MOOEE’S BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
IIow to Do It,— It in not necessary to have all 
our “documents'' in nrocr to firm a club. Ob the 
contrary, any tui burn her, or other reader of the 
paper who knows its merits, can go to work nt once. 
By Bhowlmr n number of the Rural, and talking to 
friends and neighbors, almost any one can form a 
club of from ten to fifty, without other assistance. 
We will send all requisite aids, but if not received 
yon need not vuit their arrival and n little Timely 
Effort will secure you a VnHKMe Premium, 
December is the Dost month in which to form 
clubs, and hence tfow itt the Very ’ll me for our Agents, 
and all others disposed to secure “Good Pay for Do¬ 
ing Good”—to help the Rural and benefit them¬ 
selves—to ripen and push the Campaign for lfiTL 
Many liavo already commenced, and we trust every 
Club Agent who has not "opened the bail ” will do 
so at once. Our Premiums are so liberal that every 
one forming a club will he Wm Rewarded. ’ 
l Pope, but Anti-Pope; but the Governments 
| will recognize him as Pope and seek to force 
i him upon their people. Meanwhile, if.theother 
cardinals have been only exiled they will meet 
In conclave somewhere in France, England, or 
perhaps Malta, and elect the true Pope; but if 
they ore imprisoned separately there will be an 
Interregnum In the lino of the truo Popes. The 
now Anti-Pope will live but «. few months— 
here wo get back to the region of prophecy 
again and at hi death another Anti-pope will 
be chosen, who will be Cardinal Rancher, the 
Archbishop of Vienna. Ills reign also will be 
but short, and at. his death the. true Pope will 
bo brought buck to borne in triumph and re¬ 
stored to the full possession of Ills city and 
dominions. In this restoration France, who at 
Unit time is to lie ruled by a young Icing, is to 
play a grand role. 
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
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inducing BOme active, wide-awake and Influential 
friend to do bo— notifying us of the fact. Extra doc¬ 
uments—Premium Lists, Show Bills, &c„—will he 
Bent to nil ouch new Agents, and indeed to all dis¬ 
posed to do a Little Good Work for a Largo Reward. 
The Documents Ready.— Our Show Bill, Pre¬ 
mium List, Ac., are new r^irty, nnd, together with 
specimens of the piper, will be sent promptly—on 
day of receipt- of request—1 > nil disposed to form 
clubs or otherwise aid In extending the circulation 
of the best combined Uciul, Litiiuakv arid i'AM- 
lr.Y WEEKLY. Send for IM OocwiunU! 
$tyuj8 of the 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
Mr. Masson's Railway Bill In Congress. 
Mit. Hasson of Iowa has introduced in Con¬ 
gress a bill to regulate railways. Our limited 
space prevents our giving tnoro than the brief¬ 
est abstract. The bill makes It the duty of all 
railways to receive freight when In proper con¬ 
dition and forward it with security and celerity 
at reasonable charge:-, not exceeding the amount 
allowed by the laws of Congress. It prohibits 
discrimination In any manner when the freight 
presented is less than one earload; declares 
railways shall receive and transport freight, for 
connecting lines without giving any line undue 
preference; prohibits combinations of compet¬ 
ing lines as to the rates charged, and make It 
unlawful for any agent, director or officer or 
any road to act. in like capacity for any compet¬ 
ing road unless as agents for contracts requir¬ 
ing the consecutive service of both lines or as 
general agents for the stile of tickets. It pro¬ 
hibits any railway, on Its own account, to en¬ 
gage in the business of running or transporting 
for sale fuel, lumber, or other article of com- 
morcewhcn oiTered for transportation by others 
or to be interested ! i the same beyond a claim 
for freight and charges; nor shall they give 
exclusive contracts for the transportation of 
such articles. It prohibits any director or offi¬ 
cer from being a stockholder in freight lines 
doing business over the road on which he Is 
employed and from being interested in the net 
earnings except as a stockholder or officer of 
the road over which they operate. The road Is 
also made responsible for the safety of freight 
left with it for transportat ion, nnd if loss uc- ; 
crues, the road In which It occurs shall be re¬ 
sponsible to tho road with which it was drat 
left, Tho rate for I ho transportation of wheat, 
corn, oats, barley, rye, potatoes, Hour, meal 
and live stock, Is fixed, at ihroe-fourths the rate 
existing August 1,1S73. The bill provides for 
tho appo'ntment of seven < ommissioners—one 
each from Massachusetts, New Fork, Virginia, 
Iowa, Minnesota and California, whose duties 
and powers are elaborately defined. The bill 
also makes It unlawful for any judge of any 
court. In tho United States, or clerk of such 
court. Member of Congress, or any executive 
officer of the United States appointed by and 
with the advice of the Serial c, to use passes or 
free tickets on any railway, and declares any 
officer issuing such passes shall bo guilty of 
misdemeanor, and punished as provided in 
such cases. 
An Extraordinary Surgical Operation. 
The London Echo is responsible for the fol- 
r lowing extraordinary story" We have great, 
i doctors in England, very great, Indeed, accord- 
. ing to the Paris Petit Journal, and the greatest 
! of them all, strange to say. Is one whose name 
• we do not remember ever to have seen, except 
in a novel tho Doctor “ Willoughby do Glen- 
more, This marvellous surgeon, before whom 
Nelaton and Paget must hide their diminished 
heads, lias had, It seems, for nuoof his patients 
a medical student, afflicted with a most terrible 
malady. The poor young man suffered tor¬ 
tures in ids head, tho sufficient cause being that 
a whole crowd of myriapod Insects hail some¬ 
how got into his skull, and habitually took 
their walks abroad over his dura mnter. To 
cure such a state of things strong remedies 
were obviously needful, and the “ Dr. Wil¬ 
loughby de Glen more'’ was not a man to shrink 
from the most, heroic. He took the man’s 
skull to pieces, severing It cleverly at- the 
sutures and laying tho scalp down carefully on 
his shoulders. This done, the doctor carefully 
clcuned the exposed brain, taking from it no 
less than twenty-seven full-grown Insects and 
a quantity of o"gs, and then, as the patient's 
own skull was no longer available, supplied 
him with another taken from the head of a 
lately deceased person. Tho flanges of scalp 
wore then drown back to their places over the 
new skull, ainl the much-relieved patient be¬ 
came “ perfectly convalescent.” Everything 
the Petit Journal assures us—In entirely satis¬ 
factory about (he cure, save the fear which has 
been expressed by some phrenologists—that 
the hitherto amiable character of the medical 
student maybe changed for that of tho former 
] proprietor of tho skull to whose organs, of 
course, his brain will soon lie moulded.” 
Tnc women in Fredonia are giving the grog 
merchants no peace. They visit in force the 
temples of Bacchus, and read a thrilling protest 
against his business to each proprietor. Then 
they sing a hymn and one of them offers prayer. 
If the man promises to give up thp business, 
and keeps bis promise, he U left In peace; 
otherwise there Is another of these moral visits 
the very next day. Ono day the procession was 
1-7 strong. Thus far only one spirituous man 
has been conquerml. 
I Gonguess has refilscd to direct army rations | 
| to bo issued to the starving poor of tho South¬ 
ern St ates, adopting tho report of i t» committee ] 
v ho " did not regard it as the proper sphere of 
Congress to enter on a general system of pro¬ 
viding for pauperism in the States. If this 
precedent were established, It would hoou be 
found that Congress had entered on the whole 
business of taking charge of pauperism gener¬ 
ally throughout the States. 
Dr. Edward Warren writes from Cairo. In 
Egypt, to a friend li» Baltimore, that there is 
‘‘a good opportunity for women dentista In 
Egypt, as the women are forbidden to consult 
with men.” There aro three or four English 
women practicing dentistry in Cairo already, 
according to Dr. Warren's letter. In all these 
eastern countries, there scorns to bo a wide field 
of usefulness and profit for woman doctors and 1 
dentists. 
A child 111 years old was almost, burled alive 
In fit. Joseph recently. She told her mother 
that her dead sister had appeared to her, and 
while thus talking, she sunk away as in death. 
While the hoarse with tho coffin was on its way 
to tho grave, a t ry was heard which tho mother 
believed came from tho child. The coffin was 
opened, and the child found to be alive. She 
was taken home, and recovered her strength 
rapidly. 
The son (ago 17) of a wealthy manufacturer 
in Monson, Mass., having stolen his mother’s 
ring and given It to a woman of bud character, 
and, after many other wrong doings, robbed his 
father's safe, tbo citizens of the town huvo held 
a meeting, and solemnly resolved that the 
father should send his boy to the State Reform 
School, threatening In case of refusal to put 
him Into the Penitentiary. 
There Is said to be a decline In the prices of j 
church-living in England. Presentations and f 
authorize National gold banks to Issue circu¬ 
lating notes to the extent of 90 per rent, of the 
amount of Government bonds deposited as 
security. 
The pastor Of a Congregational church at 
Hartford, Conn., has varied the somewhat 
monotonous *’ Bible class" with a Milton class. 
\ "’licit led naturally to a Shakspcare class. 
These enterprising peoplo have recently taken 
up the New Testament In its original Greek. 
It is stated that the Grand Jury of the Crim¬ 
inal Court of Chicago lias found true bills 
against David A. Gage, late City Treasurer, 
I for misappropriation of city funds, and for per- 
j Jtwy in certifying to incorrect statements of 
the condition of the City Treasury. 
There is a haunted grist-mill In Lancaster, 
Mass. When the evening shades prevail a ghost 
comes up through a scuttle. An offer of $100 
has been made to any ono consenting to sleep 
a night in the mill, thus far with no takers. 
The Department of the State has received a 
telegram from the United States Consul at 
Hong Kong, announcing that the King of Port¬ 
ugal has prohibited tho coolie trade at Macao, 
and has closed the barricades. 
The excellent reform which the House be¬ 
gan beforo recess, or refusing to grant, remis¬ 
sion for the printing of speeches not delivered, 
has already been abandoned. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC.' 
Hound Plains, Norfolk Co., Ontario, Canada, 
Jnn. 3. -I almost fancy that Instead of being 
up here in this cold Canada 1 1 am away down 
In Florida or California, for I am slttlngat the 
window, and that raised, and no fire in the 
room, while I am writing. The month of No¬ 
vember was cold nnd we lmtl some sleighing; 
but December has been very mild, and the last 
two or three days has been like spring—no 
snow at all, and the frost Is nearly all out of 
the ground; the roads arc, as a consequence, 
yery bad. The bay crop was light, and in place 
of It fur feed many used sowed corn, but on 
account of not properly curing It some arc 
losing that. But the mild weather has been 
favorable, as young cattle, colts and sheep 
could live very well on pasture if brought in 
when storms come on. Wheat was an average 
crop, and now sells at from f 1.20 to $1.30. Bar¬ 
ley was light, except on heavy loam or clay; 
addresses can now be purchased so as to bring ;i P r| oe is $1.16; spring wheat the same; oats, 
in a return of 6M to per cent. Of the 13,300 j 30 cents; potatoes, 40 cents per bushel; apples 
livings in the English Church only 7,900 are were hardly an average, but prices were better 
The Bankruptcy Law. 
On presenting . petition agaiuet the total 
repeal of the Bankruptcy law, the other day, 
Senator Coukllng called attention to tho man¬ 
ner in which tho signatures to these petitions 
have been In many instances obtained. Rome 
lawyers In New York have had the blanks pre¬ 
pared, and have sent them to Registers in Bank¬ 
ruptcy, and other Federal officers, who derive 
large fees from the bankruptcy business hefsre 
the courts, with a circular request that they 
pet the business men of t heir neighborhood to 
sign 1 hem. The circular nlsosollcits contribu¬ 
tions to pay the expenses of a lobby to be sent 
to Washington to prevent the total repeal of 
the act. It is well known that the Marshals, 
Registers, and other officials of the United 
States District Courts liavo realized large sums 
from the fees Ip bankruptcy oasos. 1 n some of 
tho Southern States the Judges have appointed 
the same man receiver in every case, and In 
this way c reated a new office. Some of these re¬ 
ceivers have made almost no dividends among 
creditors and have themselves grown immense¬ 
ly rich. 
livings in the English Church only 7,900 are 
salable. Professional dealers advertise these, 
and try t«. attract purchasers by statements of 
he poor health and advanced years of the per¬ 
son In possession. 
Rev. Dr. Newman, Special Agent of the 
Treasury Department, writes that when at, 
Peking he invested the cause of the decrease in 
the exportation of American cotton drills to 
Chinn. He found that it comes from the fad 
that British manufacturers have counterfeited 
the American marks, then sold at a less price. 
Our exportation has fallen *.ff from 350,000 to 
4,000 per year. 
Prophecy Concerning the Future Pope. 
A London correspondent thus epitomizes the 
gossip of the London Clubs. Newspapers and 
Society:—A coording to a great number of proph¬ 
ecies and revelations, the Church, immediately 
after the death of the present Pope, is to enter 
upon a season of extreme suffering and trial, 
which is to end, however, in her glorlus tri¬ 
umph. By the compact framed between Bis¬ 
marck and Victor Kioiiianucl, a-, soon as This 
IN. dies—and perhaps before then—tho Vatican 
la to be seized by the Italian Government and 
garrisoned by their troops. The College of 
Cardinals is then to he told that it must admit 
into’ its body a certain number of members 
appointed by all of tho Catholic Governments 
Senator Logan on “Back Pay.” 
In the Seriate the other day. Senator Logan 
hit the truculent demagogues who are making 
a great show of virtue by their efforts to repeal 
the back pay lull, hard in this way. He said: 
There were some men hero who probably ex¬ 
pected to be President. Ho desired to say to 
them that the vote on the Salary Bill would 
neither make nor unmake them. That was 
not the character of tho statesmanship which 
made great men. Their action reminded him 
of the story of two boys who were out hunting 
and caino upon a wild boar. One ran off and 
climbed a tree; but tho other, not being able 
to reach the Tree, was overtaken by the boar, 
which ran between his legs. Tho boy caught 
him by both cars, and after holding on some 
time, cried out to tho one In the tree, “John, 
come here” “ What do you want?" cried John. 
“Why, I want you to help mo let this hog go.” 
[Laughter on tho floor and in the galleries.] 
That is just the condition of these gentlemen. 
Kansas Claimants for Damages. 
A CURIOUS bill, introduced lately by Repre¬ 
sentative Lowe, proposes that tli Government 
of Europe and by Germany. The majority of shall pay the Frets State settlers in Kansas for 
tho cardinals will of course refuse to comply, 
and they will then either be seized and impris¬ 
oned or driven from Rome. It is believed that 
a few of the cardinals will yield; and t hey and 
tho persons named by the Governments of 
Italy, Germany, Austria, and, perhaps, some 
other countries will elect Cardinal Hohonholo 
to the Pope. In the eyes of the groat mass of 
Catholics throughout the world he will not be 
the damages they sustained during the border- 
ruffian war. Six pages of the bill aro devoted 
to an enumeration of the mimes of these claim¬ 
ants, whoso losses were e:.;; I mated by a commis¬ 
sion appointed by tiro Territorial Legislature 
in 1859. A ro-cxamlnatlon of l bo claims is pro¬ 
vided for by the United Slates Circuit Court, 
on the findings of which it is proposed they 
tliall be paid. 
By a decision of the Boston (School Commit¬ 
tee no misses under the age of 15 years will 
hereafter tie admitted to the High School. 
Heretofore the rule lias been to admit pupils 
possessing tho necessary scholarship, without 
regard to age; and thus precocious girls haw 
been stimulated to over study, Injurious both 
to their physical and monlul health. 
A COMPARISON of Views on the Free Banking 
bill, had by the Committee at. t heir last meeting, 
developed so much strength for the measure 
that it is almost smTo to predict that it will be 
reported favorably. The provision for the re¬ 
demption of bank uotes in invonbacks-wlll, it 
is claimed, prevent any great expansion of tho 
currency if the bill becomes i law. 
Congress has appointed the following gen¬ 
tlemen to (111 vacancies in th Board of Regents 
of the Smithsonian Institution Asa Gray of 
Massachusetts, in place of Louis Agassiz ; J. D. 
Dana of Connecticut, in place of Theo. D. 
Woolsey; Henry Coppoe of Pennsylvania, in 
place of IVm, B. Aster, and John McLean and 
Peter Parker reappointed. 
Some of tho female Boston school teachers 
are very much opposed to the appointment of 
ladles upon the School Committee. They say; 
*' From their own sex the teachers can and do 
expect nothing but snubbing.” They profess 
xhemselves ■' willing to remain under mascu¬ 
line government,” Odd, isn’t It? 
The Democrats of Delaware are discussing 
candidates for the next Governorship. The 
most favored gentlemen appeared to be Mr. 
Victor du Pont of Wilmington, Attorney-Gen¬ 
eral Charles B. Lore, William R. Lynam of 
Christiana, and John W. Hall of Prederlca. 
A great concert is to be given in the Piazza 
del Popolo, Rome, by the united military bands 
of the city, numbering 3,500 players. “ Fortu¬ 
nately,” it is observed, “the Piazza is at the 
end of the town.” 
Caw.’. Joseph Fry left seven children,|the | 
eldest of whom is abcautiful and accomplished | 
girl. She proposes taking a position as teacher 
In one of the public schools of New Orleans. 
There is strong opposition in France to the 
proposed grant of raonpy to tho ex-Empress 
Eugenie. 
In an interview with the Secretary of the 
Treasury, Representative Houghton, has se¬ 
cured the former's approval of his bill to 
j than we have had before, on account of the 
| C.,8. Jt. R. we could ship them ; cattle are a 
drug, beef selling at 3®4c.; pork, do.; lambsare 
dull—some of the buyer- i-, this county are 
holding their purchases and feeding until 
| spring or prices get better; money Is a little 
tight, but people Will have the Rural and man¬ 
age to find enough money to pay for it,—w. w. i\ 
Lamartine, Carratt County, Ohio, Jan. 3.— 
s Pting was colil and backward ; summer very 
much the same. We had plenty of raiu to 
keep the crops growing, and most of them 
were good, especially oats and corn. Had 
snow about the middle of October. November 
came In beautiful and warm, and the ther¬ 
mometer has not been lower than twenty deg. 
above zero. The ground not much frozen yet, 
with a light, fall of snow; sleighing poor 
Wheat worth $1.20; corn ito to 75 cents; oats 
35 to 45 cents; potatoes, $1; hay, $15 per ton; 
hogs, $4 per cwt., live; dressed, $5 per cwt.; 
butter, 25 cents; eggs, 22 cents.—w. t. e. 
Appleton, Mis., Dec. 3.-Although winter 
came on earlier than Usual this year (about 
Nov. b we have had but very little cold weather 
and no sleighing to speak of: have had no snow¬ 
storms of any kind so far. Farmers are about 
as prosperous as usual, although wo aro doing 
our share of grumbling. I give prices of some 
articles of produce: Wheat, $L70; corn, 60c,; 
oats, 40e.; potatoes, «0r,; butter, 25®39c. per lb.; 
pork and beef, fAS.fi per cwt.; hay, $15 per ton. 
Crops of most kinds were good last fall. More 
than the usual amount fall wheat sow-n.— e. m, 
Reedsbttrg, Hank Co,, tti.„ Dee. 12.—The 
weather is very mild here; so far, have not got 
much snow; but it is snowing tn-da\ ,-and will 
probably end in a rain storm before it gets 
through. Spring wheat is worth95c/>$l; oats, 
25c.; corn, 50c.; buckwheat, 75r.; barley, 7oc.; 
hay, $8@10 per ton; potatoes. H5c.; wool, 40c! 
per lb.; dressed hog, f-5 per cwt.; beef, live, $2.50 
@3 per ewt.; butter, 18®22c. per lb.; eggs, 16® 
18c. per doz.: hops, 35®40c. Doer arc plentiful. 
—s. A. p. 
Orient, Long Island, Y., J an . 5.—I took 
your paper a year ago, hut was induced to 
change for the . And now I want you 
to send mo Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
Inclosed please find $2.50, tho same as 1 had it 
for before. Hard t i mes, money scarce, produce 
low, and small crops on account of drouth last 
summer.—o. d. p. 
WHAT SOCIETIES ARE DOING. 
IVew York » tate Poilltry *oeiety.-An officer 
of this Society when asked when it would hold 
another exhibition, is reported as saying- 
“ Never again, I feart The society has had an 
attack of mvralynt*, and its vital energies are so 
much debilitated that It will hardly be able to 
rally again 1 ” If this Society is dead, it died 
because it was run by a “ t ing ” of men who 
only Sought to serve their individual interests 
thereby. We hope ft to dead and that, if a new 
society is to be organized, it will be officered bv 
hum who have brains and conscience enough 
