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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
NOV. 43 
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Ityws of the 
FAILURE OF THE RUSSIAN HARVEST. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Maine has ten ex-Govaraors living, and all 
residing in that State. Their names are Crosby, 
Kent, A. P. Morrill, Hamlin, Williams, L. P. 
Morrill, Washburn, Coburn, Chamberlain and 
Perbam. Four are over seventy years old. 
The First National Bank of Pittston was 
broken into on the 2d iust., by a band or 
burglars, and robbed of $40,009 id bonds and 
money. 
The death rate of Boston for the month of 
August was higher thau that of any other largo 
city in the United States, except Providence, 
R. I. That of San Francisco was the lowest, 
and Cincinnati was next. 
The Rev. Fernando C. Putnam. D. D. of St. 
Paul's Episcopal Church, Jersey City Hights, N. 
.1., celebrated the tenth anniversary of his 
wedding recently, and. among the gifts was a 
sandwich that contained between the layers of 
bread $150 dollars io greenbacks. 
A k comotive engine on the Easton and Am¬ 
boy railroad, N. J., exploded recently. Five 
men we e killed, thirty-two were injured, and 
several of them fatally. 
Itevd. J. B. Finney, L. L. D., formerly Gover¬ 
nor of Liberia is lecturing in this country ,n 
Africa, for the purpose of raising funds to 
We copy from the New Tork World of Nov. 
7th, the following article summing up the news 
which has been foreshadowed for some time, 
and is now publicly proclaimed respecting the 
failure of the Russian harvest. It is hardly ne¬ 
cessary to add that the facts herein given are 
of great importance to American fanner.'. 
There seems to be no longer any room to 
doubt that the Russian Empire has been visited 
this year with one of the worst calamities 
whicli can befall a people an extensively agri¬ 
cultural, and condemned by their govern¬ 
mental system to so exclusive a dependence 
upon their own resources for the prime neces¬ 
saries of life. The Russian harvests have 
failed, not here and there in scattered districts 
of the empire, hut from end to end of the vast 
dominions of Alexander II. In Europe. There 
have been premonitions here and there of this 
great disaster for some lime past, and a steady 
rise in the price of grain at Odessa has pre¬ 
pared those who watch such phenomena with 
the attention t hey deserve, for the news which 
now reaches us. But hardly fnr the extent 
and gravity of tho calamity. A carefully pre¬ 
pared arliclo in the Allgemeln© ZcttUhg of 
October 19, foreshadowing protsy plainly the 
putting of a new uud Important Russian loan 
upon the markets of the West, gives us a most, 
impressive picture of tho unhappy Condition to 
which tho rural districts of the Russian Em¬ 
pire now find themselves reduced. 
From Orel to Keirri. from Tambowto Podolsk, 
comes up one universal wall from tbc'ruinod 
peasants and farmers. “It is not a local lamen¬ 
tation like that which readied all hearts from 
the great famine in Samara,” aays tho Altcgc- 
meine Zdtung, “ it is an absolute prostration 
of nearly the whole grain-growing region of 
Russia." The districts which are confronted 
by a vision of Tamlne steadily approaching with 
the inexorable winter, can look nowhere for 
help, since tho peril Is universal. And the ca¬ 
tastrophe is the more complete that the failure 
of tho cereals has been accompanied by a failure 
of the grass crop?. Tho peasants have neither 
fodder for their cattle nor food for themselves. 
The price of straw and hay has gone up in all 
the afflicted regions to a fabulous figure. The 
peasants who have lost with their grain crops 
all their means of supplying the failure of their 
grass, find themselves compelled to part with 
their catt le at ruinous prices, and of course In 
parting with their cattle they part with tho 
future of their hard-tilled acres. Jn many re¬ 
gions of Western Russia these unhappy people 
are submitting to the most oppressive condi¬ 
tions In the hope of finding themselves not eoin- 
ploiely stripped of nil tbeir farm-stock when 
the spring shall give them a new opportunity 
to retrieve ( heir ruined fortunes. Jh one plaoe 
lu Podoliu, for example, well-to-do farmers are 
putting their cattle out to keep for the winter 
on the condition that ior every yoke of oxen 
delivered back to them in the spring the land¬ 
lord who keeps them during the winter shall 
rotain two yokes of oxen. OT course, it does 
not certainly follow from this terrible condi¬ 
tion of the agriculture of Ru&slu, which isthe- 
main industry of tha empire, that Russia will 
entirely disappear from the grain markets as 
an exporting power during the current season. 
Gr.iin was exported frem Ireland, It will be re¬ 
membered.even during the bight of the dread¬ 
ful famine ot ISiT; and the integr al communi¬ 
cations of Russia ;ire still so iuaduQiiate that 
there are doubtless districts of Southern 
Russia particularly from which it will be more 
easy to export grain at western prices to West¬ 
ern Europe than to send it at famiuo prices 
into Western and Northern Russia. But the 
Russian expert of grain to Great Britain, for 
example, must necessarily fall off very greatly 
under the stress of such a condition of tbe do¬ 
mestic supply and demand ; and the Russian 
exporter grain to Great Britain, in the year 
1873 amounted in value to no leas than A8.99J.288 
Sterling, or in round numbers t > §45.000,000 in 
gold, against an American export of grain In 
the same yoar to Great Britain of more than 
£16,000,000 In round numbers, or about. $80,000,- 
C03. Ills obvious therefore that the disaster 
build there a Uuive*»lty. 
At a recent “ centennial party ” held in Terre 
Haute, Iud„ there were displayed a pair of 
Hilver knee-buckles, ouee the property of 
George Washington ; a pair of yellow buckskin 
gloves, worn by John Hancock ; a watch made 
in 1733: a coffee-pot more than one hundred 
years old, and a mahogany chest iu which 
guineas were brought, from England to this 
country in the time of the Revolution, to pay 
the Hessians with. 
An attempt to bore an artesian well at Fort 
Wayne, Ind., has resulted in a failure to dis¬ 
cover water at the depth of three thousand 
feet. 
A tribe of Iroquois Indians, numbering in all 
about 1,430, are desirous of obtaining permission 
from our government to leave tnelr present 
quarters, near Quebec, Canada, and settle with 
the Cherokees in the Indian territory. 
The largest single private sate of an oil paint¬ 
ing ever made In this country look place at 
Goupil s gallery. A painting of Moliere and 
Louis XIV., by Gcrorne, brought §11,000. “ The 
Lost Game," by Mc-leslonicr, brought §18,000. 
Other single paintings brought $10,000, §8,000, 
$1,000 uDd $5,000 respectively. 
A large number of families are to leave New 
Britain, Conn., for Florida soon, where they 
have purchased 1,000 acres on the Halifax 
River, in Orange County and intend to forma 
colony. 
There were two shocks of earthquake at 
Washington, Ga. No serious damage is re¬ 
ported, but the people were somewhat alarm¬ 
ed. The shock lasted about forty-five seconds. 
In the Cardiff giant suit against the Boston 
Herald, for alleged libel in calling the giant a 
fraud, a verdict bus been rendered for the 
defendants. 
It. is intimated that the United States Govern¬ 
ment wdli ere long adopt a more vigorous course 
Of action in relation to Cuban affairs, and that 
this decision has been communicated to the 
Spanish Government. 
The storm at Portland on the 31st. nit. was 
the heaviest known in years. All along the 
New England coast great damage was done 
to shipping and other property. 
Tho earthquake in Memphis. Tenn , on the 
27lh ult., caused much alarm throughout the 
eity. There were three shocks in rapid succes¬ 
sion. 
An Ingenious contrivance to evade tho Maine 
liquor luw lias been discovered at Bangor. It 
consists of a barrel within a barrel, furnished 
with a faucet which, when turned one way sup¬ 
plies sweet cider, and when turned in another, 
supplies lager bier. 
At a fair at Waco, Texas, lately, a horseman 
rode for a wager sixty miles in two hours aud 
lifty-flve minutes, using relays of ordinary 
Texas horse* to the number of forty-two. Ills 
last mile was made in i wo minutes aud seveu 
seconds, and his time for the sixty miles was 
ffve minutes better than the best time ever re¬ 
corded in this metbodgjf racing. 
The schooner La Salle, valued at $45,000, with 
a cargo of twenty thousand bushels of wheat, 
was wrecked near Two Rivers Point, Lake 
Michigan, during a recent gale. 
The Officers of the Coast Survey have erected 
a signal on the summit of Mount Shasta, Cal. 
Its elevation is 14,492 feet. The signal is a hol¬ 
low cylinder or galvanized iron, 12 feet high and 
2!4 feet in diameter, surrounded by a cone of 
nickle-plated copper with concave sides three 
feet high and three feet iu diameter at base. 
The plating of the signal is a biilltaut reflector, 
and it is believed that it can be used for observ¬ 
ations at a.distance of at least 100 miles. 
Baltimore bus performed the remarkable feat 
of building a City Hall and furnishing it at. less 
than tho estimate. The edifice furnished, has 
cost $2,375,460.41, leaving $124,599,50 of the ap¬ 
propriation uuexpeudcd. 
The At Ian la & Richmond air line railroad has 
been c rile rad sold to satisfy thB claims of mort¬ 
gage holders,amounting to uearly •$5 000,000. 
Very damaging evidence agtlnl La Page, in¬ 
dicted for the murder of J >sle LmigmaiJ, has 
been recently discovered. He was identified as 
t m.ui seen in the bushes near the road the girl 
must, have passed over on the morning of the 
murder, and within about ten minutes of the 
time when she probably passed. 
A land terrapin was recently found on Clif¬ 
ton Heights on the knolls back of New Albany, 
Ind., curved upon tbe shell of which, with a 
knife, whs the following: “P. F. Tuley, 1838.” 
Mr. Tuley has been dead twenty-four years. 
The average weight of three-year old steers, 
which are sold in the Chicago market, is 1,100 
lbs. gross. 
Frost has penetrated four inches In Fonda, 
Montgomery Co., N. Y. Ono farmer has 500 
bushels of potatoes in the ground, and they 
will, no doubt, lie ruined. Many others suffer 
a similar misfortune. 
The People of Ohio have voted by 17,000 ma¬ 
jority against taxing dogs. This preference for 
dogs rather than sheep is a little remarkable, 
aud shows that the farmers of Ohio were not 
awake to their interests. 
The Ames Plow Company, so an exchange 
says, recentjy shipped 1,200 Eagle plows to 
Africa. 
George Spinner, ex-United States Treasurer, 
says that tho deficit of $700,000 In the treasury 
represents tho amounts stolen by the rebels at 
New Orleans and other points in 1801. 
La'c news from tlie Osage. Indian Agency la 
to the effect that Agent Gibson has sent to the 
Cheyenne Agency for 100 cavalry, and with this 
support expects to force the Indians into sub¬ 
mission. The Indians opposed to Agent Glb- 
son’ii late actions have ordered him to roinove 
all goods off the reservation. 
The elections in the SEveral Stales on tho 2d 
Inst., were exceptionally quiet. Tho Republi¬ 
cans were victorious in Pennsylvania, New 
Jersey, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Minnesota, 
Kansas and Illinois. The Democrats triumphed 
in Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia. The 
Democratic State Ticket in New York is elected 
by about 15,(KM) majority. The Senate will 
stand about 22 Republicans to 10 Democrats, 
and the Assembly about 70 Republicans i.o 5S 
Democrats. The following Governors were 
elected:—John F. Hartrunft, Repair) Pa. Alex¬ 
ander Rice, Rep., In Mass. John L. Carroll, 
Dam., in Md. H. Ludiugton, Rep., in Wiscon¬ 
sin. John S. Pilisbury, Rep., In Minnesota. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
The French Chambers, in theirbudgetforthe 
coming year, have placed $220,000 to the credit j 
of the Minister of Fine Arl* for the restoration 
of the hb-toi ical monuments of France. 
It is reported that Mr. Caleb Cushing, United 
States Minister, has presented a note from the 
Government of Washington to-the Spanish Gov¬ 
ernment containing some observations relative 
to the proceedings of tho authorities in tho 
Island of Cuba, who semi before Spanish courts 
martial citbsena of tbo United Mates residing 
there, and that England and France have agreed 
to co-operate with the United States iu forcing 
upon Spain a speedy solution of the Cuban 
question, based upon the preliminary conces¬ 
sion by the United State* of belligerent rights 
to the Cubans. Latest reports from Cuba are 
to the effect that tho reinforcements lately ar¬ 
rived there arc in a bad condition for the winter 
campaign; that they are without clothing, 
proper food and arms, and that many of them 
are in a low stale of health and become ready 
victims to yellow fever, which is said to be very 
prevalent. It is said that Carlos Garcia is at 
tbo head of a large body of insurgent - carrying 
on depredations close to Havana, and that lie 
has made three attacks on the city of Guana- 
bacon, six miles lrom Havana, sacking stores, 
&c., In the outskirts of the town with impunity. 
Herr Tornow, a well-known Prussian amateur 
of Berlin, lias recently died, bequeathing his 
valuable collection of works of art of various 
kinds to the Crown Princess of Germany and 
Prussia, Victoria, daughter of the Queen Of 
England, *‘in recognition of her artistic taste 
and skill." 
Tho rebellion in Herzegovina is not yet crush¬ 
ed. 'i'ne Servians aro rearming. The Consuls 
of the Foreign Powers have expressed the 
opinion that the Porte will not be able to 
pacify Herzegovina au i that rorelgn interven¬ 
tion must be resorted to. There Is a rumor 
that the Northern Powers have invited Austria, 
as the one most interested, to frame a proposi¬ 
tion for tho guarantees to be demanded and 
the control to be exercised, to insure the per- 
formanca of the Sultan's promises of reform 
to the insurgents In his vassal States. Count 
Audrassy is elaborating such a proposition. It 
is believed t hat the Sublime Porte will be uu- 
ablo to suppress the rebellion and that the 
great powers will sanction the inteivention of 
Austria next spring. 
A force of 1,800 Turks was defeated recently 
while attacking a strong insurgent position near 
Ztibii. The Turks tad 150 killed, while the 
lota of the insurgenis iu both killed and 
wounded was only 20. 
A dreadful fire took place at lquique, Peru, 
recently, which destroyed three-fourths of the 
houses. The lire began in a house occupied by 
the German Club. Twenty-four bouses, stores, 
banks, offices, &o., were consumed. Five mil¬ 
lions of dollars worth of property was destroy¬ 
ed. 
A waiter at a betel In Antwerp, Belgium, is 
said tu Lethe own r if pictures hanging lu the 
hotel north at least §150,000. Among them are 
works ot Teniers, VenJVke, and other famous 
artists, all undoubted ■ rivinals. He has been 
i. if red $100,000 ior ono Holy Family aud $0,000 
1 for another picture, but he is deaf to all in¬ 
ducements to sell. He will show his pictures 
to visitors only after a formal introduction, and 
then he shows them with dignity and talks 
about them with great intelligence. 
London bridge is to be widened by tbe addi¬ 
tion, op each side, of wrought-iron arched ribs, 
carried on piers built over the present cut¬ 
waters. By this means 22 feet. 1« added to the 
width, giving 54 feet of roadway for carriage 
traffic, and footways on each side 11 feet 1 inch 
wide. 
The iron-clad Magenta, flagship of the Vice- 
Admiral commanding the French Squadron of 
Toulon, caught fire on the 30th ult., and ulti¬ 
mately exploded. All on board were saved. 
Tbe French Chambers, In their budget for 
the coming year, have placed $220,000 to tho 
eredit of tho Minister of Fine Arts for tho 
restoration of the historical monuments of 
France. 
It is estimated that over 2,000 miners in Cape 
Breton will have to depend on external aid for 
subsistence this winter, owing to depression in 
the coal trade. 
The arsenal at Rendsburg, in Holstein, was 
almost entirely burned on the 3d Inst. Forty 
thousand rifles were destroyed. The total dam¬ 
age by the fire is estimated at $2,700,000. 
The discovery of a subterranean forest just 
below the surface of the bed of the Thames 
River, England, is attracting a good deal of at¬ 
tention in England. The oak, the alder, and 
the willow’arc the principal trees found. These 
retain their vegetable character, hut other signs 
show that the forest belongs to the period of 
tho elk and the red deer In, the South of Eng¬ 
land. 
An oriental museum has been opened in 
Vienna. It consists of fourteen rooms assigned 
to China, Japan, Egypt, Persia, Turkey, Tunis, 
and Morocco. Baron Hoffman, the well-known 
Orientalist, Is at the head of the institution. 
A Liberian force of 0,000 troops recently at¬ 
tacked soma native African villages, but were 
repulsed and were oblighed to retire, losing 24 
killed and wounded. They also abandoned 
three cannon, ft. is said the disturbances re¬ 
sulted from the Liberian law prohibiting direct 
trade between the natives anil foreigners. 
Africa anuualiy consumes 100,01X1 bottles of 
champagne; Spain, 300,000; Belgium, 500,000; 
Italy, 500,000; Holland. 600,000; Germany, 1,500,- 
000; England, 5,000,000; Russia,2,000,000; France 
2,000,000 aud North America, 10,000.000. 
Advices from Central Asia Btate that the 
Insurrection in Khokand has been renewed and 
the new Khan has fled to Khodjead. 
The permission lately accorded by tbe Duke 
of Westminster to the artisans of London to 
visit his town mansion for the purpose of 
viewing the art treasures stored there has been 
crowned with success. During the Sundays of 
September t.lio gross attendance averaged GOO, 
while on the last day of the term the number 
reached 700. 
Extensive preparation* are on foot for an un¬ 
precedented display of Japanese productions 
at the A rnerlean Centennial Exposition to to be 
held In Philadelphia. 
Private telegrams from Montevideo, dated 
tho 28th ult., says tho restoration of peace in 
Uruguay la confidently expected, the revolu¬ 
tion having practically terminated in favor of 
tho Government. 
It ^ reported that Herzegovina is fast getting 
depopulated, that about 150,000 of the people 
have emigrated from the country. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Findley’* Lake, Chant. Co., IV. Y., Nov. 4.— 
Had three snow storms during tbe month of 
October, and the last one still lies on the 
ground. Most every farmer has corn to busk 
yet, whllo some have fed it without husking, It 
being such poor quality. There were but very 
few farmers hero who bad sound corn this *ea- 
f<ou. Corn is worth JS5@3Tc.iu the ear; oats, 
40c.; buckwheat, ilOc.; potatoes, 40c.; butter, 
30c. Wild geese, iu large flocks, have been flying 
both north and south. Have had the most 
backward fall we have seeu for years. But little 
fall plowing has yet been done. We had one 
week of Indian summer and ure anxiously look¬ 
ing for hi ora. We anticipate getting quite a 
number of subscribers for the Rurai, at this 
place*—R. r. 
XHU MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkw Yor.K, Saturday, Nov. C. 1675. 
Receipts.—T he receipts ot Produce for the geek 
were us follows : 
Flour, bbls. 10I.0J0 Pork, bbls . 
tV In sky_ ....... .’.*<1 Cut meat?, pxgs.... 
Coin a it a i, htils.... 533 tan i. pilgs. - 
r.>ra meal,bugs... 1.8T& J*ard. kegs. 
Wheal, push. Ml.'XtS Oil Cake, sacks. 
coru. hush. HlHjatf Tallow, pkgB. 
uais. bush.. zss.800 Butter, exta. 
Kvo,hush. 2l,'«U Cheese. l>x.<.. 
Man. bush.. sti.atu Cotton, bules— . 
Barley, bush,. 2&T,lti: Rosin. 
Peas, bu-u. .. rt.T-vpSpts. turn., bbls. •- 
iteuus. t>u!*.n. 9,018, lined Fruits, pags.. 
Grass seed, bays.. 5rij Evas, bbls. 
Asi es. pkgs. IfW Wool, bales. 
Beef. pugs. .. 1,208 Hops, tales.. 
721 
5.6:2 
..I I 
S.«H 
26,131 
*5,93L 
41.112 
s. h» 8 
2 ,: 21 
r34 
9.997 
2,973 
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15MAX’S AXLi PEAS - -Exports of beans past we k. 
l.tCii L.Liir.; elneeJa . 1 . liffo, 26,0|l do,: suu.e lime last 
yi :.r. ,t\?ul do. Ex- ora of peas past woe*. «,&« 
uiu-u.: since Jan. I. 260.07' do., same time last Tu..r. 
S'. ,K-ii do. J rauetorti in s mi derate uud prieiSare 
weak. I Tune new mediums haven tub luuee—the 
lower price ior o u-liia s when they lint; sale M r- 
luws favorthebiij i r to the extent oi gum:,; fie nil 
beard Vessel u. lari week’s store quotum as. rail 
oeu.ua ijuiet. Wh:te kuneys scarce ana lain? In at. 
Red do. ure very low; mere is litlle luqu-ry tot 
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