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CONDENSED NEW YORK TELEGRAMS. 
Tuesday, August 14,—In Scranton, Pa., four In¬ 
dependent military 'organizations have been 
formed by the citizens, and t he strikers are also 
drilling In the neighboring woods. From Wllks- 
bat re, the strikers are bulldozing the farmers by 
sending details through the country xolicUinq 
provisions. The Canadians ask $14,000,000 (!) for 
permission to citizens of the United states to 
fish In their waters. On the morning of the 10th, 
a party or Mexicans attacked the Jail at Kio 
Grande City, Texas, liberated two notorious crim¬ 
inals, and killed the County Attorney and two 
Jailors. Senator O. V. Morton, or Indiana has 
been stricken with partial paralysis. 
Balkan Passes evacuated by Russians and occu¬ 
pied by Turks. Horrible accounts of rapine, mas¬ 
sacre and outrage from both sides. A cargo of 
fresh meat has arrived at Rouen, France, after o 
voyage of 112 days, from the river Plutto, South 
America. 
Wednesday, August 15.—Coal Companies about 
Plosion, Pa., have compromised with their men 
at ten per cent, advance on present wages. Chief 
Joseph, A Co., reported on thatr way back to Sal¬ 
mon River, with Howard close behind them. 
Skirmishing only, on both sides In Europe and 
Asia, with several minor advantages for the 
Turks. English Parliament prorogued until Octo¬ 
ber. Terrible famine In Madras and Bombay; 
half a minion people already dead from starva¬ 
tion, and l$,oeo,ooosuffering from hunger. 
Thursday, Aug. to. -Yesterday, 40,000 citizens 
and soldiers assembled at Bennington, Vt„, to cel¬ 
ebrate the centenary Of Col. Stark’s victory over 
Duygoy ne’a forces. President Hayes and several 
members of his Cabinet were present. Usual 
speeches and enthusiasm. Nearly 12,son veterans 
Of the Mexican war are still living to clamor for 
pensions. Demand has been made on the Mexi¬ 
can anrhoiilles for the surrenderor the raiders 
on Rio Grande CUy and the outlaws they liberated. 
No news of Importance from the seat of war in 
Europe. In several skirmishes the Russians are. 
reported to have been defeated—news that has 
lately got to be somewhat monotonous. They 
have built another bridge over the Danube, and 
across It arc pouring heavy reinforcements Into 
Bulgaria. Scrvla and Roumania have formed an 
alliance. Au unimportant republican conspiracy 
has been discovered and suppressed In Spain. An 
American schooner levs been tired Into by a Span¬ 
ish war vessel oil the Cuban coast. An order has 
been Issued la England forbidding the landing of 
the leaves or stalks or potatoes from the United 
States, Canada, or Germany. 
Friday, August it. The Erie Railroad com¬ 
pany are busy arresting those who lately Inter- 
ferred with trade on their property. Hair the 
strikers In the Maryland coal mines are again at 
work at the rates they demanded. R. T. Daniel, 
Attorney-Gen. of Virginia, who was lately renomi¬ 
nated, died suddenly yesterday, tit the ago or 72. 
The LI pan and Kickapoo Indians are killing each 
other down In Texas. Discouraging accounts of I 
gold-prospecting in the Black Hills come Lorn 
Senator Spencer, who lias been out there Inves¬ 
tigating. 
The Sultan has called to arms all the male In 
habitants under 40 in bis dominions. Geneial 
Guurkba has been sent to St. Petersburg to take 
command of the Imperial Guards. The Russians 
have raised the selge or RustChuck Which they 
have been lately fiercely bombarding. The Rus¬ 
sians officially acknowledge the loss ol 14,459 men 
killed and wounded up to the 9th or August. 
Many Greeks all over the East are returning to 
their own country to volunteer against the Turks. 
A great strike Is threatened among the coal 
miners of Staffordshire, Ragland. Switzerland 
asked for a loan of six million francs and has been 
offered six limes that amount. 
Saturday, Aug. isth.-Of the 8,000 troops called 
out by Gov. HrrLranft of Pennsylvania to put 
down the Haters all but about 1300 have been 
sent home, but owing to recent indications ol 
lawlessness two more regiments of militia have 
been called out for three months service. Near 
Bethlehem, Pa., the Mollle Maguires have mur¬ 
dered a intnlngboHH who disregarded tUclr warning 
to quit that part or the country on ooeount of his 
readiness to work with “black log” operatives. 
All Is peaceable In Maryland, the militia have 
all been withdrawn, and the Governor has thanked 
thet.s. Authorities for their assistance m pre¬ 
venting and queuing disturbances. Three of the 
raiders on lUo Grande CUy have already been 
captured by the Mexican military authorities who 
promise to enforce order along the border. 
Tile Turks seem to be making a vigorous effort 
to cut off the communication of the left wing of 
the Russian army in the Dobrudscha. The Rus¬ 
sians arc making preparation for a lung war. 
New York Savings Banks had on deposit Jan. 1, 
$851,822,147. 
Massachusetts pays out $5,000,919 per annum 
for farm wages. 
California has shipped 25,000,000 pounds of wool 
since January 1. 
The Orlskany Celebration Committee find that 
they are $200 short. 
The other day Boston shipped son live sheep to 
Antwerp on a steamer. 
One steamer recently brought forty thousand 
watermelons to Boston. 
Ohio raised 15,000,000 bushels of apples from 
881,000 acres of orchards. 
The lumbermen of the Kennebec are extremely 
short of lumber ror the season. 
Syracuse has manufactured 700,000 bushels more 
salt, thus far this year than last. 
One of the scraps ol the Pittsburg riot Is 8,000 
tons of scrap iron offered for sale. 
Jn the educational classification of the States, 
North Carolina stands next to the foot. 
It Is said the wheat, crop of Missouri will yield 
80,000,000 bushels of wheat this autumn. 
Tlio drive-well question has reached Utica, N. 
Y., and pupers have been served on several par¬ 
ties. 
The enormous quantity of 420,000,000 pounds of 
rosin was produced in the United States for the 
year 1870, 
it Is claimed that the Kalamazoo, Mich., wool- 
dealers have bandied about $200,000 worth or wool 
this season. 
At Deadwood, 1). T., a reward of $250 lias been 
offered for every Indian captured In the county, 
dead or alive. 
The export of butter from New York city in 
July, was 2,580,824 pounds, and that of cheese, 
17.502,aiu pounds. 
There are 12,000 dentists In the United states. 
The proportion of persons having sound teeth Is 
only one In eighty. 
Seven tons of Eastern hickory nuts have been 
received by Mr. sillsou of the Willows, San Jose, 
Cal., for planting. 
Eggs are kept fresh for years In Scotland, by 
rubbing them with oil or butter when newly laid 
80 ns to stop the pores. 
Ex-Minister Schonek has bought the finest farm 
In the vicinity of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and will 
engage In raising stock. 
There was a Shower of ants at Elmira on the 
18th Inst. Superstition has it that when ants fly 
cholera may be expected. 
Louisiana's corn crop will bo the largest, slnco 
the war; and the crops generally are reported to 
be excellent throughout the state. 
Peruvian guano was first Introduced into Eng¬ 
land In 1840; at first It arrived In casks, soon after 
in cargo lots, and sold at $120 per ton. 
People at Exeter, N. 11., who have been sickened 
by eating eggs, attributed It to lions eating potato 
bugs, which In their turn had eaten Purls green. 
We take annually $ 35 , 000,000 worth of coli'ee 
from Brazil. We pay for It In Hour, lard, coal oil, 
lumber, machinery, and other things, and—gold. 
Farmers In the vicinity of Troy, N. V. are al¬ 
ready bringing new rye to market. The price 
thus far has not fallen below seventy-five cents 
per bushel. 
Three Arabian sheep, the first of the kind ever 
Imported to this country, landed last week at this 
port, on their way to the Zoological Gardens at 
Philadelphia. 
The long struggle over the question whether 
the Pcnne&t exhibition at Philadelphia shall bo 
opened on Sunday is finally ended by a decision In 
the affirmative. 
There Is on a Kentucky farm a peach tree that 
measures four foot In circumference one loot 
above the ground, and forty-three feet from tip 
to tip of tlie limbs. 
The valuation 01 the whole State of Michigan Is 
$<58U,<100,090, and the state tax for this year la 
$1,071,021.00, The new eapitotitem Is double any 
other, and 13 $132,500. 
it Is estimated that $400,000 have been paid tills 
year by Oregon dealers In agricultural implements 
for freight alone, one firm In Salem has paid 
$ 55,000 for the purpose. 
It coat New Jersey $ 10,000 a day to keep lls 
militia under arms during the lorlnlght’s rebellion 
In that Stale, to say nothing of the loss of the 
men's wages during the time. 
The pear crop along the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., 
which promised well a few days ago, Is now being 
rapidly destroyed by blight, which not only de¬ 
stroys the irult, but the trees us well. 
One establishment In Burlington, Now Jersey, 
cans 600 bushels of peas dally. It Is estimated 
that 100,000 cans of peas and 100,000 cans of toma¬ 
toes will be put up before the summer Is over. 
The female models of New York have struck 
for an advance of twenty per cent. They could 
not, “buy bread lor their lamllles” at $2.50 an 
hour, and the artists have struck for the country. 
An ice machine In Dallas, Texas, Just finished, 
produces loo cakes thirty foot long and six feet 
wide, weighing from 10,000 to 12,000 pounds each. 
They are formed by freezing tine rain or spray. 
The works cost $30,000. 
The famous Kentucky natural bridge over Caney 
creek, in Elliott county, broke In the center of 
Its arch, a few days ago, and fell in magnificent 
ruins. 
The Louisiana planters annually lose about 
one-tlilrd of their cotton crops by reason of Insuf¬ 
ficient labor. They call loudly for laborers from 
the North. 
About, 100 owners of driven wells at, Pittsfield, 
Cheshire, WIlllniMtown and elsewhere In Mass., 
have engaged counsel to oppose the collection of 
the $lu royally. 
A farmer writes to the Elmira Farmers’ Club 
that alcohol Is a safe and sure cure for lice on ani¬ 
mals, tnjuilng neither hair nor skin, and It Is sel¬ 
dom put to so noble a use. 
It is reported from Orange County, Vt, that the 
great, army of grasshoppers, which hasbeen doing 
great damage, is rapidly disappearing. A kind of 
red lice is destroying them. 
Five lines of railroad furnished 77.000 men In the 
recent, strike, or about one half of the whole num¬ 
ber. The persons thrown out of employment by 
the strike were perhaps five times as many as the 
strikers. 
The number of miles or railroad on which the 
strike produced an entire stoppage of traffic was 
1 1,242, and the gross receipts lost by the railroads 
during the suspension of business arc estimated 
at $15,000,000. 
The United States during the first ten months 
of the present commercial year, sent to England 
18,775,845 bushels of wheat of the 34,059,605 bush¬ 
els Imported Into the United Kingdom from all 
countries during that period. 
A uew grapevine parasite has been found In So¬ 
noma Co., Cal., and Is doing much harm. In many 
respects, It resembles the winged form of the phyl¬ 
loxera, though the wings are shorter and the body 
rounder than the descriptions of that pest. 
Probably the only coffee tree in New England Is 
one growing on Eagle island at- Newburyporl, 
Mass., which sprung from coffee smuggled during 
the time of the embargo. The tree bears, but the 
berries do not, ripen, and have very little of the 
coffee taste. 
Tho absolute net, loss to Chicago by reason of 
the late Mots, Is estimated at $ 1 , 250 , 000 , or an av¬ 
erage) of $2.50 per head or tho entire population of 
tho city. In addition to this, there was a loss 
nearly as heavy by tho stoppage of wages and 
of manufacturing. 
A legal bushel of oats must weigh thirty pounds 
Iff Maine, New Hampshire and New Jersey; thir¬ 
ty-four pounds In Canada, thirl,y-slx pounds In 
Oregon, thlrty-fivo in Missouri, thirty-three In 
Iowa, and thirty-two pounds In Massachusetts, 
New York and most Other Slates, 
More than 00,000 pounds of beef butter made 
from beef fat Is weekly consigned from Philadel¬ 
phia to one London linn or provision merchants, 
and It Is only a short, time slnco an order for no 
loss than 4,600,111)0 pounds was equally divided be¬ 
tween a New York and a Philadelphia firm. 
Now Y'orlc’s richest mlUtonalrles are rated as 
followsWilliam 11. Vanderbilt, $75,000,000 ; Jobu 
Jacob Aster, $50,000,000; Wm, Aster, $30,000,000 ; 
Peter Goelet, (estate) $25,000,000; Russel .sage, 
$12,000,000 ; Moses Taylor, Judge llllton, Frederick 
Stevens, and Catherine Wolfe, each, flu,000,000, 
According to the last census Micro was lathe 
country a manufacturing capital of $ 2 ,lis, 2 os, 7 co, 
and to operate this workmen was employed to 
whom were paid annually, $TV5,6 -i,3(:i. in farm¬ 
ing there was n capital of $9.699,0*2,290, und the 
amount or wages and board paid annually to farm 
laborers was $810,280,285, 
While Mr. l'arton, tho well-known author, In the 
East has married his stop-daughter, und an un¬ 
known farmer in Nelson County, Ky., his step¬ 
mother, it has been reserved for a clergyman’s 
sou In Walton’s Lick. Ky., to outstrip them both 
by the remarkable matrimonial feat of carrying 
off his step-grandmother. 
Europe Is now taking surprisingly large quan¬ 
tities of American fruit.. The purchases amount 
to over $2,500,000 worth since lust .1 une, compared 
with $600,000 In the sumo period the year before. 
Dried apples figure largely. This country exported 
over 12,000,000 pounds since last June, compared 
with 622,000 pounds tlio previous year. 
The latest, In the amusement line, and one very 
popular among the Vermont farmers, Is the "corn 
1 oast.” Tho getter-up invites Ids friends, builds 
a large tire in the yard or field, around which all 
gather and proceed to toast green corn on sharp¬ 
ened sticks. Songs, stories and jukes are sand¬ 
wiched In until weariness drives them Into tho 
house. 
There Is trouble about affording Instruction In 
agriculture lu Vermont. The Agricultural Col¬ 
lege grant was made over to the State University; 
it yields an annual Income of $2,7(10. Still the 
University lias nor, increased Rs faculty, and it. is 
said, has made no provision for teaching agri¬ 
culture except to assign a single professor to that 
branch and then discharge him. 
There la considerable business now done In the 
west in (trying egg*, which, when properly 
done, are said to retain their original llavor and 
omor characteristics. They are heated to a uni¬ 
form consistency and poured In thin layers upon 
polished iron plates, when they are placed in a 
current of hot air and dry rapidly. They arc 
then put Into liermeiloully sealed cans for future 
use. 
The capacity of Louisiana to produce] BUgarJls 
practically unlimited. The crop of last season. 
190,072,670 pounds, was raised on about 108,000 
acres ol land only, being at tho rate of tsiT pounds 
of sugar and 114 gallons of molasses to each acre 
actually cultivated. Of the 20 million acres of 
land In Loulslanna, there are at the lowest calcu¬ 
lation live millions adapted to the growth of 
sugar, and each of* these acres would have to 
produce only 2S6 pounds of tho staple to furnish 
tho United states with all the sugar they need, 
which amounted last year to 1,429,000,000 pounds. 
A Pittsburg paper announces the organization 
of a mysterious secret order called the Universal 
Brotherhood. It Is composed of laborers, mechan¬ 
ics, and farmers. Lawyers, doctors, preachers, 
politicians, office holders, bankers, bondholders, 
and speculators, are rigidly excluded. No man Is 
admitted to membership who is not engaged In 
some active industry Involving manual labor. The 
order already numbers thousands, and will soon 
be organized In every ward In Pittsburg. Its ob¬ 
ject Is to unite the laboring classes of every grade 
and profession In a common Interest throughout 
the United States. 
The special co-operation and attendance of the 
officers of the various Departments and Boards of 
Agriculture, stat e Agricultural Societies and Ag¬ 
ricultural Colleges, and of the editors of Agricul¬ 
tural Periodicals throughout the country Is solic¬ 
ited. On tho efforts of these three classes of edu¬ 
cators the advance of agricultural Intelligence 
largely depends; and consultation with ono an¬ 
other, and with representatives of the agricultu¬ 
ral class wtU do much to direct, and energize their 
work. \V. C. Flagg, Pres,, Horace T. Smith, Bee. 
Moro, III. We call attention again to the tact 
that, tho Sixth Annual Session of tho National 
Agricult ural Congress, w ill be. held fit thoGraud 
Pacific Hotel, in the city of Chicago, on Tuesday, 
Wednesday and Thursday, September 25t.h, 26 th 
and 27th, 1877, commencing at 10 A. M. on Tues¬ 
day. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
In England the price of beef lias advanced 
thirty-five per Cent. In twenty years. 
| L In Franco ns In Spain tho ravages of the phyl¬ 
loxera arc over, and the vines It was feared were 
totally destroyed promise to bear again. 
At the enforced sale of thirty-one. Polish estates 
for arrears of t axes only orthodox Russians and 
evangelical Germans were permitted to bid tor 
them. 
Tlio City of Liverpool expends $8,600,600 annu¬ 
ally In maintaining and extending Its docks, 
which Is more than the entire river and harbor 
appropriation of the United .States. 
l.i I pale, Germany, offers an award of $75 for 
some practical method of ascertaining, In a few 
momenta, whether tho article about to be exam¬ 
ined Is really butter, Or whether It, Is oleomarga 
rlne. 
Well may It be said that Kent Is the garden of 
England, w hen a fruit grower can send to market 
In 011 c day 2,3U<> pecks, about sixteen tons weight 
of stra wberries, as was actually done a couple of 
weeks ego, 
A Canadian ox weighing 5,000 pounds Is attract¬ 
ing great, attention In England. He Is exhibited 
in a building on the lawn in Surrey Gardens. The 
Prince und Princess of Wales lately called and 
paid their respects to him. 
They have election funds m France as well as 
in this Republic. M. de Rothschild subscribed 
:» 0 fl,rwo fanes, and M. Dreyfus 200 , 000 , to the elec¬ 
tioneering fund of tho Right Centre. This is 
esteemed a great victory for tho Ministerial 
party. 
The London General Omnibus Company offers 
a reward of a thousand dollars for uu invention 
which will effectually prevent fraud b.v the con¬ 
ductors of horse cars. Tho stockholders will 
eventually have to do their own eoiiductorlng If 
they want ail the receipts brought into the com¬ 
pany's till. 
A recent paper, read before the London statisti¬ 
cal Society, gave some particulars as to tlio popu¬ 
lations of Russia and Turkey. Tlie former of 
these empires lias 84,584,432 Inhabitants, tlie. 
latter only 25 ,!>s 6 ,feGs, or Including Egypt, Tripoli 
amt Tunis, t3,40S,900. The population of Rou- 
nianla Is 4,s50,u00, of Ben ia 1,352,500. 
The employment of w omen lu tlie telegraph do 
partment has been u complete success I n England 
Over l.UKi are employed la London, and there has 
been but one dismissal in tour years. Their 
hours of work are from s A. M. to s P. M., each 
being on duty eight consecutive hours out of 
those twelve. In the establishment there is a 
kitchen and dining-rooms, and tho girls have a 
thoroughly good dinner for 20 eonts. The pay be¬ 
gins at $2 a week, which Is raised toft when a 
girl is competent. Girls may enter from fourteen 
to eighteen. The average pay received is $4.50 a 
week, and the highest Is $7.30 a week. 
The surface of European Russia alone Is about 
equal to that which Gibbon estimates for the 
whole Roman Empire, namely, 1 , 000,000 square 
miles. With all the acquisitions made since the 
time of Catherine, tho Russian Empire Is still 
second In magnitude to the British, the latter 
being estimated to covers svi.Rir, square miles of 
the earth’s surface, and t he former 8,325,398 square 
miles. When the “Emperor of all tuehussias” 
rules by Ills autocratic will nearly K5, 000,000 of 
subjects, no less titan about 280 , 000,000 yield alle¬ 
giance to Queen Victoria. 
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