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78 Duane St., New York City. 
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MOORE’S RURAL. NEW-YORKER. 
SEPT.2B 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The fast postal trains from New York to 
Chicago, by the Central and Lake Shore and 
the Pennsylvania routes, respectively, are a 
grand success. By tbe former route the distaDce 
to Chicago is 078 miles and the first trip on this 
line was made on the ISt.h inst., In 27 bour 6 and 
5 minutes. A regular tiain on this line consists 
of 4 cars, and there will bo 5 trains on ihe road 
continually. The distance from Jersey City to 
Chicago by the Penney) vanla route, ia 813 miles, 
aud the first train was sent oti the 13tb inst., 
making the distance 'u 24 hours and 15 minutes. 
After leaving Sandusky there were two delays 
on the Lake Shore Line caused by heated 
journals. The time wub soou made up; the 
extraordinary run being made, of 71 miles In 71 
minutes, .lust as the cars stopped in the depot 
at Chicago the engineer fell In a fainting flt ( 1 
Supposed to be caused by nervous cxcitoment. 1 
The average speed per hour from New York, in- 1 
eluding the stoppages, was about 38 miles. ( 
The recent storm In the Gulf of Mexico and 
on tbe Southern coast, was the fiercest known ( 
in that vicinity for several years. Several ves¬ 
sels were driven ashore on the coast but no loss 1 
of life I* reported. At Galveston, Texas, it ’ 
raged with grext violence for three days, cutting 
off all communication with the Island until the I 
18th inst. Tho water from the Gulf overflowed 
half the island, sweeping away about 100 bouses. J 
About 2b lives were loBt. ITbc most damage « 
was done to the eastern end of the island, tbe 
business quarter of the city being comparatively « 
uninjured. The damage to property has been ( 
estimated as high as $5,000,000, 
Od tbe 10th inst., near Oil City, Pa„ lightning 1 
struck one of the tanks belonging to f he Impe- 1 
rial Oil Refining Company. The tank contained 
about 8,000 barrels of crude petroleum, which ' 
immediately Ignited, and owing to a strong 
north w ind, tbe flrc= spread nearly over the en¬ 
tire work*. The loss on oil, both crude and ro- : 
fined, of which there wero nearly 40,000'. arrels, \ 
and on the building and machinery and Iron 
tanking, will not fall short of $ 200 , 000 . 
The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, will be open 
on Friday, October 1. 'The Inaugural ceremo¬ 
nies will comprise a banquet and reception. 
Rev. Howard Osgood, D. D., of Flushing, L. 
r., lias accepted tbe position < f Professor of 
Church History in the Rochester Theological 1 
Seminary, made vacant by ihecontinued illness 
of Rev. Dr. Buckland. 
A small, yellow-spotted lizard, about four 
Inches long, was found ineide a watermelon at 
Dallas, Texas. Apparently lifeless when taken 
out, It was soon resuscitated, but lived only a 
few moments, it had no eyes. It Is to go'in 
spirits to the Smithsonian Institution. 
A fearful gale has been raging in Galveston, 
recently. Tho city is said to be partially tinder 
water, which is several feet deep In the princi¬ 
pal streets. Several wrecks have been reported. 
The New-York Stale Democratic Convention 
at Syracuse adjourned ou the 17th Inst. Tho 
platform declares for hard money, home rule, an 
early return to sped© payments, aud against a 
third tenn. The following ticket was nomi¬ 
nated:—For Secretary of State, John Bigelow 
of Ulster County ; for Controller. Lucius Rob¬ 
inson of Chemung County; for Attorney-Gen¬ 
eral, Charles S. Fairchild of Albany : for Treas¬ 
urer, Charles N. ltoss of Auburn ; for Engineer 
and Surveyor, John D. Yan Suren of New-York ; 
for Canal Commissioner, C. L. IValrath of Mad- 
iBonCouuty; for Prison Inspector, Rodney R. 
Crowley of Cattaraugus County. 
Commodore Perry’s flagship, the Lawrence 
sunk in Eric harbor 62 years ago, has been 
raised and the bottom found to be in a good 
state of preservation. She is to be exhibited at 
tbe Centennial. 
Several hundred boxes about four feet long 
and eight inches square have been manu¬ 
factured by the Chinese at Sacramento for the 
purpose of conveying home to Chinn the bodies 
of Celestials who have died In tbe United 
States. 
The Mayor of Baltimore has approved an 
ordinance, lately passed by the City Council, 
providing for the Insurance of the lives and 
limbs of firemen. The proposition is to insure 
so that a wounded fireman shall receive live 
dollars a week during his inability to work, 
and his representatives $500 in case of his death. 
Forest tiros have been lately raging furiously 
about one mile east ol Maasena, N. Y., covering 
u tract a mile wide and five miles long, destroy¬ 
ing large tracts of standing timber aud many 
flel(is of grain. 
Tbe Department at Washington Is in receipt 
of information show ing that vessels and boats 
upon the lakes of the northern frontier* of the 
United States, ostensibly engaged in fishing, 
have been used to smuggle Canadian liquor* 
and other merchandise into this country. 
The report of the Registrar of Vital Statistics 
of the District of Columbia for the week ending 
Sept. 4 shows that tbo rate of mortality of the 
whites was nearly 20 per 1 , 000 , and of the blacks 
nearly 59 per l,o<) 0 . The rate of increase of 
whites by births over deaths was 1.4U per 1,000, 
and the decrease of blacks by deaths over 
births 34.67 per 1 , 000 . 
An alligator five feet in length, presented to 
the Philadelphia Zoological Society by Mr. O. 
Holly, Secretary of the National Grange, escaped 
from the Zoological Gardens in that city, and 
is now in tbe Schuylkill River. 
Flour from new wheat made in Charleston, 
S. C., 1 ms been shipped North. 
It is suggested that every theatre In America 
and Great Britain in April, 1876, give a perform¬ 
ance for the benefit ol the Shakespearian 
Fund. 
President Jewett cl' the Erie Railway has 
received by cable from the shareholders of 
that stock in Englaul a proposition to Issue 
fifty per cent, more common stock, one new 
share for every two now existing, by which 
•means, supposing tbe price of $25 to be obtained, 
an amount of ten millions cash will be secured. 
In case thl* arrangement can be made, it is pro¬ 
posed, within the next two years, to expend 
about $L8,0'0,060 in various improvements of 
the liue. 
At a meotlng of prominent citizens of St. 
Louis, on the 15th inst., a resolution was adopted 
to the effect that a National Railroad Conven¬ 
tion be held at St. Louis on the 23d of Novem¬ 
ber next to memorialize Congress to grant such 
legislation ns shall secure the construction of 
another railroad to the Pacific coast; to con¬ 
sider also means for reducing the cost of tran¬ 
sportation between the Atlantic and Pacific. 
It is estimated that tho recent heavy rain 
s ter ted down tbe Mississippi River 20,000,000 
feet of logs that could only have been floated 
by large forces of men and horses, had the dry 
weather continued. 
The Army of the Cumberland has been hold¬ 
ing a reunion meeting at Utica recently, and 
President Grant, Gen. Sherman, Gen. Joe 
Hooker, Vice-President Wilson, and Gov. Til- 
den among the attendants were guests. 
The Direct Cable Company began boslness 
on the 15th inst. in a most promising manner, 
a large number of messages having been re¬ 
ceived and promptly transmitted. The rates 
from New York to London are 25 cents a word, 
gold. 
The yellow’fever is again prevailing in Mis¬ 
sissippi and Florida. In the town of Milton, 
Fla., nine miles above Pensacola, the entire 
population of which consists of fifty-four per¬ 
sons, there were at last reports thirty-three 
cases, eleven of which have been fatal, and at 
West Pascagoula, Miss., only 100 miles from New 
Orleans, seventy cases and fifteen deaths. 
The funeral services of tho late Judge Lewis 
Woodruff of the United States Court were held 
at Collegiate Church, Fifth avenue, ou the 14th 
Inst., ami the funeral oration was delivered by 
Rev. Dr. Ormlston, who paid a glowing tribute 
to the memory of the deceased. 
A California geologist reviews the geological 
evidence of the antiquity of a human settlc- 
mout near the present town of Cherokee, In 
that State, and estimates the age of that most 
ancient of discovered towns to be not less than 
180,000 years! 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
Late advices from Herzegovina are some¬ 
what conflicting. From Constantinople wo 
learn by date of 15th inst. that the latest 
official advices from Herzegovina are satisfac¬ 
tory; that the insurgents now appear willing 
to negotiate with tno consuls; that there have 
been no offensive movements for several days. 
A Berlin dispatch of the 10th inst. to tho 
London Times says the recent successes of the 
Herzegovinian insurgents render the continu¬ 
ance of guerrilla warfare until spring possible. 
In such case It w ill be difficult to restrain the 
Servians from participating, and Austria, with 
an eye to these contingencies, has issued orders 
regulating the supply of horse* In the event of 
a mobilization of troops. 
The great race for the St. Legcr stakes was 
contended for at the Doncaster September 
meeting on the 15lh inst. The race was wan by 
Craigroilbir, the second place being taken by 
Halle, and third by Earl D’Artrey. 
A great Qre occuryd at Paderborn, Prussia, on 
the 12th inst. One hundred buildings were de¬ 
stroyed, whereby 500 families wete rendered 
homeless. 
There was a terrific gale on the 12th inst. In 
the Mediterranean and on the coasts. At Fet¬ 
tle the railway was flooded and truffle inte- 
rupted between that town and Beziers. Other 
parts of France were similarly visited. 
On the Ulh and 12 th lasts, several riverain 
the south of Franco overflow ed. The plains of 
Vignolles between Bezier* aud Narbonno aud 
the rivers were covered with water. Many 
houses were destroyed. 
A severe hurricane, continuing two days, oc- 
cured recently, causing serious damage to ves¬ 
sels at Santiago do Cuba aud Cienluegos. 
At Anterive, France, uuriug the late floods 
the river, instead ol following its natural course, 
flowed lor two days through the middle of the 
town, in consequence of which about two-thirds 
of the town are either in ruins or uninhabitable 
The immediate reduction of tbe tow n of Es- 
teila, at Navarre, wnieh has long been tbe 
stronghold of the Carllsis, has been determined 
ou by the government. 
A new vine disease lias excited much uneasi¬ 
ness iu.Rlieinthal, Frlckthal, and Thurgati, in 
Germany. Vine* which aie apparently flourish¬ 
ing in the moruiDg wither in the course of the 
day, without, however, turning yellow, and in 
a short time die. 
It is estimated that England will require 
twelve million bushels of wheat this year In 
addition to the quantity which she generally 
buys from foreign nations. 
Six hundred aud twelve men and 158 women, 
belonging to the upper classes in Russia, have 
been recently arrested for participating in the 
Socialist movement. Tbe Procureur-General 
in me Indictment says that Socialism is rapidly 
spreading throughout the empire. 
Tho rebels In Cuba have recently burnt the 
estate of Don Tomas Terry, near Las Cruces, 
called Caracas, aud have again destroyed the 
great "Cauta Susana” estate in the same 
neighborhood, which had been burned some 
time ago, and which was being again put in 
working order. 
The Pope held a Consistory Sept. 17, and con¬ 
ferred upon Cardinal MeCloskey the ring and 
gave him titular charge of the Church of Santa 
Maria Sopra-Miuerva. 
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SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS. 
First Grand Exposition of the Tradesmen’s 
Industrial Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa., opens 
Oct. 7, closes Nov. 6 . Address 
A. J. Nellis, Pres. T. I. I. 
Jiuhtstyral Societies, 
AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Trb fifteenth biennial meeting of the Amerl- 
can Pomologlcal Society was held in Chicago 
Sept. 8 to 10th. Notw.thstanding the general 
unfavorable character of tbe present season for 
fruit there was a good display, and the large 
attendance, including representatives from 
every State and Territory, Indicated the Increas¬ 
ing importance of fruit growing as a business. 
Tho meeting was a very successful one, bring¬ 
ing together fruit growers from every section 
for comparison of view'* and for inspection of 
the productions of various legions. Of oourse, 
In one meeting only a partial representation 
could he had of fruits belonging to various sec¬ 
tions, but there was a finer display than was 
generally anticipated. President Wilder de¬ 
livered a long and very able address reviewing 
tho progress of Pomologlcal Science during the 
past two years. It will be published In the offi¬ 
cial proceedings. The remainder of the ses¬ 
sion was occupied by reports or committees 
and discussions thereon and election of officers. 
Tbe following officers are chosen for the ensu¬ 
ing term: 
President— Marshall P. Wilder, Boston. 
Vice-Presidents—C. C. Langdor, Alabama; C. 
C. Bliss, Arkansas ; B. S. Fox, California; D. S. 
Dewey. Connecticut; Randolph Peters, Dela¬ 
ware ; Wm. Saunders, District of Columbia; C. 
C. C’odrlngton, Florida; Hon. William Sehley, 
Georgia; Arthur Bryant, Sr., Illinois; Sylvanus 
Johnson, Indiana; Mr. McCullough, Indian 
Territory; Suel Foster, Iowa; Dr. J. S. Stayman, 
Kansas; W. W. Goldsmith, Kentucky; R. H. 
Day, Louisiana; W. D. Breckinridge, Maryland ; 
O. M. Hovey, Massachusetts; T.T.Lyons,Mich¬ 
igan ; D. Redmond, Mississippi; Dr, B. T. Ed¬ 
wards, Missouri; Hon. R. W. Furnas, Nebraska; 
W. B. Towne, New Hampshire; William Parry, 
New Jersey; Charles Downing, New York; 
Walter L. Steel, North Carolina; Dr. C. C. 
Hamilton, Nova Scotia; Dr. John A. Warder, 
Ohio; Robert Buist, Pennsylvania; Judge Dun- 
kin, Quebec ; Dr. A. P. Wylie, South Carolina; 
B. F. Transon, Tennessee; William Watson, 
Texas; J. E. Johnson, Utah; G. F. B. Leighton, 
Virginia; Wash! igton B ura, Washington, Ter¬ 
ritory ; 8 . E. Chamber, West Virginia; George 
P. Pepper, Wisconsin. 
Treasurer—Thomas P. James, Massachusetts. 
Secretary—^W. C. Flagg, Illinois. 
Executive Committee—The President and 
Vlco-Presidente ex officio, and J. E. Mitchell, 
New York ; Dr. George Thurber, New York ; J 
F. C. Hyde, Massachusetts; P. J, Berckmans, 
Georgia; J. H. Master*, Nebraska. 
The Committee on Award of Wilder Prize 
Medals for collections awarded prizes to the 
following, as reported in the Western Rural: 
The Horticultural Societies of Monroe, Alle¬ 
gan, Kent, Ingham, Washtenaw, Grand Tra¬ 
verse, Benzie, Oceana, Kalamazoo and South 
Haven Counties, and Messrs. George L. Bur. 
roughs & Co. of Saginaw; second, to the Iowa 
State Horticultural Society, for a collection of 
apples beautifully displayed by Mr. James 
Smith of Dob Moines : third, to the Wisconsin 
State Horticultural Society, for general collec¬ 
tion ol fruits; fourth, to the Nebraska State 
Horticultural Society, for collection of apples : 
to the following Individual collections:—John 
S*ul, Washington, D. C., foi pears; Ellwanger 
& Barry, Rochester, N. Y., for pears and for 
plums; F„ Moody St Son, Lockport, N. Y., for 
general collection ; J. H, Ricketts, Newburg, 
N. Y., for a largo collection of seedling grapes 
of great promise; Isldor Bush St Son and Meis- 
ner of Bushherry, Mo., for a collection of native 
grapes: Dr. Redmond, Ocean Springs, Miss., 
for an interesting collection of semi-tropical 
fruits, including oranges, lemons, pomegrana¬ 
tes, bananas, figs, pine-apples, etc.; Edward 
Daniels, Gunston Hall, Va., for pears and 
grapes; A. Fahnestock, Toledo, O,, for pears; 
B. G. Smith, Cambridge, Mass., for pears; F. 
and L. Clapp, Dorchester, Mass., lor seedling 
pears and a line dish of "Clapp’s Favorite 
J. W. Manning, Reading, Mass., for pears; 
Hovey & Son. Cambridge, Mass., for pears; S. 
E. Chamberlain, Waterford, Va., apples ; B. S. 
Fox, 8 an Jose, Cal., for seedling pears. 
Honorable mention is made of George Bal- 
derstone, Colora, Md., for pears; Dr. Humphries, 
Galesburg, III., tor apples; Heilman Froth and 
others, of Fairfax Co., Va., for general collec¬ 
tion ; Warsaw, III., Horticultural Society, for 
apples; G. H. Baker, South Pass, III., for apples; 
Adams Co.. Ili.. Horticultural Society, for gen¬ 
eral collection ; Sedalia, Mo., Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, for general collection of fruits; Wiscon¬ 
sin State Horticultural Society, for general col¬ 
lection, including an interesting contribution 
from G. P. Fetter, of Pewaukee; Cambridge, 
Mass.. Society, for pears; Robert Manning, Sa¬ 
lem, Mass,, for specimens of pears from histor¬ 
ical trees collected by him, including tbe Eod)- 
cott, planted about 1630; an orange pear tree 
285 years old: a Warder, grafted April 19, 1775; 
and a tree planted by Anthony Thaetaerin 1640: 
B. F. Truneon, Humboldt, Tenn., for general 
collection. 
The Committee cannot pass over the very 
fine collection of 270 varieties of pears exhibited 
bv the President, which fully deserves the 
highest honor. But, aa they can cut award to 
Loin his own medal, they are obliged to content 
themselves with an honorable meution. 
The session closed with an elegant banquet 
1 on Friday evening, at which appropriate toasts 
, were given aud responded to. The Society will 
bold a "social meeting "at Philadelphia during 
the Exposition next vear, and will hold Its reg- 
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ulur biennial session In Baltimore in Sept., 1877. 
