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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
DEC. 2S 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
It Is thought in Albion, Orleans Co., that it 
would bo profitable to build a railroad from 
the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek to Albion, 
and thence to Batavia, and there it could be 
connected with the Erie Railway, which would 
be a more dlreot route to the coal regions and 
through South. 
There la a plucky mall carrier at Manistee, 
Mich. The other morning he found hla horses 
all sick with the epizootic ; but nothing daunt¬ 
ed, he shouldered the mail bag, containing forr,y 
pounds of mail matter, and performed the trip 
to Benzonia, thirty-five mllea, on foot* 
Philadelphia manufacturers have introduced 
improvements in their machinery for punching 
cold Iron, by which they are able to punch a 
half-inch hole through an inch and three- 
quarters of wrought iron cold, making a per¬ 
fectly smooth perforation. 
Five depots are now being erected along the 
line of the New York and Canada road by J. G. 
Cooper of Albany. They are located at West 
Point, Whallonsburg, Wlllsborough. Port Kent 
and Valeour. 
D. M. Main of Saratoga, who has the con¬ 
tract for erecting the Now York State building 
on the Centennial grounds, says he will have 
the material ready for shipping by the middle 
of December. He bus a large force employed. 
Gen. Butler doesn't own a gold mine after all. 
He gives tills cheerful denial of tho rumor to 
an Inquisitive friend“ Never believe any¬ 
thing you see about me in the newspapers. 1 
have not bought a gold mtue iu Vlrglna, or 
elsewhere, and do not mean to." 
P, T. Barnumand his wife, wishing more so¬ 
ciety during the winter, agreed with a neigh¬ 
bor, Dr. Wells, that the two families should 
live together this season in the house of oue or 
the other, as determined by lot. The choice 
was against Mr. Barnum, and the showman is, 
therefore, preparing to vaoato his mansion and 
take up his residence In the house adjoin!ug. 
A fire In Avon, N. Y.,on the night of Monday, 
Dec. 13th, burned the Pattce House with the 
barn adjoining, also a barber shop and several 
dwellings, and afterward- the Erie Railway 
Passenger and Freight Depot. Loss Is estima¬ 
ted at 250,000. The Pattee House had been 
built only about eighteen months. 
A stupendous land swindle has Just been 
unearthed In southern Missouri. It appears 
that deeds to lands In northern Arkansas and 
southern Missouri have been forged for some 
years past, and that agencies for this work were 
established In Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Philadel¬ 
phia, New York, and Manchester, England. It 
Is estimated that deeds to over 12,000,000 acres 
of land have been disposed of, the valuation 
being $26,000,000 to $30,000,000. The land oper¬ 
ated upon Is owned by non-residents, and, as 
the records were mostly destroyed during the 
war, the ring had every facility to carry on the 
enormous swindle. The deeds have beea sold 
all over the Ifnited States and England. The 
Grand Jury of Channon Couuty, Missouri, have 
indicted Dr. Thomas K. Harmon, D«vid S. 
Bingham and .Tames L. Lawton for complicity 
in the fraud. Lawton seeum to have beeu the 
leader of the awludlers, and operated exten¬ 
sively in England. 
The report of the superintendent of public 
Instruction of Brooklyn, for the year ending 
September 30. shows receipts, $1,493,339.58; ex- | 
penditures, $1,159,604.88. Number of teachers 
employed, 1,123, including 13 drawing and 
music teachers, and 33 teachers in the orphan 
asylum. Children of school age In the city, 
132,869; public schools, 52; private schools, 200: 
attendance at private schools, 22,000; number 
of children of school age who attended the 
public schools some portion or the year, 86,325; 
average daily attendance, 44,421; whole number 
of days' attendance, 8,424,965; volumes in libra¬ 
ry, 80,600, valued at $31,000; value of school 
bouses and sites, $4,486,000. 
A convention of broom corn growers will be 
held at Canajoharie on Saturday, the 27th Inst. 
The Convention is called to take into consider¬ 
ation the feasibility of instituting a stock 
organization for the manufacture of brooms, 
&o., from brush raised by those who may be¬ 
come members of the organization. 
It is now definitely decided that the winter 
time table on the New York Central and Hud¬ 
son River Railroad will, bo far ns through trains 
are concerned, he tho same as the one now In 
operation. All trains running from New York 
to Buffalo, and from Buffalo to Now York, will 
run on the same time as the present. 
There are two Chinese Sunday schools in 
Vallejo, Cal., one under Presbyterian and the 
other under Baptist auspices. They are very 
successful in point of numbers, but scoffers as¬ 
sert that all the Chinamen are after 1* to learn 
English. The Presbyterians drew off largely 
from the Baptist school by furnishing better 
singing, which fact indicates that music bath 
charms to soothe the Celestial breast. 
It cost about $3,500 to repair the locomotive 
which was damaged in the Central Railroad ao- 
cident at the depot in Rochester, 
Joseph B. Ward has been elected President 
of the trustees of the Rochester fire depart¬ 
ment. The annual report of the treasurer 
shows receipts, $9,419.83; expenses. $1,602.75; 
In funds, $34,394.08; an Increase of $4,328.02 
during the year. 
The annual report of the Board of Fire Com¬ 
missioners of Albany, shows losses by fire dur¬ 
ing the year aggregating $335,000; but for In¬ 
cendiary fires the loan would be lesw than $100,- 
000. Expended on extension of fire alarm tele¬ 
graph, $3,392.03; hose on hand, 20,700 feet, In¬ 
cluding 4,800 feet condemned. Total expendi¬ 
tures during the year, $124,132.27, inctudlng 
$08,171.05 for current expenses. Estimates for 
the ensuing year, $108,720.30. Value of property 
held in trust by the commissioners, $353,270. 
An Arkansas colored woman has received a 
judgment of $100 at Little Rook, against a St. 
Louis railroad company, for refusing her a seat 
In the ladies' car. 
The Jubilee procossion in Troy, Dec. 12th, 
was the largest of the kind ever seen in that 
city. It is estimated that from 8,0b0 to 10,000 
people constituted the line. 
The Southern Central railroad shops at Fair 
Haven were burned, Deo. 12th. Loss $26,000; 
partially Insured. The running of trains is not 
Interfered with. 
Bishop Haven, having turned politician, is 
receiving a good deal of the criticism and 
hard thumps which belong to the lot of a poli¬ 
tician. 
Bishop McNIerny of Albany, declares against 
round dances, and says that no priest In the 
diocese will give absolution to any one who 
participates iu the objectionable exercise. 
Dr. Robinson of Port Jervis the Inventor of 
several useful articles, has perfected a plan of a 
machine with which he intends to navigate tho 
air. It. is modeled upon the theory of a bird’s 
wing, and dispenses with the use of a balloon. 
Prominent capitalists have promised to back 
him, should his theory prove correct, and he Is 
very sanguine of success. He preposes to test I 
the machine at the Centennial Exhibition at 
Philadelphia. 
The expeuses attending the entertainment of 
King Kalakaua, as shown by the report trans¬ 
mitted to the House by t he Secretary of State, 
aggregate over $20,000. Among the Items are 
the following : —Arlington Hotel, $3,473.60; 
Union Pacific Railroad Company, $3,378.37; 
Central Pacific Railroad Company, $8,109.30: 
Grand Hotel, Sau Francisco, $1,649.56. The 
majority of the Items of expenses are for 
traveling, hotel bills, and Pullman palace-car 
Bleepers. 
Gen. ^BaDks feels confident of the rise of a 
people’s party which will overthrow both or the 
old parties. 
The St. Louis Life Insurance Company Is 
about to pass into the control of the officers 
and directors of the Life Association of Ameri¬ 
ca, and the two companies will be hereafter 
conducted under the same management. 
♦♦ ♦- 
FOREIGN NOTES, 
An awful explosion occurred at the Swaitbe 
main colliery, near Barnsley, In the West Rid¬ 
ing of Yorkshire, England, on the 6th last., 
more than two hundred lives were lost. The 
colliery belongs to Messrs. Mitchell & Co., and 
Is one of the largest In the southern part of 
Yorkshire. It is joined by underground work¬ 
ings with Edmund s main colliery, where, 12 
years ago over 300 persons perished. The 
works extented for miles. They are entirely 
worked with safety lamps, under very rigid dis¬ 
cipline, and were considered safe. 
A decree ordering the introduction of Ger¬ 
mans as the medium of instruction in the ele¬ 
mentary schools of North Schleswig is com¬ 
mented upon by the Danish press. One paper 
endeavors to show that the measure, irrespec¬ 
tive of political considerations, will be preju¬ 
dicial to education, while another hopes the 
people will only be fortified by it !d their 
Danish feelings, and suggests that before it is 
fully carried out a change In the political situ¬ 
ation Is possible. 
The Mark Lane Express review of the grain 
trade says the markets in the French provinces 
are improving. The tone In Paris Is quiet and 
steady. Belgium, Dutch, German and Roman 
markets are steady. 
The ewuers of the Deutschland have decided 
to hand the salvage on the wreck to Mr. Watts, 
owner of the steamship Liverpool, which ren¬ 
dered the first assistance in saving life from the 
stranded steamship. 
Forty-six chests filled with Phoenician anti¬ 
quities collected In Tunis by M. de Sainte 
Marie, were on board the Magenta at the time 
of the explosion on that vessel. Not less than 
2,083 Phoenician inscriptions were In the collec¬ 
tion. Fifteen of the chests have already been 
recovered from the wreck. . 
Col. Baker, now In an English prison, has 
offered hla services to the Emperor of Russia, 
who has accepted. 
The Carllst general, Trlstany, has re-entered 
Catalonia and Issued a proclamation exhorting 
the inhabitants to rise. 
It Is considered probable In St. Petersburg 
that Russia will propose an International 
conference on the Suez canal question, and If 
her demand is refused, will claim freedom of 
action in the East. 
Colonel stokes, commandant of the School of 
Engineering, has been appointed to accompany 
Right Hon. Mr. Cave to Egypt. Several other 
important officials aro also attached to the 
mission. 
Senor Collantes, Spanish Minister for foreign 
affairs, has Informed the papal nuncio that ho 
is open to negotiations upon the Vatican's pro¬ 
posals relative t,o the concordat, although he 
rejects the principle upon which they uro 
based. 
It seems probable that Great Britain will 
soon quietly absorb the two Dutob republics in 
South Africa. The rulers of those republics 
have consented to enter into a consultation 
with the view of forming a South African Con¬ 
federation slmlllar to that of Canada. Thus 
England is quietly extending its immense em¬ 
pire without the expenditure of blood or of 
much money. 
A London despatch of Doo. 10, say6 the steam¬ 
ship Deutschland is now a hoploss wreck. Her 
back is broken. The Board of Trade will insti¬ 
tute an Inquiry Into the disaster late In Decem¬ 
ber. 
Tho schooner Hopewell, from 8t. John for 
Harbor Maine, N. F., struck on the Biscan 
Rock, on the 29th ult. and Immediately went to 
pieces. Only oue man was saved, seven being 
drowned. The schooner Water Witch, on the 
same voyage, was wrocked the Haute night at 
I’ouoli Cove, and 12 out of 25 persons on 
board wore drowned. Tho bark Transit, 
from Shedlao for Liverpool. G. ft., timber 
laden, went ashore on Saturday woek at Lang¬ 
ley, and will probably be a total loss. The 
crew were saved. 
Fifteen hundred soldiers left Cadiz on the 
15th ult. for Cuba. 
The Welland Canal was closed for the season 
at noon on the 14tb Inst.. 
The London Official Gazette publishes a proc¬ 
lamation summoning Parliament to meet on 
the 8th day of February, 1876, for the dispatch 
Of clivers urgent and important affairs. 
One million six hundred thousand dollars’ 
worth of wood will be neccessary, according to 
the estimate of the builders, for the Bt. Gothard 
tunnel. 
Lydia Thompson, with her burlesque troupe, 
Is performing at the Globe Theater in London. 
Jefferson Is playing ** Rip Van Winkle ” with 
great success at the Princess’s Theater in Lon¬ 
don. 
George Eliot’s new work Is a story of English 
life of to-day, dealing with a higher sphere of 
society than is her wont. 
Prince Bismarck has been called upon by 
Parliament to use his best endeavor to re-open 
the London market to German cattle. 
Prince Bismarck is again reported to be very 
unwell. The Cologne Gazette says he has 
lately repeated to bis friends his wish to retire, 
and bis family are very anxious that he should 
do so; but the Emperor, though willing that 
he should take a Jong rest, considers It impos¬ 
sible to supply his place. 
A special general meeting of the Quebec 
Board of Trade was held Deo. 9th at which a 
number of important subjects were proposed 
for the consideration of the Dominion Board 
of Trade. Messrs. Dobell, Joseph, Grant and 
Fry were elected delegates to that body. 
In the Assembly at Paris, Dec. 10, the ballot¬ 
ing for life Senators was resumed. The follow, 
log named Senators were elected;—By the 
Right—Gens. d’Aurelle and de P&ladines and 
Changarnler, By the Left—Gens. Treybault 
and Cuanzy: Admirals Pothuan andTourichon 
and MM. Krantz, Duclerc, De Lasteric, Cornel 
Laboulaye, Roger, Foubert, Wolowekl, St. 
Heraire, Cusitnir-Perier, Coudler, Picard, and 
Maleville. The success of the left is attributed 
to the support given it by the Legitimists and 
Bonspartists. 
The Queen of England has decided to send 
twenty pictures of the Royal collection to the 
Philadelphia Exposition. The Duke of Rich¬ 
mond succeeds Col. Owen as Centennial Com¬ 
missioner. The Duke has determined that the 
representation of Great. Britain at the Centen¬ 
nial shall be a success in every respect. 
It Is rumored that the Due d’Anmale will soon 
lead a sister of the Princess of Wales to the 
altar. The proposed alliance greatly agitates 
French political and social circles. 
The magnificent jewels which were lately the 
property of the Empress Eugenie, and which 
were sent first to Bombay and ultimately to 
Calcutta for disposal, have Just been purchased 
by the Maharajah of Pul.latka. The jewels 
comprise a brilliant-cut diamend necklace, 
silver setting, composed of eighteen large brill¬ 
iant-shape diamonds and eleven small do.; also 
eleven brilliant cut diamond earrings, com¬ 
posed of two large brilliant-shape diamonds, 
two small do.; and two large hrillivnt-cut 
drop-shape diamonds, silver setting; a single¬ 
stone brilliant, the “ Potachln ” diamond, Tho 
price Is rumored to have been about six lakhs 
or rupees, or $300,000. The Maharajah Is said to 
have one of the finest collections of jewels In 
India. 
Baron Rothschild, during his late visit to San 
Francisco, left with William Bradford, the 
painter of Art.ic scenery, an order for five pict¬ 
ures, the views to be selected by the artist, who 
will give the different effects of light, Including 
the Aurora. 
The plan finally adopted for rectifying the 
course of the Tiber contemplates shifting the 
bed of the river, removing the bridges which 
impede its downward flow, and straightening 
Its winding course below the city. The approxi¬ 
mate expense is ten millions. 
For detaining Mr. Witcher, a tailor of Cowes, 
England, some two hours and a half In custody 
for refusing to pay a peuny toll demanded of 
him by the Southampton and Isle of Wight 
Steam Packet Company, a jury in the Queen's 
Bench Division gave the former $250 damages. 
It is stated that the French are paying par¬ 
ticular attention to perfecting their troops in 
the nlgbt maneuvers In which the Germans 
were so successful during the recent Franco- 
German war. 
Cardinal Rauscber (who was considered the 
most learned of the Roman Catholic prelates) 
has left among his unpublished literary remains 
a complete history of the Church, a compara¬ 
tive science of finance, a work on social ques¬ 
tions, memoirs on the lives of,prominent con¬ 
temporaries. and a very rich and carefully 
arranged collection of letters and documents. 
Twenty millions of franca are to be given by 
the Duke of Galliera to the city of Genoa, to be 
applied to the harbor works about to bo under¬ 
taken. By the carrying out of extensive Im¬ 
provements, it Is hoped that much will be done 
toward enabling Genoa to recover its old com¬ 
mercial position. The Duke of Galliera has 
gone to Rome to secure the cooperation of the 
Italian Government. 
Herr Joseph FeBger, Parish Priest of Mat- 
zciihelm, in Lower Alsace, has been condemn¬ 
ed to a month'B detention iu a fortress for 
speaking In sermons against the new school 
organization. 
It seems that the troubles which threaten 
destruction to Liberia originated in a little 
job In which the Jate President of that republic, 
was Interested. He was Induced to make an 
agreement giving an English company a mo¬ 
nopoly of the Liberian t rade. The Legislature 
refused to ratify the arrangement, and there¬ 
upon the agents of the company claimed a 
right or traffic aud transit through the territo¬ 
ries of Liberia independent of the Government. 
Resistance to this claim led to the disastrous 
warfare of which so much has been said. 
The rumors of the approach of war between 
the United States and Spain on the Cuban 
question remain either unnoticed editorially 
by the London press or are entirely discredited. 
It Is Btated that Max Muller, the professor of 
comparative philosophy at All Souls College 
Oxford, has resigned his position arid will 
leave England early In 1876. 
It is reported that President Grant’s message 
created great excitement in Madrid, Tuesday 
week, and an informal meeting of the cabinet 
was held. 
The British Royal Colonial Institute Is about 
appointing a committee to consider the pro¬ 
posed exchange of territory with France on 
the west coast of Africa. 
A superb five guinea volume on Windsor 
Castle will be the great holiday book In En¬ 
gland. It is published with Victoria's permis¬ 
sion by Mr. Woodward, the librarian, and will 
contaiu two dozen photographs of the exterior 
and Interior of the caEtle. 
A laborer in one of the manufacturing dis¬ 
tricts of England had a wife about thirty years 
old, whom he offered for sale at auction to the 
highest bidder. A young man bid her off for 
four pence, and clinches the bargain by a writ¬ 
ten contract. The wife insisted on carrying 
out the contract. 
That the French are rapidly rising to pros¬ 
perity may be seen from the following figures, 
representing the income of Paris theaters for 
the last eight years:—In 1868 it amounted to 
16,000,000 francs in '09 to 17,000,000, In '70 (war) 
to 9,000,000, in '71 (war) to 7.000,000, in 72 to 18,- 
000,000, In ’73 to 20,000,000, in '74 to 23-000,000, and 
thL year it will amount to 25,000,000 francs. 
One of the good results ot the Education aot 
in London, which is based on the American 
system, is that ttie attendance of scholars has 
increased from 180,000 to 280,000; and this has 
not been dune by harshness,.lor the number of 
parents fined does not exceed 6,000, and no fine 
has exceeded five shillings. The firmness of 
the Loudon School Board has resulted in saving 
100,000 children from growing up in Ignorance. 
