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MOOSE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
THE RURAL’S FALL CAMPAIGN. 
A TRIAL TRIP ! 
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a Trial Trip on board tbo stanch old craft. 
Please listen to our propositions: 
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closing Quarter for 1874 Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 will 
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address of any person In tbo United States 
whoso remittance is received before Nov. I. 
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will save that amount. 
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known the above offers, and to lend their influ¬ 
ence to render t,he Trjal Trij) a success. 
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Louisiana; but the Conservatives claim the 
State by 12,000 majority, have secured the Legis¬ 
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of three. 
In Illinois the Reform party has carried the 
State by n small majority, and the Opposition 
[ has gained 7 Congressmen. 
Michigan has elected a Democratic Legisla¬ 
ture, and has sent 3 or 4 Opposition candidates 
to Congress, all gains. 
Tennessee has elected a Democratic Governor 
by 30,000 majority, and has gained 5 Opposition 
Congressmen. 
Alabama has elected a Democratic Governor 
by about lr>,000 majority, and lias gained 2 Oppo¬ 
sition Congressmen. 
In South Carolina the result la still doubtful, 
wit h chances in favor of Chamberlain’s election 
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CURRENT TOPICS. 
The Results of the November Elections. 
We copy the results of the November elec¬ 
tions from tho N. Y. Tribune, as follows: 
Nine Slates—Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, 
Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey. New York, 
Tennessee, Virginia—have chosen Legislatures 
which will elect Democratic U. B. Senators. 
Five of these are now represented by Republi¬ 
cans. In five otliers—Louisiana, Illinois, Mas¬ 
sachusetts, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin—the Leg¬ 
islature is cither in doubt or has in it indepen¬ 
dent elements which will lie likely to secure 
the election of anti-Administration candidates. 
Present returns indicate that the Democrats 
will have a majority of between 50 and 00 in the 
next House of Representatives. 
In Massachusetts the Democratic majority 
for Governor is about 8,000; there is a gain of 6 
Opposition Congressmen, with another district 
in doubt. 
In Pennsylvania tho result is doubtful. The 
Republicans admit a loss of 13,000 votes on the 
State ticket. The Opposition has elected 14 
Congressmen—a gain of 9. 
The Democrats have elected their Governor 
in New Jersey by 8,"00 majority. Tho Opposi¬ 
tion gains 3 Congressmen. The contest between 
Wm. Walter Phelps and Cutler in the Fifth Dis- 
trictcan onlyhe decided by the official canvass, 
[Since the above was prepared, the official can¬ 
vass has decided the vote in favor of Mr. Cutler 
(Opposition) by 4 votes.—Eds. Rural.] 
The Republicans have a majority of 25 on 
joint ballot in the Wisconsin Legislature, but 
Senator Carpenter's re-election is by no means 
sure. 
Delaware has elected a Democratic Governor, 
Congressman and Legislature. 
Starvation In Nebraska. 
Acoortbirfo to the report of Gen. Ilrlsbon, 
sent to Western Nebraska by Gen. Ord to ascer¬ 
tain the true state of things among the settlors 
there, the inhabitants of eight counties in 
Western Nebraska “ liavo literally nothing in 
the shape of fuel, clothing >ir food to carry 
them through r he coming winter.” He found 
the people without meat, living on pumpkins, 
squashes and black, shriveled corn bread, and 
when he left not an average of ten days’supplies 
remained. “One-third of the people arc in a 
state of almost nakedness.” The authority says. 
"Ton thousand people In this State will need 
aid sufficient to keep them from starvation and 
being frozen to death this winter. Hundreds 
of people are naked and on the verge of starva¬ 
tion, and without means to leave the State." 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The annual report of the Fifth Auditor of 
the Treasury shows a decrease in the cost of 
collecting the internal revenue for the present 
year of over $1,000,000. 
Tho Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans 
hats issued an address advocating the construc¬ 
tion of a railroad to Texas. 
Again tho Court of Commissioners of tho 
Alabama Claims lias met, and again there are 
no claimants ready to proceed with their cases. 
A si noil in r exhibition of indifference two years 
ago would have been a saving of some $15,000,000 
t j Great Britain. 
Two cases of compelling liquor dealers to 
pay damages have occurred In this State under 
the Civil Damage Liquor law, the damages in 
one case being $50 and In the other $2,000. 
The report of tne Commissioners to examine 
the Union Pacific Railroad states that its con¬ 
struction and equipment arc in accordance 
with the ter ns of its charter. 
In the trial of Phelps on the third indict mem 
fui larceny, the jury rendered a verdict of guilty. 
Mis< Kintna Callender, a practicing physician 
of Middlelniry, Vt„ formerly Professor of 
Physiology and Hygiene in Mount Holyoke 
Seminary at South Hadley, Mass., has been 
elected a mem her of tho Vermont Modicial 
Society, now In session at Montpelier, aud is the 
first, woman that ever belonged to that organi¬ 
zation. 
The report of tho Commission appointed to 
examine the Union Pacific Railroad is very fa¬ 
vorable. !t states that the Company has spent, 
on construction and equipment $2,200,000 more 
than the $1,381,000 which Secretary Cox's Com¬ 
mittee of Eminent Citizens regarded as a need¬ 
ed expenditure. The Report finds lhat the 
railroad is a “first-class road" and has com¬ 
plied with the provisions of its charter. The 
formal acceptance of the road by the President 
as complete is required before the patent for 
reserved lands, amounting to 12,000,000 acres, 
can be issued.— '1'riljunc. 
If there is any truth in the rumor set forth in 
a late dispatch that. Brigham Young and Elder 
Cannon have been indicted by the Grand Jury 
at Salt Lake City for keeping a plurality of 
wives, we may be quite certain of healing a 
great outcry about the persecution of the Mor¬ 
mons. When this subject comes up for discus¬ 
sion it may be well to bear in mind the fact— 
sometimes overlooked in considering the Mor¬ 
mon question—that the practice of polygamy is 
not religion, and attacks upon it are not neces¬ 
sarily assaults upon religious belief—Tribune. 
The Mormons are holding revival meetingsat 
Washington Corners, California, and at Oak¬ 
land. Several converts are reported. 
Two inspectors of election are under arrest in 
Syracuse for closing the registry at 7 Instead of 
0 o'clock. 
Senator Cameron has returned to Harrisburg 
after au extended trip in the Pacific States. 
President Grant gave $500 to the Shelter for 
Homeless Women in Chicago during his recent 
visit there. 
Gov. Moses of South Carolina has issued a 
proclamation, reorganizing the Boards of Elec¬ 
tion Commissioners, so that each shall consist 
ot one Republican, one Independent, and one 
Conservative. 
It is thought that the campaign against the 
Indians will be ended within a fortnight; all 
resistance to the troops has ceased, aud the In¬ 
dians are returning to their agencies as rapidly 
as possible. 
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announce 
that the Chicago Division, tho new addition to 
the road, is now open for busines from Chicago 
a Lake Erie Division, and Avilla, Ind. This Is a 
:i distance of 151 miles. The remainder of the 
e road will be opened Nov. 10. 
Alexander D. Hamilton, the defaulting 
- Treasurer of Jersey City, has returned and sur- 
i I rendered himself. 
Ex-Gov. Bigler of Pennsylvania was in New 
> York last week, on business connected with 
i the forthcoming Centennial Exhibition. 
Destructive forest fires are raging in New- 
Hampshire. 
The Louisville Courier-Journal, speaking of 
Presidential tickets, saysHow would this 
combination do— Tllden and Alien ?” 
A prominent candidate for the Speakership 
of the Now-York Assembly Is Richard U. Sher¬ 
man of Oneida. Hiram Calkins of N. Y. city is 
mentioned for Cleric. 
There is intense excitement in Alien County, 
Ind., on account of the abduction of three 
children of John Martin n few weeks ago by two 
men and three women. The party were traced 
to Illinois, but have not been heard from since. 
The children ware aged respectively ten, thir¬ 
teen, and fifteen years. 
Deer abound in portions of Atlantic County, 
N. .!., twenty-three having already been shot. 
In making a haul of fish al Cape May, a shark 
measuring eight feet in length was taken. 
The Rev Russell Ncvins, an Episcopal clergy¬ 
man at Troy, lias gone over to the Roman 
Catholic faith. 
Careful estimates put the yield of the precious 
metals this year In Utah at $10,000,000. This 
Is agailist $5,000,000 last year. 
The Committee of Seventy of New Orleans 
have send a protest to President Grant against 
the occupancy of the State House by troops 
during the sessions of the Returning Board. 
Miss Cushman, in bidding farewell to the 
stage, last Saturday evening, was presented w ith 
a laurel wreath by William Cullen Bryant, and 
made a short response. 
The Pacific Mail and Pacific Railroad officials 
held a consultation over the settlement of ex¬ 
ist!,’g complications 
Hardware dealers In Kentucky report that 
they have "sold more firearms, within tho last 
month to the colored population than at any 
other time In threo years.” 
Over six hundred of the laborers on the Dela¬ 
ware, Lackawanna and Western tnnnei, Ho¬ 
boken, struck, Nov. 7, against a reduction of ten 
per cent, on their wages. 
The Maine State prison shows a record in ten 
years or sixteen per cent, of her prisoners re¬ 
turning on second convictions. The rest may 
have reformed, or have learned to avoid de¬ 
tection. 
Capt. Hiram Putnam, one of the oldest in¬ 
habitants and a prominent citizen, died in 
Syracuse recently, aged 88 years. He was born 
in Salem, Mass., and formerly commanded the 
Steamship China, engaged in the China trade. 
John Latta, the Democratic candidate for 
Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, has 
2,583 majority in Alleghany county. 
Rev. Mr. Murray preached his farewell ser¬ 
mon In Boston, Nov. 8, at the Park Street 
Church, which was filled to its utmost capacity. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
The Emperor of Germany has signed a decree 
for a representative Assembly in Alsace-Lor¬ 
raine. 1 
New elections to fill vacancies in the French 
Assembly arc to take place Nov. 29. 
President MaoMnhon entertained Mr. Wash- 
burnc. tho American Minister, and Lord Lytton 
at a banquet recently. 
The Czar is likely soon to recognize the 
Government of Marshal Serrano. i 
An International Catholic Conference is to be I 
held at London to support the doctrine of In- i 
fallibility. , 
The Argentine Insurgent fleet has appeared ; 
before Buenos Ayres. 
Guy Fawkes Day was celebrated in England 
In the usual manner. 
Father Charles Moutor, late coDfessor of Na¬ 
poleon III., died in October last at Vienna. In 
his last will he left 150,000 francs to the son of 
Napoleon and another 150,000 to the Pope. 
Late Berlin advices announce that the Ger- I 
man Government is prepared to support any 
fresh suggestions which may be brought for- i 
ward by Russia for mitigating the horrors of ! 
Junction in Ohio, where it connects with the i amount of $3,000,000. 
It has been resolved at a public meeting held 
in Alexandria, Egypt, to erect a monument to 
the Khedive for his exertions in preventing the 
inundation of the Nile. 
The Licut.-Gov. of Ontario having appointed 
Oct. 20th as a day of thanksgiving, it was ob¬ 
served as a holiday throughout the province. 
The trial of Kullmann for the attempted 
assassination of Prince Bismarck began Oct.20. 
The accused admit ted his guilt on all principal 
points. 
A meeting of directors of several Italian 
newspapers was held Oct. 28, to devise means 
for the relief of Garibaldi. It was proposed to 
raise $10,000 and present it to him as a national 
offering. 
A respectable-looking American was arrested 
in Constantinople for perpetrating a heavy 
fraud on the Imperial Ottoman Bank. It is ru¬ 
mored that other swindlers having forged pass¬ 
ports are operating in that and other Turkish 
cities. 
President Gonzales of San Domingo has is¬ 
sued a decree authorizing a foreign loan to the 
i A demonstration in favor of M. Thiers was 
3 made at Nice, last week. 
The Austrian Government has requested the 
r Porto to hasten its answer in reference to tho 
- proposed commercial convention between Aus¬ 
tria and Roumanin. 
A telegram from Calcutta states that the na- 
i tive in custody suspected of being Nena-Sahib 
has been removed to G'awnpore for further in¬ 
vestigation as to his identity. 
There Is a strike among the miners in all the 
collieries In Pictou County, Nova Scotia. The 
alleged cause is a reduction of 12 per cent, in 
the wages for the winter. 
The Correctional Tribunal of Paris has fined 
several proprietors of betting agencies who 
came to France to avoid prosecution under En¬ 
glish law. and confiscated their stuck. 
Tlie Synod or the Church of Scotland, in ses¬ 
sion In Toronto, have adopted a motion in favor 
of reunion by a vote of 63 to 17- 
The famine in Asia Minor, which Is now rec¬ 
ognized by tho Turkish Government as having 
assumed very serious proportions, Is occupying 
the attention of the Grand Vizier, who lias de¬ 
termined to transport thither a large amount 
of provisions, in the hope of being yet In time 
to save many lives and to enable t he peasants 
to sow their fields—a proceeding which at pres¬ 
ent lie finds has been dangerously retarded 
from want of seed corn and beasts of the plow. 
A remarkable instance of the increase in the 
sale of imported ox tongues Is afforded by Hie 
trade done at Paysanda, in Uruguay, At this 
little town during the last season about 150,000 
ox tongues were packed in hermetically-sealed 
tins and shipped to England. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Avocn, Steuben Co., Y„ \ov. 7,— “Beauti¬ 
ful weather wo are having!” is the word from 
nearly every one I meet. And with reason, for 
we have had the finest autumn in my remem¬ 
brance. Two weeks now of Indian summer, 
interrupted by only a little flurry of mow. Sure¬ 
ly, we do not feel tlie need of migrating to find 
pleasant weather. Crops have been good. Po¬ 
tatoes arc fine and abundant, and hrlng 45c. a 
bushel; buckwheat—an extra good crop—75c. 
Feed has been good in the main, and cows have 
done well. Apples are a good crop and cheap 
—$1 a barrel for the best, the purchaser furnish¬ 
ing the barrels. The outlook for farmers is 
good. They have a good supply of fodder, and 
stock is going into winter quarters In good con¬ 
dition. Some tails hard times who have paid 
off many debts with this year’s crop; and better 
still, many have learned economy as tho lesson 
of last year's panic.— r, n. a. 
Helena, Montnnn, Oct. 21.—I must toll you 
how my flowers look this 34th day of October, 
only 15 miles from tlio backbone of America 
and 4,600 leet ahov.‘ high water mark. I have 
picked arms full of flowers to-day. out-of-doors, 
that have had tin protection, .My Carinas, Pe¬ 
tunias, Dahlias, Verbenas and even my Castor 
Beans are standing in Tull bloom. My tomato 
plants are In full bloom and loaded with young 
fruit. Who would not live In Montana?— d. 
w. c. 
Adrian, Midi, Oct. 26. -It is very dry here. 
People are obliged to sell their cattle because 
there is no food for them. Weils, cisterns and 
streams are dry that have never been known 
dry before. Threo long months without rain, 
it is the worst drout h I have ever k nown.-H. 
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SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS. 
A Youth’s Publication. —For nearly half a 
century the Youth's Companion of Boston has 
been published. It was started in 1827, and is 
to-day one of the brightest, and most vigorous 
r apers with which we are acquainted. 
THS 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New Yof.k, Monday, Nov. 9, 1874. 
Receipts.— Tlie receipts of the principal Finds of 
produce for the past Week are as follows . 
Flour, bids...,. 86,2O0i i>ried Fruits. pkgB . &22 
Wheal, bush. 609,400 KugM, ubls. 7.810 
Com, bush.. 273,500 Hups, bale-. 
Oats, bush... . 200,100 Peanuts, hugs. .y o 
Grass Seed, bush.. 2,062 Pork, bhls.. 1..V29 
Rye. bush. 23,200 Beef. pkus. 3 211 
Malt, bush. 7.83,1 Cat meals, l/kss... 3.483 
Corn meal, bids..,, 3,180; Lard, tes. 2,409 
Coni meal, baas... 522 1 Butter, pkirs. 20 , 48 ) 
Beans, bbl*. 3,915 Cheese, pkes. 40,8X1 
Cotton, bates. 28.350 Wool, bales. dUO 
Henna ;«nd I’com.-E xport* of beans, past week, 
650 bbls.; rto. b>o7n bush. Tin* ju;irkc*t con- 
tinaes steady and active. Liberal receipts prevent 
any addition to late prices, hut as vi-twc hear of no 
disposition on tho part of sellers to mvunce quota¬ 
tion!!. Marrows are in very good order for new crop 
and shippers avail IticmspJ ves of all the prime marks 
without asking concessions. Me, am. pun, white 
kidney end a tew red <lo. nre selling well to the home 
and local trade. Green peas flrin ut full prices. Mar¬ 
rowfat pens quoted at *?.75 per Inisli. for State Cana¬ 
dian peas ate higher for lots in bond. No tree bbls. 
here, 
^ Medium beams, choice.$2.05®2.70; fair to good, *1.56 
green peas, new, fL9>g2; white kidney, choice, $3.40 
®2-50; do. fair to good, S5^2.25; Black Lye peas, ?.j. 
Beeswax.—Shippers are dolne little more, but the 
local trade is small. There la a fair supply. Sates at 
30®8tc. for Western and Southern. 
Ilrooirt Corn.—There is a very good e le to man¬ 
ufacturers at steady prices- We quote prime brush 
and hurl,medium green, S&W.; rod and 
tipped, 6&7c. 
Butter,—There has been u scarcity of fine pails 
and fancy grades In other packages, and such lots 
have shown consie eiwble firmness during the week, 
without, however, leading to an advance. Under 
