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OORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
APRIL 40 
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ItyuiS) of the tSS^h. 
home news paragraphs. 
The North Carolina Constitutional Conven- f 
tion will meet September 6. 1 
It Is reported from the Pacific coast that 
optuin continues to be smuggled In email ' 
quantities, in spite of the vigilance of the 
customs officers. In some cases it is brought 
into the country and landed at places un¬ 
known, sometimes it Is placed In packages of 
sugar, tea or fruits, or i« concealed In the box 
or jar in which such articles are packed. It 
is also found upon persons and In the clothing 
and bedding of Chinese passenger*, and con¬ 
cealed in tubs and buckets by means oi' false 
bottoms and aUoln the soles of wooden shoes 
of Chinese emigrants. It is probable that the 
most of the smuggling of l ids drug is done by 
some device Of this kind. 
Mr. Franklin Simmons writes from Home to 
blB friends in Maine that the marble statue of 
William King, Maine's first Governor, which 
he Is making under a commission of the Legis¬ 
lature, is nearly completed and will be for¬ 
warded within n few weeks. 
A lire in Butrain destroyed property to the 
value of $220,Q00. A fireman was killed by the 
falling of a floor. 
There are an unusual number of Icebergs and 
immense Ice-fields in the Gulf Stream, directly 
In the path of ocean steamers. 
The grand Jury of Columbia County, N. Y., 
has found four indictments against Harris, 
recently arrested for burning buildings of the 
Lebanon Shaker families. 
The Louisiana Genera! Appropriation bill, as 
signed by Gov. Kellogg, is pronounced a for¬ 
gery, and essentially different from the bill 
passed by the Legislature. 
From many portions of southern and south¬ 
eastern Minnesota accounts come of farmers 
who commenced seeding two weeks ago. 
A dispatch from Philadelphia says that by 
the 1st of July at least 4,000 men will be engaged 
alone on the Centennial Memorial building, all 
of whom will be required to work fourteen 
hours a day. 
Gov. Tllden refuses to interfere further in the 
case of Donald Doren, who is lying under 
sentence of death In jail in Lockport, N. Y. 
He will therefore be executed there on Friday, 
April 16. 
Messrs. John G. Whittier, Wendell Phillips, 
William Lloyd Garrison, George W. Curtis and 
Frederick Douglass are expected to participate 
in the Centennial anniveisary of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Abolition Society on April 14. 
The bodies of three men who had perished 
with cold were found by hunters In a roofless 
cabin in Ness county, Kansas, on Saturday 
week. 
Application having been mtftie to the Gov¬ 
ernor of Pennsylvania to suppress the miners' 
riots in Schuylkill, Columbiaand Northumber¬ 
land Counties, lie has issued a message to the 
sheriffs of those counties, directing them to 
suppress the tumults without delay. 
The Governor of Texas telegraphs for aid 
against repeated raids of Mexicans along the 
border. The Secretary of War has promised 
assistance, and ordered the movement of 
troops. 
Yellow fever is reported as epidemic in 
Havana, and two oases have occurred at Key 
West. 
The residence of Wm. R, Byrd, at Apes Hole, 
near Crisfleld, Md„ was burned recently, and i 
two children, aged eight and four years, per¬ 
ished. 
The most violent gale ever experienced at < 
Astoria, Oregon, prevailed there Sunday week, 
and vessels were driven ashore and damaged. 
The Senate act giving additional powers to 
the Governor’s Canal Commission was passed ( 
unanimously by the Assembly. 
The Canal Board have appointed the Lieut.- < 
Governor, the Secretary of State, and the j 
A ttornev-Oeneral n committee to examine ex¬ 
isting canal contracts and to report to the 
Board, 1 
The Atlantic and Great Western Railway has 
announced a reduction of passenger fares from 
Cincinnati to New York from $20 to $15. This 
will probably force the other roads out of 
Cincinnati Into a reduction. 
The Rev. Joseph Eldridgc, t>. D. of Norfolk, 
Conn., who last summer resigned the pastorate 
of the Congregational Cburch at that place 
after a service there of forty-two years, died on 
the 1st inst. 
J. H. Sadler of England has sent a challenge 
to row Evan Morris of Pittsburg or George 
Brown of Halifax a live mile race for $2,5<Xi a 
side, and the championship of the world. 
The Virginia Legislature has before it a bill 
appropriating $10,000 for receiving and placing 
upon a suitable pedestal the statue of “ Stone¬ 
wall" Jackson presented to that State by his 
English admirers. 
The Delaware and Susquehanna ice gorges 
broke up April 1, and passed down the rivers 
without much damage to property. 
The New Jersey Assembly has appointed a 
committee to investigate the management of 
the State Treasury since February, 1873. 
The Overlook Mountain House, near Wood- 
stock, Ulster County, N. V„ was destroyed by 
firs last week. 
The New’ York city merchants last week held 
a mass meeting at the Produce Exchange, and 
passed resolutions approving of Gov. Tllden's 
course in exposing the canal frauds. Similar 
action was taken at the Chamber of Commerce. 
Tammany Hall, and by the Liberal Republican 
General Committee. 
Gov. Hardin of Missouri has called an extra 
session of the Legislature to secure the trans¬ 
action of business which the regular session 
failed to reach. 
The mills at Natick, R. I., closed last week, 
owing to the strike of the operatives. 
At Elliotsville, Jefferson County, Ohio, the 
boiler in Tunnell’s mills exploded April 1, kill¬ 
ing three men. 
The ice gorges are melting away under the 
April sun. The Delaware and Susquehanna are 
well nigh free of ice, and all serious danger 
seems to have passed. 
The Senatorial excursion to Mexico has been 
abandoned. Tbe steamer which was to have 
taken the party from New Orleans carried im¬ 
portant dispatches from the II. 6. Department 
of State to the Mexican Government. 
Within the lost ten days five vessels have been 
loaded with 223,200 bushels Of grain at the in¬ 
ternational elevator, Girard Point, Penn., and 
seventeen foreign vessels are waiting to receive 
over 600.000 bushels. 
A movement Is on foot in New’ark, N. J., to 
erect a statue to the memory of Seth Boyden, 
the well-known inventor, who lived and died 
in that city. 
Additional outrages by the striking miners in 
Pennsylvania are reported,but there are no in¬ 
dications that military force will be required to 
enforce order. 
President Grant and family spent three days 
in New York City and vicinity last week. 
Gov. Chamberlain of South Carolina has been 
Invited by the Faculty of tbe Yale Law School 
to deliver the oration before that institution at 
the next Commencement. 
In Rhode Island Rowland Hazard and Daniel 
E. Day have accepted nominations for Governor 
and Lieutenant-Governor respectively by the 
Republican who are opposed to the proceedings 
of the late Republican State Convention. 
A loss of nearly $20,000 was caused by the 
burning of Hutchinson’s oil refinery at London, 
Ont., last week. 
Masses of Ice ten feet high have been left by 
the receding flood on the railway track near 
Wllkesbarre, Pa. 
Governor Rartranft has sent an Imperative 
dispatch to the Sheriff of Luzerne County, Pa., 
, stating that it Is his duty to preserve the public 
peace and protect life without military inter- 
, ference. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
Don Carlos has ordered persons found read¬ 
ing Cabrera’s manifesto to be shot. 
There is no truth in the report that Bkmarck 
will be made Duke of Lunenburg. 
The prospects of peace in Spain are increasing. 
A monumeut of Maximilian will be inaug¬ 
urated at Trieste, early in April. 
The Coolie trade carried od by the Cuban au¬ 
thorities is condemned by a Chinese commis¬ 
sion. 
Rumors prevail of public disturbances in 
Pekin. 
The Italian government will assist exhibitors 
from that country at the Philadelphia Centen¬ 
nial. 
The Carllst General Sabalsi is likely to give in 
his adhesion to Ring Alfonso. 
The Catholic Conference at Fulda has come 
to an end. 
The Canadian Premier denies that United f 
States contractors have control of the Canada p 
Pacific Railway. T 
The steamer Parmatlan from Liverpool took h 
out 200 agricultural laborers for Canada. o 
The Governor General of Canada will sail for f 
England on the 1st of May. f 
A steamer arrived at Havana, Cuba, from $ 
Cadiz April 1, with 1,000 soldiers. P 
The French minister of commerce asks the h 
chambers of com mere*! for their co-operation o 
for a worthy representation of France at the a 
American centennial. v 
Wilson, McLay A Co., metal merchants, have fc 
suspended, owing to difficulties arising from t. 
their American contracts for rails. The iiabiii- a 
ties of t he firm are estimated at $1,000,000. f 
ft is stated that Spain has repeatedly re¬ 
quested Germany to order Its w*ar vessels to ^ 
bombard Zarauz for the Gustav outrage, but t 
Germany has refused to do so, because in case v 
Of bombardment innocent persons would c 
suffer. t 
Sir John Forster Fitzgerald, G. C. B., who t 
will shortly receive the baton of a field mar- 8 
shal, is the “ father " and senior general of the f 
British army. He was born in 1786, obtained a 
ids first commission In 1794, and served lu the t 
Peninsular war and in India. Kir John is Col- » 
onel of the Eighteenth (the Royal Irish) Regl- i 
ment, and possesses the gold cross for Badajoz, l 
Salamanca, Vittoria and the Pyrenees. s 
A body of Carllste has entered tbe province * 
of Santander in Spain. t 
Eighty Catholic clergymen are reported to be ( 
In prison In one province of Prussia. ; 
Mr. Geo. Alexander Macfarren. the eminent 
composer, has been unanimously elected Pro- 
lessor of Music in Cambridge University, Eng. 
The Emperor of Japan will pay a visit to 
France In August by way ol Suez and Marseilles. 
He w ill be accompanied by a numerous suite, 
who will be convoyed in three war vessels. 
The funeral of the late John Martin, M. P., 
tcok place at Newry. April 1, and was attended 
by thousands of people. Nearly every town in 
Ireland was represented. Several members of 
Pavliamont were present. 
A special dispatch from Berlin says a finan¬ 
cial crisis is feared. Settlements on the Bourse 
are effected with great, difficulty. There have 
been 28 failures and two persons have commit¬ 
ted suicide In consequence of financial reverses. 
It Is reported that the forthcoming English 
budget will 6how the total revenue for the 
financial year ending March 31 to be £74,922,000. 
This falls £2,414,000 below’ tbe revenue of the 
previous year, but exceeds t he estimates by 
£497,000. 
A telegram from Kt. Petersburg states that 
M. Schichkin. the Russian Diplomatic Agent 
and Consul-General in Servia, has been appoint¬ 
ed Minister of Russia to the United States. 
The Marquis de Molino. Spanish ambassador 
at Paris, has refused a passport for Spain to the 
Duke de Montpcnsier. 
Before the close of the conference of the 
Roman Catholic bishops at Fulda, Germany, a 
communication was received from the Pope 
giving the bishops his blessing and urging 
them to pe/severe. 
A conference of the Emperors of Germany, 
Austria and Russia takes place in May or June 
next. 
There are serious differences between Don 
Carlos and the Carlist Council of the Province 
of Navarre. 
William Thomas Henley, telegraph engineer 
and contractor of London has failed. His lia¬ 
bilities are $2,500,000. 
There is a report that the Emperor of Brazil 
Intends to ahdicate in favor of his eldest 
daughter. 
Gen. Concha has made charges against Senor 
Jovellar, formerly Captain-General of Cuba. 
The religious controversy in Mexico is in¬ 
creasing in bitterness. 
A cotton laden ship of about 3,000 tons was re¬ 
cently wrecked off Dounarenz, coast of France, 
and all hands are supposed to have perished. 
An equinoctial hurricane, on Wednesday 
week, caused much damage on Vancouver’s 
Island. Many buildings were unroofed and 
telegraph linos demolished. 
The Spanish government announces that six 
Carllst generals, three colonels and many other 
officers have entered France and declared their 
allegiance to Ring Alfonso. 
An Inter-colonial exhibition of the produc- 
> tlons of the British, French and Dutch Do- 
• minions tn Australia and neighboring Islands, 
5 is to be held in Melbourne, and meritorious 
’ articles will be forwarded to the American 
Centennial. 
W. G. Greaves and Dr. E. B. Sparham, on 
trial at Brockvllle, Ontario, for murder In pro¬ 
curing the abortion of Miss Sophie E. Burnham 
' on Dec. 28 last, have been sentenced to be 
hanged on June 23. Greaves was the girl's 
{ seducer, and accompanied her to Dr. Sparham’s 
office. 
'• Ashton W. Dilke, only brother of Sir Charles 
' Dilke, recently purchased the London Weekly 
Dispatch and Is making a great financial success 
* of it. Within two months the circulation of 
the Dispatch has risen 16,000 copies, and is 
gaining at the rate of 1,000 per week. 
frozen or coated over with ice, which made 
pedestrianlsm both doubtful and dangerous. 
Wheat does not look promising. Much more 
land than usual will be planted with corn. No 
oats yet sown, but wore last season at this date. 
Farm hands aro scarce and good ones few and 
far between; the latter are paid wages from 
$14 to $20 per month. Cows are bringing good 
prices—$40 to $70. Sheep are high. Good work 
horses have been very low, but as spring work 
opens are held at higher figures. Eggs scarce 
at 32c. per dozen, although poultry has been 
very plenty and sold at low prices. Robins and 
bluebirds are plenty. Yesteiday the frogs in 
the swamps gave their first serenade. The wild 
geese the past, week have been seen in large 
Rocks going northward.—Q. O. B. 
Lyndon* I lie, Vl„ March 31 .—The weather is 
delightful. After thecoldestwinterof thecou- 
tury and snows and blows innumerable, tbe 
warm spring sun has banished " Boreas" and is 
causing the snow to gradually disappear to the 
manifest Joy of every living creature. At least 
two feet of snow covers the ground on an aver¬ 
age at present date, and the soil la free from 
frost, especially in the forests. Kugar makers 
are anticipating a poor sugar season. Usually 
the most as well as the best maple sugar is 
made when there is little snow and the ground 
is frozen to a considerable depth. Very little 
has been done yet ii. the sugar orchards In this 
section of the State, but judging from the pres¬ 
ent aspect and indications of the weather-god, 
a “good run” may be expected " about these 
days." Maple sugar of last year's make, prices 
at 8c. to 10c. per lb., as to quality.—i. w. s. 
Duck Head, Morgan Co., fin., April 1.—The 
three months just, closed have been more than 
usually wet, maklngithr- season backward. Corn 
is generally planted, although many are yet 
preparing to plant. More than the usual acre¬ 
age in corn about here this season. WiDter 
wheat (of which more than ever has hern sown) 
is looking very well. A little less acreage in 
cotton will be planted, and very little fertilizers 
used, farmers doing more to make the compost 
heaps larger. Dish potatoes and green peas are 
growing flnoly. Wages, $10 per month and 
board ; belter labor could get. better wages, but 
wo generally work on shares, stock and laud 
fur labor.—C. v. s. w. 
Onondago Co., N. Y., April 2.—An unusual 
number of aged people have died hereabouts 
during the winter just passed, which has been 
very’ severe. The spring has been veiy fine so 
far. We are now having tbe first rain of the 
season. Farm hands are very plenty; about 
$20 Is the ruling price. Domestics are very 
scarce and their wages are high. Teasels are 
badly winter-killed. Wheat, fields and mead¬ 
ows are looking well. Good new milch cows 
bring from $50 to $70; and the other stock very 
high.—S kakeatkler. 
feherkstou, Welland Co., Ont., Con., Maroh 
30.—Weather during the last few’ days mild and 
spring-like. On the 24th inst. a heavy fall of 
snow. Winter here has been very severe, but 
ground covered with snow the greater part of 
the time. Fail wheat looking rather poorly. 
Wages during summer months for good work¬ 
men on farm, $20@'25 per month. -J. m. s. 
Vernon, W indham Co., V t. April 1.—The 
past winter has been very severe; snow deep 
aDd badly drifted. It is now about two feet 
deep on the level. Ilay plenty, $15 20 per 
tun; corn meal, $1.80; oats, 65c.; potatoes, 65c.; 
apples, $2; butter, 30c.; eggs, 25c.; pork, $11. 
Farm help plenty; wages, $20 <& 26 per month, 
with board.—J. C. a. 
Griffin, «a„ March 29.—Season so far has 
been very wet; no snow to this date. Corn 
planted. Preparation for cotton is behind last 
year; planters using less commercial fertilizers 
and planting more grain crops. Labor sufficient 
for the demands of farmers.—J. G. R. 
TBS MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday. April 3. 1875. 
Beans and Pkas.- Exports of beans past week, 
400 bbls.: since Jan. 1st, 0,500 ilo.; same time last year, 
11,400 do. The return of spring usually cut#off heavv 
local trade In beans, and as we are beginning to reel 
tbe event prices for the liberal slock in 6tore are 
easier. There is • general decline of 5c. in mediums 
and marrows, and for good, moderate parcels of the 
latter perhaps a further shading would be accepted. 
The supply of peas Is small. Canadian are firm at 
the late advance and green are hard to find I n large 
\Ve quote Beans, new medium, prime. $1.75®1.85; 
' , . a.* i ,— 1 n.-. . a . _ n _ > I Ot verivn now 
kidney, new red. t-va-: white kidney, new, 12-35® 
2 40; do. other. $3*13.36. Canada peas, in bulk and 
bond. tl.14Sll.l5; do. green, prime oew, t2.IO@2.SU: 
split peas, in bond 4* ubl.. 15.75^$*! .00; Southern B. 
E. peas, per 1 bush- bag, t3.50t$3.7&- 
Bkeswax.—*O hotcn lota are wanted by shippers 
aud bring full, unchanged prices. Sales have been 
reported at 34Of 35c. 
Bhoom Corn.— 1 The small supplies are offered 
wttn much reserve and better prices insisted upon. 
Short green brush, 15417c.; green iinil. lift i7e.; me¬ 
dium green, ]2®14e.; red and red-tipped, liKst)2c. 
Butter.—T he feeling In prime old butter is very 
undecided, now that we are receiving installments 
of new. Of course the supplies »f new are not of 
commercial moment, sti 1 they show that the season 
ha# opened, aud most of the best buyers like to 
Keep up with the times. Medium and common 
grades of old are very slow, and quotations in many 
cases axe nominal. Kunio parcels ot new Slate are 
quite attractive. Tbe old complaint is made by re- 
quite BtnaCTlve. '.»iu uumvioiuv IC LUWA4-C aw- 
THE SEASON. CHOPS, PRICES,ETC. S «f ^^TESa^SSf. 
Brook land ville, Baltimore Co., Md,, March 
30.—Spring very backward. Fruit trees look 
unusually healthy; flue prospects for a good 
fruit season. Winter was very severe; almost 
a continual sleet and rain has kept the fields 
oairymen in vue vu, 
Bettor leave out tin* color altogether, unless expe¬ 
rience ha* developed theoorreet tint. \\ e quote old: 
Extra .State half tub*. W®30c.: do. half tuba. tine. 25 
@270.; do. half tubs, under grade. 174W0C.; do. nrkins, 
selections, 24<tf2So.; do. firkin#, fine, 23@—e.; do. do., 
common to fair, ifctflr.; do. [nil dairies, prime. 25® 
—C.; do. full dairies, otb«r, Z 2 i 32 ,icd do. W*d8h tub*, 
choice. 24 < 2 i!(>c.; do. do,, good, 22<823o.; do. do. tubs, 
