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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MAY 44 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
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Wms of tip Xtyeth* 
that colored cotton clothes, when washed in 
this way seldom fade. 
HOME NEWP. 
FROM ANNA,- W. NEWKIRK. 
To prevent the colors from running and to 
give the goods a bright, fresh look, I put in 
the water a cup of salt, the kind we get for 
the stock. Iu washing Jersey blankets, which 
I consider to be heavy cotton flannel, the red 
and blue stripes on the ends never ruu if salt 
is freely used in the first water. 
FROM MRS. GEORGE LANG. 
I take clear, soft, hot water and make some 
suds from hard soap il use Babbitt’s). If the 
goods are very dirty I use a little soap. 
After they are washed, I turn them, and put 
them in cold water to rinse. I then starch 
and hang them in the shade to dry. I iron 
them on the right side, but I ain very care¬ 
ful not to have the iron too hot, as a very hot 
iron will fade the goods. 
FROM M. CHAPMAN. 
I put the goods into clear rain water, not 
quite as warm as dish water. I use bard soap 
and rub them out as quickly as possible,plung¬ 
ing them immediately into clean bard water 
directly from the well. This sets the color 
if inclined to fade. For drying I prefer a 
shady place, with a good breeze. I think the 
more quickly they can be washed and dried, 
the nicer and brighter they look. I generally 
use wheat flour for starch. After cooking, I 
strain and settle it. If there is any part 
white about the goods I use a little bluing. 
Iron them on the wrong side, using a moder¬ 
ately hot iron; hang in a draught until 
thoroughly dry, and hang away in a dark 
place. 
FROM MRS. H. H. 
1 usually wash colored cotton goods in suds 
after white clothes. £ wash with kerosene, 
being careful not to have the water very hot, 
using elbow grease instead of much soap. 
Wash, rinse and dry in the shade. I think 
the surest way is to get indigo-blues, Turkey 
reds and such colors that don’t fade, and are 
new every time when washed. 
FROM SARAH E. CHAMBERLIJY. 
I find the best way to wash colored cotton 
goods, is to make some suds of hard soap and 
soft water, wash the goods thoroughly in the 
suds, rinse in soft water and blue them in 
hard water. Starch in a very thin boiled 
starch (not flour) and hang in a shady place 
to dry. Sprinkle until they are quite damp 
and iron on the right side. 
FROM MRS. ALLIE DILLARD. 
A good way to wash colored cotton goods, 
is to have the water just a little warm. Put 
a handful of common table salt to a pailful of 
water. After the clothes are washed, do not 
let them 'wait, but rinse them out at once, and 
in winter dry them in the house, as freezing 
will cause them to look dull. 
FROM MRS. S. A. 
My way of washing colored cotton goods is 
very simple. I use only clean water and 
Ivory soap: rinse and hang out immediately, 
not allowing them to stand in the water. If 
to be starched, use thin starch. 
FROM JENNIE W. GRAHAM. 
I have heard of an old lady who has always 
bad viry good success in this line, and she 
says that she washes her calicoes in the dirti¬ 
est water she has, and then rinses them 
thoroughly in clean water. 
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Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet. 
It will require but little patience ere you be¬ 
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Warner’s Log Cabin ROSE CREAM, 
for catarrh. Its disagreeable features dis¬ 
appear very quickly under this great remedy. 
Try it. Price 50 cents, 
Saturday. May, 4 18S9. 
The Centennial Cyclone lasted the first 
three days of the week here. The celebration 
began on Monday on the arrival of President 
Harrison in New York after he had been pre¬ 
viously received with great enthusiasm at 
Elizabeth N. J.. and at other points along 
the route from Washington. Hewasaccom- 
ranied by the members of his Cabinet, except 
Secretary of State Blaine whom illness detain¬ 
ed at Washington. The naval Parade in the 
bay and partlv up the East and North Rivers 
was a magnificent spectacle, unprecedented 
in this bemisphire, and hardlv ever equaled 
anywhere else on the g’obe. The reverberat¬ 
ing boom of heavy guns from the war ships and 
forts, the shrill or deep whistles from multi¬ 
tudinous steamers, the cheers and huzzabs, 
on all sides, the long lines of gai¬ 
ly beflagged vessels, the innumerable small 
boats, from trim vacbts to clumsy row-boats, 
the glistening waters and laughing skies made 
a tout ensemble hard to be imagined and 
never to be forgotten. A crew of jolly old 
sea-captains rowed the President from the re¬ 
viewing vessel to the foot of Wall street where 
Washington had landed one hundred years 
before. Here he was welcomed by Governor 
Hill of New York State, Mayor Grant of New 
York City and other celebrities. He was 
then escorted to the Equitable Building on 
lower Broadway where he partook of a ban¬ 
quet and held a reception. Then he proceed¬ 
ed to the City Hall where he was welcomed 
by rows of white-clad school girls, and held 
another reception. The evening and night 
witnessed a grand ball, reception and supper 
at the Metropolitan Opera House . 
The chief feature of the next day—Tuesday— 
was the grand military parade, when over 
50.000 troops, representing every arm of the 
service and nearly every State in the Union, 
marched from the Battery at the lower end 
of Broadway for eight miles up the City, 
through the chief streets, lined with people- 
covered stands, and thronged windows, bal¬ 
conies, door-steps and roofs. At Madison 
Square, about the middle of the line of march, 
they were reviewed by the President and 
other notabilities The gay dresses of the 
men, their rythmical step, glittering arms, 
fluttering flags and resplendent banners; the 
inspiring bursts of mus>c at the head of each 
body; the wild cheers from the enthusiastic 
spectators lining both sides of the road from 
the pavement to the roof pitch—all made a glo¬ 
rious show, marvelously commemorating, even 
bv force of contrast the modester scenes at 
Washington’s inauguration a century before, 
in a town insignificant in size and 
population as compared with the city of to¬ 
day. The parade took six hours passing a 
given point. A grand banquet at night gave 
opportunities for eloquent speeches by Presi¬ 
dent Harrison, Governor Hill, General Sher¬ 
man, Governor Lee of Virginia, Ex- 
President Cleveland, Senator Daniel, Chief 
Justice Fuller, Ex-President Haves, Sen¬ 
ator Evarts, James Russell Lowell, and 
other dis inguished men. 
The principal attraction of the third day— 
Wednesday—was the industrial parade,which 
numbered about 80,000. and would have 
numbered 125,000 were it not that it was 
cut down,as the larger one couldn’t have been 
seen in a single day. It took nearly 11 Hours 
for the 80,000 line to pass a given point. All 
the industrial, temperance, political, social, 
and other civic organizations were represent¬ 
ed. The width of the street measured the 
width of the line abreast. A multitude of 
gaily bedizzened “floats” drawn by finely 
caparisoned horses, bore a vast variety of 
scenes, industrial, allegorical, historical and 
humorous. Although unlike Tuesday, Wed¬ 
nesday was neither a State nor National holi¬ 
day, the crowds in the streets were, if possi¬ 
ble, larger, as every workingman with all his 
family took part in the festivity. The pro¬ 
cession was reviewed by the President and 
other prominent personages for six hours at 
Madison Square. Never before was such an 
outpouring of the industrial classes wit¬ 
nessed on this side of the water or 
E robably on the other. 
luring the whole celebration the vast crowds 
in the streets and the enormous number of 
flags fluttering everywhere and other decora¬ 
tions hiding most of the house fronts,were the 
most noticeable features. Close estimates 
place the arrivals at 468,000 each day, and it 
is estimated that 1,150,000 non-residents of 
New York were here at one time. Most of 
these came from the surrounding country 
within a radius of, say, 50 miles, and the great 
majority returned home every night. There 
was no difficulty in lodging and feeding the 
visitors, and prices everywhere were about 
the same as usual. The visiting troops for the 
most partencamped'in the numerous armories 
and other large buildings where they were 
supplied with mattresses,blankets and rations, 
though many of them found less warlike 
quarters in hotels and private houses. Gov¬ 
ernors of States and other political and mili¬ 
tary notabilities were as thick as colonels in 
Kentucky. Vast quantities of wines and liq¬ 
uors were swallowed; but beer was the prin¬ 
cipal beverage.and oceans of that disappeared; * 
still there was very little vociferous or turbu¬ 
lent intoxication. Public and private ban¬ 
quets, dances and “parties” of all kinds 
made every night hilarious. The theatres 
were not over-crowded, as the vast bulk of 
visitors thronged the streets at night, while 
most of the •* old-timers ” were either out 
sight-seeing or attending public or private 
festivities. Every night also there were grand 
displays of fire-works, some of them at public 
expense, others given by political and other 
associations, while many private parties spent 
not a little on such manifestations of joy, and 
of course, the “small boy ” had to be gratified 
with noise and gun-powder smoke. All 
known pick-pockets and crooks of all kinds, 
residents or visitors, were at once locked up 
wherever seen, and remained under lock and 
key till Thursday, when all were discharged, 
so that there was really comparatively little 
robbery, thieving or other punishable dis¬ 
honesty. Horses were in such demand that 
the hire of one would almost buy him in or¬ 
dinary times. Altogether it was a glorious 
celebration of a memorable event, and a grand 
inauguration of the second century ot our 
American form of Republican Government.. 
Tuesday, April 30, the actual centennary of 
the inauguration of Washington as first Presi¬ 
dent of the Republic, was proclaimed a Na¬ 
tional Holiday throughout tne United States 
by President Harrison, but to make it a legal 
holiday in any State the Governor had to pro¬ 
claim it such.* In most of the States this was 
done. In this State the legislature hastily 
passed and the Governor signed a bill making 
Monday and Wednesday also legal holidays 
so far as concerned this city and Brooklyn. 
This was important to prevent or mitigate 
business complications much more than for 
the sake of giving a merry-making season to 
the people. Tuesday was widely celebrated 
throughout the country by parades and 
other gala displays during the day, and 
by fire-works, dancing, feasting and 
speech-making at night. Americans abroad 
also duly “celebrated.” . . 
At 9 a. m. Sunday last the St. Louis Express 
train on the Grand Trunk Railroad near 
Hamilton, Canada, in running at a high rate 
of speed round a sharp curve, jumped the 
track; the engine plunged into a water tank, 
two cars telescoped and, being heated with 
stoves, at once caught fire and 21 people were 
cremated, and a great many more of the 150 
passengers were more or less severely injured. 
At the outset only two of the dead could be 
identified, but since then the charred frag¬ 
ments of three others have been recognized 
by pieces of clothing or jewelry, etc., on or 
near their remains. The train consisted of 10 
cars and contained chiefly Western people on 
their way to see the Centennial Celebration 
in New York City. 
deliver a written judgment on the case 
on the first day of next term. . 
California is drying and evaporating her 
fruits to a much greater extent since the in¬ 
terstate commerce law raised the rates to 
distant markets.Florida is now the 
most formidable rival of all the other South¬ 
ern States as an early shipper of fruits, get¬ 
ting into every market East and West before 
any other State by several weeks.The 
first boat of tne season through the Erie 
canal reached Albany, May 2.The 
Orange County Stock Farm in the town of 
Warwick, formerly occupied by C. P. Hunt¬ 
ington as a country seat, and later by several 
different owners, has been sold to Messrs. 
Drake & Stratton of this city, who, it is un¬ 
derstood, will devote it to breeding fine horses 
and cattle.. The Maryland State Tem¬ 
perance Alliance in its session at Baltimore 
adopted a resolution asking the legislature to 
enact such laws as will bring cider within the 
category of strong drinks.The pacer 
Bonesetier dropped dead at Baltimore, May 1. 
He was valued at $2,500 .Friday, May 3, 
was observed as Arbor Day in this State. 
From Connecticut comes the report of the sale 
of a 400 acre farm of fair laud, with spacious 
barns, good dwelling house and considerable 
wood for $1,000 . The maple sugar 
season in New Hampshire is stated to have 
averaged about as usual as to quantity, but 
with quality better than usual.The 
Williams & Clark Fertilizer Company have 
removed their offices to the Market and Ful¬ 
ton National Bank |Building, Rooms 51 and 
52, 81 Fulton Street, New York. 
Michigan is to have a permanent location for 
the State Fair.. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
The Grave and the Gay. 
The grave usually predominates in human 
affairs. 
Disease and affliction make the gay but a 
transient visitor. Still the proportion may 
be reversed; the grave may pe expelled; the 
gay invited and retained. 
“How?” you ask incredulously. Well, there 
is a decidedly obvious inference in the follow¬ 
ing extracts, which answers these questions 
exactly. 
Glascow, Ky. 
“I regard Compound Oxygen as a wonder¬ 
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for it.” Jas. B. Martin. 
Pensacola, Fla , July 25. 1888. 
“I suffered from a very severe and obsti¬ 
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many doctors’ remedies, and, while not entire¬ 
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feel fully assured that the same is due to your 
Compound Oxygen Treatment.” 
John W. Frater. 
Sumter, S. C. 
“I have used the Compound Oxygen Home 
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revitalizer and have expereinced marked ben¬ 
efit from it.” Mrs. N. G. Osteen. 
Proprietor Watchman and Southern. 
Napoleon, O., Feb. 19, 1888. 
“ My entire family are using the Com¬ 
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to be a wonderful remedy for all chronic 
troubles.” Mrs. L. L. Or wig. 
We publish a brochure of 200 pages, regard¬ 
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& Palen, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa., or 
120 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Cal.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 4, 1889. 
Several important auction sales of horses ' 
and cattle will be held at the American Insti¬ 
tute building, this city during the month. 
May 8 and 9, the Palo Alto Stud sale. May 
14 and 15, Holstein-Friesian cattle, Com¬ 
bination sale, comprising a large number of 
animals from several noted herds. May 16, 
annual sale of ponies and donkeys. May 2l] 
Oakland’s herd of Jersey cattle. Mav 22 a 
herd of Jersey cattle. May 28 and 29, sale u 
of carriage horses.Jersey breeders 
will meet Tuesday, May 7, at Hardman Hall, 
corner Nineteenth street and Fifth avenue, 
New Yotk City, beginning at 11 o’clock a. m. 
This assemblage is called by the American Jer¬ 
sey Cattle Club and immediately precedes the 
1889 session of the Club, which will be held at 
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, at 11 a, m., Wednes¬ 
day, May 8.The most costly stable 
in the world is being built hy J. B. Crouse, a 
resident of Syracuse, N. Y., and when com¬ 
pleted is to cost $200,000.The largest 
horse farm in the world is said to be 13 miles 
from Cheyenne, Wyo. It includes 120.000 
acres, requires 100 miles of wire fencing to 
keep the animals in bounds, with 65 men to 
look after them. The horses, young and old, 
number 5,000.Over 1,000 trottiug- 
bred horses have been sold at Lexington,Ky., 
during the last three months.De¬ 
horning cattle has been declared illegal in 
England. A Norfolk farmer was summoned 
before the local justices for cruelty to cattle 
by dehorning them, but he was acquitted. 
An appeal was taken to the Court of Queen’s 
Bench, London, and on Tuesday the Lord 
Chiei Justice intimated he would reverse the 
decision of the justices, and would 
New Yoke, Saturday, May 4, 1889. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Cotton.—T he quotations, according to the American 
elasslflcatlon. are as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. and Gulf. Texas 
Ordinary. BK sfc; . 
Strict Ordinary. 8 13-16 i) 1-16 . 
Good Ordinary.10 . 
Strict Good Ordinary ..10 8-16 lu 7-16 . 
Low Middling. 10 11-16 10 15-16 . 
8trlctLow Middling... 10 15-16 11 8-16 . 
Middling.11V6 . 
Good Middling.11$» 11^ . 
8trlct Good Middling ..11^ 12^ . 
Middling Fair.12 5 16 12 9-16 . 
Fair. 12 15-16 13 3-16 . 
STAINED. 
Good Ordinary. 8U I Low Middling 9 13-16 
Strict Good Ord. 8% I Middling. lo96 
Poultry—C hickens, spring, per lb, 24®28e.; 
Live Fowls, near-by. per lb, ll@llWc: fowls, 
Western, per lb 11@11roosters, per lb, 7@8e; tur¬ 
keys. per Tb 11® 13c: ducks.wAgtern.per palr,75e®0.90; 
geese, western, per pair, $1 15®$110. 
poultry.—DRESSED—T urkeys, dry picked, good to 
choice, per lb, 15ai6c: do do,common to fair, 10®14c; 
do, Iced, dry picked, choice, U@12c. Fowls, western, 
do, choice. ll®18Jic; do. nearby, do do 13®lS>^c; 
Chicks and Fowls, mixed, 9@llc; do do do, scalded, 
8®9c. Squabs, white, per doz, #3 50®$3 7odo, dark, 
do, $2 50®#2 75. Chickens Philadelphia, dry picked, 
15<ai7c, do Jersey, do, choice, I4@i5c; do nearby, do, 
good,13ffM4c; do Western, do do, 116412c: do do. Iced, 
f ood to choice l'®12c. Ducks, nearby, choice, per lb, 
liaise; do do, good, 12a 14; do Western, good, 10®l2e. 
Geese, Western, good, 8®l0c. 
Game.—W ild Ducks, Canvas back, per pair, ® 
@$-: do, Red Head, do, $ 50@$1 00 ; Grouse, do, 
—c ; Wild Ducks, Mallard, do, —c: Teal, do. — 
. Plover, per doz., $1 5U@$2 00 ; Snipe, per doz. 
$1 75@$2 00. 
Hops.—S tate, new, best, 22®23c; do, prime, 19®21o; 
do, low grades, I8@l6c; do do, 1887, 10@U do do do 
California, common to prime, I3@l9e: choice, 2d®21c. 
Hay and Straw.—C hoice Timothy,95®$1 00, do good 
do, 85@90c; do medium, 7U@80c ; shipping, 65®7uc; do, 
Clover, mixed, 556470c. Straw.—No. 1, rye, 75@80e; 
short do 55®65; oat, 40@50c. 
Beans.—M arrows, new, $1 75@$l 80. new mediums 
choice, <175®—: pea. XI75®—: red kidney,*2 00®-; 
white kidneys, choice,210®-: foreign, mediums, 1 35 
®1 55 ; California Lima, $2 75®$3 10; green peas, 
$115@-. 
Nuts.— Peanuts are quiet. Fancy, hand-picked 
quoted at 8®-c, and farmers’ grades at 6@6t$c. 
Hickory Nuts quoted at $0 50®$l 00 per bushel. 
Pecans. 6®8c. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKETS. 
Vegetables.— potatoes - Bermuda, per hbl, $4 00® 
#8 00: Maine do. $1 50®#2 (10: Slate do. #0 90®#1 50; 
Sweets do $2 50(34 50: Cab., new,$l 50®$2 50; Peas, per 
crate. #0 50®fi 50; Kale, per bbl.. #o 50®$0 75: Beets, 
per crate, $1 25®$175; Asparagus, per doz., go 50®|2 00; 
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