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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
JAN. 18 
Wuros of tl)f Week. 
HOME NEWS. 
SATURDAY, January 11. 1890. 
According to recent reports, that Topolo- 
bampo Colony down in Sinaloa, Mexico, 
which promised such a “golden age” in an 
“earthly paradise,” has dwindled from 
about 600 to 110, mostly embittered and 
disappointed old men and women, too poor 
to get away to any part of “ God’s Coun¬ 
try.” The regular diet of the colonists is 
black-eyed beans and corn bread three times 
a day, with a little meat on festive occa¬ 
sions.For several years the Cus¬ 
toms authorities have been collecting 50 
per cent, on imports of silk ribbons used 
ror trimming hats, bonnets and hoods 
while the importers insisted that the duty 
should be only 20 per cent, under the tariff 
laws. After yeai-s of litigation the United 
States Supreme Court has just decided a 
test case against the Government. The 
Treasury must therefore refund $6,000,000 
to the overtaxed importers. Of this sum 
the lawyers will get $3,000,000, as they 
agreed to press the case and pay all expen¬ 
ses for 50 per cent, of whatever coula be 
recovered. John Wanamaker gets $500,- 
(XX) out of the “ pot.” Whatever they may 
get will be a clear gain to the importers, as 
the goods have long since been sold, the 
buyers having had to pay the entire 50 per 
cent, duty. 
Ex Senator Eldridge G. Lapham of New 
York State, died of heart failure at his 
summer residence on Lake Canandaigua 
last Wednesday at the age of 75.The N. 
Y. Sun last Sunday gave a list of vast recent 
investments of British capital in this 
country. It estimates that $100,000,000 of 
British money were invested here last year 
.Gov. Mellette of South Dakota will 
be obliged to close up most of the public 
institutions of the New State, as the rev¬ 
enue is falling far short of the expenses.... 
.Gov. Miller of North Dakota esti¬ 
mates the deficiency of revenue during the 
first year of Statehood at $150,000, though 
it will probably be considerably more. 
Many of the institutions there, too, will 
have to be closed up. Both States greatly 
underestimated the cost of running a State 
government.... ' . 
Gen. Greely, Chief of the Weather Bureau, 
attributes the unseasonably fine weather 
to violent storms, cyclones and hurricanes 
in the far north. The warm currents of 
the tropics have been drawn northward to 
assuage the fury of the tempests round the 
pole. The weather is anything but sum¬ 
mery in some parts of the West, however. 
The “deepest snows on record’’have im¬ 
peded or blocked travel in some parts of the 
Rockies and Sierra Nevadas; while last 
Wednesday the thermometer ranged from 
22 to 50 degrees below zero in different parts 
of Nevada.While the total wealth of 
Great Britain and Ireland is set down at 
$50,000,000,000, that of the United States is 
computed at $40,000,000,000. But while 
England pays in taxes $20 per head of pop¬ 
ulation, the United States pay only $12.50. 
.Major-Gen. Schofield has issued a 
general order to the army establishing the 
followinging hours for meals: Breakfast 
not earlier than reveille (5.30 A. M. in sum¬ 
mer and 6.30 A. M. in winter), nor later than 
half an hour after reveille : dinner not ear¬ 
lier than 12 M. nor later than 12.15 P. M.; 
supper not earlier than 5.15 P. M., nor later 
than 6.15 P. M. Twenty minutes are al¬ 
lowed for breakfast and supper and thirty 
minutes for dinner. 
A count just completed shows that there 
are now 460,516 unadjudicated and pending 
claims on file in the Pension Office classi¬ 
fied as follows: Invalid claims, 182,965; 
widows’ claims, 75,370; invalid increase 
claims, 199,776 ; widows’ increase and ac¬ 
crued claims, 2,415. Of these cases 35,340 
have been placed upon the list of “com¬ 
pleted files ” for immediate consideration, 
and the entire adjudicating force of the 
Bureau will devote five days in each week 
to the consideration of those completed 
cases until the entire list is disposed of. 
.Several bills designed to protect the 
forests of this State, which failed to pass the 
legislature because they were presented at 
a late date, are to be brought forward early 
in the session this year, and energetic ef¬ 
forts will be put forth to pass them. 
.According to the estimates ot the In¬ 
terstate Commerce Commissioners the 
mortality due to railroad accidents in this 
country in a single year is as high as 
5,693, while for the same period 27,898 per¬ 
sons have been injured. A great proportion 
of both classes have been, of course, rail¬ 
road employees, so that the protective leg¬ 
islation urged upon Congress by the Presi¬ 
dent is greatly needed.In all 
New England only 920 Indians are left, and 
the number is dwindling steadily year af¬ 
ter year. 
The debt of Cuba is $124,000,000 and it is 
mostly in the hands of German bankers, 
hence Germany has a paramount influence 
in shaping the fate of the “ Ever Faithful 
Island ”—a thing to be remembered by 
those who wish to annex it to this country. 
.Senator Morgan of Alabama insists 
that the 8,000,000 colored people in this 
country should be persuaded or forced to 
emigrate to Africa where they’d have a splen¬ 
did opportunity for development in the 
Congo Free State. He says there is an 
“ irrepressible conflict ” between the white 
and colored races in this country likely to 
break out in turbulence and violence in the 
South at any day. The colored men insist 
that they have as much right here as the 
whites ; that there is “ white ” blood in the 
veins of a large proportion of them, and 
that if they are . kept down it is the white 
men’s fault.Over 2,000 negroes, 
mostly from South Carolina and Kansas, 
have already settled in Oklahoma. During 
the past week the Atlantic Coast Railroad 
has carried over 4,000 negroes from South 
Carolina to Florida—mostly able-bodied 
men with their wives and children. They 
are contracted to work on the newly dis¬ 
covered phosphate mines and get about 
double as much wages as they got in South 
Carolina. Last week over 2,000 negroes 
from North Carolina passed through At¬ 
lanta on their way to Louisiana, Arkansas 
and Texas. Indeed there is a regular 
negro exodus from both the Carolinas and 
to a less extent from Georgia. 
The Old Bay State has 65,000 more widows 
than widowers and only 8,000 more single 
women than single men.January 
1, 1866, the outstanding principal of the 
ublic debt amounted to $2,773,236,173. 
anuary 1, 1890, it amounted, less cash in 
the Treasury, to $1,052,952,911.Ex- 
Senator Warner Miller, of New York, has 
sold his paper mills to an English syndicate 
which has purchased many others also. 
He retains an interest, however, and will 
be a director and probably president. 
.The most prosperous year in the his¬ 
tory of the breeding of Kentucky trotters 
has just closed. No less than $2,000,000 
were obtained for trotters at private sales, 
in 1889, while at the various auction sales 
1,798 horses passed under the hammer, and 
realized $851,923, or an average of $473.82 
apiece. In 1888, 1.304 horses changed hands 
at auction in Kentucky for $473,557, an 
average of $363.14. This makes an increase 
for 1889 over the year previous, of 494 horses 
sold and $378,366 more money realized, 
while the increase of price per head av¬ 
eraged $110.68. 
CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED. 
To the Editor : Please inform your read¬ 
ers that I have a positive remedy for above 
named disease. By its timely use thousands 
of hopeless cases have been permanently 
cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of 
my remedy FREE to any of your readers who 
have consumption, if they will send me their 
Express and P. O. address. Respectfully, 
T. A. Slocum, M. C., 181 Pearl St., N Y. 
—Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, January 11, 1890. 
The Dowager Empress Augusta of Ger¬ 
many, widow of the late Emperor William, 
mother of the late Emperor Frederick and 
grandmother of the present Emperor Wil¬ 
liam, died of old age and influenza last 
Tuesday at Berlin, at the age of 76. 
The Pope’s income from Peter’s pence in 
1889, was $30,000 less than in 1888. His 
legacies last year amounted to $800,000.... 
.A scheme for insurance against bur¬ 
glary has just been started in London at 
extremely low rates. 
Cholera has been spreading very rapidly in 
Asia during the past month. After ravag¬ 
ing the shores of the Persian Gulf and 
North Arabia, it has now reached the Tur¬ 
kish frontier. Mohammedan fatalism and 
official incompetency are allowing it free 
sway.The Argentine Republic 
intends to have a $9,000,000 iron-claa fleet 
at once and has asked Europe to send in 
bids for its construction, as vessels can be 
built cheaper on the other than on this side 
of the Atlantic. 
The Voice. 
Those who overtax the voice in singing or 
public speaking will find “Brown’s Bron¬ 
chial Troches” exceedingly useful, en¬ 
abling them to endure more than ordinary 
exertion with comparative ease, while they 
render articulation clear. For Throat Dis¬ 
eases and Coughs they are a simple yet 
effective remedy. Containing nothing in¬ 
jurious, they may be used as often as 
required, and will not disorder the stomach 
like cough syrups and balsams. For forty 
years they have been recommended by 
physicians, and widely used, being known 
all over the world as one of the few staple 
cough remedies. Sold only in boxes.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, January 11, 1890. 
The Western New York Horticultural 
Society will hold its 35th annual meeting 
in Rochester, commencing January 22, at 
11 o’clock A. M. An interesting programme 
is presented, and a long list of questions of 
vital importance to fruit-growers of the 
State will be presented for discussion. The 
hotels will give reduced rates. P. C. Rey¬ 
nolds, secretary, Rochester, N. Y.New 
Jersey ranks second in the Union as a to¬ 
mato-growing State. The past year she 
packed over 12,000,000 cans. 
A New Jersey court at Woodbury, has de¬ 
cided that farmers have a right to shoot 
rabbits out of season on their own land 
.“The Colored Agricultural and 
Mechanical Society of South Carolina” 
held a fair at Columbia last week upon the 
grounds of the white society. State offi¬ 
cials, newspapers and railroads aided the 
project in every way.State Dairy 
Commissioner Brown is distributing 
among the farmers and cheese and butter- 
makers of the State 10,000 revised copies of 
the rules and suggestions concerning the 
care of milk and the making of first-class 
butter and cheese, which were prepared by 
the experts of his department. 
A very important patent suit which has 
been pending for a long time has just been 
decided in favor of the Foos Manufacturing 
Co., of Springfield O. The invention in 
question is an initial breaker for feed mills 
to break ear corn before it enters the grind¬ 
ing plates. The company has been de¬ 
clared owner and original inventor of the 
device, and they are bringing several suits 
against other parties. 
American beef is shipped to Europe salted, 
dressed and alive. The Argentine Repub¬ 
lic and Uruguay are also shipping large 
quantities dressed and on foot. The 
dressed beef and mutton from the latter 
countries are sent in large vessels especially 
fitted for this trade, and kept cool by means 
of ice or rarefied air. The American dressed 
beef does not need such vessels because the 
distance is so much less, and the time re¬ 
quired in crossing so short. The same ad¬ 
vantages exist in the live stock trade, so 
that it seems as though this country had 
little to tear from South American compe¬ 
tition. Paragraphs in many European 
papers lead us to believe that our geograph¬ 
ical advantages will secure us against the 
much-talked-of competition from South 
American breeders. We append one com¬ 
ing from a city in Alsace, dated December 
1: Butchers have sold at retail Saturday 
and to-day meat from American beeves 
which arrived alive from South America 
by a Hamburg steamer Thursday last. 
This is but a trial, and it does not look as 
if bound to be successful. The importation 
of these American cattle costs so heavily 
that, by adding the purchase price, sales, 
instead of being profitable, are, on the con¬ 
trary, very injurious to those butchers who 
have tried the experiment. 
Secretary Rusk on Wednesday transmitted 
to Congress a report of the operations of 
the Bureau of Animal Industry for 1889. 
The measures for the eradication of 
contagious pleuro pneumonia among cat¬ 
tle have been continued, though the pro¬ 
gress is not as rapid as would be possible 
if the Department had sufficient authority 
to enforce its regulations. No outbreaks 
of pleuro-pneumoaia have been discovered 
during the year, west of the Alleghanies, 
and no extensions of the contagion have 
occurred in the Western States. In New 
York only Kings and Queens Counties 
have been affected during the last half of 
the year. The dairymen in these counties 
are opposed to submission to the regula¬ 
tions. In New Jersey operations have Deen 
confined almost exclusively to Hudson 
County. The disease does not exist in 
Pennsylvania or Maryland. In the latter 
State the State authorities have given ac¬ 
tive sympathy and co-operation. During 
the year ending November 30, 36, 531 herds 
of cattle containing 329,006 animals have 
been inspected. There were purchased for 
slaughter 1,241 affected animals at a cost 
of $33,123, and 3,845 exposed cattle at a cost 
of $84,032. The total expenses of the work 
for the year have been $323,505. 
There has been a perfect deluge of repre¬ 
sentatives of nearly every conceivable in¬ 
dustry before the Ways and Means Com¬ 
mittee at one time and another to plead 
for protection to the industries represented. 
It is worthy of note that within the last 
few days tne farmers have been taking a 
hand in arguing for protection. In ad¬ 
dition to the wool-growers’ arguments no¬ 
ticed last week, the sugar men nave had an 
innings this week. Ex-Governor Warmouth 
of Louisianna, a Republican, was chief 
spokesman. He says that his State is in¬ 
creasing her product every year, but that 
they cannot compete with Cuba with 
her cheap labor. If the tariff were re¬ 
moved from sugar it would be ruinous, 
and grass would grow in the streets of 
New Orleans. The constant agitation in 
relation to putting sugar on the free list 
has prevented investments in the business, 
and hindered the development of the indus¬ 
try. He would be willing to accept a 
bounty of two cents per pound on sugar, 
instead of a protective tariff if he could be 
assured that future Congresses would not 
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