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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
DEC 28 
1ms of iljt Wuk. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. December 21, 1889. 
THEm'llers of Pennsylvania are organiz¬ 
ing a combination for the purpose of mak¬ 
ing their own paper bags to beat the Paper 
Bag Trust.Unfortunate Johns¬ 
town, Pa., has just got a new charter from 
Governor Beaver, and has taken in Grub- 
town, Conernaugh, Woodvale, Prospect, 
Millville and Cambria, which together have 
a population of at least 10,000. 
In Congress Representative Dockery, of 
Missouri, has introduced a bill reciting 
widespread complaints that farmers do not 
receive a just return for their labor and 
capital, and that their homes and farms 
are generally mortgaged, and requiring the 
Superintendent of the Census to collect 
statistics of the owners and tenants and 
mortgage indebtedness.Bills 
are before Congress enacting a national 
bankrupt law and a national copyright 
law. The former protecting honest credit¬ 
ors from dishonest debtors and preventing 
fraudulent assignments is loudly demand¬ 
ed. There is no clamorous uproar in favor 
of the latter. Several bills 
provide for amendments of the Pre-emption 
and Homestead Laws looking to better 
conditions for honest settlers, and two at 
least provide for the forfeiture of unearned 
railroad grants.The nomination of 
Judge Brewer to a place on the bench of 
the United States Supreme Court to suc¬ 
ceed Judge Stanley Matthews has been 
confirmed by the Senate with 11 negative 
votes. The Prohibitionists and Anti-mon¬ 
opolists opposed him ; but no valid grounds 
for opposition by these parties appear to 
exist. 
A House bill provides for the promotion of 
meritorious seamen to the rank of com¬ 
missioned officers, and another appropriates 
many millions for the construction of new 
war vessels. Our present war-ships are 
manned, in great part, by foreigners ; and 
there’s just as much need of providing 
American sailors for our war ships as of 
providing the ships themselves . 
The Republicans have introduced a bill of 
30 pages for amending the tariff. Tariff 
amendment is a necessity for all parties. .. 
.The State debt of South Carolina 
amounts to about 80.000,000. and it is pro¬ 
posed to pay it off by selling the State’s 
rights to the vast phosphate beds which 
supply the world with fertilizing phos¬ 
phoric acid, for 87,000,000, to an English 
syndicate. The State now gets about 
8230.000 per annum from the sale of the pro¬ 
duct in the form of a royalty of 81 per ton. 
The projected measure is bitterly opposed 
by the interests already engaged in phos¬ 
phate mining and by the fertilizer manu¬ 
facturers; for if the beds are sold, the 
rovalty and therefore the cost of the pro¬ 
duct are likely to go up.In view of 
the certainty that the Sugar Trust will be 
declared illegal by the Court of Appeals of 
New York State, it is said that the mon¬ 
opoly has made all arrangements for trans¬ 
ferring its assets tc a new organization 
just started for the purpose in Connecticut. 
These Trusts have tne best legal talent in 
the country to instruct them how best to 
• e the laws. 
Leprosy is steadily spreading in this coun¬ 
try and Europe, and is causing considera¬ 
ble alarm among the medical faculty. 
.An unusual number of “annexation 
straws ” appear to be floating on the Cana¬ 
dian political stream just now, especially 
on the French-Canadian part of it. Indeed 
the thorough going Englishmen and their 
descendants appear to be the only strong 
opponents of the measure. They want all 
the advantages of Statehood in the way of 
free trade, without any of its responsibil¬ 
ities. Still a more generous measure of re¬ 
ciprocity would, no doubt, help the Do¬ 
minion without injuring the Union. 
.In spite of the decisions against the 
constitutionality of anti-dressed-beef legis¬ 
lation in other States, a bill against the 
sale of Western dressed beef is being vigor¬ 
ously pressed in the Virginia legislature. 
It is hardly likely that the legal objections 
that have proven fatal to such legislation 
elsewhere, can be avoided in the Old Do¬ 
minion.Early in this month Sec’y 
Mohler. of the Kansas Agricultural De¬ 
partment, reported quite favorably of that 
bursted sugar fraud at Mineola and other 
parts of Kansas, according to advices just 
received. 
The Russian influenza or grippe has not 
only spread over most of Europe; but it 
has also crossed the Atlantic and is preva¬ 
lent in New York and Boston, and there 
are reports that it has appeared in Kansas 
City. It’s annoying but not dangerous- 
— In the Cronin murder trial, in Chicago, 
Dan Coughlin, Patrick O’Sullivan and 
Martin Burke were pronounced guilty of 
conspiracy to murder by the jury, which 
fixed the penalty at imprisonment for 
life; John Kunze was found guiltv 
of manslaughter with three years’ 
imprisonment, and John F. Beggs was 
found not guilty. The. verdict was a com¬ 
promise. There were 11 “ obstinate ” jurv- 
men who refused to agree with another 
“ obstinate ” named Culver who insisted 
that all were not guilty. The 11 wanted to 
hang the accused; but Culver’s long- 
continued obstinacy would have “hung” 
the jury had the majority not agreed 
to compromise. The verdict meets 
with general disfavor; even the three 
wretches who were condemned to 
prison instead of the halter are dis¬ 
satisfied and have appealed. The wit¬ 
nesses’ expenses in the trial were about 
85,000; the legal expense, 830,000; the sten¬ 
ographers and type-writers assimilated 
810,000 and the jury 88.000. The total cost 
was about 8100,000 ; and doubtless before 
the case is finally settled this large sum 
will be more than doubled. Miscarriage of 
justice often costs more than justice 
itself.•. 
It is charged that the Live-Stock Inspec¬ 
tion Bill introduced into the last Missouri 
Legislature at Jefferson City, providing 
that no beef should be sold in the State 
unless it had b^en previously inspect¬ 
ed “ on the hoof,” was defeated by 
the absolute purchase of enough State 
Senators for 825,000 paid by the 
Dressed Beef Combine. The fight was 
chiefly between the butchers and the dressed 
beef men, and the latter raised just five 
times more boodle than the former could 
get together. The names of some of the 
bribed and the amounts they got for their 
corrupt votes are given. They “ won ” the 
“ swag ” in pretended poker games. 
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to any of your readers who have consump¬ 
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T. A. Slocum, M. C. 
181 Pearl St., New York.-- Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, December 21, 1889. 
At the recent meeting of the Connecticut 
Board of Agriculture, the culture of the 
Rhode Island Bent, an improved pasture 
grass was discussed. A table showing the 
economy of the home-mixing of fertilizers 
was presented, and called out a heated dis¬ 
cussion between the farmers aud some fer¬ 
tilizer manufacturers who were present. 
Dr. Jenkins as an expert, did not consider 
home-mixing an economy in all cases, but 
it would pay farmers to experiment on ac¬ 
count of the greater likelihood of getting 
pure materials. The Connecticut Farmers’ 
Convention held in connection with this 
meeting passed resolutions sympathizing 
with the Massachusetts farmers in their ef¬ 
forts to secure anti-oleomargarine legisla¬ 
tion. 
Many of the dealers in this city are opposed 
to the proposed ordinance to sell fruits and 
vegetables by weight. They say it would 
be impracticable, and would cause no end 
of trouble.Robert Bonner says 
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