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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Tnu grasshoppers have utterly devastated a 
large portion of Minnesota und thousands of 
people arc suffering. The Governor Ims issued 
an appeal to the citizens of the State for aid for 
the sufferers. .Several counties in Iowa have 
also suffered severely. 
The old woman In Kennebec, Me., who is 
ninety-seven years old, and during the last 
season has spun shundred and forl y-nino skeins 
of long yarn, knit eighty pair of huge and one 
pair of brows, carded twenty pounds of wool 
and drank ten gallons of whisky, besides tend¬ 
ing twenty-six grande hi I (Iren, sixty-five great¬ 
grandchildren, and live great-great-grand ones, 
besides doing a largo umount of housework and 
milking four cows and two pumps a day, is 
doingus woli as could be expected. 
Miss Bailie A. Bowles, daughter of Samuel 
Bowles of the Springfield Republican, has mar¬ 
ried Mr. Thomas Hooker of New Haven, and 
will food sail for Europe on a protracted "bridal 
tour " of two or three years’ duration. 
Major Ben. Pcrloy Poore and Mrs. Poore were 
presented with a valuable silver service upon 
the occasion of the recent twenty-fifth anni¬ 
versary of their wedding. 
The trustees of Chicago University have ac¬ 
cepted the advice of the Hon. J. K. Doolittle 
and elected Prof. Lemuel Moss of the Crosier 
Theological 8emtnarv, President, and the Rev. 
Dr. Burroughs, Chancellor. 
Miss Susan E. Dickinson, a sister of the bril¬ 
liant lecturer, inheriting her full share of the 
talent of the family, is about to make her ap¬ 
pearance also on the lecture platform. Brought 
up among t hcQuukers, she has frequently ad¬ 
dressed large audiences already, hut mainly 
heretofore In churches, and on themes not 
caloulated to challenge newspaper notice. 
A monument to Martin Luther, to bo set up 
in Falrmount Park, Philadelphia, during the 
Centennial year, is talked of by the Lutherans. 
The Women's State Temperance Conventions 
of Ohio and Michigan have expressed them¬ 
selves in favor of abolishing license, and of 
vigorously pressing forward the temperance 
cause. 
A California paper says that twenty years ago 
a Senator of that commonwealth remarked:— 
"I would not give six bits for ail the agricul¬ 
tural land in California." This year the State 
will harvest wheat enough to load a thousand 
ships, each of a thousand tons burden, and 
have enough loft, for home consumption. 
The Providence Historical Society has re¬ 
ceived from a lady a necklace made up of hair 
contributed by all the women or Mans, one of 
the Sandwich Islands. 
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has de¬ 
cided that the Boston School Committee Board 
is tlie sole judge of its own membership. This 
decision sustains the action of the Board in 
refusing seats to women. 
Stephen A. Douglas may have a monument 
erected to his memory yet. A scheme is on foot 
I by friends of the Chicago University to have 
the two acres of land on which the unfinished 
monument now stands sold, a portion of the 
proceeds devoted to the erection of a bronze 
statue of Mr. Douglas, and the remainder given 
to the college to pay off its debt. It is proposed 
to have the remains of Mr. Douglas removed to 
a spot In front of the University and the statue 
erected there. Of course the Legislature will 
have to be petitioned and Its sanction given. 
Whittier writes as follows to a friend in Phii- 
adolpbla concerning the Centennial" I quite 
agree with thee about that great commemora¬ 
tion of the Fourth of July, 1878. It ought to bo 
worthy of the occasion. But, n! the same time, 
In the state of our finances, there should be no 
unncccewtary expenditures. 
Governor DavU, In an append to the Granges 
of Minnesota for aid, reports that half a dozen 
counties of that State have been swept by grass¬ 
hoppers of alt crop* us completely as If by fire. 
Women and children arc already suffering for 
food. The Implements and stock.of the Ket¬ 
tle™ are mortgaged and they are living upon the 
uncertain expectations of another year. In 
Mils Is a verification of the scriptural warning 
that riches may take unto themselves wingF. 
The rhannol from the Gulf of Mexico to 
Corpus Chrlstl Bay has boon deepened, and 
steamers are now running regularly botween I 
Corpus Christ! and other ports. The building 
if a railroad Trom Corpus Christ! to Laredo is 
to he begun at once. 
The Congress of Book Publishers and (look- 
tellers of the United States will bo held at 
I’ul-in-Baj, July 21»t, 22d and 23d. The object 
>11 he Congress Is to regulate the price of hooka 
hroughout America, making them conform to 
l uniform and Invariable rule, as the book trade 
s now at a crisis. 
Mr. A. Hayward of San Francisco has sent a 
ilieck for $<30,000 to the St. Lawrence Urlvers- 
ty at Canton In this Stale. This makes $55,000 
tdilch the University has received within a 
nonth, and $120,000 within the last 15 months. 
The Massachusetts Labor Reformers have 
ailed a State Convention to meet in Fraruing- 
am Grove, Aug. 12. 
Prof. Patton of Chicago is confined to his bed 
y Hines* brought on by overwork. He has 
ever fully recovered from bis great exertions 
ttbe Swiogtrial. 
Tim young ladies of Cleveland are t rying to 
Use $200,000 to build a library and lecture-room 
tribe Young Men's Christian Association. 
A war party of one hundred Cheyennes, Arapa- 
oes, and Southern S.oux bas been murdering 
[id burning about the Cheyenne and Arapahoe 
gency. The agent has called for Government 
oops. 
Comanche and Apache Indians areoommlting 
sprodstlons about Trinidad, Colorado. 
Miss Willard, Dean of I lie Woman's College 
’ Northwestern University, lias resigned, for 
ssou of entire disagreement with the Uuiver- 
ty authorities ou the subject of government 1 
' the young ladles. President Fowler is said 
to believe more firmly in I heir self-government i 
than does Miss Willard, arid she was not al- ■ 
lowed adequate authority to fulfill her Ideas, i 
A committee was appointed to consider the ! 
matter, and the trustees have adopted its re- t 
port, reccommending the Faculty of the Uni- < 
vorsity to discuss, amend, and add to the faulty i 
rules. I 
Fast time was recently made by the "news- < 
paper train,” which left Jersey City nearly half 
an hour behind time, and made It all up before 1 
reaching Trenton. Thlsdlntance—a fraction less < 
than 57 miles-was run in 59 minutes, including t 
a stoppage of over a minute at Newark and a 
moderation of speed at New Brunswick. There f 
weresome portions where the speed was more j 
than a mile and a quarter a minute. Just be- r 
yond Now Brunswick five miles were run in j 
three and one-half minutes, wblub is at the 3 
rate of nearly 86 miles on hour. About a dozen 
passengers enjoyed this extraordinary ride. x 
A new planet—the fourth of the present year f 
—was discovered by M. Porrotin, at Toulouse, fc 
on the night of May 19. 
Four sisters of the late Thomas Dunham of i 
New York, living at Martha’s Vineyard, get i 
$120,000 each from his estate. 
A violent hailstorm at Westwood, N. J., on fc 
the 4th of July, dropped hailstones 2‘i inches 8 
in diameter, killing chickens, stunning cattle, h 
breaking windows, etc. a 
A man in Stack county, Ind., pays his boy ten 8 
fonts a quart for potato bugs, and the boy says 
that if next year Is as good as this he can toity u 
the old man out. 
The Milwaukee Wisconsin says of the grass- c 
hopper plague In Minnesota:—The grasshopper 
plague is likely to prove a fearful scourage upon f 
Minnesota during the ourront year. Beginning 
tnelr ravages In Cottonwood, Jackson, and d 
Martin, in the southwestern portion of the l 
State, they are gradually advancing northward 4 
and it is feared that they will spread over an f 
area of oountry sixty miles wide and four 
hundred miles In length. They are ravaging b 
some of the finest wheat counties In the State. © 
They alighted upon one wheal; field of 800 acres j 
and left scarcely a stalk. It is supposed that u 
Governor Davis will convoke the Minnesota 
Legislature in order to give relief to the desti- “ 
tute. Already 6,000 people are reported to be h 
without subsistence. If the grasshoppers 1< 
should clean out the vegetation from a belt of v 
country sixty miles in width and four hundred t 
miles In length, It would be an area of nearly 
24,000 square miles, or more than one-third of n 
the whole State. Of course there will bo large c 
secti&ns in this belt which will not be eaten y 
1 over, for the grasshoppers, when flying, pass 
over many farms before they alight again; but 
where do they alight, everything is devoured. 
Police officer Wirt of Wilmington, Del., was 
drowned recently white fishing, and it is some¬ 
what singular that when he was about to start 
on the excursion his wife endeavored to dis¬ 
suade him, while his dog caught him twice by 
the leg of bis pants and tried to keep him back. 
In order to get clear of the dog Wirt drew his 
revolver and shot the animal. 
There i.re twenty-threo poBt-ofllces In the 
United States of the name of Middletown, and 
thirteen towns of the name. Sixteen postofli- 
coB and towns are called Goshen, and eighteen 
post-offloes and nine towns ant knewn as New¬ 
burgh. 
Dissensions among t lie Faculty of the Indiana 
Medical Collego have led to the organization 
of a new Institution to be called tbe "Indiana 
College of Physicians and Surgeons," and to be 
OKt.ahlixhed also at Indianapolis. 
The President has directed that the Land 
Office at Lowell, Nob., be removed to Bloom¬ 
ington In the same State. 
Ex-Lieutenant governor Beach, of this 8tato, 
announces that be is not a candidate for guber¬ 
natorial or other official honors. 
A little girl In Plaquemlne Parish, Louisiana, 
jumped the skipping-rope 350 times. Then she 
drank a quantity of ice-water. Then she died. 
And thon —. 
The Rev. G. C. Noyes lias been appointed to 
defend the Chicago Presbytery in its action 
upon tho Swing case, before the coming session 
of the Synod. An attempt was made at tho 
meeting of the Presbytery to stop further prose¬ 
cution of the trial by passing a mild vote of 
censure on Prof. Swing, but it failed complete¬ 
ly. Mr. Noyes was Prof. Swing's counsel at the 
j recent trial. 
Gen. Beauregard declined the position of 
Chief Engineer of the Argentine Republio at a 
salary of $20,000 a yenr. The salary was raised 
to $25,000 and the offer renewed, when he ac¬ 
cepted. 
An Iowa Justice has tried to improve busi¬ 
ness by offering to marry at the low price of two 
shillings a couple; but In spite of this, he com¬ 
plains that business continues very bad. 
Girls are scarce and proportionately precious 
in Lac qui Parle, Minn., there being only one 
girl to eight boy* iu that unfortunate town. 
At Wooster College, Ohio, the feminine stu¬ 
dents, it is said equal the masculine ones in 
mathematics as well as In languages. 
The Tennessee State School Superintendent 
has withdrawn the advice to school directors 
to make no new cont racts with teachers. The 
Civil Rights bill not having passod, the Tennes¬ 
see schools will go on as usual. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
The Pope was formally expelled from the 
Order of Freemasons by the Grand Lodge, 
which met in Italy on March 27. He was con¬ 
nected with a lodge at Palermo in his curly 
youth, and charges were first preferred against 
him in 1865, but ho refused to meet them. 
Subsequently, when he had oureed the Order, 
and excommunicated all members of it, the 
charges wore renewed, a regular trial was held, 
and a decree of expulsion was entered and 
published, signed by King Victor Emanuel, 
Grand Master of the Orient of Italy. 
Mr. Bourko, Uuder-Secrotury for the Foreign 
Department, has introduced in the House of 
Commons to-day a bill, which was read once, 
amending the International Copyright law. 
A secret consignment of 500 Krupp cannon- 
four and six pouuders—which was shipped at 
Rotterdam and landed in Egypt, has been de¬ 
manded of the Khedive liy the Porte. The 
knowledge came accidentally to the ears of the 
Turkish Ambassador at Berlin. 
The International Congress of societies from 
various parts of the world, similar to the Society 
for the Prevention of Cruelly to Animals, has 
been in session at London. During their stay 
they visited Westminster Abbey, tbe Crystal 
Palace and Richmond, and attended an even¬ 
ing party at the house of Lady Uurdett-Coutts. 
The Duke of Beaufort, who is both jovial and 
handsome, is the reigning prince of British 
sportsmanship, and, what is more, he has 
brought up a family of children who are almost 
as notable for their sportsmanlike tastes and 
sunny temperament as he. 
Tbe Duchess of Edinburgh is doing the ami¬ 
able beautifully, even to tho extent of provid¬ 
ing large assortments of books and toys for the 
children in tbe Loudon hospitals. 
The Empress of Austria will visit London and 
Paris in September. 
The amount of lumber exported from Cana¬ 
da for the month ending June 30,1874, was 21,- 
180,901 feet; for the same period last year, 28,- 
456,840 feet, showing a decrease of over 7,000,000 
feet. 
An organ of the Legitimists in Franoe has 
been suppressed by President MacMahon’s Gov¬ 
ernment. The subject was discussed in the 
Assembly. The Legitimists will attempt to 
unseat the Ministry on Tuesday. 
A letter from Havana, dated July 4, says:— 
“ There is a great deal of sickness prevailing 
here. Many fatal cases of small.pox and yel¬ 
low fever have occurred. Public places for 
vaccination have been established throughout 
the city." 
Spurgeon says he never had the ability to 
manage a small church. They were like those 
canoes on the Thame.*; you must not alt this 
way or the other, or do this tiling or that 
is thing, lest you should be upset. His church Is 
it like a big steamboat, and he cau walk here or 
I. there without any danger of upsetting it. 
is Lady Blanche Somerset, tho only daughter 
nt t'b' 3 Earl Beaufort, and her “ father’s own 
t girl” ns regards proficiency In riding, is to 
t- marry the Marquis of Waterford, who lost his 
y wife a little over a year ago. 
The Sultan has written to the Khedive of 
s Egypt in terms cordially confirming the good 
relations between the Porte and Egypt, 
o A London letter says some new letters from 
1 Livingstone have come to light. Including one 
- In which he says Stanley's arrival and generos- 
1 lty in dividing his clothing with him, and bis 
- kind attentions in oooklnghlm some nice food- 
undoubtedly saved his (Llvingtone’s)life at the 
1 time. 
1 Bad for Opium-eaters.— Too much snow has 
1 ruined the crop in Persia. 
The largest diamond found at the Cape 
weighs 290 carats, and will be worth, when it 
I comes from tbe lapidaries Id Amsterdam. 
■ $ 100 , 000 . ’ 
The London Standard (tho Government or- 
, gati) is strongly opposed to the proposed reci¬ 
procity treaty botween the United States and 
Canada. It says such a t reaty would virtually 
obliterate the Canadian boundary lines and be 
a step towards absorbing Canada into the 
United States. 
An Oriental tourist J» sadly impressed by tbe 
absence of street-music In Jerusalem. 
A slave who had escaped from the King of 
Ashantee nrrived at Cape Coast. Castle in the 
l;e;t part of May. He reports that King Coffee 
Is sacrificing as many human beings as ever, 
und that bo was forced to run away In order to 
save his life. 
The irrigation works of India are so extensive 
that in the fourteen districts of the Madras 
Presidency there are 43,000 native tanks with 
30,000 miles of embankments. 
A singular exhibition la to be oponed in the 
Palais d'Industrie, at Paris, on September 15, 
of all the useful insects and their products, and 
of the noxious insects and the depredations 
they commit. 
The new* from Central America is generally 
<jf a Pacific character, Honduras is threatened 
with famine, owing to the partial falluro of the 
crops. Six hundred Chlnesolaborers have been 
Imported at. Coeta Rica. 
It is proposed to establish a uutlonal bank at 
Guatemala. 
The approval of the borne Government at 
Madrid is solicited for tho proposed decree 
levying U10 new five per cent, tax on the riches 
of Cuba. 
The relations of tho Argentine Republic with 
Brazil are becoming every day less amicable. 
Uruguay has suspended relations with the Ar¬ 
gentine Republic. 
YHlow fever prevails to an alarming extent 
In ltlo Janeiro. 
M. Ledru-Rnllin is described as "not a sym¬ 
pathetic figure." He is very large, has a bald 
head, and wears a heavy moustache and mut¬ 
ton-chop whiskers. 
1 lie Czar offended the English cooks by bring¬ 
ing bis own with him. 
The Princess Louise, eldest daughter of the 
King and the Queen of tho Belgians, will not be 
married just yet, it having been decided to 
defer the ceremony until next February, when 
she completes her seventeenth year. 
A meeting recently hold at Leeds, in England, 
has resolved to potltlon Parliament for the re- 
icaso of Orton, tho unsuccessful Tiohborne 
claimant, and for a new trial. Mr. Guildford 
Onslow addressed the meeting. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Clyde, Sandusky Co., O., July 6.-The sea- 
sou has been very favorable so far; have had a 
few drawbacks, but nothing very serious. 
Wheat a fair crop, but not much above the 
average. Corn looks well; the dry' weather 
Just at plowing time helped to get the corn in 
good shape. Of oats there will bo a fair crop ; 
bay medium; potatoes look well; fruit of all 
kind* promise well; there were never so many 
peaches here before. Apples not so many as 
last year, for this was the champion apple dis¬ 
trict of tho oountry last year. Wool Is mostly 
sold; prices about 45c.; wheat ts worth hero 
$1.15: corn, 68c.; oats, 45c.; potatoes, $1 .—n. o. 
Middlevllle, Barry Co., Mich., July e.—\y 0 
are having delightful weather for the growth 
of crops. Haying Is about half finished. Wheat 
harvest has begun, which bids fair for a boun¬ 
tiful yield, except on some hard clay soli, 
which was winter-killed. Grass and all of the 
spring crops look extremely well. Fruit will 
be abundant. The potato beetles have nearly 
disappeared, so we congratulate ourselves upon 
having a good crop of potatoes this year. 
Wheat, $1.300,1.35; corn, 80c.; oats, 55®70c.; old 
potatoes, $1; butter, 15c.; eggs, 13c.; wool, 42® 
46c.; wages for farm hands, $20 per month — 
J. T. Emoby. 
Wllmothvllle, Adair Co., Mo.. July 1.—Corn 
looks well; the season of culture Is about over. 
Harvest has begun. Wheat Is short on account 
of chinch bugs. Oats look well. Grass is good. 
Produce low; eggs, 8c.; butter, 15c.; cheese, 
15c.; new potatoes, $2 per bushel. Fair pros¬ 
pect for a crop of peaches; apples scarce; 
money scarce and times hard.—A. C. x. 
Miller'« Station, Crawford Co., I*a., July 4.— 
Grass, wheat, corn, oats and potatoes are look¬ 
ing splendid, with a prospect of good crops,— 
J. l>. h, 
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