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JULY47 
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TIMELY TOPICS. 
Death of Francis P. Blair. 
The death of Gen. Francis Preston Blair, 
formerly M.C. and r.S. Senator from Missouri, 
occurred in St. Louis at midnight, Wednesday, 
July 8. Gcii. Blaik was born Feb. 10,1®I, an,d 
was, for a man of such prominence as ho had 
achieved, comparatively young. Sprung from 
a Democratic family, Mr. BtiAtlt early entered 
the Anti.Slavery movement, and from 1852 to 
1850 ho was a member of the Missouri Legisla¬ 
ture, representing the Anti-Slavery Germans of 
St. Louis, lie made the first speech in a Slave 
State Legislature in favor of abolishing slavery 
by State action. He was a member of Congress 
from 1857 to 1861, leaving his seat, only to take 
part in the war, where he served honorably and 
was made Major-General, and was declared by 
Gen. Grant to be the " ablest volunteer officer 
in the service,” Later, he differed from the 
Republican party in its reconstruction policy, 
and was made the Democratic candidate for 
Vice-President in 1868, running with Skymouh 
for President, lie was elected IT. S. Senator for 
a abort term, from 1871 to 1878, caused by the 
resignation of Senator DHAKJK. Since bis re¬ 
tirement from the Senate Gen. BLAIR lias been 
State Superintendent, of insurance. For a year 
past ills health has been very poor, but had 
been recently very much improved by the 
transfusion of healthy blood into his veins. 
Mis friends warmly hoped for his recovery, and 
his deatli at last was sudden. 
Beecher’s Salary Increased to $100,000. 
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, has signalized 
( lie triumph of its pastor over his enemies by 
increasing his salary from $20,000 a year to a 
round $100,000 for 1875. This S» without doubt, 
the largest, salary ever paid to any preacher in 
this country—larger, far, than any official in 
the State or Federal Government receives. It 
is to bo remembered, however, that this large 
salary is not merely a personal perquisite, but | 
is rather the positive avowal of Plymouth 
Church to bear the expenses of the scandal 
trial, which of course it. will do in the way that, 
will attract most attention to both church and 
pastor. It Is expected that lids salary of $100,- 
0 .itt will pay the trial expenses, lawyers' fees, 
.Vo., and leave the balance fully tvs large as Mr. 
Bkbcrhk lias received of late years. 
The revenues of Plymouth church amount 
to about $70,000 a year, of which $20,000 have 
heretofore been given to the pastor and the re¬ 
mainder in charity or held as a reserve. The 
church can easily give $100,000 a year to Mr. 
Bekuukk, ami, rightly recognizing the expense 
of the scandal as its debt, concludes to pay 
t hat, rather than use it in charity. Mr. Beecher 
is growing old, »nd his people cannot be willing 
that he should And himself cramped for money 
in addition to the terrible sufferings through 
which he has recently passed. 
The Croat Floods in France. 
Tiik floods in France proved more severe and 
the danger greater than was first reported. 
Heavy rains fell in all pnrts of the country just. 
In the time of a bounteous harvest, and no lo¬ 
cality has escaped Injury. For thirty-six hours 
the windows of heaven were opened and floods 
poured down in torrents- sheets of water 
rather than rain. Whole villages were sub¬ 
merged, and the destruction of property aod 
crops, aside from the loss of life, must be im¬ 
mense. France has seen no such flood since 
twenty years ago, when the Valley of the Seine 
suffered similarly, though to less extent. 'Then 
the Emperor Napoleon sent food and clothing 
to the destitute people, and President Mac- 
Mauon is doing the same thing now. It is dif¬ 
ficult as yet to say what will be the extent of 
the losses, though probably the surplus crop of 
France, and possibly more, has been destroyed. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Capt. Queen’s official report of the wreck of 
the United States steamer Saranac states that 
two ships of the British Navy, with all neces¬ 
sary supplies and accommodation,were prompt¬ 
ly placed at his command by British officers. 
The Iowa Democrats have resolved that _ 
Shepard Leffler, their candidate for Governor, 
shall challenge the Republican candidate to a 
joint campaign. m l 
B. B. Hlnroan of the advance of the Sioux ^ 
Commission reports that the wild Northern ( 
Sioux, the real proprietors of the Black Hills, ^ 
will probably be brought to treat for their re- 
lease. ■ l. 
The charges against Chief Clerk Avery of the 
Interna] Revenue Bureau are considered at the 
Treasury Department to he the malicious In¬ 
vention of an Indicted whisky operator. 
A fire at Hannibal Center, Oswego County, p 1 
July 8, destroyed the Croton Hotel. T. T. Reed’s 111 
store, a dwelling house and three barns. 
The extensive flouring mills of Leonhardt & 
Schurtch, St. Louis, Mo., was burned July 8. 
The mill and machinery are said to have been th 
valued at $50,000. , 
A fire at Whitehall, N. Y„ July 8, caused a 
loss of $10,000. 
The formal inquiry into the hygienic condl- flr 
tion of t he Philadelphia school-houses shows ov 
that t here arc no means of ventilation provid¬ 
ed, except, through the opening of doors and v 1 
windows. ° 
The United States Government lent the city 
Of Boston four thousand flags for the celebra- a' 
tion of the 17th of June, and they were die- of 
tributed among responsible persons throughout " 
the city for purposes of decoration. Their FI 
value was about $100,000, and upon their return 
it was ascertained that the aggregate loss by K 
their use was but $104. 
The United States steamer Narragansctt has tc 
been engaged during the past two yours in sur¬ 
veying the .Gull of California. The naval au- w 
thorUiee are much pleased with the valuable vi 
services rendered. Complete charts of the Gulf ai 
have boeu made for the first time, and nunier- bi 
ou» safe harbors on the coasts, heretofore un- P 
known, have been discovered. 
The yellow fever at Key West Is spreading. ° 
In Oxford County, Me., caterpillars have >' 
caused great damage. The orchards and large « 
tracts or woodland are as bare as in w inter, ami 
many trees have been killed. ' 
The one hundredth anniversary of the time 1 
when Gen. Washington assumed command of ® 
the Revolutionary army, w T as celebrated in b 
Cambridge, Mass., on the 3d Inst. 
The failure was announced, on the 7th inst,., v 
of Tyler, Frost & Co., wholesale grocers and <; 
dealers in liquors, with liabilities between 
$150,000 urnl $200,000; and of W. H. Bradley A c 
Co., carriage manufacturers, whose liabilities 
are about $225,000. I 
Avery bitter contest is now going on in the j 
Cherokee Nation between the Ross and Down— , 
ing parties for the position of Chief, and ru¬ 
mors of conspiracies and assassinations arc , 
rife. Col. W, P. Ross, the present Chief, is u , 
candidate for re-election, arid a man named t 
Thompson is the candidate of the Downing 
party. > 
A summer school at Penlkese, limited to a ( 
few of the best students in natural bistory con¬ 
nected with the college, will probably bees- ] 
tabllahed in 1876 ; but it is doubted whether a , 
school of the present scope of Penikese can be , 
run unless very largely endowed. 
The value or dry goods imported into New , 
York, exclusive of freight and duties, was as , 
I follow's, respectively ; •—Tor 1873-4, $106,,06,644; 
for 1871-5, $106,501,249. 
Another aggrieved individual has brought 
a libel suit for $100,000, and been invited by the 
jury to pay the Costs of the action. It was the 
Denver Tribune that was sued. 
The celebrated writer and lecturer, Robert 
Dale Owen, is hopelessly insane. Hewastaken 
to his home in Indiana on Tuesday week. 
Religious (roubles are said to be the direct 
cause of his insanity. 
Hon. John Jay has written a letter to the 
New’ York Tribune on our approaching Centen- 
nial Exhibition. He suggests, the postpone¬ 
ment of the International Exhibition for 
; another year, thus giving ample time to eom- 
, plete arrangements. 
Robert H. Ives, who has been senior partner 
: of the. firm of Brown & Ives since the death of 
John Carter Brown on June 10, 1874, died on 
1 the6th inst. at Providence, R. I., after au ill¬ 
ness of several weeks’duration. Mr. Ives was 
77 years of age. 
President Barnard of Columbia College, is to 
1 succeed the late Professor Wlnlock of Harvard, 
. as chairman of the commission created by 
t. Congress to make tests with a view of ascor- 
- mining causes of steam boiler explosions, 
s Miss IhJing, a niece of Professor Wise, the 
s I aeronaut, made a balloon ascension at Pbiladel- 
r pbia on the Bth Inst. When her balloon had 
i- reached au altitude of about 5,000 feet it sud- 
d I [|ciily burst, and w'as turn from the top to the 
i- valve. When the balloou was first seen to burst, 
' e it spun around with fearful velocity, aud the 
,e gas-bag fell over the side. In the fall to the 
,u ground the lady was badly Injured but the 
parachute arrangement attached to the balloon 
> saved her from being dashed to pieces. 
Mr. Edward A. Warren, a member of the 
>f Thirty-third and Thirty-tifth Congresses from 
lf Arkansas, died in Nevada County, in that 
State, Friday week. Mr, Warren was in the 
58th year of his age. 
of Mr. William M. Evarts has, it is said, bought a 
at commanding site on the bank of the Counecti- 
is- cut River, overlooking the village of Windsor, 
>t- and is to erect there a fine house for his future 
summer home. 
Of “ Independence Day " we have the oft-told 1 
story to repeat to our readers—deafen! ng noises, de< 
disasters on land and water, accidents and j lie 
deaths. It was observed with more than its 150 
wonted enthusiasm in New York and itssur- | is i 
roundings, beginning on Sunday and ending on | f l 
midnight on Monday. About 100 persons were Ca 
injured in this city and several fatally. ^ 
On the Rock away branch of the Southern on 
Railroad of Long Island, two trains came in Mr 
collision on the 5th inst., twelve persons were bo 
killed and twenty-seven injured ; about $100,000 ste 
wortti of railroad property was destroyed. fift 
The first celebration of our National birthday * fl ' 
ever attempted by American Indians took 1 
place at Atoka, Indian Territory, on the 5tb. *■' 
inst., 8,000 Indians wore present. Speeches les 
were made by Gov. Allen, an educated Choctaw, ^ 
and others. co 
There has been expended for the erection of 
the now city and county ball, at Buffalo, up to 
July 1, $1,108,052.25. r 
The Galaxy Flouring Mills at Minneapolis, 
containing 18 run of stones, were destroyed by cn 
fire, July 6. The loss of Messrs. Aokeng, the nt ‘ 
owners, amounts to $150,000. * r 
Mr. Francis Bacon, Treasurer of the fund of 
$32,829 accumulated for the erect ion of a statue * * 
of Edward Everett, has invested that sum in a tt 
Itatuo and podcKtuI of Mr. Everett, also a bust 
and portrait of the same person, and a statue **1 
of Gov. Andrew, and had $7,278 remaining, 
which he turned over to the Boston Museum of wl 
Fine Arts. ta 
It is proposed to buy the old mansion at b‘ 
Elizabeth, N. J-, formerly occupied by General hi 
gcott. for a public historical library and deposi¬ 
tory for old manuscripts, relics, Sc. 
A lively war is waging between Henry Corbin Ei 
who recently opened a liquor saloon in Wester- tti 
villa, (>., and certain citizens of that, place who © r 
are opposed to liquor-selling, Au attempt lias r, i 
been made to blow up Corbin's store with gun- hi 
powder. 
Daniel G. Lobdell, Supervising Special Agent 
of the Treasury Department, died in Washing- U 
ton, July 9, after a short illness, of congestion 
of the liver. He was 07 years of age. 
Robbers captured the night express train m 
from St. Louis on the Vandalia Railroad, on 11 
Thursday night week, shot and killed the s< 
engineer, and attacked the Adams Express car, 
but the car was successfully held against them. " 
The $19,000,000 or so in the Treasury cash 
vault Is all counted, and tallies to a cent with *’ 
Gen. Spinner's accounts. 
Two of the notorious Marysville, Cal., gang of 
coin counterfeiters have been arrested. * 
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has sued Richard t 
DeGrey, a New Orleans lawyer, ou a charge of 
libelling her in arguing the opposite side in one j, 
of her numerous lawsuits. 
Barn urn's balloon, which left Toronto on 23d ^ 
nit., was picked up by a vessel next day five ^ 
miles off Point Peter, on Lake Ontario. All the (i 
men on board were safe. 
Fort Edward is to be supplied with gas. Gas j 
works are lining built by a New York firm at a 
cost of $40,000, j 
Mr. Launt Thompson’s statues of President t 
Pierson and Mr. Charles Morgan were unvailed 
with impressive ceremonies at Clinton, Conn., ,| 
on Wednesday the 23d ult. T 
The lurgo woolen mill and buildings eontigu- f 
ous at Mystic Bridge, Ot., were burned by au in- ^ 
eoudlary fire ou the 24th ult. ( 
The largo Hour mills known as Peel’s Mills, ( 
east of Frederick Junction, on the Baltimore ( 
and Ohio Railroad and owned by Andrew J. 
DelashmU.lt of Frederick, were burned on the 
24th ult., together with a large quantity of 
wheat, flour, Are. The loss is about $15,000; 
partly insured. , 
Rice is now coming into use for brewing pur¬ 
poses. The beer produced from It iB said to be 
superior in color and flavor. 
The Board of Education of Rochester, by a 
1 vote of twelve to four, have ordered the discon¬ 
tinuance or religious exercises in the public 
■ schools, including the reading of the Bible. 
About midnight of the 6th inst. 4 robbers 
‘ broke into the house of the Cashier of the 
Barre, Yu, National Bank, bound his wife 
r and daughter, handcuffed him and forced him 
f to open the bank. They secured only $10 in 
1 money. 
A fire at Tulare City California on the 6th. 
s inst. destroyed the entire business portion of 
town. The loss Is $120,000. 
D The town of Postville, Cattaraugus county N. 
l ’ Y., was nearly destroyed by fire, on the 7th inst. 
y All the business portion but one store and the 
* railway depot was burned. The amount of loss 
and insurance not known, 
e The Chevalier Don Jose Antonio Pizarro, for 
I- many years Consul of Spain aud Mexico for the 
d State of Maryland and Professor of the Spanish 
l- language and literarure at St. Mary's College, 
ie Maryland, died on the 7th inst., at St. Agnes 
t, Hospital, Baltimore, at the advanced age of 92 
ie years. 
ie The Rev. Phillips Brooks of Boston has been 
ie elected President of Kenyon College, Ohio, and 
,n the trustees have voted to offer him a salary of 
$5,000 a year. 
ie The Erie Railway Company’s suit against 
in Commodore Vanderbilt to recover nearly $5, 
at 000,000, alleged to have been l'raudently obiain- 
ae ed by him from the company lots been decided 
on appeal in favor of the company. 
La Gov. Tilden's health is improving, 
ti- lteverdy Johnson, who is in his eighty-first 
:>r, year, astonished the Baltimore bar last week by¬ 
re I standing and arguing a case iu court for a 
whole day, without apparent fatigue. 
The Supreme Court of the United States has 
decided that Mr. J. S. Bowen, a well known 
newspaper man, of St. Louis, is part owner of 
150 acres of ground upon which Evansville, Ind., 
is now built. 
The Fourth of July oration at Duluth Flat, 
Cal., was delivered by a lady. 
The stca-ntug Lumberman, while returning 
on the evening of the 5th inst. from Fortress 
Monroe with a pleasure party of eighteen on 
board was run into off SeWeil Point by the 
steamer Isaac Bell, and sunk immediately in 
fifty feet of water. Only seven persons were 
saved. 
Robert Dale Owen’s physician in Indiana 
gives it as his opinion that his patient is hope¬ 
lessly insane. 
The yellow fever is disappearing from Pensa¬ 
cola. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
The Norwegian Government has granted a 
credit of $20,000 for an expedition to be sent out 
next year to explore the sea between Iceland, 
the Faroe Islands, Spitsbergen and Jan Mayen. 
The committee appointed to make a draft of 
a constitution for Spain ho* finished its labor. 
It provides fora Senate and Chamber of Depu¬ 
ties, and guarantees Individual aod religious 
liberty. 
h n English medical journal has accomplished 
what h is always been thought an impossible 
task—numbering the hairs of the head. It an¬ 
nounces Hint there are from 160,000 to 200,000 
hairs in a lady’s head, 
The funeral of the cx-Emperor Ferdinand of 
Austria took place July 6. The Emperor and 
Empress of Austria, the Russian Czarowitch, 
the Crown Princes of Germany and Italy, the 
entire Austrian Court and Ministry, the diplo¬ 
matic body and the Austrian cardinals aud 
bishops assisted at the ceremonies, which were 
of the most imposing character. 
The Alfonslst Gen. Jovellar has captured 
Caiitavleja with it* artillery and entiregarrison, 
2,090 st rong. 
The Assembly of Cape Colony has unani¬ 
mously adopted resolutions in favor of the an¬ 
nexation of sundry Independent territories 
south of Natal. Inhabited by 150,000 Caffres. 
Mr. Schuiz Ins left London for Hamburg and 
will rejoin V wife at Kiel, with whom he goes 
to Switzerland, there to remain till the middle 
of August. He will return to America in Oc¬ 
tober. 
A pigeon shooting match between A. H. Bo- 
gurdusof the United States and George Rim- 
mel, the champion of England, took place on 
t.bo 7th inst. at Herndon, England, and was won 
easily by the former. Bogardus challenges all 
England to shoot against him. 
From Mexico we learn that the Sonora Rail¬ 
way bill has become a law. The telegraph line 
between Tampico and San Luis Polosi lias been 
completed. 
A body of 495 Mennonitcs left Sarnia. Canada 
July 9, per steamer, en route for Manitoba. 
’I’he town of Lialeux and neighborhood, 
France have been damaged by inundation to 
the amount of $400,000. 
A Quebec dispatch of the 9th inst,. says: 
The returns of the election* for members of 
the Provincial Legislature have been received 
from the entire Province. The Government 
party claims a majority of 15, while the Oppo¬ 
sition only concedes a majority of live to the 
Government party. The strength of parties 
cannot be known with certainty till the House 
meets. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Findley’s Lake, Ghaut. Co.. !>'. Y., July ti. 
— Crops all seem to be backward by nue month 
from what they usually are. Farmers are now 
hoeing corn and sowing tbeir buckwheat. Po¬ 
tato hugs aro ou the rampage, but thsy are val¬ 
iantly met a id conquered by the timely use of 
Paris green. Some farmers have commenced 
their haying, but the rainy weather prevents 
tbeir working at it very extensively. Oats, bar¬ 
ley and corn are looking very finely. Fall wheat 
will be a failure in many places in this county. 
On the lake shore, nine miles distant, oats are 
beginning to head out, and corn to tassel. Dairy 
cows do not seem to be doing as well lately as 
they did previous to the drouth in the middle 
of June. Wages in haying will be $1.5(1 a day, or 
$26 a month and board forgoodeommonhands, 
and there are plent y at that. Butter is worth 
25c., and veal calves, $5QJ1.—R. R. 
Fincnstle, Botetourt Go., Va., July 5.—For 
the last two weeks we have had very warm 
weather and dry. Very busy harvesting. Wheat 
about all out; t bo crop is about us good as last 
rear. Oats very short. Corn a little back ard. 
Tobacco plants very scarce and small. Peaches 
and cherries a failure; about half a crop of 
apples. Wheat is worth $1.10; corn, 80c.; oats, 
60c.; rye. 95c.; potatoes, 60c.; butter, 20c.; eggs, 
1214c. Land is worth $20@40 per acre—good 
limestone land. Farms generally large, well 
watered by springs. Very healthy ; winter 
about four monens long, and not very rough 
then any length of time. We generally work 
all winter out of doors. Tee hardly ever gets 
more than three indies thick. Snow don't lay 
I long; no sleighing. 
Bergen Go., Y. J., July 18. —YYeather ex¬ 
ceedingly warm, with frequent showers; con¬ 
sequently, corn aud all kinds of grain and vege¬ 
tables are growing rapidly. Haying has com¬ 
menced—rye harvest also. Crop of potato bee¬ 
tles abundant and fair prospects of a further 
