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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JULY 24 
f'Cfcurs of tlje Wuh, 
HOME NEWS. 
Superintendent Clark, of tbe United 
States Fish Commission, says that arrange¬ 
ments are being made to ship a car load of 
clams from San Francisco, to be placed in 
the Atlantic. They are to be experimented 
upon, as some people claim that they are su¬ 
perior to those in the East. Thirty years 
ago a manufacturing firm in Manchester, 
Conn., made up an immense lot of bandanna 
handkerchiefs for A. T. Stewart of this city, 
and he refused to take them on account of 
some defect. They were stored away until the 
other day when they were put on the market 
and sold readily. The same firm is now mak¬ 
ing 1,000 dozen bandannas a day, and can’t 
supply the demand..Chicago newspapers 
are engaged in a war of rates. A fortnight 
ago the Times, which had been selling at three 
cents, reduced its price to two cents. The Tri¬ 
bune followed with a cut from three to two, 
and included its Sunday issue. Since Tuesday 
the Daily News, which has all along been atwo- 
cent paper, is being disposed of at one cent a 
copy. Suit has been brought in the Su¬ 
preme Court at Topeka, Kansas, to eject 
about 200 settlers in Allen County, who have 
occupied their farms for the past 12 or 
15 years. The suit is brought by the Mis¬ 
souri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, and by 
speculators who have recently bought the 
lands from the railroad company. The con¬ 
troversy relates to about .'50,000 acres. The 
railroad company claims that the lands were 
granted it by Congress in 1882. Tie settlers 
say that the description does not cover the 
lands in controversy.The sub Atlantic 
cable companies which have for so long a time 
been raging a fierce cub rate war, are reported 
to have come to an agreement. Hitherto the 
rate on the Maekay-Bennett Cables has been 
12 cents a word between the terminals here 
and in England: while that of the other com¬ 
bined companies has been six cents from and to 
all points where trans-Atlantic messages were 
taken or delivered. Henceforth the rates of 
all are to be 25 cents per word—a fair living 
charge. The campaign has already 
opened pretty briskly in all parts of the coun¬ 
try. Ratification meetings have been held 
in every place, from the great Metropolis to 
Little Peddlington. The newspapers are so full 
of political news, speeches, etc-., etc., that 
there is little room for anything else. Ban¬ 
ners are being multitudinously painted and 
will soon be “flung to the breeze.” Orators 
are “crafiiming,” and the pressure has sprung 
the safety-valve in many cases, letting out 
lots of condensed buncombe. The number of 
“drunks” and “disorderlies” at the various 
police courts all over the country has very 
perceptibly increased.The following Presi¬ 
dential candidates are now in the field: Demo¬ 
cratic.—President. Grover Cleveland of New 
York; Vice-President, Allen G. Thurman of 
Ohio. Republican. — President, Benjamin 
Harrison of Indiana; Vice-President, Levi P. 
Mort' n of New York. Prohibition —Presi¬ 
dent. Clinton B. Fisk of New Jersey; Vice- 
President, John A. Brooks of Missouri. Union 
Labor.—President, A. J. Streeter of Illinois; 
Vice-President, Charles E. Cunningham of 
Arkansas. United Labor.—President, Robert 
IL Cowdrey of Illinois; Vice-President, W.H. 
T. Wakefield of Kansas. Industrial Reform. 
—President, Albert E. Redstone of California; 
Vice-President, John Colvin of Kansas. Equal 
Rights.—President. Belva A. Lockwood of 
Washington; Vice-President, Alfred H. Love 
of Pennsylvania. The damage by the 
late floods in Mexico is estimated at $8,000,000 
. Farmers of Oregon are moving to se¬ 
cure legislation in State and National councils 
to promote the interests of farmers... The 
Dead-letter Office received 4,808,000 letters 
last year, for about a third of which owners 
were discovered. Money to the value of 
$1,705,704 was found in 17,588 letters . 
In the United States Circuit Court at Chicago 
the other day Judges Gresham and Blodgett 
dissolved the preliminary injunction obtained 
by the Pullman Car Company against the 
Wagner Car Company in a suit involving the 
right to use vestibule cars, the Wagner Com¬ 
pany giving a bond to indemnify the Pullman 
Company for damage resulting from the con¬ 
tinued use of such cars by the Wagner 
Company pending final hearing and de¬ 
cision iii the case. It is expected that 
the case will be argued this fall. 
The half-breeds of Batoche, in the Canadian 
Northwest Territory, the scene of Reil’s rebel¬ 
lion, have issued a manifesto acknowledging 
Dumont as their leader, and threatening the 
Government if they do not get their rights. 
Those who took part in the rebellion demand 
that their properties shall be restored to them 
.The Republican National Committee 
has elected United States Senator M. S. Quay 
of Pennsylvauia.Chairman, and State Senator 
J. S. Fassottof New York, Secretary. 
A bill was introduced Thursday in the United 
States Senate by Mr. Voorhees presenting a 
claim of $10,236 for services rendered by Dr. 
I). W. Bliss in the Garfield case. The claim is 
nearly seven years old. Representative 
Ford, of Michigan, has introduced into the 
House a resolution to investigate the subject 
of immigration. Petitions are flowing in 
upon Congressmen from labor organizations 
and other sources all over the country favor¬ 
ing restrictions on immigration. The great 
bug bear in the way of action is the dread 
of the accusation of Know-Nothingism. 
The population of Canada is less than that of 
the State of New York, and yet, while New 
York has a debt of only about $7,000,000, 
Canada has a debt of nearly $240,000,000. 
The total vote of these United States at the 
Presidential election of 1884 was 10.051.851. 
This year it should reach close to 12,000,000. 
Where will the increase go ?. Myers’s 
Opera House, El Paso, Tex., experienced a 
partial collapse Saturday night, and Sunday 
morning a second crash occurred, completely 
ruining the structure. No one was injured. 
The collapse is ascribed to 15 tons of beans 
stowed in the upper part of the building 
The N. Y. Forestry Commission, having se¬ 
cured the Slate preserve, now proposes to fill 
it with wild deer and other game, and for 
this purpose will establish a deer farm in the 
Catskills, on the line of the Ulster and Dela¬ 
ware road, and another in the Upper Adiron- 
dacks. The State preserve in the locality 
of the Neversink and Esopus Creek includes 
about 48,000 acres, in which there is no in¬ 
habited village or hamlet, and but few 
settlers scattered through the region. 
The dorv Dark Secret was sighted July 8 
on the Eastern part of the George’s Banks, 
off Newfoundland.A dispatch from 
Winnipeg, vesterday, says the provincial elec¬ 
tion on Wednesday resulted in a signal victory 
for the Government. Out of 38 seats 38 had 
been heard from, 33 of which are for the 
Government and five for the Opposition. 
The verdict in Winnipeg was a rousing one 
for Provincial rights and in favor of the Gov 
ernment. The city gave nearlv 2,000 major¬ 
ity for the Government. Green way and other 
members of the Government made speeches, 
promising to carry out the railway and other 
pledges. A terrible 1 accident occurred 
on the Virginia Midland Railroad Thursday 
morning. The through Southern train went 
through a trestle oetween Orange Court House 
and Barboursvillo, a distance of fifteen feet, 
killing five persons outright and wounding 
upwards of forty, some severely. It is 
stated that Judge John V. Wright, of Ten- 
nesee: Rev. W. N. Cleveland (brother of tho 
President), and Captain R. II. Pratt, Superin¬ 
tendent of the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Indian 
School, will constitute the commission to ne¬ 
gotiate with the Sioux Indians for a division 
of their reservation in Dakota and a surrender 
of a part to the United States. Great 
efforts have lately been made to obtain a 
commutation of sentence for Maxwell, alias 
Brooks, the St. Louis “trunk” murderer; but 
on Thursday the Governor of Missouri refused 
to grant a commutation, but granted a re¬ 
spite of four weeks.Thursday afternoon 
the Potomac River was about 20 feet 
above low water mark — the greatest 
depth reached since the freshet of 1877. 
Considerable damage has been done to 
the crops in the lowlands .The 
proposition to submit to the people of the 
several States a constitutional amendment to 
prohibit the liquor traffic in the United 
States was favorably reported by Senator 
Blair,Monday,from the Committee on Educa¬ 
tion .. A serious break occurred in the 
Erie Canal near Rochester N. Y., Saturday, 
and the boats in the vicinity were stranded 
high and dry. A vast volume of water flow¬ 
ing from the break flooded the adjoining 
fields, doing considerable damage to grow¬ 
ing crops .. A recently completed census 
gives Washington a population of 227,000 an 
increase of 24,000 in three years. The 
President, Monday, nominated Col. Thos. L. 
Casey, corps of engineers, to be chief of engin¬ 
eers with the rank of Brigadier-General- 
During the week disastrous storms and floods 
have done a great deal of damage in various 
parts of the country. A sudden rise in the 
Monongahela River, Tuesday, due to heavy 
rains making torrents of its mountain feeders 
flooded the lowlands between Greensford 
and Pittsburg, a distance of 100 miles, doing a 
world of damage to crops. Many buildings 
and other fixtures along the river’s course 
were borne away or toppled down. Estimated 
loss $3,500,000. Severe storms through New 
England, especially Massachusetts, as well as 
New York, particularly the Northern part of 
it, on Thursday, did a good deal of injury to 
crops and other property. Out West several 
parts of Wisconsin were visited by cyclones or 
hurricanes,and similar stories of disaster come 
from numerous other parts of the country- 
Mr. Blaine is expected here on July 27, and to 
welcome him the passenger committee of the 
trunk railroad lines here have agreed to carry 
clubs of over 20 to this city for one fare for 
the round trip. Gov. Hill, of New 
York, has called an extraordinary session of 
the Legislature to meet at Albany on the 17th. 
irobably to provide for the maintenance of 
abor in the State prisons, a duty which was 
sadly neglected at the last session of the Leg¬ 
islature .The price of coffee has 
taken a big jump upward, and General Master 
Workman Powderly, like most others, attri¬ 
butes the sudden rise to the operations of a 
“corner,” and advises people not to use coffee 
till tho “corner” is broken. If people ab¬ 
stained from “cornered” food products, they’d 
be likely to go hungry, as among them may 
be included dressed beef, sugar, salt and sev¬ 
eral other necessaries which are tied up in 
rings and trusts. 
. Sixteen years ago last Wednesday Al¬ 
pena, Michigan, was laid in ashes, and on 
Wednesday fourteen blocks of the TbirdWard 
were destroyed by fire. Two hundred build¬ 
ings were burned and 225 families, represent¬ 
ing 1,500 persons, are out of house and homo. 
Nine-tenths of these are working people, and 
most of them have no insurance. Losses over 
$400,000.Mormon missionaries are 
making hosts of converts among the Tennes¬ 
see mountaineers; but they encounter much 
opposition as well. The last Legislature 
passed a law punishing the preaching of 
polygamy by a heavy fine and three years 
in prison; and last week two Mormon elders 
were taken at the house of one of their con¬ 
verts, tarred and feathered, atd sent over 
the State line. Ex-Governor Sprague of 
Rhode Island is now Chief of Rolice at Nar- 
ragansett, formerly Narragansett Eier... 
The President has appointed Elliott Suuford, 
of New York City, to succeed Judge Zane 
as Chief Justice of Utah. Mr. Sanford is a 
graduate of Amherst College in the class of 
1861, and for 20 years has practiced law in 
New York.Congressman Randall, who 
has been in very poor health during this ses¬ 
sion, was suddenly seized with a profuse 
hemorrhage of the lower bowels this week. 
His condition for a time was critical, but he 
is mending now. General Sheridan got 
hom ; to Nonquitt, Mass., all right on Sun¬ 
day, and since then, with some slight relapses, 
has been getting alon ,r famously. 
Detroit, Mich., is the birth-place of the 
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the 
order having been organized there August 
17, 1863. It will therefore be a quarter of a 
century old next month, and a grand anniver¬ 
sary celebration will be held on the 17th and 
18th, in which 5,000 engineers from all parts 
of the United States and Canada will partici¬ 
pate. Since the big strike on the “Q” system 
Ibe organization has been falling into dis¬ 
repute, together with its “tender,’’the Brother¬ 
hood of Firemen. Since their manifest de¬ 
feat they have been frying to injure the road 
and frighten away, by “pounding,” maiming 
and even killing, the new or “scab” hands. 
Lately a conspiracy to destroy the engines 
and other property of the “system” by the use 
of dynamite, is reported to have been dis¬ 
covered, and Chairman Hogo of the Grievance 
Committee of the Brotherhood of Engineers, 
and Chairman Murphy of the Firemen’s 
Brotherhood, have been accused of sending 
circulars to members of the Brotherhoods ask¬ 
ing them clandestinely to accept situations on 
the engines of the road and render them use¬ 
less by the use of emery and other means. 
Both have been arrested. The officers of the 
“Q” system say they have ample proofs of the 
complicity of the Brotherhoods in the criminal 
conspiracy. A considerable number of 
minor arrests have been made, and some of 
the accused have “squealed,” and are kept in 
prison lest they should be killed by the exas¬ 
perated strikers. Chief Arthur and other 
officers of the Brotherhoods deny all connec¬ 
tion with any plots. Meanwhile the financial 
exhibit of the C. B. & Q. R. R. shows that the 
decrease in net earnings in April, was $755,- 
000, while in May there was a decrease of 
$800,000, so that the big strike appears to have 
been a bad thing for all parties. 
Daniel Lee, a New Jersey hermit, who had 
lived for years in a dilapidated shanty near 
Plainfield, died on Monday, leaving wealth of 
tho value of $500,000. The House Com¬ 
mittee on Public Lands Monday directed a 
favorable report to be made on Representa¬ 
tive Symes’s bill to protect purchasers of 
lends lying in the vicinity of Denver. Col., 
heretofore withdrawn by the Executive Do 
partment of the Government as lying within 
tbe limits of certain railroad grants, and after¬ 
ward held to be within the grants- The 
House Committee which has investigated tho 
Sugar and Standard Oil Trusts will shortly 
turn its attention to the Whisky Trust.. 
The gross public debtof the Dominion on June 
30 last was $8,134,221 more than at the end of 
the previous year. The so-called Ameri¬ 
can Party, which is made up largely of Cali¬ 
fornians of the Know-Nothing belief.has nom¬ 
inated Mayor Abram S. Hewitt of New York 
for President: but he has declinerl. A 
week ago a fire in the Century building, Union 
Square, New York, destroyed Alexander’s 
bindery and Editor Gilder’s room,and damag 
ed four other firms: total loss about $250,000. 
. The President has accepted the resig¬ 
nation of the Hon. George V, N. Lathrop, 
United States Minister to Russia, to take ef¬ 
fect August 1. Mr. Lathrop is not in good 
health.President 
Diaz of Mexico, has been re elected by a prac¬ 
tically unanimous vote.Dressed meat 
and cattle rates eastward from Chicago have 
been cut several times since last report. Thurs¬ 
day’s cut was to 9 cents per 100 pounds from 
Chicago to New York on the former, and to 5 
cents per 100 on the latter. These figures are un¬ 
precedented in the traffic. The consumers have 
hitherto gained nothing by the cutting. Tho 
advices from the West indicated declining 
rates on other business. One dispatch says 
that the rate on packing house products to 
Southern points had been reduced six cents 
per 100 pounds. The Lake Shore was charged 
with cutting down wool rates to the seaboard 
three cents per 1(M) pounds There are very 
serious rumors of great cutting in rates west 
of Chicago to the Missouri River. — 
There is a rather wild report from Helena, 
Montana, that a passenger train coming east, 
crashed through the Rosebud River bridge 
253 miles west of Helena, and 32 miles on this 
side of Miles City and that 30 persons were 
drowned. . . 
Corresponding to advances made in New York 
the American and California sugar refineries 
Thursday, in San Francisco, advanced tho 
different grades of sugar one-fourth cent and 
yesterday one-hlfcent.A special dis¬ 
patch from Nouquitt, as we go to press,says: 
Colonel M, V. Sheridan pronounces the state¬ 
ment telegraphed that General Sheridan is 
able to get in and out of his chair as false. He 
declares that the General is scarcely strong 
enough to lift his head up. A state¬ 
ment, prepared at the Patent office, shows 
that during the six months ended June 30, 
there were 18,685 applications for patents and 
1.298 caveats filed. During tho same time 10,- 
855 patents and reissues were granted. The 
receipts of the office were $568, 091. In each 
of these items there is an increase over the 
same months of last year. The inhabi¬ 
tants of Iceland are on the verge of starvation 
owing to tho unprecedented accumulation of ice 
in the harbors and along the coast. They are 
emigrating en masse to Manitoba. Over 
300 arrived in Winuepeg yesterday and 450 
more will arrive in two weeks. To show the 
desperate eagerness to get away from the is¬ 
land, it is said that one farmer who desired 
to sell his farm and emigrate to M anitoba, of¬ 
fered to sell his property at auction, and the 
highest bid made was three shillings. 
FOREIGN. 
Saturday, July 14,1888. 
The O’Donnell-Times case still eclipses all 
other items of home news in the Utiited King- 
don. O’Donnell claims that two Home Rule 
Members of Parliament,Sir Charles Russell and 
Mr. Frank Lockwood, advised him to take 
the course he did in his suit. Both say his 
statements are colored and exaggerated. 
Michael Davitt, however, owns that he was 
one of O’Donnell’s advisers. There is considera¬ 
ble doubt whether the man was ill-advised or 
a “traitor.” The Conservatives claim that 
the anti-Parnell disclosures seriously injure the 
Home Rule cause and blast the reputations of 
Parnell and several other leaders in the move' 
ment. Parnell has turned a deaf ear to the 
Times’s challenge to bring a libel suit, but he 
has demanded that a committee of the House 
should investigate tho whole matter. This tho 
Government has refused to allow; but, after 
much hesitation, it has agreed to appoint a 
special committee,exclusively of Judges, to do 
so. Parnell has consented,provided the Judges 
appointed are fair-minded, unprejudiced men, 
and as the Times has also agreed,the matter is 
likely to be thoroughly ventilated. . . . 
A resolution in tho Commons providing for 
the payment of salaries to members has been 
defeated by a vote of 193 to 135. Such a 
measure, if passed, would open the doors to 
poor but popular men. . . So scared aro 
Englishmen of a French or German invasion 
that the Government has again rejected tho 
proposal to construct a tunnel from Dover to 
Calais under the Channel, though it could be 
flooded at a very short notice. An 18 mile 
bridge is now talked of. . . . The weather 
throughout England is abnormally cold. Snow 
fell on Wednesday in the suburbs of London 
and the peaks of Skiddaw and other moun¬ 
tains are covered with snow. It is the first 
time snow is known to have fallen in that 
country in July. 
Boulanger has agaiu made himself tho 
theme of all the gossips of France. Last 
Thursday he introduced a resolution in the 
Chamber of Deputies insisting on the disolu¬ 
tion of that body and a revision of the con¬ 
stitution. A great majority of the Chamber 
refused to commit hari kari to please “Tho 
Man on Horseback.” The most violent, bit¬ 
ter and blackguardly language was used by 
various parties amid the wildest confusion. 
Boulanger called Prime Minister Floquet a 
liar,and“a badly educated school usher,” and 
melodramatically resigned his seat. Friday 
morning the two met on a “sequestered spot” 
near Paris. Swords were the weapons, and 
both meant deadly business. Boulanger was 
a good swordsman; Flouquet a poor one; but 
in a short time the “badly educated school ush¬ 
er’s” sword severely wounded the General in 
the neck, after ho had himself received a 
slight wound on the hand and arm. Latest ac¬ 
counts say Boulanger is seriously injured. It 
is quite likely his influence will rapidly wane 
henceforth. 
Last night the Emperor of Germany left 
Potsdam on his way to meet the Czar. The 
two potentates, on their imperial yachts, sur¬ 
rounded by squadrons of iron clads, will meet 
in the Gulf of Finland, and then proceed to 
St. Petersburg, which will be the scene of 
notable rejoicings and a grand review of 
troops. Great political importance is gener¬ 
ally attached to this mee ing, especially as the 
Kaiser visits the Czar before seeing Francis 
Joseph and Humbert, his old allies. Do Gier, 
Bismarck and Kalonoky and probably Crispi, 
will meet a little later, and it is from 
their meeting that political results are to be 
expected. It is thought that Germany, ap¬ 
prehensive of tho enormous combined power 
of Russia and France, is desirous of gaining 
over the former by making largo concessions 
with regard to Bulgaria and affairs generally 
in the Southeastern Peninsula. The Sultan 
evidently fears such a policy, as he has or¬ 
dered his Treasury to create an extraordinary 
reserve fund of $10,000,000 to provide against 
emergencies. Russia, however, is still in¬ 
creasing her army. An imperial ukase just 
issued fixes the number of the contingent re¬ 
cruits at 250,000, as against 235,000 in 1887, 
and places the period of active service at five 
years, but at 13 years for the Land- 
wehr. All able bodied men under 44, who 
have not already been in active sen ;co. must 
join the Landwher. 
More stringent regulations are likely to bo en¬ 
forced against French agitation of all kinds in 
Alsace Loraine. It is reported that Germany 
is about to compel French land owners in the 
Reiehland to sell their property and emigrate, 
as, some years ago, she compelled Polish 
landlords to emigrate from Posen. . . 
When Dr. Mackenzie, on the death of Emperor 
Frederick, was about to leave Berlin, his re¬ 
quest for an interview with tho new Emperor 
was bruskly refused, and this week Emperor 
William has set the great German doctors— 
only too willing—to hound down tho English 
physician. They say that his first diagnosis 
of the disease of Frederick (then Crown Prince) 
was wrong, and that when ho afterwards dis¬ 
covered his mistake, he persisted in it through 
false shame and pride, though at the cost of 
his patient’s life. There’s an immense amount 
of vituperation against him. He has just ar¬ 
rived in London where he has been received 
cordially by all. He says several reported in¬ 
terviews with him uevor took place, and that 
by commands which he is bound to obey— 
those of Queen Victoria and Empress Victoria 
no doubt, or of both—he intends henceforth to 
maintain tho strictest silence respecting the 
late Emperor’s illness and German politics. 
. . . There is a story that Emperor Fred¬ 
erick confided to Queen Victoria important 
autograph accounts of the attempts to induce 
him to consent to a regency, and that tho 
German Government is trying hard to get 
possession of them. . . . There is also a 
report that tho Empress Victoria, wife of tho 
late and mother of the present Emperor, and 
eldest child of Queen Victoria, is virtually a 
prisoner in her palace at Charlottenburg. An¬ 
other report says he is going to visit Florence, 
Italy, and remain there some time. 
“ Herbraud” Fifth Wheel for Buggies.— Adv, 
