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Show The Deerfield (Mich.) Record of Aug 17 says ; 'Farmers have commenced com-menced ploughing for wheat.' Calculating from the yield of wheat 'which has been threshed in this vicinity it will average 25 bushels per acre. Beerjitld Record. New five dollar counterfeits on the Manufacturers' National Bank of Amsterdam Am-sterdam are reported in circulation. Schenectady (N. Y.) Gazelle According to Mr. Wilford Lawson (in the House of Commons), 350,000 persons were talien up for drunkenness drunken-ness in England and Scotland last yean Ex, I Grain in sight in the States and Canada: Wheat, 5,686,000 bushels ; corn, 6,619,000 bushels ; oats, 1,419, 000 bushels; rye, 271,000 bushels; barley, 1,070,000 bushels. Ex. During a storm at Pottsville, Pa., August 17, a powder magazine on the outskirts of the city was struck by Hgfliiig.apd 1 ,100 kegs of powder ex-ploded. ex-ploded. The explosion was heard 1 eleven miles. Three persons were 1 killed outright and several were badly 1 injured. The loss of property is esli- I mated at $45,000. I The Eureka, Humboldt County t I Signal says : We have it from good I authority, that a live and very active I " volcano made its appearance in the 1 Mad river range, immediately after! I jan earthquake. Last week it was I throwing out fire and rocks in the I most approved Vesuvian fashion. I Pioche Record Aug. 3 1 . Glasgow has a remarkable history. A hundred years ago it was a small city of less than 60,000 inhabitants and without importance, but to-day i! is the commercial metropolis of Scotland, Scot-land, and has a population of G00.000. Its inhabitants have shown a remarkable remark-able enterprise in building up manufactories, manu-factories, and in developing the mineral min-eral resources of the neighboring counties. Ex. Ordinarily the mistake of a single letter let-ter is a harmless matter; but there are exceptions, and one of these, in 1329, served to give lurkey (he possession of Batoum. In the draft of the treaty of Adrianople it was declared that the river Tschoroch, which flows into the Euxine south of Batoum, should form the new boundary, In copying out the treaty for signature the scribe wrote 'Tschotch,' a river twelve miles to the north a clerical error which left thj harbor in the possession of ' the Tu'ks. Eol |