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fcfht JKtgtnrj fHaiitdtala X VA5HLTBL Vi JBUBHDL toHENBY, ILLINOIS. WAR'S MLLEMORS. itiieeeeree and Outrages 'ft* Ar­ menia. [Erzeroum Cor. London Daily News.] j ^ As regards the Christians of the prov­ ince of Van, every day brings x» fresh details of atrocities which rival if they do not surpass the doings in Bulgaria, Violation of female children of a tender age, wholesale pillage of villages, delib­ erate torture and Mutilation of both flexes, are utles which have become hid­ eously familiar to our ears. Did I not fear to exjSDsS to the wrath of the mis- doers the persons who have furnished me with the details, I would give authority for my -worst statements that unpreju­ diced persons could not hesitate to be­ lieve. J?erhaps one of the most eloquent fads I cbuld adduce as to the terrorism wrought by the irregulars is that the authorities counsel . every stranger to take with him on the shortest journey a Snard of zaptiehs, lest the Kurds or the lccassians should meet him on the road. Of one thing the Ottoman Government may rest assured, a Bussian invader will be welcome to the population of Arme­ nia, from Kara to Trebizond. I don't pretend for a moment that among the Circassians themselves there are not some of the better classes, who deplore the excesses of the great bulk of their companions, and who would, if possible, restrain their misdoings; but their wishes are in vain. Even the military authority is unable to effect this, if it tried to do so. By nature the Circassian is a hardy and audacious soldier. Years of strife in the Caucasus have inured him to a life and deeds scarcely com­ patible with civilized usages. In exile, Along the frontier of Greece and the plains ot the Danube, he has been the petted protege of the Ottoman Govern­ ment, and the habits, excusable perhaps in his own country while fighting an in- Tader, he has begun to consider as his inalienable right to practice. In his ca­ pacity as Volunteer in the Turkish army ne 1ak6s fresh liberties, and the result is sad to contemplate. Still, there is some Serm of 1 good underlying all this; and lough the Circassian is no match for the more disciplined Cossack, at bottom he is brave enough, and in, other hands and under different management would be a capital soldier. With the Kurd it is different. A troop of Kurd horsemen, with their barbarous horse trappings, hair-tufted lances, and wild gestures, might easily be mistaken for a detach­ ment of Comanche or Sioux Indians. The sausage nose and crocodile eye, the bloated face seamed with lines of brutal sensuality, bespeak the unmitigated sav­ age. without a single grace of those bar­ barous virtues which often more than half redeem the child of nature in his wildest extravagances. There is a chiv­ alry which naturally belongs to most savage races ; it is totally absent in the hordes that dwell beyond the Araxes, and the unhappy Armenian Christians of the province of Van can testify by their hacked limbs and powder-blown cheeks that to be a fellow-subject of the Sultan is no protection from such neigh­ bors when atrocities can be practiced With impunity. The Ottoman Govern­ ment has armed and commissioned tribes whose ordinary avocation is plunder. The summer months permit a scanty existence among the mountains while the pasturage is green. The remainder of the year blackmail exacted from the villagers of the plains and from the Per­ sian caravans affords subsistence to (lie robbers by nature. The cause of '4 Islam in danger may excuse many extreme measures in the eyes that turn toward Mecca, but at a juncture like this, while Turkey seeks to redeem a past forfeited before civilized Europe, it has done ill tp let loose upon her most peaceful and industrious subjects a race whose very existence is a blot upon the escutcheon of the empire. Viendfah Barbarities In Bulgaria. Mme. 'H. P. Blavalsky, a Bussian lady resident in New York, writes to the World of that city: Permit one who is, 'perhaps, in a -better- ^cation -thru ary other private person here to know what as taking place at the front, to inform you of certain facts derived from authen­ tic sources. Besides receiving daily papers from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tiflis, and Odessa, I have an unele, a cousin, $hd a nephew in active service, and nearly every steamer brings me ac­ counts of military movements from eye­ witnesses. My cousin and nephew have taken part in all the bloody engagements in Turkish Armenia up to the present time, and were at the siege and capture of Ardahan. Newspapers may suppress, oplor, or exaggerate facts; the private letters of brave soldiers to their fnmilim> rarely dp. Let me say then that during thin cam­ paign the Turkish troops have been guilty of such fiendish acts as to make me pray that my relatives may be killed rather than fall into their hands. In a letter from the Danube, corroborated by several correspondents of German and Austrian papers, the writer says : " On June 20 we entered Kozlovetz, a Bulga­ rian town of about two hundred houses, which was three or four hours distant from Sistpva. The sight which met our eyes made the blood of every Russian soldier run cold, hardened though lie is to such scenes. On the principal street of the town were placed in rows one hundred and forty beheaded bodies of men, women, and children. The heads of these unfortunates were tastefully piled in a pyramid in the middle of the atreet. Among the smoking ruins of every house we found half-burnt corpses, fearfully mutilated. We caught a Turk­ ish soldier, and to our questions he re­ luctantly confessed that their chiefs had given orders not to leave a Christian place, however small, before burning it and putting to death every man, woman, and child." On the first day that the Danube was crossed some foreign correspondents, among them that of the Cologne Gazette, saw several bodies of Bussian soldiers whose noses, ear*1, hands, etc., had been cut off. Later three bodies of Christian women were found--a mother and two daughters--whose condition make one almost drop the pen in horror* at the thought Entirely nude, split open from below to the navel, their heads cut off; the wrists of each corpse were tied to­ gether with strips of skin ant' flosh flayed from the shoulders down,, and the coipses of the tbrdeij martyrs fwnre similarly bound to j*ch iothei by.lcmg ribbons of flesh from theif thigis. ! It is a common thing for grounded Turks to allure Bussian soldiers and members of the Sanitary Corps to their assistance, and, as they bend over them, to kill with a revolver or dagger those wiio would relieve them. A case like this occurred under the eye of one of my correspondents in Turkish Armenia, and was in all the Russian papers. A ser- geon's assistant (a sanita*) was dis­ patched under such circiimstances; thereupon a xsoldier standing by the assassin. The Western Grain Crop. It is estimated that the wheat crop of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and TTanRna will reach the total of 117,000,000 bush­ els, for the year 1877. In 1876, it was 61,000,000 bushels. Until last year, Ill­ inois was the first wheat-producing State ia the Union, and it now stands second. Her crop this veur will probably reach 35,000,000 bushels, which will swell the total for these five States to 142,000,000 bushels. California is expected to be short 12,000,000 bushels from that of last year, but Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee will exceed the aggregate of last year by probably 35,- 000,000 to 40,000,000 bushels, so that the West will undoubtedly have over 100,000,000 bushels for export this year, over that of last year. This crop as well as all the other cereal crops has been harvested and secured in prime condi­ tion. It will tax the carrying facilities, both land and water, to the utmost, to carry it forward to the sea coast and European market, and will enable farm­ ers to pay debts which heretofore they oould not do on aooount of untoward seasons. The corn crop, owing to late and time­ ly rains, alsc bids fair to be a large one in the aggregate, unless untimely frosts occur to damage it. There was never a better outlook for good prices for an overwhelming crop, and we are pretty certain that farmers generally appreci­ ate the pleasant situation, and will take advantage of it. There now only re­ mains about two months and a half to the close of navigation., Npxt winter, Eastern railway companies will undoubt­ edly exact a tariff to make good the losses of the summer. This fact is worth remembering. We have heretofore stated what we believe the grain sent forward to tide­ waters this season will return more net money to the farmer than the same grain sent forward next summer. Europe wants the grain now. Next season, full crops there may tell against us. Both Europe and the United States are pretty thoroughly drained of wheat. The pres­ ent immense crop is providential, to supply the want. If a fair proportion of this crop is sent forward to the sea­ board while navigation is open, to com- 1>ete with land transit, freights will be ow, and the farmer may then hold the surplus, if freights should be advanced very considerably at the close of navi­ gation. i The oats and barley crop is also large, the grain heavy, and the yield all that could be desired. Let up hope that the dawn lias appeared for better times for farmers--that they can pay their lia­ bilities. It will react upon the entire business of the country, and, let us hope, raise it to a healthy competition, giving labor to the suffering operatives of our large cities. The help will be timely.--Prairie Farmer. Summer Separation. June is the month of love, joy, and August that of its agony. In June two hearts knit together and become one. In August two bodies separate. She goes away to see her mother's aunt in the country, and he stays at home, working the treadmill of duty. This comes hard on all men, but its weight is the heaviest on the grocery clerk, ptis heart is not in his work. How can it be? WTiere the treasure is there will the heteHw also, and the treasure is far away. He cannot smile on the customer. He can­ not counterfeit successfully that esfjfl&h- sion of all-absorbing interest ighich makes clerkship a thing of bq^pty, Certaiiily his is a most critical task. The variety and diversity of the articles iii which he deais require that he should keep his wits about him. In this par­ ticular he is in almost as much danger as the drug clerk, while the opportunities for slipping are a hundred fold AHDan* bury man, who went to a drug store -to have a prescription prepared, seeidg n& body but a clerk present, said : "Young man, are you keeping com­ pany with a girl V " Yes, sir," answered the clerk. blush. t " Do you think the world of her ?" " I do," said the clerk, firmly, although blushing considerably. A ^ "Is she in town? pursued the AMP tomer, anxiously. ' " No, sir; she is away on a visit.*"""I "That will do," said the ma% de­ cisively. "You can't fool arounflNw* prescription for me." And he cwfenj away. fr, But it is the grocery clerk who nine struggle from early morn till lute at night with a flood of annoyanoes. Who* he dips into the sugar barrel he thinks of her lips and sighs. In cutting the cheese he is reminded of the strengli^ or his devotion to her, and when he loolig into the butter firkin his thoughts stray to her hair. When he would go away by himself and give expression to his emo* tions he is obliged to help lift a barrel of corned beef, or roll a cask of salt or open a cask of lard. It is only when he is dealing out mackerel that he feels as if he had a companion in his sorrow, a sympathizer in grief. There is that softened, subdued light in the eye of a salt mackerel which touches a responsive chord in the heart of suffering and awakens it to plaintive melody. How tenderly he lifts it from the Idit, how lovingly he lingers in wrapping it up. Poor fellow! He may put up washing starch for baking powder, draw molasses in the kerosene can, and even attempt to palm off various things for tea. He may do this It is more than likely that he will. But the expression of a mackerel's eye will not change. The soft, subdued light of sympathy still remains. -- Dan- bury Mews. ' " "* j A MIS -CROCODILE. with Alligators, j * ' ' • Snapping-Turtles. Mln London they have now on,exhibi­ ted a semi-amphibious man named James Swan, whose performances at the Pavilion in Coventry street are thus de­ scribed by Frank Buckland in Land and Watert "When the curtain drew up Iobserved on the stage a pretty large tank, with glass front, filled with water. In the water were floating five living crocodiles, averaging from four to six feet long. "The band strikes up a lively tune, and the man-crocodile climbs up a lad­ der at the side of the tank, and at once jumps into the water, which comes nearly up to his neck. He first of all walks round the tank, and (as it were) stirs up the, crocodiles, making them swim about in all directions. There is one of his aquatic beasts, however, of which he seems to be in wholesome dread. This is a large snapping turtle, but I could not get near enough to make out distinctly of what species he was. Having looked around to see where these reptiles are swimming, Mr. Swan dives down to the bottom of the tank, and, quickly seizing Mr. Snapping Turtle, brings him up into the air, where he flourishes him over his head, much to the delight of the audience and the dis­ comfort of the turtle. The reptile hav­ ing been thus performed with, is allowed to go, and he descends with a lazy, heavy motion to the bottom of the water. Mr. Swan next feels among the thick of the crocodiles, which have by this time crawled into one comer. Having chosen two of them, he very adroitly takes one in each hand ground the neck. This, I should imagine, was a very difficult thing to do, as the crocodiles object con­ siderably; they make the water boil again with the lashings of their tails. " At last a firm hold is obtained round their necks, and they are flourished about in the air, opening their mouths and snapping right and left. " Mr. Swan then descends again, and remains under water for a considerable time. When under water he drinks, eats, and writes on a slate, in this re­ spect rivaling, if not ontdoing, the ' Hu­ man Frog,' who performed in London a few years ago. " The inscription he writes on the slate is 'Swan, the man-crocodile.' He causes the crocodile which he has at the bottom with him to make pretense to rub out the writing with his paw. Ascend­ ing again to the surface, Mr. Swan is offered a box by the attendants. He opens the lid of the box, and extracts tlierefzbm a good-sized boa constrictor. This he entwines round his neck and chest, and again descends to the bottom, wearing the serpent necklace. From the bottom he allows the boa constrictor to ascend- and swim about the tank where' he likeis. The serpentine mode of swim­ ming by the boa conf trictor, as seen in the water, is highly interesting. The larg­ est of the crocodiles has yet to be exhib­ ited. Mr. Crocodile seems to know from experience quite well what is coming, so he swims round and round at a tremend­ ous pace, causing the water to become so full of bubbles that one can hardly see what is going on in the tank. At length Swan catches the reptile; he has evi­ dently considerable difficulty in keeping hold of this fellow, who lashes his tau about in a most wonderful manner. 44 At length, after remonstrances with the crocodile, he manages to get hold of his head with the right hand and his tail with the left. He lifts him out of the water, and apparently is glad to let him go again, so violently does he struggle for his liberty. Other performances are then gone through, such as opening the crocodile's mouth, making the large snake swim round in a circle, etc." TH* poor palmleaf fan fan. man's summer resort--A 4 Capt. EADS> Jetties. For the first time since Capt. Eads, of St. Louis, began his great work of clean­ ing out a channel of twenty-six feet in depth in the South pass of the Missis­ sippi river, a report has been forwarded by the army engineers inspecting the work, which fairly and candidly admits the substantial success of the letty sys­ tem as applied by Capt. Eads to the utouiU of tno Mississippi river. Capt. Brown, of the work, has just forwardedto the Secretary of War a very full and elab­ orate report on the present condition of the jetties. Capt. Brown states that more work has been done during the past four months than during any previous four months since the commencement of the improvement. He states that over 1,600, - 000 cubic feet of mattress work has been put in position on the jetties and at the head of the pass, and about 60,000 cubic yards of stone; that the settle­ ment previously observed at the end of the east jetty has stopped, and no further observable settlement has occurred since last March. During the nast four months 1,400,000 cubic yards of deposit have been scooped out from between the jetties and carried out to sea. About a quarter of a million cubic feet of deposit have been removed from the shoal at the head of the pass. The only obstacle to the passage of a ship drawing twenty- two feet of water is near the end of the jetties, and is only 145 feet in length. There is 4 clear channel of twenty feet and six-tenths through the whole im­ provement. Capt Brown states that there is every probability that Eads will be entitled to his next payment of half a million dollars at an early day. He al­ ludes to the surveys which have been made out a mile beyond the end of the jetties {to ascertain the alterations in the Gulf bottom made by the jetty currents, and finds by a comparison with previous surveys that there has been a slight aver­ age deepening. The twenty-foot and thirty-foot curves have also receded These two facts clearly prove that there has been no re-formation of the bar in advance of the jetties. The extreme ends of the jetties, he says, are perma­ nently established and not likely to be damaged by severe storms.-- W ashing- ton OvTi Chicago Times. Importation of Krafts. I Foreign ttmit importation is a great tAiffic at New York. Mediterranean imits, formerly brought by sailing ves- Wls, are" Bow brought by steamers. Large quantities of oranges are brought from the Adriatic. Dried fruits, cur­ rants from Greece, .and raisins from Malaga and Valencia, are brought in large quantities, amounting to $4,000,- 000 a year. About 750,000 boxes of orange* oome in to that port auuually, of which about 1,000 a day are consumed in the city. The cargoes of oranges and lemons are sold at auction. There is a good deal of money made in this trade, although it is very risky,.owing to the perishable nature of the green fruit. Tke Potato Bag--How He Originated and How He Grows and Eats. The potato bug is a native of the West. He originated in the canons of Colorado, and may be called an offshoot of that section. The State is rammed full and loaded down with them. They formerly lived on wild plants, but one of them went up to Denver on a little pleas­ ure trip, and at the hotel there he had some fried potatoes, and they struck him as wiHg the best thing to quiet hunger he had ever lighted on. He went home and advised his brethren to go East, and they simply packed up a few collars and a change of clothing and started. The potato bug dawns on the farmer very rapidly; he sees his po­ tatoes nicely up, their green tops re­ minding him that potatoes, in the fall, at a dollar a bushel are better than a serpent's tooth or a thankless child, and he goes to bed dreaming of wealth pour­ ing in on him in furrows, and the next morning he visits his field and sees some red spots on the potato vines, about as big a pm heads. He notices that they give rather a genteel look to the leaf. In a day or two he sees these red drops be­ gin to grow, and then to crawl, and in three or four days he goes out and is so surprised at what he'W>es that you could not paint his look of astonishment--not even prime it over one coat with less than a bucket of paint. He see that tit© potato bus; has Arrived, and has brought his whole family and all his wife's 500 friends. He is there with all his tools and implements of labor. He sees a bug about as large as the letter O, when it drops _ from the lips a small boy as he incautiously sits down on an adult bull- thistle. He sees the bug laid off in stripes endwise, like the marks of a grid­ iron on a slice of broiled liver. He see that what, the bug lacks in size lie gains in quantity. He is there and keeps coming. He has as much mbnth in pro­ portion to his strength as the Amazon river Or Soldene. He can beat a horse­ fly laying eggs, and I have seen them flo the job at the rate of twelve miles pa hour. Ten days from the time au egg is laid it has been hatched, married and is the mother of 1,132 grandchildren.-- Gfeo. A. Quinbtf in Boston Globe. How the British Soldier Sniffers OFT Parade. R Perhaps, all things CONSIDERED, it is ap well the British soldier was not sent to Constantinople the other day. The march from Aldershott to Windsor and the hardships he underwent while being received by the Queen were too much for him. Too much, if it* be true, as stated, that the casualties of the day amounted to nearly 1,000 out of the 14,000 men engaged. The-eorns might have gone through a tolerably brisk action without losing a greater percent­ age. Heat and fatigue were the cause of the gaps in the ranks, an4 there are the usual explanations that the men were overmarched and kept needlessly long under arms. Probably that is true, but there is no reason to suppose it would be less true if the troops had been in actual service. It is affirmed, also, that the Qaeen had been expected to go to Aldeffhott and review the troops there. Disliking to expose herself to the heat and dust, she ordered her little army to Windsor. It may appear to the impar­ tial outsider that the heat and dust were not likely to be less for 14,000 men marching from Aldershott to Windsor than for one elderly lady driving from Windsor to Aldershott in her carriage. But there can be no doubt that the army ought to have been able to do what was asked of it; and, if it were not, the sooner the fact was ascertained the bet*- ter. It will net do f< r staff officers to complain of "short notice." It might happen that fhe Russians would some day be so forgetful of good manners as to give them no notice at all.--London Cor. New York Tribune. Piaster of Paris Corsets. The operation of applying plaster of paris corscts as a cure for cnwatuie of the spine, c,3 practiced -Li tic surgical in firwary in Buffalo, is thus described by the Courier: "The patient is relieved of all clothing about the bust except a tight -utting wrapper. He is then sus­ pended by means of a pully, so that his weight rests equally upon straps passed under the arms and a sort of yoke aboiifc ILLINOIS ITEM»r • Qttmct Horse Fair Sept. 4 FREEPOBT k to be lighted with g**. THE Free port District Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church con­ vened last week at Freeport TUB old settlers of Macoupin oountv held their at Palmyra a day or tiro since. THE fourth annual union of the old settlers of Macoupin county was held last week at Palmyra. Ten thousand people were present. WITJUUH J. FonumMnr, son of the Hon. Hugh Fullerton, of Havana, has been Appointed to a West Point cadet- ship by Congressman Tipton. THB Deere k Mansur Company, at Moline, capital #25,000, haa been li­ censed to incorporate. Object, the sale of agricultural implements. THE annual camp-meeting ol the Meth­ odist Episcopal Church for the Rock Island district held last week at Milan, on their old camp-ground. THREE boys, two of whom were sons of Peter Zimirers, and one the son of MitclieH Pfeiffer, were drpwnedj in the Sangamon, near Springfield, a few days ago. BETWBSW 6,000 and 8,000 people at­ tended the annual reunion of the Old Settlers' Association ol Morgan and Cass Counties, at Little Indian, Cass county, recently. A iiABQF. bam belonging to Wm, Mc- Pherson, living near Oarlinville, was struck by lightning last week, and was turned to the ground with its contents, including two horses. The loss is $1,000} no insurance. DR. ROTH, of Danvers, McLean ooun- ty, an old citizen, died last -week from starvation, caused by ossification of the gullet, a disease entirely novel to doctors in this locality. The entire interior of the esophagus became solid bone. THE Keokuk Northern Line packet Alexander Mitchell struck a snag, a few days since, three miles below Oquawka, and sunk in ten foet of water. One hun­ dred passengers wete on board, bat no one was lost. THE officers of. the Illinois Central railroad have received reports from the <l>each orchards along their line. At Cobden, Carbondale, and a few other southern places, the prospects for a full crop are reported as good, but from other points advices are not so enoour aging. ̂ JCTDGH ZANS has decided ifot to grant the mandamus prayed by the city Board of Education of Springfield, compelling the City Council to levy a tax of $43,000 for school purposes. He holds that the City Council, and not the Board of Edu­ cation, is the authority to decide what amount shall be expended for school purposes. THE Auditor haa revoked th9 certifi­ cates of agents of the Atlas Fire Insur­ ance Company of Hartford, having re­ ceived information from the Insurance Commissioners of Connecticut that the capital of the company is impaired. The Atlas has hitherto done a large business in Illinois, taking risks to the amount of SI,484,571 last year, and collecting pre­ miums amounting to $21,142. THE Auditor of State has completed the tabulation of real-estate forfeitures and losses by insolvencies and forfeit­ ures, ordered by the Board of Equaliza­ tion, for the years 1871 to 187&, The footings are : B«AL ESTATE rOBRITBD, Yeart. - Amount*. 1871...., 442.431.41 1872 49,071.46 1878.... 181,937.08 I03,S<R7.94 1875 146,851.63 LOST BY MAOLTOWNU AWD BXMOVAU or PEB-MMTAI. FBORXMTT. Yeart. ' n ' Amount*. 1871.... .$95,478.54 1872 81,890.08 ,1873:... 187 4 .....7... ....: 74,146.28 187 5 .... 01,400,79 ADVICES have been received of a shock­ ing affair in Lawrence county, at the farm ot Mrs. Lewis, near Bridgeport. The boiler of a steam threshing-machine exploded, throwing itself near the sep­ arator, upon a group of meii^ and setting .fire to the separator and pile* of etraT?. rJFour men were burned to death--James Buniak -Mills A1 rxnothy, Wells Mr. Tule. John Riber and Charles Tonquay were seriously hurt by the iboiler in !S» Sight, and threo others slightly. Hundreds of men oongftsgaied irom Bridgeport and Lawrenceville, ,where court was in session, and watolied the four bodies burn, the heat being so (intense from, the surrounding fire that Sheep of all agw 777.105 Hoga of all *gea 3,9*1,968 Staua engines, including boO- ers Fire or burglar-proof safes... Billiard, pigvoo-hoie, bag*. telle, or other Bimilar tables Cxrriagea and wafoaa of wha&- w>ev«rUad Wstche* and alooka -- Kpwisjg and knitting machine* 169,871 Piano-fortes MJM Xelodeoas and organs 9I>8M Franchise 59 Annulttea and royalties St Patent-righta ' 1» Steamboats, •aUlng-veeselib oroth#. 1,008,054 7,580,9211 vsa S3 858,7« 18,8$ ftilS sssH the neck. The weight of the body,. A _ straightens the spine to a greater or less on ̂oottld get near for over three extent, and. while suspended, the corset iiours. is fixed closely upon the bust. Pads are THE vote at the late judicial election placed over the hips and abdomen before ^has been canvassed by the State officers, the corset is put in place, to be removed " 'v * " after it hardens, thereby allowing space for respiration. Coarse muslin bandages are first wound about the patient over the wrapper, and a coat of, plaster of paris put like mortar over the bondages. Another layer of bandages is wound over the plaster of paris, when another coat of the latter material is put on. This process continues until a sufficiently thick corset has been formed. Tin stays are placed between the layers, to give the corset stabibty. The oorset will harden in about an hour." Joke on Beecher. Some years ago the wide-awake editor of the New York Ledger engaged Mr. Beecher as a contributor, and for a short article, about half a column, I believe he was paid $100. One day, in conver­ sation with a friend in regard to the lit­ erary merit of those articles he said: " I would try an experiment with them to test their value in the market." A weekly story paper just then out had stated, "they would like some short sketches, for which a liberal price would be paid." I cut from copies ci# old Ledg­ ers two of the Beecher articles, taking them six months apart, and gave them my own headlines. I sent them to the editor and in due time the answer ar­ rived ; I give it to your readers in full: "We cannot offer any pay for the two articles you have sent us; they are well written, but the ideas are rather soft. Clouds, sea, sky, trees, etc., have all been written to death. Try yourself on the little and big incidents of every-day life, and you may find plenty of them in walking the streets, or riding in the cars, if you keep your eyes open. We have returned the manuscripts as you wished." --Cor. Brooklyn Timet. Jwith the following result: FirHt Circuit --Dougherty, 5,361; Duff, 5,060; Youngblood, 1,260. Dougherty's plurality, 801. i Second Circuit--HftUey, 6,971; Green, @,515. Halley's majority, 466. ' Third Circuit--Wall, 8,775; Gillespie, 5,981. Wall's majority, 3,614. . Fourth Circuit--Nelson 11,408; Wilkin, 10,015. Nelson's majority, 1,393. Fifth Circuit- -Welch, 4,389; scattering, 345. Sixth Circuit--Shops, 6,209: scattering, 483. Seventh Circuit--Burr, 7,920; Beason, 6,68(1 Burr'w majority, 340. Eighth Circuit McCulloagh, 5,843; Roberts, 2,829; Cohr, 1,779; Johnson, 4,448. McCul- lough'u plurality, 1,014. Ninth Circuit--Goodspeed, 5,625; Blaucliard, 2,296 ; 8tipp, 2,184; Jones, 1,061. Goodapeed's plurality, 3,129. Tenth Circuit--Glenn, 4,040; scattering, 822. Eleventh Circuit--Blades, 4,039; McCarthy, 95; scattering, 826. Twelfth Circuit--Upton, 6,982; Botaford, 4,368. Upton's majority, 2,614. Thirteenth Circuit--Bailey, 4,221; scattering, 207. The Governor has not issued the cer­ tificate to Halley, of the Second Circuit, for the reason that he.is informed that Halley has not resided in Illinois for the past five years, as the constitution requires. - Illinois Mattetles. The State Board of Equalisation or­ ganized on the 14th inst. by the election of the following officers: Secretary, Tingby 8. Wood; Assistant Secretary, A. K. MoCabe, of Gallatin; Doorkeeper, W. H. Duffield; Page, W. J. Oglesby. Messrs. Warner, Boot and Whitesides were appointed a committee to prepare rules of order. The Auditor laid before the board tabulated assessment returns, of which the following is a condensa­ tion: > rBMO*Ax. nornn. So. iM'd I'aitM. Sanaa of all »ge> 915,990 $si,<*4,628 Cattle of all agea 1,780,961 21.677 643 llvleai*daaae««f allacaa... i»,ui wharf-boata, b*rgeeoroth«r water-craft fNJf Total aaaaaaad value oi (aawnma g *MSU«| TJHEMUKnUTCD nofXR. m Merafcandise ^ lS,?42,73(fc Materia! and manufactured articles 3,759,lir Manufactured tools, implemAnta ««>» iuwuiuv ..................... i SUE aaS Agricultural tools, implements and aitinery Gold and silver plate and plated ware... Diamonds and jewelry Moneys of banke, bankers, brokers, ate. Credits of b»uk», bankers, broker*, ete. Moneys of other than bankers, etc Credit* of other than bankers, ete....... fcnds and stocks 3 3,370, 128,980 ia,E», Shareo of capital stock of companies, not of Urn State. riWiiWokersr property Property of corporations, not bafora cnniuei ated Property of saloons and eatin^-honaee.. Household and office property Investments in real estate and Improrft- mentfi thereon Shares of stock, siate and nntihmal banks.. ,m --m,c 29'i',8«£-, «9,4Sfe 884,311 L ? ' •S'J't' Improved Unlmprov Total assessed value of --n--m-r»vni , property .. .*105,879,Mi Total or peraonal property. 187,648,M» BAIUtOAD PBOmil tMMHH IX COUNTIES. _ Average A**emt§ vataa. MitM,, • Class C--personal property $ 917jiK Glass D--Land, 16,617 acres... .$ 79.69 1,338,lli§ Class D--Lots, 4,486 lots 4M.C3 2,227,M* Total...... |4,467,S MAX. •un-Liim. Number ef Asaeemt acrftt. value. 3,5639,90* $442,969,SSV proved lands 8,655,933 48,755,4fyf- Total .94,275,2MC| fBl,704,«§ uumoa-iovii AMD om une. . Svmber ef AsM»m§ ioU. value. Improved town and city _ lots. 369,344 H70,773,Mi Unimproved town and city . lots. 485,83* 37,747,41*iX Total 858,201 ta®8,521,3TT Total vain* ot all taiahh property aaaaased in tfc* tate, $892,342,908. Acres In Cultivation--Wheat, 1,824,227; corn, flL- 289,888; oats, 1,480,891; meadows, 2,277,070; othif field products, 776,707; acres in inclosed pastor% 4,018.613; in cvohard, 33.9,148; in woodland, 636,75$, The Auditor presented the printed tables of the assessment of the several counties for 1877; also, a very valuablt and interesting table showing the action of the board m equalizing taxes from 1878 to 1876, inclusive, and still another - showing the assessed value of property * in the State for the last four yeanfc This latter table shows the figures: Total assessed value for 1878 $1,210,237,1$$ Total assessed value for 1874 1,105,639,7$T Total assessed valuo for 1875, 1,096,428,2$ $ Total asaeased value for 1876.. ...... , * Jim's Best Hold. A hungrv and desperate man in Ohiafr go hit on me expedient of feigning ii^ sanity as a means of getting a plate of ox-tail soup without paying for it. His conduct" is thus described by the Chicago Tribune: " He gulped down the sous without the aid of a spoon. He found, left in the bottom, several joints, which he picked out and laid in a row. Then he got up and tied the tails of his cost into a knot. He coaxed the bristles of his head down over his forehead and eyes. He turned up his coat-collar and spat upon his hands. He kicked the chair out from under him, and crawled down until he was upon all-fours. He gave vent to a sound that was between an Indian war-whoop and the hoarse cough of an elephant ' Betteny man in the room $4 even that was a bad steer. Betteny man four to one he was a Texas steer. Four to one, four to one. Gim­ me the five. Bet he wa#"ii the riot Four dollars in the pool and the steer dead; how much for the soup ?' All this in a single breath, as he pawed the floor and overturned the table. They shied the caster at him; they hurled queen* ware at his form. He made for the doo^ tripped the cashier on the way, and thest disappeared down the alley. There he halted, untied his coat, wiped his brow with his sleeve, and talked again to him­ self : ' Wall, Jim, they kinder got a with you in the riot, that's a fact. B buckin' agin steer soup's your best holt You' ve get thut soup uown iar -tbat stmatoidfc pump wouldn't raise it. ; I .a • •• A Bem&rfcable Case. • The Journal des Debate tells of som# - singular experiments made by Prof. Vei^,-!** neuil and others, of Paris, upon a pep " tient who had swallowed a quantity of'* acid, and whose esophagus wa® entirely closed in consequence. To supply him with food they were forced to cut aft aperture directly into his stomach,, Th# operation was successfully made, toe patient, who is otherwise entires well, has ever since been receiving uuia- ment through a rubber tube fitted into the opening, The food is reduced to aa easily-digestible form, such as broth or finely chopped meat and vegetables, and is forced through the tnbe with a small pump. All communication between the mouth and the stomach has ceased. The opportunity presented by thie remark­ able case lor scientific investigation and experiment has been turned to account* Prof. Charles Richet states that he has fouitd that meat, fat, and vegetables were digested by the patient in three to four hours. The digestion of milk was complete within two hours, while water and alcohol disappeared in less than three-quarters of an hour. Food is not taken up by degrees, the volume of the meal remaining in the stomach without material alteration until near the close m the digestive operation, and then disap­ pearing entirely in a few minutes, leav^ ing only a few undigested morsels visi­ ble, valuable and interesting iuformai- tion is expected from the observations yet to be made in this case. A countryman of plain appearance entered a Macon (Ga.) banking-house. the other day, ana made a deposit of $3,000. One of the officers asked him " what he intended to do with so much money?" "Oh," he replied, "I «*. doing this for my wife, and am dete* mined to kewp on working and adding t# the amount until, when 1 die, she wi# be a real marriageable widow. nov rare is such public spirit TH* nicest way to eat green corn M to grate it from the cob, mi* with ng&$ batter, frv into crisp pancakes and servf^ with sweet butter for breakfast. > ; mv Wm: " -rjt ..m*