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'at fgcgtrmg glninilcafo I. VAN fLYKE. Editor «4 PvklMrar. McHENRY, IB' --iS ILLINOIS. f EEILT NEffS REVIEW. •1 THE EAST. ITHK attention of the treasury officials trtNew York has been called to tbe large amount of punched and mutilated coin in cir­ culation, and an investigation has been re­ solved upon. One broker receiveeach week from country cnntomeiu from $150 to$3on worth of clipped silver, which he sells at 2 per MDt. difoonut. The mischief can be stopped ijr* law prohibiting tbe traffic except oa the Mjsis of weight. MAINS papers state that Justioe Clif- fccd's physical health lias improTed very much, bat that he has not reoovered his mental vigor Be occasionally goes to his office and engages in conversation, but his memory is defective,- and he soon forgot* with whom he is talking. . . The groat Brooklyn bridge is a contly affair. Itai* far nesrlv f 13,000,000 have been expend­ ed on it. and it will take another year and some more millions of dollars to complete it. AT Brooklyn, N. Y., a fire at Pierre- pont A Oo.'s stares consumed NOB. 4 and 6. One workman was burned to death, and anoth­ er fatally injnred by jumping from the burning building. The oonteiitw of the warehouses, eoiwistang of oils, molasses wool, plumbago, etc., wtre verv valuable. Loss, #400.000 Si],tg M. Waite. ex-Presid. nt of the Fuvt Na­ tional Bank of l?r>utleboro\ Vt., pleaded guilty to making false returns to the Government Tinder the National Banking act, and was sentenced to six years' imprisonment in the House of Cor­ rection Eighteen furnaces in the Lehigh and Bclinyikill valleys, Ta., have stopped operations on account of the low price of pig iron. More will follow unless prices improve within the next t-tn days -- E. P. Cutter A Co., of Boston. TViass., an old and leadi g iron, .firm, have been forced to suspend, owing to depression in the i> on trade, liabilities about #600,000. It is said they will be able to pay 75 per cent At Newark, N. J., a mfichin st named Martin shot and killed his wife and mortally wounded his child, a 3- year-old girl. MARTIN CORCORAN, a striking.printer of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, armod himself with a billy and laid in wait for a "rat" printer named McCahill, who was employed with others in place of the striker*-. He stmok MeCahil!, as the latter passed about S o'clock in the morning, whereupon Mc­ Cahill drew his revolver and fired two shots, Ode of which put an end to Corcoran's life. »ALEXANDBB C» LAWRENCE, a New York liquor-dealer, while walking on Broad­ way, allowed a package of #100,000 in railroad bonds to fall through a hole in his pocket While Triekett. the Australian oarsman, was pract eing in rough water in Saratoga lake, his boat broke in three pieces, and he was rescued in an exhausted state Greenfield, the Syra­ cuse wife-murderer, upon whose prosecution i0 has t>een spent, and who has endured imprisonment for five jears, has for the eigh'h time been sentenced to death, the date fixed being Aug. 6. THE WEST. THE village's of King City, Rosendale Sad Berlin, situated in Northwestern Missouri, wrre visited on S unday night, the 12th inst., bv a catastrophe of appalling dimensions. &rly in the evrfiing a cyclone swept down on tbe devoted villagers and their rural neigh- bora with resictlesa fury, and niaiked its pathway with devolution and death. 8carcely riad the p<ople begun to comprehend the oiianuty that had be'allen them when a second cyclone appeared to eoinplr-te wliatever destruction the firrt had left uudone. The resultant loss of property is placed at from $200,000 to #500,000, wh.le the death list is large but not definite. A most destructive hurricane also swept through Central Iowa on the afternoon of the 13th, killing and maiming a number of persons, causing immeiise damage to the crops, killing cattle and poultry, and demolishing manv residences and outbuildiugs. lie number of human iives lost has not yet been dt-fini'ely at-certained, but it will not be much if any less than twenty. The storm at acme points was of tremendous force, and there was no withstanding it. The hail tones which fell were of immense size, in some cases M large as goose-egns, and caused "great havoc among birds, rabbits and game car all kinds 4fcrou#hout the storm area The vicinity of Wf Ji«, in Minnesota, suffered from * creioai* wtortation 011 the i2tb inst. Houses, barns and §uires were prostrated, and two er three peo­ ple killed. As TUB Chicago express train on the Wabash railroad, going north, passed through Baymond, Montgomery oounty, HL, on the night of the 13th in«t., it ran into awa^ou oon- taitiing sev'-n persons, Kiliin ' four of them out­ right, and more or lews iiij.iruig the otliers. The wife of a resj»eoted farmer named Albert Creswell. her child and two orphan nephews were the victims. CHIEF JUSTICE SENBR, of the Supreme Court of Wyoming Territory, decided reoently that the marriage of Lee Chin with a white woman, which took place at Denver, Col., was valid. Cheyenne is all "tore up" ever the decision. PETEB LEMEN, of Detroit, in the be­ lief that his stomach contained a living lizard, fretted himself to death, his weight having decreased from 300 pounds to sixty. An autopsy disclosed a fibrous tumor of the duo­ denum, and his career was closed by actual •tarnation. THE particulars of the recent great tornadoes in Northeastern Kansas, Northwest­ ern Missouri, and Central Iowa show that wher­ ever the cvelone* struck ihe earth the destruc­ tion of buildings, oi c ards, forest* and growing erops was complete. Many persona were injured, i but only a few killed, ae far as can be ascer- ' tamed. Scores of people lost their home* and all their pro|«riy. The terrific f.irce and de­ structive effects of these tornadoes were aimi'.ur to those which desolated tbe West- em nnd Sou hern localities of former years. ... .Eight coal-heavers were drowned at Cincinnati by the overturning of a skiff in the middle of the Ohio nver. WK, H. SALIHBTTRT was hanged at Col­ orado Springs for the murder of Constable Perkins Gould has filed at Canon, Nev., articles of incorporation for a road from 8alt Lake io ^an Fraucweo, to comoete with the Central P xific Tbe woolen factory of W. W. Hutchinson, and the chair f»c ory of J. F. iitkiiL'Ou, at Appleton, Wis., were s*ept away by flames. Oue man was burned to death - another fainted and fell from a second-storv window, losing his life. The loss is estimated at *1(0,000. THE SOUTH. Two STAGES running between Alma and Fayetteville, Ark., were stopped by armed •ten, who robbed the passengers and the mail- bags Isaiah Larkin, a Tenn^s«ee moon­ shiner. resisted arrest at the hands of his cous­ in, Deputy Marshal George Larkin, and was ahot dead. FIBB swept away the Swepson mill?, oontaining 4,000 spindles, in Alamance county, N. C., causing a loss of #200,900... .The recent drowning of her five children by an insane woman in Calhoun oounty, Ark.Mhas caused §w<» nuic des in that locality. A ^worthy old farmer, unable to throw off the cloud from his mind, r<*ad a chapter in the Bible and hanged himrelf in his smoke-house. POLITICAL. THESE were only 104 members of the Ijegi lature in the Joint convention at Albany on the lltb inst., aad the ballot for Senators •bowed no changes of candidates worthy of note. Assemblyman Trimblo. a New York kw- yer, ten lifted _ before the I5nb< rv Committee th;*t he ti-nd been offered money bv a lobbyist panted Edwards to change his vote Irom Piatt • to Depew. THE balloting at Albany on the 13th Inst, wan of hb<>nt the same monotonous nature as of the preceding dayp, and gave no indica­ tion of an early i»reak of tbe dead lock. The Washington: " The Secretary of the National Greenback Committee say* that the Greenback members of the next Congress will stand solid­ ly togi ther on all questioas. He says nine members of the next House are pledged to meet in Greenback caucus and determine upon ind carry out Greenback politics. These nine monitors counted upon are Ladd aud Mnach, of Msine; Bramin and Mosgrove, of Pennsyl­ vania ; Rife, Haeeltine, Burroughs and Fort, of Missouri, aud Jones, of Texas.".... [n the Senatorial ballot at Albany, Coukling received 31 votes to 23 for Wheeler, and 50 for Jac >bs. For the long term, Depew had 55 votes and Piatt 26. In the bribery investiga­ tion, Senator Sessions admitted that in 1862 he was present in Albany as a lobbyist, and received mo- ey for urging the passage of several bills, getting $5,500 on a scheme to secure a site for the postoftice in New York, and acting as a lob­ byist for six or seven years. Assemblyman Brad­ ley went through a lon^t cross-examination Ex-Senator Thurman, in a letter to his son, says that he cannot be a candidate for Gov­ ernor of Ohio under any circumstances ; that when he left the Senate he mad© up his mind to retire to private life; and that he has ar­ rived st the age when a man should stop hold­ ing office. PRESIDENT QABFIXHD, says a Wash­ ington telegram, is strongly inclined to help Mahone in the Virginia campaign, but has in­ formed Congressman Tucker that the Cabinet will decide the matter The Pennsylvania Groenbackers held a State Convention at Pottsviile, and nominated R. W. Jackson, of Mercer county, for State Treasurer The Greenback-Latfor party of Ohio met in convention at Columbiw and nominated tbe following ticket: For Governor, John Sietz, of Seneca : Lieutenant Governor. Charles Jen- bin-, of Mahoning ; Supremo Judge, Joseph Watson, of Knox: A:torney General, E. M. Tuttle, of Lake; Treasurer, W. F. Llovd, of Montgomery; member of Board of Public WorKs, H. L. Morrison, of Ashtabula. THE ballot for Senator at Albany on the 15th inst. showed no change in tho situation. The Bribery Investigating Committee finished with Senator Sessions and heard two or three new witness. Sessions maintained his version of the interviews with Bradley to the end. Assemblvman Young related liis experience with the lobbyist Etiwsra.s and the latter s at­ tempt to bribe him. The most significant fact of tho day was given by the President of the National Commercial Bank of Albanv, who testified that o.i June 4 his bank cashed for Edwards a draft on New York, sigucd by A. D. Barber, for *2,000. THE sixteenth ballot for Senators from New York gave Depew, for the long term, 54 votes, Kernan, 52, and Piatt 27 ; yhile for the short term Jacobs polled 51 votes, Whbeler 38, aad Coukling 32. The Central Committee of tbe ant'-Conkling Republicans met and adopted resolutions declaring that, inasmuch as Depew had received the votes of a majority of the Republican members of the Legislature, it was the duty of all the Republican members who desire that the State shall be properly repre­ sented iu the United Stakes Senate to ooncen- trute their votes on him, and thus throw the responsibility of defeating an election en the friends of the Senators who created a vacancy. In the bribery investigation, Orsino S. Jones was examined, and corroborated Bradley's evi­ dence. THE Iowa Democratic State Conven tion met at Dos Moines June 16, 350 delegates being in attendance. Judge L. D. Kinne was nominated for Governor, Capt. J. M. Walker for Lieutenant Governor, Hon. H. B. Htnder- shottfor Judge of the Supreme Court, and Prof. W. H. Butler for Superintendent of Pub­ lic Instruction. THE ballot in the New Tork Legisla­ ture, June 17, for Senator for the short term gave Conkling 27 votes, Wheeler 36, and Jacobs 47. Piatt had 23 supporters for the long term, Depew 53, and Kernan 48. In the bribery investigation, Senator Strahan testified that John I. Davenport offered him the New York Marr-halship if he would vote against Coukling, which trade was declined with thanks A Virginia Republican delegation, headed by Gen. Wicknam, was told by President Garfield that he was emphatically opposed to a violation of public faith and credit; that no one wus au­ thorized to proiniee appointments or threaten removals, and he wou:d not give the patronage of any State to one man. WASHINGTON* POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES, in reply to expressions of fear that he may carry econo­ my too far and thus cripple the postal service, •avs that there need be no fear whatever on this he»a. . TBJ Government expects^ to be able to prov\ that Ahe Btar-ronte people j/lundfw tho tiw extent of $1,000,000. A great many spccial agents are investigating the Territorial routes, and the reports which have recently been received show extensive frauds Commander Montgomery Sicard has been appointed Chief of the Bureau of Ord­ nance of the Navy Department, vice Commo­ dore Jeffers, who has resigned The Collec­ tors of Internal Revenue have been informed that, owing to the appropriation of the current fisc 1 year l>eing nearly exhausted, gaugers and htorekeepers will only be pail to June 20 at present. BOB INQERSOIJI/S mining strike is the sensation at Washington. It seems that last winter twenty-one undeveloped silver mines in New Mexico were purchased by CoL Ingersoll, Gen. Halbert E. Paine, Navv Paym»ster Ste­ venson, Col. Grafton and C. P. Farrell, a broth­ er-in-law of Ingersoll. Gillette, who devel­ oped the wonderful Comstock lode, was Bent out to work the property, and he reports an assay of $20,000 per ton. Four of the mines have shown wonderful richness J. A. Bcut- lv resigned the Commissionership of Pensions, at the request of the President, and W. W. Dudley, ot Indian*, was appointed to the va­ cancy. Judge McFarlana, of Kansas, was given the Laad-Ollioe Commissionership. SECRETARY WIN DO M has abolished the office of Custodian of the Treasury, the posi­ tion disgraced by O. L. Pitney, and the duties a very low condition, caused by oold weather and urought. reports THE temperature at Tucson, Arizona, registered 10$ in the shade the other day.. It was 101 at Vicksburg, Miss., 99 at Eagle Pass snd Shreveiwrt, 98 at Memphis, and 97 at St. Louis Advices direct from Panama are to the effect that the canal stations have been aban­ doned, workmen have been discharged, apd many engineers have returned to Paris Tue Canadian Dominion was deprived of about 120,000 people by emigration to this country during the la» t year, ana the Dominion author­ ities are desirous of supplying their places with immigrants from Great Brita.n and Ireland. THE work of revising the Bible has only commenced. A version oontaining all the render­ ings suggested by the American committee will soon be put on the market, in response to the demands of clergymen throughout the United States--no Episcopalian, however, being among the petitioners A party of twenty-three In­ dian children from the institute at Hmupton, Va., have been taken to Berkshire county, Mass., to Bpeud the summer working among the farmers, to gain practical knowledge. FOREIGN. FRANCE is on the verge of another test ef the earnestness and adhesiveness of the new republican spirit of that land. What is known as the scruiin de liaie has bronght on the pres­ ent menace Of a Governmental cris s. The in­ fluence of Gambetta was strong enough to carry this (project through the As- semblv, but the Senate, by the close vote of 148 to 144, has rejected it. The pres­ ent practice in France, as in this country, is to elect members of the popular branch of Par­ liament bv districts, or arrmidisseinerite as they are called there. Gambetta originated, and after a desperate struggle earned through ttie Chamber of Deputies," the Bcheme for electing the Deputies bv department-*,, which is called the scrutin de liste. The difference between the two methods of election may be fairly lllustr.-.ted by the American svStem. Tbe pres­ ent method of election in Franco--the scrutin <farrondimment -- corresponds to the pre­ vailing method in the United Stat en wnere the various districts elect Con­ gressmen by separate votes. The method proposed by Gambetta--tho tcrtUin de fate-- is tho same as if all the Con­ gressmen in ene of our States were to be elect­ ed on a general ticket by the majority vote of the State Once more an American horse has captured one of tbe leading turf trophies in Europe, Mr. Jamos R. Keene's Fexhall having won the Grand Prize of Paris, otherwise known as the French Derby. The stakes amounted to $35,000. Thus in the two greatest foreign con­ tests--the English Derby aud the French Grand Prize--in both of which were entered the cream of the European thoroughbreds, Amorioan horses have carried off the honors and the money. THE Scrutin de Liste bill, for the en­ largement of popular representation in the French National Assembly, which passed the lower bouse of that body reoently, has been re­ jected by the upper house. It is a defeat for Gambetta, aud the effect will be an exciting campaign on vital political issues between the Progressive party, led by Gaml>etta, and the Con­ servative Ilepubiicans, under President Grevv.... Her physicians having decided that Mrs. Ed­ win Booth's condition requires her immediate removal home, her husbaud has been obliged to cancel all his English engagements An Italian exploring party is reported to hava been murdered near Bailul, Egypt, and tho Italian Government has telegraphed to Cairo demand­ ing strict inquiry and the punishment of tbe murderers. A iiARGE number of peasants are emi­ grating from the Russian province of Tomsk to Siberia because of poverty. So great is tbe exodus that the ferry-boat on the Volga is taxed to the utmost in order to transport them across. Vo'untary exile to Siberia is something new Lonllard's horse Iroquois, which won the Derbv, carried off the I'rinca of Wales stakes ai Ascot The victory of Iroquois seemed to please the Britons present The refusal of the Republican members of the French Chamber ef Deputies to hnpjiort the proposal for advancing the time for the disso­ lution of the chambers is regarded as a greater rebuff to Gambteta than the rejection of the Scrutin de Liste bill. The proposal was sup­ ported by only seventy members and was op­ posed by 250 members. THE French Government intend to in­ troduce a bill which will provide for an addi­ tional deputy to each of nine provincial arron- dwseraeuts, and seven additional deputies to Parisian arrondissements which have a popula­ tion exceeding 100,000... .The Italian Chamber of Deputies rejected universal sutrrage y vote of 314 to 33. Female suffraiftt was only "ugnoriflfk by i» projx*®1, fitMt. Slghof Crispis amendment to grant to all who can read and write was rejected fcv a vote of 220 to 100 The Irish Land bill is making rapid progress in committee. Conservatives and Liberals are sinking mutual differences to push the meas­ ure , believing it will soothe tho disaffected Irish nation A Russian Socialist who escaped from Siberia has reached Switzerland. Only one other case of a political prisoner escaping from Siberia has ever been recorded £>y a vote of 196 to 154, the House of Commons passed Sir Wilfrid Lawson's resolution to give legislative effect to local liquor option. SWITZERLAND has given to other Eu­ ropean nations an example of intelligent and consistent action in respect to American nieat.- Afier the French decree of prohibition th« Swi^s Government directed an inquiry to be made into the renl facts in respect to trichiniasis and diseased meats from America. After ma­ ture consideration the Sanitary Commineioner reports, and the Federal Government officially declares, that no prohibition or compulsory inspection of American meat is justified or will be required in Switzerland The New Zealand steamer Tararua was re­ cently lost on the coast, while bcuud fer Mel­ bourne, and 130 people drowned The dyna­ mite tiends have broken loose in France. Au attempt was made to blow up the statue of Thiers at St. Germain with a box of gunpow­ der. The statue was only slightly injured.... Seven leading members of tho English royal family wout to Ascot on the 16th iust, to see SCHOOL STATISTICS. Tfce WeMbrr of 8chm»l« and Teaelwee Ik Kach State and Territory. TW following statistics are taken from tbe last report of the Commissioner of Education. There are several points to be noted in the tables. In Oregon, Mis­ souri, Texas and Wisconsin the number of teachers is given without distinction as to sex; in all the others the sex is in­ dicated except Indian Territory, men­ tioned in the second table. In the case of New York it should be understood that the figures given are for the num­ ber cf public school houses, log, frame, brick and stone. In the report of the State of Mississippi no statement is made in regard to the number of schools, hence that column in the table is blank--the only blank in the list of States--while Idaho is omitted for the reason that no recent dates are given. The total num­ ber of teachers m the States is 269,132, and in the Territories 2,012. The table ot States and Territories is as follows: Teacher*. , .Vo. Mate. Female. BchooU. Alabtths ... >,278 1.522 4,796 Arkaaaas ... 710 165 875 1,103 2,101 2,578 Colorado ... 2?6 841 567 Connecticut ... 761 3^29 1,647 Delaware ........... ... 235 278 660 Florida ... 835 335 992 Georgia 3,654 1,826 12,817 6,361 IOinoia ... 9,475 1,826 12,817 12, .24 Indiana.............. ... 8,039 5,742 8,545 Iowa ... 7,561 13,023 3,498 10,694 Knufiaa ... 2,861 13,023 3,498 4,584 Kentucky • ... 4,000 2,000 6.453 Louisiana,....... ... 689 1,533 1,511 Maine ... 2,280 4,MO 4,215 Maryland. ... 1,295 1,776 l.i'89 MuK«aehunette ... 1,118 7,390 6,7.10 Michigan .. ... a,t»J6 9,467 6,<«4 Miunesota. ... 1,75? .. V47 3,115 3,016 3,280 MiKBlsaippt ... 1,75? .. V47 3,115 3,016 3,280 Missouri 11 V68 8^283 Nel>iaeka ...1,989 2,121 2,<S!t0 Nevada ... 45 124 185 New Haropahire ... 600 3,026 2,560 New Jersey ... 993 2,426 1,551 New York. ... 7,978 22,589 11,824 North Carolina ...'9,71* 1,003 6,149 Ohio ...11,099 12,292 11.979 Oregon..... 1,068 865 Pennaylvazila. ... 9,319 11,572 18,007 Rhode Inland ... 300 1,012 801 Bouth Carolina ... 1,844 1,273 2,922 Ter.ineaae*!. ... 4,067 1,635 5,3(6 Texas). 4,330 4,633 Vermont ?. 790 3,608 2^6 6 Virginia. ... 9,8-33 1,750 4,545 West Virginia ... 3,823 925 3,610 Wisconsin. 9,808 5,661 Territorial-- Arizona. ... 19 18 28 Dakota ... Ml 189 387 .889 823 69 107 New Mexioo ... 133 16 138 Utah.... ... 254 285 346 * 369 * 31 306 of the offioe will be performed under the direc- *' Jroquofos an American horse, win the St James tion of the Chief Clerk of the Treasury. " GENERAL. PROP. BILET, of the United States Entomological Commission, says the locusts now appearing in the West and South are of two distinct breeds ; that one u the thirteen- year and the other is the seventeen-year locust, and this is the first time they have appeared in tbe same year since 16G0. Prof. Riley says these locusts cannot do any damage ex­ cept to young fruit-trees, in the limbs of whi'h they deposit eggs. He savs the locusts will suddenly disappear before long In regard to the declaration of Jeff Davis that Joe Johnston should have taken his army into Washington after tho victory of Bull Run, the latter states that the mass of the Confed­ erates supposed that tne war bad ended with that struggle. AT the close of the inquest into the Victoria disaster at London, Ontario, Capt. Rankin find Manager Parish were ai^osted on ooinplairt of Postmaster Jones, who lost a daughter by tbe calamity. j THE Coroner's inquiry into the Yio- ! toria disaster at London, Ontario, by which i over 200 people were drowned, resulted In a , wholesale censure of the officers of the wrecked i steamer and of the Goveratneui inspector. | Over ®1IH),000,000 in npesie was imported into this country from Europj during the ten j months ending May 31. 'live gold imports i are virtually suspended just now j Farmers residing in the vicinity of Quebec oom- plaiu of the extreme drought which threatens i to destroy tho whole hay crop Miss M. M. | Gillet. a Wisconsin lady law student, now re- j siding in Washington." has been appo nted a ; notary public for the District of Columbia by I the President This is the tlrst instanoe where a woman has been appointed to such a position by any President ACCORDING to the official statement, the reoeut fire in Quebec destroyed 642 houses, rendering homeless 1,211 families, comprising 6,028 individuals. Two-thirds of the families bar tied out were uninsured and therefore lost their alL THE Department of Agriculture at Washington has issued the following crop re­ port: Spriog Wheat--The acreage shows a large decline since last year. In the area reported to tho department, only 86 per oent. of that •own iu 188'). The condition is, however, fully Bribery I.,v.-*t.ga»inK Committee examined and i ^ °' y«£f; &t t.he •ross-exa" ined Assemblyman Bradley at irreat ! °r Wheat--The condition is rejwrted at length. He reiterated tbe storv that Senator ! »veraKiA. fo,r tbe *h.ol« "natty ofouly 76. Ae sions had tried to corrupt him. and detailed I i ?. principal (omplaijts are from Michigan, j itnd Ijlinoxti, whtrcj itodwi to motit im- . ^ I favorable weather, there is uroat damage troni ^ ASSOCIATED FBKSS telegram from chinch-bugs and the Hessian fly. California Palace stake*. THE projectors of the tunnel under the English channel have sunk two experi­ mental shafts on each side. On the English Section nearly 1,000 yard* have been cut, with a gallery seven feet in diameter. The progress is sixty-seven yards per week, which involves five years to complete the first boring Tho British Postmaster General, confronted by a strike of the telegraph employes, has matured a schcme to amelio­ rate their condition, by v/hich the cost of tho service will be increased by £68,000 The English torpedo ram Polyphemus, 2,600 tons, with an estimated speod of seventeen knots p6r hour, has been launched at Chatham. A Bremen cablegram states that the stream of emigration to the United States can with great difficulty be provided for by the steam­ ship companies Kir Jcniali Mason, the En­ glish steel-pen manufacturer, and Prof. George Rollerton, of Oxford University, are dead Dervisch Pa alia has caused the execution of Abdul Frassarie, the Albanian leader. Traveling In Russia. Dr. Thomas, a dentist of Vienna, was summoned to Kirwin, in Russian Po­ land, to perform a dental operation upon the Countess WalenkA. At the border station of Radjwilow he was stopped, re­ quired to show his passport and have his baggage searched. His name at once awakened suspicion from its re­ semblance to that of Tliomassen, the infernal-machine man of Bremerliaven* and, when the officials found a mysteri­ ous apparatus in his bage^vge this suspi­ cion became fixed and positive, and tbe unfortunate dentist narrowly escapee faring roughly. He tried to explain the working of the apparatus, but without much avail; and wlien he was finally al­ lowed to go on his way a detective ac­ companied him until he met the ser­ vants and carriage of the Countess. The maohine, however, had been pre­ viously confiscated. Such is traveling in Russia. Etiquette. A " society lady" writes to a fashiona­ ble journal to know " if etiquette allows a lady to remain seated while a gentle­ man guest departs." It depends on who the guest is, but it is always safe to ac­ company a St. Louis man to the door to see that he doesn't carry off a $10-ivory- liandled silk umbrella instead of the 50- cent cotton one he brought.--New Or­ leans Time*. \ Brother Gardner on the Revised New Testament. "I take pleasure an' satisfaction," caid the President, as he held up a parcel, "in informin' you a worthy citizen of Detroit, who does not car' to have his name menshun'd, has presented dis revised edishun of the Bible to de Lime-kiln Club. We do not open our meetin's wid prayer, nor do we close by singin' de doxology, but neberdeless I am shuah dis gift will bo appreshiated by all. Dar has been eonsiduble talk in dis club about dis revised edishun. Some of you have got the ideah chit pur­ gatory has all been wiped out an' lieal>en enlarged twice ober, an' I have heard odders assert dat it didn't forbid lyin', stealin' and passin' off bad money. My friends, you am sadly mistaken. Hell is just as hot as ebber, an' heaben hasn't got any mo' room. In lookin* ober home of de changes las' night I selected out a few parngraphs which hab a gin- eral b'arin'. Fur instance, it am jist as wicked to steal watermellyons as it was las' y'ar or de y'ar befor' an' de skeercer de crap de bigger de wicked­ ness. *' No change has bin made in regard to loafiu' aroun' de streets. De loaler am considered jist as mean an' low as eber he vras, an' I want to add my belief dat il gjow meaner in public estima- j. . .^rmdments am all down _ rat change. Stealin' an* lyin' an' covetin' an' runnin' out nights am considered jist as bad as eber. "I can't find any paragraph in which men am excused from pay in' deir debts and supportin' deir fam'lies. "1 can't tin' whar a poo* man or a poo' man's wife, white or black, am 'spected to sling on any particular style. "Dog fights, chicken liftin', poly tics, playin' keerds fur money, an' hangin' aroun' fur drinks, an' ail sich low biz- ness am considered meaner dan eber. Fact is, I can't fin' any change what- eber which lets np on a man from bein' plumb up an' down squar' an' honest wid de world. Dey have changed de word ' Hell' to ' Hades,' but at de same time added tode strength of <de brims tun au' de size of de pit, an we want too keep right on in de straight path if we would avoid it. Doan' let any white man make you believe dat we's lost any gospel by dis revision, or dat Peter or Paul or Moses hab undergone any change of sperrit regardin' de ways of libin' re-* speetably an' dyin' honorably."--De­ troit I'Yec Press. Vivisection. Writing in defense of vivisection, Pro­ fessor Darwin says: "What improvements in medioal prac­ tice may be directly attributed to physi­ ological research is a question which can be proi>erly discussed only by those physiologists and medical practitioners who have stud-ed the history of their subjects; but, as far as I can learn, the benefits are already great. However this may be, no one, unless he is grossly ignorant of what science lias done for mankind, can entertain any doubt of the incalculable benefits which will here after be derived from physiology, not only by man, but by the lower animals. Look, for instance, at Pasteur's results in modifying the germs of tho most malignant diseases, from which, as it so hapiHUis, animals will in the first pi:ice receive more relief than man. Let it bo remembered how many lives and what a fearful amount of suffering have beeu saved by the knowledge gained para­ sitic worms through the experiments of Virchow and others on liviug animals. In tho future every one will blj aston­ ished at the iugratitiule shown, at least in England, to those benefactors of man­ kind. As for myself, I honor, and shall always honor, everyone who advances the noble science of physiology." Popular Hobbiee. The hobby may be chemistry, music, lace, science, china, algebra, languages, history, politics, volunteers, farming, gardening, athletics, painting, architect­ ure, horse- racing, or what not. Be it what it may, and however little cuoice you may have had in the matter, you are, nevertheless, completely enchanted with it, and quite prepared to maintain that that particular pursuit, and no other, is the most worthy and elevated of all that can possibly engage the at­ tention of the human race. And what rapture do you not then experience if you chance to encounter another person with the same craze upon him as your­ self? With what unwearying relish is the common point of interest talked over, and how exalted is the opinion you mu­ tually entertain for one another's good sense and Rood taste ! The discussion that goes on between you and the kin­ dred spirit whom >ou have met is apt to recall to the mind of a listener the negro's idea of an argument: " Golly, massa, how me lub arpevm.-nt! Ponipoy, lum say--paint dat wall white; me say--paint him white, too : and den we ar^ey 'pou de point for half a day-- oh, lubly 1"--The Spectator. Jim Bowfo and the "Memphis Ter­ ror." On one occasion Bowie, whose reputa­ tion had reached Memphis, arrived by boat at that city, or rather what was tlien known as the Third Chickasaw Bluffs. The bank from the boat landing to the top was about 150 feet high, and a large number of people were watching the arrival of the strangers. Looking down, one of them recognized Bowie as he stepped over the gang plank, and made the remark: " There comes Jim Bowie." *'What!" shouted a big flatboatman, then known as the "Memphis "lierror," as he looked down the bluff; " what! Jim Bowie ? That's the fellow I've been looking for for months. Jim Bowie ! Why, him, I'll whip him so quick he won't know what hurt him. I'll whip him if I never whip another man in my life. Stand by, boys, and see the fun !" Bowie came slo«vly up the bank. In his hand he carried an old umbrelle. He had no pistols, and was evidently not expecting or in faet prepared for a tight. This fact did not escape the QOW thoroughly interested spectators, tip went the llatboatman promptly, as Bow e leached the top of the bluff. "Is your name Jim Bowie ?" he asked. Bowie replied that it was. "Then," shouted the flatboatman, as he squared off, " I think you a --;- rascal, and I'm going to whip you right here and now." Bowie was a man of few words. He stood and gazed »t his adversary, who WHS more emboldened than ever. •' J think you're a coward," he yelled, "and I'm going to knock your head off," and, so saying, tho " Mem­ phis Terror" advanced to the conflict. Bowie never flinched, liis keen eye was fixed on the " Terror," who at this moment was face to face with him. Bi t as the man of Memphis drew a diik from his breast Bowie stepped back a loot and thrust out his umbrella as if to keep his antagonist at bay. Tne "Memphis Terror," seizing the umbrella with one hand, made a pass at the inventor of the famous knife with the other. In so doing, he pulled the -umbrella to himself, leaving free in the right hand of Bowie his murderous weapon, which to this moment had been concealed in the folds ot the impromptu sneath. The sight of Bowie standing there with the knife in his hand and the gleam of vengeance in his eye was too much for " The Terror." From the bouncing bully he became transformed into a craven coward in a second. His face turned pale aud his kuees trembled, while the dirk dropped from his hands as he gazed on Bowie'* weapon with staring eyes. "Put it up; put away that scythe, for God's sake, Bowie. I was mistaken in my man." Bowie advanced a step. "Don't--don't kill me!" besecched the bully ; " for God's sake, man, don't go for me with that scythe, and I swear t<F>ou I'll never attack another man as long as I live." Bowie looked at his now thoroughly demoralized opponent for a moment, and then, turning on his heel with the expression, "Coward," walked rapidly away. Thenceforth the " Memphis Terror" was a changed man, and until the day ot his death he never lost the sobriquet of " Put-up-tkat-scythe." Railway ltangcrons. Blindness to danger produced by living among it with rimlMl'dty seems almost universal. We believe that the best authorities recommend that night watch­ men in big buildings should be frequeatly changed, because when a man has made a certain round every night for years, or even months, and has never found a fire or a thief, he becomes quite blind to either of these should he chance to meet them later on. See how this blindness would tell in the case of a driver of au express traiu. Ho has, per­ haps, to make a,journey of one hundred miles, and stop, perhaps, three times, but has to pass thirty, forty, or more siguals. If the traffic is well regulated he may travel this road for months to­ gether without ever finding one of these signals of "danger;" but were he to get in a condition of danger-blindness aud not look out for these siguals the result would probably be that there would be a terrible accideut. He must go ou as­ suming that every signal is at danger, though never in his experience has it been found to bo so. He must also exercise patient and untiring vigilauce in inspecting and testing his enemies; trust no one, but see that all is right for himself. At sea fire drill and "niau overboard" drill are carried out, and in the military service false alarms of fire or attack are given to exercise tho men in vigilauce and promptness of action; but on a Hue of railway this is impossible. Punctuality iu the running of the trains is of the first importance, so that when something goes wrong the staff must deal with it, as it were, by in-tinct, and how well they do it is obvious from the comparatively few accidents that happen. How danger is often warded off by Cf»urage and intelligence the general public seldom learn.--Saturday Review. A Girl in Demand. The girl after whom any number of j marrviug men are looking has beeu dis- | covered again. In other days she has j written a book or developed a phenomenal voice, or shot a number of dollnrs' worth j of wild animals, or done something elso j that secured local fame and considerable I money. This time she has plauted, | cultivated, harvested, and sold three | hundred and fifty bushels of wheat. It is needless to say that a number of young j fellows are wildly in love with that girl, and that the list of suitors will rapidly increase as the record of her achievement makes the rouuds of the press. A great deal is said about women who marry merely for the sako of being supported, but tiioy are no moro numerous thau men who long for wives who will do work enough to supply their husbands with bread and butter, cigars and drinks. There are men in New York who would borrow their last friend's last dollar rather than do a day's work in a wheat field, yet would willingly endow the Indiana girl with half of their worl.lly debts, and do it with the liest plain gold ring that could be bought on credit. They would also, as soon as tho wheat crop was harvested, find business calling them to New York, aud keeping tliem here as long as the money lasted or an advance could be secured on the next crop.--New York Herald. feet globules, it is necessarily "tem­ pered." This "temper" is prepared by the addition of ingredients, ef which arsenic is the main property. It is run into bars convenient for use, and with pig lead hoisted to the top of the tower. Here are two small rooms, one about twelve feet below the other, and each containing two huge kettles, in which the pig-lead and the "temper" are melt­ ed. From one or the other of the two kettles in both rooms--aa each room has a separate shaft--streams of shot are constantly flowing. At the bottom of each kettle the molten stuff pours into square pans perforated at one side. These perforations are large or small, according to the size of shot desired, and separate the mass into distinct, del­ icate, gleaming streams, which in turn, as they come in contact with the atmos­ phere, separate into j>erfect globules, or shot, which are cooled in their 200-feet journey and the water into which they fall below. CROP REPORTS FOA 1879. WasHnroToir, June 14. The oensns for the cereal product of 1880, which is the crop of 1879, has beeu completed. It shows the constantly-increasing prosperity of the oonntry. The total wheat and corn crop is 3,232,079,681 bushels. The total rye, oats, barley and buokwheat w 481,905,000 bushels. Tho total product of the oountry aggregated 2,714,603,681 bushels. This is a remarkable increase in the productions of cereals during tbe last decade. During tho last ten yearn Indiana and Illinois have nearly doubled their wheat production, Iowa has quadrupled ht^s, Minnesota doubled, Wiscoushi suffered a loss of about 1,000,Ot'O busht^s. Kanxaa increased eight-fo'd, and Ncbraski and Colorado i-even- fold. The folio «viug are the complete returns of wheat and corn as complied by the Census Bureau for 1880: Wheat, lflSO. Corn, 1880. Ohio 46,014,M69 112,f>81,0Ki Indiana........ ........ 47,2}0yj-'j 117,121,91.') O-iiioi* 5L. iVi,4.>.> Michigan 35,537,1 .;r7 HO,841,2^ Iowa.:.. 81,177,•••25 K76,iw:V-M.»S WiM.-on»ln 24,8S4,I>S» 35.9<J1,4C4 Minut-aota 34,C25,«>75 14,1)7".!,744 Missouri 24,971,727 203,4C,l,«i(i Kansas 17, ^4,141 10H,791,482 Nebraska 13,840,742 C5,785,572 OtOorado 1,4 5,569 4' Dakota 3,tll8,H54 2,078,08'J Montana 469.688 6,794 Wyumlug 4,752 65,000 Id-ho 540.554 16,408 Utah 1,167,268 164,244 New Mexico 708,718 650,954 Arizona 189,51? 86,240 Waehingtou 1,921,38) 89,»Mi Nevada 70.404 12,891 Oregon." 7,486,492 127,67 "> California 28,787,133 2,050,007 Total 272,647,511 1,303,188,529 Total for the country: Wheat and corn, 2.232,697,681; rye, oats, barley and buckwheat, 481,905,000. Total, 2,714,602,631. Lincoln's First Appearance In New Tork. it is a curious fact that while Abra­ ham Lincoln was widely known and highly admired, in what then were called the Western States, this city had hardly heard of his name. Such a fact shows the ignorance which so often character­ izes merely commercial centers. Lin­ coln's appearance here as an orator wa» due to a few of Beecher's leading mem­ bers who had learned something of his ability, and hence invited him to speak in their church. This was in the early part of 1860. The public had at that time no idea that any such apostle of truth, liberty and constitutional gov­ ernment was in existence. Henoe the effect of his speech was of a deep and solemn character. Instead of Plymouth Church, however, Cooper Union was se­ lected as a preft rable place. The house was crowded, and the platform contained the most solid men in the Republican party, who were anxious to hear what a Western man would say. When Liu coin was introduced the audience stared at his tall, ungainly tigure, wliich was such a contrast with the petite forms of Bryant and Raymond. The speaker be­ gan in a low tone and difident manner, and some feared a failure, but he soon rose with the subject, and the audience gradually became spell-bound. Never before had a political orator| undertaken to pursue an unbroken thread of un­ adorned argument. Never before was political argument more fascinating. The conclusion forced on the leaders of opinion was that they had found their true candidate for the Presidency. Such proved to be the case, and Seward's star began immediately to wane. Givelev went to Chicago for the special purpose of defeating Seward, and the friends of the latter then realized the full extent of their disappointment. They had taken a portrait of their candidate to the con­ vention, and had it ready to be unfurled as soon as the nomination should bo made. It never, however, saw the light, and the man who paid for it died before reaching home. I allude to John L. Schoolcraft, of Albany, who married Seward's niece, and who was one of his confidential advisers. The disappoint­ ment was of a crushing character, and he reached Albany in his coffin. Such was the effect of Lincoln's first and only appearance in this city as a public speaker.--New York Utter. Infidel Ingersoll Impaled. His dexterity in the manipulations of " rose-wator imbecilities " and " phan­ tasmal moonshine " and "spectral in- aninities " does not prohibit our being enabled, with sesquipedalian sagacity and alliterative loquacity and pellucid, polysyllabic perspicacity, to apprehend and appreciate the arrogant audacity and reprehensible rapacity and egregious edacity and volcanic voracity and stu­ pendously ferocious capacity with which m mood irascible, choleric, sulphurous, this plausible prophet and priest of a past paganism preys upon veracity ; and the pestiferous and preposterous perti­ nacity and tedious tenacity and pungent pugnacity, varied by vicious vivacity, with whieh, in contemptuous contumi c- itv, he meanders in monstrously med­ dlesome aud malignant mendacity.-- h'ev. S. Henry Bell's Lecture. How Shot Arc Made. A shot-tower is certainly a curious place to the uninitiated visitor, and the process of manuiacturing the leaden missiles is most interesting. Of course it is necessary that .the shot should (all from a considerable elevation, and the height of many of the towers is over 200 feet. As pure lead will not make per- Groomlng a Horse. There is no mystery about it. Feed him on any nutritious food, keep his skin cleau, brush and rub tho hair thor­ oughly and often, keep him iu a warm, comfortable stable, and iu unusually cold weather blanket him. Blanketing will aid materially in giving smoothness to tlie coat. There is no particular kird of food, nostrum or drug that will give a smooth coat to a horse in the absence of the above-named conditions, and with them no drugs or condiments will l>o necessary.--Naliotial Live Stock Jour­ nal. Three I>ay»' Sight. A Frenchman received a draft payable at three days' sight at a certain bank. The first day he presented himself at the counter, and extended it before the pay­ ing teller, and said, "You see that once," and folding the draft he walked away. The next morniug he appeared araiu, and going through the same form said, " You see that twice." The third day ke appeared once more, aud said, "You see Uiat three times; now you pay him." • PEOPLE speak carelessly of "bloated aristooracy," as if an aristocrat is always obese. That is wrong. Sotoe of the aristocracy of to-day is mighty thin.-- New Orleans J'icai/*tne. He Will Invent. "It Is all very weH to talk about work­ ing for the heathen," said one, as the- Ladies of the circle put aside their sewing, "but I'd like to have some one tell me> whnt I'm to do with my husband." , "What's the matter with him?" asked, a sympathetic old lady. "William is a good man," continued the first, waving her glasses in an argu­ mentative way, "but William will in­ vent. He goes inventing around from morning till night, and I have no peace- or comfort. I didn't object when he in­ vented a fire escape, but I did remon­ strate when he wanted me to crawl out- the window one night last winter to see if it worked well. Then he originated a. lock for the door, that wouldn't open from midnight until morning, so as to- keep burglars out. The first time he* tried it he caught his coat tail in it, and I had to walk around him with a pan ot hot coals all night to keep him from? freezing." "Why didn't he take his coat off?" _ "I wanted him to, but he stood apound till the thing opened itself trying to in­ vent some way of unfastening it. That's- William's trouble. He will invent. A little while ago he got up a cabinet bed­ stead that would shut and open without handling. It went by clockwork. Wil­ liam got into it, and up it went. Bless your heart he stayed in there from Sat­ urday afternoon until Suuday evening, when it flew open and disclosed William with, the plans and specifications of a. pateht wash-bowl that would tip over- when it got just so full. The result of that was I lost all my rings and a breast­ pin down the waste pipe, Then he got up a crutch for a man that could also be used as an opera glass. Whenever the mjui leaned on it, up it shut, and when lie put it to his eyes to find William it flew out into a crutch and almost broke the top of his head off." "Don't any of his inventions amount to anything ?" ( "He says they do. Once he invented a rope ladder to be worn as a guard ohain and lengthened out with a spring. He put it around his neck, but the spring got loose and turned it into a ladder and almost choked him to deatti. Then he invented a patent boot-heel to crack nuts with, but he mashed hid thumb with it and gave it up. His coal scuttle has- made more trouble than anything else. It was riveted to the grate, and when the fire got low turn over and pour on coal. The rivets got rusty so he couldn't get it off, and I just sit up in bed and listen to that scuttle all night. Then he arranged a corn popper so it would wriggle itself, and now he can't stop it. You can hear that popper going around in the closet, and lie won't let me throw it away, be­ cause he wants to invent something to hold it still. Why, he has got a washtub full of inventions. One of them is a prayer book that always opens at the right placc. We tried it one morning at church, but the wheels aud springs made such a row that the sexton took William out by the collar and told him to leave his fire engines home when he came to worship. Tho other day I saw him go­ ing up street with the model of a grain elevator sticking out of his hip ppeket, and he is fixing up an improved shot tower in our bed-room." "Does ho make any money out of his inventions?" "He doesn't appear to. The other night a man came down and wanted Wil­ liam to get up a patent Umbrella fasten­ ing. SinCe then he has wrecked all the umbrellas and parasols in the house. We haven't a thiug to use if it should rain. Now he's at work on a combined cat and rat trap. The cats and rats go in at different ends and eat each other up --at least, he says they will; and after that he is going at a pair of pantaloons, in wliich a man can fall dawn without spraining his leg. William means well, but he's got that mania for inventing, and I don't know where it will end." And the old lady sighed as she started for home to see what new inconvenience her ingenious husband was preparing to per­ petrate. --Brooklyn Eagle. Evictions in Ireland. The evictions in Ireland in each of the years from 1819 to 1880 are the sub­ ject of a late Parliamentary return. In 1849, 90,440 persons were evicted, of whom 18,375 were readmitted. In 1850 the evictions rose to 104,163, and the re- admissions to 30,292. Since that period the number rapidly fell, till in 1860 they only amounted to 2,985. They, how­ ever, again increased, and, in 1864, 9,201 persons were evicted. There was again a falling off, and, ill 1869, the lowest number was reached, when 1,741 per­ sons were evicted. Since then there has been a gradual increase, and, in 1879, the figures etood 6,239, and in 1880 at 10,457, the readmissions being 663 and 1,021 respectively. The totals from 1849 to 1880 are : Evicted, 90,107 families, 460,570 peisons; readmitted, 21,340 families--115,859 persons. "Do YOU dance tho quadrille?" "No: but I have a brother Bill from Brazil who dances the quadrille on the window- sill."--Harvard Lampoon. Somebody please faint? THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Bum | Hons 5 COTTON FI*>WR -Superfine. 4 WHKAT--No. 2 Spring 1 No. 2 Had 1 CORN--Ungraded OATS--Mixed Western Po!ta--Mess 16 Lulbu CHICAGO. 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