thursday 43 cases were under 
treatment; and there were 16 new cases and 
two deaths, while the total number of cases to 
date was 80, with only 10 deaths. The other 
Florida towns are trying to take Jacksonville’s 
trade away, by quarantining the place, which 
in turn has just quarantined Tampa, Plant 
City and Manatee, alleging that the disease 
was imported from these places. The number 
of deaths from yellow fever averages a 
smaller proportion of those affected, 
than in any other serious disease; the 
trouble is that so many get down at the 
same time. The average mortality is 
from 10 to 12 per cent of the affected. 
Wednesday night a fire broke out in the Whit¬ 
ing Paper Mill at Neenah, Wise. While a 
large number of spectators were crowded close- 
by, a bleach rotary 24 feet in length and 1% 
in diameter, exploded and was blown about 
300 feet, killing 14 and wounding about as 
many more. The revolving mass was full 
of rapidly expanding stream. 
The Lower House of Congress has passed with¬ 
out a division the Senate bill still further re¬ 
stricting Chinese immigration.Tne sum 
of $12,000 has been expended for furnishing 
envelopes for Congressional “campaign 
literature,” in the form of speeches sent out 
by Congressmen.Last Tuesday the 
Senate refused to ratify the Fisheries Treaty 
with Canada and Great Britain by a strict 
party vote—27 Democratic yeas, against 30 
Republican nays. On Thursday the President 
sent Congress a message in which he 
asks Congress at once to give the Executive 
the power to suspend by proclamation the 
operation of the laws and regulations by 
which freight is allowed to be carried in bond 
“Herbrand ” .Fifth Wheel for Buggies.— Adv. 
to or from Canada over territory of the United 
States. Such legislation would not be, he 
contends, in contravention of treaties. In 
any case, the action of the Canadian Govern¬ 
ment has given full provocation for retalia¬ 
tion ... There is a great deal of talk about 
probable trouble and possible war arising out 
of the measures of retaliation proposed; but 
the President’s action is considered excellent 
“ politics,” as thereby he is supposed to have 
“taken the wind out of Republican sails” 
with regard to the “strong” anti-Canadian 
and anti-British policy the Grand Old Party 
advocates. Republicans, however, boast of 
having forced all the Democrats to adopt a line 
of policy to which they have hitherto been 
bitterly opposed .There is still much 
doubt as to whether the Republicans will in¬ 
troduce a tariff bill of their own. The East is 
opposed to it; but it is said the West insists on 
it. The surplus for the current year is 
estimated at only $12,000,000; but Senator 
Allison is reported as saying that 
the Republicans will introduce a bill 
next month, reducing the revenues by 
$50,000,000 to $70,000,000... . 
“ There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, 
taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” If 
your affairs are at a low ebb now, don’t fail to 
write to B. F. Johnson & Co., 1009 Main St., 
Richmond, Va., who have plans that will en¬ 
able you to make money rapidly. — Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, August 25, 1888. 
According to yesterday’s cablegrams, the 
English papers regard the rejection of the 
Fisheries Treaty by our Senate as merely a 
partisan move by the Republicans, chiefly 
with a view to win over the “ Irish vote.’’ 
They say the Irish are bitterly opposed to the 
treaty because it was negotiated by 
Chamberlain, the great anti-Home-Ruler, and 
also because its ratification would make our 
relations with Great Britain more friendly. 
They all scout all ideas of war arising from 
the trouble, and think negotiations will be re¬ 
sumed after the elections. Some of them own, 
however, that a good deal of irritating fric¬ 
tion is likely to result from any retaliatory 
legislation enforced by this country. 
There appears now to be little doubt that 
the Special Court of Inquiry will have deliv¬ 
ered their verdict in the Parnell embroglio 
before the libel suits against the Times can be 
brought to trial. Gladstone speaks strongly 
in favor of Parnell and the Home Rule cause 
Subscriptions are being made in Great Britain 
and Ireland to meet the heavy legal expenses 
of the Parnellites in the present trouble. 
Agrarian “outrages” still continue spasmodi¬ 
cally in Ireland, and the Coercion Law is 
stringently enforced. The prospects for the 
people at large are said to be improving, how¬ 
ever, though evictions are sull occurring 
nearly every week, principally because ten¬ 
ants refuse to pay rent, acting according to 
the “Plan of Campaign.”.. 
In France Boulangism has been revived 
with great force. Last Sunday the General 
was re-elected to the Chambers of Deputies by 
three Departments by majorities of 37, 723; 
15,000, and 3,585. A good deal of rioting at¬ 
tended the elections and the preceding can¬ 
vas. Doubtless two of his followers can 
secure election in the Departments which 
he can’t represent. He will stand for 
every Department at the next general election 
and thus draw out an expression of popular 
opinion. He still msists on a dissolution of the 
Assembly and a revision of the Constitution. 
The relations between France and Italy are 
becoming more strained. Crispi, Italy’s For¬ 
eign Minister, has just paid a visit to Bismarck, 
and it is said the latter advised no present war 
with Abyssinia, and no further exasperation of 
French public sentiment. France is hastily 
fitting out eight more iron-clads to reinforce 
her Mediterranean fleet. 
Very little would be needed to cause sudden 
war between France, backed perhaps by 
Russia, and Italy backed certainly by Austria 
and Germany; and the chances of French 
success would be slim in such a case. The 
young German Emperor has been making 
more bellicose speeches, and it looks as if 
there was an intention to irritate France into 
some movement giving an opportunity for a 
hostile outbreak. A large number of old 
generals have been retired from the German 
army, younger men taking their places. Con¬ 
siderable discontent is caused in some parts of 
the army by the “Prussianizing”policy of the 
Administration. Russia has been quiet 
during the week. Pasteur announces the 
discovery of cholera vaccine by Dr. Gamaleia 
ol Odessa. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, August 25, 1888. 
The great annual European International 
Grain Congress will hold their annual session 
at Vienna, commencing next Monday, soon 
after which they will probably issue a state¬ 
ment of the yield of wheat in different coun¬ 
tries, with an estimate of the requirements of 
importing countries, and an estimate of the 
exportable quantities of the surplus producing 
countries- The hog cholera is spreading 
with great rapidity in Warren County, N. J. 
The farmers living in the vicinity of Blairs- 
town are losing a great many fine hogs. The 
disease is depleting droves all through that 
section.....Farmers in Niantic town¬ 
ship, Illinois, are greatly alarmed at the 
outbreak of Texas fever among native cattle, 
the disease having been brought there in June 
by the cattle of Thomas Whitesides. Twenty 
of the imported cattle have since died. Strict 
quarantine regulations have been instituted.. 
An Interstate Farmers’ Convention represent¬ 
ing the Cotton States has been in session at 
Raleigh, N. C. during the week__The 
fourth annual convention of the Society of 
American Florists began last Tuesday morning 
at Cooper Union in this city. Delegates were 
present from all parts of the United States. 
A grand exhibition of plants and flowers 
under the auspices of the society has been 
open during the week in Nilsson Hall. 
The early crop of English potatoes is report¬ 
ed to be poor in quality owing to the very wet 
weather, and short in quantity.Eight 
Arab mares at a recent sale in London 
realized $2,550, and the same number of horses 
$2,450. The average was $312.50. 
The New York State Association of Trotting 
Horse Breeders will hold their annual meeting 
at Buffalo, September 10 to 14, in connection 
with tne international Fair. Live 
cattle from America are now quoted in Liver¬ 
pool atl2Xcfor best, estimated dressed weight. 
Dressed beef is unusually high, commanding 
2%c .The entries for the N. Y. State 
fair to be held at Elmira September, 17— 
22, amount to 4,007, the largest number 
in the history of the Agricultural 
Society.Pinkeye has broken out 
among horses in Patterson, N. J.The 
farmers of California who were furnished with 
sugar beet seed by Claus Speckels have found 
that the crop is very promising. Prepara¬ 
tions ior manufacturing beet sugar on a large 
scale are now being made. The Royal 
Agricultural Society of England has decided 
to offer a prize of $100 for the best, and $50 
for the second best packet of hops from Kent, 
Surrey, Hants, Worcester. Hereford and 
Sussex, at the great show at Windsor,next year 
—The cattle “round-ups” are now in full blast 
all over the ranges and prairies from Canada 
to the Gulf. Things are looking up a trifle... 
Commissioner Brazlove of Arkansas, has de¬ 
cided that the Chickasaw nation has no right 
to collect the tax of $1 per head from non¬ 
citizens of the nation. This is of great impor¬ 
tance to the 5,000 non-citizens of the nation 
who have large cattle interests there 
.About 250,000 copies of the 
Holstein-Friesan Register will be distri¬ 
buted at the approaching fairs. 
Crops & ilVflvIuls. 
Saturday, August 25, 1888. 
Reports regarding the wheat crop of Russia 
show that the prospects for summer wheat are 
promising and that the yield of winter wheat 
will reach the average. 
Since the new season commenced over 2,100,- 
000 bushels of wheat have been shipped from 
San Francisco direct to Havre, and it is much 
the largest quantity ever shipped to that port 
in the same length of time. 
The Kansas State Board estimates the crop 
of wheat at 18,000,000 bushels, oats 52,960,000, 
bushels, and the condition of corn is placed at 
85 per cent. Reports about corn are becom¬ 
ing less favorable every day, and since 
August 1 considerable further damage has 
been done. 
According to Wednesday’s cables it is ex¬ 
pected that the wheat crop in India will reach 
260,000,01X1 bushels of 62 pounds each. This will 
insure a good increase in the quantity ex¬ 
ported. 
The London Times says the Roumanian 
wheat crop is of very poor quality, weighing 
only 57 pounds to the bushel, against 62 to 63 
last year. The yield too is lower. 
The marketing of flax seed from Kansas and 
other portions of the Southwest is increasing. 
The quality is generally excellent. Seed for 
delivery next May has sold at $1.25 to $1.26 
per bushel in Chicago. 
The Canada apple crop is reported as large 
and fine, and with a good crop in many parts 
of the United States this fruit is likely to be 
plenty and cheap the coming winter. 
Reports to the New England Homestead 
from 1,343 correspondents, covering the fruit¬ 
growing regions of New England, New York 
and Michigan, show an enormous yield of 
grapes in all sections, a remarkably short crop 
of pears of all varieties, a curtailed yield of 
S lums and a full crop of peaches in Delaware, 
[iehigan and other sections where commer¬ 
cially grown, with a very limited production 
in Southern New England. High prices are 
considered positively certain for pears and 
plums, with medium values for grapes and 
peaches; but grapes held for the winter mar¬ 
ket will doubtless command comparatively 
fancy prices. The apple crop is, on the whole, 
considerably less than an “even year” produc¬ 
tion, two years ago, owing to drought msome 
sections, cold weather at the time of blooming 
and premature dropping of the fruit. 
The great storm of the present week has 
done a great deal of damage to crops. Ibe 
weather of late has been rather unseasonably 
cool, and injurious frosts were reported from 
the Northwest on August 17 and 18. Frosts 
were also reported from New Hampshire on 
Thursday, and from Montgomery, Roundout, 
Middleton and other points in New York 
yesterday morning. Accounts of the damage 
to wheat and corn in the Northwest vary; but 
thelbulk 'of evidence is that though consider¬ 
able injury was done in places, the cold was 
not severe enough to cause any great loss. 
Corn, however, is still not out of danger; but 
the latest reports tell of a hot wave moving 
east and south from Manitoba. 
EXCURSIONS TO KANSAS AND 
NEBRASKA. 
Write to John Sebastian, General Ticket 
and Passenger Agent, Chicago, Kansas and 
Nebraska Railway, “Rock Island Route,’ 
Topeka, Kansas, and he will furnish you with 
full information regarding a series of Harvest 
Excursions on the following dates: August 
21st, September 11th and 25th, October 9th 
and 23d, and will also mail to your address, 
printed matter giving full particulars about 
Kansas and Nebraska lands, new towns, etc. 
This is the new Kansas and Nebraska exten¬ 
sion of the great Rock Island Route, offering 
splendid inducements to parties desirous of 
locating.— Adv. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkw York, Saturday, August 25,1888. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
classification, are as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. and Gulf. 
Texas. 
Strict Low 
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Midd 
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8 
- 84k 
8% 
. 9 5-16 
9 7-16 
.. 9 13-16 
9 15-16 
.10 13-16 
10 5-16 
.10 7-16 
10 9-16 
.10% 
104* 
.10 5-16 
11 11-16 
.11 9-16 
11 5-16 
.11 9 16 
11 11-16 
.12 3-16 
12 5-16 
STAINED. 
Good Ordinary.81* I Low Middling. 9 7-ifi 
Strict Good Ord.8% I Middling..10}* 
Poultry—Live— Fowls, near-by, per ft.I4@l5c; fowls 
Western, per ft. 14c roosters, per ft, 8®6%c- turkeys 
per ft 10012c, ducks, western, per pair, 50®80c; geese 
western, per pair, $1 40@1 65; chickens; spring, per lb 
13®15c. 
„£? C J T , R Y.-DRKSSKD-Turkeys. per ft, vxailc; Fowls! 
Philadelphia, 15c; do western, 13014c: squabs' 
white, per doz. $2 25; do dark, per doz, $1 50@1 75* 
chickens Philadelphia spring, 17®23c: do western do’ 
14@18c; ducks, spring, per lb, 8®l7c; do, 9@ioc. 
Hops.—S tate, 1887, best, 12«@13^c: do, 1887. fair, 
9® 11; do, common. 8®9; do, old. 3® 4; California 
choice, 11® 12; do good, 9@1U; do common, 7@8. 
hay and Straw.— Hav— Choice Timothy, 95® 1 00. 
good do 85®90c, medium, 75®80c; shipping 65070c. 
Clover, mixed, 60®6Cc. Straw.—No. 1 , rye, 65®70c- 
short do, 40@50c; oat, 4c®45c. 
Beans.—M arrows, $2 45®2 50. medium, choice $2 30 
pea $2 50®2 55; red kidneys, $1 9J@2; white kidneys 
choice, $2 1502 25; foreign, mediums. $1 80®1 95; do 
small, $2 05(0,2 10; California Lima, $3 00; giron peas, 
new, $2 00. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKETS. 
orY K v- KTA ^ LE8 . — ^Potatoes.- Long Island, per bbl,$200® 
per b „ bl - *! 7S ®* 2 0"; Sweets, per bbl, 
$2 00 ®$4 00; Onions, Maryland, per crate. $2 50; do 
State per bbl. 2 40®2 50: Orange Co, per bbl, $1 2501 f.o’ 
Cabbages. Long Island, per 100 ,$2 0u®3 00: tomatoes 
per crate 30075c; cucumbers per thousand, $115®SI 50 
orn, per 100. 20&75c ; Egg Plant, per bbl, <1 25®$l 50 
Beans, Lima ,5c®$l 75; Squash, per bbl, $1 00®$1 75 
Turnips, Russia, 75c@»l 00. 1 
Fruits.— Fresh.— Huckleberries, per quart 5®8c. 
Peaches, per crate, 60c®#1 25; watermelons, per 
100. $7018: apples, Southern, per bbl, $1 0003 00; 
pears, per box, 00c@$2 50; grapes per ft. 4@6c. 
Fruits Dried— Apples.—Evaporated,Choice to fancy 
69*@8c; do common to prime, evaporated, 5%@6%c; 
do sliced, new, 5%®7c; do chopped, 24*0 8}*c; do cores 
and skins, —®lc; cherries-pltt< d, li®21c; Raspber¬ 
ries—evaporated, 25027c do sun-dried, 24®26c; Black¬ 
berries, ?9*c, Huckleberries, 9®luc. 
Nuts.—P eanuts are at steady prices, with moderate 
demands, Eaney hand picked quoted at 5®5}*c and 
farmers’ grades at 4®4*^c. 
bush, basket; Southern New Rose, choice, per bbl. $17 
®2; do, do. medium to prime, SI® 1 50; do do, culls, bbl, 
40®50c; Southern Chili Reds, choice, bbl, $1 60@2 00. 
Boston.—P otatoes.-Best nearby and Rhode Island 
natives, $2 50®2 75 per bbl.; Long Island and Norfolk, 
$1 50®2, as to qualliy new bummer squash. 75c®$l 50; 
tomatoes, 4“c® $1 00 per crate; new turnips, $l 50®1 75. 
At New York, cabbage steady at $4 50® 5 50; tomatoes, 
60cr«$l 50 per crate, green peas, $1 25® 1 50. beans, 
lower at $1 per bushel turnips, 75cfr $1 00 per bbl.; 
cucumbers, dull at 5oc per 100; cauliflower, $4® 6 per 
bbl.; egg plant, $5: green corn, 5Oc0$l: beets, $l 250 
1 50 per 100; carrots, $1 00 per 100, summer squash, $1 
PROVISION MARKETS. 
New York.-Provibions — PORK.- One-year old Mess, 
quoted$14®14 25 New mess.1525® 1550 short clear; $1575 
®$16 75 Extra Prime mess. $13 25: prime do, $15015 50, 
and family mess, $16 00®18 00. Bkek- India Mess. In 
tierces, *12 50®14, Extra Mess, in barrels $70? 50; 
Packet, $8® 8 50: per bbl, and $12®12 50 in tierces; 
Plate. $7 5007 75; Family at $9 50. Hams.- $15 50@16 
$14®14 50 Winter packing. Cut Meats.- Quoted 12 lb 
When Baoy was sick, we gave her Castoria, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria 
