they are not named in the reports that reach us 
as a cause) are reducing the fruit on the trees 
rapidly. 
Washington, Orange Co., Yt., August I_ 
Crops are looking very well: corn seems to he 
two weeks late hut is a very good growth; the 
hay crop is the best it has been for years on the 
lowlands. Uplands were too far advanced to 
he helped by the rains of the first week in July. 
The potato bugs have made their appearance in 
all stages from the egg to the size of half a pea; 
apples now indicate an average crops.—n. 
Oconomowoe, Min., Vug. 1.—Harvesting In 
full “blast;" weather Very warm and dry; mar¬ 
kets dull: butter, 13® 21u.; eggs, 12c.; wheat, 
£1.20; oats, 81c,; corn, 30c.: hops are poor-Iook- 
their platform of principles by means of postal 
cards, on which they have it printed. The 
declaration states that “the organization is 
opposed to railroad steals, tariff steals, salary- 
grab steals, bank steals, and every other form of 
thieving by which the farmer and laboring 
classes are robbed of the legitimate fruits of 
their labor.” 
IHDI ana conns, Ind., July 31.- Cyrus McCarty 
living near Rochester, Ind., shot Mrs. Wright, 
his mother-in-law, t hrough the i heat this morn¬ 
ing, infliotingprobably fatal injuries. He after¬ 
wards tired five times at his wife without effect, 
and then shot himself in the forehead. There 
are no hopes of his recovery. The affair grew 
out of the separation of Mr. and Mrs. McCarty, 
which he claims was caused by Mrs. Wright. 
Tn b Treasury Department Is now paying the 
claims for SO per cent, additional compensation 
•allowed certain civil employes of the Govern¬ 
ment in the city of Washington, by the recent 
decision of the Court, of Claims, under the act 
of 1867. About 500 of such claims have been 
paid this week, and there are at least 500 yet to 
pay. 
M t'.M phis, July 27.—On the night of July 18, a 
man named Hall, living on the plantation of 
Mr. Thomas Reid, In Madison county, Tenn., 
was taken out of his bed by a mob of 15 negroes 
disguised as Ku-K-ux, and hanged on u tree, 
they charging him with having outraged an old 
negro woman living in the neighborhood. 
A Convention of the Patrons of Husbandry 
of Dodge county, Wis., held at Beaver Dam, 
adopted a resolution oalllug upon their brethren 
throughout the State to meet in State Conven¬ 
tion in Milwaukee on Thursday, August 21, for 
consultation and such action as may he deemed 
best for the interests of the order. 
On Saturday evening, July 28, it was seven 
years since the Telegraph fleet, entered Trinity 
Bay, Newfoundland. Yesterday was t he seventh 
anniversary Of I,he landing Of the Cable, and it 
la seven years to-dav since the line was opened 
for business. Saturday evening was celebrated 
by a banquet at Heart’s Content. 
Gun. M vers, Chief of the Signal Corps of the 
Army, has decided not to detail any employes 
of the Signal Service to accompany Prof. Wise 
in a balloon across the Atlantic. Over 20 volun¬ 
teer applications had been received. This action 
on his part is taken on account of the extreme 
peril Incldeut to such a trip. 
The Hon. Augustin Haines died at his late 
residence in Portland, Maine, recently, aged 
68 years. He was County-Attorney in 1832, and 
United States District-Attorney under Polk. 
In October, 1840, he became the agent of the 
Laconia Mills, at Blddeford, which position lie 
retained until last year. 
THE Post-Office Department states in reply to 
inquiries t hat it has no use for cancelled stamps, 
and of course pay& no attent ion to letters offer¬ 
ing them. The report that cancelled stamps 
would be purchased by l,ho Do part men! j* a 
hoax, and was first. circulated several years ago. 
Mu. Wst. H. Wiialley, member of Parliament 
for Peterborough, and prominent as a friend of 
the Tlchborne claimant, will soon proceed to 
the United States for the purpose of soliciting 
subscriptions to enable the claimant to defray 
the expense incurred in his trial. 
The St. Paul Pioneer says the action of the 
late Republican State Convention in Minnesota, 
In refusing to indorse the Administration, is 
resented at Washington, and that some of the 
Postmasters in tlic Stare will lose their official 
heads on account of It. 
Miss Matter Stow eel, aged 15 year 
Ijc publisher's 
NEW VOLUME JULY 5 
a_review of 6Q.U00 troops The Russian army in 
Khiva h well. Good Templars will be allowed 
to establish lodges in Prussia Prince Napo¬ 
leon wishes to be restored to his rank In the 
army-Queensland will pay the passage of 
10.00(1 emigrants from England_A Santo Do¬ 
mingo revolut ion is talked of lOO French dep¬ 
uties have sent an address of devotion to the 
Pope Demonstrations have been held in Lon¬ 
don, Nottingham and Birmingham, against al¬ 
lowing the Duke of Edinburgh an immense 
marriage portion_Sevilla was set on fire by 
the insurgents on the 30th nit. The insurrec¬ 
tion was suppressed and the lire put out. Al- 
meria has been attacked; t he women and chil¬ 
dren loft the city; the rebels were repulsed. 
The bombardment of Valencia continues; the 
bombardment of Almerla continued on the 31st. 
nit. The Spanish frigate Villa Madrid at Cadiz 
joined tin* insurgents and opened tire on the 
arsenal. There ha* been great confusion In the 
Spanish Cortes . Don Carlos has entered Bis¬ 
cay— Count Selnpls I? delighted with the plate 
sent to him by the United States_The Amer¬ 
ican reapers ami mowers have taken all the 
prizes at. Vienna . .The Liberals of Spain are 
offering their service* to the. President. There 
has been fighting in Malaga.. 5,000 of the in¬ 
habitants of Maturo have fled to Barcelona. Don 
Carlos is south of Bayonne, with ;i force of 15,000. 
The Government has attacked Valencia, and 
demands uncondit ional surrender. Sevilla pro¬ 
poses to return to loyalty. Capital punishment 
is to be abolished The Shah reached Milan 
on the atjr.ii Newfoundland has celebrated 
the landing of tLe first, cable_The people of 
Honolulu are opposed to the annexation of the 
United Stale*. , On the 28th a battle was re¬ 
ported in Spain—the t'arlists Victorious, with 
300 prisoners. Some 3,000 Remington rifles have 
been landed for the Carlists_The rebels have 
been defeated at Malaga, Spain-87 killed. The 
rebel fleet has sailed from Almerla. Cadiz held 
out as late a* the 1st. The Government cap¬ 
tured 20 cannon In Seville. The Cortes has pass¬ 
ed a resolution of censure against the rebel dep¬ 
uties. The Carlists have been defeat ed at Por- 
tugalilc. Four German men-of-wnr are watch¬ 
ing the rebel fleet at Malaga. Don Carlos him 
captured Katfclla...The annuity bill to the Duke 
Of Edinburgh has passed. Drummond and Vic¬ 
tor won the principal prizes nt the Goodwood 
races. The Bank of England forgers will be I ried 
on Hie 18th, Miners at. Wigan have struck 
The first steamer of the new Engle line, irom 
Hamburg to New York, has made her t rial trip 
— The Gormans have evacuated Nancy. . Dis¬ 
turbances have broken out in France_Italy 
contemplates a new loan_A Carlist plot has 
been discovered in Cuba. 
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Volume of the Rural New-Yorker began 
July 5, and closes with December—comprising 
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same proportion as for yearly subscribers—two 
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venience of Agent,*. To aid those forming new 
clubs, or making additions to present ones, 
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DOMESTIC NEWS 
New tork City and Vicinity. 
Large fraud* in guano are reported.Tt 
will cost $80,000 to put the wood-paved streets 
in good order. A Gorman named Schule killed 
his wife on the 26th ; both were given to drink 
The Liquor Law Is enforced on Staten Is¬ 
land. ... Sidney DorloTi, tin- well-known oyster- 
man of Fulton Market, died on the 27t.li_It 
is proposed to build the new City Prison on 
the Bowerv, near Bleeckcr street .The Free 
Labor Bureau is denounced as a failure. 
Charges are brought against the Ilarbor-Maa- 
tors There has been an advance of 40 per 
cent, in coal Fulton Market booths have been 
torn down The bills for King's Bridge arc to 
be reduced $60,000. 
Home New*. 
Mr. Frank Moore, si citizen of Memphis, 
ho* been murdered ; ho was shot on the 27th 
A tornado blew a railway bridge, down near Old 
Tow. ii. Me., <ui the 27th ; an engine plunged Into 
the river, killing the engineer A n engine ran 
away on the 271 h. near Cumberland, Va., on the 
Baltimore and Ohio mud : 8 were killed, and 20 
can* smashed The President has not yet de¬ 
rided upon a <'liiof JusticeA reward of $13,- 
000 is offered for t he Iowa railway robbers_A 
white iran named 111)1 has been hung by a mob 
of negroes In Tennessee fbr outraging a hlack 
woman. .No more free mulls with Canada are 
to be allowed Indh 13 fa sal > 
of cholera on I he 27th Senator Sumner has 
gone to Nohant . ..The Department of Agri¬ 
culture ha- ordered 400 bushel* of all kind- of 
wheat from France — German teachers have 
been in convention at St. Louis., Ku-Klux have 
commenced outrages in Kentucky. .Clouds of 
grass homier* have appeared at Sioux City. Iowa 
... The President has been on a visit to King¬ 
ston, N. V.. . Knight* of Pythias have been in 
session at Poughkeepsie .Newark, N. .1.. has 
had a #100,000 thunder storm . 22 Chinese wo¬ 
men were sold in .San Francisco on the 20th.... 
Kingston gave President Grant a great wel¬ 
come Liberal Republicans and Democrats 
have been in convention in Ohio The Boston 
police arc to be dismissed for not enforcing the 
Liquor Law.Virginia Republicans have had 
a convention.. The. result uf t he Modoc trial Is 
not. yet known . .The New York University has 
held Its convention at. Albany... Indians In 
Dakota are hostile The Post-office at Wash¬ 
ington is tube enlarged_Vice-President Wil- 
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Office of The Mutual Life Insurance) 
Company of New York, r 
144 and 146 Broadway. i 
Mr. Homans, formerly our Actuary (dismiss¬ 
ed from his position in 1871), in pursuance of his 
repeated threats that unless he wore restored 
to his former position he would not. cease his 
opposition to this Company and Its manage¬ 
ment so Jong as he lived, lias published certain 
charges which have been so often examined 
and found destitute of truth as to make further 
response useless except fur the information of 
those to whose notice they may come for the 
first time. It is not intended at this lime to 
answer these charges in detail. Mr. Homans 
was removed from his position in this Company 
for sufficient cause, by the unanimous action of 
its Board of Trustee.-.. The issue is thus squarely 
presented whether the policy-holders and the 
public will give greater credit to the assertions 
of tliis discarded officer or to the statements 
of the forty well-known gentlemen who have 
carefully investigated his charges and reported 
substantially as follows; 
That they have investigated the various char¬ 
ges against the Executive Officers of the Com¬ 
pany which have appeared in the public prints, 
and find none of recent date arid none which 
have not been heretofore investigated and thor¬ 
oughly exploded. Therefore the Com mi tie unite 
with the Trustees in their unanimous vote of 
Oct. 16th, 1872, in expressing their perfect con¬ 
fidence in the ability and integrity of the Ex¬ 
ecutive Officers. This report is signed by Alex. 
H. Riet , John Wadsworth, John E. Develxn 
and F. It. Stake of the Board of Trustees, 
and by Jas. J). Fisk, E. A. Quintard, H. It. 
Baltzer and J. O. Herrick of the Policy- 
Holders. 
The vote of Oct. 16th, 1872, above referred to, 
is highly laudatory of the Executive Officers 
and is signed by every member of the Board <>f 
Trustees; and a former Committee of policy- 
holders, resident in Boston, made even a more 
flattering report, concluding with the language 
of the Superintendent of Insurance, “That the 
Mutual Life Company ha* been managed with 
peculiar ability and integrity, and that its con¬ 
dition is eminently sound." This report was 
signed by B. F. Nourse and William Hilton. 
Committee. 
And in a memorial addressed to the Legisla¬ 
ture by the Board during the jjast session, rela¬ 
tive to the same and other charges which were 
the subject of investigation by a committee of 
that body, the Trustees say that it is patent 
that the Company has been managed with rare 
integrity, as not one dollar of Its vast hoard has 
ever been lost through dishonesty ol' any officer 
of the Company ; and that it has been managed 
with economy, is proven by the fact that its 
expenses are smaller in proportion to its re¬ 
ceipts than those of any similar institution; 
and the best proof of the efficiency of its man¬ 
agement lies in its unparalleled growth, being 
now the largest Life Assurance corporation in 
the world. 
The Trustees hold that this pre-eminent posi- 
Additiou* lo Clubs are always In order. Send 
them in ones, twos, fives, tens or more, as you please. 
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
The result of careful inquiry is that President 
Grant has not yet decided upon the selection 
of a Chief-Justice. While newspaper notices in 
favor of certain gentlemen have been carefully 
brought to his attention, no political friends 
have ventured upon direct recommendations. 
The President will make his own selection 
independently of newspaper or personal sug¬ 
gestions. It. is said he lias recently reported 
that he is in no hurry to do so, there being no 
present public necessity lor such action. He 
will not make the appointment until it can he 
acted on by the Senate, and in the meantime lie 
will endeavor to select n Chief-Justice who will 
be acceptable to t he entire count ry. 
They have a wild and gamesome sort of ghost 
in Pennsylvania. There is one farm whore 
stones, bones, green walnuts, and a variety of 
other small missiles arc continually coming 
down from nowhere in unexpected showers, to 
the exceeding discomfort of t he dwellers. All 
tli ia happens in broad day-light, as does likewise 
the making of tracks under the very eyes of the. 
beholders. These tracks are of the most re¬ 
markable and unusual kind, being of tremen¬ 
dous size, and all made with the right foot, 
They arc seen to follow people on horseback, 
while, horrible to think of, the form that makes 
them is wholly invisible. 
On the 30th of J unc a public meeting of native 
Hawaiian* was held at Honolulu, when a Mr, 
Rhodes made a speech against annexation and 
the United States. It was then resolved “ That 
t his meeting expresses the sentiment of a ma¬ 
jority of the nation as opposed to t he cession 
of Pearl Harbor to the United States. That if 
any of His Majesty’s Cabinet advocates the 
cession of Pearl River, this meeting disapprove 
of his course.” On motion a committee of 
seven was appointed to draft, a memorial to the 
king against the cession of Pearl River, or any 
part of Hawaiian territory. 
The annual account of the Sergeant-at-Arms 
of the Senat e, to close the last fiscal year, has 
been completed, and makes excellent showing 
in the way of retrenchment for Mr. French. He 
has now held the office for four years, and the 
saving effected over that ol the four years pre¬ 
ceding these, ltas been at the rate of $40,(XX) per 
year. The total expenditures during Mr French’s 
administration were $686,425, and of the preced¬ 
ing officer for the same time. $856,261. 
“ The Farmers' and People’s Anti-Monopoly 
Party of Livingston county, Illinois," circulate 
•s, daughter 
of a. Baptist clergyman at Hunt's Hollow, A Ho¬ 
gan v County, and Harry White, were drowned 
in a millpond, at that plaoe, recently, by the 
parting of a raft on which four young persons 
wore floating. 
Cavt. Joseph Jackson, it is said, died at 
Rochester, N. II., lust week, from the effects of 
t he bite of a spider received ten years ago. It 
was a white spider, and upon a fair trial for 
murder would he entitled to a verdict of Not 
Guilty. 
Attempts to form Granges of the Order of 
Patrons of Husbandry among the farmers of 
New England hare proved almost total failures. 
Only one Grange is said to have been formed, 
and that is in Greenfield, Mass. 
A shower of reptiles fell in Minnesota re¬ 
cently, and some one has described them as 
about six inches long, with gills and tins, and 
four legs. The same animals are found in a 
Mexican Lake. 
Tub Controller of the Currency has issued a 
circular to National Banks, saying that, hence¬ 
forth $10 notes will only be printed from the 
new plates, the cost of which is to be reimbursed 
by the banks. 
The atmosphere of the oil regions, which is 
strongly impregnated with the odor of petro¬ 
leum, is said to be beneficial to people afflicted 
with the asthma; it is also a preventive of con¬ 
sumption. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
lUlncellaneouM Foreign News. 
Republicans in Valencia have joined the 
Carlists. German and English men-of-war have 
arrived at Cartagena. A naval engagement was 
expected on the 28th, The rebels threatened to 
massacre all consuls and foreigners. Strangers 
were flying lor their Jives. England will not 
recognize the Carlists.The Pope urges bish¬ 
ops to defend the Church, and denounces Free 
Masons.A revolution is expected in Nucva 
Leon, Mexico — Prance abolishes the shipping 
tax. . .The Queen has announced the betrothal 
of the Duke of Edinburg.. The Extreme Left 
of the French Assembly has formed a Vigilance 
Committee— Seville was attacked on the 88th. 
Two of the rebel steamers have sailed for Amer¬ 
ica; 170 clergymen have fled from Spain to 
France. Germanv ha? given the Vigilante to 
Spain. The French Assembly has closed. 
MacMahon will maintain the peace England 
propose.*to give the Duke of Edinburgh £'25,- 
000 a year There have been 200 case.* of cholera 
among the troops in Vienna,.,. Kbivu remains 
tranquil.Contreras is in command of the 
Spanish insurgent fleet ; he proposes to bom¬ 
bard AI maria. A British squadron is off the 
Spanish eqast— It is reported that the French 
President will resign in six months. A mon¬ 
archy is looked for.. The Patent Rights’ Con¬ 
gress is in session in Vienna; 20 deaths daily at 
Vienna from cholera, Americans will take 
many of the highest prizes at the Exposition. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC 
Peaches in Delaware,—From the Information 
we have received from Delaware, there is, in 
our mind, no doubt that the crop of peaches is 
to be short as compared with last year—not 
more than half as large. The fruit has been 
falling and continues to fall from the trees. 
The drouth, the cold winter which injured the 
vitality of the trees, and perhaps insects (though 
