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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
The Senate of Connecticut has decided, after 
full debate, that the charter of the American 
National Life and Trust Company ought to be 
vacated. 
A sanguinary fight is reported to have taken 
place, on the 18th Inst., between the rival polit¬ 
ical factions of .the Cherokee Nation, about 
twelve tulles from Port Smith. Several of the 
contestants were killed. 
Mt. Holyoke Seminary has sent out 115 mis¬ 
sionaries, eighteen of them within two years. 
Applications for twenty more arc on flic, of 
whom Capo Colony, Africa, wants eight. Sev¬ 
eral of the graduates have served at Cape Col¬ 
ony with marked success. 
The salt Lake Tribune charges that Brigham 
Young and the lesser priestly thieves have sto¬ 
lon lumber to the value of $5,000,000 from the 
Government. 
Tho case of Tilton vs. Beecher has paid the 
Western Union Telegraph Company three-quar¬ 
ters of a million in additional riewspapi r toils. 
Tho bronze statue of Lafayette, voted as a 
present to the city of New York by tho French 
Assembly of 1871, has arrived. 
There are In this country, by the census of 
1870, 72,000 religious societies, 03,000 church edi¬ 
fices, 43.000 clergymen, and church property to 
the value ol # 354 , 000 , 001 !, with sittings for more 
than twenty-one millions of persons. 
Eight female applicants for examination 
were passed lest week at Harvard -in Greek, 
Latin, English, Gorman and history. 
The paper mill of Brown Bros-, at North Col¬ 
chester, Ct„ was burned on tho 10th tuBt., for 
the sfxth time. The loss is $20,000; insured. 
The Government has decided to sell by auc¬ 
tion to tho highest bidder, the lace dress made 
for the Empress Eugenia, which was smuggled 
Into tills country from Brnsaflls some time ago. 
Tho revenue officers who have been examin¬ 
ing the affairs of the collector’s office aL Louis¬ 
ville, Ky.. report a defalcation of $H2$00. 
Great excitement has been caused from re¬ 
ports that gold lias been discovered in Grand 
ltaplds, Mich. The gold was discovered in a 
small gully 400 feet In length and two rods wide 
at the bottom. 
The report of the Committee on Hygiene in 
the Public Schools of the Philadelphia Board 
of Education, shows that tho schools are In a 
deplorable condition as regards ventilation and 
lighting. 
The attacks of the grasshoppers and the con¬ 
sequent diminishing of the crops, are suid to 
have seriously hurt some of the Western col¬ 
leges. 
There are at present 822 colleges aud universi¬ 
ties In this country. 
glnoe l)r. Potter became President of Union 
College that institution has received in cash 
gifts $300,000. 
The Hun. George P. Marsh, United States 
Miulster to Italy, has been made the agent 
through whom the Fnlversify of Vermont has 
received a valuable collection of manuscripts of 
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth cen¬ 
turies. A part of the MSS. are handsomely 
rubricated. 
A university, wbi jh will be under the charge 
of the General Conference of the Methodist. 
Episcopal Church, is being erected in Oregon. 
The friends of Bowdoin College in Portland 
and elsewhere propose to perpetuate the mem¬ 
ory or the recent reunion by endowing a Long¬ 
fellow Professorship of Modern Languages. 
The amount of the endowment fund is $100,000. 
The buckwheat crop of the United States last 
year is estimated at 9,000,000 bushels. 
The latest Maine murder is one of the most 
singular reported lor many a day. William 
Pangboru of Medway, an old gentleman of 82, 
is under arrest for having killed his wife, <11 
years old, and admits having committed ttie 
act, but claims that he did it while dreaming 
that he was fighting a bear. 
Five men were killed by an explosion In 
Close Si Sons paper mill, Iowa City, on the 22nd 
of July. Three of the bodies were blown over 
the buildings across the street a distance of 500 
feet. The other two are buried beneath the 
ruins of the building and have not yet been re¬ 
covered, The mill was worth $250,000, 
The bank vaults of the First National bank of 
WinthrOp, Maine and a Savings Bank were 
burglarized July 23. The burglary was a very 
bold operation, supposed to be by New York 
professional burglars. Nftro glycerine was 
used, and the currency was so mutilated by 
the explosion that It Is believed the burglars 
secured comparatively little, ft Is thought the 
loss of the Savings Bank will be less than $50,- 
000, which will not impair its credit. 
At a great trial of Mowing Machines held In 
Binghamton on Friday July 23 a gold medal 
was awarded to the Eureka. Ten machines 
competed, 
lion. Henry Sherwood died July 23, in Corning. 
He represented Steuben County In the Legisla¬ 
tures of 1802 and 1803, taking also an active 
part in the politics of the State, He was an 
old Barn-buruer Democrat, aud was a political 
associate of the Hon. Robert Campbell, who 
was Lieutenant Governor from 1859 to 1883. 
Mr. Sherwood was a few j cars ago a director of 
the Erie Railroad, 
Cleveland papers report the death of Rev. 
Richard Bary, an Episcopal clergyman who had 
successively been rector in Albany, Detroit, 
Potsdam, Trenton, Michigau and Cleveland. 
He was a graduate of Union College, and at 
the time of his death was one of its oldest 
alumni, being 83 years of age. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
The members of the London Irish Rifles 
entertained the American team at Wimbledon 
on the 22d inst. 
The adherents to socialism in Germany have 
diminished within a few years, from 3441,000 to 
25,000. 
The Financier states that the amount of coin 
and bullion in the Bank of England now is the 
largest ever known. 
A treaty of;peace has been concluded be¬ 
tween the Federal authorities of Columbia and 
the State authorities of Panama. 
The extraordinary Congress convoked by the 
President of Peru has sonctioned a law author¬ 
izing the Executive to raise funds for the com¬ 
pletion of railroad- now building. 
The steamer Abbotsford from Philadelphia, 
while proceeding from Queenstown to Liver¬ 
pool, went ashore In Cwinrnaes Bay, Wales, re¬ 
cently. Tho passongers were all landed, and 
tugs have been sent to the assistance of the 
steamer. 
Moody and Baukey’s labors in Liverpool have 
resulted in the accessian of 900 to the Welsh 
churches of that city. 
The aggregate value of the saw mills, planing 
mills and lumber yards in Canada and this 
country which were destroyed by lire last 
month is estimated at seven million dollars _ 
Approximate returns of the Bavarian elec¬ 
tions indicate that the Electoral College will 
consist of 77 Liberals aud 79 Uitrainontanes. 
Subscriptions are pouring in all over France 
in behalf of the Inundated regions of that 
country. Marshal MacMahon has won golden 
opinions by distributing rewards and aid among 
the sufferers, and his wife presides over the 
committees soliciting help for the same pur¬ 
pose In the capital. 
A new system of telegraphing has been ex¬ 
hibited In England by which communication 
can be had with trains while in motion, and 
moving trains can communicate with each 
other. 
The Navigator Islanders have made monarchy 
elective for four years and made United States 
Commissioner Steinhurgber prime minister for 
life. 
At Wimbledon on the 19th inst., Major Fulton 
won the St.Leger Sweepstakes, aud Col. Glider- 
sleeve the second of the Albert prizes. Mr. 
Coleman Is ahead of the competitors far the 
Rifle Association’s cup. 
In China the Roman Catholic religion is 
making rapid progress, Confucianism is gaining, 
Protestantism is spreading very slowly, Budd¬ 
hism Is at a standstill and Mohammedanism Is 
losing. 
Thirty-one new operas havo been produced 
in Italy from January J to Juno 30. 
Alexander and William Collie of the firm re¬ 
cently suspended, were arraigned at Guildhall 
recently on charge of obtaining about $1,000,000 
from the London and Westminister Bank on 
false pretenses—in default of bail, they were 
remanded to prison. 
It is reported that Russia and Germany In¬ 
tend to grant military furloughs on a largo 
scale next year. Quo of tho Vienna papers 
urges Austria to follow their example, aud 
thus prove that the alliance between the three 
Emperors is worth something. 
Baron Log aud Herr Sigl, Li tramontanes, 
have been sentenced to imprisonment In Ger¬ 
many for treasonable speeches. 
Notice to go into insolvency has been served 
upon A. P. McDonald, contractor in Montreal. 
The Peabody Trustees for the poor of London 
have spent some $2,000,000, aud have nearly $3,- 
000, two still remaining, and have erected blocks 
of model tenement houses In Blackfriars, 
Southwark, Bermondsey, Shadwell, Spitalflelds 
and Chelsea, which will accommodate about 1,- 
400 poor families. The average rent of each 
dwelling is about 98 cents a week. 
The Klcho Shield was won at Wimbledon by 
the Irish Team on the 22nd inst. 
A magazine has been started in Madrid, and 
the profits will be devoted to the erection of a 
monument to Cervantes. 
An amendment to the new Constitution of 
the Madrid Government, In opposition to re¬ 
ligious liberty, has been rejected by the Consti¬ 
tutional Committee. 
The number of C&rllsts captured since July 1 
is 4,000. 
An annual competition has been proposed 
between the rifle teams of the U. S. and the 
United Kingdom. ■ 
A London architect has submitted to the 
municipal authorities of that city a plan for a 
gigantic pyramldlcal necropolis, which Is to 
cover five acr«3 of ground and be capable of 
holding in Its vaults 625,000 corpses. 
Military precautions are being taken In the 
large cities of Spain against a Republican up¬ 
rising. 
Great damage has been done in the inland 
counties of England by the heavy rains. Crops 
have been destroyed and railways Interrupted. 
The American riflemen competed among 
themselves for the Challenge Cup on the 21st 
Inst. Major Fulton won the prize. 
Heavy rains in England continue and a dis¬ 
patch from London July 23 says that the river 
Neue at Peterborough has risen 15 to 20 feet 
above the usual level, and 4,0tiu acres of Land 
are under water three to four feet deep, destroy¬ 
ing all crops and endangering small stock. 
The rise was so sudden In some places that the 
water Hooded bedrooms along ilie river in the 
night and the inmates barely escaped with their 
Jives. No such flood has been known In that 
.section for more than fifty years. 
Sir Francis Bond Head, formerly Governor 
General of Canada died in London July 23. He 
was born In Rochester, England, in 1793, and 
early entered the English Army. He was 
author of numerous books published from 1830 
to 1860 and received a pension of $500 a year 
from the Government for hts literary services. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
An invention for steering vessels by steam 
has just been perfected, by means of which one 
man can do In 10 seconds what requires eight 
men 1*4 minutes to perform under the old style 
system. 
The Swedenborgiau Convention proposes to 
again distribute the works of Emmanuel Swe¬ 
denborg, free of price, among the Protestant 
clergy of the country. 
Some parlies at Seiotovillo, six miles from 
Portsmouth, struck a vein of gas at a depth 
of 135 feet. The gas has been burning all day 
to a bight or 15 feet, and it is thought enough 
can be obtained from the well to supply the 
city of Portsmouth. 
The Khedive of Egypt requested Gen. Sher¬ 
man to select a good engineer officer for the 
Egyptian army, aud the General recommended 
Ool, Derrick of Virginia, who was a prominent 
officer In the engineer service of tho Confede¬ 
rate army during the whole rebellion. 
The Wellesley College for Women, which Mr. 
Hetiry F. Durant of Boston founded and built 
at a cost of $300,000, will be formally opened on 
the 8th of September. 
The successful Introduction of trout into 
Australia and New Zealand has induced a simi¬ 
lar effort for the Cape of Good Hope, and a 
number of eggs were shipped during the last 
winter from London. 
A little boy was recently attacked and curried 
off by a bear in Luther, Canada, while going 
through the woods with a servant girl In search 
of the cows. The girl seized a stick aud flually 
drove the bear away. Several parties, at tr act¬ 
ed by the cries of tho boy and girl, soon came 
to their assistance with guns aud dogs, but 
Bruin retreated into the bushes and escaped. 
A picture designated as Lafavette signing the 
Declaration of Independence of Atueric *, paint¬ 
ed by Grouse, and said to have been once in the 
possession of Robespierre, was sold at auction 
In Staffordshire the other day for £100. 
In one week of last mouth a llrrn near New 
York received orders for 445 miles of pencils. 
To make these ouly 83,000 feet of cedar lumber 
are required, and after they are made they will 
load six freight cars. This immense consump¬ 
tion of lead pencils Is doubtless caused by the 
attempts of women to sharpen them with a 
pair of scissors or adult ease knife. Persons 
who have witnessed these efforts need uo longer 
wonder at the demand. 
A double-headed snake has been caught in 
Banks County, Ga. li is one of those venom¬ 
ous species of snakes commonly called the cop¬ 
per-bellied moccasin, and measures nine Inches 
in length. It ha* two clearly defined heads, 
two mouths, a forked tongue in each, four eyes, 
two In each head, aud eight fangs. The heads 
diverge from the neck, there being but one 
neck bone. 
One of the latest discoveries in Pompeii is a 
small woolen manufactory, situated very near 
the house where the fresco representing Or¬ 
pheus was recently discovered. Several charred 
fragments of tapestry were found in this place, 
besides various machines lor carding and weav¬ 
ing wool. *- 
Europe has five millions of soldiers all ready 
for fighting, with fifteen thousand cannon and 
a million and a quarter of horses; Us united 
fleets consist of 2,039 vessels, manned by 280,000 
sailors, and carrying fifteen thousand guns. 
The cost of these Immense armaments is five 
hundred and sixty millions of dollars anniiaiiy, 
three fifths ol the amount being consecrated to 
the armies. 
In Paris the manufacture of surgical instru¬ 
ments Is somewhat deteriorating. England, 
Germany aud the United States are ahead in 
| this line, ns regards ingenuity and quality. 
The coining for the fiscal year at three coin¬ 
age mints, Philadelphia, San Francisco and 
Carson, will approximate as follows: —Gold, 
$34,C<Kl; trade dollars, $6,000,000; subsidiary sil¬ 
ver coin, $5,000,000; minor coinage, $25.4,000. 
A process for giving iron wire the appearance 
of silver has lately been invented. The wire is 
coated with a thin film of tin by a galvanic 
method, which i* applicable not only to un¬ 
wound wire but to wire In almost any shape. 
The City Bank of Montreal and the Royal 
Canadian Bank of Toronto have been united. 
The new hank will have a capita, of $4,000,000. 
The sum of $125,000 has been gi\ en in London 
towards a subscription to build a Young Men’s 
Christian Association hall there. 
There are in the world 3,960 paper-making 
establishments, the aggregate annual product 
of which Is estimated rt 1.809,000,000 pounds of 
paper. One-half ia used for printing, one- 
•sLxth for writing, and the remainder for pack¬ 
ing. 
It has been declared by scientists that the 
immense herds of buffalos on the plains are the 
descendants of what was odcg a stock domesti¬ 
cated by a race of people preceding the present 
Indians. It ia therefore believed that the buf¬ 
falos can again be domesticated and the pro¬ 
duction of buffalo robes carried on the same as 
of domestic hides. 
The Prussian government has offered two 
prizes of tho value <>f about $750 and #2,500 
respectively, for the discovery of a now method 
of cleansing plaster casts, aud for the Invention 
of a new material possessing the advantages 
of plaster, but which will not deteriorate by 
washing. 
The Pope Intends to complete Michael An¬ 
gelo's design by putting twelve statues of the 
Apostles around Hie cupola of St. Peter’s. Ho 
stipulates that each statue must ho made by 
a different sculptor, who Is a Roman, aud a 
Catholic from hi-, birth. 
Newfoundland is to have a railroad across the 
island, the length of which will be about 3C0 
miles. The cost of the enterprise Is estimated 
at from four to ten mtlliuns of dollars. 
The violin of Paganini Is preserved as a 
glorious relic under a glass case In the city hall 
of Genoa. A few days ago, It boiug taken out 
to be photographed, a distinguished amateur, 
who was Invited to play upon it, delighted a 
select audience with the prayer from Rossini's 
“Muse" and the “Carnival de Veniso,’’ com¬ 
posed by the famous violinist. 
Prof. Steiner, the aeronaut, who with three 
companions ascended In a baloon from Mil¬ 
waukee, Wednesday evening, expected to make 
a long voyage eastward to tho Atlantic coast, 
but. drifted only twenty miles to the southwest 
and landed in Kacitic, Wis., after being up three 
hours. 
Au international plgoon'match, for .£500 and 
the chaiupianahip of the world, has been ar¬ 
ranged to take place in London, in August, 
between A. II. Bogartlus, thoAmorloan cham¬ 
pion, now stopping at llendon, and Edward 
Thornton of Yorkshire, the English champion. 
They arc to shoot at. 100 birds. 
The Spiritualistic phenomena are to bo thor¬ 
oughly investigated In St. Petersburg by a spe¬ 
cial committee of scientists, appointed by the 
Imperial University, under the presidency of 
Prof. Mendeleyeff. 
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THE SEASON, CHOPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Mt. Pleasant, Jeff. Co., O., July 21_Wheat 
is not all cut yet. It i* at least, two weeks later 
than we finished last year. The crop will be 
very light, probably not more than one-third of 
an average yield. Other cropB promise fair with 
the exception of corn, which was damaged by 
t he wind and rain storm a lew days since; the 
early and forward was all blown down ; to what 
extent it is hurt cannot be determined yet, on 
account of prevailing wet weather. Potatoes 
are doing well where the bugs have beeu kept 
off. A larger area than usual planted this year. 
Wheat, is worth $1.15; corn, 75c,; oats, 65c.; cat¬ 
tle, 3%@4c.; hogs, tie. Wool, very little sold— 
42<tjk45t:. paid for some; farmers are holding for 
50o. Wool raising has been the leading pursuit 
here in time past; has fallen off sumo on ac¬ 
count <>f low prices. Fruit Is an entire failure 
except smalt fruits, which are about as good as 
common—cherr.es excepted.—n. c. c. 
Westwood, Bergen Co., .V J., July 24.—For 
the last week the nights have been cool, days 
warm and occasional showers. Corn and pota¬ 
toes growing rapidly and give promise of a good 
yield. Potato beetles still plentiful, but with 
the numerous poisons in use are not likely to 
do much damage. Farmers preparing to sow 
turnips. Buckwheat sown and looking well. 
Summer fallowing for winter rye nearly all 
completed.—n. in 
Fulton Station, Kv., July 20.— Wheat is 
over an average crop here and of good quality, 
yielding from 10 to 18 bushels per acre and 
selling at #1 per bushel. Corn will be a bounti¬ 
ful crop. Cotton aud tobacco bid fair to be 
excellent. Fruit little or none. Plenty of rain 
for growing crops.— F. P. Hynds. 
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AMERICAN MOWERS ABROAD. 
Eds. Moore's Rural New-Yorker In the 
last issue of the Country Gentleman we notice 
a card over the signature of Messrs. Auhiance, 
Platt Hi Co., which contains the following 
statement, to wit; 
“ We have just reoelved information of the 
decision given by the Jury appointed by the 
National Agricultural Society of Switzerland, 
