$l;i,000.,, Woolen mill, Johnston. R. t., on the 
; loss, $ 60,000 —Stores, grist-mill, etc., in 
Newbury port. Mass., on the tth loss. .<50,000. 
The propellor City of Chatham, at Hamilton, 
Grit., on the 3d: loss, $32.«4)... Root and shoo 
£*OtoiT in Rochester, N. V., on (he 4th; lo 3 s, 
§MJ.(J00—Mills and houses at Birch Hill, B. I 
on the 4th ; loss. $55.(10(1 , Woolen mill ill Phil¬ 
adelphia on the 4th; loss, $]:*),000. The Otis 
block In Chicago on the 2d; loss, $200,000 .. 
The Insurance companies lose $070,000 bv the 
Boston fire . The McCormick block in Peru, 
III., on the 1st ; loss, *.< 0.000 .. .In Cumberland 
Co., Me., 1,00(1 acres »l tine titnher .. Miller's 
restaurant in Nov Orleans, on the 1st; loss, 
$30,000 House and store in Higginsport, O., 
on the .list ult.; loss, $13,000.. ..A hotel, shops! 
etc., in Middletown, N. V., on the 5th: loss. 
having lot their stables get out of repair, sup¬ 
posing t hat. spring was here. For t he past eight 
days it rained, some timedurinft the twenty- 
four hours, so that it Is Impossible to do any¬ 
thing towards putting in corn on old ground. 
Not, over one-half of the corn is planted. Corn 
i« worth 30c.; oats, 30c.; wheat, $1.25; cows, $30 
to$(.j ; work cattle, $90 to $130; horse-, $30 to 
$150. The (list settlements were made in this 
county three years ago this fall, with perhaps a 
half-dozen exceptions, and from present appear¬ 
ances f think there will be very few desirable 
pieces of Government land in the county by the 
1st. of January next. The large proportion of 
the settlers are those who did military duty in 
the late war.—j. u. r>. 
Flat Gap. .left, to,, Term., July Wheat 
in East Tennessee will not make more than half 
on average crop. Clover is almost a failure. 
Fruit more than half killed. Bugs and worms 
are destroying garden vegetables and potatoes. 
Corn looks hail for the t ime of year. Oats and 
grass will be good if there is plenty of rain. 
Wheat is worth $130; corn, 75c.; bacon, 10c.; 
bum hands plenty and cheap. Good fanners 
Additions to C'lults are always In order, 
them in ones, twos, fives, tens or more, as vou 
began a conversation. Suddenly she was taken 
dreadfully ill. She said that she had no money 
and could not go to t he hospital, and t hey would 
have to keep her through a run of fever. They 
gave her $3 to crawl out and try to reach the 
hospital; after which she recovered with aston¬ 
ishing rapidity and bought a new blue sash. 
Gen. Sherman thinks t he effect of the Modoc 
surrender upon all the tribes in Oregon, Idaho 
and Northwestern Territories w ill he to compel 
them, through fear, to keep the peace. Ho 
doubts whether the capture will terrlly the 
warlike Sioux into submission, and thinks the 
Modocs will be surrendered to thecivil authori¬ 
ties In accordance with the precedent in the 
case of Santana, iu Texas. 
Till; Secretary of the Treasury has di ectod 
the Assistant- Treasurer in New York to give 
notice that, during the month of June lie will 
purchase $500,000 bonds on the find find third 
Wednesdays each, and w ill sell $2,000,000 gold 
on the first and third Thursdays each, and 
$1,500.000 on the second and fourth Thursdays 
each. In all. ho will sell $7,000,000gold and pur¬ 
chase $1,000,000 in hands. 
It Is known that, Brigham Young will resign 
the Presidency or the Utah Central and Sout h¬ 
ern Railroads and accompany the Missionary 
Company to Arizona. The company will bo 
Moore s Rural Is the Pioneer Journal in its 
sphere, and isceps ahead of all imitators and abreast 
of the times and ago. Try it a year, anil soe. 
I lie Document*, -Specimen .Numbers, Premium 
bists, Hhow ttdls, etc., are promptly sent free and 
post-paid to all disposed to aid In circulating the 
Rural New-Yorker in their respective localities. 
Ilow to Remit Sa fely.—Remittances for single 
or club subscriptions to the Rural may be made by 
Draft, Post-Office Money Order or Registered Letter 
at out rMt. Drafts and P. O. Money Orders preferred 
where obtainable,—but you risk nothing in sending by 
cither of the modes above mentioned provided Die 
remittance is properly inclosed and mailed. 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
CURRENT TOPICS 
The Northern Pacific Railroad. 
A telegram from Bismarck, Dakota, June4, 
says:--The I rack of the Northom Pacific Rail¬ 
road readied the Missouri River at this place 
to-day, and the entire division of 450 miles from 
Duluth to Bismarck la open to business. The 
people arc celebrating the event. Connection 
is made here with the navigation of the upper 
and lower Missouri. A line of steamers in es¬ 
tablished between this point and Fort Benton, 
in Western Montana, and shipments of both 
government and private freight are being made 
by thi* new route to Hie Northwest. The rail¬ 
road surveying expedition, with a military es¬ 
cort under command of General Stanley, will 
start ’vest, June 1«, with the intent i*n of making 
a final and definite location of the line of the 
road from the crossing of the Missouri to the 
crossing of the Yellowstone, and along that 
river to Central Montana, this being the only 
portion of the route not yet, determined. No 
serious opposition from Indians is anticipated 
by those best able to judge. 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
New York City and Vicinity. 
The Grand Lodge of Masons has been in 
session in their new hall ...About 1.000saloon 
passengers sailed for Europe on Hie 31st of May. 
• • • -4 Mrs. Fitzpatrick has been found murdered 
■ on kers.. A number of old buildings in 
''■Inl and Crosby streets were burned on the 3d, 
and 50 families made borne lev-.The regatta 
of the N. Y. Vaclil Club took place onthefil h. 
• • In? National Guard was reviewed on the 3d 
and It li Mansfield Tracy Will wort h, the au¬ 
thor, WPS -hot by Ids son on the 3d at the Stur- 
twant House; this terrible parricide caused 
groat excitement-The »Spriiig races at re¬ 
route Park have commenced... Geo, MacDon- 
"oll.the great forger, has been sent to Flight nd. 
; -I he;(’itv militia numbers 0,733 Tim Wood- 
null trud has been postponed... Whitsuntide 
was celebrated by the Germans . Miss Mnrv 
Carpenter of England has lectured on prison 
KiTorm fstolu-s is in good spirits; his tale 
w ill be decided in a few days.. The jnn in the 
Walworth parricide find Hint voting Walworth 
shot his father ; Mr. ('Imrles O'Coiumr will con¬ 
duct the defense of the hoy ; Mr. W id worth lias 
been burled nt Saratoga .' ,\ bov lias tried to 
poison Ids father In Brooklyn Tt Is proposed 
to arm the police with breech loaders The 
session of the Grand Lodge of Masons closed on 
t lie <ith . ..Precautions are being taken against 
t he elKdcni. . The Madeleine won the prize in 
the X. \ Yacht race on the fStb, in 4 hours. I 
iiiimue, and 30seconds. ..The.steamship Crom- 
wcll, from this city for New Orleans, is missing. 
Homo Now*. 
The McEnory Government of Louisiana has 
Surrendered, rather than provoke a war with 
the! nlt.ed Mates.An improved state of IT, 
S. finances 1% reported. Two bunk defaulters 
have been louiul in Boston the past, week 
Minnesota will regulate railway tariffs . The 
Union Pacific Railway wlJl bpijd depots at Oinii- 
! M , - n ,) (, t the Bender family, who commit¬ 
ted o many murder.-, in Kansas, have been ar¬ 
rested m low#... The rescued Polar explorers 
have reached Washington The new loan has 
been negotiated in London The President 
a 6 Brunch for the summer 
A railway accident at Capetown, Gut., on the 
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
The President has submitted to the Attor¬ 
ney-General the question whether those Mo- 
does who took part in t he assassination of Gen. 
Canby and Dr. Thomas cap be tried by a mili¬ 
tary commission. While no intimation has 
been given by the Attorney-General as to what 
w ill be the character of his decision, the belief 
outside of the Department is that it w ill bo 
Mint these prisoners can be so tried. Cnioss 
legal objections are found to exist,it Is the pur¬ 
pose of the President to order a military com¬ 
mission to be organized at once to proceed with 
the trial. 
The wholesale destruction of lobsters on the 
Eastern coast has suggested to a Boston news¬ 
paper that the next generation will not enjoy 
this first-rate fish. The raid on lobsters extends 
without intermission from Boston to Halifax, 
tiiogreat demand being for canning. A percep¬ 
tible deterioration In size is observed. Once 
there were lobsters in Fan an 11 Hall Market 
which it required the strength of both arms to 
lift from the bench ; now most lobsters are not 
much too largo to put Into the vest pocket. 
A family residing In Detroit, the other day 
determined to replace a marble mantel grate 
and hearth which had boon put Into the house 
when it was built in 184S. On taking up the 
hearth-stone it was found to have been once 
dosigned to mark tlje grave of Sarah-. who 
died in 1637. Now the mistress of tho house 
SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS, 
The People’* Friend.— It is susceptible of 
easy proof that the Sewing Machine has been 
a greater blessing to the American people than 
any invention of the presenl century. Nothing 
else has done so much to save tho lives and 
health of the wives and mothers, and the pa¬ 
tient, overworked women of the land who, as a 
class, most needed relief from t he burdens of 
every-day life. Every father and husband fails 
in Ills duty If he neglects to endow life house 
with such a triumph of science aa the Wilson 
1 nderfeod Sewing Machine. It is the cheapest 
and best Sewing Machine ever offered. Sales¬ 
room at 707 Broadway, New York, and in all 
other cities in the United States. The com¬ 
pany want agents in country towns. 
the married women into tho belief that they are 
not legally married, and that, unless married 
over again by the reverend fathers, their hus¬ 
bands may leave them and marry again. 
Gov. Leslie, of Kentucky, has tendered the 
appointment of geologist of that St ate to Prof. 
N. S. Bhaler of Harvard College, who is a native 
of Kentucky. The Incumbent is by the law 
authorized to organize his corps of assistants 
Immediately and go to work. 
Eighteen empty pocket-books were discov¬ 
ered last week, ip cleaning out a waste pipe in 
the Park House, at New Haven, and are sup¬ 
posed to bo a few of the many captured by the 
pickpockets during the army reunions of the 
previous week. 
Three hundred thousand dollars’ worth of 
the bonds stolon from the Waterford bank 
have been returned by the thieves, who have 
received 35 per cent, and immunity from pun¬ 
ishment for their trouble. 
The herbarium of Professor Meissner, of the 
University of Basie, Switzerland, containing 
« 0,000 botanical specimens, has been purchased 
by a private gentleman for presentation to 
Columbia College. 
The French Assembly has voted to rebuild 
the column of Vendome, and adjourned until 
the 5t;li of June. 
cU A'*. 12003, Stem Winder bearing 
Mark " United States Watch Co., Marion, 
- manufactured by United States Watch 
iles, Wales & Co.,) Marion, N. J., has been 
by me two months; its total variation 
ic.-m time being six seconds in the entire 
W. 8. Dunn, of H. B. Clafiin & Co., New 
mi I , ** * -x ut uut, ugi* 
omi I he brewers have been in council in 
Cleveland. <> The Sheffield Scientific School 
has been dedicated at.Nowllaveu Col.David 
lew of N. J. is the hero of the Modoc war; 
l he Modems w ill probably he turned over to the 
courts or Oregon Tor trial .John A. Bingham 
or Ohio is tlie new Minister to Japan Two 
women have been murdered near Suffolk. Va . 
Gornell U Diversity has received more lame gifts. 
- - I he i ofiUora L\\ V.) murderer, has hnon ar¬ 
rested— unrht murders in one week are re- 
ported from Virginia .The Chicago Jubilee 
was a great success; 40,000 people att ended one 
concei t. . 7 be Secretary or the Navy lias inves¬ 
tigated the survivors of the Polaris; lie finds 
there was no mutiny; tlie separation of the 
crew was by accident . A colored cadet at 
Annapolis has been assaulted by some other 
cadets, who have all been arrested. Forty-nine 
cadets at West Point were rejected out of 135 
examined; two colored cadets were successful 
....Telegrams have bean sent from San Fran¬ 
cisco t* China, advising Chinese not to emi- 
grat e It is now reported that Mr. Jackson 
Schultz will resign hi* Coin mission ersh ip at 
Vienna.... It Is expected Gen. Davis will shoot 
Fnrmeri* are apt to believe too much. Don’t 
he swindled, when you can buy a thing proved 
and improved for over twenty years. Buy the 
Blanchard Churn. 
Five-Toil Hay Scales, $1<)0. 
Scale. Works, Binghamton, N. Y 
List. 
The Jones 
Free Price 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC 
Edgar, Clay Co, 
Neb., May til.— The present 
spring and winter have been remarkable ones 
in the history of this country.' Winter set in 
about tho middle of November, and remained 
froze up, with little snow at any one time, until 
Feb. i ; from that time until the 20th of March, 
the most of the time the weather was warm and 
pleasant. Much of the small grain was sown 
before the latter date. About that time a series 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS 
New York, Monday, June 9, 1673. 
Receipt*.—Tiir receipts of the principal kinds of 
product' for the past week are as follows : 
JlOUr, tit'ls. 91,M0 Pork, bids. 2,364 
Wheat, bush...... 1,169,70(1 Heel, ,,kgs. 107 
Corn, busli.. 1,167,2(4,1 Cut meuts, pk gs,, 2,969 
Oats, bush.. —.... fiysjuj Lard, pkgs. 2,909 
Grass seed, bush.. IM Butter, pkgs... .... 21,400 
U&Def, bush. 2,300 Cheese, pkgs. . 36,520 
Malt, tmsh.......... 71,a00 Dried Fniits, pkg 6 , 444 
Beans, bush .. 1,310 Bags, hbls. ,. 12,529 
Corn meal bids.... 1,929 wool, bales. 762 
Coni meal, bags... 1,657 Hops, bales..... 116 
Cotton, hales. 11.7(f) Peanuts, bags. 659 
Bye, bush... 40,500 Dressed Hogs, No. — 
Mcnpi* and Feus.—Experts of beans past week, 
Jjcsa ■ "’ji’lP bush* The bean market is 
very dull anil lower; the local trade in destine very 
tiBlitly in mediums, and (lie export demand for mar¬ 
rows has fallen off to an extent that denresscs miotn- 
