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Htyross of the 'SSteeft. 
THE BEECHES TRIAL ENDED. 
The Jury 9 for Beecher and 3 for Tilton. 
After nearly six months’ continuance the 
trial of Henry Ward Beecher was closed on 
the 2d lost much to the relief of people who 
had boon surfeited, and their families demoral¬ 
ized, by the details given in sensational and 
Other papers. The .1 ury after deliberating seven 
days found agreement Impossible, and were 
finally discharged by Judge Nf.tt.sun. From 
llrst to lust it is said the Jury stood nine for 
acquittal and three for conviction probably 
a fair representation of the opinions of intelli¬ 
gent and virtuous men and women throughout, 
the country. Thusends a ease paralleled only In 
length and celebrity by the Tiohhorne trial In 
England, and certainly the most remarkable 
overbad In this country. The supplementary 
evidence to prove Mr. Beecher guilty—pub¬ 
lished just before the trial closed, but for 
which Judge Nkidson wisely refused to extend 
or re-open the ease hunbcuu Impeached, mid 
the two false witnesses, Loader and Price 
(tho latter of whom confessed his guilt,), are 
now in jail awaiting trial for perjury. 
The publication of the proceedings in this 
remarkable case has had a most demoralizing 
tendency, especially among the young, «ud is 
greatly to be regretted. After expressing our 
sentiments on the subject we refrained from 
allusion to it f«»r months but, now that iho 
trial is over, reiterate the opinion expressed 
before it began, that Mr. UccCfUiit is innocent, 
Wluit we said in the Kcuai. of Aug. 28, 1874, 
Boon after the Plymouth Church investigation, 
is as true now. and we republish It as follows ; 
“ Mr. BEEOIIER’8 great fault was his weakness 
in trusting his enemies as bosom friends, and in 
mistaking blackmail for charity. Whatever 
committees, courts or threats may do In future, 
the public will bo divided iu opinion ; yet, from 
the statement of Mr. Beecher, and the testi¬ 
mony adduced, we are constrained to believe 
the accused Innocent of any intentional wrong¬ 
doing. The scandal has been most infamous 
and demoralizing, and we hope society will 
never see the like again. Much that the press 
has published on the subject is unfit to be read 
by either the rising or risen generation, and a 
disgrace to the boasted ‘enterprise’ of Ameri¬ 
can journalism." 
Disastrous Floods In Europe. 
Tornadoes and floods seoui of late years to 
tie unusually prevalent both in this country 
and iu Europe. Or is it tlie increasing Intelli¬ 
gence and more intimate relations which exist 
between people in different parts of the world 
which make the disasters of one known to all y 
The latest reported is that Iu the Garonne 
Biver, in Southern France, which we are told is 
entirely unprecedented In Its destruction of 
life and properly. In the city of Toulouse 
alone900 person.-, were drowned and 2,000 houses 
swept away. It is estimated that sixty millions 
worth of properly was destroyed iu the city, 
besides many more millions in the length of the 
valley. Thousands of people have been left 
destitute and groat suffering is fearod. The 
French Government has appropriated $*00,4)00 
for immediate relief, and more will be needed. 
The snowfall in the mountain ranges of 
Europe was very heavy last winter, and Its sud¬ 
den thawing with heavy rains at the end of a 
very late spring la the cause of these disasters. 
Similar floods are reported in the valleys of 
Moravia, but what damage has been done to 
crops and other property Is not yet known. 
These floods after the severe winter of 1875 
mark this season as one of the most remark¬ 
able on record. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The total number of steamers running be¬ 
tween the United States and Europe is 216, of 
which 187 sail from the port, of New York. 
The statue of John Winthrop, which the 
State of Massachusetts is to present to the 
National Gallery at Washington, is completed 
at Rome, and will be sent home very soon. 
The most encouraging crop reports come 
from Central and Western Nebraska, where 
seriouB apprehensions have for several weeks 
post been felt, in consequence of the continu¬ 
ous drouth. 
Decorah, Iowa, was damaged badly by the 
recent storms, which destroyed property in the 
vicinity to the extent of $150,000. 
There has been a decrease in National Bank 
circulation since the 1st of last January of 
$7,787,845, by tiie voluntary action of the banks. 
All but t wo millions of this decrease has beeu 
in New York State. 
A meteor passed over I'ilea, N. Y., last week 
and struck iu the vicinity of Fort Edward, 
Washington Co. In Its explosion some pieces 
arc believed to have set fire to a house which 
was burned at the time without other assign¬ 
able cause. It belonged to Wm. Brown and 
was totally destroyed, together with the furni¬ 
ture. The meteor burst just over the house 
previous to the Are. 
Ban Francisco, a city not half the size of 
Chicago, gets away with one-third more liquor. 
The San Francisco Chronicle says that Cali¬ 
fornia consumes 10,000,000 oranges per aunum, 
or about eighteen apiece to each man. woman 
and child In the State. 
By means of spurious war certificates the 
Missouri .State treasury has been defrauded of 
$ 1 , 000 , 000 . 
The finest Baptist church in the country is at 
Yonkers, N, Y. it oo*l $175,000, chiefly con¬ 
tributed by James Colgate and John Trevor, 
stockbrokers in Wall street. 
The President of Mexico was tried on the 2d 
of May, on articles of impeachment presented 
in the Mexican Senate, and wax acquitted by a 
vote of 128 to 10. 
WC have built in this country 72,023 miles of 
railroad. The total cost, at the par value of 
the stocks and bonds, is $4,221,763,000, a sum 
nearly double our present national debt. 
Report* from numerous points in Wisconsin, 
Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and 
Bout hern Illinois indicate that the storm which 
passed "ver that section, htHtlug from the 26th 
to the28th of June, In most localities did great 
damage, killing a considerable amount of live 
stock, tearing down houses, barns and feucoa, 
inundating whole farms, and injuring the crop* 
to some extent. Railroad bridges and culverts 
were swept away In some places and many per¬ 
sons Injured, and several are reported to have 
boon killed. 
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed 
I he Assistant Treasurer of the United States to 
soil $3,000,000 in gold during the month of July. 
Preliminary reports from the census takers 
at Rochester indicate that the population of 
the city is nearly 00,000. 
Advices from various points In NebrasUa rep¬ 
resent the wheal, oats and fruit prospects as 
the finest ever known in the State. 
There is an Unusually fine run of fish in the 
upper Connecticut, this season. 
There are one hundred thousand victims of 
the opium habit in the United States. 
Two thousand six hundred uml sixty-six 
books were ad dial to Astor Library during the 
year 1874. The whole uumber of volumes now 
on Its shelves is 180,306. 
McCulloch says 40,000.000 of Frenchmen could 
subsist on that which 40,000,000 of Americans 
throw away. 
The American Team won the match at Dolly- 
mount, Lreland on the 29th by 38 points. A 
grand banquet was given to them by the Lord 
Mayor of Dublin at the Mansion House in the 
evening. 
Two persons died of yellow fever in Key 
West ou the 38th ult. 
The American team of riflemen, who have 
carried away the honors thus far in the great 
international match at Dollymount, Ireland, 
are with but two exceptions, natives of New 
York State, and five of the nine arc military 
men. The youngest of them is twenty-two 
years ol age and the oldest forty-nine, six of 
them being under forty years old. 
One hundred and seven million gallons of 
Croton are dally consumed in New York. 
President White of Cornell says the women 
in that college are quite the equal of men in 
scholarship. 
The New York Herald will run a special train 
every,Sunday during the season, commencing 
July 4, between New York. Niagara Falls, Sara¬ 
toga, Luke George, Sharon and Richfield 
Springs. 
Gov. Tliden has vetoed the New York Police 
Justices bill. 
Webl & Co.’s tobacco warehouse In Phila¬ 
delphia has been seized. 
The yellow fever in Key West is spreading. 
The jury in the Tllton-Beecher trial beiug un¬ 
able to agree they were discharged on the 2d 
last. They stood on the last ballot, 9 for 
Beecher, 3 lor Tilton. 
The alurnnl of Rochester University N. Y., 
have elected the following officers : President. 
—Rev. Chaa. D. Bridgeiuau, ’55, D. D.; Corres¬ 
ponding Secretary and Treasurer—M. W. I 
Cooke, *60; Recording Secretary—Alonzo R. 
Clarkson, ’63; Orator—Rev. P. S. Evans, ’55 ; 
Poet—Joseph O'Connor. '03; Alternate Poet- 
William O. Stoddard, ’58. 
The Irish press speaks in congratulatory 
terms of the victory of the American riflemen. 
The Secretary of the Interior has nominated 
to the President Jacob M. Patterson, jr.. to be 
pension agent at New York in the place of Mr. , 
Dutch er. 
A German squadron will visit the United 
States in 1876 in return for the visit of Admiral i 
Warden’s fleet. 
The public debt statement for July 1 shows a 
reduction during June of $1,431,249.56. 
President McOoxh of Princeton College sailed 
on 30t.h ult. for Scotland. 
Statistic* of the New Orleans Cotton Ex¬ 
change show a generally excellent condition of 
the cotton crop, though In South Carolina con¬ 
siderable damage to the standing crop has 
been caused by the recent tornadoes. 
There is to bo a great national exhibition of 
poultry, pigeon* and dogs to be held in Chicago 
during the month of January, 1873. 
James Holdndcs of Buffalo, N. Y., is most 
likely the champion onion raiser of this 
country. His average crop is 7,000 bushels, of 
which number lie usually stores 3,000 bushel* 
over the winter. 
The difference in time between New York 
and London is such that while the shooting at 
Dollymount did not begin until after eleven, 
dispatches reached hero soon after noon giving 
all the shots fired In the 1st range. New York 
ivas hours ahead of London, and the difficulties 
of reporting by cable the exact position* of 
shots were fewer than If the match had taken 
place a few miles out in Now Jersey. 
The Democratic State Convention of Cali¬ 
fornia has nominated William Irwin for Gov¬ 
ernor and W. E. Lovell, Is the nominee of the 
temperance party. 
The Massachusetts school fuml now amounts 
to $2,54)0,000. The finest buildings in Massa¬ 
chusetts are school-houses. 
The Stat e of Now York has just brought suit 
against a citizen of Conn., which involves the 
question of boundary between the States. 
There are 20,000,000 fruit trees, occupying 50,- 
000 acres, in the United States. 
Let us see. Chicago claims a population of 
400,000, and probably has between, 300,000 and 
350.000. 
The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad going 
through a fertile and wealthy region not 
reached by railroads Is making good progress. 
A correspondent of the Buffalo Courier says 
that the road will be in full operation from 
Oswego to Lewiston by the first of October. 
On tlie official report of the Board of Health, 
proclamation of ten days’quarantine was made 
against the port of Key West on the 30th ult. 
It is estimated that, after making a very 
liberal showing for home consumption and the 
demand of Western markets, Texas will have, 
as net surplus, over 2,000,000 bushels of wheat, 
for which it market, new to our producers, 
must be provided. 
The great, telescope of the Cincinnati Obser¬ 
vatory lias been reconstructed and remounted. 
It has a twelve-inch object glass, a focal length 
of 17 foot, a weight of 2,600 pounds, and cost— 
or would cost at the present day—$6,000. The 
object glass was purchased by Prof. Mitchell 
personally, in Munich, in 1842. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
The latest news from Burmali is not satisfac¬ 
tory. The King, it lx said, refuses to allow the 
passage of British troopB through his territory. 
The failures are announced of Dacosta Raalta 
& Co., No. 13 Leadenhall St., with liabilities to 
the amount of $2.50,000, and Ktlburn, Kershaw 
& Co., East India and silk brokers of No. 28 St. 
Mary Axe. The liabilities of the latter firm are 
said to be $2,500,000. 
The official .score of the International rifle 
match at Dollymount, Ireland, show the Ameri¬ 
cans to bo winners by 39 jioints. 
Sixty million dollars' worth of property was 
destroyed by the inundations In the South of 
Franco. Three thousand lives wore lost. 
There are fears that an effort will be made at 
Matamoros, Mexico, to rescue Gen. Cortina. 
The liabilities of Messrs. Coates & Co., auc¬ 
tioneer* and commission merchants, who failed 
recently, amount to over $150,000. 
A royal ordinance commands the expulsion 
from Spain of members of the Carllst juntas 
and all families having members in the CarliBt 
service, and declares their property confiscated. 
The population of Japan has Increased 150,- 
000 since the census was taken at the close of 
1873. 
In Belgium 160,000 women, girls and little 
girls are engaged in fabrication of lace. 
An Etruscan vase in an admirable state of 
preservation has recently been bought at 
Angers by the Conservation dee Antiques. It 
is seventy centimetres high, of black earthen¬ 
ware, with red designs representing the combat 
of the giants against the gods. 
The French Assembly appropriated $398,000 
for the benefit of the sufferers bj r the recent 
floods in France. 
The several British settlements In South 
Africa are to be formed into a confederation 
after the model of the Dominion of Canada. 
A crab eleven feet six inches long had beeu 
captured on an Island in Yeddobay, und was 
on exhibition in Yokohama. 
The damage to property by the inundations 
in the cities of Toulouse and Agen alone ex¬ 
ceeds $24,000,000. 
Contributions for the relief of the sufferers 
are pouring in from all parts of France, Switzer¬ 
land, and Belgium. 
The authorities of Heng-Kiang express regret 
for the receut destruction of the American 
missionary chapel, and offer to make good all 
losses. 
The total number of Post-Offices in the entire 
Russian Empire, both iu Europe and Asia, is 
3,200. In London alone there are 530, and in 
England and Wales there are 9,280. 
The Senate and Chamber of Deputies In 
Rome have passed the Public Safety bill for the 
prevention of brigandage in Sicily and else¬ 
where. 
The ex-Em peror Ferdinand I. of Austria died 
the 29th ult. of lung disease, aged 82 years. 
There are 1,600 convents and monasteries in¬ 
habited by 21,000 monks and nuns in Belgium. 
The Income of the religious orders in that 
kingdom Is one hundred millions of dollars. 
The death is announced of Tso, Viceroy of 
Kaosuh, and the most powerful official of the 
old Chinese race in the empire with tlie siugle 
exception of LIyang Chong. 
Tennyson’s Dramatic Poem “ Queen Mary ” 
is highly commended by the Press, generally. 
A large panel painting by Rubens, represent¬ 
ing the Virgin appearing to St. Francis, has, it 
is reported, been discovered in the church of 
Noire Dame, at Cassel. 
The mausoleum which is to contain the 
remains of Marshal Prim has been completed 
at Madrid, and was recently dedicated with im¬ 
pressive ceremonies in the presence of an im¬ 
mense assemblage of people. 
Late advices from l’igi report that there is no 
diminution in the violence of the measles and 
typhoid fever on the islands. 
The Chancellor of the Diodcse of Lincoln, 
England, lias decided that Dissenting ministers 
have no right to the prefix “Reverend” to 
their names. 
r. Thomas Charles Baring (son-in-law of 
the late Robt. B. Mlnturn of Now York) the 
member for South Essex ha* undertaken to re¬ 
build Hertford College, Oxford, and to add 
considerably to it* endowments. 
In Ireland, within the last few months, 243 
parishes, 302 priests and 236,000 lay members 
have gone over from tlie Catholic to the Greek 
Church. 
The Ministry of the Viscount of Rio Branco, 
Brazil has resigned, and a new Cabinet has 
been formed, with the Duke of Caxias as Presi¬ 
dent and Minister of War. Baron Cotegife is 
Minister of Foreign Affairs. 
The Spanish fleet on the Northern coast of 
Spain has bombarded the Oarlist ports of 
Berme and Madden. 
A conflagration at Palacios, in the Province 
of Seville, recently, destroyed 140 buildings. 
A Parisian druggist prescribe* as an infallible 
means of extinguishing inflamed petroleum 
the throwing of a small quantity of chloroform 
upon the flame. 
The deepest well in the world Is In the village 
of Spcrenberg, about twenty miles distant from 
Berlin, it i* 4,194 feet In depth, it was begun 
about five year* ago by tho Government au¬ 
thorities, to ascertain the existence of rock 
salt beneat h the strata of gypsum occurring in 
tho locality. At a depth of 280 foe! t he salt was 
reached. The boring was prosecuted by steam 
until the final depth of 4,104 feet wan attained. 
At the lowest point, the salt deposits still con¬ 
tinue, exhibiting the enormous thickness of 
2,94)7 feet. 
The Mexican General < orlimi tins been ar¬ 
rested and placed und*'- guard, by Col. Manuel 
Purrat of the Mexican Regular Cavalry. 
The British bark La Bonne Intention, on a 
voyage from Deumrara, which she left on May 
22, with a cargo of sugar and rum, bound for 
the San Francisco, was burned at sea about mid¬ 
dle of June, all on board saved. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
The Rev. Henry R. Waite of the class of ’68 
Hamilton College, who was for some time 
minister of the American cliapol in Rome, has 
lately made a present to the college of old and 
rare Latin book* obtained by him in Europe. 
Borne of them are very valuable, and seldom to 
be found except in long-established collections. 
Two steamboat accidents, without loss of 
life, occurred during a receut fog in Hell Gate. 
Southern Utah Is said to be rich in Minerals, 
besides the gold, silver and lead, coal and iron 
abound in practically unlimited quantities. 
Gen. Sickles recently sent home $13,000 worth 
of goods, which were landed by the Custom 
House authorities free of duty. 
The engineer of the Peruvian Government 
lias estimated tlie quantity of guano iu recently 
discovered beds to he not less than 10,000,000 
tons, or enough to load a vessel of 300 tons 
burden every week day of the year for a century 
to come. 
Ou Friday, June 26, six men paid the penalty 
of murder by hanging. One In Massachusetts, 
two in Maine, one in Georgia and two in South 
Carolina. Ou the previous Friday two men 
were executed in Chicago. Hanging does not 
seem to be “played out” just now, and the 
wholesome respect for the law which its en¬ 
forcement inspires cannot fail to have a good 
effect on turbulent and law-breaking classes. 
The standing army of this country numbers 
in times of peace, about 22,000 and costs about 
$40,000,000, and the navy about $80,000,000 per 
annum. Pensions amount to $30,000,000 per 
annum, and the intorest on the national debt 
(now some $2,225,000,000), reaches the sum of 
$111,250,000 per annum, making the sum total 
$211,250,000. 
According to the last census the average 
value ef the hay crop of America equaled $340,- 
000,000. 
The Order of Jesuits numbered at the be¬ 
ginning of the present year, 9,101 members, of 
which 2,601 are in America, with St. Louis their 
chief seat. 
The salaries of all the ministers of the gospel 
in America, according to the last census, was 
$6,000,000; we pay $12,000,000 for the support of 
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