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CONDENSED NEW YORK TELEGRAMS. 
Tuesday, Aug. at,- The striking miners In Penn¬ 
sylvania, especially about Wllkesbarre, arc taking 
to tho tramp’s infamous methods of securing a 
lazy livelihood from the neighboring farmers, by 
Intimidation, pilfering, and outrage, and there Is 
every prospect that tho threatened farmers will 
combine for mutual protection. President Hayes 
is received very cordially during his tour through 
New England. The Bannock and Shoshone In¬ 
dians arc volunteering against the Nez Percies. At 
least two satellites have just been discovered at¬ 
tendant upon the planet Mars. 
Wc are told once more that preparations and 
concentrations are being made by Russians and 
Turks for a great battle In Bulgaria. The harvest 
prospects In England are unfortunate so far as 
the wheat crop Is concerned, but good for oats 
and winter beans, and excellent for graziers and 
dairy farmers. Potatoes, hitherto good, are threat¬ 
ened with the bltght. 
Wednesday, Aug. 22.— strikers getting turbu¬ 
lent lu the mining regions. On N. Y. Central and 
Hudson River Railroads, those who took part In 
the late disturbances »re being discharged. The 
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company has just 
passed Into tho control of the Western Union—no 
competition, henceforth, and higher rates In con¬ 
sequence. The* future earnings or both companies 
are to be pooled and shared, is.v, percent, to go to 
the A. <t P. and 87 u, per cent, to the W. u. 
Tho Russians acknowledge a loss of from s ,000 
to 10,»)OO men at the battle of Plevna. Osman 
Pasha, who Is In command there, Is said to be cut 
off by the Intervention of the Russians in his rear 
and between him and Mcbemet All to the East. 
Shlpka Pass, in the Balkans, Is In the hands of the 
Turks, who now hold all the Passes. Pity thou¬ 
sand Turkish militia are to be Immediately con¬ 
centrated at points near the scene of operations. 
Bismarck has returned to hts duties at Berlin. 
Frederick Cairo has rivaled Capt. Webb by swim¬ 
ming across the English Channel from Cape Grlz- 
ney in France, to Dover In England, a distance of 
40 miles. 
TnuRsriAY, Aug. 23.—On the 20th a body of Nez 
Percez stampeded about a hundred or Gen. How¬ 
ard’s pack mules and horses. Three companies 
of cavalry pursued them, lost one killed and 
seven wounded and recovered forty animals. 
Sixty volunteers who had Joined Howard left 
rather than submit to military discipline. A 
number of arrests of Mormons said to have been 
Implicated in bygone outrages have been made In 
Utah. The Governors of Maryland and West 
Virginia have no further need of troops to guard 
against rioters. 
Kournanla is to take an active part In the Eu¬ 
ropean war on the side of Russia. Considerable 
amount of skirmishing with no decided result. 
Germany protests vigorously against. Turkish 
atrocities. Ex - Governor Tllden Is In London, 
Ex-Ambassador Washburnu has been very cor¬ 
dially thanked by the Emperor of Germany for 
his protection to German citizens residing in 
France during the Franco-German war. A Papal 
Ablegate Is about to take up Ills residence in 
Montreal, Canada. 
Frida \ August 24. —Gen. Howard la BtiU mak- i 
ing long marches after the Indians, and they 
short ones ahead of him. They started some 75 
miles In advance or him, and as, according to tel¬ 
egraphic accounts, ho lias since t raveled a couple ( 
of hundred miles more than they have, lie ought , 
to be pretty close, on t heir heels by this time. The j 
government IS making vigorous efforts to stop de¬ 
predations on Its timber lands. The Canadians 
are strongly urgl ng the re-l nactment of reciproci¬ 
ty treaties with this country. 
Melieniet All reports a great victory over the 
Russians near Oz.man Bazar. As at Plevna the 
Muscovites were the attacking party, and met 
with a similar disaster. The Turks are becoming ! 
aggressive everywhere. ’ 
Pat ti has brought suit against her husband to 
declare the marriage null and void, on t he ground 1 
that the priest who performed It, had no legltl- 1 
mate authority to do so. The discovery Is rather ( 
late, and leaves her in a curious position. 
Saturday, Ado. as. -The number of colliers on c 
strike is again increasing. Howard Is one day’s \ 
march behind the Indians, who are pillaging as 0 
they move slowly along, and amusing themselves 
with an occasional murder. Numerous murders £ 
and forgeries recorded; of interest n uly to those * 
effected by them, 1 
Numerous skirmishes between Russians and 
Turks in Europe, with success about evenly dlvld- f 
ed. Shlpka Pass still held by the Russlaus, de- t 
spite former telegrams, but now fiercely assailed o 
by Suleiman l’asba. 
The threatened strike among the miners of r 
Stafford-shire, England, has been averted by a $ 
compromise. a 
e Michigan is assessed this year at $630,000,000. 
h Pine-apples are selling at Key West tor $ 2.60 per 
<1 hundred, 
^ Cotton Is blooming and boiling splendidly In 
3 Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. 
_ The telephone Is In practical use over quite a 
~ number of private wires In New York. 
Florence, 'Texas, claims a cucumber 5 ft. o in. In 
length. “ How’s that tor a cucumber 
We know a shrewd farmer who made a fortune 
1 cultivating weeds. They were a widow’s. 
cast week the Batavia, ill., cheese factory 
shipped i 2 ,utm pounds of cheese to Europe. 
, The Selma Argus says the growing crop In Ala¬ 
bama Is the most promising since the war. 
r While you are fattening on peaches up here, 
; down In Mississippi they are being used to fatten 
1 Plga. 
i The pecan crop, which Is a very Important crop 
for Western Texas, promises to be enormous this 
year. 
A live alligator, four feet long, was found In a 
sewer on One Hundred and Forty-third St., New 
York. 
Within the last ten years the United States has 
sold $43,000,000 worth of arms and ammunitions 
of war to Europe. 
The Murphy movement has commenced in Illi¬ 
nois—they are shipping large quantities of Irish 
potatoes to this city. 
Tobacco growers In the Connecticut Valley say 
that great, damage was done to the crop by last 
week’s storm of wind and hall. 
The whites or Owensboro, Ky., own $2,023,600 
worth of property and 60 dogs; the blacks $19,945 
worth of property and 3S dogs. 
The yield of rattlesnakes is good In Tioga coun¬ 
ty, N. Y., 38 having been killed in one day recently 
at. Mitchell Creek by three men. 
There are now tn Philadelphia too co-operative 
and building loan associations. In which working¬ 
men have nearly $ 10 , 000,000 invested. 
During the past year the 1 nlted states sold 106,- 
000,000 yards of cotton goods abroad, ten times 
more than was exported tho year before. 
Between 8,000 and 10,000 glass eyes are sold an¬ 
nually in the United states. An eye-maker gives 
one In 125 as the proportion of one-eyed people. 
The unused barracks at Carlisle, Pa., are to bo 
repaired and extended to render t hem capable of 
accommodating a large force of Federal troops. 
It la estimated that Louisiana this year will 
make about 10,000 bales cotton, 200,000 hogsheads 
sugar, 300,000 barrels molasses and 160,000 pounds 
rice. 
The cotton report of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture tlxes the general condition of tho crop for 
August at ninety-three per cent, of the average 
crop. 
The reports from all parts of Indiana is that the 
crops are Immense. From present appearances, 
t he State will raise her greatest corn crop this 
year. 
The St. Charles, 111., factory has been doing a 
big business in shipping cheese. Thirty tons of 
cheese were shipped In June, and twenty tons tor 
July. 
l)r. Edward Warren, an American In the Turk¬ 
ish army, Is requested by the Khedive to procure 
the services or a large number of American sur¬ 
geons. 
Iowa has four hundred and twenty-seven base¬ 
ball clubs. Now we understand why the last 
Assembly appropriated $200,000 tor a new Insane 
asylum. 
The cotton manufactories of the world run a 
total of (15,000,000 cotton spindles. Of the spindles 
35,000,000, or more than one-half, are operated In 
England. 
The country has $450,000,000 Invested In to,000,- 
000 milch cows whose annual product Is worth 
$275,142,685, while the last cotton crop was worth 
only $200,000. 
Farmors In nortnwesteru Kansas report a very j 
heavy corn crop. Some expect as high as eight y \ 
to one hundred bushels per acre; general average 
not less than fifty, 
A post-mortem examination on the body of a 
New York man who had died of consumption, ' 
showed t.lmt the heart was on the right side and 
tho liver on the left. 
The amount of milk received daily In New York 
from Massachusetts la about 1,000 cans each con¬ 
taining 40 quarts. Occasionally the supply ex¬ 
ceeds this quantity. 
The English sparrows are turning from the diet 
of warms to feed on the gnffu tleldsand;on crumbs 
from tables. The change In taste is not highly | 
appreciated by farmers. s 
Piece goods from American cotton mills are now 
sold lu every town In England, at a lower price j 
and of better quality than English goods of a 
nominally corresponding grade. * 
Virginia State bonds have gone up $t in all the c 
money markets of the w orld since the adoption of 1 
tho platform of good faith. This Is the tlrst lesson t 
and the earliest fruits of honesty. s 
A new )dea. The Kendall county, Illinois Ag¬ 
ricultural Board Include In their list of premiums c 
$ 100 , to be divided Into tour prizes for the largest 1 
and best organized Sunday schools. 1 
A lawsuit, begun In Indiana fourteen years ago* 
to recover $7.50 for use of a water privilege, lias 
recently been ended by a decision In favor of the 
defendant. The costs amount to $ 2 , 000 . 
In Hartford, Conn., a physician has been em¬ 
ployed to go through the public schools and exam¬ 
ine the eyes of the pupils. He found that a large 
proportion were more or less near-sighted. 
Captain R. King, of Santa Gertrudes, Texas, la 
making the slight addition of sixty-three miles to 
his pasture fence, Inclosing altogether when all 
completed 160,000 acres, all fine pasture land. 
Rebecca A ndersoB, or Senccca Falls, New York, 
ts thought to be the champion old maid. She Is 
112 yean? of age, and no longer swings on her 
lather’s front gate, looking tor the coming man. 
The competitive examination for Congressman 
M ullcr’s West Point cadetship resulted In the se¬ 
lection of Charles Minnie, a colored boy born In 
Troy, n. Y. who stood highest among 11 compe¬ 
titor*. 
It, Is reported In Paris that Mme, Adeline Patti 
has telegraphed to Max Strakosch that she has 
accepted his offer to pay her $ 2,000 each tor fifty- 
one operatic performances In this country next 
season. 
The number of postage stamps, stamped envel¬ 
opes and newspaper wrappers issued by tho Post- 
Office Department during the year ending June 
30, was 1,060,363,909, the value of which was 
$26,526,836. 
The occupants of 600 shanties along the lines of 
New York railroads, make a living by planting 
corn and potatoes between the rails and the 
fences. 11 Is said that 9,060 acres are cultivated 
In this way. 
The Milwaukee, Wls., estimates from reliable 
data that the wheaterop of Wisconsin, Minnesota, 
Iowa and Kansas for 1877, will be 56,ooo,ooo bush¬ 
els larger than it was In 1876. The quality is also 
super-excellent. 
The official grand list or tho State or Connecti¬ 
cut, on tiie assessment of October last, has just 
been completed, and roots up $344,400,977, which 
ts a falling off of over seven million dollars from 
the previous year. 
New York State formerly supplied Canada with 
cheese, and finally educated her English neighbor 
to take the medal at the Centennial for the best 
cheese. Now Canada sends 50 , 000,000 pounds an¬ 
nually to England. 
There Is a well In Wise county, Texas, no feet 
deep, which ordinarily has an abundant supply 
ol water .at all seasons of the year, but from which, 
when the wind blows twelve hours from the north, 
no water can be drawn. 
The longest drought, that ever occurred In Amer¬ 
ica was in the summer of 1762. No rain fell from 
the- brat of May to the first, of September, making 
123 days without ruin. Many of the Inhabitants 
sent to England tor hay and gram. 
Akron, Otilo, is a city or about i f,500 Inhabi¬ 
tants, and lias twcnly-Elx manufacturing estab¬ 
lishments, which turn out an annual aggregate 
value of $9,160,060. This Is a product of over $600 
tor every man, woman child In the city. 
It la estimated that, 20,000 oil wells have thus far 
been dqg In Pennsylvania and West Virginia, at 
an aggregate cost, of $122,000,000. They have yield¬ 
ed about 88 . 000,000 barrels or oil, valued at. the 
wells at $300,000,000, or $ 400 , 000,000 at the seaboard 1 
The severe drought which has prevailed in 
W estern Texas for several weeks continues. Some 
crops lire beginning to suff er. Hot weather pre¬ 
vails there and at. other points In Texas, Die ther¬ 
mometer ranging from 9o‘ to mo* in the middle of 
the day. 
Mr. M. McNulty cl' San Francisco lost his be¬ 
loved wife and two children, and in his grier, as a 
witness testified, “took hold of a Chinaman to 
throw him Into the bay. to keep up his conrage- 
llke.” The grlef-strlckcn husband and father was 
lined $ 160 . 
An Englishman claims to have discovered a pro¬ 
cess by which he can convert the whole o( the 
juice expressed from the cane Into crystaB/.cd 
sugar, without the residuum of molusset, This, if 
true, will work a great revolution in a very Impor¬ 
tant Industry. 
New York dealers In oats have made the follow¬ 
ing change In grades: Extra and extra white oa ts 
shall not weigh over thirty-live pounds to the 
bushel measure; No. 1 and i white oats nut over 
thirty-two, and No. 2 and No. 2 white oats not 
over twenty-nine. 
Germany continues to lead Ireland in sending 
emigrants to the United Steles, and last month 
England led her by several li undred. Of 6,713 im¬ 
migrants landing tn New York for the week end¬ 
ing Aug. 18 , Germany sent 1,552; England, 1 . 238 , 
Ireland, 916, and Austria, 412, the remainder com¬ 
ing from other foreign countries. 
The accounts received of the peach crop in New 
Jersey are encouraging, and it, is estimated that 
it will reach as high as 13, 000,000 or 20,000.000 bask¬ 
ets, and t he fannera of the State are highly elat¬ 
ed. It Is proposed to repeat Hie experiment of 
shipping them to Europe this summer. 
The magnitude of photography as an Industry 
has received striking must ration from the Jigures 
presented at the late session of the Berlin Photo¬ 
graphic .society. During the past year 40 , 000,000 
cartes-de-vlslte were produced in Germany; the 
number of photographers employed was 3,000, and 
the quantity 01 nitrate of silver used was about 
9,000 pounds. 
An artesian well, which has reached to a depth 
of 1377 feet, Is being bored at Charleston, s. c. 
Thirteen hundred and seventy feet of piping have 
been Inserted, and as fast as the depth is lucreas- 
a ed more piping will he used, until a stratum Is 
s reached sufficiently hard to render this unneces- 
0 sary. One small head of water has been reached, 
but tt was so small that it has been shut off. 
- One of the tobacco warehouses of Paducah. Ky., 
- has sold since the beginning of business in 1868, 
) 79,648 hogsheads of tobaoco. Its sales last, year 
went over 14,000 hodsheads, and bas reached al- 
, ready tills season, on a short crop, 7,420 hogsheads, 
, and will go to about 9.000 by t he closeof theseason. 
This, It is claimed. Is the largest business done 
by any one house in the world In the same time. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
There are said to be 300,000 barmaids In Great 
Britain. 
There are 1,096 women to every 1,000 men in 
Scotland. 
Out of a population of 5, 411 ,416, Ireland has 
4,141,933 Roman Catholics. 
The freedom of the city of Cork has been ex¬ 
tended to Chief Justice Shea of the New York 
Marine Court. 
In France, they estimate the dally consumption 
of bread at 2 pounds per person; In England not 
quite 13 ounces. 
Garibaldi says this Is Greece's chance, and as 
he was once a soap boiler he certainly is compe¬ 
tent to express an opinion. 
France possesses steam-engines of an aggregate 
force of 1,600,000 horse power. This Is equal to 
the effective labor of 31,000,000 men. 
In tbe pampas of Buenos Ayres there are 12 . 000 - 
000 cows and 3 , 000,000 burses that have owners, 
while there are also great numbers of wild 
herds. 
A large mushroom has forced its way through 
twelve inches of concrete, covered with a thick 
layer of asphalte, In the floor of the Savings Bank 
department of the General Post-office in Loudon. 
Gas of good quality in London Is $1.10 per 1000 
cubic feet. Sixty million dollars Is tbe capital of 
the companies that now furnish that city. Divi¬ 
dends of more than ten percent art* prohibited by 
law. 
About 100 tons of cheesu were on offer at the 
Salisbury, England, monthly market, In July. 
The value was somewhat lessened from June 
prices, although there was a decided Improvement 
In the quality. 
A gentleman In England committed suicide the 
other day, and left a paper stating that lie did so 
because his wife was a great deal to good for lilm. 
Of course, tliu jury returned a verdict that the 
fellow was Insane. 
The report of the Irish Local Government Board 
shows the smallest number of paupers tor last 
year ever lu Irish workhouses—l3,ooo. The total 
expenditure on the Irish Poor-Law, for all pur¬ 
poses, Is $5,000,000. 
The Russian Government has been unsuccessful 
In tbe placing of the home loan of 20o,i)0o,no0 rou¬ 
bles; for, despite, the urgent appeals made to the 
patriotism ot the people, only halt the amount 
has been subscribed. 
During the last, six months Russia has exported 
$ 13 , 000,000 worth of wheat, against. #s, 000,000 worth 
for the same period last year, showing that she 
has food enough tor her own people and a hand¬ 
some surplus beside. 
since the year is7i the butter production of 
Franco has Increased from $s,isn,000 to $16,660,000 
In 1876, and the egg interest In the same period 
from $4,5so,ooo to $ 9,350 000 . This year the latter, 
has had au lnoi incus Increase on l Ik; product of 
last year. 
French butter com mauds a higher price In En¬ 
gland than that rrom Denmark or .Sweden. The 
farmers sell It fresh, while the dealers grade and 
salt to suit their customers* taste, preserving the 
natural Uavor and aroma. Brazil, next to En¬ 
gland, Is the largest market for butter. 
At the close of the year there were 2.430 public 
schools under the school hoards In Scotland—an 
Increase of lot from the previous year. The num¬ 
ber of children on the roll was 345,791, and tbe 
average attendance 263,785, the Increase compared 
with 1875, being 37,836 and 30,055 respectively. 
In the department of the Aube In France, 
special attention Is paid to the fattening or calves. 
The milk of three cows is given to a calf fora 
period of three months, at t he expiration or which 
Lime It will weigh from 350 to 450 pounds, at 
which time it is sold at a high price in Paris mar¬ 
ket. 
Cattle will thrive on rrom two weight pounds 
of molasses per head dally, lu Central Europe 
large numbers of cattle are fattened upon the 
residue or the beet root used In the sugar refiner¬ 
ies; also on the beet molasses. In cases of epi¬ 
demics eattle led with molasses are seldom at¬ 
tacked. 
The manufacture of sugar from beet roots Is 
ralllug off heavily In France. The quantity of 
juice treated up to the end of tho month of June, 
7877, was 46.78S.375 hectoliters, as against s 5 .ouo,- 
000 hectoliters at the corresponding date or the 
previous season, and Its quality also was slightly 
interior 1.0 that of last year. The yield of sugar 
obtained rrom it was, in round numbers, 273, 000 ,- 
000 kilogrammes, as against 48l s 0uo,000 kilogram¬ 
mes in June, 1876. 
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