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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Ttus third General Council of the Reformed 
Episcopal Church met In Cblcugo, on the 18th. 
A convention of soldiers and sailors engaged 
in the War of the Rebellion was held last week. 
The members of the Bunker Hill Monument 
Association, It is reported, contemplate pre¬ 
senting the monument and ground to the City 
of Boston after the coming centennial ct lobra- 
tion. 
Secretary Bristow lias discovered a gigantic 
system of frauds among the whisky ring, with 
which a Large number of Internal Revenue offi¬ 
cers are connected. A combined attack was 
made on illicit distilleries iuseveral Western 
cities, last week. 
The centennial celebration of the surprise 
and capture of Port Ticorideroga was held 
last week. Addresses were made by Col. W. E. 
Calkins, the Rev. Flavius J. Cook, Col. W. C. 
Joyce and Col. Cole. 
The steamer Metropolis, from Bermuda to 
New York, was towed Into Dutch Island 
Harbor, Narragausctt Bay, on the 12tb, her 
maat having been broken and her engines 
disarranged in a Btorm. 
The Silk Association of America gave its third 
annual dinner at Delmonloo's, in New York, on 
the evening of the filth lost. 
Papers have been served in the suit of the 
United States against the Milwaukee and St. 
Paul Railway Company to recover $627,000, 
ciaimed to be duo for unpaid internal revenue 
taxes accrued between 1862 und 1872. 
Over 000 of the 700 workmen on the Bergen 
tunnel, who struck some time .ago, have re¬ 
sumed work on l Im old terms. 
The new Park Church, Elmira, nearly com¬ 
pleted, Is built from plans drawn by its pastor, 
Rev. T. K. Beecher, and will coat $120,000, $92, 
DUO of which lias already been paid. 
It is expected that the Ring’s county board 
of supervisors will vote to allow the Beecher 
jury $5 per day. 
Suits have been begun against the securities 
of the Auditor of Louisiana. 
The German Crown Princess has sent an 
autograph letter to Mrs. Hodges, Directress of 
the Free Training and Cooking School ol this 
city, approving of that enterprise and wishing 
it success. 
The Court of Claims will probably decide iu 
favor of the Union Pacific road iu its suit 
against the United States for $570,000. 
A defect in the law prevents the collection of 
a personal tax in the District ol‘Columbia. 
The Cincinnati Commercial has lately re¬ 
opened Its discussions of needed Congressional 
reforms, and says it hopes to live “to see the 
time when the bringing In of any Deficiency 
bill will be met by a prompt and successful 
motion on the part of representatives of the 
people to lay the bill on the table." 
During April the aggregate losses by fires 
throughout the United States and Canadas 
amounted to $10,178,400; aggregate losses to in¬ 
surance companies, $5,476,400. 
Twelve distilleries a «td rectifying houses have 
been seized Iu Milwaukee and vicinity. Four 
of these have applied to the United States 
Court and secured permission io resume opera¬ 
tions by giving the necessary bonds. 
Judge Kelley states that his experience from 
the visit to the commercial cities of the South 1 
Is that the financial legislation of the Forty- 
third Congress is rapidly driving the South 
toward insolvency, Is retarding its prosperity 
and will prevent all substantial reoonstructlwn. 
C. Clarke of New Orleans accepts the chal¬ 
lenge of J. B. Johnson, the champion swimmer 
of England, now In New York. He agrees to 
swim Johnson & race from one to twenty miles 
for $2,500 a side and the championship of the 
world. 
The trial of the ex-priest, Gerdeman, late 
pastor of 8t. Boniface Church, Philadelphia, 
for alleged embezzlement or money deposited 
with him by the parishioners, continues to 
excite much attention, and attracts large 
crowds to the court room. I te Is accompanied 
by bis wife, the former organist of the church, 
whom he married when he renounced the 
Catholic ministry. 
Mr. John M. Francis, editor of the Trey Times 
and ex-51 in inter to Greece, will sail for Europe 
on the 27th inst., with his wife, for a few mouths 
travel Irt Germany, Sweden and Denmark, and 
possibly Greece and the East. 
In reply to an invitation to attend the Cen¬ 
tennial, Gen. Garibaldi has sent an autograph 
letter iu whtch he says! “I will certainly make 
every possible effort to have my country par¬ 
ticipate In the magnificent celebration which 
is to be held in Philadelphia. I deepir regret 
that I shall not be able to come myself." 
Mr. Charles Bradlaugh ha 4 apparently found 
his visits to America pleasant. He returns 
again In October next on another lecturing 
tour. HU two new lectures are “ An English¬ 
man’s view of Atn>?rio:;u Policies,” and “The 
Labor Question In the Old and New Worlds." 
Tbe Issue of postage stamps, of all kinds, by, 
the poBt-offlne department, during April, 
amounts to a little over $3,000,000—an Increase 
of about 20 per cent, on the corresponding 
month of lust year. 
Lleut.-Col. Emery Upton has been relieved 
from duty as commandant at West Point, and 
Ltcut.-Coi. Thomas H. Neill of the cavalry 
succeeds hliu. 
Daniel Webster's library, which has remained 
since bis death in the room he built for it in his 
country house in Marshfield, is soon to be sold 
at auction In Boston. It Is a large and valuable 
collection of books. 
The Jury in the case of Chas. Harris, Indicted 
for setting lire to the Hhaker buildings at 
Mount Lebanon on the Otli of February last, by 
which property to the amount of $100,000 was 
destroyed, have returned a verdict of arson iu 
the second degree. The prisoner is now being 
tried on the second count in the indictment 
charging him with settlug the fires of the 27< b 
of Feburary in the same place, by which $50,000 
of property was destroyed. 
The policemen of Albany have taken a list of 
( be places where liquor is sold In that city, and 
report the number at 1,074. 
The amount to be raised by city taxes in 
Rochester this year is over $L200,Q(>0; last year 
It was $762,000. The increase is can ed by in¬ 
terest on water and railway bonds. The total 
valuation of city property la estimated at $06,- 
000,000. 
The general superintendent of the Erie rail wty 
has contracted with the M atson Manufacturing 
Company of Paterson, for a new iron bridge at 
Portage, which is to be completed in forty-five 
days. It, will cost $80,000. 
The Kentucky Republican Convention nomi¬ 
nated Gen. John M. Harlan for Governor, the 
Hon. Robert Boyd for Lieutenant-Governor, 
and the Hon. Win. C. Goodloc for Attorney- 
General. 
The Board of Regents of the Michigan Uni¬ 
versity have concluded arrangements for the 
establishment of a homoeopathic department, 
and also resolved to provide a college of dental 
surgety, with two professors. 
Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and seventeen other 
chiefs of the Sioux Indians left Cheyenne for 
Washington, last week, to treat with the gov¬ 
ernment for the sale of the Black Hills. 
The annual meeting of the American Social 
Science Association was held in Detroit last, 
week. The opening address was made by the 
Hon. David A. Wells. 
The Armenia made the first day passage from 
New York to Albany on Monday. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
TnE bodies of the victims of the Schiller 
disaster are to be embalmed. 
Lleut.-Col. Crawford died in Toronto on 
Thursday night, week. He has been Lieut.- 
Gov. or Ontario for the last two years. 
German semi-official journals give very- 
strong assurance of the pacific purposes of 
Germany. 
The Russian Government has signed a con¬ 
vention with Japan by which the Japanese 
part of the Island of Saghalien is ceded to 
Russia. 
Many more bodies of victims of the Schiller 
disaster havo been recovered; twenty-four 
mail bugs have beeu brought ashore. 
Tbe report that Germany and Russia will 
address a remonstrance to France in regard to 
armament is denied. 
The British Government has received satis- 
factory assurance from Berlin in regard to 
the maintenance of peace. 
A corouer's inquest on 20 bodies of persons 
whose lives wore lost through the wreck of the 
Schiller resulted in a verdict of accidentally 
drowned. 
Mr. Disraeli has consented to the appoint- I 
ment of a Royal Commission on the question j 
of International copyright. 
The Czar is thoroughly convinced that con¬ 
ciliatory sentiments prevail at Berlin. 
The governor-general of Canada has left 
Ottawa for Quebec, whence he will sail for 
England. Gen. O’Grady Haley w ill administer 
the government in his absence. 
Moody and Raukey have held fifty-one revival 
moetings In Agricultural Hall, London. 
Hon. Alexander McKenzie of Canada will 
leave for England the first week in June, on 
business connected with the breach In the 
terms of the Union with British Columbia. 
Tbe St. John. N. B., Laborers' Society men, 
who struck work n few weeks ago, have backed 
down and returned to work. 
Twelve bodies of victims of the Schiller dis¬ 
aster have beeu embalmed and will be sent to 
New York. 
Ltqiinc, the Manitoban “ex-rebel," refuses 
the conditional pardon offered him by the Cana¬ 
dian government In prison. 
It is officially announced that Spain has paid 
to the Hon. Caleb Cushing $35,000, being the 
last Installment of the Virginias Indemnity. 
Prince Bismarck energetically disavows all 
responsibility for the reports of alarmists, and 
has Assured Prince Gortscbakoff that Germany 
has In no way menaced Belgium’s independ¬ 
ence. 
Tbe London Post maintains that the late 
war rumors were not groundless. Germany, 
alarmed by the rapidity of French military 
reorganization, had arranged everything and 
was on the point of marching against France, 
but the danger is averted for the moment. 
Extensive floods are reported at Sydney and 
In the Province of Victoria. 
The steamer City of Brussels en loute from 
Liverpool to New- York went ashore on the 
Irish coast, but was brought off without 
damage. 
The town of Guetariain Spain has been shell¬ 
ed by the Carllsta. 
The Honolulu Commercial Advertiser says: 
“ We learn t hat the reciprocity treaty between 
the Culted States and Hawaii was ratified by 
His Majesty on the 17th inst. (April), and will be 
sent forward to Washington for an exchange of 
ratifications fey the May steamer (the Cyph- 
rencs), expected here soon. 
The Dominion Department of Justice has been 
Inf >rmed that several murders havo been com¬ 
muted In the Northwestern Territories by 
white men who have taken refuge in Montana. 
An effort will be made to recover tbe criminals 
for trial by means of the Extradition Treaty. 
Divers wero able to examine the hull of the 
Schiller for four hours on the 14th. They found 
her broken up—a confused mass of Iron and 
timber. Her lower deck rested on tbe rocks, 
and her bottom was gone, having boon torn off 
by t,he rocks. None of t he specie was recover¬ 
ed, and no cargo was visible. 
A female troupe of cancan dancers have been 
ordered t.o leave Toronto, Canada, by the police, 
and their license to perform In that city has 
been cancelled. 
11 now apperrs that sixty-two lives were lost 
on the steamer Cadiz, which was out of her 
course in consequence of a misreckouiug of 
the captain. Khe sunk almost immediately 
upon striking rock. 
Half of the city of Peshawur, in India, lnt* 
been destroyed by fire. 
Mr. Godlove S. Orth, the new American Min¬ 
ister, has reached Vienna. 
70c. No feed in the meadows yet, and we are 
feeding our cattle the same as In mid-winter.— 
A Farmer. 
Liberty, Union Co., Ind., May 11.— The 
weather is very floe. Farmers sire pretty well 
done planting corn, A large breadth of land is 
being planted. The growing wheat looks bad. 
It cannot make more than 5» of a crop. Wheat 
13 worth $1.25: corn, flOc.; farm hands $20 to $28 
per month and board, day hands get 75c to $1,60. 
Fruit nearly all killed by the late frost. A few 
apple and peach blossoms are just coming out. 
—W. H. L. 
HAVE YOU PAINTING TO D01 
DO IT WITH THE 
AYERILL CHEMICAL PAINT. 
White, Buff, Drabs, Browns, and all the fash¬ 
ionable shades, are sold by the gallon at less 
cost than a gallon of lead and oil. 
We say this advisedly, believing it to be tbe 
best paint in the world. Tbe finest residences 
in the country are now painted with It. It 
stands well and looks handsome. Sample 
cards, prices and testimonials are furnished 
free by the Averill Chemical Paint Co., 32 
Burling Slip, N. Y. 
THU MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
Nkw YORK, Saturday, May 15, 1875. 
Receipts.— The receipts of Produce for the week 
arc us follow*: 
Cotton, halos. .... 5.761 1 Dried Fruit*, pkgs.. 54 
Flour, Uhls. 6.1,100 Euijs, bbls. 17,300 
\Vheal, hush. 196,200 (lops, bales... 
Corn, bush. 1:8,100 Peanuts, ha*a. 
Oat*, bush. 167,100 Pork, pkgs. 1.208 
Grass Seed, busn.. — Beef, pkgs. 450 
live, biirli. 400 Cut meat*, pkjrs.... 5,040 
Burley, bush. — Lard, pkgs. 2,890 
Mult, hush. 10.700 Butter, pkg* . 15.900 
Beans, bush. 821 Cheese, pkg*,.. 21,540 
Coi n meal.bbl*.... &«> Wool, bales. 579 
Corn meal. bags... 676 
Beans and Peas.—E xports of beans past week. 
810 bbl*.: since Jan. 1st, 9.8i(l do.; same time last 
year. 11,850. Exports of peas past week, 10.642 bush. 
It is an uncommon event for ilic bean trade to re¬ 
vive while we ure approaching warm weather 
the unusual activity now noted ts very enooura-ing 
to sellers, especially us the OOlward trade has been 
greatly below lost season's quantity. Prices for both 
medium* snrt marrows are very hi m. und tb« small 
receipt* would induce speculation it holders could 
be induced to part with stock. At the close there la 
an upward tendency lit the marketable sorts. Pen 
bean* are without call. White Kidneys are quiet. 
Prime Red Kidneys ttrnily held. Crider grades are 
not wanted. Oreon poo* scarce und drrn. Canadian 
peas have a strong position at full figures; sales to 
arrive, $1.19. There Is a marked absence ol free bar¬ 
rels this season. Southern B. E. nominal. 
We quote Beans, new medium, prime. fl.85<32.tfl; 
do. tnir. S1.A0 gm.T 0; do. poor. Si Ai; marrows, new 
prime. $2.40<62.4i; do. marrow, other, 12.15G42.20: do. 
Pea. prune liew, $1. 461*2.06; beans, pea. other. $ 1.10.; 
kidney, new red. tkaJS.lO for prime, and fjkAU&Z.M) for 
poor: w lute kidney, new. $2 3tV<t2.3lJ : do, other. *2«® 
$2.15. Canada peas, in bulk and bond—Green, prime 
new. S2.40r.i2A): Southern B. E. peas, per 2 bush, bug, 
fi.60. 
BEESWAX.—'There have been fair supplies of tlic 
commoner quality on the market, but really choice 
stock Is scarce. Prices rule about as before Quoted 
at .i1i.trfl.lo)»o. for Western and choice Soullieru 
Avocu, tsleulicn L’o., X. V,, May -1. — I take 
my harp from the willow tree and add my note 
to the universal lugubrious monotone that fills 
the airSuch a winter has never been known; 
another suuh spring Is not in the memory of 
the oldest inhabitant," etc. Truly the weather 
has been and still is very discouraging. Here 
it Is the 4th of May and hut little done In this 
locality toward seeding. Farmers are generally 
behind with their work, for they could not do 
It because of the bad weather, and they feel 
pretty blue and look so. There is much cold 
norlh wind, and the soil is cold. How needful 
are patience and faith ! Notwithstanding these 
leaden skies and divers discouragements, seed¬ 
time and harvest will come. Grusa has just 
started. Apple buds probably are not much 
hurl. Farm laborers get $10@20 a month and 
board; maple sugar, 10@Ho. per lb.; hay, $12 
per ton; potatoes, 40o.; oats, 60c.: barley, $1: 
spring wheat, $1; winter wheat. $1.25; roll but¬ 
ter, 2lk!.; eggs, 13c.; a good, fair cow, in fresh 
milk, $35@50, Cheese factory here and others In 
all directions; dairy interest growing. A good 
grazing region; but many of tbe brooks that 
were considered perennial thirty years ago are 
now dry half the summer; still this is yet a 
well-watered locality.— f. h. g. 
Pluluwell, Allegan Go., Mlcb., May 3 .—The 
season was dry', oold and backward until re¬ 
cently, when quite an amount of cold rain has 
fallen, generally ending with snow. On the 
morning of May 2 snow was nearly an inch 
deep. Oats nearly all sown ; those planted 
nearly three weeks ago not up yet. Farmers 
all busy plowiug for corn; a larger acreage 
than usual will be planted this year. Wheat 
badly winter-killed In places; what there Is 
left does not look extra w'ell. The maple sugar 
crop Is very light. Farm help plenty, $15 $20 
per mouth and board; wheat, $1.15 (g $1.20; 
oats, 60(g.60c.; potatoes, 75c. <& $1; corn, fit) @ 
Butter.—A t last the weather begin* to exhibit, 
somegrowing qualitlcsund we may noon have a hope 
of grass butter. Already buyers operate cautiously 
111 white and will tint purolm*c largo line* miles* very 
favorable concessions are made, and rather than 
lUk an accumulation at this tliue, ?ellci - humor the 
viewr of good wholesale buyer* to a considerable 
extent. A* before, It 1* only iti a tonal) grocery way 
that tho highest rates arc paid and country buyers 
should not lose their calculation* for shipments 
hpon the extreme figures that are givon in so tender 
s market ar prevail* when white lb liable to suddenly 
drop or become neglected. Old Putter Iiuh received 
a good patronage and the tew line* of choice that 
remain are really firm. It. must be., however, an 
extra lot that realizes our highest i nto. It 1* now 
proposed to hold auulloa sales twice a week In order 
to help keep the market clear of poor lots. Tho first 
sale was on Tuesday hud ; (00 packaged of odds and 
end* sold atTVitfilC. tor old to life. 12c. for do. West¬ 
ern and 2le. for a small dairy of fair new Western. 
There has been a change Iti one of our most Import¬ 
ant and oldest, firms that deal In Western butter—F. 
K. van utpku A Co. succeeding Clapp A Co., for¬ 
merly Clark, Clapp A CO, It speak* well for an 
association that permits so many successful retire¬ 
ments. 
Now Butter—State palls, finest,28A30O.! do. good to 
E nrne. 25®28c.: do. do,, fair to good. 237425c.; do. 
ulf-ilrklu rubs.selected, 2<k$28as good, 2;na27e.; fair. 
Hkfttte.: Welsh tubs, good to prime, 34<tt!6c.: fair to 
good, 22(-< 21c.-, very poor, llijvlOo.; W estern tubs, good 
to prime, 21(i'.23e.; fair to good, 1932m.: poor to fair, 
15®19o. 
Old Butter-btnte dairies, good to prime. 20® 22c.; 
fair to good, 19w20e.; firkins, choice selected, 20®2Io,; 
good to prime, I8<$20c.: fair to good, lOeUSc. - poor to 
fair, U@,16c.| balf-flrklus tubs, good to prime. 22<fl> 
24c.; fair to good. 2ttei/22e ; poor to fair.ltlfitaie.: Welsh 
tubs, good to prime, l'.«<>'2lc.; fair to good, 16®19e-i 
poor to fair. 116415c.; Penn, dairy, good to prime, 25® 
22a; fair to good, 18 l<2Uc.; Door to fair. 1I@16C.; storo 
packed, I8 h(J.i<:.; Western tube, fair to good, ll<7«15c.: 
poor to fair, 12H6SUts.; firkins, good to prime, ll®15c.; 
lair to good, 1360 Uc.; poor to Jtitr. 12K@Wc. 
Cheese.—T bere has beeu a sharp decline In prices 
and the market closed depressed. The arrivals, 
although rundctriiUi, have been steadily accumulating 
as shippers are holding off on other than small lots, 
on account of tho quiet condition of tho foreign 
market. There Is uo disposition to buy unless at. 
inside prices, anil one or two lots of the very best 
factories received have been sold u.s low as 11>»o. 
This price, however. Is In most instances refused, 
most holders asking up to 14c. The quotation* aro 
New State Factory— Farcy. ISKiflrUc.: do., good to 
prime, l&jtlljjc.; do , fair to good. Ilia lie.; do., poor, 
fiwluc. State Farm Dairy ■ Good to prime, 11 l.i.MSu.; 
do., fair to good, lOOURc.; do., poor. 8@10c. West¬ 
ern factory, good to prime, 12<&I3o.; fair, lie., and 
poor. 8 , 31 ( 10 . 
Coffee.— Bio, lBKOdSa'c.. gold: Maracaibo, 20K® 
22Mc., do.; Laguayru, 19M@A>Me.. do.. Costa Rica, ISM 
<&20Rc. do. 
Cotton. — Shippers have been operating freely, 
which has strengthened the market. The dosing 
prices arcMay. 161-16(916 T-88c.t June, 16 7-82'flln^c.; 
July, US 13-12C16 7-iSe.; August. 16 8-1(17.rj-3.'« ; Sep¬ 
tember. IHNiwlU 13-3204 October. 16 29-32®!'. 15-16.'.: 
November. l'i 2l-83(aibWc.; December, 15 If-lOAlSifc.; 
January, 15 29-32i:.»I5 15-lCc.; February, 1614(416 8-hie.: 
March, 16 1S-320IO 7-10.; April, 16 17-326* 1.621-12c And 
tor spot cotton us follow*, quotation* bused on 
AiueriCtiu stand urn of classification : 
Uplands. 
Ala. 
Orleans. 
Ordinary. 
13Xc. 
13ftc. 
Good ordinary.. 
.16 
15 
In# 
Low middling... 
. 15* 
15K 
lfitf 
Middling. 
.16J6 
16 if 
16M 
Good middling.. 
16* 
17 
Middling fair.... 
. nk 
1714 
17# 
Fair. 
. 17K 
11X 
IS* 
Cohn Meal. — Supplies are more easily placed, 
