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SVtOOBE’S BUBAL WEW-¥0BKEB. 
deaths at Memphis In 11 weeks.. The steamer 
Mary K, Doe was burned on the 18th near Os¬ 
ceola, Ark,: Joss,$100.009and 0 lives — Madison 
planing mills were burned at Madison, Wis., on 
t he 17 Hi ; loss, $100,000. , Half of a distillery In 
Cincinnati on the loth ; loss, $100,000 It is 
thought. $140,000 of the Albany defalcation will 
be recovered .Hut IO.OiK) inhabitants remain 
in Memphis, of whom 1.000 are sick. The yel¬ 
low fever rages In many places In the South ... 
The Government has decided to put silver into 
circulation. The cotton and paper trade is 
depressed .('row and l'to Indians have been 
taken to tho President. 
Fire*. 
Flour Mini, and brewery at Madison, Wis., 
on the Kith : loss, $105,000, and one life — Plan¬ 
ing mill ana turning factory in Oswego, N. Y., 
on the loth ; loss, $35,000.. .The Commonwealth 
block in Topeka, Kan., on the 19th ; loss, $100,- 
000 ; 3 newspaper offices were burned ._Tho 
propeller 8t. Lawrence, at F.dwardsburg, Cana¬ 
da, on the 19th; a total loss. 
TELL EVERYBODY! 
wheat; it never looked better. Wheat from 
Sl.55i3d.70; oats, 37‘4c.; barley, 90c.; corn, 65c.; 
rye, 80c.; potatoes. 40c.; butter, 2&3fi0c.: cheese, 
16c.; eggs, 25c.; green corn. dor.. 10c.; beef, lb., 
<V<?8c.; lambs, $33>4; pork, lb., 75&8C.; fowls, live 
weight, lb.,8c.; chickens, lb.. 10c.; wool, 35o,t0c.; 
apples, bush., 60c.; hides. lb„ 7c.; lamb pelts, 
each. 60c.(2itl; veid skins, trimmed, per lb., 
12’4c.; tobacco, r>. rt. n. 
Lymlonville, V«., Oct. 22—Weather warm 
and fine for tho season. The month has afforded 
some heavy rains and some delightful weather 
thus far. Two weeks ago it rained nearly 36 
hours without Intermission; and on Monday of 
Che present week it poured for about 2 hours, 
resulting in the highest water we have had 
since the Great Freshet of four years ago the 
present month. The last rain was a remarkably 
warm one, and tho weather Binco has been fair 
and warm, with wind southerly. We are yet 
to have the first snow of t.he season in tills 
vicinity ; very little was noticed on tho distant 
hill-tops two weeks ago. Excellent weather 
for nil out-door work, and especially for fall 
plowing. The crops In this section of tho State 
proved very much butter than It was ant icipated 
they would bo earlier in the season. The potato 
crop was a large yield, and the quality never 
better. Price 35 to 40 cts. delivered at t he R. R. 
station. Corn crop fair; very good growth, but. 
not so fui.y matured ns usual. Greater care 
required in curing it. Hay plenty—selling for 
$15 per ton. Store cattle and sheep In demand. 
Considerable numbers of the former imported 
from Canada and tho border counties, mostly 
of the Native and the Durham— grade breeds. 
Mutton sheep and lambs rather dull; Iambs 
selling for $2 to $4 per head ; must be very good 
to bring the latter price. Fall feed good, and 
stock generally looking finely. Fall fat, and 
apiing ditto, let be the motto.—I. w. s. 
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FOREIGN NEWS, 
ffllftcellancoiiN Foreign New*. 
Failures in London continue, caused by 
t.he financial disturbance In America. Rev. 
Dr. Robert Smith Candllsh, an eminent divine. 
died In Edinburgh on the 19th .The rebel 
squadron of Spain haa arrived at Valencia, and 
threatens a bombardment. The defense of the 
place was being pushed on the 20th. The reb¬ 
els captured 3 merchantmen. The English, 
m fleets are watching i he reb¬ 
els. The rebel war ship Fernanda el CatOlica 
has been sunk through the carelessness of her 
commander, and most of tho crow lost_The 
examination of witnesses has begun in the Ba- 
zaino court martial.. The Government of Italy 
has ordered the Jesuits to leave tholr property 
In Rome. It has also taken possession of 0 
convents.There are hopes or ;t Republican 
majority In the French Assembly Emperor 
William is pleased with his visit to Vienna; he 
remained until tbafiSd. ..The King of (be Sand¬ 
wich Islands is recovering. He has disbanded 
hi* household troops. The President and Cabi¬ 
net of Mexico hate promised fidelity to tho 
new Constitution .. Mr. David Dudley Field 
ha* made an address on international Arbitra¬ 
tion before t.lie Social Science. Congress in En¬ 
gland .. President MacMahon says he will re¬ 
sign under certain circumstance!*. The French 
Deputies of the Left will meet, dally during the 
crisis_Marshals Canrobert, Loboeuf and Gen. 
Ladmlraiilt have testified against Gen. Baza- 
ino.Prince Bismarck, vhlle In Vienna, sug¬ 
gested that Germany, Austria and Italy act to¬ 
gether In reference to the election of a future 
Pono ..John Bright has made a great speech 
at Birmingham . Delegate-, of I he Right Con¬ 
fer have held a meeting in Paris, calling upon 
Count de Chambord to return to France and 
formally uniting with the members of the Right 
.. Tho rebels have taken 10 Spanish merchant¬ 
men nt Valencia and returned with their fleet 
to Cartagena .. The r.nxo for the defense in tho 
Tiohliqriitj case has concluded.There is an 
insurrection in Sonora, Mexico .. Members of 
Parliament are assembling at Ottawa, Canada 
The Bonapartlsts of Franco want a plebls- 
cltum. The r re no I, Cabinet has resolved that 
the state of tho country' does not require an 
early meeting of the Assembly. The Loft Cen¬ 
ter refuses an alliance with the Right Center. 
Monarchists are less hopeful .The police have 
seized arms at Lisbon. Spain complains of the 
interference of French vessels . .The Emperor 
of Germany ho* visited the Vienna Exhibition 
and examined the American Department. The 
French exhibitors left the building at. his ap¬ 
proach.. On 1 he 33d the King of Saxony was 
dying ...The Canadian Parliament opened on 
the 24d ., The Jesuits have made I lo ir head¬ 
quarters at Malta The September storm in 
Jamaica blew down 500 houses. The Pacific 
Railway of Canada h tx surrendered it • charter 
A change In the Prussian Cabinet is rumor¬ 
ed. IH iTonch Deputies protest against the 
attempt to restore tho monarchy . On the21th 
Of beptemboy insurgents attacked Panama. 
Admiral Almy of the United States, took part 
in the proceedings, landed his man arid pro¬ 
tected tho city, forwarding tho European mails 
The Count do Chambord has agreed to uni¬ 
versal suffrage, a reasonable liberty of the press 
anti the tri-colored flag_Valparaiso has suf¬ 
fered from a great fire. Ten lives were lost by 
falling walls ...A great ma.i* meeting is to bo 
held in Dublin. .Count Chambord promises not 
to reinstate the Pope in his temporal power. 
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DOMESTIC NEWS, 
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
TDK statement Is made that tho Governor of 
South Carolina has declared his intention to 
recommend to the General Assembly of that 
State, nt its coming session, the passage of a 
law authorizing the Issue of $1,000,000 In bills 
receivable, which shall bo received In payment 
of taxed due the 8tate. This action is taken on 
the supposition that it will tend to relieve the 
financial embarrassments of the people. The 
attent ion of some of the officers of the General 
Government having been called to this, tho 
opinion Is given that such legislation would be 
directly in contravention of the tenth section 
of the Constitution of tho United States, which 
provides that no State shall emit bills of credit 
.,r make anything tmi gold and silver coin 
as tender in payment of debts. 
Tun Treasury Department 1ms notice that 
fifty thousand ounces of silver have been re¬ 
ceived at the mint in Philadelphia from Chi¬ 
cago, with the request that it be coined and 
returned in half and quarter dollars and climes. 
It will furnish change to the amount of $63,500. 
Silver is now paid out to a limited extent for 
change in Washington. Dr. Linder man. di¬ 
rector of tho bureau of tho mint, says silver will 
be in goneral circulation as currency on the Jst 
of November. All tho mints in the country 
have boon ordered to work to their full capacity 
in coining silver. * 
In connection with the proposition to estab¬ 
lish postal havings banks, it is suggested by 
some Congressmen that, four per cent, Is too 
high a rate of interest for the Government to 
pay, and that the rate of three and sixty-live 
immlreths per cent, would enable postmasters 
to compute tho int erest on deposits with greater 
facllily. Should the scheme' assume definite 
shape in Congress, this rate of Interest will be 
proposed. 
Gen. Bctleu, it. is said, will reintroduce his 
inter-oonvertible bond scheme, by which banks 
will be allowed to hold such bonds instead of a 
greenback reserve, and the same may be con¬ 
verted Into legal tenders or vice verm, as the 
currency necessities of the country shall re¬ 
quire. 
New York; City and Vicinity. 
The banka contemplate an early resump¬ 
tion of greenback payments..On tho 20lh there 
xvas a decline in stocks of from ] to 3 per cent.. 
There was a $25,000 fire at 53 Walker St. on the 
20th Beecher has lectured before a largo au¬ 
dience on “Manhood and Money”.Gn the 
20th, in the Stokes trlal.lt was uttemptod to 
show that some of Die witnesses against Stokes 
were perjured .Wall St- was dull on tbeSIst. 
The same day the National Life Insurance Co. 
aumpeiidcd. Money wa$ abundant on the 31st 
.Senator Geo. 8. Bout well hoe lectured ou 
tho “ Finances of the Country" .. Witnesses 
have testified that Fisk threatened to kill 
Stokes ...The Committee of Seventy ba-s dis¬ 
banded_The Cuuarders will establish a da ly 
lino to Europe.One case of yellow fever 
was reported on I bn 23d .Edward Jenkins 
b nr lectured before a very small audience. 
The plea of insanity bus been made in the 
Stokes case_ A Mr, Shanks has been sent to 
jail for contempt of court t iara Bart on has 
had a reception, and \V llkle Collins n breakfast 
_lCx-Assemblyman Dewitt Tower shot 
himself on the 23d. Dissipation and domestic 
troubles Edward lloight, Jr., has been ex¬ 
pelled from the Stock Exchange .Tho A hler- 
men have confirmed all the Mayor’s candidates 
for Police Justices. •• ..F. K. bnerwln, the New 
York banker id the defaulter, Phelps, ba .bccn 
arrested ..Hay cuttingatore on Thirteenth 
A ve. was burned on the 18th ; QUO man killed 
and two Injured: loss, $62,000 Commodore 
Vanderbilt ha* settled with the Union Trust 
Co. and enabled it to resume.Fisk & Hatch 
expect to resume in a week or two. 
Home News. 
The Democrats of Ohio elected Allen for 
Governor by a majority of some 700 or 800. 
The Republican majority in Pennsylvania was 
23,000 The county treasurer of Andrew Jack- 
sun Co., Iowa, has been robbed of $30,000— A 
severe storm prevailed ou the 20th, with snow 
[n tbio Wi si Virginia, and u Penn¬ 
sylvania The Embury monument lias been 
dedicated at Cambridge, N. Y. A railroad 
along the shore of Lake Superior la talked of . 
The yellow fever is abating at Memphis. Six 
canal boats were wrecked on the 17th at Ver- 
plaock’s Point, Hudson River.Buffalo has 
had a anowstorm .Fellow favor Ima appeared 
in Texas Fire Department chiefs have held 
a national convent ion at Baltimore. The mil)* 
of New England will run on part time Pud¬ 
dle and rail mills have suspended at Pottaville, 
Pa.; 600 men out of work — James Lick ol San 
Francisco will build an astronomical observa¬ 
tory in the Sierra Nevada mountains . Gov. 
Dix of New York makes November 27 Thanks¬ 
giving Day 'Ifiie new Scientific Hall at Lafay¬ 
ette, Pa., College, has been dedicated .... One 
death an hour from yellow fever in MernpbiB... 
The great storm of the 20th caused much dam¬ 
age iu New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylva¬ 
nia, and to theahlpping on Lakes Erie and On¬ 
tario... Tho National Board of Trade has been 
CURRENT TOPICS 
Plan for Resuming Specie Payments. 
The Finance Committee of the National 
Board of Trade, submitted to that body, at 
Chicago, the other day, the following report 
relative to the resumption cf specie payments : 
First :• For the redemption of Treasury notes 
of t he United States, commonly called green¬ 
backs, nt tho Treasury In the City of New York, 
in gold coin, on demand of the holders thereof, 
on and after the first Monday in July, J877. 
Second, 5 —That notes bo redeemed may be re¬ 
issued for making all payments by tho United 
Stales other than those for which payment in 
specie is specially secured by existing laws, and 
notes so redeemed be exchanged for gold or 
silver coin of the United States when requested 
by any one desirous of making such exchange. 
Third :—That said Treasury notes of tho Uni¬ 
ted Stares shall continue to bo a legal tender 
for payment of all debts, public and private, as 
the same are now. 
Fourth That for the purpose of regulating 
tho currency as furnished by said Treasury 
notes and providing for its expansion or con¬ 
traction at seasons when such changes in its 
value are called for by tho business of tho 
country, tho Secretary of tho Treasury he au¬ 
thorized to issue In exchange for such Treasury 
notes registered certificates of debt in sums 
not less than $500 or any multiple thereof, 
which certificates shall be at Interest of 3.65-100 
per cont. per annum ; the certificates so issued 
shall not exceed $50,000,000 in the whole; and 
said certificates shall be redeemable at the call 
of the holders thereof In Treasury notes of the 
United States of denominations now in use; 
and upon such redemption the interest then 
accrued on such certificates shall be payable 
and paid, and certificates so redeemed shall be 
canceled and destroyed; but new certificates 
may from time to time be issued in tneir pla¬ 
ces, and the amount of certificates so redeemed, 
If the same shall be demanded by holders of 
United States Treasury notes ; and certificates 
so issued shall not he used for or computed in 
reserves now required by law to be held by 
national banks for the payment of their circu¬ 
lation and deposits. 
8EMI-BTJS1NESS PARAGRAPHS, 
A great point In the excellent Blanchard 
Churn is the fact that the churning, working 
and salting of the butter Is all done In the 
ohurn without change of dasher. It is, indeed, 
an AUTOMATIC BUTTER MAKER. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS, 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Ilaldwinsvtlle, fif. Y., Oct. 20.— Spring grains 
were nearly all sowed after May 10. Tiie drouth 
that followed prevented a portion upon dry 
land from sprouting, until the first shower June 
10. That portion of grain (which was very 
small.) sown prior to May 10 gave rapid growth, 
but the drouth in June decided Its fate, conse¬ 
quently tho late sown yielded trntch the best. 
The season has been too cold for a large corn 
crop. The potato crop Is a failure, cause un¬ 
known. Beans ditto. The hay crop, including 
the*,see®nd cutting, is a fair average. Wheat 
light. The tobacco crop, which has heretofore 
been to our county (Onondaga) as cotton to 
South Carolina, is fast losing favor, the crop of 
'72 being unsold; with an investment of $50 to 
$75 per acre for growing It, the farmer sorely 
realizes the embarrassment thus produced. I 
think it safe to say there will not be one acre 
set hereafter where there haa been four. The 
vicissitudes utteudlug tobacco culture are too 
many an»l the expense too great for a continu¬ 
ation of its production, at present prices. 
Quito a portion, of the crop grown this season 
Is badly hail cut, and unfit for wrappers. Ap¬ 
ple's are scarce ; buyers are paying about $3 per 
cc.sxnry. He will do nil in his power to aid the 
banks .. The panic has caused a largo decrease 
In the Iron business — The Senate Transporta¬ 
tion Committee has vl6lted Virginia. .Bank¬ 
ruptcy proceedings have been commenced 
against Jay Cooke & Co . .30 deaths in Mem¬ 
phis on the 22d from yellow fever ...Wages on 
tiie Lake Shore railway art- to be reduced 15 to 
20 per cent.... The farmers havo held a conven¬ 
tion at Chicago .. .The Army Ordnance Bureau 
asks for $1,500,000 to arm the forts.Railroad 
interests throughout tho country arc depressed 
. ...John McCarthy, a lawyer of Louisville, haa 
been shot by Joseph Crawford . The National 
Council of the Union League has been in ses¬ 
sion in Philadelphia—The National Board of 
Trade of Chicago discussed the transportation 
problems and advocated Improved water rout es 
_Coal mining is being suspended in Pennsyl¬ 
vania.Andrew Johnson has made a speech 
at Washington. He advocated the Constitution 
.The nurses of Memphis have struck for 
higher wages—$6 per day.The Arch-diocese 
of Baltimore has been consecrated to the Sa¬ 
cred Heart of Jesus.There have been 1,500 
Resolutions by the Northwestern Farmers’ 
Convention. 
A Northwestern Farmers’ Convention met 
at Chicago, Oct. 23. The following resolutions 
wore adopted as the result of its deliberations: 
The duty of a Government is to protect its 
people. Capital directed by unscrupulous 
minds reaps the profits of their labor. Mon of 
great wealth revel in luxury, while those who 
earned the money are destitute of the comforts 
of life, Our State Legislatures havo made 
laws depriving us of our land, for which we 
have a title from the General Government, for 
tho benefit of railroad companies because it 
seemed for the public good. Subsidies have 
been granted them, and Congress has with a 
lavish hand given them public lands, the peo- 
