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A DREADFUL FIRE. 
Another Is added to the many disastrous fires 
for which this continent has become especially 
noted The city of St. John, Mew Brunswick was 
almost completely laid In ashes by a conflagra tion 
which occurred on the 20 th or t his month. There 
was a strong' Northwest wind prevailing', and the 
names spread so rapidly that the utmost efforts 
of the firemen to check them were unavailing'. 
The losses were enormous, being estimated as 
high as$20,000,000, and embraced all the business 
portion or the city, including its banks, hotels, 
newspapers, mercantile houses and manufactur¬ 
ing establishments. All the churches of note, all 
the wharves, Custom House, Post OlUec, City 
Hall, Academy of .Music, and many other public 
bulldluga wore destroyed. Hundreds of private 
residences were burned, and 20,ooO people are 
homeless, too acres have been swept, overby the 
Are. The loss of life was also great. SO dead 
bodies have so far been recovered from the ruins, 
and it is thought that many more will yet bo 
found. The Insurance will not exceed JS,000,000, 
St. John had a population of about 25 , 000 , and was 
the most flourishing city of the province. Aid 
for the sufferers Is being promptly furnished both 
from our own cities and those of Canada. 
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HILTON AND THE HEBREWS. 
A social scandal or a character more than or¬ 
dinarily sensational lias arlseu from the arbitrary 
conduct of Judge. Henry Hilton, trustee of the A. 
T. Stewart estate, in retiulrtng the lessees of the 
Grand Unton Hotel at Saratoga, to deny to Jews 
the privileges which every respectable citizen, 
who Is able and willing to conform to cortaln 
propor and generally accepted rules of such 
establishments, has a right both by law and usage 
to demand. The determination to exclude rrom 
the house Individuals belonging to tills race was 
first announced by the parties in charge to Mr. 
Joseph SoJIgman, a leading Jew and prominent 
and wealthy banker of tiffs city, who applied for 
rooms for the summer season. Notwithstanding 
the disqualifying circumstance of religious oplu- I 
Ion, ho has been herolofore received as a guest 
at the hotel without question; but It Is now 
asserted that Us nterests havu suffered greatly 
In consequence of Jewish patronage, and that 
purely from a business point of view the course 
adopted was believed to be necessary In order to 
save a great and valuable portion of the Stewart 
estate from further loss. 
The extreme bitterness and even malignity I 1 
which pervade nilton'a epistles to the Hebrews, I '• 
as sent forth to them and the world at large ! 
through the dally papers, seem to point to a pri- 1 
vate and personal grievance of not very recent I 
origin as lying at Che bottom or tbe whole mat- > 
ter. He vehemently charges them with the most f 
open and gross Indecency and vulgarity while I * 
sojourning at his house, and Ills language Is so I 
plain and graphic that the most obtuse Pagan or t 
Christian why runs may read with understanding i 
and lnriulte gusto, lie is fairly beside himself J i 
with rage, indeed, as Is manifest lu a particularly a 
feeble and silly effort to discriminate between 
orthodox Hebrews and “Sellgman Jews," as he 
puts It; the rormer, according to his Ingenious 
theory, being very superior in all respects, while 1 
the latter ure only mean and contemptible. But 
this Is altogether “ too thin,” and botrays an v 
overweening anxiety to save himself from gen- e 
oral condemnation by the horse-jockeys trick of 1 
“ hedging.’’ I E 
We do not, for our part, believe that “ there Is 11 
no virtue extant” except among those who are v 
most loudly boastful of the possession of It, or 
most ready to criticise the want of it In their n 
neighbors; and as lor the assumption that the P 
Jew, as a Jew, ts exceptionally offensive In habits 
and manners, wo hold that the social pig is of no t< 
age, sex, condition, clime, country, race, or rell- U 
gtou. The creature is of ull. Who has not en- c! 
countered it at every stage of life, under all clr- h 
cumstances? Even In this Great Republic, among I o 
the natives to the manor born, It nourishes, corn- 
fed and happy in an exuberance of selfishness. s ] 
It the result of the breeze (which bids fair to de- n 
velop Into a simoon) raised by Judge Hilton, shall ,, 
be to banish from among decent men and women, I y 
even for a brief season, this vile beast, then may s < 
It be welcomed as a blessing in disguise; but the h 
effort to single out a particular body in commuui- I p 
ty as alone to be reproached with the commission j 
of disgraceful social acts. Is an unmitigated out- 0 
rage, and ought to be universally denounced. n 
A vast army of potato bugs has got Into Ver¬ 
mont by swimming Lake Champlain. 
Eleven “Mollies” were hanged at Pottsvillc, 
Mauch Chunk and Wllkcsbarre, Pu„ on the 2ist. 
of this month. They were all Irishmen, and mem¬ 
bers of the ruffianly and murderous society known 
as "Mollle Maguire,” which for a long time creat¬ 
ed a reign ol terror In the anthracite mining dis¬ 
tricts. They were, beyond doubt, most righteous¬ 
ly punished, though the power of the organization 
was such at one time, that arrest and conviction 
were thought, to he Impossible. 
Two large tenement houses In East Twenty- 
third St., this city, which were part of a row built 
twcnty-alx years ago, fell on t he itith Inst., and 
tbe occupants, loo or more, were only saved by 
timely warning of the police. All their house¬ 
hold effects went down with the buildings, as the i 
accident occurred Immediately after the tenants 
made their hurried exit. 
A very serious outbreak among the Indians of 
Oregon and Idaho is reported, bo far, some SO 
settlers, men, women, and children, have been 
murdered by Ncz Perccs, non-treaty savages, led 
by their chief, Young Joseph. Al. last accounts 
fighting was going on between a body of about 
100 troops, assisted uy citizens, and some 200 In¬ 
dians, with the odds decidedly in favor of the lat¬ 
ter. Energetic measures are being taken by the 
military authorities to put a speedy end to the 
troubles. 
In Santa Barbara, California, choice fat lambs 
are selling for ten cents each. 
A New Bedford mill, costing $ 90,000 seven years 
ago, has gone for $1«,600. 
Pittsburg says she can make steel-lined guns if 
the government wants any. 
The farmers of Lake Mary Township, Douglas 
County, Miss., went on a grand gopher hunt a 
short time ago, and u day’s game foots up as fol¬ 
lows:—Pocket gophers, m; gray gophers, 905 ; 
striped gophers, 410; total gophers, l,r> 40 . 
The black ants kill large numbers or canker- 
worms in Now Haven, Oonn., and drug their 
bodies off for future consumption. As a conse¬ 
quence the worms are disappearing. 
Alfred, Allegany county, N. Y., lias 2,000 inhab¬ 
itants, and has never had a gloss or Intoxicating 
liquor sold within its precincts, and never a pau¬ 
per to care for. 
A new apple destroyer Is attracting attention In 
Niagara County, N. Y. it 1 b a large, green 
worm, and preys directly upon the apples instead 
of the leaves, tv e should like to see a specimen 
of this new pest, and would bo obliged to any 
person who would secure and forward one to us, 
with some account of Its peculiarities and char¬ 
acteristics. And so or anything else now In the 
entomological way. 
A Post-office clerk in Augusta, Ga., has been 
arrested for opening love-letters addressed to 
other men. 
A New Hampshire man has buried two wives 
within eight months, the last being 17 years of 
age. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
A large Newfoundland dog guards the Adams 
Express packages at Hartford. 
The two parties to a suit, which has been pend¬ 
ing In tbe Superior Court, of North Carolina for 
ten years past, died on the same day last week, 
and were buried within 20 feet or each other. 
'The ships Minnie II. Gerow, drawing 20 feet 9 
Inches; Thorndean, 20 feet8 Inches; -Saranac, IS 
feet 9 inches, and Scioto, is feet 9 inches, put to 
sea June 11 , through the southwest Pass of the 
Mississippi, without detention. 'The hark Arno, 
drawing is feet 6 Inches, weht to sea through the 
Jetties. 
A wedding was “ arranged" In Hartford last 
week, and the guests were In waiting, and the 
in Ide expectant. At the last moment the groom 
said to a friend, “ the times are so hard that I must 
give it up," and made Ills swift way to the railroad 
depot. 
As the fisherman enters the Moosehead Lake 
region, he comes to a sign-post surmounted by the 
antlers of a moose, on which Is this inscription, 
“ No Sunday beyond here.” 
Recently In Cincinnati, a hard-working woman 
told her husband, who had a trade and good 
health, that she was tired of supporting him in 
Idleness. The poor fellow’s feelings were hurt, 
and he went Into the yard and hanged himself. 
Many farms in Maine, It is said, can be bought 
for less than the cost, of the buildings and fences 
upon them. 
1 he ship Gustave and Oscar, Capt. Hartman, 
when in latitude 42° 22 ', longitude W 22 ', on the 
6th Instant, interchanged signals with Captain 
Thomas Crapo and his wife, who sailed from New 
Bedford for England on the 28tli ulk, In a two- 
masted boat t wenty feet In length. They were 
well and confident. 
the oilman’s Journal of Butler, Pa., recom¬ 
mends the culture of toads as an antidote for the 
potato bug nuisance. 
A New York bartender often works from fifteen 
to eighteen hours, and some are actually on their 
legs for at least twelve. In hot weather espo- 
claliy, raauy are driven to drink from sheer ex¬ 
haustion. The work ts killing, and tells heavily 
on them sooner or later. 
Under the practice of the General Land Office, 
shallow lakes or ponds surrounded by public land 
have usually been surveyed and considered sub¬ 
ject to sale or entry by land warrants. The sur¬ 
vey or Plstakee Lake, in Lake County, Ill., was 
some > ears ago Impeached as an infringement on 
the rights of riparian owners, and the controversy 
between them and the locators of warrants on the 
disputed area, Is still pending In the Department 
of the Interior. Commissioner Williamson has 
now concluded to send a special agent to make 
personal examination of the survey and report 
the tacts relating to the controverted questions, 
with a view to their early and final settlement. 
New Orleans shopkeepers Ignore anything 
smaller than a flve-oent nlckle. 
It costa thlrty-slx and a half cents per mile to 
run a locomotive In this country. 
The ruling requiring trade papers to pay postage 
at tlio rate of one cent per two ounces, instead of 
at the rate of two cents per pound, on the ground 
that they were not newspapers within the mean¬ 
ing of the law, has remained in abeyance, about a 
fortnight, and probably will not bo again enforced. 
A Wyandotte County (Kansas) man Intends 
putting 2,000 barrels of sauerkraut upon the mar¬ 
ket this fall. 
The San Francisco Post states that the potato 
shipment of the coast via San Mateo has averaged 
during the past three weeks 60 ,non pounds per day. 
A Texas paper says that grass thirty feet In 
bight grows In the San Marcos River. 
Since the adoption of the new and reduced 
schedule or tolls on the canals or New Y'ork, there 
has been a continual and steady Increase in the 
volume of business. 
Fred. Douglass paid a visit for the first time 
since he left It, forty-one years ago, to the home 
of his youth and that of bla former master, Capt. 
Thomas Auid, a resident of St. Michaels, Mary¬ 
land. Caplaln Auld had expressed ills willingness 
and desire to meet his old servant, and this visit 
was mainly ror that purpose. Marshal Douglass 
learned his ago from Captain Auld. who lias a 
record of his bJrth, wherein It appears that Fred. 
Bailey was born In February, lsi8. 
Captain Murpliy of the schooner Centennial of 
Gloucester, Mass., rrom a halibut fishing cruise, 
reports fishing up with his anchor, off the north- 
[ east corner ol St. Pierre bank, one of the telegraph 
cable wires of the Anglo-American Cable Com¬ 
pany. He was obliged to cut his cable, and lost 
75 fathoms of the chain and the anchor, in order 
to clear the vessel and save the telegraph cable 
from injury. 
Last winter a party of men drove a herd of 
cattle from Bell county, Texas, and kept It for a 
while In Brown county, near the Hamilton line, 
where thnlr herd was added to by a small herd of 
cattle taken principally from that section. The 
mysterious movements of those in control of the 
herd soon excited in tho minds of the people liv¬ 
ing near suspicions that all was not right. The 
cattle men, knowing that they were suspected, 
moved their herd early In the spring, Increasing 
It as they went. Some few weokB since several 
citizens of that section, who had missed cattle, 
followed the herd and Overtook It, about three 
hundred miles west or Hamilton. 'The herd con¬ 
tained about, two thousand cattle, guarded by 
about thirty well-armed men. 'The pursuers 
Identified many of their own and their neighbors’ 
cattle In the field, but were told they could not 
have them, and were advlsod to return homo im¬ 
mediately, which they did; and now another 
party of about fifty citizens of the vicinities from 
which the cattle were stolen havo started In pur¬ 
suit or the thieves, and It is to be hoped they will 
succeed lu capturing them, as well as the cattle. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
The Abbe Liszt esteems the women of fair Po¬ 
land more than tlic country. 
Russia is now fighting for the cross. She wants 
to get o-cross the Danube. 
The English channel tunnel enterprise is re¬ 
ported to be perfectly practicable, as there Is a 
continuous bed of chalk bet ween t he two shores. 
Public opinion in Germany: First Burgher— 
“So we are likely to have another war with 
France?” Second Burgher-"Let us pray they 
may thrash us, so that they may be as poor as we 
are.” 
The pages in the Sultan’s seraglio are of Greek 
and Hungarian nationality, selected on account 
of their beautiful looks. They dress like little 
klugs, and bear themselves in a royally haughty 
manner. 
<}.ueon victoria is about to purchase the exten¬ 
sive forest or Balloehblne, which adjoins the royal 
domain In Scotland. It comprises within its 
bounds the largest area of natural grown Scotch 
firs In Scotland. 
The plethoric, feverish 11 te which was once 
characteristic of Stamboul has departed, owing to 
a long series of wars and bankruptcies. Pera Is 
the only flourishing part of the city. 
Owing t.o Hie competition of India the tea trade 
of Shanghai is declining. 
During the Franco-German war a letter was 
mailed at Evltng, In 1870, addressed to Pr.Holland, 
a small place only a few miles distant. On the 
12 th of March, 1877, the letter reached Its destina¬ 
tion, having a slip of paper about a yard long 
pasted on the envelope, on which were stamped 
the postmarks of Trieste, Brindisi, Calcutta, Sing¬ 
apore, Batavia, Passarvang, Mindanao, Luzern 
i Is necessary for their expenses out of the rents of 
the crown domains and out of the Treasury. 
1 As Prof. Pagan was entering the university 
building at Palermo in order to lecture to lffa 
class, he was met on Hie stairs by a very fair Si¬ 
cilian maiden of eighteen summers, who drew a 
revolver a Dd shot him dead. She had been ruined 
and abandoned by him. 
Among tbe interesting relics In Paris are the 
celebrated lilacs In tlio gardens of tbe Luxem¬ 
burg, which at last accouuts were lu full flower, 
at the age of 250 years. They were planted by 
Marie de Medlcls. 
England Is negotiating with Turkey for the pur¬ 
chase of the Island of Crete. By this Turkey will 
acquire a large sum for war purposes, and Eng¬ 
land will acquire another Important maritime 
position in the Medlteranean. 
“ Who's Uiat man ?” asked the Czar of his aid, 
the other day, pointing to a chap with a chunk 
of hard tack in one hand and a note book in the 
other, who was hanging around headquarters, 
eyeing him rather closely. “ That," said the aid. 
“that’s an American newspaper correspondent 
from Chicago.” “Shoot him at sunset,” replied 
His Imperial Majesty, retiring within his tent. 
There Is a poddlcr In Sheffield, England, who has 
been 108 years on the road and 13 peddling still. 
He lives ou sugar and beer. 
Mr. Dorman, inspector of a railroad at Maljes 
Fonteln, In south Africa, lost, a sitting hen by a 
nigbt snake, particularly addicted to such deli¬ 
cacies, whereupon her bereaved husband took her 
brood of nine under his wing, bestowed on them 
devoted care, fed and sheltered them, and led 
them to roost at night. 
At the recent meeting of shareholders of the 
Bank of France, It was stated that the profits 
were nearly $ 900,000 less than la 1875 . 
A society Is being formed in London for the reg¬ 
ulation, not abolition, of street music, the nui¬ 
sance having become well nigh intolerable. 
There arc 320 newspaper correspondents in Rou- 
mania, and they spend their time contradicting 
one another. 
In London old graveyards are turned into veg¬ 
etable gardens, and the dust of past generations 
lives again In asparagus and cauliflower. 
A Ore-proof curt;*I 11 of corrugated Iron Is being 
fitted to the new theater at Dresden, Saxony. 
By the arrival of the steamer Oroya at Panama 
from Callao, on the 28th ult., fuller details of the 
disasters suffered on the coast from earthquakes 
and tidal waves, are received. The towns of Arl- 
ca, Iqulque, Ponta de hobos, Pabellon de Pica, 
Chanavaya, HuanlUos, Tocopllla, Coblja, Mejtl- 
lones de Bolivia, Antofagasta, anil Chanaral, are 
nearly all destroyed. About 600 lives were lost 
The destruction of property Is estimated at $ 20 ,- 
000 ,two. The loss is confined mostly to tho coast, 
although the town of Tarapaca, twonty-three 
leagues inland, and tho villages of Pica, Manila 
and Canehones, far in tho Interior, were more or 
lass ruined. The shipping of guano from the 
southern deposits will be Indefinitely suspended, 
as all faculties In the way of launches, shutes, 
wharves, water condensers, and buildings of all 
kinds have been swept away. Many ships were 
sunk, it is thought that the losses are greater 
than those of 1868 , and that the effect upon Peru¬ 
vian affairs will be particularly disastrous. The 
nitrate of soda Interest has suffered Irreparable 
loss from the recent disasters: 400,000 quintals of 
nitrate were destroyed, and all the works either 
ruined or badly injured. 
EVERYWHERE. 
Syracuse, N. Y., .lime 18.—strawberries are 
a full crop, and are sold wholesale at 9c, per quart, 
with a prospect of falling several cents lower. 
Cherries are plentiful, the early varieties begin¬ 
ning to ripen. Plums promise well, lr not molest¬ 
ed by the “ little Turk.” The show lor raspberries 
Is fine. Grapes have set uncommonly full, and are 
unusually forward. 1 expect an increased yield 
ovor last year of at least one-third, Judging by 
my own orchard and the few others I have seen. 
Apples will be a very light crop. The twig blight 
has put In au appearance upon my trees for the 
third successive year. At present, It Is confined 
to the Early Sweet Bough, which variety seeui 3 to 
be arflleted with this scourge more than any other 
with which I am acquainted. Peas will be a fair 
crop, if tho blight—which just begins to show it¬ 
self—-does not destroy the trees. The future looks 
dubious for pears In this vicinity. Currants are 
looking finely, and so far wo have boen able to 
“ keep down” the currant worm by hand-picklug, 
but shall probably have to resort to hellebore be¬ 
fore the season Is over. A larger crop of potatoes 
has been plauted than for several years past, and 
they are generally looking well. The “ beetles" 
are on hana In larger numbers than usual, and 
promise to be a great annoyance. 1 have not been 
compelled to use “green” yet, but have hand¬ 
picked Instead—but must soon come to It. Found 
the first larva hatched to-day. Grass looks well 
In both pastures and meadows. Corn has pretty 
generally been hoed for the first time, and looks 
Hong Kong, Tshtfoo, Hakodadl, Kanagawa, Juddo, promising. On the whole, farmers have no need 
M ladlkavkas, Sydney, Cape Town, St. Helena, to he discouraged at the outlook.— n r 
Ascension, Suranna, Brest, Toulon, Wilhelms- ,, , 
haven, Pr. Holland; It also contained the writ¬ 
ten statements of the German Consuls at all but 
the last of these places, of their Inability to find 
the town to which the letter was addressed. 
victor Emanuel now receives a salary of $2,S50,- 
000 . The Parliament had to raise it lu order to 
pay off his debts. 
The Czar and his eldest son, the heir apparent, 
have no fixed allowance of pay, They take what 
Greenfield, Kan.— It has been raining for 
about three weeks. This has been the greatest 
rainfall I have ever seen In any country. Farm¬ 
ers are all behind with their work. There Is a 
great deal of corn yet to bo planted, and what Is 
In, does not seem to grow. Our wheat looks ex¬ 
tremely well, but if the wet weather continues 
our harvest will be cut short. Wheat has been as 
high as |2 per bush., but It Is now worth only 25c.; 
corn la 30o.; liogs, 3c. per lb.; cattle, 2c.— d. j. b. 
