Betas of flic ®Uth. 
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. 
Monday, July mh, 1SS0. 
Gen. Harfrantt, until recently postmaster at 
Philadelphia, Has been appointed Collector ot cus¬ 
toms of tHat port and formally took possession of 
the i ustom-house on the 75th.The anniver¬ 
sary of tlie destruction of tlie Bastlle, in the French 
Revolution, on July 14, 17S9. is a national holiday 
for the French, and the day was celebrated in 
many places by the French in this country. 
Chastl no Cox, the negro who murdered Mrs. Dr. 
Hull In Uer bed la June last year, was executed In 
the Tombs’ court-yard this city on the 10 th. 
Statistics relating to emigration from Germany 
have been recently submitted to the German J ar 
llainent. The number of emigrants during the 
past eight, years are given as follows: 1872,125,650; 
1873, 103,638; 1874. 45.113; 1875,80.773; 1876, 28,3681 
1377, 21,004; 1878.24,217: 1S79, 34,327. Important 
as was the increase marked by last, year, as com¬ 
pared with the years Immediately preceding, the 
numbers given for the two years following the 
Franco German war has never since been any¬ 
thing like reached. The 33.327 registered for 1870 
consisted of 20.106 males and 13,221 females. No 
less than 21,150 were from Prussia. North Amer¬ 
ica was the goal of so.sos, Brazil of 1,830, and Au¬ 
stralia of 274.A freight train was wrecked at 
l.anslngburgh, N. Y., on the 15th. A lot of dyna¬ 
mite Ju one of the wrecked cars happily did notex- 
p. ode. A number of cars were literally reduced to 
splinters. The few train hands on board escaped 
unhurt.To be alaad ageut In Ireland is not 
a very enviable position. According to recent 
accounts, tlie peasants are shooting them quite 
freely whenever they get a chance. 
Lynch law seems to be reigning in New Mexico, 
on three successive nights, July 3.4 and 5, a mob 
surrounded the jau at Lincoln, and on the first 
ulght killed a prisoner; on the second night they 
killed the deputy sheriff, who was In disfavor with 
the outlaws, and on the third night they took out 
and lynched another prisoner. A division of the 
regular army might there find something to do 
besides fighting Indians ..The chief of the 
Bureau of Statistics furnishes the following infor¬ 
mation la regard to immigration Into the ports of 
Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Port Huron, Key West, 
New Orleans, New York, Passamaquoddy, Phila¬ 
delphia and San Francisco: There arrived at the 
above, named ports during the month of June, 1880 , 
a total of 76,350 passengers, 72,567 of whom were 
Immigrants 
England and France advise Greece not to fight 
the Turks til! the latter have a chauce to think 
better of It, it is believed that Turkey will finally 
accede ihe territory demanded by the terms at 
Berlin.San Francisco’s population Is 233,066, 
including 20.549 Cinuese .Railroad building 
is going on rapidly In Mexico, over soo miles of 
road are completed and In operation, and three 
Important roads are now under construction—one 
over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, another from 
G uayinas to El Paso, and the central from the cap¬ 
ital to the city of Leon, a distance of S62 miles... 
.... The Issues of postage stamps, stamped envel¬ 
opes and postal cards during the fiscal year ended 
July l, loot up $31,932,819, an Increase of nearly 
$ 3 , 500,000 over the total of the preceding fiscal 
year, or 12 2-10 per cent. This percentage Is about 
double the, average rate of Increase during the pre¬ 
vious five years.• ppllcatlons for pension ar¬ 
rears reach Washington at the rate of 400 a day, 
though the time for their reception expired June 
30, as the claimants believe that Congress will ex¬ 
tend the time for presenting such claims. Over 
43,000 applications were filed in June. 
At noou to-day, Dr. Henry S. Tanner, the faster 
from Minneapolis, whom we mentioned last week, 
complet es the first three weeks of his abstinence 
from food, and enters upon the fourth In t he best 
of spirits. The doctor is. to all external appear¬ 
ances, In better physical condition than he w as at 
the expiration ot the fifteenth day, until which he 
had been losing in weight pretty steadily, at the 
average rate ot 80 ounces a day. lie now drinks 
water to a moderate extent, and under this diet he 
even gained one pound in 24 hours, but he lost 
this increased welghtlhe following day. The blood 
has been examined and pronounced normal, but 
upon what grounds 18 not apparent, for the num¬ 
ber of colored corpuscles to the cubic centimetre 
was not counted, and whether It was 4,000,000 or 
400 , 001 ) Is a point upon which no registry exists. 
Nor was the ratio of white corpuscles to colored 
made a subject of Inquiry, so far as appears. 
A representative of the Rural visited the doctor 
yesterday, lie appears in perfect health, and is 
still confident that he can perform the feat ot 
fasting 40 days. lh conversation with a doctor 
ot the‘‘regular' school, the latter admitted to 
the Rural representative that he was totally at 
a loss how to account tor the endurance of the 
faster. He was confident, however, that no food 
had passed his lips the last three weeks, liven 
those who expressed the belle! a few days ago, 
that l>r. Tanner was trying to deceive the pub¬ 
lic have now ubaudoned that view and are taking 
a real interest in the case. Ills watchers are, If 
possible, still more vigilant than they were at the 
beginning, and there is no opportunity to deceive, 
even It the fasting man were Inclined to do so.... 
An illustration of the peculiar vlclsltudes of life 
has recently come to light. A man named Madi¬ 
son Robinson married a girl named Hattie White 
in 1S54, in Ohio. They lived well together for five 
years and three sons were born to them, in 1859 
Robinson took the gold fever and started for Cali¬ 
fornia. For four years bis wife received letters 
from him regularly, they then grew less frequent 
aud finally ceased. Time rolled on and as no tid¬ 
ings came from the absent one he was given up 
lor dead. His wile was wooed by a former lover 
ol her youth and she wedded him 14 years after 
her first husband had left. They removed to 
Iowa and settled near Decorah. The long-lost 
Robinson arrived the other day, after an absence 
of 21 years, and beard for the first time of his 
wife’s second marriage. He had roamed over a 
large part ot the world, and visited British Colum¬ 
bia, New Zealand and Australia, he returned again 
to this country became a speculator to Leadvllle 
mines, and now has amassed a fortune of $250,000. 
His wife’s second husbaud has died and he has 
gone to reclaim her. 
A young man. who said hts name was John H. 
Chrlstlancy, was committed to the Kings County 
Inebriates’ Home, N. Y., on Saturday last, by 
Justice Bloom, of Brooklyn, under peculiar cir¬ 
cumstances. Tie went to the Justice In the morn r 
lng, giving hls name aB above, and said he was a 
lawyer, and a son ot ox-Senator Chrlstlancy, ot 
Michigan, now United States Minister to Peru, 
showing letters to confirm hls statement. Young 
Chrlstlancy declared that the liking for strong 
drink had obtained such a mastery over him that 
he was compelled to ask tlie Justice to send him 
to the Inebriates’ Home until hls taste could be 
cured. He had not. been long In Brooklyn, and 
was boarding at a lodging-house on Main Street, 
and was without friends or money. He thought 
hls father would pay hls board In the Home if he 
was told hts condlt Ion, It was then arranged that 
one ot the court officers should swear out a war¬ 
rantcharging Chrlstlancy, "on informationaDd 
belief,” with being a habitual drunkard, and 
Justice Bloom then committed him to the Home 
for six months. 
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AGRICULTURAL N EWS. 
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has decided 
that dealing In grain " on margin” Is gambling, 
and that contracts of this kind will not be enforced 
by the courts ...An Indiana fanner says that 
labor has not been so scarce aud high-priced In 65 
years, and Instances the employment of two 
women in hls harvest fields at $2 a day as proof, 
... .The State of Mississippi Is to have an agricul¬ 
tural college. The Institution is located at Colum¬ 
bus, and will be opened during the Fall for the 
admission of classes. General s. D. Lee has been 
appointed President, and two ot the graduates of 
the Michigan Agricultural College are engaged as 
members of the faculty of the new college. Mis¬ 
sissippi has. It Is said, taken the Michigan college 
as Its model In Its course ot Instruction and in the 
matter of compulsory labor....The Mark Lane 
Express, a well-known London commercial news¬ 
paper, has passed into the hands of new owners, 
Including several members ot Parliament and gen¬ 
tlemen representing Important agricultural Inter¬ 
ests. .. The famine in Kurdistan Is still bo terrible 
that at El-Kosh the Kurds have sold hundreds of 
young gl.ls at about $10 a head In order to buy 
food. The British consuls, the Armenian relief 
committees, and the American missionaries have 
been most active, and have done all In their power 
to alleviate the miseries of the famished popula¬ 
tion ; but the means at their disposal are very 
insufficient, and there has been hit.hern great 
difficulty In transporting grain from one district 
to another, partly on account of the de psnow aud 
condition of the roads, and partly on account of 
the general insecurity.... The Mark Lane Express 
of June 12, 1 q Its review of the British grain trade 
during the past week, says: "Fanners express 
great anxiety about the weather. Unseasonable 
weather never falls, at this season, to exercise a 
hardening Influence on the grain trade, and the 
copious showers of the past fortnight have in¬ 
creased the activity In wheat, suppltes of home- 
growu were BmaU. sales were more readily, 
effected at, t.hu frequent advance of one shilling 
per quarter. Farmers now hold so little grain that 
holders feel justified in decllulng to sell, except at 
higher prices. Both English and French stocks 
of native wheat are practically exhausted. The 
consumption of both countries has to be met by 
foreign produce, for which a fair trade was expe¬ 
rienced at advancing prices. At the moment the 
situation la decidedly critical, stocks have beeu 
worked so low by the disinclination of buyers to 
operate tor future delivery that It needs only a 
week’s wot weather to bring about such a state of 
activity as will materially change present values. 
Tnere is no abatement in the continental demand. 
The exports ror the past month were nearly 3C,ooo 
quarters; during the same tune the imports were 
only 30,000 quarters. Red wheat was held with 
extreme firmness. The market closed on Friday 
expectant, If not excited, with stocks at the low¬ 
est and prices at the highest. Maize, 3d. to 6d. 
dearer. Oats in fair request, but unaltered. The 
feature ot the week has unquestionably been the 
large demand for foreign white wheat, such as 
Australian and New Zealand, tor the North ot 
England and the Continent. Trade closed very 
strong for these descriptions at an advance of a 
full shilling since last Monday. Sales of English 
wheat last week, 15,763 quarters, at 438. od., 
against 27,727 quarters, at 43s. 4d. for the same 
period last year. The imports for the week 
endlog July s were 989,064 hundred weight or 
wheat aud 195,832 hundred weight ot flour.”— 
Judging from full reports to the Tobacco Lear, the 
tobacco crop of ’so will be very short, owing chief¬ 
ly w drought. Reports from Kentucky Indicate 
halt a crop; those from Virginia and Tenn. are a 
little more favorable; while those from Ohio and 
Jnd. promise two-thirds of a crop, in New York, 
l’enu. and Wls. the crop la likely to be fully an 
average one, and that m New England even 
better. The tobacco in the seed-leaf districts is in 
betu-r condition than elsewhere, owing, most like¬ 
ly, to the better preparation ot the ground and 
greater care in transplanting—California expects 
a surplus ot 14,000,000 or 15,000,000 centals ot 
wheat, and Oregon anticipates one of 5,600,000 to 
6,000,000.The Maryland and Delaware rail¬ 
roads, from full Inquiry, expect to carry to market 
4,000,000 buBhels of peacnes this season, against 
3 , 480,000 bushels last year—yet, the crop has been 
ruined!’!.Prof. Comstock, of the Agricul¬ 
tural Bureau, thinks that owing to the attention 
lately attracted to the Army worm, such effective 
means tor its destruction will be devised against 
Its next appearance that It will probably soon dis¬ 
appear from among the farmer’s pests. well, 
let’s hope so.At the close of the present 
fiscal year, it Is more than likely that the U S En¬ 
tomological Commission composed of Professors 
Riley, Thomas and Packard, will be discontinued 
and thenceforth all investigations into Insect 
depredations will be conducted under the super¬ 
vision of the Dept, of Agriculture. The present, 
commission is about to expend Its late appropri¬ 
ation of $ 20,000 in further investigation of the 
cotton worm, locust, Hessian fly, chinch bug. etc. 
. The following cablegrams give the latest 
account of the European crop prospects:—Paris. 
July 15 —The Echo Agrtcole considers that the 
harvest prospects to the north, with tolerable 
weather, ore eminently promising; good in the 
central districts; scarcely up to the mark to 
the west and east, and well up to the average In 
the southwest and the district around Paris. The 
quality In general Is decidedly superior to that ot 
the season 1878-9. There are also good prospects 
of the crops ot potatoes, beets and bops. The hay 
crop is not successful, but there la evety chance ot 
a good aftermath. The fruit trees and vineyards 
do not snare the Improving aspect, excepting the 
olive, which promises a good yield. Tn Holland 
there is an excellent crop ot rye. in Germany, 
rye, coza and potatoes require more sun. The 
hay crop Is very bad, and the only thing that looks 
well Is wheat. Auetna suffers much from wet 
weather. In Hungary, barley, wheat and rye are 
very promising, a nd oats and maize are consider¬ 
ably above average. The Italian harvest is supe¬ 
rior both as to quantity and quality. Russia Is 
complaining loudly ot a deficiency, partly owing 
to the presence of myriads of Insects.London, 
July 36—A Berlin dispatch says that the govern¬ 
ment has published, during the last tew days, 
many reports on the harvest, expectations In tlie 
different provinces, and a resume ol all these 
statements appears In the semi-official report of 
the Provincial correspondence, which says It was 
generally feared that the harvest would be a mis¬ 
erable one. but, after the very favorable weather 
or June, it Is hoped the harvest will exceed former 
expect at ions. Reports from different provinces of 
the monarchy given by the agricult ural societies, 
state that the fear of distress appears to have had 
no foundation whatever. Grain has certainly suf¬ 
fered very much from frost, and the reports from 
many provinces are very unfavorable In this re¬ 
spect, but In some ot the. highly-cultivated districts 
a good grain harvest maybe reckoned on. 
A cablegram from St. Petersburgh, Russia, on 
the 18th of July says: —The Golos publishes 
an artlole based on tho returns sent by the 
Governors of forty-eight provinces in European 
Russia showing that the total deficit of the grain 
as compared with tho average crop will amount 
to 9 . 761,310 quarters, and says In view of the poor 
harvest It Is considered impossible to export the 
usual average ot 40,«00,000 quarters without suf¬ 
fering an insufficiency for home consumption. 
Another announces that It Is not uullkely that 
Russia will prohibit the export of grain in view 
of the probability of a short harvest. 
Other cable dispatches say that heavy rains have 
caused great damage to hay and other crops In 
the Midlands, Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 
and to other parts of England; that excessive 
rains have prevailed nearly all over Ireland during 
the last fortnight, and are beginning to excite 
serious apprehensions In regard to the harvest, and 
that In many pans ot France the harvest has 
already begun and gives opportunity of, In 
some degree, forecasting the prospects. In 
the south, barley aud oats promise well. In 
the centre, Winter barley Is ot good quality, but 
deficient in quantity. Rye looks well, also 
wheat, which Is an average good crop. 
The following statement showing the condition ot 
cotton, com and wheat, was Issued by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, on July 15. Cotton —The re¬ 
turns to this department show an increase In the 
condition of cotton since the June report. The 
condition is reported at an average of 100 . being 
the highest reported for July tor several years. 
Forty-five counties In North Carolina average 101; 
19 counties In South Carolina average 99; 70 
counties in Georgia average 97; 16 counties In 
Florida average 92; 31 counties to Alabama aver¬ 
age 93; 40 counties in Mississippi average 99; 16 
counties In Louisiana average 96; 71 counties in 
Texas average ill; 83 counties In Arkansas aver¬ 
age 104; 23 counties in Tennesee average 103. 
There are some complaints of drought In North 
and South Carolina, and of too much ralu in Mis¬ 
sissippi, Louisiana aud Arkansas. Insect Injuries 
are not reported to any extent. Corn.—The in¬ 
crease in area planted In corn is one per cent, over 
that planted last year. The average condition or 
the crop for the whole country is the highest for 
many years, and Is loo, being seven per cent, 
more than last year at tlie same time. There are 
some complaints of drought In the South Atlantic 
States, wlitle In the Valley of the Mississippi ana 
those States north of the Ohio river there Is com¬ 
plaint of too much rain. The Pacific States report 
a very high condition, tr/ieat —The general aver¬ 
age of Winter wheat July 1, 1880, was 95, against 
01 July l, 1879. It improved slightly during J une. 
The whole South falls off nearly a fourth, but tho 
the heavy winter wheat region non li of the Ohio 
river rules high, at 98. The Middle States are 
three per cent, above the average, and the Pacific 
four per cent. West of the Mississippi the crop 
averages 84, against 89 last year Spring wheat 
averages »i, the 3aine as in July, 1879. This 
shows a great decline In June, when the average 
was 97. The New EDgland States average 99; the 
M ladle States 93. North of the Ohio the average 
Is 96. West of the Mississippi the general average 
18 90, Minnesota being 101, while Nebraska falls to 
62 - Iowa stands at »i. On the Pacific coast Cali¬ 
fornia reports 96. New Orleans, July 16.—The 
first bale of new cotton was received from Gal¬ 
veston to-day, classed allot middling, and was sold 
for 16 cents per pound. 
The entire exports of agricultural products of Can¬ 
ada were in 1879 $25,970,887, only $2,890,858 of whlob 
represented wheat and lte products. The value of 
butter reported, $9,101,897, almost equalled the 
the value of wheat: and the value ot cheese ex¬ 
ported $3,790,300, exceeded that ct wheat. In 
accordance with call of Gov. Cornell, the first 
meeting of the Board of Control of the New York 
Agricultural and Experimental station was held 
in the Executive Chamber at Albany, on Tuesday 
morning, July 14th. The following-named mem¬ 
bers were present.: Gen. N, M. Curtis, ot Ogdens- 
burg, President of the New York State Agricultu¬ 
ral Society; W. A. Armstrong, of Elmira, Master 
of the New York State Grange: Dr. A. S, Heath, 
of New York city, President of the American 
Institute Farmers’ Club: r. Barry, of Rochester, 
President of the Western New York Horticultural 
Society. After the meeting was called to order 
Gov. Cornell was selected temporary Chairman 
and Gen. Curtis, temporary Secretary. Mr. Dan¬ 
iel Bachelor, a representative ef the Central New 
York Farmers’ Club, was invited to a seat during 
the meeting. The Board of Control divided ltseir, 
by lot, into three classes, representing terms of 
one, two, and three years, as follows: For the 
first class, who shall hold office until the time fix¬ 
ed for the first annual meeting of the board— 
James McCann, of the Elmira Farmers’ club, and 
Samuel Campbell, of the Central New York Far¬ 
mers’ Club; one undrawn. Second class—Dr. A. 
S. Heath, of the American Institute Farmers’ 
Club; P, Barry, of the Western New York Horti¬ 
cultural Society, and —, ot the Western New 
York Farmers’ Club. Third Class—Gen. N. M, 
Curtis, of the New York State Agricultural Society, 
and W. A. Armstrong, of the New York State 
Grange: one undrawn. The next meeting will be 
held at tho rooms ot the American Institute, Nt J 
22 Cooper Union, New York, July noth, at noon. 
A Busy Yilfe. 
The World’s Dispensary at Buffalo, N. Y., is a 
great institution, having its auxiliary Invalid’s 
Hotel, for accommodation of patients, costing Its 
founder nearly half a million of dollars, and its 
branch in London, England, of similar proportions, 
where Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, 
Pleasant Purgative Pellets and other remedies are 
manufactured for the foreign trade, which extends 
to the East Indies. China and other far distant 
countries. All this mammoth business has been 
organized, systemized and built up by Dr. R. V. 
Pierce, who has associated with bhnself as a Fac¬ 
ulty, under the name ot the World’s Dispensary 
Medical Assoclattou, a most competent staff of 
physicians aud surgeons who annually treat many 
thousands of cases of chronic diseases, not by pre¬ 
scribing any set lot of remedies but by using all 
such specific remedies as have, In a large experi¬ 
ence, been found most efficacious. Besides organ¬ 
izing and directing this mammoth business of 
world-wide proportions, Dr. Pierce has found time 
to write a work on domestic medicine—entitled 
.1 fpiie people’s Common Sense Medical Adviser”— 
1,000 pages, 3(0 illustrations, selling at $1.50, and 
aud also to serve a term as state Senator and later 
as member of Congress. Surely he must be com- 
petent. It he were to take the lecture platform, to 
discourse upon "the recollections of a busy life.’’ 
—National Republican. 
The superiority of Burkett’s Flavoring Ex¬ 
tracts consists In their perfect purity and great 
strength. 
A Railroad Engineer 
In the employ of the C. M. <fc St. Paul R. R., has 
been grievously affected with diabetes for six 
years. He took four boxes of Kidney-Wort, and 
now writes that he Is entirely cured. Get a 
box and try it. 
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Women that have been given up by their dear¬ 
est friends as beyond help, have been perma¬ 
nently cured by the use of Lydia E. Pinkuam’s 
Vegetable Compound. It Is a positive cure for 
all female complaints. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. 
Plnkham, 233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., for 
phamphlets. 
@h(i Ptosis. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
NEW York. Saturday. July 17,1880. 
BKAN8 AND P* *A«.-Wiih the belief that buyers 
will soon have t" replenish stocks for export aud 
home uee, the market has ruled very firm tor best 
grades of white beans. Poor qualities are dull; few 
buyers will lake the chances of bear-affected car. 
cels, which are likely to further deteriorate. Gene¬ 
ral receipts are moucrate, wbicb tends to give bold- 
f*rts uontldencd* 
Marrow beans, prime, $1 62H : other, $l,60cfil,57K; 
medium, prime kLSJ7JiAl.4U. other, $1.2jfcvl.85; p-a, 
*1.4>Wl 66. White kidney. *1 7U&.I.85: red kidn-y *1.20 
(rtl.49: hint k (or turtle soup), $3 20&3 25 Lima. Cal., $». 
Receipts of bc»us for week, 1,816 hush.; exports, 
2,b6i pkits. 
BEESWAX—Pomand. Is small start prices Hra nn 
changed, sales at23.H(sj24c.for Western and bout hern. 
Bitooju Cobn.— Domaud is light und prices un- 
chiing i. . . . _ ___ 
Brush and short broom, choice, per lb., ogHc.i 
comu on to good, btaiiV'.o.: hurl, g od to choice, 
7 #bo ; do., common to fair, OHhtOJiO-i red und crooked 
nt 3@4e. 
HL'T’Tkr.—T he weather han been so uniuterupted 
ly hot mat samp c« have nitnost vuu off the tryer, 
and tew large trarmumIons »>* to bo note i. Fault¬ 
less -'tatn creamery U m ill scarce and select'ons are 
marked higher. Strictly flnti half icbs arc »> arce 
and arc high -r in symea by with creaunry. and the 
additional demand now uircoted to in out. shippers 
nr- not using stock freely wr am they hkely tu call 
tor the cheaper styles ot Western while there isn 
cold moving of psrnaBft 80.000 Pkgtf. WUleU Worts to 
keep the market poised to their views Ot prices. The 
tncepi-ridenc ' however, ts not all on one aide, ns 
much oi this surplus Is of a grade th it will sell on its 
morns with tavofitble surroundings. And then be¬ 
sides thO'c figures represent a good many small 
bummer packages. User ill tublc grades ol western 
are active In tho count supply of State, and pit os 
uip menay for upper grades. Prospects uro tor an 
Hitmens* (federal crop 
Oroaiuory, ilnem IM S‘.’4 c, good to prune. to.; 
fair to good. 2ifit3k'.: sweet cream, 3l«.28o. 8u«e 
flrkiti aud vnllow ‘.taiSu.. palls and hf tuba, choice, 
31M u22o.. v h r ]h«2UC,; Welsh tubs, bestvio : other 
J Millie., Western imitation ere* tiiery, 1«4)I8H0,' dairy, 
fresh, extra l7<Al8<->.; poor to prime, J0(gu7o.; factory, 
line JUo.; other !8<*l.'>o, „ . , 
Receipts for week 38,850 pkg*- Exports b,L>3 do. 
