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A FRIGHTFUL TORNADO. 
Mt. carmkl, Illinois, was visited on dune 4, by 
one of the most terrible storms ever experienced 
In the United States. The Court House, three 
churches, two newspaper odices, 80 business 
houses, and nearly ioo residences were destroyed 
or damaged, Involving a lossot about fsoo.ooo. To 
add t« the Horrors or the event, a lire broke out 
and raged for six hours among the ruins. By far 
the most serious feature of thocatastrophe, how¬ 
ever, was the killing and injuring of a great num¬ 
ber of persons. Seventy-two dead bodies have 
been found thus far, und some Dtty persons be¬ 
sides wore more or less injured. The storm was 
or the kind known as cyclone or whirlwind, and 
la not uncommon in the West. Its duration did 
not exceed two minutes, and In that, brief period, 
doors, windows, lumber, rails, furniture, clothing, 
roofs, steeples, etc., were whirled Into the air and 
scattered over the town and country. Mon, wo¬ 
men and children wore lifted up and carried long 
distances, as If they were feathers. Some TO fam¬ 
ilies arc homeless, and much distress is feared. 
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FIRES. 
The number of destructive llres already chron¬ 
icled this spring, has been extraordinarily large, 
and still they go on without interruption. The 
forest flics In Michigan have destroyed tho town 
of Onota, rendering ion people homeless.—A 
large oil-tank near Mllleistown, Pa., was struck 
by lightning, AUd 82,000 barrels of oil were lost, 
together with a number of derricks, -The burn¬ 
ing of a hat factory at Bridgeport, Conn , caused 
t he death of n persons,who were crushed by a fall 
lng wall. The loss was $850,000,—in Galveston, 
Texas, 26 business houses were burned, causing 
a loss of about $8,000,000.—These are a few of 
the largest fires. 
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THE WEATHER. 
During the week ending .Tunc fl, rains have 
been quite prevalent throughout the country, and 
many violent storms have occurred, doing great 
damage. There Is some complaint of drought In 
the extreme Soul h, or cotton belt, on the whole, 
crop prOSpecta arc good, and with average weath¬ 
er during the remainder of the season, t he usual 
surplus may he expected In the various States. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Texas taxes circuses $300 ror each performance. 
The scent of Mobile magnolias floats thirty 
miles out to sea. 
Raising frogs for tho table Is a Virginia City, 
Ncv„ experiment. 
Michigan has an unlucky landlord who has been 
.burned out of five hotels. 
The Boston Committee has raised about. $150,000 
for the preservation of the Old South Church, and [ 
wants more. 
Millions of English herrings have suddenly ap¬ 
peared in Thames ltivcr, Connecticut. 
Thursday, June 14, will be the one hundredth 
anniversary of the adoption or the Suu-s and 
Stripes as a national ensign. 
Tho Inhabitants of Mineral City, Col., look down 
upon the rest, of the habitable globe. They are 
18,000 feet, above sea level. 
The New York street cars carry 165,000,000 pas¬ 
sengers a year. 
A sail boat,, twenty-two feet long by eight, 
wide, brought a minister, Ills wife, six children 
and considerable live stock from Samann, San 
Domingo, w Jacksonville, Fla., the other day. 
The Houston Age offers a year’s subscription to 
any member of the last, legislature who will an¬ 
swer this conundrum correctly: “How many 
counties are there In Texas?” 
Cuban vessels are In the habit, of depositing 
ballast taken from a hospital mound In Havana, 
on the Georgia coast near Darien, Brunswick, and 
.Savannah. Yellow' fever Is believed to have re¬ 
sulted annually from this practice. 
Jotham Wilson, M fty yea rs cud, was fatally gored 
by an Infuriated bull on his farm. In the town of 
Walklll, N. Y. The same hull attacked a farm 
hand, bruising him badly. 
John l). Edmondson of Lagrange, Ga., gives an 
annual dinner to all of his fellow one-armed con¬ 
federates. 
The emigration to tills country from Russia last 
year amounted to 5.959 Individuals—nearly 3,000 
more than the previous year. 
Tho “ big tree," which grew In Calaveras Co., 
Cal., contained 500,000 feet of Inch lumber, and 
was felled by live men working twenty-two and 
one-half days, making na days' labor. 
A large, bald eagle attacked a little boy belong¬ 
ing to a party going from EUenvUle to Vcrkoedee 
Falls, near Sams Point, Y. The screams of the 
child brought the remainder or the party to ills 
rescue, and the bird flew away. 
Poestenklll, N. Y., farmers arc puylng $3 an 
acre to demolish the potato bug. 
A Brahma hen’s egg was hatched In Hoboken, 
N. ,1., and the chick was found to have tour legs 
and four wings. It died soon after. 
A tramp In Norwich, Conn., asked for breakfast,, 
and having received and nuien It, he was request¬ 
ed to cut tho grass lu tho front yard, lie at, once 
cheerfully went to work, and labored for throe 
hours In the hot sun. The neighbors gave him a 
good dinner, 25 cents In cash, and a tolerable pair 
of pantaloons. 
Two men work six months on each of the mar¬ 
ble window caps for the St. Louts Post-office. A 
finished cap wcLghs four tons, and costs $l,7to. 
Farmers In the rural dlstrlctsof New York make 
complaint that, the tramps steal the hats and coats 
oft the scarecrows they place m their tiekis. 
Monday, June 4, was the one hundredth anni¬ 
versary of the meeting of the convention at Wind¬ 
sor which gave to the state or Vermont its pres¬ 
ent. name. 
A King snake, the deadliest reptile In that re¬ 
gion, was sent, from San Diego to Corpus Chrlstt, 
Texas, to be mailed abroad. Alligators are some¬ 
times forwarded, through the Post-office, but the 
Corpus cbristi postmaster decided venomous ser¬ 
pents not to be mailable. 
A drunken man near Grassy Point, N. Y., was 
resting his head on a fence, when his arms slip¬ 
ped from under his head, and, falling, his neck 
was caught between two plekets, and lie was 
choked to death. 
Not long ago t here were ISO ships in the harbor 
of Pensacola, Fla., at one time, or nearly all na¬ 
tionalities, for lumber and timber. The harbor Is 
excellent, and the city Is thriving. 
According to old lishermen, tlds Is the best year 
for cod-fishing since isse. 
A man In Albany, N. Y., advertised that he 
would loan money in sums of $8,000 on good mort¬ 
gages, to be secured by real estate, requiring 
from $6 to $2(i to cover the expenses of search. 
He thus secured about a thousand dollars, and 
then decamped. 
Petrified sea-turtles and cocoanuts have been 
found in earth mounds In Southern Colorado. 
These mounds form a vast range, und are fifteen 
miles from the foot or the Rocky Mountains: 
one Is four miles In circumference at the base, 
and has a thrifty growth or trees. Petrified and 
agatlzcd wood Is beneath the surface. 
Fletcher Harper, tho last of the four brothers 
comprising the great aud well-known publishing 
house, died on May 29. 
A grove of the great trees of the Yosemlte Is of 
an altitude similar to that or the other grOVea, 
6,ooo teet,. It Is a slx-mllo-square collection of 
ten thousand. There are t rees In It estimated to 
be from 100 to 4,ooo years old. 
The streets in front of employment, offices In 
San Francisco are so obstructed with men seeking 
work that business firms lately petitioned the 
Chief of Police to keep a passage clear. 
in an election for School Trustees In Denver, 
Col., votes were cast by 283 women. 
George A. ltlaney of Woburn, Mass., annually 
refuses to pay his taxes, Is locked up In Jail, pays 
the tax under protest, and Is t hen allowed to go 
free. 
A boy In Salem, Mass., died last week from 
lockjaw resulting Gum the filling of a tooth. 
The Vermont laws give the authorities power 
to close all drinking places during any general 
muster, and the authority Is to be exercised. 
Gas generated by ben/Um sprinkled on a carpet 
to protect. It from moths, caused a violent explo¬ 
sion, killing t wo women who were In an apart¬ 
ment, in Wilmington, Del. 
Just before being hung lu Missouri. Sam Orr 
made the announcement t hat lie took the first, 
prize at a baby show In Philadelphia thirty years 
ago. 
A bouquet of three hundred and fifty flowers, 
each of a different kind, was recently exhibited 
at a Georgia fair. 
A man In Weston, Mo., fired in the dark at a 
man who was stealing ids corn, and the next, day 
the County Sheriff was around with his arm in a 
sling. 
A column of masonry in Kansas marks the geo* 
graphical center of the United States. 
Georgia reports a rattlesnake, killed In Dade 
eouuty, nine feet long and having thirty-six 
rattles. 
A couple applied to a clergyman In Quincy, Ill., 
to be married, got him to take $3 out ot a counter¬ 
feit. $20 bill for his fee, aud then departed. The 
bride removed her dress in an alley and came 
forth a young man. 
The following Is the number of young fish dis¬ 
tributed this spring In tho lakes, rivers and 
streams or New York, from the Slate hatchery at, 
Caledonia, Livingston CountyWhltefisb, 9S0,- 
000: salmon trout, 1,961,000; brook trout, oso.ooo. 
A rich discovery was made on the lower level of 
the shaft of the Findley gold mine near Dahlone- 
ga, Ga. It Is a well-defined regular vein, shows 
an astonishing yield of gold, and It Is said will 
assay $3,uoo per ton. 
At Lansing, Minn., two colts reared and fell 
backward upon the teeth ot a harrow which had 
been overturned on their heels by accident.. 
The new game law of this State makes it tho 
duty of all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables 
and policemen to arrest any persons who violate 
any of the provisions of the act, and take them 
before a magistrate, whose dnr.y tt Is to inflict 
punishment, either by tine or Imprisonment, or 
both. Any officer mentioned In this act Is liable 
to a fine for not performing his duty. 
Whole trenches of bones have been discovered 
on the plantation of Sheriff Black, at Middle 
Sound, S. C. Some of the skulls arc In a line state 
of preservation. 
An irrigating ditch five mlieslong, costing $ 4 , 200 , 
has Just been finished by an Italian rancher near 
Sutro, Nevada. 
Gen. Miles met and defeated a band ot hostile 
Indians In the Yellowstone country, on May?. 
Fourteen dead were counted on the field, and a 
number of others were killed and wounded. Four 
hundred and fifty ponies and five hundred and 
ton lodges, with their contents, were captured. 
Four soldiers were killed and several wounded. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
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An envoy from Kashgar, on a special mission to 
England, has arrived In London. 
The walls of the fortifications surrounding Que¬ 
bec are reported to be falling Into a dilapidated 
state for the want or repairs. The gun platforms 
are decomposing and tho guns dismounted. 
Reports from the Upper Ottawa, Canada, state 
that 12 rafts have stuck In its tributaries, throw¬ 
ing 600 men out of employment. 
A decree has been Issued which orders the 
Basque Provinces of Spain to provide- 20,000 con¬ 
scripts this year. 
Advices from Germany report the adoption by 
that Empire of a law governing patents—the first 
upon that subject. 
Some amiable Individuals In Eogland have sub¬ 
scribed for the shipment of 2,000 plum puddings 
to the nearest attainable section of the Turkish 
army. 
The Swedish polar expedition sailed on May 8 
to explore the regions between Nova Eembla ftnd 
Behring’s Straits. Mr. Nordenskleld Is at Its head. 
A Scotch paper mentions that, a bottle of whis¬ 
key, 132 years old, was sold at Edinburgh for £ 40 , 
The Grand Bourbon, the finest, tree In the or¬ 
angery of Versailles, has departed t his Jttc at the 
advanced age ot 445 years. 
King Victor Emanuel has written to the Tope, 
congratulating him on the anniversary of hts ele¬ 
vation to the episcopate. 
In consequence of President MaeMahon’s recent 
action, Italian Republicans had a great demon¬ 
stration at the Apollo Theater on the 31st, ult.., 
and declared that, Heme can never again become 
the Rome of the Popes. 
1 At a recent convention of Hindoos held at Ben¬ 
ares, India, after a thrilling speech by Knloo Sur- 
agee on the drunkenness and moral degradation 
of people lu Australia and other English colonies 
which he had visited, o,uoo rupees were subscribed 
to send Brahmin missionaries to those places, and 
suragee will translate portions of the Vedas for 
their use. 
An English company with large capital Is now 
organizing for tho purpose or shipping beef and 
mutton direct rrora Norfolk. Va. 
Druldlsm Is not, quite extinct, In Brittany, 
France, where some of t.he people still adhere to 
pagan practices. Tlds causes the clergy to desire 
to dostroy druldical remains, and a petition has 
been made to the Government against such icon- 
oelasm. 
A Russian commissariat, officer at, Odessa was 
detected adult crating flour, about to be sent to 
the army, with lime and other substances. He 
was immediately tried, and shot within twenty- 
four hours after the discovery took place. 
The fiftieth anniversary or the Pope’s accession 
to his present office was celebrated In Rome on 
June 3d. Many pilgrims were present and $ 1 ,- 
250.000, besides numerous valuable girts, were de¬ 
posited In the Vatican. 
Artificial flowers called barometers, la rails, 
are colored with a material composed of chloride 
of cobalt. When exposed to sun and dry air the 
leaves become deep blue; when the air Is moist 
they turn pinky. 
The £20 Emma Mine shares have been sold In 
London at Is. each. 
The tigress in the Berlin gardens refused to 
take care of her cubs. A Newfoundland bitch 
adopted und nurses them. 
Mr. Walters, proprietor of the London Times, 
urges men to drink the lighter malt liquors In¬ 
stead of more intoxicating fluids. He said that 
tho lager beer made In the United states might 
be drank freely without any Injurious effect. 
The Japanese Government desires to get Into 
Its servleo some scholar versed In International 
law. The magnificent salary has been so far de¬ 
clined. 
There are four Jews In the Turkish Parliament. 
A bridge across the river Avon, near Bath, Eng¬ 
land, gave way, and about 200 persons, mostly 
belonging to the farmer class, who were going to 
an agricultural show in the tow n, wore precipita¬ 
ted 30 feet In to the river below. Twen y persons lo t 
their lives and over r>o were injured. The bridge 
w'as a narrow, wooden affair of light construction, 
30 feet long, and without support at the middle. 
Queen Victoria has completed her fifty-eighth 
year. Duly twelve other of the thirty-eight reign¬ 
ing sovereigns of Christendom have attained to 
this age. The oldest of all is the Pope, who Is 
eighty-flve; Emperor William is eighty ; the Czar I 
Is fifty-nine; Victor Emmanuel la tlity-seven; | 
Emperor Francis Joseph Is nearly forty-seven 
The youngest of the sovereigns is Alphonso of 
Spain. 
.T. I.. Motley, the historian, and U. S. Minister 
to England during Grant’s first term, died in En- 
land on May 29 , 
The ex-King of Naples lunched with Queen 
Victoria lately. 
A Liberal British Peer asked Queen victoria if 
she was not afraid to trust “ a gouty Premier like 
Lord Beaconsfield.” “No,” answered llor Majes¬ 
ty ; “gout Is not a disease of the Intellect.” 
EVERYWHERE. 
Howard I.nke, .Hi 11 it., June 4.—So much has 
been said of hoppers that, my pen almost detests 
writing the word, hut, they are upon us, and wc 
may rh well adapt ourselves to the peculiar cir¬ 
cumstances around 113 . 1 sometimes think one 
cannot, get truth nbout the ruthless hopper, If he 
should read all tho papers, unless ho walks out 
among them, and sees ror himself. Notwithstand¬ 
ing all the noble efforts on the part of the State, 
in furnishing material for their destruction, and 
the persistent efforts of the men and other mem¬ 
bers of our families, who are trying to slay them 
ns fast os possible, they are Mill hatching. Yet 
there Is hope while the men keep courage, as we 
learn there are one hundred barrels of tar de¬ 
signed for this place, Ifhalf of the crops can bo 
saved, the people can live. Unfortunately the 
hopper Is not, the only pest which threatens to 
destroy this budding and blossoming country. 
Worms of different kinds, size and color, were 
never so thick on fruit and forest trees, as at 
present in the •• Itlg Woods." Then the potato 
beetles, which we fell sure, from reports, had all 
gone East, were never so thick as early tn the 
season as now. ono friend said, “ They were 
standing around, walling for potatoes to come up, 
long before they made their appearance.” Bees 
are doing very well, as the hoppers have not dis¬ 
turbed the wild flowers ns yet, and they are very 
abundant. The linden blossoms failed last sea¬ 
son, by reason of worms, which may yet ho the 
case this season for some distance along the line 
of this railroad (St. Paul and Pacific).— m. 
Jainoabiiru, N. J., .lime 3.—Tell Prof. Rilky 
that for Middlesex Co., N. J., his chronology is 
correct, ror the merry song or the locust (l'-year) 
Is heard In the land. In the forests around me 
they are “all thick as hops,” aud carriages in 
passing are subject to much annoyance. They 
have done no injury yet, remaining In the woods 
almost entirely. My attention was nrst called to 
them by my efforts to ascertain who was mowing 
among my neighbors so early. On rurther inves¬ 
tigation. 1 discovered that what I supposed to be 
the Joyous clicklDgot the harvester, was but the 
Introductory chorus of the Rip Van Winkles with 
whom we acknowledged acquaintance seventeen 
years ago. And flow the concert swells in fullest 
measure, and the notes produce the Illusion of a 
genuine harvest with mowers In every field, 
t hough In reality the sound comes only rrom the 
forests, where the locusts sit upon the trees and 
bushes so thick as to give them sometimes ablaek 
appearance.— m. o. 
Uamlolidi, Or 11 him- Go,, Vl., ]>luy 27,-Wfl 
have had a dry, cold mout h so far. Grass Is back¬ 
ward, but looks pretty fair In color, and only 
needs plenty of wet weather and sunshine to 
bring It ahead. Planting ts all done. Oats look 
tolerably well, corn Is up, but looks pale. The 
potato bug Is coming here; they say It has al¬ 
ready appeared in the valleys. Market prices for 
produce are very low ; cannot see that, the foreign 
war Is doing much for farmers as yet. Help Is 
plenty and cheap. All business Is dull. The 
highways are In splendid condition this year. 
There was no washing out or roads or overflowing 
of sewers, when the snow went, off; consequently 
no damage ensued.— Mrs. B. 11. Rowki.l, 
Nun’*, I’riinkliu County, Vn,, June 4.—The 
weather has been very dry for the last three 
weeks. It was very wet for several weeks pre¬ 
vious. Wheat Is looking very well—will probably 
be an average crop. Corn generally Is a poor 
stand, and Is not growing much. The prospect 
for a good crop of liay Is pretty fair. Apples will 
be scarce. Peaches are more plentiful than for 
several years. Small fruits arc plentiful. Vege¬ 
tables are not growing much, and will he scarce 
for some time yet. Stock of all kinds are doing 
very welL Success to the Rural !— J. W. Naff. 
IHillvicvv, Fla., Tiny 31.—The season, thus 
far, Is excecdlagly pleasant, cool and delightful 
with a few hot days. Vegetation Is at Its usual 
stage at this date. New potatoes, grown In the 
neighborhood, are sold In the markets. Corn la 
about shoulder blgh. Very little farming Is doing 
here. TUe making of lumber Is the business of 
the people. 1 saw a large tresh cabbage head 
sold the other day for 75c. The usual price lor 
small ones is 250 . Good openings here for milk 
trade, garden trucking etc.—w. b. a. 
Ridgewood, N. J., June O.— At last t.he long 
and severe drought Is broken, and w r e have had 
two days or rainy weather—no heavy showers, 
but a mild, gentle rain, all the water falling being 
absorbed by ihe soil upon which It fell. This 
will do newly planted trees much good,also sprlng- 
sown grain and garden plants, and help to extend 
and Improve the fruit crop, especially berries, the 
earliest of which are now ripening.— f. a. 
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