this week. The prospect for fruit* of all kinds 
's not very flattering. There will be some apple 
blossoms but In all probability there will not be 
one bushel where there was a hundred lost-year. 
Blaekberrles and raspberries suffered badly, 
the crop will be small; xtrnwherries are looking 
fair and promise an ordinary crop, probably not 
ns good as last year. Grapes are not forward 
enough to tell anything positive about yet; 1 
do not think there Is much of the wood killed. 
Grass is looking well orj new meadows; old will 
not. lie heavy; the season has been favorable for 
grass so far; wheat and rye look fair; not 
much winter-killed, being covered all winter 
with snow and ice. Currants promise a fair 
crop. Eggs, IStfffiOe,; corn, 80c.; butter, 85@40c. 
—A. 8. n. 
Wilton, Franklin Co., Maine, May 22.—Sea^ 
son is quite backward ; but little planting done 
as yet. Partners have their wheat and oats 
mostly sown. The spring, thus far, has been 
cold and dry. A large body of snow covered the 
ground till late which has gone off ent irely by 
heat, of the sun. Huge drifts of snow are now 
to bo seen In every direction; many of them 
probably will continue till far into June. Veg¬ 
etation is backward ; apple trees just bursting 
their leaf buds; frosts nearly every night, but 
grass is not winter-killed and looks finely and 
bids fair to be a good crop.— l. f. a. 
the new Chief Justice of Mexico_Fourteen 
persons were killed on the 38th by a boiler ex¬ 
plosion iri Brussels.. Doncaster won the Derby 
stakes on the 28th ult_Disturbances lmve oc¬ 
curred on Spanish man-of-war... .Three men 
were killed at the Derby races — Mr. Motley 
made a speech at the Royal Literary Fund din¬ 
ner In London — Wolverhampton is importing 
iron from the United States... .In Milan, on the 
Kth, 100,000 people attended the funeral of 
Count Manzoni. The Epsom races, on the 
30th ult., were won by Marie Stuart The two 
columns of Russians in Kim an have formed a 
junction — Tlio Spanish Cortes is In session: 
Admiral Toper c has been released ; a great, bat¬ 
tle is expected In the vicinity of Logrouo. 
Mr. Bradlaugh has been seized by the Carltsts. 
The column Vendomn is to’be rebuilt ... 
Gen. du Barail has been made French Minister 
of War. 
Additions to Clubs are always In order. Send 
them In onus, twos, fives. t«n* or more, as you please. 
Moore’s Rural is the Pioneer Journal tn Its 
sphere, and keeps ahead of all imitators and abreast 
of the times and age. Try It a year, and see. 
The Documents.— Specimen Numbers, Premium 
Lists, Show Bills, etc., are promptly Bent free and 
post-paid to all disposed to aid in circulating the 
Rural New-Yorker in their respective localities. 
The It ii nil’s Premium Picture, *' Birth-Day 
Morning,” » Superb Stool Kngraving, worth *5, Is 
Hent post-paid, to every one paying only $2.50 for 
Moore’s Rural for 1878. Jt Is ,\ow Ileadu , and will 
be sent, without delay to ail entitled. 
SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS, 
The Grcnt Attraction.—The great attraction 
of this week Is the magnificent new rooms of 
the Wilson Sowing Machine Company, at, the 
corner of Superior nnd Bond streets. Crowds 
of people may be seen in and about the place, 
at any hour of the day or evening, gazing at the 
superb carpets, the frescoing, the gilt chande¬ 
liers, the wonderfully-carved counters, and the 
general elegance of everything about. A prom¬ 
inent, business man of this city remarked, after 
going the rounds of the place, t hat “ This is up 
to the style of the Eric Railway offlees in New 
York." The laxly visitors, almost without ex¬ 
ception, sit down and try one of the machines, 
and always conclude that the Wilson Under¬ 
feed Hewing Machine is the nicest feature of 
the admirable concern. A ad they are not mis¬ 
taken. In beauty of form and finish, in ease 
and precision of work, and in perfect capacity 
for any kind or sewing, the Wilson Machine is 
unsurpassed. Call at the new rooms and see ft 
work .—Cleveland Dnily Lender. 
.Salesroom at 707 Broadway, New York, and In 
all other cities iu the United States. The com¬ 
pany want agents in country towns. 
How to Remit Hafeljr.— Remittances for single 
or club subscriptions to the Rural may be made by 
Draft, Post-Otnce Money Order or Registered better, 
at our rixk. Draft* and I’. O. Money Orders preferred 
where obtainable,—but you risk nothing in sending by 
either of tli« modes above mentioned provided the 
remittance is properly inclosed and mailed. 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
CURRENT TOPICS 
The Death of Doad-Headiem. 
The Springfield Republican says:—The wide¬ 
ly-extending prevalence and gross abuses of 
“ doad-headlam ” In t his country are producing 
the natural result of a grand reaction, and the 
whole ay stem is being fast swept away. The 
last Congress cut It wholly out of the poat-oflioe. 
From and after the 1st of July, neither paper 
nor letter nor package of any kind Is to lie car¬ 
ried in the mails without, pay. This abolition 
of the free privileges of the newspapers is not a 
very groat thing In itself. At the outside it, will 
not bring n-hnlf million dollar* into the pubilc 
t reasury, but it, enforces a principle which is al¬ 
together right, and we regrot to see any portion 
of the proas deprecating and denouncing It. 
The free circulation in the counties was an 
especial demand of and boon to the country 
press; but we do not believe its loss will be 
found to harm any real good local paper. No 
inan will give up his county paper, if it is made 
of any value to him for the matter of 30 cents 
postage. If it is not worth t hat sum additional 
to the old price, it Is not worth an existence. 
The payment of postageon their exchanges will 
generally lie regarded at first a greater burden 
to the newspapers; but in the end it will prove 
greatly economical to the press, by reducing the 
number of exchanges which they send and re¬ 
ceive. Nearly every paper has twice or thrice 
as many exchanges as it really needs, many of 
them twice as many as they want. 
lias attended to his Congressional labors during 
winter, ami at the same time was preparing the 
second volume of his historical work for publi¬ 
cation this autumn. His physician, Dr. K. II. 
| Clarke, now orders a cessation of all work, 
including correspondence, and that Mr. Wilson 
shall seek rest and relaxation during the glim¬ 
mer. 
A la non Reform Convention was hold In Bos¬ 
ton last Sunday which passed a singular set of 
resolutions, of which the following was one: 
“ Resolved, That while not. undervaluing the 
short-time movement, co-operation, financial 
reform, or free trade, it is an especial object of 
this league to concentrate attent ion upon the 
fact, that property not founded upon a labor 
title is robbery; and we demand the entire 
abolition of profits and the restorat ion of exist¬ 
ing wealth to its rightful owners.” 
A very learned family t his Ib in Dos Moines, 
Iowa The father is a clergyman, and can do 
all the spiritual duty of the house; the mother 
is a physician, and so the domestic circle can he 
physicked for nothing; the daughter is studying 
law, and will be able to make her own writs for 
breach of promise—a most dangerous maiden 
to trifle with 1 All those people are said to be 
of the quiet sort, Industriously working in their 
several vocations and never making any fuss 
about anything. 
A Philadelphia newspaper says that the 
schools of that city do notstand as high as those 
of some other cities, and t hat this is owing to 
the Inferior character of their teachers. This is 
explained, It declares, by the indifferent person¬ 
nel of the School Boards, which are composed 
Watch No. 275A—hearing Trade Mark “Fay¬ 
ette Stratton, Marlon, N. J."—manufactured by 
United States Watch Co., (Giles, Wales & Co.,) 
Marion, N. J.. has been carried by mo two 
months; its total variation from mean time be¬ 
ing one second.— Jas. B. Weaver, with A. S. 
Barnes & C'o., Ill and 113 William Street. Now 
York. 
released from prison — There were five cases of 
sunstroke on (ho 29th.... Decoration Day was 
observed by a suspension of business; the pro¬ 
cession was of great, length. ..No more fire bells 
are to bo rung in this city .. .The Cooper Union 
Art. Department Las held its reception. 
Rome New**. 
The colored people of Louisiana propose to 
support Gov. K' Hogg .. .Cnpfc. Jack is report ed 
desperate. He has 2.1 warriors who wjlldie with 
their rifles in their hands . The U. S. Govern¬ 
ment has filed its papers in (he Credit Mohilier 
suit . .Mexicans have stolen 1,000head of catt le 
near Brownsville, Texas.... Seven doe tom have 
been expelled from the .Massachusetts Medical 
Society, for practicing homeopathy_The Cab¬ 
inet lots held a meeting on Civil Service Re¬ 
form. Speaker Blaine and Brigham Young 
have had a conference Osago Mission, Kan¬ 
sas, has been visited with u terrible tornado . 
Work on the great Exhibition Building in Phil¬ 
adelphia i* to commence on tlm 4th of July ., 
The National Agricultural Congress, with lf»o 
delegates, met in Indianapolis on the 38th ult. 
....Local Option has been killed In the New 
York Legislature ..Tho corner-stone for a new 
City Hall has been laid at Rochester, N. Y . . 
Gov. Davis of Texas Is urged In the President 
to pardon the Indians Hat ant a and Big Tree . 
What to do with tho surrendered Modoc# i? 
now' a perplexing question to t he Government 
...Tho New York Assembly passed t he Ohio 
liquor law—Gov..Jew ell accepts the mission to 
Russia A Slate Temperance Convention has 
been called for New York ...The health of 
Vice-President Wilson is so poor, he lias had to 
give up business. 
Obituary. 
Jab. W. Wallace, actor, died on the 34th 
ult., on his way from Aiken to Richmond. He 
was born in London in 1818... Rev. Father de 
Hinet, an Indian Missionary of note, in St. Louis. 
Born in Belgium in 1801. 
Firs*. 
Ice buildings in Sandusky, Ohio, on the 33d; 
loss, £1.7,000 — Stables in Brooklyn, on the 34th. 
with 17 horses and 8 carriages; loss, £ik,ooo 
H ouse of Mr. Deane, at Claremont, N. II., on 
the35th; loss, £12.0(10 Barrel factory at Ith¬ 
aca, N. V., on i he 38th ult,.; loss, *30,000.. ..Two 
blocks of stores in East Saginaw, Mich., mi the 
311th; loss, $50.000.. PaponnlUut I .Oakland, < 
on l he 2.7th.; loss, £40,0000 ... A portion or the 
principal street at. Callao, South America ; loss, 
£80U,(KI0... I* Ires in the woods on Long island ; 
loss, $30,000 Town ol Vardeti, Mias., on the 
38th; loss, £7.i,00U—A church, factory, etc., at 
Chatham, Out ., on the 38th ; loss, *30,000. 
Stores In Carlisle, Ky., on the 38th ; loss, £35,000 
Three houses In Maloc, Canada, on the 38tb ; 
loss, £10,000 . .Haw mill in West Hanover, Mass., 
on the 38th; loss, $20,000.. . Pinning miLl at Al¬ 
legheny City, Pa., on the20th ult.; loss, £10,000. 
— Warehouse in Carlisle, Ind., with ii.OOObiisli- 
Six - Ton liny Scales, @125, — The Jones 
Scale Works, Binghamton, N. Y r . Free Price 
List. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS 
New YonK, Monday, June 2, 1873. 
Receipts.—' Tho receipts of the principal kinds of 
produce for the past week aro a* follows : 
Flour, liljl*. 7e.;au Pork, bills. 3.178 
Wheat, bush. 440,1*111 Reef, pkg*. \fi 
Corn, push.. 380.800 Cut incuts, pkgH... 3,800 
Oats, bush. ........ ltiBJtHi Lard, pfcgs,. . 4,530 
Gains seed, hush.. 160 Butler, pkgs. 20,700 
Barley, hush. 10, 850 Cheese, pkx#. 33,820 
Mult, hush. 10,100 Dried Fruits, pkgs. 390 
Menu*, hush. 2,33i Kegs, l|l)Is. 13,400 
Corn meal bids., . 1,519 Wool, hales,. 1,200 
Corn liieal. bags... 2,100 I lops, hales, . 71 
Cotton, bales....... 17,220 J'euuu(8, bags. 1,058 
llye, bush. 27,800 Dressed ling*, N’o. 
Hen ns nnd Penn.-Exports of bean* past week, 
fly pkgs.; since Jan. 1.10,0.8» do.; *nme t ime last year, 
8,,'AO do. The market is dull tor beaus of all kinds, 
up to this week trade ha* been very steiulv In nmr- 
rows, making the export exceed that of this date lust 
year. Prices for both mediums and marrows are 
again 11 slut.10 caster. Pea and kidney beuns are in 
light stock, and not much varied tn rates. Foreign 
beaus are reported on the way. Cariudhm peas are 
scarce; the few brund*arriving have been all bought 
ahead, at full figures. Green peas are pressed for 
sale, at roonecri quotations. Southern It. E. peas 
have advanced wilii a firmer market in the West In¬ 
dio Islands, where they are taken for. 
Wo quote prime medium*. *2.S6@2.€0; Other, £2 2080 
2.1.7; prime marrow tat*. »2.i3k8?.(i7; other, *2.4(K<u2.80'; 
prune kidneys, Y2.MX,<2.0(1: prime pea beans, £3.75®M; 
fair do., £2.25,- red kidney, £3.5<ksii.i,iy for good and 
prime; white kidney, *2.2nc<«2.iiii; Canada peas, in 
bin*., free, *1.45(91.501 green pens, bush., range, *1.40 
Mil.fiO. Southern black-eyed, £1.(91.25; white kidney. 
4s2.2fkie2.liO. 
Receipts of butter beans from .tune ’72, to Juno, 
73, 742,IWO pkgs.; exceeding same period last year 40,- 
000 pkgs. 
Biicjmvviix,—E xports since Jan. 1, 0.7,357 lbs. Ship, 
pors buy sparingly, tint supplies have become moder¬ 
ate through the fair outlet recently, and no further 
concessions In prices are made. Halos at 36®S7c. for 
Western and Southern, with *orae fancy lots bring¬ 
ing 88c. 
II room On rn.— The old stock is being steadily re¬ 
duced through the demand from manufacturers, and 
at Jate figures. Sales ut Ii.ya7c. for hurl, 5<«.8c. for 
green, k95c. 1 nr red. Old is <1 noted 3®4c. 
Butter.—Tho tono of the market is not strong 
though Mlc. has been made throughout the wp k for 
finest quality uf Stale, in firkin* ; lew half-tubs quote 
above 29o. Of Western the supply Is larger but does 
not bear the proportion to the bulk of stock that was 
anticipated. A good portion at Western arrives in a 
soft, oily condition, having been caught in close, or¬ 
dinary shipping cars .luring the few days of hot 
weather Inst week. Caution must now bo used when 
lots are to leave remote points. Western butter 
ranger about as before, but as with State, only select¬ 
ed, small lines will realize the outbid, price. The 
stock contains some fine murksof Western that draw 
custom rrommarketmen when the difference In price 
compared with State is so decidedly m Lhelr favor. 
Some fancy Reserve, and even .Michigan lota, run 
State pretty hard in the merit of quality. Falls are 
very plenty and sell no higher than other state pack- 
age*'- ,3,he receipts Include runny white lots that have 
mjudiclouBly held back too long; butter of that grade 
will meet only a poor price—say 'Ifrq.Dc, 
We quote prime State firkin.*, yellow, 29®30c.J do. 
halt tubs, yellow;, 28®29e.: do. Welsh tubs, 24<®28c. 
M estern ranges, best, 24®25c. ; other Western, 20@22c. 
N. R. palls.35(93004 Pennsylvania store packed. Oka 
A Balloon Trip to Europe. 
Prof. John Wise and W. H. Donaldson, two 
experienced and well-known rorouauts,propose 
to take the balloon voyage of whloh to much 
has been said and so little done. The Boston 
Board of Alderman have responded to a petition 
from them, and made an appropriation of £3,000 
to aid them in fitting out their terlal ahlp, in 
which they will start from the Common in that 
city on the Fourth of July. The gentlemen in¬ 
tend taking two other persons with them, and 
through the co-oporation of the Franklin In¬ 
stitute in Philadelphia, expect to secure the 
services of twosetentific men. Prof. Wise bases 
ills reason for undertaking this perilous voyage 
on tho following theories At a certain liiglit 
above the earth there is a continuous air cur¬ 
rent, or tide setting from West to East, caused 
mainly by the centrifugal force generated by 
the revolution of the earth on its axis, and that 
this current moves at the rate of from DO to 100 
miles per hour. Thus he expects to reach En¬ 
gland in two days, at the most, from the time 
of starting. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC 
\ inrlnnd, N. J., May 29. — An unusually 
backward spring; enough rain until recently— 
now a little dry. Light frost on low lands on 
the 18t,h, with mercury 84° tn t he morning—frost 
did little harm ; rain on the 31st, mercury then 
58°; on the 23d, 811° at noon, 00 at fl P. M. Fine 
prospect for fruit, strawberries particularly; 
good for pears and peaches, and would be for 
grapes were there Jess (/trips about, which did 
great harm last year. On t he 24th, mercury at 
84' at noon; 70" at 6; the day magnificent, and 
the growth of vegetation was almost, visible to 
I lie naked eye. Next morning mercury 62" at 
about (1 A. M. Yesterday (38th) hottest day of 
t he season, <13 c in the morning, SMI at noon, 08 at 
fi. Wo need, and hoped, and looked for, a 
shower, but Ibe signs all failed ; some rain is 
needed, clover drooped seriously yesterday, and 
strawberries would lie much benefited by a 
good drenching. Hunted cureulios this morn¬ 
ing In tlie peach orchard, and found them plen¬ 
tiful, and so arc the t Imps in the vitjeyard, and 
they seem the loss manageable of the two, A 
good deal of fodder corn will be grown this 
year; it answered admirably last winter as a 
substitute for lmy. Surplus fruits and vegeta¬ 
ble# will be largely preserved by our Fruit Pre¬ 
serving Company. These fruit preserving fac¬ 
tories promise an immense impetus to fruit¬ 
growing, and perhaps may, in a measure, solve 
the agricultural problem of fair pay to farmers. 
Prices—Corn. 70c.; oats, 60e.; flour, £5 per 100 
lbs.; meal, £1.30; middling, £1.60; bran, £1.60; 
choose, 20c.; eggs, 20c.; lard, 14c.; sugars, 
13c., and other things in proportion. Manufac¬ 
tures are steadily increasing, and now form an 
important element of prosperity .—m 
Westport, Conn., May 23.— Tho weather here 
Ims been cold for the time of year nnd as a con¬ 
sequence everything is backward ; potatoes and 
corn not all planted yet; very few potatoes up 
yet, last year we finished hoeing potatoes the 
first time on the 2,7th; the thermometer was up 
in the nineties before this time. This year I 
don’t think it has reached 70° before to-day. 
There has been some frost one or two mornings 
Crent Fire In Boston. 
Early on the morning of Decoration Day a 
fire broke out in a furniture manufactory on 
Washington street, near Boylston nnd Essex 
streets, Boston. A northwest wind was blow¬ 
ing, and the fire spread with fearful rapidity. 
Three acres of buildings were consumed, at a 
loss of over £1,000,000. Five firemen aro report¬ 
ed killed. Some fifty stores were consumed, 
and the following buildingsTiie Globe Thea¬ 
ter, Chic Icering’s piano warehouse, the Interna¬ 
tional Hotel, the Jourdan Gallery, the Chaon- 
cey Hail School, the Fireman's Bank, and the 
9th Regiment headquarters, Help came from 
other cities, and the military was called out. 
The excitement and incidents of the great fire 
in November were repeated. The fire raged 
fonr hours. 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
miscellaneous Foreign News. 
The revolution caused no disorder in France. 
M. Thiers has taken his seat in the Assembly. 
President MacMahon will follow the policy of 
M. Thiers—The English Douse of Commous 
has voted to pay the Alabama award . Russia 
proposes a railway across Central Asia, to con¬ 
nect India with Europe_The resignation of 
President Thiers was accepted by a vote of 368 
to 339. MacMahon was elected President by a 
vote of 390. A large tumber of Republican offi¬ 
cers resigned.... The levy is being enforced in 
Spain—A mutiny occurred among tho troops 
at Bcrga, Spain, but wa* put down.The 
Prince of Wales has returned home_Yellow 
fever prevails at Montevideo_Tho Pope is de¬ 
lighted with the turn or affairs in France.,,. 
The new French Government will adopt free 
trade and reduce military expenses.The En¬ 
glish Parliament adjourned over June 5th— 
Derby Day — It is proposed to proclaim the 
Republic in France. Titles of nobility have 
been prohibited in Spain....Senor Yglesias is 
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The Gorman saloon-keepers of Chicago have 
taken a second the ught and decided upon a 
mud: wiser course in reference to the law 
which compels t hem to close their saloons [on 
Sunday. They have resolved to abandon their 
course of a defiant violation of the law, and to 
seek relief only by legitimate means. They are 
convinced that their breaking of the law last 
8unday was a mistake. The Chicago Tribune 
says they lost by their indefensible violation of 
the law the support of a great many people who 
