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THE WEATHER. 
A decided change in the weather took place on 
Sunday night, the 20th of May. For several days 
prior to that date It had been excessively warm. 
During: the week ending: ihe 26th of May, cloudy 
and cool weather, accompanied by wind and light 
mlus, has prevailed over a large area or country 
in the ICast. ami North, in the West und south- 
wesi, heavy and long-continued rains caused much 
damage along the Mississippi and tributaries, and 
plowing atid planting have been seriously inter¬ 
fered with in consequence, ft is reared that seed 
already sown will rot in the ground, making late 
re-plantlng necessary. In the Middle and Eastern 
States drought has been threatened and a soaking 
r.tIn la greatly needed. Plants and Crops are al¬ 
ready suffering, barometric variations were slight 
during the week. 
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STORM FREAKS. 
Violent storms are reported In various parts of 
the country. One at Marion, Ind., blew down 
trees, fences and houses. A church lined with 
people was demolished, killing one man and in¬ 
juring many other persons, in Washington the 
lightning struck a street-railway track, following 
It for about a quarter of a mile, tearing up the 
concrete pavement. Enormous hailstones fell In 
great quantities Hear bennlngtun, vt., doing much 
damage to windows and vegetation. 
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LAUNCHED INTO ETERNITY. 
Tun launch of the Iron steamship Saratoga, at 
the shipyard of John Roach, Chester, Pa., caused 
the death of seven men and wounding of several 
more. About -10 workmen were under the vessel 
when It started, not having heard the warning of 
tin; foreman. The Accident was caused by certain 
chains affixed to the bow of tho ship catching 
some oi tin* blocks that supported the ways as the 
ship plunged Into the river. The blocks and men 
were rolled over and over together, the latter 
being terribly crushed and mangled. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The army Is to be reduced to 19,000 men. 
Counterfeit antimony, lead, and tin half dollars 
circulate In Eureka, Ncv. 
A red wolf bus been shot in Lehigh County, Pa., 
the first in seventy years. 
Salted dough cost a Wilkes County, Ga., lady, 
175 chickens the other day. 
A Norwegian bark was run down by a steamer 
in Baltimore harbor and four lives lost. 
An explosion occurred In a coal mine near Potts- 
vtlle, l’a., by which live or six persons lost their 
lives. 
Thirty-three El ites have made laws for the pre¬ 
vention of cruelty to animals. 
Five million grindstones were put on the mar¬ 
ket last year, and yet what man carries a sharp 
knife V 
The Wine Growers’ Association of California Is 
about to issue ehromos, lu book form, of twenty 
varieties of grapes. 
Gov. Rice says that the Hooaac Tunnel has al¬ 
ready cost Massachusetts $is,ouo,ooo. 
In Astoria, 111., a rew days ago, a little boy In a 
hideous costume frightened another to death. 
A party of men are to go from Portland, Mo., to 
Texas, Intending to take up a large tract and 
build a village. 
The largest alligator ever seen in that portion of 
Georgia about Macon was killed lu a small lake 
last week, and measured eight feet lu length, 
A railroad from Boston advertises dally excur¬ 
sions for May flowers. 
A Kansas paper reports that the blackbirds are 
destroying the grasshoppers greedily. 
Lightning struck an umbrella In North Carolina 
and killed three persons who were under It. 
A marriage ceremony between colored persons 
in Griltln, Ga., was recently most disast rously in¬ 
terrupted by the parson demanding the fee lu ad¬ 
vance. 
Several hundred acres of cranberries are already 
under cultivation In Capo May Co., N. J., anil 
many acres are In various stages or preparation. 
The old bogs near Brieksburg and Manchester, 
are very profitable. 
The congregation or Trinity Church, Boston, 
was borrlded on Sunday last, by a mad dog which 
was rushing about In the vicinity, having already 
bitten live persons. 
The steamer Bolglc sailed from San Francisco, a 
few days ago, for Hong Kong via Yokohama, car¬ 
rying ii.9.'j0,00u in treasure, mostly tine silver. 
The ducks in the water of Deep Spring Valley 
Lake, Cal., become so loaded down with crystal¬ 
lizations or borax as to be unable to fly, and fall 
an easy prey to the Indians. 
The propeller and barge system on the Illinois 
canals enables boatmen to make from 1300 to $000 
a trip, while the horse boatmen cannot malic a 
dollar. 
The Philadelphia papers are advocating the in¬ 
troduction of " the needle in public schools.” The 
boys who practice with bent pins have been pre- 
„ paring the way ror this innovation. 
The Permanent Exhibition ut Philadelphia in 
the Main Hall of the Centennial Buildings, was 
opened May li), in presence of loo.oun spectators, 
by President Bayes in person. The attendance 
since has been large. 
Specie is accumulating in this country, and 
preparations for resuming are being considered at, 
Washington. 
A memorial hall has been built In honor of the 
American fllibuster Ward, who assisted the Chi¬ 
nese In subduing the Talplng rebellion in lsc- 2 , 
anl religious services are to be bold regularly by 
the natives or the town where he was killed. 
A large lion was killed in the mountains recent¬ 
ly, between Santa Cruz and Santa Clara, Cal. The 
beast got In among the horses on Mr. Male's ranch 
and killed three. Two young men chased him all 
night with their dogs, and Anally dispatched him. 
He measured nine feet in length. 
An Illinois Circuit Judge has decided that pub¬ 
lic Bchool authorities have the right, to ojder the 
Bible used and read In tho schools as a text-book 
with other studies. 
Dave Farmer, a conjuring old negro or Buckltn, 
Mo., scared Frank Hayes into the other world, 
and then a whole family succumbed to his voo- 
doolstlc power, one having died ami three or four 
more, if is said being at the pol nt of death. The 
conjuror has been shot dead through a chink In 
nis cabin by one or tho victims to his spells. 
Two Mexicans murdered a man at Santa Crust, 
Cal., to obtain money to go to a circus with. They 
got $9 from Ills body, went arid enjoyed the per¬ 
formance und subsequently were lynched. 
Charles H. Bryan of Nevada, an cx-judge, was 
strangled to death at dinner by a piece ot meat 
lodging in his throat. Moral-Take time to mas¬ 
ticate food thoroughly before swallowing. 
An attempt to poison about 100 mm, who had 
been put to work In the coal mines at Streaton, 
111., in place of strikers, by drugging the dinner 
palls, was partially successful. About co men 
were taken sick, and a few may die. 
In Kentucky a little Insect Is doing much dam¬ 
age to the blue grass pastures. It Is said to. re¬ 
semble the slugs that appear on rose-bushes. * 
A fountain on the top of the spire or a Roman 
(hithollc church, is one or the novelties or VirgJ nla 
city, Nevada. An iron pipe passes through the 
cross which surmounts the spire, and furnishes 
water to a lan-shaped combination Of Jets. The 
hjglitof the cross from the ground la i;« feet. 
St. LOUIS newspapers claim that their city is 
“ the fountain head of lager beer,” the production 
exceeding that of any other place lu the United 
States. 
STATE ITEMS. 
Mr. Josiah Kreldcr of Annvllle was severely bit¬ 
ten In the fleshy part of his leg by an enraged 
hog, from the effects of which he died. 
Mr. W. IL Vaudorbllt said to one or his restau¬ 
rant lessees, who was paying $o,uoo rent, “ ir you 
will give up your bar—cease the sale of liquors I 
will reduce t he rent to $i,5oo.” The lessee ac¬ 
cepted the offer. 
Large numbers or pigeons are reported to be 
gathering In the woods at Osceola, Lewis county, 
and sportsmen are on the alert. 
There have been lately found in Clinton and 
Herkimer counties some fifteen lakes and ponds 
not heretofore laid down on any map. 
An oil well at Olean began flowing Saturday. It 
Is the first in that place. 
Over two hundred dogs In Yon kero have been 
poisoned with strychnine, by some; persons. 
The Supply bill contains the Item ot $10,000 to 
aid In laying the corner stone of a monument In 
commemoration of the surrenderor Burgoyne on 
me Centennial anniversary of that event. 
Rochester billiard room keepers have to pay $5 
flue Tor permitting minors to play. 
l’lrat.cs are fishing Oneida Lake with flat nets 
and taking wagon loads of lish from the spawn¬ 
ing beds. 
Chemung, Schuyler and Yates counties have 
Joined In a mutual fire organization for farm prop¬ 
erty exclusively. 
The Frenph government Is purchasing horses In 
the northern counties of this State and the adja¬ 
cent parts of Canada. 
Newburg is making repairs- to Washington’s 
Headquarters. 
A Parma farmer says a few grains of flax seed 
placed in each hill of potatoes will fix the bug. 
Two deer were recently found burled lu the 
snow at Belirort. 
Scarlet fever and diphtheria are prevalent In 
Bath on the Hudson. 
Hemlock Lake, Livingston county, has been sup¬ 
plied with upwards of 150,000 salmon trout this 
season from the state hatchery. 
Farmers m Hebron are offering laborers seventy- 
five cents a day. 
Tramps in Oneida county mutilate animals In 
the barns and fields. 
The New York State Legislature adjourned on 
| the 24th Inst., after a session of 130 days’dura 
i tion. It passed a very large number of bills, the 
| most Important of which was that relating to 
t he Municipal Commission constitutional amend¬ 
ments. 
CITY AND VICINITY. 
Fifty thousand Sunday School children paraded 
in Brooklyn on May 23. 
The age or reverence has passed. A pawnbroker 
reports that lie has taken In 240 family Bibles 
since the first of April. 
A baby ocelot and a young South American os¬ 
trich are among t lie recent accessions to the Cen¬ 
tral Park Menagerie. 
No taxes are paid ori $137,000,000 of church prop¬ 
erty in this city. 
Pigeons have taken up their abode In the wood¬ 
en framework of the East River Bridge towers. 
A workman was lowered on a rope about fifty 
feet below the temporary Brooklyn suspension 
bridge, and there, at a hlght, or 200 feet above 
the river, he dangled In the loop, cooly adjusting 
tho wires. 
It Is estimated that within a radius of thirty 
miles from New York city there are Invested in 
floriculture ten millions of dollars. 
A concern in New York will supply an English 
house with 33,000 sewing-machines. 
The next man who dies of hydrophobia will 
have the consolation of knowing that he was 
legally bitten by the licensed Spitz. 
A man was crushed to death on the Elevated 
railroad between the ears and the ties. 
There are a numberOl artesian wells In thlscity. 
A refrigerator company proposes to procure water 
In t ills way for the manufacture of ice. A gas 
company Is sinking a well In hopes of avoiding a 
yearly tax of $15,000 for Groton. 
Another white whale has arrived at the Aqua¬ 
rium. Jie is over ten feet long, and weighs 1,500 
pounds. lie was captured on the coast, of Labra¬ 
dor. 
Earnest efforts arc now being made by leading 
citizens of Mils and other Cities to secure for the 
industries of the Uni tod States an adequate rep¬ 
resentation at the Paris Exhibition next year. 
At a meeting held in Cooper Institute, It was re¬ 
solved to request the President to accept the In¬ 
vitation of Franco and appoint a Commission to 
take control or the matter. 
The Government has received from the Centen¬ 
nial Finance Board all but $150,000 of the suni 
loaned by authority of Congress. There is a claim 
by the Board for $20,000 advanced to Custom¬ 
house officers. When this dispute Is settled, the 
balance will be paid. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
Sheathing ships with paper fastened on with 
cement, Is being tried at Portsmouth, England. 
A sea captain, who invented the process, claims 
that sea weed will not grow on, or barnacles ad¬ 
here to, the paper. 
The Handel festival lu London will have a 
chorus or 4,ooo voices. 
Only live conclaves for the election ot Popes 
have been held during this century. 
The new aqueduct Pai ls Is building will cost 
$5,200,000. 
The past winter was extremely mild in Iceland, 
horses and sheep being able 10 subsist In the open 
air, without shelter, until the middle of January. 
The fish harvest In the western part or the island 
was a good one, but in the southern part tho yield 
was poor, und t he people suffered from lack of 
provisions. 
An Italian kidnapper died recently who had 
made a fortune of $ 100,000 by kidnapping girls for 
exportation, mainly to England. 
The Italian Government has ordered the disso¬ 
lution or all internationalist societies In Italy, 
and the police have seized their effects. 
A society has lately been formed In Tokto, 
Japan, to train and educate deformwl persons, 
and to provide an asylum for, and teach some 
handicraft, to the blind. 
One of the Newfoundland seal vessels recently 
captured. In twenty-six days, a cargo ot seals 
worth $ 120,000 ; the best single trip ever made. 
The Captain of the bark Edmond Phlnny, his 
sister, chief officer, and three seamen, died of 
cholera at AJcyab, India, In March last. 
More than 50 ,000 deaths by cholera have oocurred 
In that portion of India which was Inundated last 
year. The decomposition of the bodies or men 
and beasts, drowned at that time in great num¬ 
bers, Is the cause. 
The entire expense to England of the Ticliborne 
claimant’s prosecution was $ 300 , 000 . 
Since Easter the Pope, by the advice or Ills doc¬ 
tor, has given up early rising, says his daily mass 
sitting, and walks as little us possible. 
Baron Grant lost $ 220,000 on tho sale of Ills nne 
collection of pictures. lie has Just, sold Ills house 
In London to the Duke of Northumberland for 
-C$00,000. 
Nine servants of the Marquis de Saint Maurice, 
in France, have been conveyed to a hospital in 
a dying state, caused by too free Indulgence lu 
snails. 
G rasshoppers are becoming a scourge in New 
South Wales, 
A splendid bronze fountain has lately been In¬ 
augurated at Berlin. Around tbe base are rour 
aUegorlcal figures, representing the Rhine, Elbe, 
Oder and Weser, each with its appropriate trib¬ 
ute; and in the middle of the basin are four 
smaller figures, representing Agriculture, Trade, 
Defensive Warfare and A rt. 
The number ot wolves In Russia is estimated at 
200,000, and their annual consumption of flesh at 
23 cwt. per head. Last year they ate, among 
other Items, lot human beings, and It Is estimated 
that. In one way or another, they cost the coun¬ 
try $10,000,000. 
The managers of the local banks In Hong Kong 
and the Chamber of Commerce have addressed 
letters to the Government advocating the coinage 
of a British dollar for China. 
Tbe London Mining Journal advocates the use 
of telephones In mines. Should an accident occur, 
the prompt notification of It, and Its nature to 
those at. the surface might save many lives and 
much property. 
Alglero Is now shipping strawberries, cherries 
a nd asparagus to the Paris markets In large quan¬ 
tities. 
A single woman, aged 75, living alone In the 
hamlet or Pleux, France, lately fell Into the fire, 
probably during a lit, and was burned to death. 
Iler body was found partly eaten by her dogs. 
Many housewives of England now cook their 
meals Hi American kitchen ware. 
Of ten different countries which used the Suez 
Canal last year, England engrossed nearly four- 
fifths of the traffic— 2 , 343,512 tons out of a total of 
3,072,107. 
The real Inventor of Admiral Popoff’s Popoffs- 
kas, or circular gunboats, was an American. 
Six hundred thousand acres of the best land In 
India are devoted to the cultivation of opium. 
A Parisian manufacturer has received an order 
from Turkey for a large number or white; shirts 
upon which extracts from the Koran arc to be 
printed la sky-blue letters. Upon a number of 
wldte woollen undershirts Ls to be stamped the 
signature or Mohammed. The articles are Intend¬ 
ed ror distribution to Turkish soldiers when upon 
especially dangerous duty, to stimulate their coin¬ 
age under the impression t hat they are talismans. 
A monument to Bismarck has lately been raised 
upon the highest summit, of the Hart/ Mountains, 
it Is an obelisk of stone, with a bas-relief portrait 
ot Bismarck on one side, and Ills words lo the 
Reichstag, “ We will go to Canossa,”cut upon the 
other. 
The steamship Dakota stranded a few miles 
from Liverpool, on her way to New York. The 
ship will prove a total loss. Tho passengers and 
crew were saved. 
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(fihtaftonal lote. 
AN IMPORTANT SCHOOL DECISKN. 
Not long since Mr. Charles Hallett, a mill owner 
of Rlvi-rhciul, L. I., directed his son Carl, a pupil 
of the U nlon Free School or that town, not to de¬ 
claim W han ordered to do so by his teacher. For 
this refusal young Uallett was expelled, and the 
Board of Education continued and approved the 
action or the principal In expelling him. Mr. Hal¬ 
lett then sued the Board of Education, and the 
case, which was recently decided by Justice Pratt 
of the Supreme Court and a Jury, has excited con¬ 
siderable attention because of the Important edu¬ 
cational principle Involved. Mr. Uallett, who ex¬ 
pressly Instructed. Uls counsel not to press for 
damages, but simply to get a decision on tbe 
question of law, claimed that be had a right to 
say whether hts son should, or should not, be In¬ 
structed In certain studies, provided they are not 
Included lu the statutory list. 
in his charge w the Jury Justice Pratt took the 
ground that, the parent, knowing the tempera¬ 
ment and capacity of the child, had the undoubt¬ 
ed right to prescribe what he should and what he 
should not study, ro long as he did not interfere 
with the siat.ul.ory list. Hence, when the princi¬ 
pal, with tho approval of the Board ot Education, 
expelled young Uallett, he exceeded Lis author¬ 
ity. Still, both the Board and the principal acted 
In good taith, supposing that they were author¬ 
ized to carry out what was thought to be a bene¬ 
ficial rule. 
The charge continues:— “I am constrained to 
hold the law to be that., where there Is an Irrecon¬ 
cilable difference of opinion between the teacher 
—or the Board of Trustees—and the parent, In re¬ 
gal'd to u study which ls uot Included among those 
that the trustees are empowered to prescribe, the 
will of the parent must control. 1 think that the 
law has uot taken away the natural right of the 
parent to control the education ot the child In that 
regard. When the teacher or the trustees under¬ 
take to say that a child shall pursue a particular 
st udy which Is not Included in the statutory list 
of studies, I think they exceed their authority. 
And when that is made the basts ot an attempt 
to deprive tho child of Its right to attend school 
and enjoy the benefits whtch arise from tbe lay¬ 
ing of a common burden upon the community, I 
hold that they are liable—technically liable—for 
the act.” 
The jury awarded nominal damages to Mr. Ilal- 
lett, This was considered a test ease, and the 
rulings 01 Justice Pratt are sustained by decisions 
In other States. 
