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AL NEW-YORKER. 
SEPT. 22 
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CONDENSED NEW YOKE TELEGRAMS. 
Tuesday, Sept, ll.—At. Salt Lake City, the 
Twelve Apostles of Mormnnlsm. have Issued an 
epistle, claiming to have received a revelation 
from God, on the 4th tost., direct!tiff them to pre¬ 
side over the Church without electing a new 
Prophet. The credulous Mermans are promising 
them obedtencc verbally and by telegraph. 
Gen. Howard says Uls men are worn out by fol¬ 
lowing the Nez Pc roes, and the patience of the 
public seems pretty nearly worn out because 
they’ve done nothing else. Maine has gone Repub¬ 
lican by the usual majority on a short vote. 
Mehomot All has forced the Russians to retreat 
with a loss of 1600 men from Ahlava on the Lorn. 
Sulelma Pasha Is again reported In have Hanked 
the Sblpka Pass and In have arrived on the north 
ot the Balkans. Thu Pope Is falling so steadily 
that he is not expected to live until November 
Ex-Minister Washburne is on tils way home. 
Wednesday, Kept,. 12.—Spencer, the swindling 
President of the bankrupt Chicago Saving Insti¬ 
tute, has been tracked to Quebec, w hence he em¬ 
barked with Uls family under ( he name of Wil¬ 
liams, on the steamer Circassian, of the Allen 
Line. The Police authorities ID England have been 
telegraphed to arrest, him, but It la doubtrui 
whether the rascal can be extradited. 
Sixteen thousand of the Russian Imperial Guard 
have arrived at the seat, of war and are rapidl.v 
dispatched to Plevna. Fifty thoiLsand Russians 
are on the point, or crossing Servian territory. 
Gambetta failed to appear before the court to 
stand his trial, and lb default has been sentenced 
to three months’ Imprisonment and a tine of 2,000 
francs. More serious still, this sentence will, it is 
said, deprive lilm of his civil rights lor five years. 
A subscription has been started In Paris to raise 
a monument to Thiers. About a quarter or Dieppe, 
a watering-place and harbor on the west coast, of 
France, has been burnt—loss, 3200,000. 
Thursday, Sept, id.—At the shooting match 
begun yesterday at Creedmoor, California won 
the Inter-State match. Fulton, of Now York, won 
the Champion’s Troffhy, aud Selph of New Or¬ 
leans, the Wimbledon Cup. Mexico hassurreu- 
deted to the United States authorities one of the 
criminals liberated at, IUo Grande City, and two 
of the outlaws engaged in Ills liberation. 
After all, Plevna is still stubbornly held by 1 
Osman Pasha and his army. It has been sub¬ 
jected to a terrible Russian bombardment for 1 
nearly a week and has successfully resisted sev¬ 
eral attacks made upon it. The Russians are con- , 
centratlng from all sides around It, and It, bids , 
fair to be the center of all Important military | 
operations this season. After the capture of Lo- 
valz tue Russians burled 2,200 dead Turks. Two 
sailing vessels, the Avalanche bound rrom Lon- 1 
don to New Zelanrt with emigrants, aud the 1 
Forest from London to New York in ballast, coll- ' 
ded lu the English Channel, the former foundered 1 
at once, and the latter turned bottom up, and 
upwards of a hundred people were drowned. 
Fiudav, Sept. 14 .—Lame Deer’s baud or hostile ! 
Sioux come into Red cloud Agency, so that 
Joseph & Co. excepted, no hostlies now exist 1 
south or the Canadian line. At the llrst day’s 
shooting in the match between British and t 
American riflemen, at Creedmoor, our men won r 
by 2 « points. c 
The Russians have captured the hlghta of 1 
Grlvlea, a commanding position near Plevna. 
Gen. Skebeloff Is the Muscovite hero of the hour. ll 
Botit, Russians and Turks tight splendidly, hut a 
the lutter seem to have the beat commanders. f ( 
Saturday, Sept. 16 .—After two days’contest at 81 
the Rifle butts, the American marksmen have 
won a third victory over their transatlantic cous- L 
Ins by 92 points—a condensed account of the con- 0 
test given elsewhere In this Issue. Pres’t Hayes s; 
had a great ovation yesterday at bis home lu Fre- r 
mont, Ohio, while reviewing his old Regiment— 
the usd Ohio. c 
The Russians are still bombarding Plevna. The a 
Czar and a lot of princelings are there, to euoour- ci 
age their men and witness the capture that has S 
not occurred. The Russian losses In the various 
a&saultsaretrernendous—those of the Turks, shel¬ 
tered behind lntronchmenis, only heavy. 
I The flouring mills at Rome, Georgia, grind 
9,000 bushels of wheat dally. 
It Is announced that the order of Orangemen, 
In the United States has a membership of 65, 000 . 
Boards of arbitration to avert duels and settle 
affairs of honor are becoming popular In Georgia. 
The cultivation of sweet potatoes has been tried 
with success at West Stratford, Conn., this sea¬ 
son. 
The wheat-crop of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin 
and Kansas, in 1S75 yielded 93,000,000 bushels, in 
1S7C, 01,000,000, and In 1877, 117,000,000. 
Lots of chestnuts are ripening In Pennsylvania. 
That means that the peach-sellers will soon give 
way to the roasted chestnut venders. 
The Commissioners of Marlon County, Did., con¬ 
tracted for a new Court House, to cost $ 25 , 000 . It 
has coat $312,845, and is yet Incomplete. 
“ The Lightning Mule,” said to be the fastest 
mule on record, la at, Lafayette, Ind. The owner 
claims that his mule can trot a mile In 2:30. 
The crop or watermelons lu Lawrence county, 
Indiana, averaged two thousand to the acre, aud 
they are sold at an average of ten cents each. 
In the Iowa state Democratic Convention, 
held at Marshalltown on the ‘-MILD ult, John It. 
Irish was nominated by acclamation for Govern¬ 
or. 
A self-raking reaper gathered In 23 rattle- 
snakes, 19 garter-snalces. and one blue racer in 
cutting a small Held of oats In New Carlisle, 
Ind. 
J. J. Fox, a farmer living near Peru, Ind., lost 
nearly nine hundred bushels of wheat recently, 
2y a spark rrom the engine employed in thresh- 
ng It. 
The seerct of success was never better cx- 
iressed than by the late Mr. Davenport: "You 
mist have a taste for your business and then 
vork." 
A Sangerfield, N. Y., hop-grower refused 1C 
ieuLs per pound for 87 bales or hope, last Tall, and 
old them last week at locent per pound, and glad 
o get It. 
A scientific authority states that “ a single re¬ 
late house-fly will produce In one season 20 ,oso,- 
*o;eggs.’’ Great guns! What must the married 
nes do ? 
The great Corliss engine of the Philadelphia 
eutennlal Exhibition Is on Its way hack to Prov- 
lenee, and sixty cars are required for Its t-rans- 
nr ration. 
The tonnage on the canalsln N. Y. during August 
shows a gain over the previous August or 146,000 
urns. The grain shipment for the season thus far 
la n 13,006 inns. 
The forests of North Carolina produce twenty- 
two species of oak, eight of pine, nine of spruce, 
seven of magnolia, eight of hickory, and live each 
of elm and birch. 
The wheat-crop of Iowa this year Is estimated , 
to be worth $ 37 , 000 , 000 , and the yield of pork $30,- , 
000 , 000 , which, If equally distributed, would allow 
each family In the stale Over $1000. 
During August, 8 , 000,000 bushels of corn, 1 , 500 ,- 1 
000 bushels of wheat, uud USi.uoa bushels of other ‘ 
grain were received at BuffelO—a large Increase 
over the same month last, year. , 
It lias been proved in Nevada and other sliver * 
producing States of the West that capital devoted 1 
to agriculture pays better and more regularly c 
than 11 put Into gold and silver mines. 1 
A newspaper at Ashland, liy., says that an In- * 
vcstlgatlon of the records of the State shows that 
not a single man or woman In tin whole Common¬ 
wealth Is under the present laws legally mar- a 
rlod. 
A flock of sheep gathered under a tree In Call- 11 
fornla during a thunderstorm, were struck by c 
lightning, and slxty-one of them Instantly kilted, 11 
hut. not one of them showed a mark of the light- fl 
nlug. 0 
the producer $10 per ton, with no expense for 
boxing and shipping. 
The hop yield this year In the State of New 
York is the largest, on record, aad 13 of excellent 
quality, it Increases In quantity yearly, and Is 
expected to become a very profitable crop. Tlie 
demand for hops Increases with the growing 
liking for strong beer. 
In the Red River Valley one man owns a farm 
which is a, sight well worth seeing. lie has 4 ,eon 
acres of wheat In one body, which good Judges 
predict will yield thirty bushels per acre. It w r ould 
seem to require some labor to prepare 120 000 
bushels or wheat for the market. 
Jack Wilson Is a colored resident of Meriweth¬ 
er County, Ga., who has bought and paid for 70 fl 
acres of land since the war. lie win‘make this 
year sixty or seventy bales of cotton, 1,500 or 2,000 
bushels of corn; has ten or twelve mules, all in 
line condition, and raises his own meat. 
Contracts are being made at Oahawa, can., for 
fall delivery of potatoes at 4i>c. per bushel. The 
crop is expected to yield pretty well, some farm¬ 
ers estimating that they have 800 bushels to the 
acre. This Is a pretty high figure, hut the crop is 
generally reported to be far better than last year. 
Through the arrest of one Crawford for horse¬ 
stealing, the police of Fort Wayne, Hid., have dis¬ 
covered the existence of an organized society of 
•terse thieves, with officers, signs, grips, and pass¬ 
words, who have been stcaUng fine animals in 
Western Ohio for a long time and selling them In 
Fort Wayne. 
A machine has been Invented, mounted on 
wagon wheels, which is Intended for use on farms 
in the West, It deluges the ground behind It wit h 
smoke rrom burning chips and brimstone, and 
holds the smoke down long enough to suffocate 
every potato bug. locust, and other insect that 
comes within its Inllucnee. 
The tree delivery system Is In operation in 87 
principal elites, and employs 2,205 carriers, who 
during the last ffscal year handled, 666,500,000 
pieces of mall matter. The highest cost was at 
Patterson, N. J., four and fifty-nine hundredths 
mil Is per piece. The lowest at Poughkeepsie, one 
and elglity-sevcn hundredths. 
A singular lawsuit Is being prosecuted in Rons- ! 
selaer county, N. Y. A landslide In the town of 
schodack) filled up a creek, and turned the wafer j 
in a different direction. The owner of a mill fur- l 
thcr down sues the farmer who owns the ground 1 
on which the fdlde occurred, to compel him to re¬ 
store ilie stream to its former condition. 
mob, this faithful animal will be equal to four 
Gatling guns and a howitzer. 
There Is a society In New York styled the “ Fat 
Men’s Association,” the condttlou or membership 
being the possession of a body of not less than 
200 pounds’ weight. This society was formed In 
1869, and has grown to the number or soo mem¬ 
bers. They have an annual dam-bake, which 
was recently held at South Norwalk. There were 
baked for the visitors 110 bushels of clams and 
oysters, 300 chickens wrapped In cloths and laid 
obovc the darns, 400 lobsters, 60U pounds of blue- 
fish wrapped In cloths, three barrels of sweet po¬ 
tatoes and two barrels of white potatoes, and, to 
top all, 1000 ears of green eoro lu the husks. The 
victor who bore off the palm as the heaviest per¬ 
son was a young man of twenty-three, who 
weighed 399 pounds. Perhaps after the dinner he 
might have tipped the scales at 400. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
On the llth Inst. W. H. Vanderbilt drove his 
bay team, Kmallhopes and Lady Mac, to a light 
road wagon on the track at Fleetwood, near this 
city, a mile lu 2.23—the fastest time ror a team on 
record. 
HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The Jewish year 
week. 
began last Saturday 
New York street rallrords carried 165 , 000,000 pas¬ 
sengers last year. 
The trotting stallion Mambrtne Gift died la 
Michigan, Sept. 1 . 
In 1825 there were only si churches In this city. 
Now there are 4S9. 
Potatoes sell at Swanton, vt., at 20 c. per hush., 
and the crop is abundant. 
There Is a mysterious cattle disease prevailing 
In some parts of Franklin County, N. Y. A para¬ 
sitic insect resembling the Texas cattle tick, is 
round on the diseased animals. The disease has 
so far proved fatal. 
The beautiful evergreens In the vicinity of 
Brunswick, Maine, arc suffering from the ravages 
of an Insect or grub which Is killing the lira and 
spruces, the trees looking as If a heavy lire had 
run through the woods. 
Georgia will vote on the adoption of the new 
Constitution on the first Monday In December, 
and In the meanwhile the newspapers are dts- 
cussLng the location of the Capital; AtlftUta and 
Mllledgevllle have each their advocates, 
A guileless Texas youth rode a thirty-doUar 
mule into town the other morning, swapped eight 
times, and rode home at night 00 a seventy-flve 
dollar horse, and with a hundred dollars in his 
boot-leg. There is no one 1 n ConnecUc ut can beat 
that. 
The Illinois State Commissioner of Agriculture 
estimates the 1377 hay crop or that State at 4 , 044 ,- 
967 tons. The acreage In 1877 is a trifle less than 
lnistc. The average production Is 1.0 tons per 
acre. The estimated value of the crop Is nearly 
$ 22 , 000 , 000 . 
Grapes are so plentiful and cheap In California 
this year that they are use by farmers In prefer¬ 
ence to grain for fattening hogs. Grapes thus 
converted Into pork, It Is claimed, will realize to 
The women voters of Cheyenne, Wyoming, have 
given up trying to “ purify the polls." The rush 
and Jam of men around the boxes have prevented 
many women from voting, and now they have 
the exclusive use of the hotel reading room for 
that, purpose. Two female Judges or election arc 
appointed to superintend the boxes. 
The following t able of results shows what amount 
of milk Is ncceasary to make a pound of butter 
during the different months of the year. High 
grade Short-Horn cows wore testedMarch, 12.5 
quarts; April, 12.4; May, 12; June, 18 2 ; July, 
12.2; August, 15; September, 12 ; October. 11.7 ; 
November, ll 5; December, 9.3; January, 10 . 
An artesian well, sank by D. B. Lowell lu Ne¬ 
vada, on Ed River.Island, at thedepth or 120 feet, 
struck a current of gas which when Ignited sent 
up a flame Jet thirty-six feet high. A strong 
currentof wind failed to blow It out. and an pJght 
hours' rain did not extinguish It. in the night a 
newspaper could bo read by its light 100 feet 
away. 
Delaware and Maryland have been Invaded by 
an army ol tramps, who have created a reign of 
terror in that section. Their outrages are of a 
most daring nature and the bands must be 
composed of the most desperate characters. Re¬ 
peated attempts have been made to throw trains 
rrom the tracks, aud it Is very perilous to travel 
on the leading railroads. 
In ids annual report Comptroller Kelly an¬ 
nounced the total debt of New York City to be 
$ 1 32,096,902,22. The tax rate for 1877 Is not. lo ex¬ 
ceed 2 65 per cent., against, a,so in 1S76. The 
amount of appropriations lor all purposes tills 
year, exclusive 01 stale taxes, Is $ 26 , 851 , 335 , 63 , 
being $909,820,5-1 less than last. Real estaie in¬ 
creased In valuation and personal estate de¬ 
creased. 
After a scientific exploration of the coast of 
Labrador by Prof. IIlnd.lt was found that the fish 
on the southern shores of that peninsula have 
alarmingly decreased In number since 1870 , and 
the result of the salmon, cod, mackerel, and her¬ 
ring fisheries this season fully sustains the Pro¬ 
fessor’s opinion. Twenty successive years’ fishing 
Is the cause, and a law against fishing there for 
ten or fifteen years, Is suggested as the remedy. 
A woodman In Austin, Nev., has named his 
team of eight oxen after leading citizens of the 
place. Every day he Is heard shouting to them 
like this, except that he also uses profanity: 
“ Gee, there, John Lyons; whoa. Dr. Sheridan, 
you blamed lazy beast, haw, there, Col. Price, or 
I’ll break every bone lu your darned lazy body ! 
get up, Jack Squires I ” Then he whacks the 
minister with the butt, of the whip, and throws a 
stone at the bank president. 
An Oakland, Cal., huckster bought a fine mute 
by auction on California Street. He paid $140 tor 
It and christened It Martin Luther. After trying 
for three days to put Its harness on from a second 
story-window, tlieowner resold It for $ 14 , on long 
time, and under the style and title Sara. It was 
purchased by the city government, and will 
henceforth tie used to suppress riots. It Is calcu¬ 
lated that when backed gently but firmly Into a 
England’s fruit crop Is the poorest since 1870. 
The Bank of England bad only two depositors 
with larger credlLs than Brigham Young. 
The Belgian census just taken shows the popu- 
* latlou or the country to bo 5,336,185. 
" Dom Pedro, the Indefatigable Brazilian Em¬ 
peror, embarked last week at Cadiz for Rio 
Janeiro. 
j From the Larsac race of sheep in France, the 
celebrated Roquefort cheese Is made, to the ex¬ 
tent of 7,000,000 pounds annually. 
The declared value of wheat Imported Into Eng- 
, and In the last seven months was XI7,329,444, and 
I In the like period of 1376. 4:11,377,100. 
London continues to be supplied with Impure 
water by eight companies, who deliver un average 
01 about 120 , 000,000 gallons per day. 
The Porte has notified Great Britain that If 
1 Greece attacks Turkey, the Forte will scud a fleet 
to Athens, and leave barely a Greece spot of that 
kingdom. 
The Vatican has prohibited the singing of the 
yv Deum in the churches or Austro-llungmy upon 
the occasion of victories gained either by the Rus¬ 
sian or Turkish armies. 
Every barber In Denmark must pass an examin¬ 
ation lu surgery. Fifty young barbers 01 Copen¬ 
hagen have Just been appointed xucdlcal assist¬ 
ants in the Russian army. 
Circassian women are selling their glorious lialr 
lu order to provide I unis for Die wounded sol- 
fltera. Some of their tresses—four feet two inches 
long—are sold In London. 
The export of Icelandic horses to England is 
increasing, aud promises to be very profitable to 
the breeders, these horses Involving little trouble 
or expense, and fetching a comparatively high 
price lu England. 
There Is an Englishman who is said to be so 
fond of green peas that he goes dow n to Algeria, 
In Africa, every January to meet them, and fol¬ 
lows the growth until ho winds up at Aberdeen In 
.Scotland, in autumn. 
Owing (o the wearing away of the rock founda¬ 
tion, Smeaton’s marvelous ediflce, the famous 
Eddy stone Lighthouse, la doomed. The Trinity 
House have decided to take It. dowu uud erect an¬ 
other lighthouse tu ils stead. 
French farmers declare the Clomentlne-Norman 
breed of cattle produce the best milkers In the 
world. The cows ol this breed, 11 Is claimed, give 
upon an average twenty quarts a day—some as 
much as thirty to thirty-live quarts daily. 
During the last ten years, l.isus persons have 
been killed and 21,828 maimed In the streets of 
London by vehicles of one kind or another, but 
for the most part by light earns and cabs. The 
number killed last year was 130, while 2 , 7-10 were 
maimed. 
Ghee Is the clarified butter or llindostan. it is 
produced generally from the milk or buffaloes and 
Is universally used lu native cookery, it Is also 
sold lri large quantities In the Western provinces, 
aud Is conveyed in large bottles made of green 
hide. 
1 he chestnut tree, which rurnlshes a great dea 
of rood in southern Europe, is widely threatened 
there wltn destruction hy a little Insect which 
girdles and kills it. In the Pyrenean districts for¬ 
ests have been destroyed, the oldest aud strongest 
trees being attacked. 
The most ancient manuscripts now extant are 
those written lu the Sanscrit language. A re¬ 
cent examination ol the paper used ior the Vedas 
discloses the secret that the stock was saturated 
with arsenic, aud the paper prepared with It thus 
became unattainable by worms or Insects. 
It Is said that In Alsatla, lately taken from 
France by Germany, the cotton-printers use an¬ 
nually the albumen of 37,60(1,000 eggs, or as many 
eggs as 250,000 hens could lay. It we add to this 
the number of eggs required tor food we shall ar¬ 
rive at an enormous total consumption. The de¬ 
mand for albumen has ted to many attempts to 
make It from blood. Two pouuds of dry albumen 
represents 3>, oxen. 10 sheep, 17 calves, or 306 
eggs. Efforts In this direction are proving more 
and more successful, and there are a number of 
factories in Europe where blood is thus econo¬ 
mized. 
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