FOREIGN NEWS 
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, has for¬ 
bidden t he Catholic children of t hat city to read 
hooka from the public library, on the ground of 
the immoral character of American literature. 
Nathan Bundy of Lyndon, Vt., comes to 
the front with a sheep story. In April one of 
his ewes gave him a pair of twins, and after 
nine days rest gave him another lamb. 
Count von Ahnim, Ambassador of the Ger¬ 
man Empire, presented anew his credentials to 
the French Government, and was formally re¬ 
ceived by President MaeMahon. 
A Montiukllo, Iowa, jury has recently ren¬ 
dered a written verdict., the most beautiful 
specimen of phonographic spelling yet seen. 
It was, “Kno cos of axe Ion,” 
Pnor. Latimer of Bath High school, was 
recent ly sued bv a physician for whipping his 
boy. After an exhaustive trial the professor 
was sustained by the court. 
It is rumored that, a motion will be made in 
the French Assembly to proclaim the Republic 
and confirm MaeMahon as President for the 
term of live years. 
Congressman Justin S. Morrill will de¬ 
liver the address before the literary societies of 
the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Am¬ 
herst, July PI. 
Oveu 1,000 hotels in Pennsylvania have been 
closed since the vote on the. license question a 
few months ago. At least, so the Philadelphia 
Press says. 
Sir Edward Thornton has purchased land 
in Washington, D. C„ upon which to erect a 
permanent, building for the British legation. 
An English member of Parliament, who has 
been unaccountably missing for some time, is 
said to be a leader among the Carlists. 
There is to be a display of carrier pigeons at 
the Vienna Exhibition, with prizes for the best 
specimens of t he class. 
Prof. Moses Corf Tyler delivers the ad¬ 
dress ai. the Syracuse University Commence¬ 
ment. 
The ex-Empress Eugenie has gone from En¬ 
gland for the Continent by way of Ostend. 
Beecher preachod in Boston, recently, and 
thousands were unable to hear him. 
The cholera has disappeared from the coun¬ 
try adjacent to the Danube. 
The Shah of Persia has arrived at Weisbaden, 
cn route for London. 
The Emperor of Russia has arrived at Stutt¬ 
gart, from Vienna. 
neighboring city of Buda. In Pesth, during the 
second half of April, there were 202 new cases, 
with 102 deaths. In Buda, where the disease 
had apparently ceased on February 2C, there 
have been 59 eases since April Sit. In Bohemia, 
during the first half of April, three new cases 
were added to 40 remaining under treatment. 
Of the 52,10 recovered and 28 died. 
The Bank of France has paid into the French 
Treasury one-quarter of the sum due to Ger¬ 
many on account of the war indemnity. The 
remainder will be paid in monthly installments. 
The report that there had been successful nego¬ 
tiations to accelerate the departure of the Ger¬ 
man troops from France, is probably false. 
The memorial fund of $300,000 for the endow¬ 
ment of Richmond College, which the Baptists 
of Virginia have undertaken to raise in connec¬ 
tion with their semi-centennial, is nearly all 
secured. Over $205,000 is already pledged, and 
arrangements are made which will insure the 
raising of the remainder at an early day. 
A young man in a suburban (own sent off his 
first postal card on Thursday morning. After 
writing a message on the back, be enclosed it 
in an envelope, clapped on a three-oent stamp, 
and dropped it into the post-office, remarking 
that it was a very handy arrangement and 
should have been Introduced years ago. 
The prerogatives of .MetliodJst Episcopal 
bishops are under discussion in the Advocate. 
The dissatisfaction has arisen from the fact 
that the location of (.ho episcopal residences, as 
directed by t he General Conference, has been 
set aside or tardily adopted by the recent ly-elec- 
ted bishops. 
The munugers of t he American Sunday-school 
Union have elected as president of that society, 
to succeed John A. Brown, deceased, Robert 
Lennox Kennedy, of this city, one of our fore¬ 
most Christian bankers, a man well and widely 
known in both religious and financial circles. 
A San FRANCISCO telegram of Juno 12 says: 
Advices from Arizona state that on Monday 
last a band of Apache Indians started south¬ 
ward, probably intending to invade Sonora, 
Mexico. Another band is besieging Santa 
Cruz, in Sonora, five miles over the border. 
The Mcrrimac Journal tells of a smart 
woman in Vewburyport, who don’t like to be 
called old at nearly seventy years—who last 
Monday did t he weekly washing for her family 
of five persons, cooked for them, and cleaned 
t he paint and papered two rooms. 
A humane gentleman of Bangor has offered 
to give the Society for th a Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals the sum o^ t.OOO, ou condition that 
the Society will procure the passage by the Leg¬ 
islature of a law prohibiting the use of a check- 
rein on horses in the Stat e of Maine. 
There is a serious dispute in the building 
trade In London. The journeymen ask an 
advance of a halfpenny per hour in their wages, 
which the master-builders refuse to give. It is 
feared a dispute will lead to the greatest lock¬ 
out ever known in the city. 
Many of the students at Yale are taking bo¬ 
tanical and zoological excursions under the 
guidance of a Professor. They go into the woods 
and the mountains, have lunch, and return with 
plants and fossils, all wearing the longest and 
most tremendously hard Latin names. 
Two sharpers have victimized about three 
hundred girls in Middletown. Ct., by selling 
them cheap pictures for $1 each, telling them 
the proceeds were for a Catholic clarity, and 
that the Sisters ot Mercy would come around 
and frame them. 
About two-thirds of the immense debt of the 
American Presbyt erian Board, $128,095, has been 
provided for by pledges given at the General 
Assembly, The entire debt will be divided 
among the presbyteries,and they expected to 
meet it. 
President MucMahop lias issued a proclama¬ 
tion to the army, in which he says:—“ The 
choice of a President of the Republic from your 
ranks shows the confidence of the National As¬ 
sembly in your loyalty.” 
The cholera excitement is abating. Absti¬ 
nence from stale vegetables has undoubtedly 
had a tenedency to decrease the mortuary re¬ 
ports. as there were only 19 interments to-day 
from all diseases against 24 yesterday. 
There is a young man in Buekland, Me., who 
has made the father of his lady love a present 
of a fine load of wood in compensation for the 
fuel used during his regular and somewhat pro¬ 
tracted visits the last winter. 
A. Park dispatch says;—Ex-President Thiers 
has written a friend, in which he says he has 
retired to private life, believing that party 
Government in France is a mistake, and will 
only lead to fresh divisions. 
The Baptists propose to commemorate the 
national centennial in 1876 by raising, mean¬ 
while, an educational fund for completing the 
endowment of all their institutions of learning 
in the country. 
Vignettes of the late William H. Seward and 
Thomas Corwin have recently been engraved 
at the Treasury Bureau for use upon the checks 
of the State and Interior Departments respect¬ 
ively. 
Ex-Congressman E. Y. Rice of the Xth ill. 
District, is said to be building a new house with 
his $5,000 of the salary grab. The newspapers in 
his section are bidding him melancholy fare¬ 
wells. 
Additions to Clubs are always In order. Send 
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Rural NEW-YORKER In their respective localities. 
the proclamation of the Republic—On the 9th, 
a great fire broke out in Dublin; the people 
commenced to plunder; the military ami police 
had to protect the firemen ; t he LordMayor was 
ted , the loss was ball a million of dollars. 
_The Alexandria Palace, in London, wan de¬ 
stroyed by fire ou the 9th; the fire caused great 
consternation : loss, three millions of dollars 
and many works of art—A Radical Govern¬ 
ment has been elected in Lyons_Ratazzi had 
a great funeral in Rome on the 9th It is 
proposed to abolish the office of Lord Lieuten¬ 
ant of Ireland_The French Government has 
attempted to subsidize the press. ...Dissensions 
continue in Spain, and Figucras is unable to 
form a Cabinet. A forced loan ia probable — 
Kaiser v.on the Prim e of Wales stakes in the 
Ascot races on the 10th On the 12th, there 
were tears of an armed revolution in Spain ; 1 lie 
Cories was surrounded by armed volunteers. 
Figucras has gone to Franco. A new ruinistiy 
was accepted on the 12th Russians and Khiv- 
uus have both met. with defeats.. The German 
Constitution will be extended to Alsace and 
Lorraine. ..M. Thiers has retired to private life. 
.The journeymen builders of London propose 
a strike. ..A number ol French officials have re¬ 
signed... The funeral of Sir George Cartier, at 
Mont real, on the 11th, was large and imposing. 
_Ex-King Amadeus Is in England — 'the Sul¬ 
tan has made Egypt an Independent, kingdom. 
. ..There is s conflict In Brazil between 1 ho 
clergy and secret societies.., The French Gov¬ 
ernment is actively persecuting the Commun¬ 
ists... The new Government of Spain favors 
the abolition of slavery. 
The It lira I'* Premium Picture, “Birth-Day 
Morning,” a Bnperb Steel Engraving, worth $5, 1* 
sent post-paid, to every one paying only f2.50 for 
Moore’s Rural for 1873. It Is i\ow Ready, and will 
be sent, without delay to all entitled. 
Howto Remit Solely. Remittances for single 
or club subscriptions to the Rural may be made by 
Draft, Post-Office Money Order or Registered Letter, 
at our risk. Drafts and P. O. Money Orders preferred 
where obtainable, but you risk nothing In sending by 
cither of the modes above mentioned provided the 
remittance is properly inclosed and mailed. 
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
A Washington dispatch says:—Mrs. Hall, 
the widow of the unfortunate Capt. Hall, has 
been here for two nr three day#, but lias t hus 
far been unuhle to learn anything regarding the 
last hours ut her husband. She has not yet seen 
Capt. Tyson, nor any of the crew at the Navy 
Yard in this city, arul is, therefore, as Ignorant 
of the entire circumstances relating to her hus- 
band’rs death and probable fat e of t he Polaris as 
the public at large. She Is almost crushed with 
grief, and came here on the sad errand of ob¬ 
taining what fact* wore to bo known from the 
party brought here by the Frolic. She much 
regrets not having arrived in time to see Joe 
and Hannah, the Esquimaux friends of her hus¬ 
band, find she says if she could divest herself of 
the idea that the Captain did not die a natural 
death, she could feel his loss less keenly. 
A Madrid, Spain, dispatch dated June 12, 
says: -The Cortes has accepted the resignation 
of the Figueraa Cabinet. At a meeting of the 
majority last night the following new Ministry 
was agreed upon :—President of the Council and 
Minister of the I nterior—Senor Pi y Margall. 
Minist er of the Colonies-Senor Sorni. Minis¬ 
ter of Foreign Affairs—Senor Muze. Minister 
of War Senor Estavanz. Minister of Marine— 
Senor Aurioh. Minister of Finance—Senor 
Ludus. Minister of Public Works—Senor Be- 
not. Minister of Justice—Senor Gonzalez. The 
authorities are determined to sustain resolutely 
the majority In whatever measures they may 
adopt. Senor Figueraa has left Madrid. 
An Albany dispatch dated June 12 says:—The 
Cornell Investigating Commttee after making 
an examination of documentary evidence in 
the Controller’s office here, adjourned to meet 
at the Cornell University in Ithaca next week, 
to examine into the management of the Uni¬ 
versity, especially in the Agricultural and Me¬ 
chanical Departments, with a view to deter¬ 
mining whether the conditions of the land 
gram are fulfilled. Mr. Cornell was present 
here, aiding the Commission in their investiga¬ 
tion. 
A Richmond, Va., telegraph says : The sec¬ 
onds in the recent duel between Mordecai anil 
McCarty, having been refused bail by a police 
justice during the convalescence of McCarty 
the surviving principal, they made an effort to¬ 
day to procure a writ of habeas corpus, but 
Judge Guigton, to whom the application was 
made, refused to grant it. They will have to 
remain in jail for some time yet beforethej 
have an examination, as McCarty will not 
probably be out for a month. 
Among the important features in the new 
Ohio school law is the provision constituting all 
school districts in Ohio “bodies politic and 
corporate," wit 1 sole and exclusive control of 
educational matters, Including the full title and 
ownership of all real estate and all other prop¬ 
erty now used, or hereafter to .be acquired 
therefor. This will invest Boards with every 
needed power for independent action, while it 
will also definitely fix responsibility for any 
failure in administration. 
A gentleman of Nashua, N. H„ has a rare 
coin that was recently found on the farm of 
Loring Hardy, of Windham. It is inscribed, 
“Josephus, L D. G.—Port et-alg-rex,” around 
the bust of the King. On the reverse is the 
crown and shield of Portugal. The series of 
which this is a specimen was cast for the Amer¬ 
ican colonies of Portugal. It was found with a 
quantity of other coin in a meadow some two 
feet below the surface. It appears to be coined 
from brass. 
The Keene Sentinel says that in a fork of a 
large elm tree in Walpole, N. H.. about fifteen 
feet from the ground, may be seen two flourish¬ 
ing currant bushes that have been growing for 
the past twelve years, and annually yield both 
red and white fruit. O 11 another elm, just 
across the street, ut considerable distance from 
the ground, may be seen a raspberry bush in a 
flourishing condition. 
The British Medical Journal says that cholera 
is again.spreading in Pesth, Hungary, and the 
SEMI-Bl/SINESS PARAGRAPHS, 
The Modern Wonder. —Experienced people 
are found wondering how so perfect a sewing 
machine os the New Wilson Underfeed can be 
made so perfect in every part, so thoroughly 
adapted to the requirements of family sewing, 
and yet be sold for twenty dollars less than any 
other first-class machine. The reason is easy 
and plain. First , because the Wilson Company 
is content with a fair profit, and do not belong 
to any combination whose object is to keep up 
the price of sewing machines; and, secondly, 
because the most perfect machinery is used in 
its construction. The splendid establishment 
of the company is the best, evidence that this 
policy has been a success. Salesroom at 707 
Broadway, New’ York, and in ail other cities in 
the United States. The company want agents 
in country towns. 
DOMESTIC NEWS, 
New York €lty and Vicinity. 
V, Springbok, won the Bel lont stakes at t he 
Jerome Park races.Pett ’’a pence, to the 
amount, of $130,000 was collect'd in the Catholic 
churches on the 8th Cornu stones have beeu 
laid for T. DeW. Talmadge s and Stephen II. 
Tyng, Jr.’s now churches .. The udssingsteam- 
or George Cromwell is safe_A lull lias been 
found against Frank H. Walworth of murder in 
the first'degree....Stokes has been granted a 
new trial....The corner stone of Dr. Hall’s new 
church waa laid on the 9th. It is to cost, $900,000 
There is much wrangling over the- Brooklyn 
Bridge James L. Orr.Jatc Minister to Russia, 
hail an imposing Masonic funeral on the 18tn. 
The remains were sent to South Carolina— 
Young Walworth is to have a speedy trial for 
1 fie killing of his father On the 11th a hoy of 
10 shot his friend, aged 25, In Jersey City.. A 
Peace Conference was held on the 11th at 
Cooper Union .Rev. Celia Burleigh has had a 
dramatic benefit . 
Home News. 
The Modoc captives number 128. Jack has 
attempted to escape.. . . ..Gen. Sherman, the 
President, and others, have been to West Point 
.Six soldiers of Co, F, Third cavalry, and 24 
horses were drowned in camp in Nebraska, on 
the fid _On the 6th ttie Oregon volunteers 
massacred a number of Modoes, women and 
children. The Modoes wore unarmed; a ter¬ 
rible scene followed. The news caused great 
excitement. The remaining Modoe prisoners 
w ill he tried by a military commission_A sol¬ 
diers’ mouumem. has been dedicated at Cam¬ 
den, N, J No trouble is apprehended from 
Mackenzie’s raid Into Mexico .. A lire damp 
explosion took place in Sliamokin, Pa., on the 
loth. Ten lives were lost . .The farmers fleet¬ 
ed Mr. Craig Judge of the Supremo Court in 
Illinois—The Habitual Criminal Act of New 
Fork has been declared constitutional ..San 
Francisco has b«cn passing Infamous aiui- 
C hi nose ordinances ...Gen. Davis was all ready 
to -hoot Capt. Jack and the Modoes when he 
got word to give them a militarv trial The 
Massachusetts Legislature has adjourned . It. 
is proposed to unite all the Presbyterian 
churches in America—Capt. Jack denies the 
killing of Gen. Canby. ,Dr. West of Dover, 
Del., who murdered a negro, has been found 
not guilty Superintendents of the poor have 
had a convention at Buffalo.. Wagner, the Isle 
of Shoals. N.H.. murderer, is on trial — Mr. 
Colfax Mill make the Fourth of July oration iu 
Cincinnati.Forty-one out of a class of 13 
graduated at West Point.,. .The Modoes are to 
6e sent to Fort Kalmath. 
Fire#. 
The Hyde Park woollen mills, Mass., on the 
7th; loss, $500,000 ...Hotel at East Greenwich, 
R. I., on the 7th, struck by lightning; loss, $12- 
000 — On the 8th a large pie bakery and 30 
horses, on Sullivan St., New York; loss, $183,000 
— Paint and oi! store at Burlington, Iowa, on 
the 7th; loss, $75,000 Three million feet of 
lumber, 17 houses, 1,400 barrels of coal oil, and 
25 freight cars, in Cincinnati, on the 8th ; loss, 
$150,000... Bake house, engine home, etc., in 
Garden Island, Out., on the 8th .; Joss. $15,000. •. 
Steamer Meteor, warehouse, etc., in Detroit, on 
the 8th; loss, 8100,000_\ great lire broke out 
on the river front of Newburg, N. Y.. on the 
9th, burning front from Third to Fourth Sts.; 
loss, $250,000 .. Stores on Commerce St., Cincin¬ 
nati, on the 13th; loss, $25,000_Store in Law¬ 
rence, Kan., on the 11th ; loss, $75,000... Woolen 
mills at Milton, N. H.. on the 12th; loss. $100,000. 
Watch jNo. lOOO, Stem Winder — bearing 
Trade Mark “ Frederic Atherton & Co., Marion, 
N. J.”—manufactured by United States Watch 
Co., (Giles, Wales & Co.,) has been carried by 
me three and one-half months ; total variation 
thirty seconds.— Geo. G. Rockwood, 845 Broad¬ 
way, New York. 
The Improved Universal Clothes Wringer, 
with its new malleable iron folding clamps, for 
fastening it to a tub or box, is the neatest, most 
compact and durable Wringer ever made. 
Four-Ton Hay Scales, $87.30. —The Jones 
Scale Works, Binghamton, N. Y. Free Price 
List. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS 
New York, Monday, June 16, 1873. 
Receipts.—The receipts of the principal kinds of 
produce for the past week are as follows: 
FJour, bbls. 88,6U0 Fork, hbls. 1,344 
Wheat, bush.1,193,600 Reel, pkgs. 104 
Corn, bush.... 875,600 Cut meats, pkgs.... 2,990 
Outs,bush.. 296,410 Lanl. pkgs..,.. 2,966 
Grass seed, bush 
Barley, bush — 
Mult, bush. 
Beans, bush. 
Corn meal bbls. 
Curn meal, bugs 
Cotton, bales— 
Bye. bush ....... 
— Butter, pkgs. 20,780 
— Cheese, pkgs. 54,125 
8,300 Dried Fruits, pkgs. 952 
‘Ml Bugs, bbls. 15,219 
2,970 Wool, bales.. 1,675 
15,200 Hops, bales. 57 
18.12s Peanuts, bugs. 468 
07,200 Dressed Hors. No.. — 
Hen us nudPcas.—Experts of beans past week, 
442 bbls.; of peas. 6,150 bush. The market coutlUties 
quiet, with free offerings of both mediums uml mar¬ 
rows, at $2.50 for selected of either. There bus been 
a good payiDg trade for the last crops, and dealers do 
not grumble at the present falling oil in the demand. 
Canada peas are in good demand, owing to the pro¬ 
longed scarcity. The stock arriving is mainly in 
bulk and not of desirable quality. Green peas not 
wanted- Southern B. G. peas tn few bauds. 
We quote prime meal urns, $2.50; other. $2 90® 
2.35; prime marrowfats, $2.50; other, $2.20 <«. 2.30; 
prime kidneys, $2.5Qei'2.60: prime pea beans, $2.7&$3; 
fair do., S2.2a; red kidney, 83.50c«>i.7i» tor good and 
prime; white kidney, t3.2Q©2.6U; Canada peas, in 
bbls., tree, $1.4U@1.45; Canada peas in bulk. 9Do.©$l; 
green peas, bash., ranee, ll.lOCltfcSff. Southern black- 
eyed, $4,©4-29; white kidney, $2.20@2.GO. 
Beeswax.—There is a small shipping trade at 35® 
37c. for Western and Southern—latter price obtain¬ 
able tor choice lots only. 
Broom Corn.— Small sales to manufacturers, at 
steady prices- Sales at 644®“c. for hurl, 5®6c. for 
green, 4®oc. for red. Old is quoted 3®4c. 
Buirer.—The market stands up quite satisfactorily 
under the free receipts and hot weather. State has 
stopped coming, and for that the market is rather 
steady. Western is In good supply; the receipts, 
however, are equally dfitributeii from day to day. 
