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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
JUNE 8 
Hots j»f lijg V&t&u 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 1,1889. 
Last Saturday the steamer Greytowu left 
this port for Nicaragua with the first install¬ 
ment of men and machinery to be employed 
in the construction of the Nicaragua Canal 
The estimated cost of the work is$66,000,000— 
probably not more than one-third or one- 
fourth of what it will really cost, should it 
ever be completed, and it probably will. 
The Panama Canal appears to have complete¬ 
ly collapsed. All of the laborers and other 
employes who could get away at their own 
cost or that of their respective governments, 
have done so, after many of them had been 
nearly starved to death; the excavating, 
transportation and other sorts of machinery 
are going to “rack and ruin,” gravitation and 
weather are filling up the “cuts.” the rank 
vegetation of the tropics is covering every 
thing, even the graves of the 15,000 employes 
who perished in the work, and the “big ditch” 
in which over $300,000,000 have been sunk, is 
going rapidly to ruin. Only about two-thirds 
of the proposed work on it has been done and 
De Lesseps can raise no more money to help 
it along, and the French Government, warned 
by this country, will dc nothing in its favor 
until the next French election in October, if 
it will do anything even then. It looks now 
as if it would remain a tremendous memento 
of folly or bad management, unless the pro- 
iect is completed by other people after the 
“privileges” of the original stock-holders have 
been forfeited or “bought for a song.” It’s 
not altogether unlikely that “Americans” 
may finish the work and “make a good thing” 
out of the losses of the unfortunate French 
investors.— • • ■ • • -.,. 
Carnegie, the great Pennsylvania iron 
operator, whose income amounts to over a 
million a year, and who began with “noth¬ 
ing ” has reduced the wages of his men by an 
average of 20 per cent. They must accept his 
terms or “go out” and starve.Hither¬ 
to Pennsylvania has been the head-center of 
the iron and coal business of the country, but 
the “South”—and especially W. Ya. and Ala. 
—is rapidly becoming a dangerous rival. 
Owing to the proximity of iron and coal in 
the same neighborhood, together with lime to 
be used as a flux, iron in all forms can now 
be made in some parts of the South consider¬ 
ably cheaper than in the Keystone State...... 
The Southern railroads, too, anxious to build 
up a business that must greatly benefit them 
in the future, give much lower rates of 
freight on iron of all sorts than those given by 
the Northern roads, so that among “Northern 
iron men” there is a good deal of talk, even 
in Pennsylvania, of transferring the whole.or 
a part, of their business to the most eligible 
sections of the South, West Virginia, North¬ 
ern Georgia and Alabama being the favorite 
locations. Colored labor is used a great 
deal there in the “works,” and is cheaper 
than white labor and less liable to disorgani¬ 
sation by strikes, and white operatives m 
“shops” in the South are much less likely to 
strike than the same class in the Northern 
factories. A question of the day. therefore, 
is, “Is Pennsylvania moving down to Ala¬ 
bama?”. . 
The English and American salt syndicates or 
trusts have come to the most amiable agree¬ 
ment. Each will do what will tend most to 
the benefit of the other, and both will in 
the friendliest way, make the greatest pos¬ 
sible profit out ot the “ dear public.”. 
At Bellville, Ontario, Canada, the other day, 
17 persons were injured in a railroad accident 
.The broom-makers of Western New 
York propose to form a trust, though, of 
course, they are unwilling to own it. 
Down in the French negro Republic of Hayti, 
after numerous serious reverses and a multi¬ 
tude of needless butcheries and atrocious cru¬ 
elties, according to reports, the tide of success 
is setting strongly in favor of Hippolite 
who has been generally regarded as a “rebel,” 
and against Legitime, who has been looked 
upon as the legitimate President. It looks as 
if the former who occupies the Eastern part 
of the Republic, contiguous to the Spanish 
negro Republic of San Domingo, will soon 
drive bis rival out of the country or “ to the 
wall.” The other day, on the advice of Sec¬ 
retary Blaine. President Harrison appointed 
Gen. Lew Wallace and the “Col.” Beverly 
Tucker, as Commissioners to visit Hayti and 
negotiate peace between the warring rivals 
and also secure three excellent coaling stations 
for this country; but there is a big hitch in 
the matter, which some attribute to the recent 
great successes of Hippolite. while others 
say the trouble is due to the fact that 
Tucker was a very bitter “rebel” at the 
close of the late war. 
A company has just been organized to push 
ahead preparations for the next great Inter¬ 
national Exposition to be held in Washington 
in 1892, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of 
the discovery of this Western Hemisphere by 
Columbus. The liberality of our govern¬ 
ment as well as of the American people in deal¬ 
ing with all foreign big shows of this kind, at 
London, Paris, Brussels, Barcelona and else¬ 
where, will, it is thought, induce other coun¬ 
tries to make liberal contributions of money 
and products to the great Columbian Exposi¬ 
tion of 1892.The Connecticut House 
has passed a grade-crossing bill which places 
all the cost of making the necessary changes 
upon the railroads . It looks as if the 
Standard Oil Trust were destined, ere long,to 
get control of all industries involving the pro¬ 
duction of all materials which can be monopo¬ 
lized by enormous capital directed by great 
money-making ability aided by unscrupulous 
conduct and stimulated by insatiable greed. To 
petroleum, cotton oil and dressed meat mon 
opolies the magnates of the trust are about 
to add one in white lead. They want to ex¬ 
act a tribute from every man who paints his 
house. 
It is said that all the cabin accomodations 
of all the trans-Atlantic steamers are already 
pre-engaged for the next three months. Prob¬ 
ably 100,000 Americans will visit Europe this 
year, each of whom will spend, on an aver¬ 
age, $1,000 for expenses, clothing and other 
things to be brought home—$100,000,000 to 
be spent abroad 1.Two bank cashiers, 
one at New Haven, Conn., and the other at 
Scranton, Pa., have been arrested within a 
few days charged with embezzlement of $100,- 
000 each. Both were eminently respectable, 
of course, ornaments of society and pillars of 
the church. In both cases the directors of the 
banks would have thought it outrageous to 
keep a sharp eye on such models of propriety; 
but they’ll have to pay heavily for their over- 
confidence all the same.To the South 
Dakota Constitutional Convention, to be held 
at Sioux Falls on July 4, 72 delegates have 
been elected, of whom 35 are Republicans and 
22 Democrats. To the North Dakota Conven¬ 
tion to be held at Bismarck, 82 delegates have 
been chosen—54 Republicans, 24 Democrats, 
two Republican-Prohibitionists and two Pro¬ 
hibitionists.Harvey W. Sage, the 
Ithaca millionaire, has given Cornell Univer¬ 
sity $300,000 for the endowment of a library. 
His benefactions to the institution now 
amount to $1,000,000 .“Henry George- 
ism ” has a firmer footing in South Dakota 
than anywhere else in the country. 
That English brewery-purchasing syndicate 
has just added $4,000,000 worth of beer-mak¬ 
ing plant at St. Paul, and $1,000,000 worth at 
Detroit to its enormous holdings. 
Actions Speak Louder Than Words. 
Anything that serves to recall a maxim, 
works reciprocally: the maxim is all the more 
a maxim and the thing itself receives that 
much endorsement. Now, for more than pur¬ 
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Williston, S. C., March 20, 1888. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 1, 1889. 
There is a shortage in the Australian wheat 
crop, of about 1,000,000 bushels, but this will 
probably be made up by New Zealand which 
has a surplus of about 4,000,000 bushels. The 
1 average yield in Australia is placed at less 
than eight bushels per acre, while that of New 
Zealand is given at 25 bushels. There will be 
but little wheat exported to Europe. There 
is also a shortage of feed. Three cargoes of 
California wheat have been received at Syd¬ 
ney. The largest crop of wheat ever 
raised in South Russia was produced in 1888, 
and the transportation facilities are so inade¬ 
quate that it is estimated that one-fourth of 
the crop is yet in the producers’ hands. The 
demand from that country for agricultural 
implements of all kinds, especially harvesting 
and thrashing machines, is very great. 
The question of the abatement of the rabbit 
plague in Australia seems no nearer solution 
than ever. The royal commission report that 
no evidence is found that any known disease 
can be employed to exterminate rabbits. 
The Arkansas Station proposes a novel war¬ 
fare against scrub cattle. It will encourage 
the spaying of cows and heifers and also en¬ 
courage the cotton-seed-oil mills to buy the 
spayed cattle for fattening purposes. 
The Holstein breeders offer liberal prizes for 
best specimens of that breed of cattle shown at 
the fairs. T. B. Wales, Iowa City, Iowa, 
secretary.The Western weed that 
furnished food for the Colorado potato beetle 
before it began its march to the East, is now 
following in the wake of the other pest. 
The Michigan legislature has appropriated 
$8,000 for the erection and equipment of an 
agricultural laboratory at the Michigan Col¬ 
lege.A Short-horn cow sold for $2,500 
at a recent Chicago sale .American 
breeders of Hereford cattle will make an or¬ 
ganized effort to secure the South American 
trade for breeding animals.The 
American Jersey Cattle Club has reduced the 
entry fee on imported cattle to $25 for ani¬ 
mals of either sex... 
The visible supply of cotton both in this coun¬ 
try and in England is said to be smaller than 
at this time last year.... ..Assistant 
Secretary Tichenor has affirmed the decision 
of the Collector of Customs at New York as¬ 
sessing a duty of 15 per cent, on so-called 
sausage casings. They consist of long tubes 
of paper treated with sulphuric acid, and as 
manufactures of paper, were subjected duty. 
.A Holstein cow is reported with a 
milk record of 30,318 pounds eight ounces in 
one year. The service fee tor a son of this 
cow is only $500. Why shouldn’t farmers 
grade up their stock?.During 10 
days in the fore part of May, from 80,000 to 
100,000 South American hides were sold in 
New York and Boston. The bulk of them 
sold for 15J^ cents which is said to be the low¬ 
est price for more than 30 years. The stocks 
on hand are very heavy.Governor 
Bulkley of Connecticut, vetoed a bill prohib¬ 
iting the coloring of oleomargarine to resem¬ 
ble genuine butter and cheese, because oleo¬ 
margarine has been pronounced a healthful 
article of food; that the present law prevents 
its sale under false pretences, and prohibiting 
its manufacture entirely would be detrimen¬ 
tal to the interests of the people. The bill 
was passed over the veto by about thirty 
majority in the House, but it failed to pass 
in the Senate. 
The Connecticut board of Agriculture sent a 
series of questions to each town clerk in the 
State in regard to the number of dogs, tax 
paid, etc. From partial reports obtained we 
learn that 2,119 sheep were killed, maimed 
531. Damages paid by towns for sheep killed 
and maimed $10,729; by owners of dogs $636. 
Number of dogs registered 32,415, dog tax 
collected $41,100. Number of sheep in the 
State 50,000.American apples are 
said to receive such rough handling before 
and during shipment, that they are so badly 
bruised as to preclude the possibility of keep¬ 
ing them any length of time.The 
affairs of the Pacific Guano Company are 
still in an unsettled condition, and there seems 
to be no prospect of re-organization. 
Any exhibition of dairy products at the Paris 
Exposition must be made by individual ex¬ 
hibitors. Exhibits should be shipped by the 
vessel leaving New York June 15, and should 
be on board the preceding day. They should 
be put in sealed packages, and then packed in a 
double case with air space between. Ship¬ 
ping directions may be obtained from Dr. D. 
E. Salmon, Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. 
It is reported that the east-bound roads from 
St. Louis will make a grain rate of 23 cents to 
New York, being a cut of five cents. 
There was a heavy frost in Niagara county, 
N. Y., May 29. The thermometer was but 
little above the freezing point, and much 
damage must result.The semi-an¬ 
nual meeting of the Missouri State Horticul¬ 
tural Society will be held in Brookfield June 
4, 5, and 6; a very interesting programme is 
presented.At Mason City, Iowa, an 
old brewery has been converted into a cream¬ 
ery . According to the English pa¬ 
pers, Russia is making an effort to build up 
an export trade in pork.The Ne¬ 
braska State Fair will be held at Lincoln, 
September 6 to 13. Robert W. Furnas, Sec¬ 
retary, Brownville.Insurance against 
hail is becoming very popular with florists who 
have much glass exposed in their green houses 
. The Queens County Agricultural 
Society will hold its 23d summer exhibition 
at Mineola, Long Island, N. Y., June 19 and 
20. The display of flowers and strawberries 
is expected to be very large. 
The Massachusetts legislature has passed an 
act forbidding the docking of horses’ tails, 
with penalty of fine and imprisonment for 
violation.A Pennsylvania young man 
who overdrove a livery horse was well ducked 
in the horse trough on his return from the 
ride.England wants to get along 
without American corn. Chemists are called 
upon to formulate a cheap cattle ration that 
shall leave corn out.The Linseed Oil 
Trust has advanced the price of oil one cent 
per gallon. This trust has compelled some 
crushers to import seed from South America. 
.In some local markets at the West 
there has been a small potato boom. Prices 
were so low that farmers began to feed pota¬ 
toes. The consequence was, that as nobody 
sent to market, the stocks ran out, and the 
price ran up .The Pennsylvania legis¬ 
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person shall, without the consent of the 
owner, offer for sale any milk can, butter tub 
or box used for the transportation of milk, 
cream, butter or other produce having the 
name and residence of the owner stamped 
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