. { The present permanent population of Oklahoma is about 20,000, dor and Peru will be settled by a con ference at Quito. A — The civil service rules affect nearls 80,000 officials in the employ of th United States Government. A return shows that no fewer than twenty-nine persons died from starvatior in London in twelve months. In Sweden, Denmark, Bavaria, Bade) and Wurtemburg there is practically ne one who cannot read or write. The leader of the Soudanese dervishes Nad-el-jumi, boldly announces that hi has set out to conquer the world. The Italian murderer of the future har been done for by the philanthropists last. He is never more to be executed During the Paris Exhibition no les than sixty-nine international congresse) will meet in the French metropolis unde | Government patronage. Says the Detroit Free Pres: “Thi | talk of annexing Canada to the United | States continues unabated, and in se friendly a spirit that no harm can result.” The New York Herald has discovered | that English ladies take a great deal | more interest in politics than the wives | end daughters of American candidates | do, It is a fact worth moraliziog over, | opines the Chicago Sun, that annually a | million tons of flax straw go to waste in | the United States, instead of being worked | into linen products. The possessions of Trinity church, in New York city, foot up to £140,000,000. | Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, its pastor, has a nominal salary of £12,000, but really re. zeives as much as he wants, Speaking of the lower classes of Japan, | Mr. Arthur May Knspp, himself a mis- | gionary to the “Yankees of the Orient,” | says they are morally much superior to the corresponding classes in the United Btates, . Tm The grizzly bear is following in the footsteps of the buffalo and gradually going hence. It is now only among the most broken country of the territories that he can be found at all, and he isn't half as full of fight as he used to be. The income of a professional rat | catcher averages $1500 per year, an- | nounces the Detroit Free Press, and there | are only ten of them in the United States. | $700 per year, and the ranks are over- | crowded, | Men living in other countries, and owing allegiance to other powers, own | land enough in the United States to make | about ten States like Massachusetts, more | than the whole of New England, more | land than some governments own to sup- | port a King. The Cologne (Germany) Gazette pub- | lished of American census statistics which justify the prediction | that before the middle of the coming | century the western continent will be | studded with cities of 1,000,000 inhabi- | tants and upward. —— a column The colony on Piteairn's Island in the | South Pacific numbers 120 people, all | related by blood or marriage, and the | smount of money circulating among | them has never been over $80. The one | who gets bold of $29 of this is consid. | ered a millionaire. One Chicago ice wagon, driven by a pale-faced and harmless looking young wan, has killed five persons this season, wd it may be observed that the per. formance is not yet over. Every coro- set's jury exonerates the driver and cer- lifies that he is very careful and consid. arate, The fire losses in the United States uring the first six months of the yesr aggregated oer §70,000,000, against a Wtal loss of but $46,500,000 for the same period last year. In loss of life and losses of property through other agencies the first half of 1880 has been notable, So ——————————— The New York Mereury observes: “The Quakers are practical, if anything, and, believing that the royal road to a man's heart lies through his stomach, they have determined to convert the noble red man through the cooking stove as a means of grace, Already they have Since 1872, when the last elaborate computation of the armies of Europe was made, the taxpayers of the Continent have expended §7,500,000,000 on preparations for n war that has not come, or nearly twice what we at home expended on our four years of Civil War. A Russian officer, with the same pow- ers ns an American constable, can make or forbid a holiday in a village, forbid work on a certain day, order every house to be searched, seize and hold all cattle for inspection, and in fine play autocrat with higher hand than any man in Germany, France or England. Fiftcen years ago, says Chauncey M. Depew, one man owned a majority of the stock of the New York Central Railroad, and a few others most of the balance. Now it has 16,000 proprietors, and the large majority of them are people of small prcperty. This indicates a process of distribution which will speedily change the character and management of Ameri. can corporations, Of 13,000,000 barrels of salt annually : .. 3 . sine { consumed in the United States, Michigan | New York sixth, ten other salt-producing States one- furnishes two-sixths, one- sixth, and two.sisths are imported. The Michigan and New York product practi- cally controls the market, excepting along by cheap ocean freights, the foreign article the Atlantic coast, where, reason comes into competition. Sn—— £8 Poor Carlotta, ex-Empress of Mexico, lives in the Castle of Boushout, in gium, in strict seclusion. Once a year, for a day—the day of Fete Dieu-the castle grounds are opened to the public,’ ul ols and a formal procession of priests and This year the ex-Empress way seen to be watching the citizens passes through. castle, Her hair is now quite white, but other. procession from a window of the wise she has not changed for years, Almost everybody will be glad, re. marks the Boston Cultivator, that a new issue of one and two-dollar bills is soon They are cates, and will take the place of the silver dollars that money have become sa burden. new and clean bills sre better. to have currency convenient to be made. to be silver certifi to those who deal much in Bright, It is well nd neat, as it induces economy. There is more temptation to spend a tattered and dirty bill than there is one that is crisp and new. How many trade secrets have died with their possessor? One such case has just occurred at Findlay, Ohio, in the death of Frederick J. Seymour, the Superintendent of the American Aluminum Company. He was the in- ventor of processes by which aluminum . : | could be extracted from common clay. The average income of lawyers is only | < In fluid mass of the clay, which enabled his fellow. workmen to valuable the earth. He died of a paralytic stroke and had no opportunity to reveal his secret. The stockholders of the company, among whom are General Russell A. Alger and Senator Palmer, of Michigan, it is said will employ chemists gecret he added some chemical to a wrest the metal from and endeavor to rediscover the secret. The News and Courier, of Charleston, fulminates against the people who are forever trying to tamper with the White | House at Washington on the plea of im- provement, new decorations, extensions, or the turning of the building into offices for national busivess. A far better plan, this paper suggests, “would be to su. thorize the erection of an edifice of some description on the Potomac flats for the employment of these artists for all future | time. Perhaps if they were allowed to control such a building, and to spend their time and the people's money in put- ting it together and taking it apart and setting it up and pulling it down, they would feel that they were earning their property be.” Samuel R. Lowery, of Birmingham, Ala., a very intelligent colored man who has for some years devoted his time to silk culture with a view to the develop | ment of this industry in the South, is now trying to rise 85000 to purchase | looms for this work. He has been very successful in producing the raw silk, and is highly commended and endorsed by Senator Morgan and other leading men who have personally known him for many years. His object is to develop at Bir. mingham a siik-making industry in which the colored people can engage. We believe, says the Manufacturers’ Ro cord, of Baltimore, that the enterprise is worthy of the practical aid of those who desire to develop this important industry in the South, and thus employ- of : FLOODS IN NEW JERSEY. Many Cities and Villages Dam- aged hy Raging Waters. Beven Dams Burst and Sweep Away Houses and Bridges. ———— The flood getes were lifted during the late bhoavy rain in New Jersey, aud, sincs the Johnstown disaster was fresh in the minds of all, it would be hard to gauge the amount of terror that existed in some parts of that State for a fow hours, The streams were already running full, and a succession of deluging showers in the afternoon and evening caused them tooverflow, The rain- fall was especially heavy on the Orange Mountains, and the result was that cities like Newa Plainfigld and Elizabeth on the low land which received the mountain's streams suffered from floods. Bridges, dams and houses wore washed away, trains stalled, and other damages done, Tho greatest flood Flainfleld, N. J, has {| over known followed this heavy dowspodr of rain, and wash-ouls and broken dams | were the result. At 4 o'clock Codington's {| dam, on Stony Brook, gave way, and the large body of water thus freed carried { away Codington’s foehouss and threatssed | the Green Valley Mills with destruction. { The damage along the course of this stream was heavy, for many darns and other build- ings were washed away At 4:30 o'clock the great dam at Feliville gave way, and the rush of the water down the valley proved too much for the little | Green Brook, #0 that the torrent divided and rt of it made its way to Cedar Brook. This brook flows through the choleest resident | portion of Plainfield, and the clegant houses there were badly damaged. An area in the town covering three square miles was entiro- ly submerged, At 5:40 Tier's dam in Green Brook gave way, precipitating a great body of water through the center of the town, This brook divides the two countiss of Bomerset and Union, and where it runs through the town is built entirely over. When the water, in a great torrent, rushed down the stream and ound its way blocked by buildings it turasd into the strect. Bomerset street became a | ragtug flood, and where the brook was bridged the street was washed out badly, Many snali wooden buildings wers washed aviay and demolished Beveral houses situated along the leook were flooded and the inhabitants compelind | to move in short order, Frenche's mill and | carriage factory were threatened with de truction. All the collars and first floors of { the stores looded and the dam: to property was great Most of the } SOR Wore ox water camo ru ! plarm prevailed felt sure that the fate town was al wrens of the the uoipe of the torrents have never hoofi Witness country before were onto | Bo far as kn carried away. & per Cadmus's mill below Plain! g was reported 10 be wrecked, loomfield, N. J., especially it 3 centre, is a wreel, from the grat flood seta Fiver dam at Fritz Mill, near the Dela ware, lackawanna and Welsrn Ballrond Depot, has given way and the land for two miles around was submerged. Btores amd resdgdences were fooded and thousands of dole lars worth of property destroyed. Jom I” Seherfl, droge Pat WH worth of drugs { and other articles: Robert M. Silles, fed | merchant, is also a heavy loser, while nearly | all on the morth side of Gloawosd avenue ave Jost from $600 upward each. One or two lives were reported lost The breaking of Fritts Dam on Parrow Brook, near Orange, flooded and entirely de stroyed Eppley's Park, which was recently nid out at a cost of $80.000, The damage in Fapex County will amount to over $100,000 Reports from Morris County intimated that even greater damage has boon done there The worst effects of the storm were fall in the Orange Mountains, however, and in the towns and villages lying at their eastern base. All the pounds and brooks on the mouniains contained more walter than eepal at this tine of the year be cause of the umprecedentsd rains of the past few weeks This downpour overflowed them and atone time early in the evening dismsters were feared in Milburn, Maplewood, Wyoming and South Orange, as the reservoir of the Oranges Water Ww rae was unnsaally full, and it was feared it would burst. In this reservoir the wators of several mountain streams are dupmsd up for future use, as drink watar in Orange, East Orange, West O os and South Orange. It is 800 feet above high water mark, and abou! two i miles and a half west of South Orange, the | slevation of which is about 175 feet. { In South Oraugoe several buildings, includ. | ing the postoffice, were carried away, and 20 barrels of four were washed out | of ome storchouss, In Orange Valley the water was up to the sscondstory windows, and great damage has boen dona | to the stock in the numerous bat factories | there. People wero compelled to paddle around on planks and to swim in order to reach of safety on high ground i Hathertord, N. J. was soded badly and ! large portions of threes of the prominent | streets were washed out entirely. Several prominent stroets at Cailsiade, | N.J., ware turned into mill-races and will be ! ig down, an : among the of the pe to overiake patent t who CURA phe of Johns them, The ard above ned Oe oon Wii, al east ¢ The last one | the sidewalks wore carried away. Pasalo | also cause in for her share of the clowduours At Hackensack many of the prominent | thoroughfares ware entirely washed out and | made impassable. The Hackensack River had risen considerably and many of the cel- | Jars in the lower portion of the town were | ! To prott village of Ridgewood Park fared The finest strosts io the town were | badly. totally ruined by the torrents. Cellars wero | | flooded and great holes and ditches made in salaries in a way and would let public | several private ons. The storm, on the whole, was the hoaviest that has visited thoso points for twelve yoars, Landsiides and washouts occurred on near. movement of trains was stopped. a IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. i Custom Houses Last Fisoal Year. ing Ye last flscal year amounted to §745,137,« 476 and of exports to §042, 401.790, an excess of imports over exportsof £2, 725,677. Of our | turers, of Salem, Mass | why | were drowned fording the White River. ly all the main railroads in Now Jersey and | Merchandise Passing Throngh Our | Ti» value of imports of merchandise dur | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Tar United States gunboat Yorktown res turned to New York from a cruise at sea, undertaken to test the ship's strength and stability and the effectiveness of her main battery, The results were highly satis factory, A oycrone, followed almost immediately by a terrific rain storm, vicited North Wilbra- ham, Massachusetts, doing considerable dam- age to property. The earth was torn up, snowing a furrow fifteen feet wide for a bong distence, It threw water fifty feet high. Publ in many sections of setts, Laven, Del, and the surrounding coun try have been visited by a disastrous storm, weslorn which continped with uninterrupted fury for | two days, Small wooden bridges across the streams and fences have been washed away, {| and flalds and orchards ruined, Jory IRELAND, & wellknown New Yorker, | who for years has kept a popular restaurant | on Lispenard street, was robbed of $48,000 {| In securities while a patient in Chambers i Street Hospital, E & A. H. Baronzrren, of Boston, Mass, | I one of the largest boot and shoe firms in the { country, have assigned, I $3,950,000, | | Evpwanp Bryres, son of Dr. D, W, Styles, | | and Captain Philip H. Wagner, both of Buf- | falo, N. ¥Y., were drowned while boating. McKeax & Arriyros, shoe manufao. have failed, their es timated liabilities being between $65,000 and £70,000, In Ulster County, X. Y.. a tornado de wed several houses, and three persons wer badly hurt, one of them fatally Tux bill to move the State capital of Now Hampshire from Concord to Maschestor was Leitled in the Leglsdatare by a big majority Ex-Usrren Brares Spxator EH. Ror raxs, of New Hampshire, is dead, in his sixty fifth your, He had been twice Speaker of the New Hanipshirs House of Representa. tives; was ele ted to Congress thrice, and in 1577 was chosen to the United States Senate Frep Fann, sped twenty-fv be Carthage and A« his wife at Clayton, KN, nitted suicide Jonx I. SULLIVAY, arrested in New Y city Byrnes at the request of Ge A bsdani ppl, md was held awning and then the prize fighter Ly Ahwspector vernor Lowry, of at Police Hend- the action of was T's Guarters Governor Hill W.F Bostos irr Six rao kers of the Connellsville on strike BAXD of Pennsvivania Masai are id ovens district have ge Four th dle Horace ID. Fein manager of Pittsburg (Penn) Bassball Club cared inwemne the tins been dow A r10T oorurre! among MO Italian railroad hands at Beaver, Pe furing A sitice~ killed, two [talians fatally inj suother shot in the | ud several others badly beaten ng which unio Costinsllo was Shing” igo t Tar License Lill was pa y the Rhode Idland Legislature, after whi the special searion adjourned, South and West, Tue Cannon Wichita Wi 3 burned out in Wichita, Kan (5s) Fruit Conmmismion and the wesnle Grocery ( ware pany Lows, 8170. Tux five men accused of oomplicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin-—-Coughlin, Beggs, Woodruff, Kuenze and O'Sullivan--were are raigned in Judge Horton's court in Chicag All pleaded not guilty Tue steamboat Tulchester on way from Baltimore Md. to Deals lsdand ran down a sail boat There were five persons in the boat, three of whom, Mary Kalb, Mary Wiener and John Bite, were drowned Texas fever is playing havor cmong the cattle in the Indian Territory. Hundreds of cattle were dying in Oklahoma J. W, Garris, an old farmer and citizen of Clairborne County, Miss, was nistaken for a burglar and shot and instantly killed by his son Edward, aged eighteen Wittiay Scowiex and Mrs. Hannah Becker were killed in Loulsville, Ky., while crossing a raflroad in a wagon, Henry Plistner was fatally injured Asorxw CC. Dros, General Manager of the cattle firm of A. Drutom & £ Kansas City, Mo. one of the largest in the West, has fled with £60,000 Tun signature of White Cloud, the leading Chippewa Chief, bas been appended to an agreement by which 2000000 acres of his tribe's reservation will be thrown open to wsttiement. His signing ends the labors of the Commissioners Fiero fires have burned twelve dwellings and killed numerous cattle and borses in Santa Barbara County, Cal. Loss, $50,000 Forest fires have just destroyed a vast amount of property along the Missouri liver in Montana. An area of over four miles was laid waste near Chico, Cal. Sev- eral mining camps and a quantity of tim- ber were burped at Lost Gulch and Gunni- son, in Colorado, Mrs. Sxoporass and her two children at Rockford, Ark, while Ler Co., © A sawsmiry boiler exploded at Golden Gate, DL, instantly iinay Frank Peters, a som of the etor, and fatally injuring | Joo Wallace and William Fox, impassible until repaired. Large portions of | Tox Tarsor, a white man, was lynched at Meridian, Miss, by about sixty men, for an ou as assault upon a fourteon year. old whites girl. Misses Fraxacax, McCabe were drowned at Ishpeming. Mich, while trying to cross the Menominee Riverina boat, ] Tie Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton ex. | P due in Cincionati at 11 Fr MN, was | wrecked near Oxford, Ohio, and twelve per- sons were reported killed, NEGOTIATIONS were completed at Omaha, Neb, for the sale of all the breweries toa | European syndicate for $1,500,000, Wintian LI. Ross a notedeller of the Ne- | vada Bank of San Francisco, Cal, robbed the institution of $85. 000 and fed to Victoria, British Columbia, where he was srrosted, Finn in the ville destroyed the postoftios, office, Forest Hotel and sight stores, Va. and George Honnig, arrested, charged with embessling $80,000, Five large companies manufacture of artificial have formed a trust to control the entire business in that section, who was | sum $287 jo thoroughfares were badly damaged | Massachu- | | directed | $78,000 be granted Postmaster Van Cott, of | | the number of 10 | with his present | gate of 1208 empl Their abilities are | and Farrell | of Pennville, Mich. | “Hones, express | ei i ’ Hany Seywoun, teller in the Bank of | 0 40 as wutch work as four men | Wheeling, W. another employe in the institution, have been | engaged In the | fos 11 the South | 17) 0 ty of the City Ing the next four years, The contract In volves between £700,000 and $500,000, Bronerany Tracy has ordered a Govern. ment vessel to go to Arvenss Key, Yucatan, to rescuo three American sailors who were left there to care for the Jropetty of the company working the guano beds as their Hmited supply of provisions is by this time exhausted, Treasvner Hupron has given a receipt to ex-Treasurer Hystt for 771,500,000, repre senting the smount of money and securitis in the United States Treawry turned over by the latter to the former, Of the above ’ 20% 412 18 netund cash, the remainder including * united States bonds and the re serve fund Tie public debt statement shows an in. Treasury, $054 790 (08.44. PosruastenGraienat, Wasamasen has that an additional allowances of New York city, His New present allowance is 1.084, 000, An additional foree of clerks, to is also aliowed, which force will make an aggre- YOR, 4 Presipens Hannsox left Deer Park, Md, and arrived In Washington, Foreign. Mn Bexrox. member of Parliament and | Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, complains to the State Departiant at Washington, that President Harrison's letter, thanking Dublin for the sympathy expressed with the Johns town sufferers, had been opened in transit und the official seal defaced. Tax United Btates revenue cruiser Rush recently seized the British schooner Black { Diamond, while sealing in the Behring Sea, Du. Taxxen, member of the British Par. lament for Cork, Ireland, was sentenced at Tipperary to one wonth's impriscranent for meenulting Police Inspector Stephens in May inst. When judgment was pronounced he eried out in the dock: “I defy you. The mag- igtracy are the real eriminals” For this out. break three months was added to his sen. tence, Tax Japanese town of Kumamoto on the island of Kiou Biou has been destroyed by an earthquake. A great number of people per- ished, SixTy more dervishes have been killed In a skirmish with the British forces in the Boudan Tux Bhal of Persia England He was received Carnot Sax Luis, a village near has hoen visited by a disast uses were destroyed ands to deat arrived in Paris from by President Santiago, Cuba mis Ore Hixty y children were burned Laver electi $ y returns from Paris show that Gener: ] nngeT Was vlected in tween. ty-threo on ! A Boulangist © n cuses the Government of falsifying voting appers, Bm Joms Trowrsoxn, Canadian Minter of Justios, signed the warrant for the extra dition of Burke, the alleged murderer of Dr, Cronin. He was taken to Chicago for trial Two deserters from the Mexican army wore oa by sounted soldiers fifty miles from Eusesado, Mexico, The prison. sr 2111 vl to follow their captors on foot ace to Enssaado, where on their arrival both fell dead from exhaustion, A Macmixze gun exploded on bosrd the French traizing frigate Couronne at Hyeres, France Eight persons were killed and peventeen injured, Temnry persons were killed and aighty in $ured by the resent earthquake on the island of Kiu-Sia, Japan. Tax German squadron, escorting the Em- wror William (0 England, sailed from Wik Be av n. Tig stesmer Rapel, from Valparaiso to Montevideo, was totally wrecked at Hanaib- lin Island, and the chief engineer, purser and . of the crew were lost, BO O00, O00 mre BEOW storms throughout Switheriand passes were partly blocked were reported in Hilosia Coroxel. Evantsro Canazo, President of Nicaragua, is dead. Dr. Bacasa has succeeded to the Presidency, in conformity with the constitution of Nicaragua Hox. Ma Davie, Premier of British Columbia and Attorney General, died a few days ago as Victoria, icy mains prevailed The mountain Extensive floods and - — THE LABOR WORLD, BrooxLYN has the biggest bakery, Prrrspvng has the biggest ax mill Boor and shoe manufacturers are busy. Wixpow glass factories will soon start up. Tux bakers of Leipzig have gone out on strike, Eixcrriciry is used to haul ecal out of mines, Grea Brrraw unions, has 1500 co-operative EsoLAND is complaining of the arrival of pauper Inbor Tux European workingmen are opposed to | standing armies Oxz of the street oar drivers in Dubuque, | | Jowa, is a woman Sux manufacturing is growing very rap- | idly in the United States, Tur United Order of American Carpenters | is said to be increasing rapidly. Tune is a wonderful increase in the num- | ber of foundry and machine shops. Ox June 30 353 furnaces were in blast in | the United States, and 208 out of blast, the New York banker, : i has feandad an industrial college at Wayne, | Penn, A Jd. Druxxi. Beirasr flax weavers got £5 week, Other workers make from fifty cents per week up. Exorasn iron workers are agitating ‘no | | Bunday work and five days per week with | Monday off." Exovisn mill work on Sunday, are making an bave it stopped, Braix allows children from nine to thie teen to work five hours daily, From thir teen to eighteen, eight hours, EtpcTnicat, coal mini men who are obliged to fort wo machines aro introdaced into Eaglish mines which Tur Indianapolis stoneculters have sue ooaded in carrying the eight-hour schedule after a straggle of fifteen wonths, Toe University of Atlanta, Ga. course in Liackeuithing. ns has New York, Tine is a great falling off in the tion of laborers this year on account enforcement of the Contract Labor bas a the | ing district within a radius of one bundred | miles of New York city show general dam. | erense of the public debt during the month | | of July of £1,01751L.51. Total cash in the | v.01 loses in | {armors | hemviost losers | in New Haven County. | phenomenal 0.85 verage | monthly fall is four inches. The fruit crop | has been THE STORMWEPT AREA. An Estimate of the Damage Wrought by the Late Deluge. | The Injury to Crops in New York, Connecticut and Hew Jersey, Dispatches from many poluts in the farm. v age to crops by unusually heavy rains, The New York, Connecticut and New Jersey will mount up between $300, 000 snd $400,000, and perhaps more. The bay, potato and small fruit crop euffered most. Much grass that had been cut and stacked is a total loss from mould. Potsioss in many ceses are ruined by rot. Grapes along the Hudson have been badly injured. Ibe situation is peculiarly discouraging to bocause, owing to the forward spring and wousaally good weather until within a fortnight, they were confident of | exoaptionally large Stops of nearly all kinds, New York Btato are the In the great dairy district if Central New York thelr logs in bay and small grain are particularly severe In Connecticut the potatos suffered most, although considerable hay on the salt marshes and on the bottom lands along the rivers ie destroyed. Truck gardeners are the main losers in New Jersey, although the Walkill River and the Paulins Kill considerable dam- age was done 10 hay snd grain In Orange, Bullivan and Delaware Coun ties in New York, thousands of acres of the grass and grain already cut are entirely spoiled. Extensive x pear Grey- court and swong the lov ands of the Wadkill are fl nd the crop s practically ruined. T may 6 sald of potato and turnip crops in 1 the low land fields. It bs estimated that ne-fourth of the hay crop of the great dairy or damaged Farmers in along sume tions Las Doen lost ically worthioss Ulster County, Eastern sthern Dutchess County in wiimated thay the damage to the hav, grain and ost crops and to fruit trees vill reach $15,000 $6 $20,000. Blanding grass ind grain on hundreds of acres was beaten lows by the rain and wind and has become dy ch hay and grainout and left on ¢ ground to cure is spoiled. The fruit crop art of Ulster County esanot rio ordinary vield, ined be ton, N, Y., in w arc shelling sow Dispatcd from Afty s slong the Hodson valley report heyy least hall the crop is ruined, boss of fully 875,000 iit crop in the viemity of Pough- Y.. ivalmost entirely destroved, Gurden prod “ five po uffered severely. RNa BH Orang York it is New age. Ad that mens 8 n The fr EVENLY jow lands in Dotohoss County jooded, Pears will i. There had nev wn A ok in the early season, but th rain ruined many crops ; The oat crop pes Chatham has boon seri- ously damaged. Standing oats are biack- and those in swath ar Fully one-third the value of the crop, which was unusually beavy, i= Jost. The hoavy hay crop i half gathered. One-quarter of the re- maining crop is ruined. Fields of potatoes are rotting and email fruits are also damaged, capecially peaches and grapos Taround Highland, Ulster © mnty, the Josses by the farmers have been #0 heavy that the townspeople held a mecting at office of Edgar Pimendor, town clerk. §o take relied measure 4 Dispatches from various poiats in Con- pecticut say that Connecticut crops gener. ally have suffered. The sesd growers af Wethersfield are among the heavy Josars, It is feared that the potelo crop will prove an entire {silure, ssalready potatoes are rotting. Country roads are badly washed out In Winsted and vicinity the damage amounts to £2000 or more There was 2 bad washout on the Valley road near Chester, about fifty feet of the em- banktment Noeing carried away, delaying travel several hours. The damage was about £3000 Fully $20,000 damage was reported to crops : lay cut and stand. ing suffered particularly. Some meadows along the Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers have been ruined for this year by the over flow, and much hay already cul Soated away, Corn and oat fields also wore badly washed, Hundreds of acres of gras and ons near Litchfisid were flonded out, and the lows from this source alone is §5000. The potato crop is said to be a total loss Altogether the storm will cost the farmors in that section more than $10,000, Corn is not burt Corn in fields of Jow ground at Green's Farms, Fairfield, Stratford and their vicin- ity lies flat in most instances and in some is submerged. Ticlds of potatoes are much in- ured, and rot is fearsad Much grass cat before the rain is rained. Fields of oats are totally destroyed. The loss to farmers these sources will approximate $30,000. J The damage to crops near Middletown A rest £4 rye hx TOVANE In West Cornw: ns are covered and the crops heavily damaged. The loss there is at $200. Les wers received making the fol. damage done in New the to ton, N, J. at during July was inches, ue BN | about suffers most. The yield will bo forty cont. below the average. The pho 1 will be at Jeast ten per cent. off, Corn also uantitios not more : usual a will be hored, Little « to or exoepd in Pompton Valley, where (he land ties low. In Livingston and Caldwell crops have been much pastivpiaely | my and 10 orops in Oranges , 000, The loss to crops caused by the beatings the series of dams in and hoor Pak is comparatively light. Probably $10,000 will
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