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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
OUR FALL CAMPAIGN! 
The Old Rural's New Trial Trip ! 
A CHEAP EXCURSION ! 
All Aboard for a Three Months’ Cruise! 
IT As already announced, we hare 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 la simply a Trial 
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 poople all over the Continent 
who would ho both pleased and profited by Its 
emeal. Remember that wo offer the Thirteen 
Nu inborn of tb o prese n t Quarter—begi rin 1 »g Oot. 
2—postage paid, for the aforesaid Fifty Cents, 
and don't fvTQct to tell everybody about the offer. 
Agents, and 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 bo likely to take the 
Rural next year. 
EXTRA PKEITIIllJTIS ! 
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 enLitled to them two 
Premiums instead of one—and range in value 
from $15 to $625! 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 of this Year (from .Inn. 2) 
can l>u furnished to all new subscribers, but we shall 
not send thorn hereafter unless specially requested. 
Those who desire can begin with any number, how¬ 
ever. __ 
Tlie Heat Pnpcr, and the Best Premiums to 
Agents, Is our motto. We ignore Chromes and all 
other ehnap 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 forward—whether 
by Freight or Express—if articles are not mailable. 
Act n* Agent! Reader, if there is no agent lor 
the Rural In your locality please become ono by 
forming u club. Jt will pat/. 
No Cbromoa or cheap daubs are given by us, but 
fifty-two bright papers during the year. 
At Our Risk.—You can remit by Draft, P. O. 
Money Order or Registered Lett or at our risk. 
m«J5s of the Ht^h. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Brigham Young was recent!/ arrested at 
Salt Lake City, and placed in custody of the 
United States Marshal until the $9,500 alimony 
adjudged to Mrs. Ann Eliza Young and the 
costs of the suit are paid. 
The latest news from Virginia City is that 
building is going on rapidly. The burnt dis¬ 
trict la dotted with shanties. Work is plenty, 
wages are high, and the people are recovering 
their spirits. 
The steamer Baltic, which arrived at Ban 
Francisco on the 20th nil., from Hong Kong 
and Yokohama, made the quickest passage on 
record from ibe latter, viz., seventeen days. 
The suit of the American National Life and 
Trust Co. o( Now Haven against the Insur¬ 
ance Commissioner of Connecticut, has been 
decided substantially in favor of the Company, 
the directors have decided to make good a 
deficiency of $50,000 in its assets, and to con¬ 
tinue business. 
The Mormons are sending missionaries to 
foreign lands, including fourteen to Great 
Britain, one to Switzerland, faur to Scandina¬ 
via, and eleven to Australia and New Zealand. 
Dr. Linderman of Washington, Director of 
the mint, estimates that by the Virginia City 
fire the supply of gold bullion will be cut off to 
the extent of $1,000,000 per month for four 
months, and the supply of silver bullion $1,- 
500,000 per month for the same length of time. 
The Commissioner of Pensions reports that 
the total number of pensioners on the rolls on 
June 30th. 1875, was 234,821. The total disburse¬ 
ments of the Pension Bureau during the last 
fiscal year were $29,683,116 63, leaving a balance 
from the appropriations of $311,883 31. 
The Young Men’s Christian Association of 
New York have obtained from Commodore 
Vanderbilt, as representative of i be New York 
and Harlem Railroad Co., a lease of Gilmore’s 
Concert Garden, formerly Barnum’s Hippo¬ 
drome, for the use of Moody and Saukey. The 
■■ Committee of the Association is to have full 
control of the building for three months, be¬ 
ginning on January 1. 
The construction of the East, river bridge, to 
connect New York and Brooklyn, wae com¬ 
menced in Janurary. 1870, and was to be com¬ 
pleted In six years, at a cost not to exceed $10,- 
000,000. Thus far the work lias cost, $5,800,000, 
and Engineer Roebling says that the bridge will 
not be completed bofore 1870, ami at least $10,- 
000,000 more will be required. 
Baltimore proposes to cut a tunnel six miles 
long, at an estimated coat of twenty millions 
of dollars, for the purpose of Introducing water 
Into the city from Gunpowder Creek. 
Sufficient evidence has been found against Le 
Pago, the suspected murderer of Josle Larig- 
muid, to warrant the Attorney-General to 
summon a Grand Jury to meet at Concord, N. 
H„ to act upon bis case. 
A quantity of nttro-glyceine or gunpowder 
was exploded recently under the windows of 
the Harvard College buildings, and several 
hundred panes of gk»*s were shattered. It was 
a narrow escape from tnoro serious damage. 
Students were the perpertrator*. 
Dr. Potcre of Hamilton College N. Y., wbilo 
in Japan to observe the transit of Venus, ob¬ 
tained some rare specimens of birds, sheila and 
minerals of that, country, and be has presented 
them to the museum of the college. 
There was a severe gale on Lake Michigan 
recently. A number of disasters have been re¬ 
ported, but no loss of life. .Several schooners 
were driven ashore and lost. 
It is said that the mules in the Pennsylvania 
coal mines, hundreds of feet below the Burfncc 
and half a mile from the shaft have the eplzooty, 
although none or them have been above ground 
in months. 
Forty families in and near Cleveland, Ohio, 
think of emigrating to Tennessee the coming 
winter, and are negotiating for small farms 
there. 
The Christian Missionary Society, In session 
at Louisville recently adopted a resolution to 
raise a centennial fund of $500,000 for the en¬ 
lightenment and Christianization of negroes in 
America. 
The rush to Florida has begun, and it has 
been proposed to send excursion steamers such 
as the Plymouth Rock to run on the St. John’s 
River during the winter. 
Boston has 470 public schools, 03 banks, 165 
hotels, 190 churches ami religious associations, 
H courts, 131 constables, between 000 and 1,000 
lawyers. 189 newspapers and periodicals. 
About ono hundred and twenty-flvo thousand 
mackerel were seined on the 25th ult. off the 
cliffs and beach of Newport, Rhode Island, by 
sixteen steamers and a number of smaller fish¬ 
ing craft. The fish averago one hundred and 
11 fty to the barrel. The wbolo haul was worth 
in round numbers $0,0W. What makes the 
haul more remarkable la that mackerel were 
never before caught here in any quantity. 
The Commissioner of Pensions, reports that 
15,875 survivors of war of 1812 are on the rolls of 
the Pension Ofiico. Very rew, Indeed, of these 
can he less than eighty years of age, and the 
number must bo nearly if not quite ten per 
cent, of the whole force mustered for service. It 
Is thought by many that a largo share of the 
vetorns of 1812 arc imposters. 
The trial of John Dolan before Judge Barrett 
lu the court of Oyer and Terminer for the kill¬ 
ing of James Tl. Noo on Sunday, Aug. 22, was 
ended on the26.li ult., by a verdict of murder 
in the first, degree and a sentence Itbat “Lho 
prisoner be banged on the second Friday In 
December. 
There was a grand demonstration at Rich¬ 
mond. Virginia, on the 26th ult., on the occasion 
of. unveiling the Foley Statue of Stonewall 
Jackson. All the prominent buildings and 
residences were handsomely decorated. It is 
estimated that there were 50,000 strangers pres¬ 
ent, besides the citizens. In the procession, 
which was one hour in patsing a given point, 
were many of the prominent ex-Confederate 
Generals, together with the veterans of the old 
brigade pf Stonewall Jackson aud the wounded 
vetcransof the war. Addresses were delivered 
by Governor Kemper and Rev, Moses Hoge. 
A destructive lire broke out on the 2fith ult. 
in Virginia City Nevada, nearly the entire busi¬ 
ness portion of the City was destroyed. The 
loss is estimated at $7,500,000 and the insurance 
at $2,000,000. From three to five thousand peo¬ 
ple have been rendered homeless and several 
firemen and others were killed. It Is reported 
that little damage was done to the mines. Fear 
has been felt in financial circles lu Ran Fran¬ 
cisco that the severe mining losses in Virginia 
City would cause so much loss to the B?.nk of 
California that the institution would again be 
compelled to suspend, and another panic 
occur at San Francisco, The Consolidated 
Virginia mines are owned almost exclusively 
by this bank. The Pacific Stock Exchange 
promptly started a subscription for the relief 
of the Virginia City sufferers, and expect to 
raise $4,000 or $5,00(1, 
rho Attorney-General of N. Y., has received 
a Certified check for $590,435.94, being the pro¬ 
ceeds from the Watson estateln the Tweed case. 
The Rev. A. A.Hatnos of Hamburgh, N. J., 
while digging upon Michael llenly’s farm near 
ClrclevlIJe, Orange Co., N. Y., exhumed on the 
27th ult., a complete skeleton of a mastodon 
that would stand eleven feet high. 
Postmaster-General Jewell is understood to 
be opposed to the total repeal of tbe amend¬ 
ment to tbe Postal law passed last winter, 
doubling rates of postage on all third class 
matter, including transient newspapers. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
i Recently a Waterloo veteran and his aged 
- widow were buried together in ono grave, in 
- the churchyard of Newton Ferrars, South De- 
- von. He died aged 85 and bis wife, aged 87, 
, died the next day. * 
I Between tbe 14th and 22d of October, fifty-five 
- persons lost, their lives by shipwreck on the 
Eastern coast of Scotland, between Plttewween 
i and Peterhead. 
s A Byron Club Is about to be formed lu Lon- 
- don, tbe object of which Is stated to be to com¬ 
memorate the genius of the poet and his gener- 
i ous and heroic exertions for the liberation and 
regeneration of Greece, and to cultivate mutual 
i amity between Greece and England. 
In the competition announced at Paris last 
April for a drama, ba^ed on the American 
Revolution, sixty-seven manuscripts of plays 
have been sent. In toThedore Mlchaelis. Several 
leading French dramatists have contributed 
productions. 
Liverpool papers announce that there is like¬ 
ly to lie a new lino of steamers between that 
port arrd New York next year. Steamers here¬ 
tofore in the West India trade will be employ¬ 
ed at first. 
Raffael Bros., merchants of London, have 
Tailed. Liabilities, $3,090,000. 
It is now settled that Prince Frederick 
William! will certainly go to the Philadelphia 
Centennial. His oldest son will accompany 
him. 
The cases of foot and mouth disease among 
the cattle in England are rapidly diminishing, 
and many districts are entirely free from tbe 
distemper. 
Messieurs Arkadle Zviaglnzeff and Paul Ml- 
cbailoff, civil engineers of the Russian Gov¬ 
ernment, and commissioned t.n examine and 
report upon tbe public works of ibis country, 
Inspected the Eric Canal from Albany to Cres¬ 
cent recently. They expressed themselves as 
highly pleased with the management of our 
canal. * 
On the 12th ult., tbe national government 
overturned the State government of Panama, 
and imprisoned President Arnsemetm and tbe 
subordinate State officers. The change was ef¬ 
fected without bloodshed. A provisional gov¬ 
ernment was formed, with Senor Aizpuru at its 
head. Disaffection toward the National au¬ 
thorities was the reason ascribed for overturn¬ 
ing the State government. 
Very destructive floods were recently report¬ 
ed in Gainsborough, County of Lincoln, En¬ 
gland. The river Trent overflowed during the 
night, washing away railways. It ia reported 
that tbo damage is enormous, aud it Is feared 
that there has been a great loss of life. 
The British Registrar-General has published 
his annual report of births, deaths, and causes 
of deaths. In London and 20 other large cities 
for the past year. Of these Londcn appears to 
bo the most healthy, tbe death rate bciDg only 
23 per thousand, and the excess of births over 
deaths 44,788. 
The French Ministry of Finance are Inclined 
to Introduce an income tax. A tax of t hree per 
cent, upon the profits made by banking and 
finance companies baa existed for some time 
and it is now proposed to extend it to private 
banking firms and to all persous and companies 
making or receiving an income above a certain 
amount, and to calculate it for all upon the 
capital. 
The International Exhibition at Santiago In 
Chill was opened with great pomp on the 10th 
of Soptember by tho President of tbo Republic, 
accompanied by tbe Ministers and other high 
authorities, civil and military- The Exhibition 
Is said to have been a great success, 
The Carliot General Pcrula is reported to 
have gained an important victory at Luinblcr. 
in Navarre, on the 23d ult., routing a force of 
AlfonBlsts, consisting of 30 battalions of Infan¬ 
try. three regiments of cavalry, and 36 guns. 
The Carllst force consisted of Dye battalions of 
infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, and eight 
guns. The Alfonsist losses were heavy. 
Advices from Hong Kong state that the 
Chinese are greatly dissatisfied that advantage 
was taken of the murder of Mr. Margary to 
force them to give greater facilities for trade. 
Additional disturbances on a small scale be¬ 
tween natives and foreigners have been re¬ 
ported In various parts of China. 
Six busts of the finest white marble, represent¬ 
ing tbe first six Roman Emperors, buve been 
placed in tho Louvre, recently. They were dis¬ 
covered in Africa, and although evidently 
many centuries old, they aro as perfect as If 
chiseled yesterday. Ths modeling of the faces 
Is said to be very fine, the profile of the Augus¬ 
tus especially so. 
News has baen received that the town of 
Greytown (San Juan del Norte) had been 
attacked by a band of men and the Governor 
killed. The Government on receipt of the 
news immediately sent a force of one hundred 
and fifty troops to the assistance of the town. 
A science college has been recently opened in 
Leeds, England, by tbe Duke of Devonshire, 
though it h«8 reallyLbeen at wprk for a year. 
The college has already got a considerable en¬ 
dowment; £30,000 have boenralsed by subscrip¬ 
tions ; a further endowment of £100 a year has 
been obtained through the Endowed Schools 
Commissioners, and the Clothworkets have 
given £300 a year and founded four scholarships 
of £25 a year each, for furthering instruction in 
the textile industries. 
Late advices from Madrid are, that, In addi¬ 
tion to the 15,000 troops sent to Cuba since tbe 
appointment of Valmaseda to the Captain 
Generalship, the Government have determined 
to send a further force of 7,090, which forms a 
tenth part of tbe last levy. The executive 
authorities of Cuba have received directions to 
purify the Caban administration by punishing 
the authors and participators of frauds without 
distinction. 
Political affairs in Santo Domingo at Inst ac¬ 
counts were tranquil, but the financial condi¬ 
tion is deplorable. The Secretary of the Treas¬ 
ury, Senor Amlama, has indicated to Congress 
that the Republic Ib in a bankrupt, condition. 
Heavy shocks of earthquake have been felt 
throughout the island. Thirty-six political 
prisoners. Implicated In tbe late riot, have 
arrived from Puerto Plata. 
Messrs. G. D. Neroulsos & Co., merchants of 
London and Manchester, have failed. Their 
liabilities are stated to be $250,000. 
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THE SEASON. CROPS. PRICES, ETC. 
nidgewmxl, Bergen Co., N. J., Oct. 28.— 
Weather dry and quite warm for tbe season, 
affording tho farmers an excellent opportunity 
to do up their fall work. Potatoes all harvested; 
corn nearly all husked and in the crib, and tbe 
stalks In the barn aro put up in stacks. Late 
turnips are very fine and a heavy crop, which 
will help make tip for a light haycrop,owing to 
a severe drouth early in the season. Early 
sown rye has made such a'strong growth that 
farmers are now pasturing It t* prevent smoth¬ 
ering in winter. [Late pastures bettor than 
usual.—n. s. r. 
Crane’s Mill, Comal Co., Trxna, Oct. 14.— 
The heaviest rain and hail storm has just 
occurred. It cut every leaf of the sweet pota¬ 
toes; cotton completely denuded of leaves, 
cutting off many of the boll6. Too late In the 
season to do much damage to other crops. 
Hull stones so large and abundant that? they 
remained on tbe ground over night.— j. a. f. 
TBE MARKETS, 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
NSW YORK, Saturday. Oct. 20. 1875. 
Receipts.—T he receipts of Produce for ihe week 
were as follows: 
Flour, bbls. 106,101 Pork, bbls. 820 
Whisky. 2,358 Cut meats, pkgs.... 4,782 
Corn meal.bbls— 1,117 Lorn. pkg*. 8,615 
Corn meal. bans... 1,018 Lard. licgs, . 100 
Wheat, bush.1,I84,V>1 oil Cake, sacks U,755 
Corn, bush. lU-’JW) Tallow, pkgs. 
Dills, bush. 440.00(1 Butler. pltm;. 27387 
Rye. bush. 45,*112 Chec-e, bx*. 60,087 
Mall, bush......... 9.7UU Cotton, bales....... 43.605 
Barley, bush. &50 f 47*|Kpts. turn., bbls. .. 3,451 
l’eas, bush. . 26.780 Dried Fruits, pkgi.. 354 
Return, bush. 9,000 Kggs. bbls. 6,956 
Grass seed, bus*.. 677 Wool, bales. 1,740 
Ashes, pkgs. 167 Hops, talcs. 4,492 
Beef, pkgs.. 2,09? 
Beans and Pear — Exports of beans past week. 
S50 bbls ; since .Ian. 1. W75,26,310 do,; same time last 
year. ?,<510 do. Exports of peas past week. 6,650 
hush.; since Jno. I. 252.431 do.; same time last year, 
304.286 do. Mediums aro again oil. Prime down to 
fl.fi>. Marrows steady but show no prospect of 
advance. Peas of all kinds are easy in the absence 
of demand, 
We quote Beans, pea. new. prime, f2Zj)7.Q5; other, 
1.70fij.J.80; medium, new. ; other. *l.tt»U.7o; 
marrow, new. prime, $2.25^230; fair to good. »l s <*2; 
while, kidney, prime, *2,2U(a2 30 * fair to good.f 1.80 ^2; 
rod kldnuy. new, prime, fl.76<$— ; fuirto go.-a. fi.Ri 
(it 1.61)0. Pea*. Canadian, bbls., new. duty paid. *1.25; 
bulb, duly paid. 8I.10 Cb 1.12; green, new. v bu-li.. 
81.75; Southern B. E., 2 busn. bMg, $-k«i3.t0. 
Beeswax.—E xporters nrc operating moderately 
aud them is a light call trout bleachers. Salea.it 30 
Gf.TIo- tor Western and 3)eL>2e. lor Southern. 
Export* oast week, none; since Jan. bell, 193 lbs.; 
some time last year, 136.190 do. , 
I room Cohn, .Strictly tancy new is wanted- The 
arrival* uro chiefly of Inferior stook and neglected. 
Snort preen brash. IKSulJc.; lone green aurl, Id® 
lie.; medium green, T0\8)ic.; red and rod lipped, 6ei7c. 
Buttkii,- There l* considerable movement in 
butier but tho volume of business is not of tbo 
character it stuuld be with a fall mouth gone. 
Larue local buyers all seem to have become Imbued 
with tin? idea that we are to have low prices and 
purchase moderate supplies in Consequence. No 
one at the moment can give any clear points about 
future quotation*. For the time being them is 
plenty of butter here. But as the him views of farm¬ 
ers keep dairy or line buyers uwac lrum their usual 
extensive full purchases, the offering could he soon 
rundown to a point that would natural lv cause an 
advance. This would loosen a good den of stock 
from the country suddenly and rush receipts - strik¬ 
ing a market that hud been well visited b; retailers 
would produce an undecided stale of price* that 
would give u* nn unsettled market to begin wiuter 
with. As t he Hun at Intimated In tlie early part of 
the season, country owners had hotter meet payers 
with their home views shaded, if the stock i* as 
large as receipts and reports of tne State crop imply 
Fancy style* of half tubs or Hr kins havn a rather 
stronger position than rbey bad when choice cream¬ 
ery and extra Orange County pail* could be counted 
upon dally. Many factories ot the former are 
through shipments for the season. Early in the 
wecic 850. has been made for specials and selections 
of bait tubs. We loum this season that few Eastern 
buyers are purchasing direct lots us they did last 
year. Western 18 In good demand for noth home 
und export use. Good Western Welsh tuba have 
brought iOfiiSle. to shippers. 
Etnto dairies erutre, extra. 31@33tv entire, good to 
prime, 2S&3IC.: lair to good, 256528c.; flrkins, selected 
fresh. c«m— e.: good to prune, ST&gJo.: fair to good, 
25®27c.: nalf.flrt.iu tubs, selected, 32@8h .; good to 
prime.iKfcXIix; lair to guod, 28<Si3ue.: poor to fair, 25® 
28c.; State. Welsh, tub*, toil made. : 0„oic : dairies, 
2!)@;Xic.; good to prime. 27&«te.: fair to good. 25® 
27c,; poor to lair. 2Fa25c.; State, Creamery tubs, 
selected. 8So$3lc.; lair to good, Si.sj.iJc.; i'aiis. State 
dairy, verj lancy, 35@—c.; prime, .i ..> Sic.: inferior, 
27@3i)c.; State, creamery, extra, ifcxjsaic : sweet cream, 
38®3oco creamery Inferior, 29&2L0.; Fails, western, 
creamery, fancy. S>@3le.; faino good. 3tk£-:Le.; Penn¬ 
sylvania, sioie packed. I9®27c.: Western, tiiinns, 
selected, 240i2ac vgood,in lines.32S'2Sc.; inlr, in Hues, 
2U(fl,21c.; poor. Is@l9c.; Western, dairy tuba, selected, 
28 ®—c.; good to prime. 2S@2?c.; selected. fresh, 25 ® 
26c.; good to prime. 23®?5c.; futr to good, 22®73c.; 
poor to fair, 1Ska>22e.: Roll butter, good to prime 25® 
2Tc.; fair to good, X3@25c. 
cheese.— There has been an exceptionally dull 
market, ahippers holding off, and Uie In,me trade 
small, Supplies have been accumulating, but prices 
held as before. 
New State factory, faroy, 13X®]4c.: tine, ri^e.; 
(the home trade pay 12S,fnl4c. for prime la fancy:) 
do. good t;j prime. htj(®13hfc.: fuirto good. 111 fai'e.; 
pool to lair, 11* faille. State Farm Duiry—fancy. 12¥@ 
18J4C3 good to prime, ll)4Q,12Hc.; lair to good. JOSUc. 
Western factory, Cheddar tine, : good to 
prime, 110 . 12 ) 40 .; Hat tine. 13®i3Kc ; good to prime, 
(air, 84wllc.; poor to fair. 
