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THE RURAL WEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 30, 1888. 
Last Monday the Republican agony was 
over in Chicago. The Blaine men put off the 
final decision as long as they decently could 
in hopes of securing a unanimous nomination 
for their candidate, but several of the other 
candidates resolved to hold out till the end. 
Of these the strongest was Sherman, and the 
Blainites finding their dearest wishes thwart¬ 
ed by the Ohio Senator, knifed him in revenge 
by casting their votes for Harrison. A few of 
them began to support him on the first ballot 
on Monday—the seventh—but there was a 
regular stampede on the eighth, when he was 
nominated. Then, of course, the nomination 
was, as usual, made unanimous. Here are the 
totals for all the candidates during the eight 
ballots. 
Nominees. 
2 ■oS 2 .a© 2 2 « 
“si o"S Es tjs £“ £« § 
Is gffl 2 =q gn wa ► 
Ps 73 H 5s Gs CO t/2 
Blaine. 35 33 35 42 48 40 15 5 
Harrison. 80 91 94 217 213 231 278 544 
Sherman.229 249 244 235 224 244 231 118 
Depew. 89 99 91 — — — — — 
Gresham. Ill 103 123 9R 87 91 91 59 
AlKer. 84 116 122 185 142 137 120 100 
Allison. 72 75 83 88 99 73 76 — 
Hawley. 13 — — — • — — — — 
Phelps. 25 18 5 — — — — — 
Rusk. 25 20 16 — — — — — 
Fitler. 24 — — — — — — — 
Lincoln. 8 2 2 1 — — 2 — 
Intralls . 28 16 - - — — — — 
McKinley. 2 2 8 11 14 12 16 4 
Miller. — — 2 — — —* — — 
Foraker. ___ 1 — l 1 — 
Douglass. ___ i — l 1 — 
F. D. Grant. _____ 1 — — 
C. Hay mon d. ______ 1 — 
No difficulty was found in selecting the candi¬ 
date for Vice-President. Having selected 
the Presidential standard-bearer from one 
“doubtful” State, it was only right to choose 
his lieutenant from another, so the choice fell 
on Levi P. Morton of New York. Both nom¬ 
inations are considered strong, and likely to 
unite the party where disputes have existed. 
A large proportion of the Mugwumps, how¬ 
ever, especially the “tariff reform” section are 
likely to vote with the Democrats. All the 
Mugwump papers we have seen, including the 
New York Times, Evening Post, Commercial 
Advertiser, Boston Herald, Springfield Repub¬ 
lican, etc., are more Mugwumpish than ever. 
.The most terrible and disastrous flood 
that, so far as known, has ever visited the 
New World has been raging along the 
Mexican Central Railroad. Very heavy rains 
have flooded the valley for a distance of 200 
miles and a width varying from two to 10 
miles. In the single town of Leon 1,500 peo¬ 
ple have perished and over 1,000 dead bodies 
have been recovered. The rushing waters 
crumbled the adobe buildings and many are 
still buried beneath the ruins. The loss of 
human life in the entire region of the flood 
must be apalliug; while the losses of live stock, 
farm crops, improvements of all kind and, in¬ 
deed,all sorts of property must be enormous.... 
Snow fell at Ellswo'-tb, Pierce Co., Wis., on 
June 26 .The patents of the American 
invention known as the cyclone pulverizer 
were purchased in Loudon on Saturday for 
France, Italy and Belgium for $200,000. The 
sellers were Erastus Wiman, of this city, and 
his associates, and the purchaser was Gustave 
Drolet, representing a French syndicate. 
After the most exciting local-option fight 
ever known in Missouri, the Prohibitionists of 
Independence, the county-seat of Jackson 
County and the oldest town in Missouri, won 
a great victory Wednesday, carrying the 
election by over two hundred majority, and 
ending the sale of liquor for four years. Kan¬ 
sas City is the biggest town in the county. 
_The Cherokee Legislature met in extra 
session at Talequah, Monday, to consider the 
lease of the Cherokee Strip, a body of laud em¬ 
bracing 6,000,000 acres, which was leased to a 
cattle firm for $100,000 yearly. The land will 
probably be leased for a term of years for 
$150,000, several parties being anxious to se¬ 
cure it.. The Chickasaw trouble with the cat¬ 
tle king leaseholders is in a fair way of set¬ 
tlement. The President was officially 
notified Tuesday of his nomination, and the 
“Old Roman” was officially notified of his 
nomination for Vice-President on Thursday. 
Good speeches from both . Mrs. Folsom, 
mother of Mrs. Cleveland, arrived here from 
Europe Tuesday. On landing she was met by 
her daughter who had come on from Washing¬ 
ton for the purpose. Both went to the National 
Capital on Wednesday.The sixth annual* 
meeting of the Travelers’ (Drummers) Protect¬ 
ive Association was opened Tuesday at Min¬ 
neapolis, with a reception in the afternoon and 
speeches by prominent citizens. The president 
reported a membership of 18,000 .The 
heaviest rainfall ever known about Nelson, 
Nebraska, occurred on June 26. Nuckolls 
County will lose $10,000. The Burlington and 
Missouri bridge was damaged so badly as to 
render it unsafe.The suit of General 
Adam Badeau vs. Mrs. Julia D. Grant has been 
put over to the October term of court here ... 
... .Neither in Mexico nor in the United States 
do the voters select their President directly, 
but in both Republics their verdict is decisive. 
The electors chosen this week in Mexico are 
reported to be almost unanimously in favor of 
President Diaz, who, in spite of seven solemn 
declarations against re-election, has “yielded 
to pressure” and will serve another term. The 
Constitution was so amended last year as to 
make re-election lawful.It was thought 
that that Burlington strike was over; but it 
appears it isn’t A large meeting of rail¬ 
way engineers and firemen, representing all 
the branches of both Brotherhoods, was held 
here Tuesday, and the proceedings show that 
the strike is not only still “on,” but that the 
strikers and their supporters are fatuous 
enough to hope for success at this late day. 
Nothing was said about “stopping every 
wheel” in the country; but a voluntary sub¬ 
scription was arranged to support the strikers 
until October, when it is hoped to unite all the 
railway employes in the country in one big 
organization. When that is done, will the talk 
of “stopping every wheel” be renewed ?. 
The new Governor-General of Canada has 
made a pleasant impression on Ottawa people. 
Lord Stanley’s manner is frank and genial 
with sufficient dignity to give him due impor¬ 
tance. And Lady Stanley finds favor with 
the women of the Canadian capital, who pro¬ 
nounce her “perfectly charming”.There 
is no bridge over the Mississippi River below 
St Louis, but there will soon be one at Mem¬ 
phis, and the United States Senate has re¬ 
cently passed a bill authorizing another at 
Natchez .James E. Ward & Co., agents 
of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship 
Company, have bought the steamships and all 
business of the Alexandre line, long in opera¬ 
tion between New York, Havana and Mexi¬ 
can ports. 
Mitchael Herbert, brother of the Earl of 
Pembroke, is betrothed to Miss Belle Wilson, 
sister of Mrs. Ogden Goelet, of New York ... 
....President Cleveland and Secretaries Vilas 
and Bayard attended the commencement ex¬ 
ercises at the University of Virginia in Char¬ 
lottesville, the other day.William H. 
Barnum of Connecticut has been elected per¬ 
manent Chairman of the Democratic National 
Committee; I. P. Seerinof Indiana, Secretary, 
E. B. Dickinson of New York Assistant-Sec¬ 
retary, and Charles J. Canda of Yew York, 
Treasurer .Five distinguished achaeolo- 
gists sailed from New York last week with 
ample funds, bound for Babylonia, where they 
are to undertake excavations with a view to 
obtaining some accurate information concern¬ 
ing this region, which was the seat of one of 
the earliest civilizations.A man who 
borrowed an umbrella and did not return it 
has been sentenced to jail for one year, at 
Hamilton, Can.It is reported that Miss 
Endicott has acquiesced in her parents’ object¬ 
ion to her marriage with “Joe” Chamberlain, 
so the engagement is “off.”. 
Senator Blair has introduced in the Senate 
a bill creating a Pure Food Division in the 
Department of Agriculture and preventing 
the sale, manufacture or transportation of 
adulterated articles of food, drink and drugs. 
.The bill classifying the public lauds 
and providing for their disposal to actual set-' 
tiers, and repealing the pre-emption and tim¬ 
ber culture laws, passed the House Thursday, 
with an amendment offered by Mr. Holman 
retaining in the Government title to coal 
mines found in such lands, but allowing entry- 
men to mine coal until Congress takes further 
action.Senator Chandler, ex-Secretary 
of the Navy, and Chairman of the Senate 
Committee on Naval Affairs, has introduced 
a bill authorizing the construction by contract 
of 20 gunboats or cruisers, none of which are 
to exceed 1,700 tons displacement nor to cost 
more than $500,000, including any premium 
that may be paid for increased speed and ex¬ 
cluding the cost of armament. At least two 
vessels to be built of each type adopted by the 
Navy Department are to be wholly of steel or 
with steel frames. All parts of the vessels 
are to be of domestic manufacture. The bill 
appropriates $3,0000,000 toward the construc¬ 
tion of the vessels and $3,000,000 for their 
armament. These are in addition to all pre¬ 
viously mentioned;. 
Women have long been eligible to appoint¬ 
ment upon school boards by the laws of Illi¬ 
nois, but it is only within a month that any 
advantage has been taken of those laws in 
Chicago. A few days ago a woman was 
chosen to fill a vacancy upon the Cook County 
board, and now an active effort is being 
made to have the sex properly represented 
on the far more important school board of 
the city.The following State ticket was 
nominated by the New York Prohibitionists 
at Syracuse, Wednesday: Governor, W. M. 
Jones of Rochester ; Lieutenant-governor, 
George B. Powell of Columbia County; Judge 
of the Court of Appeals, Charles W. Stevens 
of Hornellsville.Sidney Howard Gay, 
author, journalist, and abolitionist, died at 
West New Brighton, Staten Island, Mon¬ 
day evening. Civil Service reform gets 
no aid and comfort from the recent decision 
of the New York Court of Appeals, con¬ 
firming the Supreme Court’s declaration 
that the Civil Service laws are unconsti¬ 
tutional so far as they apply to the 
Department of Public Works. 
Yale has conferred the degree of M.A. upon 
Samuel L. Clements, who is known to fame 
as “Mark Twain.”.Gen. 
Ben. Butler has been made anL.L.D. by Dart¬ 
mouth College.Mr. Thomson was elected 
last Wednesday First Vice-President of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad. He had previously 
been Second Vice-President. Mr. Thomson 
is one of the roost thoroughly equipped rail¬ 
road men in the country, and he has risen 
through every grade in the Pennsylvania 
Company, of which he was for some time 
General Manager. Burgess, the builder 
of winning yachts, has been made an M.A. by 
Harvard.Susan B. Anthony announces 
that she is willing to retire from active work 
as a Woman Suffragist in favor of some 
one younger.Thomas A. Edison, the 
inventor, will send to each crowned head of 
Europe a phonograph.Dr. J. Leland 
Miller, of Sheffield, Mass., has given $40,000 to 
Williams College to found a Professorship of 
American History, Literature and Elo¬ 
quence. 
Secretary Fairchild has addressed to President 
George William Curtis of the Civil Service 
Reform Association a reply to the charges 
made against him in the recent NewYork Cus¬ 
tom-house investigations. He was accused of 
removing competent men without cause, of 
keeping in office incompetent men and com¬ 
mitting other irregularities. He considers 
himself greatly wronged .Central Illi¬ 
nois was visited by heavy rains and floods on 
Tuesday night and Wednesday which had not 
been equaled since 1875. Over 10,000 acres of 
corn were under water in Douglas County 
alone. Disastrous accounts come from Tusco¬ 
la, Bloomington, Hillsboro, Irving, Witt, No- 
komis, Tolona, Urbana. Monticello and other 
places.Charles Gross, a resident of Pul¬ 
aski County, Mo., was dragged from his bed 
last Saturday night by a band of masked night- 
riders and beaten to death. The cause assigned 
for the murder is that he had told the secrets of 
“The Agricultural Wheel.” A number of ar¬ 
rests have been made, but unless one of the 
band makes a confession, it will be impossible 
to punish the murderers...._The last relic 
of slavery on Long Island, in the person of 
Harry Miller, aged 91, was Duried Wednesday. 
Miller had been in the Birdsall family since 
his birth, refusing to leave when emancipated 
in 1818 together with the other slaves in New 
York State.. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, June 30, 1888. 
Last Monday the Gladstone-Morley attack 
on the Conservative policy in Ireland was 
made in the Commons, Mr. Morley moving to 
censure the Government for its administration 
of the Irish Crimes Act, as calculated to un¬ 
dermine respect for the law, estrange the peo¬ 
ple of Ireland an<J prove injurous to the in¬ 
terests of the empire. He accused Mr. Balfour 
of refusing to give information as to how the 
Coercion Act operated; of grave inaccuracy 
in statements regarding prosecutions; of injus¬ 
tice toward prisoners both before trial and af¬ 
ter conviction, and of baulking their appeals 
and allowing them to be maltreated under 
prison rules. After a protracted debate dur¬ 
ing which able speeches were made on both 
sides, the motion was defeated by a vote of 
366 to 273—a majority of 93 in favor of the 
Government. It would only be 90 were it not 
that three Irish members of Parliament are 
now in jail under the Crimes Act. 
The new German Emperor has within the 
week delivered two speeches, one on opening 
the German Reichstag as German Emperor, 
the other on opening the Prussian Landtag as 
King of Prussia. In the former the Emperor 
declared that in the field of foreign politics 
he was resolved to maintain peace with every¬ 
one so far as it lay in his power. He said that 
he wished to maintain the army as a security 
of peace, but that Germany needed no new 
military renown and that it was far from his 
mind to employ the army in offensive war. 
He made special reference to the alliance 
with Austria and Italy, in which he declared 
he saw the foundation for the maintenance 
of the European equilibrium,and which he said 
would permit him to maintain to his satisfac¬ 
tion his personal friendship with the Czar. In 
domestic affairs he declared it to be one of the 
leadiug objects of his policy to arrive at an 
equalization of unhealthy social contrasts and 
to strive that imperial legislation may afford 
further protection to the working people in 
their struggle for existence, while sternly op¬ 
posing efforts to undermine public order. In 
his address to the Landtag the King declared 
that he was far from aiming to enlarge the 
prerogatives of the crown and that he would 
extend protection to all forms of religion. 
These addresses show that Bismarck’s control 
over the affairs of Germany is still complete, 
but that the spirit which will animate the new 
regime is rather that of the reign of William 
I. than that of Frederick III. 
In France, the Boulanger boom has either 
collapsed or temporarily disappeared. The 
other dav the General’s great friend and sup¬ 
porter Deruldde, chief of the “party of re¬ 
venge,” on seeking an election to the Assembly 
in one of the Departments, was badly defeat¬ 
ed, a Bonapartist heading the noil, then came 
an Opportunist with Deruldde last. Since 
then the Boulangerists have been quiet. The 
accession of the belligerent young German 
Emperor to the throne may also have had 
some effect on the bellicose vaporings of the 
party. M. de Lesseps has issued his Pana¬ 
ma loan. The whole issue consists of 2.000.- 
000 bonds, each of the nominal value of £16 
8s., the total amount of the loan being 
£28 000,000, as the bonds are issued for alower 
amount than their face value. By latest ad¬ 
vices only two thirds of the amount has been 
hitherto taken, although it is said a syndicate 
of capitalists is negotiating for the remain¬ 
der. The Company, according to hostile 
critics, is in a bad fix. With this loan its capi¬ 
tal and debts will amount to £90.000.000 or 
$450,000,000. All along it has been paying in¬ 
terest on the amount of its loans, and as it has 
been earning nothing, this interest has come 
out of its capital, and now amounts to $20,000,- 
000 a year. De Lesseps, however, insists that 
everything will be all right, and that the 
canal will be open within two years. 
A white Pasha is reported to have a large 
force on the south of the Soudan, the territory 
wrested from Egypt bv the El Malidi. Most 
people suppose it must be Stanley, and that he 
and his people are therefore all right. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 30, 1888. 
The pack of small fruits promises to be ex¬ 
ceptionally light this year, the strawberry 
pack of this State being especially small. 
Crop reports from along the line of the Nor¬ 
thern Pacific Railroad continue favorable, 
and present indications point to a yield at 
least as large as last year’s .Aberdeen, 
Scotland, has just received an invoice of 
wheat from Buenos Ayres, and it is thought 
that a regular trade in wheat is likely to be 
established between the La Plata River and 
the north of Scotland.There are over 
200 students at the Michigan Agricultural 
College .A telegram from Havana, 
Cuba, on Wednesday, says the cane crop con¬ 
tinues to be favored by rainy weather. Other 
plants as a rule are doing well. Total produc¬ 
tion of sugar at Manzanilla this year, 118,162 
bags and 374 hogsheads, an increase of about 
8,000 hogsheads, equivalent to 40,000 bags, 
over the previous crop.Standard mar¬ 
row fat peas have opened unusually high in 
Baltimore this year, and cost $1 25 to $1 30 
per pack. It is thought that the rains now 
prevailing there may help the late crop, but 
the quality, it is said, will be inferior to that 
of the early crop .At the late meeting 
of the American Nurserymen at Detroit the 
following officers were elected: President. 
T. A. Sweet, Danville, N. Y.; Vice-President, 
G. J. Carpenter, Nebraska; Secretary, Chas. 
A. Green, Rochester, N Y.; Tre surer, A. R. 
Whitney, Frinklin Grove, Ill. The next meet¬ 
ing will be held in Chicago, on the first Wed¬ 
nesday in June, 1889. The flour mills at 
Milwaukee are reported to be running to their 
full capacity, and are understood to be doing 
a great deal on foreign orders. The current 
receipts of wheat at Milwaukee are not far 
from equal to those at Chicago . The 
Spanish Cortes or Congress rejected last 
Thursday, by a vote of 134 to 36, prosposals to 
increase the duties on foreign agricultural 
produce and cattle. . 
The Champion Grain Drill works of Gere 
Platt & Johnson, at Owego, N. Y., were 
burned, on the night of June 19; loss said to 
reach $100,000.The potato crop in the 
Island of Jersey is now being bought as it 
stands at the rate of from $300 to $350 per 
acre, whilst, in exceptional cases, much more 
is paid.The average yield of wheat in 
Russia is 8% bushels per acre, the cost of 
which is placed at $5.25.Exports of 
Russian wheat from January to May were 
almost double those of the same time last year. 
. The Retail Grocers’ Association of 
Newark, N. J., has decided to establish a 
Peach Exchange and to purchase no more of 
the fruit from commission merchants of New 
York and Newark. This is the result of the 
refusal of the commission merchants to allow 
dealers to have baskets without the payment 
of 10 cents each. The rate of dressed 
beef from Chicago to New York, which was 
reduced from 65 to 46>£ cents per hundred 
pounds on Monday was further reduced to 40 
cents on Tuesday by the Vanderbilt lines. All 
the other roads in the Association followed 
suit.The air during the weeK has been 
thick with rumors concerning cuts in grain 
and provision rates, but none of them could 
be fully verified. The 40 cents cut rate on 
dressed beef applies only to New York busi¬ 
ness, the Boston rate remaining at 46^ cents. 
..The American Jersey Cattle Club has 
net assets of over $40,000, of which $25,000 
are in cash. The expenses the past year were 
over $5,000 less than the previous year. 
Nearly $3,000 were given for premiums at 
State Fairs, and $2,300 were spent for official 
tests.Less than 50,000 Jerseys have 
“Herbrand” Fifth Wheel for Buggies.— Adv. 
