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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Foreign papers believe that Europe can take 
2 ,non ,000 head or cattle from the United .states 
every year, the limit of cattle rearing having 
been reached in many parts or Europe. Given 
the price per head and t he money value of the 
business will be apparent,. 
More than 8,000 packages of choice Orange Co. 
butter were shipped t.o Europe by steamer on .Sat¬ 
urday, the California taking 5,500 packages. 
Boss Tweed formed in procession and marched 
around his cell on the Fourth. You can't kill 
patriotism. 
It Is said that a good-sized parrot will devour 
124 grasshoppers per minute, and perhaps It, would 
be well to Import 100 , 000,000 parrots. 
Two Communists are represented in a French 
comic paper as discussing religion. The debate 
concludes with the following resolution “ We 
do not believe In a religion that allows us to rest 
only on Sunday. We need a religion that allows 
us to rest, all the week.” We have a superabun¬ 
dance of worthies of this stripe here, bearing the 
ragged forms of tramps, but there Is lit t ie that Is 
comic about them. 
Fayston, Vt., has been shocked by a romantic 
tragedy. Daniel Wheeler and Miss Adams were 
to have been married, but she was induced by her 
family t o break the engagement and to restore 
toiler lover Ills letters and nil his girts. He re¬ 
turned directly home, took his gun and went Into 
a wood and shot himself In the heart. And now 
Miss Adams is crazy with grief and avows her de¬ 
termination ot joining her lover in the spirit land. 
A Now Hampshire couple weigh no pounds, but 
the who alone weighs only HO pounds. 
East month was the coldest June that Minne¬ 
sota has experienced In a dozen years, and one of 
the rainiest. 
Slnco Aug. 1, 1S7B, over 320,noo people have 
moved Into Texas, chiefly from some of the other 
Southern States. 
The Rev. Dr. Mallallcu ot Boston, who otTered 
the resolutions In the New England Methodist 
Episcopal conference opposing President Hayes’ 
Southern policy, preached a sermon last Sunday 
condemning Mayor Prince lor allowing wine at 
the dinner given to the President In Boston. 
A now Virginia law forbids any person to cap¬ 
ture a mocking-bird, except.on his own premises 
and for his own use (that Is, not, to be sold) for 
six years to come. By that, time the Old Domin¬ 
ion will be resonant with song, and thereafter 
mocklug-btrds will be a drug on the market. 
The Indianapolis Journal says that Martin 
Wells, of Wabash, while picking berries lately 
saw three tramps set a shanty on lire. He ran to 
put out the lire, and as lie entered the door a keg 
of powder exploded, Inflicting Injuries from which 
he died in a few hours. 
The Deadwood City (Black Hills) Pioneer puts 
It thus mildly: “ In the present undeveloped con¬ 
dition of our mineral resources there Is not em¬ 
ployment for all the laboring men who arc now 
In tho country. This Is the plain truth, and no 
substantial interest will be promoted by attempt¬ 
ing to disgutso or by denying the fact." 
Physicians state that second-hand furniture 
stores spread Infection, by exposing old mat¬ 
tresses and bed clothes. 
A young lady of this city left her home recently 
in order to marry a young man whom her parents 
did not favor. A few days afterward the mother 
received a telegraphic dispatch to appear Imme¬ 
diately at the residence of her daughter, who had 
died. To her astonishment she found the 
daughter alive and well, and In turn the daughter 
was equally surprised to see her mother. Ex¬ 
planations and reconciliation followed. An at¬ 
tempt was made to ascertain who had sent, the 
dispatch, but without success. A useful hint to 
those who are estranged and anxious for recon¬ 
ciliation. 
New potatoes are now plenty In the Oneida 
markets and are bringing about $ 1.75 per bushel. 
They are much larger than Is frequently the ease 
so early in the season. It has been fully de¬ 
monstrated this year that in tue battle between 
the farmer and the potato bug the farmer Is, 
after the scare, master of the position. 
The Presbyterian Society at Avon, Intends 
building a 817 ,000 church. 
The two trials of Hendryx have cost Alleghany 
county upward of $ 10 , 000 . 
The grasshoppers are doing extensive damage 
to crops In portions of the towns of Hopklnton, 
Pitcairn, Gouverneur, ParishvlUe, Plerrepont and 
Macomb. On tlie sandy lands they are particu¬ 
larly destructive, eating down whole fluids of 
grain. 
Firebugs are operating in oswego again. 
Fulton has over t ,800 signers to the temperance 
pledge. 
The Tioga County Fair will be held on the 
owego Driving Park on the 26th, 27th and 2Sth of 
September. 
In the Mohawk Valley wool Is selling from 
thirty-eight to rorty cents; the clip is unusually 
good. New potatoes are selling for $1.26 per 
bushel. The apple crop does not promise well. 
The United States soldiers are smashing hook¬ 
ing Glasses In Idaho. 
A malpractice case and a fatal stubbing with a 
pair of scissors, constitute part, of peaceful life In 
Philadelphia. 
A letter writer claims that three of the men 
executed at rottevllle were innocent of any crime. 
It Is a matter of superb Indifference to the 
“Mollies” In question. 
Hutchings, the " lightning calculator,” Is fig¬ 
uring In the temperance movement. It is his 
duty to cipher out how rapidly a man goes 
to the bad through rum. 
There arc seven thousand men unselrlsh enough 
to give up all the comforts or a home In the midst 
of civilization and go far away to heathen climes 
as American Consuls. Pay-lriotism Is not dead. 
The young man who lost bis money In faro 
banks, where he was endeavoring to obtain that, 
of the proprietors, and then cried about It so 
lustily that the police raided the places, per¬ 
formed a moral act at the expense of the most, 
unmitigated contempt for himselr. 
The “Mollte Maguires” are taking revenge on 
all who helped to bring the murderers, who were 
recently hung In Pennsylvania, to Justice. Five 
have been murdered since the executions, and 
several people received the coffin - warning, In¬ 
cluding the Sheriff of Schuylkill County. 
The new style of currant doubles you up like a 
figure 6, while the old style let you off at figure s. 
The first act of the new Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture, Gen. Lo Due, Is said to have been to order 
the flowers In the gardens attached to the De¬ 
partment to be cut every morning, made Into 
bouquets, and placed on t he tablesof the Agricul¬ 
tural Department clerks. 
Sheep- raising pays. Mr. Ross of London, Ohio, 
bought. 235 selected grade ewes for $90o, from 
which he raised 238 hunts. Lambs and wool Bold 
for $1,246, realizing a handsome prollt over the 
cost, or keeping, with the sheep on hand and the 
manure extra. 
The taxable valuation or New York City this 
year Is $ 2 , 101 ,092,000—a decrease or $9,S2 1 , 000 , ow¬ 
ing to diminished valuation of personal estate. 
The latest wonder Is the account of a Syracuse 
man who fell out of a cherry-tree, broke his neck, 
and lived eighteen hours In that condition, 
steam on the surface raUronds of New York- 
City, is the subject now agitating the Gothamltlc 
mind. 
Judge lthemc of the Orphans’Court, In Luzerne 
County, I‘a., was asked by an administrator to 
allow $1,390 for burial expenses out of an estate 
of $3,800. Jlo refused, nnd Said “ Pompous pro¬ 
cessions oi great length, glistening silver-plated 
caskets, and carved marble monuments are un¬ 
necessary for Christian burial. Such parades 
may gratify the vanity of the living, but. when a 
decedent's estate Is limited and his debts arc not 
paid, or where he. leaves a. family of helpless 
children, the expenses of such burial will not be 
allowed out of Ids estate. Those who contract 
for and enjoy such luxuries, must pay for them 
themselves. ” 
Capt. Avise, who, as sheriff, executed John 
Brown, now keeps a store at Orkney springs, Va. 
having gone out or politics. 
A recent hall-storm near Watertown, N. Y., did 
great damage, it. left a track one mile wide 
through the town of Rodmau, stripping the leaves 
from the trees, nnd cutting off barley, wheat, and 
other grains entirely, cattle exposed to the 
storm were afterward found bleeding. The dam¬ 
age In that town alone will exceed $ 50 , 000 . nail- 
stones nine Inches In circumferences were found, 
and many remained on the ground until the next 
day. 
The Nurserymen’s Association of Chicago and 
vicinity commenced Its regular semi-annual meet¬ 
ing last week in the rooms of the Prairie Farmer. 
The attendance was large and much Interest 
manifested. 
A sudden draft of hot air passed through a cot¬ 
ton field and peach orchard In Western Texas, a 
few days ago, scorching and killing every green 
thing It touched lor a space 140 yards wide and 
400 yards long. 
A piece of coral rl vc Inches high, six Inches in 
diameter at. the top, and two at the base, was re¬ 
cently taken from the submarine cable at Port. 
Darwin, Australia. The cable was four years old. 
A petition Is being considered by a Boston city 
government committee from Edward Everett 
Hale, Wendell Philipps, Wtlllara Clafflln, William 
Gaston, Alpheus Hardy, Charles G. Greene, Rufus 
Ellis, Samuel Little and others, for the establish¬ 
ment by the city of a system of technical educa¬ 
tion in connection with the public schools. 
Teresa Williams, who was recently baptized 
and admitted to a church In Hartford, proves to 
bo a thoroughly-trained thief from this city. She 
says, “I whooped In on religion as a matter of 
biz.” Alas! She Is not the only one who has 
done so, but most or the others have not yet been 
found out. 
Vice-President Wheeler is enjoying excellent 
health at his home lu Malone, N. Y„ and refuses 
wallow his serenity te be ruffled by the many 
rumors circulating in the newspapers about him. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
Reports from the Madras famine districts repre¬ 
sent a serious state of affairs. Over a million peo¬ 
ple are employed on the relief works, or are gra¬ 
tuitously fed. In Bombay matters are growing 
bet ter. Rain Is plentiful, and t he sowing of crops 
has begun. 
The education of Queen Victoria’s grandchil¬ 
dren Is conducted on the principle that the Prince 
Consort Introduced Into the famlly. Particularly 
Is this true of the children of the Crown Princess 
of Germany, They have to rise early and retire 
early. During the day they have punctually to 
perform their dut ies and to keep strictly the time 
allotted to the various branches of study and 
recreation. They breakfast, at eight with their 
parents, and the time between ten In tne morn¬ 
ing and live In the afternoon Is devoted to their 
lessons, with an Interruption of one hour for din¬ 
ner. Accomplishments, such as riding, dancing 
and skating, receive the same attention as art 
and science. Their meals conslstof simple dishes, 
of which they have their choice, without being 
permitted to ask for a substitute, if whaljls placed 
before them docs not suit. Between meals they 
are not allowed to eat, and t he princesses dress 
themselves without the aid of chambermaids. 
william Emmanuel Baron von Ketteler, Bishop 
of Maycnce, Is dead. 
Lady Htrangforfl, after a six months'acquaint¬ 
ance with Bulgarian hospitals. Bays that, the 
Turkish soldier, as a patient, Is more easily man¬ 
aged and much more grateful than the soldiers of 
other nationalities with whom she has had to 
deal. 
At Sherbrooke, Canada, a few days since, a man 
left his little child In a barn where there was a 
bottle of whisky. The child drank It and died 
soon afterward. 
France has fifty thousand farms averaging coo 
acres, 500 averaging <10 acres, and over 5 , 000,000 
under six acres, in tills extended subdivision of 
laud under culture, consists her agricultural pros¬ 
perity. 
News comes from Lunci, France, that many or 
the vines which had been given up as hopelessly 
damaged by the phylloxera, have regained their 
vigor, and even that others, which on being at¬ 
tacked laid been abandoned without any effort to 
save them, are budding and will bear fruit. The 
vine-growers are naturally much encouraged at 
this hopeful state or things. 
At the Sydney (Aust ralia) exhibition, which has 
Just closed, there were 129 ,000 visiters, and the 
American exhibit, was the best. 
A farmer of Western France lives on the sim¬ 
plest and coarsest fare; never dreams of going to 
the village shops for anything for which lie can 
tlnd a home-made substitute, and dentes himself 
every Indulgence which wculd leave him a few 
sous out of pocket. His only beverage besides 
water Is home-made wine or cider. 
The authorities of Hamburg think cast-iron 
makes the best, and most durable pavement. In 
some laid In 1874, no wearing of the tiles Is per¬ 
ceptible, and It. gives rise to little dust or noise. 
The late Queen or Spain, Isabella, Is reported to 
be In vain trying to dissuade her son, the reigning 
monarch, from his proposed marriage with Dona 
Mercedes, the Due do Mont pen.slcr’s daughter. 
Alfonso is smitten, and the marriage may take 
place In October. 
Quebec has offered $70,noo In ten annual instal¬ 
ments, to the first beet, sugar factory that.may be 
established there, In accordance with published 
regulations. 
A war correspondent of the Standard finds time 
for botany. The commonest held blossoms which 
he secs in Koumanta are monks-liood, cornflower, 
Canterbury bell, bedstraw, iris, and that rod spike 
which Ophelia calls "love In Idleness.” These 
make a sheet of varied color beside the railway; 
but most beautiful Isa species or dogrose, which 
springs a few inches high among the grass, and 
throws np Its garlands of large flowers in clus¬ 
ters. In t he far East the same effect of color and 
grouping can be seen on a marsh overrun with 
pink lotus. 
Nineteen times within the last hundred years 
the Russian forces have crossed the Danube with 
hostile intent, without Including the present 
crossing. 
The Governor of Erzeroum states that the Rus¬ 
sians greatly oppress the Inhabitants of the dis¬ 
tricts through which they pass, and treat women 
and children particularly with much cruelty. 
Having learned that the Governor or Gaza was at 
Kars, they pillaged the houses In the place, strip¬ 
ped the women and children of their clothing, 
and drove them naked into Kars. 
The aggregate value of Jubilee offerings to the 
Pope Is estimated, on good authority, at nearly 
$3,000,000. 
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EVERYWHERE. 
Westfield, lllam., July 10.—We were visited 
with a tornado Monday afternoon. It came east¬ 
ward, through the gorge of Westffeld River, and 
widened to half a mile, felling trees, shattering 
fences, and demolishing buildings, until its force 
was expended. It first struck the wall of the Sal¬ 
mon Falls paper-mill—rebuilding on account of a 
recent fire—which fell, crushing In the engine- 
house, in which were two men, ono of whom Is 
seriously hurt. Two men, engaged in plowing, 
saw the storm coming, and attempted to reach a 
barn near by, but both they and the horses were 
thrown to the ground, and lujured by the flying 
steues. When they recovered their Bight, the barn 
was gone. A family of six persons in a house 
heard a whistling noise, and knew nothing until 
they found themselves on the floor several rods 
from the site of the house. The rest of the build¬ 
ing was destroyed, as were algo two buildings and 
and a dozen barns. A large quantity of crops, 
gross, and trees was also destroyed. At Chicopee 
Falls the wind blew down several barns and 
sheds, and uprooted many trees.—w. n. 
Morn. 111., July 3.—Before harvest, I set 
down the wheat crop at inn in acreage and no in 
quantity, as compared wit h previous years. The 
good fields were not bo very good, but the bad 
fields were very few. All the crop was late in 
ripening. The earliest, cutting 1 heard of in Mad¬ 
ison County, was June 22 or 23, nnd no large 
amount has yet been cut. About to-day a very 
considerable amount would have been ready and 
cut by to-night. The general storm and wind of 
the 25th did not affect us in the daytime, but 
there was a heavy rain the night ot the 25th 
which wet the Molds, but did not break down 
much grain. On tho 27th a very heavy rain 
flooded the fields and the grain was badly lodged 
In many Helds. It Is to-day too wet. for reapers to 
run In most flelda, and the grain has not yet got 
up; a good deal of it will not. These are our 
drawbacks. Clear, dry weather will, of course, 
make much or this trouble right again. If we 
have such, this county will turn out an immense 
aggregate yield of wheat, ot a good average yield 
and quality, but I will not guess how much per 
acre.—w. l. u. 
Bloomington, III., July H.—A terrific rain¬ 
storm swept over McLean County on the evening 
of July 5, deluging the county with a cataract of 
rain, hurled by swift gusts of wind, which has 
done great damage to crops of all kinds. Far¬ 
mers are now cutting rye, much of which has to¬ 
day been drenched In the shock. Corn Is high 
enough to suffer seriously from breakage of 
stalks, and wheat, oats, grass, and flax are badly 
lodged; also, in low places where the drainage is 
imperfect, water lias been standing for weeks, 
preventing cultivation, until It will take weeks to 
regain possession, m the western part of the 
county and the rolling and bluffy lands along the 
Mackinaw, crops are very vigorous. Gen. Gradly, 
who lias resided here forty-five years, reports 
that, ou Tuesday, he rode thirty miles In North¬ 
western McLean, going north, and thence east 
from Danvers. He believes tbatcorn will average 
three-quarters ol a crop, and that all grains and 
grass are the nuest he ever saw.—c. t. 
Colorado SprlitKx, Col., July 2. — Crops In 
this portion of Colorado have been unusually fa¬ 
vored this season as to weather. The rains espe¬ 
cially have been so abundant that up to the pres¬ 
ent time formers have irrigated hut. little. Wheat, 
oats, corn and grass are in splendid condition 
almost everywhere. Wheat Helds arc not uncom¬ 
mon where the yield has every promise of run¬ 
ning not less than forty bushels to the acre. The 
coi n crop will be just, In time for the grasshop¬ 
pers should they come again this year, but wheat 
and oats will have been safely harvested. Grass 
ou the land below the Irrigating ditches never 
looked better, and will doubtless be ready for cut¬ 
ting In two or three weeks. As very little hay 
will be saved tills year ou the plains, farmers 
heroabout expoet to get a good price fur all they 
can put up. Cattle aro fattening tlnelyonthe 
luxurious pasturage afforded thorn. Many herds 
are already fat, enough for market.—n. a. 
itlnrrngn Co., Ain., June 211.—A few days 
ago, the farmers were exceedingly nervous about 
not getting rain sufficient for the corn crop, but 
now they are saying tuat there is too much, it 
has rained every day for a week past, and when 
it was not raining It has been cloudy; consequent¬ 
ly there has been very little plowing done. Tho 
corn crop may now bu considered sate, and an 
abundant yield may be counted ujron with confi¬ 
dence, even should no more rain fall. The cater¬ 
pillars appear a month earlier In Monroe and 
Clarke than they do In Marengo, and they rarely 
do any damage in the latitude, of Pickens, for tho 
reason that the crop Is made before they appear. 
—j. w.». 
J(n nsiiclil, 1 at., J unc 30.—During a trip of near 
100 miles I have Just made through this parLsh In 
different illrectlons, tho crops presented the most 
promising outlook It has been our good fortune to 
observe In many years, except In ono neighbor¬ 
hood, commencing about three miles south of 
Kcachl. Tills section, not large, seems to have 
suffered both Irom the want of work and rain. 
With one more good season, in ten days this par¬ 
ish will produce the largest crop of corn since the 
war.— a. c. 
CoinmbtiN (trove, <»., July 2.—Wc have had 
considerable rain, still the crops are very promis¬ 
ing. We have not had such wheat crops ror sev¬ 
eral seasons before. Everything Is plenty but 
apples—they arc a failure. Corn Is 30e. per bu.; 
wheat, $ 1.25 ; potatoes are plenty .—u b. 
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The 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 specillc In eases of dyspepsia and Indigestion 
—for which disorders only it is recommended.— 
Lyons llepuDUcun. 
JULY 24 
THE BUBAL NEW-Y0BKEB. 
