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PUBLISHER'S SPECIAL NOTICES. and killing six pereona^James Carey, his wife 
_ a od two children, and John VandeHeen and 
Adilii ion* to Clubs are now in order, and Michael Kelly, 
whether in ones. twos, lives or tens, will prove ac- The United States Senators elected Jan. 30, 
ccpui’.) e. “ Tlie more the merrier,” and every ma- "’ere Messrs. Kernan of N. 1'., Bayard of Del., 
terial addition to a club wil redound to the benefit DaweH of Mats., McDonald of Ind., Wallace of 
of the Aaeat in the way of Premiums. Pa. and Cockerell of Mo. All of these new Sen- 
- ators arc Democrats, except Mr. Dawes, and the 
Nov Clubs.- It is not too late to start new clubs election of all, with the same exception, was 
for IS7.’>. and we hope many of our readers will seo foreshadowed by the decisions of party cau- 
what can bo done for the Ritual (and the benefit of cuses. 
neighbors, In their respective localities. As the Hon. A. S. Paddock, Republican, formerly 
SZt?£SZZSS££ ““ *-* °-r'r M ™» 
_ Territory, has been elected U. S. Senator from 
_ , „ . Nebraska. 
Bark N umber* of thin Volume (from Jan. 2) Hanatnrram>nUr i. u . k..«n i, . n 
can be furnished to all new subscribers, and we shall H r ^ oeinominatod by the 
send tliem lor somi> weeks, unless specially directed i P« dlcan caucus In Washington and will 
otherwise, so that all may have, the volume com pletr prol>abIy b,J re-elected IT. S. Senator, 
for prcsnvfttlon and binding. Those who desire can Hon. Isaac P. Christiana of Landing, has been 
begin with any number, however. elected D. 8.Senator from Michigan to succeed 
-— Z. Chandler. 
The Best Paper, and the Best Premiums to Pol. Jedediah Horsford, (father of JVuf. Hom- 
° Jsn,,r< ; chroraos an<1 a " {l r*l of Harvard,.I u prominent citizen of Livings 
)ther cheap OOlurod ploturea, preferring to put our # lin n n „ ntI( r Pl . , , 
noney in the paper, and In Premiums to Agents. K , i"t« h * •. died Thuwday week, aged 
__ oa. He bad been elected to Congress and the 
s .i.,. v „„., „ .. 1 Legislature by the people of hia County. 
reelect Your rreitiiutrift*—All persons eu titled . 1 
o Premiums will ploaae doal^nutu what they prefer I no value of flip tfoodb withdrawn from the 
ml notify u* how and where to forward-whether custom house In Albany, during the past quart- 
iy Freight or Express—if articles are uot mailable. er, was $648,252, and t he receipts from duties I 
-. thereon $96,882.99. 
No Traveling Agents. — Hnraember that the Rsv. Father O'Keefe of Avon, who died at 
Iural employs! no traveling canvassers, but de- Niagara Falls, rccontly. had a life Insurance 
. L °H ttI CIub ^ B ®“ t * f n ' 1 othcr policy of $10,000. Tb« tttnountgoes to St. Agnes, 
i lends to maintai n and augment Its circulation. Avon, Livingston County. 
The ltnra.1 n h a Prescu.^Iemember thht any , '^ Jet '' een ^ and A1 ' 
uhjcnbtr can send the Rural to a relative or 1 k 1 ' '*** been for In years, 
fiend, ns a present, ut the lowest club rate—only , " ’* ' f, ry superior quality is being harvested 
2.15a year,including posture. 1,1 unusually large quantities. 
- It It stated that Tweed’s counsel have obtain 
Act ns Agent J-Uoader, If there is no agent lor ed ’ or wl11 “oon obtain from Judge Itapallo of 
io RURAL in your locality please become one by tbl1 Court of Appeals, a writ of error with a Ha¬ 
mming u club. It will pay. peraedem clause, and that Tweed’s attorneys 
„ - w »* immediately, by means of a writ of habeas 
No Cbromos or cheap daubs arc given by us, but corpus for the purpose of bail, take him out of 
Additions to Clubs are now in order, and 
whether in ones. twos, fives or tens, will prove ac¬ 
cepts’.) e. ” The more the merrier," and every ma¬ 
terial addition to a club wil redound to the benefit 
of the Agent In the way of Premiums. 
New Clubs,— It is not too late to start new clubs 
for lM.'i, and we hope many of our readers will sec 
what can be done for the Rural (and the benefit of 
neighbors) in their respective localities. As the 
Rural is electrotyped wo can furnish back num¬ 
bers to all new subscribers. 
Bach Numbers of this Volume (from Jan. 2) 
can be furnished to all new subscribers, and we shall 
send them for 90m" weeks, unless specially directed | 
otherwise, so that all may have the volume complete 
for prcsavfttlon and binding. Those who desire can 
begin with any number, however. 
The Beat Taper, nod the Best Premiums to 
Agents, la our motto. Wo Ignore Cbromos and all 
other cheap colored plr.mres, preferring to put our 
money in the paper, and in Premiums to Agents. 
Select Your Premiums. — All persons entitled 
to Premiums will please designate what they prefer 
and notify u* how and where to forward —whether 
by Freight or Express—if articles are not mailable. 
No Traveling Agents. — Knraember that the 
Rural employs no traveling canvassers, but de¬ 
pends solely upon Local Club Agents and other | 
friends to maintain and augment its circulation. 
The Rural as a Present.— Remember tlRtany 
Subjcriber can send the Rural to a relative or 
friend, ns a present, ut the lowest club rate—only 
$2.15 n year,including posture. 
Act ns Agent !—Reader, If there is no agent lor 
the Rural in your locality please become one by 
terming u club. It will pay. 
River Is gorged t wenty-seven miles below there 
ami in closed for tblrty-thrco miles above there, 
Wiliam M. .Sargent and wife were arrested at 
Cinei nnatl on Friday night on suspicion of being 
implicated In a burglary of $I2,O0u worth of 
jewellery at Rochester, X. Y. ( Jaut month. 
The entire family of George Hemenway of 
M aldo, Me., consisting of .four persons, have 
died within the past 1? days, three or them 
within a week. The youngest was 62 years old, 
and the oldest, Mrs. Jean Ferguson, was 9ft. 
The Brooks-Bax ter case has been decided by I 
AL _ Cl _ m . . . . _ * 
it is difficult to see how she could apologize 
without stultifying herself. 
Robert Offiey Ashburton Mllnes, only son of 
Lord Houghton, has obtained the gold medal 
annually offered to competition among the 
Harrow boys by Lord Charles Russell for the 
encouragement of the study of *• Shakspeare.” 
Mr. Mi In os is not quite seventeen years of age. 
Salinas \ alley, Cal., is under water, resulting 
in great damage to property, but no loss of life 
ip reported thus far. 
iho New Orleans Bulletin newspaper estab- 
tbe Supreme Court at Little Rock, Ark., on apl llskmont' was soldat auJ^ 
peal from the Circuit Court, the decision of the 000, to close a succession. 
latter being overruled and the suit, ordered to 
be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. 
Andrew McClelland, the young telegraph 
operator through whoso negligWioe there was a 
collision on the Pennsylvania Railroad last 
March, and by which four men were killed, has 
been placed on trial for manslaughter. 
An Immense mass meeting was held at 
Mrs. Eliza Smith, an aged lady of Nashua, N. 
H., was burned to death by her clothing catch¬ 
ing fire from a kerosene lamp. 
It Is reported that the British Government 
has demanded an apology from the Govern¬ 
ment of Peru for the remov'd of a passenge 
from a British steamer at Callao. 
Jos. W. 1 1 olden, Mayor of Raleigh, N. C., died 
Cooper Institute on Monday evening week, to on the 21st Inst., aged thirty-three 
protest against the Louisiana outrage. The was Speaker of the State House of J 
speakers were Mayor Wickham, William Cullen tives in 1868. 
Bryant, William M. Kvarts, James 8. Thayer, The Cincinnati Chamber of Comi 
^ m. E. Dodge, George T. Curtis, ox-Gov. adopted a resolution favoring tho ap 
Salomon and others. A mass meeting was also of $100,000 by Congress for the impr 
organized outside. Strong condemnatory reso- the harbor of Charleston, S. C. 
lutioaA were adopted. David Leavitt, formerly a New 1 
The Louisiana Conservatives have decided to Street merchant prlnco, and subs 
await the action of Congress before doing any- hank president. Is now living at I 
thing. Speaker Wiltz has telegraphed to Presi- ninety in Great Barrington, Mass, 
dent Grant, asking him to restore the gtatux Edgar A. Poe, who died twenty-si: 
f/uo existing on Jan. 4, in view of the fact that is at length to have a monument c 
the military interference was not authorized mains in Westminster Church yard, 
by [him. Pinchback has received his creden- costing $1500- 
tiais as United States Senator. Moses H. Grlnnell. the «nin 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
fifty-two bright papers during the year. 
At Our Risk. You can remit by Draft, P. O. 
Monqy Order or Registered Letter at our risk. 
m«a of the 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The President has Issued a message recom¬ 
mending heavy rifled cannon for sea-coast for¬ 
tifications, and the appropriations these meas¬ 
ures would require. 
To Southern Senators and Representatives 
asking aid to repair tho levees, the President 
intimated that an end to political disturbances 
was first In order. 
The Committee on tlie eligibility of G. Q. 
Cannon, Delegate from Utah, recommend his 
expulsion from the House on the score of po 
lygatuy. 
Vice-President Wilson has written a letter to 
the Springfield Republican on the political sit¬ 
uation. lie argues that the Republican party 
is not dead, and predicts its success in tho fu¬ 
ture. 
Tho Paine Memorial Building in Boston is 
nearly completed and will be dedicated on the 
29th lust., the anniversary of Thomas Paine's 
birthday. 
Mr. Albert 11. Chandler, for many years con¬ 
nected with the Western Union Telegraph 
Company, has boon appoint ed Assistant Gene¬ 
ral Manager of the Atlantic and Pacific Com¬ 
pany. 
Prof. Spencer F. Baird of the Smithsonian 
Institution ut Washington is going to establish 
a fishing station for scientific purposes at 
Wood's Hotel In Massachusetts, which he will 
make bis headquarters during the summer. 
The report of the Committee on Louisiana 
Affairs meets with the disapproval ol Republi¬ 
can members of Congress. It is charged that 
many of tho statements are false, and that tlie 
Committee did not do itb work thoroughly. 
Wm. Fagan, who represented one of the Phil¬ 
adelphia districts in the Pennsylvania House 
of Representatives, died in Harrisburg, Pa., 
Jan. 17. He was a Democrat. 
E. U. Cooke, tho oldest journalist in Connect¬ 
icut and senior editor of the Waterbary Amer¬ 
ican, died in Hartford, Jan. IS. at the ape of 83. 
Mr. Wright of Syrncuso has jugt a. fed a 
friendly contest of 100 games of draughts with 
Mr. McEntee of Rochester, which resulted— 
Wright, 57; MeEnlee, 23; drawn, 30. 
A meeting was held at the Vanderbilt House, 
Syracuse. Jan. 26, to perfect the organization 
of the Rochester and Montreal Steamboat Co. 
Tne Commercial Travelers' Association has 
presented the Ladles' Employment Society of 
Syracuse with $80, the proceeds of their Third 
Annual Reception, 
Gov. Bedleof New Jersey was inaugurated 
Jan. 20. In his address the Governor strongly de¬ 
ni-uncos the interference of the United States 
troops with the Louisiana Legislature. 
Tne Grand Jury have founds true bill against 
John W. Gerdemann, ex-priest of St. Boniface 
Church, Phila., charging him with embezzle¬ 
ment. 
Mayor Green of Norwlcfl was last week nom- > 
Inat.ed by the Republicans for Governor of Con- i 
necticut. The Convention indorsed Grant and 
his Louisiana message. , 
On the night of Jan. 19, at 7 o’clock, a snow l 
slide occurred at Alta City, Little Cottonwood 1 
Canou, U. T, The elide came Into the upper J 
portion of the town, demolishing two houses s 
confinement to await a view of his case before 
the Court of Appeals with a full bench. 
A snow slide in the mountains near Genoa, 
Nevada, burled IlftyChlnameo, woodcutters, of 
whom twenty-eight were killed. 
Great loss of life in Utah by snow slides is 
reported. 
Five bodies of the victims of the avalanche 
at Aka City, Utah, were found Wednesday. 
Tim, Pirate Bill, and seven Indians, who 
murdered Para Mint miners, lately, were hung 
and shot by citizens of Hike, Nevada, last 
week. 
A large number or Cherokee Indians have as¬ 
sembled at Muscogee, In the Indian Territory, 
to testify on the trial of J. W. Wright, who is 
I charged with defrauding them. 
In Philadelphia, Professor Robert E. Rogers, 
has been elected president of the Franklin In¬ 
stitute. 
There was a duel, Tuesday, near San Francisco 
city, between Paul Zocchl, an ex-rebel officer, 
and Ives, a northern man. 
Mobile will celebrate the Mardi Gras Carnival 
on Feb. 9. There will be day processions and 
splendid exhibitions at night by the oJd and 
new societies. A hearty welcome Is extended 
U) all by Felix, King of the Carnival. 
All t he Mystic Societies in New Orleans, have 
decided to dispense with the customary street 
parade on Mardi Gras Day, on account of the 
absence of Hia Royal Highness King Pros¬ 
perity. 
,1 os. W. Holden, Mayor of Raleigh, N. O., died, 
Jail, 21, aye83. He was Speaker of the House 
of Representatives In 1BBH. 
Capt. E. A. Rysher, who was for 25 years cap 
tain of steamers plying between District port • 
and Baltimore and Norfolk, died Jan. 21, at 
Washington. 
The passage by the X. Y. Assembly Jan. 21, 
of a searching resolution of inquiry into the 
management, and expenditures of Ihe canal-, 
was a step in the right direction. The Inquiry 
cannot be too thorough, for It is a long time 
since vre have had satisfactory statements on 
the subject. 
Edwin M. Lewis, trustee of the Jay Cooke 
estate, has commenced paying a dividend of 
five per cent. In cash to the creditors of the es¬ 
tate, whose claims were audited and approved 
Tit* great Powers of Europe continue their 
' efforts to effect an amicable arrangement be¬ 
tween Montenegro and Turkey. The feeling 
in the former country Is very warlike, 
The debate on the Constitutional bills was 
j opened in the French Assembly Jan. 21. Re¬ 
publican arid Legitimist members spoke against 
tlih measures. 
Several Cat-list officers have given in their ad¬ 
hesion to King Alfonso. Marshal Serrano is to 
return to Madrid. The King’s civil list will, it 
is understood, lie fixed at 28,(100,000 reals. 
Countess of Paris has been delivered of a son. 
Mother and Infant doing well. 
It is reported that the Carllsts are now en¬ 
rolling youths of 17 years in their service. 
A bulletin from Canon Kingsley's physicians 
dated London Jan. 21, reports that. M- condi¬ 
tion is less favorable. 
Representatives in CjcnSEantiuoplo'of some of 
the European powers are trying to effect an 
amicable solution of the difficulty between 
Montenegro and Turkey. 
It. is stated that Republican emissaries have 
loft Barcelona and other towns In Spain to con¬ 
fer with the Carlist chieftain, Saballs, for the 
purpose of causing a general rising against 
King Alfonso. 
Five persons were killed and fifty injured by 
a boiler explosion in Podmorden, Yorkshire, 
England. 
Disturbances have occurred over the baptism 
of children by the Old Catholics in two village- 
of the Canton of Geneva, and the presence of 
troops is necessary to preserve order. 
Horace Capron retires from the Japanese 
service in March next. 
A ticjy Japanese mission will proceed to the 
i Corea in January or February, with instructions* 
to bring an envoy from that country to the I 
Court at Yeddo. 
Intelligence has been received that the King 
of Denmark personally forbade tho sale of a 
| Danish Iron-clad to the Chinese Government 
while the difficulty between China and Japan 
remained unsettled. 
The Chinese Government are preparing to 
was Speaker of the State House of Representa¬ 
tives in 1868. 
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce have 
adopted a resolution favoring tho appropriation 
of $100,000 by Congress for the Improvement of 
the harbor of Charleston, S. C. 
David Leavitt, formerly a New York Front 
Street merchant prlnco, and subsequently a 
bank president, Is now living at the age of 
ninety in Great Barrington, Mass. 
Edgar A, Poe. w’ho died twenty-six years ago, 
is at length to have a monument over hia re¬ 
mains In Westminster Church yard, Baltimore, 
costing $1500- 
Moses H. Grlnnell, the solo survivor of the 
once famous shipping house of Grlnnell, 
Minture & Co., of New York, and formerly 
member of Congress, is still active in New 
York society. 
Mr. H. F. Durant has spent $1,000,000on build¬ 
ing, near Natick, Mass,, a college exclusively 
for the female sex. “ Every officer and teacher 
in the building, from tne President and Profes¬ 
sors downward. Is to be a woman.” 
A Roman telegram says that a very import¬ 
ant discovery has been made on the E quillne 
Hill, consisting of seven statues in fine preser¬ 
vation. There is a remarkable bust of Commo- 
dus, several heads and many fragments. All 
these have been found in one room not yet en¬ 
tirely excavated. There are indications of the 
presence of other objects. 
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THE season, crops, prices, etc. 
Starkey, Vote* Co., N. Y., Jnu, 1«—The fore¬ 
part of December was very mild and pleasant, 
but the month closed very cold. We have bad 
one very cold snap since; on the morning of 
t'>6 lOtii the thermometer marked from 0” to 
12° below zero. Since that ws have had very 
fair winter weather, aud at this time (2 P. M.) 
the sun is shining very brightly. All w-o lack 
is a few inches of snow to make sleighing, and 
it would tako but a little snow, as the roads are 
smooth ami hard. There is considerable ac- 
tUity in the grain market. Most farmers aio 
making up their minds that It will be useless to 
hold grain any longer for a raise, as a good 
many are obliged to make sales to meet their 
taxes. Wo hear that In Rochester and other 
places there is talk of a Convention of Farmers 
at Syracuse next month. This Is much needed, 
mid we hopo it will bo earned through. There 
has boon talk of a Grange here, but nothing 
definite Ills yet been done. The following aro 
the juices that produce is now selling for: 
Red wheal, $1.10 to $1.12 per bushel; white, from 
o to.Sc. higher; barley two-rowed, $1.15; oats, 
5(J to OM-. per bushel. Many of our best farmers 
think they are sowing too many acres of wheat, 
aud intend to sow Joss and jdant more oorn, 
which, according to the present prices, is by far 
the beat crop to grow. Corn now brings 75c. 
- • ———— uluvu l ui q i-lUJ' (VI ill” Jjt | . «« , 
dredge the Woo Lung Bar, long an obstacle in ,,, p0UD , d *» in som<1 last summer tho 
the approach to Shanghai. stalks would bring more than a crop of wheat. 
A Carotin embassy is at Peking, engaged in is higher’thau for several years before; it 
inquiring as to tho settlement of the Japanese ” ,J ' V sells at * I ier hundred, net weight, 
question. B*ef, per quart r, sells from 6 to 6o. per pound, 
The most severe storm eveV known at Che- 
Foo, -iuce the occupation of that place by 
up to December ill, last. A large number of , ’ ” occupation or that place by 
creditors have boon paid their dividend, which " rt ' 1 k’o”m, occurred on the 22d of November, 
is a practical beginning of the suttlement of i: .' crn j' 1 ® 11 and natlve ships were driven 
the estate, 
The Georgia protest against the recent mili¬ 
tary outrage In Now Orleans, Is no less emphatic 
than those that have coipe from other States; 
but its most significant feature, as the utter¬ 
ance of a Southern Legislature, Is its condem¬ 
nation of ail forms of lawlessness coupled with 
an appeal to the oppressed people if Louisiana 
to sufler still In patience, looking only to legal 
means of redressing their wrongs. 
A fire In the Providence Post-Office, Jan. 21, 
damaged the building $10,000 worth. The 
building was badly damaged inside. The let¬ 
ters were removed. 
Little Rock, Ark., merchants deny Sheri¬ 
dan's statements as regards Arkansas. Officers 
of the Union army during tho war publish a 
card to the same effect. 
The nuexpired t9rm of Hon. J. B. Rice, M. C., 
from Chicago, will probably not be served out, 
as there Is a disposition to allow the election to 
go by default. 
It Is stated that a boat race for .£500 a side be¬ 
tween llrowu of Halifax and Sadler of Eng¬ 
land, has been finally arranged to take place at 
Halifax next August. 
The observer at Hermauu Mo., rej>orta to the 
signal office at WaahtagHjij'ttait ttta Missouri 
a hore, and numerous lives were lost. 
The l.'ulted States steamship Saco leftShnng- 
iiai November 28. for a seven months' cruise. 
Tlie, American Minister (Mr. Avery) and the 
Japanese Minister (Z inaugiwara) were received 
by the Emperor of China on the 29th of No¬ 
vember. 
The Japanese Government has appropriated 
$1,600,000 for the construction of wharves lu 
the harbor of Yokohama. The work is to be 
commenced immediately. 
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MISCELLANEOUS . ITEMS. 
The Boston Post states, as an interesting fact 
to single gentlemen, that there are fifty-four 
widows of generals, and two hundred aud sev¬ 
enteen of colonels, on the pension rolls. 
Gen. M. G. Cobb of San Francisco, who was 
shot by the woman Hannah Smyth, Is rapidly 
recovering. The ball, which struck in Die 
muscles of the back, glanced and jyassed down 
along the hip into the thigh. It has not yet 
been taken out. 
It is said that Yale Col lego has offered to 
apologize for her conduct In the Saratoga re¬ 
gatta last summer if Harvard will. The Jai ler 
has not anpounced what she Intends to do, bqt 
now sells at $ .50 per hundred, net weight. 
B«ef, per quart r, sells rrom 6 tu So. per pound, 
and is getting to be scarcer than common at 
, this season of the year. Butter has taken a 
sudden tumble downward. Rolls that a month 
ngo could not be bought for 35e. will not now 
fetch 25c., and some producers who held for 50c. 
per pound may keep the article for some time 
vet ere they get that price. -And all will say 
“Good enough.”—8. c. 
Nnuhainlsh Co., \V. T,, Dec. lH.—We read In 
the Rukal Nkw- Yorker of starvation and 
suffering In Kama* and Nebraska, caused by 
grasshoppers and drouth. Wish some of those 
people would pom • to Washington Territory, 
where druuth Is not known aud grasshoppers 
arc a curiosity. We have had a moat beautiful 
fall, warm, no snow yet; had tomatoes till No¬ 
vember. Crops of all kinds have been a full 
average. Berries of all kinds abundant. Apples, 
tor a new country, good. Potatoes a large yield 
and of excellent quality; price,50c.: apples, $1; 
oats. 30c.: wheat, $1; hay, $12. This is no corn 
country.—H aupeu. 
Hustings, Neb., Jau. 17.-W e had a fine fall. 
Plowed up to Dec. 10. Very little snow so far. 
U a have splendid wheeling; no poor roads in 
this country. The weather Tor the past twenty 
days has been very cold, though but few dis¬ 
agreeable ones. Mercury has gone as low as 26 J 
below, being 12 lower than any time last winter, 
limes aro hard here; nothing to sell and 
nothing to do. Wood is worth from $-1 to $6; 
cheapest coal, $7.50per ton. Many people are 
seelqg hard times,— g. n. h. 
