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taken the other side of the hill, about five 
miles away, where a station was establish¬ 
ed by the same name as the village. That 
was fifteen years ago, and not a house 
stood tliere except the little depot. Now 
the (Station doubles the village in popula¬ 
tion, and also in the value of its land per 
acre. Last week the “Opposition” pe¬ 
titioned the railroad company to change 
their course or give them a branch ; but 
it is too late. Fifteen years ago the 
“Opposition” stubbornly resisted, had 
their dance, and now they are paying the , 
the ablest and purest politicians 
of France for years, and the collapse of 
their praiseworthy effort,, at the moment 
of fruition, may well cause them to 
despair. 
-Tacksonvilles located in as many different 
States, is a puzzle we cannot guess. This 
is but oue instance of many similar omis¬ 
sions on the part of our correspondents, 
and for which somebody is blameworthy. 
Practical Departments: 
Ferns. 
Tobacco. Connecticut.,., 7.'.'.'.'.' 
Bermuda Grass, Testimony Aim Inst 
Mangel Wurzcl.. 
Farm Varda. Rnjrllsli. 
Undent*. Poisoning. 
Hate Posts... 
Winter Butter Dairying 
West. , . 
Zdiecsc. White. 
Cheese Factories, Notes < 
f A Woman's Acre—No. 12 
f Strawberry Culture. 
Blackberries f. Prefltuhle Crop for Georgia 
, Hay Tedder. Perrv's Sew York . K 
I Thresher. The Williams. 
t Print!ns Press, A New. .. 
fiujrar. Beet Hoot,. .. 
i Wells and Drinking Water . 
Answers to (Correspondents.......'. 
Longlcorns, The.. . 
Insects, Half Hour* with ... 
Insect, a Rather Tough. . 
Tobacco Fly Receipt to Kill the..'.'.'.'.’''.' " 
Garnish a Little. tor I.ooks. 
I Recipes.... . 
Useful Hints.. . 
Health How Affected by Shade.'.':'.";. 
Longevity. Indications of.;;"; 
HniTouiAi. Page: 
The Opposition. 
French Crisis, The.. 
Notes—Brevities...! i!!!'.!!." ”. 
Literary : 
Story. ... 3331 
Miscellaneous.. 
Recent Literature...’. 
Coming Ehrcnts.. . 
Ladles’ .. . 
Reading for the Young.. 
Sabbath Rending. . 
M a rk els.. . 
Publisher's Notices.. . 
News of the Week.;....!:... 
Personals. . 
Humorous.. 
Ad vertlsements...oai' •«-' 
Its Success nt "the 
NOTES 
Severe I>ronglil. — Tlic extreme 
drought, which prevailed last, year over a 
wide region of country in the Eastern 
States, was thought to be the culmination 
of several lesser droughts occurring an¬ 
nually in the same localities for the pre¬ 
vious half-dozen years, but judging from 
the dry weather of the past two months, 
there lias been a holding over in the ses¬ 
sion of the drought demons, and crops 
have suffered in New Jersey, Long Island 
and other adjacent localities. As we write 
this, a gentle shower is laying the dust 
and cooling the air in this city, but bow 
long it will last or its extent, are things 
yet unknown, still the indications give us 
hope that the drought is broken. 
flumping at Conclusion*. —Don’t 
do it. When you commence rending an 
article, read it through. Assertions, ap¬ 
parently leaning to one side of a question, 
in the beginning, may be modified or ex- 
plained before the close in such a way ob 
to put an entirely different face on the 
matter. The Hutch Justice was satisfied 
to give his decision when he bad heard 
the evidence produced by the plaintiff in 
the case, without waiting for the story of 
the defendant. A cuttle doctor in Massa¬ 
chusetts, who was called in the dusk of 
evening to prescribe for a sick cow, enter¬ 
ed the stable and commencing his physical 
diagnosis in the manner usual with quacks, 
lie took hold of the tail, exclaiming. ‘' .rust 
as I expected ! Horn-ail is the trouble. 
Here are all the symptoms : Softening of 
tho tail—wasting of the bone. No mis¬ 
taking the cause of the difficulty, this 
time.” Going thence to the head of the 
animal, and attempting to take her by the 
horn to further diagnose her, he found 
she was a mullev! 
fiddler. 
In the social circle this element is not, 
by any means wanting. Let some pro¬ 
gressive young or old person attempt to 
get up an entertainment among bis neigh¬ 
bors, for their amusement as well as his 
own, and he will soon discover the pro¬ 
portionately vast number of people that 
are “agin it.” Should he succeed, the 
Opposition, like the village above re¬ 
ferred to, want a branch right away; but 
his success must always bo dependent 
upon upon bis own exertions, for it is so 
much easier to destroy than t,o build, and 
he will find himself surrounded by de¬ 
stroyers. How few people there are who 
will sustain a sheriff, a constable or a rail¬ 
road conductor in the exercise of his right¬ 
ful authority, and what, a mass of people 
can be found who will stand by the “ Op¬ 
position. ” It is a sorry commentary upon 
human nature, but too truthful to be treat¬ 
ed with levity. 
A Surplus of ttedsteads.—Some 
cute Yankees are swindling the farmers 
ont West with spring-beds, which they 
store in their victim’s bam for safe-keep- 
ing, taking a receipt for the articles, un¬ 
der the plea that he may refuse to give 
them up when called for. The receipt, 
however, is, in fact, an order for the num¬ 
ber of beds left, and shortly afterward 
another party calls for the pay for the 
same, showing tho order which‘their vic¬ 
tim has signed as his authority for col¬ 
lecting the debt. What next ? 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
pawseu providing tnat. in alJ marriages 
hereafter contracted, all property belong¬ 
ing to tbe woman at the time of her mar¬ 
riage, acquired after marriage, or sepa¬ 
rately earned by her thereafter, shall be 
her sole property, to be liable for her 
debts, but not for her husband’s, and sold 
and disposed of as she pleases. If any of 
tbe wife’s property be used for the sup¬ 
port of tbe family, it becomes a charge 
on the estate of the husband. On the 
death of either husband or wife, the sur¬ 
vivor, if there be children, takes abso¬ 
lutely oue-third of the property of the 
deceased, and if there be no children or 
their descendants, then the survivor takes 
one-half. By will the portion of the sur- 
PUBLISJfED EVERY SATURDAY. 
ANDREW S. FULLER, Editor 
BREVITIES, 
Excessive heat prevailed in New York and 
vicinity for several days last week, equaling the 
host efforts of summer. 
The seventeen-year Cicadas, or locusts, have 
commenced to appear on Staten Island and in 
other localities near this city. 
A Mr. Washington Smith is trying to persnade 
himself and others into believing' that the potato- 
rot has its origin in Peruvian Guano. 
The U. S. Mint has recently coined 12.000,000 
nickel pieoos for tho \enezuelan Government as 
an act of courtesy for which it was well paid. 
The New Jersey Btato Horticultural Society 
has published its proceedings for 1877, and it 
contains some valuable essays and scientific 
papers. 
The man who stopped his paper because he 
could not afford it,, lately sold a hundred l.uxhels 
of wheat at twenty cents per bushel less than the 
market price. 
The Russian fleet left this 
with sealed orders, 
THE FEEN0H CRISIS. 
G * A. C. HARNETT, Publisher, 
Address 
hoc recent events m France, which 
have produced so much uneasy feeling 
and excitement in Paris, the great focus 
of revolutions, are regarded by surround¬ 
ing European nations as very grave, and 
likely to add to the existing complications 
on the continent. To all outward appear¬ 
ances, the French government, under the 
direction of Ji;les Simon and his asso¬ 
ciates as the advisers of President Mao- 
progress 
Many 
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opposhig fac- 
overcome with 
j ; and the Saliua, Tian., whence Prof. Riley ad- 
i were | dresses a long letter to Gov. Anthony, 
recapitulating his previously expressed 
opinion and reiterating his directions for 
suppressing these pests. The report fa¬ 
vors the idea that vast numbers of the 
youug insects have already perished from 
cold and unfavorable weather, but it is 
added that, there are plenty more left, and 
fire, water, kerosene, crushing, trapping, 
and various other methods of destruction 
must be resorted to, before those already 
hatching on the plains can be destroyed, 
to say nothing of the hordes which may 
come down from the mountains later in 
the season. 
RURAL PUBLISHING CO., 
78 Duane Street, New York City 
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1877. 
THE OPPOSITION, 
i nas oeen related of a newly-arrived 
emigrant from the Emerald Isle, who was 
asked, immediately upon landing, to what 
political party he belonged, that he re¬ 
plied in true Yankee style, by another 
question : “ Have ye’s a government?” 
Upon being informed that such an insti¬ 
tution existed, he replied : “Be Gorra, 
I’m agin it, as I always wos in the ould 
counthry.” This illustrates an element 
Mahon was making steady 
towards genuine republicanism. 
serious obstacles in the* way of adinimst ra 
tion and reconciliation of 
tions hud been met and l.~. 
excellent tact, and judgment ; 
furious radical)-, and socialists, who 
iu control of the government during 
period of the Commune, hn<l become tamed 
and reconciled to a form of liberty equally 
removed from absolutism aml‘ license 
Under this wise rule the material pros¬ 
perity of France had been most extraor- 
dinary, aud since the termination of her 
where snakes latest war, that Waged against her own 
?reat, riots of worst population, the sympathies of all 
er Commune nations, even ineluding Germany, have 
mly to its ex- ' eeu I ?° 8 ^ heartily with her, in her efforts 
d.Lgcr. It t °;r** 
, „ . , -* he world has for a loner time on tii« 
and destroy ono hand, beheld the tireleS and unscru- I 
art on May 17, 
It, will no doubt play an im¬ 
portant part in the great project of tho" Czar iu 
tho East, viz. tho crushing of tho Turk. 
A Commission, appointed by the Legislature of 
Delaware, proiKwo offering premiums, next year, 
for the promotion of ,Sugar-beet culture, and if 
they will follow it with sufficient capital to run a 
manufactory, it may do some good, otherwise 
not. 
.IBllSKV BUOOLIC. 
How doth tho frugal husbandman 
Improve tho morning- hours! 
Armed with an old tomato can, 
Potato plains ho scours. 
His labor moots with rich reward, 
In plump and Juicy buns, 
Whose aim in life is often marred 
By timely use of drugs. 
A Bocth Carolina boy says that weevils will 
not trouble corn if it is put into the crib in wot 
weather, or when elightly damp, claiming that 
the heating which generally follows through 
the presence of moisture, kills t he eggs of the 
insect. 
Our Government Microeoopist. Prof. Taylor, 
indorses the disinfectant properties of tho Aus¬ 
tralian Blue Gum tree, and now wo suppose 
everybody will want a plant growing in the house 
where the climate is too severe to admit of out¬ 
door cultivation. 
It is said that nineteen thousand five hundred 
new farms were started in the new States and 
Territories last year. This simply moans that 
just the amount of labor and capital roquired 
to do this, was drawn from other localities nearer 
markets and where both could have been employ¬ 
ed to better advantage, if there hod i een as much 
wisdom as energy exercised in the movement. 
It has for some time been reported that the 
Administration were considering the Mexican 
question with a view to vigorous action. If the 
accouuts from tho border can be relied on, it is 
indeed high time something was done. The 
raids are of the most annoying and damaging 
character, and are again renewed by the Indians 
who were so summarily dealt with & few years 
ago. A depot for the sale of American horses 
and cattle has been established in Chihuahua, 
whore deposits are made for future deliveries. 
A protectorate over the country is again talked 
Another Wail 
- Prof. Swallow of 
the Agricultural College of Missouri, is 
out with a letter in which he shows the 
injustice with which the agricultural in¬ 
terests of Missouri are treated by the pol¬ 
iticians. Two hundred thousand dollars 
have already been expended in making a 
geological survey of the State, in the in¬ 
terest of a few men engaged in mining, 
the total number of men employed in the 
mines being a little over three thousand, 
while there are two hundred and sixty- 
three thousand engaged in farming, with 
a capital ol nearly four hundred millions 
of dollars, while tiiat, in the mines amounts 
only to about three and a-liaif millions. 
Still, with this vast disproportion of value, 
agriculture has to take a back seat, aud a 
few wily politicians rule, as they do iu 
other States besides Missouri. 
Omissions. 
Some of our subscribers 
are guilty of a grave omission iu heading 
thoir letter* when writing to us, thinking 
probably that we know the addresses and 
wants of the forty millions of people in 
the United States, as well as of a goodly 
number in other countries also. This is 
certainly presuming too much on our 
knowledge and memory. Although these 
are perhaps as extensive as the general 
run of editors are blessed with, still they 
will not meet the requirements of every 
case. For instance : F. B. Horton sends 
us money in a letter dated at Jackson¬ 
ville, but at which one of the sixteen 
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harness makers everywhere. 
Render, respond at once to the generous offer of 
Kendall & Co., Boston. See advertisement. 
