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THE RURAL WEW-YORK**, 
MAY 25 
Mews xrf tlj.e Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, May 18, 1889. 
James Kelly, produce dealer, Lexington, 
Ky., has just escaped the clutches of a “green 
goods swindler” in this city. Wednesday morn¬ 
ing he was found dead at a hotel in New 
Brunswick, N. J , with the g. g.’s circulars in 
his pocket and a letter making: an appoint¬ 
ment with the crook. Kelly had blown out 
the gas and been suffocated. People who 
blow out the gas instead of turning it off, are 
ready-made dupes for swindlers .Deaths 
by lightning have been unprecedentedly nu¬ 
merous for the season of year—and the elec¬ 
tric lighting and telephone wires in towns 
and cities add considerably to the number of 
casualties from electricity.Bring¬ 
ing suits for “breach of promise” is becoming 
quite a popular and profitable industry for 
women from sweet 16 to sour 70—the age of 
the latest aspirant for damages.Freight 
rates on dressed beef from Chicago to New 
York have just been reduced from 50 to 45 
cent per 100 pounds by the trunk lines. 
After all, the Missouri Senate has finally de¬ 
feated the anti-dressed meat bill, though the 
House has passed it by a large majority and a 
telegram to New York a fortnight ago, said 
the Senate had done likewise. A similar bill 
was shelved by the New York State legisla¬ 
ture last Tuesday. The legislature ad¬ 
journed at noon on Wednesday after 
a session which appears to have afford¬ 
ed little satisfaction to the public. 
The new license laws in Philadelphia have 
reduced the number of retail dealers in intox¬ 
icants from 3,214 to 1,203, and the number of 
wholesalers from 640 to 500. The lawyers 
who appeared on behalf of the rum-sellers 
netted about $750,000 in fees, and “stood to 
win” much more had they gamed more cases. 
The successful representatives of ordinary 
dealers averaged $260; while those who re¬ 
presented 40 of the most profitable and notori¬ 
ous places averaged $2,500 each. About 300 of 
the wholesalers paid $500 apiece, 200 $100 
each, and the rest $50 per man. The profits 
of the business are so enormous, that 
it pays to give big fees for even a 
chance to continue it .Mind-reader 
Washington Irving Bishop, who created such 
a sensation in this, his native country, and in 
Europe by his wonderful mental perform¬ 
ances, died here the other day from mental 
strain incurred in performing a new feat 
which brought on a cataleptic fit. The doc¬ 
tors in holding a post-mortem examination 
cut him up a few hours after his death with¬ 
out permission from his relatives, and his 
mother and wife insist that he was merely in 
a trance and was killed by the doctors ..... 
It turns out that Williamson, the Philadelphia 
philanthropist, who gave millions for founding 
a great school for the gratuitous instruction 
of boyS; duriDg life paid only $200 a year tax¬ 
es to the State on $67,500 invested in taxable 
securities whereas he had $3,750,000 so invest¬ 
ed on which he ought to have paid $ll,2o0. 
His executors will have to pay the full 
amount in future.A combination 
of glass fruit-jar and fruit-iar cap makers at 
Pittsburg, Pa. where nearly all those goods 
are made, has just raised the prices and 
threatens another big lift.The em¬ 
igration out of Oklahoma continues. Entries 
on hardly a fifth of the land have been filed 
yet; but it is expected that many will return 
soon and complete their entries. 
The rush to the Sioux Reservation on the Up¬ 
per Missiouri is increasing. It is thought 
that in six weeks it will equal the recent Ok¬ 
lahoma boom. A large proportion of the 11, 
000,000 acres to be soon thrown open to settle¬ 
ment there, however, is utterly unfit for cul¬ 
tivation, and much of it is not superfine for 
grazing. 
A new smoke-burner for locomotives has 
just been satisfactorily tried on the Wisconsin 
Central Railroad, which does entirely away 
with the smoke nuisance; the locomotives fur¬ 
nished with it need only half the usual 
amount of coals. It’s a boon therefore alike 
to the railroads and the public 1 .Two 
New Yorkers have just started on a ride 
across the continent to San Francisco on a 
couple of bean-fed nags .The peach 
growers of Delaware have to face the prospect 
not only of a crop so unusually large as to 
render it difficult to market it so as to realize 
a profit, but also the threat made by the 
Peach-Growers’ Association of Northern New 
Jersey, that its members are about to set 
out 500,000 young trees, besides en¬ 
couraging others to do likewise. Small won¬ 
der that the Delaware peach-growers are 
rather disconsolate!. 
Thursday morning a fire destroyed 700 houses 
in St. Sauveur, a suburb of Montreal. As 
the houses are nearly all of wood the flames 
spread rapidly, making 4,000 to 5,000 people, 
chiefly belonging to the laboring classes, \ 
homeless. Loss $600,000. While trying to 
blow up some of the buildings to stop the pro¬ 
gress of the flames a major and sergeant of the 
garrison were killed by a premature explosion 
of powder.Not a single State legisla¬ 
ture has adjourned this year without a hearty 
“Thank God” from most people. Complaints 
of jobbery, bribery and all sorts of corruption 
have been unusually numerous and loud. 
Allen Thorndike Rice, aged 36, editor and 
owner of the North American Review, who 
had been appointed Minister to Russia a little 
over a month ago, was suddenly attacked by 
tonsilitis—a throat disease—just as he was 
about to start for Europe last Saturday. The 
doctors thought little of the matter; but he 
died suddenly on Thursday morning from an 
aggravation of the disease causing suffocation. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, May 18, 1889. 
Last Monday week the great French Inter¬ 
national Exposition was formally opened by 
President, Carnot and other celebrities. It was - 
to a great extent Incomplete; but everything 
will be ready by the end of the month. As 
it was avowedly started to commemorate the 
great French Revolution which proved so 
disastrous in its consequences to the monar¬ 
chies of Europe, it could not expect much aid 
or sympathy from any of their present repre¬ 
sentatives. Indeed, contrary to the custom 
at all other European International Exposi¬ 
tions, no monarchical country in Europe is 
officially represented at this, nor has any as¬ 
sistance been given from the public Treasury 
of any to intending exhibitors. On the con¬ 
trary, in several cases, notably in Germany, a 
good deal of official discouragement has been 
extended to such enterprises. The chance for 
advertising their goods, has, however, induc¬ 
ed manufacturers and others to make very 
full exhibits, and the show will probably, 
after all, be finer than any of its predecessors 
in France or any other country. Tho build¬ 
ings cover a larger area of ground and are 
more artistically and conveniently construct¬ 
ed, while the number of entries is considera¬ 
bly larger than at any previous display of the 
kind. This is the only great nation which has 
made an appropriation to aid exhibitors, and 
the American display promises to be exeep • 
tionally fine. A vast concourse of visitors is 
already under way from all parts of the 
world, the United States contributing a 
mighty contingent. The Effel Tower, a thin 
iron lattice-work structure 1,000 feet high, is 
the most unique and probably the most at¬ 
tractive feature of the Exposition. 
A Happy Medium. 
In our efforts to urge conviction our great¬ 
est concern, often, is to captivate inclination. 
When we have done, our adversary admits 
that he has been agreeably entertained,but he 
is of much the same opinion as he was before. 
Then we attempt the direct. We establish an 
irresistible sequence; an adversary follows; he 
is convinced but offended. 
Our pith pellets of argument have only 
amused him; but directness and sincerity are 
trenchant and his veneer of composure is 
pierced. Now what must we do? We want 
to convince without offence. Perhaps there is 
a happy medium. Let us see: 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, May 18, 1889. 
Our Correspondent, Hiram P. Hopkins 
was invited by the United States Dairy Com¬ 
missioner for his district to make a sample of 
butter to represent the dairy interests of Erie 
County, N. Y. at the Paris Exposition. 
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Willits 
has received a letter from Ireland setting 
forth the profit of flax culture to America. 
If factories for the manutacture of flax pro¬ 
ducts could be had in this country the crop 
would pay well.Rats have for a long 
time inf e6ted the quarters occupied by live 
animals at the Smithsonian Institution at 
Washington. It was impossible to catch 
them until the discovery was made that they 
are extravagantly fond of sunflower seeds. 
Traps baited at)night with these seeds held, the 
next morning, 10 to 15 rats each. 
Samuel Budgett & Son, the English cheese 
merchants state that there has been a gradual 
decline in prices of cheese. It seems probable 
that prices will fall still lower. English com¬ 
mission men are carrying smaller stocks than 
usual and it is probable that late in the season 
prices in England will jump up because of an 
under supply. Its expected that New Zea¬ 
land will ship considerable cheese to England 
this year. 
The tent caterpillar is increasing at an alarm¬ 
ing rate in Central New York, and many 
farmers are making no effort to check its 
ravages. From the Crop Report of 
the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, we 
learn that crop prospects throughout the State 
are more favorable than for many years, if 
indeed, they have ever been so good. The 
season is 10 days to two weeks earlier than 
last year. The condition of winter wheat is 
placed at 98. The prospects for other crops 
are very favorable. Fruits, with the excep¬ 
tion of apples, promise well.The Lake and 
rail freight rate on corn from Chicago to New 
York has been reduced to 7% cents per bushel, 
and the Lake and Canal rate to 6X cents... 
The 14th annual meeting of the American As¬ 
sociation of Nurserymen will be held at Chi¬ 
cago, June 5 and 6. Papers or addresses are 
expected from Hon. Norman J. Colman, J. 
H. Hale, G. E. Meissner, P. J. Berckmans, W. 
C. Barry, P. Barry, William Storrs, T. S. 
Hubbard, Peter Henderson, J. T. Lovett, Mr. 
Hobbs, Geo. W. Campbell, Anthony Lamb, 
H. S. Anderson and many others. George A. 
Sweet is president and Charles A. Green sec¬ 
retary. The Moorestown Agricul¬ 
tural and Industrial Society will hold their 
14th annual exhibition on their grounds at 
Stan wick Station near Moorestown, N. J. 
June 6, 7, and 8. The premium list includes 
field trials of all kinds of agricultural imple¬ 
ments, plowing matches, shepherd dogs herd¬ 
ing stock,etc. An extensive strawberry exhib¬ 
it will be made.The Illinois State Grange, 
Patrons of Husbandry, offered a reward of 
$10,000 for a patentable contrivance which 
may be attached to reaping machines, and 
which will bind wheat and oats 
with straw instead of with twine. 
The Cattle Inspection bill was defeated in the 
Michigan Senate recently.Connec¬ 
ticut claims one-third of all the creameries in 
New England.Mr. Aspinwal of 
Three Rivers, Michigan, the inventor of the 
Aspinwal potato planter, has invented and 
put into practical operation, wooden combs 
for bee-hives.A Michigan firm of 
Short-horn breeders claim that one of their 
cows recently gave birth to three bull calves 
which are all doing well. 
The first 13 volumes of the American Short¬ 
horn Herd Book are being revised .The 
Kentucky Station is making experiments de¬ 
signed to determine what fertilizers are most 
needed in the culture of hemp. Most farmers 
think that naturally rich laud is needed for 
hemp. The station desires to know if poor laud 
to which fertilizers are added will answer.... 
The committee appointed at the last annual 
meeting of the Ayrshire Breeders’ Association 
recommend the adoption of a set of rules to 
govern cow tests at all fairs, dairy shows and 
experiment stations, that the awards may be 
given to the breed or single animals which 
show their superiority as profitable dairy 
cows. Those rules in brief are that all cows 
entered for trial shall be securely locked up, 
shall be fed, watered, milked, etc., uniformly, 
under the charge of a superintendent, the cow 
to be charged with all food consumod. A 
statement of the cow’s previous condition and 
treatment must be made under oath. The 
cows must be milked regularly, and samples 
of each milking must be analyzed. The milk 
must be handled uniformity, the butter ana¬ 
lyzed, and only the dry fat be calculated. The 
cow or herd giving the greatest quantity of 
marketable products at least cost to be 
awarded the prizes. 
The experiment stations are all issuing bullet¬ 
ins devoted to fertilizers and fertilizing ma¬ 
terials. The Tennessee station is the last to 
issue such a pamphlet.A load of rye 
was received this week to go forward to Ger¬ 
many. Two loads of white com were bought 
for Venice, which, with two loads last week 
form the first shipments to that country in 
many years. 
The Worcester Buckeye Mower 
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