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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
TAN. ii 
HOME NEWS. 
SATURDAY. January 4, 1810. 
The grippe has visited nearly allpartsof 
this country and is steadily at work caus¬ 
ing a great deal of discomfort and a few 
deaths. Relapsos are quite dangerous and 
the plague is often complicated here, as in 
Europe, with pneumonia and bronchial 
troubles.On-the night of December 
27, a band of masked rascals broke into the 
jail at Barnwell, S. C., and riddled with 
bullets the bodies of eight colored men con¬ 
fined there for various petty offences. It 
was claimed that there had lately been too 
many murders and too much theft in that 
section ; and then the “ niggers ” had be¬ 
come too “saucy” so that a lesson was 
needed. There is now a quiet exodus of 
negroes from that section and most likely 
the planters will find much difficulty 
in getting help to handle the next crops. 
The Governor of South Carolina has offered 
a reward of $200 a head for the capture and 
conviction of the lynchers.There’s 
a “ truce ” or suspension of hostilities in the 
“war race” at Jessup, Georgia. The col¬ 
ored people are leaving that section also... 
The Hon. George H. Boker, ex-Mimster to 
Russia and Philadelphia’s most notable 
literary son, died last Thursday of heart 
failure after an illness of several months, at 
the age of 65.The North River 
Sugar Refining Company, the member of 
the Sugar Trust against which all litiga¬ 
tion has hitherto been directed in this 
State, has brought a suit against the other 
members of the trust, demanding an ac¬ 
counting, and the appointment of a receiver 
for all the trust property. This movement 
is likely to knock the bottom out of the 
thing.The Republicans of Mon¬ 
tana have elected two U. S. Senators—prob¬ 
ably on an assurance that the Republican 
majority in the Senate will admit them. 
The Democratic members of the State leg¬ 
islature are still recalcitrant.All 
saloon licenses in South Dakota expired 
with the end of the year ; with few excep¬ 
tions, however, all are keeping open, which 
is causing much excitement among the 
temperance people. The liquor men say 
they have a right to keep open until a law 
shall be passed to enforce the prohibitory 
amendment to the Constitution.The 
Democrats of the Kentucky legislature have 
unanimously determined to re-elect Luke 
Blackburn to the U. S. Senate.The 
International Marine Conference at Wash¬ 
ington, has finally adjourned, after a very 
important and harmonious session. The 
revision of the rules and regulations for 
preventing collisions at sea occupied the 
greater part of the delegates’ time, but 
other important maritime matters were 
satisfactorily adjusted. There is little 
doubt that all the governments represented 
will promptly adopt the legislation neces¬ 
sary to put the rules into practice.Sen¬ 
ators Morgan of Alabama, Butler of South 
Carolina, and Gibson of Louisiana, have 
bills in the Senate providing for the depor¬ 
tation of the Southern negroes, and Sena¬ 
tors Sherman and Chandler have bills there 
putting Congressional and Presidential 
elections under Federal control. 
.Congress has before it a bill 
appropriating $13,940 to pay the claim of 
the late John Ericsson for designing the 
war-ship Princeton, the first screw war 
propeller, in 1841. In 1857 the Court of 
Claims awarded Ericsson $13,940 ; but Con¬ 
gress has never made the needed appro¬ 
priation. 
A large number of boomers are encamped 
below St. Pierre, South Dakota, deter¬ 
mined to seize upon that portion of the 
lately-purchased Sioux reservation on this 
side of the Missouri River. Much excite¬ 
ment prevails and some serious trouble 
may occur. A company of U. S. infantry 
has just been marched into the reservation 
to keep out all new intruders, though they 
are not to disturb those who have already 
squatted there. The whole section will 
be thrown open to settlement in spring.... 
.Much trouble is expected in Okla¬ 
homa from the “sooners”—the men who 
entered the country for settlement be¬ 
fore the hour designated by the President’s 
proclamation. The government appears 
aetermined to oust all of them from the 
land they appropriated and a deadly resist¬ 
ance is probable in many cases. 
East and West Dallas, Texas, have just 
been merged into one city by legislative 
enactment. The place has now 60,000 in¬ 
habitants and is the largest city in Texas.. 
.“ Me Allister’s 400 ” had the most 
gorgeous , resplendent, high-toned, exclu¬ 
sive, plutocratic and in-every-way-success- 
ful ball that ever was witnessed on this 
hemisphere, last Thursday night, at the Met¬ 
ropolitan Opera House in tnis city. Mil¬ 
lionaires. “ howling swells,” and profes¬ 
sional and other beauties were as thick as 
—well, as stars in the Milky Way. Ju8t 
1,400 were made happy by receiving invita¬ 
tions and 5,000 at least were made misera¬ 
ble by receiving none in spite of great pres¬ 
sure. 
During the last 20 years in Hancock 
County, Tenn., there have been 50 murders 
and not a murderer has been hanged. 
.. .The government’s offer of $1.25 per acre 
for the 6,000,000 acresof the Cherokee Strip 
or Outlet, made to Chief Mayes on July 31 
last, has been withdrawn by the United 
States Commissioners in charge of the mat¬ 
ter, in order to leave the Government en¬ 
tirely untrammeled in any action it may 
take with regard to the “Strip” in future. 
.The indictment of fugitive Cashier 
Silcott contains 112 counts.There 
has been a reported increase of 55 per cent, 
in the population of Arkansas since 1880.... 
.Prohibition has been in force in 
New Hampshire for 30 years, and now Gov, 
Goodell in a proclamation issued a week 
ago, makes an earnest appeal for a “su¬ 
preme effort” to suppress the liquor traffic, 
as the laws, he declares, are constantly vio¬ 
lated .Secretary Blaine is reported 
to be negotiating with the new government 
of Hayti for the purchase of the Mole of 
St. Nicholas, the best port in the country, 
situated on the northwestern part of the 
island.A terrible accident in which 
11 persons were killed and about 25 injured, 
took place the other morning on the Chesa¬ 
peake and Ohio road two miles west of 
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. A vesti¬ 
bule train left the track at 7.20 o’clock and 
six cars were demolished. All the occu¬ 
pants of the smoker were killed. The acci¬ 
dent was caused by the rails spreading. 
.Prof. Mellville G. Blame, principal 
teacher at the Chemwa Indian training 
school near Salem, Or., and a brother of 
Secretary James G. Blaine, died Monday 
evening after a brief illness, at the age 
of 63. 
Bradstreet’s reports 11,719 failures in the 
United States for the vear 1889, with liabili¬ 
ties of $210,359,490, and assetts of $70,599,769. 
This is the largest number of failures and 
greatest liabilities in the last five years.... 
According to the same authority the fail¬ 
ures of wool dealers and manufacturers for 
1889, number 72 with liabilities of $10,442,000, 
as compared with 57 failures for 1888 and 
liabilities of $3,637,000.Mayor Grant 
of this city, has been carrying on a regular 
crusade against the electric light companies 
doing business here; nearly all their over¬ 
head wires have been cut down by his or¬ 
ders and for a week large sections of the 
city were in Cimmerian darkness. Now 
the sickly, yellow gas-lamps have replaced 
the bright, cheerful electric lights. There’s 
no doubt that several deaths of linemen 
and others were due to the carelessness of 
some of the companies in not properly in¬ 
sulating the wires; but they claim that the 
Mayor’s action was illegal, aud are about 
to sue the city for $3,000,000 damages. 
The main building of the Western College 
at Toledo, Ohio, was burned the other day 
—loss $150,000; insurance $22,500. 
A trifle over 5,000 miles of railroad track 
was constructed in 1889, against, 6,800 in 
’68, and 12,872 in ’87. 
Five colonies of Swedes are already prepar¬ 
ing to settle on the abandoned farms of 
Vermont. One has gone from Newark, N. 
J., another from Springfield, Mass., and 
the three others are coming from Sweden. 
State Commissioner Valentine says that he 
is receiving many letters from Vermont 
people who have gone West and from other 
Western farmers inquiring about the 
character and price.s of the farms, and that 
he expects a considerable agricultural im¬ 
migration into Vermont from the Middle 
and Western States.An important 
decision, involving the title to over 60,000, 
acres of land in Colorado, New Mexico 
and vicinity, has just been rendered by 
Judge Brewer, of the United States Cir¬ 
cuit Court, in the case of the Interstate 
Land Company and others against the 
Maxwell Land Grant Company. The deci¬ 
sion was in favor of the latter company. 
An appeal has been taken to the United 
States Supreme Court. 
The doctors of Findlay, Ohio, have formed 
a trust and raised the price of professional 
visits from $1 to $1.50 each, not a little to 
the indignation of the people, as “la grippe” 
has just made its appearance there. 
One of the stations of the Edison Light 
Company, in the lower part of this city, 
was cremated Thursday. A current “going 
astray ” set fire to the place : loss $225,000.. 
.The Dominion nas 12 fish hatcheries 
in operation; which last year distributed 
78,000,000 salmon, salmon trout, white fish, 
{ uckerel, and speckled trout in Canadian 
akes and rivers. Twenty years ago the 
value of the product of these internal fish¬ 
eries was $4,000,000. Last year it was $17, 
418,000, Canada does well to look carefully 
after her fisheries—inland as well as oceanic 
.Joel Chandler Harris, 49 years old, 
will succeed the late Mr. Grady as editor 
of the Atlanta Constitution. 
Francis Lucretia Thomas, wife of the 
“ Rock of Chickamauga,” is dead. 
Marie Louise Longstreet, wife of Lee’s 
famous lieutenant, died at Gainesville, Ga., 
last Sunday.Starvation confronts 
the people of Sherman County, Ivan., and 
an appeal for aid has been sent out. 
The immigration to this country for the 
last 11 months foots up 407,237, against 488, 
501 in the 11 months of 1888. 
The Government engineers appointed to in¬ 
vestigate the best port on the Texas coast 
to be made a deep-water harbor at the 
National expense, has named Galveston, 
where the depth on the bar already is 13 
feet. In consequence of this decision real 
estate in the Island City is “booming” in 
view of the magnitude and importance the 
place is likely to attain should Congress 
take favorable action on the report. Prices 
are now as high as they should be had the 
city already increased by one-half. 
A syndicate of capitalists representing an 
investment of $15,000,000, is reported to have 
just been formed at Pittsburg, Pa., to re¬ 
volutionize steel-making by manufacturing 
open-hearth steel by a new process as cheap 
as Bessemer or cheaper.The New 
York Supreme Court has just decided that 
the execution of criminals by electricity is 
not unconstitutional. It is an unusual but 
not a cruel punishment. The Westing- 
house Company which objects to the use 
of its system in electrocution, and which 
has hitherto paid all the expenses of con¬ 
testing the constitutionality of the law, will 
at once appeal. 
“The greatest insurance swindle of the 
age” has just been perpetrated in South 
Dakota. Last June Dexter W. Turner 
settled at Sioux Falls and represented him¬ 
self as the State agent of South Dakota 
for the Citizen’s Life Association of Chero¬ 
kee, Iowa. He immediately proceeded to 
organize the State in a systematic manner, 
and to solicit life insurance for his com¬ 
pany. Agents were appointed among the 
farmers and lat orihg classes. The attract¬ 
ive feature of his plan was to issue a con¬ 
joint policy, covering both man and wife 
and in some instances the entire family. 
Business came pouring in at an enormous 
rate, notes or cash being taken for the pre¬ 
miums from the policy-holders, or anything 
that could be squeezed from them. When 
a note was taken it was sold at whatever 
figure the local bank was willing to pay for 
it. The company Turner represented had 
no authority to do business in the State, 
and the whole scheme was fraudulent from 
its inception. Fully $1,000,000 of policies 
were written, and thousands of dollars 
were collected as premiums. Turner is 
now a fugitive from justice Of course those 
who paid cash as premiums have lost it, 
and a big crop of lawsuits is certain to 
spring up about the validity of the notes 
given in payment, when these are found in 
the hands of “innocent holders.”. 
Bradstreet and Dun, the two great mercan¬ 
tile agencies of the country, differ consider¬ 
ably with regard to the business failures in 
the country during 1889. Bradstreet’s es¬ 
timates are given elsewhere; here are 
Dun’s: The failures in 1889 numbered 10,- 
882 in the United States, or one in every 97 
firms, and 1,777 in Canada, or one in every 
45 firms. In 1888 the failures were 10,679 in 
the United States and 1,677 in Canada. 
The aggregate of liabilities was $148,784,337 
in the United States, against $123,829,973 in 
1888, and $14,713,223 in Canada against $14,- 
081,100.. 
New York State owns 855,977 acresof forest 
lands situated in 15 counties mostly ad¬ 
joining the Adirondacks and the Big or 
North Woods of John Brown’s Tract. The 
State acquired title to these lands at tax 
sales and in no instance by direct purchase. 
The Court of Appeals has just rendered a 
decision affirming the absolute ownership 
of the State in all these lands. Its title had 
previously been disputed, and lumbermen 
have been accustomed to cut timber for 
nothing wherever they pleased. A test 
case was made up against Benton Turner 
from whom $1,433.11 were claimed for such 
unlawful appropriation and the court of 
final resort hits decided against him. The 
State authorities will, it is said, henceforth 
stringently protect the State forests against 
all trespassing. 
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Judged by the New Year’s utterances of 
most of the crowned heads of Europe and 
their responsible Ministers, the peace of 
Europe is firmly established for at least 
another year. True, the Czar hasn’t ut¬ 
tered a word yet; but his silence is counter¬ 
balanced by the emphatic declarations of 
the security of peace by Emperor William 
and King Humbert, confirmea by Bismarck 
and Crispi, to say nothing of the words of 
lesser notabilities. There is no cessation 
whatever, however, in the preparations for 
emergencies. The Spaudau gun factories 
in Germany, are, we are told, working day 
and night, and the Crown Council will 
meet within a week under the Presidency 
of the Emperor. In France, Italy, Eng- 
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erish urgency in preparing for war is mani¬ 
fested ; while Russia is straining every 
nerve of her gigantic bulk building strate¬ 
gic railroads, increasing aud perfecting her 
vast armies, constructing new fortifications 
along her western frontier, and pushing 
her troops forward where they will De most 
readily available. It is estimated that the 
armies of Europe have changed their arms 
twice since the last great war in 1870. 
Enormous sums have been expended and 
are being daily expended by all belligerent 
nations m equipping their troops with the 
most improved and deadly weapons. In 
the struggle now going on across the water 
it is the “sinews of war ” rather than the 
bone and muscles of the armies that are 
taxed to the utmost. 
Gladstone was 80 years Sunday, and the 
“ Grand Old Man ” received congratulatory 
telegrams from all parts of the world. He 
is hale, hearty, and vigorous mentally and 
physically.The Consular Court 
at Zanzibar has given a verdict for $50,000 
against Tippo Tib, the notorious African 
slave aud ivory trader, for losses incurred 
by his failure to keep his contract for sup¬ 
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Zanzibar and the mainland opposite. His 
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.Emin Pasha has almost entirely re¬ 
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Dr. Peters, the German explorer who, some 
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Germany the provinces lately abandoned 
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Italy has just concluded a treaty with Ab¬ 
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