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JULY 8 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The total number of hogs packed during the 
last twenty-five years is. In round numbers, 74,- 
000,000. 
Mr. Tennyson’s American readers will be 
pleased to learn that his new poem “ Queen 
Mary," will be issued at an early day by James 
R. Osgood & Co. 
Prof. O. C. Marsh has secured the perfect 
skeleton of a mastodon, from Otlsville, N. Y., 
for the museum Of Yale College, at a cost of 
$ 000 . 
Boston bus now over one hundred first-class 
woolen manufactories, all of which have sprung 
up w'ithln the lust twenty-five years. 
Ju Central Kentucky a mysterious change 
has come over the tops of the beech trees, the 
leaves of which have turned brown and appar¬ 
ently died, while the lower parts romuin in full 
leaf. 
Twenty-two locomotives are now in course 
of construction at ono shop in Philadelphia, 
destined for South American railroads. 
Louisiana raised nearly 300,000 barrels of 
molasses last year. 
A naval force, with steam launches, will be 
ordered to proceed to the mouth of the Klo 
Or *ode, to look after our interests there, and 
co-operate with the army in the suppression of 
Mexican raids. 
The annual report of the Treasurer of Cornell 
University show's that the appropriations for 
the year were $107,775: the productive funds of 
the Institution amount to $1,383,000.48 i the 
buildings, furniture and grounds are valued at 
$2,303,700.48. 
The scheme is revived of removing the Rich¬ 
mond Enquirer to Washington, for the purpose 
of having the prestlgo of that old newspaper 
for the establishment of a Democratic organ 
at the national capital. 
The wool-clip of the whole country will be 
little, If any, larger this year than in 1874, but 
it seems to be generally In better condition. 
Senator Jones, while in Chicago the other 
day, bought for cash two whole blocks (144 
lots In all) of unimpioved residence property 
within easy approach from the busiest and 
most valuable part of the city. 
The value of the exports of leather from the 
port of New York for the week ending June 8, 
amounted to $188,000, of which $11,991 went to 
Hamburg, $44,118 to Antwerp, $101,721 to Liver¬ 
pool, $5,830 to London, and $4,208 to Hull. 
San Francisoo now estimates her population 
at 330,000. 
The pecuniary loss to the coal miners by their 
strike Is stated to be fully ten million dollars. 
A telegram has been sent from this city to 
London and an answer received in 30 minutes 
actual time. Each message traveled 3,600 
miles, and passed through the hands of 18 
persons. 
It is said that the cost of the pedestal for the 
Webster statue presented to Central Park by 
Mr. Gordon W. Burnham will be at least $30,000. 
The statue will not be ready for unveiliug until 
July, 1876. 
The Ice orop of 2,000,000 tons harvested on the 
Hudson, estimated at half a oent a pound, is of 
more value by $3,000,000 than either the wheat 
or corn crop of the entire State of New York. 
The new ship Champlain, with a cargo from 
New York, was wrecked near San Francisco 
on 18th ult. 
It is thought that the failures In London will 
not unfavorably affect business in this country. 
It i3 calculated that 75,000 Americans have 
already gone to Europe this season. 
The ship Hamilton, of Boston, arrived from 
Manila, reports her experience of an earth¬ 
quake, in June 4, in latitude 19° 1C N., longi¬ 
tude 57 v 51', which lasted ten minutes, com¬ 
mencing in smooth water, and driving the 
ship’s bow under water during its continuance- 
The public debt of Louisiana is about $21,- 
719,680.25. 
There are 8,497,815 communicants in the Pres¬ 
byterian churches throughout the werld. 
The old Indian reservation of 100,000 acres of 
swamp lands In Wisconsin, the title to which 
has long been In dispute between the bit a to and 
the United States, has just been awarded to 
the former. 
At a recent meeting of the board of trustees 
of Cornell University, Prof. Ooldwin Smith was 
elected professor of political and constitutional 
history, to reside at Ithaca during one term 
each year. Prof. E. W. Stewart, of Black Rock, 
was elected professor of mechanics applied to 
agriculture. In place of lion. John Stanton 
Gould, deceased. 
Secretary Bristow is confident that the re¬ 
ceipts of the government Tor the present liscal 
year will exceed the estimates by i t.500,000, and 
tlic actual expenditures by $13,000,001). The 
customs receipts will fall shortof Mieestimates 
about $4,000,090. 
The Hon. Richard Frothingham was elected 
President of the Bunker Hill Monument Asso¬ 
ciation at its annual meeting on Wednesday 
week. 
A meeting of Erio bondholders, representing 
$1,000,000, bus been summoned at London for 
July 15th, to adopt, protective measures. 
The earnings of the Union Pacific Railroad 
for the first fifteen days of June, 1875, were 
$483,008.53. 
The gross earnings of the Chicago, Rock 
Islam! and Pacific Railroad for the year ending 
March 81, were $7,383,634. 
It Is apprehended lu official circles that un¬ 
less prompt measures aro taken relative to con¬ 
tinued raids on the Texas border that this gov¬ 
ernment and Mexico may become involved in 
serious difficulties. 
ItiB thought at Chicago that the refusal of 
the Michigan Central to advance the passenger 
rates from Chicago aud the reduction of fares 
on the Graud Trunk Railw ay may lead to a war 
between the New York roads and the Pennsyl¬ 
vania and Baltimore roads. 
A terrific storm visited Kansas City, Mo., and 
vicinity on the 20th ult., lasting about live hours 
and causing Immense damage to property. 
A sword fish measuring 19% feet has been 
captured in Now York bay. He weighed 390 
pounds, and had a »word four feet eight inches 
long. Three men in an adjoining row boat had 
a desperate fight with the monster before he 
was slain, aud I heir boat was sadly splintered. 
A new line of steamers to run botw'een Balti¬ 
more and Rio do Janeiro has been established, 
one vessel to leave each port monthly. 
The new all-rail line to Long Branch was 
opened .1 une 25th. Bv this route, which ixmen- 
trolled by tho Central Railroad of New Jersey, 
the distance to Lho watering place is 45 miles. 
It is reported that the bridges of the United 
States built since the war have cost $150,000,000. 
New Jersey lias more maniacs to the square 
acre than auy other country on the globe. 
They are collecting money In Texas to buy 
Jeff. Davis a homestead. 
From present appearances Kentucky will raise 
good hemp, bog and tobacco crops. 
A statue to O’Connell is to be erected in Cen¬ 
tral Park. 
Postmasters are to be held responsible for 
losses of Governmtnt property in their posses¬ 
sion. 
The 100-mile w'alk for the pedestrian cham¬ 
pionship of New England aud $300, was won by 
Haydock. an English pedestrian, in 23 hours, 36 
minutes, and 29 seconds. Cushing w’alked 71 
miles, and A very walked 75. 
A terrible tornado at Detroit, on the evening 
of June 27th, proved very destructive in the 
non li-western part of the city. Its path was 
about 500 feet wide. Some 30 houses beside 
outbuildings, &c., were demolished. Four per¬ 
sons are known to havo been killed and many 
others Injured, some of them seriously. The 
total loss to property is at least $25,000. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
Mr. John Stuart Mill’s correspondence 
with Comte will not be published for the pres¬ 
ent, as intended, because of objections which 
have been made by persons mentioned in the 
letters. 
The principal Amerlcau bankers In London 
report the financial crisis over for the present. 
Ladj r Franklin remains hopelessly ill. She 
bade farewell to the commander of the Pan¬ 
dora, which went in search of relics of the 
Franklin Expedition and. on other exploring 
voyages. 
Heavy rains have caused au unprecedented 
overflow of the River Garonne, France. Two 
bridges and many houses have been carried 
away. The city of TouJouse has been inundated 
and at latest reports the waters were still rising 
aud the situation becoming very serious. 
The American rifle team witnessed a review 
and sham fight of British troops at Curragh 
Camp, near Dublin, June 24. The infantry 
marched past to the tune of “Yankee Doodle." 
The American visitors, by invitation, lunched 
with the officers of the Ninety-first Highlanders 
after the review. 
It is reported that the Marquis or Lome and 
his wife (the Princess Louise) intend making a 
tour through the United States, 
I. II. Rudall & Sons of No. 20 King William 
Street, London, have failed, with liabilities 
estimated at $900,000. William Marshall of 
Manchester, has also failed; liabilities esti¬ 
mated at $500,(XX). Wilson & Armstrong, No. 69 
• Aldermanbury, have failed. Their liabilities 
are $1,000,(XXI. 
Rear-Admiral John Decamp (oh the retired 
list) died at Burlington, N. J„ on the 24th ult., 
at the age of 64. He entered the Navy iu 1827'. 
Boston is to spend $10,500 in celebrating the 
Fourth of July. 
The German Government Is preparing a par¬ 
liamentary measure prohibiting public religious 
processions. 
Merchants are selliug American iron at 
Wolverhampton at $85 per ton. 
The Belgium Chamber of Representatives has 
jtossed a bill making the offer to commit a 
crime an offence, and prescribing penalties. 
The case of Count Von Arnim w as decided 
by the Kammergericht at Berlin on the 24th 
ult., and he sentenced to 9 months imprison¬ 
ment. 
At Brantford, Canada, on 24th ult., during a 
furious gale the Town Hall, a large brick build¬ 
ing, was blown down. Several other buildings 
w ere unroofed, or partially blown down. There 
were TO persons in the building, one of w hom 
was killed and 3 injured. 
The London Carl 1st Committee have an¬ 
nounced that they have received information 
of a victory by their forces over the Alfonslsts 
in Caolile. Nine Alfonsist officers are said to 
have been captured. 
Up to the close of 1874 eleven millions of 
dollars had been expended on the great-naval 
arnonal and docks of Spezzia on the Mediter¬ 
ranean. 
The Russian Government spends annually 
thirty-two thousand dollars for carriages in 
behalf of singers at the St. Petersburg opera in 
order to keep them out of the snow with warm 
feet and clear voices. 
Four silver decanter stands, presented by 
David Garrick to Hannah More, wmre sold by 
| auction at Ross, England, reoeutly for $300. 
Mr. Tennyson, or h|n publisher, receives the 
handsome sum of $15,000 or $20,000 annually 
from composers who make a business of setting 
the Laureate’s poems to music. 
The Irish and the American teams shot Tor 
practice at Dollyraouut, on 24th ult. The 
shooting wa« very fine, and it would be difficult 
to say which team did best, so nearly equal 
was tbe skill displayed on both sides. 
Gemma's painting, the "Sabre Dance," in 
the Paris Salon has been sold for the enormous 
sum of $18,800. 
M. Godeharb fite, who died recently, has left 
$120,000, the income of which is to be applied 
annually In aid of young Belgian sculptors. 
The Pope has just had completed a magnifi¬ 
cent mosaic front to be affixed to the famous 
church "St. Paul outside-tiie-walls." 
The Chair of Clie min try iu Munich University 
made vacant by the death of Baron Liebig has, 
after prolonged negotiations, been, accepted by 
Prof. Baeyer of Straasburg, one of tho moat 
eminent chemists of the time. 
A terrible storm which took place on the 23d 
aud 24th of June caused great damage to sbip- 
piug and loss of life iu the harbor of Val- 
paraiao. Nothing like it had been seen in 
Chili for a long time. 
A painting baa just been discovered at Pom- 
pell which is said to be the most important yet 
brought to light in the destroyed city. It 
represents Laocoon according to Virgil’s de¬ 
scription. 
A discovery has just been made at Rome of 
thirty-six documents connected with Michael 
Angelo, of great iutorest for tbe history of art. 
The Income of the London Art Union last 
year was $94,630, the largest amount ever 
received by the society. 
Eight hundred thousand acres of Indian soil 
are now T under jute cultivation, producing 
nearly 8,000,0(.)0 maunds of fiber, which ultimate¬ 
ly takes the form of 32,767,930 gunny bags, und 
an enormous quantity of matting, twine and 
paper. 
La Republique l’rancaise, newspaper, states 
that it will contribute l,(XXi franca to a fund for 
the purpose of sending delegates to the Phila¬ 
delphia Centennial Exhibition. 
In France there were at the end of 1874 just 
15,000 miles of railway in operation. 
The extensive coal fields in tbe Island of 
Saghalion, w'bich was recently ceded by Japan 
to Russia, aro to be worked by Russian en¬ 
gineers and miners, and it is intended to em¬ 
ploy a largo number of the convicts from 1 
Siberia. 
The construction of a gun weighing 100 tons 
has been beguu by Sir William Armstrong in 
England. This gun is to be a muzzle-loader, 1 
17-inch bore, and. if successful, will he the J 
most powerful weapon ever constructed. 
One of the great railroad companies of En¬ 
gland purposes buying the Blaenavou iron- 1 
works for the purpose of manuiacturing rails 1 
and other iron. 
Mr. Firman, the American Spiritualist, w ho ! 
professed to photograph deceased persons, has 1 
been convicted of swindling in Paris and sen¬ 
tenced to six months’ imprisonment. 
An Austrian manufactory has made 180,000 
rifles for the Prussian Government, and is 1 
making 145,000 more. ’ 
The youngest child of the Count de Paris, a 1 
boy six months old, died suddenly in Paris on 
the 8th ult. ' 
JapaD has appoiuted commissioners to the 
Philadelphia centennial. 
The value of the aniline manufactured in j 
Europe has Increased from $2,000,000 iu 1862 to ] 
$7,600,000 in 1872. Half the quantity produced j 
is made in Germany. ! 
The Consolidated European and North Ameri- j 
I can Railway Company has suspended payment. 
The French Assembly recently voted a grant 
of $120,000 to promote a worthy representation 
of Frauce at tbe United States Centennial 
Exhibition. 
Sermons appropriate to the occasion of the 
37th anniversary of the accession of Queen 
Victoria to the throne were preached iu ail 
the Episcopal churches, at Toronto, Canada, 
on the 20th ult. 
Five thousand casks of liquor and thirty-five 
houses were destroyed by the fire at Dublin, on 
the 18th ult. 
A contest took place at Edinburg, on 19th 
ult., between tbe riflemen of England, Ireland 
and Scotland, for the international challenge 
trophy. Scotland won by 20 points ahead of 
England und 186 ahead of Ireland. 
Large tracts of land In tho south of France, 
not hitherto cultivated, are being planted 
with a kind of oak trees, beneath which truffles 
are generally round ; and It is expected that 
each acre of this land, lately sold as low as 
£!>, will yield a crop of truffles worth J720 a 
year. 
A bridge, which will bo bigger than t hat now 
building between New York and Brooklyn, aud 
the largest in the world, is to be constructed 
over tbe Frith of Forth, Scotland. The bight, 
will be 150 feet, and the number of spans 100. 
The great span in the center is to be 1,500 feet, 
or nearly one-third of a mile in width, and the 
smaller spans 150 feet. It wdll coat about $10,- 
000 , 000 . 
Tho latest rumor about King Alfonso credits 
himw'ith the intention of marrying one of his 
two cousins, Princess Cbrlstini or Princess 
Mercedes, both daughters of the Duke of Mont- 
pensier. 
The Pandora, a British vessel, has sailed to 
search for further remains of Sir John Frank¬ 
lin’s party. 
Some anxiety is felt about the Pope, w'ho is 
suffering from lumbago. 
The damage done by tbe inundations iu the 
valleys of the Garonne and Adour, France, is 
reported as immense. At Toulouse nearly all 
tho bouses iu the Cyprian quarter have beeu 
destroyed. One hundred drowned persons 
were found in houses wbioh were flooded but 
loD ung. Many others perished and their 
bodies wore carried off in houses that were 
Bwept away. 
The practice of the American rifle team at 
Dollymouut, Ireland, shows them to be greatly 
superior to their competitors. 
Count von Arnim has appealed his case to the 
Supreme Tribunal in Prussia. 
The Khedive of Egypt is preparing to form a 
library at Cairo. Ho is said to have obtained 
30 different manuscript* of t he Koran, among 
them one computed bo be 1,150 years old. 
Dispatches from India announce that the 
seal of the King of Buruiab has boon affixed to 
the treaty with Great Britain. 
On the 1st of this year 1,368 brigands were 
scattered over Sicily doing all the harm pos¬ 
sible. 
The report that Mr. Gladstone had consented 
to resumetheLiberal leadership is pronounced 
wholly unfounded. 
Rochefort has been obliged to suspend tbe 
publication of his newspaper, the Lanterne, at 
Geneva. 
Admiral Werner of the German navy gave a 
banquet on 2ilh Juue at Kiel in honor of Ad¬ 
miral Worden and the officers of the United 
States squadron. 
An ouglne for drawing street cars has been 
invented In Scotland by Mr. Scott-Moncrleff, 
who has obtained a patent for it. The motive 
power Is atmospheric air. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
Advices from the South are to the effeot that 
the crops are, almost without exception, doing 
finely, and that the planters are more hopeful 
than at any time since the war. 
An excitement has sprung up in Pannamint, 
Cal., over the discovery, four miles from the 
town, of a large lode said to be forty feet wide, 
carrying ores ranging from $80 to $420 per ton. 
Mortimer Thomson, better known to the 
reading public as " Doesticks," died in New 
York City on tbe 25th of June. 
John G. Parker, an old merchant of Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y., died there on the 23d ult., aged SI 
years. 
Prominent frontiersmen and army officers ex¬ 
press the opinion that there will he great 
trouble with tho Sioux, Cheyennes and Arapa- 
hoes this summer and fall. Large war parties 
have already left their reservations. 
The claims made by tbe United States Gov¬ 
ernment on that of Honduras for insults to its 
Consul aud flag at Omoa during the bombard¬ 
ment of that tort when occupied by Gen. 
Streber, have been settled to the satisfaction of 
the United States. 
Preparatory steps have been taken to bring 
about a system of international exchange be¬ 
tween Great Britain aud tbe United States 
through the medium of the co-operative so¬ 
cieties in Great Britain and the Patrons of 
Husbandry in America. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Condition of the Crops. —Tbe Ag’l Department 
Reports for May and June are just out. Mr. 
Dodgk, the Statistician of the Department, 
makes the following estimateWinter wheat 
very low—about six per cent of a full crop. 
Spring wheat much better, but not a full aver- 
