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OORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
APRIL 47 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
All Immediate danger from freshets In the 
Now England river has passed. Throe bridges 
have been destroyed at Exeter, H. H-, by the 
flood and Ice. 
The loss by the burning of the Churchman 
huildlng, Hartford, Ct., is Trom $50,000 to $80,- 
000; insured, $48,500. The paper will appear as 
usual. 
One hundred locomotives and eight hundred 
men on the Erie road were idle during the time 
the Port Jervis bridge was rebuilding. 
The divided Republican vote In Rhode Island 
defeated an election for Governor and Lteut.- 
Governor by the people; the remainder of the 
Republican ticket was re-elected by Increased 
majorities. 
Gov. Tilden sent to the Senate the names of 
John Bigelow, Daniel Magone, John D. Van 
Huron, jr., and Alexander E. Orr as members of 
the Cortf mission for the Investigation of canal 
frauds. 
Mr. James Lick of San Francisco has sub¬ 
scribed $2,500 to the Philadelphia Centennial, 
and has given intimation that lie will double 
the amount. 
The Democratic majority on State officers In 
Connecticut was about 6,000; the Congressional 
delegation will contain three Democrats and 
one Republican, and the Legislature will be 
Democratic by reduced majorities. 
The Memphis Theater admits negroes without 
restriction, being, it is believed, the first place 
of amusement in the United States to yield to 
the Civil Rights law. 
George Q. Camion, Congressional Delegate 
from Utah, was tried last week in Salt Lake 
City for polygamy. The defense was that he 
hadcontracted no polygamous marriage within 
two years preceding the indictment. The de¬ 
fendant was discharged under the statute. 
The Supervisors of Kings County have decided 
against a bill providing extra payment for the 
jurors in the Beecher case. 
Andreas Egner and George Rufer of Cincin¬ 
nati have been sentenced to be hanged on July 
13 for the murder of Herman Schilling. 
At the May meeting of the American Social 
Solence Association in Detroit, Mr. David A. 
Wells will preside, and will likewise say some¬ 
thing upon the condition of trade and industry 
at che South. This address will be followed by 
a debate on that subject, occurring on the 12th 
of May. Gen, Garfield will present a financial 
paper. 
The family of Sylvanus Keller of Jasper Co., 
Mo., wera buried in the ruins of their house, 
which was blown down a few nights ago, and 
which afterwards took Are. All were rescued 
with the exception of a girl, seven years old, 
who was crushed in the ruins. 
On the roll of t he Forty-third Congress there 
are four Williamses; on that of the Forty-fourth 
there, will bo seven. Congress is a groat place 
for Bills, big and little. 
Navigation opened in the Connecticut river 
to Hartford city, last week, the latest opening 
for twenty years. 
They havs wind in California. The rear car 
end of a train on the Northern Pacific Railroad 
was blown off the track by a strong wind, and 
was precipitated down a ravine forty feet deep. 
Rev. Mr. Avens of Tomales, was pri bably fatally 
injured, and many others severely Uurt t 
Nine manufacturers of counterfeit money 
were arrested In the Southwestern counties of 
Virginia recently, and It Is expected that 
twenty more of the band will soon be appre¬ 
hended. 
It Is estimated at the Treasury Department 
that between two and three millions of dollars 
of silver will be coined at the United States 
mints during the present month. 
Application haB been made to have the 
Detroit ami Milwaukee Railroad placed In the 
hands of a receiver so that the earnings be 
applied to repairs Instead of paying debts. 
Postmaster-General Jewell Is to give a recep¬ 
tion In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Bartorla previous 
to their departure for Europe. 
Gov. Hedle has nominated Jonathan Dixon of 
Jersey City and Alfred Reed of Trenton as 
Judges for the two additional Supreme Court 
districts created by the Legislature. 
The Erie and New Jersey Midland Railroads 
are engaged in a vigorous war for the possession 
of the Middletown and Unionville Railroad, 
with the chances In favor of Erie. The milk 
traffic alone will pay.the expenses or operating 
the road. 
A train on the Bolvldero Railway, while near 
Milford, N. .1.. on Wednesday evening week, 
struck a boulder that had rolled from tin? 
mountain to the trank. The locomotive was 
hurled Into the Delaware river and sunk out of 
sight. The engineer and fireman swam ashore. 
The passenger coaches were piled one on the 
other, but no one was seriously injured. 
A lire at Tlconderoga, N. Y-, destroyed prop¬ 
erty valued at $200,(100. 
The Delaware and Hudson canal was opened 
for navigation on Monday, April 12. 
The flour, grain and commission bouse of 
Howard Hlncbman & Son of Philadelphia has 
failod tlielr liabilities being placed at $100,000, 
Mrs. Nelson, widow of the late Judge Nelson, 
died In Cooperstown, N. V., on the »Ui inst. 
A Woman’s Temperance Association has 
been organized at Canastots, N. Y., 
The property of Tweed, which has been seized 
by the sheriff under an attachment in the new 
suit, comprises 67 lots and two blocks of valuable 
real estate In this city. 
Tom Scott, It Is said, will soon resign the 
management of the Texas Pacific, to be suc¬ 
ceeded by Southern Democrat . 'The object Is 
to give the scheme greater strength in the next 
Congress. 
Terrible tornadoes are reported in Illinois, 
Arkansas and Nebraska. Several people wer8 
killed and a targe number wounded. Many 
houses were unroofed. 
TlieTItloa, Ithaca and Elmira Railroad Com¬ 
pany has leased the llue of the Auburn branch 
between Norwich and De Ruyter, and trains 
now make regular trips between Ithaca >ud 
Norwlon. The New Berlin branch of the Mid¬ 
land is again doing business. 
The New Jersey Legislature adjourned nine 
die, on the 8th Inst. 
Ex-Congressman Cessna of Pennsylvania is to 
be made Assistant Attorney-General, vice Hill 
resigned. 
About 5 o’clock P. M. of the 7th inst. a whirl¬ 
wind about one hundred feet wide, from the 
northwest, struck the TMatte river bridge at 
Schulycr, Neh., lifted four spans with the roof, 
from their places, and dropped them in the 
river, leaving nothing but the piers. Several 
houses on the south side were blown down. 
The damage Is estimated at $20,000. 
The Ozark House In Springfield, Mo., was 
burned on Wednesday week. Loss about $50,- 
000; Insured for $25,000, 
Prof. J. V. Hayden, United States Geologist, 
has just received a letter from Paris, announc¬ 
ing his election as an honorary member of the 
Alpin-Francals Club, in honor of his explor¬ 
ations In the Rocky Mountains. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
The charges against Gen. Jovellar are likely 
to result In his retirement from the Spanish 
Ministry. 
A Papal Encyclical has been promulgated 
against the Old Catholics of Switzerland. The 
Bishop of Breslau, In Prussia, has been asked to 
resign his office. 
The ceremony of conferring the title of car¬ 
dinal on Archbishop Manning of England took 
place at Rome. 
The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has 
gone on a visit to Italy. 
The Spanish Government has decided to send 
15,000 soldiers to Cuba. 
The ship Dacia, which went ashore on the 
Isle of Wight, has gone to pieces. Nothing was 
saved. 
The Khedive of Egypt, It is stated, has estab¬ 
lished three Judgeships in his capital, to he 
held by English lawyers. 
By the advice of bis physioims, the Emperor 
William lias abandoned his proposed journey 
to Italy to visit King Victor Emanuel. The 
Crown Prince and the Crowu Princess will go 
Instead. 
A motion to give unmarried women the right 
to vote failed to pass to its second reading in 
the British Huuse of Commons. 
The report that the Emperor of Brazil pro¬ 
posed to abdicate has no foundation. 
A woman's temperance club has recently 
been started in Calcutta, the first movement of 
the kind ever made in that far-off country. 
The Spanish Bank of Havana has temporarily 
loaned the Cuban Government $2,000,000 in gold 
with which to pay the troops. 
Cardinal Manning has arrived in London 
from Rome. The Catholic gentry of England 
will in a few days present him a congratulatory 
address and a testimonial of five thousand 
guineas. 
The Rome correspondent of a Paris journal 
writes that the Pope will take up his residence 
in the United States If It should becornelmpos- 
sible for blm to remain in Rome, and says It 
was with a view to such possible emergency 
that ArcbblBhop McCIoskey was elevated to 
the Cardinalale. 
The Jap inese Government Is not only imitat¬ 
ing the United States way of managing post- 
office matters. but has erected post-office build¬ 
ings at Yokohama, Nagasaki, I lingo and Toklo, 
according to Western style. 
Sir John Gray, member of Parliament for Kil¬ 
kenny, and proprietor of the Freeman’s Journal 
of Dublin, died on the 8th inst. 
It Is reported that the Prussian Government 
intends to prosecute German subscribers to the 
Carlist fund for fomenting rebellion against a 
friendly power. 
The Bishop Of Breslau, Prussia, has refused to 
resign his see. Legal proceedings will be begun 
immediately to enforce compliance with the 
decree of the court. 
The autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, the friend 
of Jeffrey, Cockburn, Wordsworth and Arnold, 
edited by her daughter, Lady Richardson, will 
I)©given to the public early this Spring. 
Mr. Hepworth Dixon Is engaged upon a new 
work on America, growing out of the observa¬ 
tions of his recent visit here. A prominent 
topic In the book will be tb« gradual deca¬ 
dence of half breeds. 
Advices from China say that one of the 
widows of the late Etnperor died on the 27th of 
March. 
There is an impression In Berlin that the next 
French Assembly will contain a Republican 
majority anxious for revenge on Germany, and 
t hat a war Is inevitable. 
The upper classes in Italy are ready to join 
any ally against Germany, considering its anti- 
papal attitude hostile to Italian interests. 
It is believed that there is now less prospect 
than before in Berlin of concerting common 
measures with Austria and D aly in relation to 
the personal responsibility of the Pope. 
Marquis de Caux, who wears the renown of 
being Patti's husband, Is so HI iu St. Petersburg 
as to be causing the greatest anxiety to his 
wife. 
Fourteen officers who have abandoned the 
cause of Don Carlos have arrived at Biarritz. 
The Carllsts tried to stop them from crossing 
the frontier. 
The French Government has sent instructions 
to its consuls lo summon for the last time 
French subjects living abroad, who are liable 
to military service, to have their names regis¬ 
tered at the consulate. 
The Telegraphic Congress to assemble at St. 
Petersburg will consider the question declar¬ 
ing all lines of telegraph neutral during war. 
Recent communications between the Russian 
and British Cabinets have tended to remove 
the difficulties which caused Britain to decline 
sending a representative to the International 
War Code Conference at St. Petersburg. 
The prosecution of the Mudrid professors 
is likelv to result in the fall of the Spanish 
Ministry. 
A promise has been given by the French 
Minister of Commerce to call the attention of 
the Permanent Commission of the Assembly to 
the Philadelphia Exhibition. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
The vacant army paymastershlps have been 
much sought, after, 500 applications for them 
having been filed. 
G. A. Anderson of the N. J. State Commis¬ 
sioners of Fisheries placed 5,500 young Cali¬ 
fornia salmon in the west branch of the Ranco- 
casoD Thursday. 
Sylvester H. Moore of Newark has been ap¬ 
pointed to sucoceed Gen. Fltz John Porter as 
superintendent of the new buildings for the 
insane In Morristown, N. J. 
The increase of postage on third class matter 
causes great complaint on a!l sides. 
The attorney-general has ordered that all the 
alleged frauds in connection with the opera¬ 
tions of the freedtnan’s bureau be promptly 
and thoroughly attended to. 
For the year ending Dec. 31,1874, the excess 
of imports was $46,969,497, while for the corre¬ 
sponding period of 1873 the exports exceeded 
the imports by only $192,250. 
The military enroUment of the destitute per¬ 
sons in the grasshopper regions number 9,245, 
of whom 4,237 are under twelve years of age. 
Theodore Tilton has bqpn Invited to deliver 
the address at the Morrisville, Vt„ Fourth of 
July celebration. 
Atrs. Mary Sellers and Mrs, Barbara Babb of 
Milton, Mass., aro probably the oldest .twins in 
New England, being 85 years of age. 
A Roman Catholic priest In Troy makes fre¬ 
quent rouuds of the saloons in his parish, to 
see if any of his congregation are drunkards. 
Allen Brown has walked 500 miles in six days 
at Nashville, being, It is claimed, the first 
pedestrian who has accomplished the feat with¬ 
out a charge of trickery. 
Sir Charles Lyeil has left a fortune of about 
$150,000. To the London Geological Society he 
willed $10,000, 
The amount vote! by Parliament for defray¬ 
ing the cost of the British arctio expedition 
this year is £98,630. It la probable that a fur¬ 
ther sum of £16,000 will be wanted In 1876 and 
£13,000 in 1877, 
The King of Spain has conferred on Prince 
Bismarck the order of the Golden Fleece. 
The experiment Is now being made of intro¬ 
ducing the cultivation of tea In Sicily, as the 
climatic conditions there have been found to 
be almost Identical with those of Japan. 
The subscription opened In Denmark for the 
erect ion of a statue to Hans Christian Andersen 
amounts already to 18,000 crowns. M. Andersen 
attained his seventieth year on the 2d of April. 
England Is a good market for autographs, yet 
any one who should undertake to construct 
rules of value for them would have a difficult 
task. At a recent sale a letter of Queen Alary 
brought $405; one of Queen Elizabeth, $410; an 
autograph n[ M iry Queen of Scots, $285, and 
one of Burns, $300. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Alendon, St. Joseph Co., Mich., April 5. —In 
giving you a brief synopsis of the season, crops 
and prices, I cannot help commencing my epis¬ 
tle by bestowing some praise upon your valu¬ 
able paper—valuable, as one number often con¬ 
tains information worth to me the price of the 
volume. And 1 could not be induced to do 
without it for any consideration. Have paid 
for and read your paper for the past six years, 
although my name has not been on your sub¬ 
scription list each year. The winter has been 
long and very cold, the thermometer ranging 
from zero to 28° below—colder than has ever 
before been known here, with snow two feet 
on the level. For a few days the weather has 
been warm and pleasant, and the snow and ice 
have disappeared fast. Wheat seems to be in¬ 
jured some, but to what extent cannot yet be 
determined. Fruit not much injured, except 
peaches, the buds of which aro all killed. Feed 
pleuty aud stock wintered well. Clover fields 
are ail right, and clover sown last fall is look¬ 
ing fine. Red wheat la worth $1.05; white, $1.12; 
corn. 70c.; hay, $12 to $15 per ton ; beans, me¬ 
dium, $1.70 little navy, $3 ; potatoes, 80c.(&$l— 
scarce on account of freezing in the pH ; farm 
labor, $18<!5 , (22 aud board.— o. a. a. 
Cremona, IVeoiilio Co., Kan., April 14.— Have 
had a very cold and dry winter here. The first 
two or three days of Alarch were very stormy. 
We had a very good rain on the night of the 
aOlta of March. Since the rain the grasshoppers 
Have hatched out by the million from eggs that 
were deposited last fall. Can’t say whether they 
will do any damage or not. Peaches aro not 
killed yet. Wheat looks very well, considering 
the dry weather. Farm labor is from $1:2 to $18 
per month.—o. w. o. 
Cnploilia, Armalin Go., Knn., April 5.— For 
the last month we have had windy and dry 
weather, with a good rain on the 1st Inst. 
F.verybody Is making all the exertion possible 
to raise another crop, believing that, with the 
exception of grasshoppers, “ seedtime and har¬ 
vest shall not cease.”—r, a. n. 
Fl. Madison, Lee Co., Iowa, April 5. —Our 
winter wheat Is nearly all killed In this County. 
Money Is scarce. Wheat is worth 80c.; corn and 
oats, 60c.; potatoes, 60c.: eggs, 15c. per dozen ; 
farm laborers, $20 per month and board.—G. 
THE MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Receipts.—T he 
are as follows: 
Cotton, bales- 
Flour, bbis. 
Wheat, bush.... . 
Corn. bush... .... 
Oats, bush. 
(trass Seed, bosn. 
it re. bush .. 
Barley, bush. 
Malt, bush. 
Beaus, bush. 
Corn meBi.Dbls... 
Corn meal. bans.. 
Yolk. Saturday. April 10. 1875. 
receipts of Produce for the week 
. 12.8=5 
64.100 
298.9CM; 
79.100 
69,200 
3,700 
200 
24,5001 
so. 2 tw; 
4,000 
I, 4(10 
J. 41W 
Dried Fruits, pkgs.. 
Eggs, bbls. 
Hops, bales. 
Peanuts, bays. 
Pork, pkgs. 
Beet. pkgs...... 
Out meats, pkgs..,. 
Lard, pkgs-.... 
Butter, pkus... 
Cheese, pkgs. 
Wool, bales. 
Beams and Pf.as —Exports of beans past week, 
162 bills., since Jau. 1st, 6.698 do.; same tim<- last year, 
12,063 bbls. A moderate local demand Is nil that can 
bo expected for beans at this period of the Year. Sel¬ 
lers arc satisfied with a lnir grocery trade in me¬ 
diums. pea. aud kidneys, and the suleuf tbefew mar¬ 
rows that po for export. The expr rt trade is much 
below ihis date last year compared from Jan let.; 
hut ub receipts wore heavier for the corresponding 
periods, there Is ns yet no great anxiety among hold- 
ers- Vue stock of red kidneys have been but little 
drawn upon thus far, buttlie increased call for them 
that has sprung up during the past few years rather 
insures n future sale. White kidneys are In good 
supply, and as t hey have not had to tukethe place of 
marrows for Cohan use. as they sometimes have, 
prices are easy. Canadian peas are steady; the fairly 
free arrivals were needed lor the st> tidy demand 
tnat has attended them for the past fortnight. Green 
peas are scarce and firm. High prices aio all tuat 
keep the market, from t unning bnro. Southern B. 
E peas ore in better supply and easy. 
We quote Bean?, new medium, prime. $l.753;1.85; 
do. fair, 1.(21: do. poor, $1.25; marrows, new 
IS. peas, per 2 hush, bag, $3.WW1,7&. 
BEKS WAX.—Shippers still are purchasing with a 
fair l ome trade demand and prices higher bales at 
34(8-350. for choice lois. 
Bkoom Cotin.— Extreme prices are still asked, 
wltti small stocks. Short green brush, 15 " lie.; preen 
hurl, 14@)l7c.; medium preen, 12<ifiUe.; red and red-tip¬ 
ped, 10® L2e. 
Butter.—T he uncomfortable problem in the but¬ 
ter trade is what is to become of the large surplus of 
medium and common grades of old. Most of it is 
deat iued for low dosing figures, aud the weather will 
naturally soon imveu. bad effect upon lots that at e 
sourni now. There Is really room fur lino table yel¬ 
low State, and it is surprising to see how few well- 
kept parcel*uroshowing ihiaseasoi). Certain classes 
of trade want prime old up to a pretty late date, and 
heretofore there have been saved dairies that filled 
! tne requirement New butter Is In good demand. 
Owing to the poor eondlt on of the remainder of last 
year’s crop, local dealers dare not trifle with their 
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