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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The American Association for the Advance¬ 
ment of the Sciences commenced its session at 
Detroit, Mich., on the 11th (net. 
Lula won in Die Rochester races on Saturday, 
Aug. 14, beating Goldsmith Maid in the best 
four beats ever made. The attendance on the 
races is est imated at 15,000 to 20,IKK). 
On the 11th Inst., as a freight train was pass¬ 
ing through lllg Bond Tunnel, on the Chesa¬ 
peake and Ohio Railroad near Hinton, thirty 
feet of the run! fell, crushing the engine, A 
fireman named Ro&do&p "'as Instantly killed, 
and the engineer badly hurt. 
Large quantities of witch-hazel are being cut 
in the wooden country north of Little Falls, N. 
Y., which is drawn to that villugo, where It is 
passed through some process before it is ship¬ 
ped to Europe and elsewhere, to bo used for 
medicinal purposes. The hazel is worth $0 per 
ordinary wagon load, and those persons who 
have for years regarded the sapling* worthless 
as it grew upon their promises are now realizing 
a handsome revenue in its sale. 
Postmaster-General Jewell lias made arrange¬ 
ments for a centennial post-oilice. The office 
will be in the main building, and a oorps of 
carriers of different nationalities will be em¬ 
ployed and uniformed. 
Three new colleges for women will open next 
fall. Smith College, at Northhampton, Mass., 
Sage College, at Ithaca, Wellesley College, 
Mass. 
Fifty million dollars worth of precious 
metals have been mined in Nevada this year. 
The Postmaster-General has arranged with 
the rgents of the Occidental and Oriental 
Steamship Company for the transportation of 
the United States mails by their steamers ply¬ 
ing between San Francisco, Japan and China 
for sea postage on the mails conveyed as full 
compensation for service. By this new arrange¬ 
ment it is calculated that there will be a saving 
per annum of $450,000 on the mail service to 
Asia. 
The guests at the Grand Union Hotel at Sara¬ 
toga, represent $150,000,000; at Clarendon, $93,- 
000 , 000 . 
Writing to the Navy Department from Pana¬ 
ma, July 30, Capt. Simpson of the United States 
steamer Omaha refers to the troubles in the 
States of Magdalena and Bollvrr between the 
State troops and those of the General Govern¬ 
ment, and nays from present appearances it 
seems as if a general war In Colombia is immi¬ 
nent. 
The Department at Washington has ordered 
the United States steamer Sbawmut, now at 
Hampton Hoads, to proceed to Aspinwall, t© 
look after American interests on this side of 
the Isthmus. 
The Republican State Convention of New 
York is to be held at Saratoga on the 8th of 
September. 
On the 11th inst., the Mississippi river at 
Memphis was within less than one-half an inch 
of the spring floods. 
The United States District Attorney at Oma¬ 
ha has brought suit against John P. Baker, 
formerly Indian Agent, to recover the sum of 
$16,400, due to the Government. 
It is estimated that 2,000 acres of cotton have 
been submerged by the recent rise in the Mis¬ 
sissippi. 
Bishop Cummins stales that there are now 50 
ministers and 40 congregations of the Reformed 
Episcopal church in the U. S. and Canada. 
The denomination is 18 montns old. 
It is reported that several families have been 
forced to leave Williamson County, Illinois, to 
escape the vengeance of outlaws who rule that 
county. 
The total area of the State of California is 
189,000 square miles. 
The 1st day of the 2nd meeting of the Roch¬ 
ester Driving Park Association, on the 10th 
Inst was a great success. There was a large 
attendance and fine trotting. 
The body ol'S. K.Joralemon is to be disinter¬ 
red. at Kearney, N. J„ as it is believed that he 
was killed to obtain his estate by interested 
relatives by marriage. His property was worth 
over $100,000. 
There was a narrow escape from a serious ac¬ 
cident on the 11th inst., on the Mount Wash¬ 
ington Railway. The engine was descending 
with a car filled with people. When within 10 
jeet of Jacob's Ladder, a trestle-work 80 feet 
high, the engine gave two or three forward j 
jumps, passing over several cogs each time. 
The brakes were Immediately applied, and the 
engine and car were stopped without damage, 
though such was the force of the jolts that the 
top of the smoke-stack was unhinged and 
thrown off. 
On the Uth inst. a tornado of extraordinary 
violence passed over the Northwestern portion 
of Philadelphia, traveling in a path of about 
400 foot wide. About a dozen houses were un¬ 
roofed. tree* torn up by the roots, signs were 
demolished, aud fences overthrown and chlm- 
nies toppled. Horse* attached to wagons were 
thrown to the ground. The roof of Green and 
Coates Streets Railway Depot was torn off and 
carried nearly a square by the wlud. The 
storm lasted but ten minutes. Nobody was 
seriously injured. 
Spotted Tall is going to demaud of our Gov- 
ernmeut $7,000,000 for damages done by miners 
in the Black Hills Territory. 
Jn Nevada the law imposing a tax of $400 
every three months on every gambling place, 
has been sustained by a Supreme Court decision. 
Graders at work on the corner of Mission 
and Sixteenth Streets, recently unearthed a keg 
containing gold, in scales and nuggets, in value 
variously estimated at from $.31),000 to $80,000. 
The complete State census in Wisconsin 
shows a population of 1,237,021, being a gain of 
183,251 since 1870. 
The fruit entered at the port of New York 
during July was valued at $254,102, somewhat 
below tho importations for the corresponding 
month of 1874. Lemons constituted more than 
half the shipments. 
The barn of Byron BoUthwick of Walcott, N. 
Y., was burned on Aug. 7. It was filled with 
grain. Loss about $2,000. The lire originated 
from a steam thresher. 
A corny any has Just constructed a car for the 
conveyance of fresh meat to distant points, 
recently, at Chicago, 20,000 pounds of freshly 
slaughtered beef, just as it came from the knife 
of the butcher, were placed in this car, after 
which it was sealed up, to be opened only on its 
arrival in New York. Tho car was charged 
with four tons of ioe, and started in a regular 
freight train, without any addition of ice or 
special attention, and came through safely in 
about four days and a half. On opening the 
car at the Hudson River Railroad Depot, tho 
cargo was found in a perfect condition, a* fresh 
and sweet as it was when placed in the car. 
On Friday, Aug. 6, during a severe thunde 
storm while David Barker, a farmer of Pittsford 
N. Y., was sitting in his doorway, be was struck 
by lightoingand knocked from the chair but re¬ 
covered without Injury. A clock in the room 
was shattered, but no further damage was doije, 
During the same storm some turkeys and 
chickens perched on a tree in the yard of John 
H. Osgoodby of Pittsford village, two miles 
distant,were instantly killed, the feathers flying 
from the birds in every direction. The current, 
after killing the birds, passed down the tree 
without leaving a mark of its track. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
A meeting of citizens of Ottawa, Canada was 
held on the 11th fust, in connection with the 
representation of industries at the Centennial 
Exhibition, and a committee of 20 of the lead¬ 
ing manufacturers of the Ottawa Valley wore 
appointed to secure a collection of articles of 
various manufacturers, and to assist the Advis- 
sory Board. 
The army worm appeared in immense num¬ 
bers recently at Sussex on tbe Government 
Railway line, east of St. John, New Brunswick, 
and since that time the ravages committed 
have created widespread alarm. Fields of grain 
were attacked and destroyed in a short time. 
Horse rollers, run over the road where they 
crossed, did not perceptibly lessen their num¬ 
bers. 
The funeral of Hans Christian Andersen was 
held on the 11th inst. in the Frau-Kirehe, Co¬ 
penhagen. The King and other members of the 
Royal Family, with the Ministers and chief 
officers of the Government, assisted. Deputa¬ 
tions came to the funeral from ail parts of the 
kingdom. 
From Constantinople we learn that the Gov¬ 
ernor of Bosnia has been instructed by 
telegraph to send all available troops in that 
province against the insurgents in the Herze- 
govinaimmediately. Two battalions have been 
dispatched from the city to the scene of the in¬ 
surrection, and others will folluw. 
At the recent unvaillng of the Baxter statue at 
Kidderminister, England, a number of relics cf 
the great Puritan were shown, among which 
were several of his sermous. The most interest¬ 
ing of these was the “ Farewell Sermon,” which 
he was forbidden to preach. It was first print- 
ted in 1683. 
The Magpie Bell cleared from Ottawa. 
Canada, recently with the/largest tow of lumber 
on record. She had 23 barges, containing an 
aggregate or 2,750,000 feet of lumber. 
Messrs. Shaw & Thompson, iron merchants 
and manufacturers, of London, who were re¬ 
ported to be In financial difficulties, have com¬ 
pounded with their creditors at 50 cents on the 
dollar. Their liabilities are estimated at $500,- 
000 . 
There is violent excitement in South Africa 
over the attempt of Great Britain to form a 
South African Dominion. The Dutch republics, 
the Orange Free State and Transvaal refuse to 
go under tbe British flag, and will probably 
offer resistance to annexation, should the 
English authorities endeavor to force them 
into subjection J 
A permanent exposition of modern paintings 
arid sculptures Is to be instituted in Rome 
under the direction of the Ministry of Public 
instruction. 
Ernest. Levcille, an educated gentleman of ex¬ 
cellent family, frrty years of age, was recently 
sentenced to fifteen years at hard labor by the 
Assize court of Finisterie, in France, for forging 
Post Office money orders. 
Tbe government has prohibited the Bale in 
France of Right Hon. Mr. Gladstone’s writinge 
against the Papacy. 
The Mercantile Shipping Bill, drawn up by 
Sir Charles Adderley after Mr. PHmsoll’s de¬ 
monstration, and passed by the House of Com¬ 
mons, has finally passed, the House of Lords. 
The Geographical Congress al Paris has de¬ 
creed letters or distinction for tho Navy De¬ 
partment and Signal Bureau at Washington. 
There was a terrible railroad accident la 
Chile, South Amcrici, on the 0th of July. A 
locomotive with 17 cars were precipitated from 
abridge. Mall and merchandize were destroy¬ 
ed, and 7 lives lost. 
Despatches from Central Asia report that a 
revolution has broken out in Kokbaud. Tbe 
Kahn lias fled and his forces have Joined the in¬ 
surgents. 
Among the London cabmen are to be found a 
former Governor of the Bank of England, an 
ex-M. P., a late Follow of Cambridge College, 
and a clergyman who was one of the respon¬ 
dents in a remarkable clerical divorce case 
Some geographical discoveries of consider¬ 
able Importance not only In a scientific, but 
also (for the Ottoman Treasury) in a financial 
point of view, have boon rccoutiy made in 
Syria in the shape of a host of villages whose 
very existence was unknown or had been for¬ 
gotten. Ntf fewer than seventy-nine hamlets 
have been unearthed in the single district of 
Damascus, besides an equal number in other 
parts of tbe province. 
A* an evidence oT the financial stringency in 
Canada, it is stated that several well-known 
firms In Montreal have been compelled to ask 
an extension of time from their creditors. 
Accounts of the Ilerzegovinta revolution 
from Sclavonla sources represent that the in¬ 
surgents haTe defeated the Turks in several en¬ 
counters and wounded Selim Pacha. 
The Association for the Codification of the 
Laws of Nations, meets at tho Haguo on tho 
1st, 2d, 3d, 4th and 6th of September. 
Several skirmishes have recently occured 
between the Insurgents, In Cuba, with results 
favorable to the former. The losses on both 
aides were slight. 
It is suid that tbe Government of Spain in¬ 
tends to send 10,000 men to Cuba to enable 
Captain-Genera I Valmaseda to execute his 
plans for tbe reduction of the insurrection in 
that colony. 
Tbe British Parliament was prorogued on 
the 13th inst. The Queen, in her speech allu¬ 
ded to the peaceful relations between her 
Government and all foreign Powers and made 
favorable mention of tbe passage of the Irish 
peace - preservation acts, and the Merchant 
Shipping bill. 
The recent trial in England of Col. Baker of 
10th Hussars, for indeceut assault on Mias 
Dickson in June last, resulted in a verdict of 
guilty, the sentence was imprisonment in the 
common Jail for one year, a line of $500, besides 
the costs of the prosecution. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
A good deal of interest has been felt by 
scientific men in the experiments made by 
Professor Clark, of the Amherst Agricultural 
College, on the lifting power of growing plants, 
and one of the results which has attracted as 
much attention as any, is his discovery that the 
greatest weight I'.fted by agrowing pumpkin in 
the course of its development is nearly two 
and a half tons. The lifting power of the plants, 
however, is well known to be very great. An 
instance related by Dr. Carpenter is the case of 
a paving stone, weighing eighty-three pounds, 
which was raised an inch and a half from its 
resting place by a muss of fungi which grew 
underneath it. The editor ot the Academy 
tells a still more remarkable story. A man who 
owned a cask of sweet wine, placed it in an 
empty cellar, in order to allow It to mature ; 
but when he went for it, several years after¬ 
wards, It had risen from the floor of the cellar 
to the ceiling, having been borne upward, as it 
were, on the shoulders of the fungi, with which 
plants the apartment was now quite filled. 
A monument to the memory of the Rev. Dr. 
Nathan S. Bernau, for forty years pastor of the 
First Presbyterian Church in Troy, N. Y., has 
been erected by his friends in that city. It Is 
of Quincy granite, and its weight is nearly ten 
tons. 
Statistics collected by George H. Darwin, sou 
of the great naturalist, fail to support the 
popular view that insanity, physical degeneracy 
and sterility are the natural consequences of 
first-cousin marriages. Dr. Arthur Mitchell of 
Edinburgh has come to the conclusion that the 
apparent ill effects are almost nothing, under 
favorable conditions of life, but that if the 
children are ill-fed, badly housed and clothed, 
the evil may beoome very marked. 
There Is a great scarcity of women at Havana. 
There are at least three times more males than 
females. Hardly any other women than De¬ 
greases are to be seen about. Ladies with any 
pretension to youth and beauty would sooner 
die than venture out unprotected, even for 
their early mass; and so uncommon Is the sight 
of decent women unattended in the streets that 
foreign ladies unacquainted with the custom, 
and sauntering from shop to shop, become the 
objects of a curiosity not unfrequctiHy degen¬ 
erating into impertinence. The cause of this 
is that, besides the priests and soldiers and 
sailors, the crowds of Spanish immigrants are 
attracted there by high wages and do not of 
course take their families. Among the upper 
classes an exclusive male society is cultivated. 
The charms of cafe and club life, such as they 
are, wean the Havana husbands from a home 
where real feminine accomplishments are as 
unknown as hearth-rugs and fire-irons. 
The custom of remaining uncovered in church 
commenced about the beginning of the seven¬ 
teenth century. An order to that effect was 
Issued soon after the accession of James I., in 
1003. 
A very Interesting Incident in connection 
with the Bunker Hill Centennial was the open¬ 
ing of a box of cigars that were manufactured 
in 1706 by Crrus Green (afterwards of Revolu¬ 
tionary fame), at a tobacco store on Tremont 
street, Boston. The cigars were round in a 
good state of preservation and of fine flavor. 
A ftcr several or the cigars were taken from the 
box tho rest were again repacked in an air-tight 
case, with a copy of the Boston Herald contain¬ 
ing an account of tbe celebration, and marked 
“This box is not to be opened before the second 
Centennial anniversary of the Buttle of Bunker 
Hill." 
The number of schools in New Hampshire In 
1874 was 2,506; number of pupils, 60,178; wages 
of male teachers, $44.87 per month ; wages of 
female teachers, $33.30. 
Rhode Island in the last thirty-five years has 
gained 149.409 in population, while Vermont 
and New Hampshire can show an increase of 
but 38,603 and 33,270, respectively. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Princeton, UUi»on Co,, lad., July 29.—Tbe 
weather here has been the worst against the 
farmers of any season for several years. Hay 
after day it rain*, and the consequence is we 
will have very little No. 1 wheat in the county. 
Our system of threshing out of the shock keeps 
farmers from stacking their grain. In usual 
seasons there is little if any los3, the weather 
being warm and dry, but this year it has been 
disastrous. There Is not an uuthresbed shock 
in the county that is not growing more or les3. 
That that has been thrashed was done botweeu 
showers and is in a more or less damaged condi¬ 
tion. The rains caused floods In small creeks, 
and made them assume the dimensions of 
rivers, causing general destruction, washing 
away fences, cut wheat, and even growing corn. 
Corn on high grounds is doing well; in low 
lands it is absolutely drowned out. Potatoes 
were an excellent crop, but the excessive wet 
weather causes them to sour aud rot In the 
ground. Bay lias been hard to save, but the 
meadows were extra heavy, and with all the 
rain farmer* have saved a pretty good crop, 
wheat. Is worth $1.10; corn, 50c.; po'atees,40c.; 
aud hay, $tu per ton. declined. While we can 
estimate tho damages caused by the rain, it 
would be hard to estimate the benefits. Chinch 
bugs are nowhere to bo found. Potato bugs 
made no progress, and probably the enemies of 
the farmer have by these rains been destroyed 
by millions. Every cloud has a silver lining, if 
we were only in a position to see It.—s. 
Black Creek, Allcgniy Co., N'. Y., Aug, 5.— 
We have had timely showers throughout the 
season, and crops of all kinds, excepting corn, 
are looking well. Weather bad for haying and 
harvesting at present., on account of frequent 
showers. Hay and winter wheat mostly out, 
although most of the wheat remain* Jn the 
field; wages, $20 to $28, and board for the 
season; day hands through harvest $2 per day. 
I think we have one of the best counties In the 
State for health, dairying, fruit, grain and 
stock-raising. Ten acres of my land has pro¬ 
duced 900 bushels of oats at one crop, and tbL 
year forty-five acres of meadow laud gives me 
an average of three tons of hay per acie. Last 
year my thoroughbred Ayrshire cows paid me 
$108 each, and as the beat of farms, with good 
improvements, oan be bought for $30 per acre, 
I do not think wo could well better ourselves 
by going to other localities, our railroud com¬ 
munications being good, and freights low to 
New York.— L. d. s. 
Goodhue Co., Minn., Aug. 5 . —Ourwhe.it 
crop is splendid, and I do not thiuk that this 
neighborhood ever harvested a better crop, if 
the weather keeps fine. We have bad a very- 
dry spell for at least six weeks, but the wheat 
was too far advaueed to harm it any. Some 
few commenced harvesting on Friday and Sat¬ 
urday, but this week will commence in earnest. 
Corn looks green, but Is small and suffering for 
rain. Potatoes are splendid, especially the 
early planted. The Colorado beetle has done 
nu harm. No grasshoppers; they are in the 
south-western part of the State—very bad in 
places. Hay crop good. Wheat is worth cL05 
at Cannon River Falls : at Hastings $1.10. but¬ 
ter, 15c.; eggs, 10c.; bard times; lots of small 
business men breaking up. Harvest wages, 
$2.50; everything in proportion—F. W. 
