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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER'S SPECIAL N0TI0E8. 
Addition* to Club* 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 benefit 
of the Agent in the way of Premiums. 
Nfw Club*.— It Is not too late to start new clubs 
for 1875. and we hope many of our readers 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. 
Hnck 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, how¬ 
ever. , 
The Best I’nper, and the Best. Premiums to 
Agonts, Is our motto- VVe Ignore Chromos and all 
other cheap colored pictures, preferring to put our 
money in thr. paper, and In Premiums to Agents. 
Helcct Your Premiums. All persons entitled 
to Premiums will please designate what they prefer 
nnd notify us how and where to forward—whether 
by Freljhtor Kir press—If articles aro not mailable. 
No Traveling Agent*.--Remember that the 
Rubal employs no traveVng canvassers, but de¬ 
pends solely upon Local Club Agents and other 
friends to maintain and augment its circulation. 
The Kurnl na n 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 Ageut J—Bonder, If there is no agent tor 
the Rural In vour locality please become one by 
forming u club. It mill pup. 
No Chroma* r cheap daubs are given by us. but 
fifty-two bright pipers during the year. 
At Our Risk.—You ean remit hy Draft, P. O. 
Monoy Order or Registered Letter at our risk. 
m«i8 of the 
TERRIBLE DISASTERS. 
It is seldom we have to record a more appall¬ 
ing disaster than the burning, on the 37th ult., 
during the evening services, of the French 
Catholic church at South Holyoke, Mass. The 
draperies on tho altar caught fire from a. kero¬ 
sene lamp, and soon the building was in flames. 
The priest's house adjoining was also burned. 
The fire lusted about twenty minutes and the 
scene is said to have boon terrific beyond de¬ 
scription. About 700 people were in the build¬ 
ing. The dead number about 75, and 22 others 
are thought to bo fatally wounded. 
On the evening of the 20th ult.. In a drug 
store corner of Washington and La Grange 
streets, Boston, there was a terrific explosion 
which shook the ground in the vicinity like an 
earthquako. The building was blown into frag¬ 
ments, It is supposed that t here were about 
20 persons In the building at the time of the 
explosion. Nine persons have been taken 
out of flie ruins, of whom all but two were 
fatally Injured. The cause of the explosion is 
not known. Gas, nitro-glyoerine, powder, car- 
bouio acid, and “deviltry," ore among the 
agents named. 
It Is now stated that two thousand lives were 
lost by the recent earthquakes in Asia Minor, 
and several villages entirely destroyed. 
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. 
During the past five months there have been 
Incendiary and other fires in every Slate of the 
Union, and of late they have Increased rapidly 
in numbers arid amount of losses sustained. 
Last week the number of conflagrations was 
unusually large, and the aggregate destruction 
of property immense. We mention below a 
few of the most prominent fires: 
Springfield, Mass., was last Sunday afternoon 
visited by the most destructure Ore whicli ever 
occurred in that city. Forty buildings, Includ¬ 
ing a number of business blocks, were burned, 
and the loss is estimated at $500,000. A high 
wind prevailed, and at onetime the whole busi¬ 
ness section of the city w as seriously threaten¬ 
ed, hut the Fire Department, with assistance 
from Chicopee, Holyoke, Westfield and Hart¬ 
ford. finally succeeded in getting the flames 
under control. 
Great Henri, Pa., suffered from a great fire last 
Saturday. Half the town was destroyed—near¬ 
ly all the business portion. The loss is about 
$125,000. Incendiary. 
A fire in the woods near Jnress Park, Ray¬ 
mond, N. R., last week destroyed one hundred 
cords of soft wood and one hundred and fifty 
acres of standing timber. 
A fire at Hollister, Mass., on Wednesday 
night week, destroyed IS buildings; loss $50, 
000 . 
Extensive woods Ores are raging on the 
Union river, Maine. 
The cotton mill of D. B. Smith in Pine 
Meadow, Ct., May 20. Loss, $100,000. 
The Libby Elevator, in Brooklyn, Iowa, was 
burned Wednesday week. Loss $50,000. 
Two river steamers and two wharf boats have 
been burned on the Monongahela river. 
The Furniture Company’s steam mill, in Fair- 
field, Me,, was burned May 27. Loss, $36,000, 
No insurance. The wind blew the flames away 
from the village, which alone saved it from 
destruction. 
A $250,000 fire In the Taylor building, Worces¬ 
ter, Mass, on May 28—the largest fire in that 
city for twenty years. The loss is estimated at 
$263^00. The Ios« on tho building la $100,000, 
and the insurance $25,000. 
The Fairfield Manufacturing Co.’s furniture 
works, Fairfield, Me., burned May 27. Loss, 
$20,000 to $36,000. 
Odd Fellows’ building at Anderson, Ind., a 
three-story brick and aix frame buildings were 
burned May 27. Loss, $00,000. 
Tho total lose of the Tilton, N. H., fire i.* 
about $60,000, on which there is $30,000 insur¬ 
ance. 
The loss by the burning of the steamers and 
barges at Pittsburg. Pa., May 27, is about $130,- 
000 . 
HOME NEW8 PARAGRAPHS. 
A dispatch from Fort Madison, Iowa, May 
26. saysThe grasshoppers have already ap¬ 
peared in this (Lee) County. It i* stated and 
vouched for hy reliable men that there are 
millions of them within a short distance from 
this city. So far no serious damage has been 
done, but fears are entertained for the future. 
James V. Smith, the engineer of the steamer 
Senator, which was blown up at Portland, 
Oregon, recently, has been placed under bonds 
to answer a charge of manslaughter In causing 
the disaster. 
W. C. Ralateu has sold his interest in the 
Palace hotel. San Francisco, to Senator Wm. 
Sharon of Nevada for $1,750,000. 
The Convention of American Railway Master 
Mechanics will meet next year In Philadelphia. 
Rochester Presbyterian churches pay salaries 
as follows:-First, $3,000: Brick, $3,500; Third, 
$3,000; Central. $3,000; St. Peter’s, $3,000; Cal¬ 
vary, $1,500; Westminster, $1,500; Memorial, 
$1,150. 
Governor Ilartranft of Pennsylvania is said 
to possess the Inkstand which the signers of 
the Declaration of Independence used when 
they appended their names to that document. 
The Pension Bureau estimates the number of 
survivors of the Mexican war entitled to pen¬ 
sions at. 32,444. 
President. Grant has written a letter to Gen. 
White, President or the recent Penn. Republi¬ 
can Convention, declaring that he is not a can¬ 
didate for re-election, and will not accept a 
nomination unless under circumstances mak¬ 
ing it bis imperative duty. 
President Grant and family will go to Long 
Branch about the 3d or 4th of June, having 
abandoned tho idea of visiting his farm near 
St. Louis for the present. 
Tho Pennsylvania Republican Convention 
have renominated Gov. J. F. Hartranft and 
Henry Rawle for Treasurer. An anti-tbird- 
terin resolution was inserted in the platform. 
The National Philatelical Society has adopted 
resolutions protesting against the action of the 
Post-OOioo authorities in issuing postage 
stamps differing from the original impressions. 
The steamboat Schuyler made the quickest 
time on record from ‘ Crum Elbow ” to New 
York, on Wednesday week, eighty-three miles 
in three hours and forty-five minutes. Crum 
Elbow is three miles above Poughkeepsie. 
The Greenback Convention called to meet at 
Harrisburg, Penn., last week, was a failure, no 
delegates being present. 
The Sioux delegates in Washington are dis¬ 
satisfied with the propositions made to them 
by the Government. 
The desertions from the United States army 
for the 10 mouths of the present fiscal year, 
ending April 30, were 1,721, against 4,606 for the 
year ending .Tune 30, 1874, and the re-eniist- 
ments 1,779, against 699 for the year ending June 
$0, 1874. 
Last year there were 2,524 breweries in opera¬ 
tion in the Union, New York having 349 and 
Pennsylvania 347. In all New England, there 
were only 74, Vermont having none. 
On Lake Champlain, In Essex County, large 
quantities of fish are captured by exploding 
torpedoes in the water, stunning the fish so 
that they rise to the surface. Four hundred 
fish were taken at one blast recently. 
At the celebration of the forty-sixth anni¬ 
versary of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union, 
Wednesday, week, 40,000 children were in the 
procession. 
Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson attained his 72d 
birthday on Tuesday week. 
Mr. Trenor W. Park of Bennington, Vt., is 
said tube the fourth man tn point of wealth in 
the United States, having property valued 
at $17,000,000. 
Another steamship “ next to the Great East¬ 
ern the largest afloat” is on her way from 
Liverpool to New York, the Germanic of the 
White Star line. She is a sister ship to the 
Britannic. 
James T. Fields of Boston has received 
invitations from nineteen colleges to deliver an 
address in July. 
A society has been organized In Galveston, 
Texas, for the purpose of buying a home in 
that State for Jefferson Davis. 
Carruth, the Vineland (N. J.) editor, remarks 
in his valedictory, “Two months’ constant 
wrestle with a bullet in ourbraln has convinced 
us that we lack the capacity to develop a lead 
mine and publish an lndependant Vineland 
newspaper at the Batne time.” 
Stephen S. L’Hommedieu died at West Point 
on Tuesday week, aged seventy years, He was 
one of the pioneers of Cincinnati, apd foypiany 
years was President of the Cincinnati, Hamil¬ 
ton and Dayton Railroad. 
The grave of Admiral Farragut, at Woodlawn 
Cemetery, waa decorated at sunrise on Sunday 
morning Ia3t,. 
Ex-Gov. Bullock of Mass, will deliver the 1 
oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of | 
Brown University at the next commencement. 
The Brooklyn Theater has been changed to 
Conway’s Theater, and the Misses Conway, 
daughters of the late Mrs. Conway, become its 
proprietors and managers. 
Commodore Vanderbilt was eighty-one years 
old on Thursday week. 
General Breckinridge was one of the three of 
the most exalted Masons In the United States, 
General Albert. Pike and some other gentle¬ 
man, whose name is not known, holding equal 
rank. 
In digging for coal at Wyandotte, Kansas the 
■workmen have struck a vein of gas, which, in 
Its escape, produces a roaring noise which may 
be heard a long distance, ft Is estimated that 
rvt least 250,000 cubic feet of Inflammable 
gas escapes from the aperture daily. 
An oil paiutlng of Professor Robinson, of 
Brown University. Rhode Island, who was 
formerly President of the Rochester (N. Y\) 
Theological Seminary, waa unveiled at a 
gathering of the aiumnl of the latter institu¬ 
tion in Rochester on Friday week. 
An effort was made last week to dispose of 
the country seat of Jay Cooke, known as 
“Ogontz,” at auction. It was started at $1, 
HOO.OOO, run down to $300,000, and withdrawn, 
pot a bid beiug made. 
Judge W. L. F. Warren, one of the oldest and 
most eminent of Saratoga's citizens died on 
Sunday week, at the age nf eighty-two years. 
He was formerly law partner of Judge Cowen, 
Nicholas Hill and Wm. A. Beach, and held 
several prominent Judicial offices for nearly 
thirty years. 
The Episcopal Convention at Cedar Rapids, 
May 28, elected the Rev. J, Houston Eccteston, 
D. D., of Philadelphia, Bishop of tho Diocese 
of Towa. A considerable number of both 
orders have made a protest against the action 
of the convention. 
The Erie Railway Co’s, embarrassments have 
culminated in the appointment of a receiver, 
but President Jewett Is hopeful that the road 
will soon be on a firmer financial basis than 
ever before. Trains are run as regularly ns 
usual, the appointment of a receiver making no 
change in the management of the road. 
Additional whisky seizures have been made 
by the Government at various points, 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
In the reconstructed Committee of Thirty in 
the French Assembly. 20 of the new members 
are Republicans and 4 supporters of M. Wallon. 
The Republicans elected six deputies from the 
Right. 
The chief Darby stakes were won by Prince 
Battbyani’s colt Galopin. 
The contributions la England to the memor¬ 
ial to Canon Kingsley now amount to more 
than $5,290. 
It is stated that an international congress on 
the history of America before Its discovery by 
Columbus, will meet in Nancy, France, July 22. 
The Prince of Wales has been installed as 
Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of 
Masons in England. 
The French Geographical Society has pre¬ 
sented a gold medal to the family of Captain 
Ii.tll, the Arctic explorer. 
Cholera prevails in the City of Baroda, India. 
It has not yet appeared in the camps of the 
British troops. 
The small-pox which at one time assumed 
the form of an epidemic and threatened the 
entire destruction of the population of Anden- 
ne Lorette, has sensibly diminished. Up to 
the present time 500 persons have been attacked 
of which number 161 died. 
Only 137 daily newspapers are published in 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire¬ 
land. 
Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the American 
revivalists, continue to hold a number of revi¬ 
val meetings daily. There is no diminution in 
the number of people who gather to hear them. 
Among their hearers lately were the Earl of 
Shaftsbury, Lord Cairns, the Earl of Cavan, 
and many clergymen. 
Advices from Rio Janeiro report that the 
monetary panic in that city is subsiding. 
Forty-six paintings and sketches by the late 
J. T. Millet were sold recently in Paris for 
276.000 francs. 
It is said that at the village of Kirky, Lanca¬ 
shire, a secret club exists for promoting private 
cock-fights. 
The foundation stone has been laid of a 
handsome building at Southampton to be called 
“The Watts Memorial Hall and Sunday- 
schools.” 
The site of the Leeds Exhibition is the old 
Cloth Hall, in the courtyard of which a central 
hall has been built and named the Edinburgh 
Hall, in honor of the Duke’s visit. 
A monument has been formally Inaugurated 
in the Cemetery of Courneuve to the memory of 
those who fell in the attack on Bourget, on the 
east or Paris, on the Christmas eve of 1870. 
The two portions of the late M. Guizot’s 
library already sold brought about $13,600. 
British Columbia exported 38,943 pounds of 
wool and imported $138,385 worth of woolen 
goods during the year ending June 30, 1874. 
The provincial Parliament has passed a resolu. 
tion offering a premium to the builders of the 
first woolen mill. 
Mr. Leigh Hunt, grandson of the famous 
author of the same name, committed suicide in 
London recently by blowing out his brains. 
The court of common pleas, to which the ap¬ 
peal In the case of t he Tipperary election was 
referred, has decided that the late John Mitchel 
was disqualified. 
The Otscrvatare Romano reads the Prince of 
Wales a severe lesson for accepting the head¬ 
ship of the English Masons. It ascribes the 
downfall of Charles X., Louis Philippe and 
Louis Napoleon to their connection with the 
craft, and implores the Prince to take warning 
before it is too late. 
The English Arctic Expedition was appointed 
to start from Portsmouth on the 29th of May. 
Three hundred and three women contributed 
to the Fine Arts Exhibition of this year in 
Paris. 
A London Daily News special dispatch from 
Vienna, says a person was arrested In that city 
Who was the bearer of an anonymous letter 
containing an offer to assassinate Bismarck for 
a million florins. Tho writer has not been dis¬ 
covered. 
A fire in Portland. N. B., May 28, destroyed 
$250,000 worth of property, half of which is 
covered by Insurance, principally in English 
offices. One hundred and forty families were 
rendered homeless. There were several acci¬ 
dents, but no loss of life. 
The Theater Royal at Leeds England, waa 
destroyed by fire last week. 
The strike lu South Wales, is ended, the men 
having agreed to a reduction of 12*4 per cent in 
wages. 
The Government of Westphalia has summon¬ 
ed the Bishop of Munster to resign his see. 
Prince Bismarck has dissolved the German 
Press Bureau. 
Great destitution is said to prevail in 
Baguenay district, Canada, and the goverment 
has offered to furnish work to any number of 
sufferers on tho publio works at Montreal and 
Ottawa. 
The King and Queen of Sweden have arrived 
at Berlin ; a semi-official journal of that city 
says the visit is a manifestation of Sweden's 
support of the policy of the three Emperors. 
A dispatch dated Ottawa, Can., May 28, says: 
“The river Ottawa has risen to such a hight 
that the island opposite the Parliament Build¬ 
ings has been completely submerged. Thesteam 
mill of Messrs. Wright, Boston & Co. has sus¬ 
pended operations from the same cause. Tho 
water nas not been so high for many years. 
There watt a serious fire at Guelph,Ontario, 
recently. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Lyndonvllle, Vi., May 25—Warm, growing 
weather; 85° in the shade at noon. The day 
closed with a fine shower. Vegetation actually 
leaps for joy in the warm sunshine and re¬ 
joices In the gladsome, summer-like days. The 
maple forests are leaving rapidly, and the pas¬ 
tures and fields are just splendid in their beau¬ 
tiful garb of living green. The sugar yield the 
past season was not an abundant one—about 
2 lbs. per tree on an average. Sugar generally 
of very good quality. Good maple sugar is 
selling at 10c. from first hands. The early 
spring was cold aud backward, and farmers 
have not yet fully completed their spring’s 
work. Corn mostly planted the past week, and 
some potato fields are not yet planted. Grass 
winter-killed considerably, otherwise it is look¬ 
ing finely. Hay plentiful—$100115 per ton. Po¬ 
tatoes, 40c. per bushel. The birds are full of 
music now-a-days, and the toads and tree- 
toade, aa I write, are completely o-be-joyful !— 
1 . w. 8. 
Bear Lake, MnnUlee Co., Mich., May 20.— 
Spring has actually reached the northern part 
of the southern peninsula of Michigan, and 
brought with her a few warm days. If you wish 
to see Nature make lively work, putting on her 
fresh green robes, you should visit Manistee 
County; and if you are worn out witli winter 
work in the sanctum, there is no better place 
oh the globe to recuperate tired self than this 
same County'. The season Las been extremely 
backward, but now that warm days have come 
there is a fair prospect for reasonably good 
crops, to say the least. Wheat is looking well. 
—M. E. A. 
Findley’s Lake, Chautauqua Co., IV. V., May 
29.—Weather quite warm. Splendid growing 
time. Crops nearly all in the ground. Mead¬ 
ows are in fine condition for a good crop of hay, 
and pastures looking as well accordingly'. Oats 
are a scarce article and command a good price. 
Shelled corn to sow for fodder, 87 l ,£c.@$l. Po¬ 
tatoes down to 50c., and butter 25c. Store rain 
is needed to make things grow faster. The 
Grangers arc quite active in this section.— r. r. 
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We say this advisedly, believing It to be the 
best paint in the world. The finest residences 
In the country are now painted with it. It 
stands well and lookB handsome. Sample 
cards, prices and testimonials are furnished 
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