News from Around the World
—A “FEARFUL hurricane” occurred near Utica, N. Y., on the 6th. A large factory is a total wreck. Two lives lost; others injured. A brick chimney, eighty feet high, was broken off at fifteen feet from the ground, lifted in the air, and dashed on the factory buildings. —MARQUETTE, Mich., was visited by a most disastrous fire last Thursday night. Over one hundred buildings were consumed, involving a loss of a million and a half dollars. The entire business portion of the village, including the railroad shops, and all the docks but one, were burned. —THE persecutions of the Israelites in the Principalities have enlisted the sympathy of the Austrian Government. It is reported at Vienna that Baron Von Beust has decided, in the event of a satisfactory reply not being given by the government of Roumania to the last dispatch of Baron Eder, the Austrian Consul General at Bucharest, to refer the matter to the decision of the guaranteeing powers. This course is rendered necessary by the Treaty of Paris, which forbids the intervention of any single power in the affairs of the Principalities. —THE North German Parliament has passed a bill authorizing the Government to raise a loan, the proceeds to be applied to the enlargement and improvement of the Federal navy. —The Paris Siècle says that, “the Chassepot rifles having been manufactured in sufficient number for the French arsenals, the War Department has issued orders for the immediate manufacture of rifled cannon.” Victor Hugo has sent to Pope Pius IX a little ode, embracing only twelve lines, and pronounced by French critics to be one of the finest poems he has ever written. It says that the thought uppermost in the mind of the Supreme Pontiff of the religion of peace and love, is a murderous weapon (the Chassepot rifle) with which twelve persons can be killed in a minute. Grasshoppers.—We received a call last evening from Levi Higgins, Esq., of Chicago. He was on his way home from the West. He reports that the grasshopper crop in the vicinity of Des Moines will, at the present time, yield full forty bushels to the acre; that when they have attained their full size the crop will average seventy-five or eighty bushels. They are making their way eastward at the rate of four miles per day. The little rascals are not at all dainty about their food, but relish dog fennel and smart weed with a perfect gusto. Mr. H. reports many farmers as disheartened at the prospect of not realizing anything from their crop this season. Many talk of selling out unless the plague is stayed.—Davenport (Iowa) Gazette.