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BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Postmasters throughout the country are 
writing to the Postmaster-General respecting 
their authority to allow Government officers 
who were not allowed to exercise the franking 
privilege to send their official correspondence 
now, by affixing thereto official postage stamps. 
Each Department is responsible for the proper 
use of its stamps, and if it furnishes subordi¬ 
nates, such, for instance, ns storekeepers lyni 
gaugers, ami others who were never entitled to 
the franking privilege, with these stamps, it is 
a matter for which the department so furnish¬ 
ing ia answerable, and Postmasters cannot hold 
back the mall as above mentioned. 
The movement looking toward the formation 
of a new State out of North Mississippi, West 
Tennessee, and Western Kentucky is being dis¬ 
cussed with considerable animation by the 
newspapers published in the section interested. 
A convention is to he held at Jackson on the 
SOlii inst., when delegates are to be present 
from every city, town, and civil district within 
the limits of the proposed new State. The 
general sentiment seems to be in favor of the 
movement. 
A “Jubtic uv the Piece," in Guinnett Co., 
Ga., last week, passed this sentence on a man. 
rt was written out in full"let the prisoner 
StaN Up. yu, sir, has bin Found Guilty, & tried 
uv tbe Offense uv shutin at your Nabor. Yu 
shal then bo took from the bar uv this court by 
the honorable baleef of this court, and carryed 
into the adjlnen county ov rokDale, and thar 
yu shall remain in Everlnstin banishment for¬ 
ever from l lie honorable county of guinnett.” 
The San Francisco Bulletin publishes tables 
showing tbe present indebtedness of the Central 
Pacific Railroad Company to be $108,618,000 in 
honds borrowed money unpaid, and interest 
due. The net earnings of tbe road for the year 
ending June 30,1872. the date of the last official 
report, was $5,066,433. It is estimated that 
$600,000 per annum goesinto the hands of private 
speculators, and not toward the release of the 
Company's obligations. 
Among the philosophical apparatus at Dart¬ 
mouth is a battery of thirty-six cells, which was 
used by Franklin in his celebrated experiment. 
It. has quite a history, having been brought to 
America hy Dr. Priestly at the time of the Irish 
riots. After Franklin owned It, it fell into the 
hands of Dr. Prince of Salem, and finally was 
obtained by the grandfather of Prof. Young, 
who at present has it in possession. 
It is a fact perhaps not generally known that 
Barnwell Rhett, Jr., editor of the New Orleans 
Picayune, who killed Judge Cooley in a duel 
recently, is of New England descent, and a 
relative of the Adamses. Rhett was formerly 
editor of the Charleston Mercury, an original 
and bitter secessionist, arid u son of the dis¬ 
union agitator whose name he bears. 
A horse thief named Howard, lateli 1 hanged 
by a vigilance committee in Missouri, was ascer¬ 
tained to have been a member of that commit¬ 
tee. The regulations of the committee demand 
in such cases that the offender shall bo dragged 
to the plur e of execution hv the tail of a horse, 
an act of cruelty that was lit erally carried out 
lu the case of Howard. 
The Post master-General, at the request, of the 
military authorities, has ordered an extension 
of tho mail service from Jacksboro’, Texas, to 
Port. BUI. Indian Territory; and has also In¬ 
creased the service on the Missouri, Kansas and 
Texas Railroad, from Caddo to Fort Bill, to 
I liree times a week, to commence on the 1st of 
August. 
A respect ABLE London newspaper is good 
enough to say" People talk much of pecula¬ 
tion in the United States, but our firm convic¬ 
tion i* that the loss in England due to sinecures, 
sham service, and to general waste, amounts to 
far more than ten times the sacrifice which the 
vicious Civil Service syst em of America entails.’’ 
Tbe Prohibitory Law has met. With tho usual 
fatality in Rhode Island. The Supreme Court 
has declared about one hundred complaints 
against liquor-seller- for single sales, to he null 
and void, for want of averment that the liquor 
sold was not liquor of foreign Importation 
under tho United States revenue laws. 
It I* probable that the recommendations of 
the Royal Commission on the Marriage Laws of 
England, that all ministers of religion shall he 
entrusted with the powers now exercised by the 
registrars In marrying persons, and that mar¬ 
riages may be solemnized at any time and any 
place, will l>e adopted. 
The story that Harriet Fenitnore Cooper, 
daughter of Fenimore Cooper, the novelist, is 
writing a history of the Oneida Indians is 
entirely true, with two slight exceptions. No 
such history is being written, and there is no 
such person as Harriet Fenimore Cooper, and 
there never was. 
Halt Lake city, July 34. A frightful t ragedy 
occurred at the mouth of Brigham Cation this 
afternoon. A ranebero named Cotton and bis 
two sons ware killed by another ranchero named 
Butcher, with a rifle. The cause of the triple 
murder is unknown, hut is probably the result 
of an old feud. 
Isabella McBride, age 70 years, living with 
her husband near Williamsport, Penn., was 
murdered on Wednesday night.. Her husband 
was at the same time knocked down with a 
club ami severely wounded. The crimes were 
committed by unknown persons for the purpose 
of robbery. 
“Per liA 1*8 the biggest price ever paid for a 
refreshment contract has just been given by 
the restaurateur of the Crystal Palace, who has 
commuted the payment of 8 : V£d. a head on every 
visitor to the Palace into a fixed annual sunt of 
twenty-five thousand pounds sterling. 
A dispatch from Breslau says a violent type 
of cholera has appeared in t hat city. Thus far 
there have been 18 cases, 14 of which proved 
fatal. In the town of Lauterburg, 34 miles 
nort h-east of Strasburg.S persons were stricken 
with tho disease, and 4 died. 
The Bangor, Me., mechanics are greatly indig¬ 
nant. because a State Prison Agency has been 
established there for the sale of boots, shoes, 
carriages and harness manufactured by con¬ 
victs; and a public meeting has been called to 
take act ion in the mat t er. 
Jesse Grant, the father of tlje President, is 
said to have left an estate valued at $100,000. 
He was worth half a* much as that twenty 
years ago. The stories of his having acquired 
great wealth since his -son’s election have no 
foundation whatever. 
Queen Victoria has granted a pension of a 
hundred pounds a year to Dr. Livingstone. But 
the English papers regard it as a disgrace to 
turn off with such a mean pittance a man who 
has spent his life in the service of bis country 
and mankind. 
Trim following Post-Office changes in New 
York were made during the week ending July 5: 
Offices established — Deer Park, Suffolk coun¬ 
ty, Augustus Hudson, Post master: West Gib- 
boa, Schoharie county, Cornelius Latham, 
Postmaster. 
R. W. Strienlett and William King, con¬ 
tractors on the Kentucky and Great Eastern 
Railroad, quarrelled at Concord, Ky., on Mon¬ 
day. Strienlett fired two or three times, when 
King turned and fired, Instantly killing 
Strienlett. 
Prince Frederick Charles of Germany has 
tendered to Marshall Bazaine evidence in his 
favor, on his trial for the surrender of Metz to 
the Prussian army. The Marshall, however, 
declined to permit the evidence to be in¬ 
troduced. 
A dispatch from Khiva says the decree Issued 
by the Ivhan on the 34th tiIt., totally abolishing 
slavery throughout his dominions, provides 
that ail persons held ia bondage shall be made 
citizens or returned to their native countries. 
The heroic statue of Ethan Allen was inaugu¬ 
rated in Burlington, Vt„ on the 4th. The statue 
was presented to the State of Vermont by John 
N. Pomeroy, of Burlington, and was accepted 
on behalf of the State Ly Governor Converse. 
A COLORADO spring has such extraordinary 
virtues that the thinnest women, after drinking 
its w .ter for a few months, have no further 
occasion for padding of any sort. It is known 
as the anti-cotton and bustle spring. 
The fifteen and a-half millions of gold dollars 
due to ns under the Geneva arbitration will 
weigh twenty-three tons. The arrangements 
as to how the money Is to be paid have not yet 
been completed. 
A PLAYFUL darky at an Indianapolis picnic 
wound a snake that be had killed around tho 
neck of a colored girl named Mattie Ward, and 
the fright threw her into convulsions from 
which site died. 
A CnTCAfiO dispatch states that the managers 
or the Chicago ami Alton Railroad Company 
have decided to abolish the pass system alto¬ 
gether, refusing to give return trip passes to 
cattle shippers over their line. 
A special dispatch front Mount Vernon, Ind., 
states that a panic prevails there on account of 
cholerai Forty deaths have occurred within a 
week, and eight or ten yesterday. The people 
are fleeing from the city. 
The great University race at Springfield, 
Mass., the past week, resulted In a victory for 
Yale, t he Wesleyan crew coining in second and 
Harvard third. In the Freshman race the Vale 
crew also won, 
A letter from West, Point. Nebraska, states 
that the grasshoppers are doing an immense 
amount of damage in that portion of the Slate, 
and are fast destroying the crops, particularly 
that of oats. 
None of the hotels at Saratoga are crowded, 
all reports to the contrary notwithstanding, and 
there Is no reason to believe that any of them 
will be at any period during the "fashionable 
season." 
A St. Petersburg letter says that 450 German 
residents of Russia have left in a body for the 
United States, because the Government declares 
them liable to enforced military service. 
Rumor has it that the Administration party 
in Ohio is trying to pack the next Legislature 
of that Slate In such a way us to send Secretary 
Delano to the Unit ed States Senate. 
Frederick Schultz of near Pleasant MiU, 
Neb., lutcly killed til* sister, Mrs. Luckrouse, 
with an ax, and then committed suicide. No 
cause can be assigned for t he deed. 
Reports have reached London that several 
cases of cholera have occurred at Vienna. It is 
said that the authorities of Vienna are endeav¬ 
oring to suppress the particulars. 
This treaty entered Into between Russia and 
Khiva at. the close of the campaign gives Khtvu 
seven years In which to pay to Russia a stipu¬ 
lated amount, as war Indemnity. 
Henry A. Williams of Providence, R. 1., was 
found dead on the Stonivgion Railroad track 
in that. city. It is believed he fell asleep and 
was crushed by a passing t rain. 
Thu decision of the Court of Inquiry Into the 
cause of the disaster to the steamship City ol 
Washington has been rendered. Capt. Phillips 
is suspended for one year. 
Thi! statement that the Government has 
parted with 4,000,000 acres more than the whole 
area of arable lands in the United States is 
officially denied. 
The London Gazette announces that Queen 
Victoria has given her consent to the marriage 
of Prince Alfred and the Grand Duchess Marie 
Aloxandrovna. 
A .joint decree has been issued for the sale 
of the Brunswick and Albany (Ga.) Railroad, 
with its equipments, franchise, &c., at Bruns¬ 
wick, Oct. 15. 
A great interest in temperance has recently 
been developed in Richmond, Va. All trades 
and professions are included in the movement. 
The Italian Gazette of Chemistry announces 
the discovery of a new acid, which has been 
named Amidornono-eliloro-beuzeneeulphonic. 
It is mentioned that. Ida Lewis, the Newport 
heroine, has separated from her husband, Wm. 
Williamson, and returned to her light-house. 
A bur-committee of the United States Con¬ 
gressional Committee on Mail Transportation 
will meet in San Francisco on the 25th inst. 
The Emperor of China has agreed to receive 
foreign ambassadors on terms which are con¬ 
sidered satisfactory and non-humiliating. 
The Emperor of Austria will go to Bt. Peters¬ 
burg in the Autumn. The visit is regarded by 
the press as of deep political significance. 
A horse-power cranberry-picker," tbe in¬ 
vention of a Wisconsin man, is among the ma¬ 
chines recently patented at Washington. 
It is reported that the Shah will return at 
once to Teheran, on account of an insurrection 
which has broken out in his dominions. 
The American Oriental Typographical Corps 
have sailed from Alexandria, Egypt, on their 
return voyage to the United States. 
A certain Flora McFlimsey bathed at Narra- 
gansett, a day or two ago, in a suit of blue silk, 
trimmed profusely with white lace. 
A new Court of Appeals is to be established 
in England, and the jurisdiction of the Peers in 
appeal cases is to be extinguished. 
Henri Rochefort will be sent to New’ Cal¬ 
edonia on the 31st of July. 
It is rumored that the minority in the Spanish 
Cortes will leave Madrid and set up a new gov¬ 
ernment at Carthagena. 
There Is talk of a renewal of the troubles in 
the Scranton region between the miners and 
coal companies. 
The liabilities of II. S. Kimball, who recently 
failed at Atlanta, Ga., are said to reach thesum 
of $5,000,000. 
7 Gen. Devkns is now mentioned as a desirable 
anti-Butler candidate for Governor of Massa¬ 
chusetts. 
Tnn Mayor of Sioux City has been presented 
with a diamond worth $12,000 by his fellow- 
Clti/.ens. 
It is announced that Gen. Butler has already 
promised the Massachusetts Chief-Justiceship. 
A woman at Saginaw lately committed suicide 
after keeping awake five days and nights. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Jersey City, Wood Co., Ohio, July 21. —The 
present season has not beon very favorable to 
farmers. We had a very cold, wet, backward 
spring which was followed bv a long dry spell 
lasting until about. June 26th. Since t hat time 
we have had a large amount, of rain which made 
it. rather unpleasant harvesting. Corn is ex¬ 
tremely weedy. Tbe ground is too wet to allow 
of working. Wheat is about one-half a crop; 
hay not so good: oats promise to be a fair crop; 
most of tho corn will be a fair crop if the 
weather should lie favorable. As corn Is our 
principal crop we are not. greatly discouraged ; 
flax looks well; but little was sown. Of fruit, 
apples will be an abundant crop; peaches are 
an entire failure. We will have but few pears, 
some insect has stung parts of the limbs, (or 
that is our idea at least.) and many t rees are 
nearly ruined. Some apple trees have been 
Injured in tbe same way. Grapes will be a tol¬ 
erable crop: hay is worth $12 per ton; butter, 
12o.; eggs, 12c.; potatoes, $1 ; apples, 75c.; hogs, 
304c. live weight; beef. $1 per cwt. live weight; 
chickens, 8010c.; feathers, 60e.; lard, 708c,; 
corn, 45c.; sheep, $103; wheat, $1.5001.75; 
wool, 40055c.; oats, 38040c.—H. w. 
Wolkerton, Ind., July 17. Weather to-day 
mol and pleasant; last Monday very hot, ther¬ 
mometer up to 100 In the shade. We had a very 
hard storm here of wind and rain about three 
weeks ago, also a very heavy flood of rain on 
jt.h of this month, which flattened down the 
young corn, but it soon rose again. Wheat Is 
harvested and farmersarestacking; all in good 
condition. Crop light, owing to being winter¬ 
killed in spots. Corn looks well for being 
planted so late, as we had a -very backward 
spring. Oats will bo light; potatoes middling; 
bugs about all gone; garden vegetables look 
fine; apples, cherries and small fruit average.— 
8. c. 
Minneapolis, Minn., July 21.—ThoFarmers’ 
Union, the Agricultural organ of the State, in 
this week’s issue, says :■—•* Commencement has 
been made on the great wheat harvest, of Min¬ 
nesota for 1873. and a most bountiful harvest, is 
promised. From a careful estimate we think 
tho State can export this year 30,(XX),000 bushels 
of wheat, provided we have our usual good 
weather during harvest, and provided further, 
the crop escapes worms and is secured.” The 
Union further advises farmers to market all 
their wheat as soon as possible, for fear of still 
lower prices. 
Woburn, Bond Co., III., July 14.—Farmers 
busy stacking wheat; very much wet weather 
since cutt ing, some of the grain sprouting in t he 
shock. Estimated average yield of wheat, per 
acre, 18 bushels. Oats very light In consequence 
of late sowing; corn is looking finely; season 
noted for cold, blustering weather. No fruit 
worth mentioning, except apples. Wages of 
farm hands, $140.18 per month. Section im¬ 
proving, farmers becoming more enterprising; 
the log cabins (last relics of squatter life) are 
being displaced by large frame buildings.— 
w. Rw o. 
Milton, Ky., July 21. —Fruit an average 
crop, except peaches, which are almost a fail¬ 
ure. Wheat, oats, hay and early potatoes about 
half a crop. Prospect for corn no better.— b. m. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
New York City and Vicinity. 
The Brooklyn Trust Company has suspend¬ 
ed, owing to the stealings of the late President, 
Mr. Mills ; the city Is said to lose half a million 
of dollars ...The funeral of Bishop Rush took 
place on the 20th.A Commission has been 
created to examine city accounts. It is pro¬ 
posed to add largely to the city supply of warer 
.. .There are rumors of heavy revenue frauds. 
The 71st Regiment went to New Haven on the 
24th The Washington Market booths have 
been demolished The house of Henry Genet 
has been robbed of $8,000....Work on the hew 
York Museum of Natural History will begm at 
once.Police officer Patrick F. Byrne= has 
been presented with $1,000 for His courage and 
descretion. . Business to the amount of $p,000,- 
000 is said to have been destroyed by the demo¬ 
lition of the Washington Market booths. One 
Hyanes has attempted to shoot Dr. Miller of the 
Hospital for Cripples . . The Washington mark¬ 
et men will bring 100 suits against the city. • • • • 
The Geneva watch swindles have been revived 
_The Commissioner of Public Works con¬ 
demns wooden pavements—Six eases of sun¬ 
stroke on the 21th; the heat was Intense 
There is much dissatisfaction with the tax as¬ 
sessments.... Witnesses in the Stokes case are 
tired of their confinement.... Six cases of sun 
stroke on the 25th, with intense beat..... JR® 
city annually employs 7,000 men, and spends 
