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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
Almost a coal famine has been produced at 
WHkesbarre, Penn., by the strike of the an¬ 
thracite miners. 
In the year 1821, a cutler of Sheffield pre¬ 
sented Queen Caroline, the wife of George IV., 
with n pocket knife which contained 1,821 
blades. 
The Orthodox Russian Church, in 1872, bad 
81,062,008 adherents. Its administration is car¬ 
ried on by three metropolitan bishops, nineteen 
archbishops, lliirty-flvo bishops, and twenty- 
seven vicars. 
The Houghton Mlnlug Gazette gives the 
copper yield of 1874 at 22,000 tons, valued at 
$7,000,000, aud the Marquette Mining Journal 
gives the yield of Iron ore and pig at 1,015,982 
tons, valued at $7,592,911; making the aggregate 
value of copper and iron produced on Lake 
Superior during the year 1871, $14,592,911, which 
is a good exhibit considering the depression of 
mining Interests. 
The Rev. Hr. Williams, the missionary to 
China, is soon to return to this country to spend 
the rest of his days. He has lived there forty- 
one years as a missionary of Hie American 
Board of Missions, during which time he 
accepted the position of Secretary of Legation 
to the United States Government. 
Of the graduates or Brown University it is 
said that 110 have been presidents or professors 
in institutions of learning in 24 States. Of its 
2,540 graduates more than one-fourth have been ' 
ministers, 10 United States Senators, 10 members 
of Congress, and 25 governors or lieutenant- 
governors. 
The town of Elgiu, Ill., has been sued by a 
man who claims that his hoalth has been 
injured by a leakage of gas front the street 
mains. 
Boston proposes to celebrate the one hun¬ 
dredth anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill 
Mune 17) by a grand parade of the entire State 
militia. 
Joshua Bailey of CohoesFalls, N. Y., promis¬ 
ed the bulk of his fortune to whichever of his 
nephews raised the largest family of boys. W. 
W. Bailey of Waverley, Iowa, raised five boys, 
and got $3,000,000 at the death of his uncle. 
Mrs. Pratt of San Franclsoo has applied fora 
divorce with a modest alimony of $l,0u0,000. 
The Springfield Republican reports a rumor 
that Mr. A. T. Stewart is going to build a large 
hotel at Newport, R. I. 
The recently discovered silver mine at New- 
buryport, Mass., has been opened forty-five 
feet below ground and a rich vein of ore 
penetrated. 
Seventy millions of dollars would not be an 
exaggerated estimate of the losses by fire in the 
United States for the year 1874. 
England exported, last year, 3,603,000,000 yards 
of cotton cloth, equal to nearly 2,047,460 miles, 
or enough cloth to envelop the equator of the 
earth over forty times 
Recently a resolution was unexpectedly 
sprung upon the Board of Education of Medina, 
N. Y., to discontinue religious services at the 
opening of the schools. A crowded meeting [ 
wa3 held at which a protest signed by 1,226 
citizens was presented, and a resolution passed 
requesting the four members of the Board who | 
voted for the resolution to resign. 
The New York board of fire underwriters 
have laid on the table the subject of reducing 
rates, and rejected a proposition to do away 
with rebates. 
The Increase In newspaper postage, made by 
a stupid blunder, is to go into immediate 
operation by order of Postmaster-General 
Jewell. 
The Interior Department will, as soon as 
possible, dispatch a competent geologist to 
examine the Black Hills country and ascertain 
accurately its mineral value. 
The block of Switzerland granite which is to 
serve for a monument over the grave of Agassiz 
has arrived at Cambridge, and is now receiving 
the Inscription. 
King Kalakauu, having returned to hit do¬ 
minion, gives bis subjects a flattering account 
of us. Everybody will be glad to know that hfs 
trip wa* a pleasant one, and If he were to come 
again his reception would be even more cordial 
than on his first visit. But if the entertainment 
of a King is to be paid for at the rates given in 
the hotel bill presented to the N. Y. Board of 
Aldermen, taxpayers will bo likely to wish that 
in future royal visits to New York may be like 
those of angel* few and far between. 
A special session of the Louisiana Legislature 
has been called by Gov, Kellogg for the purpose 
of carrying out the provisions of the Wheeler 
compromise. 
The railroad war between the Grand Trunk 
and Great Western railways of Canada bus 
resulted In important reductions of freight and 
passenger rates between Chicago and eastern 
cities, and a further lowering of rates Is pre¬ 
dicted 
Immense fields of ice, driven by the strong 
wiuds, have carried away the wharves of the 
Oceanus Club House, Elderfs, HamH'sand the 
Sea-Ride Hotels, llockaway Beach. 
Mill No. 1 of the Wlnnlpiseogec paper works, 
at Franklin, N. 11., was burned last week with 
the machinery. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $39,- 
000 . 
A fire in Fall River, Mass., last week partially 
destroyed fourteen tenements on Pleasant 
8treet, owned by James Dailey. The loss is 
$40,000. 
The coal famine along the Hudson includes 
Poughkeepsie, Cold Springs, Pecksklll aud 
Sing Sing. Coal is bought in limited quantities 
only at Newburgh, ana a daily drain is made on 
the yards itt the country towns by dealers in 
larger cities, and hauled for miles by teams 
over country roads and on tho Ice in the Hud¬ 
son. 
Hiram Wilcox, an old citizen of Saratoga, 
partly deaf, was Instantly killed by the cars 
near the depot. 
Mrs. W. G. Wentworth of Winchester, Mass., 
while temporarily Insane, hanged herself in the 
attic of her house. 
The Rhode Island Republican State Conven¬ 
tion, after being In session all night, nominated 
the following ticket:—For Govenor, Henry 
Ltppett, of Providence. For Lieutenant-Gov¬ 
ernor. Henry T. Sissan of Little Compton. For 
Secretary of State. .1. W. Addeman, For At¬ 
torney-General, William Loyles. For General- 
Treasurer. Samuel Clark. Mr. Llppott was 
nominated for Governor by just, the requisite 
number of votes for a choice. The last three 
on the thicket are the present Incumbents. The 
chief reason of the prolonged struggle was the 
opposition of the Temperance men to Mr. 
Ltppett. 
Delaware lias appropriated $10,000 to the 
Centenuial exhibition. 
Gen.C. C. Augur has arrived in New Orleans 
from Texas to relieve Gen. Emery. 
Dr. Van CourMandt, a geologist and phystoan 
of great repute, died at Ottawa, Canada, on 
Thursday night week. 
James N. Schow, the Registrar and Assistant 
Treasurer of Vassar College since its orlgiu, 
died at Poughkeepsie yesterday, aged 61 years, 
Mr. Schow came from Copenhagen, and was 
Matthew Vassar’s private secretary before 
Vassar College was built. 
The Erie Railway Company have completed 
the new bridge across the Delaware river at 
Fort Jervis, and running of passenger and 
freight trains has been resumed over the main 
line the same as before the late freshet. 
Ex-Gov. Hale of New Hampshire is recover¬ 
ing from his illness. 
The Rev. E. H. Capen has been formally 
elected President of Tufts College, and has 
accepted. 
Congressman-elect Jones of New Hampshire 
has given $6,000 for the establishment of a High 
school in Barrington, his native town. 
Prof. G. W. Atherton of Rutgers College has 
been tendered the Presidency of Howard 
University, Washington, D. C. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
Saturday week, while some fifty persons 
and several teams were on the ice bridge at 
Quebec, it broke loose and floated up the river 
with the tide. All were safely landed. 
M. Buffet says tho new French Ministry is 
essential conservative. 
An explosion in a coal mine near Charlerof, 
Belgium, recently, caused the death and injury 
of many persons. 
A conspiracy for the assassination of Gen. 
Cabrera, who reoently abandoned the Carllst 
cause, has been frustrated. 
Don Carlos has issued a decree calling Into 
military service all malos in theNavurrese prov¬ 
inces over eighteen years of age. 
At an election for member of the Hungarian 
Diet in Debreczin last week, the Radicals run 
M. Kossuth, but Minister Kisza was reelected 
by an overwhelming majority. 
A wealthy Bostonian while at Paris, recently, 
on his wedding tour, was swindled out of 
$10,000 by an Irishman, who pretended to have 
lately como into a large property, with the con¬ 
dition attached that he should give $100,000 to 
the poor of America, and said that he would 
like to send half of It by the gentleman, only 
aeking as security, to be assured that he was 
worth that amount. The victim handed him 
$10,000 to count, and promised to bring evi¬ 
dence of bis account at the banker’s, but, with¬ 
out waiting for it, the Irishman fled with the 
bills, and has not-lheen'seen since. 
The Sultan of Turkey employs in his palace 
6,000 servants of both sexes. He pays and feeds 
300 cooks, 300 gardeners. 500 coachmen and 600 
more to do odds and ends about the house. To 
feed these people and their hangers-on 1JJ00 
sheep and 2,000 fowl- are killed every day, and 
60,000 francs for lights are expended. 
Madame Oatacazy, wife of the former Russian 
Minister to this country, denies the report that 
she has separated from her husband. She says 
that his enemies will soon learn that his tem¬ 
porary withdrawal from political life has no 
more impaired her husband’s energies than it 
lias shaken bis wife’s devotion. 
A mysterious and painful tragedy Is reported 
from Chateauroux, in France. A newly mar¬ 
ried couple, young, happy, and in a successful 
way of business, were found dead In their 
bedroom. They had dined with their parents 
on the previous night, and were then in the 
best of spirits. The cause of the sad event is 
at present a mystery. No traces of suicide 
have been found. 
The Hans Christian Andersen fund which has 
been smarted in Denmark for the erection of a 
statue to him already exceeds 18,000 crowds. 
Mr. Andersen will attain his 70th year on April 2. 
The Japanese opposition to the Pacific Mail 
line between porta or Japan and China has 
gone into operation. 
A cotton factory is projected in Shanghae. 
The small-pox is disappearing from Yeddo 
and Yokohama. 
A dock-yard for building Iron-clads, will be 
established at Pooohoo. 
The Japanese naval station at Yeddo is to 
be transferred to Yokohama. 
A renewal of the Rebellion in the province 
of Yonoau, China, Is threatened. 
All the important points on the Japanese 
coast are to be fortified. 
The Japanese educational fund is nearly 
doubled this year. 
On Jan. 28d a mob attacked the laborers on 
the telegraph line from Foochno to Amoy, at 
the town of Tawang Taa, China, and destroyed 
the poles, Interrupting work. 
An insurrection broke out in Tien Tas. near 
Ning Pii, in China, In which 10,000 farmers were 
engaged, in consequence of an Increased tax on 
rice. Five thousand troops railed to subdue 
tlte rebellion, and the tax was removed. 
The Emperor of Austria will leave on the 2d 
of April for Dalmatia, and meet the King of 
Italy at Venice on the 4th. 
The Carlisle have again been defeated; they 
are concentrating for an attack on Paigcerda. 
The Prussian Government proposes to amend 
the law against the Jesuits so tie to include 
ortlter orders. 
Twenty Communists are reported to have 
escaped front New-Caledonta under the leader¬ 
ship of Dr. Rastoui. 
The town of Matchin, between Aspinwall and 
Panama, has been entirely consumed by fire 
originating front the spark of a passing loco¬ 
motive. Loss $50,000. 
An earthquake shock has been felt at 
Qopiopo, Chill. 
The difficulty with the Argentine Republic is 
in a fair way of settlement. 
Peace prevails in Salvador. A sharp shock 6f 
earthquake has been felt, unattended by 
damage. San Miguel, the second city In size, 
has introduced water. 
The National Assembly of Honduras has 
declared Poncanio Leva, President. 
The election of Don Pedro Joaquin Cham- 
arro, the President of Nicaragua, has been 
verified by Congress. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS- 
The Santa Barbara Press reports that barley 
In that part of California is now ready to bar- 
vest, aDd that one of its neighbors will plant his 
land in corn as soon as the barley is taken off, 
and thus gather two crops in one season. 
A Baltimore beggar has retired from business 
with a fortune of $26,000. 
The fourth sou of Bret Harte was born at 
Morristown last Monday, 15th. His oldest is 
about thirteen. 
Itisa fact not generally know n to students of 
the history' of Massachassets that as recently as 
1750 a woman was burned at the stake at 
Charleston, in that commonwealth, “on the 
northerly side of Cambridge road, about a 
quarter of a mile above the peninsula." The 
woman was a colored servant of Capt. John 
Codmau, and was burned for poisoning her 
master. 
There is a co-operative grocery store at Fort 
Miller Bridge, Saratoga County, which has 
been in existence 23 years. It numbers sixty 
stockholders, with a paid in capital of $2,875, 
and assets of $12,539. For two years It paid a 
dividend of 60 per cent., and last year 35 per I 
cent. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
>It. Pleasant, Jeff. Co., Ohio, March 26.—Our 
winter here was very mild until Jan. 9 , when it 
set in in earnest and has maintained the van¬ 
tage ground up to the present date; conse¬ 
quently, the farmers are very much behind 
with their sprl ng work, no plowing having been 
done as yet. Hay and other rough food is about 
all consumed, and farmers are anxiously await¬ 
ing tho apparently far-off time when grass will 
do to tm n on. of which there are no Indications 
at present. Wheat fields look quite brown, pre¬ 
senting a marked contrast to their appearance 
one year ago, though they may come out and 
make a fair crop if the weather should be fa¬ 
vorable. Wages will be considerably lower than 
last year, the best day laborers scarcely com¬ 
manding $1 per day, boarding themselves; 
month hands, $12® 15. Wheat Is worth $1; corn, 
80c.; oats, 70c.— the oat crop having been almost 
a failure here last, year, most farmers will have 
to procure seed from other parts. Hay is $30® 
36 per ton in the mow, the highest ever known 
here; hogs, 6 V 40 .; cattle,5#n.; sheep, 6 c.; horses, 
$80® 150 each, as to quality. Money loans at 8 
per cent.— b. c. C. 
Weilport, Conn., March 21—We have had a 
steady cold winter here, but no extreme cold. 
The coldest morning was Feb. 10, when the 
thermometer stood 8 ° below zero. It has not 
been down to zero more than seven or eight 
times this winter. There were 13 days in Janu¬ 
ary on which it snowed, 5 in February and 10 In 
March, bo far. It rained on 6 days In January, 4 
in February and 8 In March, so far. The frost 
is In the ground from 48 Inches to two feet or 
more. I measured the ice on a pond near by, 
yesterday; there were 2.5 iu. solid ice and 5 in. 
snow on top. Last year at. this time the frost 
was all out of the ground, except on tho north 
side of buildings and what ft made from day to 
day, and we began plowing on the 5th of April. 
It. don’t look much like it this year, now. The 
weather is good winter weather, only 8 * above 
zero a day or two since; UP this A. M.—A. s. n. 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., March 20 _We have 
had a long, cold winter, with a great depth of 
snow, and the end is not yet; to-day we have a 
real cold northeaster snowstorm, and there are 
from throe to four feet of old snow left yet. 
Roads are blocked up in many places. It has 
been the coldest winter within the recollection 
of the oldest person around here. The frost 
has crept into cellars where it never ventured 
before, spoiling potatoes, apples, &c. Water 
has been scarce; some have had to melt snow 
or go some distance for water. Hay is plenty 
at. $12® 15 per tun; potatoes, $2 per bbl.; apples, 
$2 per bbl.; corn, $ 1.10 per bush.; oats, 70c. per 
bush.; rye, 90c. per bush.; butter, 35®40c. per 
lb.; eggs, 30c. per doz.; farm labor, $16@30 per 
month; milch cows, $30®50 per head; good 
horses, $150®300 each.— 8 . s. w. 
Titusville, Mercer Co., IV. J., March 21_A 
cold, snowy day. Farmers have commenced 
moving. Roads not bad, but no prospect of 
plowing for weeks yet. Stock has wintered 
well. Hay plenty and low in price. Prospect 
good Tor peaches and apples next season; for 
pears not so good. Wheat In the ground looks 
well. Corn. 75c.; wheat, $1.25; oats, 00c.; pota¬ 
toes, 60@80o.; hay, ?13®1« per ton ; butter, 36® 
40c. Farm hands, $180®2<X> per year, with board, 
washing, &o.—D. j. n. 
Gouvrrueur, ht. Lawrence Co., Y., March 
2ft.—On the 22d Inst, the thermometer marked 
10 c below zero. The snow Is three feet In the 
woods on a level. Hay Is $10®16 per ton; oats, 
50c.; butter a drug at 25c. We are looking and 
hoping for better times. This is the largest 
County in the State, has the largest number of 
cows and horses, and produces more tons of 
hay; also iron ore in great abundance.— 1. a. w. 
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WHAT SOCIETIES ARE DOING, 
New Jersey State Ag. hoc—We have, from 
Mr. P. T. Quinn, Corresponding Secretary, the 
annual report of this Society for 1874. Itisa 
volume of 135 pages, embracing the reports of 
officers, committees, a comparison of New 
Jersey with the West for foreign emigrants; 
an elaborate paper on Cranberry Culture ; one 
on Country Roads; an interesting account of 
Mr. Quinn’s visit to John Bennett Lawes 
(whose portrait we recently gave), the English 
experimental agriculturist, Gov. Parker’s ad¬ 
dress before the Society last January, and the 
awards made at the la 6 t Fair. Added, the re¬ 
port is carefully indexed, and this is so excep¬ 
tional that it deserves both mention and com¬ 
mendation. 
An American Berkshire Swine Breeders’ 
As»’n has been organized in Illinois, its avowed 
object being “ the publication of an authorized 
Berkshire Pedigree Record.” Its officers are: 
Pres't-G. M. Caldwell, Wtlliamsville, Ill. 
Sec.—A. M., Garland, Springfield, III. Treas.— 
M. Springer, Springfield, Ill. Ex-Coot.—Chas. 
W. Mills, Springfield; Chas. 8 noad, Joliet; and 
Edward lies, lies Station, Ill. 
Minnesota Hort. 60 c —The officers elect for 
1875 are: Pres’t—T. M. Smith. Vlce-Pres'ts— 
W. Elliot, E. H. S. Dartt, T. G. Carter. Sec.— 
C. Y. Lacey. Treas.—A. Stewart. Ex. Com.— 
J. B. True, 0. F. Brand, J. F. Harris, TuniB 
Smith, E. B. Jordan. 
Queens Co., X. Y„ Ag. 80 c—This Society is 
to hold a Horticultural Exhibition and a Live 
Stock Sales Fair June 16 and 17. 
The Maine Poultry Ass'n has fixed the time 
of its next annual Exhibition Jan. 20-20, 1876. 
