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SWOOBE’S BUBAL MEW-YORKEB. 
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BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Miss Alice Dutton baa issued an address to 
the working women of Boston, informing them 
that it is proposed to organise in that city a 
Workingwomen’s Mutual Benefit Association, 
having l'or its object “first. The providing of 
funds to defray the expanses of any member in 
time of sickness. Second, To render aid to any 
member in the extremity of need. I bird. To 
provide, in case of death, respectable burial to 
said deceased member, a .well a- a certain sum 
to any dependent upon her for support." 
Two guides who conduct visitors through 
“ the Cave of the Winds" at Niagara Falls have 
discovered still another cave which they pro¬ 
nounced “one of the wonders of the world. 
In one port ion of It. the visitor can stand be¬ 
tween two walls of falling wafer in “pitch" 
darkness, and then only, ns it were, in tire 
vestibule. To go forward would require some 
ot her apparatus not. id. band, and a moans of 
lighting the way. 
A poor German immigrant was brought be¬ 
fore the Grand .Jury at Chicago last week, 
charge 1 with .stealing some old clothing. JHs 
excuse was that he desired to sell them to 
obtain food for his wife and live children, who 
were starving. The grand jurors found no bill, 
and taxed themselves fifty cents a head for the 
benefit of the family. The wife and children, 
during the husband’s imprisonment, were fort 
by the jailor. 
The Hon. Willard Phillips, Id,. D., who died 
at Cambridge, Mass., on Tuesday last, was one 
of the six survivors of the elans of 1810 of Har¬ 
vard University. Ho was at one time an editor 
of the North American Review, ami has pub¬ 
lished several important works. His last book 
was entitled “ Propositions concerning Protec¬ 
tion and Free Trade,” which was written in 
support of the manufacturing Interests of the 
country. 
A letter is published from ex-Gov. Randolph 
of Now Jersey relating to the Washington 
Headquarters at Morristown, He says those 
who purchased the property at the record, sale 
intend to forma "Washington Association," 
with a capital stuck of 680,000, one-half of which 
is to pay for the property, and the other half to 
be kept a* a. fund for its preservation. Of this 
amount £17,000 has already beci^subsc.ribed. 
English gossip says that the reigning Duke 
of Brunswick is about to bring action to cancel 
the late Duke's will, on the ground that the 
bulk of his properly, especially (he art treas¬ 
ures, was only held by him in trust, and could 
not therefore lie passed out of the family. Tt 
this view is adopted, the property will descend 
to Duke William of Brunswick, and after him 
to the House ol' Hanover. 
Thp. cull ivution of broom corn, the American 
Grocer says, “ Ini' been checked in the West by 
the cheapness of the article, so (hat farmers 
scarcely obtained prices sufficient to pay the 
expense of raising it. The into storms have 
also caused serious injury to the comparatively 
limited crop raised this year, resulting In an ad¬ 
vance of nearly one hundred per cent, on the 
old stock on hand.” 
Ithaca, Kept. 11.— To-day the Cornell Univer¬ 
sity, situated at this place, entered upon its 
sixth year. The class just entering is much 
larger than either of the two preceding it. It 
numbers SOU, IK of whom enter on certificates 
from other colleges, 15 are Brazilians, aud 15 
other are ladies, the number of female students 
being thus increased to 31. 
The Kev. W. II. H. Murray lias published a 
vigorous article on “Liars,” in which ho takes 
occasion to deny the report, that he shot several 
deer in the Adirondacks this summer, thus 
violating the game laws. He says he did not 
shoot a single deer, ami lie commends to all 
newspaper editors the Apostle’s injunction to 
“ Lie not. at all.” 
Here is I he classification of babies’ premiums 
at the Fair of the New Hampshire Agricultural 
Society. For the finest baby under six months 
old, a gold necklace; for do., between tho ages 
of 13 and 30 months, a golden cup; for the 
loveliest twins, two golden mugs; for the child 
with the reddest hair, regardless of temper, $10 
in gold. 
Mr. Joseph ArOB, the representative of the 
agricultural laborers of England, arrived at 
Quebec on Saturday last. He was accompanied 
by Mr. Arthur Clayden, one of tho Committee 
of the Laborers' Union, and Mr. Henry Taylor 
its Secretary. He will spend a few weeks in 
Canada before visiting Hie United States. 
At Janesville, Wis., on the Uth, at the South¬ 
ern Wisconsin Fair. Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken of 
South Carolina, addressed 1.5,000 people, many 
of whom wore Grangers, arguing in favor of 
Free Trade and opposition t o all monopolies. 
Colonel Alkin is one of t he Executive Commit¬ 
tee of the National Grange. 
President Grant bus appointed the TTon, A. 
It. Shepherd to succeed Mr. H. D. Cooke as 
Governor of the District of Columbia; the 
appointment causes dissatisfaction. Dr. J. B. 
Blake, President of the National Metropolitan 
Bank, succeeds Mr. Shepherd as Prcsidont of 
the Board of Public Works. 
A rand of colored men who have left work 
visited the principal mills in Charleston S. C., 
and by threats of violence forced tho hands to 
strike also for $2.60 per day. The employers 
declined to accede and closed their mills, 
throwing nearly 2,000 laborers out of employ¬ 
ment. 
The Itev. Charles Kingsley, the brilliant and 
popular English author, will visit this country 
soon after Christinas. He does not come to 
make money as a lecturer, but, as he writes, 
*‘ io spend a few months in seeing with my own 
eyes your wonderful country and people.” 
The yellow fever i* ravaging in Shreveport, 
Ira., at .a terrible rate. Three physicians tele¬ 
graph the Howard Association of New Orleans: 
“No report you may have received from here 
can possibly exaggerate the condition of af¬ 
fairs.” There are fully 000 sick. 
The Hon. Ashur Ware, who died in Portland, 
Me., on Wednesday night, at the age of 02 years, 
was editor of the Boston Yankee, in 1816, and 
the Portland Kastern Argus in 1817. He held 
tho office of District Judge 44 years, besides 
other important trusts. 
In the Canadian railway investigation, D. 
McMullen testified positively to Sir Hugh Al¬ 
lan's negotiations with Americans, and Sir 
John Macdonald gave notice that the Govern¬ 
ment did not consider itself affocted by such 
evidence. 
The Spanish Government is putting 630.000 
fresh troopslinto the field. The northern prov¬ 
inces of Spain are poverty-stricken by the war. 
Six passengers, including one general, were 
killed by the wreck of a train from Viftoria to 
Madrid. 
Gen. A. .1. Mvkr, chief of the Government 
Signal Service Bureau, otherwise known as 
“Old Probabilities,” sailed for Europe, recent¬ 
ly. His wife, who is the only heir, by the death 
of her mother has inherited a round million of 
dollars. 
Eight Chinese, women who arrived in San 
Francisco said they were purchased in China 
and brought to that, city for immoral purposes. 
They were soul to the Chinese Mission School 
for protection from the Hip Yoe Tong Society. 
A PARTY of Mormon emigrants, who have 
just arrived In Paris on their way to America, 
have been warned by the Prefect of Police that 
if they attempt to hold their religious exercises 
in public they will be expelled from the city. 
The General OongresH of the Internal ionaliats 
opened at Geneva on tho 1st. There were thirty 
delegates present, representing the federations 
of England, France, Alsace, Holland, Belgium, 
Switzerland, Italy and Spain. 
The first term of the Ohio Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, Columbus, Ohio, began last Wednesday, 
September 17, but the formal inauguration of 
the Institution will not occur till the first 
Tuesday of next January. 
It Is reported in French journals that the 
partisans of M. Thiers are urging him to resign 
his place as deputy and offer himself as candi¬ 
date in all the electoral circumscriptions which 
have vacancies. 
A Pan Fran cisco milliner claims to have 
invented a mechanical bonnet which, by means 
of artery compressors ingeniously concealed 
in its border, enables the wearer to call up a 
blush at will. 
President White of Cornell University ad¬ 
dressed the Brazilian students of that institu¬ 
tion on Monday last, the occasion being the 
celebration of their national anniversary. 
It is reported I hat a large number of the 
liquor dealers of Connecticut whose licenses 
expire this month will refuse to renew them 
because the law Is so feebly enforced. 
A Cumberland, Md., dispatch rays that only 
fifty miles of slack water, and forty of the canal 
remains to be built to connect tho Chesapeake 
and Ohio canal with Pittsburg. 
J. K. Strong, a young artist of Oakland, Cal., 
lias received a gold medal from I ho Munich Art 
Academy, for displaying the greatest proficiency 
in u class of 132 pupils. 
Gi:n. Edwin S. McCook was assassinated at a 
public meeting In Yankton, Dakota, by P. P. 
W intermit Id, a banker, because of a dispute 
about railroad matters. 
M A n zi, a celebrated brigand in Southern Italy, 
has been captured by the police, and his band, 
which consisted of only nine persons, hunted 
down and extirpated. 
A report from Salt Lake City says that 
George Q. Cannon, the Utah delegate to Con¬ 
gress, lias secretly secured divorces from his 
three wives. 
The police of Springfield, Ill., besieged agam- 
tding house for sixteen hours. Their patience 
was rewarded by the capture of fifty-three 
gamblers. 
One Joseph Campbell jumped from the Ohio 
River bridge Sunday night, a distance of eighty 
feet, to the bare rock below, and was killed 
instantly. 
The municipality of London propose to give 
a dinner in honor of President P. H. Watson of 
the Erie Railway Company, on his arrival in 
that city. 
The trustees of Bound Lake camp-ground 
have made arrangements for sinking a well 
1,200 feet, in anticipation of striking a mineral 
spring. 
The Kev. Dr. Thayer, of Newport R. I., has 
resigned the pastorate of the United Congrega¬ 
tional Church, which he has filled for thirty-two 
years. 
Letter-boxes are now placed on the through 
street cars in Chicago, their contents being 
removed as each car passes the Post-office. 
Mi chart. Kane, a notorious burglar, now 
confined in the New Jersey State Prison, cut 
off his thumbs, recently, to get. rid of working 
in the shoo shop. 
Judge Devens of the Massachusetts Superior 
Court is spoken of as a candidate for the vacancy 
in the Supreme Court of the same State. 
Mr. Mttchf.l, a Californian agriculturist, has 
gat tiered this year 000,000 bushels of wheat from 
a little patch of 40,000 acres. 
The Liberal Republican State Executive Com¬ 
mit tee issued a call for a State Convention to 
be held at FJmira, N. Y. 
- A gat widower in Manistee, Michigan, who 
has forty-eight children living, has just mar¬ 
ried bis fourth wife. 
The people of Ontario are trying to secure 
funds for a statue of Tccumseh by contribu¬ 
tions of one cent each. 
The Harbor-Commissioner, Marks, of San 
Francisco, is under indictment for misappropri¬ 
ation of State funds. 
Joaquin Mieeicu is passing a season with 
Minister Gladstone at his country scat in Wales, 
1 la warden Castle. 
It is reported that Queen Victoria will soon 
go t.<> Hamburg, the celebrated watering-place 
near Frankfort. 
Ohio newspapers say that the g'uve of Thou. 
Corwin is unmarked even by the simplest head¬ 
stone. 
Jefferson Davis has resigned the Presidency 
of the Carolina Life Insurance Company. 
The Emperor and Empress of Japan are rusti¬ 
cating at the Hot Springs of Amianoshta. 
Nebraska fruits received the first premium 
at the Boston loimdogical Exhibition. 
A Memphis paper publishes daily the penal¬ 
ties for fraudulently packing cotton. 
VtcH-PltKSiDKNT Wilson has lcit Martha’s 
Vineyard much improved in health. 
Cholera is killing the inhabitants of Bang¬ 
kok, Siam, at the rate of 200 a day. 
The I’opo has recovered from his recent 
indisposition, and is better again. 
The work of laying a cable from Lisbon to 
lllo do Janeiro, Brazil, lias begun. 
Over one hundred and fifty clergymen have 
flod Spain and gone to France. 
A squadron of Austrian war vessels has been 
ordered to the Coast of Spain. 
The Mississippi Democratic Convention will 
meet at Meriden on Sept. 17. 
Tint \ ine disease Is making great havoc among 
the grape crops in Portugal. 
Sami el E. Cushing of Providence, a promi¬ 
nent civil engineer, is (lead. 
Du Chaillu is busy on his book of travel in 
Norway and Sweden. 
John Lathkoi* Motley has recovered from 
his sickness. 
Organ-grinders are set at street-cleaning 
in Quincy 111. 
The Swedish Count of Manderstrocm is dead. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC 
Clevclnnd, Hast Tcmicjtxee, Sept. 6.—Since 
my last report this section of Tennessee bus 
been quite dry—Juat dry enough, however, for 
plowing for wheat. During ourwholesummer 
the thermometer has not been higher than 
U8ii u in the shade, hor have we been viuitcd by 
any of the terrible storms of wind and rain no¬ 
ticed elsewhere. Our corn crop is being rapidly 
gathered. It Is more than average, and will 
open at 50c. per bushel. The pea crop spoken 
of in our last is now being Turned under; being 
an entirely new method of manuring, our farm¬ 
ers are much pleased with the prospect they 
appear to present as a fertilizer. The advan¬ 
tage peas have over clover is their rapid growth 
and inexhaustible quantities. This leads us to 
inquire of some of your scientific readers and 
oilenlists, What per cent, does corn exhaustthe 
soil? Wheat, oat and peas? What wc mean is 
this:—Should one bushel of wheat be sown on 
one acre, and that acre produce twcniy-llvo 
bushels, what per cent, nutriment would tho 
one bushel in growing and maturing derive 
from the soil and how much per cent, from the 
air and moisture in the air? Will somoQUo 
givh us the entire analysis? If it can bo done, 
we think our farmers would bo much better 
qualified to understand rotation of crops, and 
the land would be much less injured in crop¬ 
ping.—A. s. n. 
Hackensack, Lehigh Go., Pa., Sep. G. — Wc 
have had a rainy spell for about three weeks ; 
crops look well; corn not so good as last year; 
pasture plenty; Winter grain is partly sown. 
Wheat brings $1.50; rye, 90c.; oats, 00c.; corn, 
65c.; egss, 25c.; butter, 35c. Apples are not 
plenty. The hay and also second crops were 
good.—a. e. e. a. 
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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
New York City and Vicinity. 
Fhe fall book sales are in progress... A new 
butter and cheese exchange has been opened.. 
The. Senate Cum millet! on Transportation is in 
session at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.Minnie 
Benton, an important witness in the Stokes 
case, has been arrested— ..The great Graphic 
balloon fizzled out on tho 10th — Madame Nils¬ 
son and husband, Sig. Salvini and the Dean of 
Canterbury, arrived on the 10th .. ,A large num¬ 
ber of delegates to the Protestant Evangelical 
Alliance, have arrived No credit, is given to 
Irving’s Nathan murder confessions The new 
Lyceum Theater hie been opened.. .Count Aoul 
Rene de Beam, Second Secret ary of the French 
Legation died at the New York Hotel on the 
8th, of diphtheria, with which he was attacked 
only afmv hours previously. ,. . The Hoboken 
Savings Bank will fall short some $63,000 of pay¬ 
ing it h debts. . .A call for a meeting to protest 
against Controller Green it in circulation. 
Tho anniversary of the fall of the City of Mex¬ 
ico was celebrated on t he 15th_The city debt 
increased in over $3,000,000 in August. \ M 
Hatnill has been murdered In Brooklyn — The 
city churches have reopened.Chris. A. i,-t 
moot, a wealthy broker, fell from his house on 
Filth Avenue, and was killed Joseph Arch 
lias arrived from England.\ butcher was 
garrotedin Brooklyn on thekfh, and robbed,.. 
The KeDey and Iiamill murder mysteries re¬ 
main unsolved. ..There wa a great decline in 
gold On Wall street on the 8th, which caused 
tho New York Warehouse Company to fail, in¬ 
volving $1,090,000_The sheriff of Brooklyn la 
accused of fraud. Controller Green wishes to 
consolidate Mm city securit ies, of which there 
arc over $1 I/uXK),i*h _On the Uth, upon the oc¬ 
casion id a reception given by Ihe 47th Rcgl- 
iiicni to ihe 71-' Regiment, a balcony contain¬ 
ing 10(1 people fell in Williamsburg, killing 2. 
and wounding60— The merchants have held 
a mass meeting for cheaper freight. ..Thegreat, 
Graphic ballon burst at 4 P. M. on the 12th, 
when nearly full of gas, and fell into a shape¬ 
less mass. Prof. Wise says it was rotten, and 
refused to have anything to do with it_A re¬ 
ception has been given to Salvini Tito dis¬ 
covery of America ia to bo celebrated Oct. 13th. 
Home New*. 
Cholera la very bad at Shrevesport, La. 
All trains have stopped. St. Louis has sent 
$t.ano. Traffic is interrupted by the pestilence 
on tho Texas and Pacific line.The colored 
people of Camden, N. J., are preparing for the 
Centennial in I -70. Courtney of Union Springs, 
IS. Y.. won the senior scull race at Saratoga. 
The Argonaut-! of Toronto woo ibo four-nnrod 
shell ruec . New York will hold a Prohibitory 
Convention at Utica, Oct. 9th ... Newark,N..J,, 
has a commit too of It*) to investigate frauds 
Arthur M. Prime has been commuted to answer 
to ihe grand Jury in the Kelsey murder case nt 
Huntington. I,. I Labor Reformers have had 
a convention at Pottavllle, Pa.Judge T. S, 
Crawford and District-attorney Arthur II.Har¬ 
ris of the Twelfth Judicial District were assas¬ 
sinated on tho8th In Franklin Parish, La...The 
lost Polar!-, has been heard from. The Tigris 
has found the winter camp of Capt. Budding- 
ton and hU men. They loft for the south in 
June. The Polaris has sunk, and Is covered by 
two in berg!*. It is thought the crew has been 
aicked up by a whaler. The recnnlsaini paper . 
have been recovered... The Hoboken Savings- 
Bank ha- lost $150,000 by a defaulting secretarj 
..There was a .great rowing regatta at Saratoga 
on the loth and 111 li_ The safety of the Po¬ 
laris party Is considered insured. Thu conduct, 
of the search is approved at, Washington . .The 
Liberal Republicans of Now York hold a con¬ 
vention at Elmira on the 8th Catt le stealing 
and murder are still common on tho Texan 
frontier— The National Pork Packer's ( .in¬ 
vention has been in session In Chicago_'Die 
Grand Lodge of Good Fellows ham been in ses¬ 
sion in Pliifiidclpliin ... There has been a seven 
storm on the Texan coast.Gen. Custer ha. 
bad some severe fighting w ith 250 mounted In¬ 
dians on Hie Yellow,stone; our forces lost 3 
killed... The Grange movement continues to 
grow in the West. .Post master Booth of Brook¬ 
lyn, has sent his resignation so the President... 
Texas Democrats nominated Richard Hake bn 
Governor ...Gun, Beale is to he the new Gov¬ 
ernor of the Dist rict of Columbia _There Is 
yellow fever at Galveston and Houston Mr. 
Otis, the i rid encode.xt candidate, was elected 
Mayor of San. Francisco_The President took 
no part in the M a-suelnisetls con lest, for Gov¬ 
ernor .. .Thu Republicans hod an easy vlcl 
in Maine, with a vote two-thirds that of last 
year . Illinois and Iowa have Leon visited with 
a frost_ Troy bus given Minister Francis a 
great reception .. .Hon. John I*. Hale is get I ing 
well again .Gen. Butler withdrew from the 
contest for Governor of Massachusetts, and Mi. 
WiLshhurne was uninitiated by acclamation J... 
Geo. E. S. McCook won assassinated on tho 11th 
at. Yankton, Dakota, by one P. P. Wlntermutc, 
a banker. Hi.sreimtim have been scat to Cin¬ 
cinnati__ The boat races at Saratoga on t he 
12th were spirited_There ia great excitement 
in Wisconsin over an 'advance of freight rub-■ 
on the railroads. 35 deaths from yellow fever 
in one day wax reported at Shreveport, La. 
There were 18th deaths on the 13th. 
Viren. 
Tiie Fulton elevator, in Chicago, on the 
7th; loss, $135,000.Liquor house at 43 Broad 
si root, New York, on the 7th; loss, $27,000_ 
Twelve houses in West Troy, on the 6th; loss, 
$40,000_Planing mill at Union, New Yoik, 
on the 8th; loss, $25,000 ....Varnish works in 
Brooklyn, on tho 10th; loss,$9,000... Steam saw 
mill in Memphis, on tne luth ; loss, .<30.000 ...A 
small part of the Gorham Mfg Co. s works, at 
Providence, R. 1.. on the 10th ; loss, $30.000.— 
The Halliday r.f reel Theater. Baltimore, on the 
lOth; loss, $150,000.. ,A horse sun-bonnet fac¬ 
tory in Brooklyn, on tltelOth; loss. $10,000 
Furniture warehouse on Canal street. New 
York, on the llih: loss, $20,000_Stables in 
Marblehead, Mass., on the II th ; loss, $35.000... 
A block in Kosding, Cal., on the 10th *. lor,?. 
$75,000 ...One fourth of the town of Forest 
HiU, Col., on tho 10th ; loss not stated. •. Brew¬ 
ery in Nenstadt, Out., on the 10»h ; loss, 75 . 000 . 
_Steam planing milL in PPunfleld, N. J., on 
the Uth; loss, $50,000, 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Itlicellaneous Foreign News. 
Spain is putting 360,000 troops Into the field. 
_The Northern provinces are exhausted b>' 
war.. An ex-press train has been wrecked 
near Vitoria. Six killed and thirl)-two 
wounded ...An International tew conference 
has been in session at Ghent... ..A block known 
as the Plaza Vapor has been burned in Havana. 
The lire took place on tho 6t.li; loss. $s(KM.fiw 
and twenty Jives Sonordastelar, of spam, nas 
demanded 500,000rifi(js, and a Joan of alXUKM.'HK) 
reals :o organize t he milit ia, which the Cortes 
has voted. MarMial Serrano has gone to Mad¬ 
rid. Don Carlos has executed five men nt Es- 
tella. C as tolar has been made Chief of the 
Executive Power_Prussia will reeogni ,e 
Bishop Reindins — The Germans are evacuat¬ 
ing Verdun_Mexico accepts the invitation 
to our centennial in 1876 .. .A new Ministry was 
announced in Spain on the 8th. Gen. Bregna 
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