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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
FEB i5 
of 11) c XVttk. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, February 8,1890. 
The Liberal members of the Canadian 
Parliament in their first caucus, the other 
day, decided to continue their advocacy of 
unrestricted reciprocity with this country 
as the chief plank in the Liberal platform. 
.Governor Lowry of Mississippi is 
urgent for more stringent laws against 
prize fighting. There were 26 lyncbings in 
Mississippi last year and not a lyncher was 
punished.Although the Blaine- 
Pauncefote extradition treaty differs from 
the Bayard West convention in excluding 
from extraditable offenses the use of dynam¬ 
ite and other explosives by disorderly per¬ 
sons, still the Irish Nationalists are bitterly 
opposed to it, and propose to agitate against 
its eoufirmation.by the United States Sen¬ 
ate. It is likely however, to be promptly 
confirmed as both the United States and 
Great Britian are tired of free trade in 
criminals. 
Early last Monday morning Secretary 
Tracy’s house at Washington was burned 
while all the family were in bed. Mrs. 
Tracy—aged 60—fell or dropped from a 
second-story window and died shortly 
afterwards; Miss Mary Tracy—aged 26-— 
was suffocated in her room and the body 
was severely burned,-and a French maid 
met the same fate. The Secretary was 
taken out of the house unconscious and did 
not recover consciousness for many hours. 
Mrs. Emma Wilmerding, a widow, the 
Secretary’s eldest daughter, and her 12- 
year old daughter leaped from a second- 
story window and were severely but not 
dangerously injured. The whole country 
deeply sympathizes with Mr. T. in his ter¬ 
rible loss.Mrs. Goppinger, daughter 
of Secretary Blaine, died the other day—a 
sad bereavement so soon after the death of 
his eldest son, Walker Blaine.J. 
B. Armstrong, Banker of Conway Springs, 
Kansas, was connected with the sorghum 
sugar mill there and guaranteed farmers 
the price of their cane and also guaranteed 
the hands their wages. The farmers claim 
that $28,00U are uue them, and the em¬ 
ployees claim $y,(XK). The money wasn’t 
forthcoming and on January 80, 100 or 
more of the creditors assemoled at the 
bank and kicked and pounded Armstrong 
unmercifully. Last reports say he is in a 
critical condition. 
The grand rush to the Sioux Reservation 
has already begun. Intending settlers are 
flocking thither from all sides by train, 
“ prairie schooner ” and all sorts of other 
vehicles. The President’s proclamation 
opening 11,000,000 acres to settlement is ex¬ 
pected daily.Kansas and Nebraska 
farmers and their representatives are mak¬ 
ing earnest efforts to secure lower rates of 
freight for corn from the railroads to Chi¬ 
cago and Eastern markets. Owing to low 
prices and high charges there is no profit 
to the producer of corn at present. 
English capitalists, having invested heavily 
in tin mines in the Blaca Hills, are now 
urging Congress to impose a heavy duty on 
all importations of foreign tin so as to tax 
the people heavily for the ‘‘protection” of 
the new “infant industry.”.The 
Virginia legislature has refused hy a large 
vote to follow the example of little Dela¬ 
ware by establishing the whipping post_ 
.Last Tuesday tue West Virginia legis¬ 
lature by a vote of 43 to 40, decided tuat 
Fleming, Democrat, was chosen Governor 
at the last election. Goff, Republican, 
must now give up the case. 
The Virginia legislature has adopted a res¬ 
olution to urge Congress to pass a bill au¬ 
thorizing the secretary of the Treasury to 
loan farmers money at two per cent inter¬ 
est .It is charged that Canadian lum¬ 
bermen are stealing billions of leet of lum¬ 
ber from the greatest pine timber belt in 
America—that along the northern border 
of Minnesota. The lumber is sold in this 
country, and thus the Canadians avoid the 
payment of an import duty of from 10 to 20 
per cent.The Norih Dakota Senate 
has voted to admit a notorious lottery 
scheme on the annual payment of $75,000 
into the {state Treasury, and the House is 
nearly certain to pass it also, ft is thought 
that Gov. Muller will veto it, but that the 
legislature will pass it over the veto by a 
two thirds majority. As the New State is 
nearly bankrupt, it is taking this disreput¬ 
able way of filling its treasury at the cost 
of the rest of the country. i he Uosc- 
master General is about to make another 
effort to check the infamous work of the 
Louisiana Lottery by depriving it of the 
use of the United States mails and is urg¬ 
ing Congress to pass a law to that effect... 
The municipal authorities oi San Luis 
Potosi, Mexico—population 4U,00o—have 
ordered $11,000 worth of fruit trees from the 
United States.The grippe is still 
dangerous in some parts of this country. 
It is increasing its ravages iu Mexico, 
where whole settlements ot Indians have 
been attacked, and the death rate is high.. 
.Governor’s Island, New York haroor, 
has j ust been selected as the landing place 
for immigrants, by the Secretary oi the 
Treasury. It will take several months to 
erect the necessary buildings and make 
preparations for speedy transportation. 
.The Supreme Court of fow r a has sus¬ 
tained a claim lor damages in $50,000 by 
shippers who brought suit against the 
Rock Island Railroad lor granting rebates 
of freight to rivals in business.It 
is said that during the 20 years from 1807 
to 1887, six per cent, of all the county rec¬ 
ords in the United State were destroyed, 
and nearly all by lire. 
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. 
—A dv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
SATURDAY, February 8, 1890. 
England having secured all she wanted 
from Portugal, now consents to let that 
country “down easy” by referring the 
matter to a conference of the European 
Powers, as urged by Spain, France, Italy, 
Austria, and Russia. Germany has given 
no opinion on the subject as yet. 
There is a famine due to the failure of crops 
in Russian-Poland and Galicia, and the 
agricultural societies of Austria are pre¬ 
paring to relieve the sufferers.A 
plot has been discovered against Prince 
Ferdinand among the Bulgarian officers. 
Of course It is attributed to Russian in¬ 
trigues.Parnell has compromised 
his suit for libel against the London Times, 
for $25,000 and all legal costs and other 
expenses. His Secretary Mr. Campbell, 
who had also brought a libel suit against 
the paper, has settled it for $10,000 and 
costs, it was a “ sheer ” back down of the 
Times, and Parnell °ettled to avoid the 
heavy costs of a trial and a bothersome 
cross examination. Sir Charles Russell, 
his great lawyer, is also ill with the grippe. 
.The foreign trade of the United 
Kingdom during the year 188y was the 
largest ever known in the whole history of 
the country. 
Coughs and Colds.—Those .suffering 
from Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Sore 
Throat, etc., should try Brown’s Bronch ial 
Troches, a simple and effective remedy. 
They contain nothing injurious, and may be 
used at all times with perfect safety.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, February 8, 1890. 
The 15th Annual Meeting of the Ayr¬ 
shire Breeders’ Association will lie held at 
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, this city, Febru¬ 
ary 20, at two o’clock p. M Prof. W hitch¬ 
er of the New Hampshire Experiment 
Station is to give an address on the Ayr¬ 
shire as a Dairy Cow, and other important 
papers and discussions are expected. C. 
M. Winslow, secretary, Brandon, Vt. 
It is reported that all the manufacturers 
of cordage and binding twine in the coun¬ 
try have formed an organization. 
The Illinois S’ate Board of Agriculture re¬ 
ports the yield of corn for 1889 as 247,980,589 
bushels, the estimated value of which was 
$58,587,017. The cost of production as re- 
£Ui$ccHanr0U$i 
S END 10 Cts. in r o n Wien Produce Com mis 
P. O. stamps to t- ® U. VTA nil, sion Merchants, 
forclreular about Shipping Produce Also recipe 
for Preserving Uggs, Established 1845. 
Mo. ‘it# VI axhtnslon .. New York Cltv 
SEED POTATOES 
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