Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-29

average, 31O per cent These p cases rep resent e2, 58l of the :e5,4 rental paid by the 39 tenants. The results in the remaining 14 farms show reduction from G2, 959 to g, 5O9-a difference of only G350-the largest percentage being on farms from e10 to El40 of yearly rent The reductions not based on any assumption of permanent de- pression in agriculture, but on the state of the farm buildings and on certain changes connected with improvements. The Duke of Devonshire, it may be added, remitted 10 per cent. Of the rentals of his FUrness and Cartmel tenantry at the last half yearly rent audit, although for the previous half-y ear similar reduction had been allowed
 Official returns to the German govern ment represent that, in spite Of calamitous rains in places the grain harvest, taken whole, ill be fully up to the average The reports from Russia show that in most of the central and southern provinces tho cereal crops have suffered greatly from un- seasonabe and heavy rains, as well as from insects and blight. The return there is esti- mated as considerably under the average. In the provinces of Finland, Courland and 1.-Two SoSo harvest is secured Throughout Hungary the yield is good. In South Hungary, in deed it is described as excellent in wheat, rye and maize, while rapeseed crops and fodder, the other hand, are poor. From all parts of European Turkey it is reported that the harvest is, on the whole superior to any shat has been gathered for the last ten years. At the other extreme of Europe, the other hand, in Sweden and Norway all accounts agree that this years harvest, though not what was at one period expected, is, nevertheless, upon the whole, fair average The heavy rain fall which has prevailed in the western parts of Austria has been terribly destructive in Bohemia. More than twothirds of the ce- real harvest in that kingdom has been utterly ruined. Throughout the western part of the Austrian Empire unfavorable weather re- tardsd the harvest for fully a fortnight to three weeks past tho usual date.
 An interesting contribution to the Gould Conkling- Cornell controversy is made by the l Washington correspondent of the Boston | Adcertiser, who says that after Mir. Conkllpg had failed of a re election his friends set | themselves earnestly at work to unravel the | political intrigues by which MT. Robertson | had been made collector and by which MT. ! Platt and himself were defeated for the Sen l ate. It was soon found that the study of | this subject carried them back into the presi 1 dsntial campaign in fact as far back as the
 winter before the Chicago convention met. It was not long before Mir. Conkling was in possession of the very important part
 which Jay Gould played through agents at Albany in the election of Senator | Platt. The amount of money whlct l was used on this occasion became knowr 1 to Mir. Conkling. According to his in 1 formation this was first step in secur | ing the confirmation of Mir. RoDel tsor | when he should be afterwards nominated 2, l collector. The facts connected with th' pledge taken from Mir. Platt also became
 known to him, and thus, step by step, he be | came possessed of history i'll great detail
 the Albany, New York, and the Washington
 intrigue, covering the various branches 0
 the Robertson affair. Mir. Conkling's friends l says the correspondent, as vel as those
 Collector Robertson, were for some weeks Il
 daily expectation of the publication of th
 whcle story as Hr. Conkling had learned ii
 At late day his friends asce tained that h
 had been retained in very important case
 which Mr. Gould controlled, and that he d
 not feel at liberty to make public what h
 knew about the Robertson intrigue, while hl
 legal employment in Mir. Gould's cases con
 tinued.