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BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Cincinnati, July 8 .—A hurricane swept over 
Odin, Illinois,last night, unroofing the Meth¬ 
odist church and otherwise wrecking that, 
building. The Methodist church and railroad 
engine-house at 8 alctn. III., were destroyed. 
Orchards, miles of fences, and thousands of 
acres of corn were blown down. At Harris¬ 
burg. III., the storm blew down a circus tent 
while full of people. The lamps fired the can¬ 
vass, but the lire was extinguished. AtOarmi, 
Ill., on Friday last, a lad named Upton, while 
driving a reaper, was killed by lightning, as also 
were Ills two horses. A terrible storm visited 
that place last night, demolishing orchards, 
fences, and crops. Several men and horses 
were killed by lightning. 
A LOCOMOTIVE that had got astray on the 
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, ran into a 
carriage in which Miss Lizzie Hield and Miss Ida 
Jones were crossing the track at Janesville, 
Wis.. throwing Miss Jones to one side of the 
track, and carrying Miss Hield about thirty rods 
and throwing her into the bushes. Miss Jones 
Wits unconscious when picked up, and as no one 
knew that she had a companion. Miss Heild lay 
in the bushes several hours, entirely helpness. 
Her skull was fractured and she cannot recover. 
In accordance with the treaty signed in Ber¬ 
lin last march, under which the Departments of 
Vosges, Ardennes, Meuse, and Meurlhc-et- 
Moselle, as well us the fortress and arrondisse- 
niont of Belfort, are to be evacuated on the 
payment, of the second installment of the last; 
milliard of the war indemnity, the German 
troops began to retire on the 3d inst. The wit h¬ 
drawal will continue by detachments until the 
15th of August, when the above-mentioned 
country will he entirely evacuated. 
IOWA City. July 10.—A wind and rainstorm 
occurred here at 8 o'clock P. M. yesterday, ac¬ 
companied by hail, which devastated the trees, 
orchards, and crops over a limited area as 
effectually as a fire would have done. But four 
farms, those owned by Hinrnan, Hedges, Craw¬ 
ford and Singleton, were so visited. The storm 
was remarkable for the completeness of its 
destructive effect and the narrowness of its 
range. 
There are two astonishing young brothers In 
u Massachusetts town, aged respectively 22 and 
21, who are intelligent, who comprehend all 
that is said to them, but who cannot :md never 
could speak the English language. They seem 
to bo incapable of learning it. They talk to 
each other in a strange and outlandish tongue 
wbiclt they alone understand, and which no 
other person has ever been heard to use except, 
it is said, a so-called “ medium,” who speaks in 
it only when under the mysterious“ influence.” 
A little romance from the post-office of a 
New England town speaks of hope deferred and 
a sick heart, and all that, sort of thing. Regu¬ 
larly every two weeks for the last six years, a 
letter has arrived there, addressed in a feminine 
hand, to some unknown person. Over and over 
they are advert ised hut. he never comes to claim 
t hem, and one by one they arc sent, to the dead- 
letter office at Washington. Still they come 
and still the mystery continues. 
The statistics of 1 mports of the U nlted States, 
just published, show an Increase of seven mil¬ 
lion dollars in coffee, eighteen millions in sugar, 
nearly six millions in tea, nearly three millions 
in tin plate, more than seven millions in raw 
wool, t wo millions in pig iron, ten millions in 
manufactures of iron, five millions in manufac¬ 
tures of cotton, Tour millions In manufactures 
of silk, and about seven millions in manufac¬ 
tures of wool. 
The estimates of the customs receipts for the 
year ending with the goth of June last were 
$190,000,1100. The receipts were below t he esti¬ 
mates about $1,500,000, which, it. ! s explained at 
the Treasury Department, was owing to the 
high and fluctuating prices of gold in May and 
June, Inducing some merchants to defer taking 
their goods from the warehouses until a more 
favorable money market. 
Post masters appointed—Austin A. Prentiss, 
Croghan, Lewis county! Thomas Newberry, 
Oropseyvillc, Rensselaer county : Oliver (’rank, 
Fort Montgomery, Orange county; John II. 
Scriven, Grafton, Rensselaer county; Alfred 
Ilashrook, Hughsonvillc, Dutchess county; 
Thomas H. Sllngsjey. Rouse’s Point, Clinton 
county; George Churchill, South Bombay, 
Franklin county. 
Gen. Rf.au regard's address to the people of 
Louisiana, advising a union bet ween the whites 
and blacks, is stirring up a tremendous storm 
among the more extreme of the Southern news¬ 
papers. They denounce him in the bitterest 
terms for recommending nothing less than 
miscegenation, and declare that lie lias sounded 
his political ruin In his attempt, to regenerate 
the State. 
PriiLADELPHlA, July 10.—The Mint is now 
engaged in remelting vast quantities of light 
gold coins. Since Jan. 1 some $28,000,000worth 
have been melted, and $ 10 , 000,000 more will he 
received and recoined this week. Orders for 
the new trade dollars will he filled in tbe early 
part of next week. Over $1,000,000 in gold were 
received from New York, to-day, for recoinage. 
Buffalo, N. Y., July 7. This city waft visited 
by two distinct shocks of earthquake about 
nine o’clock yesterday morning. The shock 
was distinctly fell, in all parte of the city. 
Reports from Webster's Corners, a town about 
nine miles dist ant, state that two dist inct shocks 
were fell there a bout, t he same hour. 
Berlin, July II.—It is announced this morn¬ 
ing that Prince von Bismarck has resolved to 
retire from the Prussian Cabinet. It, is gener¬ 
ally understood here this step is taken in conse¬ 
quence of Ills failing health, which renders 
relaxation from his public duties absolutely 
necessary. 
Cincinnati, July 11.—Dr. John C. Peters, 
Inspector of the New York Board of Health, 
who has been here for several days past, exam¬ 
ining into cholera cases, pronounced the disease 
here to be genuine Asiatic cholera. There were 
no new cases reported yesterday. 
It is rumored that Miss Nellie Grant, daughter 
of tin? President, is at. work on a summer book, 
to he called “ Sketches from Life at Long 
Branch." 
Miss Francis Charles has been appointed 
Register of Deeds for Oxford Co., Maine, on 
aecOUnt of her good looks. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Things in Ohio.—After people had done with 
complaining about, the lateness of the spring 
season, they suddenly began to complain of a 
June drouth, and when the corners of their 
mouths were drawn very low for the drouth, 
the plug wau pulled out from overhead and the 
rains poured and splashed, and beat down the 
clover and the wheat, and the winds arose and 
blew down the corn and upset buildings and 
tore up trees and made people pray for quiet. 
What the next turn of the elements will be, we 
shall see when it comes to pass. Meanwhile 
tlie season takes its round; the corn looks well 
in most places, and as it takes July and August 
to make the corn crop, there is plenty of time 
to fetch out tho present stand. Wheat i» not 
heavy generally but the crop looks healthy. 
Grass will not be full Size on clay uplands, hut 
the hay crop will bo fair in most places. The 
potato crop will he saved from the Colorado 
bug, to a considerable extent, though it has cost 
a good deal of extra labor. Berry fruits are 
very abundant and so are pears; the apple crop 
will he light and tho grape crop lighter still, 
with a large destruction of the vines, in the 
North. 
The dairy business in Northeastern Ohio is in 
a healthy condition, and prices have kept up 
hotter than last season, and as this is the leading 
item in our agriculture, the farmers are as well 
off as could be expected after the losses of last 
winter. The low price of fleece wool is discour¬ 
aging, but the wool business is not of near so 
much importance now a- it was eight years ago, 
and our wool growers had not, put much de¬ 
pendence upon high prices; sheep flocks had 
been kept up inure as a collateral in general 
husbandry, than as a leading branch of it, while 
the main force of the farm is more frequently 
centered upon the dairy. 
Away from the dairy region of Ohio,the lead¬ 
ing business is the raising of com and hay, for 
the feeding of hogs, cattle and horses, and this 
business la in fair condition, at the present 
t ime. Among the larger public enterprises of 
our State, are the building of railways and the 
working of our rich mines of coal and iron, 
which lie in the Eastern and Southern parts of 
tho Slate, and our superior quarries of sand¬ 
stone, which lie in tho North, along the shore 
of Lake Erie. The immense iron manufactories 
in the vicinity of Cleveland, where the mineral 
shipped from Lake Superior meets tho coal 
from Eastern Ohio, by canal and railway, bits 
grown beyond all expectation, and embraces a 
great, variety of forms of iron and steel, of all 
sorts, shapes and sizes. So it is, that by intelli¬ 
gent perseverance, all our'■industries are in a 
prosperous condition.—S. D. H., Cleveland , July 
7,1873. 
I.yruhmvlllc, Vt., July 7.—The season, until 
wit hin a week past, haft been exceedingly dry, 
so much so that vegetation, grass in particular, 
has materially suffered. The hay crop in this 
sect ion will be at least one-third less than the 
usual yield. Corn and the smaller grains are 
small for the time of year, ami but for tho fa¬ 
vorable change in tin- weather a week ago they 
would have been In a suffering condition from 
the drouth. The past week was warm and 
rainy, and every green thingsliot forth wonder¬ 
fully. To-day the weather Is cooler with indi¬ 
cations of a change to favor tbe haymakers. 
Tho “glorious Fourth” wax glorious this year 
with me, not so much for its patriotic associa¬ 
tions and smell of powder, as for its liberal rain 
fall which well saturated t he soil, to the re¬ 
newed growth and glory of all vegetation. 
T. W. S. 
Philomath, Oregon, June 25. -The season 
lias been very good; early grain looks well; 
Tall grain all headed out and from 3 to 1 feet 
high: late spring sowing looking rather poor; 
harvesting will commence July first. The pros¬ 
pect, for liny harvest Is very good. Wheat, 72c.; 
oats, 49c.; corn. $1; potatoes, 25c.; new pota¬ 
toes, $1 ; butter, 15c.; eggs, 15c.; bacon, 12c. per 
ll>,; beef cattle, 3c. on foot; hogs, 3c. per lb.; 
chickens. $3 per dozen; young chickens, $ 2 ; 
farm labor, $1 per day. There is an abundant 
fruit crop in Oregon this year.—s. a. h. 
Titusville, Mercer Co.. N. .1.—Hay is pretty 
good but not a full crop; wheat Is ripening 
wdl, grain good, straw short, and, in places, 
thin on the ground. Oats, very short but grow¬ 
ing freely now. Corn short, and uneven, but 
improving very fast, as the weather I* now 
warm and wet. Fruit will he a partial crop 
only—1>. J. R. 
Unlit, Riley Co., Kun., June 25.—We had a 
heavy rain 1 In? 22 d inst:., doing a great deal of 
datnags along the creeks and rivers the water 
washing out the grain on the bottoms. We 
have hud a wet, backward spring, corn looks 
well, lint is very weedy. Wheat and oats bid 
fair for a heavy crop.- .r. a. u. 
Newport, N. Y. July H.— Wc have had the 
past week, delightful showers, making all Na¬ 
ture smile, and farmers laugh, it rains finely to¬ 
day, catching considerable hay out, fine for 
grass that was not dried too much; potatoes 
looking pretty well; oats improving; old hay, 
$25 per ton.—G. 
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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
New York City and Vicinity, 
In June, 39,160 immigrants arrived.The 
deaths for the week ending July 5th were 630... 
The Orangemen had their usual parade on the 
12th... TiieAl icrmenand the Mayor arc? al a 
deadlock over the Holme Justices. .'TheTigress 
will soon sail, to search for the Polaris.. The 
church of 8 t. Cecilia has had a billiard tourna¬ 
ment.lames Gordon Bennett has offered a 
prize of $500 for a running race, open to all un¬ 
dergraduates of American colleges ; the race is 
to take place on the 17th at Springfield, Mass... 
Carl Kustner. a German, has been assassinated 
in Hoboken and thrown into the river for hi? 
money Mr. and Mrs. Louis Jacquier were 
drowned in the Narrows on the 6th, after a hard 
struggle.The mother of Win, M. Tweed Is 
dead John C, Scl ut, n. fcq 
mitted suicide on the 8 th_A husband and son 
beat Mary McCabe to death on the 3d — The 
police are not to he armed_Walworth, GilJen 
and several burglars were sent to Sing Sing on 
the 9th — The autumn rifle shooting at. Creed- 
moor will take place in October_The paint¬ 
ings belonging to the City are advertised for 
-ale_Tbe man-of-war Brooklyn has arrived 
after an absence of t hreeyears.Iudge 1 )aniols 
decides that two offices cannot be held legally 
at once... The murderess of Charles Goodrich 
has been arrested_Kate Stoddard has con¬ 
fessed that she killed Mr. Goodrich of Brook¬ 
lyn John Stephenson, a Deputy S. Mar¬ 
shal, was stabbed to death in Jers!?y City on the 
11th by one John Pritt, a Russian sailor, who 
afterwards attempted suicide_The weather 
since the-ith, has been cool and delightful . 
The ship Tigress has sailed to search for the 
Polaris. 
Home Newt, 
The steamship City of Washington of t he 
Inman lino, from Liverpool. June 24th, ran on 
to the rocks of Nova Scotia July 5th. in a dense 
fog, 70 miles west, of Cape Sambro : all the pas¬ 
sengers and baggage saved; the ship is a wreck ; 
Ihe passengers numbered 400 ...Seven deaths 
from cholera in Cincinnati on the7th ... .A con¬ 
ference with the Indians will be held in Texas 
.. Gov. Baxter of Arkansas is accused of sell¬ 
ing himself for $25,000 The Yellowstone Ex¬ 
pedition expects to reach that river by the 1 st 
of August . At the Long Branch races on the 
si b, the horses Beatrice, Kate Pease and Wan¬ 
derer. all favorites, won On the 7t.h a hurri- 
■ane swept over parts of Illinois, Indiana and 
Kentucky, unroofing houses, damaging crops, 
demnlMiing churches, etc.; the loss in Ohio 
and Indian . is estimated at over $1,000,000.. 
There is a sharp contest in Kansas over the va¬ 
cant Senatorshlp- Three young ladies have 
entered the University nf Vermont.. -Gen. 
Howard of the Freedman’s Bureau will hold 
himself responsible to the military power for 
his use of public funds New fifty cent notes 
are to be issued .. .Mrs. S. S. Farrell succeeds 
t he President’s father as post master of Coving- 
l on.. lilac-pie Bey. the Turkish Minister, has 
been recalled .Cholera has appeared at Little 
Rock, Ark The National Convention of 
M r. A. has been in session at.Poughkeepsie... 
The trial of the Modoescontinues ■ There will 
tig an average crop in the West, not withstand¬ 
ing tint recent “forms Dr. H. L. Kills of Dans- 
ville, X. V., killed a Mr. Hass on July 4th; a 
trdict if malicious murder has be©n found — 
The steamship City of Washington haft broken 
in two, and becomen total wreck . Vast quan¬ 
tities of light gold coins are being melt ed at the 
Philadelphia mint_The great boating regatta 
at Springfield excites much attention ...Geo. 
Sands, son of Rear-Admiral Sands, committed 
suicide at Norfolk, Va., on th.e 10th — There 
are rumors of abuses in the Vermont Insane 
Asylu m. 
Obituary, 
Col. Joseph L. Henshaw of Boston on the 
9th.. Prof. Thomas D. Baird, principal of Bal¬ 
timore City College, on the 9th.Frederick 
Winterhalter, a celebrated portrait painter, died 
in London on tlie 10th. He was born at Baden- 
Baden in 1800. 
Fires. 
Most of the village of Frog Level. 8 . C., on 
the 6 th; loss. $ 00,000 ...A block in St rat, hoof. 
Out., on the oth : loss, $50,000 . Steamboat City 
of Cairo at. New Orleans ontheOth ; loss, $25,000 
.. A child was burned to deal h and two Injured 
at Weathersflcld. Conn., on the Olh Brewery 
in Morrisania, N. Y., on the Oth ; loss. $15,000... 
The Leominster House. Arlington Piano Com¬ 
pany's factory. 200 pianos, and other houses, in 
Leominster. Mass., on the 10th : loss, $125,000 .. 
Cushman’s paper mills at North Amherst, Mass., 
on the 10th: loss, $50,000... Sawmill and cabinet 
factory on Ridge avenue, Philadelphia, on the 
11 th; loss, $48,000. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
ITlIacellaneonft Foreign New*. 
It is rumored that the Shah of Persia and 
Lord Granville have con e to an understanding 
on the Asiatic question .The Spanish general, 
>u\ . has resigned .. France has paid the 
-econd installment uT the last mil lard lo Ger¬ 
many; 500,000.000 francs remain due There 
has been an attempt to burn the Vienna Exhi¬ 
bition Building. TheFairope.au and American 
Postal Congress meet - at Berne, Switzerland, 
Sept, Vth A new Cabined, has been formed In 
Italy Carl I sis have captured the town of San 
Gneva, in Navarre In Malaga the Deputy 
Mayor and Councillor have been assassinated .. 
The Hermans have commenced the evacuation 
of France, which will be completed by tbe 15th 
of August... Cholera rages III Breslau, Germany 
.Baron Schwarz has been decorated Fi¬ 
nancial prospects arc poor in Austria, and tho 
wheat crop ol’ Hungary shows signs of failing.. 
M, Rune and M. Cassagnac of Paris have fought 
a duel; the latter was seriously wounded 
The Russian? have burned the town of Mangit, 
in Khiva ; they have found IDJKKI Persian slaves 
_The Shah gave the servants of Buckingham 
Palace $8,000 and the Police $12,000: the French 
Assembly ad journed in honor of I lie Shah. 
The city of Vlch, in Spain, is blockaded by the 
Car lists . .The prosecution In tlie famous Tlcli- 
boruo ease has closed. .Tin? Swiss Assembly is 
in session.. Rear-Admiral Jenkins has had an 
interview with tlie Viceroy at, FooChow. .There 
are hopes of saving the cargo of the City of 
Washington Yucatan is in astate of siege... 
18 Norwegians of the German Andie Navigation 
('o. have been found dead at Spitsbergen- 
Prince Iti smart, will retire from the Prussian 
Cabinet, hut will retain the German Chancel¬ 
lorship_The marriage of the Duke of Edin¬ 
burgh with l he Grand Duchess .Maria ol Russia 
has been arranged. The Republicans have cap¬ 
tured San Gnesa from the? Curl lata... .A battle at 
Itipoll has resulted in disaster to the Republi¬ 
cans, who were 4,000 strong; the artillery was 
captured ami half the command taken prison¬ 
ers. A bat Me has been fought at Santa Coloma, 
and there has been a rising in Alcoy, the mayor 
shot, anil 00 houses burned. 
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THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD. 
Tue Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, 
which comprises some of the most substantial 
and honored capitalists and business men of 
this vicinity in its Direction, and which, some 
three years ago, undertook the extension of the 
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad across the terri¬ 
tory of West Virginia to the Ohio River, have 
completed their task. The line is now in suc¬ 
cessful operation from Richmond (on a navi¬ 
gable indentation of the Chesapeake Bay) to 
Huntington (at the head of low water naviga¬ 
tion on the Ohio River), 425 miles, and Is enjoy¬ 
ing a very gratifying traffic. The equipment 
provided for the through line, though before 
deemed to be adequate (being larger than that 
of the other Groat Trunk Lines at si milar stages 
of their career), is found to hi? altogether too 
small for the? traffic offering. It is contem¬ 
plated to build an extension of the line from 
the present wharves at Richmond, where there 
are 1C feet of water, to the open waters of 
the Chesapeake Bay, near its entrance, where 
the largest European steamers can be moored 
alongside its tracks, so as to establish a new 
through line between the chief cities of the 
West and European ports. 
It is also contemplated to erect a great Iron 
Bridge across the Ohio, at the Western termi¬ 
nus; to build a branch to the mouth of the 
Kanawha; and to otherwise increase the facil¬ 
ities for handling freights at the termini. 
For these purposes the Company have author- 
