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THE WEATHER. 
New York City and vicinity have been favored 
with copious rains during the week endlug June. 
16. Very heavy rains, causing great damage to 
railroads, crops, and other properly, have lallen 
In the West and Southwest. The Mississippi 
River has been higher than before for thirl y-three 
yeans. Towns are submerged and In danger of 
being destroyed, and the settlers In the bottoms 
are moving to the bluffs, taking what property 
they can with them. In California Intense heat 
has prevailed throughout the state, the thermom¬ 
eter ranging at various points frotu »6 to 115* lu 
the shade, bocal swi ms or great violence con¬ 
tinue with unusual lroqueney. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
A Newport laundry uses live and a half tons of 
soap every year. 
Shad fishermen caught In a seine, In the Housa- 
tonlc River, a salmon that weighed eleven and a 
half pounds. 
The failures of the last year In the United States 
have been far fewer and smaller In amount than 
In England or Canada. 
The Railway Age says that 395 American loco- 
motIves, worth $5,490,6-10, have been exported In 
seven years, and that the reputation of American 
engines Is bteadlly Increasing. 
Bears are reported numerous in Trabulo canon, 
Los Angeles County, Cal., and have killed a large 
number of cattle. 
A Boston Importer bought two cargoes of sugar, 
amounting to '>,152,000 pounds, some throe weeks 
ago, and sold It soon afterward at an advuncc or 
about one cent a pound. Ills profits were upward 
of $51,000. 
A cigar-maker In Lancaster, Pa., worked 90 
hours without rest or sleep, lie claims that lie 
can work thus uninterruptedly for ion hours. 
Girard college has educated 1,800 boys and ex¬ 
pended $2,500,000 In the work. 
Colorado has a Methodist church without a sin¬ 
gle male member. The women do all the busi¬ 
ness, and it Is observed that Lhere IS. a balance In 
the treasury. 
A new Industry has appeared In Boston, which 
Is no less than an agency for the sale ol orders, 
titles, and perquisites of European .nobility. The 
accredited envoy Is Dr. T. Seton Robinson, who 
offers a hereditary earldom fort-in,mu, decorations 
for $200 to $ 10 , 000 , and membership in European 
literary and sclenlirie societies lor $25u. 
An Invention has been patented which may 
produce almost as remarkable an effect as the 
cotton gin. It Is a wagon-llke maeiuno, called the 
“ Picker,” and when driven through me ripened 
llelds, picks clean every scrap ol cotton and saves 
the labor of loo hands. 
Au undertaker lh San Francisco has discovered 
a process of preserving the bodies of deceased 
persons, by washing them with a chemical solu¬ 
tion and inclosing them In a casket containing 
antiseptic chemicals under a raise bottom. 
Quito a quantity of Indian skeletons and relics 
have been exhumed from an old burial mound on 
the Lawrence farm, a short, distance west of Sene¬ 
ca Falls, N. Y. 
Two large bridges over the Connecticut. River, 
near Northampton, Mass., one covered and the 
other in course of construction, were demolished 
by a gale of wind. A number of persons and 
teams had taken refuge on the covered bridge, 
and were carried down with it, a man and woman 
being killed. 
Tho Inner channel-ways of the harbor of Nor¬ 
folk, Va., which Is one of the llncstiu the world, 
are gradually fllllug up. 
The Dartmouth .seniors will graduate ilfty-four 
In number. The most extravagant has spent 
$2,090 during .me course; the most frugal, $u75. 
The most thrifty has earned $ 2,000 during the 
same time; all together have earned $19,97", and 
two have more than covered expenses. 
A whirlwind In Battle Mountain, Nev., on Tues¬ 
day, the 29(U ult., raised Judge Scott's hall from 
the ground and earned It a distance of two feet, 
while not a breath of wlud touched any other 
house In tho town. 
Whlte-lLsh and trout are taken in such quanti¬ 
ties In Georgian Bay, Lake untarlo, that, the mar¬ 
kets of Canada and Rochester are glutted. 
Alfred Rockefeller, a farmer of Columbia Co., 
N. Y., discovered, a few days ago, a number oi 
strange insects upon the potato vines In bis gar¬ 
den. Each of them was busily devouring u po¬ 
tato bug, ana it was only by using some degree 
of rorce that It could be separated from Its victim. 
Mr. Rockefeller secured four for purposes of ex¬ 
amination, and describes them as being about ■ 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JUNE 23 
one Inch In length, In color black, having six legs 
armed with powerful claws, and a fan-shaped 
tall. He says they fasten upon their victims Im¬ 
mediately under the wing, and do not leave them 
until they are dead. 
A monument is to be erected on the site of John 
A. Sutler's mill at Colomn, Cal., In honor of Mar¬ 
shall, tlic discoverer of gold. 
A Polish exile now in Washington writes to a 
friend in Augusta, Ga., that £92 families In Rus¬ 
sian Poland, with an average of $ 1,000 to the fam¬ 
ily. are desirous of emigrating to the Fulled States 
to engage in agricultural labor. 
A few days ago a body of Texas State Rangers 
captured a party of live In tho act of running off 
valuable stock, and taking them to a creek, made 
them waHh, when they all proved to be white 
men. 
A gang of fishermen have been arrested for 
drawing seines In Niagara River. 
Judge Dillon of the United States Circuit Court 
has decided that the east half of the Union Pacllic 
bridge Is subject to taxation by the Council Bluffs, 
rowa, authorities, on the same basis as for lndl 
vldual property. The taxas amount to over $12,- 
ooo annually. 
A rich discovery of gold was made In the lower 
level of the shaft ol the Findley mine near Dah- 
lonega, Ga., the other day. Jt is a well-defined, 
regular vein, and la said will assay fa.ooo per ton. 
A real Chinaman was Introduced In a farce In a 
San Francisco theater. Ho was very successful 
In his portrayal of bis own lunuy peculiarities, 
and his •* pigeon English” especially made a Jilt. 
A white rubber rattle, In the making of which 
arsenic is said to have been used, fatally poisoned 
an Infant child Iti Royalston, Mass. 
The demand for Government land at Vancouver 
is greater than ever before, and the productive 
valleys and hillsides of Clarke county are being 
rapidly settled by a trugul and Industrious class 
of Immigrants, mostly Germans and Norwegians. 
A lynx was recently shot In the mountains, 
only five miles from Glens Falls, N. Y. 
The tramps have become tired of pedestrian ex¬ 
ercise, and taken to capturing railroad trains. 
The population of the Indian Territory Ls about 
77,000. The wild Indlansby blood, called •* blank¬ 
et” Indians, who do not cultivate the soil, arc the 
usages, cnoyennes, arrapanoes, Kiow’asand Paw¬ 
nees, and number 20 ,(Xm. Those mixed with the 
whites and partly civilized are the < herokees, 
Creeks, Scmlnoles, Choctaws and Clxlckasaws. A 
wldte man marrying a squaw becomes " a white 
1 udlan,” and a white woman marrying an Itullun 
becomes a “ white squaw.” There are also a lot 
of “black negroes," who are Indians. Altogether 
those number 66,000. Besides those there arc 
c,500 “ negro citizens of the t nltod States,” form¬ 
erly slaves of the Chlekasaws. They do not rank 
as Indians, while a “black Indian”does. 
Squads of ramps got Into a drunken quarrel 
with one another near Falrvlew, Pa., and two 
were killed. 
one McGuire was killed in West Hartford, conn., 
by a hired man In the employ of a widow by the 
name Of Blsascll, while assaulting her house. Mc¬ 
Guire was discharged by her a short time before. 
The canker-worms have now attacked the elms 
and t he apple trees In Cambridge, Mass., and lu 
many other parts of New England. 
The boys or the Agricultural college at Amherst 
will plant, a tree on commencement Day—the 
only planting most of them expect ever to take 
part Ju, though some of them are suspected of 
sowing wild oats in a quiet way. 
The celebrated Casa Gruuda ruin, Arizona Ter¬ 
ritory, was discovered by the Spaniards about the 
year 1080. It was then the remains of a colossal 
structure, with eight stories of the main building 
in a good state of preservation. It has now melted 
by the friction of time and rain to four stories. Its 
walls are from eight to ten feet lu thickness. 
Many or the far western towns of Illinois are 
overrun with burglars. 
A bouquet of 350 flowers, each of a different 
kind, was exhibited at a Georgia fair. 
A five-year-old Boston lad stopped In the middle 
of the Lord's P ray or one night recently, and re¬ 
marked confidentially to his mother, *• Billy 
Brown Is the boss short stop," and then resumed 
his devotions, 
At Wheatland, Cal., there are about 35 fl acres lu 
early potatoes, the estimated yield of which is 
live tons to the acre. This gives (with flltocn 
sacks to the ton) 26,250 sacks as the total product 
In that section. 
A Georgia man named Thomas Henry Is about, 
attempting the feat of exploring an unknown 
cave bait way down the side of a precipice on 
stone Mountain. To do this he will have to be 
lowered from the top by a rope 2,100 feet long. 
A St. Loul 3 authority says that a Texau will 
wear out throe pair of boots in the time taken tc 
wear out one pony, and so he rides and saves a 
dollar besides. 
The first Court and Grand Jury In the Black 
Hills met June 5, Granville G. Bennett presiding 
Forty-two attorneys were admitted to practice.' 
The charge of the court was particularly severe 
against gambling, illegal liquor traffic and prosti¬ 
tution. 
Picnic parties at Virginia City, Nev., climb to 
the top or a mountain 8,000 feet above the sea 
level. 
Texas beef is sold for fourteen cents a pound In. 
London and tor fifteen cents In Galveston, Texas- 
A stamp - mill at Central City, Black mils 
cleaned up 350 ounces of gold, value $7,100, from 57 
tons of ore, from the Falrvlew mine. 
A Chicago man has invented an Instrument he 
calls a “ poison sucker," by means of which he 
extracts the virus from wouous made by mad 
dogs and other venomous beasts. 
The quack doctors of New Hampshire, including 
all sorts of Irregular practitioners, are preparing 
a petition to the Legislature to remove all restric¬ 
tions from the practice of medicine. 
it. has been round necessary to cover the chairs 
of Govs. Carver and Winslow and the cradle of 
Peregrine White Hi Plymouth, Mass., with glass 
eases to save them from relic whlttlers. 
An Indiana farmer who posted a notice reading, 
“ No hunting on this farm,” was surprised to find 
It read, on a second inspection, “ No. l hunting 
on this farm.” 
A Providence man kept a memorandum to show 
just,how many men whom he should have deal¬ 
ings with would do just as they agreed. Thus far 
only four out of 023 havo the right kind or a mark 
against them. 
A San Francisco firm has contracted to pay 
forty cents apiece for the unlicensed dogs slaugh¬ 
tered In that city. The skins arc to be tanned for 
glove making, the hair will be used In plaster, the 
bones ground for clarifying sugar, and the fat 
manufactured Into oil. 
A gentleman of Brooklyn, N. Y., suffering from 
weakness of sight,, used spectacles of blue glass. 
The result was that, his eyes were exposed to a 
terrible glare and heat, and he Is now totally 
blind. 
Not a single tirst-class restaurant of any cele¬ 
brity In New York Is kept, by a Frenchman. 
Nearly all are In the hands of Swiss or Germans. 
The highest laud in Connecticut is Mount Brace, 
In the extreme northwestern corner, which la 
2,30(1 led high. Next cornu Bear Mountain, 2,250. 
Buck Mountain, 2,160, and Bald Peak, 1,996, all In 
Salisbury. 
Over 3(>,ooo barrels of lager were sold In Albany, 
N. Y., during tlie year ending May l, 1877. 
Coal mines In Amador Co., Cal., are worked by 
ft Class of Chinamen from the Interior of China, 
who speak a dialect that the rest of their country¬ 
men in California cannot understand, accept $10 a 
month wages and board themselves. 
lu a Maine broach of promise suit the counsel 
for the plaintiff seeks to Introduce proof that the 
defendant sent, flowers to her, using their recog¬ 
nized significance to express ids sentiments. 
Thus, according to her theory, with one flower 
he told her that he loved her, with another that 
he was jealous, and with another that he desired 
to marry her. She says that, they both under¬ 
stood this lloral correspondence; but the Judge 
has not decided whether It Is admissible as evi¬ 
dence. 
Twenty tins of opium were smuggled ashore In 
San Francisco two weeks ago in a lot of dirty 
linen by the cabin boy. Twenty tins more were 
found lu a secret drawer In the captain’s state¬ 
room. The bark, Mary Belle Roberts, was libeled. 
A Sonoma, Cal., man has raised five cork trees, 
which are now twenty live to thirty feet in bight 
and from ten to twelve inches In diameter in the 
trunk. One coat of cork, 1 Inch thick, has been 
stripped off. Tlie tree resembles the live oak in 
foliage. The seeds were brought from Spain 
twenty years ago. 
Virginians claim that since the whlpplng-post 
was re-established, most of the Jails have been 
emptied, petty crimes have almost, ceased, and 
vagrants are seen no more lu the streets. 
A marble statue of Dctllah, by Mr. W. W. Story, 
is now on exhibition in Cincinnati, it. represents 
her Just after sho had taken the money for be¬ 
traying Samson. It belongs to Mr. shlllaber, who 
paid the artist $ui,ouO for it. 
A natural bridge near Pomona, ill., is of pure 
sandstone, loo feet In length on top, and 76 feet 
iroin one abutment to the other. It Is eo feet 
high, and s ruet broad on the top. The average 
thickness Is 9 feet, and a team crossed It In per¬ 
fect safety. 
A farm hand makes $75 a month shooting wild 
geese that try to eat the wheat from a California 
farm. He has shot 7,000 geese. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
There Is a rage for walking canes in Paris. 
Some dandles have as many as twenty. 
The latest Investigator gives Jerusalem 8,ooo 
Christians, la.ooo Jews, and 15,oi)0 Mohammedans. 
Bishop Macklnnon took lately from Nova Scotia 
to Romo proofs of 1,000 conversions to Roman 
Catholicism. 
A wealthy Dubliner of Fenian proclivities 
made a will, In which he bequeathed to Cardinal 
Cullen for the Church $ 250 , 000 ; but when Ills 
Grace refused to permit the body of Col. O’Mahony 
to lie Id state In any church In the city, the tes¬ 
tator cancelled the will and disposed of his prop¬ 
erty otherwise. 
The Geographical Society of London has award¬ 
ed its large gold medal to a Hindoo pundit, who 
has made very valuable explorations In Thibet. 
Forty Journals are published In Germany de¬ 
voted to Socialism. 
An express train In Russia, carrying 6 , 000,000 of 
roubles, lias altogether disappeared, without 
leaving thp slightest traces affording a clue as to 
what has become of It. 
Tlie Russian royal family are reported to have 
put 200 . 000,000 roubles at tho disposal of the Min¬ 
ister of War. 
The earthquake of Peru sent nitrate of sliver up 
thirty shillings a ton and some other things a 
good deal higher. 
In Madras, India, there are scarcely any leeches 
to be had, the tanks from which they are gener¬ 
ally obtained having all run dry. 
A church In Berlin made of paper is octagonal 
without, and circular within. The material Is 
made waterproof by saturating It with vitriol, 
lime water, whey, and the white of eggs. The 
building has fine relief work on the outside, and 
papier-mache statues adorn the Interior. 
The Liverpool banker, Mr. T. P. Hoy wood, who 
died recently leaving an estate of $ 12 , 800 , 000 , be¬ 
queathed $5,000,000 to his nephew, Arthur Lons¬ 
dale, besides making him his residuary legatee. 
This is said to be the largest legacy ever left to a 
nephew. Mr. Iley wood bad no children. 
The second part of Luther’s Old Testament 
translated in the Reformer’s own handwriting, 
dating as far back as 1523, has been discovered by 
the director of the Ducal Archives at Eeriest, 
(Anhalt). 
Tho equality In point of numbers of the sexes is 
most nearly attained in France. For every 1,000 
men there are 1,007 women. The other extreme 
Is found in Paraguay, where there are 2,089 wo¬ 
men lor l ,000 men. 
Newfoundland’s sealing voyage this year has 
been uncommonly prosperous. Vessels of the 
Jleet havo already returned with full cargoes, the 
cargo of one of them being 27,000 furs. Her voy¬ 
age lasted only Ilfteen days. All of the vessels 
were propelled by steam, steamers having been 
found more profitable than sailing vessels Only 
half as many men as were formerly employed are 
now needed on the fleet. 
There arc now two field marshals In the British 
army, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cam¬ 
bridge, comrnander-ln Chief. 
in Australia, cattle are fur in excess of the de¬ 
mand, and will not sell for more than can be real¬ 
ized from their hides, tallow, horns, etc,, (or ex¬ 
portation. The flesh Is ulmost valueless. An 
immense establishment, has been started there 
for boiling the meat Into condensed soup or ex¬ 
tract. The meat, cut into large chunks, is in¬ 
closed In an enormous, right, cylinder, capable of 
holding fifty bullocks at. a time, and steamed for 
seven hours. The fallow is then skimmed off, 
and the meat, mere pulp, Is further solidified and 
Citified for exportation. A bullock makes about 
twenty pounds of extract, as to the nutritious 
quality ut which there is a wide difference of 
opinion. , 
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EVERYWHERE. 
Harborion, N. .f., June 7.— After a protracted 
drought, we are having two days of rainy weath¬ 
er, which Is very gratifying to the fanners lu this 
part of the country. The prospect now Is that 
we shall have fair crops of buy and oats, which 
were kept back very much by dry weather. 
Wheat was pretty badly scalded when the last 
suow went off in March, but It Is growing finely 
now. Corn stands very badly. In some fields It 
did not, germinate, on account of the weather be¬ 
ing so dry, and In others the. web-worm has de¬ 
stroyed it so that It w as necessary to 1 arrow and 
replant entire areas. There are considerable 
trouble and loss among the horses from what Is 
called putrid sore throat (Spinal meningHis). 
There Is also another disease among them, some¬ 
thing like tlie old-fasldoned distemper, which Is 
troublesome, but not ratal. The fruit crop will be 
light with all kinds, except peaches, which will 
be more plentiful than other kinds.— David J. 
Blackwki.l. 
Belmont, Nev., June <{.—We have had a very 
backward cold spring—frosts almost every night 
until the past week; now crops are growing fine¬ 
ly. Potatoes coming forward rapidly, and unless 
there are later frosts to cut the vines, a fair yield 
will be secured. The White C abbage butterfly la 
herein abundance, and Us caterpillar was quite 
destructive Iasi year and probably will be. this. 
Business In the mines dull, and this is followed 
by low prices of farm products.— 1 . n. r. 
Paterson, N. ,1.. June if*. — A fine shower 
last, night which was much needed, although the 
drought, was broken some two weeks since with a 
good rain. Most kinds of farm crops look well 
and promise an abundant yield. Potato beetles 
plentiful, but the farmers this season have at¬ 
tended to killing thorn much more thoroughly 
than last year, and If this Is continued we shall 
have little to four from this pest In the future.— 
Brevis. 
Hartford, Conn., June 15.—We have had 
some heavy rains of late, but the damage from 
them Is slight, crops of all kinds look well, and 
our specialties lu Lire Connecticut Valley—onions 
and tobacco—never looked better. strawberry 
crop excellent and prices low, owing probably, to 
dull times generally; but. growling will not help 
the matter, therefore we might as well look on 
the bright side as on the shady.—C ross. 
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SEMI-BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS. 
Tlie new remedy for dyspepsia, “Gestlano,” 
is effecting some very remarkable cures In Lyons, 
N. Y. Physicians recommend “ Gestlano” to their 
patients, and It Is gaining a wonderful reputation 
as a specific in cases of dyspepsia and Indigestion 
—for which disorders only it Is recommended,— 
Lyons Republican. 
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