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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
OSUKOSH, Wisconsin, has 16,000 inhabitants— 
a gain of more than 5,000 since 1870. This for a 
city nearly destroyed by Ore last spring, is a 
handsome increase. 
The population of Oneida County is 114,786, 
against 110,008 in 1870. Of this number the city 
of Utica gains 3,885, Increasing from 28,806 to 
33,680. 
Miss Annie Olivia Snowden, n young girl liv¬ 
ing In Ohio during the Crusade excitement, be¬ 
gan the practice of addressing crowds on the 
temperance question. From that alio pro¬ 
gressed to preaching, which she has done with 
groat suocces. She proposes to apply for a 
license to preach from the Methodist Church. 
Miss S. is a native of New York City, and a 
graduate of Rutgers College. 
A South Carolina Jury, in the Parker case, 
rendered a verdict for f lic State in the sum of 
$75,000. This is the llrst substantial result of 
the efforts 'n that State to bring official plun¬ 
derers to Justice. 
Elihu Jiurrltt, the “ Learuod Blacksmith,” 
who for ton years made efforts In England for 
the establishment of a universal ocean penny 
post, has just received an ocean postal card 
stumped "one penny” from nil old friend In 
London, mailed July 1, 1875, the day when the 
ocean penny postal card system went into 
operation. 
On the 36th ult. a mixed train on the North¬ 
ern Pacific Railroad, consisting of 23 oars, broke 
through the bridge built across the Mississippi 
at Braincrd, killing five persons. The bridge Is 
about 80 feei high. 
It is reported that John B. Gough Is to have a 
new leoturo ready for the next season. lie has 
delivered over 7.300 lectures and speeches in iiis 
life. Tu his work as temperance orator and 
lecturer he has traveled 403,000 miles. He has 
lectured in Philadelphia 108 times; in New 
York, 804 titneB, and in Boston 386 times. 
The officers of the S JO ret Service Department 
in New York have arrested four counterfeiters 
who have been engaged for sometime In making 
and pasting a very successful imitation of the 
trade dollar, gold $5 pieces, silver half-dollars, 
and other coin. 
A holler in the saw-mill of S. Gilman, four 
n lles north of Goblevtlle, Van Buren Bounty, 
Mich., exploded recently with terrific force. 
Two men wore killed and the engineer fatally 
injured. Thu smokestack was thrown over a 
high tree, and the body of one of the men into 
the lake. 
The famous Rush mansion in Philadelphia 
was to have been sold under the hammer on 
Tuesday Aveek, but Avaa withdrawn, as only 
$135,000 was offered, a smaller sum than the 
executors had fixed upon. There are many 
reminiscences clinging about t he old mansion 
which make it one of the most Interesting 
places in the Quaker City. It was built by 
Madams Rush, the wife of Dr. James Rush, a 
sou of Benjamin Kush, known as one of the 
signers of the Declaration of Independence. 
A slight earthquake waa felt In Hartford, 
Conn., at 4:10 o’clock on the 28th ult. It was 
felt in greater force In the western part of the 
State. 
The Troy Typographical Union, it is said, in¬ 
tend !.o erect a $1,000 monument, at Oakwood 
Cemetery, to the memory of the printers who 
have died in Troy. 
Sixty railroads Avith thlrteeu hundred cars 
were supplied with more than three thousand 
Bibles by the American Bible Society duriug 
the past year. 
The captain of the Plymouth Rook has beau 
fined $500 at Newport for carrying more passon- 
gers than the certificate of the vessel permitted. 
Not a single error has been found in the ac¬ 
counts of ex-Treasurer Spinner. 
The Mount Washington House and outbuild¬ 
ings, at Gorh&m, N. II., Avere Avholly consumed 
by fire on the 29th ult. A defective chimney 
was probably the cause. The loss is about 
$7,000, and is said to be coA'eted by insurance. 
The furniture was saved principally. 
Col. Anthony, brother of Miss Susan B. An¬ 
thony, and editor of the Leaven wo rtli Times, 
who was shot more than tAvo months ago, is 
yet in a critical condition. 
The report of the assassination of the Chero¬ 
kee chief, Rob*, is said to be unfounded. Ho 
has been in no difficulty. 
The Texas Legislature at its last session 
passed a license Iuav for all trades or occupa¬ 
tions, and makes it a penal offsnse for any one 
to pursue any occupation, calling or profession 
Avitbout having first obtained a license. The 
object of the law is partly for the public pro¬ 
tection and partly to raise a revenue. 
Tbc Concwanco Swamp, containing some 
25,000 acres of wet farming land, in Chautauqua 
and Cattaraugus Counties, N. Y., is about to be 
reclaimed by drainage. It ie estimated th»t by 
this means over $1,000,000 Avorth of laud will be 
got under cultivation. 
A frightful locomotive boiler explosion oc¬ 
curred on the Delaware Division of the Erie 
Railway, on the 23d ult., eight miles Avest of 
Port Jervis, resulting In the instant death of 
three men and the destruction of many thou¬ 
sand dollars’ worth of property. 
Five A’uluable horse* belonging to Mr. Levi- 
ness and Mr, Shepherd, at McCombs darn, near 
Jerome Pork, were stolen* recently it is sup¬ 
posed by Gypsies. The value of the horses Is 
$35,000. 
Mr. George Crocker of Laporte, I ml., has 
received the contract to survey a route for a 
canal from Lake Michigan, beginning at Michi¬ 
gan City, to the Wabash river. This route, if 
completed, will connect our lakes Avith the 
Mississ'ppi river arid Gulf of Mexico. 
The Democratic Convention which recently 
met at Baltimore, nominated Carroll for Gov¬ 
ernor. 
The trial of John D. Lee for his connection 
with the Mountain Meadow massacre, in 1857, 
has Keen In progress at Beaver City, U tali, since 
the 22d ult. The jury Is a mixture of Gentiles 
and Mormons. Some of the latter, who live In 
the region of the massacre, profess never to 
have heard it talked about. 
The sum of $10,000 has been secured as a per¬ 
manent fund for tho State Normal School at 
.Randolph. Vt., subscribed mainly by people in 
tbe city, and by old students of the Orange 
County Grammar School and Normal School. 
By the will of Hon. Tappan WeutAVorth, of 
Lowell, who died on the 13th ult., the greater 
part of his large property has been given to 
Dartmouth College. The value of tho property 
is variously estimated from $ 175,000 upward. 
Since April 11.100 persons have made the as¬ 
cent of Pike's Peak. 
A monument like the one to Humboldt in 
Central Park, Ncav York, is to be erected in 
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S. C., to Wil¬ 
liam Gilmore Sims, the distinguished Southern 
noA'cllst. It Avill cost about $2,500. 
According to the return* of the census 
enumerators, now almost complete, it Is be¬ 
lieved that tbe present population of West¬ 
chester County will exceed 100,000, and may 
possibly reaefi 103,000, notwithstanding the loss 
of t he three lower towns. It will therefore be 
entitled to the t ame representation as at present 
in the Legislature. 
There are one hundred and sixty-six boys In 
the San Francisco Industrial School and fifty- 
six girls In the Magdalen Asylum. 
Howe’s circus, while exhibiting In La Croeae, 
Wls., was struck by a hurricane recently. A 
genera) stampede among the people and tear¬ 
ing down of tents ensued, and in a few moments 
all was tumult and confusion. Several persons 
were more or less seriously injured. 
Tbe exchange of postal money orders be¬ 
tween tho United States and the Dominion of 
Canada began August 2. Already more than 
three hundred money-order offices in tbe 
United States have been designated as inland 
Canadian offices, wdth authority to issue and 
pay Canadian orders. 
A cyclone passed through Harveysburg, 
Fountain County, Indiana, on 34th ult., tearing 
houses to pieces, uprooting trees, and sweeping 
things generally before it. Five Avorncn >vere 
killed. 
The treasury of the Presbyterian Board of 
Missions Is In a depleted condition. The re¬ 
ceipts for the year ending June, 1875, Avere $38,- 
000 short of tbe expenditures. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
By a recent decision of the Court of Equity 
In Loudon the fund of $10,000 raised in 1857—by 
Dickens, Mark Lemon, John Forster, Maclise 
and others—for the family of Douglas Jorrold, 
just then deceased, In poverty, goes now to 
Jerrold’s only unmarried daughter, Mary Jane 
Jerrold. 
Mr. Gladstone, ex-Fremier of Englaud Is 
about to publish in one volume, under the 
title of‘‘Rome and the Newest Fashions In 
Religion,” his three essays on •• Tbe Vatican,” 
” Vaticanism,” and ” Tho Pope's Speeches.” 
An excursion is being organized in Genoa, 
Italy to visit the international exhibition, next 
year. A steamer of the Anchor Line has been 
engaged for the exclusive use of the travelers. 
The Russian World states that the minister of 
public lustruction Intends to make the English 
language a subject of compulsory study in the 
gymnasiums for young ladles. 
A terrific tempest broke over Geneva, Swit¬ 
zerland, tin tho 7 l1i lilt. The storm came In the 
shape of an almost compact mass of sheet ice, 
driven horizontally before the tempest. On the 
slope of tiie left bank of the river Arve, in a 
suburb of the city, tiles of many houses were 
absolutely beaten to powder, and stout parti¬ 
tions of wooden plank were pierced by holes 
such as might have been made by a musket 
ball. Three persons were killed by tbe fall of 
a farm house in the Immediate vicinity of the 
city. Geneva is surrounded by pleasure gar¬ 
dens, vineyards and market gardens, and these 
have been destroyed as I f a charge of CRA'alry 
had passed over them. The ruin and despair 
Of the poor and InduMrious peasants, who have 
invested tbe persevering labor of years in the 
soil, and whose all is now taken avvay as effec¬ 
tually a* if It had been sunk under the bottom 
of the Bea, is painful to contemplate. 
There has recently been a meeting in London 
to decide upon a suitable memorial to be erect¬ 
ed to the memory of Lord Byron. 
The Vienna Presses ay*:—“ The Prince Bishop 
of Breslau, Mgr. Foester, in hla dual capacity as 
a German and Austrian bishop, is mediating be¬ 
tween tbe Vatican and Prussia through the 
Pupal Nuncio at Vienna." 
Lord Ailesbury's A venturi ere won the race 
for the Goodwood cup on the 29tli ult. 
From Curacoa a rumor comes that President 
Dornlnlgue contemplates proclaiming himself 
Emperor, and intends foiloAving in the foot- 
steeps of th© famous Soulouque. 
A market for the sale of old clothes waa open¬ 
ed the other day to Glasgow by tbe municipal 
authorities. The market la the largest of tbe 
kind In Great Britain. Tbo rent la £2.000, and 
the receipts amount to £70.000per annum. The 
Lade Is chiefly in tho hands of Irish people. 
Canada la taking an interest in our Centen¬ 
nial, and the western toAvns of Ontario will 
hold meetings soon to arrange fora proper rep¬ 
resentation In the exhibition. 
On tbe evening of July 6 great, fires were kin¬ 
dled on the summits of many of tbe Bohemiun 
mountains, in commemoration of the birth and 
martyrdom of John litiss, both of w'bich events 
occurred on the 6:b oi July. 
The Russian Minis.er of Education has issued 
a circular communication to his provincial sub¬ 
ordinates, enjoining them to watch and repress 
the atheistic and socialistic agitation going on 
In the universities and superior schools. 
MM. Rtrakosch and Merelll have applied for 
tbe direction of the Italian Opera at Paris, with 
a subvention of lOO.OOOf. 
Tiie workmen in Pompeii, while pursuing 
tbelr researches in the house where the wooden 
writing tablets were lately discovered, came on 
two inkstands and tho pen which had been 
used In Inscribing, The pen Is of metal, und 
something of the form of agooscqulil. 
In connection with the recent Byron memo¬ 
rial meeting. It has been suggested that a mon¬ 
ument rivaling In pomp and beauty that of 
Scott of Edinburgh ho erected to Byron on the 
south side of Piocndily, 
The death of Mr. Morgan O’Connell, tho great 
Agitator’s eldest son, is an non need. 
Tbo American Palestine Expedition left 
London for Liverpool on Saturday, July 10. 
They expected to embark for Egypt, eri route 
for Beyrout. The members of tbc expedition 
are Col. Lane, chief; Prof. Merrill, archaeologist, 
and Mr. Treat, surveyor. 
The steamship Adriatic of the White Star 
line, from Now York for Liverpool, arrived 
tlioro rocently with her forward engine dis¬ 
abled. She waa delayed 48 hours. 
A number of tanlets, written upon and care¬ 
fully arranged in an ivory box, have been dis¬ 
covered Id the ruins of Pompeii. They contain 
receipts for payments of money and boar the 
consular date, w ith the name of the diy and the 
month and the amount paid. 'The tablets are 
evidently accounts, and from the way In which 
they are kept, there can ho no doubt that tbe 
spot where they were found ivas the site of a 
Roman banker’s house. 
It is reported in Manchester that arrange¬ 
ments have been completed for placing 12 
steamers in the City if Dunlin Steamship Com¬ 
pany's service to convoy passengers from Liver¬ 
pool to Ireland during the O'Connell centen- 
nary week. It la expected that 10,000 persons 
will go to Dublin from various Homo Rule cen¬ 
ters to Great Britain. 
Twonty-two hundred workmen, employed on 
tbe St. Gothard Tunnel, struck W'ork recently 
and became riotous. They gathered at tho 
northern entrance or the tunnel and blocked It. 
The Swiss Government sent a body of troops to 
the spot, who dispersed the rioters, killing two 
ot them aud wounding several others. 
In consideration of £5,000 from New Zealand, 
and £2,500 from New South Wales, to be paid 
yearly for ten years, the Eastern Extension 
Australasia and China Telegraph Company 
(lloiltod) have undertaken to lay, w'ith the 
utmost possible dispatch, a cable between Syd¬ 
ney aud some northern point of the Middle 
Island of New Zealand. 
A Venice journal states that the Italian boats 
which go every year for the ooral fishery on the 
coast of Dalmatia have returned to their port 
empty, the Austrian maritime authorities hav¬ 
ing sent an armed vessel to drive them away. 
A deputation is said to be about to leave for 
Rome to ask for the protection of Government. 
In twenty-four hours after tbe recent fire at 
Osaka, Japan, In Avbich 10,000 people were left 
rootles, the coolies were dragging loads of lum¬ 
ber among tbe smoking ruins, and frame build¬ 
ings were going up In all directions. 
The Scotch herring fishing is reported to be a 
failure this season. The catch does not exceed 
36,000 crans. Last year the take was 03,000 and 
In 1870 130.000 crans. The failure Is attributed 
to unfavorable weather and the voracity of 
dog-llsh. 
It hi believ T ed that tbe total loss of life as the 
result of the floods in the south of France does 
not exceed 300. 
Six hundred and fifty persons attended the 
banquet given by the Lord Mayor at Guildhall 
on the 2»tb ult., to the various municipal heads 
of British and foreign cities and towns, who as 
sombled in response to his Invitation. The 
preparations for the banquet were very elabo¬ 
rate. It Is said the decorations alone cost $50,- 
000. In addition to the municipal guests there 
were present the Foreign Ministers resident in 
London and the members of Parliament for 
the city and the home counties and others. 
A tiiuodor-storm, with hail-stones, has caused 
terrible desti tier ion in Buda-Pestb. The bills 
and tbo roots of the houses were covered with 
lee. The torrents rushed into tbe streets of 
Ofen. Five hundred persons are missing, and 
at least 100 have been drowned or killed by the 
failing houses. 
In Bishopgate Street, London, they have 
found a Roman pavement twelve feet below 
the present, surface. 
A further extension of the British Empire is 
about to be made In Africa by the annexation 
of Territories hitherto known as Flngo Land 
and No Man’s Land. The districts are situated 
between latitude 30° and 34°, on tbe borders of 
Cape Colony and Natal, and are occupied by a 
population of about 150.000 of native Kaffir 
tribes. 
Tbe number of deaths In tho English mines 
last year averaged one to every 510 persons em¬ 
ployed, and nearly all were attributed to care¬ 
lessness. Tbe total number of persons em¬ 
ployed was 533,829. 
A telegram from St. Petersburg states that 
the committee appointed to draw up a Master 
and Servant hill for Hussia proposes to make it 
obligatory on masters in various trades to grant 
their apprentices three days a week In which to 
attend scnool. 
The religious societies in London received 
last year, in the aggregate, voluntary subscrip¬ 
tions from the public amounting to not less 
than $10,000,000. The British and Foreign Bible 
Society alone received $1,100,310. 
The British Syrian schools for girls which 
were organized in I860, soon after the great 
massacre, are now attended by nearly 2,000 
pupils. Of these 1.031 are ip Boyrout, 383 in 
Damascus, 364 in the Lebanon region, and 96 in 
Tyre. 
Over 20,000 patients have beeu treated in a 
siuglo year at the Presbyterian Medical Mission 
in Canton, China. 
TheSpuui.-di Government has determined to 
contract a loan or $7,000,000 to Indemnify the 
owners of emancipated slaves in Porto Rico. 
Tbe Victoria ( Australia) Ministry avIU proba¬ 
bly resign, as It bad but one majority on tho 
budget. 
The Emperor Francis Joseph, has sent to tho 
Austrian Consul-General at Venice the sum of 
$2,000, to be distributed among the poor of that 
Oity. 
There is a movement among some of the 
members of the Society of Friends In Englaud 
to disinter the bones of George Fox, aud re¬ 
move them to a new burial-place, as the 
cemetery In Avhich they uoav lio is soon to be 
encroached upon by the erection of a publio 
building. 
The third volume of the “Speeches of Pope 
Pius IX,” has been published. It contains 
abstracts of 123 discoursL* delivered between 
Sept. 20,1873, and May 13, 1875. The three vol¬ 
umes contain a total of 413 speeches. 
Armies of rats huve destroyed, for several 
years successively, the crops of the Touujoo 
Karens in Burmah. Churches aud schools 
established by tho Baptists have been broken 
up. The Government has opened relief works. 
On Thursday tho 28th Inst,, tho statue of 
Richard Baxter, the author of “The Saints’ 
Rest," Avas unvalled at Kidderminster. At its 
base is the following Inscription : " Between 
the years 1641 aud 1660 this town was the scene 
of tho labors of Richard Baxter, reuoAvned 
equally for his Christian learning and pastoral 
fidelity; iu a stormy and divided age, he advo¬ 
cated unity and comprehension, pointing the 
way to the ’’everlasting rest.’ Churchmen and 
Non-conformists united to raise this memorial- 
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
Dr. Hurst’s “ Outline History of the 
Church,° gives the following populations to 
the creeds of the AA’orid; Cbrlstiantlanlty, 407,- 
000,000; Buddhism, 340,000,000; Mohammedan¬ 
ism, 300,000,000; Brahmanism, 175,000,000; Con- 
ruoianlsni,80,000,000; Judaism, 7,000,000; all other 
religious belief, 174,000,000, Of the Christian 
populations of the Avorld, 137,007.440 are assign¬ 
ed to Protestantism, 200,339,390 to Roman 
Catholicism, and 76,890,940 to the Oriental 
churches. In the World comprising North and 
South America, the Roman Catholics are in the 
majority, having 50,981,983 of popupulution to 
86,836,800 of Protestants. 
Among the remarkable productions of Cali¬ 
fornia is the Hogan family of Mendocino 
county. Tbe father stands six feet two luches 
in his stockings, one eon six feet six Inches, a 
second six feet three and one-half inches aud a 
third six feet seven Inches. 
The booksellers’ exchange at New York 
closed on the 24th, after a successful iveek. 
Nearly' 200 buyers attended, und it was the 
largest gathering of the trade ever held in this 
country. The sales are estimated at $400,000. 
North America now has communication Avith 
Europe through five cables. Tbe first w as laid 
in 1866 ; the second, in 1809; the third, in 1873; 
tbe fourth, In 1874; aud the last has just been 
completed. 
