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OCT. U 
JJmestir <froMmg. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
MRS. ENDICOT’S JOURNAL. 
What to pul in the vases; company to tea; press¬ 
ed chicken; sandwiches ; sweet pickles ; or¬ 
ange cake; gold cake. 
Sept. 23. — This afternoon I went to call 
on Mrs. Lee, a friend of Mrs. Cox who is visit¬ 
ing her. She was ho pleasant and friendly 
that I invited her aud Mrs. Cox to tea on 
Thursday. Thinking it over after 1 came 
home, I thought it would perhaps be pleasanter 
if there wore other friends to meet them. As I 
can only accommodate fourteen comfortably 
at my table, it required some thinking to select 
the remaining number. 
Baby Katy and I quite enjoyed our walk next 
morning, when wc went (ogive our invitations. 
Our last call was at Dr. Green’s. While talk¬ 
ing to Mrs. Green at the door, 1 happened to 
see in one corner of the (lower garden, a large 
bunch of old-fashioned Ambrosia. She told 
me to take all I tvanted of it, and as I felt sure 
we wore going to have a hard frost that night, 
I did so. When we got home Katy was asleep, 
so, taking my wraps off softly, 1 hastened to 
the kitchen with my Ambrosia. Taking one 
piece at a time 1 dampened it, then had a pan 
of flour in which I dipped it, rolling it around 
so that every part was thoroughly whitened. 
When all had been treated in this way, I gave 
a brisk shake to get rid of extra flour, and put 
them into vases. When Harry came home from 
school he volunteered to go after bitter-sweet 
berries, as he knew one place where they were 
ripe, lie found some lovely clusters, which 
I added to my vases of Ambrosia. The con¬ 
trast certainly was beautiful. 
Wednesday morning Betsy and 1 held a con¬ 
sultation, the result of which was that wo de¬ 
cided to have warm biscuit, sandwiches, press¬ 
ed chicken, pickles, jelly, orange cake, gold 
cake, sliced peaches, tea and coffee Of the 
biscuit we will have about forty. I always 
make my sandwiches of light bread, sliced 
thin, the crust cut off, and spread evenly and 
thinly with butter. The ham is well boiled, 
chopped fine and a little mustard added, aud 
placed not too thickly between two slices of 
bread, which I then eut in three, makiug sand¬ 
wiches three by four inches. They look nice 
piled on the plates, aud have quite a relish. I 
will proceed in this way for 'the 
Pressed Chicken. 
Two chickens boiled until the meal leaves 
the bones easily; then pull to pieces and chop 
fine, letting (he liquor in which they were 
cooked, boil away until only a cnpfnl re¬ 
mains. About half as much ham a6 chicken is 
then added, roll two soda crackers, season 
highly and pour the stock over. Mix all well 
together, put in a deep, long pan, pressing 
down hard with the baud. Fold a napkin sev¬ 
eral times over the top and put on a weight. 
This should he prepared the day before using, 
when it will slice dow T n easily. I examiued my 
pickles which are cucumbers made sweet, 
after the following recipo. To one gallon of 
vinegar, add one quart of water, five pounds 
of sugar, a tablespoonful of salt, one stick of 
cinnamon. Four over boiling hot, let stand 
ten day6, then pour over the liquor aud boil 
again, after which they are ready to be set 
away for use. 1 found them ail right. 
Thursday morning we made the cakes after 
the following recipes and had “ splendid 
luck.” 
Orange Cake. 
The whites of six eggs beaten to a froth; 
three tablespoonsful of melted butter; oue cup 
of sugar; half a cup of milk; a cup and a half 
of flour, in which have been stirred two tea- 
spoonsful of baking powder aud a very little 
salt. This makes three thin cakes. About half 
an hour before eating, take the juice of one 
large orange, the white of one egg, beaten 
stiff,and thicken with granulated sugar, spread 
betweeu the three cakes, and dust powdered 
sugar over it. I doubled these proportions 
making two cakes. 
Gobi Cake. 
One half cup of butter and Iwo of sugar 
6 tirred to a cream; the yelks of six eggs well 
beaten, half a cup of milk with half a teaspoon¬ 
ful of soda dissolved in it. With the flour put 
in a teaspoonful of eream-of-tartar. It should 
be as stiff as cup cake. Add half a nutmeg, 
one cup of raisins and half a cup of currants, 
Everything was ready in good time; chil¬ 
dren dressed, table set and dining-room dosed, 
with a little time to rest. Now that I have 
things once more in running order, 1 am deter¬ 
mined that it shall not be so long again before 
I entertain some other friends. I believe that 
a certain amount of company is a good thing 
for any family. 
LITTLE HELPS FROM HAPPY HOME. 
Hear Rural Sjsters : As I have read your 
words of help aud cheer from time to time, my 
inward monitor has often asked ; Why not add 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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your little mite to the general fund P The Rural 
is no stranger to me, as I think I have read, or 
heard it read, every year but one since its is¬ 
sue, and as 1 am just thirty-one years of age 
you see I have almost grown up with it. 
I went to the kitchen and hurried tip the 
cakes (bis morning for a little girl who was 
going to a school picnic, and this is what I did: 
I set out two howls for cake, (I always use 
yellow earthenware bowls) and a smaller one 
for frosting. Then 1 broke three eggs, placing 
the three yelks In one cake bowl, two whites 
in the other, aud oue in the bowl for frosting. 
1 rolled two cups of sugar, leaving them sepa¬ 
rate on the rolling board; then I put four cups 
of flour in two separate dishes, two cups in 
each, with two even teaspoonsful of bakiug 
powder and a very little soda stirred into each. 
After beating the whites in one bowl to a 
froth and stirring the yelks iu the other, 1 
added to each ouc-half cup of butter, with the 
sugar and heat it to a cream. Added to each 
ouc-half cup of sweet milk, then stirred iu the 
flour. My cakes were then ready for the tins. 
I flavored the yellow one with vanilla, poured 
it directly into the tin aud put it into a moder¬ 
ately hot oven. Then the afore-mentioned 
little girl, who had previously .stirred one cake 
for me while I stirred the other, procured and 
washed some Rose Geranium leaves which she 
placed in the tin, while I buttered a paper to 
lay over them. This makes a very line and 
not a common flavoring, notwithstanding the 
fact that I said “ it tastes like a hornet” upon 
eating for the first time a cake flavored with 
them. 
While the cakes were baking, I made a thick 
sirup of white sugar in which I boiled a Gera¬ 
nium leaf; then I beat into it the one white of 
an egg which was left, one tablespoonful of 
corn-starch, and turned upon it the boiling 
sirup winch made a beautiful, glossy, creamy, 
frosting, much better and more healthful than 
pulverized sugar. It requires a very thorough 
beating after the 6irup is added and it is, I am 
sure, a recipe every farmer!ne will appreciate, 
as town is often faraway aud pulverized sugar 
not at hand. 
I cannot express my appreciation of Annie 
L. Jack’s helpful hints from “Every Day 
House,” also those of Jessie Seabrigbt, 
Conntry Girl and many others, whose sugges¬ 
tions and experiences have given new life and 
vigor to my weary spirit many times when 
I. was feeling keenly the want of society which 
jyannot have, confined at home us 1 am by 
t^iree little children and an invalid mother. 
Add to that the fact, that my own health is 
very poor and Cotfctry Girl will readily sec 
that I have no time for the fancy-work which 
she and I both love, as, when I am well enough, 
I have to spend every moment of time that I 
can spare from my other ddties, in doing the 
sewing for a family ol eight. But 1 think it is 
just as much my duly to read us to do anything 
else, so 1 can read her vivid description of 
what may be done, and enjoy in anticipation 
the doing of it at some future, time when my 
health may be better and my cares less. 
Do any of the Rural mothers know that 
milk boiled one hour with a piece of charcoal, 
the size of an egg to one quart of milk, 
will agree with any child, when raw milk will 
be utterly rejected by the stomach ? It is best 
to boil it iu a double boiler, aud it is excellent 
food for “ dog days” especially when followed 
by a dose of calf’s rennet or pepsiue for pre¬ 
paring which, at home, 1 will give directions 
iu my next letter. Mrs. Frank M. Parker. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Oyster Sauce. 
One pint of oysters boiled three or four 
minutes in their own liquor. Stir in two table- 
epoonsful of butter rolled in a spoonful of 
flour, the juice of half a lemon with pepper 
and salt to taste. Heat a teacupful of milk, 
pour into the oysters aud turn at ouee into the 
sauce-boat. Aina. ILakt. 
Quince Souffle. 
Take ripe fruit, pare, cut up and stew until 
tender. Put through a colander, sweeten and 
turn into a deep glass dish. Make a boiled 
custard of the yelks of three cgg6, and pour 
over. Whip the whites to a stiff froth, add 
two spoonsful of powdered sugar, flavor to 
taste and heap upon the custard. 
Baked Macaroni. 
Take one-half pound of macaroni, break into 
inch lengths and boil twenty minutes in salted 
water. Drain, put into a pudding dish, first a 
layer of macaroni, then strew with grated 
cheese, hits of butter, pepper and salt. Fill 
the dish iu this way, pour in a eup of milk and 
bake covered, half an hour, then brown. 
_ Mart B. 
Sponge Cake. 
Ten eggs, one pound of pulverized sugar, 
one-half pound of flour, two lemouB. Beat the 
eggs separately a long time ; add the sugar to 
the yelks, tbeu the whites and then the flour. 
Do not stir the flour in, but dip it in. Lastly 
add grated rind aud juice of lemons. Break 
the cake instead of cutting it. it. L. h. 
|tfius uf tjjc lEfflt. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Monday, October oth, 1879. 
Kearney has been twice refused a reception by 
General Grant on sending up his “ card,” and that, 
too, after a Chinese delegation had been respect¬ 
fully admitted. A special reporter of the Chicago 
Times, who was sent to Yazoo City to ascertain 
the facts In regard to the killing of Dixon, has 
given a long and apparently conscientious account 
of the murdered man’s hist cry. It appears from 
this that Dixon, who was horn in Virginia In 1847, 
and who ran away to join the Confederate army, 
arrived In Yazoo early in 186$ as a professional 
gambler, and presently opened a gambling-house, 
which he gave up only a short t ime before he ran 
as Independent candidate for sheriff, and on the 
stairs of which he was lately assassinated. In 1872 
or 1878 lie openly shot down a negro to whom he 
owed money. Jn the political campaign or 1875 he 
became the head of a body of regulators culled 
“ Dixon's Scouts,” among whom was Barksdale, 
and who passed their time In breaking up Repub¬ 
lican meetings, terrorizing t he colored population, 
and hanging such of them as were charged with 
crime or wore otherwise obnoxious. Oue of these 
victims had $1 .son on his person, which he begged 
the “ Scouts" to send to his muthcr In Ohio. Dixon 
demanded this money of the man to whom It was 
entrusted, and pretended that he paid It Into the 
Democratic campaign fund, to be used *• to stuff 
the ballot-boxes, If nesessary but the Demo¬ 
cratic Committee denied having received it,, and 
the probability is that Dixon appropriated It for 
his own advantage. In January, 1S76, on the eve 
of the Democratic return to power through the 
efforts of the regulators, the county treasurer’s 
safe was robbed of $50.u00, an act of which the 
outgoing treasurer could not be accused, for he 
had handed over his accounts, but which was 
publicly fastened upon Dixon by a fellow-gambler 
named Harrison. Tills hid to frequent encounters 
between the two men, until Dixon had killed his 
accuser. He was tried, but was acquitted and 
escorted home with a brass band. Barksdale at 
this time was deputy-sheriff, and during the Im¬ 
prisonment an enmity arose between them which 
culminated In Dixon's death. Barksdale is said to 
have shot him not because he was trying as a 
negro candidate to divide Ills party, but because 
he had made the grossest and filthiest attacks on 
the character of his mother and sister. It, appears, 
however, that Dixon jus getting l,o be regarded as 
too dangerous a man to he tolerated any longer, 
and that there was some concert In his talcing off. 
in spite of his many atrocities the negroes eagerly 
followed him as ft political leader, and it Is plain 
that the power ot such a man in the community, 
with such a constituency, was as much u> be 
dreaded as U lie had been a Northern carpet¬ 
bagger, The regular Southern correspondent, 
however, ol the New York Sun (Democratic), 
stamps the stories to the discredit of Dixcm as lies, 
and charges that his “ talking off” was a cowardly 
premeditated, political murder. 
While the revenue of the country collected has 
Increased over $ 2 , 000 , 000 , the cost 01 collection was 
$728,000 less in 1679 than in 1878. The average cost 
or collection throughout the whole country was a 
trUie over 3 per cent., excluding the Territories. 
The cost of collecting In the States which seceded 
was ojz per cent. The revenue from the tax upon 
banks and bankers, other than national banks, 
during the last fiscal year, was $3,198,000—a de¬ 
crease compared with the previous year of $293, 000 . 
This falling off is attributed to a loss of confidence 
by depositors in savings banks. The total decrease 
of the revenue for July and August,, compared 
with the previous year, is $90,000. 
Dead wood, Dakota Territory, lias been entirely 
burnt up, entailing a loss uf about $ 3 , 000 , 000 . The 
fire started In a miserable shanty, and in a few 
hours 500 houses were destroyed. 
in Chicago there has been great excitement in 
the grain market during the week. The bulls and 
bears have been engaged in a fierce struggle over 
the price ol wheat, the former trying to raise it 
and the latter frantically endeavoring to pull It 
down. They succeeded temporarily In depressing 
It, irom 4c. to 6c. per bushel, but the bulks soon 
tossed It up again. Here lu New York great ex¬ 
citement has prevailed during 1 , 11 c week In the 
stock market, i tall road and other securities have 
been subjected to severe fluctuations lu prices. 
President Hayes has been making an extensive 
trip through the Western states, and has been 
cordially received everywhere aloug the route. He 
has delivered a large number of speeches on vari¬ 
ous topics, but especially on those connected with 
the agricultural Interests of iho country. Geu. 
Grant still lingers on the Pacific coast, where he 
Is being feted and honored us no guest has over 
been received there before. By the way, from 
present appearances, he will, most likely, be the 
Republican candidate lor President at the next 
election, should he be willing to accept the nomi¬ 
nation. Of the Democratic candidates Tllden Is In 
the van, though a good deal will depend In his 
case, upon the result of the election in this State, 
this fall. John Kelley & CO., are still earnestly 
bent upon ruining Robinson’s chances to be our 
next Governor, by dividing the Democratic parly. 
They are organizing their forces briskly here and 
in a large number of other places through the 
staui, and boast of being able to command 100,000 
staunch Democratic votes. Jf they cau deprive 
Robinson of even half that number of party sup¬ 
porters, they will seriously Jeopardize his election. 
Meanwhile, that corporal’s guard of “scratching” 
Republicans are busy trying to insure the defeat 
of Cornell by sending out circulars, etc., etc. Al¬ 
ready they have advanced so far In organizing as 
to issue some earnest appeals for money to run 
their little side show. 
The West suffers a great deal fi. in the scarcity 
of small bills. St. Louis and Chicago banks are 
unable to supply thomsclves, nor Is this strange, 
remembering that the volume of small bills has 
been materially diminished. The natural course 
would be to supply gold In small denominations, 
but nineteen-twentieths of the gold coin In the 
treasury is in $20 pieces, and none of the foreign 
gold which the Philadelphia mint Is recoining Is 
put Into smaller denominations than $r» and $ 10 , 
obviously too largo to meet, the demand for small 
bills. The smallest form In which gold can be 
conveniently handled Is the quarter-eagle, $2 so, 
but the law requires a minimum coinage of $2,- 
000,000 of silver, as Its coinage Is slow work, the 
mints have no time to turn their attention to 
small coinage. It Is reported In connection with 
the suit to upset the will of Mrs, Dorsey, of Louisi¬ 
ana, who left her property to Jefferson Davis, that 
another suit will bo Instituted against Davis for 
alleged conspiracy to deprive the heirs of their 
rights, and for a yet more serious offense against 
the law. Widow Oliver, who sued Simon Cameron 
for breach of promise, is destitute, and she has 
gone to the almshouse at Washington, the poor- 
commissioners having promised to care for her. 
Another Indian war has begun, and various 
opinions prevail, even among those well posted in 
Indian affairs, as to the cxtentlt will attain before 
It closes. Major Thornburg, with Ills command 
of about iso man, while on Iris march to the Milk 
River agency of Ute Indians, was suddenly assailed 
by about 800 of the latter last Tuesday, on Milk 
Creek, about 160 miles from Rawlins. Wyoming 
Territory. When the Indians first appeared, the 
major refused to fire on them, as doing so would 
be against the orders given to him on account of 
our present “peace policy;” the Indians, however, 
soon settled the matter by opening fire. The com¬ 
mand was some distance ahead ol the wagon train 
and while one body of “bostlies” attacked the 
troops In front, another got In 1 heir rear, between 
them and the wagons. To reach and save the lat¬ 
ter, Thornburg made a charge upon the Inter¬ 
vening Indians; but though the bulk of his com¬ 
mand fought their way to the t rain, the gallant 
major fell, pierced through the brain by a couple 
of bullets. Captain Payne then took command, 
and the troops, partly sheltered by the wagons, 
succeeded in repulsing several tlerco attacks of the 
enemy. Every spare moment they employed in 
digging entrenchments, and by night they had 
succeeded in still maintaining their position. 
Then Rankin, the chief scout, crept through the 
circle of Kummcdlng Indians on the best horse re¬ 
maining alive In the command, and in 21 hours 
rode the ico miles between the place and Rawlins 
to summon assistance. Oeneral Merritt at once 
telegraphed to all the neighboring posts and to the 
East; troops were hurried rorward from every 
quarter, and upwards of 1,100 men left Rawlins on 
last Wednesday to relieve the beleaguered troops. 
However quickly the relieving troops may have 
been pushed forward, they could not reach 
the scene ot the coufllct before yesterday; 
find no account ot their arrival there has yet been 
received. Capl. Payne seut word by scout Ran¬ 
kin that he was encamped near water and 
that he expected to be able to hold out live days. 
News has lately been received that several bands 
belonging to other Indian tribes have Joined the 
hostile Ules and strong' fears are entertained by 
many that the small body of our soldiers will be 
overwhelmed and massacred before the arrival of 
:ua. When Rankin left on the rtrst night or the 
attack, besides Major Thornburg, Lowry, a scout, 
13 enlisted men, the wagon master, MeLlnlsters, 
and one teamster had been killed aud three officers 
find 85 men wounded. Mr. Meeker, the agent at 
Milk River Reservation, is believed on all hands 
to nave been tortured to death with his family 
and attendant®, before the red fiends set out to 
attack Thornburg’s command. 
Professor Wise, the balloonist, early last week 
made an ascent from St, l.ouls, accompanied by 
Mr, BUrr, a bank cashier. The balloon was seen 
at various places to the northeast of sr„ Louis 
until darkness fell; but since then nothing has 
been heard of either of the men or of the balloon. 
It is supposed they have met the same fate as 
Prof. Donaldson some months ago. It. will be re¬ 
membered that he and a companion were lost on 
Lake Michigan, Into which their balloon plunged. 
Yesterday Prof. Colgrove, an aeronaut, and a 
Mr. Williams went up In a balloon at San 
Francisco, during a slorm. The balloon was 
badly filled and did uot rise enough to free 
It Horn contact with the houses; both Col¬ 
grove and Williams were thrown out and killed. 
The fever is still afflicting Memphis, of those 
who remained in the city all through the pesti¬ 
lence few are now stricken; but many of the 
refugees have returned prematurely, and are at¬ 
tacked. Yesterday six new cases were reported to 
the Board or Health, ana there were five deaths. 
Another walking match commenced hero lu Madi¬ 
son Square Gardcu at one o’clock this morning, 
it Is for the O'Leary belt—a belt got up by Daniel 
O'Leary, the ex-champlon. Twenty-five competi¬ 
tors have started, among them some good walkers. 
FOREION, 
The election for direct electors to choose depu¬ 
ties to the Prussian Diet took place on Tuesday 
last, with a result, so far as Is known at this 
writing, decidedly adverse to the Chancellors’s 
pretensions. There are three parties In the field: 
the conservatives, who are supporting Bismarck, 
and who maintain under his guidance that the 
issue is economical reform and the possession of 
the Railroads by the Government; the National 
Liberals, who maintain that it Is the preservation 
and development of parliamentary UiHtltutlons, 
now threatened by the Chancellor; and the 
Uluamontaues, who maintain that it Is the liberty 
of the Church. The last have been thrown into 
a state of great excitement, by the formal an¬ 
nouncement through the seml-ofllclal paper that 
all stories of negotiations between the Govern¬ 
ment and the Pope are false; that, the nuncio, 
Roncettl, was never authorized to open any such 
negotiations, aud has never opened them. More¬ 
over, the new Minister of Worship has just re¬ 
turned an answer to the petition of the clergy of 
the dioceses of Munster and Paderborn which 
