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1, FC , * T* A T , , », v* ii* ^4 $ <•^ "*' /'ihSMsMaSSijfe. li.T. | v „. r"F- ^ <N»» qjr t'«|w> *J*iW» » «* J" P •*,®- **? - V, V.- |^i(p|(tir]! fHaindcalci I. VAN SLYKE. Editor and Publisher. McHENRY, - . - ILLINOIS. W E E K L Y H E W S R E V I E W . •mat kast* Talc Board of Steamboat Inspectors $*•« <#€ Now London, Ch, have revoked the licenses ;. .;. «f the Captains of the steamers Narra^miseti »wt jnd stonmgtoti, whicii cwiie in collision on s-' £ong IftiandSound some weeks ago, the former going down Hon. Lafayette 8. Fonter, who ..Sowed an United Stilton Senator from Connerti- _ ^ ^ Out for twelve ye^ivn, 1855 to 1867, has just died i Franklin's expedition are lost beyond recovery 1 . %T :-L. If. V/toi/td 1MD * ill. /M 1 m 1 1 _ . - .. changes in officers were decided on. Gov. Brown, of the Dayton Homo, and Gov. Hincks, j of the Milwaukee branch, will be superseded by Gens. Patrick and Sharjio, both of New York. j AT last Sitting Bull has been captured. I A showman has done it, through Capt. Walsh, j of the Canadian Frontier Police, and will ex» • hibit him through the United States and Canadtt | in a drama of the " Buffalo Hill" order. | THE New YO^K Herald publishes a ; letter of a correspondent who accompanied the Schwatka expedition to King William's Land j The story refers more particularly to the inci- j dents of the great sledge journey. This is sup­ plemented, however, by the discovery of the relics and the examination of the native wit­ nesses. which lead to the sad conclusion that the fate of the officers and crews of the Erebus j and Tenor was terrible, even to the utmost lim­ it of the imagination, and that the records of www s u n " w a ' a l , I g u e s s n o t ! I l i n i n ' t had nothing but a piece of cake and an ice cream, an' that don't go far towards filling my programme, I can tell yon." 4 A Protest. at his home in Norwich. Mr. Foster was a di- fect descendant of Miles Standish. A BOSTON dwpatoh says that moie than half the horses in that city, and through the suburbs as well, are Buffering to a greater or less degree from a distemper resembling, in a mild form, the epizootic of 1872... .Judge Uinnott, of the Marine Court, at New York, is dead. He was sn intimate friend of Sanuiel J. Tilden. and represented him on several ocea That which we complain of is that both the facts of human nature and the prin­ ciples of education are frequently set at naught in schools. The object of edu­ cation should be to train living intelli­ gence into efficiency, to teach the chil­ dren to think, and to use books and facts and principles as means of continual education, not during school yeara only, but throughout life. In practice it is too frequently assumed that children are only so much raw material to be wrought HINTS TO BARBERS. riauftiiu n c\ R-uiut"ii tin* lUHi uevoua recovery. ' • * a Old men and woiien of the Esquimaux tell the j into shape, so many receptacles for lft- story of those who were doubtless the last snr- j vivorsof these unfortunate vessels with a min- j uteness of detail and evident truthfulness j which places their fate beyond donbt. Of what { had become of their great leader, and of the i large number of men who constituted their crews, nothing could be discovered. Only a j small party of officers, black about the mouths. ! with no flesh on their bones, is seen dragging a boat across the ice. And then they formation, and the work of the teacher is too often nothing more than an attempt to fill them with the customary informa­ tion. If this assumption were true, that which we have called the school- master method which would be good j to vanity, fc.r Mark Twain Which Will BrralailoBlar the Art •rnh«Tl«c. [From the Hartford Cour&ut.l It is safe to say that nine out of ten of the men one meets on the streets in our cities shave, or rather are shaved. Some shave the mustache, some shave the chin, some the cheeks. Indeed, one must go into mathamatics to the tables of permutations and combinations to find how main* varieties of shaving are possi­ ble. Woman is accused of being the party who devotes her time to appear­ ances and frivolities of the mirror, but, after all, man does his share of it. The reason he escapes the charge is that he blandly sets down his decorative work as being a matter of necessity. And it is true that shaving is a very old custom, nor have we anything to say against it, except that it is unnatural, and is, and should be acknowledged to be, a concession to the looking-glass and But the point is, that old as uutil their skeletons are found under their boat, and in a tent, a prey to wild beasts, and with dreadful evidences that thev had been driven sions during the electoral-count imbroglio of , disappear, and nothing more is seen of them 1876-*77. ' " THE 100th anniversary of the capture of Maj. Andre, the spy, was celebrated atTar- rytown. N. Y.. with fitting ceremonies. Not less than 30,000 people were present, Ex- Gov. Tilden presided, and made a brief speech, and Cliauncey M. Depew delivered the oration. rrai WEST. . enough for all p'hrposes; as it is not true, as children are human beings, varying in moral and intellectual capacities and in disposition as well, that method is intolerably bad and mischievous. There are two radical errors which of the expedition irre.-iwtibly lend to. WASHINGTON. A BODY of striking miners at Corning, j oeived a report that Deputy Collector Latham,' Ohio, were tired on by the militia and nine of j of Southwestern Virginia, with a posse of nine them wounded, several painfully... .Half the business part of Las Vegas. New Mexico, has been destroyed"by lire A man named Mioh- lei went to" the house of his divorced wife, in Milwaukee, shot her through the neck and then killed himself. The <voinan will proVably get well Dr. Talcott editor of a Greenback pa­ per r.t Maryville, Mo., and member of the Mis­ souri Legislature, was shot and killed by some unknown person. He was seated near a win­ dow reading, when the assassin fired at his shadow on the curtain. Is a race against time, at Chicago, the little 6-vear-old mare Maud S.. owned by to feed on the weaker of their companions U-| underlie and produce most of the diffi- It is cocniuoulv assumed that the | object of the attendance upon school is to acquire information; that the valuable ; fruits of education are the things learned THE Internal Revenue Bureau has re- ! in school. This is the li^st error, and the second is like unto it: it is assumed practical that what is a profitable amount men. had been attacked while in the discharge j of acquirement for one child is equally of his duty by lifty armed moonshiners, tired upon repeatedly, and compelled to retreat. THE Commissioner of Internal Reve- j nue has prepared a statement showing the nuni- ( ber of gallons of distilled spirits produced and • consumed in and exported from the United • States during the tiscal year ending June 30, 1 1880, as compared with the preceding fiscal < year. This statement shows the following re- ; suits : 18W. ; Produced '.MI.&Vi.'-TO 1 Consumed 61,115,V23 Exported i»;,Tr>s/>*>:i - profitable for another Acting upon these two assumptions; the efforts of too many schools are direct ed chiefly--sometimes almost exclusively is the art, it is a singular thing how few i know how to shave. " Nearly all men i shave in the passive voice." This may j be taken as the grammatical phrase or as | an acknowledgement of the voice of the ; barber which theyhave to endure. Each signification is true. And while nearly j all men consent to refer their shaving to i a few who make it a business, only j a fraction of that few understand their ' art. 1 There is a financial blunder at the l>ot- ; torn of it that makes trouble all through. ; The dogma that a shave is a shave is a j mistake. One man with a stiff beard i and a full face will choose to have his | whole expansive countenance clean shorn; j another will shave on his upper lip. To ! each it is "a shave." and each is charged father's waist, while the mother with al­ most superhuman efforts drew him up, but was not strong enough to get liim out, and in this situation held the wind­ lass until assistance could be had a half a mile away. In the mean time the daughter was still in the well, unable to climb out as she weiit down, and there she remained with her father suspended over her by the puny arm of a weakly mother until assistance came, when they were both rescued, Mr. Sanders seemed to recover, at least partially, as soon as he got out.--McNary County ( Tenn.) In­ dependent. ^ Laugh More. '•Why don't yon laugh, mother ?" said a little three-year-old daughter, as her mother, with rather clouded counte­ nance, was dressing the little ones. The earnest tone of the 'child provoked the wished-for laugh, and the little heart was happy. And, mothers, I fear we do not laugh enough. The housekeeping is so oner­ ous, the children so often trying to nerves and temper, the servants most ex Money by Telephone. "Say, miss," said a rather hard-look­ ing customer to tbe young lady in charge of the central telephone office, one day- last week, "say, miss, I'd like to talk with Mr. Joseph Snooks a moment." The lady called Snooks and turned the instrument over to the guest. "Hello, hello! Mr. Snooks!" Snooks answered, and in the ensuing colloquy thelady could of course only | hear the hard-looking customer. I ' 'Snooks, old boy, I can't come tip for that money to-day; I'm too busy." "Eh?" "No, can't get away." "I know, but I'm sorry; I've got to I meet Brace about your affair." > "But I'd jeopardize all our interests. ! I postively can't come. Can you send I the money down?" j "Down here." "I don't believe she'll do it, will she?" "No, I don't know her. She's a hand­ some girl with blue eyes and light hair. Know her?" "I'll ask her about it. Wait, keep your ear there [miss, Mr. Snooks wants to pay me four dollars, and says for you 1879. 71,8l>2.fi2l 1 .11,892.714 i 14,>«?,58l j 19,1112,470 ! William H. VanderWlt, trotted a mile in twojB^in ^ minutes, ten and three-quarters seconds. This \ M the fastest mile ever accomplished i POLITICAL.. . YjUSfiPmSi ZAfifl&yi?.} T" Maine Greenback State Con- Thomas C. Thurston, who shot at D. R. An- j vention to nominate Presidential Electors met tbony. of Leavenworth, Kan., several months ; at Portlanii Sept. 21, with 465 delegates in at- ago, and who at the time seriously wounded , tendance. S. D. Hobson presented resolutions Lucieu Baker and John T. Douglas friends of ; indm the a .tionofthe State Committee, Mr. Anthony, pleaded guilty, and has been ^.^uunending fusion with the Democrats. J. sentenced to eighteen years hard laoor m! B Cha!i0 amid groat excitement, protested, tfce Kansas State penitentiary.. ..One i Elliott King moved to accept the report and «ie of the Western railroads are reducing tbo regoiuliong. and to name a joint their passenger rates. 8ome months ; electoral tlckct; chase madc a motion ' le Vll1101* and the ; ^ amon(j by nominating seven straight Bock Island reduced their regular rate to three Green'oackers. This was received with ap- igerts per mile, and 1,000-nule tickets to $-.5. piause and hisses. The speaker made an The Burhngton now makes the announcement , £ , for a fair hearing. and argued against ttiat, commencing Oct 1, 1880, it will also re- ft^OI]L xhe Alvah Str*ut, F. M. Plaisted duce local nites on its lines to three cents per and others advccaU.d flwioil. aftcr vvhich the •ule. and sell.l.OOOnmle tickets fory^o. Itls i previOUti qae8tiou was carried, and a resolution £ the Northwestern has also de- j tQ fusc adopted, althongh there was consider- cidod to make a similar reduction. Tins action on the part of these roads will compel all other •Western lines competing with them to follow suit. A MAIDEN lady, named Nancy Hey wood, was murdered in the town of Rockland. Manitowoc county, Wis. Her throat was cut •from oar to ear. Two servant girls liave been arrested on suspicion Green Bay, Wis., has had a fiery visitation. Starting in an old plan­ ing mill, near the river, the flames, fanned by a high wind, swept into the best residence por­ tion of the city with great fury. About sixty dwelling houses, some of them the best in the city, were destroyed Mrs. Hazzard, of Monticello, IU., has given birth to five babies. Two are living. JESSE DEXT GRANT, third son of ex- President Grant, was married at San Francisco, Sept fel. to Miss Lizzie Chapman, daughter of able opposition. The following electors were then chosen: At Large--Solon Chase and Samuel Watts. District Electors--John J. Tur­ ner, Benj. Bunker, Charles R. Whidden. VVm. A. Cromwell, and John P. Donworth. After adjournment of the convention the delegates opposed to n fusion, to the number of seventy- three, headed by Solon Chase, got together and nominated a straight-out Greenback electoral | 9ne day> tliree weeks ago, they were fly- ticket, as follows : Solon Chase, J. J. Turner, t ing across the railway track, when the C. It Whidden, J. F. Hilton, Thomas G. Bur­ den, G. W. Wooster, E. B. Fry. A DISPATCH from Augusta, Me., says that all the returns of the State election are in, and the final result is : Davis. 73,640 : Plaisted, 73,814. Plaisted's plurality, 174. Although these figures are from the official returns, the official canvass of them is not made unui the Legislature meets in January, and only that body takes cognizance of errors in them. The plurality amendment to the constitution was W. S. Chapman, one of San Francisco's wealth- ; carried by a large majority. 4cst merchants The contract for the exten- ; GEN. GRANT declines to take part in dion of the Denver and Rio Grande railway to ! .... , XT ftiie Gunnison country has been let and the line any P°hhcl1 mefctlnSs- He s irill be completed in seven months. I following telegram to Chairman Jewel' : A STArtF was wwntlv robbed npar An- i " Whilc 1 shali do aU ih m-v P°w,'r to aid ̂ STAGE was recently roDDea near AH J Republican cause, I cannot now engage to at- t>urn, CoLt by highwaymen, who stood up the j tend any meetings. I will be in New York passengers and rifled their pockets, then tried about the 10th of October, and will ren^uii un­ to blow open the treasure box, but did not sue- j til the 20th, during which time I shall mat •Oeed. The same men robbed Congressman ' Boston." *ag e and companion, wha were going to Forest Bill in a buggy. CHARLES EDWARDS, of Peoria, 111., pleaded guilty of seven cases of horse-stealing jityl two cases of burglary, and has been sen- tenc< ftly "tta I •,?h" M'- L%=torMt-L.r8e. .grading, bridging and ironing of the first f2ighte»n miles of a projected air-Une * railroad from Chicago to Peoria. The company has also given orders for the immediate extension of the Missouri, Iowa , v<aud Nebraska railroad from Prairieville, Iowa, j ^ r4o the Missouri river... .The Indiana Supreine , s Court has overruled the petition for a rehear- , 'ing in the case involving the validity of the j <" -constitutional amendments. Consequently the - State election will be held in October. AN east-bound freight and a west­ bound passenger train on the Vandalia line col- male bird came in collision with the smoke stack of the Pacific express, which passes the spot about 7 o'clock in the morning. The bird was killed by the shock, and instantly thrown out of the sight of its mate. The female circled about the spot for a few minutes in evi­ dent amazement at the sudden disappear­ ance of her mate. She then flew to a mile-post near by, and for a long time gave utterance to the mournful notes characteristic of the dove. Suddenly she seemed to realize what had carried her mate from her sight, and she rose in the air and flew swiftly in the direction the train had gone. She did not return until about noon. She alighted at her cote where she remained the rest or the day, ntttering her plaintive cries. Next morning just before 7 o'clock she was seen to fly away and take a position on the mile-post near the spot where she governor, Oen. Horace B. Hargeant ; Lieuten- If4 Saw her ™te the da>! befol;e- Whe" ant Governor, George Dutton; Secretary of 1 , express train came along she flew at • • - Wilbur F. the locomotive, hovered about the smoke Attorney stack, and around the cab, as if looking „ .. T> , , T - for her mate. She accompanied the H B. Rowley and Eugene J Flaherty. Reso- , locomotive for a mile or so, and then re- lutions prohibiting the use of liquor and to- , , . . , ~ bacco, indorsing Solon Chase's bolt in Maine, ! turned to her cote. Every day since tnen and condemning Ben Butler for joining the ; she has repeated this strange conduct. j She goes to her look-out for the train at l preci^ly the same time each morning, I and waits until the train comes along, ; no matterjiow late it may be. She nev­ er goes further than about a mile with to the work of compelling children to 1 alike. One may require thirty minutes' attention, the other ten minutes. The first will dull a razor, and the second not affect its edge. To each it is 10 cents. Now, a barbor's working day, we will as­ sume, is ten hours long. If he is occu­ pied three-quarters of the time, he must be busier than he usually appears to be. This gives him seven hours' labor, and if he struck a day of half-hour faces, his whole receipts would be $1.40. If his luck "gave him ten-minute cases, he would take in $4.20. Even this would not pay were it not for the seductive side issues--the hair-cuts and shampoos of the trade--that bring in more per hour than the fundamental industry. Now, as the circumstances of shav­ ing go, it is a constant hurry to finish a man, as shaving scarcely pays at the best, and if he is one of the most absorb­ ing subjects--full shave and stiff beard --it is a loss to work upon him. To shave him carefully takes too much time and costs the edge of the razor. To skim over his face, cutting off sections of beard here and there, and leaving odd oases of hair along the deserts of the cheek, saves the razor and spoils the person who pays for the operation, and who should not be entirely forgotten. The scale of prices ought to be regulated by what one gets, and barbere ought to have the courage to charge for what they do. This done, a revolution in the art would follow. Speed would not be the great aim. Attention could be given to acquire information from text-books. As many things are taught as may be, and a vast mass of unnecessary details is fre­ quently set down for the child to learn, a cast-irou "course" is marked out, and the children are set the same task, with- •<ut regard to difference in their several capacities and in their several needs. Commonly the " course" embraces too many subjects and too many details of information with respect to each. The teaching becomes hurried and mechan­ ical and nearly profitless. The children are treated after the manner of meal- bags, which must be filled, the bag being regarded .as a thing of no importance, ex­ cept as a receptacle for the meal. The resulting process is what is commonly called cramming. Professor Huxley has aptly called it a lesson-bibbing, and he has pointed out some of the disastrous results which follow a process that ex­ hausts the intellectual and physical pow­ ers in childhood to no good purpose. A Bird's Orief. A year or so ago a little girl living near the line of the Erie Railway, two miles from Rathboneville, N. Y., was presented with a pair of doves. They weie in the habit of flying about in the vicinity. asperating, and even John, kind, good husband as he is, cannot understand all i , s a , ,, » T.vr V" our vexations and discouragements, and i r0 ,me have the money. Ill ask again . . • i i • -• -• - -l to make sure.] SnookB, did you mean for this fine young lady to pay me and charge it to you?" "Don't hear you." "Yes, yes, all right. [He says, miss, for you to take my receipts and let me have the ca-sli. You are to put it in his telephone bill. ] All right, Snooks, good- by, see you to-morrow," and he hung the mouthpiece on the hook. "Fine fellow, Snooks," he continued, looking pleasantly at the managress. "1 never heard of sending money by tele­ phone before, did you?" "No," responded the lady. "Perhaps you haven't the change handy?" / en,";said she. "You'll trust Snooks, I persume," he went on in a faltering manner. "Certainly," she.replied, "if he says to let you have it." "You don't think the telephone would lie, do you?" "Assuredly not I'll just ask Mr. Snooks." "No, noV^ He's a sensitive man; he wouldn't like to have so much fuss over a small amount. Make it two dollars and I will give him a receipt on ac­ count. " j "I'll pay anything Mr. Snooks says. | so wearied and worried, we often feel i that it is too much for the household to j depend on us, in addition to all our cares, I for social sunshine as well. Yet the household does, and it must. Father j may be bright and cheery, his laugh rin£ j out, but if mother's laugh fails, even the I father's cheerfulness seems to lose much ! of its infection. In the sad but forcible | lines of one of Joanna Baillie's dramas-- Iler little child had caught the trick of grief, And sighed amid its nlaytiiingd-- ' we may catch a glimpse of the stern re- i pressed life at JJotliwoll Manse, where ! "the repression of all emotions, even the | gentlest, seems toJiave been the constant 1 lesson." I remember well hearing a lady i say: "When a child, I used to wish so 1 often that my mother would look cheer- j fill." ' ' Then laugh, mother even if you do ; feel almost too weary to exert the facial i muscles, and you have to make a pitiful I effort, which comes nigh bringing tears ! instead of a laugh. You will feel better I for the effort, and so will the children. I The little ones, unconsciously to you and : to themselves, are catching the very j phases of countenance which will go far ! to brighten or cloud some future home. ] Then laugh, mother--parlor, nursery, j and kitchen all feel the effect of your | smile or frown. The cheery laugh of a j mother goes down through generations, j as well as her frown. And when the | mother eyes are closed, and lips and | hands are forever still, there is no sweeter • epitaph which children an/1 friends can j give than, " She was always bright and j cheerful at home."--Christian Intelli- I genccr. roads over the Peak, in Derbyshire, wetfe altered ; and he also designed and su­ perintended the construction of a new road in the same neighborhood, formod with a view to open a communication with the great London road without the neeetwity of passing over the mountains. A Mystery Explained. On Sunday evening, says the Roches­ ter Herald, the residents in the southern •uburbs were startled by a heavy roar as of distant thunder, accompanied by a trembling of the earth. This lasted but a few seconds, and the general opinion was that a slight earthquake had taken place. Telephonic dispatches received from Richmond Mills last evening ex­ plains the mystery in another way. It appears that a well known society young man was showing some young ladies at tbe mills how to swing m a hammock. The lesson proceeded successfully until the fastening broke, and the young man aforesaid struck the ground in the shape of the letter V. The roaring was caused by his remarks, and the trembling of the earth by the sudden contact of something less than three hundred pounds of hu­ manity. Some of Miss Corson's Teachings. Potatoes, at any time of the year, caa be made mealy if boiled in salt and water and drained and then covered with a> thick towel and left in back of the range; five minutes. To retain the color of any vegetable' plunge it into cold water after boiling. Cooks make the mistake of boiling things too much. After reaching the boiling point meats should simmer. Th® toughest meats can be made tender by so doing. _ It is al ways best to under-season rather than to over-season food. When anything is accidentally made too salt it can be counteracted bv adding a tablespoonful of vinegar and'a table- spoonful of sugar. . ' Meats of any kind should not be washed, but wiped with a towel to pre­ serve the juices and quality. THE Greenbackers of Massachusetts held their State Convention at Worcester Sept 22, and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, Gen. Horace B. Sargeant ; Lienten- A War Against Bees. The Paris correspondent of a Swiss paper says the expulsion of the Jesuits is about to be followed by the expulsion of a far more busy community. The prefect of police has declared war against the bees of Paris. A complaint lodged against these proverbial patterns of in- i.- • * . i. a. x there is one in 4 tbe capital of civiliza-times, it was as important to remove as I „ >» « i « n ^ u the lather, and the man who went out of ! ^ owns ?°,leS8.th,m, l'000 ^e" the barber's shop would leave satisfied, I ^ 7c.h.J»vf18 to contain instead of liopifig that the next time it i would be better. We recommend these ' ? °f considerationstothe trade without charge I -wll° rob and torment their human nei*?h- for the advice. Shaving is a custom of civilization; playing with soap bubbles is a game of childhood. £t is now a matter of luck which of these falls to tbe bar­ ber's patron to-day. Democratic party, were voted down. voRiisn. A LONDON dispatch says the steamer Aurora, from Oporto for Southampton, found­ ered at sea. Fifty persons were drowned. A LONDON dispatch says "the con­ tinental powers seem to lie squaring for the next war. It is evident that. Russia and the train, returning then to her cote, and mourning piteously all day. -- Xnr York Sun. (iided nine miles west of Terre Haute, Ind. ! Austria must tight for the dominion of the | JBoth trams were badly wrecked. Austin Ran- j Southern Slav and the possession of the Bal- ; kan peninsula. The prospect for an , Austro-Italian alliance has been spoiled by Eremature publicity. There is no natural armonv between " those states. France I is to blame for the proposal, as she ! ofTended Italy in the Tunis affair." Lord Fitzroy Kelly. Chief Baron of the E11- A Story of a Screw. A singular accident happened to a family named Hollscher, residing on Pearl street, near Market, a few days ago. The father died about a week ago, and was buried at Lone Mountain. On Saturday morning the mother visited *kin. engineer, and W. T. Saunders, fireman of V. the passenger train were iustantly killed. The engineer and fireman of the freight jumped ofT. The former had an arm broken, shoulder dislo- , • cated, and nustained internal injuries. Lvman Booth, brakeman, had his leg terribly mangled, and William Hunt, Ernest UmbersolC and Benj. . -- .- --- -- -- -- . » 0 -- Dilla. Hunt postal clerks, seriously injured ! gfish Court of Exchequer, and one of the ablest i the Cemetery to decorate the grave with A boiler in Loose A Sons' drving-liouse at M011- i of British jurists, is dead It is said that the flowers. During her- absence the chil- >03, Mich., exploded, the other dav, killing : Nihilist leaders in Russia have decided to adopt jj-gQ were at i ® , il. _ - ' 6 1 in future a totally different line of pro.-edure > ere al nome ullUer 1116 caie o1 a from that which thev have heretofore pursued. It I as been determined that the movement j henceforth shall be conducted in the way of i secret political agitation. A LONDON three persons and wounding many others. THB SOUTH* MEMPHIS has celebrated with much TWlat the absence of Yellow Jack. There was a big procession and the city was gayly decorated. There were two large arches, one of which was entirely of cotton bales. There were numerous trans parencies. one of the most couspicuouB of which was in front of a newspaper office, inscribed as follows: " S ilid South- -Solid for cotton, corn, trade* and manufactures." Among the notable Gov. Blackburn, of Gov. Churchill, of Arkansas. THE steamer Cincinnati, struck dispatch announces a j heavy and calamitous fall in the pig-iron , market.... Advices from Afghanistan rej>ort ! everything quiet in the Cabnl district Avoob \ Khan has gone back to Herat. The British | have resolved to abandon Khyber pass.... A , Constantinople correspondent says the Porte i is using its utmost endeavors to avoid I the naval demonstration, as it fears a ' general insurrection should it take place : Jules Ferry formed a new Cabinet in France, with himself as Premier and Minister of For- Florence Meyer, from j eign Affairs ; Dupre, Minister of Marine, and personages present were G • Kentucky; G»v. Marks, of Tennessee ; and snag in the Mississippi river. near Natchez, and sank. Five men wero drowned. •BIEBAL. ONE of the paying tellers of a Montreal Carnot Minister of Public Works. The other j Ministers remain unchanged Todleben, the I hero of Sebastojwl, and the commander who, | assisted by famine and plague, reduced Plevna : during the Russo-Turkisli war, has resigned the I Governorship recently tendered him by the Czar. The old warrior is si id to have grown bank left his stall with the door unlocked. The ' 'ncaPaole of administrative service. office was crowded with customers at the time. • A DISPATCH from Lahore, India, says : buf that fact did not trouble the impudent I "Bv a land-slip at Naini Tal. Bengal, eleven thief who, opening the door, pulled out a roll ®f bills containing $7,010, and quietly left tli<j ,^1-cinifces. J FT**. CKEARY, a Paymaster in the army, is to be dismissed the service for drunk- enness, the findings of a court-martial having beei^ approved at Washington. * THE members of the expedition ; therefrom. headed by Lieut Fred Schwatka, which sailed 1 THEODORE TIIVTON'S oldest daughter, tfrom NeW Tork, Junel, 1878, for Baffin's bay and ; Florence, has just been ntarried in London to a King WilHam s Land, for the purpose of seek- ' gentleman from Louisiana... .A cable dispatrh sng further data upon the fate of Sir John 5 that matters are Hearing a crisis at I);il< i-- I'raiiklin, have arrived at New Bedford, Mass. : The Montenegrin armv, acting on the nd- 'IIlough the special object of search--the re- ! "<-e of one ol' the powers, is moving on the city fernery of the records of the Franklin expedi- i al|d the inhabitants are preparing for resisi- jtion, which, according to Esquimaux testimony, ance. Riza Pasha, the representative ot the were known to exist at specified points--has not ' Turkish Government, lias urged the Albanians been attained, the explorers have, ueverthcleHs, i to submit to the will of Europe, offering to obtained many relics of Frankliu's party, includ- > Sive them 30,000 Turkish pounds and build dg the remains of Lieut Irving. They liave, i them a new town, but they have rejected his noreover. carried out to the letter the instruc- proposition. tions of the promoter of the expedition, -'to make it a geographical success. ' The longest . , . sledge-ride on record, both in regard to time | cn eter, a"d brother of the famous W. (Vand aud space, has been achieved in the face of j E. M. Grace, is dead. servant girl. A little boy 3 years of age, in playing about the room, got hold of a small brass screw which he pushed into his nostril. The girl in alarm tried to get it out, and in doing so pushed it further in. Then she ran and called pome of the neighbors in, and they, in frying to get hold of it, pushed it out of sight. They continued their efforts un­ til the screw-head was beyond reach. The mother was sent for, and after a night of alarm the child was taken to Dr. Laine, who, after trying to withdraw the screw with surgical instruments, put the little sufferer under the influence of anesthetics, and cut open the nose to prospect for the screw. He succeeded in disfiguring the child, probably for life, but failed in the object of his search, and the child was taken home to die, under the belief that the screw was working up into the brain. It lingered along for three days, suffering appar­ ently only from the cutting of its face and nose, and on Tuesday morning passed the screw without distress, and then it occurred to those interested that the screw, instead of going up into the brain, had merely followed the air pass­ age from the nose to the roof of the mouth, and had there been swallowed. Castor oil effected what the sealpel of the surgeon failed in, and the child is now recovering.--&an Francisco Chron­ icle. | THE Athcnfrum, of London, has this ! to say in reference to circus tickets in j the olden time: "Common in classical antiquity were the tickets of admission to circuses and amphitheaters. These j are little 'squeezes' of baked clay, the i material having been pressed into , moulds tx-aring efligies appropriated to G. F. GRACE, the celebrated English j certain stages, as tiers of seats in the British officers, fifteen soldiers and eleven other persons were killed and four injured."... .Tue Sultan informs the powers in a lugubrious strain that, as the naval demonstration is an exercise of armed pressure contrary to his right* and dignity, he casts upon them all re- spon-iibility for the agitation among the Mo­ hammedans and the events which mav result Two Hundred Thousand Square Feet of Ambuscaded Combustion. It is a "fact not generally known," or at all events not very Commonly borne in mind, that there is in London a ' 'fiery mine" of so very excitable a disposition that no artificial light of any description has ever yet been allowed to be brought even into its neighborhood. Its pro­ duct, however, is not coal, but rum. The rum-slied, as it is called, of the West In­ dia Dock, covers a space of two hundred thousand square feet, with vaults of cor­ responding size, all crammed with huge casks of spirit, from every pore of which --and the most carefully closed have pores in plenty--the fiery vapor is for­ ever streaming out into the air, only beg­ ging for the smallest chance of convert­ ing .the whole area of the docks, with their iwo hundred and fifty odd ships, and two or three hundred thousand tons or so of cargo, and their more or less in­ calculable stores of timber and tea, silk and sugar, cigars and cereals, coals and cotton, wine, wool, whisky, whale-fins, and what not, into the most magnificent t)owl of snap-dragon evdr imagined in in­ fant nightmare. Into these fiery regions n< »t even a bull's eye lantern is or ever tins been allowed to peuetrate. Even the wharf along the side where the great puncheons are landed is forbidden to the approach of vessels, every cask being transferred from ship to snore in the company's own lighters. Each cask in that vast range of dim dark vaults is marked and numbered, and on the right reading of these marks and numbers de­ pends the efficient execution of every one of the numerous' operations to which « very iiulividual cask has been subjected before its contents can go forth for tlio mixing of the world's grog. How any one but an experienced Japanese juggler ever manages to }»erfbrm his feat in the very brightest weather by the simple aid of a little plate of polished tin artfully turned and twisted to catch the solitary ray of highly diluted daylight which I bore to an appalling degree. These j winged brigands sally forth to prey upon i the sugar-boiling works with which the j neighborhood is studded, and which I have proved to be a most profitable sub­ stitute for honey-giving flowers. The owlier of one of these sugar factories, who stands first in the list of complainers, calculates that the bees steal from him at the very least 25,000 francs' worth of I sugar one year with another. He has j tried some experiments with the marau- I ders which tend to show their powers of ! depredation. He relates, among other i tilings, that a large glass filled with I syrup and pitted in the open air was i completely cleaned out within the short i space of two hours. The workmen at ! these establishments look with even more I'll call him. "Rather than bother him again, I'll make it a dollar. Give me a dollar--" "But I perfer to call him." "Miss," said the man, "don't go neaf the wire now. There's a cloud comming up. You're going to be struck by light­ ning. Rather than that, I'd take fifty cents, a quarter." "Oh! I'm not afraid," and she ap­ proached the instrument. "Keep away from that wire!" he howled, "don't call Snooks. He might l>e struck. If you don't care for yourself, have some mercy on his family. You needn't pay the amount at all. I wouldn't risk Snooks for all the money in Brook­ lyn." "I shall either call Snooks or a police­ man," said the girl firmly. "Make it a policeman and I'll go for him myself," shouted the tramp, as he jumped over the rail. And then she called Snooks, who had been swearing at his end of the wire iu the hope of making some one hear him, and told him it was all right, she hadn't quite paid the money. Carljrle's Letter to a Young Man. The truthful, genial temper manifested in your letter cannot but increase the in­ terest I felt in you. It will be good news in all time coming to learn that such a life as yours unfolds itself accord­ ing to promise, and becomes in some tolerable degree what it is capable of be­ ing. The problem is your own, to make or to mar; a great problem for you, as the like is for every man born into this world. You have my entire sympathy in your denunciation of the "explosive " charac­ ter. It is frequent in these times and de- unfriendly eyes upon the winged free- j plorable wherever met with. Explosions booters, as they suffer in person from their greediness. When the workman are ever wasteful, woeful; central fire should not explode itself, but lie silent, ment from Paris. leaves the factory he is often covered i far down at the center, and make all good with a sticky layer of sugar, and the j fruits grow. We cannot too often repeat watchful bees immediately pounce upon to ourselves: " Strength is seen not in him and turn him into a field of pasture. ! spasms, but iu stout bearing of burdens." In short, so many misdeeds are charged i You can take comfort in the mean- upon these busy and useful insects that ; while, if you need it, by the experience it is not improbable the head of the | of tdl wise men, that a right heavy bur- police will issue an order for their banish- den is precisely the thing wanted for a l young strong man. Grievous to be ' borne; but bear it well; you will find it I one day to have been verily blessed. "I j would not have any money," says the | brave Jean Paul in his quaint way, "have : had money in my youth." He speaks ! a truth there, singular as it may seem to many. i These young obscure years ought to be incessantly employed in gaining : knowledge of things worth knowing, es- . peeiidlv of heroic human souls worth ! knowing; and you may believe me, the 1 obscurer such years are, it is apt to be ! the better. Books are needed, but yet i not many books: a few well-read. An I open, true, patient and valiant soul is | needed; that is the one thing needful. Sales of Public Lands. Commissioner Williamson, of the General Land Office, has had prepared a statement showing the number of acres of public lands disposed of for cash and under the Homestead and Timber-Cult­ ure acts during the last ten fiscal years --1871 to 1880 inclusive. From this statement it appears that there was a falling off in the number of acres dis­ posed of in all three classes of land from 1871 to 1875-76, and that since the latter year there has been a gradual increase m the number of acres disposed of. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1871, there were disposed of for cash 1,389,- 982 acres, and under the Homestead acts 4,600,326 acres. The sales grad­ ually fell off each succeeding year until 1875, when but 2,356,057 acres were dis­ posed of under the Homestead acts, and in 1876 only 640,691 acres were sold for cash. Getting a Character. Be wondrous wary of your first com­ portments ; get a good name, and be very tender of it afterward; for 'tis like the Venice ghiss, quickly cracked, never to lie nt rnled, though patched it may be. To this purpose, take along with you this fable, it happened that Fire, Water and Fame went to travel together (as you are doing now); they consulted that if they lost one another, how they might be retrieved, and meet again. Fire said, " Where yon see smoke, there you will find me." Water said, " Where you see marsh and moorish low ground there you shall find me." But Fame said, "Take heed how you lose me, few if you do you will run a great hazard never to meet me again ; there's no re­ trieving of me." An Eccentric Man's Gift; The State University at Athens, Ga., has received a singular endowment. An eccentric gentleman, a non-resident, and not an alumnus, bestowed by deed the sum of $7,000 on the university, coupling the gift with the condition that the money should be invested for and during the lives of twenty-one persons, all chil­ dren, whose names are given iu the deed, the interest to be compounded annually till the last one dies, and twenty-one years and nine months thereafter. It Is calculated that the gift will not be avail­ able for ninety-six years, at which time the fund will amount to some $1,700,000. --Chart rut on {S. C.) JSTcws. ... Since that period there has been a here and there filters down from the i increase in sales and allotments, floor above, is a mystery bv no means ' resulting in 1HW0 in the sale ot l,45o,72i amongst the least wonderful of the many I ( 1'1a11 of which the visitor to this commercial ' paradise catches here and there a tantal­ izing glimpse. Buttermilk as Summer Food, Drink, and Medicine. A Detroit physician asserts that for a hot-weather drink nothing equals but­ termilk. It is, he says, "both drink and food, and for the laborer is the best known. It supports the system, and even in fever will cool the stomach ad­ mirably.. It is also a most valuable domestic remedy. It will cure dysentery i as well and more quickly than any other remedy known. Dysentery is reidly a constipation, and is the opposite of h o u s e " n s i " - r « circulation'--the circuliitiou of Uxxl | Cmajol.a™. A Arm of carriage maim- thmngl, tho W.J, liver. It is H"vwl ",'ml » m"n 507 acres under the Homestead acts. The Timber-Culture law was not enact­ ed until 1873, and under it, in 1875, 464,870 acres were disposed of. Since 1875 the same noticeable increase ob­ served in the sales for cash and allot­ ments under the Homestead laws had occurred in the disposal of lands under the Timber-Culture act, so that in 1880 the allotments under this law aggregated 2,129,705 acres. "Drumming" Around the world. Some of the large manufacturers of tools, machinery, hardware, and other kind of goods in Connecticut, send men to South America, Europe and elsewhere in the same mutter-of-fact manner that Lovely Woman Stoops Again. The mischievous daughter of a Pliil- : adelphia broker at Saratoga went into a j hotel 1 iarber shop to have her nair banged. I After her locks hail been clipped a male ! friend took her place in the chair. "Let me shave you," she said. "You don't dare to," he replied. ' 'Its you that don't dare." "I'll bet you--" ' 'Bet what?" j "A kiss." ' "All right. If you'll let me shave you i I'll finish with a kiss." | The young man laid himself back in i the chair and said, "Go ahead." Tliagirl did not hesitate. She worked i nnder the barbor's directions, and before j a crowd of hilarious spectators. The youiiff man evidently liked it when she j rubbed in the lather with her soft little I hand, but when she came to wielding the ' razor he was subjected to a dreadful ordeal" The danger of a cut throat was enough to appal the stoutest heart, and added to that was the pain of the pulling and tearing by an unskilfully handled blade. Still he escaped with a few scratches, and got the kiss, coyly but squarely delivered.--Saratogian. About Mourning. Speaking about the custom of wear­ ing mourning--concerning which there are many conflicting opinions--a writer says: "Why mourning should be worn at all, except at a funeral, I do not under­ stand. A near and dear relative dies. One may deeply regret the loss, but. aa it is irreparable, it is the part of wisdom, which seeks to make the best of every­ thing, to endeavor to forget it as soon as possible. Why, then, wear for a lengthy time a garb that brings back its recollec­ tions? A peraon who is ruined might with equal sense walk about for several months with an empty cash box affixed to his back. THERE are eight, living graduates of West Pofht who have fulfilled their three score years and ten upon the rolls. Capt. Andrew Tallcott, ot' , Baltimore, who graduated in 1818; Gen. Tyler, of Mont­ gomery, Ala.; Capt. Edward D. Mans­ field, of Morrow, O., and Major Joshua Baker, of New Iberia, La., in 1819. Lieutenants Barberia, of Georgetown, D. C., and Tufts, of Railway, N. J.; Col. E. G. W. Butler, of St. Louis, and Gen. George D. Ramsey, of Washington, all in 1820. PoKER-riiAYiNG is one of the recrea­ tions of Americans on the ocean steam-' ers, and tho Captains not infrequently take a hand. Sometimes the play is for very high stakes. The gratuitous dis­ tribution of claret on ilie steamers of one of the lines costs $5,000 a year. phenomenally cold weather, and the deprivation customary food. Import>int rivers and coasts *jave been discovered, and nerioun errors on foniu-r charts have l>eeii corrected. The ad- venturch of tho Behwatka expedition add pages Of interest to the rotjianee of a relit; exploration, • and furnish aU that the world is ever likely to know of the fate of Sir John Franklin 8mall-pox rages with unabated virulence among the Indiana of Ontario, Canada. One tribe is rii'liiti'.iif* f n®«rly extinct, and others have suffered appa THERE has been some severe fighting between the llussians and Chinese in Turkistan. Her Programme. " Is your programme full, Miss Bee- tlecruslier?" asked a young man of a « A--- . ^ ^ , Western damsel, who had just struggled ouL°f toon. »ith dilap, theater, or such as were proper to tho city to which each belonged. For ex­ ample, an elephant stood for one place or tier, an eagle for another. On the back of many of these tickets are to be seen the imprints of the thumbs of tho makers, veritable signs-manual of clas­ sical antiquity--marks of thumbs Uiat perished 2,000 years ago. LOTS of people are willing to rot Peter to pay Paul, only they get tired when their job is lxalf done. They neg­ lect to pay Paid. disease always prevalent in tho summer i and autumn. From considerable obser- i vation I feel warranted in saying that buttermilk, druuk moderately, will cure every case of it--certainly when taken in the early stages." Undaunted Heroism. D. Sanders, living a few miles south of town, went down in a well about fif­ teen feet deep, which had a few inches of water in it, and by some means be­ came instantly paralyzed. The only per­ sons present were his wife and daughter, the former an invalid and the latter a 15-year-old girl. Discovering the situ­ ation, the daughter slid down on a pole, and the mother let down the rope by a windlass, and the girl tied it around her A Wonderful Illind Mau. A very remarkable blind man, named around the world. They sell many car­ riages in New Zealand, Austria, and •South Africa. On his last trip their ju}in Metoalf, a native of Manchester, Knd^gethe^outh shore of the lmng at the beginning of this cent- « x tt u ; ury and, strange to sav, his occupation Mediterranean. He sold some carriages i 3 ' „ ' c __ K , . xuaiiimji i -c was no other than that of a guide, his westward, "where the British and ^ the westward, Continental manufacturers yet retain command of the market. On his next trip he will again tackle the caniage buy­ ers of that region. He overcame British opposition iu South Africa, and expects to accomplish the same result in North Africa. THE London medical journals report the case of the daughter of the Mayor of Grameke, near Bremen, who has slept al­ most uninterruptedly for six months. strangers through intricate routes dur­ ing the night or when the roads were covered with snow. Stranger still, however, was the calling which he sub­ sequently followed, and this we are told was that of a " projector and surveyor of highways in difficult and mountain­ ous parts. ' With the aid solely of a staff which he carried, he was often to be seen traversing roads, mounting hills, and exploring valleys. It was under the direction of Metcalf that many of the THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BEEVES $7 CO (3110 25 HOGS 5 50 7 60 COTTON LL34I" LA FLOUH--Superflrc 3 25 (>t. i 1(» WHEAT -SO. '2 SJ ring 1 UFT CORN--Ungraded 50 (", 52 OATS--Mixed Western 40 <$ 43 RYE--Western 95 (N! SHI POUK--Mess 15 50 (a: 15 75 LAUD CHICAGO. 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