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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
DEC i 4 
t'W5 Of W)t Wuk. 
HOME NEWS. 
ports the Northern and Southern Farmers’ 
Alliances, the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit As¬ 
sociation and the Agricultural Wheel have 
consolidated, and the Knights and the new 
organization are now in consultation with 
a view to co operation rather than confed¬ 
eration.......A factory at Newtown 
_ near this city has for a long time been 
_ turning out cart-loads of sausages every 
SATURDAY, December 7, 1889. day. and it has only just been discovered 
The first session of the 51st Congress be- that they have all been made of horse flesh, 
gau at Washington last Monday. In accor- The proprietor is defiant as there is no law 
dance with the decision of the caucus of against such an industry. 
Republican members held a few days pre- ^ ie ^ aw against the publication of Sunday 
viously, Mr. Reed, of Maine, was elected papers is strictly enforced in Canada, but 
Speaker, next to the President the most in- Hie profane public greedily buy up papers 
fluential official in the country. He’ll have published in the United States on the Sab- 
a mighty hard job for the next fortnight hath, and now the Canadian publishers are 
fixing about 58 committees so as to give a crying out for protection.A large 
Republican preponderance in each and P art of the 10,000 population of Key West, 
satisfy everybody.The President’s ™ a -* has for years consisted of Cuban 
message approved of subsidies for Ameri- cigar-makers. They have nearly all gone 
can steartiships under the guise of “liberal- home : out of 179 cigar factories only one 
ly remunerative” appropriations for ocean remains open.A New Jersey farmer 
mail service. It urged national aid for the bequeated to Henry George $80,000 to be 
education of the colored people of the spent in disseminating his ideas. The heirs 
South and the supervision of the election of contested the will on the ground that such 
Congressmen by the Federal authorities. an object was against public policy. The 
It says the tariff should be revised but dis- courts have decided to the contrary and the 
tinctly insists that “ protection ” and not money will be expended for printing a large 
“revenue” should be mainly considered. edition of “ Progress and Poverty ” to be 
It suggests that the tobacco tax might be distributed among farmers for what it will 
repealed, and the whisky tax modified. It bring.The manufacturers of barbed 
takes both sides on the silver question. w j re fences have at last formed a “com- 
It recommends the transfer of the Weather bine ” to put up prices under the name of 
Bureau to the Department of Agriculture the Federal Steel Trust. The present rates of 
and indorses the recommendations of Secre- duty on barbed wire and its materials 
tary Rusk.After a long illness Jef- range from 70 to 100 per cent., so what’s to 
erson Davis, President of the late Con- prevent an extortionate monopoly ?. 
federacy, died at a friend’s house in New In his message President Harnson suggests 
Orleans, at 12:45 Thursday night, December that the Sandwich Islands should be re- 
5, aged 81. quested to send a representative to the Pan- 
Senators Reagan, Sherman and George American Congress. It is thought that 
have already introduced three anti-Trust this is an indication that Secretary Blaine 
bills into Congress.The President’s wants to add that convenient half-way sta- 
message strongly favors improved car-coup- tion between America and Australasia to 
lings for the benefit of brakemen ; but con- this country. There’s much trouble there 
tains not a word about the deadly car stove. no . w about Chinese immigration. The 
..Senator Edmunds favors the estab- chief industry of the islands is sugar pro- 
lishment of a grand national university at Auction, and this is made profitable almost 
Washington in celebration of the 400th an- entirely by Chinese cheap labor. There are 
niversary of the discovery of America in- 19,217 Mongolians now on the islands, or 20 
stead of a World’s Fair anywhere. percent, of the population. They have 23 
A gigantic hank, with a capital of $25,000,- I )er cent, of the licenses for wholesale mer- 
000 of English and American money, to be chandising; 62 per cent, of the retail mer- 
operated under the English “Liability chandising; 84 per cent, of the victualing 
Act,” with headquarters in London and licenses; 91 percent, of the pork butchers’ 
branches in Philadelphia, New York, and licenses; 57 per cent, of wholesale spirit 
Chicago, is about to be established. There licenses, and a large proportion of other 
will be smaller branches in the chief finan- licensed occupations. There are about 600 
cial centers of continental Europe. Chinese mechanics to 700 of other 
C. Edward Silcott, Cashier of the Sergeant- nationalities... 
at Arms of the House of Representatives at Kansas City has just added 22 square miles 
Washington, D. C., has just absconded, °f prairie to her corporate limits. 
taking with him $72,000, which he had The people of Iowa voted to put Prohibi- 
drawn from the U. S. Treasury to pay Con- t lon into the State Constitution, but their 
§ ressmen, besides $10,000 belonging to the intention was defeated by legislative bung- 
ergeant-at-Arms Leedom ,the Democratic Now that the majority have changed 
official of the last House, who has not yet their minds and elected a legislature op- 
surrendered the office to the new Republi- posed to Prohibition, Local Option and 
can Sergeant, Holmes of Iowa. The fugi- High License are likely to be embodied in 
tive also took $11,000 belonging to Congress- Hie laws.An official statement 
men for back pay which hadn’t been drawn, reduces the losses by that big Lynn fire 
making, in all, $93,000. He was under from $10,000,000 to $1,009,500! Some of the 
bonds for $50,000 and his bondsmen are shoe manufacturers will go South ; several 
good. It is thought that investigation may intend to settle in Norfolk, Ya. 
show that the loss is as high as $142,000. The Kaweah Co-operative Colony in the 
The rascal took with him a notorious San Joaquin Valley, California, from which 
woman and left a wife, children and grand- such great things were expected by enthu- 
children without a cent. He is supposed to siasts who believed in the theories enun- 
have found congenial refuge among the dis- ciated by Bellamy in “Looking Back- 
honest American colony in Canada. Of ward,” after flourishing for three years in 
course, it nowcomes out that the business the foot-hills, 35 miles from Visalia, ap- 
of the Sergeant-at Arms’Office was carried pears to be going the way of all such en- 
on in a very slip-shod fashion. terprises. Those who have invested money 
Governor Mellette of South Dakota has * n —and folks in all parts of the country 
found 650 families in Miner County in ur- have done so to a greater or less extent- 
gent need of help to carry them through are likely to meet the fate of the investors 
the winter. Donations may be sent to him. that Topolobampo Colony in Sinaloa, 
.Baltimore is getting a large share Mexico.Many of the school-houses 
of the shipment of grain to Europe, while °f Dakota have been provided with barrels 
Philadelphia elevators are almost empty. of water, potatoes, beans, coffee and cook- 
Last Wednesday nine steamships were ing utensils in case of a blizzard siege. 
chartered for the business in the Monu- count just completed the amount of 
ment City, and the Quaker City groans_ Uncle Sam’s cash in the Sub-Treasury in 
.The old Mouongahela House at Pitts- New York City is $183,253,206.08 in gold, 
burgh has just been cremated: no lives lost. silver, etc. 
.At the close of the war there were 
6,000 colored children in the schools of * 
Georgia, now there are 150,000. F'rpRT 3 'Tr , xT xttt'wo 
As regards the World’s Fair, New York has * OREIGN NEWS. 
already raised $5,175,000 as a guarantee - 
fund and is slowly going ahead to make it „__ _. , _ 
$10,000,000. She asks no financial aid Saturday, December 7, 1889. 
from Congress, but intends to incorporate After three years of unparalleled hard- 
a company with a capital of $20,000,000 in ships, of heroic endurance, marvelous re- 
$10 shares. In spite of the loud talk of sources and indomitable pluck, the great- 
most of the papers, there is very little, if est traveler and explorer that ever lived 
any, enthusiasm about the matter. Chicago the peer of the most undaunted heroes of 
has a guarantee fund of $10,000,000. but all the ages, Henry M. Stanley, readied the 
New } orkers say that hardly a third of it coast at Bogamoyo, near Zanzibar, last Wed- 
is genuine. The Windy City, however, is nesday with Emin Pasha and the other 
exerting herself vigorously all over the coun- rescued whites. His geographical discov- 
try to secure influence in favor of her selec- e: ies are wonderful and valuable Very 
tion as the site, and has lately begun to justly, all nations, from the sovereign to the 
operate in Europe. St. Louis has a guar- peasant, join in honoring the hero and the 
antee fund about equal to Chicago’s and chivalrous Emin also. After escaping 
probably with the same amount of infla- death in multitudinous forms in Central 
tion, and is steadily working in her own Africa, the latter has probably met it just 
behalf. Washington is “ lying low ” in after his arrival at Bagamoyo. Being very 
hopes that the rivalry of the others will near-sighted, he walked out of a window by 
give her the big show. A considerable mistake and fell 20 feet upon the pavement 
majority of the Congressmen who have His body was terribly bruised and his head 
g iven an opinion on the matter favor seriously injured. At last reports he was 
hicago ; but more than half of them de- dying. 
clined to express their views. A project for building a monstrous bridge. 
On December 3, the annual convention of over 20 miles long, across the English 
the Farmers’ Alliance of the South, also Channel, connecting France and England 
known as the Farmers’ and Laborers’ is taking substantial shape. The project 
Union, began at St. Louis. Over 300 del- of building a connecting tunnel was vetoed 
egates were present. At the same time by the English government as likely to 
delegates to a convention of the Northern make an invasion possible Wouldn’t a 
Alliance met at the Planter’s House. They bridge be equally hazardous’ There’s 
numbered 75 and represented the State or- an epidemic of influenza at St Petersburg 
ganizations of Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, The Czar and the imperial family have 
Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, the been afflicted just as badly as 50,(MX) others 
Dakotas, Colorado and Washington. Del- .A famine is threatened in eight 
egates were present in the city also from southern districts of India owing to a total 
the Farmers’Mutual Benefit Association, failure of crops .Strikes were hard- 
the Agricultural Wheel and the Knights ly ever so numerous in England and several 
of Labor. Telegraphic reports of the pro- monstrous ones are threatened. In nearly 
ceedings have been extremely meager, in all cases the men get all or most of their 
view of the importance of so large an as- demands. In South London 1,780 men at 
semblage of representatives of Agriculture the gas works threaten to go out on Deeem- 
and Labor.^ According to the latest re- ber 13, and the gas work men at Manches¬ 
ter, as required by law, have given notice 
that they will also strike.The 
United States of Brazil appear to be get¬ 
ting along admirably. There has been no 
fighting, and foreign countries seem well 
disposed towards the new Republic. In 
the southern part of the country about 200,- 
000 Germans have settled to escape the 
grinding militarism and taxation of the 
Fatherland, and Bismarck seems desirous 
that they should start a little government 
of their own under German protection, 
but nothing serious is likely to come of the 
matter. 
The Tory Government in England is to in¬ 
troduce into Parliament a bill making an 
appropriation of from $35,000,000 to $50,000- 
000, for the purpose of buying out the land¬ 
lords in Ireland, and selling the land, on 
the installment plan, to the tenants. This 
is only the first Tory demand for the pur¬ 
pose. Under the Ashbourne Act passed in 
1881, $25,000,000 were appropriated by the 
Liberal Ministry for the purpose ; but this 
has been all expended.While all 
the rulers of Europe are talking peace as¬ 
siduously, they are all industriously in¬ 
creasing their fighting strength, busily 
building new fortifications and strengthen¬ 
ing old ones, and spending vast sums on 
improved cannons, rifles and gun-powder. 
The dock-yards of all the naval powers are 
alive day and night. Larger armies, more 
powerful fleets and bigger appropriations 
are constantly demanded in the name of 
-peace. ... 
“ The Fiberite M’f’g Corp. of Skowhegan, 
Maine, have acquired the sole right to manu¬ 
facture the Symmes Hay and Grain Caps, 
and although they are making every effort 
to be in a position to fill orders for the com¬ 
ing season, it will be wise for the farmer to 
send in his order early in order to secure 
them in time. Send for circular .—A dv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
SATURDAY, December 7, 1889. 
It is said that no stallion is allowed to 
stand for service in Italy unless his sound¬ 
ness has been certified by a commission ap¬ 
pointed for each province in the kingdom. 
.... ; .Robert Bonner keeps adding 
to his stock of trotters. He recently visited 
the Palo Alto farm, and Sunol his latest 
acquisition, was brought out for her new 
owner to see. After warming up, she was 
speeded for a single quarter which she 
made in seconds, a 2:05 gait. Mr. 
Bonner was delighted with the mare, and 
says that she will make a mile in 2 :05 an¬ 
other year. The eight-year-old stallion 
Ansel was brought out for Mr. Bonner to 
look at, and he was so pleased with his gait 
that he bought him on the spot for $10,000. 
He will be sent East and used for stock 
purposes.Prior to 1889, there were 
847 horses having a record better than 2:20 ; 
the list has been increased to 423 the past 
season. 
The Ohio State Horticultural Society wili 
hold its 23d annual meeting at Columbus, 
December 11-13. A feature of the meeting 
will be the large number of discussions on 
live horticultural topics. Liberal pre¬ 
miums are offered members, a large num¬ 
ber of papers from successful horticul¬ 
turists are promised, and a general good 
time is anticipated. W. W. Farnsworth, 
secretary, Waterville.It requires 
from 100,000 to 150,000 horses annually to 
supply the standing army in this country, 
and $200,000 are appropriated to pay for 
them. 
A shipment of 250,000 bushels of wheat was 
recently made from New Orleans to 
Uruguay, the first of the kind on record... 
.... .The Granite State Dairymen’s Associ¬ 
ation will hold its annual meetiug in con¬ 
nection with the State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture, at Plymouth, January 9th and 10th. 
Speakers of national reputation will ad¬ 
dress the meeting. J. L. Gerrish, secretary, 
Mast Yard, N. H.The ninth regular 
meeting of the American Horticultural So¬ 
ciety will convene at Austin, Texas, Febru¬ 
ary 17, next. Any person is eligible to 
membership who feels an interest in pro¬ 
moting the cause of American horticul¬ 
ture. Full particulars from the secretary, 
W. H. Ragan, Greencastle, Ind. 
Crops & liTarlids. 
Saturday, December 7,1889. 
The R. N.-Y. believes that the successful 
and profitable marketing of a crop is of as 
much importance to the grower as the pro¬ 
duction of the same. With this idea in 
mind, it is constantly on the lookout for 
new ideas in regard to improvements in the 
methods of handling and marketing farm 
products. Any improvement in this direc¬ 
tion that will tend to increased prices or 
diminished risks and losses in handling, is 
worthy of the support of every friend of ag¬ 
riculture. We nave from time to time 
noticed in this column the comparatively re¬ 
cent innovation of selling fruits at auction. 
Although the system has been in vogue for 
some 20 years in some of the larger English 
cities it is only within three or four years 
that it has been adopted here. 
California fruit-growers at first scouted 
the idea; now the two large associations 
that practically control all the shipments 
from that State say that the fruit must 
be sold at auction. Foreigu fruits are now 
sold almost entirely by this method. The 
B ast autumn New York State grapes and 
few Jersey sweet potatoes, and more re¬ 
cently, Florida oranges have been thus dis¬ 
posed of, in nearly all cases at satisfactory 
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January, showing In a “brief ’ costume, asks: " How 
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March, wit*> a tattered and torn umbrella and breezy 
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birds, who say : "We think of going South soon.’ 
Little October Interviews an owl to ask : "Have you 
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And Agent lor the Golden Gate Fruit Association of Sacramento, Cal., and 
Chautauqua Lake Grape Growers’ Association. Brocton. \. Y. 
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