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CONDENSED NEW YORK TELEGRAMS. 
Tuesday, Oct. 2 .—There la a strike on the Kan¬ 
sas Central Narrow-Gauge Railroad, and the 
leader, llartman, has been shot dead by the sher¬ 
iff's posse by order of Cupt. Tough, Its command¬ 
er. Tough haa been arrested and released on 
$ 10,000 ball. 
No news of importance from the European war. 
A battle cannot be fought dally, even to give 
newspaper correspondent* something to write 
about. Young Prince Bonaparte has been lately 
hovering lu Belgium, on the coniines or France, 
much to the uneasiness or the powers that be lu 
that country; but, he has Just left, probably on a 
hint rram the Belgian Government. 
W ednesday, Oct. 1 The striking miners In 
Pennsylvania either have already resumed work 
or are prepared to do so, on an advance or 10 per 
eeut. on their former wages- This they could, In 
most cases, have got at tho commencement of 
the outbreak. Archbishop Bayley (Roman Cath¬ 
olic) of Baltimore, died thlsraornlug. blent. Bul¬ 
bs and Lieut.-Col. Shorter have returned In safety 
from their raid lnU) Mexico. No fighting, despite 
former dispatches, the capture of 4 squaws, i boy, 
12 horses and 2 mules—not results of t,he expedi¬ 
tion. 
Mouktar Pasha Is said to have repulsed a Rus¬ 
sian attack In Asia; Muscovite loss, 4oo killed. 
The Russians are preparing to winter in Bulgaria, 
where they liavo given contracts for constructing 
j sc, miles of railroad, huts for 150,000 men, and hos¬ 
pital a for 15,00)1. 
Thursday, Oct,. 4.—Considerable sensation In 
Salt Like City over the appearance on the streets 
of John W. Young with a new concubine whom 
he has Just “sealed ” as a wife. 
There has boon an apparently drawn battle in 
Asia between Mouktar Pasha's, and the Grand 
Duke Michael’s armtes. Sulelrmm Pasha has 
boon appointed to tho command of the Turkish 
army ni the Danube, Instead of Mchcmct All re¬ 
called ; and Reotlt’ Pasha has been given the com¬ 
mand of Suleiman’,s late army at SUlpka Pass. 
Friday, oet. t. -There has been a very severe 
rain-storm throughout the Atlantic States; riv¬ 
ers hivo overflowed, dlslroylng ungathered crops, 
railways have been washed out, delaying trains, 
and a great deal ot mlshlef has been the result 
from New England to North Carolina. At the 
Democratic convention at Albany, In tha state, 
Tammany flail gained a complete triumph, and a 
new set of officers were nominated. 
The Porte claims that Mouktar Pasha gained an 
overwhelming victory In Asia. Uusteliuk has 
again co re to the relief of newspaper correspon¬ 
dents. it has been once more bombarded. The 
Prince of .Montenegro has decided to terminate 
this year’s campaign with ids present success. 
Gambetta has again appealed; case to be decided 
on loth Inst. 
Saturday, Get. o.—The cyclone reported yes¬ 
terday, has done enormous damage. Four miles 
from Phcenlrvllle, Pa., an excursion tram on the 
Pickering Valley Railroad was wrecked, owing to 
the washing away or an embankment loo feet 
high, along which the railroad ran. Seven per¬ 
sona were Instantly kilted and thirty-three injur¬ 
ed, many of them probably fatally. A culvert 
washed uut near Milford, caused the wreck of an¬ 
other train on the Belvldere and Delaware Rail¬ 
road; at least 4 killed, and many wounded. Many 
oilier railroad accidents, great lo&s or property, 
and numerous marine disasters are reported. 
In the groat battle In Asia, last Tuesday, the 
Russians were the assail a ots, but were Anally re¬ 
pulsed after 14 hours’ lighting, with a loss of 6,000 
killed, according to the Turkish account. The 
Russians claim a drawn battle, but have retreat¬ 
ed. In Europe, the Russians officially acknowl¬ 
edge the loss of 52,000 men up to Sept. 27. In 
Quality and quantity, the Russian harvest Is very 
bad. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Georgia mountaineers call watermelons “chlll- 
pllis.’’ 
There are no less than 2,360 varieties of Ameri¬ 
can apples. 
Georgia’S crop of dried peaches this year will be 
worth si,500,000. 
The Chicago Journal wants some place to lock 
up savings banks. 
The present annual liquor bill of the United 
States Is $750,000,000. 
New York city is experimenting with a furnace 
to bum city garbage. 
The Montreal bakers have reduced the price of 
bread two cents per loaf. 
A cow In Ottumwa, Iowa, gave birth to three 
calves at one fell swoop. 
Before a Colorado man conld mark his flock of 
5,000 Sheep they all went off on a rampage. 
In various parts of Ontario, Can., apple trees 
are In bloom for the second time this year. 
Lemuel a sannu-ls. exporters of beef from New 
York, failed last week. Liabilities, feoo.ooo. 
The report of the tobacco merchants for the 
crop of lull In Connecticut 1b very favorable. 
out In the Black Hills the three degrees or com¬ 
parison are said to be “ mine, miner, mlnuH.” 
For the year ending June l, 12,000,000 pounds of 
dried apples were exported from this country. 
The State of Virginia offers a bounty of $1 for 
the scalp of every gray fox and fl.fin for red ones. 
Massachusets haa about 1200 kinds of flowering; 
plants and 4900 varieties of lusocls that feed ou 
them. 
Over one hundred people at Auburn, N. Y., have 
banded together for the purpose or emigrating to 
Texas. 
The valuation of the State of New York for the 
year i sTT aggregates $2,255,739,313, an Increase or 
$289,478,040 over 1976. 
Elghty-ono thousand passengers sailed from 
New York during the last year. More than one- 
fourth landed In England. 
A Ncw-Hampsblre farmer has raised from two 
beans, planted Gils season, 1070 beans; one stalk 
produced 990, the otner C90, 
Tho tobacco furnished the prisoners In the 
county Jail at Pottsvllle Fa., last year, cost $426 
the whiskey $ 42 , and tho milk *9,65. 
A bee tree near Waldo. Florida, contained eight 
feet in length of solid comb, the hollow ranging 
from six to nine inches In diameter. 
A baske t factory is about to be built at Frank¬ 
fort, Mich., employing no men and using from &ou,- 
000 to 700,000 feet of elm lumber yearly. 
owing to ibe extreme wet In the sprlug, much 
of the corn lit eastern loxva has not matured. It 
will be eaten by cattle turned Into the Held. 
Mr. Perkins, ot Barnard, vt„ Is the delighted 
owner or a geranium lu his garden which has 
borne more than thirteen thousand blossoms this 
season. 
W illiam Goodman died at Newburgh, N. Y., 
September 22, agtd 101 years. lie was a farm 
laborer, and continued at work until the day be¬ 
fore be (lied. 
Since last October, England has taken 390,oou 
barrels of apples from this country, and It la esti¬ 
mated that slic will lake an average of 15,000 bar- 
resl per week. 
A Kentucky farmer poisoned some watermel¬ 
ons to kill thieves, and then sold them by mistake 
to his customers. Several persons were taken 
sick, and one died. 
A Nevada ffockmaster has Invented a contriv¬ 
ance for couutlng sheep that makes the sheep 
count themselves, by a register on a dial as they 
pass through a gate. 
“Two Bears,” the Sioux Indian who visited the 
prison at. Baltimore the other day, was very much 
amazed by the unreasonableness of Imprisoning 
people lor Healing horses. 
A commission has been appointed t.o Investi¬ 
gate the Patent Office Are. It Is stated now that 
87,000 models were lost, besides 17,000 on which 
no patents were granted. 
There are In the Rogues Gallery of this city 
1,508 pictures of swindlers and rascals, yet by a 
culpable oversight there isn’t the faee of a bank 
or Insurance officer among them. 
It is estimated by authority that in Europe 1 
person In 1,637 Is deaf and dumb; In Ireland, 1 In 
1,714; in the United States, l In 2,500; while in 
Switzerland the average Is l in 503. 
The Rhode Island justice, who decided that 
pigeons arc not covered by the word “animals” 
in the statute relating to Cruelty to animals, 
shows that he doesn’t understand tue “pigeon 
English ” of law'. 
This year’s peach crop Is one of the most profit¬ 
able lu the past decade. The aggregated value of 
the yield In Maryland and IMaware Is estimated 
at $3,420,000, 01 which amount the growers re¬ 
ceived about $1,900,000. 
It Is estimated that the bell-punch In Virginia 
(by which alcoholic liquors are taxed 2,(4 cents a 
drink, and fermented liquors ouc-hair cent,) will 
bring the State annually $S 44 ,ooo. Richmond 
alone will pay $211 000 . 
Frank Leslies liabilities, according to the 
schedule filed on Saturday, foot up $330,134. The 
nominal assets ate put down at $230,3u8 and tne 
actual assets at $76,166. The principal assets are 
the periodical publications. 
Professor Morse proposes to call the enormous 
land animal, the remains or which wore found In 
the cretaceous deposits of Colorado, the Tltn.no- 
saurus Montanua. It well deserves the name, as 
It was from flfty to sixty feet In length. 
The Montreal grand Jury have brought In “ no 
bill” In the ease of Sheehan, charged with shoot- 
lDg Hack ft. (luring the Orange riots, and with his 
acquittal the last prosecution In the Uackettcasc 
has been abandoned, every a tempt to reach the 
perpetrators of the crime having proved abortive. 
Farmer Backman, or Hainptonburgh, Orange 
comity, N. Y., has realized over $100,000 from the 
sale of horses trom his farm within the past year. 
Governor Sanford, ot California, purchased $42,- 
soo worth during Lus visit to Mr. Backm-an’a place 
last summer. A pair or two-year old colts were 
lately sold lor $2,000 each. 
Colonel Robert ingersoll believes In guioslty. 
He regards cooking as a flue art, and the true 
cook a man of liner abilities and susceptabillties 
than the average lawyer. He boasteth himself, 
of being a good cook, and salth, emphatically, 
“ There ought to be a law passed making It a 
crime punishable with Imprisonment In the peni¬ 
tentiary to fry a beefsteak." 
Tho site or the petrified ferest of Callfornlnls 
about 1,000 feet above the sea level, and lies in 
tho same trend with the Geysers, Mount St, 
Helena, and the thermal springs or Callstoga. A 
recent visitor says Uiat geologic By, it is one vast 
lava bed, In which the trees lie as they were 
thrown, probably thousands of years ago, by 
some convulsion of nature. 
Somebody writes to a Chicago newspaper to 
complain because the President of one of the 
plundered savings banks closed it as soon as he 
did, and says:—*• They say he could have held out 
from six to seven minutes longer, as the bank had 
$ 02 , to say noihlng of the odd 27 cents, which 
might have prolonged Its existence a quarter of a 
minute longer after the $62 had been exhausted.” 
The Sheriff of Ellis County, Kas., with a com- 
pany of soldiers, overtook two of the Big Springs 
train robbeis near Buffalo Station. The robbers 
refused to surrender, hut fired on the posse, and 
the fire beiog returned, both men were killed. 
The shelter recovered $20,000 of the $ 60,000 in gold 
whleh w as stolen. The robbery was referred to, 
In our telegraphic summary, last week. 
The newest Industrial feature In the world Is 
the Introduction b.y Kansas land-owners of the 
contract system In raising wheat. Large tracts 
Of prairie arc broken, seeded, and burrowed by 
the poorer emigrants for the older settlers, at a 
fixed price per acre. The plan pencils the culti¬ 
vation of Immense ureas by capitalists at a small 
expenditure, while It brings ready money to the 
doors of those arrivals who require employment 
lor themselves and teams while cultivating thdr 
own homesteads. 
The Indian delegation arc on their way home 
from Washington, having had their talk with 
the Great Father, and seen the sights. The 
names of the warriors are : From tha Spotted 
Tall Agency—Spotted Tall, Sr., Spotted Tall, Jr., 
Swirt Bear, White Tall, Good Voter. Hollow Horn 
Bear. Little Hawk, Toucn-the-Clouds, Red Bear 
and Rising Thunder; Red Cloud Agency—Red 
Cloud, Little Wound, Young-Man-Afrald-of-Hls- 
Horses, Yellow Bear, American Horse, 111 He Big 
Man, Big Road, Iron Crow, He Dog, Three Bears: 
Arrapahoes—Black Coal, Sharp Nose and Friday, 
Making a total of twenty-three. By referring to 
the Bsl lu a month or two, you’ll doubtless see 
that some of them have returned to their old 
amusement of scalp-lirtlng. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
^.victor Emmanuel's Income Is $3,500,006. 
France exports $ 17 , 000,000 worth of butter annu¬ 
ally. 
In Chlnawheat Is sown quite close In seed-beds 
and afterwards transplanted. 
The hop crop of Worcestershire, Eng., Is esti¬ 
mated at two-thirds of an average. 
The Paris Exposition or 1878 Is to cost $8,000,000. 
The original calculation was about $7,ooo,ooo. 
The total emigration from Liverpool during Au¬ 
gust was 7,266, against 7,97o In the corresponding 
month of 1876. 
Russia has 600,000 hereditary nobles and 3so,ooo 
who are not hereditary, and thousands of both 
classes who are very pour. 
The village priests are newsmongers In Russia. 
They read to their flocks every Sunday official dis¬ 
patches from the seat of w ar. 
The apple crop of Prince Edward Island Is not 
more than one-eighth, and the Nova Scotia crop 
only about one-third, of that of last year. 
Eighteen thousand seven hundred and seventy- 
one Chussepots have arrived at Athens, and the 
Government has decided to devote 14 , 000,000 
drachms to increasing the licet. 
A lake has suddenly appeared at Catamarca, 
Buenos Ayres, and Is swallowing up land and 
trees. The loss of sheep and cattle by flood Is 
said to have reached 17 ,000 ,000 head. 
A curious fate seems to he in store 1 or the Isle 
of Elba. It Is ta be visited soon by the Italian 
Ministers of Interior and Marine, who contem¬ 
plate establishing a large penal colony there. 
The six principal articles Imported by Great 
Britain are grain and flour, about $270,000,000; 
raw cotton, $286,000,000; wool, $ 125 , 000 , 000 ; sugar, 
$110,000,000; lumber, $75,000,000; and tea, $70,000.- 
000. 
The horns of the Abyssinian ox are nearly four 
feet long and seven Inches In diameter at their 
base. The Abyssinian buffalo Is double the size 
of our oxeD, and two will draw as much as four 
horses. 
The official census statistics show that of the 
25,742,404 Inhabitants of Prussia In 1875, 16,636,990 
returned themselves as belonging to the Evangel¬ 
ical National Church, and S,625,o0o as Roman and 
old Catholics. 
The Inundation of the Upper Nile has reached 
Its usual bight, so that of the Lower Nile must 
follow suit; hut it Is so much later than usual, 
that there Is some doubt as to whether the maize 
crop will be saved. 
The first time in his life that the Sultan has 
sat down to dinner with a European lady at his 
own table Is just chronicled. The occasion was 
that of the English Ambassador and Mrs. Layard 
dining with the Sultan. 
since the recent Russian reverses, St. Peters¬ 
burg Is as a city gone Into mourning. Nearly 
every one Is In sorrow; nearly every one wears 
black; the places of amusement remain unfre¬ 
quented, and the capital, like Moscow, tells only 
a tale of keen anxiety. 
Isabella, ex-Queen of Spain, has consented to 
the marriage of Alfonso to Mile. Mercedes de 
Mompensler, and the king’s sister, the Princess 
or the Asturias, has formally announced this 
consent to the young lady. The marriage will 
probably lake place in February. 
The famous Eddyst one lighthouse Is to he pull¬ 
ed down, the action of the waves having cut 
away the reef on which it, stands so as to render 
Its foundation unsafe. It was completed Aug. 24, 
1759—lisyears ago—and the structure Itself Is as 
firm as the day the builders left It. 
The French Government, realizing that national 
and Individual prosperity are dependent upon the 
development of agriculture, have introduced a hill 
In the Senate, making it obligatory to teach the 
elements of agriculture and horticulture In the 
so,o.oo primary schools of the nation. 
Greece has 150 bouts engaged In the sponge fish¬ 
eries, forty of which have English diving appa¬ 
ratus. The divers remain under water six hours 
a day when they go fishing, many of them dying 
of suffocation, and all ot them losing their bear¬ 
ing after a few years of this under-water work. 
The Emperor or Russia lias conferred upon Mr. 
Archibald Forbes, tho able correspondent of the 
London Dally News, the order of St. George, 
which is the highest military distinction in that 
country. During the Franco-Uermrm war the 
Emperor of Germany conferred upon him the 
Iron Cross. 
Mr. Wilkie Collins, the English novelist, is a 
great sufferer from gout In the eyes. Re lives in 
a large, dingy Old house In Gloucester Place, 
London, lu which, o»i account of his disease, he 
will allow no gas to be burned, using only candles 
and shaded lamps for such dim light as is neces¬ 
sary after nightfall. 
The annual report on the Irish flax crop states 
that from the backward season It Is somewhat 
premature to report upon the crop, the bulk of 
which must, beat present In the waltr; but that 
taking tiffs year’s flux crop as a whole, It Is the 
heaviest lliut has been produced In Ireland for 
many years. 
London consumes dally about sootonsof flsh, 
over 4,000 sheep, nearly 700 oxen, about 100 calves, 
• 1,000 pigs—Including bacon and hams, not less 
than 5.00ft fowls, a million or so of oysters, eggs 
Innumerable, with ilour enough for 1,000 ,000 loaves 
of bread, and vegetables, fruits, butter and cheese 
in proportion. 
Hugo attended Theirs' funeral, though for forty 
years there had been a coolness between them, 
so that when they met at the Aeademy they 
bowed, hut did not speak, lu 1*30 they happened 
to be discussing 1793 from different standpoints. 
“Bah, you can never have read the 'History of 
the Revolution,' ” said Thiers. u I never did 
yours,"said Hugo, and they parted. 
Jt Is stated that, large quantities or swine and 
geese are being sent to Konlgsberg from across 
the Russian-Polish frontier to prevent tlulr fall¬ 
ing Into the hands of the bands of marauders that 
Infest the country across the border. The Rus¬ 
sian civil authorities declare themselves unable 
to protect the Unfortunate owners, owing to the 
absence of a sufficient military force to Insure the 
observance of the law. 
The desert of .Sahara covers about 2 , 700,000 
square miles. Most of It Is about 1,500 foet above 
the sea level, but a portion covering 120,000 square 
miles Is bplow the Bea level, and a project, for In¬ 
undating it Horn the Atlantic Ocean or the Med¬ 
iterranean Sea Is seriously talked or. The size of 
this desert maybe belter understood, when we 
slate that. Its area is more than two-thirds that of 
tlie entire territory of the United States.' 
The Hungarian Minister of Education has pub¬ 
lished a report on the educational progress of the 
country. In 1S69 the number of national schools 
was 13,616; in 1S71, 14,550; and in 1S7-L 15,387. 
There is one school for 874 inhabitants. The num¬ 
ber of attendances has Increased from 48 per cent, 
in isco to 70 per cent. In 18*4. in the latter year, 
of thd children Who went to school, 740,577 were 
ot the Hungarian nationally, 319,128 were Slavs, 
and 204,152 were Germans. 
A lengthy report, respecting the harvest tbrough- 
out the whole ot Ireland, says that while the 
prospects of the agriculturist In Scotland have 
seldom been more gloomy than at present. It Is 
satisfactory to note that, matters In Ireland are 
In a much more promising condition. The rain¬ 
fall during the summer has been excessive, but the 
grata crops received a sufficiency or sunshine. 
Tho proportion of grain crop to grass is compara¬ 
tively small; still, all round the coast a very con¬ 
siderable breadth or cereals Is to be found, while 
the amount of hay grown Is enormous. 
The latest reports about the potato crop in Eng¬ 
land are the worst of all. According to The 
London Garden the result Is total destruction. 
For twenty years there has been no attack of 
disease so swltt, so general, and so complete. 
Large plots of potatoes, sound and healthy to¬ 
day, are converted Into masses of rotten stems 
and putrid tubers to-morrow. The crops looked 
very flourishing five weeks ago ; but the almost 
Incessant rains have been destructive. Nothing 
but a severe drought can save potatoes enough 
lor seed. 
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