THE RURAL NEW-YORKE 
JULY 44 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Boston spent $4,800 entertaining Ilayes. 
Wine Is made from oranges extensively In St. 
Augustine, Fla, 
San Francisco housekeepers are paying $10 a 
ton for Alaska coal. 
Huntsville, Ala,, will give $1,000 to the best 
drilled military organization at Its fair, In October 
next. 
It Is said that one-half the horses sold by public 
auction in Denison, Texas, are stolen property. 
All sorts or berries are being harvested In large 
quantities along the Hudson Klver. The yield Is 
unusually prolific. 
Homo of the clergymen of Cincinnati made an 
attack on the Sunday opening of the Zoological 
Garden. The directors passed a resolution In¬ 
stantly to Issue annual passes to clergymen. 
A Beaver Falls, Pa., gas well has reached the 
depth of 3,400 feet. 
The violent hatred of Chinamen ou the Pacific 
coast, expressed In numerous murders, nearly put 
a stop to their coming ; but of lute they arc ar¬ 
riving by the shipload. Four thousand landed in 
Han Francisco In three weeks. Most of these 
were Tartars, of which class of the Mongolian 
race only a few hundreds had previously come to 
this country. They are darker than Chinamen 
proper, and are said to bo more vicious. 
The kicking tendency of mules has made the 
points for a great many funny stories, but there 
Is a serious sldo to the subject. No kind of Items 
are more common lu SouLhoril newspapers than 
those telling or serious Injury or death caused by 
mules’ kicks. 
In Dubuque, Iowa, one woman who owns sev¬ 
eral houses and lots, and another who has a good 
bank account, have been receiving money all 
along from the county. In St. Paul u woman 
purchasing a valuable lot of a real estate dealer 
asked that nothing should bo said about It, in the 
newspapers, ns she was “ getting a little aid from 
the county.” 
A Cincinnati woman asked a clergyman to 
christen herllt tle dog, and seemed surprised when 
he refused. 
The National Brewers’ Association proposes to 
ask Congress to prevent the States from passing 
prohibitory liquor laws. 
The terries In Boston are all owned by the city, 
and a proposition to abolish raros Is favorably re¬ 
garded by the officials. 
There was a sudden and uncommonly heavy 
fall of rain In the Cheyenne region recently. Al¬ 
most without any warning a wavo seven feet high 
rolled down the Chug-water. A detachment of 
the Third Cavalry, encamped near the bank, waB 
overwhelmed by the Hood. The dry bed of the 
creek, on which no water liad flowed for six years, 
suddenly became a river fifteen feet deep. 
“Kiss me, George," she add, ittiJ, oh lined to 
the rest of the gang as he was, George managed 
to kiss the girl. The other prisoners looked on In 
envy, and the Sheriff looked on Indulgently. But 
how much more the prisoners would have envied 
that kiss, aud how sternly would the oillcers have 
prohibited It, had either known that between 
those coral Ups there was a small key, tilting the 
steel bracelets on George's w rlsts. Precisely how 
he put to practical uso that farewell kiss Is not 
known, hut he did unlock Ills bonds, and, although 
the train was going at a very rapid rate, convey¬ 
ing him from Springfield, 111., to lUo state prison, 
he bounded through a window and escaped. 
Baltlmoro has a queer old man who, every day 
at l o’clock, goes through certain streets and 
takes his stand near a pump. There he remains, 
counting aloud the persons who come for water 
until the number reaches 17, when he turns and 
goes to his home the way he came. 
A French woman of this city advertises that 
she “nurses the side, ro-st.ulfs chairs; watches 
corpses, applies loaches, does sewing by machin¬ 
ery, and Is an excellent cook. 
In a storm In Atchison, Kan., one of the Bov. 
L. A. Aldersou’s beo-hlvos, under a cotton-tree 
about forty feet high, was struck by lightning. 
The bolt entered the hive from below. About 
one-third of the bees were killed, and the rest, 
being in the comb, which Is a non-conductor, 
were unhurt. Part of the comb which was near 
to the wood was melted, and the bees, which had 
been j ellow, were turned black. 
Gruystoeklug, a thorough-bred mare, lost a lino 
colt In Milton, Ky.. the other day. 'The colt was 
rour days old. U ray stocking Is a granddaughter 
of Lexington, The futher of the colt was a 
grandson of Lexlugton. The grief of the mare 
over the dead colt was, It Is said, terrible to wit¬ 
ness. She was shut up in tlie stable, and the colt 
lay dead in the passage outside. There was an 
air-hole through the roof of the stable, and in 
her ravings the mare actually got on her hind¬ 
legs and poked her head through the hole. 
A sleep-walking young lady In Cottonwood, 
Cal., while passing through her father’s Bleeping 
chamber, was awakened by hla hand upon her 
shoulder. She fell down dead. 
The cactus Is regarded by Californians os a 
nuisance. A firm of rope makers In Han Francisco 
has recently discovered that from a species of the 
plant a fine quality of rope can be manufactured. 
About 2,500 Christianized Chinese engaged In a 
picnic near Han Francisco recently, and the news¬ 
papers say that Its success was due to the fact 
that a strong force of police prevented any hood¬ 
lum demonstrations. 
A tramp’s pipe burned fs.ooo worth of standing 
wheat on B. D. Beckwith’s ranch, three miles 
Horn Woodbridge, Cal., last week. The tramp 
was badly singed where he had lain on the edgo 
of the hre. Two hundred men armed with wet 
sacks extinguished tho flames. 
A sketch of Murphy, the temperance agitator, 
by the Cincinnati Enquirer, lu response to a re¬ 
quest by a correspondentt—“ He Is a son of Mrs. 
Murphy, and In early life was a small Murphy 
and few In a hill. Afterward he took to hard 
drinking, and this was the making or him, for If 
he had never drank he would never have reform¬ 
ed. However, It was not wholly his drinking that 
made him, but his present, eminence ts also partly 
owing to the fact that he afterward stopped as 
violently as he had before drank." 
since tbe Bank or commerce In this city re¬ 
duced its capital from $10,000,000 to $0,000,00(1, San 
Francisco papers claim that the Bank of Nevada, 
in Han lYaoOLiCo, la the wealthiest banking cor¬ 
poration in the United States, it has *3,000,000 
capital. Next comes the Central Railroad ami 
Banking Company or Savannah, Ga., with $7,500,- 
000. The wealthiest banking corporation on this 
continent ts the Merchants’ Bank of Montreal, 
whose capital Is fi 2 ,ooo,ooo. 
A farmer at Mount Sterling, Ky„ has obtained 
a flue sample of sugar rrorn tho bloom of the com¬ 
mon poplar tree. It Is granulated In appearance 
and snowy In color. 
A remarkable golden wedding was celebrated 
recently at Vienna, Midi. The bridegroom’s lath¬ 
er, Louis Jacobs, Sr., aged 100 years, acted as 
groomsman at the remarriage ceremony. After 
It, dinner was served. The dance was opened by 
Mr. Louis Jacobs, Sr., whb ravored tho company 
wit h a lively French dance. Ills partner being a 
beautiful French girl of sixteen summers. 
Some men In Rutherford, Cnl., June to. (Sun¬ 
day,) had a glorious spree, aud In the course or 
their orgies set up two of their number, William 
Koch, alias “Spanish Bill,” and Gaudaloupe, a 
Mexican, as targets for their revolvers. The men 
fell dead at the llrst lire. 
A volcano with four distinct craters has broken 
oul about eight, miles from Funk’s Spring, a south¬ 
ern Paclilc station, and rorty-two miles west of 
Fort Yuma. It throw out smoke and boulders on 
tho lllli Inst,., and emitted a noise like thunder. 
A young lady, asleep at midnight In her father’s 
house In Los Angeles, CaL, lust week, was carried 
from her room and out of the house for a hundred 
feet, by a strange man, before Blm awoke. Her 
screams aroused the neighbors, and the abductor 
dropped ber and escaped. 
Before the drought of 1804 Los Angeles County, 
Cal., was renowned for the number of her cattle. 
During 1864 hundreds of thousands of cattle died 
of starvation. The disappearance of these cattle 
inaugurated the era of fa rming In Los Angeles. It 
was a blessing In disguise, and most of the thou¬ 
sand productive farms of which the country now 
boasts, owe their existence to that drought. 
The Brock-port Republic sayslu this section 
tho crop of clover hay will bo a little light, be¬ 
cause of the dry spell awhile ago; but the later 
crop will bo a good yield, and as a whole, the crop 
will be up to the average of previous years. 
A veritable giant, says the Sacramento (Cal.) 
Reoord-Unlon, is ou exhibition In this city, Tho 
giant Is a shrewd, good-natured, aud rather dig¬ 
nified Chinaman, who has donued a mandarin’s 
costume, and sits In a chair large enough for a 
summer-house, lie Is the most raasslva man 
over seen in Sacramento. A largo-banded man 
Cannot encircle Ills wrist with ono hand, aud t,wo 
or the giant’s lingers make an ordinary hand 
stretch to encircle them. A man live feet eight 
Inches high can stand erect under his outstretch¬ 
ed arm and not touch It with his head. Ordinary 
men have to tilt their hats and look upward to 
his face. He stands seven feet nine Inches high, 
and claims that he weighs 412 pounds lie Is a 
finely-proportioned man, not at all corpulent—is, 
indeed, hard-muscled aud compact In frame, and 
moves with the ease of ordinary men. 
The subject of water rights lor irrigation in the 
West is likely to assume prominent shape lu the 
next report of the Land OJflce, and Is constantly 
affording trouble to the Interior Department. 
The most serious case la In und about Greeley, 
col., where the river Platte has been tapped by a 
succession or canals running back to tiie moun¬ 
tains, each Interfering with the other. The ex¬ 
tension of the Cassou County law to ail the desert 
lands of the Pacific Slope, Sargent’s work last 
winter, Isa branch of the same subject, which 
has already led to land grabbing, and is likely to 
lead to more on the largest aud most vicious scale. 
It ts the opinion or prominent officers or the Inte¬ 
rior Department, who have given the subject ex¬ 
amination, that nothing short of general legisla¬ 
tion by Congress can reduce the present snarl to 
a system. 
J. c. Redden of Yancebui’g, Kentucky, killed a 
rattlesnake which measured three and a half 
feel long, eight Inches In circumference, with 
twelve rat tles and a button. Mr. James Fitzpat¬ 
rick killed In one week. In the tan bark hills, eight¬ 
een rattlesnakes, eleven copperheads, and one 
black snake, the last measuring nine feet In 
length. Thomas oreutt also reports seven rat¬ 
tlers and eight copperheads killed by him during 
the past week. 
The seve 11 teeri-year locusts are appearing In 
immense quantities in the forests of Flke Co., Fa. 
'The mountains for miles north, south, east and 
west resound with their continuous singing. Not 
only are iwigs and limbs of towering trees bowed 
down by tlielr weight, but, grain Helds In many 
places appear like thick black clouds, so numer¬ 
ous are the Insects,and the tall and thrifty stalks 
of grain are bent to the ground by their weight. 
A poor man In Jefferson Co., N. Y., offered his 
saw for sale to buy food for his suffering family, 
and look two-ilrths of Its value in crackers and 
three-ruths In tobacco. 
A shower of forest birds fell on the deck of the 
steamer Glaucus while she was passing through 
the Hound on her way from this port to Boston. 
A hundred and sixty-eight, dead birds and four 
wounded ones were picked up. They had dashed 
against t he masts, having evidently been attract¬ 
ed and dazzled by the steamer’s lights. From 
the swollen appearance of their eyeballs It was 
thought that they were driven rrorn their homes 
by tho forest fires. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
Of the American meat trade the London Daily 
Telegraph says:—“in fact, the difficulties will 
diminish, as experience shows, particularly as 
we happen to witness the somewhat singular re¬ 
sult at present, that the home farmer, who ts 
generally jealous of foreign meat, eagerly Clamors 
for ll now as the best way to keep out rinderpest 
—a much greater evil than tho competition of 
Australian mutton or American beer.” 
All accounts go to show that tho Turkish soldier 
has not degenerated from his ancestors, who 
were tho terror or Europe lu the fifteenth century. 
Nor has the Turk lost auy of his ferocity. At 
Dascus recently a Turkish soldier weut into tho 
bazaar to buy a sword. To try Uie temper or one 
he looked around lor some object. Just at tnat 
moment a Jew happened to pass, in the twink¬ 
ling of an eye, with a sweeping blow, the soldier 
out off the J ew's head, as clean as though done by 
the ux of the executioner. Then he coolly pro¬ 
nounced the weapon of good steel, paid the prlee, 
and went Ids way. 
in Buenos Ayres drought and Intense heat have 
prevailed for weeks. Only a small portion of t he 
crops lu the upper provinces will bo saved, and 
much suffering, It is feared, will result. The 
small rivers have almost dried up, and In some 
places llsh arc found lying dead In the scorching 
sun. It Is reported that In the Province of Entro 
Klos the fires prevail io a great extent, compelling 
the passenger steamers up the Uruguay River to 
anchor In consequence of tho intense heat and 
smoke. 
A shark’s tooth has been found lu a quarry In 
Japan forty root below the surface. 
A French blacksmith llllcd a large tube with 
hammers, chisels, bits of lead, Iron, and gunpow¬ 
der; then he put nis head lu one extremity and 
applied a hot bar of Iron to tUe ot her. Tho result 
was that he knocked off his head and blew up his 
forge. 
The Pan-l’resbyterlftu Council opened in Edin¬ 
burg, Scotland, J uly 4. The Rev. Dr. Hodge of 
Alleghany, and Stuart Robinson of Louisville, 
took prominent park. The Rev. Dr. Prime of 
New York reported that there wore 12 ,ou<) Presby¬ 
terian congregations In tho United States, who 
subscribed over jCI.ooo.ouo. 
At Monaco recently an Englishman named 
Walker lost flft.ooo—the last of his money—by 
gambling, and next day he flung himself headlong 
from u stoop roclc and was almost Instantly 
killed. Walker's total losses amounted to $75,uoo. 
He had amassed a considerable fortune lu the 
cutlery trade at Sheffield. England, and squand¬ 
ered If all at gaming tables In various parts of the 
Continent. 
The Insurrection in SaUsuma, Japan, is said to 
be attaining lorinidable proportions, notwith¬ 
standing tho report Of its suppression. The in¬ 
surgents are commanded by the celebrated states¬ 
man and Soldier, Saigo, elder brother of tho 
Japanese Commissioner to the Philadelphia Ex¬ 
hibition. 
The Italian Government Is displaying much 
energy In excavating for antique statuary in 
every part ut the kingdom where a probability 
exists of finding any. Reports of researches and 
of discoveries are sent every month to tho 
Director-General of the Italian Museums. 
Many women of the Russian wealthy class have 
enrolled themselves as hospital nurses for the 
army. 'Their uniform is a gray dress, oil the 
breast of which Is a red cross; a white hood, and 
a short black cloak. 
There will be enough chalk taken out of the 
Channel tunnel to make England Independent of 
cow’s milk for centuries. 
Near the cemetery of Pere-la-Chalse, Paris, is a 
slaughter house. One of the butchers, who had 
strayed into the cemetery, was seen standing be¬ 
fore flic tomb of Abelard and Ileloise. Suddenly 
clasping his blood-stained hands, and bursting 
into tears, he exclaimed, “Ah, love! love!” and 
then, wiping his eyes, returned to do more butch¬ 
ering. 
One of the attendants in the British Museum 
was recently frightened into convulsions because 
he thought an Egyptian mummy, 4,ooo years old. 
spoke to him. 
The London Lancet is of opinion that wild ani¬ 
mals, licet, of foot aud cunning In nature, give 
lawful and manly “sport," but. that the feat of 
riding after a Dune stag, conveyed In a covered 
cart to the place where it is let loose to be hunt¬ 
ed, Is neither sport nor manly. 
Home graceless scamp has created a great ex¬ 
citement In Santiago, Cldll, by forging Bulls per¬ 
mitting Roman Catholics to eat meat on Fridays 
and to do other forbidden things, and selling 
them to the faithful lor largo sums. 
During the siege of Paris ."63 carrier pigeons 
were sent out In balloons, of which but seventy- 
three returned. But tUat small number brought 
to the beleaguered city 115,000 public and private 
dispatches, being an average of i,57ft per bird—a 
result achieved by the aid of mlerophotography. 
There Is a church In t he quarter of Berlin called 
the Burg, where t he hearts of deceased members 
of the Prussian royal families are kept In stiver 
urns. They are behind a railing, and an inscrip¬ 
tion Is Upon each urn, denoting tho name of the 
former possessor, his birth, death, etc. Bodies or 
royal Individuals, according to the Prussian cus¬ 
tom, are always opened, the heart being placed 
In ono church, the entrails In another, and the 
rest of the corpse In a third. 
An Italian carpenter, who returned to his native 
Rome from this country, died In tho Hotel Liguria. 
It was known that he had about $ 10,000 In gold, 
A diligent search resulted in the discovery that 
the sum had been stolen by, and divided among 
four waiters in the hotel. 
An establishment has been opened in London 
for making illuminating gas, which Is preserved 
i n cases, and sent for use to any part of tho coun¬ 
try. 
A recent Investigator .says that there are 13,000 
Jews in Jerusalem, of whom over 6,000 are wholly 
dependent on charity. 
Canada Is now sending beef and beer to Eng¬ 
land. 
In the beautiful gardens of New College, Ox¬ 
ford, Is a flue avenue of horse chestnuts. One 
tree, year after year, bears pale yellow leaves tho 
summer through, and the tree Is known us that 
with the golden bough. 
in London a venerable person, attired like a 
Clergyman walks about in a dreamy way, a book In 
his left hand, an umbrella partly open In his right. 
This reverend looking object, it has been discov¬ 
ered, is a center around which youthful pick¬ 
pockets gyrate, and Jewelry, watches aud purses, 
“ prigged " by them are dropped Into the umbrella 
without any suspicion being excited. 
In the parish of Clerkenwell. North London, 
which belongs to the marquis of Norllmmpton, a 
mortuary has just been erected. The Marquis 
gave tho ground. A principal object is to accom¬ 
modate poor people by enabling them at once to 
remove their dead to It prior to burial. Adjoin¬ 
ing la a patent disinfecting oven, providing effect¬ 
ually for disinfecting clothing, bedding, etc. 
The German Chancellor and his family have 
been for the last month, and are still, at the fa¬ 
mous watering-place of Ktsslugen, where the vet¬ 
eran diplomatist was ordered by Ills medical ad¬ 
visers to undergo a treatment of six weeks, on 
his arrival there, Prince Bismarck was much an¬ 
noyed by the attentions paid lo him by the public. 
He accordingly published ft notice In tho Klsuln- 
<jer AiueiQtr, as follows“ i beg the public not 
to congregate lor the purpose of looking at me 
when I am going to take a bath. 1 beg also that 
1 may not be saluted In the stroet, because If i 
am salutod, oue of l.wo things will happen—Either 
I do not respond to such salutations, and them I 
pass lor Impolite; or else I take off my hat every 
moment, and then l take cold In the head and lose 
all the bonellt of the treatment.” 
The will was lately contested In the English 
Probate Court of a lady who married when eighty 
a man or forty, aud at his (loath married again 
and survived her second husband. 
A medical restaurant has been lately establish- 
ed lu London, on the principle that diseases can 
generally be cured by a special system of diet, 
aud that they are caused chiefly by improper 
food. On the entrance of a visitor, a physician 
asks him regarding Lis ailments. His meal is then 
prescribed, and he Is allowed to eat no more than 
Is presented to him. At the close he is dismissed 
to smoke a medicated cigar aud to sip coffee, cam¬ 
omile tea, or whatever other beverage may be 
considered advisable. 
English people in humble life set their superiors 
in position an excellent example as regards sim¬ 
plicity tn marriage. In Leeds, Derby, and other 
places, tho artisans often work up to breakfast- 
lime, get married between breakfast and dinner, 
and after their last-named meal go back to tlielr 
labor for the rest of the day. 
EVERYWHERE. 
Wont Hudson, N. Y., June 29. — We have 
very little rain; ground is very dry. Weather 
last few days hot and sultry. The potato beetle 
is doing his duty like a little man—tho leaves are 
disappearing as If by magic. 
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