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TURC0-RU8SIAN WAR. 
Some Important operations have taken place In 
Asia since our last report of t he news. The Rus¬ 
sians attacked Batoum and wore defeated, with a 
loss of 4,000 men and many guns. The Turks dis¬ 
played great bravery and skill. A new attack 
lias commenced on the place. Houtgorm Kaleli, 
a < Jlrcasstan seaport on the Black Sea, was taken 
by the Turks, assisted by Insurgents. They tire 
now threatening the railway line to Tillls, In the 
rear of t he Russians, on tlie opposite banks of 
the Danube, tilt hostile forces are still confront- 
1 ng one anot her. The Russians come to 11 nd great 
difficulties in the way of effecting a passage of 
that river, in the British Parliament, the Glad¬ 
stone! resolutions ware defeated by a decisive ma¬ 
jority. It Is confidently asserted that England, 
in armed alliance with Austria, will soon Inter¬ 
fere. The latest accounts say that the Russians 
attempted to bombard Kars, but were compelled 
to retire. A great pitched battle 1» expected at 
Toprak Kalu, south of Kill's, In Asia Minor. 
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. FOREST FIRES, 
The annual forest fires have commenced rather 
earlier than usual, in this State they are doing 
Immense damage. Thu villages of Clinton Mills 
has been completely burned up, and other towns 
In the northern part are threatened. It Is feared 
many lives have bpeu lost among families living 
lu the woods, in attempts to kivo property. Sim¬ 
ilar accounts come from Other near-by and dis¬ 
tant States, and Canada. Dense clouds ot smoke 
envelop whole, copnties, and the hot weather and 
continued absence of rain wllMearfully lncrea^ 
the evil. Tlio destruction of our forests, from 
whajever cause, Is a most serious Julanuly. It Is 
said that our boasted pine forests, when once 
gone (and their final disappearance Is near at 
hand) e.nmol be replaced, even if it were under¬ 
taken to renew t hem. But It. is pleasant to record 
the fact that our State and National Governments 
are waking up to the importance of this matter, 
and are taking steps, not only to protect existing 
forests, but to eneottrage the planting of Others. 
The following is a recent, enactment in Connecti¬ 
cut pertinent to the subject: 
“That whoever shall plant any land in this 
State not heretofore woodland (the actual value 
(if which at tie.' thud Of planting docs not exceed 
Ufteen dollars per acre) to timber trees of any of 
the following kinds, to wit:—chestnut, locust, 
hickory, ash, catalpa, white-oak, sugar-maple, 
European larch, white-pine, or spruce, a number 
not less than twelve hundred to the acre; uud 
after suoli plantation of trees shall have grown, 
on an average, six leet In night, the owner of 
such plantation or trees may appear before tlie 
Board of Roller In any town In which such plan¬ 
tation of trees may be located, and on proving 
the hereto-mentioned conditions, such plantation 
or trees shall be subject to exemption from till 
taxation whatever for a period of ten years next 
thereafter.” 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Utica wauls a Vicuna bread manufactory. 
A swarm of bugs has whizzed o’er Terre Haute, 
with a noise like a tralu. 
The Nebraska Land and Improvement Co. has 
gone Into bankruptcy. Liabilities, $100,000; assets, 
01,000 acres of land and some town lots. 
The Jetties at the mouth or the .Mississippi have 
caused Ilia alligators to stamp-Kail. 
Boars are committing depredations among War¬ 
ren county farmers. 
A white frost has chilled the hopes of the horti¬ 
culturists of Saratoga and Washington counties 
for an abundant fruit crop this year. 
A Brook held paper contains the obituary of a 
hen that tiled at the age or eighteen years. 
Troy householders, whose premises are invaded 
and littered up by sparrows, are reeding sailed 
meal to the little posts. 
The Lyons Republican says an unusual number 
of acres of Peppermint are being set this year. 
'Pho waters of Cayuga Lake are said to be higher 
this spring than they have been before in several 
years. 
In order to got people to come to Utica to do 
shopping, the merchants charter whole railroad 
trains to bring them from the North, and the en¬ 
terprise is pronounced a success. 
Hemlock Lake has been supplied with upward 
of 160,000 salmon trout this season from the State 
Hatchery. 
More than four hundred persons have professed 
religion In Seneca Falls and one hundred in 
Waterloo. 
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It Is proposed to lay a pipe line from the oil 
regions to New York city. 
Tho waters or the sour spt lugs near Alllon, are 
said to be very effective lu scrofulous diseases. 
A bald eagle, measuring six feet from tip to tip 
of hla wings, was caught on a farm In Orange 
County recently. 
The North Woods lumbermen complain of in¬ 
sufficient water lu the streams to float their logs. 
The Dutchess Farmer says:—At the present 
time t be matt crop promises to excel that for sev¬ 
eral years past. 
Nearly all our country exchanges speak In fav¬ 
orable terms of the present condition of the win¬ 
ter wheat crop. 
A new disease Is raging among the colts in 
Orange county this spring, which baffles all skill 
and has proven fatal In numerous cases. The 
neck swells badly and sometimes the limbs also. 
In bad eases the lips puff out and an off ensive dis¬ 
charge occurs. It seldom attacks a horse over 
t wo years old. 
A party of young men, near Lockport, were in 
the habit of meeting in the church for gambling 
purposes. 
Chicago received a car load of asparagus direct 
from California the other day. 
While out gunning at Hampton Beach, N. H., 
a few duys ago, Mr. Charles Perkins of Hampton 
Falls brought down thirteen wild geese from one 
Dock. 
The Atlanta Constitution asserts that there are 
men lu the upper counties of Georgia who have 
never heard that the war has ceased, and are Still 
hiding through Tear of capture. 
The first regular telephonic line has been put In 
operation between the. place of madness of G. 
Williams, Jr., Boston, Mass., and ltlt^vsldenee, a 
distance of about three miles. Conversation can 
carried on by It nearly-us well as IT those con¬ 
versing were In the same room. 
Lexington, Ky., congratulates Itself over a re¬ 
port that ox-Rresldent Grant Intends to buy a 
farm In the blue-grass region and settle, mere. 
The Southern Pacific Railroad Is completed rrom 
San Francisco to the Colorado River, and passen¬ 
ger trains are now running thereon. 
’The Modoc Indians, now numbering .vj males 
and o:i females, arc located on a very fertile tract, 
containing 4,ooo acress, in the northeast corner of 
the Shawnee Reservation, Indian Territory. They 
have a large and valuable crop on their farm. 
lu New Hampshire, a mud dog, alter having 
been wounded, took refuge In a barn, where sonic 
or the hay became soaked with Ills blood. The 
hay was fed to a horse which went mad. 
Trot. Kl.ey, chief of the National Entomoffglcai 
Commission, after three weeks’ examination in 
Tex tor and Nans as, says the grasshoppers dlsbp- 
peured soon after hatching. The cold, rainy 
weather hail much to do with this. The exami¬ 
nation conn rim'd his theory t hat the grasshop¬ 
pers arc out of their natural habitation lu these 
Slates, and not likely to thrive. 
A UosUMl woman gives a breakfast to every man 
who will pledge himself to listen to the tem¬ 
perance appeal that follows It. Hundreds attend 
and the woman is convinced that many are con¬ 
verted. 
In Auburn, a few days since, a woman put a 
calf Into a wagon. The unsympathetic people 
who looked on enjoyed the sport better than the 
eair or the woman. 
There have been 28 Chinese murders In San 
Francisco since the last Chinaman was hanged. 
Lately, Mongolians at the theaters were searched 
for concealed weapons. Knives were afterward 
discovered under the seats. 
Tile highest railroad bridge In the world Is that 
over the Kentucky River, which the Clucluwttl 
Southern Road lua Just completed. 
The Coaching Club will have Its flrst grand 
parade this season on Saturday, May 20. Seven¬ 
teen four-ln hand coaches will he displayed on 
the occasion. 
The city Forester of Boston, Mass., says that 
the Introduction or sparrows there was attended 
wit h great benefit lu the destruction of caterpil¬ 
lars and canker-worms, and he denies that the 
sparrows molest or Interfere with any other bird, 
as has been asserted by some. 
More than 125 mountains In Norlli Carolina 
were measured by Prof. Guyot, and Of these, M 
are over e.uoo feet In bight. Black Mountain is 
the highest, being c,Ttw feet. 
According to a recent enactment by the New 
Jersey Legislature, no person may open or con¬ 
duct a pharmacy or drug store In that state with¬ 
out flrst employing a registered pharmacist, who 
must have passed a rigid examination by a boat'd, 
consisting or live persons, skilled lu pharmacy, to 
be appointed by the Governor. 
The United States has been a heavy buyer of 
silver lu Europe this spring, the price belug lower 
t han lu Nevada. 
In Oregon, every man Who drinks Is obliged te 
take out a license costing $5. 1 1 is a penal offence 
tor any liquor dealer to sell a drink to an unli¬ 
censed person. 
Horse tlllevcs out West build hollow haystacks 
provided with a hlddeudoor, Into which the ani¬ 
mals are driven. 
’The pension office at Washington Is to be re¬ 
formed. The agent at Philadelphia receives, In 
salary and fees, $31,015. The 03 pension agents 
cost the Government $»ot),oeu annually. 
The balance of trade for the nine mouths end¬ 
ing March si, Is $166,000,000 In favor or the United 
States. 
it te estimated that one person of every T:to in 
Connecticut obtained a patent last year. 
1 1 costs $600 Io send a car load of fruit from 
California to Boston. 
The spiritualistic paraffine mold business yield¬ 
ed a profit, of $30,000 to Mrs. Hardy, who flrst em¬ 
barked In It. 
A girl In Dubuque granted her rejected lover a 
parting kiss, and he bit her cheek In a way that 
disfigures her for life. 
The small boys In Reading, Pa., amuse them¬ 
selves by stealing eggs and pelting people with 
them as they pass along the st reet. 
The entire military force of the State will be 
present at Concord, N. IL, on Inaugurat ion day. 
Berkshire (Mass.) farmers are talking of eultl- 
vatlng the sugar beet, and uniting In a sugar 
manufactory on a co-operative plan. 
A Worcester manufacturer produced 1,330,400 
envelopes, the largest number ever made in this 
country, In a single day. 
Five children left In a house In Cortland Co , 
which took fire during the absence of their pa¬ 
rents, were burned to death. 
Gov. Robinson has vetoed the Gtnnlhusblll, and 
Items of the supply bill amounting to over $ 1 , 500 ,- 
ooo. 
A dead duck was found floating In Chesapeake 
Bay, the other day, with a huge oyster flrmly 
fastened upon Its bill. The bird had evidently tried 
to capture the oyster, but had himself been cap¬ 
tured. 
Strawberries are sold by the pound In Healds- 
burg, Cal. 
Thomasville, Ga., Is trying silk culture as an 
experiment. 
Many of the sand Islands In the Platte River, In 
Nebraska, are said to be literally covered with 
wild geese. 
An extensive deposit of t erra-cotta has been re¬ 
cently discovered in Washington Co., near Fort 
Calhoun, Neb. 
Tho Michigan Salt Association has recently 
contracted with the Michigan central Railroad 
Company to transport 100,000 bushels ot sail lu 
bulk to Chicago. 
Tho Trustees of the Iowa Agricultural College 
have added a kitchen to that Institution, and 
placed It under the charge <Jf the teacher of do¬ 
mestic economy. This year each youag lady in 
the Junior class wilt have to spend one morning 
in each week in the, kitchen for the purpose or 
practical Instruction. 
Tho Boston public schools will hold no sessions 
In very stermy weather. 
CITY AND VICINITY. 
.President Heycs'arrivcd In this city on tho ntli 
lust., and was present at the dinner of the cham¬ 
ber of Commerce. He was accompanied by most 
of the members or bis Cabinet. Receptions were 
tendered to the party by several prominent citi¬ 
zens. On the 15th he unveiled the JJalluck statue, 
lu Central Park. On the 16th, citizens at large had 
the privilege of shaking hands with him in the 
Governor’s Room, City Hall.’ 
The “ Carnival ” came and went at the appoint¬ 
ed time. Those who saw It almost unanimously 
pronounce it a stupid fraud. 
a runaway accident lu central Park resulted in 
the death of two ladles, who sprang from the car¬ 
riage while tho horses were going at full speed. 
A young lady who remained in her seat escaped 
unhurt. 
A lire In Brooklyn destroyed the very extensive 
linseed oil works or Campbell A Thayer, on Water 
St. Loss over $400,000. 
Tho custom house investigation in this city is 
bringing to light many gross abuses. Hlnecurtats 
are numerous, both among salaried officers and 
laborers. Inspectors and weighers have been lu 
the habit of receiving considerable sums from pri¬ 
vate firms, and all hands have seemed to regard 
government Interests as of secondary Importance. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
The Republic or Transvaal, lu South Africa, has 
been annexed to the British Empire. 
The Emperor of Germany recently visited Stras¬ 
bourg aud Metz, lie expressed the opluion, lu a 
abort speech, that in time the people would be¬ 
come reconciled to the present order of things. 
11c was well received. 
Htx thousand Joiners at Manchester, Eng., have 
struck for an advance of wages. 
Famine la reported as raging In the provinces 
of Shantung and Chihli, China, and In Southern 
India. Cholera has broken out In Bengal. 
San Domingo has the largest tobacco crop tills 
season ever raised on the Island. 
The value of owls Is shown by the following: 
Au English gamekeeper found an owl’s nest with 
one young bird In It. He visited It. for thirty con¬ 
secutive mornings, aud in that, time removed from 
It, 105 rats, 49 mice, ll shrew mice, 2 robins and l 
sparrow, over and above what the owl’s consump¬ 
tion demanded. 
The active eruption of Vesuvius is Increasing 
slowly. During the night, the reflection of the 
lire is visible on the abundant volumes of smoke. 
Frequent subterranean rumblings are heard. The 
acid-smoke Injures vegetation. 
At St. Petersburg the winter has been long and 
severe. The city is poorly drained, and enteric 
revers prevail. 
The total length of the Dutch railroads Is 900 
miles. The flrst lines were opened In 1S3S. 
Au attempt Is about to be made to stock the 
rivers ol the province of Quebec with salmon ova. 
The damage done by avalanches in Switzerland 
this spring, has been unusually severe, owing to 
to a very rapid thaw. * 
The New York correspondent of the London 
Dally News puts the number of unemployed In 
tho United States at. 2,000,000. 
From Dec. ll, i860, to March at last, tlie names 
of over 200,000 persons were placed on the register 
of h abitual crlmluftls In England and Wales. 
The plague still continues Its ravages at Bag¬ 
dad. The overflow of the Tigris makes its diffi¬ 
cult to carry out. sanitary measures. 
The Speaker of tbe British House of Commons 
was robbed of his English watch, and he has since 
carried a gold stem-winder of American make. 
.six Liverpool street-car conductors were re¬ 
cently lined twenty-live shillings each lor allow¬ 
ing their cars to be overcrowded* 
lu isoi Great Britain bad 10,000,000 people, Ire¬ 
land 5,000,000. Now tbe former has 27,000,000, the 
latter 5,600,000. 
The Jurisdiction of London extends over 756 
square miles, it contains 4,000,000 inhabitants. 
in all cities Of Europe where street cars and 
omnibuses are In use, the travelers aro provided 
with a shelter at t he points of transfer. 
A telegraph statlpn has Just, been set. up at GJes- 
vor, Norway, u little above the seventy-first par¬ 
allel or nort h latitude. 
The London Times lias been gradually reducing 
the weight of its white paper, with a saving of 
more than $50,000 per annum. 
American meat Is now sold In London In t he Co¬ 
lumbia Market, belonging to Lady Bunkt -Ooutts. 
The use of the market Is granted gratuitously. 
In France, ft difference between President Mc¬ 
Mahon and M. smu-'U-^y^ig^i’er, has resulted 
In the resignation of tmn^PML'an Ministry and 
produced a serious crisis. The Clericals and Mon¬ 
archists are behoved to be at the bottom of the 
troubles. The populace ot Paris Is greatly ex¬ 
cited, A reactionist Cabinet has been constituted, 
with De Broglie at the head. 
A Cairo correspondent says that at. the very 
Hint? the Khedive seni out an expedition to sup¬ 
press slavery, lie was selling 400 f. mule slaves, 
while every one ot his palaces overflows with 
them, ’* to say nothing of Ills cruelly oppressed, 
forced laborers.” 
A railway porter, In Cambridge, England, was 
recently taken 111 with bronchitis, and was pro¬ 
nounced to bo dead. After lying In his coffin tor 
two days, lie rose up and took his seat In the 
room. A sleeping potion which lie had taken 
caused stupor, which led his friends to think he 
was dead. 
small-pox visited a family, nine In number, at 
Jiasley, England, recently. Three had been vac¬ 
cinated, and six had not. All those unvaccinated 
took the disease, and four died, while the t hree 
that had been vaccinated escaped altogether. 
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EVERYWHERE. 
Freedom, H Is., .Hay 1.— The snow is nearly 
Six Inches deep on tho gronud this morning, but 
the. sun shines. Previous to this, we have liqd 
fej-y Hoe spring weather. Grain wassown In good 
shape, and some potatoes were planted. There 
Is more than t he usual amount of wheat sown 
this spring. Old wheat. Is very scarce and high, 
seed wheat being $2 per bushel and flour $iu per 
barrel. Farm laborers are plenty, such as they 
ure, and wages are low —$15 per month and board 
for the season of six months being about tbe aver¬ 
age.— K. N. 
From tho Valley of Virginia.— It was quite 
warm here the latter part of April, but the flrst 
of May was very cool, with some frost. Wheat Js 
looking tine In this part of the country. ’Times 
are hard and money scarce. Everything Is dull 
except wheat, which Is worth $l.70@2 per bushel. 
Potatoes, $t per bush.—A Subscriber. 
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SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS, 
A (food Faint. —As paint Is an Important 
agent In the construction and flnlshlng of build¬ 
ings, tbe quality of the paint used deserves care¬ 
ful consideration. The Introduction by the Aver- 
111 Paint Co., New York City, of a ready mixed 
paint In h variety of attractive shades, lias greatly 
aimpUitcd the art of palming. This paint has 
largely superseded the old-fashioned paint, owing 
to Its superior durability and convenience, and 
Is uow generally regarded as tne best paint in 
tlie country. The Centennial commissioners, lu 
awarding it the highest medal, referred to It as a 
discovery of grout value. From our knowledge of 
fills paint, WC C&h unhesitatingly commend It to 
our friends as an article possessing superior merit. 
The extent of Its use, together with the length of 
time it lias been before the public, is a sufficient 
guarantee of Its value. 
The new remedy for dyspepsia, “ Gestlano,” 
Is effecting some very remarkable cures lu Lyons, 
N. Y. Physicians recommend “ Gestlano ” to their 
patients, and It is gaining a wonderful reputation 
as a gpecUlc In cases or dyspepsia and indigestion 
—ror which disorders only it is recommended.— 
Lyons Kepublkan. 
