The Grange advance., 1874-07-08

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NESw1 pF the WEEK.
TUESDAY, June 30.-The Jewish City Of
Berditcher in Volhynis, Russian Poland,
mas had . recent succession Of great tires.
One day six hundred houses were burned,
and the nezt'day nearly ~ many more
were destroyed. The two succeeding
days the town was again visited by fires,
and whole streets were laid in ashes.....
Marshal Cencha, the General.in.Chief Of
the national army Of Spain, was killed
Saturday in leading division Of his army
70 an attack upon a Carlist position At Es-
sella. Tho repulse Of hiscommand was
attended with heavy loss of men a0d line
officers. O.. President NacNahon has of
Tended the legitimists Of France by an
nouncing his determination to remain At
the head>of the nation and plainly iutinat.
ing that he was not keeping the place for
any one else, - tho monarchists hoped. ..
One hundred of tho locked.out farm labor.
ers OF Now Market, Eng, have started on .
pilgrimage through tho AGRICULTURAL dis
ticts, to plead the cause Of labor in the
principal towns. . The license bill failed
to pass the Massachusetts, Lssislatare, yes.
serday, over the Governors veto 90. The
railroad shops at #. wayne, Ind are
running only five hours day, which re-
duces 'laborers and wipers wages to fifty.
six cents day.. -Four hundred depart
ment employees are to be dismissed at
Washington this week with two months
extra pay allowed them. Bill
Davis, a well known over
river bartender, was shot and
norsally wounded At Little Rock, Satur.
Gay, by Capt. Bill Forest. Another well
dressed young man, name unknown. com.
mitted suicide by jumping from the Saint
Louis bridge last night. The Washing
ton Chronicle Of this morning says Gen.
Sherman would not leave Washington if
he hadeny duties to perform, but he has
none, the Secretary Of War having imme.
date direction Of al army operations. 80.
The grasshoppers moving slowly north
ward before the prevailing winds, and
making daily halts, are reported to be
making terrible havoc among the growing
crops in Watonwan county. In Cotton
wood, jackson and Martin counties and
the western part of Fsrib>ult county, slso,
great damage is reported.
WEDs9ssDAY, July l.-The employees
dircharged from tha Treasury Department
at Washington yesterday included .a75
women, anumber Of whom tainted on be-.
ing informed of their dismissal. Notwith.
standing the two months extra pey al
lowed to o,eacht discharged employee, much
distress is feared among tho zsix Or seven
hundred dismissed from 10 several de.
partmeAts. ..... The Presi1oot goes to Long
Branch for tho summef and tAr. Fish to
his residence on tho Hudson, both lesv-
ing Washington Friday. =. Tho Emitted
States government, through Minister Cush
ing, has made q persnptory demand upon
Spain for Indemnity for the Vin4ioius
prisoners slain BY 'srdsr of Gen. Busriel.
Mr.. cssaswen tsek leave of tho Post
Once dspaE laat evening, at aa ~
sembly ofths el6sAs, Who adopeed rseolu
tions compliasntary 70 tho retiring Pest
master General. J.. - compared with tho
same months Of last year Immigration has
fallen off the 6rst six oeoths Of this year
20 to SO per cent. Tho decrease is prin.
cipally in Germans. Tho late arrivals arc
said to be nearly al young Irish girls, com,
ing out to work ~ hoasekeepers. The
question of home rule OF local parliamen,
for Ireland was up in tho British Parlia.
oueot yesterday and received very little
encouragement. The second Dutch sx'
peditiou to Acheen hes met With most dis
astroas defeat. March Goth the Achinest
~ night carried TIA Dutch fort by assault
killing 1000 and woundhg 4,5o0 Of the
garrison and colonists. :. Marshal serrane
takes the place Of the lss llarshal 0eoch,
in command Of the spaaish national army
operating against the Carlists. /. !. james r
Saunders. . prominent lawyer Of Yooksrs,
n. T.,lapd H0t Grand Size of Oh ~
u, ~ss tallY ahle II eeurt yeleeede,