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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JULY 24 
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TIMELY TOPICS. 
The College Regatta -Cornell’e Triumph. 
It is twenty-three years since the first lnter- 
col Iegiate boat race was Inaugurated by a chal¬ 
lenge from the Yale crow to that of Harvard. 
Since thou College Regatta* have been of 
yearly occurrence and every year attended by 
a large number of spectators and participated 
in by the crews of additional Colleges and 
Universities. Harvard and Yale have been 
generally successful In these contests, though 
Amherst, Princeton, Columbia and other col¬ 
leges have occasionally divided the honors. 
The Regatta this year was on Saratoga lake, 
and the vlotory, qulto unexpectedly to out¬ 
siders, was won by the gallant crew of Cornell 
University, amid Intense enthusiasm. 
This is generally regarded a* a triumph of 
the Country ov«r the City boys—of an Agri¬ 
cultural and Scientific College over others 
where Classical Education is the loading idea. 
It must be remembered, however, that In all 
colleges a large and Increasing proportion of 
the students come from the farm nr the work¬ 
shop, and they are quite apt to excel alike iu 
brain and muscle. Cornell University is how¬ 
ever essentially an Agricultural College. It 
was established as such, and some of its profes¬ 
sors are doing good work for the farmers of 
New York State as their visits to Farmers' 
Clubs and reports of experiments on the college 
farm bear witness. Farmer readers of the 
Rural New-Yorker have had frequent occa¬ 
sion to he glad that Now York has such an in¬ 
stitution as Cornell University ; many students 
at Cornell participate In the manual labor of 
the farm attached to It, and doubtless the 
health and vigor thus maintained have aided 
in their recent double triumph, the Cornell 
crew winning in the Freshman race on Tuesday 
week, Harvard coming in second, and again 
coming in first in the University race on Wed¬ 
nesday. All concede that tho victory was 
fairly gained, and great enthusiasm prevails on 
the part of tho friends of Cornell. Numerous 
congratulations were sent to the winning 
crew, including the following“ MOORE’S 
Rural New-Yorker congratulates tho great 
American Agricultural College on the double 
victory." _ 
Fierce Rioting at San Salvador. 
A dreadful riot took place on the 26th ult. 
at San Miguel, a town of 40,000 inhabitants in 
the soul hern part of the republic of San Salva¬ 
dor. The official State paper and all the public 
prints charge the priests with continually sow¬ 
ing hatred between the lower and well-to-do 
classes, and with thus inciting the riot. 
The mob liberated 200 prisoners, murdered 
the garrison, set fire to 16 houses and killed 
many citizens. It was fortunately put down 
by marines from a British ship-of-war near 
by before the town was entirely destroyed. 
On the persons of Borne of the dead rebels was 
found this passport; 
Peter—Open to i tie bearer the gales of Heaven, 
who has died for religion. 
(Signed) George, Bishop of San Salvador. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The people in the vicinity of Butte County, 
Cal., about 150 miles Inland, have turned out en 
masse to shoot and drive away the thousands 
of pelicans which are hovering about the Big 
Meadow Lake and eating up all the fish. One 
of them was found with four trout in his 
pouch. 
On the 12th inst. nearly a thousand persons 
from Peekskill and its vicinity united in a de 
monstratlon in honor of Mr. Beecher, who 
addressed them In regard to the trial and his 
determinations for the future. 
On the 20th of June the Presbyterian Sabbath 
School of Woodbridge, N. J., celebrated its 
57th anniversary. There was present one of 
its original teachers and organizers, now more 
than 80 years old. 
A meeting was held at Hyde Park on the I8th 
inst. to protest against the grant for the Prince 
of Wales' visit to India. Twelve thousand 
persons were present. 
Lady John Franklin, widow of the late 8ir 
John Franklin, diod at London on the 18th 
hint., aged about 70 years. 
The whale with which the steamship Scythia 
came in contact off Roche’s Point, and thus 
damaged her propeller, nas been brought in here 
by a tug. It was 54 feet long. 
A school boy In Lewiston, Me., has made 
enough money by peddling fruit and confec¬ 
tionery In the streets between recitations to be¬ 
come owner of several houses in Bath. 
The Indians on KUtnath River in California 
have driven off tho miners from the Florence 
mine, killing one; troops have been sent to the 
spot. 
It Is rumored that Judge Fisher, U. 8. 
Attorney for the District of Columbia, has 
been superseded by ex-Governor Wells of Vir¬ 
ginia. 
Mr. Jones, Minister to Belgium, resigned on 
account of ill health. 
The name of the Hon. L. Bradford Prince 
and Frederick W. Seward are mentioned in 
connection with the Republican nomination 
for Secretary of State Of New York. 
Bishop Whittlnghara of the Protestant Epis¬ 
copal church Is to be tried by an ecclesiastical 
court on the charge of indlroctly sustaining 
the doctrine of purgatory. 
William Morris, who had the good luck to 
live In 1670, bought the ground upon which 
Long Branch Is built for a barrel of spoiled 
elder ? 
Tilton Is said to be writing a new book—a 
sort of companion piece to " Tempest Tossed." 
The remains of the original manuscript of 
Webster's Dictionary are said to be In the pos¬ 
session of Henry Wadsworth of Glencoe, Wis. 
Much of it wa« distributed page by page to 
autograph hunters. 
Of the 255.000 headstones to mark the resting 
places of Union soldiers in uatlonal cemeteries, 
11 )5,000 are for graves of the unknown. 
The seven cent postage stamp lias been abol- 
l-lhed, and tho ten cent stamp will bo printed 
In vormillion, that It may he distinguished in 
color from the two-oent stamp. 
The consumption of tea in the United States 
for the last two years appears from the last data 
to be at least 80,000,000 pounds, if not 60,000,000 
per annum. 
The large amount of 863,000,000 worth of 
properly belonging to churches and benevolent 
Institutions ts exempt from taxation in New 
Y ork city. 
The Old Dutch church property. New York, 
the block bounded by Nassau, William, Fulton 
and Ann stree-.s, including the rooms where 
the daily prayer meetings were held, was 
leased last week for a term of sixty-three 
yWars. 
n’ho friends of Bowdoin College are making 
glreal efforts to raise 810,000 for the esta!4^d»- 
nlient of a Longfellow Professorship in honor 
the poet. 
The members of the American rifle team will 
mpete Individually at Wimbledon for many 
luable prizes. 
The Secretary of the Interior has appointed 
rtiember of Congress elect N. H. Van Vorhes of 
Ohio; Judge J. C. Pnrkor of Missouri and 
Indian Inspector Kemble as a Commission to 
visit the Osages and examine into their condi¬ 
tion. 
Hon. William A. Foster, Chief Justice of the 
Circuit Court of Massachusetts, wiille riding In a 
Pullman car from Boston to Concord last even¬ 
ing, was shot in the right »rm, through an open 
window, as the train was passing Merrlmac 
station. 
Geo. Ilogsdon, a leader in the insurance busi¬ 
ness, iu New York, for nearly 40 years, died on 
llith lust. 
Samuel Priestly Taylor, said to be the oldest 
organist in the world died in Brooklyn, on the 
16th inst aged 05. 
The President lias signed the commission of 
Francis B. Stockbrldge of Michigan, to be 
Minister Resident at the Hague; also the com¬ 
mission of Christian Wullweber of Iowa, to be 
Minister Resident In Ecuador, and that of 
George II. Owen of Vermont, to be Consul at 
Messina. 
Despatches recently received from Cardiff 
say tho rivers Taff and Ely have overflowed, and 
the adjacent lands are uurler water for miles. 
Some more of the mall hags of the German 
steamship Schiller, some plate and a quantity 
of cotton have been recovered from the scene 
of the wreck. 
The rumor of proposed intervention by Ger¬ 
many in Spanish colonial affairs In conjunction 
with Great Britain and the United States is 
said to be unfounded. 
A meeting was held in London on the 16th 
inst at which it was resolved to open a publio 
subscription for the erection of a statue of 
Lord Byron in some conspicuous place in Lon¬ 
don. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
The flood at Llsieux, France, has subsided, 
a nd workmen are now engaged In clearing away 
tlhe debris caused thereby. The damage done 
by the overflow' amounts to 8600,000. 
The engineer of the Peruvian government has 
e dimmed the quantity of,'guano In reoently- 
d Iscovered beds to he not less than 10,0u0,000 
tons. 
There are 1,600 convents and monasteries, 
iii.habited by 21,000 nuns and monks, in Bel- 
gium. The income of the religious orders in 
tinat kingdom Is 8100,000,000. 
The death is announced or a monk at the ngc 
of 117, who inhabited the convent of Elias, 
situated in one of the most beautiful parts of 
Uplrus. Ho retained all his faculties to the 
l ist.and often spoke of L >rd Byron, to whom he 
h ad given hospitality beforo " Childe Harold ’* 
wms published. 
The Parthenon at Athens is being shockingly 
w (recked and ruined by tourists. A person from 
Is r sw York recently knocked off the finger of 
the finest statue,to add to his private collec¬ 
tion of curiosities in the city, 
A strange discovery has h-en made at Buck¬ 
ingham Palace. While some workmen were 
engaged In pulling down a wall a large quantity 
oif valuable gold and silver plate of about the 
t,r me of George ill, and worth several thousand 
p< mods was found. 
The Ottoman Museum of Antiquities, London, 
hii* just received two life-size statuesof Homan 
w orkmanship, which wero lately found In Crete. 
Tihey are supposed to represent the wife and 
di mghter of Nero. 
The annual revenue to the English govern- 
rtient from the cultivation and manufacture of 
Opium in India is between 426,060,(MX) and 
4)7,000,000. 
The Paris Financial Journal is written up by 
five editors, who send their copy from their 
places of residence. In the number of June 
19th, the copy of each editor was sent from a 
I'aris prison. 
A Japanese decree has just been Issued that 
ajiy vessel exceeding seventy-four tons burden 
shall not hereafter be built In foreign style for 
25i) years. All ships are to be so constructed as 
to make distant, navigation impossible. 
The commission appointed by the Board of 
Trade to Investigate the loss of the steamer 
Vicksburg of tho Dominion line, has opened its 
session in Liverpool. 
At the Moody and Han key's farewell meeting 
on the 13th inst., 188 clergymen of the Church 
of England were present, far outnumbering 
those of any other denomination. 
In a speech at a dinner given him by the 
Canada Club, Earl Dufferln said tho prevailing 
passion of the Canadians was a desire to main¬ 
tain intact their connection with England. 
A learlul storm recently visited the Swiss 
canton of Geneva and the French frontier. It 
was accompanied with hailstones ol immense 
size. Glass in all the windows in the district 
w here the storm raged is broken, and many per¬ 
sons killed and injured. 
The London Standard has published advices 
from Zara, the capital of Dalmatia, which rep¬ 
resents that Zansluvis emissaries spread re¬ 
ports among the Herzegovinians that the Turks 
intended to extirpate the Christians. These 
falsehoods caused the Insurrection, wnieh is 
taking great dimensions. Masses of insurgents 
surround the towns of Gasko, Noveslni and 
Htolaiz. Six hundred families have fled into 
Orotia and Servia, and twelve hundred have 
arrived iu Dalmatia at different points along 
Cne frontier. 
Tho Turkish students in Paris are ordered 
home, and with the money hitherto devoted to 
the education of these youths Turkey will es¬ 
tablish an institution at Constantinople offering 
equal advantages to those of Paris. 
A proclamation from English philanthropists 
against the Peruvian coolie trade has been 
published and widely circulated iu the Chinese 
language as well as advertised in native news¬ 
papers. 
The London Time , in its article on Lord 
Dutferin's speech, says Canada has been advan¬ 
cing rapidly, but not so fast, or with so free a 
tread as the Dulled States. If any Canadians 
formerly felt a lurking wish to join the repub¬ 
lic, they became loyal when they saw the 
enormous load of debt and taxes left by the 
civil war. 
Altogether there are twenty-ilve cotton mills 
in India in full operation, working 600,000 spin¬ 
dles and 7,000 looms. The spindles produce 
about 130,000 pounds of cotton thread a day, oi 
which about 50,000 pounds are used to produce 
cloth. The mills are chiefly in the Bombay 
Island, where a new spinning mill, just opened 
by a wealthy Hindoo, and working 25,000 spin¬ 
dles, makes a total of seventeen working mills. 
All the amendments moved by the Liberals 
in the French Assembly to the University 
Education bill have been rejected. 
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In the last ten years the sum of 821,290,505 has 
been voluntarily subscribed tn England and 
Wales toward the maintenance of elementary 
schools under inspection, and the actual 
amount derived from this source has risen from 
81,388,800 iu 1864, to $3,081,630 iu 1874. 
The British Rifle Association has offered a 
Challenge Cup to be competed for by the Ameri¬ 
cans annually, the first competition to take 
place at Wimbledon tills year. 
Sweden has no national debt, and its surplus 
revenue last year amounted to nineteen millions 
of dollars. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
world is the 
Its length is 
The largest aqueduct in the 
Croton Aqueduct, in New York. 
4054 miles, and its cost 8U,500,000. 
Preparations are being made at the monastery 
at Quincy Illinois, for the reception and accom¬ 
modation of 200 Jesuit priests, who are expect 
ed to arrive In a few days from Germany 
whence they have been driven by the edict of 
Bismarck. 
The official statement of the United States 
life-saving stations from November first to 
the present time, shows the number of wrecks, 
M. 
59; number of lives imperilled. 802; number 
of lives saved. 847: lives lost, 15; number of 
shipwrecked persons sheltered and succored at 
stations, 179; total value of property imperilled, 
$2,374,400; value of property saved, 81,618,635; 
amount lost. 8775,765. 
The Binghamton Republican claims that the 
Supreme Court library in the court house in 
that city Is the most complete and valuable 
law library In the United States. It contains 
the full law reports of every State In the Union. 
In it lathe original print of the trial of Mary 
Queen of Scots. 
Prof. Waid of Syracuse University, has just 
come Into possession of what is pronounced a 
vcritahle American crocodile, a reptile whose 
existence in this country has long been in dis¬ 
pute. The specimen was shot in Florida last 
winter, and measures fourteen feet in length. 
Statist ion of the workings of the Massachu¬ 
setts license law in Boston show that 1,053 out 
of 2,041 applications for license* have heon 
granted, a diminution of one-half in the num¬ 
ber of liquor shops as compared with “ prohi¬ 
bition " times. 
Colorado will date her admission to the 
sisterhood of States July 4,1876. She has taken 
the title of “ Centennial," her territory is as 
large as New York and all New England com¬ 
bined. 
The Prussian Government has in this year’s 
budget, for t he first time, allowed the sum of 
60,000 thalers for the promotion and encourage¬ 
ment of stock-breeding. 
The average number of acres in wheat in 
Great Britain is 3,800,000, and this average has 
not varied more than 3 or 4 per cent, for many 
years. The average yield per acre is 2914 bush¬ 
els. 
The largest farm in the world Is owned by 
George Grant of England. It embraces the 
county of BUU, Kansas and contains 676,900 
acre*. He winters “JO sheep and has $250,000 
Invested in live stock- 
Pine leaves are largely utilized in Europe. 
They are converted into a kind of wadding, 
which is used for upholstering, instead of hair. 
A kind of flannel i» also made from this fiber. 
Vests, drawers, loose shirts, etc., are made of 
this material. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Greenwich, Washington Co., IV. Y., July 
11ih,—Splendid weather for Dinners! Crops 
looking good. Rye has improved amazingly, 
and will he about an average crop; oats never 
looked hotter; corn, small and late, hut the 
warm weather of the last week lias given it an 
upward tendency. Potatoes are looking the 
best at this time of the year I ever saw; the 
pOtato-bug lias not as yet put in an appearance 
in this or Saratoga Co., to do any damage. The 
prospects are that there will bo a larger crop 
harvested this year than ever before in this and 
adjoining counties. The weather has neon very 
warm, with frequent rains for the last week, 
which has put back the work. Hilling about 
done; some have com menood haying. The hay 
crop will be somewhat lighter than last year; 
the dry weather in May affected it a good deal 
mom than was at first supposed. Upon the 
whole the outlook is good, and none but habit¬ 
ual grumblers complain.— b. a. k. 
Avon, Livingston Co., Ti, Y., July JO.—Hay¬ 
ing is mostly finished and the crop generally 
seemed in good order. The wheat crop will be 
light, and many farmers plowed up winter 
wheat in the spring and sowed barley or oats. 
Tiie isle rains have helped ad crops and spring 
grain will be very heavy. The anple crop will 
bo very light this year. Few peaches here, but 
a fair crop is promised nearer Lake Ontario and 
the smaller lakes of Western New York. Corn 
iu looking well, but less than usual was planted 
on account of the large area put in with pota- 
toes. Considerable corn was sown or drilled 
for fodder, hut if pastures continue as good as 
they are now, It will not be needed for summer 
feed. Our wheat harvest is about two weeks 
late, but will commence next Monday, and that 
and spring grain harvest will come together, 
making a very busy time for farmers.—W- 
Saratoga Springs, ,Y. Y., July 17.—We are 
having a fine growing time. For four weeks 
p9st plenty of ralu and warm weather. It Is 
bringing on our crops finely. We are just com¬ 
mencing haying; it wi.l be a good crop. Oats 
are heavy; rye fair, but not ripe yet. Some 
good wheat, but not much sown here. Corn i=> 
doing well. Potatoes look well, but some are 
complaining of the Colorado beetle ; I have not 
seen any yet. Fruit will not be as plenty as last 
year. Some pear trees hang full. Apples are 
scarce about here; plums also. Grapes are well 
set with me.—8. s. w. 
Hohokux, Bergen Co., IV. J., July 17.— For 
the past week we have had very warm weather 
and two days' rain. Corn and vegetables never 
looked more promising. Small fruits abun¬ 
dant—raspberries, in particular, were never bet¬ 
ter. The large fruits, such as apples and pears, 
promise only a light crop. Grain of all kinds 
excellent and prices good. The late abundant 
showers are bringing for ward the second growth 
On meadows.—A. s. r. 
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AMERICAN MOWERS ABROAD, 
Eds. Moore’S Rural New-Yorker:—I n the 
last Issue of the Country Gentleman we notice 
u card over the signature of Messrs. Adriance, 
Platt & Co., which contains the following 
statement, to wit; 
