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®ht mm fmtj fjlaindealtr. J. TAN 8LYKE, Fmrano. MoHENBY, ILLINOIS. BOAD AdSm •iMt teibMinee to » Gang of CoaeH Bob- bars--Perils of Stage Driving. 1 The Eureka (Nev.) Republican con­ tains the following thrilling account of an attempt te rob one of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s coaohes, which was successfully re­ sisted by the messengers, one of whom --Brown--formerly ran in and out of this oily. The stage, says the Republi­ can, that left Eureka for Tybo on Mon­ day afternoon, the 3d inst., containing Prof. T. Rice, the mining expert, and J. M. Haskell as passengers, the driver, Jack Perry, and an employe of thestage company, was accosted about 9 o'clock at night as it had drawn up before the Willows station, forty miles south of Eureka, by three masked men, one of whom called upon Blair to surrender, " Eugene Blair, get off that stage and -surrender." Believing that the men in the station had got drunk, and that one of them was playing a bluff game, the demand was not immediately complied with; besides the night was so dark that the speaker could not be dis­ tinctly seen. The demand, however, was more peremptorily repeated,' when Blair prepared to dismount, leaving the driver and Jimmy Brown on the seat. Blair had scarcely reached the ground with his trusty shot-gun, when lie was greeted with a double discharge of shot­ guns. one from the rear of the stage and the other from the corner of the stable, both passing so near his head that the powder of one warmed his face. Blair returned the fire almost simultaneously, but, being partially blinded by the smoke, and not seeing his object plain­ ly, evidently without effect. The repoit of his gun had not died away before the •cold muzzle of a gun was placed against Ms breast by one of the robbers, with the intention no doubt of making sure work of the brave messenger. Blair caught it and chucked it aside, and turned the robber, who was pulling the wrong trig­ ger, half" round, when Brown, on the seat, watching his opportunity, raised his shot-gun as quick as a flash and gave the road agent the full contents of one "barrel square in the back, and he fell over mortally wounded, loaded with >eight buckshot Almost simultaneously with this deadly shot, Blair had placed his shot-gun squarely against the fel­ low's breast, and would have blown a hole through him as big as the moon had not, Ms brave companion performed the service. Brown, after firing the shot, jumped from the stage, but had not fair­ ly reached the ground when he was shot in the calf of the left leg, inflicting a painful but not serious wound. The other two robbers then fired four more shots at the messengers at close range with shot-guns and revolvers, none of which, however, did any harm, though they came uncomfortably close, and dis­ appeared in the darkness. The firing having ceased, the passengers got out of the stage cautiously aac took a look at the wounded robber, who was writhing in mortal agonv, and implored, begged and prayed to oe killed. A noise at the station now attracted attention, and on proceeding thither it was found that the blacksmith and rancher, who were in charge of the place, had been bound se curely and threatened with instant death by the robbers if they would give any alarm on the approach of the stage. The robbers had come to the station about an hour previous, compelled the inmates to surrender, cooked'a meal and ate it, unharnessed the horses that had been prepared for the incoming coach, and then proceeded to lay their plsms of attack. A small fort was built with boards at the corner of the stable, and an old ax placed handy for the purpose of opening the treasure box. The wounded robber was taken into the sta­ tion, where all the parties remained dur­ ing the night. The Telephone in a Nutshell* The New York World explains, in a way that any one should be able to com prehend, the telephone in its simplest construction, as now exhibited in New York, thus: " The telephone is operated entirely without the use of the galvanic battery, being thus simplified to the last degree. It is in appearance a pear shaped piece of mahogany, wi'h an ori fice at the large end, and with a flexible, silk-covered wire emerging from the small end. Being opened, it is seen to consist of a powerful steel magnet run­ ning nearly through the instrument lengthwise, and wound with a coil of fine insulated wire, which is connected with the line. In front of this magnet, but not in contact with it, is a disk of soft, thin iron. The voice strikes against this disk and causes it to vibrate, and as • it approaches and recedes from the mag­ net a current of electricity is generated in accordance with a well-known law. This current passes over the wire and at­ tracts and repels the disk in the tele- {>hone attached to the other end of the ine, this same simple instrument being used in sending and receiving messages, or rather in talking and listening. "This is the whole apparatus; but at the head office of the company thev have some simple switches and an attachment for attracting attention by means of an electric bell, the electricity being gener­ ated by a magnet, as is the case with* the telephone. By attaching any number of telephones to the line as many people can hear the message spoken at the other end. " Attracting the attention of the gen- tleinan at the Broad street office, the re­ porter was directed to apply the instru­ ment to his ear while a conversation was held between the two points. A roaring sound like that perceptible when a shell is applied to the c^v was all that was no­ ticeable at first. Then a voice was dis­ tinctly audible, saying, 41 hope the gen­ tleman is pleased with the working of the instrument' The voice sounded ex­ actly as if the words had been spoken from the floor below through an ordinary speaking-tube. The roaring noise, it wal explained, was the noise of the street, which the wire picked up on its way between the two points. "The switch was then called into requisition, and the telephone placed in connection with the office at Broadway and Thirteenth street, and a young man answered the call, who not only spoke audibly, but sang a rollicking song and whistled * Tommy, Make Room for Your Auntie,' which was so audible that it seemed an though he must be in the next room. He wasn't The reporter looked. This telephone has been tried a distance of eight miles with equally satisfactory results, and the owners are confident it can be worked a much greater distance." Oat of the Frying-Pau Into the Fire. The Manchester (Eng.) papers tell of pretty rough experiences there on the part of the party of carpenters who emi­ grated thither from this city not long since, to work for Robert Neill & Son. According to the Examiner, some ten or fifteen had been either frightened out of their engagement or persuaded to abancon it by the striking joiners, who surrounded them immediately upon their arrival, and pleaded that, though of different nationalities, they were brother workmen, and should make common cause against a common enemy. The contracts under which the Ameri­ cans came to Manchester, it would ap­ pear, were signed before they knew that any difficulties existed in the trade there. As a guarantee of their perform­ ance of the contract, each of the men surrendered to Messrs. Neill & Sons a chest of tools varying in value from £10 to £60, and these tools are to be detained from them until they have paid their advanced passage money. If now they yield to the strikers' persuasions, they will find themselves deprived of their tools, unable to get a job of work at their trade, and without a cent in their pockets, 3,000 miles from their homes and friends. On the other hand, if they go to work, they are hooted at in the streets and pointed out as Yankees who have come to England to take the bread out of the mouths of honest British workmen. Nor is this all. Two of them have been stopped by some men, who warned them to quit work or "take the consequences as soon as the dark nights came on." After this, it is pre­ sumed, we shall hear no more about emigration of skilled labor from this country. The condition of the artisan here, at the present moment, may not be as felicitous as it might be, but what is the use of his "jumping from the fry­ ing-pan into the fire?"--New York Bulletin. A Coat Lined With Honey. A war correspondent writes: " Com­ edy goes side by side with tragedy here as everywhere, and even at a time like this men can laugh. A Jew, who has come down from Eski-Saglira, is in a condition of much perplexity about the means to be adopted for the recovery of a stolen coat. Anticipating evil times in Eski-Saghra, the Jew had sewn up his money in the lining of his heaviest fur overcoat, and with this held himself ready to leave town at any moment. Somehow when the dreaded time arrived he missed the coat, and had to come down, here without it. Walking about the streets of Adrianople, he descried this very coat upon the shoulders of a big Circassian, with whom he entered into humble parley for its recovery, professing to nave taken a great fancy to it, and offering a most un-Jew-like price for it. While he pretended to ex­ amine and admire the fur, he ascertained by touch that his money remained un­ disturbed. The Circassian declined to sell, and the Jew then put in a claim as owner of the coat, and succeeded in bringing the Circassian before the Gov­ ernor of the town. The Governor de­ clined to consider the Jew's claim proved, and that hapless Hebrew is now following the Circassian like a second shadow, beseeching him with perpetual iteration to strike a bargain. It rests on Rochefoucauld's authority that a man can always enjoy the misfortunes of his friends, and the friends of this especial Hebrew seem to find some consolation for their own Borrows in watching and laughing at the countless ruses and maneuvers with which Jewish ingenuity inspires the hunter of the coat" CHINA AT 1IITWED. H«w 115 Aristocratic CUnrM IMOu mrm Oettliig Kdnr-mtkm. Th* 115 Qbi&Be lads who were brought to this oMurfw from China bf Ynn£WmgM^iM ago, are said tt be prospering finely » Hartford, where they have their headquarters. Yung Wing was allowed to choose the boys, from 7 to 14 years of age, and to bring them to this country and give them such a training as he saw lit For this pur­ pose the Chinese Government appro­ priated $1,500,000, and in 1872 the first party of boys arrived in Hartford, fol­ lowed in 1873 and 1874 by others. These represent the wealthy, aristocratic Chi­ nese. As soon as the boys reached Hartford they were put by twos with American farmers' families m Connecti­ cut and Massachusetts towns, so that they might learn the language as quickly as possible. But, so that their Cninese schooling might not be lost, they came alternately to the headquarters in Hart­ ford, and spent three weeks in exclu­ sively Chinese studies. A fine edifice has been erected in Hartford by Yung Wing, near the residence of Marshall Jewell, Gen. Hawley, Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Some of the boys have got far enough along to enter Yale College, and in the school contests they have invariably beaten their Amer­ ican schoolmates. From college they will go to the professional schools, and then will be ready to return to China, where they will spend their lives as teachers. It is Yung Wing's opinion that the influence of 115 able men, thoroughly educated, and, more than all, thoroughly Americanized by the fifteen years spent here in their boyhood, can­ not fail of ultimately removing all ob­ stacles that Chinese bigotry has thus far Ent up to progress. These Mandarins ve in elegant style, and are much given to receptions. They entertain hand­ somely. To be invited to their great dinners, of which four or five are given annually, is a treat greatly prized in Hartford. They dress in the choicest Chinese silks, and drink a wine made of rice, which is very treacherous, as some of the dignified deacons who have diued with them and just sipped the wine have found out to Hartford s scandal. Student-Waiters in the White Mount ains. The corps of waiters at the Glen House hava this year come from Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby, Me., and from Har­ vard, Amherst and Tufts, Mass., and I think no one who had not seen the ex periment tried could realize how much difference it makes in the atmosphere of the dining-room to have ill-concealed vulgarity and mechanism replaced by gentlemanly bearing and intelligence. The effect must be seen to l>e appre­ ciated. A servant can be civil, but it re­ quires a gentleman to be polite. I think it is Thoreau who says: " The minnow swallows the fly, the pickerel the minnow, the pike the pickerel, and the fisherman eats the pike--so all the gaps in'the scale of nature are filled up." The saying has come to my mind here. For this so successful experiment so per­ fectly fills up the gaps in the scale of nature that it seems to me the man into whose brain the idea first came should have a royalty for at least twenty-eight years, payable by every hotel and by every student so employed. For here the two wants so successfully balance each other! The students need the money and need change of scene and activity. The hotels need the service, and the students get just what they need and the hotels iust what they need There is a delicious satisfaction in the perfect adaptation of means to ends. At this house the head waiter is a col­ lege graduate, and, I think, a teacher, and everything goes on smoothly^ and well under his supervision. There is no play about the work on the part of the young men. They attend to their busi­ ness and do it well, and all goes on with the indefinable but clearly distinguish­ able comfort which comes from intelli­ gence, the trained mind, and the manly purpose. I think no other country in the world ever witnessed such a phe­ nomenon, or one which implies so much. --Springfield {Mass.) Republican. THE bodies of the three Goodriches, lynched at New Castle, Ky., were buried in one grave at Pleasant Home, Owen county. A correspondent says the be­ lief is very strong that the two younger Goodriches were innocent of the crime for which the mob hanged them. SITTING BUIIL seems to be enjoying the rare triumph, for a savage, of suc­ cessfully defying, at one and the same time, the two most powerful nations on the face of the earth. Iron Ship-Building in the United States. The Pall Mall Gazette prints some information touching the progress of iron ship-building in the United States. Five years ago England had a decided advantage over North America with re­ spect to the cost of ship-building, the materials and the labor being much cheaper. But a great change has taken place in the meanwhile, for the price of American iron has fallen nearly 50 per cent., and the present rate is not much above that of the principal European markets, while copper is now produoed in suoh quantities that it has become an article of exportation. The price of labor, which is the most important item in the construction of vessels, being es­ timated at 70 per cent, of the total coat of a steamer, has also been reduced by the use of machines which are not em­ ployed in England. The first iron ves­ sel constructed in the United States was built in 1868, and since then 251 ships of various dimensions, with a total ton­ nage of 107,500 tons, and valued at from twelve to fifteen millions sterling, have been launched, this being an average of about thirty every year. These figures are very insignificant when placed beside those concerning the ship-building on the Clyde, but the United States returns for the four last years show some very remarkable results. Thus the tonnage of vessels constructed was 224,000 tons in 1872, 266,000 tons in 1874, 270,000 tons in 1875, and 204,000 tons in 1876. Upon the other hand, tiiere has been a rapid decrease in the number of screw- steamers built on the Clyde since 1873-- from 126 in that year to 113 in 1875, and to 83 last year. There has not been any decrease in the number of paddle-wheel steamers, of which 16 were built last year, against 14 in 1872, and 10 in 1874 ; but in the United States, the yard of Mr. Roach--one of the largest ship­ builders in the country--has turned on* 33 paddle-wheel steamers, with a- total tonnage of 68,150 tons. A Bare Escape. w Two miners, J. H. Ritchie and Zambro, while crossing one of the Cali­ fornia Water Company's flumes, on the new South Fork ditch, saw an enormous bear in an angle of the flume, walking on the foot-board, and coming toward them. Zambro had a two-barreled utot gun loaded with buck-shot, and two dogs were behind them. A fight was inevitable. The bear came on his hind legs toward Ritchie, and when the man was almost within the brute's hug Zam­ bro fired and knocked the animal off the flume. Ritchie jumped off and, picking up a piece of scantling, began to pound his bearship on the head. A back Wow of the scantling brained one of the dogs that had come to Ritchie's aid. Then the bear, only slightly wounded, gave Ritchie a rough-and-tumble fight, al­ though harassed by the remaining dog. Meanwhile Zambro had managed to climb into a tree, carrying his gun. He fired the remaining barrel, missed the bear, narrowly missed Ritchie, and killed the dog. Seeing his critical situ­ ation, Ritchie got out of the bear's em­ braces, and, by a desperate effort, pushed the animal ove? a bluff forty feet high. The fall killed the animal. When dressed it weighed 784 pounds. Through the right ear was a bullet-hole made by some hunter. Ritchie lost coat, vert, pantaloons, shirt, and most of his ham Louis Napoleon. Mr. Shaw, editor of the Coopers town (N. Y.) Freeman's Journal, corrects the statement of a Hartford paper that the late Emperor Louis Napoleon came to this country in 1834, and was a "fast young man." The truth is, he came here in 1836, after the Strasbourg affiur, and remained less than a year, being called to the death-bed of his mother in 1837. " He was not' fast,' nor did he, while here, consort with men of that character. One of his most intimate friends was the Rev. Charles S. Stewart, chaplain in the United States army; another was James Watson Webb, the editor of the New York > Courier and Enquirer. He was then fully impressed with the belief, which he frequently avowed, that it was his destiny to be­ come Emperor of the French. Both^of the gentlemen I h^ve named visited him after he ascended the throne, and were , handsomely entertained at his palace. I have good reason for believing that the otmrse pursued by the Emperor in with­ drawing the French troops from Mexico, during our civil war, was largely influ- ued by Mr. Webb, then our Minister ^ Brazil. They had regularly oorre- S»onded from the time the Prince left is, country, and Mr. Webb went to Itaxis by the special invitation of the Emperor, and, after a free conference on the subject, brought home with him a private communication to Mr. Lincoln in relation to the Mexican occupation. The Emperor, recognizing the failure of his scheme, desired only to withdraw his troops without the appearanoe of coercion on the part of the United States." Beavers at Work. In almost any stream in the mountain­ ous parts of Wyoming Territory you may find more or less beavers and beaver dams. But Green river and this whole region, writes a member of Hayden's surveying party, surpasses any place I know of as a resort for these' animals, now so scarce east of the Mississippi. In the rocky canon higher up, this creek was thirty or forty yards across, nor would it have been much wider in the more open valley below had it not been impeded. But for a dozen miles the beavers had so dammed it and choked it with their houses that the water spread out to a mile or more in width, and hun­ dreds of dead or living trees, once far back from the margin, were standing equally far out in the water. Some of the dams measured 100 or more feet in lepgth, and were built on a curve, with the hollow of the curve up stream, yet so substantially that they were standing the beating of the freshet with slight damage. All along the bank of the stream the hillside was bare of aspens, and their stumps, cut off close to the ground, showed what had destroyed them. Some of the stumps were of trees ten or twelve inches in diameter and seventy- five yards from the water, yet there was no doubt that these rodents had felled those trees, trimmed off the branches, peeled away the bark, and then dragged the log all the way to the water to put into a new dam or repair an old one. Indeed, we surprised some of them at work. Most of the dams were shorter than I have mentioned, and ran from one to another, so that there was a network of them supporting a growth of willows, and each inclosing a little basin of deep, still water, in which would rise like an island the domed top of their home. But the houses of many were under the bank, and of others beneath the dams, as we could see by the paths to them, whioh showed plainly through the water. Wherever the willows grew closely to the water's edge for some distance there would be roads through them at frequent intervals, the stems gnawed off, and the weeds trodden down smooth. 44 Busy as a beaver" acquires a new force when we think how ceaselessly he must work to get his daily food, collect winter stores, keep his house in order, repair his dam, and guard against enemies. We saw none of the animals themselves. They are rarely seen by any one, being able to detect your approach by the jar of the ground, if not otherwise, and hide themselves.-- Boston Herald. A Phenomena) Negro. There is now in this city one of the most, remarkable specimens of humanity that has been known to inhabit the earth since the days of Adam. He is colcied, and goes by the name of Dr. George Thomas, and seems to have literal control of his entire physical nature, being able, by the simple exercise of his will, as it were, to change at pleasure the location of the machinery of his body; beside which, he is possessed of muscle almost the consistency of iron, which he is capable of developing to a remarkable degree. For instance, he takes a solid bar of iron of about three inches in circumference and some three or four feet in length, holding it in one hand, and bends it by striking it repeatedly across his disengaged arm, the blows being sufficiently vigorous to break the limb of any ordinary man, but which do not seem to have the slightest effect upon his own, the mus­ cles of which are as hard as the iron itself. He then straightens the bar in the same manner. He asks yon to feel the pulse in his wrist, and it beats with the same regularity and power of that of an ordinary mortal; but, by a sud­ den but almost imperceptible movement of the muscle of the .aim, the pulsation apparently ceases altogether, bat is in reality removed from its original posi­ tion. By the exertion of the same power it is then restored at pleasure to its proper place. He can also remove bis ribs from his side to the abdominal region, where they can be distinctly felt, and return them to their proper place at will; while by the exercise of the same power the heart is changed from the left to the right side of the body. Two of our physicians, we leain, examined this remarkable specimen of humanity, and were astonished at the extraordinary developments which re­ sulted from a practical test of the won­ derful powers of the man. One of the physicians was asked to place Ms ear to the region of the heart, and its beatings were regular and distinctly noted ; but suddenly there was an entire cessation of the throbbing, and on the instant his companion, who had his ear to the right side of the body, exclaimed that he could then detect the beating of his heart on that aide.-- Wilmington (N. C.) Star. What Ailed Tim. Tim, the newsboy, was seen coming ont of a store the other day with a box of paper collars in his liana, and as two or three of his associates were very in­ quisitive as to what he meant to do with them he answered with considerable pom­ posity: "I shall appear in one of them this very afternoon, and regularly ^hereafter till death." "Ho! ho! ho!" they sneered, "but hain't you just flinging on style, though! You've alius looked as mean and ragged as any of us, and now all to once you be­ gin to prance around and wear col­ lars." " Yes, and all to once my sister is go­ ing to get married, and all to once the old lady has bought a sewing machine and a big accordion on trust, and all to once dad has been on three Coroner's afiif Jurys and is fixing things to run for constable, and all to once I'm going to keep up my end of the family if it t^k my last dollar, and that's what ails me my --Detroit Free Pre**. EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE. A Ub| Battt« with the 8 ton's Great Work to be Demolfehed. ,nore than a hundred years, says the New York Tribune, one of the most interesting and conspicuous objects to the voyager bouad up the English ehan- ?e* ~as been the famous lighthouse built by John Smeaton, on the Eddy- stone rooks. Lifting its gray mass above the turbulent s«a near the entrance to Plymouth sound, it has stood for a cent­ ury in the pathway st ft3 weld's com­ merce, a monument of human genius and patience, a boast of man's superior­ ity over the forces of nature. But na­ ture has conquered at last The Eddy- atone lighthouse, so long regarded as one of the grandest triumphs of engi­ neering, must come down. At the re­ cent meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Mr. J N. Douglass, Engineer to Trinity House', read a paper explaining the necessity for the demolition of this extraordinary work. The waves have beaten in vain against Smeaton's masonry, but thev have actually undermined the rock upon which it stands. Based "on the solid rock" is no longer an expression of stability. The Eddystone rocks, lying in one of the most frequented parts of the chan­ nel, and entirely covered at high water, were long ago regarded among the prin­ cipal dangers of the English coast. The difficulty of erecting a light upon them was only overcome after various trials and disasters. It is impossible to approach the spot except in the most, favorable weather and at oertain times of the tide, and owing to the exposed situation, near the entrance of the channel, in the full sweep of the Atlantic gales, the Sea often rises here to extreme fury, and the waves dash over the lantern at the height, of eighty-live feet On several occasions they have broken the glass. The first lighthouse on the Eddystones was begun by Henry Winstanley in 1696, and finished in 1699. It was a sort of wooden pagoda, on a stone bast. It stood only four years, being swept away by a storm in 1703, and the builder and several workmen who had gone off to it for the purpose of making some repairs perished at the same time. No trace of the men was ever found, and not a frag­ ment of the bmldingremained except a few scraps of iron. But Winstanley had demonstrated that a lighthouse could be built on this fearful ledge, and Rudyeid accordingly, who was not a professional engineer, but a silk-mercer, completed another, an ingenious structure of wood and iron, in 1709. The wood seems not to have answered very well, but the building lasted until 1755, when it took fire one December night in the lantern, and the keepers were driven from room to room till they reached the rock, whence (the weather being fortunately calm) they were taken off the next day. Smeaton's great work, whioh has since served as a type and model for the finest lighthouses 111 the world, was begun in 1756 and finished in 1759. He secured a magnificent foundation by leveling off the gneiss rock in horizontal steps, so that every course of masonry might rest Upon a true horizontal bed, and, to pro­ tect the ground joints still more com­ pletely from the action of the sea, he caused the lower courses to be sunk at least three inches in the solid rock, as in a socket All this cutting of the foun­ dation was done with chisel and hammer, lest blasting should loosen the rock. The materials used in the building were Portland stone and granite, laid in hy­ draulic cement The blocks were a ton and two tons in weight, and carefully dovetailed together, every course being adjusted on a wooden platform before the stones were carried to the rock. The courses were furthermore conneoted by stone dowels, and the whole firmly clamped. To find the best and strong­ est shape for the edifice which had to be built upon this foundation Smeaton ap­ plied to nature. He imitated the trunk of a tree. The lighthouse tapers grace­ fully to the top, with a slightly concave outline, and its base spreads outward as if it were rooted in the rock. The upper part was originally of wood, but being burned in 1770 it was rebuilt of stone. The enormous difficulties encountered in the execution of this work, the inge­ nuity and persovcrance displayed ^ in overcoming them, and the full particu lars of the plan--one of the most skillful combination,' of' elements of stability, ever devised--are well described in Smeaton's " Narrative and, in spite of the progress that has since been made in mechanics, the l&ddystone lighthouse has never ceased to be the pride of every Englishman, and one of the marvels of engineering. Murdered by His Bride. A rich miller of Hankow, near Eger, in Austria, aged 60, lately married a girl of 18, who consented to the match on account of his wealth and the urgency of her parents. She was, however, deeply in love with the miller's foreman, and consented to the murder of the old man in order to free herself and enjoy his wealth. The wedding supper was largely attended by the villagers, and the festivi­ ties lasted all night At daybreak the miller, according to custom, visited his mill and was pushed into the stream by the assistant foreman, who had been drawn into the plot by the promise of money. TJJie water not being deep, the miller regained his feet, and struggled violently with his assassin, who was soon assisted by the bride and her lover. The two men held him under the water and the girl immersed his head, which she kept below the surface until life be­ came extinct; she then took her lover's arm and coolly rejoined the guests, with whom she joined in the dance. Western vs. Eastern Newspapers. The Detroit Free Press calls attention to a fact which has been quite generally observed of late--the provincialism of the New York press. It gives the follow­ ing instances: Not one of the New York papers, except the Times, had a line about the Detroit regatta, one of the most important aquatic events that has happened for years, and the same papers devoted just eighteen lines to the recent brilliant and immense Knight Templar gathering at Cleveland. It has long been a matter of notoriety that the New York journals have fallen behind in the race for news with the leading papers of Chicago, St Louis, Cincinnati, and some other Western cities. With the single exception of the New York Time*, they & are, compared to the Western paper*, deficient in ability, enterprise, and in­ dustry. In American news there is no comparison to be made, while in foreign news none of them are su[»erior, some of them are behind. The cause of this decadence is to be found in the ab­ surd and preposterous notion that there is nothing worth knowing outside off New York city, and as there is very lit- tie inside of it worth knowing, except the markets and shipping news, it is a mat­ ter of necessity that the papers should have little in them. This aooounts for their abseaoe from the stalls of the newsdealers, and the substitution of the more enterprising Western papers. ' _', JUIKOIS ITEMS. N ---- '«*** ft »«<; LICENS* to incorporate has been issued i ̂ to the "Chicago Rendering Company:? i tflt capital, $5,000. THE Knoxville Township Fire Tnra . J ranoe Company has certified to the An- v its organization under the nenr ̂ . law. THS Hall Manufacturing Company's \ building, near Chicago, was recently de- stroyedby fire. Loss, $5,000; insur- Ml ance, $3,000. ««| A MAN was fatally injured at Pleasant 1 ̂ Plains, a few days since, by the acei* dental explosion of a keg of powder aft iaM a coal mine. ^ i THE Union planing mill was burned a few days since at Chicago, involving a ̂ i loss of $40,000. About 300,000 feet of pine lumber was also consumed. THE Southern Illinois M. E. Confer- ̂ ence convened at Mount Vernon last week. The attendance was quite large, 'W ; there being about 200 ministers present. THE General Assembly of the Welsh Presbyterian Church held its sixth bien- ̂ • # nial session in Chicago last week. There ̂'¥\ was a large attendanoe, and a profitable session was had. • "t:* m IT has been ascertained that of the 200 signers of the bond given to famish ad­ ditional ground for the State House, as required by the law of 1871., forty-eight are bankrupt, eighteen dead, and seven­ teen removed from the State. THX Grand Jury of the Criminal Court at Chicago has indicted D. D. Spencer, the President of the collapsed State Savings Institution, together with Guild and Bulkley, the Cashier and Assistant Cashier, for embexslement. ON Oct 1 the Postmaster General will establish 152 new money-order offices. Among them will be the following in Illinois: Albany, Avon, Cornton, Dun- leith, Goodhope, Hanover, Industry, Mansfield, Mount Zion, Mulberry Grove, Voems City, Ooonee, Roanoke, Tene Haute, Wyandotte. THE fifteenth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation was cele­ brated by the colored people of Spring­ field and vicinity by an imposing parade and a picnic at Oak Ridge Park, at whioh speeches were made by Gov. Cullom, Congressman Springer, Capt Charles Nelson, a colored orator, and others. ONIC of the men now in jail at Mo- Leansborongh, MoGuigan, is supposed to be Frank Niokols, wno did the killing at St Elmo on the 17th of September. Mr. Braoketsley went to the jail and among the eight prisoners selected Mo- r~ Guigan as the man. Mr. B. was in the \ ' road, and, after Scales was killed, saw k the murderer, and is certain MoGuigan is the man. McGuigan told persons e ^ there that he walked twelve miles with- 7 out a hat, and wished to trade his Btriped shirt for another. THB appointments for the ensning % year at the Southern Conference of the ' * * M. E. Church of Illinois were as fol­ lows : -: AUon District--Q. W. Hnghly, Presiding El- . ; der; Alton, F. L. Thompson ; Brighton and . & Paradise, J. B. Reynolds and J. A. Boarrell: ~ * Brighton Circuit. B. Z. Faha ; Bunker Hill, W. 8. Bly; Donnelison, E. Treadgold; Edwards- ville, W. H. Soott; Edwardsville Circuit, B. H. ^ Masaey ; Elaah, O. W. Farmer; Fidelity and 1" Piasa, N. E. Harmon; Gilleapie, S< P. Graves; >. Grafton, to be supplied ; Greencastle, W. B. V Brunei; Jeraeyville, I). W. Phillips; Kane, A. i: L. Greenlaw; Litchfield. J. D. Oufeam; Litek- noM uirouit, A. S. Howron; Shipman, G. W. Waggoner; Staunton, L. C. English ; Upper Alton, EL Soars; Fieldeu, H. Duiicale 5 Venice, •; 3. W. Caldwell. •»t-VL V # -4 •' v ft'S J * vU * xUi 1 Lebanon District--A. B. Morrison. Presidios Elder; Beanooup, A. Camgbelle; Belleville. F. M. Vart-".sc; Csrlyle, A. SUias; Clement, J. A. Thrapu; CollinBvillu and Caseynlle, T. A. Eaton; East St. Louie, D. Oougliiin; Freeburg, J. P. Yonngfiag; Greenville, J. Gibson; Greenville Circuit, J, A= Hampton; Highland, to _ be supplied; Lebanon, J. Earp; Nashville, J. 6, Hill; OkawviUe, C. J. Hontaj Ptca- hontaa, J. Lanid; Shilob, 8. Walker; Trantoo, W. Van Cleve; Troy, G. W. Cullom; Waterloo, J. Weedin; Wisetowu, W. H. Tyuer. Mount Cantiel District--J. Hams, Presidim? Eider; Belknap, to be supplied; Belle City, J. Iiobb*; Big Prairie, B. H. Manier ;«Carmi, E. A. Huit; Burntside, C. C. Young ; Elizabeth- town, P. Shooker; Enfield, J. J. Bover ; Equal­ ity, J. H. McGriff; Golconda, J. L. Cunning­ ham ; Grayville, C. P. Wilson; Harrisburg, J. F. Keef; Liberty, to be supplied; McLeans- boro, J. A. Baird; McLeanaboro Circuit, N. McMorrow 5 Metropolis, G. W. Scawthorn; Middieton, E. Boot; Mount Carmel, J. L Waller; New Haven, to be supplied; New Lib­ erty and Bellonia, N. Baacom; Opdyke, L. P. Cuilom; Shawneetown, J. B. Thompson; 1 i- enna, J. W. Field; Sulphur Springs, to 1* supplied. Jft. Vernom District--B. B. Fierce, Presiding Elder ; Ashley, J. W. Van Cleve ; Benton, G. W. Wilson ; Cairo, J. D. Gilham : CarbondaU, J. A. Robinson; Carbondale Circuit, J. Ti. Lowe ; Cheater, M. House ; Cobden. to be snj>- plied ; Corinth, J. W. Flint; DeSota, C. II. Bi»yce ; DuQnoin, C. W. Bonner ; Hebron, to be supplied; .Teffersouville, to be bupplied; Louiaville, J. D. Reeder ; Mt. Carmel Circuit, W. C. Dickaon ; Mt. Erie, C. D. Liugeufetter ; New Zion, M. Carter; Oblong, A. Bartley; Olnuy, J. W. Lane; Oluey Circuit, J. B. Eavenacroft; Robinson, W. E. Ravenscroft; Sumner. C, W. Sabine; Wakefield, N. Stauffei. Vatidalia District.--W. F. Davis, Presiding Elder; Altam> <nt, N. B. Cooktsie; A vena, D. Moore; Centralis, O. H. Clarke ; Effingham, W. Wallia ; Farina, D. Elam ; Hageratown, J. S. Rutherford ; Irvington, L. Casey : Jolinaou- ville. L. Atharper ; Minniundv. G. W. Grabe; Mason, Joneabon> aud Anna, E. Lathrop : Mar- ton, T. .T. Davis ; Mound City, E. Joy ; Mount Vernon, C. E. Ciine: Mount Vernon Circuit, 8. Brooks; Murphvsboro, G. W. Butler ; Pinck- nevville, C. B. Holding; Richview, W. H. Whitaker ; Sparta, M. P. Wilkin ; Spring Gar­ den, to be supplied ; Tamaroa, A. L. Downey; Thebes, to be supplied; Ulhn, 8, T. Maxey; Woodlawn, to be supplied; Steelville, R. W. Laughlin. „ Olney District--J. Leeper, Presiding EMer; Albion, W. Tilroe; Bellair, to be supplied; Bridgeport, E. May: Clay City and Noble, W. F. Brown; Fairfield, C. Nash; Flora, W. D. Ma- brev; Fairview, Hanson, Odin, and Sandoval, O. A Sniitii; Pleasant Grove; 8. J. Harriugtou; Patoka, A. Suell; Rainaey, J. E. Ripnetoe; Salem. J. W. Phillips; Salem Circuit, M. L. King; 8t. Elmo, J. W. H«U; Sbobonier, P. C. Baacom; Yandalia, T. H. Hardmau; Walnut Hill, C. N. Battonoff; Watson, O. B. " Edina, T. J. Massey. >,,50 t i .#