SEPT. IS 
PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
of settlers and miners have been killed. The 
rising Is attributed to Mormon influence. 
Gen. F. E. Spinner has accepted his nomina¬ 
tion as Controller of the State of New York. 
The Republicans of New York State met lu 
Convention at Saratoga, Sept. 8, to nominate 
candidates for State officers. The Hon. A. B. 
Cornell was made Temporary Chairman, and 
George William Curds Permanent Chairman. 
Mr. CurtlR, on taking the chair, spoke of the 
necessity of a decided position against a third 
term and sectarian appropriations, and for 
specie payments and canal reform, and urged a 
purification of the party. Resolutions were In¬ 
troduced by Wm, H. Herring of Westchester 
against a third term, and by Sonator Madden, 
approving the concurrent reform resolutions of 
the last, Legislature. Tbs resolutions were 
passed. A platform was adopted In favor of 
specie payments and canal reform, and against 
sectarian appropriations and a third term. The 
following nominations were madeSecretary 
of State, Frederick W. Seward ; Treasurer, Gen. 
F. A. Merritt; Controller, Gen. F. E. Spinner; 
Attorney-General, Goorge F. Dan forth; Engi¬ 
neer and Surveyor, O. P. H. Cornell; Canal Oorn- 
Staie Prison lnspec- 
down, and the buildings on the fair grounds 
demolished. At King’s Mill, live miles west of 
Bloomington, the storm out a path through a 
maple grove, twisting the trees off like pipe- 
stems. At Clinton, De Witt County, Jack 
Grandy was killed In his house by lightning. 
A number of cars were blown off the track of 
the Lafayette Railroad. 
The trials of the negroes In Georgia, for con- 
piracy are ended, and the negroes discharged. 
The propeller Equinox went down in a terrfle 
storm on Lake Michigan on the 10th Inst., 22 
lives were lost, 
acknowledged failure, and she is to be sold and 
the company wound up. 
The city of Paris at present possesses 82,000 
trees, besides those in the squares and court 
yards of public establishments to the number 
of 9.000, and the cemeteries nearly 11,000. 
English patents have been granted for im¬ 
provements in agricultural apparatus for thin¬ 
ning, turnips, or other roots and plants. 
Subscriptions have been opened In London 
and the provincial towns for the purpose of 
presenting C&pt. Webb, the hero of the channel 
feat with some token of the popular apprecia¬ 
tion of his courage, and about <2,000 has already 
been collected. It is proposed also that the 
Queen confer upon him the honor of Knight¬ 
hood. 
The entire Spanish Cabinet resigned on the 
11th inst. A new cabinet was formed, with 
Gen. Jovellar at its head, representing the 
triumph of Universal Suffrage in elections to 
the Cortes. 
The celebration at Florence of the 400th 
birthday of Michael Angelo began on the 12th 
Inst. A monument Is to be inaugurated, in a 
square to bear his name. 
Back Numbers of this Year (from .Tan. 2) 
can be furnished to all new subscribers, but wc. shall 
not send them hereafter unless speolnlly requested. 
Those who desire can begin with any number, how¬ 
ever. 
The Best Paper, and the Best Premiums to 
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other cheap colored pictures, preferring to put onr 
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and notify us how and where to forward—whether 
by Freight or Express—if articles are not mailable. 
Bho waa very old, was rated 
very low in point of safety aud is said to have 
been overloaded. 
The Commissioners of Schuylkill County, N. 
Y., have been sentenced to a year’s imprison¬ 
ment and a heavy One for defalcation. 
Lewis 15. Woodruff, United States Circuit 
Judge for the Southern District, of New York, 
died at his country residence in Litchfield, 
Conn., on the 10th Inst., aged 60 years. Judge 
Woodruff was highly esteemed by his profes¬ 
sion and the public, was an able and successful 
lawyer and an upright Judge. 
A contract for improving the Danube River 
has boon given by the Austrian Government to 
a New Y r ork Arm. 
The bronze statue of Stonewall Jackson, exe¬ 
cuted by Foley at a cost, of $40,000, has arrived, 
and will be erected In the Capitol Square at 
Richmond, Va. 
Act ns Agent!—Header, if there is no agent for 
tho Rural lu your locality please become one by 
forming a club. It will pay. 
No Chromos or cheap daubs are given by its, but 
fifty-two bright papers during the year. 
At Our Risk,— rou can remit by Draft, P. O, 
Money Order or Registered bettor at our rink. 
missloner, W. T. Tinsley 
tor, Rev. Benonl I, Ives. 
The Westchester Co. Fair closed on the 11th 
inst. Report says <t was well attended and a 
success. Addresses were made on the 10th inst. 
by Messrs John Jay, John O'Connor, Power, 
of England, and Cyrus W. Field. 
The trial of John Clark, who murdered John 
Trevor on the 25th of June last, was begun In 
Rochester on the 7th Inst. District Attorney 
Raines appearing for the people and Mr. Wil¬ 
liam F. Howe, of New York, for the defendant. 
Attorney-General Pratt has engaged Judge 
George F. Conrstock of Syracuse to assist him 
in prosecuting suits against the canal con¬ 
tractors. 
Judge Cyrus L. Pershing was nominated for 
Governor by tho Democrats of Pennsylvania, 
at their Convention on the 9th Inst. A platform 
was adopted favoring infi ttion. 
S. L. M. Barlow and Marshall O. Roberts, of 
New York, have retired from the Erie direction, 
and are succeeded by J. B. Brown of Portland 
and J. L. Walsh of Philadelphia. 
The trial of Westervelt, In Philadelphia, Is 
st.111 in progress, and some damaging testimony 
has been given against him. 
A grain barn owned by Edward Stevens, of 
Richmond, Ontario Ccunty, N. Y., tvas struck 
by lightning on the 6th inst. and totally con¬ 
sumed, together with the stables and barn ad¬ 
joining, In which were 1,501/ bushels of grain, 
2,000 pounds of wool, and seven sets of harness. 
Six valuable horses usually stabled there were 
fortunately out In a pasture-field at the time. 
The loss is over $5,000, on which there 1 b no in¬ 
surance. 
The amendments to the Constitution of New' 
Jersey have been adopted by a majority of about 
20 , 000 . 
The Canal Board of New York have suspended 
Engineer Fay, and ordered a stoppage of work 
at Black Rock Harbor, and nn inquiry into the 
rise of elevator rates. 
The Union Lumbering Company of Chippewa 
Fulls, Wis., has suspended, with liabilities to 
the extent of $050,000, and assets, according to 
the statement of the President, of over twice 
that amount. 
The Commission appointed to investigate the 
frauds in the Indian .Service met at Washington 
on the 9th Inst. Prof. Marsh addressed the 
Commission lu reply to attacks on himself by 
the Interior Department. 
The Alden mansion In Randolph, Mass 
100 years old, burned on the 6tb inst. 
The Rank of F. B. Hancock & Co., Grant- 
vllle, Ky., was robbed of $27,000 recently. The 
combination lock sale was opened, but un¬ 
injured. 
About 700 Menuonites arrived at Castle Gar¬ 
den on the Cth Inst, on their way to Dakota. 
They brought drafts for about $75,000 gold. 
San Francisco will shortly slop to tbe Mikado 
of Japan a state carriage valued at $3,000, four 
horses worth $25,090, and harness costing$1,600, 
Hich discoveries in the American Fork gold 
mining district. Salt Lake, still continue. The 
ore assays some $36,000 to $50,000 per ton. The 
It iscon- 
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THE RURAL AND OTHER PAPER8 AT LOW RATE8 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
The two great express companies of the 
country, the Adams and the American, employ 
about 8,000 men, 1,900 horses, 1,200 wagons, and 
use 3,000 iron safes. Their agents travel more 
than 100,000 miles daily or more than 32,000,000 
miles yearly. 
An estimate has been made of tbe number of 
persons that, the great cathedrals of the world 
will hold with (lie following results : St. Peter’s, 
54,000; Milan, 37,000; St. Paul’s, London, 25,000; 
St. Sophia, Constantinople, 23,000; Notre Dame, 
Paris, 21,000; Pisa, 13,000; St. Mark’s, Venice, 7,- 
000 . 
A clergyman of tho Church of England has 
been sentenced to five years’ penal servitude 
for causing false entries to be made in the 
church register concerning the death of one of 
his parishioners. 
The Methodists in the State of New Jersey 
have 68,000 communicants, 400 pastors, 400 local 
preachers, 509 churches, valued at $4,000,000, 
and 205 parsonages, valued at $838,000. There 
arc 63,000 children In the Sunday-schools. 
During the year, $640,000 were raised for all 
church purposes. 
During the past quarter of a contury the uum- 
ber of volumes in l ho British Museum Increased 
from 435,000 to 1.100.000: in the Rlbliotbeque 
Nationale, Paris, from 824,000 to 2,000,000, and in 
the public libraries In the United States, from 
9:50,000 to nearly 20,000,000. 
At a recent art- sale in London, Turner’s 
picture of the “Grand Canal," for which the 
artist received £300, it s said, was knocked 
The periodicals in this list are offered at a large 
reduction from their rates, with a view to accomo¬ 
dating our friends who wish to subscribe for 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
Latest reports from Madrid state that num¬ 
bers of CarJists in all parts of Catalonia, Navarre 
and tbe Biscayan provinces arc giving In their 
submission to the government of King Alfonzo 
and asking for amnesty. 
Gen. Kauffman, the Russian General, has gain¬ 
ed a brillleat victory In Khokand, where with 
lit tle loss he has routed an army of 30,000 rebels. 
A report from Madrid states that 1,000 soldiers 
sailed for Cuba on the 8th inst, a regiment of 
calvary on the 15th, and that 8,000 additional 
troops will leave before the 30th Inst, for the 
the same destination. 
It is said that Count Von Arnlm’s case wilt 
come up In the Supremo Court at Berlin about 
the end of October. 
Tbe London Times, commenting on the ele¬ 
vation of Archbishop McCloskey to the 
cardlnalate, says that It Is an indication that 
Rome hopes to dominate In the United States, 
through superstition and the Irish, bur. believes 
that the manly intelligence and Individuality 
of tho people are too potent for such domina¬ 
tion. 
The Serbian Foreign Mininister has formally 
notified the Turkish Government of the inten¬ 
tion of Serbia to preserve Its neutrality invio¬ 
late . 
..The London Times in a leading article com¬ 
menting on the reception In New York of the 
American Rifle Team, .'gives them high praise 
for their bearing and achievements during 
their European trip. 
The London Times says tbe report of the 
restoration of order in Bosnia and the submis¬ 
sion of the insurgents in the adjacent districts 
have had a favorable effect on the British 
funds. 
The reorganization of the Russian cavalry, 
just ordered by the Emperor Alexander, 
amounts, according to a London Times tele¬ 
gram, to the permanent mobilization of some 
50,000 horses. 
The metropolitan main drainage works of 
London—the continuous labor of seveuteen 
years—were completed recently. These works 
carry away the sewage of an area on t he north 
of the Thames of 117 square miles. The total 
leugth of the main sewer is eighty-two miles, 
and the cost of the work has been above $22,- 
500,000. 
It is stated that valuable autographs of Gali¬ 
leo have found at Milan among the Blais 
archives. These autographs refer to his nego¬ 
tiations with the Spanish Government relative 
to ceding the application of his method for 
applying longitude to navigation, and also to 
Galileo's journey to Rome In 1624 to pay homage 
to Pope Urban VIII. 
The Syndic of the workmen's associations 
has addressed a circular to the principal mer¬ 
cantile and industrial establishments of Paris, 
urging them to send products of their skill to 
the Philadelphia exhibition. 
During the past year the number of cigars 
consumed In France amounted to 742,000,000 and 
of manufactured cigarettes 468,000,000. 
Better & Solb of Liverpool suspended on the 
9th inst. Their liabilities are estimated at 
$500,000. 
The Emperor William of Germany will go to 
Italy at the beginning of October. He will be 
accompanied by Prince Bismarck and Gens. 
Moltke and Manteuffel. 
The Freuoh Admiral Ronolere Le Noury, of 
the Mediterranean Squadron, has been dis¬ 
placed by Marshall MacMahon on aocount of 
his avowed sympathy wit h the Bonapartists. 
A recent Havana letter says the surrounding 
country near Puerto Principe has been so 
thoroughly devastated that the Inhabitants 
are famishing, and the Governor of the city is 
at Havana consulting with the Captain-General 
for measures to prevent a famine. 
Tbe French Government manifests 
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RUltAL NISW-YOUKIiU, 
78 Duane Si., New York City. 
THE SEASON, CHOPS, PRICES, ETC 
Bath, Steuben Uo., N. V., Sept. 7 _Wo have 
finished harvesting. Had a good yield of oats 
and spring wheat. Winter wheat was a failure 
in this vicinity, and tiulees we have rals soon 
the buckwheat will not be worth harvesting. 
We have warm days and cooi nights, and the 
water is all drying up. The fruit crop will be 
very small, especially apples.— l. ii. f. 
LyndonvlJIe, Vl., Sepi. 10.—What a splendid 
time for harvesting! The spring and early 
summer were wet, which gave vegetation a 
heavy growth ; and weather was never more 
favorable than the past three or four weeks to 
mature and ripen wheat, oats and turn, and 
the lesser grains. The hay and grain crops are 
extra in quantity and quality, and the corn 
crop is A No. 1- Consequently mere Is a de¬ 
mand for young store stock, which Is being to 
some extent supplied by importations from 
the border countries of Canada.— 1 . w. s. 
Snohomish City, Wash. To ., Aug. S3—We 
had some nice warm weather In April, but May 
was cold aud wet. It rained twenty-five da v<* in 
over 
wash dirt turns out $4 to the pan 
sidered the richest strike made on the Pacific 
coast. 
The new American College 0 / Music In New 
York city promises to be the most extensive in¬ 
stitution of the kind in existence. The orig¬ 
inal endowment or $5,000,000, contributed anon¬ 
ymously, will, It Is stated, shortly be supple¬ 
mented by an additional donation of $5,000,000 
by another millionaire, Mr. Daniel Hopkins. 
The monument of Gov. John A. Andrew has 
been placed in the family lot at Hingham, Mass. 
It is of pure white marble, modelled and cut at 
Florence, Italy, and represents Its subject 
standing in an easy attitude, the face and figure 
being admirable in portraiture and pose. 
It Is estimated that the great bridges, princi¬ 
pally for railroad purposes, built during the 
last ten years In the United States, have oost 
$150,000AX). 
A narrow gauge railroad Is to be constructed 
from Shelburne Falls to North Troy, Vt., a dis¬ 
tance of 246 miles. 
Mrs. Sartoris. it is said, has persuaded her hus¬ 
band that America is the place for him, and the 
next time they return it will be “ for good,” to 
take up their permanent residence here. 
On the 9th inst. a terrific storm of two days’ 
continuance spent its full force on Normal, Ill. 
Houses were overturned, barns were tumbled 
HOME NEW8 PARAGRAPHS, 
The four-oared shell raoe at Bergen Point on 
the 8th inst., between the Argonauta Club of 
Bergen Point, New Jersey, and the AtaJanta 
Club of New York, over a three mile course, 
was won by the Argonautas In 15 minutes, 87H 
seconds. 
The forty-fourth annual fair and Industrial 
exhibition of the American Institute, New 
York, was opened on the 8th Inst. In the Insti¬ 
tute Hall at Third avenue and Sixty-fourth 
street in the presence of a few hundred spec¬ 
tators. 
A very large meeting was held In San Fran¬ 
cisco on the 8th inst. to express regard for the 
late William C. Ralston. Resolutions were 
adopted to that effect. 
An extensive Indian outbreak is reported in 
eastern Nevada aud western Utah. A number 
SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS 
Persons wishing to buy a good Stump Machine 
very cheap should not fail to attend the State 
Fair at Elmira, N. Y., where they will find the 
celebrated Chamberlin Screw Stump Machine 
on exhibition by Geo. Chamberlin & Son or 
Olean, N. Y. 
some 
anxiety respecting the existence of secret so¬ 
cieties, and the police are making domiciliary 
visits. 
The new Bessemer steamship Is, it is said, an 
