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tflw 3fei«nr5 guttata J. tAN 8LTKE, Wblmm. "I » ILTJNDLS. •r'lHB NEWS CONDENSED. r- --• " -kt. fHl BAR. * "J A DESTRUCTIVE fire, attended with a shocking mm, of httmui life, oochried In Bridgeport, Ct, list week. The flames broke oat about mid- • of Qlorer, Sandford & The fire-engines the wateraapply poved msomcieni, ana the Are thereby ob- fliined the mastery. While about a dozen ifelnnteers were removing the goods ' i(om the office--a one-story structure Î̂ »uCrt!yT sad ~itLo.it »Muuig, the back and front walls fell out, leaving the two highest i unsupported. The wall adjoining the i leaned outward, and, as ft siiriek of horror ® the roof the base- Itgly bruised and mangled. ty * the fire a^repateR 9350,000: and burying t Wiled ontrignt, their bodies being ahock- ' " The money loss 1350,000; msur- , $150,000 A New York dispatch states Richard B. Connolly, of the Tammany has opened negotiations looking to the ion of a part of his plunder, now held "Hi Che name of his son-in-law. The terms un- d&r consideration primarily concede the peace- Jjjti. return of Connolly from exile Mrs. Xynlia Sherman, the notorious Couneaticut poiaoaer whose escape from State prison at Wetherrtielcf was announced in these columns, •JP8 lbeen recaptured. ,; ̂AN excursion train OQ the Baltimore and Ohio fiulroad came in collision with a regular p«- Mget train near Point of Bocks, Md., the other day, badly smashing the locomotives JBXI several coaches. Four persons were in­ stantly killed, two or three fatally injured, and eighteen wounded, all on the excursion train. Toe killed are Charles H. Keifer, editor of the ftederick (Md.) Examiner: Richard Dutrow, •nirliniit ; Dorsev Walker, merchant, and Poward E. Dickson--all of Frederick city. : -3fhe collision was caused by the gross careless- • pess and negligence of the train men. \ i4 THE complaint in the suit against Samuel J. iijjpsMeB by the United States to recover taxes • alleged to be due by the defendant on his in- i • •ome from 1861 to 1871 has been filed in the f (Tinted States District Court of New York. The Amounts alleged to be due aggregate, with costs mod interest, .•*'150.000 TTie prosecuting offi­ cers of the State of New York have rejected Tweed's offer to " squeal" on his ring confeder- ind returned to his counsel the papers _ orting to be the heads of the confession i*s willing to make. The cause of this rup­ ture of negotiations is supposed to be the in­ sufficiency of the evidence offered to convict accomplices named, and the belief that are too many mental reservations in the tement of the boss thief. THIS wn • XOUKTCAKXKL, 111., which WAS recently de­ vastated by a tornado, sends forth the follow- |hg appeal for aid: "The calamity which has §efallen this city has not been overrated by letter-writers to the papers of the metropolitan jjitieB. Fourteen blocks of beautiful homes tnd business houses are in ruins, a hundred families houseless and helpless, a score dead, fad over seventy badly hurt in a population of 1^00. A loss not less than $300,000 is too Jkaavy a load for this heart-stricken people to Carry alone, and help must come from the Inantrf at large. Any aid from cities or towns *>at may be sent to It. 8. Gordon, Mayor, or iJMge T. J. Shannon, of the banking-house of Shannon A Real, Chairman of the Belief Com- ttrifctee, will be wisely and faithfully appro- toward those who are worth; and He is of the readoption of a and silver, or, in other of gold favors the full return to the conditio* of thing* in rel»- these subjects whkn etutod previous tion to to the legidftHon of 1873. that such return to system wiii being ooDviMsd the re­in gradually promote sumption of specie payments, an object that he regards as of the first importance-- The Attorney General hasoalM upon, the ac­ counting officer of the Treasury for a copy of the accounts of Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, fifed in the treasury some twenty years ago, when he was an Indian Agent. These ao- connts are called for at the request of Mr. Howard, United States Attorney for the Terri­ tory of Utah. It is intimated that they forniah imrvrtrtcinf fnpfmiAny DR. LIXDERMAN, Director of the United States Mint, will, it is understood, recommend in his forthcoming annual report the coinage of a $2 gold piece to take the place of the $2.50 gold com. He thinks that when specie re­ sumption is brought about there will be a de- •umcK v jhe » ffeere ftaten valley of the Arras, which infront, and severs all eomi tear of agen- i. have not Ipon their % 1IMMJ aiSddembn- ? - WKXTK NOONAK, the young woman who some #ionths ago shot and killed William H. Sidle, a ient banker of Minneapolis, Minn., has > been tried for the crime. The jury failed eleven being for acquittal to one for 3. AmiAm crop report: Rains have been very vt'̂ pautfal in the State, and of great good to the ttjfBop*. Oats are comparatively a failure; it is the best crop ever made: oorn and on clean and doing well....Alexander H. tfcens, of Georgia, has gone to Minnesota the benefit of his health..... One-half the on crop along the Arkansas river valley, in Misas. has been destroyed by floods.... . rtartling sensation has just been sprung in tmisville, Kv. Mrs. T. T. Hawkins, daughter ! the late CoL Weir, of Lexington, aad of Mrs. }. W. Merriwether, whose second husband was, e his death, a prominent banker at Louia- h*e iw s E implicated in heavy forgeries of names of ex-United States Senator Steven- the Hon. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, other prominent citizens. The forgeries it to $40,060 or &50,000. The relatives of Hawkins claim that she is '"*•*" SOUTH. THE city of Galveston, Tex., has BEEN visited ty a most disastrous conflagration. Three squares in the business part of the city, bound- - !•#***$& by Sukei, Twenty-first and Twenty-second ...... Jrteeets and the bay, wera destroyed. The Cot- Exchange, 'Grand Southern Hotel, First iDtaiional Bank, Seligson's Bank, Odd Fellow*,1 • - Hall and Washington Hotel were among the earned buildings. The loss is estimated at $2,000,000.. .Henry C. Dibble, late Attorney General of Louisiana, has bees arrested in New- Orleans on a charge of embezzling $12,000 of ' -the State's funds, and held for tnal in bonds i of #7,500. ̂ THE Supreme Ooort of Arkansas Jias decided ih&t the act under which $16,000,000 of bonds -were issued in 1869 in aid of railroads m that State was unconstitutional, and that the bonds - are illegal Memphi* has been completely 4Dnt off from railway communication with the looter world, by the customary inundations oon- • seqent upon kke spring rains. Some damage has been done to the railroads, bat nothing serious as yet. , WASHINGTON. BICBBTABY SCHCBZ has appointed a board of expert accountants to examine into the mode and methods in full in the finance and account­ ing division s of the Indian Bureau, especially a ' to the analysis of money and property accounts of Indian Agents... .The President has ap­ pointed A. D. Hazel, of Pennsylvania, Third , Assistant Postmaster General, vice E. W. Barber, of Michigan, resigned. SEXOR MABISCAL, Mexican, Minister at Wash­ ington, has submitted to (Secretary fevarts a written protest against the recent action of . the administration instructing &an. Ord to pursue tidi m Mexican marauders across the Bio Grande AH important contract har just been con- by Mr1. Sherman with the syndicate < of European and American bankers. It pro- ! vide* for the sale to the syndicate of twenty- t Ave millions' worth of V/, per cent bonds, ! that sum making up a round total of two han- ' dred milliont of the imue. The contract fur­ ther embraces an mmediste sale of twenty-five millions' worth of the new and thus far un- - tried 4 per cent bonds. There is also provision 4 made for placing bonds of this latter issue on the home market as a popular loan, in sums of - 0BO and multiples thereof, at par in gold ; and farther sales to the syndicate will be made as rapidly as the bonds can be placed in investors' hands. THJCBE seems to be a misunderstanding about the supply of greenbacks of the denomination of $1 and $2. These notes are furnished to , ftaniirfmnfc Treasurers, but applications from frmnka are refused. Limited supplies can be - got from the Treasurers, it is said, for distribu­ tion through the banks. PawtninT HAYES' views on certain financial point* u-e defined-^evidently by authority--by the Associated Press Agent at Washington: «*The Pr«ddant> atthoogh in foimer yeart pro- i specie will be a mantl for smaller gold coins, to be used in change instead of silver half-dollars, and that $1 snd gold coins will be very popular. POLITICAL. M&. J*KTEBCOOPEB, late Greenback candidate for the Prefljdency, has addressed a long open letter to President Hayes, criticising the past financial policy of the sovereign Government, and also marking out the proper course, in his opinion, to be pursued in future". He advises that our national currency be made receivable for all purposes, and interconvertible into 3 per cent™ Government bonds; that silver be with­ drawn from circulation and used in the pur­ chase of foreign bonds, and that the fractional paper currency be revived. J. B. G. PITKIN has been removed from the Marshalship of Louisiana, and CoL Jack Whar­ ton appointed in his place. THE President has appointed James Lewis (colored) Naval Officer at New Orleans Upon the arrival in Washington, last week, of ex- Congressman Kasson, of Iowa, the mission to Austria, which it is understood he would orig­ inally have preferred, had it been vacant when he was appointed Minister to Spain, was ten­ dered him by the President, and he has ac­ cepted it, and James Russell Lowell has been tendered and accepted the mission to Spain. A RBCEFHOH was given to ex-Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, by the Manhattan Club, of New York, last week, on which occasion there was a large gathering of the leading Democrats of the city. Speeches were made by Govs. Tilden and Hendricks, David Dudley Field and others. Hendricks immediately afterward sailed for Europe A dispatch from Denison, Texas, says: "R. M, Grubbs, Bepublican, has been elected Mayor of Denison by a plurality of 163, and a majority of 8 over both his Democratic competitors. The Assessor, Collector, Marshal, Treasurer, and all but one oi the Councilman elected are Northern men." MINNESOTA has just had a special election on the proposed amendment to the State constitu­ tion, devoting the land grant of 500,000 acres, originally made for the benefit of internal im­ provements in that State, to the payment of outstanding railroad bonds. The proposition was rejected by a vote of nearly three to one. GENBBAU THE American Medical Association baa just held a five days' session in Chicago. It was the largest and most interesting meeting the association has ever held, about 600 delegates, embracing many of the most eminent physi­ cians in the country, being in attendance. The association, among other things, adopted a vigorous memorial urging the repeal by Congress of the present onerous tax on quinine. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Dr. T. G. Richardson, Louisville, Ky.; Vice Presidents, Drs. J. P. White. New York, Moses Gunn, Ill­ inois, G. W. Bnssell, Connecticut; A. Dunlap, Ohio-Secretary, E. W. Brush: Treasurer. B. J. Pennsylvania; Librarian, W. Lee, District of Columbia. A WASHIHGTOK dispatch credits Gen. Sher­ man with saying that" Russia is aiming mainly at acquisitions in Asia. She wants Trebizond and the Valley of the Tigris, to get to the sea by way of the Persian Gulf." Germany has formally recognized Diaz as President of Mexico....A flood is re­ ported • in the Missouri river, exceeding anything of the kind known since 1844, ana causing vast destruction of property along the river valley. THE Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroads have begun the running of lightning trains between New York and Chicago. The distance between the two cities is now accom­ plished in the extraordinary time of twenty-five nonrs, and the officers of the roads promise to reduce the time to twenty-three hours. FIVE persons were drowned m the harbor of Halifax, N. S., the other day, by the capsizing of a small boat.... Alonzo Bell, Assistant Sec­ retary of the Interior, has sued Chas, A. Dana, of the New York Suny for libel, damages being kid at ^i00,yuu. Tho alleged libelous articles assert that Mr. Bell was discharged from the treasury for incompetency : that for a long time i he kept his vifo on the rolls of tho patent office, drawing a salary without rendering any service, and tnat he lately appointed his brother- in-law to an $1,800 position m the Interior De­ partment, all of which he strenuously denieB. A JcixiE in St. Louis has ruled that the in­ sertion of an advertisement in a newspaper so­ liciting practice in procuring divorces, and promising to secure decrees of liberation a vinculo matrimonii without publicity, is a slan­ der upon the true methods of procedure in courts of justice, tending to induce the public to believe that the advertiser possesses certain facilities and privileges enabling him to obtain judicial decrees with a degree of secrecy fatal to the good reputation of the judiciary intrust­ ed with the sacred duty of according justice to those demanding it. Justice thus slandered, the St Louie Judge holds, may purge herself of the stigma by such assessment of penalty as shall effectually extirpate the divorce shyster from the legal profession and annihilate him in the public regard. The recent General As­ sembly of Illinois passed a law forbidding the publication of advertisements of this char­ acter, but the view that common l*w ha# a remedy for the iniquity is believed to be some­ what novel and interesting. BUSINESS failures : H. A. Blood, a promi­ nent Massachusetts railroad manager, liabili­ ties $1,526,000, assets small; Fitzsimmons, Clark & Co., dry goods.. New York, liabilities ©113,000, assets $05,000; McGregor Bros., bankers, Windsor, Canada, liabilities ©150,000 ; Hallock & Co., clothing, Detroit, Mich. ; M. J. Steinberger & Sons, millinery, New York, lia­ bilities $160,000, nominal assets about tUe same; Hamburg, Hill & Co., millinery,-New York, liabilities, $100,000 j 8. W. Jacobs, a prominent cattle breeder of West Liberty, Iowa, liabilities, $75,000; the Commercial In­ surance Company, or St. Louis, Mo. r THE XDKKO-KUSSIAN WAR. A SHARP battle is reported between Torks and Montenegrins at Kristoc, in which 600 of the latter and 1.200 Turks were killed....A Vienna dispatch says the houses of 150 Jewish now aboutto The at once if •torm. This character of gated The Tories are in eral uprising of the BOT forgotten the horrors #4; B-tsk. the l&rgffr tnvrr.r. it Bulgaria fall of JLrfeh»n was received strations of satisfaction, and erfap of "Long live the Czar P... MSordered an add? tional levy of 218,000 men. WAR notes and rumors: I|obpurt Pasha ha« left Varna with his fleet to bombafd^Odessa.-- The Bossians not only intend lb oioenpy Bul­ garia, bat have made ah arrangetitats fcr re­ maining three years. --Russian merchants in Baltic ports are reported to tie dewing their wWvfiK and warehouses by exporting all goods as fast as possible, apprehending "a general prohibition of exportation.--Odessa was thrown into a great commotion, one day last week, by the appearance of a Turkish iron-clad fleet The -inhabitants of the city were seized with «. panie, and thou­ sands of mem fled from their hoimL Much to their relief, however, the fleet wttfedprew with- out firing a gun.--A strong peace party appears to be developing in ConstAtrtmopto, and hos­ tility to the existing Government, stimulated by the inefficiency of its condwt of the war, is families have been pillaged by a mob, at Dow- haui, in Roumania. Eleven were killed, twenty-four wounded, and 90,000 ducats stolen. ... .Out of the thirty-three districts into which lUramania is divided, twenty-eight have been virtually placed under martial law. This was done because capital punishment is not recog­ nized by the civil law, and the frequent discov­ ery of spies rendered the measure necessary. THE Vienna correspondent of the New York Herald details the advanoe of the Russians upon Erzeroum. Three columns are now marching direct.for that city, and its capture is certain. The right wing lias sent forward a strong column from Olti. The army of invest­ ment at Kars, which numbers almost 200.000 nma, tou thrown a oobmm fbrwftrd down the assuming dangerous proporttoiis.--A state of siege having been proclaimed iu Roumania, telegrams concerning military movements henceforth will be stopped. One of the great causes of the state of siege was the unsatisfac­ tory working of the Roumanian railways. All the railway officials are now subject to the mili­ tary authorities. ANOTHER flood in the Danube is reported. The rise was caused by melting snow on the Carpathian Alps. This will again delay the Russian operations London dispatches say that the Russians will force the passage of the Danube at some point west of Rustchub, in order to avoid the Turkish forces massed within the lines of the quadrilateral. Passing the river at Sistova or Nicopolis, the Russians will find almost unobstructed roads to the Balkan passes, while one or two corps may be left to engage the attention of Abdul Kerim and to operate at leisure against the fortresses. At length the Egyptian troops for the Sul­ tan's army have sailed from Alexandria. They are under convoy of four Turkish ironclads. A LONDON dispatch says: "There is almos an utter absence of news of interest either from Asia, the Danube, or Montenegro. The two armies on the Danube are watching one another, and cannonading is frequent, but the Russians have not yet disclosed their inten­ tions. Advices from Asia seem to indicate that there is no longer that feeling of despondency which was so marked in the late accounts from Turkish sources, and that a battle will be risked in Araxes valley. The Rus­ sians have evacuated Olti and retreated to Penak." A telegram from Constantinople says: "After fifty-five hours' fighting near Krstaz, carried on mostly at close quarters, the Montenegrins have withdrawn to Banjaui. The losses on both sides amount to several thou­ sands. The Prince of Montenegro has with­ drawn his headquarters from near Nietics back to Ostrok. Mehemet Ali telegraphs that the Montenegrins have been routed in an engage­ ment inthe Kolaschin district." A TORPEDO recently exploded in a Russian railway train with terrible effect. A train car­ rying army goods was on its way from Galatz to Ibrail, having on board a torpedo of English manufacture, technically called the Whitehead or Fish torpedo. When about half way, near where the road strikes the Danube, the torpedo accidentally exploded, blowing the entire train to atoms, 'tilling the engineer, fireman, and brakeman, and tearing up the track for a dis­ tance of a quarter of a mile... .The Turks, aware of the inability of their Asiatic army to cope with the overwhelming numbers of the Russian invading forces in the field, have made a bold move to cut the enemy's long line of communications. The sncoom of this movement would compel an instant retrograde movement of a considerable portion of (foe Rus­ sian amy, since subsisting upon a «Mknr so impoverished would be impossible. fEerark- ish demonstration has already ihduoed the Rus­ sians to withdraw their right wing, which had been far advanced on the road to Erzeroum, and the Turks have consequently been enabled to reoccupy Olti and some other important po­ sitions on the road leading west from Ardahan. Russian reports explain that the' backward movement was voluntary on their part, and that they had determined to concentrate their forces for the reduction of Kars before push­ ing further into the enemy's country. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. A DISPATCH from St Petersburg says the Rus­ sian Ambassadors to Paris, London and Vienna have been charged to give the most ample as­ surances to the neutral Governments that Rus­ sia does aot aim at a political transformation of the? map of the East, nor desire or intend to do anything that wouldjprovoke fresh European complications... .The Pope realized from the jubilee contributions of the faithful 0,000,000 lire, or something less than $1,200,(MM) in gold, Decides a large assortment of costly gems., . Turkey's attempt to borrow money abroad has signally failed, and it is now proposed to levy an internal loan. M* BONNET DVVEBI>IMEB, Presideut of the Paris Municipal Council, who waii receutly ar­ rested, charged with insulting President Mac Mahon, inciting civil war and assassination, has been sentenced to fifteen months'imprisonment and to pay 2,000 francB fine. THE famine continued in China, and suffer­ ing increases. There is no possible means of averting death by starvation of hundreds of thousands. There is famine also in Corea, and a pestilence supposed to be caused by the exposure of the multitude of dead bodies all over the country. A PARIS dispatch says "the Government has resolved to prohibit the projected preliminary meeting of the groups of the Left before the reassembling of the Chambers." Advices from Paraguay, South America, say that President Gill and his brother William were murdered in the moat barbarous manner. The President was at home with his family, when he was surprised and killed by a band of assassins A riot, the parties to which were a squad of men from a German man-of-war and wime French sailors, occurred at Yokohama, Japan, a few days ago. The Frenchmen, being merchant seamen, got terribly worsted, nine of them being killed and two mortally wounded. A Berlin dispatch says the affair will be investigated, but intimates that the French were the aggressors.... A new rebellion is threatened in Crete, the Sultan having reje< ted the demands ol the Christian population of that island. THE proposition to abolish capital punish­ ment has been defeated in the British Parlia­ ment by a vote of mere than three to one.... The Greek army is to be reorganized. Thirty thousand men are to constitute the standing force--John Bull has not been able to buy his beefsteaks so cheap for a hundred years, as within the last few days. A sudden dispensa­ tion of hot weather forced a large stuck of American beef on the London market, and the price was run down to 3 pence a pound. THE Servian Government continues its war­ like preparations. A large party is being con­ centrated near the capital Ludwig III., Grand Duke of Hesse, is dead A telegram from Paris relative to the report that the Government means to prevent tnp preliminary meeting of sections of the Left before the reassembling of the Chambers states that M. Gambetta has relinquished the idea of calling such meeting, the Left being sufficiently agreed upon a line of action to dispense with a preliminary discussion. The Minister of Instruction has decided that any student participating in any political mani­ festation shall be immediately expelled from college... .The Barbary states on the shores of the Mediterranean are experiencing a locust plague; The crops have been destroyed bv the ravenous 'hoppers in large districts, and there is serious scarcity of provisions and aPBrftiifilit- trion of actual starvation among the people. ILLINOIS ITEMS. A mmrtscr shook of an was felt at Fairfield, Wajne •ently. THE third wuuiftl Illinois State San- gexfeet wae held last week at Quiney, and mm a great sncoeea, in attendance and quality of music. A Qxtin(i¥ firm has Inst mada a can tract with the War Department to fm* nish for the army about $375,000 worth of plug tobaooa THE water tank near Godfrey, on the Chioago ami Alton road, and a frame honse adjoining, were struck by light­ ning lately and destroyed. A FEW days since, as the express train on the Alton and St. Louis neared Joliet, the body of a man was discovered on the track. It was not identified. HBNBY W. IVES, Secretary of the'State Board of Equalization, has resigned, and the State Auditor has designated T. S. Wood, of his office, to fill the vacancy. A SECTION foreman named John Burr, in the Illinois Central railroad yards at Cairo, was instantly killed by the tender of a locomotive which was backing along the track. IN the month of May the Bock Island water-works furnished 26,966,007 gallons of water, an average of 869,871 gallons per day. The daily expense for fuel was $4.22}. THE Auditor has declined to admit to business in this State a mutual relief association of Urbana, O., on the ground that it has not complied with the insur­ ance laws of Illinois. JACOB LAHR, a young resident of Secor, committed suicide by taking arsenic, a few days ago, Hi« wedding was to have taken place on the 7th, but his affianced jilted him, hence the result. HON. E. B. SHERMAN, of Chioago, has been instructed by State Auditor Needles to commence suits against in­ surance companies of other States who are doing business in Illinois without the proper authority for so doing. Members of the Legislature, each $5 per day. Same for members of the State Board of Equalization. Superintend­ ents of the various universities and in­ stitutions of the State receive salaries ranging from $1,500 to $4,000 each. THE Secretary of State has issued cer­ tificates of organization to the Live Yankee Silver Mining Company of Chi­ cago ; capital, $200,000 ; to the Mutual Protection and Relief Moravian Benevo­ lent Society, and St John's Benevolent Society of Chicago. THE total collections in the Eighth United States District, Col. J. Memam, Collector,' from Oct. 20, 1873, to June 1, 1877, aggregate the sum of $8,421,927,94, and the costs to the Government for col­ lecting the same do not exceed five- sevenths of 1 per cent. The collections for May, 1877, amounted to $267,029.44. THE new State Board of Canal Com­ missioners--Messrs. J. O. Glover, of Chicago; B. F. Shaw, of Dixon, and M. Kingman, of Peoria--met at Spring­ field and formally organized. Mr. Glo­ ver was elected President of the board, Mr. Kingman Treasurer, and Mr. Shaw Secretary. THE State Auditor has officially notified the general agents of the German-Amer- ican Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa*,, and the general agents at Chioagp of the Aurora fire Insurance Company of Cincinnati, that they must cease trans­ acting business for these companies in Chicago. The statute requires compa­ nies doing business there to have a ca] ital of $150,000, and these have $100,000 each. THE following is a statement of receipts and disbursements of the State treasury during the month of May, 1877: RECEIPTS. State revenue fund $103,006.01 Illinois river improvement fund 382.80 State school fund 68,503.57 Local bond fund 60,738.96 and the names of the hold-over Judges are as follows: First Circuit (old Twenty-fifth and Twenty sixth)---Judges Monroe C. Crawford, of Union, and David J. Baker, of Alexander. The ooun- ties of Franklin, Saline, Williamson, lackson, Union. Johnson, Pope, Hardin, Massac, Pulaski, and Alexander. Second Circuit (oldTwenty-first andTwenty- ndges James C. Allen, of Crawford, THE LIVELY LOCUST. Total $232,580.30 DIBBTBSBKKIITS. State revenue fund $192,490.12 Illinois river improvement fund 2,244.83 State school fund 976.36 ...$0,000 per annum. l,C " Total.... $195,711.30 THE following are the official salaries of the several State officers of Illinois: Governor T.w»t«t.aT>f Governor... Secretary of Stato... 3,500 State Auditor 3,600 fiUUi Ti. m-urer. 8,500 " Attorney General 3,500 Ml :Me- Kailroad and Warehouse Com­ missioners, each 3,500 " " Superintendent of Public Instruc­ tion 3,500 " " Secretary of Board of Public Charities 3,000 " " Secretary State Board of Agri­ culture 2,000 " " State House Commissioners, each 1,500 " " Penitentiary Commissioners, each 1,500 " " Warden Penitentary 2,500 " " Supreme Court Judges, each 5,0<'0 " " Circuit Court Judges, each...... 3,500 " " THE following is a list of the patents issued to the citizens of the State for the week ending June 0: W. M. Watson, Tonica, metallurgic furnace; A. S Chaney, Flora, portable fence; C. I. KagyandF.W. Stoneburner, Areola, bak­ ing pan ; L. W. Frederick, Hall, draught- equalizer ; E. P. Prindle, Aurora, carpet- sweeper. Chicago--W. R. Baker, grain- binder ; C. Holland, hydrocarbon-burner and gas-generator; J. F. Woolensack, sky-light-lifter lock; J. Gilbert, fire­ proof ceilings; G. W. Wilson, car- coupling ; G. W. Cook, pneumatic lamp; J. L. Bransom,knitting-machine; M. Campbell, napkin-holder. MT. CABMEII, HI, which was recently devastated by a tornado, sends forth the following appeal for aid : "The calam­ ity which has befallen this city has not been overstated by letter-writers to the papers of the metropolitan cities. Four­ teen blocks of beautiful homes and busi­ ness houses are in ruins, a hundred fam­ ilies houseless and helpless, a score dead, and over seventy badly hurt in a population of 2,500. A loss not less than $300,000 is too heavy a load for this heart-stricken people to carry alone, and help must' come from the country at large. Any aid from cities or towns that may be sent to R. S. Gordon, Mayor, or Judge T. J. Shannon, of the banking house of Shannon & Beal, Chairman of the Relief Committee, will be wisely and faithfully appropriated toward those who are worthy and needy." THE Legislature passed a bill reduc­ ing the number of judicial circuits in the State, outside of Cook county, to thirteen, and providing three Judges in each circuit. The present Judges hold over, and the additional Judge is to be elected in each circuit on the first Mon- da ̂fri August next; lite new circuits New Jersey and Steten Island Literally Alhre with Seventeen-Year Locusts* [From the New York World.] Btaten island and New Jersey axe swarming with seventeen-year locusts. A few days ago the earth under the trees „. . . . , began to open with innumerable circular S holes, and insects an inch in length and counties of Cumberland, Effingham, Clay, JaU- i wiupieiieiy enveiopea m a ' came crawling forth. poXj BtohJand, Lawrence, Crawford, Hamilton, Third Circuit (old Twenty-eecond and ion, Clinton, Washington, Randolph, Monroe, and Perry. Fourth Circuit (old Fifteenth and Sixteenth) --Judges Oliver L. Davis, of Vermillion, and C. B. Smith, of Champaign. The counties of Vermillion, Edgar, Clark, Coles, Douglas, Champaign, PiafcL Moultrie and Maoon Fifth Circuit (old Nineteenth and Twentieth) --Judges Charles S. Z&ne, of Sangamon, and Horatio W. Vandeveer, of Christian. The counties of Sangamon, Macoupin, Montgomery, fcyette and Shelby. Sixth Circuit (ol< (old Tenth and Eleventh)-- Sibley, of Adams, and Channcey L. Higbee, of Pike. The counties of Hancock, Adams, Fulton, McDonough, Schuyler, Brown and Pike. Seventh Circuit (old Seventeenth and Eight­ eenth)--Judges Lyman Lacv, of Mason, and Cyrus Ejpler, of Morgan. The counties of DeWitt, Logan, Menard, Mason, Cass, Morgan, Scott, Greene, Jersey and Calhoun. Eighth Circuit (old Ninth and Twelfth)-- Judge* Joseph W. Cochran, of Peoria, and John Burns, of Marshall. The counties of Putnam, Marshall, Woodford, Tazewell, Peoria and Stark, Ninth Circuit (old Sixth and Seventh)-- Judges Edward 8. Leland, of LaSalle, and Jo- siah McRoherts. of Will. The counties of Bu­ reau, La8alle, Will and Grundy. Tenth Circuit (old Fifth and Eighth)--Judge* Georgo W. Pleasants, of Rock Island, and Ar­ thur A. Smith, of Knox. The counties of Rock Island, Mercer. Henry, Warren and Encx. Eleventh Circuit (old Thirteenth and Four­ teenth)--Judges Nathaniel J. PillAbury, of Liv­ ingston, and --- Beeves, of McLean. The counties of McLean, Ford, Kankakee, Iroquois and Livingston. Twelfth Circuit (old Second and Fourth)-- Judges Theodore D. Murphy, of McHenry, and Hiram H. Cody, of DuPage. The counties of Boone, DeKalb, McHenry, Lake, Kane, Du­ Page and Kendall. Thirteenth Circuit {old First and Third)-- Judges William Brown, of Winnebago, and William W. Heaton, of Whites) des. The counties of Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Winne­ bago, Carroll, Whitesides, Ogle and Lee. Cook county has five Circuit Judges and three Judges of the Supreme Court with the same jurisdiction as the Circuit Judges, thus making the whole Circuit Bench forty-seven Judges. Three Cir­ cuit Judges are to be assigned in each of the four districts to constitute the four new Appellate Courts, the law creating which will go into effect on the 1st of July. COMMERCIAL NOTES. LOUISIANA will profit handsomely by the fact of a short sugar crop in many other countries this year. THE Boston Journal of Commerce ad­ vocates giving five-year subsidies to American steam mail lines to be estab­ lished for the foreign trade. A LONDON cablegram to the New York herald says: "It is a significant fact that Canadian beer is becoming an ac­ tive article of importation to this coun­ try of malt liquors." WOOLEN manufacturers in Rhode Island report more encouraging pros­ pects than at any time in the last three years. Nearly all the mills are working on advance orders. THE South is very properly agitating for cotton mills on its own soil, and rais­ ing money to pay good men in the North to come down and write them up, and trying to catch the eyes of capitalists on both sides of the broad ocean. THE American leather dealers will doubtless be interested in the announce­ ment that an International Exhibition of leather, oak trees, bark and the like will be held at Berlin in September, beginning on the 8th and lasting to the 29th. FOUR steamers which left New Tork for Liverpool one day last week carried out 1,000,000 pounds of beef, and a large amount of grain. There were also shipped 30,000 boxes cheese, 2,500 bales cotton, and 450 tons ol agricultural machinery. THE export of cotton goods for the nine months ending March 31 was 17,- 823,000 YAMS of colurcd, aad 53,262,000 of uncolored, against 6,404,000 and 41,178,000 respectively last year ; total about 71,000,000 yards, against 47,500,- 000. This is an increase of about 50 per cent. THE armory at Springfield, Mass. „ has been closed, and it is feared that work will not be resumed until next Decem­ ber. A number of the armorers will be in very straitened circumstances, some of them having large and dependent fam­ ilies, and others mortgaged real estate upon which payments are to be made. A LONDON special to the New York Herald says: " The value of the meat trade between America and England is shown in the statement that during the past three months 123,650 tons of fresh meat were imported from the United States. Of fresh and salt meats th§ United States sent 863,685 tons during the same period." PERHAPS it is not generally known what a lively place Pensacola, Fla., has become. A large number of vessels now seek its harbor for lumber and timber. Not long ago there were 150 ships in the harbor at one time, of nearly all nation­ alities. Weekly payments for labor in loading vessels have, in flush times, reached $60,000, and Pensacola, whose harbor is excellent, is now a thriving little city. " Curing ft Broken-Legged Horw. • It is now argued that it is unnecessary to kill broken-legged horses, and a case in point is stated: Twelve weeks ago the nigh hind leg was broken of Mr. Williams' valuable and favorite mare, in Utica, by a kick from another horse. The fracture was half way between the fetlock and the gambrel joints, and was complete. A veterinary surgeon undertook to set the leg. A canvas sling was arranged, and the mare suspended in it in such a way that die could occasionally rest upon her uninjured limbs. The fractured leg was then set, bound with hickory and leather splints, with a heavy leather boot outside of all. The mare did well, and never missed a meal. After three weeks, a plaster of Paris bandage was substi­ tuted, and in seven weeks " Nellie" was walking around the stable. There was no sign of the fracture, and it is thought that elie will keep her 2:40 gait.--Netv York Tribune. tlfliiSiuceiit siieii Sometimes there would only be from twelve to fifteen of these hole» nnrisr a tree, and again the ground would be riddled like a sieve. As they crawled along the ground they burst their light exterior coverings or shells, and strug­ gled forth, perfectly-formed winged in­ sects, leaving their outgrown shells be­ hind them under the trees. »They crawled up the tree-trunks, clinging to the bark with their forked antennae.. When they have reached the limba tjhey crawl out to the ends of the branches ana fasten themselves to the growing twigs. They never attach themselves to the- branches except at a distance from the trunk, and commonly within eight inches of the farthest tips. Trees can now be? seen on Btaten island whose branches are weighed down at the ends and blackened with the swarms. Here the ground in many places in literally honeyvombed under the trees, and the shrubs and flowers, as well as the trees, are covered' with K clinging burden of insects. The' flowers in many gardens will be injured from the mere weight of the locusts, but it is not believed that the shrubs and trees are likely to suffer. The female locust undoubtedly eats the leaves and tender pith of the twigs, but it is not vo­ racious, and the great body of the tree- will not be touched. The males keep up prolonged humming, and their incessant rub-a-dub-dub, from morning to night, is the only annoyance which is so far ap­ preciable. The shells cover the ground, but the insects have crawled out of the way, and the more nervous residents have overcome their first dislike at crash­ ing the crisp, hollow bodies at every step. Old farmers say that the seven­ teen-year locusts do more good than harm. Of course many of the twigs- wither and fall off, but the trees do not suffer, nor is the fruit-crop damaged. It is a common tradition among the farmers that, after locust year, they have the fol­ lowing season an unusually large apple- crop ; for the locusts serve to prupq the tree, and the fruit-trees are actually bene­ fited by their visit. The Torpedo. Nearly every war makes some striking contribution to the science of death. Our own war impressed the shovel and the- turreted iron-clad on the military and naval policies of the world. Prussia in 1866 demonstrated the power of the breech -loader, and the great war of 1870- contributed the mitrailleuse, the balloon, the carrier-pigeon, and other devices to* the resources of combat. The present contest seems destined to give promi­ nence to electricity and gun-cotton a» combined in the naval torpedo. It ha» been assumed that the bottoms of, ves­ sels were safe, while armor has been lav­ ished on their sides till tripie steel and oak seemed to defy any possible pro­ jectile. But what is a projectile hurled by gunpowder from a cylinder a mile off compared with the destructive force of dynamite, reacting against a solid wall of water, in' immediate contact with & vessel ? Plainly, when the torpedo cam be dispatched on its mission with the ac­ curacy of a railway train, and can once be got to go off with the certainty of a revolver, ships of war will be com­ pletely at their mercy. The Whitehead torpedo, with wkifsb the Bussians are supplied, is a cigar- shaped projectile twelve feet long, shot- from a cylinder under water and pro­ pelled by an interior machinery of com­ pressed air. It is an Austrian-English invention, and an Austrian manufacture. It is apparently, however, in no way su­ perior to some of the productions ot the- torpedo corps of the American navy. The British iron-clads are being supplied with net-works or skirts of lattice to pre­ vent a torpedo from striking their hulls, but one of these projectiles, weighing several hundred weight, must have a strong impinging force, and will not be likely to be detained by any crinoline whicii a vessel could wear and preserye- the capacity of locomotion. " - ' TEXAS high on report grass thirty fctet le San Marcos river. a THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. . V i BEEVES 9 50 @14 00 Hoas 6 00 @5 50 COTTON...... libels 11X FLOUB--Superfine Wetrtern.,..,.... 5> 75 @ £ 3P WHEAT--No. 2 Chicago 1 <5O <A 1 67 COHN--Western. Mixed... 86 (rf 60 OATS--Western Mixed- 41 (§• 65 BTS--Western 78 80 POBK--M«M 18 80 <$13 90 IJABD..... A CHICAGO. 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