JULY 24 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday. July IV. 1886. 
Kansas Prohibitionists uoininated a full 
State ticket nt Emporia, Wednesday.... . Same 
day the Dakota Constitutional Convention at 
Sioux Palls decided. 81 to 30. not to submit to 
a popular vote the proposition whether South 
Dakota shall not declare itself a State. Will, 
probably, wait now for admission to Statehood 
by Congress. . .Since Prohibition, bibulous 
Rhode Islanders get drunk in Massachusetts, 
just over the line—State so small that the 
“line” is not far from any part of it.... ..N. H., 
Prohibitionists go in for a straight State tick¬ 
et.A decision of the Superior Court at 
Atlanta Gn.. Wednesday, says it is against the 
law to sell liquor by the quart, and furnish 
glasses so that it may be divided up and drank 
at the bar. Liquor stores closed in consequence. 
..Thesystem of leasing out convicts to contrac¬ 
tors to labor on public works, in vogue in many 
of the. Southern States, is generally considered 
barbarous by the best part of the population. 
Often atrocious cruelties are practiced on the 
wretched felons by overseers worse than the 
worst slave-drivers, and at best their hard¬ 
ships are almost intolerable - hence frequent 
mutinies, murders of guards and vain attempts 
to csca pe.150 convict coalminers at 
Cole City, Ga„ have been on a “strike” but 
after two days in a stockade without food or 
water, they suTrended Wednesday... 
_The first tin ore ever rained in the TV ostern 
Hemisphere arrived in Chicago "Wednesday 
from the Black Hills on its way to Eastern 
factories. The tin deposits in the Black Hills 
are thought to underlie7,000 square miles, and 
when the business is fully developed, we’ll have 
enough tin for our own use and lota to export. 
Onr imports now amount to $30,000,000 a 
vear........ Over 3,000 strikers at. the currying 
shops and 54 tanneries at Peabody and Salem, 
Mass. Higher wages and shorter hours de¬ 
manded—both sides firm..A pover¬ 
ty-stricken cooper named Carlisle D. Graham, 
built a stout barrel and entering it. after the 
head had been fastened on. allowed it to shoot 
down the Niagara River below the Falls, and 
through the whirlpool, Sunday last. The 
foolhardy fellow i= now making money by ex¬ 
hibiting himself and his barrel._•. 
.Five surrendered Apache Indians say 
Geronimois severely wounded, and is now in 
the Sierra Madres. while his son has charge 
of the, Uostiles. These are divided into small 
bands, most of which are inside a triangle, 
with Mexican troops on both sides, and 
Americans at the base. Nearly all the oav ah y 
of our army are worn out, in hunting the tire¬ 
less savages, A speedy surrender or annihila¬ 
tion is once more promised. More outraged, 
mutilated and slaughtered victims found. 
.Canadian Indians in the Northwest 
reported starving, as “large quantities” ol the 
Government provisions sent them, stick to the 
hands of dishonest agents.The 
Mass. Legislature has appropriated 820,000 for 
the entertainment of the President, should he 
visit the State this Summer. Dr - 
Nott’s experiments d let Pasteur, have been 
abandoned after four inoculations of the 
Newell boy. There ought to have been 10, 
but the boy became sick and nervous after 
each operation; and his father refused to have 
them continued. Dr. Nofct says he can’t afford 
to treat dog-bitten persons without, public sup¬ 
port. The boy is reported to be showing symp¬ 
toms of rabies.. Rear Admiral John A. Worden, 
the hero of the Monitor, died at Newport, R. 
I„ Sunday night.. It is estimated 
that the use of natural gas in Pittsburg and 
vicinity now annually displaces 47/(00,000 
bushels of coal.The losses by fire in 
the United States and Canada between Janu¬ 
ary 1 and June 30, are placed at $58,900,000, 
or $3,000,000 in excess of the loss during the 
same period of last year. 
. .Forest Urns have caused great destruction 
of timber and crops near Marquette, Mich.... 
Numerous other fires are reported in various 
parts of the couutiy, and others still more 
numerous and disastrous are feared owing to 
the dry state of all vegetation, clue to the long 
continuance of torrid weather.h>ing 
Sing prison, N. Y., cleared $0,000 in June. 
With Ferdinand Ward and other financial ge¬ 
niuses within its walls, oughtn’t it have clear¬ 
ed $6.000,000?.The President has just 
announced that Government, employe?* must 
not use their offices to meddle in politics. 
... .The Committee of Ways and Means (Mor¬ 
rison Chairman) lias reported adversely against 
the Randal tariff hill... 
John T. Patrick, Commissioner of Immigra¬ 
tion for North Carolina, is at No. 1 Broadway, 
this city, trying to induce immigration from 
the North and Northeast. He says: “North 
Carolina has 52,000 square miles of land and 
1,500,000 people, A million are white and the 
balance blacks. The State can accommodate 
10,000,000 people.”.... A revolution has broken ’ 
out in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, and it 
is feared it will extend along the Rio Grande. 
Government troops flocking to suppress it,; no 
conflict yet. It is thought the General Gov¬ 
ernment has a hand in it, as it wants to put 
the State under military rule.After 
three weeks of constant effort a jury of 12 men 
has been at last obtained to try the Chicago 
Anarchists. An attempt has been made to get 
a man on the jury who would be sure to vote 
for the acquittal of the miscreants, so as to 
“hang” the jury instead of the conspirators, 
$2,U0U having been offered as a bribe, but the 
jury fixers are reported to have failed... 
Reports that Powderly will run for the Gov¬ 
ernorship of Pennsylvania... — The Eastern 
Green Glass Bottle Association in convention 
at Atlantic City, N. J M have voted to join 
the Knights of Labor.. .... 
... .Suits are being instituted by the Federal 
Government against a large mimberof wealthy 
Saginaw Valley lumbermen for trespass on 
the Isabella Indian Reservation in Michigan, 
whence they are charged with taking timber. 
.... Frightened by the monstrous growth of 
the River and Harbor Bill, due to logrolling, 
the Senate Committee on Commerce offers an 
amendment scaling down every item, good 
and bad, 25 per cent.It is reported that 
a new extraditiou treaty has been negotiated 
between this country and the British Empire, 
by which dynamiters will be surrendered. It 
is also expected that the dishonest rascals of 
this country will no longer find a safe refuge 
in Canada; nor those of Canada find one on 
this side of the line. Other provisions still 
unknown.Severe wind storms raged, 
Wednesday, in Penn., Ohio, Tml. and Mich., 
being specially furious in Eastern Ohio and 
Western Penn., where many houses were 
wrecked and great damage done to crops. In 
one county of Ind. no less than 100 buildings 
were thrown down; while in some sections 
corn, oats and fruit are said to be a total loss. 
, .The Chicago switchmen are still “out” and 
resolved to stay “out” as long as they are paid 
while idle, by the labor organizations of the 
country. The Lake Shore Road still maintains 
guards, and the strikers threaten to renew 
their harrassing tactics as soon as these arc 
removed.Investigation now being con¬ 
ducted shows the St. Louis House of Delegates 
(Board of Aldermen) are just, as corrupt 
“boodlcrs” as those of Chicago or New York. 
Bribery on all sides.The death of Rep¬ 
resentative Will iam H. Cole, of the Third Mary- 
land district, removes the sixth member of the 
House who has been carried off by sickness 
during this session of Congress.Mayor 
Harrison of Chicago, has vetoed the Aider- 
men's tunnel-gift ordinance, and no attempt 
has been made to pass it over the veto as the 
necessary two-third vote could not be obtained 
in face of the hurricane of public indignation. 
.... A remarkable raft of logs, bound together 
in the form of a cigar shaped cylinder, will lie 
started by sea from St. Johns, N. B., in a few 
days for New York, towed by a steamer. The 
cylinder is 400 feet long and contains 1,500,000 
feet of logs valned at $35,000. The object of 
this scheme is to save $8,000 duty, as sawed 
timber is taxed, and logs enter free. 
.During the past six months 5,192 miles of 
railway, under 17 corporations, have been sold 
under foreclosure to satisfy $190,000,000 of in¬ 
debtedness, leaving out in the cold $138,000,000 
in stock.Drugs are selling at 
prices in some cases one-third less than those 
obtainable three year's ago. Opium has 
fallen from $3.75 to $1.95 a pound; quinine 
from $L 70 to 50 or 60 cents an ounce, ou ac¬ 
count of the growth of richer barks in Ceylon 
1 and Java: cod liver oil from $97 to $27, and 
some other standard drugs equally. 
_The Gould Southwestern strike is reported 
to have cost the K. of L. $100,000 for contri¬ 
butions and expenses, while the men lost over 
$1,000,000 of wages; and the cost to the 
Missouri Pacific Road alone, against which 
the strike was chiefly directed, amounted to 
$3,500,000, The losses to merchants, fanners, 
manufacturers and the trade and industry of 
the country must have been enormous, the 
loss to Chicago alone being put at $1,500,(MX). 
What was gained for so enormous an outlay?. 
.The act of Congress, approved June 29, 
1886, reducing the fee from eight to five cents 
on domestic money orders nob exceeding $5, 
goes into effect on July 29..... .The Re¬ 
publican convention of Kansas has re-nomin¬ 
ated Gov. Martin, and emphatically, but a 
trifle indefinitely, declared that “the saloon 
must go.”...A new colony of Okla¬ 
homa boomers was to start ou July 15, num¬ 
bering, perhaps, 2,500, with subscriptions said 
to amount to $02,000, Major Sumner, iu com¬ 
mand of the “hoys in blue” there, has ordered 
the Indians on the west of Oklahoma to plow 
five yards around their ranges, as he intends 
to burn every spear of grass except that need¬ 
ed by the Indians and their stock, so that the 
jnvaders, having no feed for their stock, will 
be starved out.Paul H. Hayne, the 
Southern poet, was buried Sunday,at Augusta, 
Georgia... 
... .The Government has paid the fines of the 
fishing vessels seized by the Canadians and 
has made a demand on the English Govern¬ 
ment. for re-embursement.Yesterday 
Representative James Laird, of Nebraska, 
struck Representative Thomas R. Cobb, of 
Indiana, a violent blow in the face for “giv¬ 
ing him the lie,” iu one of the lobbies of the 
House. More blood flowed from Cobb’s nose 
that, has been shed in Congress since Brooks 
assaulted Sumner nearly 30 years ago—a 
big scandal. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, July 17, 1886. 
There are this morning only three electa ms 
still to be held in Ireland and eight in Great 
Britain, and all will be closed to-day except 
those for the Orkney and Shetland Islands, 
which are fixed for July 26. The present po¬ 
sition of the parties is as follows; Conserva¬ 
tives, 315; Unionists, 72; Gladstonians, 191; 
Parnellites, S3. The Conservatives and Union¬ 
ists have polled 1,485,179 votes aud the Glad¬ 
stonians and Parnellites 1,416,612. Gladstone 
will probably resign either before Parliament 
meets on August 5, or immediately afterward. 
Neither he nor the Parnellites are a bit dis¬ 
couraged. In view of the shortness of the 
time for organization before election, of the 
dense ignorance and prejudices of many of 
the voters, of the split in the Liberal party, of 
all the hostile social influences of the aristo¬ 
cracy and plutocracy of the United Kingdom, 
and of the gross misrepresentations and false¬ 
hoods of his opponents, the G. O. M. has polled 
a splendid popular vote. Seven months ago 
Home Rule was advocated by only a handful 
of Irish members of Parliament; now it is the 
declared policy of the Liberal party of the 
United Kingdom, championed by the most in¬ 
fluential statesman of Parliamentary history. 
The Conservatives are 21 votes short of 
an absolute majority, and in no case can 
they gain more than a few more votes. 
If they undertake the Government they 
must secure the supjxirt of the Unionists, 
and such a composite Cabinet cannot last.. 
Home Rule is deferred, not defeated. Another 
disolution of Parliament and another election 
are probable ore long. Meanwhile the Liber¬ 
als will educate the people up to Home Rule; 
many new voters—thorough Gladstonians—will 
lie registered, and the results at next election 
are likely to favor the Old Parliamentary 
Hand. What the Conservatives and Unionists 
most desire is to stave off legislation on the 
matter until Gladstone dies or is unable to 
work. If he lives a few years more, not only 
is Home Rule assured, but the downfall 
of the House of lords as is at present 
constituted, is pretty certain. 
. .More riots in Belfast begun by an attack of 
Orangemen on Catholics. Police interfered. 
Catholics retired, and Orangemen attacked 
the police for preventing them from attack¬ 
ing the Catholics. Several deaths and a num¬ 
ber of severely’ wounded in the hospitals—riots 
becoming chronic in the place. A Nationalist 
meeting at Rtewurtstown, Thursday, was at¬ 
tacked by Orangemen, and many were serious¬ 
ly injured. A number of other riots also re¬ 
ported. It is thought that there is a deliber¬ 
ate plan to force the Irish Catholics into vio¬ 
lence, bo as to give an excuse'for coercion under 
a Conservative Government. The Nationalist 
leaders earnestly urge peace on their follow¬ 
ers as by far the best policy. 
The French Chambers closed last. Thursday. 
The Due d’An male and the Due do Chartres, 
Princes of the Orleans family, having been 
expelled from the French army and from 
France, vigorously protested against their ex¬ 
pulsion from the army, as an officer’s commis¬ 
sion is his property. Gen. Boulanger, the fiery 
Minister of War, said iu the Assembly that he 
wouldn’t tolerate an insolent letter like 
d’Aumale’s. Legitimist Deputy Lareiut.y 
said to thus insult the absent was an act of 
cowardice, and all the monarchical members 
indorsed him. A duel between him and Bou¬ 
langer takes place this morning. I he latter is 
becoming extremely popular, ou account, of 
the energy with which he has placed the ai my’ 
on a war footing and his out-and-out republi¬ 
canism. Many see in him the “ coming man” 
in Prance. 
... .Cholera is spreading iu Italy. Yesterday 
the official returns were; Brindisi, 75 new 
cases, 44 deaths; Fontana, 37 new cases, 19 
deaths; Latiauo, 16 new cases, 7 deaths; Codi- 
goro, 7 new cases, 2 deatlis; \ enice, I new 
case, 1 death. There were also eight uew 
coses and three deaths at Trieste, which lie- 
longs to Austria, and «ix cases and two deaths 
at. Fiumo. The fatality among those attacked 
is greuter than ever before; aud the cramps in 
the bowels are excessively severe, death often 
occurring within an hour after the attack.... 
. .Fresh gold discoveries iu the northern part 
of Western Australia. Glowing accounts in 
Sidney—likely to be the largest gold fields ever 
found in Australia. The Govenment geolo¬ 
gist estimates the area of auriferous deposits 
at 3,500 to 4,000 square miles. A rush of dig¬ 
gers to Sidney on the way to the new fields... 
.There was a tremendous series of earth¬ 
quakes iu the northern part of New Zealand 
the other day r —the worst known in the present 
generation. Blazing volcanoes suddenly 
started aloug a mountain range 60 miles long. 
For hundreds of miles the country is covered 
with mud and ashes belched out to a prodigi- 
nous bight. Vessels 250 miles out at sea were 
enveloped in darkness produced by clouds of 
ash&s which covered deck and rigging. Atone 
time it seemed probably the whole island 
would sink, so great was the commotion of 
heaving earth, blazing mountains and scoria- 
charged air. Deaths numerous; damages 
heavy, though the section that suffered most 
was only thinly populated. Full particulars 
not at hand yet. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, July 17, 1886. 
Oswego County, N. Y., has shipped 45 
car-loads of strawberries this season to New 
York City, amounting to over 500,000 quarts— 
freight from $175 to $200 per car-load. 
.A colony of farmers, discouraged by the 
numerous droughts and the failures of many 
crops iu succession, and the great ravages of 
chinch bugs, are about to start from Centra- 
lin, Ill., to settle iu Oregon.Reports 
still come of horrible sufferings from drought 
in Western Texas, where “rain hasu’t fallen in 
some places for 14 months!” The surviving 
cattle are parched and starving. In some 
places “settlers are selling their farms for 
mere trifles and leaving for the east in abject 
poverty”. The losses in cattle are put at over 
$6,000,000. Texas Congressmen tiro asking 
the Government for help for the suffering 
settlers...In one nay lately there were 
landed in London 10,000 baskets of cherries, 
weighing 700 tons, from Rotterdam. These 
cherries, grown in Holland, were valued at 
two glide re (about 80 cents) per basket.. 
A frost Thursday, at Warren, Mass., killed 
beans aud potato vines.In the lately 
civilized Islands of Fiji is the largest sugar- 
mill in the world, crushing between its rollers 
15 tons per hour, or nearly 7,000 tons in a 
week. The crop, cut annually, yields at the 
rate of two tons of cane jut acre, and a fleet 
of three steamers, six steam launches, 50 iron 
punts of 60 tons each, and 10 lighters of ISO 
tons each, are engaged in transporting c'ane 
from the plantations to this mill. Nearly au 
the work is done by dark laborers.Chi¬ 
cago’s new ilog license law says: “License, one 
dollar; no license, no tag; no tag, no dog. 
$35,000 are expected under the law, against 
$11.5(H) under the old.Over 700,000 
pounds of English washed combing wool have 
been bought at the London sales for America. 
.Only 12 bales of foreign wool were 
received in Boston last week, against 2,074 
bales for the same week in 1885.The 
English J'rivy Council Inspectors have been 
unable to discover any trace of contageous 
diseases in 08,000 cattle and 39,000 sheep im¬ 
ported from Canada.. ..Exports from New 
York last Friday and Saturday included 950 
live cattle and 3,100 quarters of beef. 
The exjxirts of live Stock and dressed meats 
from Boston for the English markets last 
week were 900 cattle anil 3,320 quarters of 
beef. American cattle and dre*Kcd beef are 
unusually low-priced in Englun l just. now. 
Best American live cattle are dull in English 
markets at 12c. to 12‘^c. estimated dressed 
weight.A cattle car has boon patented 
which has au arrangement of food bins, feed¬ 
ing sack aud water trough <>f novel construc¬ 
tion, so contrived that the car may be used to 
carry cattle in one direction and freight or 
merchandise on the return trip, the feediug 
boxes being adapted to fold back out of the 
way.___ 
Hay Fever. 
This malady is an index of a condition of 
the system which should be thoroughly 
changed. That this is possible is shown by 
many letters from patients. The following is 
an example: 
From Rev. T. J. Taylor, Warrenton, N. C., 
Oct. 21, 1885.—“Some time in August I or¬ 
dered a Treatment of Oxygen for my aunt. 
She had suffered with hay fever regularly 
every year for fifteen years. When I or¬ 
dered the Compound Oxygen her annual 
attack of hay fever had already commenced, 
and as you did not promise relief after the 
commencement of the attack, we were not 
very hopeful. But to our astonishment and 
joy the Oxygon relieved her at once, and only 
ou one evening after she commenced the 
Treatment, and then only for a few hours, did 
she have any considerable trouble with her 
hay fever. Though she really had hay fever, 
it. was so slight after she commenced using the 
Oxygon, that she was scarcely conscious of it. 
1 do not know what Compound Oxygen will 
do for bay fever in general, but this case of 
fifteen yearn standing was mastered by it. 
You are at liberty to use this in any way you 
may see proper, for the good of hay fever 
victims. 1 believe it will cure buy fever. It 
did it in this case at any rate.” 
Drs. Starkey & 1'alen, 1529 Arch St., 
Pbila. Pa., publish a monograph on Hay Fever 
which is sent free to all interested. Numerous 
cures are reported.— Adv. 
