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Tukkuay, Aug. 28.—Convicts huvo boon set to 
work Instead of miners at the Coal Creek Colliery, 
near Knoxville, Tenth, and trouble la apprehend¬ 
ed. Strikes and Intimidation still continue.among 
the Pennsylvania cotlcrtes. Mexicans have agreed 
to extradite outlaws who attacked Rio Grande 
City. Chief .Joseph and party are still killing 
right and loft, is peaceable citizens having lately 
been slaughtered IB one day. 
Fighting still at Shlpka Pass. Both parties are 
pouring heavy masses of troops towards that 
point, the Russians from Ltio North and the Turks 
from the south of the Balkan range. 
Wednesday, Aug. 29 .— The mining troubles in 
Pennsylvania are abating. Too many miners for 
the amount of work to be done. The sixth .Mary¬ 
land Regiment which fired on the crowd and 
killed eleven, has disbanded. Half a dozen State 
Governors out of forty-six invited from the States 
and Territories, are on a visit to Philadelphia. 
Three thousand of the Smith family are to have a 
family reunion at Peapack, N. J. The State 
Saving Institution of Chicago has failed, the 
President lied, and half a dozen other Saving 
Banks arc In danger of collapsing. Senator Mor¬ 
ton Is Improving. Gen. Howard’s men are worn 
out; the Indians are lively, having Just killed 
several parties of civilians and captured 300 
horses. There Is a movement on foot to increase 
freight rates on railroads. 
A dozen contradictory telegrams concerning 
the battles at Shlpka Pass; the latest Insisting 
that the Turks have captured It. Great sickness 
among the Muscovites, the Czar seriously unwell 
and advised by Ids physicians to leave for a 
healthier locality. Gen. Grant starts to-day for 
Scotland. Ex-GoV. Tllden Is rusticating In Kent 
The Pope is very weak uud preparations are 
being made hy the Cardinals for the election of 
his successor in the event of his death. A ship¬ 
ment oi tOWjOOO gold Just, made to tills country 
from London: result of the change In the balance 
of trade. 
Prospects of wheat harvest In Franco In two 
departments are very good; In sixteen good; in 
two pretty good ; In thirty-two poor, and In nine 
bad. The oat prospect Is very good in four de¬ 
partments; good In twenty-seven; pretty good 
In twenty-eight; poor In twenty-one, and bad Iti 
two. The ryo prospect Is very good In four de¬ 
partments; good In ten; pretty good In fifteen ; 
poor In thirty-two, and very bad in eleven. 
TnuitsDAy, August. 30.—At four o'clock on 
Wednesday afternoon Brigham Young died In the 
Lion House, Hall Lake City. Disease said to be 
cholera morbus, brought on by indigestion 
through eating a meal Imprudently on an ex¬ 
tremely warm day. The chief .Mormons are 
gathering to the city. The Mexicans an the bor¬ 
der are rich In promises, hut poor in performance, 
and army officers and others are getting dis¬ 
gusted. A railroad train was wrecked by the 
caving lu of a culvert over Four Mile Creek near 
lies Moines, Iowa ; upwards of twenty killed and 
many seriously wounded. A third satellite of 
Mars was discovered on August 20, by 1)r. Dra- 
pkr of New York, and Professor Hoi.okn of Wash¬ 
ington, SJt.tlug-Bull with 1,300 warriors Is said to 
have returned to the United States and to be 
encamped near Fort Belknap. The Commission 
being organized to visit him la Canada Is there¬ 
fore at a standstill. The Noz Porces liavo got 
across thu Yellowstone below the lake, and above 
the falls, klltlug two parties of visitors to the Gey¬ 
sers, but sparing the ladles. 
Across thh Atlantic the tight lu the Shlpka 
Pars Is still undecided; the slaughter there 
has been heavy; the Russians acknowledged 
a loss of 3,ooo in two days’ battle. General 
Grant has arrived In Kdlburgh. The famine 
In India Is heart-rending. The dead lino the 
roadways, and dll the lonely cottages. Fully 
2 - 1 , 0110,000 live In the amteted regions, and at leaut 
one-sixth of these must perish of starvation. 
What are the horrors of this barbarous war In 
comparison to those or this terrible famine ! The 
London Times says of the Harvest prospects of 
Great Britain : "Reports from our own provincial 
districts tell US that heavy rain la general and Is 
causing considerable anxiety, while lu the mld- 
laud countries the gathering in of the harvest ls 
seriously Impeded. The Black Hoa is practically 
closed, and we have, therefore, every reason to 
expect that we must nut only take a very much 
larger quantity of grain from the United states 
than we have required In former years, but that 
wo must pay a much higher price for It. Rain 
has fallen In torrents all over the North of Scot¬ 
land almost without Intermission slnoo last 
night. The harvest reports from all quarters are 
most desponding. Floods have caused great dam¬ 
age In South Wales. The weather In the English 
midlands and elsewhere Is also very bad.” 
Friday, Aug. 31.—Gen. Merritt has been ordered 
to take command of a column of cavalry to oper¬ 
ate against the Nez I’erccs. The developments 
In the broken Chicago Savings Bank show a great 
deal of swindling by spencer, Its President, and 
the other directors. Ben de Bar, the actor, Is 
dead. Several fatal railroad accidents. 
Fighting still In the Shlpka Pass. Plevna said 
to be surrounded by the Russians. The Poles aro 
restless. The French elections will be held on 
Sunday, Oct. U. Gambet.ta will be tried In Paris. 
Saturday, Kept. 1. -The excursionists to the 
Yellowstone region are having a dangerous time 
of It, as chief .foseph aud company have killed a 
number of them, captured others and scared all. 
No news of Sitting Bull. The main part of Paris 
Mo., has been burnt. Loss from Si,000,000 to $1,- 
600,000. 
A great battle was fought on Thursday lu the 
valley of the Lorn In Bulgaria. Russian loss put 
down at 4,000, Turkish at 3,ooo. The latter 
attacked and forced the former to retreat from 
their strong lines along the Lorn. An attack by 
Turks on Russians in Asia was repulsed with a 
loss of 400 men. Gen. Grant has been foletl at. 
Edinburgh and has received the "freedom” of 
that city. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The State dent of Virginia is $40,000,000. 
An Tthlca man has Invented an 18-day watch. 
The Rochester Union reports peach trees dying 
in that, vicinity. 
Tho existence Of an „ r ” In this month causes 
the death of many an oyster. 
Six colleges furnish waiters for the Glen House 
at the White Mountains this Summer. 
The San Francisco Alta estimates that there 
are about90,000 Clduamen m California. 
The bee keepers of the United States will hold 
a national Convention In New York In October. 
One-third of all the anthracite coal In the 
United la owned by the Reading Railway Com¬ 
pany. 
Of 811 railroads in the United States only 160 
are making any money, and the remaining 661 do 
not pay any dividends. 
Two million acres of cultivated land hardly 
suffice to produce t,h8 grain consumed In New 
York breweries yearly. 
Seventeen tramps working for their breakfast 
at. tlie City Hospital in Utica, a few days ago, re¬ 
fused to go hop-picking when solicited. 
A lawsuit over a cow between two prominent 
resident* of KerkohkBon, Ulster Co., N. Y., result¬ 
ed in the Squire getting the animal himself. 
The Worcester North Agricultural Society of 
Mass, is to encourage a new branch of agriculture 
by offering $300 In premiums for brass bands. 
It Is estimated by the New York grain dealers 
that tho United States will have 100,000,009 
bushels of wheat to send to Great Britain this 
fall. 
A Held at Walla Walla, Oregon, gives 3,ooo 
bushels of clean wheat from fifty acres. In some 
cases the yield goes up to eighty bushels to tho 
acre. 
Sixty murderers and 20 other criminals aro at 
large In Tennessee, for whose arrest rewards 
aggregating $ 20,000 have been offered Ineffectu¬ 
ally. 
There arc 00,000 more women than men In Mas¬ 
sachusetts, yet the men in the hospitals, alms¬ 
houses, and prisons, outnumber tho women two 
to one. 
The I ncome from tobacco to ono County In Penn¬ 
sylvania, last year, was * 8 , 000 , 000 . Ju some parks 
of the County the yield per aero was $000 worth 
of the weed. 
The Dally Witness, the only relfglous dally In 
the country, announced Its suspension lately 
for want of support. The Weekly Witness con¬ 
tinues publication. 
Mr. Hpurgeon, who has been cruising along tbe 
coast of Scotland, has been preaching to the 
Highlanders. His congregations have numbered 
from 3,000 to 7,000 persons. 
A new disease has broken out, among the 
horses on the Delaware ana Hudson canal. It 
seizes them suddenly and Is fatal In Its results, 
lasting only about one hour. 
The owners of the celebrated Watkins Glen are 
M('RSI's, .lohn J. Lytle, Amos J. Mlcliener and 
Thomas Llpplncon.. all Pniladelphians and mem¬ 
bers of tho Society of Friends. 
A sugur operator hero had a carg* arrived two 
months ago which might then have been sold at a 
profit of $50,000. Holding on tor further rise, It 
now stands him $> 0,0110 under cost. 
in the list of new patents Issued, we remark 
that those credited to Texas are mostly for plows 
or other ngriouitural implements. This feature 
speaks well for the Lone Star Slate. 
A Texas paper claims that its state lias now 
1 , 175,000 inhabitants, and predicts that by isso it 
will nave more than 2 . 000,000 und bo on tilled to 
twenty Representatives In Congress, 
Two edible dogs have arrived a 1 Philadelphia 
from China. If the Quaker palate hankers after 
such delicacies, we shall llnd no fault. Beef arid 
mutton will do tor us a while longer, however. 
Not many years ago cotton farmers, who had 
no glna of their own. had to pay heavily for get¬ 
ting their crops ginned. Tho seed, etc., was usu¬ 
ally thrown away. Now there Is an active com¬ 
petition among the first-class ginneries, In which 
seed cotton Is ginned In a superior manner for 
the seed alone. Verily the world moves. 
Hog cholera Is raging In Fulton and the ad¬ 
joining counties In Illinois. In Fulton $70 ,000 
worth of hogs have died since January, aud In 
some of the other counties the loss Is still greater. 
Owing to the exorbitant freight tariff of the 
Ulster and Delaware Railroad, the shippers of 
Delaware Co., N. Y., are doing their freighting 
between that region and Rondout by wagons, as 
or old. 
Captain Rads, tho engineer of the St. Louis 
Bridge, has made elaborate plans for an Iron bridge 
over the Bosphorus, connecting Pera, the Frank¬ 
ish part of Constantinople, with the Asiatic shore, 
the cost to he $25,000,000. 
in San Antonio, good Texas wool brings from 
25(S,30 cents, according 10 condition, while Mexi¬ 
can wool only brings from 12 to 15 cents. The 
bad, dirty and unmerchantable condition of tbe 
latter la the cause of this difference. 
Three steamers sailed from New York Saturday, 
25th lilt., for European porta with full freight 
coristgumeniH, Including r>5,ooo boxes of cheese, 
4,825 boxes of bacon, 4,500 packages of butter, 
18,300 cases of canned goods, and 06,000 bushels of 
grain. 
New York imports lemons from Palermo, Mes¬ 
sina, Sorrento, Mentone, Naples and Malaga, and 
oranges from Havana, Porto Rico, Jamaica ami 
Valencia. Bananas come from Asplnwall, Ja¬ 
maica and Baracoa, and coooanuts from Huatan 
and Baracoa. 
A new enemy t hreatens t he cranberry crop on 
Cape Cod. It 1h a worm which eats the blossoms 
and the fruit. It Is stated that more than three 
thousand bushels are already destroyed. Paris- 
green, which kills the insect, is too dangerous an 
article to be used, and various other expedients 
arc being tried. 
Mr. Shaw has Invented a "spiral exhaust 
nozzle,” which, when properly applied, breaks 
the waves of sound caused by escaping steam, 
and effectually destroys the noise. Now' the 
broken leave takings ending abruptly In "Oh 
pshaw 1" when the fearful roar began, assume 
the dignity of Inventions. 
The summer packing of pork In Cincinnati is 
much larger this season than last. More hogs 
arc killed, and their average weight la heavier 
than formerly. It is believed among the pork 
merchants of that city that prices will suffer a 
still further decline naxt winter, there being 
every indication of a larger supply of bogs In the 
country than usual. 
Tho contraction of the currency of the United 
Status since 1875 has been enormous, on the ‘20tb 
of June of that year there, was currency outstand¬ 
ing $ 2 , 003 ,.toe,679 25, rmt counting nearly $ 100 ,000,- 
000 more that was in the Treasury of the United 
States. Now, however, there arc in circulation 
$900,000,000, Including gold, greenbacks, national 
bank-notes and fractional currency. 
Paradise valley Is « farming section of Hum¬ 
boldt County, Nev., reached from Wlnnotnucea 
over a stretch of desert and sage brush count ry 
such as Nevada In tho main consists of. A 
traveler visiting tho valley a short Ume since 
stopped at a farm house, and his host, pointing 
out the country, Bald:—" l hls lx Paradise, and 
tho next valley beyond hero Is Eden.” “Yes,” 
returned the traveler, " and It’s hell between 
here and Wlnnotnucea.” 
Within ten years, do less than 12 , 000,000 acres 
of forest have bean cut down or burned over In 
the United StatM, Much of the timber is used 
for fuel, 25 cities being on record as consuming 
from 6,000 to 10,000 acres each. Fences use up 
much timber, and railway sleepers require the 
product of 150,000 acres per annum. The amount 
of pine and lumber Umber yet standing In the for¬ 
ests of tho Umber Slates, Is estimated at 225,000,- 
000 feet. Tho sum of $ 144 , 000,000 is Invested In the 
timber Industry, employing 200,000 men. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
Great Britain cultivates 2,509,701 acres In barley. 
Only one-quarter of the area of Scotland Is cul¬ 
tivated. 
English horsemen are generally discarding the 
check-reln. 
England has spent $ 12 , 000,000 in horse-racing 
this season. 
Australia has been shipping to England smoked 
and dried legs of mutton, of excellent quality. 
The total amount of hair lrnpo rtod Into Franco 
last year Is estimated at 122 tons ; value, $ 900 ,- 
000 . 
Splendid weather in Ireland has done great 
service to the crops, and accounts from all quart¬ 
ers are excellent. 
The Journal des Alpes has Just been Indicted In 
France for publishing an Insulting remark with 
regard to Gem. Grant. 
Tho reduction of wages has been found to bo 
absolutely necessary in almost every one of tho 
European cities and tn all linos of business. 
Several of the gems recently stolen from the 
British Museum, have been found on tUe premises 
of a dealer In antiquities lu Ibe city ot Brussels. 
The engineers of Marseilles have, It Is said, dis¬ 
covered that stuce the opening of the Suez canal, 
the level or the Mediterranean has sunk three and 
a quarter Inches. 
American apples arc appreciated In England. 
Liverpool took last year 276,529 barrels, Glasgow 
83,703 barrels, and London 26,T70 barrels. Prices 
ra nged from $3 to $5 no. 
Gapt. Beaufort Baw near Smyrna, In the East, a 
cloud of locusts forty mllOB long and soo yards 
deep, containing at least 160,000,000,000. That 
beats all the Kansas grasshopper stories. 
The Woman’s Rights Society of Paris has been 
dissolved by order of MacMahon’s government, 
and ordered to cease bolding meetings. The 
government considered it a nest of radicalism. 
The Pope has nearly finished the " Memoirs” 
on which he has been working for more than fort y 
years. He lias provided, however, that they are 
not to bo published until ten years after bo dies. 
In England It has been proven by a series of 
careful examinations that country boys of four¬ 
teen years average an Inch and a quarter more 
In bight and seven pounds more In weight than 
city boys of the same age. 
Nearly all the cattle in Germany are stall-fed. 
A traveler passing through the country rarely 
secs any live stoek in the ilolds or pastures. The 
Germans understand and practice the close; t 
economics of Cuttle food and animal excrements. 
The Czar, according to the London Morning 
Post, apprehending a general desertion of Ids 
body guard, and mistrusting Ra faithfulness, has 
rrsolved to disband the corps. It consists oxclu 
slvciy of Circassian officers of the Mohammedan 
faith. 
The emperor of China Is provided with a llaha- 
rhutsz, or whipping-boy, whose duties consist In 
presenting himself for punishment whenever the 
young Emperor Is guilty of sins of omission or 
commission. Tho office Is not considered a sine¬ 
cure. 
Whenever tho great standard of tho Prophet Is 
unfurled, the faithful will, by Mohammedan can¬ 
onical law.be exempt as Individuals or a nation 
from payment of their debts for an Indefinite 
period—a convenient custom that dates hack to 
the tenth century. 
A LondonmtlMner has been lined for "unlaw¬ 
fully employing women tn working after four 
O’clock on Saturday afternoon.” The British 
Workshops Regulation Act makes It Illegal for 
persons to bo kept at work In shops after that 
hour on Saturdays. 
A farm hand for harvesting Is paid In Genlral 
Italy seven cents a day, aud considers himself a 
lucky man to find employment at that rale. But 
he Is so economical and abstemious, and tho food 
be deems euniolont Is so cheap that he can savo 
money out of this pittance. 
It is claimed for Glasgow that. It is the greatest 
Presbyterian dry tn tbe world. There are In It 
isft Presbyterian churches. Of t hese, 49 belong to 
the State Ktrk, 70 U 10 Free Church, and 52 to the 
United Presbyterians. There are In Glasgow 
only 35 churches of all other denominations. 
Tho absolutely latest rnamoth estate In Europe 
awaiting American hclra Is tho Van Fleet estate, 
left by an honest Dutchman a hundred years ago 
to be divided among the third and fourth genera¬ 
tion. Amount,$ 12 , 000 , 000 . Heirs settled Hi New 
York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and UaUror- 
uta. 
Prince .sidl-ol-IIaddc-Abdi s-Salem, cousin of 
he Emperor of Morocco, has arrived lu Paris 
with Ills wife, two babies, two wet nurses and a 
number of servants of both sexes. The Princess 
Is the daughter of English parents, and Is the 
only wife he has. The pair arc upon a visitor 
pleasure. 
A shqrt lime Blnco tho asphalt lloorlng of a 
skating rink In London appeared to bo “blister¬ 
ed ” in several places, and It was found that It 
was caused by the forcing up through seven 
Inches of concrete of some asparagus plants, the 
roots of which had been left. In ground, which liad 
formed part of a garden. 
TUe Imperial government of China lifts I Rely 
Issued an edict against the use of opium by tbo 
Chinese people, and vigorous efforts arc also 
making to limit the culture of the poppy In China. 
In addition to the home production, opium Ls im¬ 
ported Into China to the annual value ot over 
$ 40 , 000 , 000 , principally from British India. More 
than $ 1 , 000,000 worth Is annually shipped to Cali¬ 
fornia for t he use ot the Chinese in that State. 
The total number ot churches belonging to the 
Church of England In London and Its suburbs, ls 
84S. Of these, 362 celebrate the Holy Communion 
weekly; 39 dally ; early—that Is, fasting—com¬ 
munion is celebrated In 440; t here la a choral cel¬ 
ebration in 228 ; In245 the scats are free; In85 
eueharlst lc vestments arc used; In 10 there ls In¬ 
cense; in SS there are alt ar lights; in 152 the east¬ 
ward position Js assumed by the clergy man at the 
communion table. 
Near the city ot Moyobamba, Peru, has been 
discovered a tree called the tainla-caspl, or " ralu- 
Iree.” It absorbs t he moisture of the atmosphere, 
which it concentrates, and subsequently pours it 
forth from Its leaves and branches In such quan¬ 
tities that tn many cases the surrounding soli ls 
converted Into a bog, and It. Booms to possess this 
power to a greater degree during tho (Hy, hot 
weather, whon water la most scarce. The culture 
of these trees lu arid wastes ls recommended by 
the Peruvian Government. 
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Tbe failure ot’ the apple i-rop Is causing many 
families to can other kinds or fruit for winter use. 
The glass Jar manufacturers are running night 
and day to supply the demand. Peaches, pears 
and tomatoes for preserving, are what the hotels 
and families of New England secure a large sup¬ 
ply of at this season. 
