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Extensivo preparaüons ore bciiifr made for a grand time next Monday, 3. D. Bixoiiam, of Lansing, is to deliver an orallon, and a good oíd fashloned celebrotion s promteed. A large supply of flreworks have been purchasc;l for the evening display, aftcr which dancing will bc in order at Costello's Hall. At about 8 o'clock Sunday evenlDg, during a very severo thiinder storm, the Episcopal C'hurch was struck by lightnlng and very badly damagcd. One sidc of tlie roof was nearly destroyed, the stccple injui-ed very much, and in fact the entirc building was more or less damaged by the shock. FortunaUIy, there was no service in the church at Lhe time, the rector bcing absent from the vUlage. It is the intention of the Society to immediately repair it, and in dolng so wc woulil BUggest tliat a lightnlng rod might save the recurrence of the disaster. - The cantata of "Tlic Burnlng Shlp," which the slnger3 of this place have in proparation, will bc broaght out shortly, mul promises to be an cutertainiug plece, well rendered. Jlours at Home, for July, opens witb a 8econd and interesting installment of Unpublished Letters, by Charlotte Brontc; has two more chapters of Ilero, by Georgiana M. Canil; ; a sfconil paper on Education in Syria, by ,T. A. Johnson; Lothair and its Author, by II. T. Tuckerman : wttta other readable. articles. Ciias. Sciubnkr A Co-, G3-1 Broadway, N. Y. The July Golden Jlours is a welcomo namber to the younfr folks, with instructivo sketches, choicc stoiies, anecdotcs, and beautiful lllastrattons. f 2 a year. Address HjtTCHOOCK & AValden, Cincinnati, Ohio. Germán Beginning and Grammar 'School, duriug vacation only, In the mornlng from 9 to 12 o'clock, cominencing the Ctli of July, in the basement of the Unltarian Church, by E MIL BAUR, Teacher of Germán in Union School. Number 1360, for the week eoding June 25th, 1870, and the two precedlng weekly mimbers of LitteWs Living Age, contain, among other articles oí interest And value, The Origin of the English Nation - Part in., Poetry and Poets' of the Present Generatiou - translated for the Living Age from the Revue des Deux Mondes, A Review of the Poems of Dante Gabriel Kossetti- by Wm. Morris, The Vclocity of Thought, Among my JJooks, The Stature and Bulk of Man in the British Isles, Uadame Lnfavette, The Objects of Art, Michael Faraday, Crocodilcs' Kests, The French Liberáis and the Plebiscite, The Disturbances in Italy, Belgium, The Story of the Aüinmition, continuatior3 of " Against Time," by Chas. Lever, and "Dorothy Fox," and numerous other articles. The next mnnber (the ilrst in July) begius a new volume, and is a good one with which to begin a subscription. The subscription pricu ol tlüsO4 page; weekly magazine is $8 a year, for which it will besent free of postage. Littem. & Gat, Boston, are the pubüshcrs.