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As  far  as  heard  from  six  hams  were  unroofed  and 
seven  dwellings  and  numerous  outbuildings  were 
demoltslied.  The  wife  and  two  children  of  Thomas 
Nicholson,  a  farmer,  were  seriously  Injured  by 
the  overturning  ot  tbetr  house.  Joel  Denney  lost 
nearly  two  thousand  fruit  trees.  Some  of  the 
farmers  suffered  great,  loses  Ln  live  stock.  Tlie 
value  of  t.he  property  destroyed  Is  very  heavy. 
The  Constitutional  Convention  of  Colorado  has 
vot4*d  to  rcMUlre  the suhrulssion  of  Woman  Hutfrage 
to  popular  vofo  as  soon  a«  the  state  Is  admitted. 
\5’bcnever  a  case  of  yellow  fever  occurs  In  New 
Orleans  the  streets  surrounding  the  square  are  i  honor  and  trust. 
The  New  England  slelghmakers  have  given  up 
the  present  winter  as  a  bad  Job  and  gone  to  mak¬ 
ing  buggies. 
James  Parton  has  remarried  hla  wife,  and  now 
“  all  goes  merry  as  (mo  marriage  bells-” 
Wm.  B.  Reed,  LL.  D.,  long  a  Philadelphia  lawyer, 
and  one  of  the  ablest  contributors  to  the  periodical 
press,  died  In  New  York  City  on  llie  18th  Inst.,  In 
the  "Otli  yea  r  of  bis  age.  Me  was  author  of  the 
"Life  and  Correspondence”  ot  his  lllustrloiis 
grandfather,  Joseph  Reed,  of  Revolutionary  fame, 
and  during  his  life  occupied  various  po.sltlons  of 
IflllS  of  tiK  C'tilffli, 
A  QUESTIONABLE  PROCEEDING. 
OK  Friday,  Feb.  11,  Owen  Lindsay  was  hanged 
In  Syracuse  lor  the  niuider  of  Fntncls  Colvin. 
Lindsay  \va.a  lirst  convicted  a.  year  ago  and  sen¬ 
tenced  to  death  .March  25.  1875,  but  various  delays 
postponed  the  execution  iiearly  a  year.  The  re¬ 
markable  fact  about  the  dooint'd  man  was.  that 
he  uniformly  protcdeij  his  Innocence  of  the  crime, 
n'hlsdenlat  he  repeated  tn  the  mo.stsolemn  manner 
.siirluklcd  « Ith  Calvert’s  No.  8  carbolic  acid  diluted 
in  llftj’  parts  of  water.  A  large  sprinkler  on 
whoelsls  used  for  the  roadways  ann  sidewalks  are 
sprinkled  by  hand.  The  grounds  of  neighboring 
yards  are  .similarly  treated,  and  the  privy  vaults 
dislnfwlcd  with  a  solution  ot  2lDc-lron  chloride. 
At  the  termination  ot  the  case  by  death  or  re¬ 
moval,  the  infectod  apartments  are  fumlgat/Cd 
wlUi  sulphurous  ax;ld  or  cdilorlue.  The  extent  of 
the  ground  m.sintccted  is  according  t.o  the  lapse  of 
time  since  the  appearance  or  the  fever.  The  ex¬ 
tent  of  the  Infection  along  t  he  ground  Is  forty  or 
fifty  feet  dally,  80  that  aft^?r  some  days’  delay  the 
whole  square  must  be  enclosed  with  a  dtslnfecUng 
band  and  the  enclosed  surtacc  sprtnklod. 
Accoixllng  lo  the  ninth  semi-annual  report  of 
the  Wassardiusetts  Catholic  'I’ntal  AbsUnence 
Union,  just  Issued,  there  arc  now  74 societies,  with 
6,820  members  tn  the  state. 
The  warden  of  the  Oregon  penlbsntlary  has  dls- 
charged  the  prison  doctor  and  detailed  one  of  the 
convirrts,  who  is  an  educated  physician,  to  perform 
the  duties.  The  w,ardcn  claims  that  he  saved  the 
State  fi.fiOi)  a  year  by  this  aiTangement  and  Is  al¬ 
ways  sure  to  liave  medical  attendance  "  within 
roach  ’’  when  needed. 
The  long  pending  coiiWst  for  a  seat  In  the 
Virginia  Senate,  or  Knight  against  Johnson,  has 
been  settled,  the  sonaU'  adopting,  21  to  19,  tlie  re¬ 
port  or  the  committee,  giving  the  scat  to  the  sit¬ 
ting  memhor,  Gen.  Bradley  T.  Johnson. 
The  Nori.h  Carolina  Conicrenceof  the  Methodist 
J’rotesanl  Church  has  refu.sed  to  concur  In  the 
proposed  c!onvenuon  lor  a  union  between  the 
Metliodlsl,  Protestant  and  the  Methodist  (non- 
Episcopal)  cliimhcs  which  wore  separated  by  the 
w'ar. 
Pearce  Kent,  a  tanner  living  near  Elllston  Ky., 
helped  an  Chlo  Sheriff  make  an  arrest  In  Ky.  the 
other  day.  ills  neighbors  considered  Kent  a 
traitor  lo  his  Ktate,  and  mobbed  him,  pounding 
him  so  with  ax-lvclvcs  and  pokers  that  he  nearly 
died.  Kent  is  70  yeais  old. 
Alice  5  oung.  a  grand  daughter  of  Brigham 
Youug,  has8caodall/,cd  Mormon  Society  by  marry-  ' 
Ing  chas.  H.  Hopkins,  who  happens  to  he  a  Gen¬ 
tile.  Brigliaui  was  very  much  enraged,  but  like 
Miss  Charlotte  Cushman,  the  celehralcd  a»:trc!sN 
died  at  the  Parker  llotise  In  Bo-don,  on  the  18th 
Inst.,  aged  60  years.  'I'hougli  long  enfeebled  by 
cancer,  tiie  immediate  camsc  of  Miss  (oishmun’s 
death  was  pneiimonta,  caused  by  taking  cold 
during  a  walk  on  the  Saturday  preceding.  She 
was  not.  only  a  groat  actress  but  a  model  woman 
111  society  and  private  life,  and  tvju  be  widely  la- 
ment/Cd. 
- - 
FOREIGN  NOTES. 
just  before  the  droj)  Ml,  and  It  constituted  his  other  parents  with  similar  troubles  Is  unable  to  do 
dying  words.  Many  who  heard  him  wore  fully  anything  about  it. 
Impressed  with  t  he  belief  of  his  innocence,  but  A  little  Meriden  (Ct.)  girl  whose  rather  recently 
there  was  then  no  alternative.  The  testimony  displeased  that  her  mother  has  fallen 
against  L1n<ls.'i.v  seems  to  have  been  not  at  aJJ  J"  "IGi  anothor  man,  applied  to  the  Mayor 
conclusive,  and  was  mainly'  that  of  a  man  who  ^^1^  other  day’  to  have  the  affitlr  stopped  by  the 
was  w  ithout  doubt  lilmsolf  a  participant  In,  If  not  pbllee,  and  when  Informed  that  they  couldn’t  do 
the  chief  actor  in  the  deed  of  biood.  There  seems  a-uytlilng  about  It.  left  his  office  crying, 
to  have  been  some  doubt  whether  Lindsay  was  A  tire  started  on  the  evening  of  Feh.  ifiih  in  the 
guilty.  His  chief  accuser  may  have  pcrjimcd  him-  Bates  House  In  Rutland  Vu.,  and  before  It  w,as  ex¬ 
self,  and  It  so  the  execution  was  a  judicial  and  tlngulshcd  caused  a  loss  e-stimatcd  at  $100,000. 
legalized  murder.  The  last  words  of  Lindsay  will  The  Bates  House  was  destroyed,  aud  the  offiec  ot 
greatly  SI  reugiheu  lids  impressUiu.  Altogether  I  be  H'ltland  I!  einld  badly  damaged.  The  follow- 
the.  e.xeeutlon  ol  a  murderer  under  such  clrcum-  big  firms  were  also  burned  out:— A-  C.  Bates  & 
stances  is  a  lud  Job,  weakening  ivither  than  hantwarfjr  G.  W.  UUlard,  dry  goods;  C.  S. 
slreuglhening  regard  tor  law.  ll  Is  bad  enough,  IMa-son,  clothing;  A.  W.  Higgins,  drugs;  Abraham 
aud  very  common,  to  allow  undoubted  murderers  *  Brothers,  cigars;  Jolm  Haley,  saloon;  A.  O. 
and  other  crlmluaLs  to  escape  punl.shment ;  but  It  Punnlagham,  clothing.  'I'he  Insurances,  so  tor  as 
Is  not ollen  now-u-da.vs  that  we  liave  an  lllustra-  ascertained,  are: — Bates  Hoiise,  $40,000,  and  $18,- 
Iton  showing  how  much  worse  it  is  lo  haug  a  man  on  tbe  turnlture;  George  W.  Hillard,  $6,000 ; 
who  may'  very  po.sslhl,v  be  entirely  lunooent.  t-’haiies  ,8.  Ma.son,  5,5O0;  A.  o.  Cunnlnghara,  $4,000 
Populiir  belief  In  the  Injustice  nt  lav'  is  sure  to  A-L.  Bates  &  Son,  $7,0011;  A.  W.  lltgglns,  $1],,500,- 
brlng  It  Into  contempt  more  speedily  than  any  Tnttlc  &  t'o.,  $io,owi. 
thing  else.  A.  c.  Russell,  aged  sixty-seven  years,  a  loading 
_  citizen  of  Great  Barrington,  Mass.,  dropped  dead 
In  the  street  there  on  the  I8ih,  of  heart  disease. 
HOME  NEWS  PARAGRAPHS.  He  was  connwLed  with  the  Monument  Mills  of 
-  Ilousa Ionic,  dlreiior  of  the  Berkshire  Lite  Insur- 
The  prl.soners  confined  lu  the  oswego,  N.  Y.,  ®bce  Company  and  President  01  the  Berkshire 
jail  have  addres.>ed  a  wiltieu  complaint  to  Judge  Company. 
O.  J.  Harmon,  chairman  01  the  local  committee  or  bill  to  abolish  the  death  penalty  in  Maine 
the  Prtson  Association.  They  compare  the  jail  to  obd  substitute  Imprisonment  and  hard  labor  has 
Libby  prison.  passed  the  Senute  by  a  vote  of  18  to  11,  The  meos- 
A  ball  wivs  recently  given  by'  the  Volunteer  Fire  ’’fe  had  previously  passed  the  House.  Anatf-empt 
Brigade  of  Coventry,  and  af  three  In  the  morning,  have  the  question  settled  by  the  people  at  the 
while  the  dancing  was  in  lull  progress,  the  gas  f’loctlon  was  defeated  In  the  Senate  by  a  vote 
was  turned  off,  aud  the  entreaties  of  the  ffremen  opponents  of  lianglng  are  greatly 
could  not  per-suade  i.he  authorlUes  to  turn  It  on.  r'^Jolecd. 
The  result  is  that  lo-day  Coventry  Is  without  any  dlsputeh  lo  .San  Franrisco,  Cal.,  dated  Feh. 
Klrc  Dcpflrtiiicni I  froiu  liicsoK,  Arlifioiiiii  sl8t6s  tlisit  3  JifttLlc 
It  Is  now  said  that  the  negroes  who  have  been  place  on  Jan,  14  beiw’ecn  the  Sonora  revolu- 
emigrat ing  In  largo  squ.ads  from  Georgia  into  ^onlsls  and  the  State  troops  near  Almos,  In  which 
Mlssl5.slp)il  are  an.\lous  to  return,  wages  not  being  bitter  were  routed.  Pursuit  resulted  In 
as  good  as  was  expected  and  the  country  proving  b-notluT  tight  both  sides  being  reinforced — and 
unhealthy.  anotlier  vKiory  for  the  revolutionists  ensued. 
The  liiaiislon  at  the  corner  of  Broad  aud  Master  latter  have  500  cavalry  concentrated  near 
Sts.,  In  liilladelphla,  tni  inerly  the  residence  of  the 
late  Edw  In  FoitcsI,  has  been  purchased  by  Theo-  bi'P  Iff  tbe  round-house  of  the  Lake  Superior 
dore  Tlionias,  and,  with  t  he  adjoining  grounds  '  Northern  Pactilc  Railroad  at  Klee  Point  near 
will  be  littod  up  as  a  Summer  concert  garden.  Duluth,  Feb.  ISth,  destroyed  one  wing  of  the  bulld- 
A  large  delegation  ol  prominent  olUzens  of  “bd  badly  damaged  four  locomotives.  The 
Louisville,  Ky ..  left  for  Miislilugtoii,  Feb.  I6th,  to  betyveen  $20,000  and  $25,000. 
procure,  If  possible,  the  selection  ot  Louisville  as  The  New  York,  New  Haveu  and  Hartlord  Rall- 
the  place  tor  the  next  Democratic  National  con-  will  run  through  trains  from  Boston  to  Phlla- 
ventlou.  dclphla  during  the  Centennial  show  in  eleven 
Very  ilcU  disco veii&s  or  lelluiide  and  free  gold  hours.  Trains  are  to  run  down  the  Portchester 
ores  were  made  on  Feb.  16,  within  five  miles  of  j  branch  road  to  the  Harlem  river  at  Mott  Haven, 
Colorado  Springs,  Col.,  assaying  $243  gold  aud  nnd  thence  they  are  to  be  put  ou  board  the  steam- 
silver  per  ton.  The  veins  are  true  Assures  of  great  boat  Maryland,  which  is  being  refltted  to  receive 
yvldth.  8ff  entire  train  of  care.  The  bai’ge  by  the  way  of 
Two  hundred  feet  of  the  toll-bridge  at  Wiscas-  the  EiLstiiver  will conuect  with  the  Fenusyivanla 
set.  Me.,  were  caniod  away  on  the  night  of  Feb.  Central  Ilallroad  at  Jersey  City. 
16  by  a  schooner  driven  by  t  he  gale.  It  Is  suggested  that  the  burning  of  kerosene 
On  Sunday  evening,  Feb.  13.  a  de-sU-uetlve  wind  is  one  cause  of  the  great  prevalence  of  diphtheria 
storm  passed  over  Wa.shlngton  County,  Indiana,  ot  late  yeai-s. 
=  The  Sultan  proposes  to  give  amnesty  to  Insur- 
f  gents  submitting  Immediately. 
It  Ls  proposed  by  the  Conservatives  to  place  M. 
[  Buffet  as  a  candidate  against  M.  Thiers  in  Paris. 
’  L'Ai^/lc.  a  Bonapartlst  journal,  was  seized  in 
'■  Corsica. 
The  Prince  of  Wales  will  yisit  Gibralt-ar  on  his 
■  w-ay  home  from  India,  and  It  is  proposed  to  erect 
■  ‘there  a  ooluinp  and  btist  of  His  Royal  Highness  to 
‘  commemorate  the  ey’ent. 
’  The  Scottish  Rifle  Club  has  resolved  to  send  a 
team  of  Its  own  to  the  International  match. 
'  The  Porte  has  declined  to  allow  the  revenue  In 
Bosnia  and  licrzcgoyinla  to  be  applied  solely  to 
*  local  purposes, 
‘  Four  Roman  journals  have  been  seized  for  pub¬ 
lishing  a  sjicech  of  GarlbaldPs. 
The  Prus.Man  mines  produce  about  5,00(1,000,000 
pound.s  of  Irod  ore  per  year,  which  are  worth 
nearly  7,ooo,oo<t  thalers. 
Petitions  have  been  presented  to  the  Prussian 
Parll.ameat.  asking  the  Government  to  secure  to 
the  working  classes  their  Sunday  lor  rest. 
A  Canada  journal  has  discovered  a  hermit  In  t  he 
town  of  I’erth  who  is  seventy'  years  old,  and  for 
forty  years  has  not  yvorn  any  clothing  summer  or 
yvlnter,  In  spite  or  yvhlch  he  has  never  been 
frozen. 
The  Trinity  Board  have  had  constructed  In 
England  a  lighthouse  of  Dalbeattie  granite,  yvhlch 
Is  built  In  sixty-tour  courses,  aud  Is  designed  to 
be  erected  at  Ceylon. 
The  Alfonzo  XII.,  a  neyv  steamship,  just  built 
on  the  Clyde  for  the  Cadiz  and  Havana  line,  is  the 
largest  steamer  that  carries  the  Spanish  Hag.  She 
Is  .350  feel  long,  38  yvlde,  .and  28  deep.  Hergnyss 
tennage  Ik  2,5115  tons- 
A  Vienna  dispatch  of  Feb.  15.  says Negotia¬ 
tions  aro  making  favorable  progress  beiw’een 
Count  Andraasy  and  the  I’ortc  to  secure  the  Bos¬ 
nians  and  Herzegovinians  who  have  taken  refuge 
ou  Austrian  territory  leave  to  rcturu  to  thnir 
homes.  There  are  prospects  of  a  sallKtaclory  re¬ 
sult. 
It  has  Just  been  decided  to  light  all  the  yvaltlng 
and  luggage  rooms  01  the  pilndpal  ralDvay 
stations  in  Pa  i  ls  by  means  ot  elect  rlctty.  Elect  rlc 
lights  were  recenUy  tiled  in  the  Immense  luggage 
room,  or  Salle  dcs  Pas  Pordus,  of  tlic  Great  North 
ern  station.  The  experiment  proved  suci’csslul. 
'  By  yvorklng  the  Graham  machine  with  three-horse 
power  as  nmeh  light  Is  obtalued  as  tha  t  given  by 
a  hundred  gas- lamps.  The  electric  lantern  Is 
placed  at  a  hlght  ol  ten  meti-es  from  the  ground, 
and  Bhed.s  a  sort  clour  light  over  an  area  of  20,000 
square  feet.  The  hall  situated  on  the  opposite 
side  of  tho  station,  where  passengers  are  placed 
on  arriving  from  Boulogne  or  Calais,  Is  still  larger, 
for  It  comprises  an  area  of  30,000  squa  re  feel.  Four 
lanterns,  one  In  each  corner,  suffice  to  light  It  up 
as  by  daylight. 
It  is  officially  announced  at  Madrid,  that  the 
Carllsts  were  completely  defeated  ou  the  isth  by 
Gen.  Quesada  in  the  formidable  posiuon  n inch 
they  occupied  at  Elgueta.  Don  Carlos  and  his 
forces  fled  toyvard  Villa  Heal  and  Zumarraga, 
pursued  by  Gen.  C;,uesada.  The  latter  inissed  the 
night  at  Vergara.  Gen.  Morlones  has  occupied 
the  Carllsl  line  of  fortltlcattons  ana  entered  Zu- 
marraga.  | 
Deeming  the  Porte  unable  to  afford  protection, 
Roumanla  has  decided  to  discontinue  paying  trtb- 
nte.  This  may  be  regarded  as  one  of  tlie  conse¬ 
quences  of  the  Ileraegovina  revolt,  w  hich  is  dem¬ 
onstrating  the  weakness  of  the  TurkisTi  Govern-  ■ 
ment  and  Inciting  disaffected  subjects  to  make 
their  hostility  more  manifest. 
By  opening  the  British  Parliament  in  person, 
(^ueen  Victoria  has  again  formally  as-sumed  the 
public  duties  appertaining  lo  her  station.  There 
Is  UlUe  noteyvoithy  in  the  speech  which  Lord 
Cairns  read  in  her  name,  except  the  announce¬ 
ment  that  the  shipping  layvs  are  to  be  amended, 
and  that  a  roy’al  commission  will  be  appointed  to 
report  on  the  duties  of  naval  offleers  in  regiird  to 
fugitive  slaves.  By  promising  these  measiu  es  the 
Government  breaks  the  force  of  impending  at-  ' 
tacks  from  the  opposition. 
By  an  explosion  of  ili  e  damp  In  the  Jabln  col¬ 
liery',  St  Etienne.  Belgium,  Feb.  4,  wiille  23U  men 
were  at  work  In  the  pit,  all  but  24  are  supposed  to  ' 
have  been  killed  Twenty-six  have  been  taken  J 
out,  two  of  whom  wore  dead.  The  earth  fell  In  lu 
Immense  maases. 
Oxford  and  Cambridge  aro  hard  at  work  pre¬ 
paring  tor  their  annual  boat  race  in  .March.  At  I 
the  latest  accounts theOxfordtrtalcrewwaamado 
up  of  Miller,  Exeter,  bow  ;  Mercer,  Corpus,  2;  j 
Alarriott,  Brasuenoso,  3 ;  Mlchlson,  Pembroke,  1; 
Bonstead,  I'nlvei-slty,  5;  Wlllhuns,  Coiims,  6;  | 
'P  j  Banks,  University,  7;  Edwardes  Moss,  Bra.snenose, 
stroke;  Stayner,  8t.  .Johns,  cox.  The  Cambridge 
crew’  is  constituted  at  present  thus:  P.  W. 
Brancker  (Jrsms),  how ;  T.  W.  Le^vis  (Calus),  L.  G, 
Tike  (Calus),  C.  Gordon  (Jesus),  T.  E.  Hockln  (Je- 
U  SUB),  F.  Peabody  (First  Trinity),  O.  L.  Mann  (First 
^  Trinity),  c.  D.  .shatte  (Jesus).  stroke;  G.  L.  Davla 
ff  (Clare),  oo.x. 
The  historic  ILaymarket  Opera  House,  London, 
'*  baa  been  piirchased  by  the  British  Governmeht, 
^  and  will  be  turned  into  a  Centr.1l  Post  Office. 
’  There  are  now  more  French  workmen  m  Berim 
than  there  were  before  tbe  war. 
^  The  Bwlas  Federal  Connell  has  decided  that  the 
civil  iiiarrlage  law'  docs  not  forbid  marriage  with 
y  a  deceased  ivlfp'b  sister. 
»  A  Berlin  dispatch  to  Tlic  London  standard,  Feb. 
16,  says  the  Emperor  Wiuiam  has  assented  to  the 
^  cession  of  the  Prussian  railways  to  the  Empire. 
Jacob  Bright,  Radical,  has  been  elected  to  Par- 
llament  troin  .Manchester,  polling  22,535  votes 
against  2(1.074  forPowcl,  conservative. 
A  dc.spalch  from  Vienna,  dated  Feh.  17,  says  the 
Austrian  and  Hungailan  cabinets  arc  reported  to 
have  agreed  that  tho  Au.strl.AD  National  Bank 
shall  establish  a  Iliingaiian  hank  of  Issue,  and 
guarantee  the  latter’s  notes  and  accept  them  the 
same  as  Its  own.  This  solves  the  principal  dlM- 
1,  culty  in  ncgou-itlng  the  renewal  of  the  Austro- 
a  Hungarian  compromise. 
Tho  Allgcmelne  Missions  Zelfachnlttfor  Novem- 
R  her  gives  the  total  number  ol  converts  from  heath- 
t  eni.sm,  conne<;:ted  with  liotestani missions  in  1873, 
y  85  1,537,274.  These  are  divided  a.s  follows:  Ger¬ 
man  and  Swiss  missions,  127,414;  British,  1,116, 227j: 
I  American,  18:4,67];  Duteii,  87,226;  French,  14,000; 
Seondlnuvlan,  8,830.  , 
1  I’.aiiswas  supplied  during  four  mouths  of  the 
)  year  1875  wiih  630,000  pound.s  of  meat  from  the 
liorse  shamblp.s,  the  result  of  the  slaughter  of 
1,555  horses,  mule.R,  and  asses, 
i  he  .Alahamjuh  01  Indore  has  X5, 000, 000  stored 
1  up  In  his  palace,  and  recently  wished  to  give  the 
i  liiuce  or  Wales  a  present  worth  £50,000,  but  was 
ol  length  cut  down  to  £6,000. 
I  A II  officer  ot  the  Imperial  rru.sslan  Foot  Guards, 
)  according  to  a  Germun  newspaper,  ha.s  received  a 
communication  from  a  French  officer,  In  which 
>  thirty  officers  01  the  Fool  Guards  are  challenged 
•  to  flghi  an  etpidl  number  Of  French  officers,  tho 
OennaiLS  to  have  ihe  choice  of  iirras  and  place. 
I  Centennial  excursions  to  the  United  States  are 
advertl.sod  throughout  Europe  at  cheap  rates. 
,  THE  SEASON,  CROPS,  PRICES,  ETC. 
Rocky  ilill,  .liieksoii  Co.,  0„  Feb.  15.— We 
,  had  a  very  wet.  seassou  here  last  year.  Vegetation 
never  was  greater.  I'otatoM  a  re  so  plentiful  tha  t 
they  are  w'Orih  only  idc.,  and  they  have  to  be  line 
ones  at  that.  Corn  was  heavy  and  a  great  breadth 
planted,  so  vve  have  more  bushels  01  corn  Incur 
country  than  for  many  yeai-s  before  If  ever  as 
much.  Wheat  was  tho  only  poor  crop  we  had ;  It 
was  almost,  a  failure,  and  what  little  we  had  was 
nearly  bix<Ucd  by  Uie  ivet  weather.  Fju  cattle  are 
worth  4.;«  JC.;  fat  hogs,  TVi,s.;.;  stock  bogs  same. 
We  have  had  the  warmest  ami  wettest  winter  we 
have  ever  had  In  the  histery  ot  our  State;  the 
ro.'ids  arc  almost  Impassable,  Farniers  are  doing 
almost  nothing  on  account  of  rain  and  mud.  We 
are  in  the  midst  of  a  furnace  region,  and  can  on 
still  days  hear  the  whlstle-s  of  23  different  Iron  fur¬ 
naces.  Iron  Is  loiv  In  the  extreme ;  many  of  these 
furnaces  .are  stopping.  This  is  throwing  hands 
out  Of  employment;  consequently,  times  aro  dull 
and  hard.  We  have  two  new  railroads  commenc¬ 
ing  to  build.  This  will  give  some  employment 
aud  will  open  up  a  new  trade  for  our  vast  coal 
Ilclds.  Our  stone  coal  Is  of  a  quality  t  hat  makes 
No.  1  Iron  light  from  the  mines  wiuiout  coaking 
or  any  other  jirepa ration,  our  iron  ore,  stone 
co.il  and  limestone  are  in  quantities  almost  Ine.x- 
hausUble.— L.  w.  r. 
Fells  Jlills,  .loll.  Co.,  N.  Y.,  $>b.  14.— Rain¬ 
ing  to-day.  A  very  mild  winter  and  Utile  sleigh¬ 
ing,  80  f.Af.  A  (cw  fiumers  have  commenced 
sugaring.  Dalrjiug  ts  the  principal  business  here. 
One  or  two  factories  have  t  hell’  Bummer’s  make  of 
chee.se  in  cellars  waiting  tor  the  price  to  advance. 
Many  hero  went.  Into  ruLslng  potatoes  pretty 
strong,  l  ist  season,  and  are  now  leedlng  them  to 
,  ihelr  stock.  The  mild  weather  has  been  very 
favorable  lor  wintering  stock,  and  for  doing  farm 
work  generally.  Winter  whea  I  is  not  looking  very 
well,  and  some  arc  expressing  fears  for  the  grass 
crop  the  coming  season,  on  account  of  the  ground 
;  lying  bare  so  long.— s.  w’.  m, 
.sbc|ili(>rd»to4vii,  Cimiti.  Co,,  Pn„  Feb.  15.— 
Weather  variable.  A  snowfaU  on  the  night  of  the 
3d  inst.  6  inches  deep.  Previous  to  this  we  bad 
on  the  island  2nd  high  wind  and  cold.  On  the 
morning  01  the  4th  lust,  mercury  indicated  8  deg. 
above  zero  on  our  hill  and  7  deg.  below,  not  more 
man  400  yards  distant;  making  a  difference  of  15 
deg.  I— K.  n.  c. 
llniitinRioii,  Cnrroll  Co.,  Tenn.,  Feb.  15.— 
W'e  hai  c  had  a  very  warm  winter.  No  Ice  thick 
enough  to  put  up.  Jiums  bloomed  in  January 
'  and  most  of  them  klUed  by  snow  Sd  of  Feb.  Some 
01  the  peach  crop  has  been  killed  in  the  bud.  Corn 
selling  here  at25c.  per  hash.;  wlieat,  $1.— .r.  c.  m’c. 
I  :>Inni.HH.f  Co.,  ilieli.,  Feb.  15.— We  have  been 
i  haring  a  ivann  rain.  'I’he  ground  is  nearly  bare. 
I  suallj-  at  this  time  ox  the  year  w’e  have  two  or 
three  feet  of  snow.  Tiffs  winter  wo  have  not  had 
enough  to  cover  the  hubs,  and  but  little  very  cold 
I  weather.- M.  e.  a. 
j  Rivi-r  E«l«e,  Ber«eii  Co.,  N.  J.,  Feb.  IT.— 
I  Tulips  and  hyacinths  are  from  one  to  two  Inches 
above  ground.  Lilac  buds  are  ready  to  break— 
;  and  spiraea  sorblfolla  is  In  leaf !— e.  s.  c. 
