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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MARSH 4§ 
ftftos of tjje cfflxflu 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Monday, March 10th, 1879. 
The llabllltes of Archbishop Purcell, of Cincin¬ 
nati are reported to reach the enormous sum of 
$ 6 , 000 , 000 . Thte heavy load of Indebtedness Is due 
mainly to poor, or comparatively poor, Roman 
Catholics In Ohio, who, for 17 years or more, have 
been Intrusting their earnings to Ills care and re¬ 
ceiving Interest from him. in other words, the 
prelate has been doing a heavy banking business 
and has failed disastrously, ills creditors number 
li.ooo, of whom seventeen-twentieths are said to 
be Germans and t he remainder elderly Irish. Vari¬ 
ous plans—some of them of a questionable nature 
and others wildly unbusinesslike— are being dis¬ 
cussed for paying these debts. Very many of the 
depositors would be utterly ruined by the loss of 
their hoarded savings, and not a lew are already 
suffering severely from the present collapse. No one 
ventures to accuse the aged Archbishop of having 
himself profiled by the great sums that have dis¬ 
appeared. The business was chiefly in the hands 
of his brother, Father Purcell, and the latter turns 
out to have been a poor and careless tlnaneler. 
By this and similar troubles connected with vari¬ 
ous church organizations and clergymen, one Is apt 
to be persuaded that It was not. without reason 
that money-changers were driven out of the Tem¬ 
ple. 
The forty-mth congress came to an end last 
Tuesday, and straightway the President convened 
an extra session of the next. Congress, for the 18th 
Inst. This was necessitated by the failure of the 
last Congress to make the appropriations necessary 
for meeting expenses, on account of a deadlock be¬ 
tween the Republican Senate and the Democratic 
House on three points. In each, the House attached 
new laws to appropriation bills, and refused to 
grant the money unless the laws were passed. The 
Senate Insisted that new legislation should not be 
tacked on to money bills; but that the proposed 
laws should be discussed and passed or rejected as 
all other laws usually are. To the bill making 
appropriations for the army was added a law pro¬ 
hibiting the presence of troops at polling places 
during elections; while to Uiat giving money to 
meet the expenses of .Judges, Courts, etc.,—the 
Legislative Bill—were attached two new laws; one 
repealing the test oath demanded from jurors In 
the South, and tire other repealing the present 
law which authorizes the appointment Of United 
States supervisors of electors whenever United 
States officers arc to be chosen. The Republicans 
might have yielded With regard to the first and 
second Issues, but they were stubborn on the last 
point, on the ground that such supervisors are 
necessary as a safeguard to honest suffrage. As 
the next Senate w ill be Democratic as well as the 
House, the Democrats refused to yield a Jot, and 
hence the need ol the extra session at. which some 
lively work, or rather talk, Is probable. The vote 
" In the Mouse on the Anti-Chinese Bill after the 
President's veto was 109 for It to 92 against It; but 
as a two-third vote is needed to overrule a veto, 
the veto was in this case sustained. 
Arrangements are completed at Gilmore’s Gar¬ 
den, in thte city, for a grand walking match for 
the championship of the world, between three 
eltizens of this country headed by O'l.eary, the 
Corko-Cldcogoan, who at present holds the cham¬ 
pions' belt, ttnd an Englishman named Rowell, 
whom Sir John Astley, the original donor of the 
trophy, has sent across the Atlantic, to recover It. 
Atl o’clock t hte morning t he struggle began,and the 
men are now tramping around the arena. There Is 
a great deal of betting strongly in favor of O’Leary. 
Meanwhile the mania for exhibitions of women 
walkers continues all over the country, a dozen or 
so now tramping In this and the neighboring cities 
of Brooklyn and Jersey City. That Court of Inquiry 
that investigated Reno’s conduct, during the Custer 
massacre, has reported that there is no prool that 
the major’s action on that occasion was blame¬ 
worthy, and that, the defense made by his small 
band against the victorious Indians, was heroic. 
The republicans have 12 s mem be is In the new 
House; the greenbackers claim 21 and hold the 
balance of power. The Potter Committee has 
finally made Its report, or rather three of them— 
one by the democratic majority declaring that 
Hayes was given the Presidency fraudulently; a 
second, by the republican minority, saying that he 
was justly elected, and denouncing the bulldozing 
and fraud alleged to ha ve been practiced In some 
of the Southern states during t he last Presidential 
election; while lien. Butler makes a third report 
agreeing with the democrats as regards the Presi¬ 
dency, and with the republicans as regards terror¬ 
ism. The Roach subsidy for two lines of steamers 
to Brazil has been overwhelmingly defeated hi the 
If out.e. More than 25,000 applications for arrears of 
pensions have been made, varying In amount from 
$50 to $5,0uo each. Last Thursday the name of 
Jim Keene, the millionaire speculator In grain, was 
lorged to a telegram sent from this city to hte 
agents In Chicago, ordering them to sell a,000,000 
bushels of wheat on his account. This caused a 
decline In the price of wheat, from 9# to 98 cents a 
bushel next day, owing to the market being Hooded. 
Towards evening, however, the forgery was de¬ 
tected, and the prices for wheat have since gone 
up. It is said that tho fraud was due to a Chicago 
clique who have made contracts to deliver large 
anio juts of provisions, and who hoped to be able 
to buy them cheaply, If a panic occurred In the 
market. U. 8. J udge Rives has had five State Judges 
indicted In Va. lor not permitting colored men on 
juries lu their courts. The state authorities are 
highly Indignant at this action, and a collision la 
not Improbable between the Federal and State au¬ 
thorities. owing to a run on the New Orleans 
saving Institution, it has suspended payment for 
90 days: deposits, $ 2 , 050 , 000 ; bank said to he sol¬ 
vent. The Louisiana Lottery has been suppressed 
by the Legislature. Gov. Nichols of Louisiana, Is 
said to be about to resign, on account of the failure 
ol the Legislature to give due heed to his messages 
and recommendations, and because he finds him¬ 
self unable to check lawlessness In some parts of 
the State. 
The Vanderbilt will contest which has been off 
and oti before the surrogate of this city for months 
back, finally came to a close during the week. 
The struggle was maintained with extreme bitter¬ 
ness, especially by Cornelius’s lawyers, who flung 
vituperation, lnuendoes and moral mud generally 
upon all opposing witnesses and everybody con¬ 
nected with the dead Commodore. Cornelius will 
have 1o be satisfied with the $ 200,000 the old man 
left him. Thte has been Invested by W. If. Van¬ 
derbilt In government bonds, and yields $ 10 , 000 , 
W. H. retains hte $100,000,000, and comes out a head 
on every point. It has long been evident that the 
dead millionaire was quite shrewd and sensible 
when he made Ids will, but it was thought, that 
the disposition he had made of hte vast property 
was the result of a late decision. Several old wills, 
however, were produced In court, and from these 
it was evident that years before any suspicion 
could have rested on his sanity, he had decided to 
settle his property substantially as done by hte 
latest will. 
FOREIGN. 
There Is report and a contradiction of It, that 
Turkey has ceded Rhodes to France. The Rope Is 
about to create a batch of new cardinals next 
month and among them will be Dr. J. II.Newman. 
Of all those who have joined the Roman Catholic 
Church within the last century, he Is conceded on 
all hands to be the most eminent, both on account 
of the high place he held In public estimation as a 
Protestant clergyman before his conversion, and 
also on account of his acknowledged Intellectual 
force and the superlative, beauty of his style as a 
writer. Nearly the whole of Europe has been 
visited duriug the week by storms of extraordinary 
severity. 
Gen. Martinez Campos, of Cuban celebrity, has 
been made Prime Minister of Spain, where a change 
of Cabinet has Just taken place. In France the red- 
hot republicans are gaining the ascendency. Two 
changes In their favor have just been made in the 
Ministry, and already rumors have attributed to 
Grevy an Intention of resigning. This, however, 
Is denied by another report. The Imprisoned com¬ 
munists are to be set at liberty, with a few excep¬ 
tions. Passamcnte, the would-be regicide, Ison 
trial In Italy. A large band or Greeks lately In¬ 
vaded Turkish territory, hut were utterly routed. 
Russia seems resolved to evacuate tho country In 
strict accordance with her agreement. The Turks 
are reoccupying the territory as if Is abandoned 
by the Muscovites, and already there are serious 
reports of outrages committed by them, shore All 
Is at last dead, arid Yakoob Khan Is negotiating 
with the British for peace. Weston has failed, of 
course, lu that walking match against time. 
The Zulu massacre la attributed by the London 
papers to the Incapacity of Lord Chelmsford, the 
general in command, and another officer will prob¬ 
ably replace him. An army of 10.000 will soon 
be In tiie field, and even this handful seems to tax 
great Britain's military resources. Young Prince 
Napoleon has started to take part in the war and 
will probably be- made ald-de-camp to Lord Chelms¬ 
ford. Strikes and distress are still rampant all 
over Kngluud. Agricultural laborers have struck 
in Yorkshire against a reduction ol flic, a week 
in their wages. The plague Is reported to be un¬ 
der complete control in Russia, and being rapidly 
stamped out. The czar and hte heir are reported 
to be at variance, and the latter has been ordered 
to confine himself to his palace. Bismarck’s 
gag-law has been defeated Ln the Reichstag. The 
quarrel between Prussia and the Duke of Cumber¬ 
land whose Kingdom ot Hanover Bismarck an¬ 
nexed, Is likely to be patched up by giving him 
the slip of territory about witch there is a dis¬ 
pute with Denmark. As he has Just married the 
King of Denmark’s daughter, such an arrange¬ 
ment might be satisfactory all around. 
Thte morning’s cablegrams announce that the 
English ln Afghanistan have suffered several minor 
reverses. Y akoob Khan has succeeded his lather 
ln authority over most oi the country unoccupied 
by the English, ln South Africa the British have 
routed 15,000 Zulus after a severe conflict, and all 
danger of the Invasion or Natal Is now considered 
over. In France the impeachment of the Dc Brog¬ 
lie Ministry Is considered pretty certain, it will 
he remembered that about a year ago that Cabi¬ 
net was forced to resign owing to Its reactionary 
tendency. It seems that pretty clear proofs have 
been discovered that before its rail it, contemplated 
the overthrow of the Republic, by a coujt-d’etat, 
and the restoration of the Empire or the Orleans 
family. 
The moderate Republicans and all the Imperial¬ 
ists and monarchists are opposed to the movement 
as certain to awaken much party bitterness and 
^possible danger to the government; but the ex¬ 
tremists are likely to be triumphant according to 
this morning's news. McMahon, however, is 
reported w have Just demanded to be tried with 
ids former Cabinet, should the measure be finally 
adopted, and as lie. Is still very popular with 
Frenchmen generally, and especially with the 
army, this action may serve as a check or stop to 
the Intended Impeachment. Herman. 
In Russia taxes are collected In thte way: A 
peasant, representative of a district, comprising 
several villages, is charged wltli the duty of col¬ 
lecting a certain amount of money, and It is the 
business of the people to distribute the taxes 
among themselves as they like the best. For the 
prompt collection, In the first place, the represen¬ 
tative te responsible, and ln case of tardiness he Is 
Imprisoned for a week with common criminals, 
and furnished with food at the cost of three cents 
a day. A district Is obliged to pay ror all Its mem¬ 
bers, whether they are actual residents, or have 
gone elsewhere, or are In the army. In case a tax 
collector Is unable to do hte duty, he reports to the 
authorities; then the police appear armed with 
rods, and If the rods do not secure the desired re¬ 
sult, the property of delinquents te sold at auction. 
Domestic dEtouomg. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
COOKING UTENSILS. 
MARY REAL M’LOUTH. 
"Eureka ! Eureka!” Not the Philosopher's 
Stone but a knife-sharpener, and no “Patent 
Right.” Of any one who keeps shoemakers’ 
supplies, you can get for fifteen cents a whet¬ 
stone, which is coarse and soft, and which 
will put on a knife with a few strokes an edge 
that excels everything but the grindstone. 
Those who have used lhi8 convenience, could 
never keep house again without one. But 
take eare never to get. it wet or greasy. 
To keep your knives and forks from rusting, 
make a bag of flannel, aud stitch from top to 
bottom an inch aud a half apart, a dozen times, 
making a little bag for each. Roll and keep 
in a dry place. I like this much better than 
paper. I have used it four years, and rust 
has never troubled my cutlery. Aud now 
if any of the handles dissolve partnership with 
their better halves, get some kind blacksmith 
to save you a few iron fliiugs. Take two epoon- 
fuls of pulverized rosin ; one spoonful of sul¬ 
phur, and one and a half spoonful of the filings. 
Fill ibccavities with the mixture ; heat the stem 
of the knife or fork, and insert it slowly, and 
put it carefully away to cool. The directions 
said fine sand or brick-dust would answer, in 
place of the iron, but I never tried those. The 
filings I can warrant, unless you cut or pry hard 
with the knife. Hot water will not injure them 
after they are thoroughly set. I have one 
that 1 know has been in use for five years. 
I find many people who still use poisonous 
German-silver spoons, which corrode every 
time they are used, especially in grease. I 
always try and persuade such people to get 
half a dozen of those small, stout and cheap, 
iron spoons. They are so convenient for use 
and eooking, and never need scouring. When 
new, they do nicely for the table. The bowl 
of an old one with the handle broken off, is 
just the article for scraping kettles. 
Common baking soda with a moistened 
piece of flannel will clean silver nicely, then 
polish with a dry piece. But I prefer to wash 
off the soda if the silver is not going to be 
used for a long time, for fear it might injure 
it. 
Group Remedy Corrected 
The cure for croup in Jan., number, should 
read: A cloth wet in ice-cold water, put on 
the throat and covered with flaunel. Change 
often but keep the flannel snug every moment, 
to exclude the air. The patient will breath 
more easily at once, but when you cease the 
treatment, do not leave the throat bare. 
-- 
DOMESTIC RECIPES, 
Turkey Soup and Salad. 
It is not. surprising that foreigners comment 
upon the extravagant habits of Americans. 
Look at the waste of the kitchen! For ex¬ 
ample, a turkey is roasted and placed on the 
table once. Only half of it is eaten, but the 
fowl was carved in so careless a manner, that 
it is not presentable for another meal. Per¬ 
haps a few slices are cut from it, for the next 
morning’s breakfast; then the bones and frag¬ 
ments of moat are thrown out. The bite of 
meat might have been chopped with celery for 
a salad, and the bones made into soup. The 
French excel ns greatly iu utilizing " odds and 
ends ” in cookery. They use parts of fowls— 
for iustance, the comb of the rooster—that we 
would never think of eating. Turkey soup is 
too rich for persons of weak digestion, but 
will be relished by healthy people aud children. 
Soup of Turkey Bones. 
Break the bones, place iu a kettle and add 
two quarts of cold water. Cover closely and 
set on the back of the stove to simmer for an 
hour. Season with pepper and salt, aud add 
one large spoonful of rice. Let the soup boil 
until the rice is done; then pour into an earth¬ 
en dish and put away in a cold place until the 
next day. When wanted for dinner, remove 
the layer of fat, and heat the soup. Serve very 
hot with crackers aud pickles. 
Turkey Salad. 
One teacupful each of chopped turkey and 
celery. Mix, aud then turn over it a dressing 
made after the following recipe: One raw egg 
beaten; one hard-boiled egg—mashed fine; 
one-half teaspoonful of sail.; one teaspoonful 
of prepared mustard: one teaspoonful of melted 
butter ; a large spoonful of vinegar. 
Bread and Yeast. 
However capable our domestic, I always 
make the bread myself. The yeast is prepared 
according to the following rule: A pint of 
flour is scalded with hop water to form a thiu 
batter; thickened with boiled mashed pota¬ 
toes, aud passed through a colander. When 
cool, a teaspoonful of salt is added ; the same 
quantity of ground ginger; a large spoonful 
of sugar, and one-half teacup of best yeast. 
Keep the mixture in a warm room to rise, stir¬ 
ring it down two or three times. We keep 
yeast in glass cans—Mason’s—and in a dark 
place. Many think that the chemical action 
of light is as injurious to yeast, as to fruits 
canned in glass. A teacupful of yeast is suffi¬ 
cient for two large loaves of bread. The sponge 
is made with warm water and quite stiff, and 
is kept warm over night. In the morning, 
more flour is added to the sponge and it is 
kneaded for a half hour, or as long as there is 
time to spare. Bread is more tender, if melted 
butter — a large spoonful to each loaf — is 
worked into the dough. Let the mass rise until 
very light, when it may be molded into loaves 
and set to rise again. Top heat is best for 
raising bread, as it is apt to get scalded if 
placed ou any heated surface. Experience 
teaches one, better than rules, how to hake 
bread. Some housekeepers set the sponge in 
the morning, thus making a hard, disagreeable 
day. If set at night, time is gained, aDd the 
bread-baking, can be gotten entirely out of the 
way long before uoon. 
Bread Cakes. 
The waste of bread is in many houses a 
heavy item. Slices that might have been 
toasted, arc allowed to beeome hard and dry, 
or even moldy. Broken pieces and crumbs 
that would have answered for griddle cakes, 
puddings, or dressing for fowls, have been 
overlooked until too old to be fit for use. Such 
negligence does not speak well for the house¬ 
keeper. 
The careful housewife will look through the 
pantry every day, if possible, to see that noth¬ 
ing be lost. Our favorite breakfast cakes are 
made, of bread crumbs according to the receipe 
given herewith. 
Bread Griddle Cakes. 
One pint of bread crumbs soaked in as much 
thin, sour milk, as they will absorb. Leave 
over night. Iu the morning, stir in one beaten 
egg, a small teaspoon of salt, and flour to 
make a batter of the right consistency to bake. 
More milk may be needed. One teaspoonful 
of bicarbonate of soda, dissolved in very little 
hot water, should be stirred in just before 
baking. If iu the least sour, use more soda. 
Bake on a hot, well-greased griddle. The 
cakes are better if a half teacup of cold boiled 
rice be soaked with the crumbs. m. g. b. 
Canned Apples. 
There are several good ways of preparing 
apples to fill the fruit cans which are fast be¬ 
coming empty at this season of the year; and 
there is no danger but the sauce will be relished 
by the farmer's family in the spring, when 
vegetables and fruit are scarce, aud fresh air 
and hard work bring increased appetites. The 
most economical way, if one has sweet apples 
and boiled cider, is to make cider apple-sauce, 
as that requires very little, if any, sugar; and 
it is excellent, too, if well made. To do this it 
should bo cooked 6lowly two or three hours, 
and not stirred at all, a6 that breaks the pieces 
and gives it such a mussy look. Instead of 
stirring, push the top pieces uuder carefully 
when partly done, and put in water as it boils 
away, to prevent its burning. 
To make apple-butter, the sauce, when done, 
may be stirred or mashed fine, and seasorved 
with cinnamon, allspice and cloves. If one 
does not have sweet apples, sour ones will do 
nearly as well for apple-butter, if plenty of 
sugar is used ; but they do not make good eider 
apple-sauce, as they fall to pieces in cooking. 
I J iekle6 are good, made of sweet apples pared 
and cut iu halves or thirds according to size, 
and prepared the same as sweetened pickled, 
pears or peaches, and if liquor is left from 
these it may be used for the apples. Sour 
apples may be stewed iu the usual way and 
canned, sweetening when used. But to make 
nice sauce, use sound, fine-flavored apples, cut 
into quite large pieces. With a quantity suffi¬ 
cient for a quart of sauce, put a cupful or more 
of sugar, aud half of a lemon, with a very little 
of the peel; stew quickly, and only enough for 
one can at a time. 
Doughnut*. 
One cup of soft yeast; one cup of warm 
sweet milk ; one cup of shortening—half but¬ 
ter and half lard; one cup of sugar; two well- 
beateu eggs; one-half teaspoonful of salt; 
flavor with nutmeg, allspice or cinnamon. 
Knead all together; set in a warm place at night; 
in the morning, if light, knead again; foil 
about two-thirds of an inch thick; cut out in 
cakes a little larger than a silver dollar; let 
them rise ; then fry in lard aud roll in pulver¬ 
ized sugar. 
Ginger Snaps. . 
Three cups of molasses ; one cup of shorten¬ 
ing ; three teaspooufuls of ginger; three tea¬ 
spoonfuls of s&laratus ; two tablespoonfuls of 
water; one-half teaspoonful of salt. Roll rather 
thiu aud bake iu a quick oven. 
A Correction. 
I hope no Rural sister has been so unfortu¬ 
nate as to follow exactly my recipe for bread 
making, as it appeared in the Rural of Janu¬ 
ary 11, for by some mistake I was made to say 
as much " water”—iusteud of flour—as can be 
easily 6tirred in. Mrs. S. C. 
Fritters. 
One quart of milk, one pound of flour, 
