THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
fUtos of f|e ®wk 
Monday, Feb. 15, 1879. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The remnant of the rebellious Cheyennes has 
cached Kansas, where the chiefs are to be tried 
for crimes committed in that state. Wild Hog and 
Old Crow deny that they have been guilty ol' mur¬ 
der and raiding, and, as stoutly as if white men, 
attribute all the outrages to the wicked Indians 
who are now In their graves or still free on the 
prairies. The subsidy lobbyists at Washington 
have Induced the Senate to add to the Post-Oflice 
appropriation $300,000 to be paid annually to two 
steamship lines between this country and Brazil, 
at the rate of 1150,000 apiece. One runs from this 
city via Norfolk, Va., and the other from New 
Orleans, via Galveston. Texas. The best men Ln 
New Orleans, of all parties, are about to hold a 
convention In April with a view to wrest that 
State from the machinations of mere politicians, 
and put an end to bulldozing and ballot-box stuff¬ 
ing by either whites or negroes. t T . 5. Judge 
Blodget’6 trial at Chicago, has developed the ract 
that the charges against him were made by Mes¬ 
sing, one ol the whiskey ring, who was sent to 
prison by him for a couple of years, liesslug’s 
testimony has been squarely contradicted, and it 
Is to be hoped tor the sake of public morality, that 
the Judge may he proved entirely innocent,, New 
Hampshire's law against tramps works admirably 
and meets the women’s hearty approval. To check 
the negro emigration to Texas from Georgia and 
Alabama, the Legislatures of both states have im¬ 
posed a tax of fum on every agent soliciting them 
to emigrate, sambo seems to still remember bis j 
old friend's injunction, “Go West, old boy, go 
West." 
The New York Senate has passed a bill punish¬ 
ing the grave crime of pilfering “ stiffs,” with live 
years’ imprisonment. Indiana and Ohio are likely 
to follow suit, Tho U. S, ISenate has passed a bill 
permitting women—beg pardon, lady—lawyers to 
practice before the supreme Court at Washington. 
Now for beauty and purity, flowers of rhetoric and 
the hothouse ln the grim precincts of our courts: 
President liayes hits written to Collector Merritt 
congratulating him on his eo,n)lrotation by the, 
Senate, and directing that no officers must be re¬ 
moved because they are Arthur's friends or any 
new ones appointed because they are the friends 
of anybody else. It's possible there’s no joke about 
civil service tbls time, and that Merritt, alter all, 
may prove worthy of his name. 
The following is the full text of tho Instructions! 
sent by the Governor or this State to Gen. Patrick, 
who has been commissioned to stamp out all traces 
of pleuro-pnemuonla ln New York: 
State of New York, Executive Chamber,') 
Alban r, Feb. 12,1879. / 
General Marskna R. Patrick 
Sir—I n pursuance of the provisions of the act 
chapter 134 of the Laws of 1878, entitled “An act 
ln relation to infectious and contagious diseases of 
animals,” I hereby designate ana appoint you as 
my assistant in executing my duty under the said 
act aud ln carrying out lis provisions. 
It has been made known to me that the Infec¬ 
tious and contagious disease among neat cattle 
called pleuro pneumonia has been Drought, Into 
and exists ln various places ln the counties of 
Kings and Queens ln This State. You are there¬ 
fore directed, as such assistant, to prohibit the 
movement of cuttle within said counties except on 
license from yourself, after skilled examination 
under your direction. You are also directed to 
compel all owners of cattle, their agents, employes 
or servants, and all veterinary surgeons, to report 
forthwith to you all cases of disease by them sus-. 
peered to bo contagious. When such notification 
is received, you are directed to hare the cases 
examined and to cause all such animals as are 
found to be infected with the said disease destroyed 
and buried with slashed hides, You are directed, 
further, to quarantine nil cattle which have been 
exposed to the infection or said disease or aro loea-, 
ted ln an Infected place, but you may ln your dis¬ 
cretion permit such animals to be slaughtered on 
the premises and tne carcases r.o he disposed of as 
meatlf, upon examination, they sliaff be round tit, 
for such use. You will lorbtd and prevent all per¬ 
sons not employed ln the care of tlie cattle there 
kept from entering any afflicted premises. You 
will likewise prevent all animals and fowls from 
entering such premises. You will prevent all per¬ 
sons so employed In the care of animals from going 
Into stables, or yards, or premises where cattle are 
kept, other than those In which they are employed. 
STRINGENT PRECAUTIONS. 
You will cause the clothing of all persons en¬ 
gaged in the care, slaughter or rendering of dis¬ 
eased or exposed cattle, or In any employment 
which brings them In contact with such diseased 
animals,-to bo disinfected herore they leave the 
premises where such animals arc. You will pre¬ 
vent the manure, forage and litter upon Infected 
premises from being removed therefrom, and you 
trill cause such disposition to be made tnereol as, 
will in your judgment best prevent, the spread of 
Infection. You will cause all buildings, yards and 
premises ln which said disease exists or has exist¬ 
ed to be thoroughly disinfected. You are further 
directed, whenever the slaughter of diseased or In¬ 
fected animals Is found necessary, to certify the 
value of the animal or animals so slaughtered at 
the time of slaughter, taking account of their con¬ 
dition and circumstances, and to deliver to their 
owner or owners, when request Art, a duplicate of 
such certificate. 
Whenever any owner of such cattle or his agent 
or servant, has wilfully or knowingly withheld, or 
allowed to he withheld, notice of the existence of 
disease upon his premises or among hl3 cattle, you 
will not make such certificate. You are further 
directed to take such measures as you may doem 
necessary to disinfect all ears or vehicles or move¬ 
able articles by which contagion Is liable to be 
transmitted. You are also to take such measures 
as will secure a registry of cattle introduced into 
any premises ln which disease hits existed, and to 
keep such cattle, under supervision tor t he period 
of three months after the removal of the last dis¬ 
eased animal and the, subsequent disinfection of 
such premises. You are further authorized and 
empowered to Incur such expenses ln carrying out 
the provisions of the foregoing order as may In 
your judgment be necessary, aud to see to It that 
the bills lor such expenses be transmitted to this 
department only through yourself, after you have 
examined and approved them in writing. 
L. Robinson. 
By the Governor— D. C. Robinson, Private Sec’y. 
It seems not Improbable that Kearney’s mandate, 
“ The Chinese must go,” will have to be obeyed; 
or rather that they must not come In such disa¬ 
greeably overwhelming numbers. The Senate has 
just passed the House bill prohibiting the Importa¬ 
tion of more than 16 of them on one vessel at one 
time. There Is a rumor, however, that the Presi¬ 
dent may veto It, on the grounds that It violates a 
treaty without giving proper notice; because the 
state Department Is now conferring with the 
Chinese ambassador with a view to restricting the 
Immigration, and because our trade with China 
and the Interests of our cltlz.ens resident there, 
might he injured by such hasty action. In Colum¬ 
bia. Vancouver's Island, Australia, New Zealand, 
and In fact wherever Mongolian and Caucasslan 
emigrants are competing, the laboring classes of 
the latter are bitterly opposed to the former. And 
as the Caucasslan Is the dominant race every¬ 
where, Its members are taking measures to ex¬ 
clude the swarms or cheap laborers from the 
Flowery Kingdom. 
Out in Dakota Territory it’s a Jolly good thing to 
he a member of the Legislature. D. D. YV. Filch, 
who represents the Black Hills district In the lower 
House, now sitting at Yankton, evinced a decided 
preference for billiards to law-making, and became 
a great annoyance to the Sergeant-at-Arms. The 
latter always got Ills man, however, until last YVed- 
nesday week, On the afternoon of that, day the Ser¬ 
geant sent three clerics and a messenger after Filch 
soon after roll-call. He was lound by the posse In 
a saloon. Taking to his heels the legislator es¬ 
caped at a back window and ran across into Ne¬ 
braska, the clerks giving chase. Filch wheeled 
and ran back Into Dakota, and before the pursuers 
could catch him , gained his room ln the Y’ankton 
Hotel, barred the door and covered the window 
with a shot-gun. At last accounts he was still ln a 
state of siege. 
FOREIGN. 
The long-threatened strikes In England have 
at last broken out. Although there are large ones 
ln nearly all the manufacturing towns, that ln 
Liverpool is so great that it overshadows the 
others. Sixty thousand ’longshoremen, sailors, 
coal-heavers, and other laborers have there 
struck, the first two classes against a reduction 
ln their wages, and the other merely from sympa¬ 
thy for the strikers, and possibly through fear 
that the sucessful example of reduction might 
soon Induce their employers to cut down 
their own wages also. The streets are dally 
paraded by vast processions of strikers prevara- 
catiug to the public in dolerul doggerel that they 
have no work to do. ships are retained tor want 
of sailors to man them, of ’longshoremen to load 
and unload them, and of carunen to take away 
or bring their cargoes. The gates In the long lines 
of walls surrounding the docks, are closed to the 
public, red-coated cavalry guard the approaches 
and the low prices of provisions alone have hitherto 
prevented disastrous riots there and elsewhere. 
Hundreds willing to work tor the wages offered are 
being imported chiefly from Glasgows and as the 
leaders of the strike now counsel arbitration, 
there Is a good chance for a speedy resumption of 
work. 
The British forces ln South Africa have experi¬ 
enced a custer-llke defeat at the hands of the Zu¬ 
lus, a warlike tribe against which war was lately 
declared. About sou English soldiers and eoo na¬ 
tive auxiliaries, forming a detached column, were 
assailed by what fear, pride, or possibly truth, es¬ 
timates at 20,000 Zulus. All the Europeans, In¬ 
cluding 49 commissioned officers from colonels 
downward, w r ere slain, as were most of their na¬ 
tive allies. The fight, or rather massacre, occurred 
near the Tugela River, the di riding line between 
Natal and Kaflirland. The spoils were a valuable 
convoy of 102 wagons, 1,000 oxen, two cannon, 40 u 
Shot and shell, 1,000 rifles. 2 >o,0uo rounds ol ammuni¬ 
tion, «o,ooo pounds of provision, the colore of the 
Twenty-fourth regiment and the clothing and ef¬ 
fects of the slain. At first there was a panic for 
the safety of Natal, but a part of the Zulus have 
since been repulsed In an attack upon an entrench¬ 
ed position; the British forces have been concen¬ 
trated, aud reinforcements are hurrying forward 
from England, Aden, ludla, the cape or Good 
Hope and the Mauritius. The Zulu loss is put 
down at 5 , 000 , and if much less than that now it 
will be much more before long. The full fighting 
force of the tribe Is estimated at 10,000 men. 
It is reported that. Shere All has never quitted 
Afghanistan, that he Is dally ln receipt of all im¬ 
portant news from Yakoob Khan, and that he is 
massing foroes near Herat. The English are said 
to be apprehensive of advancing Uastlly, as the 
surrounding seml-sa vuge tribes, though quite ready 
to take their liberally-distributed money In the 
friendliest way, arc nevertheless always ready to 
pilfer, cut off stragglers, pounce upon convoys, and 
act as guerillas On every opportunity. The Viceroy 
of India advises the annexation of the whole of 
Afghanistan, and the advice causes much indigna¬ 
tion among the Liberals at home, who stigmatize 
such a measure as a violation of the professions of 
that wily, everlastingly smart, unprincipled, 
mountebank, trickster, Jew, Beaconsffekl. All 
Europe is still In terror of the Russian plague 
and adopting measures for preventing its exten¬ 
sion, while Russia is busy trying to suppress It 
within her borders. It is said to have disappeared 
from the province of Ast,radian where the first 
outbreak occurred, but it has broken out else¬ 
where ln the more westerly parts of that country, 
and ts said to have made Its appearance In Turkey, 
but this Is denied. Russia complains of Roiunanla 
for haring quarantined her without giving her 
notice of Intended; measure, and the feeling be¬ 
tween the two countries Is far more hostile than 
should exist between people lately so closely allied. 
Roumanla has seized upon Arab-Tabla as a part of 
her fresh acquisition, the Dobrudscha, despite the 
protest of Russia; Todleben has ordered four regi¬ 
ments to seize the place, and unless Europe Inter¬ 
poses, there is some risk of collision between the 
forces of the Czar and those of Prince—King—Nic¬ 
holas. Already there has been a skirmish between 
the Muscovite troops and the Roumanian police. 
Herman. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
PEN THOUGHTS FROM EVERY-DAY 
HOUSE. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
Labor-Having Devices In the Household. 
It is very refreshing to see the gentlemen 
of a house taking interest in the domestic 
conveniences that are strenth-savers to those 
members of their households who have the 
household work to do. There is nothing 
more useful in a kitchen than a ruan who 
can use a hammer and nails to advantage, 
put up shelves, or take them down, mend a 
broken chair or the leg of a table as need be, 
and do it with a pleasant munner, and not as 
if he were conferring a favor. Some men 
have an exasperating way of assisting in any 
household matter, making it appear that they 
stooped from their high dignity to work that 
was beneath them. If you trace back you will 
[generally find that, as boys, they had not been 
made helpful in domestic affairs, and conse¬ 
quently their manner was the result of wrong 
trainiug. But just as surely as labor-saving 
machinery accumulates in the barn, ought it 
to be in use in the kitchen. First, of all water 
in the house is a grave necessity, then the 
washer and wringer, a clothes dryer, and 
small mangle. There should be a mincing 
machine, the latest improvement in irons and 
ironing-board, an apple parer, raisin stouer, 
potato washer, and anything else that, comes 
under the notice of the housekeeper as a 
need. Of course, they cost money ; so does 
tobacco, yet I do not think I over knew any 
one compare the two in point of usefulness, 
while we all know houses where there is 
money enough for the “ weed” which does no 
good; but not enough for household con¬ 
veniences. 
It is a hopeful sign when there are men who 
consider the Rural a good medium through 
which to give their opinion on this domestic 
problem; who sympathize with, and help 
wife, sister, or mother iu the ceaseless round 
of duties that faU to their lot.. The one idea 
of a Chinaman will not answer in the varied 
work of a woman’s life; her tasks are 
heavy, and many. All honor to the man 
who will try to make the kitchen as it should 
be—the brightest room of the house, with 
cheerful, sunny windows, and among other 
things a baking table that can be shut down 
when not in use and serve other purposes. 
By supplying things like this, an ordinary me¬ 
chanic can lessen materially the labor of the 
household. 
-- 
LUG-CABIN SKETCHES ; OR, JESSIE SEA- 
• BRIGHT’S DIARY. 
MAY maple. 
A Poor Beginning. 
Nov. 10th, 18—. How little I thought, when, 
years ago, I wound my way among the lofty 
hills and quiet valleys of western New York," 
from the comfortable school-room to the small, 
low aud really comfortless dingy log cabin 
whose inhabitants were to extend their hospi¬ 
tality to the teacher for a week or two, as tho 
case might be, that some time in my life I 
should be obliged to step into a log cabin, not 
one whit better, and call it homo. Yet. here I 
am in a far-off wilderness, with my husband, 
John Seabright. and our two-year-old Bertie. 
I have been a wife four years, and John and I 
ought now to be in good circumstances; for 
he is a steady, hard worker, and 1 have learned 
to use the best economy. But fate was aguinst 
us; our house, with nearly all its belongings, 
except our clothes, was destroyed by lire. The 
little village lot was sold for but little more 
than enough to pay off the mortgage. Bo we 
were left with only sufficient means to bring us 
to these Northern woods—where unimproved 
farms can be had for almost nothing—and to 
purchase a stove, a few dishes and such pro¬ 
visions as we should ueed for the coming year. 
John ha6 bought a tract of land containing 
one hundred and sixty acres, which boasts of 
atiny cabin for the family and a small “ patch” 
—perhaps two or three acres—“cleared.” A 
gun paid for the whole farm. And this is our 
homo. The present outlook is not. very cap- 
tQrating. The cabin contains one room below 
and a low bit of chamber above. Two half- 
sashed, 6mall-puned windows light tho lower 
room, and these arc so high up that I can only 
look out wheu standing. YVe have one chair. 
John has improvised a stool, a bench, a couple 
of bedsteads aud a table; aud these, with 
stove and dishes, make up all our house fur¬ 
niture—exactly the same as those old York 
State patrons “got along with " for years, and 
really believed they could do no better. Time 
will develop ray resources, and necessity may 
enlarge my sympathies; at present my neigh¬ 
bors are but little better off, as far as appear¬ 
ances go. I will keep my eyes open for any 
opportunities to improve our condition. And 
whatever the improvements may be, I will jot 
them down iu my journal, for it is possible my 
experience may save another from discontent 
and many unhappy hours. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Extra Good Cookies. 
ONE-half cup of butter, one cup of white 
sugar, one-half ctip of sour milk, one egg, one- 
half teaspoonful of saleratus. Melt the butter, 
mix all soft, together with a spoon, and set 
away for one-half hour in the winter and one 
whole hour in summer where it is cold. Then 
the dough can be easily rolled without adding 
very much flour (the less the better), sprinkle 
the dough after rolling with sugar, cut and 
bake in a quick oven, watching carefully. 
The ingredients mentioned in this recipe make 
two dozen cookies. Add carrawaj seed if 
liked. 
Raw Pumpkin Fie. 
One pint of new milk, three well-beaten 
eggs ; sweeten and spice to taste; then stir in 
graduall} - four heaping tablespoons of grated 
pumpkin. Place the crust in a deep tin, then 
pour iu the mixture aud bake brown. 
Popovors. 
Two cups of milk, yelks of two eggs, a little 
salt, two cups of prepared flour. Add the 
whites of the eggs last, well-beaten. Bake in 
small tins—for breakfast or tea. 
Orange Oake. 
One cup of sugar, two eggs, half a cup of 
butter, half a cup of sweet milk, two cups of 
prepared flour. Bake iu four layers, as for 
jelly cake. 
Mixture lo be put in between layers. —The 
grated rind aud juice of one orange, whites of 
two eggs, two cups of sugar; spread between 
the layers and frost the top of the cake. 
Jelly Cake. 
Three eggs, whites and yelks beaten sepa¬ 
rately, one cup of sugar, one heaping cup of 
prepared flour, a piece of butter the size of an 
egg, three tablespoons of sweet milk. Bake in 
four layers. 
Prepared Flour, with Horsford’s Bread Prepa¬ 
ration. 
The cake recipes I have given require pre¬ 
pared flour, which the ladies of the Rural will 
find superior to any baking powder, creain-of- 
tartare, etc., that could possibly be used. For 
making biscuit, muffins, dumplings and cake, 
its equal cannot be found. Everything is sure 
to be light aud good that is made with it. (See 
the advertising columns of the Rural.— Eds.) 
The most economical method of using it is 
to prepare twenty-five pounds of flour, by 
taking one package and thoroughly sifting it 
twice through the flour. There are measures 
given, but this I find the quickest and most 
saving way to use it. The cake can be made 
and baked in half the time required by the old 
method. It seems to me that Hereford's Bread 
Preparation will work a revolution iu domestic 
economy when iis virtues become known to 
everybody. Mrs. F. Brewster Winn. 
La Salle Co., Ill. 
Barley Soup. 
Wash and soak one-fourth pound of barley 
in a quart of water over night; in the morning 
turn off the water not absorbed and add three 
quarts of boiling water; a teacupful of bread 
crumbs and salt to taste ; boil slowly four or 
five hours ; add a tablespoonful of butter aud 
a little chopped parsley half an hour before 
serving. 
Cheese Toast. 
Take half a teacup of grated cheese—use 
crumbs and dry pieces—mix with it a teacup 
of grated bread, the yelk of one egg, a spoonful 
of butter, three spoonfuls of rich cream, pep¬ 
per and salt aud a little mustard if liked; toast 
some slices of bread. Bprcad the mixture on, 
place in a quick oven for three or four minutes 
and serve hot. Mary B. 
-- 
Oatmeal Bread. 
Noticing a request in Rural of Feb. 8 for 
a method of making Oatmeal Bread. I send 
mine. 
No. 1.—Take fine oatmeal, put enough cold 
water in it that it will be covered after being 
thoroughly stirred; put in a flat pan. and bake 
in a moderate oven till the edges come away 
from the sides of the pan. The bread should 
not he more than a quarter of an inch thick, 
and not be allowed to brown. 
No. 2.—Fine oatmeal, with hot water poured 
over it; stir well, leave it to stand ten or fif¬ 
teen minutes, and dip into a flat pan by the 
spoonful, which should be flattened into cakes 
in the pan. There should be enough water on 
the oatmeal that it will work easily. 
No. 3.—The same as No. 2, with the addition 
of a little more water, and enough Graham 
flour to make the oatmeal a soft dough. Bake 
a6 No. 2. 
No. 4.—Cold oatmeal mush with Graham 
flour molded in until the dough can be rolled and 
cut with knife or cake cutter, or made into 
rolls or biscuits. Bake in a moderate oven until 
a light crust is formed. 
No. 5 .—Add a little cold water to cold oat- 
