PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES, 
eral will not cause him to retire from t.ha 
Cabinet. 
The loss on the Claremont Workhouse, Penn¬ 
sylvania, Is estimated at from $50,000 to $76,000. 
Only $18,000 of the $65,000 insurance applies to 
the portion burned. Twelve prisoners escaped. 
Surplus funds will enable the managers to 
rebuild, 
Webber Furniture Company’s building, De¬ 
troit, was burned April 20. Total loss $120,000. 
Lake Champlain is clear of Ice, and passenger 
steamers resumed tbeir trips last Monday. 
The editor of the Pittsburgh Post, James P. 
Barr, Is urged by the Democracy r.f Western 
Pennsylvania for the Gubernational nomina¬ 
tion of the party. 
Judges Brooks and Dick recently, in tbeir 
respective charges to grand juries in North 
Carolina, declared the criminal features of 
the civil rights act unconstitutional, as no law 
could Bay that men are socially equal. 
Isaac Brandt, formerly State Treasurer of 
Iowa, has been convicted for embezzllug money 
belonging to the State. 
Them are reports of dangerous gales on the 
lakes. Three fishing vessels are believed to 
have been lost on Lake Michigan, with eleven 
men on board. A barge with four men was 
los» on Lake Erie. 
At a spelling match in Candia, N. H., a few 
evenings ago, Deacon Ezekiel Lane, 83 years 
old, spelled down all the young folks and took 
the first prize. 
A severe rain and wind storm over Cleveland, 
Ohio, Thursday week, doiug much damage to 
crops, chimneys, unfinished buildings, shade 
and fruit trees. 
An extensive fire was raging in the woods 
near Manchester, N. H., last Saturday, extend¬ 
ing along the line of the Manchester and Law¬ 
rence Railroad to Londonderry, and trains on 
that road could pass through the flames. 
Many miles have been burned over, and Im¬ 
mense damage will be done If the flames are 
not checked. 
Charles 8. Medary of New York has been 
appointed Indian Agent at the Flathead ageucy, 
Montana. 
There have been two more deaths from yel¬ 
low fever at Key West, and several now cases 
have appeared. 
Wm. R. Creery, the Superintendent of Public 
Schools of Baltimore, died in that city May 1st. 
The Hon. Thomas M. Edwards, the first 
President of the Cheshire Railroad and member 
of Congress for four years from N. H., died in 
Keene on Sunday last. 
The Secretary of the Treasury has given 
directions to the Assistant. Treasurer at New 
York to sell $5,000,000 of gold during tJxe month 
Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday was cele¬ 
brated enthusiastically at Copenhagen. He re¬ 
ceived a decoration from the King of Denmark, 
bouquets of flowers from the Queen and Prin¬ 
cess, and various honors and t ributes from the 
people. The day was also publicly celebrated 
in Odense, where the poet, was born. 
A dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph, 
from Berlin, saya the Prussian government 
intends to ignore the letter of sympathy ad¬ 
dressed by the Roman Catholic bishops of 
Great Britain to those of Germany. 
A committee of the Prussian Diet baa pre¬ 
pared a bill declaring that the Old Catholics 
are entitled to a share of the Roman Catholic 
churches, cemeteries and revenues proportion¬ 
ate to their numbers as compared with other 
Catholics. 
Rome of the Carlists in Navarre have revolted. 
Americans are preparing to work some old 
Spanish mines about 50 miles from Panama, 
and others are prospecting for gold in the 
vicinity. 
of last summer injured tbeir crops a great deal. 
Bees arc gathering honey very fast now. The 
woods are getting real green, and we hope to 
have a good crop this year. Winter wheat looks 
very well. This couutry is very heavily timber¬ 
ed, mostly with pine and oak. Hoping that I 
can get up a nic-e club for you, I remaiD.— l. l, 
Austin, Tex., April 20.—Very heavy rain 
storm here on Monday, April 19, doing some 
damage and also an immense amount of good. 
Crops backward, but looking well. Will soras 
one of the many readers of the Rural give a 
recipe for making whitewash that will not rub 
off?— m. h. s. 
Newport, Ind., April 24. -It is very cold and 
dry. Mercury 20° below freezing this morning. 
Wheat looks nearly dead. The oats have not 
come up yet. Grass does not look as well as it 
did ten days ago. Wheat, $1<g,1.05; corn, 50® 
60c.—j. h. 
Northampton, (summit Co.. O., April 29.—Cool 
weather. Snow two inches deep. Wheat, $1® 
1.10; oats, 61o.; corn, 45®50c. In ear; hay, $18® 
20; dairy cows, $35®60 each, according to qual- 
ty. It is now snowing.—,j. a. u. 
Additions to Clubs are now in order, and 
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 benent 
of the Agent In the way of Premiums. 
New Clubs.-It is not too late to start new club* 
for 1876. and we hope many of onr readers will see 
what can be done, for the Rural (and the benefit of 
neighbors) in their respective localities. As the 
Rural Is eleofcrotypod we can furnish back num¬ 
bers to all new subscribers. 
Bock Numbers of this 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 any number, bow- 
ever. 
The Beat Paper, and the Best Premiums to 
Agents, is our motto. We Ignore Chromos and all 
other cheap oolored pictures, preferring to put our 
money ftt the paper, and In Premiums to Agents. 
Select Your Premiums.— All persons entitled 
to Premiums will please designate what they prefer 
and notify us how and where to forward—whether 
by Freight or Kcprcss--if articles are not mailable. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC 
Clcnrfleld Co., Pa„ April 20.-This Is not, 
generally speaking, an agricultural county, as a 
majority of its citizens are engaged more or 
Jess In lumbering, but eventually they must 
look to some ether staple than lumber, for, at 
the rate it is being cut, ten years hence there 
will be very little pine timber left in the coun¬ 
ty, and I think I may safely add the State. The 
past has been a very cold wiDter, many say the 
coldest ever known in this section of the State. 
The coldest was below zero. We have a 
good borne market, as the following quota¬ 
tions will attestWheat, $1225; corn, $1; 
buckwheat, $1; oats, 65c.; potatoes, $1, and It 
is thought they will be $1.50 before planting is 
over, as hundreds of bushels were frozen during 
the winter; hay, $20®25 per ton. Karin labor 
Is $20®36 per month, including board.— h. f. s. 
Dunsvllle, Essex Co., Vo., April 26.—We 
have had an extremely cold and long winter 
and spring. Very little good weather for farm¬ 
ing; grass very backward and cattle thin; 
stock food nefc.r out.. The coldest snap last 
week known to this generation, so late in 
April. Most of the fruit killed, we fear; early 
vegetables cut down. Our farmers pay a great 
deal of attention to raising and canning fruit* 
and vegetables; hence this Is a great loss to 
early vegetables, hot-beds, itr, Land is selling 
at from $5 to $40 per acre, as to location and 
condition. Corn. 80o.: wheat, $1.26; Irish pota¬ 
toes, 80c. Farm labor, negro, $5®16 ppr month. 
Good, honest laborers and mechanics are very 
much needed here by the farmers.—o. b. 
Elkton, Todd Co., Ky., April 22— Spriug 
is cold and backward. It started floe and 
warm. Peaches and cherries and some apples 
were in bloom; but. on tbe night of the 10th 
we had a hard freeze, killing nearly all the 
fruit, and the buds on the forest trees, which 
were putting out, wore killed. Tobacco is the 
main crop here, and farmers’are fixing for a 
large crop. We are planting corn now; some 
done. Land In this section (Northern Todd 
Co.) is worth from [$5 to 30 per acre. Corn, 
$3.50514 per bbl.; oats, 70c.; fodder, $2 per 100; 
wheat, $1; tobacco. $10 per hbd.; Irish pota¬ 
toes, $2 per bush. Labor, $12®15 per month. 
No fertilizers used here.— e. w. a. 
Hamilton, III., April 22— For the last week 
we huve had cold, freezing weather. On the 
morning of tbe 17th inst. we found ice in tubs 
two Inches thick and tbe creek frozen over, 
rendering it difficult for stock to get to the 
water. Winter wheat reported killed in this 
vicinity. Wheat is worth $1.20; corn. 60®65c.; 
potatoes, 71c.@$l; butter, 20®30c.; eggs, 15c. 
Farm laborers, $20 per month and board for 
good hands. The long, cold winter has induced 
numbers about here to seek a warmer climate, 
many going to California and some to Florida. 
—a. w. p. 
Mt. Pleasant, Jeff. Co., IV. Y., April 24—We 
have had very remarkable weather here for two 
weeks past, the ground freezing every night 
since the 11th. On the 18th the mercury stood 
at 13° above zero. We had some very nice, 
warm weather from the 1st to tbe 11th, bring¬ 
ing forward tbe fruit, buds and early plants. 
Fruit of all kinds is reported killed. The ten¬ 
der tops of winter wheat (what little there was) 
are cut to tbe ground. Fears are entertained 
as to tbe safety of early-sown ulover and oats. 
—B. c. C. 
Grent Bend, Suaquehauna Co., Pa., April 25. 
—Weather cold and a little new snow. Sugar 
crop poor. Not much plowing done yet. Hay 
plenty at $10 per ton; oats, 50c.; corn, 90c.; 
wheat, $1.10; rye, 80c.; potatoes, 40o. This is a 
quite extensive potato section; there were 
shipped from this place last fail and winter 
about 40 car loads, mostly Early and Late Rose. 
There are three Llmburger cheese factories 
near here. The milk Is contracted for six 
months at 9Vic. for 8(4 lbs. milk-— e. h. o. 
Corvallis, Oregon, March 30—This has been 
the coldest winter In ten years. Three weeks 
of steady cold is quite unusual, and one day 
the mercury went down to zero, and snow re¬ 
mained on the ground two weeks. Prices of 
farm products are as follows:—Wheat, 65c.; 
oats, 40c.; barley, 80c.; flaxseed, $1.50 per bush.; 
hay, tame, $16 per ton; potatoes, $1 per bbl. 
Butter, 30c.; eggs, 15c.; horses, $60®b5: cows, 
$18®25; sheep, $3@4 ,—Benton. 
Hot Spring*, Garland Co., Arl,,, April 20— 
People here are very hard up now, The drouth 
HAVE YOU PAINTING TO DO? 
DO IT WITH THE 
AVERILL CHEMICAL PAINT. 
White, Buff, Drabs, Browns, and all the fash¬ 
ionable shades, arc sold by tbe gallon at less 
cost than a gallon of lead and oil. 
We say this advisedly, believing it to be the 
beet paint In the world. The flnost residences 
in tbe country are now painted with it. It 
stands well and looks handsome. Sample 
cards, prices and testimonials are furnished 
free by the Aveiull Chemical Paint Co., 32 
Burling Slip, N. Y. 
No Traveling Agents. — Remember that the 
Rural employs no traveling canvassers, but de¬ 
pends solely upon Local Club Agents and other 
friends to maintain and augment Its circulation. 
Tlie It ural a« a Present.—Remember that any 
Suhrcriber can send t.ho KlJicAl. to a relative or 
friend, as a present, at tbe lowest club rate—only 
$2.15 a year,including postage. 
Act as Agent I—Reader, if there is no agent lor 
the Rural in your locality please become one by 
forming a club. It toll] 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 Ordor or Registered better at our risk. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS 
New York. Saturday, Mayl. 1876. 
Receipts.—T he receipt* of Produce for the week 
are as follows: 
Cotton, bales. 0,025 Dried krnlt*. pkgs.. 160 
Klour. bbl* . iV.225 Egg*, obis. 217.60 
Wheat, bush.. 269,3501 Hop*. bales. 50 
Corn. bash... . 878,fi00|Peanuts, bags. 12*2 
Oats, bush. 184^00. fork, pigs. JJ3 0 
Grass Seed, busjj.. 5«i| Beet. pVgs . 180 
Kve.busb. StCj Cut meats, pkgs_ 5,118 
Barley, bush. 500| Lard. pkgs.. 5,5:0 
Malt, bush. 17,700 Butter, pkgs. 13.875 
lleans. bush. 8,250 Cheese, pkg*. 11.25(1 
Corn meal, bbl.*..., 1.150 Wool bales . 600 
Corn meal.baas... 2,1'JO 
BEANS AND PEA*.—Exports of benns past week, 
521 bbls.: since. Jan. 1st, 8,400 do.; same tires last 
Tear, 13,35(1. Exports of pens past week. 3.450 bush. 
Meomm and marrow beaus have lost none of the 
firmness noted lost week, and trade Is unusually 
steady both tor export and home use, Peabeansore 
nominal. Kidney# are very quiet. There In a dispo¬ 
sition to Clear the market of poor qualities at lower 
figures. Canadian peas ore again higher; receipts 
are small and tint export inquiry Mjst.alns the ner 
ouotBt'cms. Groin peas are deeldedly firm ; there l» 
but little doing »t the extreme prices—though, for 
that matter, t here is little stock to offer. 
We quote Beans, new medium. :mme, $1.15® 1.85; 
do. fair. $1.45® 1.60; do. poor, $1.85; marrows, now 
prime, fS-l.VtfA'.ifl ; do. marrow, othor. 42.00@2.i0; do. 
Pea, prime new. $1.4»’*S2.00; beans, pea, other,$1.60.; 
kidney, new red. $.v., —; white kidney, new. $2.25«» 
2.3(i; do. Other. $31(147.15. Camilla peas. In bulk and 
bond, $l.20w$1.22: do. green, prime new. 42.406t2.50; 
split peus. in bond bbl., $5.75<o$C,.00; Southern B. 
E. pens, per 2 bush, bag, $3.50. 
Beeswax.-S ome large parcels have been taken 
by exporters, and tbe increased supplies brought 
about by the hue advanced prices have been well 
worked clown ; sales at 34®35><c. for prime and fancy 
lot*. 
Broom Corn.—A slow business has caused lower 
prices. Short green brush amd green hurl. 13@16., 
medium green, ll@13c.; red aud red-tipped, 10 ® 12c. 
Butter.—'T here is a good feeling in fine grades of 
both old aud new. owing to moderate receipt# of the 
latter and scarcity of the other. Extreme prices 
have been pretty generally quotable during the week 
but there is no desire for heavy stock on the part of 
retailers at this season. The novelty of new butter 
is over, and stock lias ta stand upon it# own merits. 
Pries show but little variation compared with last 
New Butter—State palls, finest, 26ttiS0c,; do. good to 
prime. 75®2Tc.: do. do., fair to good. 23«£'5c.; do. 
naif-firkin tubs, selected. 26@28e.; fnir to good, 20® 
24c.; Welsh tubs, good to prime, 23®26cj fair to good, 
20®28c.; very poor, Hw l c.: " esrern tubs, good to 
prime. 20®2fc.; fair to good, 18!« 0e.: poor to fair, 14 
@JBo. 
Old Butter—State dairies, good to prime, 20ti 22c,; 
fair to good, !9®20c.; firkin.*,. choice selected,20®21c.; 
good to prime, 18®20c.; fair to good, IO&ISc.*. poor to 
fair, I4®16C,| naif-tirklns tubs, good to prime. Kfo 
24c.; f air to pood, 2n® 22o ; poor to fair, 10®a>o.; Welsh 
tubs, good to prime, 1 '.i((?j21o.j fair to good, 
poor to fair, 14® l5o.; Penn, dairy, good to prime. 20® 
22c.; fair to good, 18<3.20c.; poor to fair, 14@18e.; store 
packed, UtoMocd Western tubs, fair to good, 14®15c.: 
poor to fair, 12 h@14c.; firkins, good to prime, I4®15c.; 
lair to good, 13@14o.r poor to talr, 12>f@13c. 
The Producers’ Price Current gives the following 
comparative receipts and exports from June 1. 
Receipts, Exports, 
pkgs. lbs. 
June 1. ‘74, to May J, '75. 931,036 4,988.3'i2 
June 1, '73. to May 1, ’74. 923,940 3,203,182 
June 1, ’72, to May 1, ’73.. 001,133 4,108,621 
June i, '71, to May 1 72.. 637,032 6 765,518 
June 1, ’70, to May 1, it. 508,195 2,267,594 
Cheese.—T here is now u fair offering of new, and 
shippers are dealing In them to a fair extent. Tbe 
best price paid for lines of full cream is 16c. Old 
cheese is run down in stock, and there is onlv about 
sufficient fine on sale to oe comfortably handled on 
home-trade orders. 
State Factory—Fine, 15)1® 16c.: no., good to prime. 
14^® 15Mc.; do., fair to good, Ixh® 14i*c.; do., poor. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
A fire at Sing Sing last week, destroyed 
three hotels, the Nelson House, the Empire 
House and the Mansion House. 
The President baa accepted the resignation of 
Attorney-General Williams and appointed 
Edwards Pierrepont to ttie vacant position. 
Rev. Dr. J. B. Wakeley, late pastor of the 
Lexington Avenue M. E. church, died of pneu¬ 
monia in his resldenoe in this city on Tuesday 
morning week. 
The Indiana and Illinois Central Railroad 
was sold last week, at Indianapolis, the first 
mortgage bondholders bidding it, in at $50,000. 
The President has appointed Royal C. Taft 
Commissioner Substitute to the Centennial 
Exposition from the State of Rhode Island. 
Lieut.-Gov. Glenn of Illinois, in the absence 
of Gov. Beveridge, now occupies the chair of 
State, being the first Democratic executive 
Illinois has bad since 1856. 
The proposed consolidation of the Great 
Western Dispatch and the Erie and Pacific 
Dispatch freight lines has been effected. 
Three incendiary fires at Albany, N. Y„ 
A pril27. Martin's Opera House, damage slight; 
McFarland’s pop corn manufactory, damage 
$3,000; McDonald's carriage manufactory, loss 
$ 6 , 000 . 
The fifty-sixth anniversary of the introduc¬ 
tion of Odd Fellowship was celebrated in most 
of the principal cities Monday week. 
Dr. W. H, Harris, professor of Griswold Col¬ 
lege, Davenport, Iowa, is prominently men¬ 
tioned as a candidate for the Bishopric at the 
approaehiog Protestant Episcopal Convention. 
Roswell Hart of Rochester, special agent of 
the post-office department, assigned to duty as 
assistant superintendent of the railway mail 
service, has resigned, and Richard C. Jackson 
of New York has been appointed. 
Mr. Jamos Russell Lowell’s poem, which was 
read at the Concord centennial exercises, has 
been withheld from immediate publication, 
The city of Oshkosh, Wis„ was nearly de¬ 
stroyed by fire on the 28th ult. Business streets, 
mills, hotels, newspaper offices, etc., were swept, 
at a probable loss of $2,500,000. Three hundred 
families are rendered homeless by the fire. 
Mrs. F. B. Conway, the noted actress and 
manager of the Brooklyn Theater, died at her 
residence in that city on Wednesday week. 
Oliver Cbarlick, long a prominent politician, 
stsamboat and railroad man, died at his resi¬ 
dence, at Bayside, near Flushing. L. 1., April 30, 
aged 65. 
Jean Frederic de Waldeck, traveler, artist, 
and centenarian, died In Paris, April 30. He 
was born in Prague, of an ancient family, March 
16, 1766. 
The Rev. Davis 8. Bralnerd, for34 years pastor 
of the First Congregational Church of Lyme, 
Conn., aud a graduate of Yale College of the 
Class of 1834, died ou the 30th ult. 
The library’ of Audubon, the naturalist, was 
burned at Shelbyville, Ky., April29. 
“ Founder’s Day ’’ at Vassar College was ob¬ 
served April 29, the exercises including a con¬ 
cert by the mueicai society uuder Prof. Ritter, 
and an address by Wm. Russell of Cornell Uni¬ 
versity, 
Secretary Fish's friends state that tbe ap¬ 
pointment of Mr. Plerrepont as Attorney-Gen. 
FOREIGN NOTES, 
By the annnsl report of the registrar general 
of England, the death rate of London for 1874, 
was 22.5. During two weeks of December it 
reached 33 and 37. 
The new White Star steamship Germania, has 
arrived at Liverpool, after a very satisfactory 
trial trip. She is expected at New York the 
latter part of May. 
Capt. Boynton, whose exploits In a life-saving 
dre.ss in the English channel, have made such a 
stir in Europe, has been awarded the gold 
medal of the Humane Society, of Boulogne, 
France. 
The trouble with the miners at Charleror' 
Belgium, continues, and serious riots are re¬ 
ported. 
The telegraphic receipts in Japan for the year 
ending last December were $115,402, 
Sir Gi'.lery Pigott, Puisne Baron of the Court 
of Exchequer. England, died April 28. He was 
born in 18.8, 
Over $25,000,000 worth of sugar estates have 
been burned recently in Cuba by the patriots. 
Seventy estates have been burned. 
In aettieroent of the Gustav affair the Ger¬ 
man flag was saluted at Guetaria, Spain. 
Legal proceedings have been begun by the 
Prussian authorities against the Prince Bishop 
of Brealau. 
Captain General Valmaseda of Cuba has 
issued a proclamation offering pardon to rebels 
who surrender before May 30tb, 1805. The 
pardon ia unconditional for all except desert¬ 
ers from tbe Spainlsh forces, who will be re¬ 
quired to serve in the vanguard of the army 
uutil the end of the war. The proclamation 
declares “That enough loyal bayonets remain 
In Spain to make those Spaniards bite the dust 
who continue in close union with the in¬ 
surgents, shedding the blood of their former 
companions and brothers.’’ 
A terrible explosion occurred on the after¬ 
noon of April 30 In the Bunker'6 Hill Colliery, 
North Staffordshire, while the miners were at 
work. At midnight 12 bodies had been taken 
out; 23 men were yet Id the mine and there 
was do hops that any of them would be re¬ 
covered alive. 
Forty-one dead bodies have been recovered 
from tbe mine In North Staffordshire, England. 
In the House of Commons one evening last 
week, Sir Michael H. Beach, Chief Secretary 
for Ireland, said arrangements had been made 
to prevent any Interference with the American 
riflemen, and they would have no reason to 
complain of the operation of the law relating 
to bearing arms or of auy other law. 
Gen. Spinner writes to the Mecklenburg, (N. 
Cj Ceutennial Committee, sending tbsm $10, 
excusing himself for not sending more by saying 
that he retires from office a poor man. 
