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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Sixty-five locomotives have been ordered for 
Russia, from a Arm In Paterson, N. J. 
Gov. Hendricks of Indiana is convinced that 
a dignified reticence on the inflation question 
is Just now eminently becoming to a man In his 
position. A correspondent of The Cincinnati 
Enquirer found him In that frame of mind, and 
wits only able to extort from’him au assertion 
that he had been constantly In favor of a strong 
greenback currency and of an increase of it if 
more Is demanded by the business Interests of 
the country. He did not think free banking 
would bo either popular or sound national pol¬ 
icy. The people would be afraid of such pro¬ 
miscuous currency. 
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher makes this 
comprehensive reply to an anxious questioner 
who is desirous of knowing whether a man can 
love his second wife as well as the first“That 
depends on what sort of a wife the first was 
and what kind of life the second leads him.” 
The Hon. Israel Washburn, ex-Govcrnor and 
CX-Oongressman, Is announced as a candidate 
for the United Stales Senatorship from Maine, 
to succeed Senator Hamlin. 
The St. Louis Manufacturers’Association is 
the name <>f a now organization established In 
that city for the purpose of promoting its in¬ 
dustrial Interests. 
It Is reported hero that the arrangements for 
starting Gen. Butler's new organ in Boston 
have gone forward so far that the managing 
editor and principal editorial writer have al¬ 
ready been selected. The paper. It is said, is to 
be a two-cent morning sheet, and, besides ad¬ 
vocating UutJarfsm in general, it will give 
special attention to cultivating the labor 
movement. 
The new Professor of Mathematics in Antioch 
College, Ohio, Is Miss Rebecca Rice, who lias 
been for sotno time past qualifying herself In 
Europe for the position. 
The Selma, Rome, and Dalton Railroad is to 
lie sold ou Tuesday, June 30, by order of the 
Chancellor. 
The Michigan Poinological Society meets at 
Adrian in June. 
Syracuse, N. Y., turned out 43,000,000 pounds 
of salt last year. 
Ityc in Pulaski Co., Ga., is live feet high. 
There are over 00,000 Patrons in Kentucky, 
At White Pine, Nov., mahogany is used for 
fuel. 
The Cotton Association of St. Louis has deci¬ 
ded to offer premiums aggregating $10,000 for 
cotton to be exhibited at tho Annual Fair of t he 
St. Louis Agricult ural and Mechanical Asso¬ 
ciation next October. 
The fanners of V irglnia will hold a State Con¬ 
vention at, Richmond on May 30. 
The Louisiana State Agricultural and Me¬ 
chanical College is going into operation in 
Now Orleans* 
A theological class for ladies is about to bo 
inaugurated at Edinburgh by Prof. Maegregor 
of the Free Church College. 
The Mil exempting colleges from taxation 
hus Anally passed tho Pennsylvania House of 
Representatives. The Philadelphia Age op¬ 
poses this bill Oh the grounds that it com¬ 
pletely ignores the Constitution, and also en¬ 
acts a statute that must lie pronounced null 
by the courts. 
The Harvard crew are reported to be prac¬ 
ticing a new style of rowing, of which their 
trainer haatholcd them. 
Gen. N. P. Banks will deliver the Decoration 
Day address at Fall River. 
The West Virginia Superintendent of Free 
Schools proposes to establish six normal insti¬ 
tutes in the State for the Improvement of its 
teachers, such improvement lie intimates, be¬ 
ing much needed. Tho meetings will all be 
liehl hi July with tho exception of the first ap¬ 
pointed for June. 
An institution to be called the Agassiz Col¬ 
lege is to be established at Red Wing, Minn. 
The Houso Committee on Elections have 
agreed to report, in the contest of Maxwell 
against Cannot), that Cannon of Utah js enti¬ 
tled to bis Reat in the House of Representa¬ 
tives, having been elected in accordance with 
the forms of law, and that they have no power 
to Inquire Into the question an to whether his 
legal right thuB established can be invalidated 
and set aside by reason of his being a poly¬ 
gamist. 
The demand for railroad Iron is so slight that 
the principal mills in Ohio, Indiaaa, and Ken¬ 
tucky are idle, and have not a single order to 
execute. 
A Chicago company has undertaken to build 
a bridge across the Missouri at Atchison, Kan¬ 
sas, wit.liin t welve months. 
Mr. Vanderbilt has donated an additional 
$100,000 to tho Vanderbilt University of Nash¬ 
ville, to be used as a building fund, in order 
that the University buildings may be coln- 
pleted in accordance with the plans and speci¬ 
fications heretofore approved by him. 
Dr. 1. I. Hayes, the experienced Arctic ex¬ 
plorer, will repres »t the American Geo¬ 
graphical Society at the milennial celebration 
in Iceland. Ho will sail for England about 
June Land will sail from Dundee for Iceland, 
in a vessel chartered for that purpose, about 
June 80. He will explore portions of Iceland 
never before visited. 
The trustees of Cornell University have called 
t.o tbc new professorship of Hebrew and Orien¬ 
tal literature and history, Dr. Felix Adler of 
Now York, a son of Rabbi Adler, graduate <>f 
Columbia College, holding his doctorate of 
philosophy from Heidelberg, and a Jew by 
religion as well as race. The selection is en¬ 
tirely appropriate, as the chair is endowed by 
the banker, Heligmaii, and a few other Jews. 
There was a good deal of grumbling at the 
State University in the California Legislature, 
but the end of it. was a larger appropriation 
than ever before, the total being $80,000 for t he 
next two years, of which $15,000 Is to be ex¬ 
pended to the agricultural department, and 
$5,000 toward the library. 
Chief-Justice Waite of the Supreme Court Ims 
delivered his first, opinion, sustaining the right 
Of a State to tax non-resident national bank 
share holders at the residence of the bank. 
The most, thoroughly buruod-out-of-houae- 
and-home man In the United States, I • Charles 
Williams of Portland, M ;. Sovon times during 
the past year lias his residence been consumed. 
“Jim” Shoaff, editor of tho Parts (III.) Ga- 
zette, committed suicide recently by taking 
poison. He was well known to the journalists 
of the Northwest, by whom he was esteemed 
for his many generous qualities. 
Omaha claims to have a Russian nobleman in 
Its telegraph office. His name in Alexis A. de 
Perwlnoff, and the Count was exiled for hie 
republican predilections. 
Another old letter from Senator Sumner is 
now published fur I he first, time. It was written 
While lie was recovering slowly from t he assault 
of Brooks, and tho following extract shows 
how earne d I v lie was longing to return to the 
work which had cost him so dearly:—“My 
strength is coming, slowly, slowly, but I think 
at Inst surely. With inexpressible pain I have 
seen pass away the opportunity of speaking 
from my seat at this sosslon, in exposure of the 
trueclmraotorof Slavery and its influence on 
mir country—the greatest, opportunity of my 
life lost forever I" 
Senator Washburn's successor in the Gover¬ 
norship of Massachusetts will be Thomas Tal¬ 
bot of Ifillerica, the Lieutenant-Governor, who 
la a very wealthy manufacturer, and has been 
long prominent ill the local politics of IheState. 
Ex-President Johnson has promised to write 
out the history of Ills attempt to get Gov. An¬ 
drew into liis cabinet, which lie thinks would 
have been successful had not the Governor 
died. 
Mr. II. S. Lane, Vice-President of the Indiana 
Mexican War Veterans’ Association, has in¬ 
vited the members of that body to meet in a 
State Convention, in Indianapolis, on May 87. 
Tho temperance women of Ithaca, N. Y., 
have bought out a saloon-keeper in that place, 
and will establish on the premises a temper¬ 
ance restaurant, where a cup of coffee, with 
sugar and milk, will be furnished for five cents, 
and other h arid less refreshments at similar 
rates. 
A man living on a farm in Alabama was or¬ 
dered by the Ku-Klux to leave, but instead of 
so doing lie remained and shot throe of them. 
During the past year 100,00(1 acres of land 
were burned over lu New Jersey, at a loss of 
$1,000,000. The greater portion of this devasta¬ 
tion was caused by sparks from passing loco¬ 
motives, in view of which legislation lias been 
urged to change the common law rule that 
railroad corporations are only responsible when 
negligence is proved, 
California holds that mutual aid societies arc 
insurance companies within the meaning of 
all the various State laws for such cases made 
and provided. 
A systematic gentleman of Holyoke, Mass,, 
was united in wedlock, on Sunday last, to a 
young lady whom lie had been training for the 
position of ills wife ever since she was two 
years old. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
Another insurrection is reported to have 
broken out in Japan. 
A flood at Bagdad, caused by an overflow of 
the Tigris, has destroyed a great amount of 
property, and several persons are reported 
drowned. 
It is announced that Prince Milan of Servla 
I will proceed to Constantinople on the 33d inst., 
I accompanied by his Prime Minister, Minister 
of War, and two Councillors of State. He also 
I intends to visit the courts at Berlin and Rome. 
Adam Salomon, the great French sculptor, is 
engaged upon a bust of Pius IX. It is intended 
for the gallery of the Vatican, and will be 
placed side by side with the busts of His Holi¬ 
ness's predecessors in the hail of the busts of 
the Popes. 
Rear Admiral Rlbourt is on his way from 
France to New Caledonia, where he is to in¬ 
vestigate how Rochefort and his companions 
escaped. 
The Duchess Dowager of Leeds, who died 
recently in England, was an American, having 
been t he third daughter of Richard Caton of 
Maryland. 
According to a telegram from Kingston, 
Jamaica, dated April 33, disturbances were 
still feared during the Presidential election in 
Hayti. The Legislative Chambers wore sitting 
for the constitutional election of a President. 
Appeals are published in Loudon to the 
charitable for assistance for Mr. Bellow, the 
elocutionist, whoso illness continues. 
The Times, London, commenting on the 
failure of tho Senate to pass the Finance Bill 
over President. Grant's veto, remarks that it is 
probable that the danger of Increasing the 
paper currency has been permanently avoided, 
and advises tho substitution of United States 
Treasury currency for tho present national 
bunk issue. 
It is stated that immigration from Great 
Britain to Canada tills year will be very small 
In consequence of the great inducements 
offered by the Australian Government. 
The gross receipts of the British railways 
have been more than doubled In fourteen 
years. 
Printing paper has been made successfully 
in Scot land from reeds grown on the banks of 
the Tay. 
King Cacaban’s treasury was hopelessly bank¬ 
rupt when he ceded his kingdom—the Fiji 
Islands to England. 
Iiitolllgencc lias reached here that a famine 
prevails in Asia. Minor, and that many persons 
arc starving. It Is stated that in tho town of 
Angora alone one hundred deat hs occur daily 
from starvation. 
A gambling hell lias been established In Cairo, 
Egypt. Probably they play mostly Pha’ro. 
Archdeacon Patton of Belleville, Canada, is 
dead. 
A decree of Captain-General Concha doubles 
the amount of the new taxes in Cuba when 
paid in paper currency. 
Au important expedition has left Ottawa, in 
charge of Mr. lioratsky, to explore tho country 
between 8tikerie River and Butte Inlet, in 
British Columbia. This section ombracos the 
Gardner and Doan Channels and the lion trick 
Arm. The party will ascertain tho capacity of 
these channels ami whether a favorable route 
can lie found between either of thorn and the 
North Bend of the Frazer River. 
A story is told that there has boon a serious 
difficulty requiring even diplomatic interven¬ 
tion. in regard to the rank and precedence of 
the Duchess of Edinburg. At all events, there 
seems to be some disappointment at Clarence 
House. It is said that Hie Duchess lias been 
struck by the sudden change from tho cordial 
demonstrations which graced her arrival, and 
the humdrum obscurity into which she has 
since fallen. Nobody knows her, or takes any 
notice of her, except in llydo Park. 
Great Britain growB from her 3,000,000 acres 
sown with wheat, 34,000,000 of bushels of grain. 
Michigan from 1,250,000"aerqs grows 16,000,000 of 
bushels. 
The President of tho Argentine Republic de¬ 
sires to send five or six graduates Of the Mili¬ 
tary School of bis Country to complete tlieir 
education at West Point. 
The British House of Commons lias voted 
General Sir Garnet Wolseley a grant Of £35,000. 
By way of heading off future Tichborne claim¬ 
ants, a Frenchman suggests that all babies be 
tattooed with their names as soon as born. He 
would have parents required to attend to tills 
duty by law. 
At the anual meeting of the Dominion Edi¬ 
tors and Reporters’ Association, held at Ottawa, 
T. Whyte of Montreal, was elected President; 
A. H. Dymoiid of Toronto, Vice-President; 
and T. J. Richardson, of Toronto. Secretary. 
Prince GortsehakMT, Gen. Schouvaloff, and 
the Grand Dukes Alexis, Vladimir, and Con¬ 
stantine will accompany tho Czar on his visit 
to England. 
Mr. John Holker, who was lately appointed 
Solicitor-General of Great Britain, iias been 
re-elocted to Parliament from Preston. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Condition of Winter Wheat.—From advanced 
sheets of tho Department of Agriculture’s 
Monthly Report, we summarize the condition 
of winter wheat, for April as followsReturns 
indicate Hie crop as more generally promising 
than at this period for several years past. About 
one-fourth of the counties In the Ohio Valley 
report an unfavorable appearance; the major¬ 
ity represent It above the average. Few unfa¬ 
vorable returns have been received iron Mis¬ 
souri and Kansas. One-twelfth of the wheat 
product oT New England is fall sown; it has 
suffered injury in consequence of being uncov¬ 
ered with snow and from occasional thaws, 
Six-sevenths of tb « crop of New York is fall 
sown. Favorable reports are more numerous 
than the unfavorable. New Jersey reports no 
unfavorable condition. Pennsylvania returns 
but four counties as presenting an unfavorable 
condition. Delaware reports from average to 
fifty per cent, better than last year. Maryland 
makes no unfavorable return. Sixty-four Vir¬ 
ginia counties represent the prospect good tor 
an excellent crop. The cotton States report 
almost a uniform high condition of tint crop. 
West Virginia reports are generally good—only 
one county, Pendleton, reporting an exception. 
Two-thirds of Ohio makes favorable returns. 
But few counties in Michigan complain. Sev¬ 
enty per cent, of Indiana make favorable re¬ 
turns, and few counties in Illinois give unfa¬ 
vorable reports. The reports from Wisconsin, 
Minnesota and Iowa—small growers of winter 
wheat—are favorable. Missouri, which grows 
fall-sown wheat almost altogether, reports 
little cause for complaint. But threo counties 
in Kansas report low condition. Reports from 
California are variable—many reporting too 
much rain—“good except on low land.” As a 
whole, the prospect of tho crop is grat ifying. 
Oxford, Milliner Co., Knu., \pril 21.—The 
immigration to this County has been large this 
spring, and continues to come every day; wheat 
is looking bettor than I ever saw wheat at this 
season of the year; the constant, freezing and 
thawing dues not affect, it, in Kansas as In other 
Btates. Our farmers and Btock men have com¬ 
menced turning their stock upon the green 
grass. The clover and Blue grass t hat was sown 
this spring is up nicely. Many have already 
planted their corn. Peanuts will be planted 
largely, us they yield from 100 to 300 bushels to 
the aero. Cotton will also be planted exten¬ 
sively. Peaches and apples are safe, and we 
hope to have an abundant yield of fruit. Corn 
is worth her© 50c.; wheat, $1.35; oats, 35c.: pea¬ 
nuts, $1.75; Irish potatoes, 90o. Farmers are 
delayed somewhat by the heavy rains,- w. It. C. 
Rochester, V V., May 1. - The season is very 
backward. Little plowing ami very litt le sow¬ 
ing done yet. The ground has been frozen solid 
every morning since Sunday last, nml there are 
yet patches of snow in tho corners of the 
fences, the remains of a fall of ten inches last 
Saturday night and Sunday morning. Feed is 
becoming very scarce and many farmers are 
compelled to turn all stock, except cows and 
working horses, into the fields to pick what 
they can. As a result, corn and oats have ad¬ 
vanced until they can hardly be had except by 
Rending to Buffalo. Farmers who kept their 
potatoes over winter are now soiling at about 
one dollar a bushel as against average price last 
fall of 50 cents or less. f. 
Klmron Center, Montgomery Go., N. W, 
A|>ril 21*. It may be news to many Uuiul 
readers that we arc in the midst of u groat 
snowstorm just now. Saturday last It began 
to snow from the northeast, with a driving 
wind. Sunday morning th© snow was knee 
deep from tny house to the barn, and the snow 
w;is heavy. To-day It snows and LIowb from 
the northwest, February like. The frost is out 
of the ground, so it will not hurt grass. Hay is 
quite scarce, worth from $15 to $18 a ton. There 
is n<< grain for sale among farmers of any kind. 
Oats are worth 52c.; corn, 85c.; cows, $I0@50; 
butter, 36©.; eggs, 15c.; hired help, $157,35 a 
month and board.— 8yl.vf.stkk Lkiiman. 
North Sutton, X. II., April 2H. We have had 
a curious winter here lu Central New Hamp¬ 
shire. To-day there are 8 or 10 Inches of snow; 
on the 35th and 80th snow fell to the depth of 
18 inches and very heavy at that. No spring 
work done yet of any amount. Yesterday teams 
were running logs into the mills, and the sleds 
ran very nice for April. Wheat is about $1.50; 
cum, $1(51.10; pot atoes, 55® 70e.; oats, 50(5 00c., 
and $1 for seed; buckwheat, 60c.; hay, timothy, 
$15® 18 per ton. P. S.- April 30t h lias snowed 
all day ; Cor 8 Inches have fallen, and it is still 
snowing; looks hard for spring's work. Grass 
has not. started a particle.—J. T. m. 
Iin> drill, Wi*., April 20.—We had a heavy 
snow storm the 23d of October, and have had 
fine sleighing all the time since. Weather cold 
in November; pleasant and mild during the 
winter months; March and April cold. Two 
feet of snow In the woods now. The reports 
from the new iron mine at Penoka Range are 
very favorable; there will bo considerable pros¬ 
pecting along the south shore this summer, 
both for iron and silver. The winters are too 
long and severe to make it pleasant or profit¬ 
able here. 
1'alncBville, O., April 27,—Very backward 
spring. Snowing again to-day. Fruit prospects 
continue good. Wheat looks fair— not as good 
as last fall.—ii. 
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