AUG 28 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
of i!je Xt%-fu 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, August 21, 1886. 
The fund for Mrs. Hancock now amounts to 
$46,396. .The Canadian Pacific Railroad 
is considering the question whether it can 
carry wheat and flour into British Columbia 
to compete with American flour and wheat, 
■which is sent up from Oregon.The 
White Earth Indians in Minnesota, have signed 
a treaty, to be binding only when signed by 
those on the other reservations. It provides 
for the removal of the Red Lake, Leech Lake, 
White Oak Points, Boisford, Winnibagoshash, 
R.at Portage, 511116 Lacs, and Gull Lake tribes 
to White Earth Reservation, heads of families 
to have 160 acres, minors aged eighteen 80 
acres, and children 40 acres, with buildings, 
oxen, and rations for two years; at the end of 
fifty years the land to be deeded in fee simple- 
The other reservations are to be surveyed and 
sold by sealed proposals in forty-acre lots, the 
money to be hold by the United States at five 
per cent, as a fund for the benefit of all. Only 
the Red Lake and Leech Lake Indians are ex¬ 
pected to demur to this, their reservations be¬ 
ing more valuable than the rest....The 
Nebraska State Prohibition Convention met 
at Lincoln, Thursday, with over 400 delegates, 
representing 45 counties. After the adoption 
of a platform which touches every phase of 
the liquor question, besides setting forth the 
views of the party on labor, pensions, Sunday 
observance, and other questions, full State and 
Congressional tickets were nominated- 
New York labor organizations are to hold a 
convention at Syracuse, September 14. to force 
the Legislature to abolish the laws against boy¬ 
cotting, and give due attention to suggestions 
made by workingmen’s associations. 
Geronimo is reported to be at Erontierez, 
Mexico, trying to mt'ke peace with the Mexi¬ 
cans, for the professed purpose of having a re¬ 
treat to which he and his followers could bring 
their plunder after having made raids into 
New Mexico and Arizona, The old reprobate 
had his right arm iu a sling and was accom¬ 
panied by 40 bucks and two squaws. Geu. 
Miles has hurried forward two troops of cav¬ 
alry to demand the unconditional surrender 
of the outfit. Lieut. Lockett with the Pima 
Indians will occupy such positions in the 
mountains as to prevent escape. The Mexi¬ 
cans will co-operate, and as the “hostiles” 
“looked worn and hungry," they may be cap¬ 
tured or surrender. The Arizonians are 
warmly endorsing Miles's plan for the removal 
of all the Cliiricahua Indians from Arizona as 
the only means of securing lasting peace from 
these wild, fierce and indefatigable braves. 
The National Association of Ex-Prisoners of 
War at Buffalo, appointed a committee to in¬ 
vestigate the present pension laws with a view 
to their amendment iu the interests of all dis¬ 
abled ex-Union soldiers and sailors, said com¬ 
mittee to confer with a similar committee of 
the Grand Army of the Republic. Chicago 
was designated as the next place of meeting. 
....A shipment, of cottou by rail from 
Memphis to New Orleans, and thence by water 
to Liverpool, w-as made recently on through 
bill of lading at 26?(d., or 53J< cents a hun¬ 
dred. The rail rate from St. Louis to Boston 
is 54 cents, aud this slight, discrepancy prom¬ 
ises to create a disturbance in the local cotton 
and transportation circles.In Havana 
Cuba, 68 cigar factories working Partido to¬ 
bacco have been closed, 6,000 workmeu hav¬ 
ing struck for higher wages. 'The strike 
threatens to extend to the Vuelta A bajo fac¬ 
tories. The manufacturers have united to re¬ 
sist the demands of the workmen. 
.Cardinal Gibbous, of Baltimore, denies 
that Cardinal Tasc-hereau, of Quebec, in his 
late declaration of the Pope’s sentiment to¬ 
wards the Knights of Labor represents the 
real attitude of the Catholic Church to¬ 
wards that organization. The Canadian 
Cardinal’s hostility he considers due to some 
local law’ or conduct of the Knights: but his 
Church favors the Knights and all other or¬ 
ganizations of labor which have no laws op¬ 
posed to the doctrine or discipline of the 
Church.The President and wife are iu 
the Adirondack^ and have very fair fishing. 
.The 140tli call for the redemption of 
bonds was issued Thursday. It is for $10,000,- 
000 of the 3 per cent, loan of 1882. It is 
claimed that the Iowa Prohibitory law’ is in 
conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment to 
the Constitution of the United States. 
Five persons were killed by a boiler explosion 
at Oshkosh, Wis,, Monday. Sunday 
night’s storm originated iu Kansas and Ne¬ 
braska. At midnight it was central in Iowa, 
and at 6 A. M. Monday it was central over 
Lake Michigan. Thence it swept eastward 
over Northern Indiana and Ohio. Much dam¬ 
age T^as done all along its course, except in 
the burning woods of Wieonsin and Michi¬ 
gan, where it extinguished the fires.... 
Of the eight Auarchists on trial at Chicago 
the .-jury yesterday found August Spies, Mich¬ 
ael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert R. Par¬ 
sons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel and Louis 
Lingg guilty of murder, aud fixed the penalty 
at death. Oscar W. Neebe was found guilty 
as an accessory, as charged, aud the penalty 
was fixed at imprisonment for 15 years. Par¬ 
sons is the only American among them. There 
will no doubt be one appeal at least, probably 
several. Money for expenses has been liber¬ 
ally contributed by Anarchists here and in 
Europe. It may take over a year—yes, even 
two—before a final decision is reached. The 
Anarchists of this city met last night and 
made martyrs of the Chicago murderers. 
They also resolved to overthrow the present 
“ society of robbers,” and urged the resistance 
of force by force. They will, however, shoot 
off their mouths much oftener than their 
pistols.Dispatches from Galveston, 
Texas, reported that a violent easterly gale 
prevailed there yesterday. The city w'as par¬ 
tially inundated, and serious apprehensions 
were felt for the safety of the shipping an¬ 
chored in the outer roads. Six people wore 
drowned, houses floated about the streets in 
the lower part of the town near the Gulf, and 
the street, railroad along the beach was torn 
up. Heavy losses... 
....The Mexican trouble is quieting down 
somewhat. Secretary Bayard has sent Mr. 
Sedgwick, a lawyer of this city, to inves- 
gatethe state of affaire at Paso del Norte; 
perhaps it would have been better if he had 
done this before making a peremptory demand 
on Mexico for the unconditional surrender of 
the editor. The general opinion is that hither¬ 
to Mexico has had the best of the argument 
Little or no danger of war. Even fire-eating 
southern volunteers are becoming less belicose. 
.The Canadians are still ‘"persecuting” 
New England fishermen. Occasionally one of 
these is caught knowingly breaking the Do¬ 
minion regulations, but most of them do so 
with the utmost impunity. It is the detected 
sinner that howls, the others sin on in silence. 
.A great meeting of the Irish National 
League of America has been held at Chicago. 
Representatives of the Irish in Ireland and 
elsewhere were present. All went on harmon¬ 
iously. Parnell’s conservative course was 
heartily indorsed and he will continue to re¬ 
ceive the earnest support of “Irish-Americans” 
and all sympathizers with the cause he so ably 
advocates. The dynamiters had to take a back 
seat. Still there were all along subdued indi¬ 
cations that policy alone checked violent 
utterances and threats against the opponents 
of Home Rule. There -were also abundant, 
signs that many of the delegates would be sat¬ 
isfied with nothing short of the complete inde¬ 
pendence of Ireland. 
.Ex-Postmaster General James is said 
to have cast in his lot with the Prohibition¬ 
ists, who talk about nominating him for Mayor 
of New York.The Civil Service Com¬ 
mission are considering the project, of extend¬ 
ing the rules to post-offices that employ less 
th a n 50 men, the present minimum limit under 
cover of the service. Many offices employ 49, 
37 and 40 men, and the scheme is to extend 
this minimum limit from 50 do wu, say to 25. 
The Hartford fCt.) and Columbus (O.) offices 
have been found to be now within the limits of 
the law, and will soon be brought under the 
Civil Service rules. Clerks, letter-earners, 
messengers and special delivery boys all are 
counted as employes in making up this Civil 
Service limit.Keiley, the Minister re¬ 
jected by Italy and Austria, will go to Cairo, 
as Judge of the International Court of the 
Khedive.Measures for relieving the 
sufferers from forest fires in Northern Wiscon¬ 
sin have been taken. Houses will be built for 
i them and clothing and food supplied sufficient 
to last them through the Winter. The loss of 
farm property is very heavy; that of timber 
up among the millions. 
FOREIGN* NEWS. 
Saturday, August 21, 1886. 
Little foreign news of general interest 
this week—fortunately as there’s little room 
left for news here. Parliament has re-as¬ 
sembled, as It had adjourned to August 19, 
not September 19. as misstated by some of our 
dailies. The session is likely to be short, as it 
will end as soon as supplies to run the Govern¬ 
ment are obtained The Conservatives insist, 
that late elections settled the impossibility of 
Home Rule for all time; their opponents deny 
this. Coercion is not probable. A Locul- 
Self-Government Bill for the throe kingdoms 
is promised—Home Rule probably under u now 
name; but not so wide as Gladstone’s. Belfast 
riots over for the present. Local authorities 
greatly blamed, especially the Mayor. An 
investigation is to be made Into the cause of 
the chronic turbulence of the town. A Royal 
Commission is also to investigate the Irish 
land system, and to obtain information as to 
the best way to develop Irish industries. As 
Gladstone says, “the Irish Question is the 
question of the day”, and bars all general 
legislation for the rest of the Empire. 
.England congratulates America, and 
especially Chicago, on the conviction of the 
Anarchists. Englishmen are angry at the 
resolution of the Chicago Irish Convention to 
boycott English manufactures. Tt is sug¬ 
gested that the delegates from Canada and 
other British subjects should be prosecuted 
for treason on their return home. Negotia¬ 
tions for a friendly settlement of the fishery 
question are proceeding between England, the 
United States and Canada. 
Burmah, which the British rapidly conquered 
some months ago, is still giving a good deal of 
trouble, owing to the boldness and persistence 
of the Dacoits. robber bands, who overran the 
country outside of the British lines. The 
forces there are to be increased by 5.000 troops 
as soon as the cold season comes on. Major- 
General Herbert MaePherson is to be given 
supreme command. Ten thousand policemen 
will also be sent from India to maintain order, 
after the troops have subdued the insurgents.. 
The tenants of the London Salters Company’s 
estates at Maglierafelt, Londonderry, have 
purchased their holdings under the terms of 
Lord Ashbourne's Land Purchase Act. The 
price is £220.000, or nineteen and a half years’ 
purchase at the net annual valuation, which 
is 20 to 25 per cent, below’ the present rents. 
_The Duke of Leinster has arranged to sell 
to his tenants a large portion of his Kildare 
estates on an eighteen years’ purchase plan .. 
.In Italy the cholera is increasing. 
There is a rumor afloat in Rome that Queen 
Margharita is using her influence to bring 
about a reconciliation betweeu the Italian gov¬ 
ernment and the Papacy. Under the arrange¬ 
ment contemplated the Pope will, it is said, re¬ 
ceive from Italy arrears of endowment to a 
large amount, which will be devoted to ex¬ 
tending Catholic missions.The French 
government after having confiscated millions 
of dollars' worth of Church property, exiled 
the Jesuits, lowered the salaries of the clergy, 
secularized education and iu innumerable 
other ways despoiled and insulted the Catholic 
Church, is now angrily indignant because the 
Pope has sent a Nuncio to China to represent 
the Catholics in that Empire. Hitherto all, 
of whatever nationality, were under the “pro¬ 
tection" of France, which greatly increased 
French prestige in the country, and in the 
East generally. The Chinese wash the change 
and all other countries approve it except 
France. 
A number of presidents aud ex-presidents of 
the Central American republics of Salvador, 
Nicaraugun, Honduras, Costn Rica aud Guate¬ 
mala are in the city of Mexico trying to ar¬ 
range a plan for the union of those States iu 
one confederation, with the ultimate view of 
annexation to the Mexican Republic. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Aug. 21,1886. 
A telegram from Quebec, Wednesday, 
says, that all the cattle in Levis quarantine 
will be at once killed to prevent the spread 
of contagious pleuro-pneumonia. The herds 
are owned by Andrew Allen, Dr. Clark and 
A. Dawes, of Montreal ; Senator Cochrane, 
of Compton, and J. J. Hill, of St. Paul. The 
cost of the herds foots up $200,000 The en¬ 
tire appropriation made by Congress for our 
National Bureau of Animal Industry for the 
entire current year is $150,000. Out of this 
must be paid all the salaries and legitimate 
expenses of the staff, aud the eost of diseased 
animals slaughtered by their direction. 
Canada with its 4,000,000 population pays 
$50,000 more for one effort at one plare to get 
rid of pleuro-pneumonia among her herds than 
the United States, with 60,000,000 population, 
pay for numerous efforts during the whole 
year to got rid of pleuro-pneumonia, Texas 
fever, hog cholera and other contagious dis¬ 
eases amoug the live stock of the entire coun¬ 
try. The disease, whatever it may be, is the 
same on both sides of the St. Lawrence ; but 
the number of animals endangered is a dozen 
times greater on this side of the boundary 
line than on the other. 
... Favorable reports are being received from 
the experimental tohaceo crops in South Caro¬ 
lina. Toliacco of good quality is being pro¬ 
duced in some parts of the State, and the 
opinion is entertained that it will pay hand¬ 
somely A now industry has recently been 
started at Los Guimlos, Chili, in the shape of 
an establishment, for the manufacture of 
sugar from heetroot.The biggest ship¬ 
ment. of lard ever arranged for was contracted 
for last Tuesday at Chicago by the Plankiu- 
ton-Cudahy Mihvuukeo clique which is run¬ 
ning the September lard deal. Hoorn was en¬ 
gaged for 50,006 tierces of lard on one con¬ 
tract. This is $1,500,000 worth of property. 
If it went by rail it would take 800 freight 
cars. It is a contract by which nearly one- 
half of all the lard in store “at, Chicago moves 
out. It will go east by propellers, and all the 
propeller lines participate . 
_Oliver Dalrymple, the bonanza wheat 
grower of the Northwest, thinks there will be 
little or no shortage in the Dakota wheat crop, 
for the decrease from drought wall be made 
good by the increase of acreage.The 
United States troops at Fort, Washakie Wyom¬ 
ing, have orders to clear out all range cattle 
from the cultivated parts of the Crow Reser¬ 
vation, about the Big and Little Wind Rivers 
—an area 25 by 30 miles. The Indians com¬ 
plain that their crops are destroyed by white 
men’s cattle that have no right there. 
The census returns of the United Kingdom for 
1885 give a total of 29.940.200 domestic fowls 
in the British Isles, of which about two thirds 
are hens, etc., and one-sixth are ducks. There 
were a little over 3,000,000 geese and 1,288,000 
tnrkeys. . 
Crops & ftt arkds. 
Saturday, Aug. 21, 1886. 
The latest reports of the fruit crop confirm 
the forecast of the Rural Crop Special, dated 
July 10. Although this is generally the 
“bearing” year for apples, the yield of the 
trees will hardly be up to the average of 
bearing years in any part of the country. 
From 1,500 reports the New England Home¬ 
stead says that, in New England, although 
there is a large yield of Fall fruit, the reports 
indicate that the crop of Winter apples will 
be about 70 per cent of the usual even-year 
yield iu the six States. Iu the best apple 
counties of Vermont, along Lake Champlain, 
not two-thirds of a full even-year crop will 
be secured, while Maine reports a decrease of 
20 per cent, but both these States and New- 
Hampsliire will have a large surplus. Con¬ 
necticut has but half a crop and Massachu¬ 
setts only 89 per cent of a crop. The falling 
off in New-England, however, will be partly 
made up by the great crop in the apple sec¬ 
tions of Nova Scotia. Anapolis and King 
Counties last year exported only 40,000 barrels, 
but this section will have a surplus of 100,000 
barrels. The great apple counties of Western 
New’ York promise the lightest crop in twenty 
years, but the quality promises to bo compara¬ 
tively poor. The great apple counties of Or¬ 
leans. Monroe, Niagara, Wayne and Wyoming 
are reported as having scarcely 50 per cent of 
the average yield- In Eastern New York 
there is a better prospect, but the average for 
the whole State—400 reports—is only 52 per 
cent,. Pennsylvania has 80 per cent of a full 
apple crop and there is a good crop in Ohio, 
but from further West the reports are dis¬ 
couraging and the Northwest and Southwest 
have such a small supply as to offer a remune¬ 
rative market for the surplus of the Middle 
States, much of which was last year available 
for export. 
Pears wall be considerably below the usual 
yield and poaches for the third time are prac¬ 
tically a failure north of the forty-first par¬ 
allel. There is a fair crop of plums and they 
will be cheap, while grapes in New Jersey are 
light aud a good crop in Southern New-Eng¬ 
land should bring fair prices. 
The Michigan peach crop in the vicinity of 
Ganges, Douglass, Saugatuck, and South Ha¬ 
ven is reported to be very heavy. Outside of 
those localities there is scarcely any fruit, ac¬ 
cording to the last reports. 
The fruit crop of California is very heavy, 
aud large quantities are sent East. Grapes 
are so abundant that they are sold to the 
distillers at $8 per ton. 
Florida oranges will not begin to come in 
until toward the end of October. The crop is 
said to be fine, but, the yield will uot be more 
than a moiety of what it was last year, owing 
to the large number of fruit buds destroyed 
by last Winter’s frost iu the orchards north of 
Lake George. 
Cable reports from various points in Eng¬ 
land and on the Continent confirm the earlier 
predictions of rather a short apple crop there, 
espocially of good fruit in England. The 
orange crop of Southern Europe, however, 
will be large and will affect the demand for 
American apples somewhat. Last year nearly 
900,000 barrels of apples were exported 
to England, the supply being so large that 
prices were barely remunerative. American 
Orange Pippins sold in Liverpool at $3.00 per 
barrel. This was the 11 ret sale of ttra season 
and the price was equivalent to about $2.25 
net on this side, which is a slight advance on 
current values. 
The average condition of potatoes is worse 
than iu any former August, though it was 
quite good in July. Usually from early in 
August to early in October is the critical pe¬ 
riod with the crop; so that the present poor 
condition of the crop, while rather discourag¬ 
ing, does not necessarily foreshadow a bad 
harvest. In New England the condition is 
good, rouging from 95 to 100. In New York 
