MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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ATTENTION EVERYBODY! 
The Rural’s Fall Campaign! 
A TRIAL TRIP ! 
Four Months for Only Fifty Cents! 
THE BEST OFF Kit VET! 
All Aboard for the Closing Excursion of 
the Twenty-Fifth Annual Cruise 
of Moore’s Rural! 
AGEXTS, SUBSCRIBERS AM) OUTSIDERS 
WILL PLEASE 
READ, HEED AND ACT! 
The Rural New-Yorker recently entered 
upon the Full Term of Its Twenty-Fifth year, 
and, in order to close its first, quarter of a cen¬ 
tury properly and (tot a good Bend-off for its 
next annual voyage, proposes to make it an 
object for at least ten thousand persons to take 
a Trial Trip on board the staunch old craft. 
Please listen to our propositions: 
1. The Till rtocn Numbers of the Rural's 
closing Quarter for 1874^0et. 1 to Dec. SI—will 
he sunt, On Trial, for Only Firry Cunts, to the 
address of any person in the United States 
whoso remittance is received before Nov. 1. 
To those who remit at once, or before Oct, 1st, 
we will do still better, ns follows: 
FOUR MONTHS FOR FIFTY CENT8. 
2. To every person whose Trial Subscription 
of Only Fifty Cents is received before Sept. 10, 
ire will tend Seventeen Numbers of the Rural, 
or the issues for Four Month*, from Sep!. 5 to 
Dec, 31. To those whose money is received 
after Sept. 10. and previous to the 15th, wo will 
send the Sixteen Numbers from Sept. 12; to 
those sending before Sept. 20, we will mall the 
Fifteen Numbers from Sept. 19; and to those 
sending before Oct. ], we will mall the Four¬ 
teen Numbers from Sept. 20. In other words, all 
whose remittances roach us before Nov. 1 will 
be sure to receive the Thirteen Numbers of the 
Trial Quarter,—and such as remit early, or so 
as to reach us before Qct. 1, will receive from 
Fourteen to Seventeen Numbers, as above 
stated. Thus the earlier you send the more 
papers you will receive In return. 
Agents, Subscribers and other friends of 
Moore's Rural are earnestly invited to make 
known the above offers, and to lend their 
influence to render the Trial Trip a success. 
Ifyuts Of tllC VBtyi 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The Republicans of New York have renomi¬ 
nated the present State officers, as follows For 
Governor, Gen. John A. Dix ; Lleut.-Gov., Gen. 
John 0. Robinson : Canal Commissioner, Alex¬ 
ander Barkley; Mate Prison Inspector, Thomas 
Kirkpatrick ; Justice of the Court of Appeals, 
Alexander 8. Johnson. The platform favors 
low taxation, a speedy return to specie pay¬ 
ments, t he payment of the public debt in coin, 
and opposes any inflation of the paper ourreney 
of the country, 
A Are at Arlington, Bureau County, HI., on the 
24th ult„ destroyed the business portion of the 
village. 
Dispatches from Prescott, Arizona, dated 
Sept. 23d, contain the following:—A party of 
renegade Apaches made a descent on a drove 
of cattle at Whitclaw’s Ranch, on the Salt 
River, killed the herder and got away with the 
stock. Lieut. Parkhurst. with cavalry, sent a 
detachment of troops in pursuit. 
The immense estate of James Lick of Cali¬ 
fornia, given in trust by him for various public 
and benevolent, uses, Is to be converted into 
cash by an auction sale at San Francisco on 
Nov. 17 next. 
The Flympton Manufacturing Company, of 
Hartford, Conn., have been awarded the con¬ 
tract for supplying stamped envelopes and 
newspaper wrappers to the Post-office Depart¬ 
ment for four years. 
Robert Pierce, the wile murderer of Oneida 
Coumy. N. Y., has been captured near Chicago. 
The commission to survey the boundary line 
between the United States and British Colum¬ 
bia has performed its duty, and is on its way 
home. 
A postal and a baggage car were burned In a 
collision on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 
near Parkersburg, W. Va., on the 23d ult. 
At a meeting of the managers of the Wiscon¬ 
sin railroads held recently, It was resolved since 
it was impossible to run to some points at the 
rates provided by law. to make a uniform tariff. 
The Burlington Sentinel says that there is no 
county In Vermont where 95 farms are vacant 
and 130 farm houses have been abandoned. 
The seventeenth anniversary of the Fulton 
Street Frayer Meeting was celebrated last week 
at the old Dutch Church, corner of Fulton and 
William streets, New York. Rev. Drs. Ver- 
milye, McVlcker, Bottome, Everest. Kennard, 
Ludlow, Purker, Wilson and others addressed 
the meeting. 
The International Rifle Match at Creedmoor, 
on the 26th ult., resulted in a victory for the 
Americans. The shooting wns the finest ever 
made in a long-range contest, the score of the 
American team being 934. and that of the Irish 
931, out of a possible score of 1,080. 
Gen. Shaler of New York has been Invited to 
visit Chicago, with a view to hlB appointment 
to the position of Fire Marshal of I hat, city. 
The Attorney-General lias decided that under 
Section 5,293 of the Revised Statutes, theSecre- 
tary of the Treasury has power to remit fines, 
penalties, and forfeitures arising under any 
revenue law, where t he amount. does not exceed 
$1,000; where there has been no summary In¬ 
quiry and statement by a judge; and also to 
remit fines, penalties, and forfeitures arcing 
under laws relating to the registering, record- 
Ihg, enrolling, or licensing of vessels when the 
amount does not exceed $50. 
The will of the late Mrs. Sarah L. King of 
Taunton, Mass., makes the following bequests 
to charitable Institutions: To the American 
Unitarian Association, located in Boston, for 
the support of preachers In weak Unitarian 
Societies In New-Englnml and the Western 
States, $10,000; t o the Boston Female Orphan 
Asylum, and the Old Ladies' Home at. Taunton, 
$5,000 each; also, to the lat ter two lots of land 
In Taunton ; to the Unitarlau Society in Taun¬ 
ton worshiping In the stone meeting-house, to 
be expended in t he care of said building and the 
ground adjacent, $10,000, and to Antioch College 
at Yellow Springs.Ohio, $20,000. Private lega¬ 
cies exceeding $10,000 arc also bequeathed. The 
estate is estimated at from $300,000 to $400,(XX). 
Tnthe Nevada Republican State Convention 
Dr. J. C. Iluzelctt was nominated for Governor. 
Bowman for Lieutenant-Governor, Wm. 
Woodburn for Congress, J udge Beatty of White 
Pine for Supremo Judge (long term), Warden 
Earl Of Elko for Supreme Judge (short term), 
Charles F. Bycknell for Clerk of the Supreme 
Court, .James D. Miner for Secretory of State, 
and L. J. Hogle of Eureka for State Treasurer. 
A. K. Redstone, President of the National 
Labor Council, announces that the time for 
holding State Conventions for the purpose of 
electing delegates to a National Convention 
has been extended to tbe 17tb of October. 
The boiler of a steam-thresher exploded on 
the 25th ult,.. In Franklin township, Wright Co., 
Minn., killing Dr. Grant of Watertown, Car¬ 
ver County. Mrs. Burnett, a young lady whoso 
name is unknown, and a young man, name un¬ 
known. A maunamed Cbamplin had an arm 
torn off, another was badly scalded, and several 
otiters were more or less injured. 
A mild form of yellow fever is reported prev¬ 
alent at, the gulf ports at the quarantine sta¬ 
tions off Baltimore an 1 New York. 
Edmund Bowen has been appointed general 
superintendent of the Erie railroad, and has 
assumed the duties of his new office. He was 
formerly general superintendent of the Kansas 
Pacific railroad. 
The old Washington academy in Wickford, 
R. I., was destroyed by fire Wednesday week. 
It was probably the work of an Incendiary. 
The building was erected in 1801, and was long 
famous as an Institution. 
Three men were arrested In New York the 
7th on a charge of forging deeds representing 
$100,000. One of the men, Charles Sacia, 1s im¬ 
plicated In extensive forgeries of Harlem bank 
stock, of which Van Etten, who recently com¬ 
mitted suicide, was accused as principal. 
The business portion of Russellville, Ky„ was 
burned Sunday morning week. The loss will 
aggregate $25,000 and insurance $9,500. 
As State Treasurer Thomas Raines wns return¬ 
ing from New York to Albany with his bride, 
Saturday week, his state room on the boat was 
broken into and all his wife’s jewelry stolon. 
Brooklyn, with its 400,000 inhabitants, does 
not boast of a single first-class hotel, depending 
upon New York to supply this demand. 
The great cattle plague, the Texas tick, has 
made its appearance in southeast Pennsylvania. 
In Montgomery County the inseots have ap¬ 
peared in large numbers, and over 100 head of 
cattle have died in the County within a fort¬ 
night - 
Increased compensation to letter-carriers is 
one of the questions revolving in Postmaster- 
General Jewell's mind at present. He joins in 
with Secretary Bristow in opposition to the 
pen-knife and gold-pen abuse, and has ordered 
canceled the contract for them in his depart¬ 
ment. 
Four thousand acres of timber land and vin¬ 
eries were destroyed by the late New Jersey 
fires. 
Prof. Hartt of Cornell University sailed on 
Saturday for Rio de Janerio, to explore the 
gold and diamond fields of Brazil. 
Orders have been Issued transferring the 
headquarters of the United States army, on 
and after October 1st, to St. Louis. 
Gen. Frank P. Blair Is dangerously ill at his 
home In Missouri, and his friends are afraid he 
cannot recover. 
The movement of troops to the South is 
taking place in accordance with the instructions 
of the Attorney-General. 
The Controller of the Currency has authorized 
the organization of the Mount Sterling Nation¬ 
al Bank of Kent uoky, the First National Bank 
of La Grange, Indiana, and the First National 
Bank of Crown Point, Indiana, each with a 
capital of $50,000. 
The Nebraska Democratic Conventon nomi¬ 
nated A. Tuxbury for Governor; the platform 
demands specie payments and opposes sumpt¬ 
uary laws. 
More than 500 acres have been burned over on 
Long Island, between the Smith Side and Long 
Island Railways, near Medford, Heliport and 
Brentwood. Valuable timber land and several 
barns are destroyed, and there is danger of an 
extensive conflagration. 
Gen. Custer, In ids final official report to Gen. 
Terry, takes strong ground In favor of the Im¬ 
mediate opening of the Black Hills for military 
reasons. lie endorses the report of gold dis¬ 
coveries, and suggests further explorations 
next season. Nevertheless, Professors Winched 
and Donaldson assert 1 hat Gen. Custer does not 
know of bis own knowledge that any color of 
gold was found In the Black Hills. So says a 
dispatch from St. Paul. 
At Syracuse, an honest farmer lent a nice 
young man at the depot $25 to bury his father 
with, taking a check as security. He has ex¬ 
amined the check closely, but can get, no infor¬ 
mation aa to how long the funeral services will 
last. 
The Int ernational boat race at St. John, N. B., 
on the 2fith ult,, between George Brown of Hali¬ 
fax and E. Morris of Pittsburg, Pa., resulted in 
a victory for the Canadian oarsman, who came 
in two lengths ahead. The course was five 
miles In length, and the time thirty-seven 
minutes. 
Jetf Davis’ private effects, which were cap¬ 
tured with their owner In Georgia at the dose 
of the war, have just been restored to him. 
Among them was the historic petticoat, or 
water-proof, in which he was disguised when 
taken, but the moths, who were apparently se¬ 
cession sympathizers, have nearly eaten up the 
famous garment. The Southern papers have 
often denied its existence, and the rodent in¬ 
sects have helped to sustain the theory. 
Hardly a rag of the material remains. 
Mr. Charles 8. Sandfnrd of the class of 1847 lias 
given the Yale Boat Club $250, making$1,850 re¬ 
ceived In four donations this Summer. 
Isaac Adams, inventor of the Adams Printing 
Press, has bought a large tract of land, includ¬ 
ing his unlive town of East Marlboro, Mo. He 
lias boarded up the bouBes on this tract, and 
t opped the mill, Intending to let the land grow 
to forests. 
The Commissioner of Pensions, in his next 
annual report, will devote considerable space to 
advocating the necessity for reorganizing the 
Pension Bureau. It Is the custom of Congress 
each year to make some Important changes in 
the pension laws, which very materially increase 
the work of t he Bureau, and add to the duties 
of the Pension Office, The Pension Bureau, as 
at present organized, both as to Its force and 
methods, is not able to perform the duties 
which arodmposed upon It by these frequent 
changes of law. The changes recommended 
will be only such as will add to the efficiency of 
the service. 
The Governor and Treasurer of Virginia invite 
all creditors of the State to meet thorn In con¬ 
ference at the Capitol, Richmond, on the 10th 
day of November next, to consider propositions 
for securing the rights and interests both of 
creditors and the Commonwealt h. 
A very pleasing testimonial to the memory of 
Abraham Lincoln is under preparation by 
Julius E. Francis of Buffalo. It Is a large hook 
In which Mr. Francis is collecting the auto¬ 
graphs and brief records of ail the soldiers and 
sailors engaged lu the late war, The work was 
begun at the Boston Jubilee, and now contains 
over 7,000 names. This list, when completed, Is 
to he deposited in the Grosvcnor Library' at 
Buffalo, with all the historical records and 
relics of the war that can be obtained, and Is to 
remain there, dedicated to Lincoln’s memory, 
not only as a testimonial, but a benefit to all 
who desire to consult it. 
An order has been sent to Rear Admiral Altny 
at 8;m Francisco, it is understood, to have the 
Benicia, now at Honolulu, fitted up In a suit¬ 
able manner to convey his Majesty King Kala- 
kuea, of the Hawaiian Islands, to the United 
States. It is believed that the King will also 
visit Europe before his return to tbe Islands. 
The President has signed the commissions of 
the following-named Postmasters\Ym. C. 
Wiley, Washington, Penn.; James II. Harris, 
Fort Edward, N. Y.; Mrs. Mary J. Edwards, 
Portland, Conn.; Jas. W. Mack, Holden, Mo.; 
Joseph R. Clark, Milford, Conn,; Moses Messer, 
Hudson, Ohio; Thomas Newell, Passaic, N. J.; 
Cyrus W.Buggies, Brookline, Mass.; Henry M. 
Magee, Cyntbiana, Kv.; George Raber, Carth¬ 
age, Mo.; Alex. W. Delong, Huntingdon, Ind.; 
John 8. Adams, Jacksonville, Fla. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
The Bien Public asserts that Prussian agents 
are actively engaged on the Algerian frontiers 
in establishing relations with the Arab tribes. 
It is stated that the Sultan of Turkey Intends 
to change tbe order of succession to the throne 
in favor of his eldest son. 
The balloon of M. Duruf, out of which he and 
his wife lately escaped ou board a row boat in 
tbe British Channel, has been picked up in the 
North Sea by a fishing smack. 
The troubles between China and Japan are 
likely to be submitted to President Grant for 
arbitration. 
A boundary dispute between Switzerland and 
Italy, which was referred to the Hon. Geo. P. 
Marsh, the United States Minister at Rome, 
for arbitration, lias been decided by him In 
favor of Italy, which thereby acquires 1,800 
acres of territory. 
There is strong opposition in Canada to the 
Reciprocity Treaty. 
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The Republican troops in the Province of 
Alicante have defeated the Carllsts at Alcoy 
and Villena. An engagement has taken place 
In the Province of Biscay between the Repub¬ 
licans and the Carllsts, In which the latter were 
defeated and routed. Many of the Insurgents 
are surrendering to the National forces and 
asking for amnesty. 
The report which was originally published by 
the Pall Mall Gazette that Prince Bismarck 
had made proposals for the Incorporation of 
Denmark in the German Empire is pronounced 
to bo absolutely false. 
The members of the Austrian Polar Expedi¬ 
tion declare that explorations in the direction 
of the Nort h Pole are hopeless of a satisfactory 
result, and that the reports of the existence of 
an open Polar eon. arc untrue. 
It- is announced that Mr. Disraeli, on the oc¬ 
casion of the approaching royal visit to Ireland, 
will recommend that a general amnesty be 
granted to political prisoners. 
The troubles which resulted In the great 
strike at Bolton, England, have been referred 
to arbitration. 
KuPman, who attempted the life of Bismarck, 
will be t ried in October. 
llaytl. In her new Constitution, will not pro¬ 
tect foreigners. 
The Pope refuses to join the European Powers 
in recognizing Spain. 
The Schleswig question is assuming a serious 
aspect, in consequence of the daily expulsion 
of Danish subjects, and the hostile tone of the 
German press. Public, opinion will compel the 
Government to send a formal protest to Berlin, 
and ultimately to retaliate by the expulsion of 
German subjects from Danish soil. 
In the Bohmerwald, In Bohemia, not less 
than 100,(XX) acres of very valuable wood have 
been destroyed by the ravages of a boring 
worm. 
The entrance Into France of a pamphlet pub¬ 
lished at Brussels, and bearing the title, “ Exe¬ 
cution dc Garnbetta, Rochefort et Cle.,” has 
been interdicted. 
The English Church Union has raisod $18,000 
to defend two High Church ministers, against 
whom prosecutions are pending for ritualistic 
practices. 
Twenty lashes with the “ cat" was given In 
Nottingham Prison a few days since to a man 
named Burrows, who had been convicted forty- 
two times of various offences, and was again 
sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude ami a 
flogging for a highway robbery. The prisoner 
fainted at the conclusion of the punishment. 
Tbe question of the reunion of the Old Cath¬ 
olics and tbe Eastern Church has entered upon 
a practical phase. A list of the dogmatical and 
liturgical differences of the two bodies has been 
prepared and duly considered, and the docu¬ 
ments and certain propositions will bn placed 
before the Old Catholic Congress, which moots 
shortly at Fribourg. 
The Khlvan expedition is said to have brought 
into notice a rival to the famous erhRWUint, or 
pon-sausage. Tbe Russian soldiers were fed 
chiefly on biscuits composed onc-tbird of flour 
of rye, one-third of beef reduced to powder, 
and Qne-third of sauerkraut, also reduced (o 
powder. The soldiers had a great relish for 
this food, and their good health during the ex¬ 
pedition is attributed in great part to the use 
of it. 
Three of the most popular prima donnas on 
the European stage are Americans by birth, 
Patti, AI ban I and Minnie Hauck. They say In 
London that Albaul is English, and as England 
bas no other prima donna she Is a great favor¬ 
ite. Tbe fact is she is an American, hor name, 
Alban 1, being a slight variation from Albany, 
near which city she formerly lived. Minnie 
Hauck is a New Orleans girl. 
The citizens of Glasgow propose to erect, at 
a cost of about $8,500, a public monument to 
Dr. Livingstone. Though a single subscription 
is limited to $25, the required amount is nearly 
raised. 
The Manitoba rebel Riel lias been again re¬ 
elected to the Dominion Parliament, by accla¬ 
mation. Dr. Brown was nominated In opposi¬ 
tion, but through some informality the nomi¬ 
nation was rejected. Ilis friends however, are 
confident of rendering the election void. 
A dispatch from Wolford, Ontario, Canada, of 
Sept. 11, saysThe great drouth in this section 
of the country still continues. There has been 
no rain of any consequence for three months. 
The pastures are entirely scorched and cattle 
are starving. Water is scarce, all the creeks 
being dried up. The bush is on fire in all 
directions, and much valuable property is daily 
destroyed. 
Two Italians, recently from New York, were 
arrested in Quebec, last week, by detectives for 
decoying away a little son of James Patton, 
with the evident intention of blackmailing the 
father. 
C-aptain-Geneml Concha of Cuba has deter¬ 
mined to reduce the income tax from ten to 
five per cent, during the current year-. 
Ex-President Thiers, in a speech at Vlrille, 
said he was convinced the Republic would 
ult imately be founded in France. - 
An official despatch from Havana report? a 
fight at Sabana del Cupey in the Clnco Villas 
District. A Spanish cavalry force numbering 
1.50 men met 200 mounted insurgents, ine 
latter began firing at long range, when the 
Spaniards charged at full speed and dispersed 
them, killing five, taking one prisoner, and 
capturing 80 horses with their accouteruieuts. 
The Spaniards lost one man killed and one 
wounded. 
