OOBE’S 
PUBLISHER’S NOTICES. 
Addition* to Club* nre always in order. Send 
them in ones, twos, fives, tons or more, as you please. 
Moore’s Rural is the Pioneer Journal in its 
sphere, and keeps ahead of all imitators and abreast 
of the times and age. Try it a year, and see. 
Tlie Document*.—Specimen Numbers, Premium 
Lists, Show Bills, etc., are promptly sent free and 
post-paid to all disposed to aid in circulating the 
Rural New-Yorker in their respective localities. 
The Rural’* Premium Picture, “Birth-Day 
Morning,” a Superb Steel Engraving, worth *5, is 
sent post-paid, to every one paying only $2.59 for 
Moore’s Rural for 1879. It is Now Ready, and will 
be sent, without delay to all entitled. 
Howto Remit Safely.— Remittances for single 
or ol ub subscriptions to the Run a j, may be made by 
Draft, Post-Office Money Order or Registered Bettor, 
ot our rfjth. Drafts nod I’. O. Money Orders preferred 
where obtainable,—but yon risk nothing in sending by 
either of the modes above mentioned provided the 
remittance Is properly inclosed and mailed. 
An Acceptable Present.— Any Subscriber wish¬ 
ing to send the RURAL New-Yorker for 1873 to a. 
friend, as a present, can do so on paying or remitting 
the club price—only $2. A hd any one, whether a sub¬ 
scriber or not, can have (for himself or a friend) the 
Rural a year, and a pro-paid copy of our Premium 
Engraving, for only $2,50. Some present one to afrlcud 
and keep the other. The Rural will make vour 
friend glad fifty-two times a year, and the Engraving 
will prove a perpetual pleasure in anyfamlly of taste. 
Itytcs of the tfttcdi. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
Terrific Tornado In Iowa. 
A tornado half a mile In width passed over 
the country in the vicinity of Washington, 
Iowa, on tile 23d. Houses, barns, fences, trees, 
cattle and human beings were dashed to de¬ 
struction with terrific force. Thirteen farm 
houses were destroyed and a school house was 
blown to pieces. A Miss Bothmel and Mrs. 
Henry Watters were hilled. Many people were 
injured. The tornado moved twenty miles nn 
hour. Hail fell one inch In diameter. The roar 
of the wind was heard ten miles. Five persons 
were killed near Keota. A Methodist church 
and nine houses were blown down In Dos 
Moines. The town of Lancaster i» in ruins. 
Some 300 head of cattle were killed. The tor¬ 
nado ended near Iowa City. 
A tornado passed near Prairie City, Illinois, 
<m the 2Hd. It blew down everything before it 
for a distance of 15 miles. Three persons are 
reported killed, and a largo number or farms, 
houses, etc., destroyed. Cairo was visited with 
a heavy hailstorm on the 33 d. 
Surrender of the Modocs. 
On the evening of the 33d of May the Hot 
Spring Hand of Modoc Indians surrendered to 
Gen. Davis, at Fairchild’s Ranch. They gave 
up their arms and were put under guard. They 
numbered it! men, women and children, includ¬ 
ing 15 warriors. Among the latter are some of 
the best lighting men Capt. Jack had. Captain 
Jack la supposed to have 20 warriors with him 
in the Pitt River Mountains. Among those who 
surrendered were half naked children, aged 
squaws, blind, lame and halt. Bogus and Bos¬ 
ton Charley have been killed. Hooker Jim. the 
Lost River murderer, surrendered later. Capt. 
Hasbrouck’s troops receive great credit for their 
hot pursuit of the Indians, The rest of Capt. 
Jack’s company will be bunted down. The 
Klamath Indians show no disposition to join 
the Modocs. It is thought the Indian war will 
soon end. _____ 
France — Thiers has Resigned the Presi¬ 
dency. 
Last Saturday was an exciting day at Ver¬ 
sailles. There mis an attempt on the part of 
the Thiers party to proclaim the Republic 
definitely, in place of the present provisional 
government. 1 1 was voted down by the Assem¬ 
bly. The Ministry then resigned, and President 
Thiers tendered his resignation, as Presieent, 
to the Assembly, which was accepted, and Mar¬ 
shal McMahon, Duke of Magenta, was elected 
President. He has accepted. Of course there 
is great excitement throughout France. 
, Osages recently. The chief was out hunting 
alone, and next morning his headless body was 
, found with a bullet hole In the back, and 100 
yards distant his scalped head was found. It is 
believed that the Wachita? and their allies will 
immediately take the war path against the 
Osages iti spite of all efforts to restrain them. 
Tho deceased chief was a great friend of ihc 
whites. Seventeen years ago one of his war¬ 
riors killed a sentry at Fort. Arbuckle, and the 
chief brought the assassin’s head to the Fort. 
A pl-patch received at. the War Department, 
by telegraph and mail, from Gen. Custer, dated 
Fort Randall, Dakota, May 14, report* the safe, 
arrival of his command at that place, after five 
days' march from Yankton, and contains the 
following: Faills. t he guide sent, from Randall, 
reports positively that 2 (H) warriors and yonng 
men belonging to the Yankton Agency left, 
their reservation a few days ago to join the 
hostile bands of the Upper Missouri, and that, 
t he Indians will muster 5,000’ warriors in the 
field this summer. 
Rochester, May 23.-In the United States 
District Court to-day, on application of the lion. 
Richard Crowley, United States District-Attor¬ 
ney, it was ordered that t lie indictment* against 
Miss Susan II. Anthony and 14 other women 
voters, with those against the inspectors who 
received their votes, be tried on the 10 th of 
Jttfic, iu the Circuit Court at Canadaigua, and 
that the defendant? be released on their own 
recognizances. Counsel for the defendants 
strenuously opposed the application. 
A few weeks ago it was reported that the 
Hon. S. C. Pomeroy had given up politics [and 
was about to honor New York'.City by accepting 
a lucrative buslnea? offer in one of our great 
commercial houses. 'The telegraph informs us 
that the ex-Senator passed through St. Louis on 
Thursday on his way to Kansas, stopping long 
enough only to inform a newspaper reporter 
that he intended to begin at onco a campaign 
for ( lie Kansas Senator-ship left vacant by Sena¬ 
tor Cal dwell’* resignation. 
From Arhley, Iowa. last week, absconded 
Charles Reink. merchant. lie took $4,000 with 
him, but he left also a good deal behind him in 
the shape of a wife, two children, and debt to 
the amount of $5,000. He hus kindly written 
from Kansas City to say that hi? wife need not 
give herself the slightest uneasiness, as it is Ids 
intention never to return, so that matter may 
be considered settled if the debts are not. These 
he requests his father-in-law to payout of his 
own pocket. 
The Quartermaster-General, who has charge 
of nil the National cemeteries, states that they 
have not been placed under t he sole charge of | 
the Grand Army on Decoration Day; but that 
all organized processions or parties desiring to 
lake part in the ceremonies will be admitted. 1 
The Quartermaster-General further says that j 
the National cemeteries are National property, i 
open free by day to ail well-behaved persons, 1 
citizens or strangers, who desire to visit, them. j 
The decree of President Barrios of Guate- i 
mala, granting freedom of religious belief ( 
throughout, the State, is one of those praise- , 
worthy measures of reform which have fre- t 
quently characterized his administration of the 1 
affairs of the Republic. 1 
of oats was done while the ground was wet and 
cold ; most of the oats have been sowed, but I 
fear the crop will be slim; plowing for com has 
just commenced : winter grain looks middling; 
grass is short and fodder about ail cleaned out. 
Prospects for fruit of ail kinds middling good : 
cherry trees arc just beginning to open their 
blossoms: peach buds are all dead. Prospects 
good for another crop of apple? although, the 
trees were all loaded last year; many trees are 
showing their blossom buds in plenty. My bees 
have wintered well: saved every swarm I bad, 
while some of my neighbor? have lost from one 
upwards; have heard that In some parts of the 
county more or less have died. I think it is all 
owing to bad management. Prices of all kinds 
of produce about the same as in other parts of 
the country.— a. r. h. 
Humboldt, Allen Co., Kansas, May 21._ The 
present is a. growing time, though the spring is 
unusually backward. Stock has been upon the 
grass only about three weeks. Com Is mostly 
planted, and many pieces up. Wheat looks 
splendid, and a heavy crop was never more 
promising. Oats doing well—plenly of rain. 
Corn, though only 15c. in the fall and winter, 
is now 25c. Potatoes have been as low as 15r. 
this spring. Eggs are only 7c.; butter, 10c. Mer¬ 
chants in Itumholdt paid t he producer last fall 
and winter Strife, for their pork; bacon is 
now selling by those same merchants at lie.; 
bams, 12!4c. All say success to the National 
Cheap Transportation Association ’-it. .j. 
Dunlap, Iowa, Mny 15. —Our season is very 
cold, wet and backward; but there has been 
grass for stock, since April 25. Wheat. 3 inches 
high ; corn about half planted ; grain looks well 
though growing slowly; corn. 30c.; oats. 20c.; 
wheat, 95c.; potatoes, 30c.; beans, $3; hogs, 4c.; 
butter, 25c.; cheese, 18c. Send out help. Men 
and women are wanted here. We will have to 
get Chinese before long.— r. b, r. 
St. Johns, N. B., on the 21st, was $25,000. Fur¬ 
niture factory at Lawrenceburg. tnd., on the 
22d : loss, $75,000... Stores and dwellings in Ply¬ 
mouth. O., r n the 23d; loss, $35,000. 
Crime*. 
Hr. Baker of Warren, Me., was shot on the 
I 6 t,h by ft Miss Mink On the 17th, two whites 
and five blacks were flogged at Newcastle, Deb, 
for larceny.... Harmon Hilcher, a German, has 
been murdered in Cntskiil. N. Y. A gypsy- 
girl has been murdered in McKee’s Corners, 
Putnam Co., N. Y. 
Obltiin r y. 
The Count. Alex. Manzoni of Rome, a poet 
and novelist, on the 33d... .Joseph Fagnani, ar¬ 
tist, in New York, on the 22d ; he was born in 
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Gen. Augur t elegraphs that Col. Mackenzie 
with 0 companies of the 4th Cavalry and 25 
Seminole scouts struck a camp of Kickapoo 
and Lipon Indians about 80 miles from Fort 
Clark, Texas, early tin the 18th Inst., having 
marched all night previous, killed 19 Indians, 
wounded 2. and captured one Buck, a former 
chief of the Lippons, and 41 women and chil¬ 
dren. besides destroying 2 villages with their 
accumulated property. He had 3 of his men 
wounded, 1 mortally. He has already over 50 
captured ponies. The dispatch is silent as to 
the precise locality where this light took place, 
saying nothing about Us being on Mexican 
territory. 
A special dispatch from Fort Sill, Indian 
Territory, states that great excitement prevails 
among the IVaehita Indians on account of the 
murder of their principal chief Isadawah by 
THE SEASON, CROPS. PRICES, ETC. 
Springfield, Mo., May to.— Past winter was 
one of unusual severity in Northwest Missouri. 
During Jan. and Fob. the mw cury ranged as low 
as 18 or 30° below zero. The cold weather hung 
on till late in April. Genial weather has pre¬ 
vailed since the latter part of April. Our wheat 
now look- splendid and we have more acres in 
wheat this year then ever before by at least 25 
per pent. Garden crops are looking well, al¬ 
though at least three weeks later than usual. 
Peas are generally in blossom; tomatoes do., 
early potatoes are growing finely. The Early 
Rose, the general favorite, never promised bet¬ 
ter. Fruit prospects, excepting peaches, are 
good ; apples, (tears and cherries promise well. 
Grapes, particularly Concord, Hartford, Ives, 
Northern Muscadine, give tokens of abundant 
yield. The Martha. Iona, Eumelan, arid Dela¬ 
ware, Were somewhat Injured by the severe 
frost, but are now rapidly recuperat ing under 
the influence of timely 7 showers and genial tem¬ 
perature. Strawberries promise an abundant 
crop. The Horticultural Society of this section 
announce a Floral and Strawberry Festival ear¬ 
ly in June,— t. 
Hickory, {teuton Co., Mis?., May 19,— fFe 
have had a very late, cold and rainy spring. 
Vegetation is about two weeks later than usual 
at this time of the year, Strawberries have 
been ripe about a month. Black dew berries 
and raspberries are beginning to ripen. We 
have had green peas and Early Rose Irish pota¬ 
toes for two weeks. Have been planting out 
sweet potatoes for the lust, two weeks. Largest 
corn waist high. Planters have been chopping 
out cotton two weeks. This crop Is about two 
weeks later than usual and not a first-rate 
stand; only tolerable. Forward oats in full 
head. Horses and mules worth $100@200; la¬ 
borers' wages, $ 10@20 per month and scarce; 
mostly-colored hands; corn, $|rT; l ,25 per bushel: 
oats, $ 1 ; cotton, 12 <TU 8 o. per pound. I shall have 
some apples, pear? and peaches ripe in about 
four weeks. There is about two-thirds of a fruit 
crop. We have had some warm weather the 
last few days. Thermometer SS’—w. n. r. 
Huntsville, Pu., .May 19 —Spring is just be¬ 
ginning here. Much of the plowing and sowing 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
New York City and Vicinity. 
Frauds appear to be the order of the day. 
In Brooklyn property owner? sell to avoid op¬ 
pressive taxes ...Brown, Brother* * Co. have 
been the victim* Of frauds from their Mobile 
correspondent New York i* to have a new 
city prison The Thirteenth Regiment la to 
have a $150,001) armory The tower of the old 
Post-oiflee. built in 1727, 1? beingtnken down 
Labor r< volts in various trade? are agitated 
Railway builder? have had a banquet at the St. 
Nicholas ...Lewis Bossier, aged 18; Charles L. 
Young, aged 48; Peter Hippert. aged 35, and 
William Hardwick, aged 05, all committed sui¬ 
cide on the 17th ...Rifle practice »t the new 
Creed more range will commence on the 8th of 
Juno. ..Geo. Frauds Train has been declared 
insane, ami ordered to be sent, to a lunatic asy¬ 
lum..,.The spring reviows of the troops have 
taken place The new Government has been 
fully organized — Tim carpenters threaten to 
strike Kubonstein sailed on the 24th A 
meeting in honor of Horace Well?, alleged to 
have discovered ancesthetlos. has been held... 
Daniel Murphy is to be hanged . Henry Smith 
is the President of the Police Board.. fccHnola 
collection or the Metropolitan Museum Is open 
The old Tribune building ha? been torn 
down .. .The Queen’s birth-day was observed on 
the 24th Mr. Train has been granted a writ of 
habeas corpus—Geo. Mcdonald ha* lectured 
on Hamlet. 
■Ionic New*. 
The corner-stone of a convent lias heen 
laid in Hartford, Conn ...Two of the colored 
Congressmen from South Carolina have nomi¬ 
nated win to cadet? to West Point... The Civil 
Service Reform Board has held a meeting in 
Washington ... The Modocs are supposed to 
have escaped Gov. Dix will veto the Annex- 
J‘Hon bill, adding several town? to N. Y. City. . 
he New York Legislature has adjourned ... 
I he pursuit of the Modocs continues; Califor¬ 
nia volunteers will pursue them_The .Spring- 
field breech-loading gun? are to be adopted for 
l lie army - The President promises to do full 
justice by Gen. Van Huron: he was removed in 
consequence of telegrams from John Jay _ 
Ihere are suspicions that Capt, Hall of the Po¬ 
laris, was poisoned to death... Ohio Republi¬ 
cans have re-n oui i n a tod Gov. Noyes The fun¬ 
eral of Gen. Canby took place In Indianapolis 
on tlm 38d mst; the procession was imposing, 
and contained many of ihc great general? of 
the army Gov-. Dix nf New York, has issued 
a proclamation for the observance of De.-ora- 
non -Day, which is a legal holiday'_Tim Presi¬ 
dent has issued a proclamation sustaining the 
Keilogg Government of Louisiana, and giving 
the disturbers of the peace 20 days to lay 7 dovvu 
their arms. Judge Durel) is reported about, to 
resign. Serious trouble with.Mexican .Indians 
has broken .out on the Rio Gramle; our Gov¬ 
ernment has sent a protest to Mexico: mu- 
troops will pursue the Indians Into Mcxfco.fi 
necessary President Grant will take the case 
of Gen. V an Buren into hi* own hand?, and re¬ 
instate him if he is found guiltless. Ex-Gov. 
Jewel! of Connecticut Will be the now minister 
to Russia- A convention of Governors has 
been in session at Atlanta .. The N. Y. Assem¬ 
bly refused to pass the Local Option bill over 
Gov. Dix s veto.>. The Baptists have been in 
session m Albauy . The case of Susan R. An¬ 
thony for voting, will be tried on the 14th of 
June, before Justice Hunt....Senator Can [mu¬ 
ter baa made a apeech in New Orleans. Gov. 
Kellogg has called for Federal aid.... The West 
i oint cadets will be examined June 4... .Presi- | 
dent White has made a speech in defense of 
Mr. Cornell. 
Fire*. 
8 tor es in Charlestown, S. C., on the 
16th; loss, $40,000 Steam tanneryin Alleghany 
City, on the 18th; loss, $60,000 — Planing mill in 
Chicago on the 18th; lose, $25,000....Stores iu 
Cincinnati on the 18th; loss, $15,500 . Eight 
ear shops, cars, and houses, in Aurora, Ill., on 
the 18th ; loss, $250,000— House of Geo. Meyer, 
Hoboken, IS. J., on the 17th; loss, $13,000 
Planing mill in Bethlehem, Pa., on the 17th ; 
loss, $35,000 .Railway repair works at Niagara 
Fails, on the 20th; loss, $100,000. .. A mill at 
Straight Shore, N. It., on the 21st; loss, $20,000.. 
Cotton.mills at Glenn Riddle, Pa., on the 20th; 
loss, $30,000... .Wabash elevator in Toledo on 
the 19th; loss. $103,000. The loss by the lire at , 
tist, m New york, on the 22d ; he was born in 
Naples in 1810...,Sir Goo. E. Cartier, Bart., has 
died in England; Canada will give him a public 
- funeral. 
-•»-»■» 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
ITIlaceltMneonM Foreign New*. 
The charges against the American Com¬ 
missioner? to Menna are reported sustained; 
J’he American Department will be ready by the 
10t,li of June — Several of the French ministers 
nave resigned Don Carlos ha? entered Spain 
at the head of 15.000 men; the Spanish troop- 
have been defeated at, Aragon ..Daly |* pass¬ 
ing a bilL U i stippre?? religious bodies in Rome, 
also to grant the Pope annually 400,000 lire..... 
riie Pope la Improving, and a largo number of 
piignms are visiting him. . .The Khan of Khiva 
is a prisoner to tlifc KtiAsbuis.. r im*; boon 
received from Sir Samuel Baker of Iris safety'. 
The party of M. Thler? ha? triumphed in the 
National Assembly.. Carlists have been put¬ 
ting prisoners to death . l'bn Pope is not vet 
ot t of danger. There Isa ministerial crisis in 
the Netherlands The crisis approaches in 
France; on the 23d the President, attempted to 
address the Assembly, which refused to hour 
him; M. Thiers b ready to resign, if defeat¬ 
ed Cabinet trouble? continue in Spain... 
turkey protest* against the Dutch war in At- 
cheen. .1 lie Khedive of Egypt ha? had a cor¬ 
dial audience with the Sultan.... Freedom or 
worship has been declared in Guatemala_ Ji 
ts now denied that Khiva has been taken. 
Snow storms have delayed the Khivan cam! 
paign . .The Shalt of Persia lias arrived at Mos¬ 
cow, and had a great recept ion All males be¬ 
tween 14 and 16 are to be enrolled in the Span¬ 
ish army. Father Hyaclnthe has attacked the 
confessional and celibacy. 
— ■ ♦ »-»- 
SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS. 
A Prolitahle Investment. -The Wilson Under¬ 
feed Sewing Machine combine? in a more per¬ 
fect, degree than any other the requirements of 
a first-class machine. This is the unanimous 
verdict of the thousand? of families who arc 
using them, and its success is unprecedented in 
the history of sewing machine*. Although it 
costs fully as much to make as any other, the 
manufacturer sell? direct to the people, but as 
the company belongs to no “ Ring” or combi¬ 
nation to keep up prices, they can afford to sell 
at a much less price. Salesroom at 707 Broad¬ 
way, New York, and iu all other cities in the 
United States. The company- want agents in 
country towns. 
-♦♦♦- 
Watch No. 21039, stem Winder manufac¬ 
tured by United State? Watch Co,, (Giles, Wales 
& Co..) Marion, N. J., has been carried by me 
four months; its total variation from mean 
time being seven seconds per month.—8. M. 
Beard, firm of Beards & Cummings, 128 Front 
St,, New York. 
-*♦*- 
A low-priced thing is sometimes the dearest. 
The best is always cheapest. The “ Blanchard ” 
is the very best churn in the market. 
-«♦.- 
Advice.—Send for free Price List. Jones 
Scale Works, Binghamton, N. Y. 
THE MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
* New YORK, Monday, May 28, 1873. 
Receipts.—The receipts of the principal kinds of 
produce for tlie past week are na follows: 
Flour, bbl8.. 55,420 1 Pork, to bis. 3,829 
WLnot l.nak Otn'o/IA i- . , 
Wheat, bush. .340,81)0 Beef, pkgs. 270 
Corn, bush.,- 415,500 Cut meats, pkgs... 4,620 
Outs, bush.... 153,300 banl. pkga.!. 2,940 
orass seed, bush.. 1,013 Butter, pkg*. 23,100 
R a H e ?> *’R8h. '-S.9U0 Cheese, pkgs.. ... 19,100 
Mult, bush... 7,200 Irrlnfl Fruits, pkgs. 219 
Bean?, bush. 4,220 Maps, bills. 12,550 
Corn meal bbls.... 4,200 Wool, bale?. 1272 
Cora meal. bags... 2,010 Hops,bale*... ... v.i6 
Cotton, bales. 12,420 Peanut?, liana. 1,800 
Rye. hush. 1.300, Dressed Hog*, No. — 
«™, nB aj>d Pen*,—Exports of bean* past week, 
Mi pkgs. With more liberal supplies, of beaus and 
light Bab*8 to the* horoo trfidf, pricing aro lower. Ship- 
per? offer with reserve: $2.Go bid lor marrowfats, 
lea are scarce. Red kidney are not wanted to any 
extent. Canada pea? nre scarce. Green plus plenty. 
Oats, hush. ... 
Gras? seed, buBh.. 
Harley, hunk. 
Mult, bush. 
Bean?, bush,.. 
Corn meal bbls.... 
Cora meal. bags... 
340,800 Beef, 
lorKoonauu prime; Canada pr 
eyed Is® 8 ’ bnsh ” W-™®!-' 5 - Southern bluck- 
Beenwitx.— Exports past week, 17.820 lbs. Ship¬ 
pers have been buying quite freely at Urn lata de¬ 
cline. hales mostly nmdo at 3lk*,87c. for Western and 
South oro. 
Broom Com. -Manufacturers have beer, using 
sufficient stock to create steady prices. Sates at 6>4(5 
.c- for uur], 5&6c. for green, 4@5o. for red Old is bet¬ 
ter quoted—3c!>4c. 
tnarket baa ruled during the entire 
week at 30c. for fine half tubs. This, though lowpr 
than quoted at our last, is a very satisfactory figure, 
and the present firmness is only attributable to the 
moderated receipts ot State. New y'orl. dairymen 
are now packing in firkin? a? the color is favorable, 
ana farmers do not agree upon the pr.ee that would 
let buyers nut here Tims far we have steered clear 
tfic &o. rook wMob was thought to be hidden for 
this part of the month, but should a strong drift of 
Western set this way, we may j e fc grate upon lower 
figures. Western is expected , ri good quantities this 
week, gome ot onr old V, ostein receivers, compar¬ 
ing late years’ consignments with those of old times, 
say that the day is over for rushing supplies from 
the 45 est. The consumption is buyer as the steady 
increase of population through a hiuvy addition of 
emigrant movement toward the Pacific. VVn know 
oi very many Jots that u#e<l to be regularly mnrkcd 
for this rnurket from so remote a point a- lows, but 
nre now marked tivsta-j/tl, There is a good out-of- 
