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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
OCTOBER 12 
Whds of ilje tDfdi. 
HOME NEWS. 
SATURDAY, October 5, 1889. 
The M aryland Wliite Lead Company, 
one of the largest “ outsiders, ” has just 
been taken in by the National Lead Trust, 
and so the work of monopolization goes 
briskly on in spite of all prognostications, 
“resolutions” and laws to the contrary... 
.The Mississippi steamer Corona 
which left New Orleans at 7.30 last Wed¬ 
nesday evening for the Ouachita River.with 
a full cargo and a large passenger list, ex¬ 
ploded her boilers nearly opposite Port Hud¬ 
son at 11.45, next morning, causing the 
loss of the steamer and 40 lives. The vessel 
was worth $20,000 and she sank in a few 
seconds.News has been just re¬ 
ceived that the ocean steamer Earnmoor, 
bound from Baltimore to Rio Janeiro, 
foundered in the Gulf on September 5, during 
that terrible hurricane, which raged on the 
West Indies several days before it reached 
our coast. Nineteen of the passengers and 
crew were lost and seven escaped. 
A wealthy company has just been organ¬ 
ized to supply New York City with gas fuel 
made from a combination of anthracite 
coal and asplialtum under several new pa¬ 
tents. Anything to antagonize the coal 
monopolists would be welcome even at the 
cost of tearing up the streets for gas mains 
once more. 
E. C. Baker, representing Victoria, B. C. 
in the Dominion Parliament, has resigned 
his seat owing to his inability to secure re¬ 
dress for those of his constituents whose 
vessels have been seized by the United 
States cruisers in Behring Sea. He was a 
staunch supporter of Sir John Macdonald ; 
but neither the Premier nor the British 
Government was willing to risk trouble 
with the United States to placate the belli¬ 
cose temper of British Columbia. Of course, 
Baker will seek a re-election as an indorse¬ 
ment of his course, somewhat on the same 
principle on which Senators Conkling and 
Me-Too Platt acted in resigning from theU. 
S. Senate ages ago.Of the eight 
poaching sealers captured and sent to Sitka 
oy the commander of theU. S. revenue cut¬ 
ter Rush, only one—owned by Americans— 
Went there: all the others went to Victo¬ 
ria, where their crews are now mad at the 
ruin of their enterprise, as the crews get 
most of their pay from a share in the profits 
of the cruise. The Rush, on her way home 
to San Francisco, is expected to touch at 
Victoria, and the exasperated men threaten 
to capture and sink her. The militia are 
under arms to prevent a breach of the peace 
and a violation of international rights. 
Judge Sawyer, of the U. S. Circuit Court 
at San Francisco, has just rendered a de¬ 
cision which covers all the captures made 
by the Rush as well as all previous cap¬ 
tures made by other U. S. vessels under 
similar conditions. It justifies the seizure 
and confiscation of all the vessels with 
their contents. Under this ruling, the es¬ 
caped vessels may be seized wherever found 
and sold as the legitimate prizes of the 
Revenue Service. 
In the World’s Fair embroglio New York 
is still confining her efforts to squabbling 
about the site ; but promises to come to an 
agreement and start a big subscription list 
next week; Chicago has increased her sub¬ 
scription to $8,000,(XX) so as to overtop St. 
Louis ; St. Louis, according to immemori¬ 
al custom, is doing nothing particularly 
brilliant; but a good deal of quiet work, 
and Washington is still waiting; but her 
annex, Baltimore, is doing some lively hust¬ 
ling for her.Connecticut will vote 
on a Prohibitory constitutional amend¬ 
ment Monday. 
In the elections in the four new States last 
Wednesday North and South Dakota and 
Washington, all went Republican and 
Montana is in doubt; though there’s a 
strong pobability that it has gone Demo 
cratic. South Dakota certainly and North 
Dakota perhaps favor Prohibition • the 
two others have certainly gone “ wet.”. 
Gen. B. M. Prentiss, who with his entire 
command, was captured at the Battle of 
Shiloh, has been appointed post-master at 
Bethany, Pa. His splendid qualities as a 
soldier offset his shortcoming in being a 
Democrat.A prominent figure in 
Western politics has just “stepped down 
and out ” in the person of Ex-Governor 
John A. Martin, of Kansas. Born in 
Brownsville Pa., March 10, 1839; became 
local editor of the Brownsville Clipper in 
1854; moved to Kansas in 1857. In 1801 was 
made lieutentant-colonel of the 8th Kansas 
Regiment, and Provost-Marshal at Leaven¬ 
worth in 1862; held same office at Nashville, 
Tenn. in 1863, and then got command of a 
brigade. In 1864 was made brevet briga¬ 
dier-general. In 1866 was elected Comman- 
der-in-Cliief of the G. A. R. in Kansas, and 
Governor in 1884 and 1886 on the Republi¬ 
can ticket.The faculty of the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania favors opening the 
doors for the co-education of women. The 
sister is stepping hard on the heels of the 
brother and will soon be striding abreast of 
him.The International American 
Congress has met at Washington and 
started to inspect the resources of the 
country.Engineer Robillard, of 
Minneapolis, is the latest to claim the dis¬ 
covery of “perpetual motion ”—right after 
the collapse, too, of Brown-Sequard’s 
“ elixir of life.”. 
Col. Wiley I. Scribner, Recorder of Cook 
County, HI., died suddenly on September 
28, from rupture of an artery caused by 
hearty laughter at a newspaper joke—on 
another fellow.It appears that the 
“ baby ” bonds of Louisiana—bonds which 
the courts declared illegal and ordered to 
be destroyed in 1879—were not destroyed as 
supposed. On the contrary, many, if not 
all of them, were fraudulently issued while 
Major E. A. Burke, Director-General of the 
New Orleans International Exposition, was 
Comptroller of the State—from 1880 to 1887. 
The fraud is known to be at least $1,200,000, 
and may be greater. Interest on many of 
them has been paid for years. The endow¬ 
ment bonds of the Agricultural and Me¬ 
chanical College are also involved. Burke, 
now in England, says that he will shoulder 
all responsibility, and return at once to set 
things straight. There’s a report that nine 
indictments have already been found 
against him ; and 16 more are expected. 
There’s talk of starting a monstrous Amer¬ 
ican brewery syndicate with a capital of 
8100,000,000 to combat that big British 
brewery syndicate. After having unloaded 
his beer works at a splendid profit on John 
Bull, is brother Jonathan going to fleece 
him of his expected profits ? Or will it not 
rather be another battle between foreigners 
on American soil—this time between the 
Teuton and the Saxon ? It will, however, 
be probably rather hard to get up a syndi¬ 
cate with a capital of $100,000,090, even when 
the enormous profits on beer are the allure¬ 
ment.The comvention 
held at Topeka, Kansas, in support of the 
movement to provide a deep-water harbor 
on the Gulf Coast to accommodate Western 
and Southwestern commerce, is of very 
large size: about 1,000 delegates have assem¬ 
bled. It is estimated that $10,000,000 will 
be required to provide a suitable har¬ 
bor. Statistics show that while the sum 
expended by the Government for public im¬ 
provement m the States east of the Missis¬ 
sippi from 1789 to 1886 amounts to $11.88 
per head, estimating the population in 1886 
at 60,000,000, in the States and Territories 
west of that river the total appropriation 
has only been $2.83 per capita. The We 3 t 
therefore demands that this discrepancy 
shall be “evened up” before any further 
appropriations are made for the East. A 
large proportion of the money for the East, 
was paid by the East, however, before any 
“ West ” existed; still with its enormous sur¬ 
plus revenue the whole country can afford 
to be generous for improvements as well as 
for pensions. 
The Colorado Mining Exchange, in its desire 
to push its silver on the market, is to bring a 
suit against the Government to test the 
constitutionality of the law restricting the 
coinage of silver.New England 
has hitherto been the strongest opponent of 
reciprocity with Canada: but from evidence 
given the other day at Boston before the 
Senate Committee investigating the trade 
relations of the two countries, it wotild ap¬ 
pear that there is now a strong current of 
public opinion in the other direction. A 
good deal of forcible evidence was given by 
irominent representative men in favor of a 
iberal measure of reciprocity as likely to 
be quite advantageous to both countries.... 
A good deal of effort isbeingmade to prove 
that Daniel Drauglibaugh was the real in¬ 
ventor of the telephone. It is said the Bell 
Telephone monopoly is quietly pushing the 
case. At the commencement of the origin¬ 
al litigation, years ago, the Bell people are 
said to have secured a majority of the 
Drauglibaugh stock to provide against an 
adverse decision. The Bell patent expires 
in 1893, am) then scores of rival telephones 
now barred out by the monopoly, will enter 
the field. If, however, Drauglibaugh should 
be declared the real inventor, tne Court 
would grant a monopoly to his patent for 
17 years, and the Bell people controlling a 
majority of the stock, would be enabled to 
continue their extortionate monopoly till 
1910.Joseph Pulitzer 
of the New York World, has just founded 
60 permanent collegiate scholarships for the 
poor boys of the public schools of this city. 
Twelve boys who have completed the gram¬ 
mar school course will be selected each 
year, and to each of them is to be given a 
scholarship of $250 a year for five years, 
thus making the cost to the donor, when 
all the scholarships shall have been as¬ 
signed, $15,(XX) a year. Joseph was a poor 
boy himself once, and has made excellent 
use of the education he got with difficulty... 
Speaks lor Itself. 
Hon. P. H. Jacobs, the well-known chem¬ 
ist, editor of the Poultry Keeper, Farmers’ 
Magazine, and Agricultural Department of 
the Philadelphia Record, says : 
“ I have examined carefully the Com¬ 
pound Oxygen manufactured by Drs. Star- 
key & Palen ; also their mode of treat¬ 
ment by inhalation, and have noted the 
great benefit to those who have used it 
among personal friends. That it will give 
to the exhausted system renewed and per¬ 
manent vitality, is beyond doubt.” 
We are in a position to indorse the above 
by many instances. We subjoin the senti¬ 
ment of some of our patients who have 
been released from the clutch of that relent¬ 
less ill, nervous prostration. 
Bunker Hill, Ind., March 14, 1888. 
“I feel that I cannot say too much in 
praise of the Compound Oxygen Treat¬ 
ment.” Mrs. Florence Blue. 
Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 14,1888. 
“It is nearly four years since I first used 
Compound Oxygen and I have much reason 
to be grateful for the treatment.” 
Ciias. W. Cushing, D.D. 
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Brooklyn, N. Y., June 4, 1888. ) 
“I was induced by a friend to try your 
Compound Oxygen Treatment. The result 
was marvelous. I certainly feel that it has 
prolonged my life.” 
Mrs. E. H. Henderson. 
We publish a brochure of 200 pages 
regarding the effect of Compound Oxy¬ 
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tarrh, hay fever, headache, debility, rheu¬ 
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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, October 5, 1889. 
There's a small war scare m Europe ; but 
it is probably a bogus affair. Several in¬ 
fluential official or semi-official newspapers 
are notorious for originating these roor¬ 
backs, chiefly to aid the Ministry of their re¬ 
spective countries to accomplish some im¬ 
portant stroke of domestic or foreign 
policy—they seek to scare either their own 
countrymen or foreign nations into making 
desired concessions. The German Cologne 
Gazette, Bismarck’s frequent “organ,” is 
the worst of these, and wiien it pipes all the 
others whistle. Lately it has been shrilly 
piping clanger from an alleged great con¬ 
centration of Russian troops on the north¬ 
eastern Austrian frontier, and the extension 
of the Russian railroad system towards 
that part, combined with the intimate re¬ 
lations of Republican France and auto¬ 
cratic Russia. Bismarck, however, wants 
extra appropriations of nearly 300,000,000 
marks from the Reichstag for the manu¬ 
facture of cannon for smokeless powder, 
the construction of more iron-clads, the 
strengthening of fortifications and other 
war purposes, and fear of foreign war has a 
wonderful effect in loosening the purse¬ 
strings of the people: hence the present 
piping of the semi-official organ. War in 
Europe is possible at any moment, and 
probable ere long; but just now the general 
aspect of affairs is more peaceful or rather 
less war-like than usual. 
One of the “ greatest works of the age ” is 
being Quickly but energetically carried on 
in England—the construction of the great 
ship canal between Liverpool and Man¬ 
chester, which will make the most impor¬ 
tant manufacturing city in the British Em¬ 
pire a port of entry, and render it a formid¬ 
able maritime rival of the “ Queen of the 
Mersey.” The distance is 31 miles and the 
work was started by the Ship Canal Com¬ 
pany on January 1,1888. Already 25,000,000 
cubic feet of the total 44,000,000 cubic feet 
of needed excavating has been done, and 
the work continues at the rate of 1,000,000 
cubic feet a month. It is expected that the 
canal will be open for business in 3)4 years 
at the longest.’. 
It is wonderful how anxious all the Span¬ 
ish newspapers and many others in Europe 
are that the South American Republics rep¬ 
resented at the International American 
Congress will not allow themselves to be¬ 
come satellites of the United States. 
In Great Britain children under 10 are le¬ 
gally forbiddea to work and those from 10 
to 12 must not work more than half time... 
Two Sundays ago the Republican form of 
government in France successfully passed 
through a serious crisis by securing a ma¬ 
jority in the general elections for members 
of the Assembly or Chamber of Deputies, 
corresponding to our House of Representa¬ 
tives. Acting on the principle that all is 
fair in politics as in love and war, the 
Government had previously secured the 
self-banishment of General Boulanger, its 
most formidable opponent, by accusing him 
of grave political and financial offenses, 
and constituting the Senate, always bitter¬ 
ly hostile to him, a special court to try or 
rather condemn him. Owing to the exile of 
himself and his two most skillful and ener¬ 
getic supports, Rochefort and Dillon, in 
London, his campaign sadly lacked the im¬ 
petus which his personal presence would 
have imparted to it, and the wisdom and 
reach which his able lieutenants on the 
spot would have given it. There were only 
131 Boulangist candidates in the field— 
about one-fiftli of the members of the 
Chamber of Deputies. The Conservatives, 
however, embracing the Imperialists or 
Bonapartists, and the Monarchists or Or- 
leanists, acted with the Boulangists, giv¬ 
ing their support to the Boulangist 
candidates wherever they were the 
strongest, and receiving the support of 
the Boulangists wherever their own 
candidates were most likely to win. 
The influence of the administration, from 
President Carnot down to the lowest pub¬ 
lic employee in the country, was energeti¬ 
cally on the side of the Government. Luke¬ 
warm, indifferent and hostile mayors and 
other officials, high and low, had been pre¬ 
viously removed or whipped into active 
support, and owing to suen shrewd, ener¬ 
getic but unscrupulous precautions control¬ 
ling, directing, stimulating and encourag¬ 
ing public opinion in favor of the powers 
that now be, the Republicans on the first 
ballot, secured 224 members against 159 of 
the Opposition in the 568 electoral divisions 
of the country. In France a clear majority 
is needed for the election of a member of 
the Assembly, whereas a plurality will suf¬ 
fice here. As there were more than two 
candidates in a large number of cases, none 
secured a majority in 177 electoral divisions, 
and in these another set of elections will be 
held to-morrow, when all factions of the 
Republicans and all parties among their 
opponents are likely to unite on one candi¬ 
date for each side, which will necessitate a 
majority for one or the other. From pres¬ 
ent indications it looks as if the Republi¬ 
cans would have 325 against 250 held by 
their opponents, seven representatives from 
the French Colonies being included in this 
classification. Anyhow the Government 
is very sure of a fair working majority. 
Of late the English Government has been 
trying to loosen the alliance between the 
Parnellites and Gladstonians by offering to 
found a Catholic University as a bribe to 
the former. This has long been a cherished 
object with the Irish people and especially 
with the priests and bishops, and great 
pressure has been brought to bear on the 
Members of Parliament to abate their hos¬ 
tility to the Conservative policy in other 
matters in return for the concession. Some 
of them have *been inclined to do so; 
others have been readyRo take_all they can 
get without entering into any contract; 
while the bulk of them have refused to 
listen to any compromise tending to defer 
or defeat a full measure of Home Rule. 
The Protestant extremists of all three 
Kingdoms and of the Principality of Wales, 
among the very strongest supporters of the 
Government, are bitterly and loudly op¬ 
posed to any concession to the “Scarlet 
Woman,” and have been threatening all 
sorts of disasters to the Government should 
it make any. The latter, seeing that its 
offer gave rise to hardly a breeze of favor 
among its foes, while it gave birth to a hur¬ 
ricane of disfavor among its friends, has 
begun to crawfish, and now declares that 
it never had any intention to give a gov¬ 
ernmental endowment to the University, 
and so the matter is likely to lie dormant, 
for the present, at any rate. 
Intriguing Natalie, the recalcitrant divor¬ 
ced wife of good-for-nothing Milan, abdi 
cated King of Servia, is once more causing 
trouble. She, a Russian subject, is all for 
a predominance of Russian influence in Ser¬ 
via; he, a German, goes in for Austrian in¬ 
fluence there. After a world of intrigue she 
lias just returned from Russia on a visit, 
with the object of getting control once 
more of her 14-year-old son, now puppet 
king of the country. Her ex-liusband furi¬ 
ously objects to her presence there, though 
he is himself away, and there’s an almighty 
hubbub. Neither of the principals is worth 
an honest thought personally, but being 
used by powerful rulers for their own pur¬ 
poses, their disgraceful family squabbles 
may lead to terribly bloody battles among 
nations.Reform associations in 
England are raising a rumpus against the 
British pension list, military, naval and 
civil, which now amounts to nearly $40,000 
000 a year. The British civil pension list is 
quite large; while we have none here. The 
naval and military lists include pensions 
for service in the multitude of wars Great 
Britain has waged in every quarter of the 
globe since Trafalgar and Waterloo. For 
our two little wars and one big one the next 
Congress will have to provide $110,000,000 
for pensions. 
All the great European nations are eagerly 
experimenting with smokeless and noise¬ 
less gun-powder, each having its own kind. 
Its chief merits are that it does not attract 
attention and form a mark for hostile fire, 
and that it doesn’t obscure the vision so 
that troops in line can fire faster and more 
accurately than with smoke-making pow¬ 
der. Tts chief fault is that when troops are 
in line of battle firing with theexcessive ra¬ 
pidity made possible by modem fire-arms, 
the effects of the concentrated fumes are so 
overpowering as to cause asphyxiation. It 
is admirable on the skirmish line, or among 
small, detached bodies, but of doubtful 
benefit among fast-firing, closely serried 
ranks. 
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FOR CARRIAGE and CUTTER THILLS. 
Self-unhitching—finest thing out. Sarnplo Pair, with 
Straps, $1.25, prepaid. Agents wanted. Address 
SIIEKWIN BROS., 
Brandon. Wls.. or Lincoln. Neb. 
J ERSEY HULL CA LF.—Dam made 16 lbs. 4 oz. 
on i oor pasture and ordinary feed; sire’s dam 
a g. daughter of Pedro. About three months old. 
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Fine one year-old and J. B. for distant shipment 
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Plants, Osage Orange. General Nursery Stoek at low 
rates JOSIAII A. ROBERTS, 
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the world. Send for 28 reasons whv. 
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Mulllea Hill. N. J. 
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