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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
DEC 7 
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HOME NEWS. 
SATURDAY, November 30, 1889. 
Monday, lively little Lynn, Mass., the 
“Shoe City,” had the third greatest fire 
that ever cursed New England. Boston’s 
fire in 1872 caused between 8100,000,000 and 
$125,000,000 damages; Portland’s fire in 1866 
caused $12,000,000; the loss by Lynn’s which 
burnt up 160 acres in the heart of the place, 
is estimated at from $7,1)00,000 to $10,000,000 
.On Thanksgiving Day morning 
a fire broke out in the business part of Bos¬ 
ton and burned fiercely for eight hours be¬ 
fore it was controlled, causing a loss of 
between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000. 
An extra session of the West Virginia Leg¬ 
islature is to meet on the second Monday 
in January to decide on the contest be¬ 
tween the Republican and Democratic can¬ 
didates for Governor.“ Road 
agents ” out West were busy and luckv 
during the early part of the week. Within 
three days two stage robberies netted them 
$80,000, one yielding $50,000 and another 
$30,000, while by “standing up ” a railroad 
train, they cleared less than $2,000. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, November 16, 1889. 
The Sultan is reported to be willing to 
cede Turkish Armenia to the Czar in re¬ 
turn for the cancellation of the indemnity 
which Turkey agreed to pay at the close of 
the late Turko-Russian war; but which 
the bankrupt condition of her Treasury 
has prevented her from doing. Such a 
scheme may help to stave off the demise of 
the “Sick Man of Europe” for another 
generation, more or less.It is said that 
Russia and Germany have agreed that 
Prince Ferdinand shall be removed from 
the throne of Bulgaria in spite of the fact 
that the Bulgarians want him, and that 
the Treaty of Berlin provides for the free 
election of a Prince by the people, and the 
confirmation of their choice by Turkey 
with the consent of the Powers who signed 
the treaty. Should the Prince be driven 
out, Russia will have an opportunity to set 
up a puppet at Sofia, and will have a clear 
road for an advance on Constantinople.... 
There is in the Bohemian Diet a nationalist 
squabble that may ultimately lead to the 
partial disintegration of the Austro-Hun¬ 
garian Empire. Of the 5,500.000 population 
of the country (20,044 square miles in area) 
61 per cent, are Slavic Czechs, 37 per cent. 
Germans and about two per cent. Jews. 
The Germans inhabit the northernmost 
part of the country in compact masses and 
form a part of every city and town popula¬ 
tion, and the Czechs, the rest of the land 
For generations there has been a bitter con¬ 
test between the German and the Czech na¬ 
tionalities, and the hostility has been aug¬ 
mented by the successes of Prussia against 
Austria in 1866 and of Germany against 
France in 1870. In the Diet, composed of 
241 members, the Germans are greatly in 
the minority, and in order to show their 
disapproval of the proposed legislation the 
German members have absented them¬ 
selves since the opening of the session. The 
Nationalist majority has just declared that 
their absence is equivalent to resignation 
The Germans yearn for annexation to the 
Fatherland, and the Czechs for indepen¬ 
dence ; while Hungary is again plotting for 
the same object and Pan-Slavism is gaining 
ground in the outlying provinces of the 
g -eat heterogeneous Empire. 
razil has an area of 3,200,000 square miies 
and has, therefore, after Russia, the most 
extensive contiguous territory of any coun¬ 
try on the globe. It is divided into 20 prov¬ 
inces and its population, made up of many 
races, is probably about 11,000,000. Of 
these probably one-third are whites, the re¬ 
maining two-thirds being made up of mesti¬ 
zos,. mulattoes, cafusos (a cross between 
Indians and Africans) and civilized 
and savage Indians and negroes, the 
last being the most numerous unmixed 
race in the empire. Some of the Indian 
tribes are still cannibals. Since 1871 slav¬ 
ery has been gradually done away with, 
and was finally abolished about two years 
ago. Of late immigration has been quite 
heavy, especially from Germany, Switzer¬ 
land and Italy.Brazil produces four- 
fifths of the coffee consumed in the United 
States and over half of all used in the 
world, nearly all the finer grades being sold 
as Java, Mocha, Martinique or Bourbon. 
Sugar, cattle, hides, horns, tobacco, cotton, 
barks, gums, india rubber, etc., are the 
chief other exported products of the em¬ 
pire. The country has splendid transpor¬ 
tation facilities by water and of late years 
lines of railroad have multiplied rapidly. 
In 1807 when Napoleon declared war 
against Portugal, John VI. the reigning sov¬ 
ereign,took refuge with his family in Portu¬ 
gal’s most important dependency, Brazil, 
and on the fall of the Corsican, in 1815, Bra¬ 
zil became a kingdom, John being King of 
Portugal and Brazil. In 1822 Brazil sepa¬ 
rated itself from the “ Mother Country ” 
and was declared an empire under Dom 
Pedro I., son of John, who had been regent 
of kingdom. The latter abdicated in 
1831 and was succeeded by his son Pedro II. 
who has lately become widely known as 
the greatest imperial globe-trotter. One 
of his latest projects was to arm a militia 
100,000 strong as a check to the regular 
army 6,000 in number. The latter objected, 
and a fortnight ago, one of the generals re- 
volted and proclaimed the deposition of 
Pedro II. and the establishment of a re¬ 
public at Rio de Janeiro, capital of the 
empire, with a population of 450,000. 
Republicanism had long been steadily gain¬ 
ing ground, and the rest of the country 
quietly acquiesced in the movement. Dom 
Pedro, who is a sort of imperial Republican 
himself, quietly submitted, and having re¬ 
ceived a present of $2,800,000 cash, with an 
income of about $400,000 for himself and 
a continuance of the incomes already en¬ 
joyed by his family, he with the latter 
peacefully steamed away to Europe where 
all arrived safely and will winter at Cannes 
in the South of France. The new Republic 
has taken the name of the United States of 
Brazil, and assumed for its flag an imita¬ 
tion of ours with the Brazilian colors in¬ 
stead of the red, white aud blue. No 
Prince, King or Emperor now rules from 
Point Barrow to Cape Horn; though, of 
course, England and Holland, both mon¬ 
archical countries, still have possessions on 
the continent and Spain owns several of 
the West India Islands. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, November 30, 1889. 
There have been many conflicting re¬ 
ports in regard to widespread destitution 
in South Dakota. The Commissioner of 
Immigration says that many inexperienced 
and improvident people were attracted 
there, and many of them have made fail¬ 
ures as they probably would have done any¬ 
where. He asserts that while some farm¬ 
ers have lost two successive crops, every 
county of Dakota has surplus enough to 
supply all the destitute within its bound 
aries. The Governors of both the Dakotas 
concur in this opinion. 
The Indiana Horticultural Society will hold 
its 29tli annual meeting at Indianapolis, 
December 3—5. Papers from prominent 
horticulturists are expected on timely top¬ 
ics. Space will be provided for the exhibi¬ 
tion of fruits. C. M. Hobbs, secretary, 
Bridgeport.A market gardener 
near Chicago makes a business of growing 
and shipping Hubbard Sguashes to the New 
England markets. He has this year 30 
acres of his own growing, and he usually 
buys hundreds of tons of other growers. 
The stock is stored until January or Feb¬ 
ruary before shipping begins. A selling 
price of $35 to $40 per ton is said to pay well, 
though as high as $80 has been received. 
What is to hinder some enterprising farmer 
from making money growing squashes on 
some of those abandoned farms of which 
we read so much?. 
Last spring we mentioned the fact that the 
Illinois State Grange had offered a pre¬ 
mium of $10,000 for a practical mechanical 
device for binding grain with straw. Sev¬ 
eral models have been submitted, but only 
one was deemed satisfactory. The inven¬ 
tor, however { declines to accept this 
amount for his rights in the device. The 
committee say that the machine does its 
work much better than straw-binding is 
done by hand, and that it is more simple 
and easy of operation than the twine bind¬ 
er. .... .The 32nd Annual Meeting of the 
Missouri State Agricultural Society will 
be held at Lebanon, December 3-5. An ex¬ 
tended and varied programme is presented, 
liberal premiums are offered, and every 
arrangement has been made for an enter¬ 
taining apd profitable meeting. 
At the annual meeting of the American 
Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Association, 
held at Chicago, November 14th, tbe fol¬ 
lowing rules were adopted : “ Males red in 
color or with a noticeable amount of pure 
white above the underline, or on leg or legs, 
or with scurs, shall not be eligible to entry 
for breeding purposes, but the same, when 
reported as castrated, shall be accepted and 
counted under the rule requiring the cas¬ 
tration of one in 10 males.” Also that 
Rule 3, Section III. be amended by adding: 
“When an animal is a twin it shall be so 
stated and the sex given of the animal 
with which it is a twin. Should a twin be 
entered upon the record without such 
statement no subsequent application for 
the entry of an animal twin with the same 
will be accepted.” The price of Herd 
Books hereafter will be $2 per volume, 
postpaid to members, and $3 per volume, 
postpaid to non-members. 
The Red Polled Cattle Club of America 
had a rather stormy session in Chicago, No¬ 
vember 20. It is generally supposed that 
Polled cattle are more peaceable than those 
with horns, but their breeders seem to have 
had a considerable misunderstanding. An 
“ incorporated,” and an “unincorporated ” 
club now put forth a report. J. Me Lain 
Smith, secretary, Dayton, Ohio. 
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