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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MARSH 27 
PUBLISHER'S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
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whether In ones, twos, fives or tens, will prove ac¬ 
ceptable. “ The more the merrier,” and every ma¬ 
terial addition to a club will redound to the benefit 
of the Agent in the way of Premiums. 
New Clubs.—It is not too late to start new clubs 
for 1875, and wo hope many of onr renders will see 
what can be done for the Rural (and the benefit of 
neighbors) in their respective localities. As the 
Rural is electrotyped we can furnish back num¬ 
bers to all new subscribers. 
liuck Numbers ol thin Volume (from Jan. 2) 
can be furnished to all new subscribers, but we shall 
not send them hereafter unless specially requested. 
Those who desire can begin with uny number, how¬ 
ever. _' 
The Best Paper, and the Best Premiums to 
Agants, Is our motto. We Ignore Chromos and all 
other cheap colored pictures, preferring to pul our 
money in the paper, aud In Premiums to Agenta. 
Select Your Premium*.— AII persons entitled 
to Premiums will please designate what they prefer 
and notify us how and whore to forward—whether 
by Freight or Express—If articles are not mailable. 
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pands solely upon Local Club Agents and other 
friends to maintain and augment its circulation. 
The Rural as a Present.—Remember that any 
Subscriber can send the Rural to a relative or 
friend, as a present, at the lowest club rate—only 
£2.15 a year, including postage. 
Act as Agent!—Reader, if there Is no agent tor 
the It L T RAl in vuur locality please become one by 
terming a club. It will pay. 
No Chromos or cheap daubs are given by us, but 
fifty-two bright papers during the year. 
At Our Risk.—You can remit by Draft, P. O. 
Money Order or Registered Lotter at our risk. 
Ityuisi of tire 
TIMELY TOPICS. 
The Spring Floods. 
Great excitement has prevailed along the 
Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers the past 
week in consequence of the formation of vast 
Ice gorges at different points and the conse¬ 
quent impending destruction of property and 
flooding of towns as the spring floods moved 
l lie Ice. Port .Jervis, N. Y., has been one of the 
chief points threatened and public attention 
hit# been directed thereto for several days in 
consequence of the immense accumulation ol 
ice thereat. Engineers under the direction ol 
the authorities, have been attempting to break 
this gorge by the use of nitro glycerine, but bad 
failed up to the time of the moving of the 
waters. The fact that the people were thor¬ 
oughly aroused to their danger has prevented 
the destruction of rnuoh property and the loss 
of life. The damage done Is inconsiderable 
compared with what was at first threatened 
and feared. In the vicinity and at Port Jervis 
it will not exceed $300,000 to $500,000. The ice 
moved the 17th, and many Interesting incidents 
are told lii detail in the daily papers, for which 
we have no space. Danville, Sunbury, Scran¬ 
ton, Wilkesbarro and the intervening country 
along the river, have suffered by loss of bridges, 
flooding of farms, etc. Rut we hear of no loss 
of life. Along the Susquehanna, as along the 
Delaware, there has also boeu both excitement 
and damage. At Pittstou, Pa„ the destruction 
of four bridges and the loss of property It esti¬ 
mated at a half million of dollars. Telegrams 
from towns all along the liver tell us of t he de¬ 
struction of bridges, damage to railways and 
loss of other property. 
The Hawaiian Treaty, 
Amended, has been ratified by the Senate. It 
provides for the Importation of certain Ha¬ 
waiian products into this country duty free and 
for the export of certain classes of our pro¬ 
ducts. It la a reciprocity treaty and open to 
similar objections to those made to the pro¬ 
posed reciprocity treaty with Canada. It is an 
entering wedge which, in our judgment, will 
result in complications with other govern¬ 
ments who desire free trade with this country. 
Hawaiian fruit—except bananas—is not admit¬ 
ted duty free, in order to protect the sub-trop¬ 
ical productions Of California. Sugar is admit¬ 
ted free. The real purpose cf our Government, 
doubtless, lies deeper and is more subtle than 
is indicated by the mere terms of this treaty. 
Doubtless It is a step toward annexation—or is 
regarded so; and from a maritime point cf 
view this may be desirable. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
IT Is the determination of the Government to 
seoure to the Sioux Indians all their treaty 
rights with reference to the Black llllis country, 
and therefore all persons will be prohibited 
from going there, and those now there will be 
required to remove until the Indian title is ex¬ 
tinguished. The Government will endeavor to 
extinguish the Indian title at the earliest prac¬ 
ticable moment. 
Archbishop McOloskey of New York has 
been made a Cardinal. A Rome Paper says the 
Pope confers the Cardinal’s bftt on him, not 
only on account of the personal merits of that 
prelate, but because the Holy See is desirous of 
honoring the Catholics of America, and of 
marking the progress of Catholicism in the 
■ United States. 
There Is a bill now in the Tennessee Legisla¬ 
ture providing that the school taxes paid by 
the white and colored children shall be applied 
separately to the children of the respective 
races. This bill, if jiassed, will it is said, close 
the colored schools of the State, as the colored 
peoplo are not able to pay taxes enough to 
support their school* t wo weeks. 
Ex-Senator Carpenter’s organ In Milwaukee 
says bo i« not seeking the Attorney Generalship 
or any other public office, but intends to return 
to the practice of his profession. 
The German frigate Ariadne has been ordered 
to Swatow, China, to support the demand for 
indemnity for the plundering of the bark Furst 
Bismarck. 
The following bequests are made l>y the will 
of the late Senator Wm. A. Buckingham of 
Connecticut, which was recently admitted to 
probate Fifteen hundred dollars each to the 
American Home Missionary Society aud the 
American Missionary Society, $2,000 to the 
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 
and $1,000 each to the American Congregational 
Union and the American College and Educa¬ 
tional Society. 
7’be Detroit Board of Education has voted to 
introduce the study of German in the public 
schools of that city. 
Prof. Waterhoune Hawkins has accepted an 
appointment to make a paleontological restora¬ 
tion for the museum of natural history at 
Princeton College. 
Miss Mary L. Booth, editor of Harpers' Bazar; 
is suffering from a painful and prolonged attack 
of Inflammatory rheumatism combined with a 
pleuritic affection. 
Rochester merchants and manufacturers are 
preparing to exhibit their goods and wares ht 
the International Exposition, which opens at 
Santiago, ChIJi, September 10, and continues 
until December 23. 
It is reported that Union College has received 
a promise of $3,000 a year, to he used for the 
purpose of testing the practicability and ut ility 
of establishing a School for Art Instruction 
and Culture, aud the collection of models and 
books of art. 
The estate of the late John Tweedlo of 
Albany is said to be worth over $1,000,000, the 
greater part of which has been divided equally 
among his heirs, each one of whom receives 
about $150,000. He also left, charitable bequests 
amounting to $10,000. 
Tiie farmers of Steuben and Allegany Counties 
say that they will have a million bushels of 
potatoes to spare If half the crop is frozen. 
Gov. Booth of California having resigned his 
office in order to take bis seat in the United 
Stales Senate, Lleut.-Gov. Romuaido Pacheco, 
a native Californian, becomes Governor. He is 
14 years old, was educated in Europe; while 
yet a young man, was elected County Judge in 
Santa Barbara County where be was born, has 
been in both branches of tbe Legislature, and 
lias been Treasurer of the State. 
Brunswick, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., has elected 
anti-license excise commissioners. 
A petition bearing 3,000 signatures was pre¬ 
sented to the Moss. Legislature asking the 
incorporation of the Boston and Chicago Rail¬ 
way Transportation Company, intended to be a 
grand freight line to the West and South, and 
Involving a capital of $30,000,000. 
Tlie strike among the mill operatives at Fall 
River came to an end, March 18, the strikers ail 
returning to work. More applications are being 
made for work than can be satisfied. 
Rochester wants insurance rates reduced 20 
per cent,, on the strength of Its water works 
system. 
Hanuibal Hamlin Is the man who is respon¬ 
sible for doubling the postage upon transient 
newspapers. 
The bondholders of the Northern Pacific 
Railroad have met and resolved to carry for¬ 
ward the enterprise. 
Prof. Perry, the political economist of Wil¬ 
liams College, Is seriously ill with .rheumatic 
affection of the chest. 
The Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned sine 
cite the 18th. 
John ItoblDsou, the well-known circus pro¬ 
prietor has been nominated for Mayor of Cin¬ 
cinnati by the Republicans. 
Mr. James Parton, according to the Spri ngfleld 
Republican, has bought a house at Newbuty- 
port. Mass., and will make his residence there 
In future. 
The New York Tribune suggests that ex- 
Presidents should be Senators for life. 
The colored people of Boston have requested 
B. F. Butler to accept a public testimonial in 
behalf of liis efforts for the passage of the 
Civil Rights bill, He has accepted, naming the 
early part of April for tbe occasion. 
The Rev. Dr. Horace Bushnell of Hartford is 
recovering from a dangerous illness. 
Ex-President Hopkins of 'Williams College 
has begun a course of'.six lectures before the 
students of Yale Theological School. 
Gen. Johu C. Breckinridge is better again, 
and is now able to walk about. 
Samuel Smith, a demented old man who 
lives ou the Freeport, I.. I., beach, was born at 
Freeport, but many years ago went to Utah, 
and was made a Mormon preacher. His sphere 
of usefulness havlug passed, lie was sent back 
to his native place. None of his kinsfolk 
would receive him, and in his despair he sought 
a solitary abode in an old wrecked vessel. For 
ten years he has lived there. The crews of tbe 
life-saving station feed him in the winter, and 
In the summerhesblftsforhimself. Responds 
his nights on the beach in all kinds of weather, 
continually praying that no wrecks may occur. 
He always prays aloud, and the crew of the life 
statlou sometimes find It difficult to sleep. 
Occasionally he sings hymns. He performs the 
Mormon funeral service over every object that 
is cast upon the beach. 
Water isso scarce upon tbe hills about Horn- 
ellsville, N. l r .,that In some Instances the cat¬ 
tle are driven two miles for drink. 
A man named George Emerson alias Col. F. 
W. Fenton, has been arrested In Washington 
for inaugurating a new scries of operations In 
the confidence business. His detection in ob¬ 
taining from the Postofflce and opening the 
letters of Capt. F. W. Fenton, a United States 
officer stationed at the arsenal, led to the arrest. 
He had beeu scattering circulars broadcast 
announcing that the Bounty bill, lo which all 
men who had served in tbe army were interest¬ 
ed, has become a law during tbe late Congress, 
and if tbe claimant would forward his record 
of service to the Government and a small re¬ 
taining fee he would be secured the amount of 
bounty to which he was entitled by the pre¬ 
tended new enactment. Some discharged 
soldiers, knowing the bill did not become a 
law, brought the transaction to official cogni¬ 
zance. • 
A The Cleveland Leader says: We have the 
highest authority for stating that the report 
that Gen. Schenck la to be recalled from the 
United Statoe mission to Great Britan and be 
succeeded to that position by Secretary Fish, is 
wholly without foundation. 
At a meeting of Confederate soldiers the 
other day iu Atlanta so many were dubbed with 
titles that the following appropriate resolution 
was introduced “ Resolved. That the Presi¬ 
dent appoint a committee of one to Inquire 
whether there were any surviving privates of 
the late war.” 
A German mass meeting, held at Cooper In¬ 
stitute, protested against the withdrawal of the 
the study of German Iron) the public schools. 
Mr. Url Car ruth, editor of the Vineland Inde¬ 
pendent, wap shot and dangerously wounded on 
the 19th iost.. by Charles K. Landis, founder of 
Vineland, N. J. 
The strike of the Ohio miners has been re¬ 
sumed, and is accompanied with personal 
violence and destruction of property. 
A large boiler at the Wood mowing machine 
works, in Troy, hurst on the 19th iust., killing 
one man. 
Gardiner T. Swarts, Grand Master of the 
Rhode Island Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, aud 
formerly for many years Grand Treasurer of 
the Free Masons, died on the evening of the 
19th inst. 
The new oil well, struck near Warren, Pa. % 
on the Beatty farm, is pumping at the rate of 
200 barrels per day. This is on new territory. 
The bondholders of the Chicago, Danville 
and Vincennes Railroad have appointed a com¬ 
mittee to investigate the charges of fraud and 
peculation recently preferred against the 
officers of tbe road. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
John Mitchel, the Irish patriot, recently re¬ 
elected to Parliament from Tipperary, died at 
Dromaland, Ireland, on the 20th inst., aged 59. 
It is understood that non. Maleoui Cameron 
will be appointed Lleut.-Governor of the North¬ 
west Territories of Canada. 
It is rumored that Gen. Elio lias abandoned 
Don Carlos's cause. 
Arch-Deacon Fuller of Turouto has been 
elected Bishop of tbe new diocese of Niagara. 
Tbe failure of the General South American 
Banking Company of London, England, is an¬ 
nounced. Tbe liabilities are est imated at $1,- 
500,000. 
Tbe Czar has ratified the Berne Postal Con¬ 
vention. 
Father Chiuiquy, the Roman Catholic priest 
who recently embraced Protestantism In To¬ 
ronto, Canada, has received a number of threat¬ 
ening letters, warning him to desist from 
ministerial labor In eight days on p^rllofhis 
life. 
The attendance at the revival meetings of 
Messrs. Moody and Saukey in London continues 
immense, and there is no abatement in the 
enthusiasm of their hearers. 
The Rev. Dr. O’Brien of Brockville has been 
appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Kingston, 
Canada. 
It has been resolved to deepen the Welland 
Canal to twelve feet, instead of fourteen, for 
tbe present. 
The Canadian Government will not impose a 
duty of ten per cent, on tea coming from the 
United States. 
Governor-General Dufferln will shortly leave 
for Europe, to be absent three months. The 
Government will be administered during his 
absence by Lieut.-Gen. William O’Grady Haly. 
C. B., commanding the British forces at Halifax. 
Belgium and Portugal have ratified the Postal 
Convention. 
The French Ministers declared that it would 
be dangerous to fix the date of dissolution of 
the Assembly long before the event. 
Tbe Ecclesiastical bill has passed its second 
reading in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies. 
A correspondent of the New York Evening 
Post writes to that journal that the original 
manuscript of the Declaration of Independence 
Is fast fading away, and suggests that measures 
should be taken for restoring it. 
Gen. Cabrora's convention with the Alfonsist.s 
has produced a deep impression on the Carlists. 
Several officers suspected of favoring King 
Alfonso have been arrested at Estella. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS- 
Henry L. Delapield one of the three 
brothers who were recently buried at the same 
time from Trinity Church, New York, 
bequeathed $350,000, the most of the money go¬ 
ing to bis only child, a young girl. 
The Indiana Legislature have resolved not to 
build a State Capitol, and a journal of that 
State suggests that in future the Legislature 
should hold its sessions in each city in turn 
throughout the State. 
Mr. Angus Cameron of Wisconsin, the new 
Senator, told areporter of the Chicago Tribune 
the other day that he had always voted the 
straight Republican ticket, and should go to 
Washington with the Intention of acting with 
the Republican party. 
It rarely happens that a death occurs at a 
funeral. Mr. Symonds of Saugua, Mass., was 
aeized with apoplexy while attending the 
funeral of a friend, and died Instantly. He had 
oelebratadthe fortieth anniversary of his wed¬ 
ding tbe previous night-. 
The Barnum Universal Exposition Company, 
which was chartered by the last Connecticut 
Legislature, has just been organized at Bridge¬ 
port. All Bamum's shows are to be run by this 
Joint-stock enterprise. The company have au¬ 
thority to carry on theaters and every other 
form of public diversion. 
Ex-Gov. Moses of South Caroliua has filed a 
petition in bankruptcy, placing his liabilities 
at $92,455 50, and his assets at $1,200 in person¬ 
al property and some very misty possessions in 
real estate. 
President Robinson of Brown University, 
one of the ablest and broadest men in the 
Baptist denomination, showed his independ¬ 
ence ronently by preaehiug to the Unitarian 
congregation in King’s Chapel, Boston. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Wcnonnh, ii loucester Co., IV. J., March 15.— 
The winter just closed has been t.he severest 
here for forty years, although there ha* boon 
much lesB than the usual average of snow. 
About a week age wo had much the heaviest 
fall of snow during the season and that was but 
tfaree Inches. We have had cloudy, cool weather 
over since and some of the snow si ill remains. 
It is hardly late enough yet to judge of the 
prospects for grain aud fruits. We ate but 
eleven miles from Philadelphia, (south,) the 
markets of which govern prices here. Our 
farmers frequently sell their produce in the 
city at much less than they are willing to sell 
the same for at home. This 1 b regarded as a 
“ truck” region, though there are some stock 
farms, (mainly for cows,) aud an occasional but¬ 
ter dairy, though probably most of the milk is 
shipped to the city.— Wacantah. 
Oucltita t.’liy, Lo., March lO.— Weather cold 
and season backward. Keeping fires iu orchards 
to save the peaches and apricots. No corn 
planted. Peas just up.— e. R. G. 
THE MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Receipts.—T he 
are as follows. 
Flour, bills.... 
Wheat. bush. 
Corn, bush. 
CAMS, bush. 
Grass Seed. hush.. 
Rye. bash.......... 
Harley, buidi.. 
Mall, bush. 
Beans, bush. 
Uoru meal, hhls.... 
Corn meal. bags... 
Cotton, halos. 
Spt*. Turn., bbls.. 
Dressed Hogs. ... 
York, Saturday, March 20, 1875. 
receipts of Produce for the week 
i Rosin, bb's. 6,157 
i Beeswax, pkgs. 4 
! Pork, pkgs. 2,825 
i Beef, pkgs. 1,084 
i Cut meats, pkgs..., 7,993 
hard. pkgs... . 6.220 
i Ashes, pkgs. 214 
i Butter, pkgs. 2-1.494 
i Cheese, pkgs. 14,718 
I Dried Fruits, pkgs.. 455 
Fags, bbls. . 5.200 
Wool, bales. 769 
I Hops, bales. 266 
Beans AND Peas —Export# of beans past week, 
800 bbls.; peas. 16,400 do The demand Is not so active 
for local Or shipping use, and prices are a shade 
easser. Receipts have been liberal. Put the recent 
free sales haTc prevented any depresneu feeling. 
That is, an early revival it. looked for In both me¬ 
diums and marrows. Pea beans and kidneys are 
a met. Canadian peas in bulk and bond are firmer. 
reen peas are scarce and higher. State rnai rowtats 
are quoted at R.ffK 
We quote Beans, new medium, prime. fl.80@1.90; 
do. fair. SI.60® 1.66; do. poor, $1.40; marrows, new 
prime, $2.20i®2JU; du. marrow, other. $2.05®2.15: do. 
prime new, $2*2.10; beans, pea. other, $1.90® 
|2.10: do- kidney, new red, $9a8.I5 .. White kidney, 
n*w, $f2.«»8.40{ do. other. $2®$2.?5. Canada pens, 
in bulk and bond.Sl.06bjfl.10; do.green, prime new, 
$2.35;->J.fO; spill peas. In bond $ obL. $5.7o®$0.00; 
Southern U. K. pita#, per 2 hush.bug $3.75. 
Beeswax.—T he steady distribution of stock which 
has been going on latterly ha# brought supplies 
down to a small amount and induced better prices; 
sales at 82>4®33o. for Southern, with choice lots now 
held at 34c. 
Buoom CORN.— There is a fair inquiry from manu¬ 
facturers at steady figures. Short green brush, 14® 
13c.; green huri, 13®l*c.; medium green, ll®LSc.; red 
and red-tipped, iu@llc 
Butter.—T he trade uas bad an unhappy time of 
It during the past week. Supplies have overrun the 
market, and prices at one time took a downward 
plunge that alarmed even those whn propbesled a 
low scale of spring prices and shaped accordingly. 
The decline alter reaching tbe rates annexed De- 
camo checked, and it lo iks a little brighter now for 
prime butter. Tbe low grades are unsettled aud 
likely to be from this time forward. There is an 
abundance of Slock that Is too good for export aud 
too poor for home u»o. We have had a great scar¬ 
city of prime high grade butter, but later advices 
promise a supply from Chenango und some other lo¬ 
calities that nave a pretty loug reserve. Western 
butter is low ami neglected now that tjtate Is so ob¬ 
tainable at cheap figures. We quote ; 
Extra half tubs, 33@--o,; State Half tubs, fiue, 28® 
_3s 
