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An Extraordinary Summer in Europe
New York Herald. July Il

| New York Herald July II
| From the other side of the Atlantic there
| is increasing intelligence of the most abnor-
NAL weather, which will be likely to mar
| the pleasure of American tourists, and to
affect agricultural interests seriously.
When, within a week or two of the summer
solstice, damaging frosts atfiict u country,
as they have this year afflicted Great Brit
ain, the prospects of the husbandmen must
be greatly jeopardized An English con-
temporary states that the temperature for
the week ending June 30, as recorded at
the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, fell $50
Tweed, it is said, has not been SO low since
1926, when corn was so short in the stalk it
was pulled by hand. The droughts have
been so extensive that the hay harvest has
ed distressingly, while the unreasonable
dryness has been relieved only by destruct-
i've hail storms.
The alarming features of the season is a
utIlCleIiCy ol Tie tcHpcIdtttTe requisite loE
grain ripening, and this appears to extend
beyond the british Isles In the north of
Italy the frequency of tremendous hail
storms is anomalous, and indicates an ex-
tremely low thermometer, which is anything
but auspicious to health or harvest. Some
of the old Italian churches and other mag
| nlhcent cdifices have suffered severely in
these tempests, and we have reports of tine
streets of Milan being covered with wound
| ed and dead birds, finding no escape from
the icy elements. Indeed, it would seem
that the whole northern hemisphere, includ-
| ing our own continent, has, SO far, notwith-
standing occasional outbursts of excessive
! heat, experienced an extraordinary thermal
depressoln during the summer Cannot
our scientific men determine whether this
anomaly is in any degree traeeable to the
cosmical influence of the comet9 Whether
| this can be done or not the facts stated are
/ insignificant of those conditions which de.
termine the harvest calculations of the pres
ent year in Europe.
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The Benders still at Large.
twinona. Mimi Republican.


After all the arrests that have been made
of persons supposed to belong to the Ben
der family, who committed SO many muir
ders in Kansas, all Of the family are still at
large. The person arrested in Utah recent
ly as the elder Bender, and who it was re-
ported, had been satisfactorily identified,
proves to be a demented old man by the
name of Kosll. The county attorney of
Labette county, Kansas, publishes j; de-
scription of the senior Bender, in which the
criminal is described as d man having an
intelligent countenance. and resembling IN
no way the Migrants 50 frequently taken
for members of the Bender family. Headds
that Ill of the Benders. notwithstanding
their fiendisll natures, appear agreeable
and pleasant in their manners. and, as they
are supplied with money, It Is not likely
that they viii be foand acting the part oi
fools or vagrants.
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rHE TzzousANDTz ANNIVERSARY.
The Political Constitution of Iceland's
Government.

The Nation of this week says: The Ice
landers, as our readers know, are to cele-
brate the thousandth anniversary of the
settlement of their island during the present
summer, and have taken the 1st of August
as the proper day, in the absence of any
indications as to the precise date. The
colonists were, for long period after their
emigration, lost sight of by the rest of the
world, and their island had no place on the
charts of Northern navigators. The Danish
government now contributes to the occasion
new charter. based ON the Danish consti-
tutien of 1s49, which gives to local legis-
lature, called the Althing-consisting of
thirty-six members, thirty chosen by liberal
though not universal suffrage, and six NOM
mated by the eCrown-exclusive jurisdiction
of local concerns, with a minister holding
the executive power resident at Copenhagen,
and appointed by the King, but responsible
to the Legislature. His functions, however,
in all matters of pressing Importance, will
be exercised by a Governor residing in the
island. This closes a long and bitter con-
test between the islanders and the Danish
Crown, as they have accepted the proffered
charter i'll the most cordial terms, and the
King, the first who has ever done SO, goes
out to be present at the celebration.
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How THE MoDocs GET oN.-The Modocs
have had better health during the past
winter than anticipated. But five deaths
have occurred since they came here. The
conduct of the tribe is and has been as good
as we could expector ask. A1lseem willing
and anxious to do as near as they can as
we wish them to. Too much praise cannot
be accorded to Bogus Charlie for his evident
desire to improve and learn the ways Of
good men. Steamboat Frank is much in
terested in learning to read. We keep
them supplied with books and charts, and
when opportunity offers give them instruc.
tions. Frank and Schonchin's Pete can
read pretty well, considering chances, and
several of the others I Hooker Jim,' Scar
face, aud Others read little and spell
some. We have them at work gardening
all good weather, but 1t is very wet and
cold here this spring, and we make rather
slow progress. They know very nearly
nothing about farming or gardening, So
everything they do has TO be closely watched
and carefully supervised. They are very
good workers, and show great desire to
learn how to work. We shall not be able
to do as much this season as we would like,
on account Of not having the means to
procure q team and the necessary imple-
ments for their use. Elmsva Adrertissr.
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How to Keep Cool.

Never go in the sun; it heats the blood.
Food is fuel. and furnishes heat; eat no
food. Clothes prevent the escape of heat
from the body; wear none, or only a loose
shirt and drawers. Work heats the system /;
do nothing. Sit in draft Reading, talk
ing and thinking generate heat; do neith-
er. Bathe every hour Of the day, and take
q shower bath between. Wear a cap with
ice in it. Sit with your feet in d tub Of ice
water. Call yonr wife q. daughters when
you want anything 1t is d cool operation.
Drink iced tea, lemonade, plain suda, and
such; have cool stream running in all the
while. BY observing these simple direc-
tons one can get along without going
away, unless the effect sends him Oh. Gin
einmai H67etft.
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= THE LoNe-HAIRED cHIEF. y
A Minister Whips His Wife for Break
ing the Sabbath.
From the Alexandria IVA, Gazette.

The Presbytery Of Chesapeake met in
Baltimore on July Sth to try the case of the
Rev. Fl. i. G. Baskerville, of LauriI,
charged with whipping his wife. The spe-
cifcation is that, one Sunday short time
since, the reverend gentleman, who is the
provider for the household, having failed
to procure anything for breakfast, except
bread and butter, was surprised to find
some eggs on the table, and being informed
by his wife, in response to an inquiry, that
she had borrowed them from neighbor,
told her he would "teach her how to break
the Sabbath, 7 and did SO by slapping her
Jaws, one OF the slaps striking her on the
eye and backing that orb into which he had
SO often fondly gazed.
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POETRY.
THE LAST LETTER

This hand, Tonight, will surely pen
The fatal word that rends ..-...
The chords SO cherished once; but then
awe both were better friends
Twill scarcely give us pain at last
To break the silken bond,
That bound us to the tender past
Fair. promising and fond
And let it go without sigh
At least with slight regret
For better days are doomed to die,
And we can both forget
\ friendship which was that in name
But was it more-or less =
That brought Il sweetness into life
And left bitterness.
can send back each souvenir,
And calmly, Heaven knows,
Nor wish to keep one loving line,
Nor hide withercd rose! ,,.a,....-...,-. ID,
No wild pulse thrills my bosom now.
Nor bids ny fingers stay;
Our Idyl has been dead so long
We'll bury it to-day.
Beneath the careless morrow's smile.
AS though the tears that blot
The story of all else that's lost
In this had been forgot:
And let be nameless grave
A hidden hermitage
But one to which our sated hearts
Shall make no pilgrimage.
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Naked Justice on a Gate Pest.

Our old friend, Judge Tom Farrar, of
Lake Providence says the New. Orleans
PicGyWne, who is known throughout the
State as a lawyer and jurist of eminent abil-
itles, and a gentleman of most lovable
character, tells at his own expense, and
with the keenest gustO, q story which we
think too good to lose. 1t appears that
some years ago, while riding through one
of the prettiest districts of North Louisiana,
he came, about sundown, to creek which
was so deep as to necessitate swimming
feat The Judge being man of
vigorous and invincible determination, no
sooner realized this emergency than he
promptly dismounted, undressed himself
vi iitls great dispatch and attired only in his
high plug hat and a pair of spectacles, be-
strobe his gallant cob and urged him to the
venture.
After desperate struggle the other side
was gained, and the Judge again dismeunt-
ing, this time with q profound sigh of relief,
was about to resume his integuments, when
spirit, started from his side and trotted off
down the road.
Of course, the Judge had no other re-
course but to trot after him and thereupon
there ensued one of the most remarkable
and picturesque chases ever known in his
tory or tradition. The horse appeared to
have no motive save that of keeping Ger
tain distance ahead of the Judge, and of
finding some comfortable barn-yard where
he might refresh himself after such gigan-
tic efforts. The Judge, whatever may have
been his ambitions. confined himself to the
effort of keeping the truant beast in sight.
1t must have been q cheerful and invigora-
ting experience to see the Judge trotting
briskly along that smooth and sandy road,
his venerable plug hat pulled over his eyes,
and his spectacles bobbing mp and down
upon his nose. The chase was long, and
the moisture of great exertion would gath
on his brow, and then, when he reached
around for his handkerchief, alas it was
not there. All of which had the effect of
impressing the Judge with his very peculi-
ar and unfortunate situation, and impart-
ing renewed play and lightness to his tired
legs
So the two bowled pleasantly along, pre-
serving a steady relative distance, until just
as the setting sun was reddening the distant
hills and touching the Judges manly form
with gold, the horse whisked suddenly into
a gate and bolted with eager haste toward
a stable dimly visible some distance to the
right.
The farm house sat in grove of trees
whose shadows made great darkness
round it, and from this grove, as the Judge
was scampering fnriously after his horse
and wardrobe, there issued snnGry yellow
dogs, surly of mein and shaggy Of appear
ance. The Judge felt that it would be ut
terly impossible, under the circumstances,
TO assume that majesty Of aspect and fear
lessness of gaze which is currently believed
to be the correct thing with dogs, and so,
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THY NAME.

told the rose thy name it blushed and stirred;
Its petals trembfed as in ecstasy.
cried thy name aloud--and 10 the bird
furst into song within the thick -leaved tree.
| spake it when the m orn was gray and cold
And straight from out his east upshot the sun.
/ spake it in the night--the. clouds that rolled
Above dispersed; the stars came one by one.
Should any whisper it when on my face
The black earth lies. calm sleeping underground,
l think my heart again would beat space
And that my lips would tremble at the sound.
And if before the gates of heaven came,
And could for mine own worth no entrance win,
l think that then if l shoald name thy name,
The eternal doors would STIR and let me in.
Gerard BenddH in the Spectator.
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Nuns IN AMERIcA.-Twenty-1lv years
ago there were only sixty-six conventual
schools conducted by Nuns or Sistersin the
United States. Now there are 400 academies
and 240 select schools, OF an average of four
to each diocese. These are all pay schools;
but the poor schools taught by these relig-
ious women, including the parish, free,
orphan and industrial schools, are reckoned
by thousands, and it is estimated that $50,
600 female children are now under the care
of the Nuns of the Catholic Church. The
Nuns also superintend some 300 orphan,
founding, deaf and dumb or other bcneficent
institutions. The Nuns devoted to teaching
belong to the following named orders: The
Ladies of the Sacred Heart, the Ursulines
the Visitation, the Immaculate Conception,
Presentation, and the Sisters of the Precious
Blood Loretto, St. Clare, our Lady of
Angels, st. Ann, st. Mary, Sacred Heart of
Mary, Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ,
Humility Of Mary. St. Agnes, Incarnate
Word Holy Child, and Daughters of the
Cross. The Carinelites, Servite Nuns and
Sisters OF St. Anthony are contemplative
communities, though, i'll some special in
! stances, the poor are taught and assisted in
their converts.
| Joaquin Miller furnishes the New York
| I,adependeat of this week with an interest
ing letter regarding Mount Vesuvius. tits
written in his peculiar style, and contains a
number of fine passages. The IadepeHdeh,
thinks he is doing some of his best literary
work in prose, and calls particular attention
to the following extract
ssAll day and all night the same calm and
balm about this Bay of Naples--a sort oi
perpetual summer. never saw such lane
/ of dreams. Even the dogs refuse to bari
and the poor belabored mules forget to bray
1 IF these eternal naccaroni merchants woult
4 only shut their mouths, you might think i
was one unbrolxclf Sabbath. Incredible a
it may seem. even the women of Naples arr
silent half the time. l saw cat IN the sill
yer moonlight on the adjoining hotel las
night, curving his spine and rolling hi
splendid eyes but never word said he.
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How THE DUTcHMAN WAS MIsTooK-
ED.--A day or two since, several Comstock-
ers, who were seated in one of our brew
cries slipping their lager, began in boast
full way to tell of the great men for whom
they had been mistaken. Cine stated that
withdrawing on one occasion through the
State Of New York, a gentleman came into
the ears and walking up to him slapped
him familiarly on the back exclaiming
Why Mr.. Astor, how do yea do - An
other stated that lpan getting off a steam
er at Aspinwall, when on his way to Cali
fornia, a few years ago, a gentleman had
rushed to him, seized him by the hand and
cried, "Comodore Vanderbilt. it gives me
great pleasure to see you here, sir p
While these stories were being told, it was
observed that Dutchman sitting near the
party was growing quite uneasy He lis
tened quite attentively to the COMPENSATION,
hitching his chair gradually nearer the
group Of men Of remarkable appearance and
showing evident signs of anxiety to contri-
butte his experience to that which had al
ready enrelated At last he saw an open
ing, and thus told his story: Well, ven
dlemen, dot reminder me of dot times ven
first gene to Cincinaddi dare. | vas come
to Cincinaddi dare on one dem schteam-
boats. Veil cooms to Cincinaddi dare,
and ven der boats stop [ walk down der
leyee NIT mine carpet sacks in hands Ond
mine pig sneerchaum pipes III mine mont.
ven yoost den one yendleman -he vas fine
laokin feller--he rush up TO me, and mid
astonisment looked me by der hand ond cry
ont: Tesus Christ how you vas -
"a. Eaferprise.
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THO month Of June is noted for terri.

The month of June is noted for terri
BILE earthquakes. On June 7, 1792, 5000
persons were destroyed by an earthquake
inJamaica; on tie same day Of the same
month In 1865, 10000 persons persisted in
Persia by an earthquake; again. on June I,
i773, Santiago with its inhabitants was
swallowed up. Several other instances of
bad Jane earthquakes might be mentioned,
one even 50 late IL june 10, 1867, in Java.
Nheu 100 persons we're DESTROYED,
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The political gossips of Europe affirm
that the Gear of Russia and the Queen of
England favor the accession of the Prince
Imperial to the throne Of France, and are
plotting to bring about this event, and if
successful Napoleon ". will become the
husband of the Princess Beatrice, Victoria S
youngest daughter.
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One year ago, the Sartoris seniors lost a
son, and this fact is given out as sufficient
reason for their failure to treat Nellie and
her husband to reception party. They
have quietly dropped into cottage on the
farm, without notice from English people.
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In Philadelphia every lady is centurion.
Everything in that city is centuplicated;
wherever you 60, whatever you do, the CEN
tennial stares you in the face; you have to
wear it on your paper collar and wash
your hands with centennial towels and
soap. The whole name is q farce, as it
would lead you to suppose it was to happen
but once in ahundred years; but in the City
of Brotherly Love it seems they are to keep
it up forever. The girls have powdered
their hair to make them look hundred
years older; The old women have powdered
theirs to make them look like the young
girls. On q careful estimate there are
about two hundred and twenty thousand
Martha Washington costumes in that city
now, which costumes consists of about
three yards of old fashioned curtain calico,
mop cap, a black patch under the left
eye, and seventy-five cent pair of high
f1erieti sfippers.--eefdt eefdtffffffttttE it'll.
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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

The trade of tanner seems, for some
reason or another, to conduce to political
prominence. Our good President and our
new Postmaster-General are shining ex-
amples of this, and even as far back as the
Roman days we have Ciceros evidence that
)7tOus01ke fnpds ffn
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The Pope Expelled from the Free Ma
sons.
THE Voice of Masonry


At the semi-annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge of Masons, Scottish Rite of the Orient
of Palermo, Italy, on the 9th of March,
1874, Pope Plus *, was expelled from the
order. The decree Or expulsion was pub
lished in the official Masonic paper, at Co
logne, Germany, and is preceded by the
minutes of the lodge in which he was initi-
ated, and is as follows:
IA man named Mastai Ferretti, who re-
ceived the baptism of Freemasonry, and
solemnly pledged his love and fellowship,
and who afterwards was crowned Pope and
King, under the title of Pho Nino, has now
cursed his former brethren, and excommu-
nicated all members of the Order of Free
masons. Therefore, said Mastai Ferretti,
is herewith, by the decree of the Grand
Lodge of the Orient, Palermo. expelled
from the Order for perjury
The charges against him were preferred
in his lodge at Palermo, in 1865, and notif-
cation and copy thereof sent to him, with a
request to attend the lodge for the purpose
of answering the same. To this he 1sade
no reply, and, for divers reasons, I'll the
were not pressed until he urged the Bishops
of Brazil to act aggressively against the
Freemasons. Then they were pressed, and,
after regular trial, decree of expulsion
was entered and published, the same being
signed by Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy,
the Grand Master Of the Orient OF Italy.
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" Cemetery Sam. :"
From the Eureka, Cal, Cupcl.l

tfToH tlle Sal SupciJ
He was not reticent, neither was he diff
dent but he was glib of tongue and pos
sessed many accomplishments which are
taught and appreciated through the interi-
or. He could jump into the air, crack his
heels together four distinct times, and, when
he landed-stiff legged-could repeat the
well-known, /" am chief" in a manner
that betokened long practice and quiet de-
termination. When he found himself the
center of the right sort of All audience he
could assume a nonchalant air, and lead the
conversation into the proper channel, when
he would begin to count upon his fingers
the number of private cemeteries he had
established, and then fingers being insufi-
cient, he would call for sheet of paper
SO the number each contained might be cor
rectly enumerated. His first appearance
in Eureka was made last night, and he in
troduced himself as Cemetery Sam" gave
the particulars of his receiving the patrony-
mic, and stated that he was from Phoebe !;
was q "gun fighter" and asked if any
there were who doubted his statement. He
sloshed around considerably during the
evening, and by dint of suayity and terror
each applied as circumstances demanded
--he succeeded in loading himself with nee
tai, ere the midnight hour. Then he grid
ed up his loins and declared his determine
tion to start a corpse factory, but in order
that his victims might know who they had
the honor of being slain by, he thought
proper to offer explanation and in so doing
carried on q sort of informal dialogue, ask
ing the questions with informal and grave
earnestness and answering with cunning
lightness, thus:
"Who was it that inaugurated the grave
yard at Rocky Bar, because barkeeper re-
fused him drink ?"
"Guess it was Cemetery Sam"
"Who was it that caused the first orphan
asylum to be started in Montana ?''
"Cemetery Sam was the feller."
"Who was it that made public admin
istration rich in Eastern Oregone''
s'I'm mistaken if it wasn't Cemetery
SAM"
"Who was it that '-Here some one
present who evidently thought the thing
was becoming monotonous, smote Sam
heavily. and the latter fell. When he arose
he continued the monologue by asking:
"Who was struck by lightning just
now?''
"1f my memory serves me right, it must
have been Cemetery Sam
The Pope Expelled from the Free Ma
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The cremationists are increasing in Eu-
rope, cremation furnace in Dresden being
in process of construction, while in Switz-
erland the subject is attracting the attention
of all the intelligent and educated classes,
and the British Bishop of Manchester has
settled all doubts regarding the seeming
antagonism between burning and the res
direction of the body by the assurance that
the "on1nipotence of God is not limited"
and that He can raise the dead whether
they are to be raised bodily out Of church
yards or out Of an urn
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"A Boston woman who objects te nude
statuary, has ordered figure of Venus cut
mt of DIRE ssefl marble
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Still another centennial celebration will
be that of the hundredth anniversary Of the
science of chemistry. In 1774 the discov-
cry of oxygen was made by Priestley and
that event is to be made the basis Of the
proposed celebration. The date of the OBJ
servance will be August 1st, and the place
Northumberland, Pa, the resting place of
Priestley. The idea was original with Pro-
fessor Bolton of Columbia College, who
opened the subject in a letter addressed to
the editor of the american Chemist for
April last.