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CONDENSED NEW YORK TELEGRAMS^ 
Tcksday, sepL 18.—Howard is within 25 miles 
of tho Nets Percoz. Sturgis has captured about 
loon of their ponies. The usual Sept, or uct. hur¬ 
ricane ius umicteil the Texan coast, and Inland 
as far us Houston. Some of the striking miners 
about Wllkesbarrc have taken to the road us fool, 
pads and robbers. Pres. Hayes la well received 
In Kentucky. 
The Turks Have captured Port St. Nicholas In 
SIHpka Pass, rim Russians seem demoralized and 
despondent. Serria, in view or the late Turkish 
victories, cautiously retrains for the present from 
Joining the Russians. Grant Is making a tri¬ 
umphal tour through Scotland, where they are 
making him a Citizen of every town of Importance. 
Gambetlu has appealed from Ids late sentence, 
ihe outlook In tho Indian famine-stricken dis¬ 
tricts Is slightly better. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
cern styled the “Second Royal Dominion Gift 
concert," offering 1 * 50,000 In prizes, to take place 
at St. Stephen’s, n. 1 $., Nov. 80 . Beware! 
The Baltimore American says the peach grow¬ 
ers of tho Peninsula will get about $ 2 , 000,000 for 
their crop this year. 
There Is a sunflower In Adrian, Midi, the stalk 
of which is eleven feet and eight Inches high and 
eleven Inches In circumference, and hears ninety- 
nine blossoms. 
The largest steer In the state of Indiana Is In 
Mm possession or Mr. O. Lowe, of Monon town- 
ship, White county, it weighs three thousand 
six hundred pounds. 
A young man In Wisconsin who vlst-ed a melon 
patch at an Inconveniently dark hour of the 
night had Ida nose shot off and one eye put out 
by the discharge of a spring gun. 
Prof, stowart sayu that the sum of $a per cow 
expended In the purchase of Germa n potash salts, 
and of Urty pounds of ground bone to the acre, 
would restore all fertility lost, by dairying. 
The Potter Journal says that the farmers In t hat 
I part of Pennsylvania have discovered that the 
1 brush will not only eat the potato bugs, but that 
It soon succeeds In exterminating that pest. 
A patent has been obtained for tho preparation 
or maize leaf, as a substitute Tor tobacco. It is 
said to be or an ll-nervous effect, and to be a very 
pleasant tonic to tho system. It Is sweet and pun¬ 
gent. 
A good little boy wbo was kicked by a mule 
did not say naughty words nor go home crying to 
his mother. lie Just lied the mule within live 
loot 01 a beehive, backed him round to it and let 
him kick. 
C4,ooo,ooo abroad, and consumed 215,000,000 at 
homo, if we subtract tho average amount cor* 
sinned at homo, It will leave us about 111,000,000 
bushels to send abroad, 
Notices have been posted on the cattle ranges in 
Zt n >r ^ k ' 1 ' unfln * u * )on hunters aud 
others the necessity or using great care topro- 
ZL 1 “ J , ury suiting from the starting of camp 
s. 1 he cattle owners offer a reward of |50 for 
SEPT.20 
These were destroyed In spirits or wine, and the 
packet forwarded to Its destination In London. 
There has been a large increase In fresh or 
slightly-salted beer Imported Into England. This 
year the value was £927,490, and last year, In tho 
same period, iil 41 ,330. 
At a recent live-stock market at La Vlllette, 
Paris, there were 203 beeves on offer from Italy 
MMrl 1 iVJ rci.. 
N\ kknekdav, Sept. 19.— Another strike Is threat¬ 
ened on the Lake Shore Railroad. 
Tho whole army of the Czarewitcli attacked 
Assaf Pasha’s Division at Slrankcny In the valley 
of the Lom on tlw 17th. The Turks were rapidly 
reinforced and repulsed tho enemy with great 
slaughter. 
Thpksoay, Sept. 20.—Yesterday, Gen. McClel¬ 
lan was nominated for Governor by tho Democrats 
of New Jersey, and Governor Rice of Massachu¬ 
setts was renominated by the Republicans ot that 
. tate. A band of \s masked men stopped a train 
on the I nion Pacino road at Big springs, Neb 
robbed the express oar of *66,000 and the passen¬ 
gers of about, fir.ua. A reward of $ 10,000 has been 
offered by tho Railroad Company for their arrest 
and the recovery or the money. 
1' ighilngfli.lli with doubt ful results In tho Hhlpka 
ass. l lie Roumanians attacked a, strong redoubt 
near Plevna and were repulsed with heavy loss. 
Osman Pasha is receiving a reinforcement of so, 000 
men. Bismarck and Andraa-sy are holding a confab 
at Salt/.burg. McMahon has Issued a manifesto 
urging Frenchmen to support his policy by ek-et- 
lng his nominees, and In t.ho event of their not 
doing 80, says there will bo trouble, as lie will 
neither resign nor obey tho mandates of dema¬ 
gogues. Sensation I 
Friday, sept. 21.-.Senator Bogy of Missouri, 
died yesterday. President Hayes has ju/.t. been 
en thuslastleally received at Chattanooga, Tenn. 
i he Montenegrins arc reported to have defeated 
a detachment of Turks and captured throe Knipp 
guns Tho Russians are said to have lost 20,000 
men before Plevna which they are now bombard- 
T lK! , FrencU I )a Pers arc boldly attacking 
McMahon s manifesto, and several or them have 
been suspended. 
f)m A v K ! UY ' Uon & Uie RlQ Grande 01. , 
the Mexican side, the feeling is so strong against 
extraditing criminals to the United Slates that , 
Canutes and other Mexican authorities havu 
resigned rather than surrender live outlaws now 1 
In Jail nl M.itamoras. More trouble expected 1 
thercabnilui. A destructive cyclone has caused a ‘ 
sudden rise of 63 feet In the Black Warrior River ; 
Alabama, and the consequent Inundation has 
destroyed at least 30,000 bales of cotton, besides 2 
West Virginia has hot ween eight and ton rail- 
1- lions of acres or forests, tho timber In which Is 
valued at $75 ,000 as It, stands. Tho oak, walnut., 
d cherry, ash, poplar, maple, elm, sycamore and 
y I locust attain great size there. 
r . I “'I here are no chills and fever around here,” 
said a Paterson, N. J. man and you must have 
brought yours from New York. Go light around 
- to So-and-so's store and got a box of their pills. 
s I ’’bey have sold twelve dozen boxes this month.” 
A French miller living near Rlclimohd, Va., 
, st atns that ho used the new process of milling 
I flour In his mill In New York state In 1848 , This 
I will nullify the claims of a patent process now 
used throughout the country on which royalty Is 
claimed. 
I in many parts of tho West, stump-pullers have 
been almost superseded by dynamite cartridges, 
which are Inserted under tho stump in holes 
made by a long earth-auger, and, on being ilrcd, 
lift out and demolish t he stump, without making 
a large hole. 
At the bankers’convention In New York, last 
week, t he prevailing opinion seemed to bo In favor 
I of resumption as proposed by the Sherman act, 
and also that no banks Issue bills or less denomi¬ 
nation than $5; thus ravorlng tho use of silver 
f or all less sums. 
A beautiful marble has been found In California 
on the line or the newly-built Southern Pacific 
I Railroad. It la of snowy color and exquisitely 
threaded with amber-colored volus. Italian ex¬ 
perts have pronounced It equal to the finest 1 
marbles known. 
1 he rloe crop of Louisiana Increased from l 
twenty thousand barrels In isoc to over one hun¬ 
dred and seventy-live thousand barrels In 1870 . ] 
The yield of this year is estimated at nearly one 
hundred and seventy thousand barrels on a 
decreased acreage. 
New Orleans Is built upon a forest of cypress 
trees. For 600 feet down this Is the foundation l „ 
Rows upon rows or the stumps or the cypress arc 
found growing over each other, superimposed, 
each or which layers Ills calculated lias required 
a thouHand years to form I 1 
A tramp stopped at a farm house near Tiffin 
l ‘ ,il1 l)(, Wed something to eat. While at the 
louse ho saw that, the farmer was suffering with 
rheumatism, and recommended a tea or Jlmson 
weed as a sure euro. In ten minutes after drink- 
w? man Ole* lb the greatest agony. 
or in' oh V 10 tramp J ' now 11,0 poisonous nature 
of the drink or not Is not stated ; but. It is certain- 
y time Tor Intelligent people to refuse to swallow 
everything prescribed for disease by strangers. 
There arc boiti.j too carpet-making establlsh- 
l n, ' U , 6 , Un!tCrt 8tafe8 which, In prosperous 
ruralS l Tniptoymentto between l«i,ooo and 
Ti!i!l! pe 'm! n men ’ womcn - 4111,1 children. 
hlrteen million dollars is invested In the busi¬ 
ness, which includes buildings and machinery' 
while $ 1 , 700,000 is expended yearly for wages. The 
ono^i*o^U CM ° n lH vftt 110,1 at ' between $ 22 , 000 ,- 
•o and $24,000,000. Philadelphia represents three- 
lom ,hs or the huslneas, and the other fourth Is 
nw re U , p '? < , il,T ' TOnL manufacturing cities of 
New England, the two most prominently Co mice t- 
rrnn. unT'r 1 ’ 01 “^“^taring being Hartford, 
conn., and Lowell, Mass. 
Many Interesting facts are gleaned Horn the re- 
nt, report of the superintendent or the Dead- 
Lett^r ofilce, exhibiting the carelessness which 
0X,Ht8 among letter-writers, overs, 000,000 letters 
were received at that ofilce during the year end- 
! rfr 187T ; 0t th0H ' J ’ 4U ' m Jt ,U!, ' S were prop- 
-miv ' J t dresw f' tout u “‘ sender had neglected to 
affix a stamp. Over 32,w»o letters contained money, 
the amount being $51,057. This money is held In 
the Dead-Letter Office for one year to the credit 
° M 1 V.T 1U r ’ DUt lf not L 'I“ In) ed at tho expiration 
Of that time, It, goes Into the United States Trcas- 
■ a ... - -KT. .. • w.Ki-u » • \JHa~ -- ’—vi .yiAonm, MJtTV OUUIIl III 
slime nr i; .! : 4 wa f ,oun(11,1 teUft * ,n tbo ward ways or shoeing horses in 
A hay-drying machine, made at tho Duke of 
Sutherland's work » »«- Brora, Suthorlandshere, 
Scotland, has been at work at Duurobln farm, 
and Is giving grout satisfaction. Hay that could 
Scarcely be saved with the wet weather was quite 
t lor tho stack after passing through the 
machine. 
Russia is having an attack of In nation with a 
engeance. Although that unfortunate country 
Is only in the fifth month or the war, her paper 
currency has been swelled to $nto, 000 , 000 , a sum 
only within $u>, 000,000 of the legal-tenders In cir¬ 
culation in the United States In 1866, after a con- 
11 Jet which Utul lasted four years. 
The Hottentots always rejoice In the arrival of 
a swarm of locusts, eat them In great numbers, 
and make soup or their eggs. They are brought 
n wagon loans to 4ez In Africa, and arc preserved 
>y suiting or smoking. Tho Moors prefer them to 
pigeons, and a person may eat Sdo or aeo without 
feeling any 111 effects. They arc usually boiled In 
water halt an hour, after throwing away the Head 
legs and wings, and then fried with a llt-tlo vin¬ 
egar. 
1 he prospects of tho India crops are somewhat 
more encouraging, copious rains having fallen in 
several districts. About two and a quarter mil¬ 
lions of people arc receiving relief I 11 tho Madras 
presidency, and tho ramlne expenditure before 
the end of the financial year will, it is estimated, 
amount to two-thirds or the cost of the mutiny of 
t , • BfiMng the present year, 800,000 deaths in 
rmii!!!’. CS ' U, ‘" Cy are ParUy HltrIbutil bie to tho 
According to tho reports of travelers in Tur¬ 
key and Russia, they seem to have very awk- 
shane or iir-ifta „ .. . .. kuu .. «»wiug nurses in those countries 
and P oth(fr rlm. r V 1 n ^ 01 <Jepoa,ts » bonds, compared with the simple method prevalent tn ’ 
of Lhe^ vaK' r ;rr MlnK m0m ' y ' NeHr,y * U1 AmRr,Ci1 ' In T»'rtf«y tho horses head is held by 
..I," B ^ lOsures were returned 10 their om man, another bolds the uw. .. Z 
ovy ucra. There wore over 260 , 00(1 leuers that con¬ 
tained Jewelry and other articles of value, l’lm- 
TZ roUnd lu VT ’ 000 ’ ,lttd latter stamps 
in 38,000. A large proportion of these were serd 
hither to the writer or to the person addressed. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
Russia has 43 ,uuo,oqo sheep. 
a 2 e Ji Crea * 6 UDder Whcat ln Great Britain is 
168,640 acres. 
A petroleum spring in the Birman Empire 
yields 400,000 hogsheads per annum. 
More than one-third or the income of the 
Russian Empire Is from a lax on spirits. 
.n A s^‘; Xml l 1 ,, 'r rna,l0,u “ oattl ° fft| rla to be held 
in bwltzcrlund at the close or September, 1878. 
The average destruction or ur 0 in Groat Britain 
Horn drowning, now reaches over -1200 per arm urn. 
i lie Mint of St, Petersburg Is dally coinlm/ 
KG .000 rouble pieces for the Army of the Danube. 
Forty-two head of Canadian Short-Horns were 
1!LU ‘ ,y at an averatfe pr,ce or 
- —- r vwy W U| WGOIUUO 
fences, corn, rodder, etc,, utterly ruining the 
planters in the Valley. Yellow rever still raging 
in l ernandtua, Florida; the Mayor solicits help 
A gang of tramps robbed the railroad sinttou at. 
Warrenton Junction, Va„ and tried Lo seize a pay 
coo„, A « amp t)niLally murdered a citizen of 
1 n ‘‘ y ’ • aai " fur su cents and severely wounded 
another w ho refused him a match. The ruffian 
has been captured. These are but samples or 
country 0 ^ ° Utra£res of t,)C!S0 pests al1 over tho 
Meheinct All reports that ho has Just defeated 
the army or the Czarewitcli near Bjela, mulcting 
a loss of 4,000 killed and 8,000 wounded. The 
1 urklsh troops at Wlddon have started In hot 
haste to Plevna, a swarm of Circassians and 
bashl-bazouks are robbing and outraging the in¬ 
habitants of Thessaly. So say the Greeks who 
are exasperated thereat Gen. Grant reted at 
Nowcastle-on-S’yno. Egypt and Abyssinia have 
concluded peace. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
0 0 yoa * a wheat crop in Texas Is worth $ 3 ,- 
In y i omt ' rsot cou,lty - Pa., eggs are selling as low 
as eight cents per dozen. 
Gold opened at 102 ?* on the istli. At this the 
greenback dollar Is worth within half a mill of 
97* cents. 
Mrs. Gen. Sherman docs not approve of “round 
(anclng,” and does not allow her daughters to 
participate ln it. 
Canada papers give warning of a swindling con- 
The officers of the United States army stationed 
at. Atlanta, Gs„ havo bought the plot of ground 
upon which Gen. McPherson was killed during 
t he civil war. The spot, has been marked with a 
Parrot gun firmly sot. in tho ground, and the lot 
has boeu inclosed with a substantial iron fence. 
Of tho 20,000 pounds of beeswax annually pro¬ 
duced In tho United States—worth at least. I 
$<.,<>00,000—about $700,000 worth are exported, and 
.about $1,300,000 Worth of honey also goes abroad 
The total product of honey and wax is worth at 
present In the United States nearly $15,000,000 
per year. 
The steamer Groat, Republic, burnt at St. Louis 
was owned by Capt. Thorwegan and valued at 
$150,000: Insured for $ 50,000 in about twenty-flve 
offices. Tho Carondelot, which caught fire from 
J It, Is probably a total loss; was owned by Capt. 
Hicks o ral three associates, and valued at *40 000 • 
Insured for $17, 000 . 
The Secretary of tho Illinois Board of Agrlcult- 
uro furnishes the following m relation to the corn 
crop In his State: Acres ln corn as returned to 
the assessors In isjo, 9,815,791; in 1877, 935,411 • 
average yield per acre for a series 01 years, 38 
bushels; esllinat.n of crop on basis of full aver¬ 
age i leld per acre, 340,628,245. 
Eggs sell la Maine for a hollar and « half a 
dozen. In order to vivo then, u lid VltlllA fR.X ( 
The harvest ln Spam in wheat, fruit and wine 
80 mRenlUcenl lUat «estimated that, 
only half can bo exported. 
.J. h0r f a . r ° Prcsl)y Ri'lan congregations ln 
Iieland, having 107,262 communicants. The 
average salary of their pastors is $sro. 
The Russians have a tradition that no Czar will 
reach his sixtieth birthday. Tho present Czar 
lacks but. seven months of being sixty years old. 
fievna contains about 17,000 inhabitant, two 
churches, nineteen mosques, nine minarets* l l ”7 
houses are Inhabited by Christians, and 1 . 027 ’by 
Mussulmans. ’ y 
The Italians levied heavy duties on all tho pres¬ 
ents to the Pope. The German pilgrims had to 
jm.v twelve thousand dollars and tho Spanish 
eight thousand dollars. 
The ordinary detective stuff of Parts consists of 
2 -omcn; but there Is a special stall whom only 
the chief knows, and they arc of high and low 
classes and of both sexes. 
The population of Egypt is a confused mixture 
of Copts Jews, Arabs of different tribes, and 
iuiks. The peasantry arc the poorest people ln 
the world in the most fertile of countries. 
It seems there has been a terrlblo eruption In 
the volcano Cotopaxi. A thousand human beings 
and two thousand cattlo were destroyed. Ashes 
awft 1 rb ° UrUpUCm haVe botm r,lllllJ L' 1,000 mlk-s 
in ordinary times of t.ho immense number of 
cattle exported by Russia forty-five per cent, tad 
their way to Germany, forty-three per cent. t0 
America, fn Turkey the horses head Is field by 
one man, another holds tho leg, while a third 
operates on tho foot. In Russia the horso is 
placed lu a rough wooden cage and firmly strap¬ 
ped to cross-bars ot the frame-work ; his head is 
also tied, aud the foot U fastened to a.stake in 
ho ground, and held by un attendant while the 
smith puts on the shoe. 
The receipts or butter in the chief Irish markets 
have steadily increased or lute years, at least onc- 
thlrd being destined for foreign consumption. Tho 
principal foreign trade Is with Brazil, Portugal, 
the West indies and the Mediterranean, while 
large shipments are also made to Melbourne, Tho 
great Irish lorelgn trade In butter la now with 
Brazil, it Is to be hoped shat some of c.ur onter- 
pi i.lng dealers in but ter will Introduce \ rnorlcan 
butler into the markets of South America. If. Is 
lair to presume that our dairymen can produce as 
good an article of butter as the Irish farmer cun, 
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Happy tidings for nervous sufferers, and those 
wbo have been dosed, dragged and quacked, Pul- 
vermacher’s Electric Belts effectually euro pre¬ 
mature debility, weakness and decay. Book and 
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C incinnati, Ohio. 
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it rAK"fllRlonu! jnformittlon, address 
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Nkw yohk City, 128 Second Av«., cor. 6th St. 
WWfa.K.fSSKzV' •*" 
Ke/riihu- session .. 1 will open Oct. 1. 
College, 
address the Secretary of me 
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ra. In order to give them this value the shells Austria, eleven per cent,, to Turkey and only one 
llrat perforated With two holes, the original I )01 ‘ c cnt. to other countries. 
contents blown out, and the Vacant space filled 
with whiskey. All on account of the M til no law 
Another dodgo Is the patent faucet, wbleli turned 
one w ay yields vinegar, and the other way alo. 
Slatlsntetans now agree that tho wheat crop or 
the United States will roach 825 , 000 , 1 x 10 hushols or 
about 4.9,000,000 more than tho average for the 
past eight years. We have usually sent about 
Large contributions arc now being made In Er- 
giand for the relief or the sufferers by famutein 
indla. I p to August 34 , tho amount subscribed 
was $ 190 , 000 , and every day brought large addi¬ 
tions. 'The Bank of England gave $5,000. 
The Dublin posteoiiice omclals, on the 3 d Inst, 
found six live Colorado beetles in a packet which I 
cutno ly the mall from Canada to Londonderry, j 
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