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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JAN 25 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, January 18. 1890. 
The place for holding the projected 
World’s Fair has been earnestly discussed 
before Congress during the week. The 
best representatives from New York, 
Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, and even 
Denver, have represented the claims of 
their respective places in the most elo¬ 
quent, forcible and persuasive language. 
On Thursday an effort was made in the 
House to secure the appointment of a 
special committee on the matter, instead 
of leaving it with the Committee on 
Foreign Relations now in charge of it, a 
majority of which is supposed to favor 
Chicago. Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, holds the 
influential position of chairman of the 
committee. The project was defeated, 
however, by the narrow margin of three 
votes. The “ Chicagoites ” wanted to array 
the East against the West by urging a vote 
on the question of holding the fair east or 
west of the Alleghanies, but this part of 
the programme was dropped as a tactical 
mistake. At present it looks as if the 
Wmdy City were a trifle ahead. 
Later.— Yesterday afternoon the House 
of Representatives at Washington ‘‘went 
back ” on its vote of the previous day, and by 
a small majority decided that a special 
committee should have charge of all mat¬ 
ters connected with the World’s Fair. This 
is regarded as a victorv for New York 
though the selection of the place for the 
fair is by no means settled yet. 
The grippe, or Russian influenza, has now 
spread all over the country and there is no 
longer any doubt as to its genuine charac¬ 
ter. The death rate everywhere has in¬ 
creased to an alarming extent. Here dur¬ 
ing the week there were 440 more deaths 
than during the preceding week, and the 
mortality—1,202—was the heaviest ever 
known. There were 19 deaths from the 
grippe itself and 298 from pneumonia, 159 
of which were complicated with influenza. 
There were also 99 deaths from bronchitis, 
of which 49 were attributed to aggravations 
by the Russian plague. Somewhat similar 
reports come from all parts of the country. 
The proportion of deaths to cases is, how¬ 
ever, extremely small, so that the number 
of cases everywhere is very great—75 000 
estimated in New York. 25,000 in Boston, 
50,000 in Philadephia and Chicago, and pro 
portionately elsewhere.. 
Thursday Senator Allison was renominat- 
6(1 by a caucus of the Republican members 
of both Houses of the Iowa Legislature at 
Des Moines. Several recalcitrant members 
refused to enter the caucus, but the renom¬ 
ination is pretty certain to indicate a re-elec¬ 
tion.. ..In spite of a good deal of the bitterest 
sort of opposition in his own party, million¬ 
aire Calvin S. Brice has been elected to the 
United States Senate by the Democrats 
of Ohio to succeed millionaire Payne. It is 
charged that both Payne and Brice bought 
their seats in the Senatorial nests of pluto¬ 
crats and monopolists............ ."Vigorous 
measures are being taken in Kansas to re¬ 
submit to the votes of the people the recent 
Prohibitory amendment to the constitu¬ 
tion as injurious to the prosperity of the 
State, and contrary to the wishes of the 
majority at present. The Prohibition¬ 
ists, however, present a bold and undaunt¬ 
ed front. 
One of the most powerful artesian wells in 
the world has just been brought under con¬ 
trol at Woonsocket, South Dakota, after 
it had formed a 40-acre lake in a few hours’ 
unchecked flow. With half the pressure 
turned on it now throws a solid stream 150 
feet high. The final report of the 
Johnstown Flood Relief Committee, made 
last Thursday, shows the following: 
Amount received by Governor Beaver at 
Harrisburg from all parts of the country 
and world, $1.225,872.83; received from 
Philadelphia committee, $600,000; received 
from Pittsburg committee, $500,000; re¬ 
ceived from New York committee, $576,- 
199.85—total, $2,902,072.68. The expendi¬ 
tures have been as follows; Appropriated 
and expended at Johnstown, $2,480,393.69; 
expended in other parts of State, $232,264- 
.45; distributed as specially directed by 
donors. $2,271.85; office expenses at Harris¬ 
burg, $1,398.42; general expenses, $1,318.70; 
first payment to orphans, $16,100: total 
$2,683,747.11. Somewhat over $200,000 of the 
total amount still remains on deposit in the 
bank. This will be applied as annuities of 
$50 a year for over 350 youngsters orphaned 
by the flood until they are 16 years old. It 
is estimated that over $1,000,000 more was 
contributed in money, clothing, provisions, 
etc., etc., which he official Relief Com¬ 
mittee didn’t handle. 
Dr. Lyman Abbott, after a probationary 
service of two years, has been finally in¬ 
stalled as successor to the Rev. Henry Ward 
Beecher in the pastorate of Plymouth 
Church, Brooklyn.The Dominion 
Parliament was opened at Ottawa, last 
Thursday afternoon. The Governor-Gener¬ 
al, Lord Stanley of Preston, referred glow¬ 
ingly to his recent visit to the Northwest 
and the numerous evidences of material 
growth he saw there. He felt confident 
that the strong representations made to 
the Imperial Government as to the neces¬ 
sity for protecting Canadian vessels em¬ 
ployed in capturing seals in Behring Sea 
will receive due weight. The present ses¬ 
sion of Parliament promises to be exception¬ 
ally lively, as Conservatives and Liberals, 
as well as Protestants and Catholics be¬ 
longing to both parties are determined on 
belligerent measures. 
The Commission of Engineers appointed 
by the French Government to investigate 
the Panama Canal consists of 12 experts 
who never had anything to do with the 
Suez or Panama Canals or with any of De 
Lesseps’ other enterprises. Five of them 
have been examining the canal for some 
time and they declare that the machinery 
and other parts of the “ plant ” are in good 
condition and the work well advanced. 
The other seven committeemen are delib¬ 
erating on plans for the completion of the 
work. Reports, however, will not be made 
until all return to France. Then the 
French Government will decide whether to 
help the work or let it collapse to the loss 
of nearly $200,000,000 by about 800,000 
Frenchmen—nearly all small investors_ 
.The Nicaragua Canal Company has 
over 1,000 men at work at Greytown build¬ 
ing a jetty and preparing in other wavs for 
the construction of its great canal. Nearly 
as many are engaged on other parts of the 
work, and all are taking precautions to 
avoid the blunders, mistakes and reckless¬ 
ness that have left the Panama Canal in 
its present deplorable plight. The people 
on the Pacific coast are tremendously in¬ 
terested in the speedy completion of one or 
other of the canals. 
A resolution just introduced into the 
House of Representatives at Washington, 
to reimburse members for their losses by 
the Silcott embezzlement, is likely to pass, 
though at the outset it was defeated. 
There’s a general opinion that Congress¬ 
men should get their pay, Silcott or no 
Silcott. All the. same, however, they lost 
their money through their own negligence; 
not through any fault of the nation. 
....The Governors of Ohio and West Vir¬ 
ginia have declared in favor of the Aus¬ 
tralian ballot system.Thursday, 
six full blooded Choctaw Indians, all 
guilty of brutal murders, four of which 
were prompted by whisky, were hung to¬ 
gether at Fort Smith, Ark., after they had 
confessed their guilt. 
....Reports from various points on the 
North Carolina seaboard tell us that large 
numbers of farmers there are on the brink 
of starvation. Many are working waist- 
deep in the swamps fishing out logs, which 
they sell for $30 per load after paying $27 
for railroad charges, so that they clear only 
$3 for a week’s hard work.The 
Monarch Distillery, at Peoria, Illinois, the 
largest in the world, was burned on Janu¬ 
ary 12. The still cost $500,000. and the dis¬ 
tillery had a capacity of 10,000 bushels of 
corn a day. A new trial has been 
refused to Coughlin, Burke and O’Sullivan, 
convicted of the Cronin murder in Chicago, 
and they have been sent off to the Illinois 
State prison at Joliet to serve a life sen¬ 
tence. An appeal has been taken in 
their behalf, however. The miserable 
fellow Kunze, who nearly got hanged for 
being in bad company, wss granted a new 
trial, and will probably be acquitted. 
Mr. Walker Blaine, Examiner of Claims in 
the State Department, and eldest son of 
Secretary Blame, died at Washington last 
Thursday evening at the age of 34, of acute 
pneumonia, superinduced by an attack of 
the grippe. He was a very intelligent and 
promising young man, with a host of 
friends. 
An ‘ irregularity ” of about $3,000,000 is re¬ 
ported in the accounts of Cleveland, Ohio. 
The money has been paid out without 
legal authority, though no actual dishon¬ 
esty is charged.Of the 1,581 teachers 
employed last year in Chicago, 1.550 were 
females, and only 31 males. Of school 
principals, 43 were females tnd 37 males. 
Two of the general superintendents and 
three of the special teacners were women. 
All the male teachers were emDloyed in 
the high schools..By the destruc¬ 
tion of the Canton Elevator at Baltimore 
the other day $700,000 worth of wheat and 
corn went to ruin .Judge W. D. 
Kelley, of Pennsylvania, the Father of the 
House of Representatives, in Washington, 
died the other day at the age of 75, after 
serving 28 consecutive years in Congress. 
He was an able “iron-clad ” Protectionist. 
.The St. Paul Chamber of Commerce 
has adopted a resolution asking the City 
Council to submit to popular vote the 
question of municipal union with Min¬ 
neapolis. The “twin cities” have grown 
marvelously within the last dozen years... 
Reports of great distress come from theset- 
tlers in Stevens, Morton and Hodgman 
Counties, Kansas. A considerable amount of 
supplies has already been sent to their re¬ 
lief from Wichita and other points in Kan¬ 
sas, but much more is needed. By the way, 
there are no reports from destitute people 
in the “ abandoned ” regions of Vermont, 
New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. 
... .Both of the Dakotas are in a dilemma 
with regard to the temperance problem. 
They have both Prohibitory constitutional 
provisions; but no laws to enforce them. 
While the saloons have no right to exist, 
there are no means of legally suppressing 
or even regulating them.The 
records of the War Department show that 
since 1865, 92 officers have been killed by In¬ 
dians, while 275 have died in service at 
posts west of the Mississippi River. One 
thing noticeable about Indian warfare is 
the thoroughness with which the savages 
do their work. During battle in ordinary 
warfare not more than eight or 10 per cent, 
of the casualties can be classified as killed 
outright: but in frontier service it is an 
exception if a man live to carry the marks 
of a fight in later years. The Indian shoots 
to’kill.. 
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. 
Coughs, Sore Throat and Bronchial Affec¬ 
tions. Price, 25 cents. For sale everywhere, 
in boxes.— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED. 
SATURDAY, January 18,1890. 
Russia still reckons time by the “old 
style”, so that her New Year’s Day oc¬ 
curred on January 13. The Czar made sev¬ 
eral important changes in the Ministry, 
and expressed an earnest wish that “thede- 
velopment of the country’s internal re¬ 
sources may be undisturbed, amid peace, 
which is universally desired, and which 
brings happiness to all.” The Autocrat is 
represented to be in the deepest despond¬ 
ency—indeed almost crazy—through his 
constant dread of speedy death at the hands 
of the Nihilists. Several high officers who 
were guilty or suspected of participation 
in the Nihilists’ plots, have committed sui¬ 
cide through dread of Siberia. In the lat¬ 
ter desolate penal settlement, a number of 
exiled malcontents who resisted the guards 
were ruthlessly shot down the other day, 
and the Czar has ordered an investigation 
which is sure to exonerate the guilty. The 
other day a Nihilist woman shot to death 
the Chief of the Secret Police at Moscow, 
and straightway committed suicide. Death 
has little terror for the Nihilists. Mean¬ 
while vast railroads are being pushed rap¬ 
idly across the illimitable wastes to the Pa¬ 
cific ; others are being laid out to the Cri¬ 
mea, and others are being pushed feverishly 
ahead to and along the Roumanian, Aus¬ 
trian and German frontiers, chiefly for 
strategic purposes. Government banks 
are being numerously established to make 
loans for the relief of small land owners • 
the mines are being steadily developed ; ag¬ 
riculture is being liberally encouraged, and 
while one hand of this “paternal govern¬ 
ment ” is ruthlessly punishing the stubborn 
and rebellious, the other is encouraging 
and helping the obedient and cringing. On 
the whole, while the condition of the vast 
masses of the people is still extremely 
wretched, it is probably less so than at any 
time in the past. 
The relations of England and Portugal are 
extremely critical The latter country has 
for a long time claimed the land along the 
lower course of the river Zambesi in eastern 
Africa. One of the northern branches of 
the river runs into Lake Nyassa, and along 
it lie the Shir6 and Nyassa lands, both 
west of the old Portuguese settlement of 
Mozambique, which stretches for 1,000 
miles along the Indian Ocean. In the re¬ 
cent general scramble of European govern¬ 
ments for African possessions, Portugal 
claimed all the vast region between Mozam¬ 
bique on the East coast and Benguela and 
Angola (both Portuguese settlements)on the 
West coast of the continent. This included 
the Shir6 and Nyassa lands and an enor¬ 
mous amount of other territory, little of 
which had been visited by Portuguese for 
centuries • but most of which had been ex¬ 
plored by British subjects within the last 
few years. The latter had established 
trading relations with the negroes of the 
Shir6 and Nyassa lands, and when, quite 
recently, the Portuguese officer and ex¬ 
plorer Serpa Pinto, at the head of 
a body of troops, invaded the coun¬ 
try, and sought to establish Portuguese 
authority exclusively and do away with 
all British influence, the English govern¬ 
ment claimed the country ; vigorously pro¬ 
tested against Serpa Pinto’s high handed 
measures; collected a powerful fleet at 
Zanzibar and sent it to intimidate the 
Portuguese colonies on the Mozambique 
coast: ordered the still more powerful 
Mediterranean fleet to assemble at Gibraltar 
as a menace to Lisbon ; refused Portugal’s 
offer to leave the matter to arbitration by 
some disinterested nation, and peremptorily 
demanded that Portugal should disown 
Serpa Pinto’s action, and withdraw her 
claims to the disputed territory. Little 
Portugal, with 4,000,000 population, had to 
yield to the threats of “Bully” Britain; 
with 37,000,000, besides the vast hordes of 
her colonies and foreign possessions. The 
Ministry, however, resigned rather than un¬ 
dergo the humiliation ; a provisional Min¬ 
istry, while protesting and appealing 
to Europe against England’s insulting 
ultimatum, has submitted to super¬ 
ior force, “while protecting Portugal’s 
interests as far as possible, and its dig¬ 
nity absolutely.” Bismarck, who loves 
“strong measures ” and seeks British sup¬ 
port at all cost, says Portugal should yield ; 
France, Spain and Austria think England 
has been by far too peremptory ; other Eu¬ 
ropean countries have not spoken out yet. 
Portugal has for generations been a close 
ally-almost a dependency—of England: now 
there is intense national indignation against 
her. The students and populace in Lisbon 
stormed the British Embassy and pulled 
down the British flag, the oth'er night, and 
Portuguese merchants are preparing to 
boycott English merchandise. The whole 
country is in a violent ferment. The Re¬ 
publicans of Portugal and Spain are pre¬ 
paring to turn the matter to their own ad¬ 
vantage, and the crowned heads of Europe 
are getting alarmed lest the trouble may 
lead to the establishment of republics in¬ 
stead of monarchies in both parts of the 
Iberian Peninsula. 
SATURDAY, January 18, 1890. 
Pennsylvania cows are reported to have 
symptoms of la grippe...The State 
Agricultural Society of Pennsylvania at a 
recent meeting re-elected the old officers, 
but was unable to decide whether to hold a 
fair this year or not. Another meeting 
will be held.H. H. Isham has been 
elected president of the New Jersey State 
Agricultural Society.Several 
hundred acres of land in Salem County, N. 
J., are to be reclaimed by means of dykes, 
after being underwater 12 years. 
The new firm of Taylor & Gale will liere- 
after carry on the business formerly con¬ 
ducted by B. & J. W. Belcher, manufac¬ 
turers of agricultural implements at Chico¬ 
pee Falls, Mass., they having purchased 
all the stock, patterns, etc., of the old firm. 
.The Sub-Tropical Exposition 
opened at Jacksonville, Florida, last week. 
•.The wool supply in the United 
States is reported at 70,000.000 pounds do¬ 
mestic and 15,000,000 pounds foreign against 
50,000,000 pounds domestic and 17.000,000 
pounds foreign in 1888. The imports of 
clothing wool show a decline of nearly 75 
§ er cent. 
ome fiend at Hightstown, N. J., poisoned 
a couple of cans of milk which had been 
left outside a farm-house over-night to be 
shipped to Philadelphia in the morning. 
The dealer receiving the milk tested it and. 
finding it bitter, returned it to the shipper, 
who fed it to the hogs. The hogs all be¬ 
came sick, and an examination of the milk 
revealed the presence of large quantities of 
arsenic.Professor J. W. Sanborn 
is now acting as director of the Agricultu¬ 
ral College Experiment Station at Logan 
City, Utah.A bill has been intro¬ 
duced into Congress providing for the es¬ 
tablishment of a United States Army Vet¬ 
erinary Surgeon Corps, which it is expect¬ 
ed will increase the efficiency of the cavalry. 
• •.. .One evening last week, 18 horses were 
shipped from a Pennsylvania town to New¬ 
ark, N. J. in a tight box car, and upon 
arrival at their destination the following 
morning. 15 of them were dead, having 
been suffocated. 
Bell Boy, the costliest trotter, with the sin¬ 
gle exception of Axtell, ever sold in the 
United States, was burned to death in his 
stable at Versailles, Ky., the other day, in 
a fire which destroyed more than $200,000 
worth of trotters, buildings and fixtures. 
Bell Boy was sold in February, 1889, at auc¬ 
tion for $51,000, and it is reported that his 
owner, Judson H. Clark, of Elmira, N. Y. 
was offered $100,000 for him the past au¬ 
tumn. He was a full brother of several 
noted trotters, which made remarkable re¬ 
cords when two and three years of age. He 
was bred by Senator Stanford, who sold 
him to Michigan parties for $5,000 when a 
yearling; they gave him a two-vear-old re¬ 
cord of 2:26 and sold him for $30,000 cash and 
breeding privileges worth $5,000. He was 
then sold and taken to California, where in 
a driving rainstorm in December, ’88, he 
made a three-year-old record of 2:19^ ; he 
then came East and passed into the hands 
of Mr. Clark, who owned him at the time of 
his death. His stud-book for the season of 
1890 was filled at the high fee of $500. It 
seems strange that so valuable a horse should 
have been kept where there was the least 
danger of such a catastrophe, when a fire¬ 
proof stable might have been erected at a 
comparatively low price. Other high- 
priced horses are Stamboul, $50,000; Sunol, 
$45,000; Maud S., $10,(XX); Fearnaught, $40,- 
000; Rarus, $30,000; Pocahontas, $35,000, 
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