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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
SEPT. 2i 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, September 14,1889. 
Even the “Oldest Inhabitant” doesn't re¬ 
member anything like the violence, dura¬ 
tion and destruction of the cyclonic storm 
that has ravaged the Atlantic coast from 
Maine to North Carolina for most of the 
week. During the line weather at the close 
of last week several monstrous waves 
swept in on the watering-places along the 
Long Island and New Jersey coast, endan¬ 
gering the lives of the bathers and sea¬ 
shore loungers and doing considerable dam¬ 
age to exposed property. At first these were 
attributed to tidal action, but, later, to a 
hurricane far out on the Atlantic. Monday 
the papers thought the ragged rim or the 
tail of a north-moving cyclone had struck 
the coast, and since then they have been sure 
that from Virginia to Rhode Island it has 
been well within its whirling border. Since 
Tuesday heavy rains have fallen continuous¬ 
ly and the wind has varied between a gale of 
23 and a hurricane of 04 miles an hour. It has 
been invariably from the east to the north¬ 
east, and lias piled the Atlantic bodily to 
an unprecedented liiglit on the coast, besides 
sending huge waves still further on the 
land. Even the mild winds of little Lake 
Erie often bank the waters four feet above 
their usual liiglit at Buffalo, and the wind 
in the narrow pond of Lake Michigan piled 
the waters eight feet above their usual lev¬ 
el along the Chicago front on December 4, 
1885. What wonder therefore that a raging 
cyclone on the broad Atlantic should 
drive the waters to a still great¬ 
er liiglit on the coast. The aggre¬ 
gate amount of damage done on 
land must be enormous, though as yet 
nothing approximating a correct estimate 
can be formed. The New Jersey shores 
have borne the brunt of the tempest. All 
the sea-coast watering-places from the 
mouth of the Delaware to Sandy Hook are 
scenes of disaster and ruin. Countless 
buildings have been demolished by the 
waves and bodily swept away, and hun¬ 
dreds of others have been partly wrecked 
and undermined. The shore is strewn with 
wreckage. Atlantic City has been sur¬ 
rounded with water and its 15,000 inhab¬ 
itants and 10,000 belated visitors have suf¬ 
fered severely from fright and exposure. 
Between Long Branch and Sea Bright 
every cottage has been destroyed. Beach 
Harbor has been entirely cut off and 
Ocean City, Maryland, has been sub¬ 
merged and its inhabitants rescued with 
difficulty. Coney Island, Long Beach, 
Rockaway, and other summer resorts 
on the Long Island coast have suf¬ 
fered immensely. Besides the temporary 
injury done by old ocean, it has made dis¬ 
astrous permanent encroachments on the 
land. For centuries the waves have been 
steadily eating up the coast from Cape Fear 
to Montauk Point. Scientists place the 
average loss along the whole coast at 12 feet 
a year, and in many places the ravages of 
the present tempest are likely to exceed 
those of ordinary storms during 10 years. 
The losses of vessels and human lives must 
be apalling. Over 50 vessels are ashore at 
the mouth of the Delaware, and numerous 
other wrecks dot the beach from Virginia 
to Rhode Island. All in all, the eastern 
fringe of the Great Republic has suffered 
during the week in a way that will be re¬ 
membered for years. The September tem¬ 
pest and rain of this week will be as memo¬ 
rable as the March tempest and snow of the 
“Blizzard Week” over a year ago. 
According to the jubilantly sanguine prose¬ 
cuting attorney in the Cronin murder case 
in Chicago, nothing now can delay the 
hanging of the prisoners but the selection 
of a jury. A week’s efforts to secure 12, 
however, have failed to secure one. Eng¬ 
lish, Irish, German and Swedish nationali¬ 
ties are objected to by one side or the other 
in this order; so are Presbyterian, Catholic, 
Episcopal, Methodist and Baptist creeds; 
while all who have formed an opinion on 
the matter are at once ruled aside. It may 
be possible, but it is sure to be difficult, to 
obtain 12 good men and true able to hear, 
talk and see, who have not formed some 
sort of an opinion in the case. The present 
absurd manner of selecting a jury, i! not 
the-jury system itself, should be abolished. 
.The United States are cursed with 
one lawyer to every 900 of the population.. 
.The National Women’s Temperance 
Union will hold its annual Convention in 
Chicago on November 8. 
In the race trouble in Le Flore County, 
Miss., 100 more colored fugitives are report¬ 
ed to have been shot to death, and a body 
of white regulators are still on the tracks 
of the surviving malcontents. No white 
casualties are mentioned/* There and else¬ 
where in the South it is madness for negro 
discontent to take to threats or arms. 
White men have all the means of speedy 
communication and transportation at their _ 
command and are always armed and ready 
to converge ruthlessly from all points at 
the first announcement of a “nigger ’ruc¬ 
tion” at any place. All such dangers to 
the social, economic and political rcijivu’ 
must be stamped out at the start, and the 
punishment must be always “exemplary. ’ 
Time enough to inquire into its justice—if 
at all—after it has been inflicted. 
The Hon. Samuel Sullivan Cox, better 
known as “SunsetCox” member of Con¬ 
gress from one of the districts of this city, 
died at his home here last Tuesday night at 
the age of 65. A genial humorist, a bril¬ 
liant essayist, a successful author, an able 
and incorruptible statesman, with friends 
everywhere and an enemy nowhere, he has 
left a record of a bright, useful and un¬ 
stained career,and a. host of mourners in all 
ranks and conditions of life and in every 
section of the country.There’s a 
good deal of quiet talk among the great 
coal barons about the formation of a gigan¬ 
tic Coal Trust.It is now reported 
on “ excellent authority ” that barrel-boat¬ 
man G raham did not really “shoot Niagara.” 
’Tis all a fake, ’tis said. Bridge-jumper 
Steve Brodie, rum-mill-keeper of this city, 
also claims to have done it “ on the quiet,” 
in a rubber suit the other day; but his mod¬ 
est claim is denounced as an impudent 
fraud. 
The forced resignation of Corporal Tanner, 
Commissioner of Pensions, tendered to the 
President, after a world of pressure, at one 
o’clock Wednesday night, was accepted 
next day. The differences existing between 
the Commissioner and his superior officer, 
Secretary Noble, as to the policy to be pur¬ 
sued in the Pension Office, were insur¬ 
mountable, and so the subordinate was 
“persuaded” to resign to prevent the other 
from doing so. Probably another office 
fully as lucrative, if not more so, though of 
less influence, will be found for him. Fol¬ 
lowing an antediluvian practice, the con¬ 
ductors of all the opposit ion papers are now 
jumping on the prostrate form of the leg¬ 
less veteran.The entire plant of 
Dick & Meyer’s Sugar Refinery, in Brook¬ 
lyn, was cremated the other day, causing 
the heaviest loss ever sustained by fire in 
the City of Churches. Loss on buildings 
and machinery, 81,500,000, and on stock, 
8500,000: total of 82,000,000.The 
Western Stone Company, a building-stone 
“combine” embracing most of those large¬ 
ly interested in the business in the West, 
was incorporated at Chicago, under the 
laws of Illinois, the other day “to reduce 
expenses and put the business on a paying 
basis.”. 
The meanest of ail “combines”—that of 
the brick-makers and dealers at and about 
fire-swept Seattle, Washington Territory. 
A city ordinance provides that bricks or 
stones must supersede wood in the con¬ 
struction of houses within certain limits, 
and an execrable “ combine ” has been 
formed to double the price of bricks, thus 
handicapping, hampering and delaying the 
rebuilding of the burnt district. 
In his will, dated April 23, 1790, Benjamin 
Franklin left 85,000 to be used in such away 
that after the lapse of a century the princi¬ 
pal and interest should amount to a sum 
arge enough to make a valuable public 
improvement. In 1816 John Scott added 
84,000 to this sum. The fund now, amounts 
to about 8110,000 and Philadelphia is about 
to erect a fine public bath with 8100,000 of 
it, letting the other 810,000 accumulate for 
another century.The Detroit City 
Council are accused of having made fortunes 
by levying a 10-per-cent, assessment on all 
persons awarded contracts by the city. The 
second Grand Jury in 17 years is investigat¬ 
ing the matter. Three of the boodlers are 
reported ready to squeal.Tremen¬ 
dous explosions of gas and furious activity 
of geysers in the Yellowstone Park, Wed¬ 
nesday, attributed by scientists to the great 
atmospheric disturbances attending the 
severe storm raging at the time along the 
Atlantic coast and elswhere. 
The Democrats at last are “getting to¬ 
gether” right merrily. Kentucky, Ohio, 
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey have one 
after the other, st rongly affirmed the Tariff 
Reform and Tax Reduction platform of 
1888.Last Monday California cele¬ 
brated the 39th anniversary of her admit¬ 
tance into the Union shortly after her ac¬ 
quisition from Mexico. With a marvelous 
capacity for the production of gold, silver, 
quicksilver, big trees, grains, fruits and 
millionaires, no State in the Union is 
blessed with fairer opportunities or richer 
lossibilities.During the past week 
Baltimore has been having a glorious time 
of it celebrating, by a six-day festivity, the 
75th anniversary of the defense of the city in 
1814, during the second war with Great 
Britain. The President and most of his 
Cabinet were present on Monday, and there 
have been proud parades, fine feasting, and 
gala goings-on generally. The Star-Spangled 
Banner which waved on Fort McHenry and 
which inspired Key with the words of the 
immortal song during the British bombard¬ 
ment of the place on September 9, 1814, was 
considered too frail and precious by its 
owner, Mr. Appleton, of this city, to be lent 
for display on this occasion.. 
John L. Sullivan announces that after his 
projected money-making circuit and his 
possible chain-gang experience in Missis¬ 
sippi, he will seek to “slug” his way into 
Congress from some Bostonian district_ 
.The Douglass Axe Manufacturing 
Company of Boston, after a successful ca¬ 
reer of 50 years, has been bankrupted by 
the dishonesty of its treasurer, Denison D. 
Dana, who entered its services as a boy. 
Helms a wife and six children, moved in 
the “best society,” was a deacon in the Con¬ 
gregational Church, a Sunday-school teach¬ 
er as well as a liberal contributor to chari¬ 
ties and a model of all the graces and vir¬ 
tues, except that for years he had been a 
steady embezzler of the company’s funds, 
his total stealings amounting to over $500,- 
000. He has disappeared with a 25-year-old 
son and once more “sassiety” is shocked at 
the downfall of one of its “pets”. 
Ex-Governor Henry C. Warmouth, owner 
of the finest sugar plantation in the Union, 
has been appointed Collector of Customs at 
New Orleans.Owing to injuries 
during the Johnstown flood the Pennsylva¬ 
nia Canal has been abandoned, and straight¬ 
way the coal barons raised the price of coal 
along the line of that water-way from 82.50 
to 85 per ton. 
After a session of three months and an in¬ 
vestigation of 3,500 contested votes, a Legis- 
lative Committee iu W, Va,, has decided 
that Judge Flemming, the Democratic can¬ 
didate for Governor, had a majority of 214 
over General Goff, his Republican competit¬ 
or.When Quaker Johns Hopkins 
founded the Baltimore University that 
bears his name, having full confidence in 
the honesty and ability of his protege, 
Robert Garrett, he made him president of 
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in which 
lie had a paramount influence, and invest¬ 
ed the capital of the university in the 
stocks of the road. Garrett died, leaving 
many millions to his children, and a badly 
hampered railroad to the public. His crazy 
son’s mismanagement ruined the road so 
that it is dividend-paying no longer, and 
the university would have had to close 
were it not that liberal friends have come to 
its aid, temporarily at any rate. The salaries 
of the professors have been necessarily re¬ 
duced, however, and makeshift retrench¬ 
ments are the “order of the day.” The 
Garretts are still enormously wealthy, how¬ 
ever ... 
Tuesday, September 10, while the people at 
Baltimore were vociferously commemorat¬ 
ing the 75th anniversary of bombardment 
of Fort Me Henry and the Battle of North 
Point, the people at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, were 
quietly celebrating the 76tli anniversary of 
Perry’s famous victory in the Battle of 
Lake Erie—one of the most notable events 
of the war of 1812-14.The bustle 
has gone so largely out of fashion that 
Taylor’s bustle factory at Bridgeport, 
Conn., where 600 girls were employed, has 
indefinitely shut down. 
The agitation for separate schools for Pro¬ 
testants and Catholics, which began in Man¬ 
itoba, is spreading like wild-fire through 
Canada, and is likely to cause lively work 
during the next season of Parliament. The 
Ontario Government Commission of in¬ 
quiry into the French schools of the pro¬ 
vince, objects to many of the text-books as 
unauthorized and containing Catholic teach¬ 
ings ,and in some cases inimical to the 
Mother Country. It also objects to religi¬ 
ous pictures, crucifixes, statuettes and im¬ 
ages of saints and even altars in some of the 
schools. It merely recommends the gradu¬ 
al abolition of existing abuses and the 
steady conversion of the French into English 
schools. 
Every Henson for Confidence. 
Below we give short extracts from the 
letters of patients, which contain some 
hearty testimony. 
Prospect, Conn., July 2,1888. 
It is to Compound Oxygen, under God’s 
blessing, that I owe my life. 
Mrs. Geo. Sprague. 
No. 4 Third St., E. Albany, N. Y., > 
June 14, 1888. ( 
If you want a warm recommendation 
from one who feels that Compound Oxygen 
has saved him from the grave.it will he 
given with the greatest pleasure. 
R. S. Stevens. 
Pepperwood, Humboldt Co., Cal,. 1 
May 28, 1888. \ 
I consider Compound Oxygen a physician 
in itself. Mrs. L. E. Spaulding. 
We publish a brochure regarding the effect 
of Compound Oxygen on invalids suffering 
from consumption, asthma, bronchitis, dys¬ 
pepsia, catarrh, hay fever, headache, debil¬ 
ity, rheumatism, neuralgia; all chronic and 
nervous disorders. It will be sent free of 
charge to any one addressing DBS. Starkey 
& Palen, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.; 
120 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Cal.— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, September 14, 1889. 
The great London strike, which has now 
lasted six weeks, is likely soon to be settled. 
Many more of the warfingers have yielded 
and thousands of the men have gone to 
work. The dock directors still hold out; 
but are willing to compromise. They say 
that for years the property has been paying 
no interest on the investment, and that 
compliance with the men’s demands would 
entail an extra expense of 8750,000 a 
year, which would be equal to a capitalized 
addition of 825,000,000 to the stock. They 
have always found fat jobs for their friends, 
however, and money for their own large 
salaries, besides making fortunes by specu¬ 
lating with the stock in the money market. 
Like many of the railroad magnates in this 
country, they have been mismanaging the 
vast property for their own advantage to 
the loss of the ordinary stock-holders, and 
now they want the government to pay the 
original cost of construction for it, thus 
making a big thing out of their own malad¬ 
ministration. They are willing to yield to 
the men’s demands after November 1, pro¬ 
vided they go to work at once; but the men 
refuse. The difference would be 850,000, and 
this sum is being raised by public subscrip¬ 
tion. All classes in the United Kingdom 
have generously contributed to the support 
of the strikers, and liberal sums have been 
sent from other places, especially from 
Australia. Workmen here have been lib¬ 
eral with sympathy and sentiment; but the 
strikers prefer money and meals. 
The other day a tremendous explosion and 
conflagration terrified the old city of Ant¬ 
werp, Belgium. A huge cartridge factory 
and a number of petroleum sheds stood 
close together within the city limits not far 
from the river Scheldt, full of shipping. 
Hundreds oft barrels of petroleum were 
stored iu the latter, and about 35,000,900 car¬ 
tridges, besides a great deal of powder, in 
the former. A mighty rush of flames from 
the sheds and a terrible explosion of pow¬ 
der in the factory occurred apparently sim¬ 
ultaneously. The flames spread rapidly, 
and the explosions were deadly and con¬ 
tinuous. Vast numbers of the cartridges 
were buried, and as the blazing oil made 
its way into the factory it penetrated the 
ground and caused fresh explosions. The 
disaster lasted several days and nights, 
causing a loss of about 35,000,000 francs. 
Troops surrounded the scene and local fire¬ 
men, helped by those from Brussels, 45 miles 
away, and others, worked indefatigably. 
The shipping was saved by a high wall and 
hard labor, and none of the time-honored 
public buildings were damaged; but 135 
persons were killed; 21 are missing, 100 were 
injured seriously and 200 slightly. The 
government is prosecuting the owner of 
the factory for “homicide by impru¬ 
dence;” but he claims that the fire broke 
out in the petroleum sheds first and thence 
spread to his buildings. 
Charles III, Sovereign Prince of Monaco, 
in Italy, with a couple of dozen other titles, 
died Wednesday at the age of 72. The 
Grimaldi dynasty to which lie belonged, is 
the oldest reigning family in Europe, hav¬ 
ing ruled in Monaco since the 10th century. 
Monaco, whose capital is Monte Carlo, con¬ 
sists of a small peninsula jutting into the 
Mediterranean, having an area of about six- 
square miles, and a population of about 
5,000. On the land side it is bounded by 
the French department of Alpes-Maritimes. 
The dead king was blind for most of his 
life. He had an army of 72 men with as 
many officers as the Opera-bouffe army of 
the Duchess of Gorolstein. Since 1865 lie 
has drawn a large yearly revenue from his 
share in the gambling hell which has made 
his little principality notorious—the largest, 
and most splendid in the world. Since ’69 
all taxes have been abolished, all outlays 
being paid out of the Prince’s share in tiie 
profits of the great casino. The old man’s 
son Prince Albert, aged 41, succeeds him... 
.Henry M. Stanley is reported to be 
making his way to Momlmssa, somewhat 
north of Zanzibar, on the east coast of Af¬ 
rica, after conquering all the tribes between 
the upper Nile and the coast, and establish¬ 
ing among them the authority of the 
British East Africa Company. 
This company paid nearly all the expenses 
of his Emin Bey Relief Expedition, and no 
doubt he engaged to work in its interests. 
It is trying to do for East Africa what 
the old East India Company did for Hin¬ 
dustan—appropriate it, and make money 
out of it. The petty Sultan of Zanzibar 
the other day made over to it about 700 
miles along the African coast, claimed by 
him and in course of appropriation by the 
Germans. This company now owns over 
1,000 miles of the eastern coast and the land 
stretching back of it indefinitely. The Ger¬ 
mans claim about 600 miles of coast further 
south, and then come the Portuguese claim¬ 
ing about 1,000 miles, and then again the 
English to the Cape of Good Hope. There 
is a bitter rivalry between the Germans and 
English, but Bismarck says the whole 
German interests in Africa are not worth 
the loss of England’s cordial friendship. 
Africa is now the great prize grabbed 
at, by all colonizing Europe. 
Several cholera cases are reported in Athens 
.It is proposed to connect Glasgow 
and Edinburg by a canal at a cost of 835,000, 
000 . 
Pisrcllancous 
J. M, THORBURN & CO., 
15 JOHN STREET, 
NEW YORK, 
BEO TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEIR DESCRIPTIVE PRICED 
CATALOGUE OF 
for Autumn planting Is ready for mailing to 
applicants. 
Lilly ol the Valley Pips. Jlernmda Easter 
Lilies and Unman Hyacinths 
For Florists, a Specialty. 
A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN, 
Dr. Edwnrd C. Hughes, of 
Rockford, III., testifies that ho 
cured his son of a severe case 
of whooping cough accompa 
ii led with spasms,aficrcx*>ausc ■ 
ingall his knowledge and skill 
with other remedies, by using 
I)r. Seth Arnold’s Cough Killer 
25c., 50c., and $i per bottle. 
All Dealers Sell it. 
FARM FOR SALE. 
970 acres, all under fence. New two-story house 
and large barn. Peach anil apple orchard. Abun¬ 
dance of living water; plenty of timber land In pas¬ 
ture. The laud all In cultivation ami pasture: no 
hills or stony land. Well suited for stoek or dairy 
farm. Three miles from railroad and 15 miles from 
the St. Louis Court House. 8 miles west of South St. 
Louis on Bike road. For further particulars, address 
MRS. MARY TEN BROOK, 
South St. Louis, Mo. 
FOR SALE. 
Superior Slock Farm 
in Peach district of N.J. Convenient to New York. 
Trenton and Phlla. 284 acres. No Incumbrance. Easy 
terms. No agents. Address S. B. PURSELL, Bristol, Pa 
COLLIE OR SHEPHERD PUPS 
Fine Stoek, from excellent drivers: age from six 
weeks io three months; prices reasonable. Address 
R. F. II AFX II l It ST, Bayonne, IV. .1. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS FREF. 
111,000 Hest Varieties free by mall, postpaid. Write 
for particulars. W.;H. HILLS, Plaisiotv, N. *1 
