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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The Canal Hoard has concurred in the action 
of the Legislature In recommending that the 
rate of toll on lumber be fixed at throe mills 
per thousand foot, thus making the toll on 
lumber the same as for wheat on the same ton¬ 
nage. 
In three years the cotton crop of the South 
has yielded 11,750,000 bales, of the estimated 
value of $725,000,000. The value of the crops for 
the three yoara preceding the war was $534,- 
000,000. 
A correspondent of the Chicago Journal says 
that be lived in Central New York in 1834, and 
that on the morning of May 16 of that year the 
snow* was eight Indies in depth. He Hays that 
the apple blossoms were frozen, though the 
corn afterwards came hi and boro a good crop. 
The Imports of wool at Hoston for the first 
quarter of this year reached 5,310,280 pounds, 
valued at $1,300,455—an increase Of 8,038,331 lbs., 
and $1,000,155 In value, over same period last 
year. 
Mrs. Rohm, known as the " fat woman ” of 
Barnum’s show, Is dead, aged twenty-nine 
years. Her weight wus 583 pounds, bight 0 feet 
4 inches, and the span around the waist 72 
inches. She was born in Licking County, Ohio. 
The State Library of Virginia has been pre¬ 
sented with a portrait of Pocahontas, which is 
said to be an exact copy, made by the elder 
Sully in 1830 of the Indian Princess during her 
visit to England between the years 1010 and 
1017. It has been in possession of the descend¬ 
ants of Pocahontas up to the present time. 
The Mollychunkomunk is tho poetic name of 
a new pleasure steamer recently Launched on a 
Maine lake. 
Indiana is said to have the largest public 
school fund of any State in the Union, ainount- 
to over $8,000,000. 
This year the Southern counties of California 
sent to Suu Francisco 5,380,000 oranges, 020,000 
lemons, and 80,000 times. 
The Missouri Kiver Is having a June rise, and 
is bursting its banks and flooding tho country. 
Auburn hopes to show a population of 20,000 
in the forthcoming census. 
Ex-Parish Judge Belden was shot and mor¬ 
tally wounded by Mr. Sherburn, the present. 
Judge, in a difficulty at Terre Bonne, La., on 
the 3d Inst. 
Gen. Ferdinand C. Lutrobe was nominated 
for Mayor by the Democrats of Baltimore, 
June 3, by acclamat ion, 
E. F. Folger, Superintendent of the Richmond 
and York Kiver line of steamers, died in Balti¬ 
more, Juno 3. He was formerly of New York. 
Tho gold coinage for May amounted to $2,- 
824,000, all in double eagles; sliver coinage, In 
trade dollars, $962,000; fractional sliver coins, 
$610,000. 
The forest fires in Upper Ottaw a, Canada, are 
doing an Immense amount of damage to the 
timber limits, and already more pine has been 
destroyed than the lumberers would cut in 
three years. 
A fire at Union Island, near Darien, Ga., on 
Wednesday night, June 3, destroyed Hilton & 
Foster’s mill, 100,000 feet of lumber, wharfs, 
and the schooners Hattie A. Fuller and Helen 
A. Brown. Loss, $100,000; no insurance. 
The Commercial Bank of Rochester, began 
operations June 2d under the general banking 
law, with a cash capital of $100,(X)0. Its officers 
arePresident, Hobart F. Atkinson; Vice 
President,Samuel B. Raymond; Cashier, Henry 
F. Huntington, 
Twenty buildings were burned in Chatsworth 
Out., Junes. Loss $37,000. 
At the recent exhibition of the National 
Academy in New York, the sales amounted to 
$35,000. 
Three hundred ami three women contributed 
to the Fine Arts Exhibition of this year in 
Paris. 
Judge Edward Mellen, formerly chief justice 
of Massachusetts, died in Boston, June 1. 
The list of tho dead at llolyokc has risen to 
eighty, and more will die. 
Suits have been brought by the Attorney 
General against fifteen County Treasurers for 
defldenceB in their accounts. The aggregate 
deficiency amounts to $022,978. 
Albany has 19 libraries, containing 147,534 vol¬ 
umes. The State library alone contains 95,500 
volumes and that of the Young Men’s Associa¬ 
tion 12,000. 
Most of the railroads in Indiana have been 
greatly damaged by a recent storm. Estimated 
loss, over a quarter of a million. 
War in Peunslvania among coal miners. 
A recent attempt to impeach the President 
of Mexico failed. 
Dispatches from Port Jervis, N. Y., report 
great fires still raging in Isolated parts of that 
neighborhood and in the Pennsylvania coun¬ 
tries. In tlienorthern part of Monroe county 
several lives are reported lost. 
Dr. Peters of Clinton, N. Y., has discovered a 
new planet of the eleventh magnitude. 
The Coroner's verdict on the Holyoke dis¬ 
aster, condemns the criminal carelessness 
shown In the construction of the galleries and 
the means of egross therefrom. They find that 
the direct cause of the Ore was the use of 
trimmings of laces, paper, etc., about the altar, 
and that tho building was sheathed with pine 
instead of plaster. 
George Pratt a well known lawyer of Nor¬ 
wich Conn., died on Friday afternoon. 
The total damage by the storm in Louisville, 
Ky., on Wednesday week, amounts to $100,000. 
At the Nutional Tempcrnnco Con volition in 
Chicago a resolution declaring woman entitled 
to the elective franchise w’as lost by a vote of 
78 to 63. 
A new iron steamship, to be called the City of 
Washington, a companion to the City of San 
Francisco, w r as launched last Saturday from 
the yard of John Roach & Son, at Chester Pa. 
A dispatch dated Kansas City, Mo., June 4, 
says:—Our people generally observed the fast 
day proclamation of Gov. Hardin yesterday. 
The grasshoppers began their flight westward 
yesterday morniugln immense masses. Danger 
is apprehended in Kansas from the number 
which hnvo gone over the border. Missouri 
will soon be free of hoppers. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
There is an isolated monastery in Turkey 
inhabited by 23 monks, who have not seen a 
woman since infancy. One of them is described 
by a visitor as follows“ He had never seen a 
Woman, nor hud he any idea what sort of things 
women were nor what they looked like.” 
The French Centennial Commission will ap¬ 
point two Commissioners to represent France 
at the Centennial Exposition, one to reside in 
America and one to stop in France. 
It Is probable that tobacco was introduced 
among the natives of Western Africa by Euro¬ 
pean sailors and slave dealers. In 1607 tiie ne¬ 
groes were cultivating the weed and smoking 
was common among both sexes. 
The collection of ancient engraved gems be¬ 
longing to the Duke of Marlborough Is to be 
sold towards the end of June. About the half 
of the collection was formed by George, Third 
Duke of Marlborough. The other half consists 
of two previously celebrated collections, the 
one nmde by the Earl of Arundel, In tho time 
of Charles 1„ and the other by Lord Bessbor- 
ougb. 
Judicial investigation shows that the offer of 
Weissinger to assassinate Bismarck was merely 
a part of an attempt to extort money, and the 
man had no accomplices. 
The London Times special correspondent pro¬ 
nounces the Bessemer steamer a failure as far 
as the workings of the machinery for prevent¬ 
ing sea sickness is concerned. 
The Portuguese Government has decreed the 
speedy abolition of apprenticeship, the last 
surviving form of slavery in its dominions. 
England has 4,800 miles of navigable rivers 
and canals, with a floating population of 100,000, 
of whom 40,000 are children. Most of these 
cbildreu live on the boats altogether, and often 
the hardest work la put on them by their al¬ 
most brutal parents. 
The public debt of France now stands at 
$4,500,000,000, and the interest is over $165,000,- 
000 , being considerably the largest which is paid 
on any debt In the world. 
A large bmdneaa in kangaroo skins is carried 
on in Australia. Though very tough, the leather 
made rroui them is very soft, which makes ex¬ 
cellent boots, gloves, Ac. 
Gen. deCissey, French Minister of War, asks 
for 51,000,000 fr. for fortifications and war mate¬ 
rial. 
Some important archeological discoveries 
have recently been made at Cimlez, in the Can¬ 
ton of Nice. Workmen have brought to light 
several large halls of Roman baths ; they have 
also found numerous coins with the beads of 
different Emperors, some sepulchral lamps and 
marbles covered with Latin inscriptions. The 
excavations are still going on. 
The largest field of pineapples in the world is 
probably one in the Eastern District of New 
Providence, in the Bahama*. From one spot 
can be seen at a single glance 1,200,000 pineap¬ 
ples growing. 
Port land, a suburb of St. John, N. B., was 
nearly destroyed by fire, recently, a church and 
sixty-eight ho uses and shops being consumed. 
One hundred and forty families are homeless. 
Loss, $250,000. 
In Germany there are nearly 1,000,000 more 
women than men. Reasons—Slaughter in bat¬ 
tle and freedom in America. 
Tt is estimated that there were over a million 
of dollars’ worth of coral obtained last year 
from the Mediterranean by the coral gatherers 
of Naples. 
There are 348 theatres In Italy, 337 in France, 
191 in Germany, 168 in Spain, 102 in Austria, 150 
in England. 41 In Russia, 34 In Belgium, 22 in 
Holland, 20 in Switzerland, 16 in Portugal, 10 
in Sweden, 10 In Denmark, 8 in Norway, 4 In 
Greece, 4 in Turkey, 8 in Egypt, and 1 in Syria, 
making in all 1,522. 
The German Government announces that it 
reserves the right of holding an Inquiry on the 
loss of tho steamer Schiller, in addition to the 
one now In progress at Greenwich. 
There are 102,154 trees In the avenues and 
other public thoroughfares In Paris, and the 
yearly expense of their maintenance amounts 
to $38,000. They are more than worth the money 
in the health and pleasure they afford to the 
citizens, apart from the adornment to the city. 
The tallest chimney in the world is the 
Townsend Chimney, Glasgow, Scotland — 468 
feet In hlgbt.. 
it is said that the American officers who enter 
the service of the Khedive of Egypt are obliged 
to forswear their religion and profess Moham¬ 
medanism. 
The British North Pole expedition, consist¬ 
ing of the vessels Alert and Discovery, have 
sailed. 
Portugal lias emancipated her slaves. 
Holman Hunt’s great painting of the Shadow 
of Death has been exhibited In Manchester, 
England, for two month*, and was visited by 
about fifty thousand people. 
Lord Derby was visited, June 2, by an anti- 
slavery deputation. In answer to a request by 
tho deputation he rofused to mediate between 
Spain and the Insurgents in Cuba. 
Prof. Halbig, an eminent sculptor in Germany, 
has nearly completed, after two years patient 
work, a colossal group In marble ordered by 
his Majesty King Lewis II. and to he presented 
by him to the Inhabitants of Oberammergun as 
a memento of their performance of the *' Pas¬ 
sion Play.” The group Is 40 feet In bight, and 
weighs between aland 30 tons. It is to be erected 
on the hill overlooking the village where the 
piny is performed, the principal figure is that of 
the Saviour, benoath whom stands the Virgin 
Mary and St. John, these being the two princi¬ 
pal characters of the play. 
There has recently been an Important debate 
in the Italian Parliament, occupying seven 
sittings, on the ecclesiastical Policy of the 
Government. One member charged the Gov¬ 
ernment with aiming at a reconciliation with 
the Vatican and with relaxing the “ Laws of 
G uarantee." The Government successfully de¬ 
fended Its policy ami repelled tho charge. A 
resolution, in effect, that the Chamber laid 
confidence that the Government would firmly 
apply the laws to the protection of the rights 
of the State, was carried by 219 yeas to 149 nays. 
A lighter capsized In the Tagus, near Lisbon, 
recently, aud sixty persons were drowned. 
Tiie chair in the French Academy made va¬ 
cant by the deatli of Jules Janin, has been 
filled by the brilliant journalist, Lemoine. 
Tiie Germans intend to fit out an Arctic Ex¬ 
pedition, next year. 
The Emperor William lias conferred the 
order of Civil Merit on the Hon, George Ban¬ 
croft, the historian, aud Henry W. Longfellow, 
the poet of America. 
The Carlist General Sahalls, with 2,000 men, 
has attacked Bianco, and been repulsed with a 
loss of 60 killed. 
Reports from Newfoundland state that there 
is every indication that the coming season in 
western fisheries will be a prosperous one. 
Btoainship Steinman bound from New York 
for Antwerp, went ashore In a dense fog, on 
the Isle of Wight, on the 4th Inst. No damage 
done. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
Joiiann Klein, the eminent painter, died at 
Munich, Saturday week. 
In Holyoke, Mass., tramps are made to pay 
for lodging and breakfast with three hours’ 
work on a new Bower. 
Mr. W. Atklnsou of Southport, England, has 
presented that Lancashire seaside town with 
$30,000 for the building of a Free Library and a 
Fine Art Gallery. 
Gen, Prescott, a hero of the battle of Bunker 
Hill, may yet have a suitable monument to his 
memory. A citizen of Boston has offered to 
start a subscription for that purpose with 
$500. 
The Supervisors of Santa Clara county, Cal., 
voted themselves more money than the tax¬ 
payers thought was right, and the matter was 
left to the district Judge for decision. The 
award Is that the Supervisors shall return two 
thousand dollars to the public treasury. 
It is officially announced in Paris that the 
vexed question of how the restored Vendome 
Column shall be crowned has been settled. T’lio 
statue of Napoleon, as it was before the 
Commune, will he replaced, and the complete 
restoration of the whole monument, will soon 
be accomplished. 
It is reported that tiie Prince of Wales will be 
accompanied on his visit to India by four 
well-known representatives of London jour¬ 
nals, Dr. Russell going for The Times, Mr. 
Forbes for The News, Mr. Henty, for The 
Standard, and Mr. Edwin Arnold for The 
Telegraph. 
M. Duruof, in his late balloon ascent of the 
6 th May, at Avignon, established a singular 
fact. Although lie rose to an altitude exceed¬ 
ing 1000 yards, he did not reach the clouds, and 
the temperature of the air Increased nine 
degrees, being 33 Cent. (91 2-5 Fahr.) at that 
height, as compared with 24 Cent, (75 1-5 F.) 
near the surface of the earth. 
There is a man in Paris with a great project. 
Ho proposes to light that city with one lamp. 
He wants a big lamp, and wants to suspend ii 
at a proper hlght by means of a balloon. His 
argument is that all Paris can be lighted on 
that plan as well as an opera house. The au¬ 
thorities have a prejudice against his plan 
because be boards in a lunatic asylum. 
In the First Masonic lodge of Jerusalem, it is 
said, the master is an A morican, the past master 
an Englishman, the senior warden a German, 
tiie junior warden a native, the Treasurer a 
Turk, the secretary a Frenchman, the senior 
deacon a Persian, and tho junior deacon a 
Turk. There are Christians, Mohammedans 
and Jews in the lodge. 
Tiie Rev. Dr. P. H. Fowier of Utica has pre¬ 
sented Hamilton College with a collection of 
1,200 volumes of theological and miscellaneous 
works. 
The homeopathists have at last won their 
twenty one years' fight In Michigan, the Legis¬ 
lature, at its recent session, having passed a 
bill creating a homeopathic college in connec¬ 
tion with the State Fniversity. 
The traces of Maximilian’s short reign in 
Mexico are rapidly passing away. Even the 
place in the City of Mexico which ho confiscated 
and presented to Marshal Bazaine upon the 
occasion of the latter’s marriage is now to 
become the site of an American hotel. 
It is supposed that Dr. Rastoul and his com¬ 
panions, tho French Communists, who escaped 
from ( lie Island of New Caledonia, perished on 
the water, as no tidings of them have yet been 
received, and fragments of the boat in which 
they were Lave been found. 
In Rome a law has been passed condemning 
persons guilty of blaspheming God, Christ or 
the Virgin and saints In the streets to a month's 
Imprisonment for the first offens e and six 
months for the second. 
The statue of St. John tho Baptist, discovered 
a few* months ago at Pisa, and recognized sub¬ 
sequently as a work of Michael Angelo, is said 
now to have been executed by that artist in 
his 21st year, and to be the same spoken of by 
Vasari. 
Another large portion of ground on the 
Northern side of the Victoria Embankment, 
London, 1ms been laid out as a garden and 
thrown open to the public. 
It seems to be a difficult tiling to kill an edi¬ 
tor. Mr. Carruth of Vineland, with a bullet in 
his head, is able to walk about tuid write a card 
withdrawing from Journalism, and Col. An¬ 
thony of Leavenworth is getting well again in 
spite of tiie doctor’s assurances that lie could 
not live. 
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A GOOD CLOTHES WRINGER. 
We have taken some pains to examine the 
various Wringers, and much prefer the “ Uni¬ 
versal ” as lately improved. -N. E. Fanner. 
Having used for many months the kind of 
Wringer mentioned above, we fully indorse all 
that is said of it by uur New England contem¬ 
porary.—Editor# of Scientific. American. 
TS2X2 MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New Youk, 
Receipts.—T he receipt* 
were us follows: 
Cotton, bales...... 6.700 
Flour, bbls.. 60,800 
VVheut. bush. 961,700 
Corn, bush. (16,550 
Oats, bush,. 346,770 
Gruss Scud, bush.. 
Rye, bush. 33,000 
Burley, bush. 
Malt, bush. 77,775 
Beaus, bush. 5,200 
Corn moul, bbls.... 825 
Com meal. bugs... IKK)* 
, Saturday, June 5, 1 
of Produce for tho ' 
Dried Fruits, pkgs.. 
Eggs, bbls. 
Hops, bales. 
Peanuts, bags. 
Pork, pkgs. 
Beef , pkgs. 
Cm meats, pkgs.... 
Laid, paga...,.. 
Butter, pUgo. 
Cheese, pkgs. 
Wool, bales.. 
HEAN8 A\ r o PEAS.—Exports of beano past week, 
1.179 bbls.; since Jan. 1st, 11,8/5 do,; same time last 
year. 15,775. Exports of peas past week, *,02,5 bush. 
The market is fairly steady for inodlnm, especially 
for prime, selected marks; parcels a* they run c ut 
be obtained at graded prices, but there is no decline 
since our last. Exporters have operated veiy lib¬ 
erally in marrows, and prices are firm. It is thought 
that all the marrows will he needed. 8ome of the 
best buyers have Purchased stock ahead "t sir 
prices. To-day best murk* are held above $2.13. l’ca 
beaDS nm 6t*?urtv. There Is some demand for both 
white aud red kidneys, but the trade does not war¬ 
rant increased supplies. Peas of all kinds are steady 
at old quotations. 
We quote Bean*, now medium, prime. $1.99 ej) —; 
do. fair. 1.500*1.7(1: do. poor, $1.35; marrow*, new 
prime, flMOigX.lo; do. marrow, other, V2.l5<Si2.20: do. 
Pea, prime new, $1.45^)2.05; beans, pea. other,$1.(0.; 
kidney, new red, $3.10;<s3.15 for prime ; $2.50®2.60 for 
poor: white kidney, new’, $2.25flt2.39: do. other. $2® 
$2.15. Canada peti*. in hulk and bond, $1.18®—: 
green, prime new, $2.HXk-2-59; Southern U. E. peas, V 
2 bush. bag. $1 ted.25. 
Beeswax. Bleachers have been well supplied 
