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All Aboard for a Three Months' Cruise! 
"As already announced, we have concluded 
to send the Rural New-Yorker for the Thir¬ 
teen Weeks, (October to January) postage paid, 
to any address In the United States or Canada, 
for Only Fifty Cents ! This Is almply a Trial 
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Trip, or excursion, not made to make money 
for It will not pay us —but In order to introduce 
the “ Old Rural ” to the notice and support, of 
the thousands of people ail over the Continent 
who would be both pleased and profited by Its 
perusal. Remember that we offer the Thirteen 
Numbersof the present Quarter—beginning Oct. 
2 —postage paid, for the aforesaid Fifty Cents, 
and don't forget to tell everybody about the offer. 
Agents, ami others proposing to form Clubs for 
1876—thereby securing some of our Regular (if 
not also Extra) Premiums—will do well to se¬ 
cure subscribers for the Trial Trip, as all who 
try it three months will be likely to take the 
Rural next year. 
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Note, also, that in addition to our usual Lib¬ 
eral Premiums for Clubs, we offer Extra or 
Special Premiums for the largest lists for 1876. 
These Extra Premiums are in addition to the 
regular ones—giving those entitled to them two 
Premiums instead of one—and iangc in value 
from $15 to $6251 Lists of our Regular and 
Extra Premiums, Specimen Numbers, &c., sent 
free and post-paid to all disposed to form clubs. 
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PUBLISHER'S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Back Numbers ot this Year (from Jan. 2) 
can bo fnrnisheil to nil new subscribers, but wo shall 
not send them hereafter unless specially requested. 
Those who desire can begin with any number, how¬ 
ever. ____ 
The Best Paper, and the Best Premiums to 
Agents,is our motto. We ignore Cbrornos 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 ns how and where to forward—whether 
by Freight or Express—if articles are not mailable. 
Act as Agent J-Header. If there is no agent tor 
the Rural In your locality please become one by 
forming a club. It will pay. 
No Cbrornos or cheap daubs arc given by us, but 
fifty-two bright papors during the year. 
At Our Risk.—You can remit by Draft, P. O. 
Money Order or Registered Letter at our risk. 
Ifyuis of the 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Tre debt statement for September, shows a 
reduction in the public debt for the first quar¬ 
ter of the current fiscal year, ending Sept, 30, of 
six and one quarter millions, which is nearly 
double the amount for the corresponding quar¬ 
ter of last year. 
The question as to the right of women to 
vote under the provisions of the Fourteenth 
Amendment has been decided adversely to the 
claim by the United States Supreme Court, 
The Court were unanimously of the opinion 
that the Constitution does not confer the right 
of suffrage upon any one, that being an affair of 
the several States. 
Mr. Sharon of San Francisco has tendered to 
Mrs. Ralston, widow of the late Bank President 
a suite of seven rooms tn the Palace Hotel,with 
private servants, a private coach and coach¬ 
man, so long as she may see fit to use them. 
The Vanderbilt University was opened at 
Nashville, Tenn.. on 14th inst.. addresses were 
delivered by the Rev. Dr. Deems of New York, 
Chancellor Lipscomb of Georgia and Gov. 
Porter of Tennessee. 
Gideon L. Soule, for fifty years principal of 
the Phillips Academy in Exeter, N. R.. lost his 
bearings while walking In the woods near that 
town, recently. Five hundred people went 
out to hunt for him and found him about 10 
o'clock at night, almost speechless. 
A handsome clock and pair of mantle orna¬ 
ments, made of nlckleand gold and elaborately 
chased, will be presented to ex-Treasurer Spin¬ 
ner by the employes in the Treasurer's office. 
The articles were purchased at a cost of $500. 
United States District Attorney Bliss of New 
York, entered suit recently against the firm of 
H. B. Claflin & Co. of New York for $1,600,000, 
that being the amount claimed by the Govern¬ 
ment for alleged undervaluation of goods im¬ 
ported within the past ten years. 
Chief Engineer Wood of the Navy Depart¬ 
ment, has invented a new motive power, which 
he will exhibit at the Centennial. The power 
consists of carbonic acid gas, which is obtained 
by means of electricity andgalvanism. Acaveat 
has already been granted. 
Five tobacco barns In Robertson Co., Tenn., 
burned down recently, involving a loss of $40,- 
000. It is said the fires were occasioned by 
gaBes evolved from the tobacco by peculiar 
atmospheric phenomena. 
The ceremony of unveiling the monument 
recently erected at Baltimore to the memory of 
Edgar A. Poe will probably take place within 
about two weeks. The programme will include 
an address by Professor Wm. Elliott, Jr., 
President of the Baltimore city college and au r 
address by Mr. H. E. Sheppard on the literary 
character of Poe. 
The Supreme Court (goneral term) in New 
York rendered a decision recently giving 
opinions confirming Judge Barrett’s order in 
Chambers, dismissing the motion to vacate the 
order of arrest on. the six million dollar suit 
against William M. Tweed or reduce the three 
million dollars ball. Another decision was 
given through Judge Davis revising Judge 
Donohue's order, from which people appealed 
requiring a hill of particulars as to the fraudu¬ 
lent bills and vouchers complained of by the 
people. 
The memorial exercises in honor of the late 
ex-President Johnson occurred at. Nashville, 
Tenn., on the 2d inst* Business was generally 
suspended. A great many prominent citizens 
or Tennessee and other States arrived to part i¬ 
cipate In the ceremonies. Kx-8ouator Fowler 
delivered the memorial address, requiring two 
hours for delivery. 
The Bank of California reopened Its doors for 
business on the 2d lost. During the three hours 
of business the amouot of deposits exceeded 
the checks paid out by about $750,000. The 
total amount subscribed by tho syndicate to be 
applied to the liquidation of the indebtedness 
of tho bank is $7,030,000. 
The natural history school of Prof. Agassiz 
at Pennikeae Island has been entirely aban¬ 
doned. The furniture and aquariums were dis¬ 
posed of at an auction sale on Thursday last. 
The Democrats of the Fifth Judicial District 
have nominated Albertos Perry of Oswego for 
Justice of the Supreme Court. 
It is thought that the thefts of Pitmey, the 
defaulting clerk of the Navy Dapartment at 
San Francisco, will amount to more than a mil¬ 
lion dollars- 
Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the evangelists 
were In Brooklyn on the 7th inst., and hod a 
long consultation with a large number of the 
Brooklyn clergymen. It was tlna.ly decided by 
the evangelists that they would begin their 
work on Sunday, Oct. 31, at the Rink Building, 
which will seat between 7,000 and 8,000 people, 
a subscription papier was started arid $i.fiOo whs ’ 
pledged at once. 
A colored convention met at Augusta, Ga., 
on the 7th inst., for the purpose of refilling the 
charge that tho negroes intended an insurrec¬ 
tion, and to determine what course is best for 
the colored race to|punsue. Among the resolu¬ 
tions introduced, was one condemning lawless¬ 
ness whenever and however manifested, and 
stating that the mutual dependence of the two 
races in the South is so evident that the 
promptings of interest, If no higher considera¬ 
tions, d.ctate the cultivation of amicable rela¬ 
tions as the only road to true and permanent 
prosperity. 
The Treasurer's recent report to the Trustees 
ol the Peabody Educational Fund showed that, 
there are $96,600 that can be used up to next 
July. The report of the progress at the South 
is very favuraole. The contributions for the 
year ending July, 1875, are:—Virginia, $23,750: 
North Carolina, $16,150; Georgia, $6,990; Florida 
$800; Alabama, $3,200; Mississippi, $9,500; 
Louisiana, $3,700: Texas, $3,(Kki; Tennessee, 
$22,851): West Virginia, $7,100; total amount, 
$97,650. 
Mr. John Gorham of Providence, Rhode 
Island. President of the Gorham Silver Manu- 
facturing Company, failed recently—His assets 
are said to Oe$1,050,030, and his debts $600,000- 
It is said that his failure will not affect, the 
credit of the company. 
A very destructive waterspout has lately 
visited the Date Cre k regiou hi Arizona. The 
flood came dowu almost in $ oolid wall of water, 
sweeping away fences, outhouses, chickens and 
hogs. The gardens and fields were completly 
stripped, not cnly of tdelr crops but of the 
soil, which was lorn up and borne away by the 
madly rushing waters. Tne wagon road for a 
dlstauoe of sixteen miles is entirely ruined, in 
many places there are holes washed the w hole 
width of the road to a depth of fifteen feet, and 
in other places there are bowlders in great 
numbers leu In such position as to block up 
all possibility of travel. 
At. a meeting of Boston capiailsts at Pough- 
keepsie.N. V., recently the subject of the pro¬ 
posed Poughkeepsie orldge across the Hudson 
was discussed. The general sentiment of the 
meeting was very favorable to the early begin¬ 
ning of work upon the structure. 
As the result of Mr. Livlningstou Stone's 
operations in California nearly or quite ten mil- 
that he will very soon return Mr. Owen to his 
friends fully restored in mind and body. 
Elgbty-five thousand headstones for soldiers 
killed in the civil war have already been com¬ 
pleted in West Rutland, Vt, 
The Rev. John Switzer, one of the best known 
and most respected Baptist ministers in the 
State of New York, died at Utica recently, aged 
seventy six years. 
At the Convention of Massachusetts Labor 
Reformers at Worcester, Wendell Phillips, of 
Boston, was nominated for Governor; William 
F. Bartlett, of Pittsfield, for Lieutenant-Gov¬ 
ernor; Israel W, Andrews, of Denvers, for 
Secretary of S rate. 
On the 9th inst, at Philadelphia Judge Etcoek 
sentenced Westervnit, charged with being im¬ 
plicated in the abduction of Charley Ross, to 
seven years in the Eastern Penitentiary in soli¬ 
tary confinement, and fined him $1. 
The Democratic Nominating Convention of 
tho 2nd judicial district met in Brooklyn on the 
7th inst. and renominated Justice A. B. 
Tappau. 
The latest reports of the Board of Health of 
Mobile, Ala., states that they have no knowledge 
at present of any case of yellow fever in the 
citj. The last, case of which they have any re¬ 
port originated on the 27th of September. 
The Massachusetts Prohibitionists’ Conven¬ 
tion at Worcester on the 6th inst. made no 
nominations except that of Hon. John J. Baker 
for Governor. 
Prof. Henry of the Smithsonian Institution 
at Washington received a cable telegram 
recently from Prof. Faerster of the Berlin 
Observatory announcing the discovery by Per- 
ratin of a new' planet of the twelfth magnitude 
in the right ascension 23° 44' south, declination 
0° 36', with a daily motion south of V. 
At a recent meeting of the Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, New York, Mr. S. B. Ruggles advocated 
the widening of the Erie Canal to fifty-four and 
a half feet or more where it is thirty feet wide, 
and of deeping it to eight feet. 
The llev. Thomas Ryder, pastor of the Strong 
St reet Baptist Church in Nottingham, England, 
was found dead in hi* bed recently at the resi¬ 
dence of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe in Hart¬ 
ford. Mr. Ryder was traveling for Ids health 
and probably died of heart disease. 
There was a serious railroad accident at 
Rochester, N. Y., on the 9th inst., a long freight 
train coming west ou tho New York Central 
Railroad, aDd running at the speed of 40 miles 
an hour, left the track near the depot in 
Rochester and dashed into tho walls of the 
depot building, demolishing a portion of it. 
The locomotive tender, and a good part of the 
train wore wrecked completely. The engineer, 
and fireman were instantly crushed to death, 
their bodies oelng shockingly mangled. There 
was no other person on tho train, as it had 
broken apart, a tew miles away. The damage to 
properly is considerable. 
On the 7th inst. the police arrested in New 
York. John Dolan the suspected murderer of 
William Noeonthe22d of August. The evi¬ 
dence agalust him is very strong, and the police 
believe he Is the real murderer. 
On the 4th inst. a revolting murder was com¬ 
mitted near the village of Swticook, N. H. 
Miss Langmald, daughter of a respectable 
farmer, residing about a mile and a half from 
Suucook was murdered while going to her 
school and her horribly mutilated body was 
found in the woods a short distance from her 
residence. She was about 18 years of ago; 
attractive in appearance, exemplary tn char¬ 
acter and greatly beloved by a largo circle of 
friends. The police have arrested a desperate 
character by the name of William Drew, and 
believe he was the murderer. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
Extensive damage to shipping Ibas resulted 
1 from a recent hurricane which swept over the 
West India Islands. The Royal Mall steamship 
Shannon, which went on I'edro Bank, is a total 
wreck; considerable damage has also been 
done to the crops in Haytl. 
Accounts from Berlin speak of the extraor¬ 
dinary tightness or money. Germany is carry¬ 
ing through a great transformation In her 
money system, and this tightness is the price 
paid. Iu addition to substituting a uniform 
gold standard for the varying silver standards 
which formerly existed, and a uniform system 
of token money, the Government has simulta¬ 
neously altered the whole of the currency and 
banking legislation. 
The British Legation at Athens, Greece, has 
informed the Greek Government that the 
Prince of Wales will leave Italy the 16th of 
October for India, and will visit Athens en 
route. The Government has appointed a Com¬ 
mission to make suitable preparation for his 
reception. 
The equinoctial storms were very violent in 
many parte of Great Britain and great loss of 
property 1* reported. The damage done to the 
crops In Longford, Kerry and Tipperary, is said 
to be enormous. The river Lee in Ireland rose 
1 several feet and inundated u portion of the city 
end of the bier. The apex of the monument 
consists of a die with baluster columns at the 
corner; the panels contain bronze escutcheons 
with the armorial bearings of the deceased, the 
whole surmounted with a bold cornice, which, 
with the exception of *80 bronze portions,is 
composed of the purest Carrara marble. The 
whole will be crowned b7 an equestrian figure, 
which will complete the monument. 
Over £2.000 has been collected In London for 
the relief of the 4,000 Icelanders who have 
suffered from the recent volcanic eruptions, 
and tho committee have resolved to purchase a 
quantity of rye and oats to be despatched as 
soon as possible. 
The Indian Council has adopted a resolution 
exempting from duty ail goods imported by the 
Prince of Wales and his suite on his Royal 
Highness's forthcoming visit to India. 
It la stated that, t he marvelous sura of twenty- 
one millions of franca have so far been sub¬ 
scribed in France for the sufferers by the late 
inundation, the largest amount, perhaps, ever 
raised as a charity. 
The annual consumption of sugar in England 
is 10,000,090 hundred weight; in the United 
States if. is 15,400.000; in France, 5,000,0000; in 
Germany, 6,120,000. 
The splendid residence of Henry Alers Han- 
key, known as the Garden House, tn Queen 
Anne's Gate. St. James Park, Westminster, 
was totally destroyed by fire on the 7th inst. 
The loss on the building and its contents is es¬ 
timated a t $2,500,000. 
A Paris Journal, Le Temps, recently gave 
an Interesting statement of an interview of 
Mons. Thlera, with one of Its editors. Mr, 
Tolers expressed himself convinced that the 
European Power* are desirous of maiuUining 
peace, and that they aro generally favorably In¬ 
clined toward France, mentioning in turn 
England, Italy. Austria and Russia, referring to 
hioiHelf he said Although l have been one 
of the most active men of this country and am 
still in possession of my faculties, I feel the 
want of rest; I am weary. Ttie hour of retire¬ 
ment has struck. I must think of ray memoirs. 
I commenced that work 40 years ago, and as 
yet have only written a few notes. 1 wish at 
least to finish this before I die. It will be my 
last legacy to the French people.” 
An enthusiastic meeting to protest against 
Vaticanism was held at Glasgow, recently. A 
letter from Mr. Gladstone waa read, expressing 
sympathy with the object of the meeting. 
The Swedish steamer L. J. Bager, running 
between Lubeek and Copenhagen, was recently 
burned In the Baltic. Twenty-four of the 
passenger* and eleven of tho crew perished. 
Alderman, William James B. Cotton, lias 
been elected Lord Mayor of London and will 
be installed in his office on the 9th of Novem¬ 
ber. 
A recent letter in the Ltmdon Times from 
Paris says an accredited opinion prevails in 
Madrid that Senor Can ovum do Castillo is about 
to return to tbe Premiership. He is displaying 
marvellous activity in order to lead back a 
conciliation Cabinet. 
Judge Johnson has given judgment dismiss¬ 
ing the motion pressed by the Instltut Canadian 
agalust the Cemetery St. Sulplce, for It to show 
cause why if. should not pay a fine of $2,000 for 
the non-burial of Gulbord's remains. 
The Madrid Government ha* determined to 
send Senor Bubl, formerly Minister of the 
Colonies, to Cuba, with unlimited authority to 
regulate tbe finances. 
It is officially announced that Burmab has 
unconditionally agreed to allow the passage of 
an escort, of British troops through Burmese 
Territory to Furman if another expedition 
thither be necessary. 
War has commenced at Cape Palmas between 
Liberia and the aborigines under the command 
of several educated natives. There was some 
fighting on the 17th of September, in which 60 
were killed and wounded. The Liberian Gov¬ 
ernment has dispatched troops from Monrovia 
to the scene of action, and a great battle Is 
daily expected. 
The Mexican National Congress met in the 
City of Mexico on Sept. 16 for the first time 
under the restored political regime ot 1857, and 
according to the speech of President Lerdo de 
Tejida, tbe affairs of the Republic, are In a 
highly prosperous condition. Peace prevails 
throughout the Republic; relations with 
friendly, foreign powers are satisfactory. In¬ 
ternal improvements are going ou; public edu¬ 
cation is receiving special attention, and the 
ordinary payments of the Administration, civil 
and military, are made with regularity. 
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THB MAKKSTS. 
liou salmon eggs have been secured for trans- l of Cork and tbe oountry for miles about, occa- 
mlssioii to eastern waters. Most of the Eastern 
and Middle and many of tne Southern States 
are to receive from a quarter ot a million to a 
million of the salmon eggs collected by Mr. 
Stone. 
Dr. Orpheus Evarts, under whose care Mr. 
Robert Dale Owen h..s been since his attack of 
insanity has written a letter In which he says 
slouing immense damage to property. It is be¬ 
lieved that several persons wore drowued. 
The monument to the Duke of Wellington in 
St. Paul's Cathedral, Loudon, after nearly 23 
years, is now nearly completed. It is 13 feet 
long, 8 feat wide, and 27 feet high. The figure 
is wrapped in a soldier's cloak, with his honors 
on his breast, aud his ducal coronet rests at the 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New Yoke, Saturday, Oct. 9, 1875. 
Receipts.—T he receipts of Produce for the week 
were as follows: . _ . , „ M 
Flour. Dtils. 86.7U Resin, bhls. 13A" 
Wtieai. bush. 7tf r i6l Pork, bbla. 
Corn. bush..._ 720,601 Beef, pkg?..... **0 
Oats, bush. 30L66S Cut meats, pkgs • • • *•£?! 
Grass seed, bush.. 1.460 card, tea. 
It ye uus 11 . 4VU Ashes, pkgs. ~ 
Barley. bush. 181,501 outu.r. .. “-•,« 
Man. oust.. CneeseJbx». .... 
beans. t*ueh. »,-& Dried Faults. pxg» . 
Cora uical.bbls-... 1.769 Wool- balm. 
i:..rtj meal. baas... ft' .Hups, tales.“ft 
Scits. turp.. bbls... Q54 tftloe. pgka. 
beans AND PEAS-Exports of beans past week. 
70J bDis.i since Jan. 1, *1,024 do.: same ttoe last 
rear, 'i;,‘270 do. Exports of peas pust week, ljuo 
own.; since Jan. 1, 241,030 do.; same time last year. 
