MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JAN. £0 
“PROCRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED 
RURAL, LITERARY AMI fAAIILY HWSPAm. 
D. D T. MOORE, 
Conduoting Kditor and. Proprietor. 
PUBLICATION OFFICES: 
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BufTalo Street, Rochester, N. Y. 
WESTERN BRANCH OFFICE : 
No. 75 North Side of Park, Cleveland, Ohio. 
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and Specimens, Show-Bills, Prospectuses, Ac., deliv¬ 
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Clubs; - f ive Copies, nnd one copy free to Agent or 
Better up of Club, for $12.50: Seven Copies, nnd one 
free, for $16; Ten Copies, and one free. $30—only $2 
per copy. As we nre obliged to pro-pay the American 
postage on papers mailed to foreign countries. Twenty 
Cents should be added to above rates for each yearly 
copy mailed to Canada, end One Dollar per copy to 
Europe. Drafts, Post-Office Money Orders and Regis¬ 
tered I letters may b* mailed nt our risk. Liberal 
Premiums to all Club Agents who do not take free 
copies. Specimen Numbers, Show-Bills, Ac.,sent free. 
The Rural New-Yorltor is sold by News Deal¬ 
ers generally throughout the United States nnd 
Canada at Six Cents. The Trade Is supplied by the 
American News Company. No. 110 121 Nassau St., 
New York. 
Advertising. Inside, 75 cents per line. Agate 
space; Outside, $1 per line, each Insertion, for Kx- 
irn Display and Cuts, a price and n-hnlf. Special and 
Business Notices, $1.50 and $2 a line. No advertise¬ 
ment inserted for less than $3: 
S A TUIIDA V, J Am:ARY 30 , 18 T 2 . 
RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE. 
When incn who have led immoral and un¬ 
scrupulous lives sutler or die, people are apt to 
call their sufferings the action of retributive 
justice. The members of the TiuuiBftuy King 
have boon taking from the people, living in pal¬ 
aces, clothing themselves in purple and line 
linen, and have enjoyed the good things of 
life. Now t hey are being compelled bj' justice 
to louihute or payback to (liepeople. James 
Fisk. Jr., has lilled the public eye much to the 
public's discomfort and disgust, and attracted 
public though! by the forcible and impudent 
manner In which he has operated to thwart what 
seemed to be the ends of Justice regardless of all 
the principles of equity. Ho to dead - fell by the 
hand of an assassin. Do we regret it? No. Do 
we justify the act of the cowardly assassin? 
No. But is not this paying back — rotribute ? 
And is it not the natural pay which such o life 
as his earns? 
In his way, nnd perhaps In full accord with Ids 
early education, Fisk exhibited many noble nnd 
generous impulses. In many respects he was 
better than others who will sanotlmonloudy 
judge him. He was at least no hypocrite. He 
was hold in his unscrupnlousuess and in his dis¬ 
regard f<T conventional law nnd doctrine; but 
lie was most vicious In bis inHm-noo upon the 
young men of the country, because of the incen¬ 
tives his apparent success gave them to imitate 
him, J|i.« hold ness attracted their attention, and 
its success and the gloss it gave hint, command¬ 
ed their admiration. It is, therefore, well that 
Fisk is dead, and that be should die as he did 
hence wo call it. retributive justice and hold up 
as a warning to young men, such an end of such 
a career. 
But what of Stokes? Ho is now paying and 
must pay for his “ good things." He belongs to 
a class of young men who have not the plea of 
ignorance nor of the influence of early vioious 
association and education to bring as excuse for 
the character of the lives they lead. He belongs 
to a type distinct from that to which Fisk be¬ 
longed to just the classl whom the success of 
Fisk would fascinate and bewilder. Stokes was 
drawn into the circle and swiftly carried to the 
vortex, and will disappear with Fisk— the mur¬ 
dered and the murderer together! 
These contemporaneous events—the breaking 
up of the powers which have held the honest 
nnd virtuous men of Now York in thrall, nnd 
staggered their faith in the existence of justice 
and equity—the swooping from power such men 
ns Tweed. Fisk, Halt., Connolly, Ac., &c., 
will do more to aid in the regeneration of the 
business principles of the nation, nnd to give a 
right definition to the word “ Ruooess,” ttum 
two thousand sermons. It will impress the Idea 
of retributive justice upon many who have 
ignored It—that all evils, sooner or later, work 
their own cure, nnd that, in the curing, the rot¬ 
ten, pestiferous, loathsome ulcers in the body 
politic are swept away, leaving nothing behind 
but a memory of the loathing they provoked. 
The Members of the Tammany and Erie 
Rings have for years enjoyed the Fruition of 
Fraud,—but of late their Pride and Pleasure 
have brought t hem to (or near) Perdition. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
The People nnd the Press — Are cordially 
welcoming and commending the New-Style 
Rural New-Yorker, to whom and for which 
we bend low in grateful acknowledgment. For 
example, a prominent gentleman in Central New 
York (one who 1ms held high official positions, 
and has, moreover, had ranch experience in 
Journalism./ writes us in this wise;—" You have 
made a splendid change in the form and get up 
of the Rural. It's a beauty! 1 never saw w> 
handsome an Agricultural paper, by a long odds, 
as your find number for 1872. Our P. >1. told 
me to-day that about 120 copies of the Rural 
for 1672 hod already been ordered from this 
office more than five times the number ordered 
for any other Agricultural paper. I hope this is 
a ‘specimen brick' of your subscription list gen¬ 
erally.” Many places have done still belter. 
And here CDmos a cheering note of congratu¬ 
lation from a brother Editor in Western New 
York a man of taste and judgment, and who 
knows what is what in regard to newspaper's: 
“ I wonder what next! The Rural again im¬ 
proved! 1 thought it had reached the nemo of 
perfection before, but it seems It had not. I 
supposed you had reached the summit of your 
ambition, and would now leave the Rural to 
achieve iismvn destiny; but in your irrepressi¬ 
ble zeal to stand at the head of your profession, 
you have pushed it upon decidedly advanced 
ground. I shall henceforth be prepared to wit¬ 
ness any improvement, believing that with It. D. 
T. Moore all things in the Agricultural and 
Family Newspaper line are possible. I heartily 
congratulate you.” 
We have scores of cordial and congratula¬ 
tory letters from the People, and the Press is 
equally complimentary- while our receipts on 
subscription far exceed anticipations. Thanks, 
good friends! We shall strive to make the 
Rural New-Yorker worthy of your good 
words and generous efforts in its behalf. 
Dr. Parry vs. Judge Walls.- We have received 
j from some one of Dr. Parry’s friends a pam¬ 
phlet embracing the correspondence relating to 
the dismissal of Dr. PARRY as Botanist of the 
Department of Agriculture. This correspond¬ 
ence is published at the Instance of Dr, Asa 
Gray, and includes a letter from Drs. Gray, 
Tourky and others 1o the Commissioner, asking 
him to consider the propriety of re-appointing 
Dr. Parky to Ihe position of Botanist; Commis¬ 
sioner Watts’ reply declining to do so; Dr. 
Gray’s letter asking (lie reasons in detail for 
Dr. Pa rrv’s dismlssjil and Commissioner Watts' 
response. An impartial ami dispassionate re¬ 
view of ihe whole correspondence compels us 
to say that we think Judge Waits entirely justi¬ 
fied In the course he has pursued, and wercspcel 
him therefor. If he would pursue a similar 
course with a view to rendering oilier Soientilie 
Divisions of the Department useful to the coun¬ 
try. he would merit the Commendation of all 
who respect scientific men /or what they do. 
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Advertising In the Rural New-Yorker. — 
During the past year we have received many 
letters speaking of the value of this Journal as 
an Advertising Medium, and here is one from 
the shrewd and enterprising Publishers of The 
Day-Book which explains Itself: 
New York, Jan. 12,1872. 
D. D. T. Moore, Esq .—Dear Sir: We have 
advertised during the year 1871 in your Journal, 
and also in over fifteen hundred (1,501) other 
newspaper*. North and South. In the let tern we 
have received asking for specimen copies, we 
find nllie ion oftener made to our advertisement 
“in Moore’s Rural New-Yorker " than Until 
el the fifteen hundred alluded to, combined. 
We send t his unsolicited, and entirely unexpect¬ 
ed bv you. simply as a compliment to enterpris¬ 
ing Journalism, resulting In a capital Agricultu¬ 
ral paper. Very truly yours. 
Van Evrjk, Horton A Co. 
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AVIint U flic Business of this Congress 1 —An 
Impartial observer would say it is to determine 
who shall be the next President. Is there any 
legislation demanded by the people? If so, why 
not do it and go home.' The investigations go¬ 
ing on indicate that the people need protection, 
but are plundered by those they employ to do 
their will. If Congress wiU attend to these 
plunderers and make examples of them, all 
right; but if this dirty linen business is only 
conducted with a view to establish the vices of 
the “ins” the virtues of the “outs,” and to re¬ 
verse the situation of these factions, the only 
good that we can see can come of it is that 
which always results when two rogues fall out- 
retributive justice reaches both. 
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Dnnn Bickford’s Improvrd Knitting Machine. 
—Our readers have probably noticed an adver¬ 
tisement in a late number of the Rural New- 
Yorker, containing a vague warning against 
selling m- using Dana Bickford's New im¬ 
plored Knitting Machine. As this machine is 
one of our Premiums, we concluded to look into 
the matter. Wo do not find that the contract 
alluded to in the “caution” named was over 
completed, the Company Issuing the Caution 
fulling to keep their part of the agreement, and 
delaying for more than t wo years to do so, though 
often urged. Mr. Bickford has shown us the 
acknowledgment of the Company that they had 
not fulfilled the conditions of the inchoate con¬ 
tract, and promising to do so In ten days, or sub¬ 
mit to forfeiture. This memorandum is duly 
recorded. We think, from the statements made 
and documents submitted to us, that Mr. Dana 
Bickford’s title to the business is clear and ner- 
fect, and have no suspicion that any purchaser 
will or can he disturbed in quiet possession and 
vise of the machine. How long Mr. Dana Bick¬ 
ford will consent to have customers cautioned 
against buying his machines, we do not know; 
it may be that its ineffectiveness—shown by the 
great and Increasing sales of the Improved Ma¬ 
chine, spile of the Caution—has as yet awakened 
only pity for this “weak invention of the ene¬ 
my.” We believe the Dana Bickford machine 
is a good one, and that neither purchasers nor 
our Agents who receive it as a premium will ever 
be interfered with by the rival Company. Mr. 
Bickford will defend all suits, if any are 
brought. 
•‘Tlie Great French Willow.”—ClTABLES ROB¬ 
ERTS: We know nothing about this Snlir Salo¬ 
mon ; never heard of such a willow. It is prob- 
ably not its name, and is only used to induce 
people to pay three or four or more times as 
much as they ought to for something that is 
doubtless no better than the White or Yellow 
Willows, Iomhardy Poplar, SHverlcaf Maple, 
and a score of rapid growing trees. Indeed, it 
Is probably a very common willow, and the in¬ 
terest of the man who is putting it on the mar¬ 
ket under this name Is doubtless to swindle those 
who buy of him. 
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Joseph \V. Gregory—Obltnarv.—We announce 
with regret the death of this gentleman, who is 
well known as a regular attendant at and par¬ 
ticipant in the discussions of the Farmers' Club 
of tho American Institute. He was a genial, 
practical, critical member, highly esteemed and 
respected. lie was radical In all his views, and, 
though three score and ten years old, no one’s 
spirit In that body seemed more buoyant and 
youthful. Tie will he sadly missed by the habit lire 
of the Club. 
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The Dairy Meeting. Wc have received from 
Mr. Willard a long report of tho proceedings 
of the first annual meeting of the New York 
Dairymens' Association; and as we write, the 
American Dairymens’ Association is in session 
at Utica. Wc shall publish such portion of these 
proceedings as we may be able to find room for, 
and as speedily as possible, without overlooking 
the interests of our correspondents. 
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The Committee on Agriculture, in tho New 
York Assembly, consists of Messrs. Yeomans, 
Murdock, Sir a in, Ghkoory, Dykkman, Buell, 
Rail 
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THE SEASON. 
Union. Hu riling Co., Inno, Pec. 2 *s.— Weather 
rather cold ; about sixteen inches of snow in I lie 
timber; roads drifted lull. T. w. 
Grand Roads, Polk t o., Oregon, Dee. 12. 
Winter, thus fur, open; one litUo snow but no 
freezing weather; stock lias required no aiten- 
tiort. Grain of all kinds command high figures 
for tht> country. Wheat, $1.25; oat*, sOr. to $1; 
hfty, Hi) to $40 per ton ; potatoes, $1. j. w. *c. 
st. Lawrence Co., A. V., Per. ?S. —Crops 
good along St. Lawrence River; back from it, 
more seriously injured by drouth and grass¬ 
hoppers, Wheat, less than half a crop; corn, 
fair; potatoes, medium crop, of good quality; 
very dry since July 1. Great destruction of 
forests, fences and buildings, in October, by fire. 
Most of the wells nnd s(reams are dry. — A Sub¬ 
scriber. 
South Trenton, IV. Y.—December was usher¬ 
ed in with the mercury at zero. Thermometrical 
average for the monthAverage temperature 
at 7 A. M„ 17° 8'; nt 2 P. M„ 2.Y ; at it P. M., 22° 
28'; for the month 28° 15'; amount of snow fal¬ 
len. 22 inches; No. of days on which snow fell, 
15; amount of rain and melted snow, 2 inches; 
depth of ground fi'Ozcn, lit inches; warmest day 
the 2d, 45"; coldest morning the Zlst.2fl c below 
zero; prevailing winds west; a rough boisterous 
month ; water in wells very low. Many farmers 
have to drive their stock from home for water. 
Three inches of snow on the ground, s. n. 
North Cldtl, ,\. V.. Jan. J. Wc have had only 
two or throe days of good sleighing, on main 
traveled roads, thus far, this winter, but fine 
wheeling. Times very dull, both with laborer 
and farmer, as tho stave-bolt and heading busi- 
iiOSS is poor. The coldest day ot this year was 
Dec. 21st—14" below zero in the morning. Fod¬ 
der source and high. Hay,810@25 per ton; straw, 
$8X5.10; white wheat, $1.500.1.65; red, $1.400,1.47; 
oats, 4.00118c.; barley, 050.80c.; corn in the eur, 
by measure, 35c.; buckwheat, 75@80o.; eggs, 28 
©30c. per doz.; butter, 23030c. per lb., accord¬ 
ing to quality. Farms, $800,175 per acre.— Lex¬ 
ington 
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RURAL BREVITIES. 
Cotton production in California is progress¬ 
ing, judging by the reports that reach us. 
Herkimer Co., N. Y„ is reported to ship an¬ 
nually cheese and butter worth $4,500,000, mar¬ 
ket value. 
A Connecticut farmer says the Swedes, 
young men and women, make the be6t farm 
help lie can find. 
Three hundred gallons of prepared mustard 
ore finished in the mills of J. Wolff & Co., New 
York City, daily. 
A barrel of buckwheat flour recently ex¬ 
ploded in Scott Co., Iowa. The flour was wet, 
and generated a vapor. 
We acknowledge the receipt of a compliment¬ 
ary ticket to the Delaware State Poultry Soc.’s 
Show at Wilmington, Del. 
Six Thousand acres of tobacco, it is estimated, 
were grown within 15 miles of Edgerton, Rock 
Co., Wis., the past season. 
At the Poultry and Pigeon Show, Wilds Co., 
England, recently, white geese were exhibited 
weighing thirty pounds each. 
G. W. F., asks if any readers of the Rural 
New-Yorker have had experience raising Rus¬ 
sian swine, and if they make good pork. - 
James Stubbs asks where he can get Japanese 
Bantam fowls, and at what price. Who will 
answer through our advertising columns? 
Two of tho seven gold medals offered in Cali¬ 
fornia for the most meritorious exhibitions at 
the State Fair, were awarded to silk industry. 
Chicory' is said to have advanced eighty per 
cent, in value, in its crude state. In Europe, in 
consequence of the advance in the price of 
coffee. 
A G reat International Fruit and Flower Show 
is to be held at Glasgow. Scotland, the second 
week in September, 1872. €1,000 are to be offered 
as prizes. 
Nine hundred and twenty-eight tobacco fac¬ 
tories in tho United States have given bonds in 
compliance with law. The bonds aggregate 
$ 8 , 000 , 000 . 
We have received list of premiums (and rules) 
to be awarded by the Michigan State Poultry 
Association at its first annual exhibition at De¬ 
troit, Jan. 25-30. 
The bay crop of Maine is estimated by the 
Maine Fnrroer as follows for the .years named: 
1868, 1,000,000 tons; I860, 800,000; 1870, 750,000, and 
1871 . 437,000 tons. 
The Rock Island, Ill., Argus claims for L. W. 
C demons, Pleasant Valley, III., the greatest corn 
crop of the year 1871, to wit154 bushels and 3 
pecks of shelled corn to the acre. 
Farmer Kennedy', within 27 miles of Eureka, 
Cal., has raised a large quantity of potatoesthat 
weigh two pounds each, turnips that go ten 
and cabbage heads averaging twelve lbs. 
Thf. Technologist has become the Industrial 
Monthly, and is a very complete, handsome,- 
practical work. Our old friend Prof. J. Phin is 
one of Hu* editors. It is published at 176 Broad- 
May, N. V. City. 
Ditto has 183,424 dogs, which have maimed and 
killed, within a year, 23,685 sheep, damaging 
sheep herds to the amount (estimated) of $ 143 ,- 
000.80. Including the cost of keeping them, It is 
estimated thntdogscogt Ohio $5,000,000 annually. 
(1 be jJnblisbcv’s jDcsk. 
PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
The Rural New-Yorker is electro- 
typed, and lienee Back Numbers can 
always be supplied, 
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Notice to Everybody*—Now is the time to form 
CluOs for tho New-$tylo lti iiai. New-Yorkcr. It is 
the most Popular Paper In the land, and everybody 
enn get up Clubs and secure Premiums. Thousands 
nt our subscribers can do this tf they witl, for hosts of 
people only need an invitation to take the paper. If 
the four or live thousand persons who get their papers 
in wrappers (nt post-offices where only onci copy is 
taken) will make a little effort, each can form a Club, 
secure a Premium, benefit, his neighbors, and also re¬ 
ceive hts own paper earlier—as Club packages ore not 
delayed tu the mail likn single, papers. Almost every¬ 
body can make It pay to help circulate the Rural. 
Try It, Render, and see tf it is not profitable. 
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Round Volumes of the Klimt New-Yorker. 
-Back volumes r,i the Rural, handsomely bound, 
tiro constantly kept on liund at. Its Publication offices. 
Vul. XX. for Wii). containing 828 pages and over 800 
Illustrations, $4. The Semi-annual Volumes, issued 
slurs Jan. 1,1870. $2.30 ouch. The volumes being too 
heavy for the mall, are usually sent by Express or as 
Freight, subject to charges. 
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Our Premiums Approved.—Wo nre in receipt 
of many letters from recipients of Premiums, prais¬ 
ing tho articles they have secured—such ns the U. S. 
Watch Co.’s Watches, Reed & Barton's Plated Ware, 
Weed's Sewing Machine, the Continental Washer, 
(very strongly approved,) Universal and Novelty 
Wringers, Ac., Ac. 
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Premiums Sunt Promptly, We send all Pre¬ 
miums as promptly as possible. Most articles are 
sent, or ordered sent, within twenty-four hours of re¬ 
ceipt of request. Those not receiving their Premiums 
in a reasonable time should advise us of the fact. 
How ro Help the Rural.— There are numerous 
ways in which Its friends can aid in circulating the 
Ri'EAL. First, show the paper, or talk to your friends 
about it, or both. Got up a club, or aid some friend to 
do so—or induce your P, M. to act as agent. 
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Additions to Clubs are always in order, whether 
in ones, twos, fives, tens, or more. A host of people 
are subscribing for papers about these days, and wo 
hope our Agent-Friends will give everybody an oppor¬ 
tunity to subscribe for the best* 
Our Premiums.— Agents entitled to Premiums 
tut! requested to dcsiguate what, they prefer and noti¬ 
fy us how and where to send—whether by Freight or 
Express, If articles are not mailable. 
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No Traveling Agents are employed by us, but 
any person so disposed can act as Local Agent, on his 
or her own uuthority, und secure premiums, etc. 
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Show Bills, Specimen Numbers, Etc., of the 
Rural New-Yorker sent free. 
Oo not Hesitate to use tho White Pine Com¬ 
pound when troubled with.Weak Lungs, Affections of 
the Throat, or any Pulmonary or Kidney Complaint; 
as it will not harm, but on the contrary be of great 
benefit to you. 
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To f'ure Asthma, —Whitcomb’s Remedy acts 
more directly than any other known panacea. 
