832 THE RURAL $JEW-Y©RKER. BE6 « 
Saturday, Dec. 4, 1886. 
New Jersey assessors report the railroad 
property in the State amounts to §192.980,343. 
The State tax of §904.901 upon it defrays all 
the State expenses.Several weeks ago. 
when Easfcport, Me., was nearly destroyed by 
fire, the Associated Press dispatches to all 
parts of the couutry day after day denounced 
the fishermen of the neighboring Canadian 
Islands for plundering the burning town and 
committing outrageous violence in doing so. 
A New Brunswick paper now denies the truth 
of these reports, on the ground that a Custom 
House official has not been able to find any of 
the stolen property. It states the Canadian 
fishermen did all in their pow er to help the 
people to save and protect thei r goods. ‘ • Lord! 
how this worl 1 is given to lying!”. 
It appeai-s that Judge Manning, Minister to 
Mexico, has had a clear case of jim-jams, 
owiug to a w eek’s gross drunkenness in Mexico 
City. For years he is said to have been sub¬ 
ject to such outbreaks twice a year, quietly 
in his own house.Sugar grinding began 
in Cuba Thursday .Charleston had 
several lively earthquake shocks, Thursday, 
one of which crashed walls aud loosened plast¬ 
ering. There were 17. in all. last month there 
and in other parts of South Carolina.. .... 
During November the Postmaster-General 
established 239 fourth-class post-offices aud 
discontinued 218.A bill, by General 
Hazen, is being considered by the Secretary 
of War. providing for the reorganization and 
incorporation of the Signal Service as a 
regular Bureau of the War Department. 
.... A terrific storm visited the east coast 
of New England early Wednesday morning 
followed by a tidal wave of some energy. 
Lightning killed Mrs AA illard at Elizabeth. 
Me _To meet expenses the general ex¬ 
ecutive board of the Knights of Labor are 
levying an assessment of 21 cents ]>er member 
upon the local assemblies of the order. The 
fund is to be used to help Knights “locked 
out" by what is claimed to be a “combination 
of capitalists” against the order. Many com¬ 
plaints that members are blacklisted by rail¬ 
roads and other large associations.In 
Montreal, the Superior of the Oblate Fathers 
has announced that no Knights of Labor will 
be allowed to take the sacrament. There is a 
strong opposition to the order among the 
Catholic dignitaries of Canada.The 
tauners’ strike at Salem and Peabody. Mass., 
begun July 12, collapsed Saturday. Over 
5,000 men “went out” at command of a “walk¬ 
ing delegate,” or were “locked out” because 
they refused the leather of a boycotted firm. 
The places of most of them have been 
filled, aud few can get work again. 
On December 1. the N. Y. State canals 
closed by official order. The season of 1886 
opened May 1. The total number of days 
during which the canal was open was 21.7, or 
somewhat over the average. The tonnage 
of 1885 was 4,732,000 tons, and that of 1886 
will be about 5,250,600 tons. As soou as the 
w r ater is drawn from the canals the Superin¬ 
tendent of Public Works will supervise the 
lengthening of locks 47. 48. 49. 5L and 52 on 
the Erie Canal, and of locks 3. 4 and 5 ou the 
Oswego Canal. The object is to allow two 
boats to be locked in taudem fashion. The 
whole work must be completed liefore the 
opening of navigation in 1887. J he season 
just closed having been a most successful one, 
the future of the canals will be looked for¬ 
ward to with great confidence. . - .Returns 
of traffic on the Welland Canal for the season 
of navigation just closed show an increase of 
34 per cent, as compared with last year’s. At 
Kingston. 6.500,000 bushels of American grain 
were transhipped for Montreal, being the 
largest quantity since 1880. During the com¬ 
ing Winter some very important improve¬ 
ments will be made on the Welland Canal, to 
be completed in time for the opening of 
navigation. The canal will be deepened 
to 14 feet draught, or two feet over what 
it is at present .Erastus 
Brooks left his wife ami family property esti¬ 
mated to Is? worth §200,000 .It is officially 
stated that Chicago’s growth is 50,000 yearly. 
It is proposed to increase the revenue of the 
city $1,500,000 a year ny licensing wholesale 
and retail traders.A cigarette at Raleigh, 
N. C., started a fire which involved 1.200 bales 
of cotton and caused $86,000 damage Tuesday. 
....It is estimated at the Internal Revenue 
Bureau that the revenue from the tax on 
oleomarga rine, which went into effect on Nov. 
1, will amount to about $400,000 for the 
last month. Another decision has 
beeu banded down in the long-drawu-out liti¬ 
gation over the validity of the patent of Nel- 
sod W. Green for the tube or driven well. 
Judge Colt, of the United States Circuit 
Court at Boston, has sustained the patent in a 
suit brought against the Fitchburg Railroad 
for infringement. Most disastrous fire 
in its history in Duluth, Minn., Saturday 
night—loss$865,000: insurance $702,350, Three 
men killed. Total amount of grain lost, 880.- 
000 bushels, valued at $585,000. The loss has 
helped to raise the price of wheat throughout 
the country, but especially at Chicago.... 
Very disastrous incendiary fire at Forsythe, 
Mo!, Monday night. Loss $300,000.. .... 
The Union Pacific has completed arrange¬ 
ments to establish a weather service over its 
entire system similar to that in use by the 
Federal Government. This is the first attempt 
at railway meteorological survey, and will 
probably be generally adopted. The Chicago 
aud Northwestern and the Central Pacific 
have been invited to coopei'ate with the Uuion 
Pacific, so as to make a through railway 
weather service between San Francisco aud 
Chicago. The Canadian Pacific will also 
probably cooperate..B. H. H. Clark 
has been elected first vice-president of the 
Missouri Pacific R. R.. to succeed Hoxie. He 
was formerly manager of the Union Pad fle R. 
It.Tremendous mining excitement in 
San Francisco. Thursday. Fortunes made and 
lost in a few haul's. Some mining stocks 
went high—high. Then all collapsed on report 
of numerous heavy failures—finally they quiet 
ed down A marvelous flurry.. 
.Dr. Hamilton Williams,of Green point. 
1,. I., who was mixed up in the Phoenix Park 
assassination of Burke and Cavendish,succeeds 
blatherskite Rossa as leader of the Irish Fen¬ 
ians, “force,”or dynamite faction,... Pub¬ 
lic Priuter Benedict at Washington, with a 
force reduced by 500,is turning out more work 
than was done formerly.Secretary 
Bayard’s new appropriation bill for consular 
and diplomatic service puts up salaries hand¬ 
somely in several cases, besides substituting 
salaries for fees to the amount of $175,000. 
The total increase is from $700,000 to $1,048,- 
000.Congress will resume business Mon¬ 
day, with 12,000 bills on its files and hundreds 
favorably reported on the calendars. 
Maxwell, the condemned St. Louis “trunk” 
murderer, is again respited till February 1. 
.Francis Palms, of Detroit, worth from 
$15,000,000 to $18,000,000. died last week. It 
was about his daughter that Jones of Florida 
made such a fool of himself .. .The public debt 
was decreased $3,005,250 last month, against a 
decrease of $13,201,620 during October. The 
debt less $224,071,554 available cash items (in¬ 
cluding $100,000,000 reserve) and $40,098,536 
net cash in the treasury, is now $1,351,342,698. 
_The month of November in the North¬ 
west was two and a half degrees colder than 
the average for that month in 20 years. In 
some places in Dakota. Wednesday, the ther¬ 
mometer was 22° below zero .A 
delegation of business men from Chicago 
and the Northwest are in Washington to urge 
upon the President the favorable mention of 
the Hennepin Canal project in his message to 
Congress.. .Some of the papers of Cin¬ 
cinnati have been fined for advertising 
lotteries.Labor organizations in many 
places are askiug for amnesty for the con¬ 
demned Anarchists..... A Buffalo young 
fool and “fooless” passed through the Niagara 
Falls whirlpool the other day in a double bar¬ 
rel. If the papers didn’t name such foolhardy 
people, there would be uone. The report 
of the Life-Saving Service says the number of 
casualties last year was greater by 28 than 
that of any former year.Hayes is the 
only living ex-President, and Hamlin and 
Wheeler are the only living ex-Viee Presi¬ 
dents of the United States. Blaine is the only 
living defeated candidate of a leading party 
for the Presidency. That office seems to 
earn, - fatality with it...,.,-Zero weather, 
blizzards, disasters and death is the Western 
meteorological situation at present.In 
a suit against Gen. Ben Butler, for money 
which it was charged he owed the Soldiers’ 
Home at Washington, the jury rendered a 
verdict of $16,537.50 for the plaintiffs yester¬ 
day,. .Thirteen grain-laden canal boats 
for New York are frozen up in five inches of 
ice near Little Falls. A State tug is trying to 
release them.The Dominion Govern¬ 
ment will fit up the forfeited schooner Morn¬ 
ing Light as a cruiser. Thus is the first vessel 
confiscated under the treaty of 1818.. .A Cen¬ 
tennial Constitutional Commission has been 
organized from the various States to arrange 
for the centennial celebration of the promul¬ 
gation of the Federal Constitution.A 
Chicago dispatch states that 240 car-loads of 
live stock are in danger of freezing on the 
Streater branch of the Chicago, Burlington, 
aud Quincy Railroad, the trains being de¬ 
layed by a broken bridge. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 4,1886. 
The Irish question is again assuming an 
acute phase. The Tory Government, it seems, 
has determined to renew the policy of coer¬ 
cion, which the advocates of Home Rule last 
Winter declared was the only alternative to 
the adoption of their principle. The adoption 
of this long-tried policy was signalized by the 
transfer of the Under Secretary for Ireland to 
Tasmania, because, as is said, of his conver¬ 
sion to the Home-Rule doctrine. He is to be 
succeeded by General Bullor, the English 
army officer who was sent over some time ago 
to restore order in a disaffected district. The 
latter appointment is only provisional, how¬ 
ever, as Buller has disappointed the Tories by 
using his large powers with moderation. The 
leaders of the National League are to he pro¬ 
ceeded against, but they openly defy the 
Government and are sustained by popular 
sympathy in Ireland. An anti-rent agitation 
has been set on foot, aud the outlook for the 
Winter is a stormy one. The troops in Ire¬ 
land are being reinforced in anticipation of 
trouble. Meanwhile the Home Rule doctrine 
is spreading in Scotland and Wales. The 
Scotch home-rulers are demanding legisla¬ 
tures for the representative nationalities of 
the United Kingdom. In this demand they 
are supported by the people of Wales, where 
a tithe war is in progress and where a strong 
demand for church disestablishment is made. 
Taken altogether, England’s condition at 
present is anything but reassuring to her 
statesmen, who have to contemplate the possi¬ 
bility of foreign complications of a serious 
nature.. ... 
_Just at present there is a lull in matters 
in the Balkans. Russia, it is announced, will 
not insist upon the selection of the Mingrelian 
prince whom the Bulgarians declared that 
they would not accept as a candidate for the 
throne. The Bulgarians on their part have 
resolved to send a deputation of notables to 
the principal European capitals to explain to 
the Powers the actual condition of affairs in 
Bulgaria, and to ask the Powers to make a 
choice of a candidate for the throne, with due 
regard to the country's needs and disposition; 
in short, to regard the question as European 
and not a Russo-Buigarian question. In spite 
of Russia’s teaijKirary halt, however, there is 
an uneasy feeling in Europe, where it is felt 
that she is only waiting her opportunity. In 
Germany the government is earnestly pressing 
the passage of a bill increasing the army so 
that it will be a match for the French army at 
any time, though continuing to declare its be¬ 
lief that peace will be maintained. In Aus¬ 
tria extra military estimates have been voted. 
France, meanwhile, keeps the Egyptian ques¬ 
tion to t he front. The view finds constant ex¬ 
pression in the most influential Fivuch jour¬ 
nals that Lord Salisbury’s declaration about 
the limit of England’s stay in Egypt not being 
a timelimit points to an indefinite occupation 
of the country, and that French rights and 
interests would be prejudiced by such an oc¬ 
cupation. The French ambassador, it appears, 
has askpd for a more definite statement of 
England's intention in regard to the occupa¬ 
tion than has yet been given. 
-- 
Something: An Inventor Found Out. ' 
Among literary people Phiueas Garret’s 
volumes of “One Hundred Selections” are 
standard works. Among business men all over 
this country he is known as the inventor of 
the Penn Letter Book for copying letters with¬ 
out the aid of water or press. Mr. Garrett 
was found at his office. No. 708 Chestnut St., 
Philadelphia, and asked regarding his experi¬ 
ence with Coin pound Oxygen. 
“ I will tell you wliat I know about it,” he 
replied. “ When living in West Chester l 
suffered terribly from nasal catarrh, which 
was seriously aggravated hy sudden changes 
of the weather, i he usual remedies gave uie 
no relief aud the disease had advanced so far 
that the curtilage of the nose, was as hard as 
bone. My whole system suffered. Life lost 
its attractions. I visited Drs. Starkey Sc La¬ 
den, now at 1529 Arch street, in tins city, 
placed myself in their hands, and began the 
‘Home Treatment.’ I louud it very benefi¬ 
cial aud continued it until I was entirely 
cured.” 
“ Did its use entirely restore you !" 
“Yes. I have been quite well for some 
time. My wife uses Compound Oxygen with 
excellent results when occasion requires, and 
I liave seen its effects on others ” 
“Have you had an opportunity to observe its 
effects ou persons outside your own family?” 
“Yes,” answered Mr. Garrett; “I recall 
the case of a young mau who worked for us. 
He had consumption and hemorrhage after 
hemorrhage. He took the Compound < ixygcti 
for a year and improved wonderfully. Many 
of my friends have benefited by its use. 
Everybody ought to know the value of this 
remedy. M v long and satisfactory experience 
with it causes me to grow enthusiastic when 
the subject is mentioned.” 
“Do you always use the home treatment?” 
“No. I prefer to go to the office, 1529 Arch 
street, aud take the Compound Oxygeffthere.” 
“Why so?” 
“Well, there is a satisfactory moral effect 
about taking medicine under the direct super¬ 
vision of an experienced physician in whom 
you have confidence. Still, I use my Home 
Treatment very often and with great benefit. 
It is a pleasant recreation, if I have a cold in 
ray head or au attack of indigestion, to go 
and lie cured at once, instead of waiting un¬ 
til I reach home at night.” 
“ Did you ever observe any injurious ef¬ 
fects?” 
“On the contrary. The heart is strength¬ 
ened and the pulse is steadier after using it, 
Iu every respect my experience and observa¬ 
tions lead me to regard Compound Oxygen as 
a valuable remedial ageut and one that only 
needs to be bettor known to find universal 
acceptance.” A pamphlet on the subject is 
mailed free to all who want it.— Adv. 
A Good Reputation. 
“Brown s Bronchial Troches" have been be¬ 
fore the public mauv years aud are everywhere 
acknowledged to be the best remedy for all 
throat troubles. 
Mrs. S. H. Elliott, Ridgefield, Conn., says: 
“/ have never been without them for the last 
th irty years. Would as soon think of living 
without breath." 
They' quickly relieve Coughs, Sore Throat, 
and Bronchial Affections. Price 25 cents. 
For sale everywhere aud only in boxes.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, December 4,1886. 
The Minneapolis Millers’ Uuion, organized 
three months ago for the purpose of control¬ 
ling Northwestern wheat, collapsed Dec. 1.... 
..The St. Paul Poineer-Press insists that 
farmers' deliveries of wheat in Minnesota and 
Dakota have been only temporarily checked 
by the storm, but will be resumed in as great 
a volume as ever as soon as the roads are 
opened.A project of law pending in 
the Danish Folke-thiug places the oleomarga¬ 
rine trade under stringent regulations. It 
cannot be sold in the kind of vessels or at the 
places where dairy butter is sold, and it is 
forbidden, under penalty, to give it the same 
color.State Entomologist Forbes, of 
Illinois, says the outlook is very gloomy for 
the 1887 wheat crop unless some unusual state 
of the weather destroys the hatching brood of 
chinch bugs,.Another lot of diseased 
cattle were slaughtered in the Phnceix dis¬ 
tillery yards, Chicago, IVednesday 
The Tenth Annual Convention of the N. Y. 
Dairymen’s Association will take place Dec. 
14, 15, 16.at the Court House at Norwich, Che 
nango County. The usual coueession in rail¬ 
road fares will be made by the Delaware, 
Lackawanna and Western roads, which cen¬ 
ter at that point. Special rates have also been 
secured at the hotels. Dairymen throughout 
the State arc invited to be present aud to par¬ 
ticipate in the discussion. Col. F. D. Curtis 
will talk about “The Possibilities of the 
Dairy;” Prof. I. P. Roberts, “Water and Food 
for the Dairy;” Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant, “The 
AVork of the Experiment Station;” J. V. H. 
Scovil, “Feeding for the Production of Milk.” 
Other prominent agriculturists will also ad¬ 
dress the meeting.In parte of Nebraska 
corn is selliug at 14 cents per bushel, oats 15 
cents and wheat at 41.Farmer Allen, 
of East Syracuse, N. Y., mourns the loss of 
some $40,000 worth of choice Holstein - Friesian 
bulls aud cows burned to death in his model 
I tarns, Tuesday, which some malicious misere- 
aut set on fire.Shippers of live cattle 
aud dreesud beef to the United Kingdom are 
loudly complaining that there's no money iu 
the business, or that they arc actually losing 
thereby; bow, then, account for the fact that 
last week they shipped 659 live cattle, 95 live 
sheep aud5,000 quarters of dressed beef from 
this port and 465 five cattle together with 2,320 
quarters of beef from Boston, besides more 
shipments from other points?.English¬ 
men allege that our American cattle exports 
come into competition rather with their sec¬ 
ond and third grades of stock than with their 
first.French producers allege that their 
cattle are perfectly free from contagion of all 
kiuds, and are seeking to have the English 
embargo against them removed.The 
scheme to found a co-operative packing-house 
in Chicago is discouraged by the Chicago So¬ 
ciety of Socialists, which asserts that “this co¬ 
operative scheme is inipracti able aud is 
doomed to certain failure.” There’s not enough 
of money to start the thing.In the 10 
months ending October 81 England imported 
9,820 horses, against 12,280 in the same mouths 
of of 1885. In the first ten months of this 
year the exports of the United Kingdom were 
6,368 head, against 5,587 in the corre¬ 
sponding time last year . 
... .The whole cost of harvesting the immense 
cranberry crop on the Cape is estimated at 
$300,000 _Cattle in Montana perished by 
I thousands in the recent k blizzard. Sheep es- 
