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The Zanesville Courier, charging Piatt as editor 
of J he Capital, with blackmailing. Piatt claims 
damages in the mini of $ 20 , 000 . 
1 wo mem bore of the Yellowstone expedition 
have returned to Bozeman, Mon., and report 
that the whole party is returning. 
Gov. Caldwell of North Carolina publishes a 
notice in The Savannah Morning News that the 
reward of $0,Odd offered for Gen. M. S. Littlefield 
some years since, will he paid to anv one de¬ 
livering him to the Sheriff or Buncombe 
County. 
The Summit House on the route of the Pacif¬ 
ic Railway in Nevada, was at latest, accounts 
entirely burled by snow. 
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, Miss Adelaide 
Phillips, and the Temple Quartette of Boston 
have been engaged to furnish the musical part 
of the exercises when Mr. George William Cur¬ 
tis delivers big memorial oration on Senator 
Sumner, before the State authorities of Mas¬ 
sachusetts. 
poem, and there will be a eulogy of Mr. Chase 
by the Hon. William M. Kvarts. 
Ex-Speaker .Jewell and bis family are to sail 
for St. Petersburg on the last of the month on 
a visit to his brother. United States Minister to 
Russia. 
The Hon. F. F. Low, late Minister to China, 
lias accepted the Presidency of the Anglo-Cali- 
fornia Bank of San Francisco. 
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A FEARFUL CALAMITY. 
CREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. 
Four Massachusetts Villages Destroyed by the 
Bursting of a Storage. Reservoir. 
A most shocking catastrophe occurred on 
the morning of the 10th inst., in Hampshire 
Co., Mass., near Northampton, by which four 
manufacturing villages were swept away, a 
large number of lives lost, and an immense 
binount. of property destroyed. A largo reser¬ 
voir at Williamsburg, on Mill River, burst sud¬ 
denly between 7 and 8 A.M., and the almost 
immediate result was the overflow end destruc¬ 
tion of several villages, and t he los.=, by drown¬ 
ing, of over one hundred and fifty persons! The 
calamity was not only sudden but fearfully 
heart-rending. Mills, factories and dwellings, 
with their inmates, were swept away almost 
instantaneously by the overflow- The villages 
of Williamsburg,Leeds,Sklimerevilloand llay- 
denvllle were nearly destroyed, while North¬ 
ampton lost several bridges. 
The results of this terrible disaster (the par¬ 
ticulars of which we have not space to give) 
are the loss ol' one hundred and fifty Jives, fifty 
dwellings and twenty factories swept, away, 
two hundred people homeless and one thou¬ 
sand destitute, and the destruction of property 
valued at from one to two millions of dollars. 
Much want and suffering have of course en¬ 
sued, but these will, we trust, 1>« speedily re¬ 
lieved by the sympathetic and benevolent. 
The calamity is one of the most fearful Of the 
kind which ever occurred in this country. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The (’hestcr Co., Pa., Agricultural Society has 
determined to bold a general field trial of hay¬ 
ing implements, such as mowers, tedders, load¬ 
ers and rakes, in the vicinity of West-Chester, 
about the middle of June. The design fa to 
make the trial a thorough one In every partic¬ 
ular. and it will probably occupy nearly a week. 
The judges will be selected from the neighbor¬ 
ing counties. 
The California Senators and Representatives , 
received <m Saturday a telegram signed by the , 
President of the Chamber of Commerce and 
some 75 prominent mercantile Arms of San . 
Francisco, condemning the resolutions of the 
California Legislature, In opposition to a grant f 
of $500,000 additional subsidy for the China mail ] 
service. The signers or this telegraphic me¬ 
morial say that the action of the Legislature c 
was suicidal, and the result of temporary in- i 
fatuatlon, and that if confirmed Jjy Congress it f 
would involve the Joss to A merioanshipping of t 
a portion of the Oriental trade, ami throw it , 
into the hands of subsidized English steamship v 
lines. t 
Small-pox is prevailing in various parts of N 
Georgia, notwithstanding that the newspapers , 
there have discovered tincture of cohosh to be 
a better preventive than vaccination. i 
Jonesboro, 111., has unearthed a porphyry s 
statue of unknown antiquity, and is moved s 
from Its entire to its periphery with admiration a 
thereat. 
Col. Bonn Piatt has entered suit against Mor- i 
timer J). Leggett, Commissioner of Patents, for t 
RU alleged libel recently pulylisbod by him In I 
I)r. Joseph LoConte has been appointed Pres- 
L i( ient of the Coilegu <>f Arts and Sciences of tho 
, Central University of Kentucky, 
n Tho President has signed the act to enable 
the Secretary of War to carry out tho act of 
April 28, fur the relief of the sufferers by' the 
• overflowing of the Mississippi River. 
Mr. Mullet has been in Atlanta, Ga., to select 
a site for a custom house, 
r I ho library of the late Senator Sumner is in 
i process of arrangement at 11 arvard. 
The fifth quinquennial Convocation of the 
> Histere of Charity of North America is in session 
at St. Josepha Convent, near Emmittshiirg, Mil 
Tho Local Option Repeal:bill has been d<v 
feated In tho Pennsylvania House of Represent¬ 
atives. 
In the Massachusetts Senate the resolutions 
! providing for an amendment to the Constitu¬ 
tion to secure tho elective franchise and the 
right to hold office to woman, was refused a 
third reading by 11 Yeas to 10 Nays. 
John H. Hyman, a negro, has been nominated 
for Congress In tho 2nd North Carolina District, 
now represented by C. R. Thomas. 
The President of the United States Centen¬ 
nial Commission announces that the prepara¬ 
tions for an international centennial exhibition 
in 1876 will ho continued without delay. 
The Baxter steam canal boat City of New 
York is reported to have made unexampled 
time on the Erie Canal and to have exceeded 
all previous performances of Mr. Baxter's boats. 
An argument was made before the Commit¬ 
tee on War ('/aims May 13, io favor of paying 
tho citizens of Frederick, Maryland, $ 200,000 
reimbursement for a contribution of the same 
sum levied upon the citizens by the Confed¬ 
erates during the rebellion. 
A. Mr. Bussyof Lake City, Wit, had ids life 
insured for $20,000, and a few days ago, was an¬ 
nounced as being dead. His remains could not 
be seen and be was buried quietly. That is, a 
coffin was buried. Somehow the corpse lias 
turned up in Colorado alive again and well. Of 
late tliis has become a fashionable way of dying, 
but the insurance people have a way of their 
own In resuscitating them. 
I lie St. Paul Pioneer, in an editorial on 
“ Counting Indians," refers 1 o the singular fact 
that an Indian census uniformly counts popula¬ 
tion in lives and tens, and that there are no 
units. Most '>f the tribes have been swindled, 
for though their numbers arc overestimated 
and their allowances proportionately Increased, 
the money does not go to them, hut. to rascally 
agents and contractors. Although counted 
double and paid on that scale, tho actual living 
savages, says the Pioneer, probably receive only 
about one-quarter what an honest census would 
entitle them to, and, as a consequence, they 
arc hostile and often engaged in open warfare. 
An “elopement" is chronicled at Moscow, 
Ky., in which “ the young lady was accompa¬ 
nied by her parents." 
Tom Dollar, an American-born negro, so dis¬ 
tinguished himself as a scout in the Ashantee 
war, for which he volunteered, that Sir Garnet 
Wolseley means to secure him a good berth 
timlcr government, if possible. He was wound¬ 
ed in one of tho fights, and altogether was a 
soldier of note. 
There are saldj to be fifteen hundred persons | 
in the prisons oJ tho United States for counter¬ 
feiting money. t 
The Alaska fur trade Is not a bad thing for t he ■ 
United States treasury. The Government re¬ 
ceives $262,000 direct. The skins of the seals J 
are taken to London, cured and brought to the j 
L nited states, and tho duties paid amount to 5 
$ 200,000 more. 
Nearly 050 applications have been made for I j 
admission to the School of Natural History at < 
Pemikese. ' 
Speaking of the declarations concerning the j 
co-education of the races made at the recent 
Colored Convention at Nashville, The Banner t 
ol tliat citysays that it conscientiously believes 5 
that the negroes ns a mass do not desire to t 
press the question of mixed schools, and it c 
would perhaps bo Injustice to hold them en- 
tiredy responsible for a formal declaration" s 
which, it thinks, was inspired by some politl- s 
clan whose face is w hiter than his conscience, j, 
the petition of Alice Mason Sumner, formerly 
married to the late Senator Sumner, for permis¬ 
sion to change her name to Alice Mason, was ^ 
granted by Judge Ames, in the probate Court 
at Boston, 
Tl, e lion. George B. Loring, President of the s 
Massachusetts Senate, gives the oration before c 
The new Spanish Ministry announced May 13, 
is as followsPresident of the Council and 
Minister of War Zabala: Minister of the Inte- 
e rior—Sagasta ; Foreign Affairs- flloa ; Finance 
" —Camacho; Justice Alonzo Martinez ; Public 
Works—Alonzo Golmenaros; Colonies—Itorne- 
‘ | roOrtez; Marino—Rodriguez Arias. 
_ Great Britain has been thrown Into a condi¬ 
tion itf painful excitement by the discovery, 
consequent upon the change of ministry, that 
" her 85 great Iron-clad ships, her vast fleet of 
gunboats, her 60 , 0 (K) trained seamen, constitute 
after all but a “phantom navy." formidable 
enough on paper but hardly able to go to sea. 
Mr. Ward Hunt, the new First Lord of the Ad¬ 
miralty, gives notice that be shall want a lib- 
oral vote of money this year, for he means to 
have a fleet much more worthy tho traditional 
glory of JSngland. 
Fho Grand Duke Nicholas Constantine is at 
the head of the Russian Scientific Expedition 
which hits left 8 t. Petersburg to explore the 
1 Valley of A mon-Darla, In Central Asia. 
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Archdalc Wilson, knighted 
for services at the capture of Delhi in 1857, Is 
dead. 
Montreal people are still enjoying sleighing. 
M. Pertuiset, a French scientist, is exploring 
Terra-del-Fuego, and expects to find mineral 
deposits there, having already found traces of 
copper. 
An International Congress of tho Geograph¬ 
ical Sciences will be field in Paris in the spring 
of the year 1875. The geographers and travelers 
of all countries will be called to attend it. 
Simultaneously with the Congress will take 
place an exhibition of maps and geographical 
implements and instruments. 
Advices from Guatemala via Panama bring a 
startling story of tho arrest and brutal whip¬ 
ping of the English Vice-Consul by Col. Gon¬ 
zales, tho Commandants of Kan Jose. Gonzales, 
In trying to escape, was shot and probably fa¬ 
tally wounded. 
A marriage is arranged between Prince Gre- 
goire Bassarabade Brancovan and Mile Rnlouka 
Muslims, daughter of the Turkish Ambassador 
at tho Court of St. James. The Prince de Han- 
6(1 vail is t he son of Prince George Bibesco, some 
time reigning prince, and of the Princess Zoc 
de Brancovan, tlio representative of a family 
which was for 1CKI years sovereigns of Wallachia. 
A special dispatch from St. Petersburg to 
London reports the arrest of the Grand Duke 
Nicholas, brother of the Czur. 
The French National Assembly met May 12at 
Versailles. 
The famine In Anatolia (Asia Minor) contin¬ 
ues, many persons havingboen starved to death, 
England has decided to erect her various de¬ 
pendencies on tho Gold Coast into a colony, 
and to appoint a resident, governor, 
England reports the accession of 190,000 Good 
Templars within the past two years. 
A report Is current at Amsterdam that the 
Crown Prince of Holland will marry tho Prin¬ 
cess Thyra ol Denmark. 
Kir Hurtle From has presented Mr. Thomas 
and Mr. Oswell Livingstone,the twosonsof the 
late Dr. Livingstone, to tho Queen. 
Cardinal Cullen, in a letter to his clergy, statcB 
that tho Roman Catholic Church is now perse¬ 
cuted in almost all the countries of Europe, 
lie reminds them that the Pope lias been strip- 
lied of his liberty, and many of the bishops ol 
their Church have been sentenced to imprison¬ 
ment or exile. ‘ 
The Committee for erecting a statue of the ! 
late Emperor Napoleon in Milan has intrusted 
the work to Signor Barzaghl, a sen Iptor of great 
reputation. The statue will be of bronze, rep- * 
resenting the late Emperor, to whom it is raised 
in token of Italian gratitude, on horseback. 
Tho Princess Louise of England is to be mar¬ 
ried to Prince Ferdinand of Saxony next Au- . 
gust. , 
The director of the Freemasons’ School at , 
Bordeaux has been sentenced to a fine of 200 
franca because noRoman Catholic religious in¬ 
struction was given in the school. 
The Pans correspondent of the Independence ' 
Beige writes that M. Rochefort has informed 
one of his friends that he will take up his resi¬ 
dence In London and recommence there the c 
publication 0 / the Lanternc. 1 
Dr. Prutz and Prof. Bepp have been charged . 
by the German Government to direct the exca- 8 
vat ions ut Tyre, from whicli Interesting discov- £ 
cries relative to the history of the crusades are 8 
expected. 
It is said tho Chinese authorities meditate <: 
sending at no distant date an experimental * 
squadron of two or more of their new fleet ori ' 
a voyage to Europe. , 
can hardly realize that It is nearly the middle 
of May. It has been, however, an extraordi¬ 
nary sugar season. What quantities of maple 
sugar have been made! From the 10th of 
March to the present time more or less sap has 
been gathered every week. From three to 
f< tir pounds to I lie tree is no uncommon yield. 
The quality Is not Iho best, as a rule, In conse¬ 
quence of the frequent storms or rain and snow 
by which it was more or less affected. Price, 8 
to 10 cents by the quantity. Farmers have 
done very little at spring work yet. Scarcely 
any grain i« .sown, with ttie exception of wheat. 
Work at least two weeks late. Fields and 
pasturage just, beginning to appear a little 
green ; forest trees a 3 black as in mid-winter, 
nearly. Cold thunder shower May 9, since 
which the weather has been warmer, and the 
present prospect is encouraging. The birds are 
delighted. Summer is coming!— 1 , w. s. 
Yiticlnnd, N. J., May 11..— Spring very cold 
arid backward. Rain almost every other day 
through April. May coming in warm; fruit 
treeji In full bloom and a good show for fruit 
Meal and feed, $1.75 per 100 . Wheat bran, $ 2 ; 
potatoes. D0c.<&$l; Timothy hay, $30 per ton; 
Glover, $18<R20; salt hay, $156i.l8, delivered in 
town. Money tight, work very plenty, both 
farm and mechanics. Real estate, lively and 
changing hands. Many Eastern people coming 
in.— A. E. M. 
SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS. 
We would cnl 1 die niicnilon of Managers of 
Butter Factories and large Dairies, to the ad¬ 
vertisement in another column of the new Fac¬ 
tory Churn, made by Porter Blanchard’s 
Sons, Concord, N. II. The well-known repu¬ 
tation of their celebrated Churns, and the 
Tact, that they have expended much time and 
thought iu making these new sizes, are suf¬ 
ficient guarantees that they are just what is 
needed in every first-class Factory or large 
Dairy. 
tST Read their Advertisement. 
THE MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New Yolk, Monday, May J8, 1874. 
Kcrelpre.-Tffi. receipt* of the principal Hinds of 
produce for tho past week are 11s follows • 
Kgg*. bbls.. 18.500 Corn meal, bills. 2,378 
Cotton, bales. .... 8,829 Corn meal. bags,... 2,331 
Dried I mils. pkgs. 119, Hops, bales. ivi 
fid" r . bids . /'.T.flXI 1 Fork, bills. 631 
\V heat. bush.1,2fW,0W Beef, pices. 120 
Corn, bush.. 675,(1*4) Cut meats, pkgs... 4 iu ( i 
Oats, basil. 319,301 l.urd. ten.... .. . 6 065 
Grass Seed, bush — Batter, pkgs. 2L700 
live.bush .......... 37. 0(1 Cltoese, pkgs.. ll.RV, 
Barley, bush. tCGO Peanuts, bugs. 1,149 
Beans, tvusli. 1,340 
Ilea as 11 uci I*cn w.—F.v ports of beans past week 
3..J IiIjIb,; of pea*. 2,375 hush, The mn-k. t Is firmer 
fo beans I boro is no wholesale trade -till the 
Jobbing mil is extensive enough fur home am) Fast¬ 
er ri use pi form gulte a volume or trade, and 1 tic 
new figures for medium* are well supported. Mar¬ 
rows cau hold their own at the present rate of sun- 
p y. Fin Imam, are a shade In her. Groen jievs are 
higher for the small offerings. Canadian pens are 
lea-.active nud prleea nre easier. Southern B )•; 
pea* scarce and high. 
The quotation* areMediums,#I.S0®1 ,95 for prime 
,or v-noies.pn, 10 . marrowfats; 
“»h« r untile*.M.liMUft: prime pen henna 
dwtHir lore down to «a 2 .in khK 
red. *4@4.A: kidney white, S2.4ij;.y'.<i0. 1 - new 
Canadian, In bill*, free. id.2b; do. m bulk 
and bond. 95e.c#$l-fK; Green, new. tUfifeiM/O. south¬ 
ern U. F, peas, Jr 2 bush.bag. 
Becvviix.—'Trudp la falling off, ntnl prices rule 
weak. Sales at 33@35 for Western and Southern. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Lyudocivllle, Vt., May 11,-What a bright, 
sunny, dellglitrul spring day! After a long, 
cold, dreary April such a pleasant day as the 
nf ’ . y6Jir ' preB6Dt ls really Arming. Everything is so 
f ‘ v ““A' 1 ) Rverott of Cambridge gives the backward; evpi) with t-bjs delightful (jay w<? 
IS room Cot'll—Is selling slowly. Gre.cn burl, 8 fl) 
lie.; green, short and medium, 7 <Uj9o.; red ami red- 
toppod, (kjtfo. 
II 11 tier.- Receipts are uninterruptedly liberal, and 
many piireolaare arriving or good grass col or. White 
is consequently very apt lo lniye a wide range on 
days that show iui accumulation 0 / it. Present ouo- 
tatiomi are nil the market will stand. 32e. I- extreme 
for any' large State packages, ;< ad 35c. for best do. 
pails. For Western fee. is outside for selected, and 
rhe probability Is that buyers will be favored, old 
is of no account, on June I7ih u convention of those 
•ipuiis #LClJ * n VVc * ler ' 1 butter win be held ttt Indiun- 
XKW BCTTER. 
State lancy pails, togroerrs; 
Orange Co. and Creumery.. axj 
Good to prime. 31 Jj.oo 
Fair to good. .. .* ...V... ."" 30 ^31 
State, hulf-tirkin tubs, selected... 32 /a— 
do. good to prime. an ,aai 
do. fair to good ..... .23 a.30 
Welsh tubs, selected. . 32 
do. good to prime. 30 
do. tnlr to good. 20 
— do. poor to lair... , . ..7 
Pennsylvania flmry, good to prime.30 @32 
Fair to good . .. g Mm 
W. It. & Michigan lactory, selected.28 @“>9 
do. good r.o prime. '<7 )~ oa 
do. fair to go. d.IL.. 26 I?? 
tubs, good to prime.27 @28 
Western, tubs, good to prime. 26 ^07 
„ Cheeoe.—Exports for the week. 13,050 boxes. In¬ 
creased receipt* have weakened tie n arket ITade 
Is slow from shippers, wRh a moderate home trade. 
new cheese. 
State, factory, fine. i 5 uri 8 H« 
State, factory, good to prime.i'""” 15 @ 15 k 
State, factory, lair to good.... n U la 
State, factory, linif-sklmmed. 9 mu 
Stair, factory, skim me ,1 .'_* 5 ,, 
Statu, farm dairy, good to prime.. . . tix @15 
State, farm dairy, fair to good .. 13 kit 
Onto, factory, flat, good to prime. liwicii 
Ohio, lactory, fiat, lair to good...};( ( fi 4 
Ohio, factory, skimmed. C @9 
C'oi ton.—Prices have again advanced under light 
-i l . > irKSSla, 7 ;;.“ ,,rp '■"««« '* “*«" 
, Wu qhdt?:- 'uutuiirn allcud apples. 18Js@1le. for 
It™ JK'Goc f ortapo do. Stet-e sliced . 14 15c. 
» I . l . H JL C ' n ' 1,; Western, l- '/'■> 13>jr. for 1H78 crop. 
Blackberries ipioted ut 2(l@e. Peeled peaches. 
North Carolina. 28@ 
,r 8 ’n | a. 22@24c.; uupeelert, 12@Ue. for halves 
nnd BJf&lOe. for quartern. Fitted cherries, 30@33c. 
Raspberries, J2@34o. Plums, 2U@22u. 
Eggs,—Spring item? of market truck and ?had 
