J)e JhtMrs^er’s ^csli 
ted in Penn, Chester Co., Pa.; an unknown man 
was murdered by one Wm, E. Cdderzook, who 
escaped . .JT. 8. Commissioner W. L. Stores of 
Rochester, N. Y., committed suicide on the Ilth 
....The Methodists have celebrated their 100 th 
anniversary in Philadelphia .The designs for 
the Centennial Crystal Palace have been exam¬ 
ined .. .Southern crop reports are encouraging 
... Four men were drowned near Baltimore on 
the 14th Amos PiUabiuy.'Superintendent of 
the Albany Penitentiary, died on the 11th 
The Yale exploring party ha* gone to Port rtrlril 
ger. Cleveland. O.. ha* bad two cases of chol¬ 
era. The passengers of the Washington have 
gone West John Biglin won the single scull 
race Rt Springfield.*Ma.se,, on the 15th Tom 
Bowling was beaten at the Long Branch races 
on the Hth The great, college regatta took 
place at Springfield. Mass., on the 17th. 11 col¬ 
leges taking part ; Yale Wuh the race,.’! miles. 
In Klin..'ids.; VVc-leyari was '.V. behind, and Har¬ 
vard 45!j«. behind the latter. The base ball 
game Was won by Harvard. The Bennett prize 
of 1500 was won by Mr. Howie rd McGill Colic ye 
or Montreal. Yale won in.the Freshman race: 
the English si roke did the business There 
have been 7 deaths from cholera in the Colum¬ 
bus, Q., Penitentiary ..Arm Eliza Webb, Brig¬ 
ham Young’s IVth wife, has left him. and will 
sue for a divorce ...More Modoc* have been cap¬ 
tured — Oakes Ames left nearly sj.x millions of 
dollars. .Aruasa Walker favors the purchase 
o! all ihe railways by Government. Commo¬ 
dore W. M. Gletidy died in Baltimore on the 
lfith. aged 72 .40 deaths from cholera at Mt 
Vernon, Tnd., are reported .200 Apuche In¬ 
dians have surrendered. ..Philadelphia has had 
a season of excessive heat Hr. A. 11. Morrison 
of Windsor, Conn., was killed liy a locomotive 
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Genesee Valley, Idaho, .Inly 4. — To-day, the 
warmest of the season, mercury at. noon stood 
at 78° Fahr. Pleasant In the shade. The spring 
has been backward. Early Rose potatoes large 
enough to use along the ri ver bottoms the 1 st 
of June; on the table-lamls, 2000 in 2500 feet 
higher, the middle of June. Rains have been 
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ise to he an extra crop. Apple ami peach trees 
old enough to bear arc loaded with fruit, block 
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cattle and horses not fed any, all of which are 
now rolling fat. The hills are robed In a luxu¬ 
riant crop of bunch grass, affording the finest 
pasture t ever saw.—,J. h. k. 
Flat Gnp, Jeff. Co., Tenn., July 17. -Wheat 
has been cut; half crop is all wc will have; oats 
are very good; meadow gra&g splendid; corn 
looks Hal tering; we have had plenty of rain for 
the last six weeks, and some portions of cur 
county have been visited by damaging storms of 
wind and rain; weather very bat; very little 
fruit of any kind in this county ; wheat is worth 
$1.35; corn, 05c.; oats, 30c.; bacon, lie.; hogs, 
4c. per lb. gross; butter, 20c.; chickens, 12'^c.; 
harvest hands, $1.25 per day; common labor, 
50o. per day.—j. t. 
MePh eraon, Biapheaon C.’o., Kansas.—Crops 
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ing harvested. Spring wheat nearly ripe; corn 
five feet high, early varieties commencing to 
car. Plenty of rain all the time, a little too 
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FOREIGN NEWS, 
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sent post-paid, to every one paying only $2.5(1 for 
Moore'S Rubai, for 187R. H is Now JUadu, and will 
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ffllMcellancouN Foreign News. 
Toe Captain-General of Cuba has been or¬ 
dered to adopt extraordinary measures against 
the insurgents. ...The people of Malaga have 
risen against the authorities. Gen. Cabrlneiti, 
a Republican, bos been defeated and killed by 
the Carlists. Band* of insurgents are organiz¬ 
ing In old Castile. Tho Mayor of Alcoy ha* been 
assassinated. Mobs are burning factories and 
committing excesses all over Spain. At Alpena 
5,000 Insurgents have joined t he Carlists . The 
IChiin of Kliiva has become l vassal or Iht '-ia. 
His throne has been restored, and on the 241 li 
Of June lie abolished slavery. Persia has been 
requested to take care of the 10/XKI Persian 
-lavPH found in Khiva... .Tho IYimjcIj Assomldv 
lias broken up in disorder... The Ashatitee war 
is progressing with vigor. The natives have;*® 
(MO men in camp; the English force is small .A* 
I he Emperor or Chinn baa given an audience to 
all the foreign ministers. AH quiet in Ireland 
on Orange day 'The Pone will give i wo Amer¬ 
ican archbishops cardinal*’huts .. The Sultan 
declines to visit Vlenna ... A motion to have 
the confessional added to the Church of En¬ 
gland, has been lost In the House The Span¬ 
ish insurgents are masters of Can hagena. Tho 
people are making groat efforts to restore order 
all through Spain. Carlists in Biscay have re¬ 
ceived a supply of muskets. A decree has been 
issued, reso hiding all embargoes ... The office 
of the Japan Mail hits boon destroyed by fire. 
The rice prop in Japan is poor, ami trade is dull 
.. There h is been a great, fire of coal store* in 
Amsterdam ...Peru is encouraging emigration 
t o that country . Spain Is maintaining a strong 
garrison in Barcelona. Well-to-do people are 
leaving the count ry. The crew of I he war-ship 
Solmanza have deserted. Hon Carlos has taken 
personal command in Spain. Petitions are cir¬ 
culating in Cuba against the reforms proposed 
at Madrid There la great excitement al K iritr*- 
The Documents.— Specimen Numbers, Premium 
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A Bus Moines (la.) girl is about to start for 
the Sandwich Islands alone, expecting to meet 
there a missionary whom she is to marry. She 
doesn't expect to return to the United States 
for six years. 
Mrs. Adelia Bennett of Lansing, Mich., 
whose husband was compelled to fleo to escape 
arrest for Incendiarism, was so overcome by 
shame and mortification that she committed 
suicide. 
fN Oakland, Ill., flour shipped from Paris, 
Douglas county, is sold for forty cents less than 
the home-made article, and in Paris, Oakland 
flour is sold at 40 cent* los* than the Paris flour. 
The fifth annual meeting and exhibition of 
the National Photographic Association of t he 
United States will be held at Buffalo, N. V'., 
beginning July 15 and continuing all the week. 
Tite steamer Virginias succeeded In landing 
a valuable cargo of munitions of war at the 
island of Cuba, having eluded the vigilence of 
the Spaniards at aspinwall. 
The office-seeking mania appears to be epi¬ 
demical in Tioga county, Penn. There is a 
Sheriff to be elected, and eight candidates are 
running for the place. 
A destructive freshet washed away the corn 
patch of a Wisconsin farmer, and laid bare an 
almost inexhaustible lead mine. 
The net debt of Boston was, April 30,1873, 
$23,744,391.30. Last year’s payments from the 
City Treasury were $17,500,000. 
A Vermont mail has gathered 1,850 pounds of 
spruce gum in three months, and sold it in 
Portland for $1 a pound. 
The dry and deserted condition of a large 
part of Persia has been caused by a gradual 
upheaval of its surface. 
There is a woman in Pioche, Nev., who 
claims to be the lawful wife of E. S. Stokes. 
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
Probably not one man in one hundred thou¬ 
sand of the citizens of the United States was 
aware that a gentleman named Dexter is i he 
third Secretary of tho Treasury. Nevertheless 
we arc Informed that on the now issue of fifty 
cent notes t he portrait of Mr. Dexter is to take 
the place of the present portrait, of tho into 
Secretary Stanton. 
Jenklns, the author of “ Ginx's Baby,” is t o 
lecture hero next winter. Tie was born at My¬ 
sore, in India; is 3t years of age, mid was par¬ 
tially educated in Ibis country. Hois a son of 
the Rev. John Jenkins of the Church of Scot¬ 
land, Montreal. Canada. His lectures w ill bo on 
the “English Satirists’’ and tho “England of 
To-duv." 
Gen. Sh erman has received a letter from Gen. 
Sheridan, inclosing a telegram from Brig.-Gen. 
Terry, dated St. Paul, Minn., July 5. He says : 
“I have Just heard from Stanley, 13 days out. 
He baa had very bad weal her, but no trouble 
from Indians. Ho expects to reach the Yellow¬ 
stone by the 1st of August. 
Vambery has written a letter to the London 
Times, in which lie highly eulogizes the enter¬ 
prise and endurance of the Russian army in the 
Kliivan campaign, and says that they have 
accomplished a task which throws quite into 
the shade the famous campaigus of Hannibal 
and Napoleon. 
TnE Tribune reminds t hose of its young lady 
readers who may be fascinated with the notion 
of marrying some titled foreigner that there 
are no less than 30,000 of those gentlemen in 
France. Italy must have about as many, and 
the German Barons can be counted by the 
thousand. 
Singe aholition of t he franking privilege on 
the 1st inst., there has been a marked decrease 
IQ the amount of mail matter passing through 
the New York Post-office. Postmaster James 
sO?» that the reform has caused a falling off of 
18,000 free newspaper exchanges during the 
week. 
The wife of Don Oarlos is described as tall, 
possessed of a noble mien, having golden hair 
and dark blue eyes, and is considered a beautiful 
blonde. She is reported to have masculine 
courage and to be anxious to march with her 
husband at the head of the Carlist insurgents. 
Mark Twain was recently entertained at a 
banquet at the Langham Hotel. London, by 
about a dozen- English literary gentlemqm 
DOMESTIC NEWS, 
New Ifork City and Vlelntty. 
The coroner's jury has found a verdict 
against Kate Stoddard for the murder of Chas. 
Goodrich ; six* i* supposed to be insane.... A 
woman aged 50, has been found dead live weeks 
after death, in a house on 87r.K street The 
Orange parade numbered 300, escorted by 800 
policemen— Agricultural editor* have gone 
on an oxouslnn to Colorado. A ease of cholera 
reunited on t he 13th The Swiss have been 
celebrating their national games....The Aider- 
men and Mayor still disagree about the Police 
Justices.Kal;c Stoddard rtf uses to confess 
hercrIina....ThoManhattan Yacht Club held 
Its regatta on the 15th ; (he Nvrnhus, Mary Gib¬ 
son and Cora won the race..."K. S. Mills, a citi¬ 
zen of Brooklyn, was drowned at Coney Island 
on the lfith... Jose Maria Mayorsa, a 'wealthy 
Cuban, died on tho 14th ...There were 8 cases 
of sunstroke on the 15t.h ; the heat was Intense 
.. .Mormons to t he number of I,non arrived on 
the 15th.It Is proposed to sell the Pacific 
Mail steamers Summer-night concerts are 
now given in all the parks... It; lias been <l«ci led 
that Mr. Dana of the Sun cannot bo taken to 
Washington for trial for libel_The trustees of 
the Peabody Fund have hold their annual meet¬ 
ing .. .Tlie 71st Regiment will visit New Haven 
on the 24th — The search for Jtosooe, of the 
Goodrich murder, continues... -Albert Day, a 
lawyer, has boon sent to jail for libel.The 
claims for fees made by Sheriff O’Brien, have 
been disallowed. James Cushing, Jr., a mem¬ 
ber of the Board of Education, died on the 15th 
. ..The funeral of Rev. Chns. W. Whitehead, 
chaplain of i lu; City Hospital, took place on the 
lfith — Mr. A. T. Stewart has sailed for a tour 
of Europe. .. Ami now it turns out that Mr. E. 
S. Mills of Brooklyn, who was drowned on the 
15th, was a defaulter to t he amount of $400,000; 
he kept his carriage Kate Stoddard’s insanit y 
is to be legally discussed ... Ex-Chief of Police 
McWilliams of Jersey City, is on trial for com- 
plicitv in a robbery. . .Brooklyn tax records 
have been stolen — Washington Market booths 
are to be removed. 
Home News. 
The famous Lord Gordon-Gordon has been 
arrested near Fort Garry ami taken to Minneap¬ 
olis; there is much excitement over what is 
calk'd the raid into Manitoba by the Americans 
— Astounding revelaltous have been made in 
connection with the Brattleboro’, Vt., Asylum 
for the insane .The officers of the City of 
Washington are charged with mismanagement 
... .The Branch races have closed... .Capt, Phil¬ 
lips of the lost Washington made no soundings 
during the voyage....The Vice-President has 
hau an attack of paralysis _Wheeling, Vu., 
Springfield and Pail River, Muss,, anil Fort 
Wayne, Ind., are to have the free letter delivery 
system — A horrible murder has been Commit- 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC 
Central Georgia, July 13.— The people of 
this generation, now living in Georgia, have 
never seen such a season as we now have. The 
heat has not yet passed over 90* in the shade, 
and if the weather continues, as It has begun, 
it will make an overwhelming crop of corn; 
but if a dry spell of three weeks comes on, the 
corn crop will be cut short.. I never saw a finer 
time for the farmers of Central Georgia in my 
life; cotton looking well; oats and wheat are 
abundant, and, if Providence permit, this year 
will be noted for the great corn crops. We have 
had small fruits in profusion, and now have 
trees weighted down with peaches, apples and 
SEMI-BUSINE8S PARAGRAPHS, 
The Universal Clothes Wringer is one of the 
inventions that has held its own in the house¬ 
hold. We have used one for ten years, and it 
has done good service during that time, al¬ 
though in weekly use. One advantage of this 
Wringer is that of a patent stop, in tho form of 
a screw, placed over the cog-wheels, prevent¬ 
ing them from getting out of gear. But the 
principal advantage of this Wringer over oth- 
