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Gov. Howard of Rhode Island has appointed An a 
the Hon. Charles T. Nnrthrup, Senator In the 2, on t 
General Assembly from Warwick, to the office Major 
of State Constable, just created by the Legis- The 3 
lnture. fatally 
The Secretary of the New-England Agrlcul- The 
tural Society lias made arrangements with the Mils a 
Boston and Providence Railroad Company for Heohti 
the free transportation of stock and articles to Flanig 
and from the forthcoming fair to be held in theNc 
Providence. I A wi 
J. H. Sloss, member of Congress from Ala- that el 
bama, shot and mortally wounded G. F. Long turea \ 
at Tusoumbin, Ala., on Sunday. tractlv 
Thirteen illicit distilleries in Habersham and 1 he 
Rabun counties, Ga.. have been seized and br *dge 
destroyed. The. 
A Washington paper says:—We have the 8t, ider 
highest authority for saying that the personal No e 
relations between the Secretary of War and the are cal 
General of the Army are cordial and friendly. 
and that, there has been no open rupture. Gen. Rich; 
Sherman’s removal is made at this time on kong, I 
account of private and personal matters, which were 51 
In his Judgement, under all the circumstances, kil,ed ' 
justify his course. But it Is equally true that Clev 
had he any duties to perform as General of the yesterc 
Army, he would remain at the Capital. His Rosa 1 
letter to the Secretary of War has as yet never death 
been answered nor its receipt acknowledged, while 1 
He has no authority, nor is his position reoog- Chiel 
nized in the government of the army. at 8t. J 
The talloresses of New York City are organ- arrived 
izing a protective union. The 
The Fourth District Republican Convention, ored th 
held at Bangor. Me., July 2, renominated Gen. settien 
Samuel F. Hersey for Congress. Speech 
A dispatch from Little Rook says 38 counties France 
in Arkansas have given a majority of 41,000 for With 
the Constitutional Convention. Repub] 
Mr. C. If. McCormick, the reaper man of Chi- favor < 
cago has been very sick some days, but a dis- ment. 
patch July 3, says he is slowly recovering. Bosti 
Mr, McCormick, collector of Customs at San living 
v,| natl/iM . , - uuuua; m ui« uatpenoeDi 
w-ntrOioH . .1 M, C ?? t0m , hoU8e Bafo - Methodist Church in Camden, where he is very 
watched him while the other entered the cus- popular. 
Him house and abstracted $3,000. The men Orders were Issued In Boston, July 3. dlrect- 
were disguised ami escaped. ingthe police to kill all unlicensed dog j found 
Mad dogs and mad men and hydrophobia in- at large within the city limits, 
vestlgations are exciting features of New York A hurricane of unprecedented severity swept 
life Just now. over Washington Saturday evening, doing 
Milwaukee is enjoying the sensation of a wild ^reat damage to property; at Lewlstown, 
man, who meets children on the street, shakes Penn., a long railroad bridge was blown down 
hands, end then bites them. The children do and 38frelght cars were carried with It; several 
not enjoy the sensation. lives were lost. 
The Massachusetts Legislature refused to President Grant and family reached Long 
nass the license bill over the Governor's veto Branch Saturday morning. It is the Intention 
>y a vote of no to 93. of the President to return to Washington every 
Mr. Halo of Maine, recently appointed Post- two or three weeks during the summer to 
naster General In place of Mr. Creswell, de- transact such business as may require his pres- 
ilincs the office. ence at the Capital. 
Charles F. Conant of New Hampshire has what is known as the “Pope Property" in 
■pen appointed Assistant Secretary of the Mt * Bouts has been engaged Tot Gen. Sherman's 
t’reasury, and has accepted. headquarters. His staff Includes the following 
The steamer Faraday, engaged in laying the °® cerB , al * °f whom—with the exception possi- 
lew A Mantle cable. Is reported to have struck 1,1 - v of the last two—accompany him to that city: 
n Iceberg off Halifax and is a total wreck. Gen. Wm. D. Whipple, and Cols. G. II. Bacon, 
The steamer Clyde, on her way from Altama- ' J,)8C Ph C. Auenreid, John E. Tourtellotte, 
a to Savannah, was lost in a heavy blow in M £?? y , a " d Poe ' 
apolo Sound. Chief-Justice Waite arrived at his home In 
Ice is hoiiLriii in \fuino fr, t- «i m „ <— 1’oledo on the Fourth. 
! watched him while the other entered the cus¬ 
tom house and abstracted $3,000. The men 
were disguised and escaped. 
Mad dogs and road men and hydrophobia in¬ 
vestigations are exciting features of New York 
life Just now. 
Milwaukee Is enjoying the sensation of a wild 
man, who meets children on the street, shakes 
hands, sod then bites them. The children do 
not enjoy the sensation. 
The Massachusetts Legislature refused to 
pass the license bill over the Governor's veto 
by a vote of ,110 t o 93. 
Mr. Halo of Maine, recently appointed Post¬ 
master General in place of Mr. Creswell, de¬ 
clines the office. 
Charles F. Conant of New Hampshire has 
been appointed Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury, and has accepted. 
The steamer Faraday, engaged in laying the 
new Atlantic, cable. Is reported to have struck 
nn Iceberg off Halifax and is a total wreck. 
The steamer Clyde, on her way from Altama- 
ha to Savannah, was lost in a heavy blow In 
Sapolo Sound, 
lec is bought in Maine for $1.50 a ton and 
sold in New York at one cent a pound ; scarce¬ 
ly 1,400 ptr cent., profit. 
The Massachusetts Legislature has been six 
’liont-hs In session. 
The Chicago Tribune (Lib.) predicts that the 
Democrats will carry Indiana and Illinois, in 
iplte of both Republicans and Independents, 
>y rousing majorities. 
The Springfield (Mass.) Union thinks “the 
naln question with us now, as a people. Is not 
,ow to save the Republican party, but the Iie- 
tobllc.” 
Valedictory of His Honor the Mayor of Den- 
er, Col.:—“Thank God, It's over with. I 
wouldn't take it again for a kingdom, not if I 
nows it.” 
A. Holman Hamilton has been nominated for 
ongresH by the Democrats of the Ninth Indi- 
na District by a majorit y of one-half the vote. 
The Ohio papers are all discussing the new 
tato Constit ution, and the people will vote on 
»e 18th of August next. Its fate is doubtful. 
The New V ork State Sportsman's Convention 
as been In session at Oswego, N. Y., the past 
eek. 
Dr. Conrad or North Benton, O., was shot and 
illed June 23 by Edward Hartzell, a patient, 
ho had been Insane, and who fancied Dr. C. 
had attempted to poison him. i 
Dr. James McNaughton, President of t he Al¬ 
bany Medical College, and the oldest praetl- 1 
tioner in that section, died suddenly Irt Paris, < 
France. June 13, aged 77 years. 
From every grain-growing county in Califor- < 
nia there is now a demand for labor, and on 
thousands oT fields the grain will have to be 1 
allowed to stand until hands can be procured * 
to cut It. 1 
President Grant has appointed Gen. Ketch- 
um of New York to be one of the commission- f 
ers for the govern ment of the District of Col- J 
umbta. 
San Diego, Cal,, is getting to be a great 
honey-producing place. n 
It is announced that General Grant will at- 1 
tend the re-union of the Grand Army of the t 
Republic at Paterson, N. J., on t he 23d lost. c 
The suspension of the Freedman's Ravings ^ 
Bank, In Washington, causes some excitement 0 
among the negroes, though its business has 
been small since the panic last fall. s 
An accident occurred at Milford, N. IT., July r 
3, on the railroad track, by which the wife of ^ 
Major George Daniels was Instantly killed. 
The Major and his grandson are probablv v 
fatally Injured. v 
The New Orleans Grand Jury has found true a 
bills against Houlihan, Policemen Lynch and 11 
Bechtel, Chief of Police Badger and Captain c 
Flanigan for highway robbery of the forms of 
the New Orleans Bulletin. 
A woman advertises In a Minnesota paper a 
that she will expose in the course of her lec- 1 
tures what it. is that makes Morruonism so at- p 
tractive to the men, a 
The second suicide off the great St. Louis f ' 
bridge took place on Tuesday. 
The Indiana State University gives a female f ' 
st udent the highest honors this year. p 
No excuse for loafers now. Harvest hands f( 
are called for Irom all quarters at. $2 a day and 11 
found. ' e: 
Richard Schuyler, Alfred Cross and Schuyler 
Long, living four miles west of Fonda, N Y ” 
were struck by lightning July 2. Schuyler was v ' 
killed, and the others were seriously Injured. 
Cleveland, 0.. July 2.-At East Cleveland, 
yesterday, two servant girls named Christina 
Rosa and Minnie Brammer were burned to r 
death by the explosion of a can of gasoline T 
while lighting a fire. 11 
Chief-Justice Waite will spend the summer , r 
at 8t. Albans, Vt., Instead of at Lyme. He has 
arrived at the former place with his family. n 
The Hon. Charles Francis Adams, Jr„ deliv¬ 
ered the address at the 250th anniversary of the tl 
settlement of Weymouth, Mass., on Saturday. T 
Speeches were also made by the Hon. Charles 8 < 
Francis Adams, Sr., and others. tl 
With one or two unimportant exceptions, the b 
Republican press of Missouri is unanimously in A 
favor of the proposed People’s Reform move- 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
Boston Corbett, who shot Wilkes Booth, is 
living in Camden, N. J,, and on week days fo]- 
Makshal McMahon of France refuses To 
delegate his powers to another person for a 
single day. 
Marshal Concha of the Republican Army In 
Spain was killed at Estella iti a battle with the 
Carlists, recently. 
It la announced that the locked-out agricul¬ 
tural laborers In England are making a journey 
through the agricultural districts of that coun¬ 
try. The object of this pilgrimage is not an¬ 
nounced. 
The British Parliament has been discussing 
the rumors of the secession of Canada to the 
United States. Disraeli didn't see any cause 
for apprehension. 
The Captain-General of Cuba has decreed 
that after July 1, the payment of 50 per cent, in 
gold of regular taxes and duties will be re¬ 
quired. 
The Spanish Government has resolved to 
erect a monument to the memory of General 
Concha. 
Most of the mountain passes over the Alps 
are at last open to travel, though much later 
than usual. 
The correspondent of the London Daily News 
telegraphs from Borne that the Pope is growing 
weaker daily, and several foreign representa¬ 
tives have notified their Governments to that 
effect. 
A grand council of Indians of Ontario and 
Quebec Is In session at Sarnia. Canada. 
It. is reported that an accidental fire near 
Estella was made a pretext by the Carlists for 
massacrelng ail the wounded republicans wbo 
fell into their hands at tbo battle of Muro, 
A rumor has reached London that Marshal 
Concha was killed at the instigation of Marshal 
Serrano. 
The sub-Comraitteo of the Committee of 
Thirty of the French Assembly have drawn up 
a new constitutional bill, which provides for 
the continuance of the title of “President of 
tho Republic," for the creation of a secot d 
chamber, and for the organization of a purely 
personal septennate, to end with the expiration 
of President MacMahon's term. 
Private letters from Berlin speak of the great 
satisfaction with which the promotion of Mr. 
Nicholas Fish to bo First Secretary of the 
American Legation is received in that city. 
“Mr. FlBh," writes a Boston clergyman, “has 
worked very hard here, not even taking the 
vacations which the law allows him ; and he 
and his wife are very highly esteemed In Ber¬ 
lin, and besides are very attentive to Ameri¬ 
cans." 
Preparations are making for holding the na¬ 
tional festival to commemorato the discovery 
and colonization of Iceland by the Norsemen. 
The Prince of Wales, the Crown Prince of Den¬ 
mark, and another of the Danish aristocracy 
are expected to be present to take part in the 
festivities. 
A movement has been set on foot in England 
for the purpose of assisting in his dangerous 
positson Lieutenant Cameron, who was pushed 
forward to Ujiji to try and save what might 
there remain of Dr. Livingstone’s papers and 
effects. 
Dr. Isaac Butt's Irish Home Rule resolution 
was rejected by the House of Commons by a 
vote of 61 yeas to 458 nays. 
Notwithstanding his impaired health the 
Bishop of Paderborn is shortly to be imprisoned 
by the Prussian Government. 
M. Paul de Cassagnac and his co-editors of 
Le Pays have been acquitted of the charge of 
inciting citizens to mutual hatred. 
It Is stated that a German squadron will be 
Immediately despatched to Spanish ports. 
The Carllst force at Estella numbers 38,000 
men. General Zabala has 106 cannon. 
Don Carlos has fixed his residence at Tol osa, 
the capital of the Province of Guipuzcoa. Gen. 
Tristany has been dismissed from the Carllst 
service because he failed to defend the line of 
the Ebro, and thereby caused the defeat of a 
force of the royalists at Gandesa in Tarragona. 
A large Carlist force is marching upon Bllboa. 
The French and English press generally con¬ 
sider that the manifesto of the Count de Cham- 
bord makes It impossible for him to become 
King of France, 
a. As Senor Castelar hes declined the overtures 
it of Senor Mart os Che formation of a Provisional 
y Government in Spain is deemed Improbable. 
The Spanish Government will soon levy 30,000 
t- fresh troops to reinforce the Army of the North, 
d The new Anglo-American cable is completed* 
and the Great Eastern is to begin laying it this 
t month. 
g The Spanish Republicans are carrying out the 
i, late Marshal Concha's plans to confine the 
a Carlists in a small district of country destitute 
I of resources. 
The anniversary or American Independence 
' was celebrated at St. Petersburg with a dinner 
‘ nt the United Stale* Legation, Minister Jewell 
i presiding. In Lisbon a fete was given by the 
> American Minister, whose official residence was 
- handsomely decorated. At Paris there was a 
liberal display of American flags at the Lega- 
i tion and elsewhere, but no formal demonstra- 
i tlon took place. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Prop Reports for Jnne.—The Department of 
Agriculture, from its Juno returns, estimates 
the aggregate Increase in breadth of winter 
and spring wheat at, 107 per cent., and states 
the condition of wheat to he better than the 
average of a series of years. In most of the 
States the acreage of winter rye is fully equal 
to or surpasses that of last year. The breadth 
of oats Is increased two per cent. The condi¬ 
tion of the crop Is slightly below average. The 
aggregate reduction of the area of cotton as 
compared with that of 1873 is put at alittle over 
10 per cent. The condition of thecrop for June, 
1874, is slightly below that of June, 1873. Heavy 
rains In April, succeeded by a drouth In May, is 
assigned as the cause. Twenty-one States re¬ 
port the condition of the apple crop at or abovo 
average; 12 States (all Southern) below the av¬ 
erage. The reports from the peach-growing 
districts are not favorable. Tears are reported 
below the average In nearly all the States east 
or the Mississippi, the exceptions being South¬ 
ern New England, New Jersey and Pennsyl¬ 
vania. 
Greene Go., IHo., June 2«.-The weather, 
since April, has been unusually dry—meadows 
and pastures quite short.. Wheat nearly all har¬ 
vested ; tho shocks look line in the fields, but 
the light weight of large sheaves is surprising, 
owing to depredations cf the chinch bug, which 
Is now leaving the wheat stubble and almost 
covering the adjacent corn l had 40 acres of 
wheat, from which I had hoped to get 20 bush¬ 
els per acre; now 12 or 13 bushels is my greatest 
expectation. Rome fields are much better than 
mine, while tho larger majority are Inferior. 
Wheat is now only worth 90 cents for the best. 
We paid $1.50 per day for harvest hands, and 
rny impression, based chiefly on my own crop, 
la that very little, if any, money Is made on 
wheat raising in Southwest Missouri; besides, 
tho chinch bug seems to lie encouraged hv the 
sowing of so much wheat. I shall sow none 
this fall, neither will I sow oats next year. Last 
year the bug deslroyed them before harvest, 
and now what was last week a beautiful field 
of 35 acres is not worth cutting.— Granger. 
Oxford, Sumner Co., Kan., June 22. —We 
have just finished cutting our wheat, the first 
having been cut June Otb. Several have thresh¬ 
ed, and can safely say the average yield will be 
25 bushels per aero. The spring wheat is not 
worth cutting, as the chinch bug has and is 
destroying it. There will bo no more spring 
wheat sown hero, as all are satisfied with the 
experience of this season. Corn is growing fine¬ 
ly, and is from 4 V t to 6 feel high. Millet, clover, 
Hungarian and other grasses are doing well; 
In fact, everything is as luxuriant as can be. 
The season has been fine thus far. The writer, 
In company with others, spent last week In the 
southwest and western part of this country 
among the herdsmen and " long horns.” It is 
a grand sight to Bee such immense herds as is 
there grazing; 125,060 head have been driven 
through from Texas up to date, and most of 
which are now belDg grazed In this county.— 
w. b. c. 
Delaware City, Del., June 30.— The amount 
of strawberries shipped from the different sta¬ 
tions on the Delaware Peninsula Is found to 
have been for the season of 1874,7,500.000 quarts, 
mainly of the Wilson variety. The dry weather 
shortened the season at least one week, and 
made much of the fruit small in size. Fruit 
shipped beyond New York was rnoBt remuner¬ 
ative. A new variety of strawberry, theEllison, 
came in a w'eek before the Wilson, and was in 
bearing a week later. At the meeting of the 
Peninsula Peach Growers’ Association In Do¬ 
ver, estimates of different stations foot up an 
aggregate of only 600,000 baskets, and from pres¬ 
ent Indications we believe that an overesti¬ 
mate. Hale's will be the main reliance.—s. b. s. 
Cro? Prospects Abroad.—There was a frost 
in England the second week in June which, it 
is feared, has affelcted the wheat crop, its only 
chance of safety being In the undoubted health 
and robustness of the plant. Aside from these 
weather conditions, the other influences of the 
grain trade are reported to be strongly against 
holders of stocks. The French markets are 
strong yet, which help to keep up prices in En¬ 
gland. From Hungary. Southern Russia, Spain, 
Germany and France, the crop prospects are 
reported excellent. 
Davenport, Iowa, June 29. — Fine weather. 
Crops look well and bid fair for a great harvest. 
Corn five feet high,— a. l. h. 
