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JULY 6 
Jnfritsi’l Bocidks. 
TWENTY-THIRD SUMMER EXHIBITION 
OF THE QUEENS COUNTY AGRI¬ 
CULTURAL SOCIETY. 
(RURAL, SPECIAL REPORT.) 
T HE summer exhibition of the Queens 
County Agricultural Society, was held 
at Mineola, L. I., J une 19 and 20. Although 
the attendance was large and the display of 
implements, fruits, flowers, etc., fully up to 
that of previous years, yet it is a question 
whether it would pay to hold an exhibition at 
this season if it were not for the city and 
town patronage attracted chiefly by horse 
trotting. In short, the implement and horti¬ 
cultural display seems like a side show. The 
chief attraction and the thing which takes up 
most of the time are the trials of speed. In 
fact, horse trotting is made such a prominent 
feature of the meetings that it calls forth an 
apology from the officers in the premium list. 
They say: 
“ We recognize soundness, strength, style, 
speed and endurance as the valuable qualities 
of the horse. We believe it to be incumbent 
upon agricultural societies to encourage an 
improvement in each of these attributes. 
The horse best adapted to the general require¬ 
ments of the Long Island farmer, and the 
horses which are developing the greatest 
fleetness, are the descendants of the same im¬ 
ported parents We therefore offer special 
premiums for sound horses that shall show the 
most perfect combinations of rapid movement 
and staying powers, believing that, however 
much these qualities may be perverted upon 
the track, they are not one whit the less 
essential to complete attainment of the prac¬ 
tical aims of agriculture. We believe the 
breeding of horses to be one of the most re¬ 
munerative of farm industries. Liberal pre¬ 
miums are offered to overcome the neglect in 
which this branch of stock breeding has 
fallen.” 
However we may deplore the depravity of 
human nature, it Is evident that it is impossi¬ 
ble to have a successful agricultural fair 
and a horse trot at the same time. As soon 
as the trotting began the main building and 
the plot on which the implements were exhib¬ 
ited were deserted, and with the exception of a 
few stragglers, remained deserted until the 
close of the fair. 
The show of implements was very much 
more attractive than usual and before the 
trotting began attracted considerable atten¬ 
tion. 
H. M. Willis was on hand as usual with a full 
line of implements, some of which were of local 
manufacture. The Worcester Buckeye mow¬ 
ing machine which has had such an enormous 
sale in New England, was exhibited here tor 
the first time. Its merits were apparent aud 
quite a number of machines were sold. The 
Hudson Cultivator and Aspinwall Potato- 
planter attracted much attention. Potato 
growers were very enthusiastic in their praise 
of both implements. Aultman, Miller & Co. 
showed their new harvester. It is light, sim¬ 
ple and apparently just the machine the Long 
Island farmer wants. 
Mr. Albertson showed a great variety of 
implements. In the main building there was 
the usual variety of flowers and small fruits. 
Among the exhibitors who took prizes for 
flowers were Julius Schaff, of Floral Park; R. 
P. Jeffery & Son; Mrs. Titus, of Mineola, and 
others. For the best variety of vegetables the 
first prize was awarded to George Matthews 
of Great Neck, second to Parke Goodwin of 
Roslyn, third to J. H. Van Nostrand of El- 
mont. J. H. G. 
Within the last fortnight the Eye-Opener 
has noticed reports telling how the old gold- 
* brick swindle had been successfully practiced 
on six different persons in various parts of the 
country, and attempted in vain on another, 
who was probably a reader of the Rural 
New-Yorker and therefore wide-awake to 
such frauds. Take a case in California as a 
specimen of the others, for, of course, the 
modus operandi in all is substantially the 
same. As usual, two adventurers “ worked ’’ 
the game. Their dupe was a farmer named 
Banks, who lived in Los Angeles county. A 
rough, bluff, hearty-looking, elderly man 
called on him ana delivered to him a letter 
from a man by the name of Banks in Mis¬ 
souri The letter said that the Missouri Banks 
believed the California Banks was his 
brother and he wanted to toll him a secret 
worth big money. This he could get from 
the bearer, who was quite trustworthy. On 
inquiry, the bearer hinted at a fortune which 
could be obtained by purchasing a gold brick 
which an old Indian chief had brought from 
Mexico. The chief was then not far off, and 
was awaiting the messenger’s return. Banks 
knew that the supposititious Missouri name¬ 
sake couldn’t be a relative; but his cupidity 
was excited. Accordingly he went with the 
stranger, saw the old Indian, heafrt a remark¬ 
able yarn about the finding of the gold, which 
had been melted into a brick for convenient 
handling, and received some drillings made 
from the brick in his presence. These he took 
to an assayer who declared they were rich gold. 
This was in the forenoon; in the afternoon 
Banks drew $5,000 from his bank and raised 
$3,000 more on some securities, making $8,000 
in all; accompanied the stranger once more to 
the place where they had left the guileless In¬ 
dian, and a transfer of the brick for the green¬ 
backs was at once maae. Two days later 
Banks carried his treasure to an assayer who 
dumbfounded him by declaring it was good 
brass. Sulphuric acid ate it when applied. 
On recovering his senses, Banks became furi¬ 
ous, and after another assayer had confirmed 
the opinion as to the worthlessness of the bricky 
he applied to the police. The rascals were so 
well disguised, however, that there’s little 
hope of capturing them. Last January the 
same men played the same game in the town 
of Los Angeles and cleaned up $5,000 from a 
wide-awake merchant 1 
In another case, a plausible humbug after 
hangiug, in a quasi-mysterious way, about a 
farm in Yadkin County, Ohio, long enough 
to excite the curiosity of its rich old owner, 
easily got into conversation with him, and, 
after exacting a promise of secrecy, confided 
to him a secret which he had obtained from a 
moribund friend just before his death in the 
Illinois State prison at Joliet Shortly before 
his arrest for another offense, in the Prairie 
State, he had robbed a rich jewelry store, in 
a large city, his plunder being chiefly gold 
vessels, watches aud ornaments worth consid¬ 
erably over $12,000. These he had melted in¬ 
to a gold brick so that they could not be recog¬ 
nized and could be easily handled. Being 
closely pursued by detectives, he had buried 
his treasure on that very farm, and having 
been captured shortly afterwards, had never 
been able to recover it. Expecting to escape or 
secure a pardon, he had kept the secret until 
he disclosed it to his friend on his death-bed. 
The stranger then produced a worn diagram 
of the place where the treasure lay concealed, 
and promised the farmer a share of it, if he 
could identify the place. From several land¬ 
marks on the crude drawing, this was readily 
done. With the utmost secrecy the two dug 
at the spot indicated, and after a while struck 
a small box containing the brick. Next day 
they went to the neighboring town and sub¬ 
mitted to a jeweler filings taken from one of 
the ends of the brick. He had no hesitation 
in declaring they were 18 carat gold. After 
leaving the store, the stranger appeared to 
become frightened at the sight of a man who 
passed them more than once and appeared to 
scrutinize the brick-bearer closely. The latter 
said the man was a detective who had, he 
feared, recognized him, and after some talk, 
he persuaded the farmer to pay him $6,000 for 
his interest in the brick. Though he declared 
it was worth over $11,000 he was willing to 
accept $6,000 at once so as to escape straight¬ 
way into Canada. He may have done so, for 
neither the farmer nor the officers set on his 
tracks have hitherto found him. Of course, the 
brick proved to be merely brass. It had been 
buried some time before, and the diagram 
had been roughly handled to give it the ap¬ 
pearance of age. The swindler was well paid 
for the ingenuity and patience with which 
he had worked the game, even if it had taken 
him a month to achieve success. In noth 
these cases and in all similar ones, one or 
more parts of the brick are made of genuine 
gold—either a little bit on one corner or the 
plugging of a hole or both—and filings or 
drillings of these are submitted to experts so 
that the dupes may believe that the whole 
brick is composed of the same metal. It is a 
swindle frequently practiced, and as the right 
sort of greedy, gullible, rich simpleton is 
usually selected with care beforehand, it is 
generally splendidly successful. 
No class is free from the depredations of 
swindlers. These sleek, soft-spoken, plausible 
gentry have no more reverence even for the 
clergyman’s cloth, than is to be found in tho 
heart of the toughest blackguard in a city’s 
worst slums. A pair of rascals have lately 
been victimizing dear, innocent parsons in 
various parts of New Jersey under somewhat 
peculiar circumstances. They have been 
driving round in a buggy, after having first 
sent notices to their intended dupes that they 
are about to call. On arrival, they exhibit 
| pieces of broadcloth which they represent as 
the very finest goods made in England, and 
they declare that they are sold to ministers 
only. They generally manage to make a 
sale; but on taking the cloth to the tailor their 
dupes always find that it is very poor stuff, 
worth very much less than the prices charg¬ 
ed. Really, however, they ought to be thank¬ 
ful that they got anything at all for their 
money, as such swindlers generally manage 
to leave their victims completely in the lurch. 
CttttL 
“ Every Man is presumed to know the Law. 
Nine-tenths of all Litigation arises from 
Ignorance of Law." 
THE NEW DOG LAW FOR NEW YORK STATE. 
S. N. y Medina , N. Y. —I notice by the pap¬ 
ers that Governor Hill has signed a new law 
from which New York, Kings and Erie coun¬ 
ties are exempt. What are the provisions of 
the new law? 
Ans. —The law referred to is known as the 
Mase law. It provides for the collection of the 
following taxes upon dogs over four months 
old: Upon every bitch owned or harbored 
by any one or more persons or family, $3; 
upon every additional bitch, $5; upon every 
dog other than a bitch, ‘$1; and upon every 
additional dog other than a bitch, $2. Every 
owner of a dog shall cause the same to be 
licensed, annually, on or before May 1, and to 
be registered in the office of the clerk of the 
city, village or town. The clerk’s fee for 
each dog registered is 15 cents. All licensed 
dogs must wear collars, marked with tho 
owner’s name and its registered number. 
Every person owning or harboring a dog, 
who shall neglect or refuse to have it regis¬ 
tered is liable to a fine of $3 to $7. These 
fines are to be placed in the county treasury 
to the credit of the fund constituted for satis¬ 
fying such damages as may arise in any year 
from killing or injuring sheep by dogs in the 
county. Any dog not registered or collared 
may be lawfully killed by any constable or 
policeman, who shall be paid 50 cents for 
each dog so killed. When it shall appear 
by certificate of the fence-viewers that the 
owner of any sheep killed or injured by dogs 
has sustained damages which he cannot collect 
from the owner of the dog, or in case the 
owner of the dog cannot be discovered, such 
damages shall be paid ny the County Treas¬ 
urer from the fund to be raised by the dog 
tax, and from other moneys. As stated by 
our inquirer, the law does not apply to the 
city and county of New York, or to the city 
of Brooklyn or Kings county, or to the city 
of .Buffalo or Erie county. Neither does it 
apply to any dog owned by any person, asso¬ 
ciation or corporation engaged in the busi¬ 
ness of breeding dogs or rearing pedigreed or 
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