SEPT §5 
THE RURAH filW-YORKEB, 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, September 18, 1886. 
The Recorder of Montreal decides that the 
Salvation Army have a right to parade the 
streets and sing.The Piute Indians, of 
Nevada, having lately obtained liquor, are 
conducting themselves in such manner as to 
cause great alarm among the whites. . 
Canadian Wiggins claims to have foretold the 
‘ earthquakes, and thinks the greatest strain 
will occur before October 15 .The 
skins of seals, etc., caught in Alaskan and 
other Pacific waters almost all go to London 
to be handled and dyed. Shipments through 
this port last week were very heavy, some¬ 
thing over 000 casks, makiug about 30 car¬ 
loads, having arrived on Thursday and Fri¬ 
day by way of the Pennsylvania Railroad.... 
... .The Bostou Mayflower crossed the win¬ 
ning line 20 minutes nine seconds before the 
British Galatea, last Saturday, so the America 
Cup is to remain here. This is the sixth fail¬ 
ure of the British to capture the trophy. 
.The first argument in the Government’s 
Bell Telephone suit will be heard at Cincin¬ 
nati, Monday.Geronimo with his 
band, and 400 turbulent Apaches from the 
San Carlos Reservati n are on their way to 
Florida, where they will be confined for the 
present. Fate of Geronimo in doubt. Will 
probably be tried by military commission, 
like the Modoc Indians. Many insist that 
Geronimo, Natchez, and a few other leading 
men should be hung or shot; but it is hardly 
likely. Surrender unconditional, except that 
they were assured that the soldiers never kill 
“prisoners of war”.The Louisiana 
Cotton-seed Oil Company, of New Orleans, 
has joined that monopoly the American Oil 
Company. Its valuable machinery is to be 
sent “into the interior” where new factories 
will be established.There have been 
several slight earthquake shocks at Charleston 
since Saturday; but no additional damage. 
Experts say much of this is duo to the poor 
materials and faulty construction of the 
houses. Cash relief amounts to over *820.000, 
and more coming in. Considerable complaint 
of idle negroes and “poor whites” who rely on 
charity rations, and refuse to work. Brick¬ 
layers insist on $5 a day, and others in the 
building trade are equally exacting. Full 
work for all in patching up houses and 
rebuilding. What’s wauted are loans at low 
interest to restore fallen and ruptured build¬ 
ings and start trade. Nothern people are 
generous with cash and .credit. This city 
alone has contributed over $106,000. Thou¬ 
sands have left the city—most never to return. 
Free transportation furnised to emigrants. 
Will take years before the place wifi recover 
from the disaster... 
... .Canada is determined to levy prohibitory 
export duties on saw logs. The duty is now $1 
to $2 per 1,000 feet, board measure; but it is to 
be raised to $3 if exportation continues and 
higher, if necessary, to stop it, as the govern¬ 
ment has discretionary power in the matter. 
Canada wants us to take all the lumber we 
want, but wants to keep for herself all the 
profits of manufacture.Some of the of¬ 
ficials at Ottawa have blustered a good deal 
about the seizure of those sealers in Behring 
Sea; but our Government has heard nothing, 
officially, about the matter. Canada must act 
through the English Government iu the mat¬ 
ter. Seizures made 60 to 120 miles from 
land. Russia ceded to us the exclusive right 
to catch fur-bearing animals iu the whole re¬ 
gion : but had Russia the right to seize vessels 
more than three miles from land? Canada 
says we have no right to seize vessels in the 
Pacific beyond three miles from land, follow¬ 
ing the indentations of the coast; but in the 
Atlantic she claims the right to seize vesseLs 
within three miles -of a line running from 
headlaud to headlaud! ...... Another Yan¬ 
kee fisher has been seized. The hearing in the 
case of the seizure of the David J. Adams, the 
first of the fishing vessels whose fate is to be 
decided, was begun in the Vice-Admiral ty 
Court at Halifax, N. 8., Thursday . 
Owing to the failui’e of the Newfoundland 
fishery this year, great distress is probable 
during the Winter, It is thought that from 
100,000 to 150,000 will need public help to es¬ 
cape starvation—probably an exaggeration.., 
... .There’s a great strike of sailors on the Pa¬ 
cific Coast, where labor organizations have 
lately become very powerful. Between 1,100 
and 1,200 men are reported to be idle along the 
coast, 750 of them in San Francisco, They all 
belong to coasting vessels, 25 of which are idle 
in San Francisco, owing to lack of hands; 
while others have put to sea short-handed. 
Both sailors and ship owners are resolute. 
.... Colored Washingtonians are getting up an 
exposition of the achievements of the race 
since the wah.. .Many prominent Demo¬ 
crats are supporting Republican Governor 
Rusk for re-election iu Wisconsin, because he 
put down the Anarchist outbreak in Milwau¬ 
kee with such a prompt and vigorous hand... 
The New York Stock Exchange, by an over¬ 
whelming majority, has refused to allow 
Georgia State bonds to be sold or quoted in 
that body, because Georgia, by a constitu¬ 
tional amendment, repudiated $8,000,000 worth 
of debts contracted in “ carpet-bag” days; 
though some of the bonds sold for as high as 
04 cents on the dollar, aud the State has ever 
since enjoyed the benefit of the money. At¬ 
torney-General O’Brien has also decided that 
in this State savings bauks cannot invest in 
such securities.. .The liquor interests are 
fighting “ tooth aud nail” everywhere in the 
elections_From latest trustworthy reports 
it seems all the “ terrible excitement” about 
the “Cutting affair” in Mexico aud “down 
South” was almost exclusively confined to the 
newspaper offices.Philadelphia lias im¬ 
peached Mayor Smith for having used public 
money for his private purposes, and for hav¬ 
ing allowed dummy policemen to draw pay 
month after month, the money going “ where 
it would do the most good.”.It looks as if 
the Farmers’ Alliances of Minnesota were to 
join the Democrats to elect Mayor Ames of 
Minneapolis for Governor, against “railroad 
monopolies.” If Ignatius Donnelly cau get 
enough votes from such an “ alliauce,” hell 
be candidate for United Stales Senate; but the 
chances are small.The Democrats swept 
Arkansas. The Wheelers made a poor show; 
but most of the members didn’t favor separate 
action.The Republicans carried Maine 
by about 14,000 majority over the Democrats 
and Prohibitionists. The latter made a poor 
show in the oldest Prohibition State. Blaine 
spoke aud led splendidly. The canvass 
for Governor of Tennessee, between Bob. 
Taylor, Democrat, aud his brother Alf., Re¬ 
publican, is very lively, indeed, but quite fra¬ 
ternal—an excellent example for other States 
and much smaller sections. The real merits 
of both parties are freely and fully discussed; 
but there are no 11 campaign lies” 
or mud-slinging.. . 
....Judging by the legislative nominations, 
Bayard is still supreme in Delaware. Gray’s 
election to the U. S. Senate is assured. 
Frank Lawler, the Chicago ram-selling Con¬ 
gressman, is going back to “Congress’s hall." 
He made himself solid with the big meat¬ 
packing firms by opposing the Oleo Bill, and 
all their men were ordered to vote for him at 
the primaries.Fifty people were pois¬ 
oned at a wedding near Decatur, 111., the 
other night by eating chicken cooked iu a 
copper kettle.The naval inspectors find 
over 100 American steamships hailing from 
New York alone, capable of running 14 knots 
an hour, which would be of service as naval 
vessels of an inferior order upon an emer¬ 
gency .*. 
.... The first National Convention of Anti- 
Saloon Republicans at Chicago was largely at¬ 
tended. Its object was to retain in the Re 
publican party as many as possible of those 
who favor Prohibition aud stringent laws reg 
ulating the sale of liquor. The results of it s 
efforts must greatly help the cause of temper¬ 
ance. Extreme Prohibitionists, however, are 
irreconcilable. The Labor party threatens to 
be to the Democratic party what the Prohibi¬ 
tion party is to the Republican. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 18, 1886 
In the English Parliament measures of great 
national importance are almost invariably in¬ 
troduced by the Government.; when this isn’t 
done, the Government consents to their intro¬ 
duction, and if it refuses consent, und a ma¬ 
jority of the House of Commons favor it, the 
Government is defeated aud generally resigns. 
The other day the Government consented to 
the introduction of a land bill by Mr. Parnell. 
The Land Act of 1881 appointed a Court to 
determine what were fair rents for land, and 
the landlords had to accept its decision. 
Leaseholders, however, were excluded from 
the benefits of the Act. In view of the decline 
in the prices of agricultural produce since 
then, Parnell’s Bill provides that where the 
rent was fixed before 1884, if half the rent for 
1886 and any antecedent arrears have been 
paid, and the tenant says ho is unable to pay 
any more, the Land Court must decide what 
abatement should be made. By section two 
leaseholders are put on the same footing, as 
regards rent, as tenants from year to year. 
Section three provides that wherever proceed¬ 
ings have been begun, the Court shall 
suspend such proceedings until the tenant 
shall have the benefit of tliis act. 
The rents of hundreds of tenants are duo in 
November, aud they say they can’t pay them. 
Most of the landlords are prepared to evict 
them, and the Government has promised to 
give military aid in doing so. Eviction is to 
be resisted by violence. Policemen, troops and 
all others aiding in the work are to be rigidly 
boycotted. Men who take the farms of evicted 
tenants are to receive the harshest treatment. 
Some of them are killed or maltreated every 
week. The evicted tenants are advised by 
their leaders to flock to the work-houses so as 
to force the landlords to support them, and no 
disgrace is to attend the act. Imprisonment 
for resisting eviction is to be considered hon¬ 
orable. On the whole, a turbulent time seems 
probable in Ireland during the Winter, for 
there’s little or uo prospect of the passage of 
the Parnell Bill which would keep peace iu the 
island.Tenants in Scotland and Wales 
are loudly demanding the same terms as those 
granted to the Irish. How long will English 
tenants who suffer just as much, keep from 
joining in the clamor?. 
Russia, Germany' and Austria seem to have 
agreed with regard to Bulgaria, and when 
those three big bullies agree, it’s not much use 
for others to protest. Prince Alexander is 
hardly likely to return, though the vast ma¬ 
jority' of Bulgars want him. The Sobranje 
(Legislature) has just voted a graut of $500,000 
to purchase all his property iu Bulgaria, re¬ 
taining $185,000 of it to pay his debts. Very 
little would be needed to cause a conflagration 
in Eastern Europe. Englaud aud Turkey are 
more cordial than ever, aud both are vigor¬ 
ously preparing for contingencies. 
Italy is disposed to side strongly with them, 
and if Germany and Austria go with Russia, 
it seems that France must join the other coali¬ 
tion. There are reports that Bismarck is to 
peremptorily demand of France why the Gov - 
eminent allows persisteut virulence against 
Germany in the newspapers; and why the 
French army is constantly increasing its num¬ 
bers and efficiency. Germany is doing pre- 
precisely the same with regard to France; but 
what of that? It' the French answer be not sat¬ 
isfactory, the Germans, befriended by Austria, 
and smiled upon by Russia, are once more to 
push on to Paris. All the armies of Europe 
are being equipped as rapidly as possible with 
the very latest improvements in fire-arms, 
and it seems impossible that peace can last 
much longer in the presence of so many causes 
of bickering and complaint and such multi¬ 
tudes of men trained and kept at enormous 
expense for the sole purpose of killing each 
other. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Sept. 18, 1886. 
All the pressmen, stevedores and other 
workmen handling cotton at Now Orleans, 
some time ago formed a powerful association to 
regulate hours aud wages. The Cotton-Press 
Association, composed of the owners of most 
of the cotton presses, managed to join the 
workingmen’s organization, although many of 
the men objected on the ground that the inter¬ 
ests of the employers and the employed must 
ofteu clash, and could not therefore be repre¬ 
sented by one body. There were several presses 
not in the Cotton-Press Association, which 
paid the same wages and employed men be¬ 
longing to the longshoremen's union. The 
Cotton-Press Association has lately Insisted 
that the men should not work for them. If 
they had carried their point, the entire busi- 
busiuess of pressing and shipping cotton in the 
largest cotton market in the world would be 
in the hands of a small, selfish monopoly, and 
the producers and consumers must suffer, while 
much of the trade would certainly go else¬ 
where to avoid extortion. It has just been de¬ 
cided by all parties, however, to make no dis¬ 
tinction in labor matters between the indepen¬ 
dent presses and those of the Cotton-Press As¬ 
sociation. A lively competition in the cotton 
pressing business is expected.. 
... .The Executive Committees of the National 
Cattlemen’s Association of America and the 
National Horse and Cattle Grower’s Associa¬ 
tion of the United States met at Springfield, 
Ill., Wednesday, to complete the steps taken 
lost Winter to organize the two bodies into 
one. Their consolidation was practically ef¬ 
fected by arranging the program to bo carried 
out at the Cattle Show at Chicago next 
month.Californians have lately 
purchased iu Utah and Nevada huge quanti¬ 
ties of wool, which they shipped by the Cen¬ 
tral Pacific Road to San Francisco at local 
rates and re-shipped over the same tracks for 
Boston at 75 cents per hundred pounds. Owing 
to railroad discrimination, it would have cost 
much more to have shipped direct, to Bostou. 
..Here’s a sample outrage of Indians in 
the North west—chiefly Canadians raiding 
across the line: The other day a largo flock of 
sheep which were being driven from Montana 
into Canada were surrounded by a band of 
raiders on the Belly River, aud urged over its 
banks until they piled up, one on another, 25 
loot deep. In this way 172 sheep were killed, 
and afterward skinned, cut up, and carried 
off by the redskins...Most of the 
tenants of the O’Flahei ty estates near Long¬ 
ford, Ireland, have accepted the offer of their 
landlord to sell them their holdings at a price 
equal to the sum of 16 years’ rent. As none of 
the tenants on the O’Flaherty estates have had 
their rents fixed under the Land Act of 1881, 
the purchases will he based on the old rents... 
__The New Hampshire Agricultural Col¬ 
lege has seven students.Wet weather 
cost the New Jersey State Fair at Waverly, 
over $6,000, Thursday .At the Massa¬ 
chusetts Agricultural College 57 applied for 
admission; 47 were examined, and 37 admitted. 
The largest class for years.In New Eng¬ 
land the established Granges are generally 
adding to their membership, and new Granges 
are being established.At the Western 
National Fair at Bismarck Grove, near Law¬ 
rence, Kan. ,3,600 bottles of beer were emptied 
into the Kansas River last Saturday by the 
Sheriff in the “presence of 500 thirsty peo¬ 
ple.” Those selling beer iu violation of the 
Prohibitory Law were arrested . 
....Hog cholera reported in several districts 
of the “Cherokee Nation;” iu many localities 
all the swine have died.In 
Central Indiana the ravages of the disease 
are very disastrous. Farmer Sheppard of 
Henry County claims that he has found “par¬ 
asites or trichinae,” visible to the naked eye, 
“in tin second liniug of the stomach" of hogs 
that bad died of the plague, and he thinks 
these are the cause of it. He expects soon to 
publish a remedy.Geo. Wilsou, “a well- 
to-do farmer,” living eight miles south of 
Muucie, Ind., died last Saturday of “a disease 
contracted while administering medicine to 
cholera hogs.” Doctors say the disease was 
like hog cholera aud that it may become 
epidemic. The entire southern portion 
of the county is horror-stricken and many 
farmers are anxious to sell their farms and go 
West. Many have left their homes and will 
not return until the question of epidemic is 
decided.A virulent epidemic of hog 
cholera is now raging along the Kaskaskia or 
Okaw River, in Champaign County, Illinois, 
and is chiefly confined to Sudorous township. 
The loss so far entailed upon the farmers is 
not less than $13,0110.In the Court of 
Queen’s Bench at. Montreal, Thursday, C. H. 
Cordingley, proprietor of the Commercial 
Grain and Stook Exchange, a sort of “bucket 
shop” was fouud guilty of keeping a common 
gaming house. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly re¬ 
view of the British grain trade, says: “Owing 
to the continued w'et weather it will be im¬ 
possible to make an early delivery of sound 
native wheats. For this reason the market 
points to no such big drop in values as was 
expected during dry weather. The sales of 
English wheat during the past week were 31,- 
538 quarters at 32s. 5d., against 57,192 quar¬ 
ters at 31s. Id. during the corresponding week 
of last year. Foreign wheats were steadied 
by the bad weather.” 
The August cotton report of Egypt shows 
that the condition of the crop is favorable 
and that the yield promises to exceed that of 
1885. 
The Agricultural Department’s September 
crop report says the yield of spring wheat is 
better thau was expected a month ago owing 
to an improvement in Dakota and Wis¬ 
consin chiefly. The average yield an acre is 
11 bushels, and it may reach 11 1 ,j. Iu the South 
the harvest was disappointing and rains in¬ 
jured the product in the shock. The returns 
indicate an average yield of ubout 12 bushels 
an acre. The entire wheat product will ap¬ 
parently exceed that of last year by 90,000,000 
bushels. The Rural’s crop Special on July 
10, jmt the excess at 78,000,000, and was 
blamed by some for putting it so high. The 
Agricultural Department says there may be a 
variation of from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 bush¬ 
els from its estimate. Corn has declined from 
81 iu August to 77. The present crop pros¬ 
pect, with uo further decline, is 10 per cent, 
worse than last year, and indicates over 21 
bushels an acre, or nearly 1,600,000,000 bush¬ 
els. The cotton returns show a vigorous con¬ 
dition of the plant, with lateness and deficien¬ 
cy in fruiting. There has been improvement 
in most of the States, with a decided decline in 
Texas aud a little in Arkansas. With a long 
and favorable Autumn it indicates an average 
crop. Yet a decline in condition after this 
date is usual. The results of thrashing make 
condition of oats at harvest 91, a small reduc- 
tiou from earlier expectation; barley is 93, an 
average crop; buckwheat 90, Potatoes have 
declined from 88.3 to 81.4, from the effects of 
local drought. In New York the decline is 
from 97 to 89, and it is heavy in the dry area 
of the West. Tobacco averages 81. The 
numbers of fattening hogs are apparently less 
by about 6 per cent, with some reduction in 
average weight. 
