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JULY 4 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The Rev. Mr. Parks objected to eating his 
picnic dinner at Morn, Cal., under the Ameri¬ 
can flag, remarking that “ that rag through 
which he had put many a bullet hole" dis¬ 
turbed his enjoyment. Ou the following Sun¬ 
day, as Mr. Parks took his place in the pulpit 
he found un American Hag hanging from it. 
Ho was about to pull it down, when Mr. Miller, 
who placed It, there, after hearing his Unloyul 
speech at the picnic, quietly rose and present¬ 
ed a.‘pistol, advising him to go on with his 
preaching and let t he flag alone. Miller sat on 
the front seat with his linger on the trigger, 
ready for any allusion derogatory to the flag. 
At the conclusion of the sermon Mr. Miller 
made a motion that the church had no further 
use for the services of Mr. Parks, which was 
unanimously carried. Mr. Parks left Moro,«nd 
another minister is wanted there. 
Last year the National Secretary of the 
Grangers, at Washington, received nearly £7,000 
for salary and arrears, beside other perquisites. 
Henry Burton Jones, evidently « patent-right 
dealer, who claimed to have friends in Saratoga, 
N. Y., was found dead in bed in Toledo, Ohio, 
on Thursday, with an empty laudanum bottle 
lying beside him. Ho had been dissipated for 
several days, became short of funds, and dually 
despondent. 
The License law recently passed by the Mas¬ 
sachusetts Legislature was vetoed by Lieut.- 
Gov. Talbot last week. 
San Francisco claims to have exported $1,034,- 
537,215 in gold und silver in twenty-live years. 
Advices from New England and the North¬ 
western States predict an unusually lurgo apple 
crop. 
The Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Rail¬ 
road Compuny have obtained control of the 
Syracuse Northern Railroad, and wil) take pos¬ 
session on the 1st of July. The first-mentioned 
company has in operation 310 miles of road. 
At Baden, in Beaver County, Pa., at a barn 
raising, about twenty men at woik on a scaffold 
were thrown to the ground by the giving way 
of the support. They fell about thirty feet, 
Silas McPherson was killed, and eleven others 
wore seriously injured. 
It was rumored in Washington that Messrs, 
Cat toll and Blow have declined their appoint¬ 
ments to bo commissioners of the District. 
The Republican Convention of the Fifth Con¬ 
gressional District of Iowa, nominated by ac¬ 
clamation the Hon. James Wilson for ro-elee- 
tion. In the Eighth Iowa District J. w. MoDlll 
wa* nominated. 
The people of Parowan, Utah, are considera¬ 
bly excited over the discovery In a cave in that 
vicinity of five dead bodies—three males and 
two females. The Salt Lake Tribune insinuates 
that, they are the victims of the Mormon doc¬ 
trine of " blood atonement.” 
A gentleman writing from San Francisco, 
June 11, saysCalifornia lias never been In 
Abcli a state of prosperity as at the present 
time. The harvest promises to bo the largest, 
ever gathered in the State; and mining opera¬ 
tions of all kinds are giving vast amounts of 
gold, silver, lead, and quicksilver. The fruit 
crop is equally abundant. The markets are full 
of st rawberries and cherries, and the grape crop 
is equally promising." 
The New York State Association for the 
Preservation of Game and Fish have called a 
national sportsmen’s convention to meet at 
Niagara Falls on the iith or September. 
A brother to the late Governor Andrew of 
Massachusetts, who was recently dismissed by 
Collector Simmons from a clerkship In the 
! Boston Custom House, has been reinstated by 
order of the Treasury. 
Moses Jordan, 70 years of age, committed 
suicide in Westchester, Pa., on Friday night, 
by jumping from a second-story window of the 
tfherman House. He leaves an estate esti¬ 
mated at £100,000 to £200,000, with few, if any, 
relatives to claim it. 
The Kev. Mr. Harris of Phillipston, Mass., 
was run over and instantly killed liy a train on 
the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, ut 
Athol, ou Saturday afternoon, 27th ult. 
Mr. Theodore Tilton has published a letter in 
Which t he accusations against Henry Ward 
Beecher take more definite form und seem to 
demand explanation. No response has as yet 
been made by Mr. Beecher or his friend*. 
Congress abolished the Territorial Govern¬ 
ment or the District of Columbia and provided 
Tor the appointment of Commissi oners to ad¬ 
minister its affairs. The President appointed 
as one of the Commissioners Gov. Shepherd, 
whom it was the object of Congress to legislate 
out of office and the Senate properly refused to 
confirm the nomination. A. G. Cottell was 
nominated and confirmed in his place. 
Syracuse is in mourning because a faultily 
constructed church In which a festival was 
being hold, collapsed, killing 15 persons and 
injuring 100. Would It not bo wise to hang the 
architect and builder? 
The following from au exchange is a singular 
commentary of the average official of tin* pro¬ 
gressive age:—“The trials of policemen upon 
charges preferred by citizens were postponed 
on account of the pending trial of the Police 
Commissioners at the Court of Oyer and Ter- 
mliier. 1 * 
The Democrats of the 1st Ohio District are 
said to be unanimously in favor of sending the 
Hon. George H. Pendleton to Congress, with a 
view to placing him on the track for the Presi¬ 
dential nomination. The Cleveland Pluindealer 
telU him bluntly that If he wants to he Presi¬ 
dent he had better keep out of Congress, 
Two weeks ago, Mrs. Cook or Blount County, 
Ala., missed her three children, the eldest only 
six years of age. Search was made and they 
were found drowned in the well. Mrs. Cook 
went crazy, and two or three days ago escaped 
from her attendants, and drowned herself in 
the game well. 
Dr. Samuel Kneeland, Secretary of the Bos¬ 
ton Institute of Technology, has sailed for 
Iceland to attend the milennial celebration. 
He Intends also to visit Mt. Hecla.tbe Geysers, 
and the wild sconery or the volcanoes and 
fiords of Iceland and Norway, and to go far 
North enough to see the midnight sun. 
I he California wine interest is rapidly grow¬ 
ing. One proprietor at St, Helena has just 
completed a wine cellar capable of storing 76,- 
500 gallons. 
The collecting of au Infamous dog-tax has 
compelled a poor man in Sangamon, Ill., to 
take his children out of school that they may 
go to work and earn mouey to pay the law's 
exactions. 
The jffioial vote in Oregon for Congressman 
was:- Ludlow, Democrat, 8,642; Williams, Re¬ 
publican, 9,340; Davenport, Independent,6,350, 
The Emperor of Brazil and the President of 
the United States have exchanged congratula¬ 
tions on the completion of the Brazilian sub- 
marine cable. 
J lie N. 1. Stats Editorial Convention at 
Lockport the past week elected the following 
officersPresident, Charles G. Fair man; Secre¬ 
tary and Treasurer, O. A. Bunnell; Vice Presi¬ 
dents, the Hon. J. A. Place, Willard A. Cobb, 
E. M. Johnson, A. S. Pease and G. Al. lichee; 
Executive Committee, C. B. Thompson, 8. C. 
Cleveland and J. H. Selkreg. Elmira was 
chosen as the place for the uext meeting. 
The responses concerning the District safe 
burglary, at Washington, indicate that sundry 
high officials have Induced the officers em¬ 
ployed in the U. 8. Secret Service to put up a 
job in order to cover their own iniquities, and 
that the Albany penitentiary is too good a place 
for them. 
A bill for the abolition of the existing gov¬ 
ernment of the District of Columbia, and com¬ 
mitting it* government to commissioners, has 
passed the House of Representatives, and Isa 
fitting comment upon the territorial govern¬ 
ment which has existed there—upon its cor¬ 
ruptions and Iniquities. 
The President has approved the joint rcso. 
Jutlon providing for the termination of the 
treaty between the United States and His 
Majesty the King of the Belgians, concluded 
at Washington, July 17, 1356. 
The Savings Bank bill, in which so great in¬ 
terest is felt in New England, New York and 
Pennsylvania, has passed the Senate, and only 
requires the President's signature to become a 
law. This bill relieves all savings banks from 
the tax ou surplus dividends. 
George William Curtis, who was one of the 
Commissioners of Civil Service Reform, says: 
The defeat of the appropriation for the Civil 
Service Commission ought neither to surprise 
nor dishearten the friends of the reform. It 
should not surprise them, because it is es¬ 
pecially an Executive reform, nnd the Presi¬ 
dent has not shown himself to be heartily in 
earnest. * * * Butler has for a time baffled 
the movement, not because it is not wise and 
necessary, nor because It Is not befriended by 
the most sagacious and truly practical men 
who think upon such subjects, but because 
Congress is opposed to it as reducing the pa¬ 
tronage of members, and because the Presi¬ 
dent, knowing that hostility, left the decision 
to Congress. 
The Democratic constitutonta of Congress¬ 
man Beck of Kentucky have taken him at Ills 
word, and have allowed him to retire from 
political life. They met in convention and 
nominated Mr. J. C. Blackburn of Woodford 
Co. us their candidate for Mr. Beck's seat. 
Gov. DIx 1ms signed t he bill awardlngprir.es 
to Baxter, Dobbins, and Davis Tor the best in¬ 
ventions for steam navigation on canals. 
The (‘all for a Reform State Convention in 
Michigan Is said to have met w ith an eager re¬ 
sponse, and the indications point to a large and 
Influential gathering. The object of t he move¬ 
ment is to secure the election of the best men 
for State and National offices. 
Senator Brownlow of Tenm .- see lias written 
a second letter on the Civil Rights bill, in 
which ho reiterates the objections which he 
mentioned in his former letter to the Colored 
Men's Convention. He calls the section pro¬ 
viding for mixed schools “an oppressive and 
abominable usurpation." 
Dr. Edward Welles, the newly-elected bishop 
of Wisconsin, is a native of Waterloo, in this 
8tate, and a graduate of Hobart College, 
Geneva. 
Information is wanted at Lockport, N. Y., of 
George Rawlings, who left that city eight years 
ago. 
Geo. Blackburn, an old penitentiary bird, w;n 
arrested in Dresden, Ohio, and locked up. He 
Induced the town marshal to enter his cell, und 
drawing his revolver, shot him twice, killing 
him Instantly. Blackburn theu escaped. 
It Is said that the young lady who was en¬ 
gaged to Col. Ellsworth and vowed eternal celi¬ 
bacy for his sake, was not present at Die dedi¬ 
cation of hi* monument in New York, because 
it was not convenient for her to leave her hus¬ 
band and children. 
Groat preparations are being made by the 
Tammany Society to celebrate the Fourth of 
July. 
Judge Love has decided the law prohibiting 
the importation of cattle from Texas into Iowa 
to be unconstitutional. 
Congressman II. L. Dawes Informs his consti¬ 
tuents, in a leter published in The Springfield 
Union, that having served his district 18 years 
In Congress he shall decline a denomination. 
Dr. Michael Hatch, for 60 years a practicing 
physician In Eoosboro, VI ., died rooently In the 
Sheidou Poorhouse, age 102 years. 
Wisconsin cranberries are promising a large 
crop. 
Indian skeletons are frequently plowed up by 
the farmers in Oregon, III. 
Parties are negotiating for the purchase of 
5,500 acres of land in Dickinson Co., Kan., upon 
which to locate a colony from Scotiaud. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
A telegram from London says that an au¬ 
thoritative denial Is given to the reports that 
the Queen of England is to visit St. Petersburg 
next September. 
The eldest son and heir of Lord Petro of Lon¬ 
don, has renounced the brilliant position to 
which he was born, and the wealth and honors 
of his birthright, and been orduinea a Jesuit 
priest. 
The Postal Convention between France and 
the United States was ratified by the French 
Assembly without debate. 
It bus bcou decidod to hold the Brussels Con¬ 
gress on International Law. Great Britain has 
apparently waived her objections. The action 
of France is still unknown. 
The Spanish Government is in negotiation 
with the Credit Mobiiier for a loan of 50,000,000 
reals. 
It is believed that distress from famine lias 
been stayed everywhere in India, and the hopes 
of the people me reviving. 
The Prince of Wales recently dined with the 
Benchers of the Middle Templo in their mag¬ 
nificent hall In London. In the course of his 
speech, the Prince said it was a good thing for 
t he profession and the public that he had never 
been culled to the bar. for he would not have 
been a brilliant ornament, to It. 
The House of Lords ha* decided that In the 
Mordaunt divorce case proceedings shall con¬ 
tinue notwithstanding the Insanity of the lady. 
Iho Captain-General of Cuba has received an 
address, signed by many business men, asking 
for the imposition of a tax of 5 per cent, on the 
riche* of the island to- defray the expenses of 
the revolutionary war. 
Mr. Bourke, Under Foreign Secretary, stated 
In the House of Commons yesterday that if 
France refused to co-operate with the powers 
in introducing judicial reform in Egypt, the 
only course which remained would be to act 
without her. 
M. Courbet, Die artist, has been condemned 
to pay the cost of the reconstruction of the 
Vendome column. 
The French police have visited the offices of 
the Imperialist journalists and the residences 
of prominent Bonapartists and seized impor¬ 
tant documents, 
T ie French Assembly passed a bill granting 
20,000,000 francs indemnity to tbe sufferers by 
the late war. 
The Pope says he has received u letter urging 
him to Jeave Rome because his person is not 
safe, but ho declares lie will remain as long us 
God permits. 
Blanchard .Jerrold has published the first 
volume of his Life of Napoleon HI. 
Earl Granville has accepted the presidency 
of the recently organized City Liberal Club of 
London. 
The marriage of the Princess Louise, eldest 
daughter of the King of the Belgians, with the 
Duke Philip of Saxony will take place at Brus¬ 
sels toward the end of August next. Great 
fetes will be given at Brussels to celebrate the 
event. 
—The New York Tablet of next w.«ok will con¬ 
tain the address of Cardinal Gutbcrt to the 
American pilgrims on their arrival at Paris. 
In this address the Cardinal said " You come 
now when the Church is most in want of your 
prayers, when it is in more danger than it has 
ever been. The cruel persecution Of tho Ro¬ 
mans, the death of bo many saints, were le &3 
dangerous than tlie present slow, silent perse¬ 
cutions. Now it is cunning, not barbarous; 
subtle, Insinuating. The false-hearted, the 
ministers of the many different creeds, do not 
attack us openly. They sometimes flatter and 
render homage to this or that virtue of tho 
Catholic faith ; but it is only to discharge with 
greater force the poison und venom of their 
heart against our Holy Church." 
In Germany, when the vote of the Jury stands 
six against nix the prisoner is acquitted. A 
vote of seven against five leaves the decision to 
the Court, and by a vote of eight against four 
the prisoner is convicted. 
Mr. Rutter, why was understood to bo acting 
for Baron Rothschild of Paris, recently pur¬ 
chased at auction In London three splendid 
pieces of Sevres ware, pay lug therefor the largo 
sum of £53.500. 
Much trouble is constantly occurring at Ot¬ 
tawa, Canada, between the Custom House offi¬ 
cers and importers of pianos und sowing-ma¬ 
chines. 
Letters from Saguenay stuto that there is 
niucA distress in that district. Since tho snow 
disappeared incessant rain has fallen. No grain 
has been sown, an I farmers have been obliged 
to eat their seed grain. Young people are emi¬ 
grating in large numbers. Cuttle arc dying In 
all directions for want of food. 
Advices from Algiers state that a body of 
Moorish insurgents Invaded I hat city, but the 
French troops repulsed them. Twelve of tho 
insurgents were killed and several Injured. 
lluilroad companies in Cuba are authorized 
to oliurge double rates for passengers and 
freight when paid in paper. 
Gold was quoted In Havana, Cuba, Saturday, 
27 June, at 370(8)272; exchange on the United 
State* at 186^138 per cent, premium. 
A dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette from St. 
Petersburg says it Is rumored that the Ameer 
of Kashgar, in Central Africa, has seized tho 
Russian envoy, and fearing war in consequence 
of tlie act, lias concentrated 10,000 troops ou 
the frontier. 
M. Muusurd, a Bonapurtist, has written a let¬ 
ter In which he acknowledges that a committee 
exists for the furtherance of a plebiscite , and 
that M. Rouhrr is its Prosideut. This state¬ 
ment is made In the face of M. Kouher’s recent 
denial in the Assembly of any knowledge of 
such a committee. 
Strong shocks of earthquake were felt in 
Constantinople on Saturday. 
Dispatches from Pernambuco announce the 
death of the Primate of Brazil. 
A lot, having an area of 2,210 square feet, in 
tlie midst of tho business portion of London, 
was recently sold at the rate of $72.50, gold, per 
foot, or $100,boo the lot. 
M. Brugsch lias Just discovered, inscribed 
upon a wall ut Kurnuk, a list of upward of 
2,000 Egyptian towns and cities. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
The Season aiul Crops.—Nothing can be more 
gratifying than tlie reports which reach us by 
letter and through the various publications of 
the condition and prospects of crops of ail 
kinds throughout tho country. Not in many 
years has the record of the season been so uni- 
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