THE RURAL W 
APRIL 14 
• */%/% 6 I Hampton, Iowa. Nine were killed or drowned 
ms 0f Ik Hutch. 
J I persons were killed in a panic caused,by a fire 
which a prisoner started in a building where 
■hyimtt I & bull fight was going on .v*‘ 
HOME Mi WS. | rp he Maryland Legislature has passed a 
o . _ 1QQQ bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale or use 
Saturday. April 7, 1888. of oleomargarine or butterine in that State . 
... Oskaloosa, Kans., distinguished itself last The export movement of hog products for four 
Monday by electing a city ticket including montbsto Marcel, p “ „dTit 
Mayor and Council, composed exclusively of mea ts and 29,000,000 pounds of lard. 
women, by G6 majority. They are representa- The number of hogs packed in the West during 
tive women and a reform administration is the winter season is estimated by the C incin- 
experted. ..... In Missouri 82 counties and nati Price Current at 5000.000 a decrease 
20 towns of more than 2,500 inhabitants have from last year of about •>•>.),000 head. ine 
voted on local-option. Forty-nine counties prospective hog supply points to decrease or io 
have voted “wet” and 33 “dry.” Demo- percent .. The total area of wheat land 
cratic counties voting “dry,” 36; Republican, in Kansas is 1,315.828 acres, an excess of D,~0J 
13- Damocratic counties voting “wet,” 22, acres over the acreage of last year. A larger 
Republican, 11.A year ago Sara- area of corn than ever before will be grown 
toza Kansas, bad a population of 2,000; now this year. Farmers were never more hopeful. 
there are fewer than 150. Not a business . The Boston Milk Dealers Association 
house remains. Defeated in the county seat have advanced the wholesale price of milk 
war .Wichita, Kans., is getting rid of two cents a can above last summers price. 
tramps bv shipping them westward 50 miles This action was deemed necessary, as the 
free in freight cars labeled “perishable,” farmers have advanced their price as above 
freight paid.The Supreme Court of since April 1, 1888.Latest advices from 
the United States declines to re-hear the Max- Australia report very firm wool market, with 
well-Preller case.The National Far- some tendency toward improvement. Clter- 
mers’Alliance is said to be the only organi- ings of wool there show an increase in quantity 
zation in America whose charter is signed of about 13 per cent. over last year. . ....... 
bv the United States President ..Suits have _Commissioner Colmam estimates that the 
been commenced against 23 graveyard insur- introduction of one bull with pleuro-pneu- 
ance companies doing business in Minnesota monia into Missouri cost the people of that 
for the recovery of $1 000 fine from each.. State $1,000,000. Terrible floods and 
An English farming colony is to settle on storms in the West. This morning s telegiams 
50,000 acres in Scott County, Tenn. tell disastrous stories. The city papers devote 
John Betelkam, of Louisville, 12 years old, one to two columns to what is here necessarily 
who contracted the habit of eating raw pork condensed into a few lines;—Mason Oity, 
some time ago, is dying of trichinosis. Iowa; The greatest freshest ever known. 
Decrease of debt.less cash in the Treasury, Bridges, dams, farmhouses on the bottom 
*11.586,559 for the month of March. lauds, swept away. Losses very heavy. 
California ranchmen and fruit raisers are im- Sioux CityFlood above here the most dis¬ 
porting colored labor from the South. This astrous since the inundation of 1881. .Large 
is necessitated by the growing scarcity of numbers of live stock and other/.f™ 
Chinese help and the increased wages de- erty lost—Sibley, la. A tornado did a world 
manded by those who are willing to remain of mischief here yesterday;—Delphi, lnd. A 
on the farms. The Chinese labor is the best terrific wind and rain storm caused very 
in fruit growing, equal to if not better than heavy losses in this section yesterday. Cen- 
that of white men, but is becoming too expen- terville, Mich. A remarkable thunder storm 
s ; ve .It is estimated that 139 large did much damage and killed several persons 
freight cars will be required to remove Libby yesterday—Port Huron, Mich Terrible wind 
Prison from Richmond to Chicago where it and rain storm; a world of damage Stains- 
willbo rebuilt precisely as it stood in Rich- gar, la. Cedar River higher than for several 
nion( j.The Brighton Beach Hotel,Coney years. Four persons drowned yesterday fc>t. 
Island weighing over 11,000,000 pounds, has Paul. Telegrams from dozens of points in 
been moved back 600 feet from the encroach- Dakota report heavy rams and raging rivers, 
ing Atlantic waves. The trucks on which the These are only specimens of a multitude, and 
big building rested stood on 24 tracks; and several times during the week there have 
four locomotives were on each of the two been similar reports...,V",V" W U' 
inner tracks. Two-inch man ilia ropes con- .The reports with regard to the Vv t stern 
nected the trucks with the engines, and the I railroad troubles are quite contradictory this 
vast mass was moved at a rate of about 115 feet morning. The strike and boycott against 
a dav. Contract cost of the job, $20,000. “Q” freight, started by the engineers, firemen 
. .Next Wednesday Jacob Sharp was to seek and switchmen on the other roads running 
a change of venue from New York to some west from Chicago, have been stopped, and 
other county in this State on the giound that piles of freight from all the roads have been 
juries here were prejudiced against him. poured in upon the Quincy in the hope ol 
Last Thursday night he got a change of venue breaking down the working of the road by 
to the Highest Court of Appeals, having overcrowding the new engineers whom the 
died in his 72d year . • • • strikers maintain are, for the most part, un- 
Maior-general Alfred H Terry was placed skilled hands. The Quincy says, however, 
on the retired list of the army Thursday, at that it can handle all it is likely to receive. 
his own request. One report says that the strike is to be declared 
..The Iowa House of Representatives has “off” and that all she old hands who can get 
passed a bill providing for a 2-cent per mile work on the system will take it. Another says 
passenger fare on all railroads in the State... an agreement has been patched up between 
The delegates elected Thursday by the the K. of L. and the Brotherhood of Engineers 
Vermont Republicans to their National Con- in accordance with which Powderly is to call 
vention favor Blaine first, and Depew and out all the Knights on the sys'em so as to 
Sheridan next.. .. . I again stop all traffic. The road, however, is 
Little Rhody Wednesday elected Royal confident it will win. The general public are 
C. Taft, Republican, for Govenor, by over I getting angry at the losses and inconvenience 
1 900 majority. His opponents were John W. | caused by the strikers . 
Davis, Democrat, who last year was elected -—-- 
Governor by 2,984 plurality, and George W. Brow n’s Bronchial Troches contain ingre 
Gould, Prohibitionist. The Legislature, which d ; ents which act specially on the organs of the 
elects a United States Senator, is safely Re- I . T , ^ A an extraordinary efficacv 
publican by at least five majority on joint voice. 1 hey have an extraor li ay y 
ballot. The Crosby high-license bill has in all affections of the Throat, caused by cold 
passed the New York Assembly by a vote of or over-exertion of the voice. They are re- 
commended to Singer, Public Speaker,, and 
Tate of the plundered Raleigh National Bank, all who, at any time, have a cough or trouble 
have been locked up in Toronto awaiting with the throat or lungs. 
legal extradition to the United States. The “irecommend their use to public speakers." 
amount of their defalcation is now put at $75, I „ „ tt p WA p TN - 
000 .The Indiana township elections — Kev.L. ±i. lhai . .... . 
Monday show small Republican gains . “A simple and elegant combination for 
The coal barons who control the anthracite Coughs, etc."— Dr. G. F. Biglow, Boston, 
output have fixed up their usual spring agree- _ Adv 
ment that is to govern the amount mined and 
the price to be exacted for the coming year... FOREIGN NEWS 
. Senator Sabin, of Minn., has introduced a _ 
bill making improvements in the cultivation Saturday, April 7, 1888. 
and manufacture of flax and hemp. I . 
. .The original Mills tariff bill made a reduc- The sensational eventof the weekm Europe 
tion of 20 per cent, in the duty on sugar; and - g Bi smarc k’s reported threat to resign the 
get thesupport a of the^ousiana Congressmen, Chancellorship of the German Empire. Ever 
the reduction was altered to 15 per cent, the since young Battenberg married her favorite 
other day, and no change is made in the daughter, Beatrice, Queen Victoria has been 
grading.• • • • of $2,000 each eaj?er to push the fortunes of the Battenberg 
have been granted to the widows of Generals 1 
Logan anJ g Blair.The House Com- family, which is looked down upon by the 
mittee on Agriculture has adopted a resolu- German nobility as only a morganatic offshoot 
tion requiring that all persons who desire to t p e petty princeling order. The Queen is 
submit printed briefs on the bill to tax and verv aux ious to bring about a marriage be- 
brand compounded lard, shall do so on or be- j , , , ,, 
fore the 18th of April. It has also decided to tween Prince Alexander of Battenberg, broth 
consider the bill on April 25.Mr. erofher son-in-law and the late hero of Bulga 
Cox reported in the House this week a bill ria, and her granddaughter Princess Victoria 
providing for the 11th census aDd appropria- daughter of the Emperor Frederick III., and 
ting *6 000 000 It is proposed to make the the Emperor and his stroug-nnnded wife, 
new census somewhat less elaborate than the Empress Victoria, insist on the marriage, 
last, but the increase of population will keep Queen Victoria, now on a visit to Italy, pro- 
it up to about the same cost. I poses to visit the Imperial family of Germany 
The Supreme Court of the United States on her way home, when arrangements are 
has" denied another application for a rehear- completed. Bismarck is unalterably opposed to 
ing of the “driven well” cases.The the match, on account of his dislike for the 
well-known publishing firm of Houghton, Batteubergs, and still more because it would 
Mifflin & Co.; which consists of Messrs. H. G. be likely to disturb the friendly relations be- 
Houghton, George H. Mfflin and Lawson Val- tween Germany and Russia, as the Czar is 
entine, has now admitted as new partners bitterly hostile to Prince Alexander. The 
Thurlow Weed Barnes, James Murray Kay “Man of Blood and Iron ” therefore, proposes 
and H. O. Houghton, Jr.In a drunken to resign his office unless his wishes are 
battle between Poles and Huns, chiefly miners, obeyed, and his son Herbert will follow his 
at Wilkesbarre, Pa., to celebrate Easter, example.- 1 he proposed marriage is disliked 
over 100 people—men, women and children— by the Germans, because it is favored by the 
were placed /tors de combat, five of whom Empress and her mother, Queen Victoria, who 
died and 40 were seriously wounded. are no favorites m Germany. It is said Bis- 
Thursdav a train on the Milwaukee and marck and the Emperor disagree on several 
St! Paul road went into a washout near New I other matters of policy, but the former is 
likely to have his own way. Anyhow, his 
strong opposition to the step will go a good 
ways to preserve the good relations between 
the Teutons and the Sclavs. The Emperor’s 
general health is considerably better and his 
throat trouble is no worse .A new 
French Ministry has been formed—the six¬ 
teenth since the beginning of the present Re¬ 
public in 1870! Rumors say it will be short¬ 
lived. Boulanger’s popularity is on the in¬ 
crease, but his election to the Assembly will 
be opposed ifi the Department of the Nord . 
Pi-j'altaneoujs tertian a 
No reader of this paper who owns a stallion 
or a brood mare will ever regret sending $2 
to the J. H. Sanders Publishing Company, 
Chicago, Ill., for a copy of “Horse Breeding,” 
by J. H. Sanders, editor of The Breeder’s 
Gazette. The book is a perfect treasure- 
house of knowledge concerning the manage¬ 
ment of stallions, brood mares, and young 
foals. Its practical character especially com¬ 
mends it, and in this particular it is a gem.— 
Adv. __ 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, April 7, 1888. 
.... About 35 dairymen met at Topeka, Kans , 
the other day and formed a State Dairymen’s 
Association. Otis Brewer, the former 
editor and proprietor of the Boston Cultiva¬ 
tor, died the other day of heart trouble at his 
residence in Jamaica Plain, Mass., aged 49 
years.Mr. Spreckels says he has im¬ 
ported 25 tons of beet seed, which 163 Cali¬ 
fornia farmers will plant the present sea¬ 
son on 2,000 acres of land. He is now erect¬ 
ing a factory at Watsonville, Cal., to work 
up this product, and expects that the output 
of beet sugar this year will reach 5,000 tons 
and next year 10,000 tons..The Con¬ 
necticut Legislature has divided the National 
appropriation of $15,000 for an experiment 
station, between the State station at New 
Haven and a station to be established at 
the Storrs Agricultural School at Mansfield— 
$7,500 each. Of the latter. Professor Atwater 
of Middletown, has been elected Director; C. 
S. Phelps of West Hartford, Vice-Director, 
and Principal; B. F. Koens, T. S. Gold and J. 
M. Hubbard, Executive Committee. Professor 
Atwater will continue to reside at Middle- 
town, and the chemical work will be done 
there at the laboratory of Wesleyan Univer¬ 
sity. Vice-Director Phelps will live at the 
school, and all publications will be issued 
from there. The trustees voted to spend 
$1,500 at once on buildings for the station, in¬ 
cluding a barn for stock purposes and an 
office.Near Forest, Ohio, the other 
day, six children of farmer Jacob Kraus 
found and ate some wild parsley, from the 
effects of which they are reported to have 
died.The following is a list of the arti¬ 
cles interesting to American farmers to be 
placed on the Canadian free list by a procla¬ 
mation in the next Official Gazette: Green 
Fruits—Bananas, olives, pineapples, plan¬ 
tains, apples, blackberries, gooseberries, rasp¬ 
berries, strawberries, cherries, cranberries, 
peaches, plums, quinces, apricots and melons. 
Seeds—Suear beet, seeds of fruit trees, and 
sesame. Plants, Trees and Shrubs—Apple, 
peach, pear, plum, cherry, quince, and all 
fruit trees; gooseberry, raspberry, blackberry, 
currant and rose-bushes, grapevines; shade, 
lawn and ornamental trees, shrubs and plants. 
_The Parkinson Sugar Company, Kansas, 
is to contract for 1,200 acres of sorghum cane 
this year—nearly three times the amount con¬ 
tracted for last year.ProfessorW. A. 
Scovell, Director of the Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station, Lexington, Ky., is anxious to 
test the sugar-yielding properties of various 
varieties of sorghum grown in different 
climates. He is specially desirous of getting 
seed from Dakota, California, Washington 
Territory, Mexico and Central America. 
April 13 is to be Arbor Day in Illinois . 
..J. Z. Werst, of Chicago, who has recently 
traveled more than 5,000 miles to look into 
the wheat crop situation, embracing South¬ 
ern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. Missouri and 
Kansas, and portions of Kentucky, Ten¬ 
nessee, Alabama, and Texas, sums up his 
conclusions as follows; “A very defec¬ 
tive or badly injured plant, so much so 
that with favorable conditions hereafter I 
doubt the possibility of a yield that will equal 
an average of the past five years.” The aver¬ 
age of the past five years was about 440,000,000 
bushels. 
In every community there are a number of 
men whose whole time is not occupied, such as 
teachers, ministers, farmers’ sons, and others. 
To these classes especially we would say, if you 
wish to make several hundred dollars during 
the next few months, write at once toB. F. 
Johnson & Co., of Richmond, Va., and they 
will show you how to do it.— Adv. 
Crops & iHViuhrts. 
Saturday, April 7,1888. 
According to the Washington Signal Ser¬ 
vice weather report for last week, reports 
from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey, 
North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee in¬ 
dicate that the weather was favorable, al¬ 
though the season was reported as late and 
the farm work retarded. Reports from South 
Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, 
Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska and Kansas indi¬ 
cated that the weather of the week was gener¬ 
ally unfavorable for growing crops, although 
favorable conditions were reported for the 
latter part of the week. Farm work iu the 
Southern States had been greatly interfered 
with, on account of heavy rains, and in some 
localities high winds and local storms have 
injured crops. Reports from Arkansas in- 
FOB 
and Summer. 
JAMES IcCKEERY & CO. 
Arc offering the following special 
lines, particularly suitable for 
this season’s w ear: 
20- inch Colored Rhadamcs, 85 
cents per yard. 
21- inch Colored Rliadames, $1 
per yard; worth $1 and $1.25 
44-inch Check Cheviots, 75c. 
per yftrd* 
54-inch Stripe Cheviots, $1.00 
per yard. 
54-inch Check Cheviots, $1.00 
per yard. 
These are very superior value. 
We have also a broken line of 
dark colored Serges at 50 cents 
per yard, fully worth $1.00. 
Orders by mail from any part of 
the United States, carefully and 
promptly executed. 
Broadway and 11th St., 
New York. 
PROF. LIVINGSTON, 
OF 
916 Broadway, N.Y., 
the great inventor of FRKNCH DRESS CUT¬ 
TING, has Invented for the convenience of ladies, 
who cannot come to New York to learn his FRENCH 
COMBINATION OF SQUARES, a new french pattern, 
made on linen, that cuts 10 sizes front, back, sleeve 
and collar. It is so simple that any person can use it 
from instructions printed on back of pattern, includ 
ing directions for basting. It cuts the single and 
double French bias underarm, so much in demand. 
The sleeve is noted for its perfect fit ana beauty. 
Sent by mail on receipt of 81. 50. Agents wanted 
everywhere. 
dicated that fruit had not been injured, 
except on bottom lands. In Louisiana the 
week was reported as the most unfavorable of 
the season. 
Season everywhere very backward. From 
12 to 15 inches of snow still in most parts of 
Minnesota and Dakota. Chinch bugs much 
feared in the former State. A deficiency of 
moisture is reported in the Upper Mississippi 
Valley from St. Paul to St. Louis, and still 
more in the extreme Northwest, while the 
deficiency is said to be greater in the Lake 
region from Cleveland to Duluth than any¬ 
where else except California. No plowing 
or seeding yet in Illinois, which now grows 
more oats than any State in the Union. The 
weekly report of the Illinois Agricultural 
Department considers the weather for the last 
13 days as having been very unfavorable to 
the crops. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, Apr! 7,1888.TB 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Cotton.— The quotations, according to the American 
classification, are as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Good Ordinary.8)6 
Strict Good Ordinary.. 9 
Low Middling. 9% 
Strict Low Middling... 956 
Middling. 
Good Middling. 
Strict Good Middling.. 
.ilands. 
and Gulf. 
.. 7 1-16 
7 3-16 
.. 7 9-16 
7 11-16 
.. 8)6 
896 
r.. 9 
9)6 
9)6 
•■m 
.. 9% 
.. 9 18-16 
9 15-16 
.10 1-16 
10 3-16 
..10 5-16 
10 7-16 
..10 11-16 
10 13-16 
,.11 5-16 
STAINED. 
11 7-16 
Texas. 
‘ ‘Herbrand” Fifth Wheel for Buggies.— Adv. 
Good Ordinary. B% I Low Middling. 8)6 
Strict Good Ord.7 9-16 | Middling.9)6 
Hay and Straw.— Hav—Choice Timothy per 100 lb 
80@85c;good, 70@?5c: medium, 60®65e: Clover mixed, 
55 @ 65 c:: shipping. 55c Straw.-No. 1 rye90c@$l; short 
do, 65@75c; oat. 40@50c. 
Hops.—A careful moderate handling of stock noted 
The best grades are decidedly firm in price. Other 
qualities are steady. Quotations are for. N. Y. State 
new, best, 12@14c: do new, fair and good lots. 9® 
lie; do common, 8(39c, do old, 8®5c;Pacific coast, 
new, choice 12 c: do good 10@ 11c. do common 8@8c. 
Poultry.—Live,— Live poultry is coming forward 
moderately, but trade is quiet and prices are more or 
less easy. Fowls, Jersey, State, and Penn., per 
ft, 12c; fowls, Western, per ft, ll@12c - roost¬ 
ers, old, per ft, 6@10e: turkeys per 1b lltalSc; 
ducks, western per pair, 60@90«; geese, western, 
per pair, $1 00@1 25. 
Poultry.—Dressed.— Turkeys, fancy, per ft, 13®14c; 
do good to choice. 12®13e: do common. 10c; Fowls, 
Philadelphia, 12®12)6c; do western, ll@12c: squabs, 
white, per doz. 83 00®3 50; do dark, per doz, *2 50: 
ducks, fair to fancy, per ft, 13@15c;do common, 6®10c 
geese, good to choice, l(i@l2c: chickens, Philadelphia 
broilers, 25@27c: do do 12@22c; do Jersey, 12@l5c. 
Game.— Wild ducks, canvas, per pair, SI 00@2 50: do 
do redhead, 50c@*l 00. do mallard, 80@50c: English 
snipe, per doz, $1 50 to 1 75; grass plover, $1 50 to 2 00. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKETS. 
Fruits. —Fresh.— Apples. — Greening.*3 00®4 00; 
do Baldwins *2 75®3 25; do inferior, per bbl, 
*2 00® 2 50; Grapes, per lb. 5®7c; Cranberries, 
Jersey, fair to prime, per bbl. 82 25@3 25: ; do .Ter 
sey, common, per crate. $1 50®2: Oranges, Florida, 
fancy, per box,'*5 00@6 00. do do. fair to good. 84 00 
@4 50: do do common. *3 00®3 50; strawberries, Flori¬ 
da, good to choice, per quart, 85@40c; do do common 
to fair, per quart, 25@30c. 
Fruits. Dried.— Apples.—Evaporated, Choice to 
fancy, S@10c; do common to prime, evaporated 6®8c; 
do sliced, new. 5)6®7c: do chopped, 2)6® 276c; do cores 
and skins, lc: Apples, State, quarters, 6@7c; Cherries 
—pitted, 16@22c; Raspberries—evaporated,..new,L25@ 
