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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
OCTOBER 5 
Mnus uf tl)c Week 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, September 28, 1S89. 
A stock company, it is said, has been 
formed in Todd County, Kentucky, and 
Montgomery County, Tennessee, for the 
purpose of holding fairs. Every one con¬ 
nected with it is reported to be colored, and 
“ no white folks need apply.”.. 
The Detroit International' Fair and Expo¬ 
sition was opened Tuesday by Governor 
Luce. The grounds cover 70 acres and the 
buildings fully 25. Every foot of space is 
occupied with exhibits from all parts of 
the United States and many parts of Can¬ 
ada..Elizabeth S. McClellan, mother 
of the late Gen. George B. McClellan, died 
at Philadelphia the other day, aged 90. 
. .E. Burd Grubb, the new Republican < an- 
didate for Governor of New Jersey, owns 
the finest lot of Game cocks in the State, so 
that there’ll be no scarcity of splendid 
roosters to celebrate his triumph—should 
he secure one. 
A bronze statue of General Grant, nine feet 
high, upon a polished granite pedestal of 
equal hight. was unveiled at Fort Leaven¬ 
worth, Kansas, the other day, amid the 
rejoicings of the citizens of Leavenworth, 
who took a general holiday. This is the first 
notable public monument to the Hero of 
Appomatox...Postmaster-General 
Wanamakerhas caused the arrest of Dr. 
W. E. Reid, a medium of Grand Rapids, 
Michigan, for sending Spiritualistic mes¬ 
sages for money through the post-office, on 
the. ground that he was using the U. S. 
mails' for fraudulent purposes. The Spirit¬ 
ualists throughout the country have raised 
a large fund for the defense of the accused, on 
the plea that his arrest is an outrage on the 
religious belief of a large body of citizens.. 
Reports from Iowa and Kansas say that 
large numbers of thrifty but bibulous Ger¬ 
mans are leaving both States on account of 
the enforcement of the Prohibition laws. 
The “exodusters” are generally making 
their way to that paradise of the “ wets, 
Texas. The same cause, it is alleged, has 
greatly checked Teutonic immigration. 
.The other day the Tennessee Coal and 
Iron Railroad Company, as the lowest bid¬ 
der, leased the convicts of the Tennessee 
Penitentiary for six years for 8100,000 per 
annum, in spite of the general outcry 
against this relic of slavery and semi-barbar¬ 
ism.Two members of the Common 
Council of fire-swept Spokane Falls and 
one of its policemen have been arrested 
charged with misappropriating the funds 
and supplies contributed for the relief of 
the sufferers. What with fussy and frivol¬ 
ous incompetence at Johnstown, and dis¬ 
graceful official “boodlerism” at Spokane 
Falls, on whom can public charity rely for 
the relief of the victims of any great disas¬ 
ter I-'... 
The International American Congress will 
be organized in Washington on October 2, 
and the members, as guests of the nation, 
wil 1 leave that city on October 3, for a tour 
of inspection through the North and West, 
returning on November 12. During the 
winter they will also visit the South. Con¬ 
siderable anxiety is expressed in several 
European countries as to the possible effects 
of this convention of representatives of all 
the independent States of this Western 
Hemisphere. Jt is hoped here and feared 
abroad that it may lead to a great increase 
of trade between this country and those 
south of it, which would cause a corres¬ 
ponding diminution of trade with Europe, 
which at present almost monopolizes the 
t rade with Mexico, the West Indies and 
South. America. There is some idea of form - 
ing a “ customs union ” or “ zollverein,” 
establishing a liberal measure of reciprocity 
between all the States on this side of the 
Atlantic. This would place all American 
countries, in their trade relations with each 
other, on much the same level on which the 
various States in our Union now stand, so 
that each in dealing with any other would 
liaveagreat advantage overall “outsiders.”. 
.The Citj[ Directory of Johns¬ 
town, Pa,, which has just been issued, gives 
the death roll as 3,500, which is believed to 
b° a close estimate. That worth-nothing, 
do-nothing Flood Commission still clings 
fast to $1,600,000 of the charitable contribu¬ 
tions for the relief of the sufferers, many of 
whom have died or emigrated since the dis¬ 
aster; while many more have worked so far 
ahead as to be in little need of a helping 
hand now.. 
...Ex-Commissioner of Pensions, Corporal 
Tanner, is still without an office, and his old 
office is still without a head. Col. Warner, 
of Kansas, late Commander-in-chief of the 
G. A. R,, has refused it on account of un- 
slialce-off-able private business, and it is 
hard to get a good man who will at‘once suit 
the pension-paying public and the pension- 
drawing veterans. 
Last Thursday, at the Presbyterian church 
at Richfield Springs, N. Y., Emmons, eld- 
dest son of James Gillespie Blaine, and 
Anita Me Cormick, one of the three child¬ 
ren of Cyrus Me Cormick of reaper-and- 
niower fame, were married in presence of a 
large assembly of distinguished guests 
from all sections of the country. She is 
about 23, of medium bight, slender, fair, 
with dark hair and $3,000,000 in her own 
right. He is about 32, with hair already 
silvered and much like what his father used 
to be at the same age. He started in law, 
but is now railroading.The Wy¬ 
oming Constitutional Convention has fixed 
a limit for the tax levy for State purposes 
at four mills on the dollar, except in cases 
of schools, public charities and payment on 
State debts. County taxes are limited to 
12 mills, and cities and towns to eight mills. 
Public moneys must be deposited in na¬ 
tional banks, and the interest goes to the 
State.... 
The California speculation in earthly Edens 
has almost entirely collapsed. High-priced 
building lots in multitudinous paper towns 
are fast relapsing into their normal condi¬ 
tion of grass or wheat fields and the real 
estate boom has “bust.”.Like 
the Republicans of Virginia, the Re¬ 
publicans of Mississippi have pitched 
upon a Confederate Brigadier as their can¬ 
didate for Governor. But while Mahone 
lias a fighting chance, Chalmers hasn’t a 
ghost of one; though there’s little doubt 
that his mere candidacy will send many 
“niggers” to ghost-land, in the original 
home of the “shot-gun policy.”.. 
The cruiser Baltimore, designed and built 
under the last Administration and launched 
and fitted out under the present, is declared 
to be the fastest war-snip afloat in the 
world. In her trial trip she made about 25 
miles an hour.August Boorfried, 
a Minnesota stone-mason, says he has dis¬ 
covered a process by which granite, marble 
or even cobblestones may be liquified and 
run into molds. 
The New York Committee in charge of the 
matter have selected, as the site for the 
World’s Fair, Morningside Park, compris¬ 
ing about 425 acres, Bloomingdale Asylum 
grounds, comprising about 84 acres, and as 
much of the upper part of Central Park as 
may be needed. These are all close togeth¬ 
er and nearly in the center of the city. A 
small minority of the committee and a con¬ 
siderable minority of the people are strong¬ 
ly opposed to the “ ruination ” of Central 
Park by appropriating any part of it for 
the purpose. The only thing in which 
the great New York dailies agree 
is in bitterly blackguarding each other; 
hence while some are blithely sup¬ 
porting the committee’s recommenda¬ 
tions, others are fiercly combatting them as 
far as the Park is concerned. The conflict 
of opinion has a dilatory effect on the 
Finance Committee and a let-her-rip effect 
on many of the public who. in disgust, are 
losing all interest in the whole question. 
Great things are promised all the time, but 
promises will never secure the show. Chi¬ 
cago is working hard and skillfully. She is 
thoroughly canvassing the entire country 
and especially the West. She has no diffi¬ 
culty about a* site, as the prairie farms with¬ 
in her illimitable borders would readily 
accommodate a doze .1 such shows. She has 
raised about $5,000,(X)0 in promises and en¬ 
gages to raise double that amount in cash. 
If she doesn’t get the show, she’ll have de¬ 
served it. St. Louis, stimulated by the 
Windy City’s breezy energy, has secured 
a pledged guarantee fund of over $6,000,000, 
and the results of her efforts “ greatly ex¬ 
ceed the most sanguine expectations of the 
managers.” Washington is quietly “lay¬ 
ing pipes ” and confidently waiting for the 
assembling of Congress. She sees a big 
chance for herself in the keen rivalry be¬ 
tween her opponents. 
Quebec, second in importance only to Mon¬ 
treal among Canadian cities, with its 65,000 
population, is divided into the Upper and 
Lower Town. The former embraces the 
Citadel, nearly all the fine residences and 
numerous religious institutions; and the 
latter—a long, narrow strip between the 
River St Lawrence and the 330-feet-liigh 
bluffs—contains most of the large business 
houses, warehouses and workshops abut¬ 
ting on the wharves. Champlain Street is a 
narrow lane running directly under the 
highest part of Citadel Cliff at the end of 
Cape Diamond. A week ago last Thursday, 
about 8 P. if., after three days of constant 
rain succeeding a long dry spell, a vast 
slice of the bluff, about 300 feet long and 80 
feet broad, broke off, and came crashing 
down on seven houses inhabited by about 
30 families, chiefly working people. Some 
of the rocks weighed upwards of 20 tons, 
and the fallen debris, consisting of moss, 
stones and soil, formed a solid mass 300 feet 
long, from 35 to 80 feet broad and 15 to 25 
feet high. During incredible labor for near¬ 
ly a week 52 dead or dying people were tak¬ 
en out of the ruins and many more were 
more or less seriously injured. Another 
widening and deepening fissure in the bluff 
has induced the authorities to recommend 
the abandonment of 900 houses—chiefly 
along the precipice in the Upper Town—at 
least for the present, as a precautionary 
measure. Two similar disasters, in ’41 and 
’53,were less fatal, but gave warning which, 
of course, has been neglected. 
General D. II. (Daniel Harvey) Hill, the 
celebrated Confederate leader, died at Char¬ 
lotte, N. C., last Tuesday, at the age of 68. 
Born in North Carolina in 1821: graduated 
from the United States Military Academy 
at West Point in 1842; served bravely in 
nearly every important battle of the Mexi¬ 
can war; resigned his commission in 1849 
and became Professor of Mathematics in 
Washington College, Lexington, Va., and 
after five years there took a similar posi¬ 
tion in Davidson College, N. C., and then 
became superintendent of the North Caro¬ 
lina Military Institute at Charlotte. En¬ 
tered the Civil War as colonel and after 
much skillful and brave fighting came out 
as Lieutenant-General. For years after the 
war he edited the monthly magazine “The 
Land We Love”; was elected President of 
the University of Arkansas in 1877, and 
later became President of the Military and 
Agricultural Colleue of Georgia. 
Cornell University has just opened the 
new year with 1,400students, in all. The in¬ 
crease is proportionately greatest among 
the lady students.The Hebrew 
New Year—the 5,650 Rosh Ilashannah—was 
celebrated all the world over last Thursday 
by the Israelites with general rejoicing. 
This is the oldest surviving celebration, 
founded by Moses, in commemoration of ( lie 
delivery of the law on Mount Sinai. 
Altogether Tniigible. 
So long as one is not asked to concentrate 
faith upon illusion there ought to be no 
backwardness in getting into a receptive 
mood at least. Note the encouragement in 
the following; 
Barnwell, S. C. 
“The Compound Oxygen Treatment did 
more to effect a cure than all other so-called 
remedies combined.” 
G. Duncan Ballinger. 
Sumter, S. C., March 13,1888. 
“ My wife had been suffering from severe 
neuralgia for weeks, and was relieved from 
the beginning by Compound Oxygen.” 
Rev. J. S. Beasley. 
Mifflin town, Pa., March 29,1888. 
“I have now used the Compound Oxygen 
three weeks. I am very muck improved in 
every way, and believe that by the blessing 
of God your valuable remedy will restore 
me fully.” Rev. E. E. Berry. 
Little Rock, Ark., March 30, 1888. 
“I am happy to inform you that I am of 
the opinion that your Compound Oxygen 
saved my life.” Mr. J. P. Bailey. 
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 Drs. Starkey 
& Palen, 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.; 
120 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Cal.— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, September 28, 1889. 
William Wilkie Collins, the celebrat¬ 
ed novelist, died at his home in London, 
last Monday, aged 65.Eliza Cook, 
the English song-writer and poetess, author, 
among other once popular songs, of “ I’m 
Afloat,” the “ Old Arm Chair” “The Old 
Farm Gate” and “I Miss Thee My Mother,” 
died last Wednesday, at Wimbledon, near 
London, at the age of 72.In the 
Republic of Guatemala, in Central Ameri¬ 
ca, with an area of 40,777 square miles and 
a population of about 1,500,000, the value 
per acre of the agricultural land has more 
than doubled within the past two years, 
and the area under tillage has increased 
in about the same ratio. The value of 
the coffee crop next year is expected to 
reach $11, 500,000: maize, wheat and other 
cereals as well as cotton, sugar-cane and to¬ 
bacco are also extensively produced. Only 
quite recently have the crude agricultural 
implements of the first colonists been sup¬ 
erseded by modern machinery. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
S \TURDAY, September 28, 1889. 
The third annual Corn Palace Carnival 
opened at Sioux City, Iowa, on Monday 
with a large attendance.The State. 
Inspector of New Jersey on Monday killed 
32 head of cattle at Millstone, Somerset 
County, that were afflicted with pleuro¬ 
pneumonia. The disease has also broken 
out among the cattle in Chester, Mont¬ 
gomery and Berks Counties, Pennsylvania. 
Hog cholera is raging in Kent County, 
Maryland, and more than 260 hogs have 
already been lost. An outbreak is also re¬ 
ported from Queen Anne County. 
The State Farmers’ Alliance of Florida has 
been in session at Jacksonville, Florida, 
during the past week. The principal objects 
of the meeting are to make Jacksonville a 
wholesale market for cotton, the building 
of a cotton ware-house, and the starting of 
fruit and vegetable canning factories. A 
company is also organized to build a cotton 
factory. Florida raises annually 20,000 
bales of Sea Island cotton, and 80,000 bales 
of upland, which is now marketed prin¬ 
cipally in Savanah and Brunswick, Ga. 
The steamer Denmark recently brought 
over 162 Norman horses.The 
Mexican Government has issued a decree 
increasing the duty on goats.One 
of the largest fig orchards in the United 
States is about to be set out in Pomona 
Valley, California. It will consist of 11.000 
white Adriatic fig trees and 5,000Smyrna fig 
trees, planted 80 to the acre.The 
New York Poultry and Pigeon Association 
has been organized as a stock company, and 
will hold an exhibition at the American In¬ 
stitute, this city, February 19 to 25, 1890. 
Arrangements will be perfected for a suc¬ 
cessful exhibition, and the holding of it in 
this city will go far to insure this. T. F. 
Rackham. secretary, East Orange. N. J- 
Much of the wheat throughout Western 
Europe is not fit for milling purposes with¬ 
out an admixture of foreign wheat. 
The new crop of raisins from California 
has reached tnis market. The Lion brand 
of loose Muscatels were the first to arrive.. 
.The unfavorable weather has had a 
disastrous effect upon the sweet corn grow¬ 
ers and canners in Maine, the crop in some 
localities being nearly a failure. Most of the 
canning factories are already closed, and 
the pack is very light. Prices are likely to 
be high, and remnants of last year’s crop 
are in demand.A Jersey farmer 
living near Moorestown was recently con¬ 
victed of selling milk containing less t han 12 
per cent, of solids, and sentenced to pay a fine 
of $57. This he refused to pay, and he was 
imprisoned for 20 days, lie says he never 
watered his milk, but took it to the cream¬ 
ery just as it came from the cows, and that 
if it contained less than the required amount 
of solids, the law was wrong. There are a 
number of farmers who will stand by him, 
and he threatens to make it warm for some 
one when he is released..... 
Severe frosts occurred early in the week 
throughout Northern New' England and 
New r York, and in several of the Western 
States. Owing to the backward season 
much damage resulted to late corn and 
buckwheat, and vegetables and grapes. 
Other crops were mostly out of reach of 
harm.The farmers in Mississippi 
are as determined as ever not to use jute 
bagging. In borne counties the Alliance 
threatens to expel any member using jute 
bagging, and has passed resolutions to that 
effect. The supply of cotton bagging is short 
in some sections, and it will be late in the 
season before a full supply can be procured, 
but the farmers are determined to with¬ 
hold the crop until cotton bagging can be 
obtained. 
In the United States Circuit Court at St. 
Paul on Monday, Judge Nelson delivered 
an exhaustive opinion holding the Minne¬ 
sota Meat Inspection Law unconstitutional 
and void. He holds that it is in violation 
of the commercial clause of the constitution 
which provides that Congress shall have 
control of commerce between the States, 
and also of the clause which provides that 
the citizens of each State shall be entitled 
to all the privileges and immunities of the 
citizens of the several States. This decision 
practically settles the validity of the in¬ 
spection laws, as there is no court, excepting 
the United States Supreme Court, that has 
authority to reverse this decision, and it 
becomes the law until it is reversed. In 
case of an appeal, the case could not be 
heard in the Supreme Court in from three 
to five years. Those desirous of fighting 
Chicago dressed beef will have to adopt 
some different tactics in the future. 
This has been a very unfortunate season 
for nearly all of the agricult ural exhibitions 
commonly called fairs. The Clerk of the 
Weather seems to have had a grudge against 
some of them, and deluged them with rain 
to such an extent that in some cases they 
came very near being failures. The entries 
in nearly all cases were large, and with 
good weather success would have been as¬ 
sured. The New Era Exposition at St. 
Joseph, Missouri, was very unfortunate in 
having the main building destroyed by fire 
in the midst of the exhibition....The 
steamship England of the National Line 
recently took across 1,250 steers, averaging 
1,400 pounds each, being the largest single 
shipment of live cattle ever carried out of 
any American port. The cargo also includ¬ 
ed 4,000 bales of hay and 4,000 bags of corn 
for feeding the cattle en route. This line 
stopped carrying passengers some time 
since, and engaged their vessels exclusive¬ 
ly in the cattle carrying trade.Com¬ 
plaints are made that farmers in Maryland 
are shipping their cholera-infected hogs to 
Baltimore regardless of consequences. 
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