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subscription. Drafts, PoBt-Ofllee Money Orders and 
Registered Letters may be mailed at our risk, pr Lib¬ 
eral Premiums to all Club Agents who do not take free 
copies. Specimen Numbers, Show Bills, Ac.,aent free. 
The shipment of American apples to Europe, 
like our beef, Is a growing Industry, It will pay 
to cultivate the finer sorts, lo secure this trade. 
The Spit* dog la a doomed canine. A fierce 
popular prejudice against his bites exists. 
Banks continue to suspend, and the public con¬ 
tinues in suspense. 
The pluns far the corning season's exploration 
by Prof. Hayden's Geological Survey ha ve been 
arranged, except In minute details. The work 
will be conducted the coming year north of the 
rmon Pad lie Railroad, commencing along the 
fortieth parallel, explored by Clarence King, and 
continuing north and west In the Territories of 
Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. The corps will 
be arranged In four divisions. The first, or trian¬ 
gulating party, will bn under the direction of Mr. 
A. 1). Wilson, who will carry forward the system 
or primary triangles in t he same manner as they 
were employed In Colorado. All the higher peaks 
will be located In this way. The Western topo¬ 
graphical division will be in charge of Mr. Henry 
Gannett., who will explore the region of country 
from Ogdon east and northward 
A Connecticut clergyman preached a funeral 
sermon so acceptably a few years ago. that he has 
lately received a bequest of fio.ooo by the will of 
a daughter of the man he then eulogized. 
There were 5,669 deaths in San Francisco last 
year, nearly one-half being under 20 years of age, 
and nearly one-third under five years. The deaths 
from zymotic diseases numbered 1,654. 
The Richmond Whig says, that no literary in¬ 
stitution In Virginia has grown with such rapidity 
as has t he Agricultural College at Blacksburg. It 
was organized In 1872, and now has over 200 stu¬ 
dents. 
The Louisville Commercial says that. ex-Gov. 
Thos. P. Porter of Kent ucky, has been fined in a 
Frankfort Court $2,30t>,ror connection with the 
Cash Distribution Lottery Scheme. James E. Pep¬ 
per was fined $7,sno. 
Applicants for scholarships in Dartmouth Col¬ 
lege hereafter must submit to the Faculty an ex¬ 
hibit of t heir Income and expenses during the pre¬ 
ceding year, and pledge themselres not to expend 
any money for liquor, tobacco, billiard-playing, 
or dancing, while receiving aid from the College. 
Knrntoffii Co., N. Y.» Jlarch 14.— The Slim¬ 
mer of 76 was the driest ever known In tills sec¬ 
tion. The hay crop was considerably under the 
average. Oats, very light crop. Corn, except an 
occasional piece on very moist ground, also a light 
crop. Prices at date range as follows Hay, $12 
@15 per ton ; oats, per bushel; rye, 90c.@ 
l; rye straw, $is per ton at paper mills ; butter. 
205?.25c. per lb.; pork, $» per loo. Men help are 
asking about tne same as last, season; but few 
farmers have hired yet. The feeling seems to be 
general that wages must, come down, or farmers 
must, do less. 
The cry or “ hard times ” Is still the “ popular 
cry.". 
.Vow that the Presidential muddle Is settled, 
peace assured, and the country so near the bot¬ 
tom on the currency question, I think we have 
weathered the hardest of the hard times, and 
may well thank God and take courage. 
We have a winter drought here. We had hea vy 
snows In December and early In January, since 
which we have had no storms of any account. 
Wells are dry and the wa ter dearth is yet severely 
felt.— f. r. w. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
The eastern 
division win be under the direction of George B. 
Chittenden. This party will explore the country 
along the Sweetwater and Wind River. The 
northern division will be under the charge of G. R. 
Becliler, and will occupy the count ry about the 
sources of Snake River, and along the borders of 
the Yellowstone National Park. 
It. is intended to have the party reach the Held 
by the 15th of May, where they will remain about 
five months. Each division of the survey will 
cover an area of about in.too square miles. The 
entire region to he worked and mapped this year 
is but little known geographically, and It Is ex¬ 
pected that the results of I bis season’s work will 
add much to our geographical knowledge oi the 
Rocky Mountain region. 
Business prospects are Improving. 
The Southern question remains unsettled. It 
has the characteristics oi bad coffee—it will never 
settle. 
A set of regulations for the management of the 
civil service lias been preparing for some time, 
and will probably be submitted by the President 
at the next Cabinet meeting. They are not In¬ 
tended to go Into minute details, but only, It Is 
understood, to serve as a guide to the course of 
appointments In the different departments, and 
they will probably put a detlrdte stop to office- 
seeking. They will provide for permanence, pro¬ 
motion for meritorious services alone as vacancies 
occur, and appointment for fitness, with absolute 
disregard for politics. It Is expected that with 
such regulations the work of the departments 
will be not only more falthruliy, but more econ¬ 
omically done, and that the tone or the civil serv¬ 
ice will he raised. 
Gov. Hampton Is due in AVashtngton Tuesday, 
March 27, to consult with t he President, looking 
10 a settlement nr the Morn quo lu South Carolina. 
Mr. Chamberlain is also expected. 
Who will he the next speaker? 
Gen. Gartleld antagonizes Mr. Foster's claims 
to the Speakership on the Republican side. 
The President is mainly occupied receiving del 
egations in the interest or both parties. 
Ex-President Grant is in Ohio. He will proceed 
from thence to St. Louis, t hence to Galena, thence 
East, where he will board the steamer and sail for 
Europe, remaining abroad two years. 11 is family 
goes also. 
Minister AYashburne has asked to be recalled 
from the French Mission. His successor has not, 
as yet, been named. 
Air. Edwin Booth, a day or two ago, sent a 
check tor $100 to the Society for the Improvement 
of the Condition of the Poor of Baltimore. 
lion. Clarkson N. Potter Is to deliver the ad¬ 
dress before the literary societies of Roanoke 
College, North Carolina, at the coming Com¬ 
mencement In June. 
i* The Effect, of Culture on the Brain ” was the 
locally characteristic subject of a lecture by a 
Boston woman, before an audience or Boston wo¬ 
men, a day or two ago. 
ft. Is not often that a sudden Rhock Is fatal as 
quickly as in the case of a Nevada man the other 
day. He had been a heavy drinker. He entered 
11 saloon and called for a glass or liquor. The 
bar-keeper gave him a glass of water and he 
drank It. A moment afterward he fell dead on 
the ttoor. 
The Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires In 
San Francisco now numbers about 250 persons, of 
whom not more ( ban 50 are under 40 years 01 age. 
They meet monthly, and In order to attract the 
grandsons and their families, propose that, after 
the business meetings are over, literary exercises, 
singing, and dancing shall hereafter be intro¬ 
duced. 
J. M. Ferguson, ot Krauth, Ferguson & Co. 
Louisville, Ky., pork-packers, has failed. Liabili¬ 
ties, $240,000. 
The authorities of Nevada have erected a pil¬ 
lory for the especial benefit of wue-beaters. 
They have a fountain on the apex of the spire 
of a church steeple in Nevada. Great State! 
Trapping beavers for tbetr pelts Is a growing 
Industry la California. 
John AY. Garrett, President of the B. & O. R. R„ 
In a recent speech, said freight could be car¬ 
ried at rates that would be profitable to the 
railroad and Just to the shipper; but that present 
rates were ruinous, and, in the end, would Injure 
all concerned. 
The racing season of 1S77 promises to be Inter¬ 
esting. 
AVm. Donnelly of Cazenovfa, N. Y., was killed 
by a passing train on tlie Central R.R., March 25. 
Governor Fairbanks refuses to reprieve John P. 
Phalr, the Rutland murderer. He will be hanged 
on the oth of April at Windsor. 
FOREIGN NOTES 
A vert interesting scientific report on oyster- 
culture has lately been presented to the French 
Government. From tills It appears that, oyster- 
culture has for some time been prosecuted In 
France so carefully and with such success that 
the supply will soon be very largely Increased. 
The English fairly ate up their oysters, and have 
tor some years almost, had to go without any. 
A cable dispatch from Havana has been re¬ 
ceived, stating that Gen. Martinez Campos, Com- 
mandcr-iu-chfef of the Spanish forces in Cuba, 
has Just addressed the following dispatch to his 
Government regarding the military situation in 
Cuba: “ 1 have placed In the most suitable posi¬ 
tions the seventeen battalllous, fltteen squadrons, 
of cavalry, and the five bodies of Irregular troops 
that remain in the territory of the (Inco YUlas, 
for the purpose of maintaining order, preventing 
Incendiarism, and other isolated acts of savagery. 
There are also stationed nine battalilons, with 
nine pieces of artillery, to guard the iYoclia. The 
remainder of the available forces will advance to¬ 
day toward the eastern part ol the Island, In order 
to clear It or roving bands of insurgents* since I 
have commanded the army, the losses of the ene¬ 
my have been 105 dead, at least 299 wounded, and 
4S9 prisoners made on the field of battle. Besides 
these, 1,551 Insurgents and 3,534 women from In¬ 
surgent camps have surrendered themselves or 
been captured by our troops on their march, our 
loss during this period consisted of 194 deud, 472 
wounded, 29 brulsed.'and 16 missing or p risoners.’ 
Walter Bagshot, the English political writ,or Is 
dead. 
The storms on the coast of Scotland this year 
have forced the ocean to yield some long-hidden 
relics. A large cannon, nine feet loug, and an 
anchor weighing sixteen hundred weight, have 
been washed ashore at Uriea, one of the Shetland 
Islands. They were presented to the Queen, and 
placed In the armory of Windsor Castle, near the 
Nelson relics. These Interesting jetsams are sup¬ 
posed to have belonged to one of the ships of the 
Spanish Armada. 
The London News has a special trom Berlin, 
saying:—“Great 111 feeling exists in liberal cir¬ 
cles concerning the vote fixing l.elpslc as the seat 
of the Supreme Court of Germany. Prince Bis¬ 
marck Is sharply denounced for mismanagement, 
and It is asserted that more decided Interference 
on his part might have reversed the decision." 
The Dally Telegraph's Berlin special says: 
“ Apprehensions or rioting are so serious that ex¬ 
tensive precautionary measures are proposed by 
the police authorities. On Thursday morning a 
cavalry regiment was held in readiness to assist 
in quelling any trouble.” 
It cost nearly $ 70,000 last year to collect and 
print the returns asked for by various members 
of the British Parliament,. 
Orders have been given by the Russian Govern¬ 
ment to the manager or the Imperial Iron Foun¬ 
dry at Tula to const ruct without delay 40,000 iron 
huts for the accommodation of troops. 
Great pecuniary distress prevails in Belgium. 
Manufactures have stopped, workmen are out of 
employment, trade is dull, and the (beaters are 
empty. Germany Is an equal sufferer. 
Reuter’s dispatch from Capetown reports vio¬ 
lent scenes In the Transvaal Republic over the 
question of annexation. The A*oiksraad, which 
insisted upon the maintenance ot the freedom of 
the Republic, refused to accept the reform pro¬ 
gramme ol President Burgers, who favors union 
with Great Britain. It is rumored that the ex¬ 
treme party have threatened the life of Mr. Shep- 
sione, the British envoy, who is endeavoring to 
arrange such a union. 
The fast mall in England Jumped the track, kill¬ 
ing five persons and smashing things generally. 
The University Boat Race between Oxford and 
Cambridge ended lu a dead heat, for theflrsttlme 
on record. Oxford claims the race, which 6he 
would undoubtedly have galnod, had It not been 
for a mishap. The bow-oar broke his oarlock and 
became a passenger for the remainder of the race, 
when the crew were about two furlongs from the 
finish. The race was hotly contested from start 
to finish, and for a greater part of the distance It 
was anybody's victory. The course was the usual 
oue from Putney to Mortlake, but owing to the 
early hour at which the crew started, (s .27 A. M.,) 
the banks that lined the Thames were not crowded 
with tin- immense throngs that curiously gather 
to witness tUls annual event. The course was four 
miles and two furlongs; the time of the race was 
twenty-four minutes, ton seconds. The average 
weight of the Oxford crew was 165 lbs., and that 
of the Cambridge, 119 lbs. 
Hu>rrvillr, Quebec, tinrch II.— AVe liave 
had a fine winter tor this snow clad region, con¬ 
tinued sleighing since the commencement of No¬ 
vember which is usual till May, but till last week 
the air has been, since Christmas, comparatively 
mild. On last Friday morning 12* below zero and 
about the same In the early part of the day since. 
— w. p, 
Willi am non (!n., Tcxne, March 10.—Small 
grain crops are looking well, but grasshoppers 
enough to eat them up, if they don’t leave us as 
soon as they can fly. They are now about the size 
of a grain of wheat, and many more to hatch.— d. 
w. c. 14. 
AVith the present year the Plow AVorks of 
Dkerk & Co. enters upon the thirtieth of its ex¬ 
istence, its founder having removed to Moline, 
ill., In the year 1847, from Grand Detour, where 
he had been making steel plows the previous ten 
years; and the name of John Derrf. Is, therefore, 
associated lu the minds of the earliest settlers of 
the Western states with the first steel plows ever 
made. The settlement of the northwestern ter¬ 
ritory at that early date had just commenced, 
and Its marvelous growth In wealth and popula¬ 
tion Is but a rair Index to the growth of these 
works, and though Its founder doubtless expected 
a large degree ot success to result from well-di¬ 
rected effort, yet he could not have anticipated 
that it was destined to become what it now Is, 
the largest plow* manufactory In die world, em¬ 
ploying six hundred men, aided by machinery to 
perfect and cheapen the production and render 
every part uniform. These works have a capacity 
of turning out soo finished stool plows, sulkies, 
gangs, and cultivators every day, using 3,boo tons 
or steel and Iron annually, and occupying 200,000 
square feet of floor room. 
eat except what the hay afforded. Bolngcovercd 
up when the hay was pul in the barn, the lien 
could not get out. Her toenails and beak had 
grown half an Inch during the time, and her size 
was greatly reduced. \\ T hen taken out and placed 
In the open air the hen tumbled over, with every 
sympton ot a fit, but she shortly recovered, and is 
now cloinsfrwell. 
Tlfft editor of the San Francisco Post has been 
shown a monster orange, which weighed 
(Pounds sod measured in circumference 24 inches. 
It was grown at. Riverside, San Barnardino county, 
upon the grounds of G. AV. Garcelon. The tree 
which produced It Is Just four years old, and had 
a number of other oranges besides this one, which 
were but slightly smaller. 
The sale or the New York and Oswego Midland 
Railroad is adjourned until April 27. 
A little child In Cincinnati was killed by a sav¬ 
age bulldog, and the mother, who attempted a 
rescue, was badly bitten. 
A remarkable fondness for canned oysters hav¬ 
ing been noticed among the Inmates of the Al¬ 
bany Jail, one of the keepers made an examination 
and found that, the cans supposed to contain 
oysters contained whiskey. 
Mine. Bonaparte ol Baltimore Is now In her 
ninety-fourth year, and 11 seems probable she 
may yet realize her expressed wish to live to be 
one hundred years old. Though feeble she main¬ 
tains full possession of licr mental faculties and 
takes an active Interest In puldlc a Hairs, especially 
abroad. 
The excitement In Essex County, Mass., over 
minlDg Is very groat,. Several new mines are to 
be opened, and oue at Amesbury Is soon lobe 
vigorously worked. At Merrimack a shaft has 
already been sunk 26ft feet, and there are rive 
levels with, a total length of 1*500 feet, with indi¬ 
cations or fin Immense amount, of vein matter 
still below and beyond, and the quantity in sight 
Is estimated tut 0,000 tons. Besides a rich deposit 
of gray copper discovered, several veins of quartz 
were recently encountered which are lotuid to 
assay $20 to $25 per .ton In gold and sliver, appar¬ 
ently illimitable In amount and growing richer as 
they descend. These veins are supposed to meet 
a few hundred feet below the surface, forming, 
perhaps, abed of ore richer than any yet discov¬ 
ered. The- workiug force numbers forty at pres¬ 
ent, and 500 tons of first-class ore, worth $140 per 
ton, are produced monthly. All the land-owners 
In that region have already grown wealthy In an¬ 
ticipation. 
As John Cleary was walking In Lansing street, 
Albany, a few nights ago, an unknown man, 
after passing, turned and fired a pistol, the ball 
from which entered Cleary's back. The assassin 
then fled. Cleary was a scratcher in one of the 
foundries In Albany which employed non-union 
moulders. 
A new plan tor protecting saies Is to Inclose 
them In wire netting, so connected with a battery 
and bell that the division of any portion of the 
wire ruptures a circuit, and the bell gives the 
alarm. 
Ex-Mayor A. Oakey Hall lias disappeared from 
New York under circumstances that render his 
absence a topic of tho liveliest comment. 
The Canadian Pilgrims, numbering 108, are on 
their way to Europe, where they go on religious 
thoughts intent. 
Burnett’s Coconino is the best and cheapest 
Hair Dressing In the world.—Ex. 
SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS 
Everybody who has lived In the city knows 
what It Is to be disturbed In the night by cats 
lighting, and countless are the boots, boot-jacks, 
bricks, etc., that have been thrown at them, but 
all wit h poor success; they soon return, and the 
only thing that will keep them away is cold lead, 
but as a pistol shot in the dead ot ntght will create 
more disturbance among your neighbors than a 
hundred howling cats, what then remains to be 
done? AVe should say. get a Champion Alt- Pistol. 
It makes no noise, shoots perfectly accurate, but 
not, hard enough to penetrate clothing, and will 
sting a cat so that be will think he has been near 
a liorner’s nest, or something worse. Can be had 
of any gun-dealer, or of the Pope Mf’o Co., 45 
High St., Boston. 
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