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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
OCTOBER i9 
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HOME NEWS. 
SATURDAY, October 12, 1889. 
The steel cruiser Dolphin, built by John 
Roach, was objected to as “structurally 
weak ” by the last Administration, and the 
worry about her acceptance by the Govern¬ 
ment is said to have caused her builder’s 
death. She has just returned from a cruise 
round the world, after making 58,000 miles 
in all sorts of weather, and she hasn’t 
sprung a joint or showed a sign of weak¬ 
ness anywhere.At a secret meeting 
of the old French colony at Montreal on 
Tuesday, it was decided to invite Gen. Bou¬ 
langer to take up his residence among his 
compatriots in Canada until France should 
recall him to rule or fight. 
Southern progress of late has been unpre¬ 
cedented. In the last two weeks about 17 or 
18 new furnace projects have been reported 
there and contracts have already been made 
for building about one-lialf of them, while 
a dozen or more are being organized and 
will shortly be made public. The sales of 
mineral and timber lands for last week in 
large tracts have aggregated probably half 
a million acres, while negotiations are pend¬ 
ing for still larger bodies, including 300,000 
or 400,000 acres of timber land in Mississippi 
and several hundred thousand acres in East 
Tennessee, the purchase of the latter by a 
86,000,000 company having been virtually 
closed. 
Yellow Jack has appeared at Key West, 
Fla. ; but owing to the lateness of the sea¬ 
son and the precautions taken, there is 
little cause for apprehension that it will 
spread much there, and hardly any that it 
will extend elsewhere.'_Delegates 
to the International Maritime Conference 
are arriving in Washington, the delegate 
from China having put in first appearance. 
Twenty-three of the most important coun¬ 
tries in the world, controlling 90 per cent, 
of the world’s tonnage, will be represented 
bv 50 delegates. The maritime regulations 
adopted by the body will certainly soon 
prevail all over the globe.President 
Corbin, of the Reading Railroad, is said to 
be interesting foreign capital for the forma¬ 
tion of an Anthracite Coal Trust. 
Down to October 1, 3,111 miles of railroad 
had been built in the United States in 
1889.The Haytian Constitutional 
Assembly is in session and will doubtless 
soon elect Hyppolite to the Presidency. 
Washington was made gay during the week 
by the presence and parading of 15,000 
Knights Templar whose rich but rather 
fantastic costumes, plumes and armor 
made a gala show. Of the 85,000 members 
of this mainly social, partly charitable and 
quasi semi-military Christian Order, the, 
most picturesque adjunct of Masonry, 80,- 
000 are Americans. The next triennial 
conclave will be held at Denver, Colorado. 
.The delegates to the Pan- 
American Congress have been in¬ 
specting Massachusetts factories and work¬ 
shops by day during the week and have 
been right cordially entertained by wealthy 
representatives of the Old Bay State at 
night. The double tasks, especially those by 
night, are likely to prove too mach for some 
of ’em. Of course, as the Congress has no 
power, it can make no treaty—all the mem¬ 
bers can do is to make reports and recommen¬ 
dations to their respective governments. 
There is some complaint in Canada because 
the Dominion was not asked to send a rep¬ 
resentative to the Congress; but owing to 
Canada’s dependence on Great Britain, our 
Government could not, without disrespect 
to the latter, hold any formal political re¬ 
lations with the Dominion Government. 
Independent American Governments alone 
are represented.Loaded with 
honors and decorated with orders “ our 
own” Edison has returned home more 
American if possible than before his trium¬ 
phant trip to Europe. 
Congressman Randall of Pennsylvania, is 
again very ill.In the new States 
the Australian method of balloting proved 
highly satisfactory. In Connecticut even a 
modification of it receives much praise. It 
has been tried with uniform success in 
many municipal elections in widely-separ¬ 
ated parts of the country. The better it is 
known, the better it is liked as a protection 
to the voter against intimidation and to 
the public against bribery. 
In 1880 there were 142 cotton-mills in the 
South, now there are 389, and the capacity 
of the new mills averages much more than 
that of the old. The average dividends are 
not less than nine per cent. This prosper¬ 
ity is attributed chiefly to the proximity of 
the factories and the raw material. 
Last Monday a Prohibitory Constitutional 
Amendment was defeated in Connecticut 
by a majority of 27,000. The fact that cider 
was put in the same diabolical category as 
rum made thousands of farmers who would 
have otherwise voted for it, vote against it, 
to prevent loss on their apple crops. 
The present allowance of seamen ia the 
Navy is 7,500, of whom a large proportion 
are foreigners. To man the new war-ships 
Secretary Tracy will ask Congress to extend 
the limit to 10,000. To provide the Navy 
with native sailors 750 apprentice boys are 
now allowed, and it is proposed to enlarge 
the limit to 1,000. When grown up, the ex¬ 
apprentices nearly always exchange to 
merchant vessels where the service is less 
strict and the pay higher. Moreover, while 
in the Navy no sailor can ever become a 
commissioned officer, the cabin boy may 
become captain in the merchant marine. 
Before go-ahead American sailors can be 
induced patriotically to man the Amei’ican 
Navy, the unrepublican exclusiveness which 
gives a monopoly of all the higher officers 
to the. Naval Academy at Annapolis must 
be relaxed or .abolished.A conven¬ 
tion of colored religious'associations lately 
in session at Indianapolis has very modest¬ 
ly demanded of Congress an appropriation of 
$100,000,000 to pronjote negro colonization 
in the West. There’s a growing movement 
to get rid of the negroes in the South, which 
is checked only by the necessity for negro 
labor, white labor being unavailable. In the 
West there’s an increasing tendency to ob¬ 
ject to negro immigration, even in Kansas.. 
County Judge Day, at Auburn, N. Y., has 
just decided that the new law substituting 
death by electricity instead of by hanging 
as the penalty for capital crimes in this 
State, is constitutional. He has ho judicial 
knowledge that the punishment is cruel or 
unusual, as claimed by the lawyers who 
argued against the sentence in the case of 
Kemmler, the condemned wife-murderer. 
Of course, the case will be appealed to the 
General Term and then to the Court of Ap¬ 
peals, as the Westinghouse Electric Com¬ 
pany, which is fighting the law, doesn’t 
care for the expense.The Do¬ 
minion Government will issue no more 
licenses to mutual insurance companies 
conducted on the assessment plan, and the 
licenses already granted to many American 
and Canadian companies will not be re¬ 
newed at. their expiration at the end of the 
year. The stock companies are bitterly op¬ 
posed to such organizations, and it appears 
that the licenses were issued through a 
misinterpretation of the law. What a 
hubbub such a step would create in this 
country where such associations are multi¬ 
tudinous!.Jay Gould holds $20, 
400,000 of the $80,000,000 stock of the West¬ 
ern Union Telegraph Company. Here is 
its prosperous showing for the* last three 
years: 
1889. 1888. 1887. 
Gross revenue. 820,788,194 $19,711,184 817,191,909 
Operat’g expenses. 14.f65.152 14,640.192 18.154 628 
Net earnings... $6 218,041 *?,070.57l $4,087,281 
Total surplus. $8 611,401 $7,490,548 $7 609,185 
Miles cf pole. 178,754 171,875 156 814 
Miles of wire. >47.697 616.248 524,641 
Messages sent. 54 1118,326 51,468,955 47.694 530 
The cost per message was 22.4 cents, 
against 23.2 cents of the previous fiscal 
year. The above amount of net earnings 
would pay over 7j^ per cent, per annum on a 
capitalization of $80,000,000; but as nearly 
half that amount is “ water,” the interest 
on the cash capitalization would be about 
14 per cent.—a pretty good showing for 
Jay’s management. 
Gen. Chalmers, Republican candidate for 
Governor of Mississippi, and Judge Frazee, 
the nominee for Attorney-General, have re¬ 
signed their candidacy. They never had a 
shadow of a chance, could hire no halls to 
orate, and numerous threats from the 
white chivalry warned them that if they 
persisted in the canvass shooting would 
soon begin.Old Jason Mitchell 
was tarred and feathered by 25 “prominent 
citizens ” of Taylorsville, Neb. He offered 
no resistance, "but has already collected 
$2,500 damages*,..... .The second Piedmont 
Exposition was formally opened at Atlan¬ 
ta, Ga., Monday. 
No Pension Commissioner has been ap¬ 
pointed yet, much to the discontent of a 
multitude of bellicose editors who would 
much sooner have a man than a vacancy 
to abuse.In April last Commissioner 
Tanner decided that $4 per month should be 
the lowest pension. Idle rating of thous¬ 
ands was thus raised without any legal au¬ 
thority. The ruling has just been rescinded 
by the Assistant Secretary of the Interior 
Bussey, who all along strongly antago¬ 
nized the liberal Corporal.The elec¬ 
tric lighting wires are still steadily killing 
folks that come in contact with them, utter¬ 
ly regardless of the arguments against 
“ electrocution.” Four such “ electrocu¬ 
tions” have been put on record this week.. 
.The shipyards on the lakes are un¬ 
usually busy, having 35 new steamers on 
the stocks. Steel is superseding iron faster 
than iron superseded wood.A Carpet 
Trust, composed of at least 75 to 80per cent, 
of the carpet manufacturers of the country, 
is said to be in course of formation. Ger¬ 
man and other foreign capitalists are re¬ 
ported to be ready to put $25,000,000 into it. 
.Louisiana’s Attorney General pub¬ 
licly charges ex-State Treasurer Burke 
with having deliberately issued or failed to 
destroy State securities to the amount of 
$400,000. A large amount of the missing 
“ baby bonds ” has been found.The 
pneumatic guns of the dynamite cruiser 
Vesuvius were officially tried last Wednes¬ 
day, in the Delaware River near Cramp’s 
ship-yard at Chester, and gave complete 
satisfaction. Fifteen shots were fired in 17 
minutes and the machinery worked with¬ 
out fault.A Maryland oyster-pack¬ 
ing syndicate proposes to raise the prices of 
the bivalves on the ground of the great 
damage done to the beds by the late storms. 
A trust in luxuries will hardly be success 
ful, as curtailment of consumption would 
certainly follow increase of price. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
SATURDAY, October 12,1889. 
After a world of diplomatic finessing, 
and “ backing and filling ” on t he part of 
the Czar, that mighty potentate has finally 
consented to meet Emperor William, and 
last Thursday arrived at Kiel, the great 
German naval port on the Baltic, where he 
was received with broadsides from the Ger¬ 
man and English iron-clad fleets stationed 
there to greet him. Next day he went to 
the imperial palace at Potsdam, 17 miles 
southwest of Berlin, and afterwards to the 
latter city. Everywhere the greatest pains 
were taken to manifest the greatest cor¬ 
diality, and everywhere the utmost precau¬ 
tions guarded against Nihilist plots which 
were much feared. After much urging, he 
granted an interview to Bismarck. It is 
thought the Chancellor offered him a “free 
hand” in Bulgaria and Armenia as the 
price of his withdrawal from the French 
alliance, coupled with a threat of the con¬ 
solidation of the Kingdom of Bulgaria in 
case of refusal. The Russian semi-official 
papers, however, say the visit will not in 
any way affect the political situation. 
In the supplementary elections last Sunday 
in France, the Republicans elected about 
two-thirds of the 183 members of the As¬ 
sembly who were to be chosen. Their op¬ 
ponents—Monarchists, Imperialists and 
Boulangerists—were badly demoralized by 
the previous triumph of the Government. 
The new Chamber of Deputies will consist 
of 365 Republicans against 211 opposition 
members, including the members from the 
colonies. The Republicans comprise 238 
Moderates and 126 Radicals; while the op¬ 
position consists of 106 Monarchists; 58 Im¬ 
perialists and 47 Boulangerists. Of the 576 
members 287 belonged to the last Chamber; 
43 were members of former Chambers, and 
239 are new men. Having no further use 
for a man “ in the soup,” the Loyalists and 
Bonapartists have severed their connection 
with Boulanger, and many of his own most 
prominent adherents have repudiated him, 
and call themselves “Revisionists,” a re¬ 
vision of the constitution having been the 
chief “point ” in Boulanger’s " platform.” 
The financial backers of the late “Man on 
Horseback ” have withdrawn their support, 
and he has gone to the Island of Jersey for 
economy’s sake. The future looms black for 
him, but the French are the ficklest people 
on earth, and as “ it is the unexpected that 
happens ” in France, he may yet swing or 
be Hoisted into the saddle again. At pres¬ 
ent the Republic appears more firmly estab¬ 
lished than at any former period of its ex¬ 
istence . 
Barbed wire fencing has been found very 
efficacious for fortifying entrenched posi¬ 
tions in Germany.Henceforth 
every branch of the German cavalry will be 
armed with the lance as its chief weapon ; 
though neither the sword nor carbine will 
be discarded.The Paris Interna¬ 
tional Exposition has been the most suc¬ 
cessful ever held anywhere, in spite of the 
active or dormant opposition of every mon- 
archial government in Europe, which were 
opposed to it on the ground that it repre¬ 
sented the throne-overturning French 
Revolution, inaugurated 100 years ago by 
the destruction of that infamous prison- 
fortress, the Bastile. The Eiffel Tower as 
a success has even exceeded Buffalo Bill 
and his Indians. Its receipts since the 
opening of the show, on May 15, have been 
over 5,000,000 francs.The King of 
Siam arrived in Paris Monday. 
“ The O’Donohue ” of the Glens, who was 
in Parliament from 1857 to 1885, is dead_ 
.The world is tremendously busy just 
now building very expensive war vessels. 
Sixty of the minsters in all were launched 
last year and 100 were on the stocks at 
its close.. 
The London Bread Trust, or union of 
bakers, expects to make 20 per cent, per an¬ 
num on a capital of $2,500,000.Spain 
is being encouraged by all the prominent 
European governments to get up a Con¬ 
gress of all theSpanish-American States, to 
be held at Barcelona or Madrid, as an off¬ 
set to the Pan-American Congress now 
junketing in this country.The 
complete success of the dock strikers in 
London has stimulated dock workers else¬ 
where to strike also. Those at Cardiff, 
Wales, have compromised. In a big 
strike of the same sort at Hamburg, Ger¬ 
many, and another at Flensburg there are 
no signs of settlement. Laborers brought 
from other places are clumsily doing the 
work, protected by strong guards of sol¬ 
diers, a considerable number of whom are 
also taking the strikers’places. The other 
day a lot of striking German miners got an 
increase, which raised their wages to $4.50 
per week—quite big wages for workmen in 
the Fatherland. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, October 12, 1889. 
Consul Griffin, of Sydney, N. S. W., re¬ 
ports to the State Department at Washing¬ 
ton that both New South Wales and Vic¬ 
toria contemplate sending commissioners 
to the United States with the view of in¬ 
ducing the latter country to assist in estab¬ 
lishing a line of fast steamships between 
the Australian colonies and the ports on 
the Atlantic coast of the United States to 
develop the export of Australian wool to 
this country. The total export of wool to 
the United States direct from Australasia 
during the season of 1888-89 was 38,240 bales, 
of 400 pounds each, against 21,813 bales for 
the previous season. During the past year 
456 American Merino Sheep were imported 
into New South Wales by the way of Lon¬ 
don, as the quarantine laws of the colonies 
forbid importations direct from America. 
The reason given for this is that the ani¬ 
mals may have the benefit of inspection by 
experts in London. Consul Griffin says the 
visit of Hon. W. G. Markham, president of 
the Wool Growers’ and Sheep Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation of New York, to Australia, has 
been the means of attracting ve.ry general 
attention to the benefits to be derived from 
the introduction of high-class American 
sheep. Indeed, it is almost impossible to 
take up an Australian journal without 
finding the merits of these valuable sheep 
discussed. Mr. Markham introduced the 
Vermont Wrinkled Merino in 1880, with the 
firm conviction that’ the breed would be of 
great value to the Australian stock. At 
the annual show of the Denliquin Agricul¬ 
tural Society held last June, the principal 
prizes were carried off by the sheep of the 
American and Australian cross. The 
judges in awarding the prizes stated that 
these fleeces were unsurpassed in length of 
staple, luster, density and firmness. The 
number of sheep in Australasia at the close 
of 1888 was 96,487,811, valued at $156,519,312. 
The annual leap was 20,770,293. valued at 
$40,241,124, and the wool clip for the year was 
458,451,710 pounds, valued at $74,368,505. 
Stockmen in Southeastern Wyoming are 
reported to have suffered heavily from the 
depredations of wolves and coyotes upon 
calves and colts.A New York milk- 
dealer was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 
for selling adulterated milk, besides being 
severely denounced by the judge. 
Chairman Sledge, of the National Cotton 
Committee, with other leading alliance 
officers, has recommended a meeting of the 
Cotton Exchange in St. Louis contempo¬ 
raneous with the National Farmers’ meet¬ 
ing in December.Haaff, thede 
horner, has gone into the business of de- 
spavining, de-curbing and de-ringboning 
horses.It is said that the upper 
Missouri country will not ship over two- 
tliirds the number of cattle shipped last 
year, on account of the heavy losses of cows 
and calves on the ranges in 1887. 
Bernard Levy of this city, a milkman w r ho 
has already paid over $500 for selling adul¬ 
terated milk, was arrested for the fourth 
time the other day. He was probably try¬ 
ing to make enough to pay his fines. 
_Last week, two solid trains of 48 cars 
loaded with raisins left California for the 
East. California’s resources as a fruit sup¬ 
ply seem to be unlimited.A young 
Iowa farmer has invented a steam binder 
which is said to have worked well. 
Iowa is reported as having an enormous 
crop of apples and melons, and a good crop 
of sw T eet potatoes. Next we know, she wil 1 
have a boom on hand.Destruc¬ 
tive prairie fires are reported from Iowa, 
Wisconsin, and other parts of the West. 
Much hay and grain in stacks, and in many 
ca&es farm buildings have been destroyed... 
In addition to the Exposition awards, the 
Ministry of Agriculture of the French Gov¬ 
ernment have awarded the Whitman Agri¬ 
cultural Co. of St. Louis, a special gold 
medal for the great superiority shown at 
the Noiselle field trial of their lmy-press 
overall competitors.A Southern 
New Jersey peach grower comes to the 
front with a certain cure for the yellows. 
He has a fair crop of peaches this year, 
while his neighbors have none. He says 
that his remedy never fails, and that he in¬ 
tends'to bring it before the public shortly. 
“It is too valuable to giveaway,” however. 
.The farmers in Stevens County, 
Kansas, have suffered four successive fail¬ 
ures of crops, and are without the means of 
support for the approaching winter. They 
have issued an appeal for help which has 
been indorsed by the Governor. 
Farmers in several Western States are re¬ 
ported to be holding on to their wheat in 
anticipation of higher prices; more than 
two-thirds of it is said to be still in the 
growers’ hands.There was frost in 
Mississippi and Alabama on Monday night. 
This is the earliest for many years. 
The boiler of a thrashing engine exploded 
near St. Cloud, Minn, on Monday, severely 
injuring several men. This is a duplicate 
of several reports from different localities.. 
.Last week’s total shipments of live 
stock to foreign ports from New York con¬ 
sisted of 3,792cattle, and 122 sheep with 10.- 
430 quarters of beef. Boston shipped 2,000 
cattle and 7,082 quarters of beef; Baltimore 
3,848 cattle, ana Philadelphia 490 beeves 
and 2,000 quarters of beef. Prices of Amer¬ 
ican beef are well sustained in England.... 
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