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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOR 
JUNE 19 
PUBLISHEB’S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Additions to Clubs are now In order, and 
whether In one*, twos, lives 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 our readers will see 
what can be done for the RURAL land the benefit of 
neighbors) In their respective localities. As the 
Rubai, Is elcctrotyped we can furnish back num¬ 
bers to all new subscribers. 
Back Number* ot till* 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 Kent Paper, and the Best Premiums to 
Agents, Is our motto. We Ignore Chromos and all 
other cheap colored pictures, preferring to put our 
money in 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 forwurd-whetber 
by Freight or Express—If articles are not moilable. 
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. 
The Rural aa n Present.— Remember that any 
Subscriber can send the Rural to a relative or 
friend, as n present, at the lowest club rate—only 
$2.15 a year. Including postage. 
Act as Agent !— Reader, If there is no agent for 
the Rural in your locality please become one by 
forming a club. It toil! pay. 
No Chromos r cheap daubs are given by us, but 
flfty-two bright papers during the year. 
At Our Risk.—You can remit by Draft, P. O. 
Money Order or Registered Letter at our risk. 
of the ®ccti. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The steamer Vicksburg, bound from Quebec 
and Montreal for Liverpool, was wrecked 120 
miles from Newfoundland. Of 83 persons on 
board, 40 are known to have been drowned, 
and onlv 5 are known to have been saved, the 
latter being seamen who took to a boat, and 
were picked up and brought to New York. 
The Union Paeiflc and Kansas Pacific rail¬ 
ways have perfected a traffic arrangement 
for a through line from 8t. Louis to San 
Francisco, to go Into effect immcdlatelv, 
Thn woolen mills of Roots & Co., at Conners- 
ville, near Cincinnati were burned about 2 
o’clock a. m. June 12. Loss, $60,000; no 
insurance. The fire was caused by an Incendi¬ 
ary. 
On the 12th Inst, a serious fire occured at the 
Brilliant Oil Works, on the Allegheny Valley 
Railroad, seven miles north of Pittsburgh Pa., 
owned by Lockhart 4c Frow. The telegraph 
lines were burned down. It is estimated that 
the loss will reach $160,000 ; insurance $95,000. 
Gov. Kellogg states that the debt cf Louisiana 
is $21,000, and that it will soon be reduced to 
$15,000,000. 
President Garrett of the Baltimore and Ohio 
road states that none of its paper la seeking 
purchasers. 
The oldest living graduate of Union College 
Is said to be Gen. Win, K. Fuller of Schenecta¬ 
dy. The only other living member of his class, 
that ol 1810, Is the Rev. Dr. N. T. Marcellus of 
Brooklyn. 
Tennessee goes Into the Centennial with the 
best of nomenclature. George Washington 
and Win. Rule have been appointed Commis¬ 
sioners by the Governor. 
The Amer.can Association for the Advance¬ 
ment of Science will hold its annual meeting 
In August in Detroit. 
Chicago speculators lost about$700,000 In four 
days, recently, by a rapid decline in the prices 
of wheat, corn and oats. 
To pump water for Chicago costs 0 mills per 
100 gallon*; Boston pays 80 mills for the same 
amount; Baltimore and New York 15 each, and 
San Francisco from 50 to 100 mills. 
The Directors of the Baltimore and Potomac 
Railroad have Issued orders for the building of 
a double track bctw'cen Washington and Balti¬ 
more to be begun Immediately. 
The Democratic State Convention of Md., 
to nominate candidates for Governor, Control¬ 
ler, and Treasurer Is to meet In Baltimore 
June 21. 
The Hon. Thomas H. Selby, who was formerly 
Mayor of San Francisco, died in that city on 
Wednesday week. 
John Shrady, an old resident of New York 
and one of the oldest veterans of the war of 
1812, died on June 10 In his 03d year. 
Turner Bros., the hankers at Pine and Nassau 
Streets, who failed shortly alter the panic of 
1873, in consequence of beiug overloaded with 
railroad contracts and paper—principally that 
of the Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western 
Railroad—and resumed business again, have 
announced their Inability to meet their ex¬ 
tended paper. 
The recent attempt to Impeach the President 
of Mexico failed. 
Prof. Joseph Wlnlock, a distinguished astron¬ 
omer and director of the observatory at Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass., died suddenly on the 11th Inst. 
New York exchanges come with estimates 
of the population which the Census now being 
taken will shove, most of them adding for the 
caution of Enumerators that “ their work will 
be closely scanned.” It is quite as important 
that full and reliable statistics should be pro¬ 
cured relative to the rural and agricultural 
worth of the State. Readers of the Rural will 
do well to make out a list of answers as to crops 
grown during 1874 and the number and value of 
cattle, horses and other stock now owned. This 
Census will give us the statistics of the State 
at the Nation’s Centennial, and those living In 
1976 will need reliable data for comparing our 
times with that distant day. 
A railway accident ocoured near Bath June 
Uth, by which several persons were killed and 
Injured. 
Burglars are committing numerous depreda¬ 
tions In and around MiddletowD, N. Y. Ditto 
of bonier towns on the Hudson. 
The property of Peter B. Sweeny and James 
M. Sweeny. In Westchester county, has been 
attached by the sheriff on behalf of the claims 
of New York City. 
Noble J, HIne, one of the oldest citizens of 
Rochester, died Wednesday week. He was a 
dealer in grain and was widely and favorably 
known. 
It Is estimated that the Internal Revenue 
receipts for the present fiscal year from dis¬ 
tilled spirits will aggregate $109,000,000. 
The Pennsylvania anthracite coal production 
since Jan., 1875, shows a decrease of about 2,000,- 
000 tons, as compared with last year. 
The oldest ex-United States Senator now 
living is said to be Peleg Sprague, formerly of 
Maine, who was Senator from that State from 
1829 to 1835. 
Gustavo Dore, it Is said, is to have $50,000 for 
the Illustrations of Shakspere which he is to 
make for Cassell. 
Gold bas been discovered In Surry, N. H., on 
a small creek that empties into the Ashuelot 
River. Persons are also prospecting for a 
sliver mine with indications of success. 
The death of the Rev. Horace James, a well- 
known Cougregatlonal clergyman of New Eng¬ 
land, and at onetime Secretary of the Ameri¬ 
can and Foreign Christian Union, took place at 
Boyleston, Muss., on Tuesday week. 
The Rev. Lewis P. W. Baloh, D. D., a dis¬ 
tinguished divine of the Protestant. Episcopal 
Church, died on the 4th lust, in Detroit at the 
age of 61. 
The Metropolitan Collar Company, the largest 
manufacturing firm of the kind in the world, 
have suspended. Their business for several 
years amounted to Pearly two millions a year. 
The main building of the agricultural works 
at Lebanon, N. II., was burned June 11. Loss 
$83,000. One liuudred and fifty workmen are 
thrown out of employment and lose all their 
tools. 
Wm. R. Allison, Senator from Jowa, has 
been appointed chairman of the convention to 
negotiate with the Sioux in relation to tho 
Black Hills. 
Miss Alice Singer, daughter of the sewing 
machine Inventor, was married in England, 
Thursday week, to Mr. La Grove of Brooklyn. 
The bride's dower Is a million dollars. 
Gen. Duff Green died Thursday week In 
Dalon, Ga. 
Secretary Delano has gone to Ohio. 
H. 8. Rich, late a confidential railroad em¬ 
ploye at Columbus, Ohio, who absconded with 
$7,000, has been arrested at San Francisco. 
Arthur Dyer, a New York journalist aged 26 
years, shot himseil' June 10. 
Ex-Secretary Richardson, accompanied by 
his wife arrived at San Francisco on May 26, on 
their tour around the world. 
The Hon. Abram Comlngo of Missouri lias 
accepted as one of the Commissioners to treat 
with the Sioux. Gen. Terry lias been selected 
on the part of the army. Bishop Havens has 
been tendered an appointment, but ho has not 
yet signified his acceptance. 
The Republican State Convention of Califor¬ 
nia has nominated T. G. Phelps for Governor, 
Joseph M, Cavis for Lieut.-Govornor, and O. H. 
Hailett for Secretary of State. Strong anti- 
railroad resolutions were adopted. 
Judge Martin Ryerson, late a member of the 
Geneva Commission on the Alabama claims, 
died In Newton, N.’J., June 11, aged 60 years. 
Charles C. Fuller, President, and J. T. Mowry, 
Treasurer of the Chaplin Paper Company, Nor¬ 
wich, Conn., have absconded, leaving outstand¬ 
ing obligations to the estimated amount of 
$70,000, the greater part of which te believed to 
be in forged notes. 
On Wednesday week the English steam yacht 
Ootavia, lying in the bay, was seized by the 
United States authorities, on suspicion of be¬ 
ing about to leave on an expedition to Cuba. 
The annual examination at the U. S. naval 
academy at Annapolis began 10th Inst. 
The earnings of the Baltimore and Ohio rail¬ 
road for May 1874, were $1,226,009.97 ; earnings 
for the past month $1,329,494.29. 
Mr. Motley, the Historian, has not recovered 
from his paralytic attack and it is feared he 
will never be able to resume his literary 
pursuits. 
A dispatch from Ottawa, Canada, says : — Mr. 
j Witcher of the Marine and Fisheries Depart- 
I ment, claims, under the treaty, $80,000,000 from 
the United States. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
The sale of the paintings of Millet, which 
took place recently at the Hotel Drouet In 
Paris, realized 221.034 francs. 
The Earl of Derby, the British Foreign Min¬ 
ister, in answer to the deputation from the 
Anti-Slavery Society, refuses to intervene in 
Cuban affairs, and adds:—”1 believe that, the 
American Government and people will receive 
with considerable suspicion and Jealousy any 
attempt on the part of England to interfere 
between Spain and Cuba, and will be apt to put 
a wrong construction upon it.” 
The special reports to the London Journals 
that the abdication of the King is imminent, 
and that several foreign men-of-war have ar¬ 
rived In Greek waters, are untrue. The country 
is perfectly tranquil. 
The steamer Virgo, from Halifax for St. Johns, 
N. F., went ashore June 11th, on the south side 
of St. Pierre Island, and will probably be a total 
loss. The passengers and crew were saved, and 
the mails were safely landed. Very little of the 
cargo was saved. The vessel was worth about 
$75,900; insurance only $15,000. 
A bill for the regulation of the newspaper 
press of France Is published. It provides that 
attacks on the form of government and the 
President of the Republic shall be punisha¬ 
ble with Imprisonment for not less than two 
months nor more than three years, and Ones of 
from $100 to $1,000. Penalties are also attached 
to the publication of false news and of peti¬ 
tions asking for modifications of the Constitu¬ 
tion. 
M. Alexander recently sold in Paris a collec¬ 
tion of fans, not mounted, on which there wero 
paintings by celebrated artists. The sale pro¬ 
duced 70,006 francs. 
France has been visited by a damaging storm, 
and the loss In Paris alone is over 11,000,000 
francs. 
Cholera in India is much worse this year than 
usual. 
Charles Do Remusat, the eminent French 
author and po litician. Is dead. 
The condition of affairs between tho British 
Government and Burmah is critical. 
Two hundred houses were destroyed by a re¬ 
cent fire in Cabanal, Spain. 
Victor Hugo has enjoyed literary celebrity 
for thirty years, and has realized by his pen 
upwards of $600,000. 
A Leipzig publisher Is bringing out a richly 
illustrated life of Prince Bismarck. It is pub¬ 
lished in numbers. 
The people of Greece have raised by private 
subscription a considerable sum for the erec¬ 
tion of a monument In honor of Lord Byron, as 
a recognition of his services in the cause of 
Greek liberation. 
Queen Victoria is about to throw open to the 
public the memorial chapel of the Prince Con¬ 
sort at Windsor Castle. The internal decora¬ 
tions of the building are the work of Baron 
Tnqueti, Miss Durant, Messrs. Clayton, and 
other eminent artists. They were begun in 1604 
A memorial tablet, on which is the following 
inscription, now marks the spot In Westminster 
Ahbey where the body of Dr. LlviDgstone Is 
deposited ” Brought by faithful hands over 
land and sea, here rests David Livingstone, 
Missionary, Traveler, Philanthropist. Born 
March 19, 1813; died May 1, 1873, at Chitambo’s 
Village, Ulala. Fur thirty years his life was 
spent in an unwearied effort to evangelize the 
native races, to explore the undiscovered se¬ 
crets, to abolish the desolating slave trade of 
Central Africa, and where, with his last words, 
he wrote:—‘All I can add In my solitude 13, 
may Heaven’s rich blessing come down on 
every one—American, English or Turk—who 
will help to heal this open Bore of the world.’ *' 
Mr. Evelyn Bellew, a son of the late well 
known reader, is soon to make his debut on the 
London stage as Hamlet. 
The town of M'-rshawsk, on the right bank of 
the river Tena, Prussia, has beeu entirely de¬ 
stroyed by fire. It had a population of 20,000 
and contained three churches and several man¬ 
ufactories an& saw mills. 
A boiling lake is said to have been discovered 
in the island of Dominica. It Is situated in the 
forest-covered mountain behind the town of 
Roseau, at a bight of twenty-flvo hundred feet 
above sea-level. It is two miles in circumfer¬ 
ence and the margin is lined with beds of 
sulphur. 
The Aberdare Iron Company of England, has 
failed with $750,000 liabilities, and five thousand 
persons are thrown out of work thereby. 
Reports are rife abroad that a crisis is immi¬ 
nent at Athens, which may result in the abdi¬ 
cation of the King. Five Turkish men-of-war 
have been ordered to cruise In Greek waters. 
In the Federal Council at Berlin, June 10th, 
the Presided of the Imperial Chancellery sub¬ 
mitted several votes of supply to meet the ex¬ 
pense of a proper representation of Germany 
at the United States Centennial Exhibition. 
A royal decree has been Issued promulgating 
a convention between Italy and Switzerland, 
which establishes the boundary between the 
two countries in accordance with the award of 
the arbitrator, Mr, Marsh, Minister of the 
United States. 
The Ascot races for the season of 1875 were 
brought to a close June 11, the principal event 
being the race for the Alexandra Plate. The 
starters were seven iu number, out of a sub¬ 
scription list of twenty-one. Doncaster, who 
was winner of the gold cup, won the plate. 
News has been received at Havana by way of 
St. Thomas of a terrible earthquake in New 
Grenada. The destruction was greatest in the 
Valley of Cucuta, on the Venezuelan frontier. 
It Is reported that 16,000 lives were destroyed 
by the calamity. 
The tribunal at Posen, Germany, has sen¬ 
tenced Prince Bishop Dr. Foester of Breslau to 
a fine of 2,000 marks, or 133 days* imprisonment, 
for illegally excommunicating a priest. 
During the last twenty-five years, Belgium 
has almost entirely relinquished the infliction 
of capital punishment; and now it is officially 
Btated that *• the commission of grave crimes is 
everywhere diminishing In Belgium, and it is a 
noteworthy circumstance that for nearly eleven 
years no executiot has taken place in the 
country.” 
A heavy cyclone has occurred on the Chinese 
coa3t, causing the wreck of several vessels. 
The Island of Newfoundland, according to a 
recent census, is galniitf! in population faster 
than the Dominion of Canada, and nearly as 
fast as the United States in proportion to its 
size. The population of the Island Is now 161,- 
386, against 140,536 in 1869. 
Three coal beds of immense value have been 
recently discovered iu the straits of Magellan. 
The Levant Herald of the 19th of May says 
that the earthquakes in various parts of Asia 
Minor on the 3d. 4th aud 5tb of May were more 
severely fatal than the accounts hitherto re¬ 
ceived justified it in supposing. The village of 
ShelkJI, in the district of Kara-Hissan, had, 
out of 320 houses, 200 leveled with the ground, 
and 100 so much shattered as to become unin¬ 
habitable. Thirty-one persons were killed out¬ 
right in this village, and seventeen more or less 
injured. At Tchorll 235 dwellings were de¬ 
stroyed out of 300; 130 people were killed and 
170 wounded. Other villages, not mentioned 
by the Turkish journal, suffered In proportion 
A railway accident occurred near Bath June 
11, by which several perBonB were killed and 
wounded. 
It is estl mated that 12,000 persons were present 
at the opening of a hall In London by the Rev. 
Mr. Spurgeon for revival meetings. Thousands 
were unable to obtain admittance. 
A violent hall-storm occurred in London 
June 11. 
A grand dinner was given to Carl Schurz by 
the American residents of Berlin, the members 
of the Diet, and the professors of the Berlin 
University. 
It is announced that the health of the com¬ 
poser Offenbach is re-established, and he will 
be able to go on with the new works he has in 
progress. 
THE MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
York, Saturday, June 12, 1 
Receipts.—T he receipts of Froduce forthoweok 
were as follows: 
Cotton, bales. Dried Fruits, pkgs.. 20 
Flour, bill*. 79,000 Rvvst, bhls... 12,500 
Wheat, bush.1,025,450 Hops, bales. 45 
Coru. bush.. 485,900 Peanut*, bags. 1,543 
Oat*, bush.. 252,360 Pork, |ikg».... 600 
(iras* Seed, bush.. — Beef, pkgs. 170 
Kve. bush. 8,000 Ou. meats, pkg*.... 2,000 
Barley, bush. - Lsrtt, f > *,. 720 
Mall, bush. 40.250 Itorter, (itfBB. 13,450 
Beau*, bush. . 5,260'Cheese, pkgs.. 60,200 
Corn meal.bbls ... 100 Wool, bales. 2,1/90 
Corn mcul, bugs... 429 
Bkaxs And Peas.— Exports of beans past, week, 
3 725 bbl*.: since Jan. 1st, 15,000 do.; same time last 
your. 16,100. Exports of pea* past week. 2,500 bush.; 
since .Tan. 1st. 213. 25 do,: same time last year, 242,117 
do. There is U Strong market lor beans. A large 
export demand for marrow* baa brought the ship¬ 
ments up to nearly last, year'* (Inures of this date. 
The market Is Urro for tins description, oDd best 
parcels now arriving are going into store, held at 
*2.50. Mediums arc no higher bnt prices are still. 
Pe i beaus nominal. Kblnnjs are not selling above 
a moderate way for either red or white. Canadian 
peae are lower, asrecetids promise tube mure lib¬ 
eral. No Southern B. E, peas remain. The small 
remnant ul green peas Is going out ai <2.8051/2.70. 
We quote Beans, new medium, orlwo. *1.90 i.ji —; 
do. fair. fl.Mksd.TOg do. poor, 91.34; marrows, new 
prime. 82 45<*2 50 I an. marrow, other. 12.20*2.25: do. 
Pea. prime new, 91.4.V&2.U0 ; beans- pea. other. 81.90.; 
kidney, new red. $3.10«*5.lo for prime; 92,80@2. r i0 for 
poor. wlo 1 , new $2.2o.'i.3.;-IU: do. ntner. *'.!>•& 
- Canada pea*. In tank ana bond, 9ia5@1.17; 
green, prime new. 82.60tai2.7U. 
Beeswax. — Bleachers are buying small lots at 
33H<335c. for Western aud Southern. There is scarce¬ 
ly am 1 export demand. Exports oast week, 104 lb*.; 
since Jan. 1st, 125,400 lbs.; same time last year. 46,475 
lbs. 
Butter.—T here bas been no special variation In 
State butter during the week. Timrcoelptsof Mate 
arc railing off as tile June packing has begun. This 
f ive* room for the increasing receipts of Western. 
Inc Western meets a quick stile and only Dice, 
sound parcels receive attention. At this time of the 
year even the closest buyer* prefer to work with the 
best that come* to market., and low prices for com¬ 
mon lot* are no inducement for retailer* for con¬ 
sumption. There is a good supply of creamery but¬ 
ter this season, and as before there are few round 
sale* at the extreme of 30o. Some dealers, however, 
gel 2So. right along for lobbing parcels of creamery 
tubs and pail*. More fine yellow firkins could be 
used than are coming lorward. The market Is rela¬ 
tively lower, as buyers are now so favored in quali¬ 
ty. paying only recent ratas and receiving the benefit 
of crass. 
iVew Butter—State palls and creameries, finest.28» 
30c : do. good to prime. SfkiSakr.: do. do., fair to good. 
28:<626c.; do, half-firkin tubB, selected, 2fi@27c.: good. 
8,fl,5i 
79,090 
1,325,450 
485,900 
252,360 
Dried Fruits, pkgs.. 
hive*, bhl*..... 
llop*. hales. 
Peanut*, bags. 
Fork, pkgs. 
Beef, pkgs . 
Ci.. meats, pkgs... 
Lsrtt, { IM ... 
Butter, (liters...... 
Cheese, pkgs. 
Wool, bales. 
ry poor 
iair i 
mK. Qtatr tuauid LLO.'.C, «., nyo-v • u ^ i j 
Western creamery. 28327c.. firkins, 2S®6tc.; old 
Western, 10@13c. 
Cheese.—T he export trade has shown a marked 
Improvement with more encouraging reports from 
abroad und supplies of fine have been closely soli 
up with an advance of Kc, Iu prices. Fancy have 
sold at 12Kc. and flueatl2<g,l2Rc. Anything off these 
grades rule relatively low. 
New Stale Factory — Fine and farcy, 
good to prime, at lltS/lTo,; fuir to good, u@lOtec.; 
skimmed. 8M5c.: half-sklmme<1, 5M7C. state Fhrm 
Dairy—Good to prime, lORMUc.; fair to good. »a> 
lew., poor. 3<S,Ce. Western factory, good to prime, 
1UMUC.; fair, 9&9RO.; half-skimmed, 6®7c.: skimmed, 
3®5o. 
Corn Meal.— There la a moderate export demand. 
Yellow Western, f3.65ta4.20; Jersey, f3.80®4 1 Bran¬ 
dywine, t4.40@4.60. 
