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NOV. 23 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE 
HOUSEHOLD CONVENIENCES. 
“A place for everything and everything in 
its plaoe,” is rather a hackneyed saying, but, 
after all, it perfectly describes the domain of a 
good housekeeper. 
As much attention should be given to the 
kitchen as to any other part of the house. A 
busy housewife spends a large amount of time 
in that room, and she Bhould strive to render it 
a pleasure and not a dread to enter it. A great 
convenience in the kitchen is a roomy wall 
pocket. It may be made very nicely of common, 
brown card-board, bound with Bcarlet braid, 
having three pockets—a large one at the bot¬ 
tom, and two smaller ones above. In the larger 
one may be put dusters, towels, etc.; in the 
others Btring, rag for outs, and other small 
articles. Another convenience is a bag for 
dirty towels and dusters, which may hang iu a 
closet in the kitchen. It saves much time and 
labor on waBhiug-day. 
Always have a match safe and Bcraper in the 
kitchen. It saves muoh disfigurement of walls. 
Get your tinman to make you tin boxes with 
tight-fitting lids to hold yeast cakes, tea, coffee 
and spices. They preserve the flavor. A lirge 
apron made of oil cloth, and bound with braid, 
iB useful when washing clothes or dishes. 
Squares of zinc or tin are useful in the kitchen 
for standing saucepans on. If you are without 
ice in the summer, keep drinking water in un¬ 
glazed earthen-ware jars or pitchers. The 
evaporation and condensation of the water on 
the outside of the jar will keep its contents 
oold. “ Sabah Gamp.” 
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USES OF AMMONIA. 
I do not know of an agent that oan be put to 
so many household uses, as ammonia, or harts¬ 
horn, as it is sometimes called. In cookery, 
there is no alkali that is equal to it. A small 
teaspoonful of sal volatile (oarbonite of am¬ 
monia) in powder, and the same of alum, to one 
quart of a mixture—bread or cake—will rarely 
fail to make it ligh£. Both must be dissolved, 
but separately, in as little warm water as possible 
and added just before baking. Many recipes 
in cookery books written thirty years ago and 
even later, call for sal volatile instead of sala- 
ratus, or bi-carbonate of soda. 
A large spoonful of liquid ammonia to each 
gallon of suds, in which woolen f abrios are to be 
washed, will make them clean and soft, with 
half the labor necessary for washing in the or¬ 
dinary way. Hartshorn, sufficiently reduoed 
with soft water, iB uuequaled for cleaning silver 
and gold, mirrors, window glass and all painted 
surfaces. A little ammonia, so little as to be 
hardly peroeptible in the water used for plants 
in winter, will make them wonderfully thrifty. 
If the color is taken out of doth, either cotton 
or woolen, by acids, it oan generally be restored 
with hartshorn, slightly weakened. Applied in 
full strength to the bites and stings of insects 
it gives instaut rehef. Both liquid and pow¬ 
dered ammonia should be kept in bottles, with 
glass stoppers. The odor of Hartshorn is agree¬ 
able to most persons, and it is strange that any 
housekeeper who understands its properties, 
will ever be without it. m. g. b. 
Iowa. 
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RAG-CARPETS, 
I fully endorse May Maple’s statement re¬ 
specting rag oarpets. I know there are so many 
now-a-days who say: 
“ Oh! you had better throw away your rags 
and buy a carpet than to fuss to make one.” I 
have not kept house but a few years and have 
not, as yet, made a carpet, but am saving all 
my rags to make one within the next year. I 
bought a carpet the first year I went to house¬ 
keeping. Mother had juBt made one, and we 
oounted up the cost of hers and found it cost 
more than mine. She Baid, “ Well, I shall never 
make another rag carpet.” A year from that 
time her carpet was good, while mine was faded 
considerably, for I disliked to keep the curtains 
down and the Bun out. As mother had a family 
of growing girls, she soon collected a lot of 
worn, bright-colored dresses. She said, “it 
seemed a pity to put them in the paper rags,” 
and the result was she made fifty yards of very 
pretty carpeting, while her other carpet is good 
yet. I have notiood as a general thing, that It 
is the warp aud not the rags which wears out 
first. If one would therefore take pains in 
buying the warp, I believe a rag carpet will 
outlast two which are boughten. I have a 
friend living in town who has a rag carpet upon 
her parlor floor, and I wish that every woman 
who objects to rag carpets could see it. I know 
if it were mine, I should rather have it than any 
carpet I could buy for a dollar a yard. My sis¬ 
ter just remarked, “That even an old rag car¬ 
pet, if it is dean, looks better and is much to be 
preferred to a bare floor.” Again, a rag carpet 
shows that a woman is industrious and not 
afraid of work. Ellen. 
Clymer, N. Y, 
BED-QUILT PATTERN. 
In reply to Mrs. Mary Olin, I will say that if 
she examines honey-comb work of bees, and 
cuts a piece exactly like one of the cells, she 
may have a pattern which will suit her for a 
variety quilt. Before piecing, cut quite & num¬ 
ber and lay them down iu forms, arranging ac¬ 
cording to her fancy. In my quilt like this, I 
put them together so that the pieces ran orosB- 
wiBe, corner to corner,—first a light and then a 
dark stripe. This kind of work looks well in 
rugs, made of thick cloth, with each pieoe 
corded with some bright color and then sewed 
together. I use the best parts of old coats and 
pants, with now and then a piece of bright 
woolen. These pieces are quite dlftiotilt to set 
together, aB one must not sew within a scam of 
each side before joining on another piece. I 
had to put mine together two or three times be¬ 
fore I could get them to BUit me. 
Libbie E. Jones. 
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CHEAP CARPETING. 
I know of a cheap kind of carpeting which I 
would like to make known to my rural sisters 
and all those who find it necessary or wise to 
economize on floors, as well as in other matters. 
After all, it may not be so new as I think, but I 
am going to tell what I know about it. Buy wall 
paper, that which comes in stripes or diamond- 
shaped patterns, is prefered ; paste to a lining of 
old cloth of almost any kind, fitted to your floor, 
and cover with coats of varnish. For halls and 
chambers, or any floor which iB not constantly 
under the tread of feet, this is a cheap and pretty 
carpetting, looking like oil cloth, but being very 
much cheaper. It will last two years with 
careful using. Aunt Em. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Cabbage Toast. 
One medium-sized cabbage chopped fine and 
cooked tender in a little water; add two or three 
quarts of sweet milk and season with plenty of 
butter, pepper and salt. Prepare the toast in 
the usual way and pour over it the above mix¬ 
ture. Serve at once. 
Force Meat. 
One and one-half pounds of cold boiled ham, 
about one pound lean and the remainder fat; 
chop very fine and while chopping add three 
fresh eggs; season highly with pepper and salt. 
A few onions might be added if you are fond of 
them. Mix thoroughly and make into little 
round oakeB. To be eaten with bread and butter. 
Onion Dressing. 
Take pieces of dry bread and pour over them 
boiliDg water; let soak until soft, then mix'with 
the hand and season with butter, pepper, salt 
and a few onions chopped fine. Heat the dress¬ 
ing bat not enough to cook the onion. I usually 
add the onions after the dressing is warmed 
through—mixing thoroughly. 
Mbs. E. H. Sabgent. 
Oswego Co. 
Oyster Soap. 
Take one quart of liquid oysters; drain the 
liquor from them and add as much more water ; 
a teaspoonful of butter, and a teaspoonful of 
rolled crackers to each person ; put on the stove 
and let it come to a boil; the moment it boils 
pour in your oysters, having tea, or at least six, 
to each person; watch carefully and the mo¬ 
ment it boils, oount just thirty seconds by your 
watch and then take them from the stove; have 
the soup tureen or large dish ready with two 
tablespoons of rich, cold milk or sweet oream for 
each person ; pour in your stew, adding salt and 
pepper to taste. Never boil an oyster in milk if 
you want it good. Salt Bhould always be put in 
the last thing in any soup, fricassee or stew 
where milk is need, as it is apt to curdle the 
milk. Mbs. Mar y Olin. 
Yates Co. 
|tttos of tjit (0M, 
Monday, Nov. 18th, 1878. 
POLITICAL. 
The republicans boast that they have only to 
carry, In 1880, the States which in October and 
November, this year, have gone republican, to 
elect their President, despite the Bond South. 
The republican States aDd their electoral votes 
are: Colorado, 3; Connecticut, 6; Illinois, 21; 
Iowa, 11; Kansas, 5; Maine, 7; Massachusetts, 
is; Michigan, il; Minnesota, 6; Nebraska, 3; 
Nevada, 3; New Hampshire,*; New Jersey, 9; 
New York, 85; Ohio, 22 ; Pennsylvania, 29; Rhode 
Island, 4; Vermont, 5; Wisconsin, 10 ; total, 207; 
necessary to elect, 1 85. In tho next Congress the 
democrats will have 43 Senators, counting David 
Davis, and the republicans 33, counting two from 
Nevada. Eighteen States will send two demo¬ 
cratic senators each, and thirteen States will 
send two republican Senators each. The seven 
whoso representation will be divided are: Cali¬ 
fornia, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Missis¬ 
sippi, Now York and Pennsylvania. The latest 
returns from the congressional districts show 
republicans 133, democrats, 141, greenbackers, 15, 
Among the greenbackers are four republicans. 
Later returns from Missouri and Florida may 
show three more republicans. It 1 b also claimed 
that one Independent In Alabama Is a republican. 
Should the California election result In favor of 
the republicans, they and the democrats will be 
very close in the House, and In any event, the 
greenbackers will hold the balance of power. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Despite the hard times the number of immi¬ 
grants for the year ending last June was 138,- 
469, of whom Germany furnished the largest 
number—29,313, though Great Britain and her 
colonies sent us about 65,ooo, 16,000 of whom 
were Irishmen and 25,000 Canadians. There 
were 9,000 of the Chinese Kearney wants to drive 
out; 10,000 sturdy Northmen, about 4000 each 
from Italy, France and Hungary, but only 11 
representatives from the whole of Africa. 
While Gov. Hampton of South Carolina, with 
some friends, was hunting deer near Columbia, 
last week, a mule he was riding became frights 
ened, and the bridle breaking, the governor 
leaped from the saddle, and his right leg was 
broken In two places below the knee, so that tho 
bones protruded, and the ankle was badly hurt. 
James Murray has taken his family from Gll- 
bertvlUe, N. Y., to his South African farm of 
37,000 acres, which Is stocked with 1000 ostriches 
and 300 mares of rare blood and pedigree. Mur¬ 
ray was a classmate of the prince of Wales at 
Oxford, and now flnds ostrich raising so profita¬ 
ble that he recently sold 60 bitds at Cape Town 
for $27,ooo and a pound of feathers for $860, or $s 
a feather. 
A T. Stewart’s body has not yet been discov¬ 
ered despite the best efforts of private detectives, 
official detectives and the host of amateur de¬ 
tectives whom the hope of the $96,000 reward has 
urged on In the search. Numerous letters have 
been written to tho newspapers and to Judge 
Hilton, Stewart’s business man formerly and now 
Mr. Stewarts business representative, offering to 
disclose the whereabouts of the corpse for various 
sums, ranging rrom$ 10,000 to $500,000, but nothing 
has hitherto come of them. While all classes 
are bitter In their denunciations of the scoun¬ 
drels who desecrated the grave of so prominent 
a citizen, and, as it were, sympathize with his 
remains, there is among many very little 
sympathy with the real or affected grief of 
those who, in the opinion or these callous- 
hearted worthies, pettifogged the poor working 
girls of this city out of the f 3,ooo,ooo the dead mer¬ 
chant left Invested for their benefit. 
FOREIGN. 
The Bum of $450,ooo has already been sub¬ 
scribed by British generosity for the relief of the 
impoverished stockholders of the City of Glasgow 
Bank, and efforts are being made In their behalf 
to Induce the depositors in the bank and other 
creditors to accept seventy-five per cent, or their 
money, so as to bear a little more lightly on the 
stockholders, whom the law forces to pay up to 
the uttermost, farthing. With regard to the new 
tangle about the Fishery Award, between Great 
Britain and this country, Lord Salisbury, the 
English Minister of Foreign Affairs, yields to Mr. 
Evarts’ arguments that local laws made In New¬ 
foundland after the completion of the treaty by 
which our fishermen gained the right to fish in 
adjacent waters, could not be made to operate so 
as to lessen the rights guaranteed by that treaty. 
This conceded, the award of $5,500,000 will doubt¬ 
less be paid to tbe British Treasury on or before 
the date on which It falls due—Nov. 23; and after¬ 
wards demands will be made by us for compensa¬ 
tion for the losses lnflloted last January on our 
fishermen by the Irate, pious and Jealous New¬ 
foundlanders. 
Prince Hadji Abdullah Singh has arrived at Vi¬ 
enna on bis way to London. He is de jure sover¬ 
eign of Dude, from which kingdom he was ban¬ 
ished In I 860 , at the close of the campaign which 
resulted In merging that province Into England’s 
Indian empire, 'l’he object of his journey Is to 
solicit permission from Queen victoria to return 
to his native land. As a guarantee of hls loyalty 
and future good behavior he offers to deposit 
$ 150 , 000,000 in the Bank of England. Princess 
Thyra, of Denmark, lately said to have been be- 
trothed to the Prince Imperial of France, turns 
out to be so related to the Duke of Cumberland, 
one of Queen Victoria’s sons. She Is exceedingly 
tall, and 25. He is of inedlum-slze, and 33, They 
are said to have met about three years ago In 
Rome, and to have become greatly attached to 
each other there. It is said further that the 
Princess of Wales espoused the cause of her 
sister, and that to her Is due, In no small measure, 
the present result which promises a happy future 
to the young Princess, who with her husband 
will live the greater part of the year In England. 
It’s not Improbable that there will soon be a gold 
fever In British India. Sir Andrew Clarke, a mem¬ 
ber of the vice-regal council, has examined the 
Wynaad district In Madras, and declared it high¬ 
ly auriferous. Miners have been brought from 
Australia, and great results are anticipated. 
Within an area of twenty-five by thirteen miles 
ninety outcrops were discovered of aurireroua 
quartz from two to four feet thick, yielding from 
a few pennyweights to 200 ounces per ton. The 
richer stone showB, when broken, fine and coarse 
seams and Jagged pieces the size of a pea. In 
some reefs much of tho atone will probably not 
pay for working, but It is believed that, on the 
whole, a very large and profitable Industry will 
be insured with the aid of capital and good man¬ 
agement. Wynaad Is healthy and pleasant for 
Europeans nine months or the year, but fevers 
prevail during three. 
Poverty in Germany Is to-day greater than it 
has been for years. For instance, since the year 
1875 indigence has constantly increased In the 
capital of Germany. In that year the city gave 
regular pecuniary relief to one Inhabitant out of 
ninety-two; In 1870, to one In eighty; aud In 1877.; 
to one In seventy-four. According to calcula¬ 
tions already made, tbe number of poor has 
again Increased during the present year. These 
figures only concern what Is called public as¬ 
sistance, that Is to say, the help Berlin is bound 
to furnish to the indigent persons who have 
their legitimate .domicile in the city. In the I 
above calculation are not Included the people 
who are suffering from poverty, but who are 
ashamed to ask for help. Although the funds 
for benevolent purpose In Berlin are considera¬ 
ble (they amounted to 6,736,000 marks—1 fr 23c. 
each—in 1877), that city occupies, as far as re¬ 
gards public assistance, a rank much Inferior to 
that of other places m Germany, such ae Ham¬ 
burg, Bremen, etc. The municipal hospital In 
the capital la insufficient for all the patients who 
require succor, and the city is obliged to pay for 
the sick It places In the royal asylum called 
" Charity” a monthly subvention of about 00,000 
marks. 
The Russian papers announce the return of the 
river Amu Darla to Its original bed. The Moscow 
Gazette thinks all that is now necessary Is to 
make this change definite, and thus create a new 
route to India, the shortest and easiest, to secure 
the connection of the Russian possessions in Cen¬ 
tral Asia with the rest of the empire. A Berlin 
special says it seems certain that several thou¬ 
sands of former Russian soldlersand officers have 
been permitted to volunteer and start, for Afghan¬ 
istan. Telegrams from northern and eastern 
Europe announce heavy falls of snow. The Ap- 
penlnea and Black Forest are covered and the 
Swiss passes are blocked, in Franco the rivers 
are very high, aud the Seine threatens inunda¬ 
tion. In Italy the waters of the Tiber are rising 
and have already overflowed the river’s banks at 
Rome. The lower part of the city Is Inundated* 
and It was expected that during last night the 
flood would become nearly as widespread as the 
disastrous one of 1870. There have been violent 
storms throughout Central Italy. The damage 
caused by them Is almost unparalleled. Travel on 
all the railways between Rome and the North Is 
Interrupted. 
The cost of the Austrian occupation of Bosnia, 
up to the middle of October, has been reckoned 
by the Vienna Press to have reached 85, 000,000 of 
florins, or equal (at the par of exchange) to $42,- 
500,000. Should it be necessary to maintain the 
occupying force at so large a number as 200,000 
men, the additional expense, from the middle of 
October to the cio.se of 1 878, would not be less than 
75,000,000 of florins, or say, $37,500,000. It is diffi¬ 
cult to see in what manner Austria Is getting any 
material compensation at all equal to this ex¬ 
penditure. 
The prospects of working people in Great Brit¬ 
ain during tho coming winter are anything but 
cheerful. The season promises to bo unusually 
cold and severe there and throughout Europe. 
Snow-storms of exceptional severity for this time 
of the year have occurred in the North and North¬ 
west of England and throughout Scotland, while 
labor troubles and business depression were never 
so alarming. Eighteen iron firms of Ashton, Hyde, 
Stalebrldge, Newton and Gutdebrtdge have given 
notice of their Intention to reduce the wages of 
skilled workmen two shillings a week aud of un¬ 
skilled workmen one shilling a week, after No¬ 
vember 14. Donner & Co., East India merchants, 
have failed. Their liabilities are $r>oo,ooo. The 
cotton manufacturers at Glasgow have resolved 
to reduce the working hours in their establish¬ 
ments one-third. This will affect 8.000 employes. 
The Bolton cotton spinners have decided to make 
a reduction or five per cent, in the wages of their 
employes. The enforcement ol the Bolton mas¬ 
ters’resolution is dependent on the concurrence 
of the masters owning two-thirds of the spindles 
In the district; which Includes Bolton, Leigh, Tyl- 
desley and Atherton. Eight thousand operatives 
in Blackburn, who are out of employment, are 
organizing a meeting to express Indignation at 
the paucity of tho parish relief. 
Two attempts on the life of the Emperor of 
Germany and one on that of the King of Spain, 
all three within a few months, have Just been 
supplemented by a determined attempt to assas¬ 
sinate King Humbert, of Italy. Durlug a grand 
entry into Naples between two and three o’clock 
yesterday afternoon, an Ill-clad manirushed to the 
royal carriage containing the king, queen, and 
prime minister, Calroll, and attempted to polnard 
King Humbert. The latter received a slight 
scratch ion the arm, but drew hls sword and 
struck the would-be assassin on the head, while 
Calroll caught him by the hair, receiving a 
wound In the thigh. The guards then rushed In 
and secured ;the fellow, Hls name Is Giovanni 
Passanante, 29 years old, a cook, belonging, he 
says, to no society, poor, and therefore a hater of 
kings. 
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PUBLISHERS’ NOTICES. 
We confidently refer our readers to the card of 
Dr. C. R. Sykes, In our iBaue of Nov. 9. Mr. F. W 
Jones of the Chicago Fanners’ Review says: “ Dr. 
Sykes Is an old resident of Chloago, a regular 
graduate, honest, honorable and responsible, and 
as a physician takes first rank In hls chosen 
specialty of catarrh and Its complications.” 
THE MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, Nor. 16.1878. 
Beans and Peas.—T he bean market obtains 
some strength through the firmness In potatoes, the 
effect noticed locally. Exporters are using a good 
sliHre 0 / stock, Cuba, South America and Spain now 
caking considerable quantities. Lovr grade quality 
of any sort are dull, the run being chiefly for best 
priced hand-picked. Mediums, choice. $160»165: 
fair to good. $litnti65; marrow, choice, delivered 
to vessel $11(1; fair to good, $1 50i#$t 60. Pea beans 
and white kidney are a shade higher, ranging $1 65® 
185. Red kidney in detuunc] for deep colored at $2<o 
2 10 1 pule pureafa, $1 7.*dil 90. Black or turtle soup, 
$1 Uixaz 00. Canadian Held peas, bulk aud bond, 
. Green peas easier, $1 25. Southern li. E. peas, 
per 2 bush. bag. $2 4i**2 a). 
Receipts of bouns for the week,9,440 bush., ex¬ 
ports, 685 bbl. 
Butter.—T here Is no special variation in the style 
of trade to be noted ; tine grades urn uctlvo and low 
neglected. Supplies of best quality have kept stead¬ 
ily liberal, and free access to Hues and lota gives a 
shade of easier prlcos to Stale. The market has 
dropped lc. from our last outside rates. Dairies are 
in demand when fine. The West latterly has 
shipped quite heavily but a good deal misses Bale 
owing to Inferior quality. Western creamery la 
