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OCT. 6 
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CONDENSED NEW YORE TELEGRAMS. 
Tuesday, Sept. 25.—lied Cloud, Spotted Tall and 
twenty-one other Indians have arrived at Wash¬ 
ington on a plonle and treaty-making excursion. 
A large part of the Patent Office in Washington 
Was yesterday destroyed by tiro, and among the 
heaviest losses was that of a great number of 
models or agricultural machinery. 
The Turks and Muscovites are reconnoltering 
each other, and preparing for fresh efforts. 
Greece is again boiling. The petty kingdom 
exists owing to the protect ion of Europe, and now 
thinks she can “go it alone," fired by indignation 
and hopes of Russian assistance. 
Wednesday, Sept. 20 .—The coal troubles are 
drawing to an end ; the Lehigh and Wtlkesbarre 
Co’s, men arc at once to resume work at. io per 
cent advance on Inst wages. .Joy everywhere! 
Gen. Ord, commander of the l T . 8. troops on the 
Rio Grande, has gone to Austin to consult with 
the Gov. of Texas about the immediate organiza¬ 
tion of several regiments of .Slate troops to pro¬ 
tect the frontier. 
it is Raid that the Turks have raided across the 
Danube into lloumanta In order to cut the Rus¬ 
sian communications. Russians and Roumanians 
have lost, ail loki, 26 ,non men beiore Plevna. 
Their own account, this. Party reeling in France 
is growing Intensely bitter. Weather throughout 
Europe line but unseasonably cold, an early and 
wcvere winter anticipated. 
• Thursday, September 27.—President Hayes and 
Cabinet arc making up for lost time in Washing¬ 
ton. Morton, the Philadelphia swindler, has 
been arrested—though a wealthy man ! The re¬ 
inforcements, amunlttoo and provisions, lately 
arriving at Plevna, have It Is considered, rendered 
that town secure against the Russians. These 
are reported to have suffered several minor dis¬ 
asters lately. Russia is pressing Servla for aid. 
Germany again speaks forcibly against, Turkish 
outrages, but, is sub.lmely blind to these or the 
cassocks and Bulgarians. The Radicals of Paris 
have published a red-hot manifesto, demanding 
pardon for the Communists, Urn abolition ol the 
Presidency, Heiiale, and Budget of Public Wor¬ 
ship, the expulsion of the Jesuits and the substi¬ 
tution of an armed nation for a standing army. 
Trade Is extremely dull throughout England. 
Friday Skrt. 28 . The Nez Perecz having, it is 
reported, wounded three officers of the V. 8. 
troops, are rapidly running northward. There 
has been a great fire In Providence li. 1 . Loss re¬ 
ported at. this date 4 men killed 11 wounded and 
one million dollar’s worth of property destroyed. 
Gen. Pearson, who is said to have ordered the 
Pennsylvania militia to Are on tho Pittsburg 
mob, has been arrested on charge of murder. 
Pearson has been released on $10,000 ball. Tho 
Sioux ehlers visiting Washington have had a con¬ 
ference with the President. 
Sulcman Pasha, It. Is reported, has at last suc¬ 
ceeded ill cutting off the Russians In Shlpka Pass, 
and surrounding them on all shies. Osman Pasha 
Issald to have repulsed another Russian attack in 
Plevna, Inflicting a !os3 of 8,000 men and 1 guns. 
An assault 01 the Roumanians also proved a fail¬ 
ure—probably both reports refer to the same 
event. Prince HaSBiui, Son of the Khedive Is ' 
stated to have crossed the Danube wlth30,00o, 
troops to assail the Russian’s line of cornmunlca- 
lions. Mehemet All, through lack of provisions, 
has retreated quietly to the river Kara-Lorn. f 
The Montenegrins are defeating the small force. 
Turkey has spared to oppose them. Fever 1 
dyspntry are prevalent among the Russians. A 1 
rebellion that has distracted Japan has been sup¬ 
pressed, and the insurgent, ohtefsliave committed 1 
suicide. 1 
Grayson County, Kentucky, has shipped 1 , 000 ,- 
. 000 pounds of tobacco to market this season. 
There are over 800 Chinese laundries in New 
r York city, giving employment to about 4,000 per- 
»- sons. 
t It is stated that the United .States Government 
j StIH owns one-fifth of all the land in the State of 
Alabama. 
1 Eastward railroad freights from Chicago will 
* be advanced r. cents per 100 lbs., on the close of 
; lake navigation. 
It, u staled at Salt Lake city that flnce the 
. death of Brigham Young real estate has risen ten 
• per cent, in value. 
Kentucky has a larger number of navigable 
rivers and turnpike roads than any other State In 
the American Union. 
Massachusetts has the largest State debt—|as,- 
550,461—of all the States. Virginia and North Car¬ 
olina follow soon after- 
Thu Yankton Herald sayB that the price of a 
squaw bus advanced to seven dollars and a blank¬ 
et, and a hard winter la predicted. 
Hon. Smith Wright of Vermont goes strong on 
Poultry. He is now breeding for market 3,son 
geese, 2,sou turkeys and l ,400 ducks. 
It will not surprise anybody to hear that Brig¬ 
ham Young’s will is to be contested. Ills son 
John was cut off, and be is going to see about it. 
Judge Hilton camo out ahead lu that Jew con¬ 
troversy, so tar as dollars and cento were con¬ 
cerned. ills hotel was crowded with better pay¬ 
ing people. 
Coal oil has been discovered in a well near 
Dalton, Ca. The well Is only about 17 feet deep, 
and at times the water is so Impregnated with oil 
as to be untie for use. 
The percentage of male teachers in the Boston 
schools Is thirteen. Superintendent Philbrlek 
thinks that the schools would be more efficient If 
more men were employed. 
A cheese that will weigh, when cured, over a 
thousand pounds, was made a few days since at 
the Burro Central factory, Mass. Over 9,200 
pounds of milk were used in Its manufacture. 
The catholic Colonization Association of St. 
Louis, Mo., has bought 12,000 acres or land In l*ot- 
towutlamlc C'o., Kan., of the Union Pacific rail¬ 
way, and will settle a large colony on it. 
It is said that the amount of land sold along (he 
line of the railroad from Fernandina to Cedar 
Keys, Fla,, during last June and July, was greater 
than the total sold the ten years previous. 
Co anywhere la Cayuga Co., N. Y., and you will 
hear the words, “A 11 ' Brigham Young once lived 
around here.” They are not proud of it, but they 
think It ought to be mentioned to strangers. 
The barley crop In Wayne county, N. Y., will 
not, be sufficient to supply the wants of the male 
store, who will have to look to Canada or the 
west for a supply tor the deficiency of tho homo 
crop. 
Forty cents per bushel Is now tho ruling price 
for Early Rose potatoes paid by shippers at the 
railroad stations of Whitehall, Smith’s Basin and 
Fort Edward, N. Y., and thirty-live cents at 
Granville. 
The cotton manufacturers of tho world run a 
total of 6 . 1 , 000,000 cotton spindles, and spin 2 , 676 , 
000 , 001 ) pounds or cotton annually. Of the spin- ; 
dies, 35 , 000 , 000 , or more than one-half, are operat- ■ 
efl 1 11 England. 
The cranberry crop In the lower part of New ’ 
Jersey Is a large one. One man lias picked 1 
between 12,000 and 15,0011 bushels, another 25,000 
bushels, while quite a number have betweeu 3,000 . 
and 4,000 bushels. 
After all we heard of the partial failure of the < 
wheat crop In California, it seems that the yield 
is about as great as over. In several places a great 
deal more. Prices, too, are “hardening,” and 
farmers are Jubilant. 
The lumber business at Pensacola, Fla., Is said 
to have been better this summer than for several 
years. Prices have ruled low, but the demand 1 
100,000 peach trees in bearing condition. S. F. 
Shallcrosshas60,000 trees; Thomas Cochran and 
D. Wilson have each 26,000. The crop is very 
abundant this year, and the profits to such own¬ 
ers are likely to be very large. 
Europe Is now taking surprisingly large quan¬ 
tities of American fruit. The purchases amount 
to over $2,600,000 since June, compared with $600,- 
000 in the same period the year before. Dried 
apples figure largely. This country exported over 
12 , 000,000 pounds since last June, compared with 
522,000 pounds the previous year. 
It has been discovered that the peacock is the 
natural enemy or the Colorado beetle. We are 
glad that this biped has at, last found a mission, 
and that he Is now useful as well as ornamental. 
He can make as many eyes At us as lie pleases, if 
he only destroys the Potato bug. for what would 
life be without the festive Murphy.’ 
The employes of the Chicago. Burlington and 
Quincy Railroad have formed an association for 
buying 50,000 acres of land In Nebraska, which 
they expect to obtain at the wholesale price of 
Si.so per acre, payable in monthly Instalments 
extending over two years without, interest, in 
this way each man can obtain SO acres for a total 
of $144. 
On several occasions during the past fortnight 
the notorious W. M. Tweed, the swindling “ Boss” 
of other days, has appeared before the Aldermen 
of this city, to testify with regard to the nature 
or his past political and plundering transactions. 
He has been making iree disclosures of his own 
past rascality and implicating a shoal of poli¬ 
ticians, belonging to both parties, who were 
bribed by him. Although he Jauntily avows that 
he committed perjury with reference to these 
very practices, before a Committee of the State 
Senatu appointed to Investigate them, still there 
Is much reason for believing that the old repro- 
bjte is telling a good deal of damaging truth 
about many who have hitherto carried themselves 
as if immaculate. 
FOREIGN NOTES. 
Greece has but 109,904 cattle. 
The average price of a camel In the east Is $so. 
England imports 197 pounds of grain per head 
of her population. 
Russia Is preparing to issue a lottery loan of 
about $642,000,000. 
The currant crop In Europe has been reduced 
20,000 tons by the recent heavy rains. 
England and Wales have 604,909 paupers in ad¬ 
dition to the tramps they have sent over here. 
The total number of coal mines in England and 
Wales Is 2 , 6 ss, with an annual rental of £3,393,696. 
The Royal Agricultural .Society, at Liverpool, 
awarded Its prize, a purse of $256, to Mrs. Ellen 
Birch, for the best rarming. 
Soon there will not be left in Great Britain a 
town In which Grant can not address tho Inhabi¬ 
tants as " Fellow Citizens.” 
The authorities of twenty towns lu England 
are considering the propriety of substituting 
petroleum tor gas In the public streets. 
One-fifth the area of Switzerland Is in pasture, 
and three-fifths In magnificent scenery which 
yields a crop only out of tourists’ pockets. 
Lord John Manners has appointed Miss Cres- 
well, daughter of Lhe late postmaster at Gibraltar, 
to her father’s post. The salary is $ 3,000 a year.,; 
The horses of China are few in number, and are 
small. Ill-formed, weak and without spirit. It 
would seem almost an anomaly to find anything 
Chinese spirited. 
An almost fabulous numbe; of fans are exported 
from Japan to all parts of the world ; no fewer 
than 3 , 000,000 fans, valued at $ 90,000 were shipped 
from Dlogo and Osaka In 1S75. 
Birmingham, Eng., has decided to buy up all 
the liquor saloons within Its boundaries at a cost 
. ' Few Frenchmen emigrate. At the last census 
1 it was found that of the total of 36,102,921 lndivld- 
’ mis constituting the population of France, 30,676,- 
943 were born within the registration districts. 
Almost the whole of the existing migration is that 
from the rural districts to the towns. 
In his evidence before the Commission on the 
occupation of land in Ireland, Lord Glengall stated 
that he found widows the best tenant-farmers. 
This he attributed to their close attention to the 
minutiae or farming and their abstinence from 
whiskey. 
Cambells put out one of Ills own eyes when a 
child, In a fit of rage. He was placed by his par¬ 
ents in the keeping of some people who had Ill- 
treated him, and he wrote to bl3 rather that Lf he 
did not. take lilm back home, he would put out 
one of his eyes. No attention was paid to the 
childish threat, but he kept his word and tore out 
an eye. 
As an evidence of the great and natural advan¬ 
tage of careful cultivation, It Is asserted In an 
English newspaper, that In the Gardens of Kew, 
London, an experiment was tried, showing that 
20,000 plants were grown by perfect cultivation, 
where not more than 200 would have grown In a 
state of nature. 
The Hungarian ox Is the best living representa¬ 
tive of one of the original progenitors of our do¬ 
mestic cattle. The Hungarians are Justly proud 
of their oxen, which are used as working cattle 
over the whole empire. It is no uncommon sight 
to see a team of oxen yoked to a plow, and driven 
by the plowman alone and entirely by the voice. 
When the cultivation of cochineal was Intro¬ 
duced Into tho Canary Islands in 1840, tho prod¬ 
uct was worth twelve francs per Spanish pound; 
but mainly owing to the Increased use of aniline 
colors, first made known to the world by u Ger¬ 
man (scientist, the price fell to four francs in 1870, 
and now It may be bought for two francs and a 
half In any quantity. 
Three sons of a worthy old farmer and elder In 
Flfeshlre were quarrelling together about, some¬ 
thing or other, in the bight or passion one said 
to another, “ 1 declare to goodness, Sandy, you’re 
the greatest ass in Scotland.” “ Come, come,” 
said the rather, with rebuke m his eye, making 
Ills appearance suddenly on the spot, “ you surely 
forget, that I'm here.” 
A Tanner woman In Canadalast, fall plowed sev¬ 
enteen acres of land. This season she mowed 
with a scythe tor six days, raked ten acres of hay 
ana broke a three-year-old colt to harness. She 
hauled all the lime and sand for a new house, 
loaded and unloaded alt the hay and grain grown 
on the rarm this year, and did her housework and 
milked seven cows besides. 
At a recent sale of shorHiornod cows in Eng¬ 
land, a beast named '* Fifth Duchess of Hlllhurst” 
was sold amid great applause for $22,500. 8he is 
said to be the highest priced cow In England, and 
is described as a “ charming creature.” The 
largest sum ever paid for a cow is believed to be 
$36,750 Cor the “ Duchess of Geneva,” which was 
sold at New York Mills, In New York, two or 
three years ago. Twenty-two thousand five hun¬ 
dred dollars Is the next highest sum. 
A new invention has of late been successfully 
applied in several places lu Germany and France. 
The system consists of electric candles, or sticks 
of charcoal, surrounded by isolating matter, which 
gradually consumes, leaving the charcoal free 
like a wick, which slowly melts away under the 
brlUlant. glow of electricity. With two such cau¬ 
dles a light equal to that 01 100 Jets may be thrown 
on a street. The cost ts about half that of gas, 
and the light. Is of the purest kind. There Is a 
strong probability that It may, ere Ring, take the 
place uf gas everywhere. 
has been good. The rates of freight have ruled of fl * >out $5,000,000, close up some of them, and 
Saturday, Sept.. 29.—The Nez Percesare said to 
have eluded the U. s. troops and to be safely on 
their way to join Sitting Bull in Canada, Lieut.. 
Bmils with 100 men nas again crossed the Rio 
Grauae lu pursuit or horse thieves, and Is said to 
have captured the town of Zaragosaa, 
Russia demands that Servla shall aid her when 
a success at. Plevna Is secured. Snow has fallen 
to a depth of nearly four Inches In the Shlpka 
Pass. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Chicago has 2700 liquor saloons. 
Three counties of California have women school 
superintend ents. 
New England has In her Savings Banks the enor¬ 
mous amount or $750,000,000. 
They actually succeeded In excluding liquor 
from the Lexington, Ky., Fair. 
The aggregate receipts of the recent State Fair 
at Rochester, N. Y., were about $is,ooo. 
higher than In any season since 1S73. 
California’s wool growth is becoming one of her 
greatest Industries, the export, lost year havlug 
been over fifty millions of pounds, worth $s,ouo,- 
000. There arc several wool growers who own 
from thirty to forty thousand sheep each. 
The Smith sisters of Glastonbury, are again 
under the yoke of the tax collector. Three cows 
have tgaln gone to tho auction block, because the 
venerable spinsters refuse to pay taxes unless 
they are allowed to vote as of ten as the tyrant, 
man. 
The transient or lloat .1 ug population of New 
York City, on any one day, Js estimated as fol¬ 
lows: Immigrants, temporarily staying in the city, 
5,000 ; seamen and boatmen, 5 , 000 ; visitors at 
hotels, 10,000 ; visitors at boarding-houses, 10 , 000 . 
Total, 30,000. 
A bolt, of lightning passed through a hay-mow 
in a New Hampshire barn last week, making a 
hole the whole depth of the mow as large as a 
man’s tody, and leavlng the hay perfectly smooth, 
and not setting It on fire. At least so the papers 
up that way assert. 
There is a law In New Jersey that exacts a pen¬ 
alty of fifty cents for every thistle t hat a land- 
owner suffers to go to seed on his premises. A 
law has recently been passed lu Missouri by which 
land proprietors, lessees and railroads are liable 
to a fine of ten dollars for a similar offense. 
John Cochran, governor of the State of Dela¬ 
ware, Is the owner of 3,200 acres of land, and has 
run the rest under carefully digested regulations. 
A vessel ieft a Scotoli port recently with 500 
hogsheads of wine on board. It Is Intended to 
take a twelve months’ voyage, the object being 
to lmprave the wine by a passage through the 
tropics. 
The Russian posting service has or late years 
become so well organized that a traveler can or- 
dlnarlally accomplish 1,000 miles a week, which 
is of the rate of seven miles an hour, Including 
stoppages. 
Thu Walker Art Gallery at Liverpool—a build¬ 
ing erected by Mr. Walker, the present mayor of 
the town, at a cost of $200,000, and presented to 
the citizens—was opened on the oth Inst., by the 
Earl of Derby. 
If the Russians would only say that they were 
whipped when they are whipped, and tho Turks 
would acknowledge dereat when defeated, one 
could have more patience in putting ihe tape line 
on the long names of generals. 
The French Government has adopted a revolv¬ 
ing cannon that fires elghty-lour shells a minute, 
each of which hursts into twenty-four fragments. 
It can be prepared for action wit h great rapidity, 
and two men only are required to work it. 
The enormous rorest fires in Alglera caused a 
loss of many millions to the French government. 
In fleeing from the flames huasts of prey and 
beasts on which they habitually preyed ran side 
by side, the former without thought of molesta¬ 
tion, ahd the latter without fear. 
There lias lately been a good deal of sensational 
writing about Osman Pasha, the Turkish com¬ 
ma uder at Plevna being identical with a diBjcpfiu- 
table ex-officer of the tr. 8. army, named Craw¬ 
ford. It was said that the latter first entered the 
Khedive’s sendee and afterwards that of the 
Sultan where lie rapidly rose to his present com¬ 
mand. But Colonel Reed, late chief of staff of the 
Khedive, writes to the New York Herald that 
Crawford was not in the Egyptian service In 1873. 
in confirmation of this the Cleveland Leader 
published letters wrlten by Crawford late In the 
full of that year, when he was lecturing on 
chemistry In little Ohio towns. This seems to. 
dispose of the claims of this fellow to the title of 
Osman Pacha. The Turkish Legation informs 
the Press that Marshal Osman Pasha was born in 
Asia Minor, of Mussulman parents, and this fact 
has been just confirmed by Sir Patrick MacChom- 
baloh de Colquhoun, LL.I)., a well-known scholar 
and ramlllar with Eastern affairs, who writes to 
the Times that Osman Pasha la a native of Ar- 
massla, Asia Minor, and was born In m 2 . He 
was educated In the military school at Constanti¬ 
nople, and has never been in Europe except In 
European Turkey. He Is tall, of spare figure, 
somewhat delicate In health, active and intelli¬ 
gent and attentive to his duties. He Inquires 
personally into every detail of his army und its 
tactics, directing the mode In which they are to 
be executed, lie possesses urbane and agreeable 
manners and is a favorite with his iilonds and in¬ 
timate acquaintances. 
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