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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, July 15, 1882. 
At the University Convocation held at 
Albany during the past week, Professors 
Martin, of the University of New York, 
Backus, of Vassar College: Alexander, of 
Union College, and Getraore, of the Rochester 
University, were added to the Committee on 
the Art and Science of Teaching. The paper 
on “ Admitting women to American Colleges” 
was discussed by Professors White, Martin 
and Backus. Tributes to the memory of Re¬ 
gent Hale, E. B. Morgan, W. W. Campbell, 
the Rev. Dr. Halley, J. M. Mears, J. W. Dra¬ 
per, H. P. Teppan and Principal J. P. Har¬ 
rington, deceased members, were read. Presi¬ 
dent Chapin, of Beloit College, delivered an 
oration on “ The True Function of the Amer¬ 
ican College,” and Assistant Secretary Pratt 
read a paper on “ The Annals of Education in 
this State.” 
The following Executive Committee was 
appointed:—Professors Williams, Benuett and 
Frink, President Waterbury and Principals 
Taylor, Wickes and Curtis. Degrees were 
conferred as follows:—Doctor of Medicine— 
Isaac Williams, of Brooklyn; George Blumen, 
of Syracuse; Nathan R. Tefft, of Onondaga 
county; Charles E. Smith, of Auburn, and 
E. D. Jones, of Albany; and Doctor of Laws, 
the Rev. A. L. Chapin, D. D., President of 
Beloit College, Wisconsin. 
Professor Martin then pronounced a bene¬ 
diction and the convocation adjourned sine 
din. 
The weather during the past few days has 
been very much warmer and the farmers are 
more hopeful of tbeir corn crop. 
Old Holenson, of Decorah, Iowa, feared 
there was foul air in a cisteru which he was 
about to clean, and prudently sent his daugh¬ 
ter down to find out. His apprehension was 
not groundless. The girl was suffocated to 
death. 
The Banco I talo-Americano of Carlo Bar- 
sotti, and the Italian Newspaper 11 Progresso 
Italo-Americano, occupying roo ms in the 
Staats-Zeitung building, this city, had tbeir 
safe burglarized on Wednesday night last. 
The burglars secured $7,000 in money and 
made good their escape. 
, The river and harbor bill was put through 
the senate on Tuesday last. It appropriates 
$20,000,000, all told, for different river aud 
harbor improvements. Whew: 
The President has sent the following nomin¬ 
ations to the Senate; Postmasters—John S. 
Suedcker at Hempstead, N. Y. James N. 
Wore at Raveuswood, N. Y.; Robert Cruick- 
shank at Salem, N. Y; Leon A. Kendrick at 
Hoboken, N. J. 
A National Education Assembly will be 
held at Ocean Grove on August S and 9 for 
the purpose of stimulating aud directing pub 
lie opinion in aid of popular education. It is 
expected that President Arthur and several 
members of his Cabinet will attend oue or 
more of the sessions. Commissioner Eaton will 
make the opening address, and the closing 
session on the evening of August 9 will be de¬ 
voted to a consideration of methods of relief 
proposed in Congress and elsewhere, Senator 
Blair, of New-Hampshire, making the prin¬ 
cipal address. 
An effort is being made to secure new quar¬ 
ters for the New York College of Veterinary 
Surgeons, which has been for about a quar¬ 
ter of a century at No. 205 Lexington Ave. 
Hanlan has deposited $1,000 in the Mayor’s 
hands to make good his challenge to row any 
five men in the world. 
During a thunder storm in Gordon County 
Ga. last week, Henderson Mann, colored, went 
under a tree to escape the rain. The tree 
was struck by lightning and Mann was killed. 
On Tuesday afternoon a horse attached to 
a carriage belonging to a fishing party wan¬ 
dered alone back toward bis borne in Pater¬ 
son, and crossed without injury on the t'es 
the high bridge of the Delaware, Lackawanna 
and Western Railroad above Paterson. The 
bridge is 1,000 feet long and 70 feet high, and 
has no guard at the sides. 
Monroe A. Green, Seth Green’s brother, 
set free in Greenwood Lake yesterday 50,000 
California mountain trout, commonly know 
as rainbow trout. They were brought from 
the State fish hatching works at Caledonia in 
milk cans filled with ice and water. The 
journey was made in twenty-one hours, and 
few died. The rainbow trout endures travel 
better than the common brook trout. Mr. 
Green says that this year 2,000,000 rainbow 
trout an inch long have been distributed in 
the waters of New' York State. 
The body of a child was found on the live 
coals in the furnace of the Rossmore Hotel, 
It.s mother was arrested and confessed to hav¬ 
ing placed it there, but declared that it was 
still-born. 
The Freight Handlers’ Union was strer gthed 
not only by larger contributions of money 
than on any previous day, but by the acces¬ 
sion of Hundreds of Russian refugees and 
Italians who had resolved that they would 
not aid in defeating the great strike. Little 
freight was offered at the railroad and trans¬ 
portation companies’ depots; nevertheless the 
railroads again found themselves badly fet¬ 
tered. A thousand loaves of bread were sent 
to the freight handlers and they immediately 
gave it to an orphans’ home. 
At Washington, Pa., a good-looking white 
lady named Miss Ven e Clokey married a 
colored man clandestinely, and her relatives 
have secured her incarceration in an insane 
asylum on that account, 
A terrible accident occurred on the West 
Shore R. R. at half-past two o’clock Thursday 
afternoon, about one mile south of Milton, on 
Cameron <fc Fagan’s contract, at what is 
known as stations 465 and 470, and where 
twenty-eight laborers, mostly Italians, were 
employed. Thomas Eagan, the foreman, was 
in the act of tamping a hole for a blast in 
which was about two begs of black powder, 
when suddenly the blast prematurely ex¬ 
ploded, killing three men and injuring nine 
others. 
The following is a list of males 21 years and 
over in the U nited States and each State and 
Territory, according to a table just issued by 
the Census Bureau: 
,-White-> Colored* 
Total. 1 
Native. 
Foreign. 
United States. 
12,880, 349 
8,270,518 
3,072,487 
1,487,844 
States. 
12,571,437 
8,129,877 
2,981,309 
1,457,251 
Alabama. 
259,884 
136,058 
5,403 
118,423 
Arkansas . 
182.977 
129,675 
6,475 
46,827 
California. 
329,392 
135,209 
127,317 
66,809 
Colorado. 
93,008 
65,215 
26,873 
1,520 
Connecticut... 
177,291 
118,877 
55,012 
3,532 
Delaware. 
38,298 
27,447 
4,455 
390 
Florida. 
61,699 
30,351 
3.859 
27,489 
Georgia. 
321,438 
172,044 
5 923 
143,471 
Illinois. 
796,847 
505,272 
277,889 
13,686 
Indiana. 
498,437 
-11.1,253 
73,446 
10,739 
Iowa. 
416,658 
1 ,580 
126,103 
3,025 
Kansas. 
265,714 
201,354 
53,505 
10,765 
Kentucky. 
876,221 
287,362 
80,217 
58,642 
Louisiana. 
216,787 
81.777 
27.033 
107,977 
Maine. 
187,823 
164,173 
22,486 
661 
Maryland.... 
232,106 
144,586 
38,936 
48 581 
Massachusetts 
502,648 
826,002 
170,690 
5,956 
Michigan. 
467,687 
, 285,469 
196,003 
6,130 
Minnesota .... 
213,465 
88,622 
123,777 
1.088 
Mississippi.... 
238,532 
102,580 
5,674 
130,378 
Missouri. 
541,007 
396,322 
111,843 
33,042 
Nebraska. 
129,012 
83,334 
44,864 
844 
Nevada. 
31,255 
11,412 
14,191 
5.622 
N. Hampshire.. 
105,138 
88,790 
16,111 
237 
New Jersey.... 
800,635 
190,656 
99,309 
10,670 
New York_ 
1,403,751 
852,094 
536,593 
20,059 
North Carolina 
294,750 
187,63; 
2,095 
U5 018 
Ohio. 
826,577 
618,483 
191,386 
21,706 
Oregon. 
59,629 
38,006 
13,630 
7,993 
Pennsylvania.. 
1,091.294 
797,532 
272,860 
23,892 
Rhode Island.. 
76,898 
47,904 
27,103 
1,866 
South Carolina. 
205,789 
82,010 
3,990 
118,880 
Tennessee. 
330,SOS 
240,939 
9,116 
80,250 
Texas. 
380,376 
246,018 
3a,719 
76,639 
Vermont. 
95,621 
77.774 
17,533 
314 
Virginia. 
381,505 
198,277 
7,971 
128,257 
W Virginia.... 
139,161 
123,569 
9,208 
6,384 
Wisconsin. 
340,482 
149,463 
189,469 
1,550 
The Territories 
258,1112 
140,641 
88,178 
30,093 
“ It saved my wife from the grave or an 
asylum,” writes a gentleman whose wife had 
been a fearful sufferer from Neuralgia. She 
had used Compound Oxygen for a few 
weeks. All information ubout this new 
agent of cure will b e sent free by Drs. Star- 
key & Palen, 1109 Girard St,, Philadelphia, 
— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Alexandria, Egypt, founded by Alexan¬ 
der the Great, after the destruction of Tyre, 
332 years B. C. and containing a population 
of about 200,000 souls, has been bombarded, 
plundered and burned. Three quarters of the 
town has, it is reported, been already con¬ 
sumed and the flames are still raging fiercely. 
As predicted last week, war has broken out 
between the British and the Egyptians on the 
Nile. Last Monday Admiral Seymour, Com¬ 
mander of the British fleet before Alexandria, 
gave notice to Arabi Bey, Commander of the 
Egyptian forces, that at the end of 24 hours 
he would bombard the forts lately erected by 
Arabi to cover the vessels in the harbor. 
Seymour had previously ordered that work 
on these forts should instantly cease, but 
Arabi had refused to comply. At 7:45 Tues¬ 
day morning the bombardment was begun by 
a dozen British war vessels, capable of throw¬ 
ing 15% tons of iron at each discharge. 
The bombardment was practically over at 
noon; for by that time most of the forts had 
been either blown up or silenced. The Egyp¬ 
tians stuck to their guns manfully until over¬ 
whelmed by the heavier metal of tbeir oppo¬ 
nents. The loss among them is estimated at 
600 killed and 1,500 wounded, while the loss 
on the fleet was merely trifling. Whenever 
any movement was perceived among the 
enemy during the afternoon, the fleet fired 
until it ceased, until 6.30 p. m., when hos¬ 
tilities ended for the day. Next morning, 
when about to resume firing, a flag of truce was 
seen on one of the dismantled forts, and firing 
was suspended. It was afterwards learned 
that Arabi Bey with his followers had aban 
doned the town during the cessation of oper 
ations due to the hoisting of this flag. Before 
quitting the city he liberated all the convicts, 
and these together with some of the soldiery 
and the rabble massacred about 2,000 Euro¬ 
peans and Christians who had failed to 
imitate most of the aliens who bad left 
the place before the bombardment began. 
During the night of the 11th and 12th the town 
seems to have been a regular pandemonium. 
The departing troops plun dered the place and 
set fire to many of the principal European 
buildings; nearly all the inhabitants w ent off 
with the retiring army, the wild Bedouins 
from the sourroundiug country then joined 
the liberated rascals and the lowest rabble and 
together they inaugurated a leigu of terror, 
butchering all the Europeans they could 
reach, plundering all kinds of valuable mov¬ 
ables and setting fire to the town in innumer¬ 
able places. On the second day the English 
marines landed in small bodies, but it was not 
until Friday that force enough had disem¬ 
barked to attempt to check the flames and 
put an end to pillage. The commercial 
capital of Egypt is destroyed, however. Arabi 
Bey is marching to Cairo, and no one can yet 
foretell when or how the trouble will end. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
The July returns of the Deuartment of 
Agriculture from all the States aud Territo¬ 
ries of the United States, compiled on July 
II, indicate an increase of area planted in 
corn exceeding four per cent., or fully 2,600,- 
000 acres. In Ohio, Indiana and Illinois there 
has been a loss of acreage, but in all other 
States of any prominence in corn growing 
there is some increase. In the Gulf States 
the advance has been heavy, in obedience to 
the instiuct of self-preservation. The usual 
result of high price of a crop, an immediate 
extension of its breadth of cultivation, was 
prevented in the Ohio Valley only by ex¬ 
cessive rains and a temperature that made 
early planting impossible. The States re¬ 
porting a decrease are: Maine, oue per cent.; 
Ohio, California, Utah, twoNevada, three; In¬ 
diana, three; Illinois, six; Washington, nine; 
Rhode Island, New York and Oregon report 
the same area as last year New Hampshire, 
Pennsylvania and Delaware make one per 
cent, increase; Vermont, New Jersey, Mary¬ 
land, Wisconsin, Missouri aud Colorado, two; 
Massachusetts, North California, West Vir¬ 
ginia, Michigan and Iowa, three; Now Mex¬ 
ico, four; Connecticut and Virginia, five; 
Louisiana and Tennessee, six; Mississippi, 
seven; South Carolina, Florida, Arkansas and 
Kentucky, nine; Kansas, 11; Nebraska, 12; 
Georgia and Alabama, 13; Texas, 17; Minne¬ 
sota, 26: Dakota, 46, Though the percentage 
of Minnesota seems Urge, the corn area, of 
that State has until recently been less than 
that of two counties in the State of Illinois. 
The condition of corn is marked low, from 
late planting, cold and wet weather, and re¬ 
planting after floods, but has been improving 
during June, and is generally considered in 
fair vigor and active growth, promising far 
better condition in August should the season 
continue as favorable as at this date. The 
general average is 85, against 90 in July last 
year, before the disastrous drought set in. It 
is above 100 in all the sea-coast States from 
South Carolina to Texas, in Tennessee and 
Kentucky and Kansas; Oregou and Nevada 
stand at 100; Arkansas at 97; New Hamp¬ 
shire, Connecticut, New Mexico, 96; North 
Carolina, California, Utah, 95; Maryland, 
Virginia, Colorado, Utah, 94; Massachusetts, 
Missouri, West Virginia, 93; Vermont, Da. 
kota, 92; New Jersey, Delaware. Nebraska 
Washington, 90; Maine, New York, Michigau, 
86; Kentucky, 84; Minnesota, S3; Pennsylva¬ 
nia, 82; Rhode Island, Wisconsin, 80; Indiana, 
79; Iowa, 72; Illinois, 68. The State of largest 
acreage stand lowest of all in condition. 
Upon this area and condition a medium yield, 
producing 1,700,000,000 bushels, is scarcely 
possible. With the yield of last year the 
product would exceed 1,200,000,000. The 
range of possibilities covers at least 500,000,000 
bushels, the result dependent upon the me¬ 
teorological conditions of the succeeding 80 
days. 
The condition of Winter wheat averages 
higher than at any previous July return, 104, 
against 83 last July. The SpriDg wheat aver¬ 
age stands at 100, instead of 90 iu 1881, Un¬ 
less the proportion of wheat to straw should 
be less than usual, or the grain be damaged 
after thrashing, the crop must prove one of 
the largest ever garnered in the county. The 
average condition of the principal Winter 
wheat States is as follows: Ohio, 101; Ken¬ 
tucky, 104; Michigan, 106; Indiana, 104; Illi¬ 
nois, 105; Missouri, HI; Kansas, 116; Penn¬ 
sylvania and the Southern States each stand 
at 100 or above; California at 90; Oregon, 
105. The Spring wheat State averages are: 
Wisconsin, 94; Minnesota, 9S; Iowa, 102; Ne- 
i raska, 105; Dakota, 1)8; Colorado, 98; Maine, 
101; New Hampshire, 103; Vermont, 94. The 
harvest of Winter wheat on the first of July 
was completed iu the South and was in active 
progress in Kentucky and commencing north 
of the Ohio River. At that date it had reached 
the latitude of 40 degrees and will soon be 
completed. 
The condition of oats is very high, aver¬ 
aging 103; of rye, 101; of barley, 95. The 
cereals, corn alone excepted, all promise a 
yield per acre above the average. 
The Mark Lane Express of July 10, in its 
review of the British grain trade during the 
past week, says: “The unsettled and rainy 
weather of the past week, has further endan¬ 
gered the wheat harvest. Euglish wheat is 
now very scarce an! values have advanced 
fully a shilling. Foreign wheat lias tangibly 
improved, on account of the increasing uncer¬ 
tainty of the harvests.”........Wool imports 
at New York the first six months of 1882 were 
35,488 bales, against 24,947 bales during like 
period in 1881.One lot of hogs, 81 in 
number, brought $9.00 at Chicago on Thurs¬ 
day last. They averaged 324 lbs.The 
division of statistics of the Department of Ag¬ 
riculture has been charged by Congress with 
the collection aud monthly publication of 
freight rates of railroad and steamboat lines 
for the information of farmers. It is believed 
by the Department that general information 
concerning local prices and cost of shipment 
will tend to stimulate distribution of products 
and will certainly aid the pro lucer in deter¬ 
mining whether the shipment of his surplus 
will result in loss or profit. The transporta¬ 
tion lines are cheerfully responding to the re¬ 
quests for information and promptly aiding 
iu giving utility and value to the monthly 
publication.In 1875, which was the 
biggest crop-year for the peniusula of Dela¬ 
ware, three millions of baskets of peaches 
were marketed. From latest reports the pres¬ 
ent crop promises to be even greater. 
The July report of the Illinois State Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture has been made public, 
and presents a rather dismal outlook for the 
corn crop in that State. On July 1, 1880, the 
average condition of the growing corn in 
Illinois was 101; on the corresponding date 
last year it was 77, and on July 1, 1883, it is 
placed at but 64, as compared with an average 
crop, which is called 100. This is all the more 
significant as the J nne report gave the con¬ 
dition as 78, thus shewing that material 
damage was sustained during the month of 
June. The acreage planted to corn in 1881 
wax 3,177,529 acres. The present acreage, as 
compared to that of 1881 , is reported at 96, 
showing a loss of 4 per cent., or 124,700 acres. 
The report of the Agricultural Department 
adds that the condition of the corn crop in 
that State has never been worse oh any pro¬ 
ceeding first of July. In the central portion 
of the State frequent and excessive rains are 
responsible for the damage caused. Weeds 
have flourished and choked out the plant, and 
uudrnined lands have been soaked aud baked 
until their cultivation was rendered difficult 
and the prospects of a crop on them meager.. 
--- 
*The ancient Hermes, with all the subtle art 
and natural resources of the Alchemists, was 
a very poor doctor compared with Mrs. Lydia 
E. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass. Hermes may 
have been after all only a clever practitioner 
of the Black Art, but there is no humbug in the 
pharmaceutical chemistry of Mrs. Pinkham’s 
Vegetable Compound.—Ada. 
-- 
J3T“The wonders of modern chemistry are 
apparent in the beautiful Diamond Dyes. All 
kinds and colors of Ink can be made from 
them. — Adv. 
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“ Rough on Rats.” Ask druggists for it. 
deal’s out rats, mice, roaches, bed-bugs 
skunks. 15c.— Adv. 
Eczema (salt rheum), humors and pimple, 
worst forms cured by Dr. Benson’s Skin Cure. 
—Ada. 
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See Johnson & Field-*, Racine Fan Mill ad¬ 
vertisement issue of July 8, page 462.—Ada. 
-- 
Send name and address to Cragin & Co., 
Philadelphia, Pa., for cook hook free.—Ada. 
Hurneit’s t'ocoalne. 
The best of all Hair Dressings. 
It allays irritation, removes all tendency to 
dandruff, and invigorates the action of the 
capillaries in the highest degree, thus pro 
mating a vigorous and healthy growth of 
hair. Its effect upon the glossiness and rich¬ 
ness of the hair is such as cannot be sur¬ 
passed. 
Burnetts Flavoring Extracts are the 
best,—Ada. 
