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'TT * |jtf cwtg flaingcaltt I. VAN M.YKC, t*r MNI ftAIMkar. cHENRY, ILLINOIS. 1EEILT MEMS REVIEW. THE BAST. THK people at Newburyport, Mass., Vu the 19th tiionght for a short time that the „ tibd of the world had really come when there .^gocnrred some oarthqnake manifestations. »hich lasted several seconds, shaking up bnild- and resident* in a lHRhly-alarmiiiK mau­ ler ...A lows of §150,000 w»4 incurred at 1 Bethany. Ta.. by the burning of the distillery Of Joseph Dillinger A Sons. A TRAIN was thrown into a creek near Irecport. P*., by striking a oow. The en­ gineer, fireman and a passenger were instantly tilled The boiler of a dummy engine ex­ ploded on the wharf at Medford. Mass., shat­ tering a schooner and several buildings, killing two men and injuring four others The peo­ ple of Batavia, N. Y.. are excited over the dis- ooverv of what are supposed to be the remains of William Morgan, the foe to Masonry. A CARRIAGE at Huntington Heights, Mass., was struck by a train and thrown fifty fact, killing the driverand fatally injuring the occupants... .Thomis Garfield, an uncle of the President, was fatally injured at Meadville, while driving across the railway track ia front of a train. Hi* niece was thrown upon the pilot, but esc^neJ with slight injuries.... Benjamin >V. Delarnater, prominent in the in- • Bttrance circles of \ew York, an uncle of Schuy­ ler Colfax, died at tbe age of 87... .A family of Bohemian gypsies left Castle Garden for New Jers-cy in an antique wagon brought from home. merchants of New Orleans agree that the barge system ia a suooe^B. WTATT HOIJMB8, a negro, was hanged in tbe poorhoiue ground*, near Holly Spring*. Milt., for the murder of an aged colored man named Scott Lightning struck the residence of Senator George, at Jackson, Mw. His wife «u at first thought to be fatally injured, Dot to now recovering. WASHINGTON. PRESIDENT GARFIELD and family went to Long Branch last week. Mrs. Garfield will remain there several weeks if the location w found to agree with her. The President will return to Washington soon... .Ltading Demo­ crats who have been heard from say it will be the policy of the party next winter to paas a S-ner-cent. Funding bill, and not to aooept the Windom continuance policy. COMMESSIONKK FRENCH has returned to Washington from his annual tour of inspec­ tion to the Pacific slope. He takes back all he said about the Oontr&i Pacific not paying the United States Government the money loaned them. On the oontrarv. he says he is satisfied of the will and the ability of the company to pay up. Jobs A. WALSH, formerly a banker in Washington, has brought suit for $28,058 against Gen. Brady for money loaned. It is thought the true inwardness of the star-route job mav be brought out at this trial... .Upton, the Assistant Secretary fit the Treasury, has been ordered to London, to take charge of the work of extending bonds held abroad. THK Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department reports thftt dur­ ing the five mouths ending May 31 there were exported from the several ports of this coun­ try 50,404,%6 pounds fror.h beef, valued at $4, - 715.251; 15,976.449 pounds.oalt beef, val.ied at *1,091,278 ; 2%. 305,632 pounds bacon, valued v,.. ...... , at f2t.526.W2 ; 32,635 65!) pounds hams, valued Itoev'retunied next day. stating that they rode j $3,349,711; 160.^9.515 pounds lard,valued at thirty-seven miles ihrongh hoots and yell*, the j ^ 16,312.464 people stoning them and calling them child- stealers.. They will return to Europe by the next steamer. A FIRE in Tread well's currying shops it Salem. Mass., inflicted a loss of f75,000, on which there were policies for 647,750 The Pennsylvania road contemplates making iis route 'from Philadelphia to Jersey City a four- track one. THE New York directory contains 385,477 names, on which an estimate is based Of 1,257,554 inhabitants Silas C. Herring. the noted safe manufacturer, died suddenly at Plainfield N. J Cardinal McCloskey is cut out of $300,000 Irom the estate of Mrs. Caro­ line Merrill, of New York, by the decision of the Surrogate that the will was executed while laboring under an insane delusion as to her nephew. THE WEST. THE "Miami oil and soap works, in Cin- einnati, owned by J. J. Gest, covering a block on Fifth street, were totally consumed by fire. The loss » •200.000 and the insurance 160,000. ....The marine boiler works at Milwaukee, owned by Richard Davis, were wiped out by fire. They we're valued at $8.500 A package of 43,000 in currency was stolen from the office of Maher A Brayton's foundry, Cleveland.... Bx-Gov. Henrv S. Lane, of Indiana, is dead. He was elevated to the United States Senator- ship while Governor. The snspension bridge over the Allegheny river, near Pittsburgh, Pa., caught fire from some unknown cause, and was partially destroyed. Tbe loss amounts to 940,000, uninsured. BURGLARS bleMj the safe of Schrceder, Smith k Hassen, at Peotone, III, and secured #500 in cash and $10,000 in notes and mort­ gages Col. Edwards, agent of the Winne­ bago and Omaha tribes, has partly negotiated the sale of a leservation of 20,000 acres by tho.-e tribes to make a home for tbe Poncas*, who number 120 souls An affray between waiters at a hotel in Council Bluffs resulted in the murder of George Washington by Harry McGee. AT the Missouri River Improvement Convention at Council B'uffs, delegates were in attendance from Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa, including Senators Saun­ ders and McDilL The resolutions demand an appropriation of $5,0 >0,000 to make safe navi­ gation from Sioux City to St Lotus. * IT is said that the bondholders of the 8L Louis bridge, who mainly reside in London, have leased the structure in perpetuity to the WftltfBk and Missouri Pacific roads, at an an­ imal rental of ft)50,GOO. Th« ananal report of tbe bridge company shows tot*! earning* of 4l,13«,G27, &na & net income of H53.04').... Albert Slocum, a manufacturer of straw hats at Milwaukee, has made an assignment His liabilities are §250.000 ; aB-eta, $191.000 A party of cowboys »t Eureka. New Mexico, surprised and killed the noted Hazlett brothers Aid a German companion. The Hizletto had recently murdered Leonard and Harry Head, the stage-robbers Over 7,000 acres of wheat and many farm-houses were burned nuar Merced, Cal The town of Tombstone, Arizona,is reported nearly destroyed by fire At aa early hour in the morning about twenty citizens of Lamont, Mich., reached the jail at Grand Haven with teams, intent upon lynching Yoek&mp, the murderer of Lyman Cadv. By 1fcl«e pretense®, an entrance to tbe jail office Was easily efl'isctad, wiren the keys to the celis were taken by force. The Sheriff's wife had, in the meantime, given an alarm to the night- Watch on the street, and the fire-bell was rung, Which f 1 ightened off the party of twelve re­ gaining outside. She 1 ben turned the key in j the jatl door, and made prisoners of the eight ringleaders, who were arraigned before a Jus- ' ttee and held in ®6,000 each for trial. Fora wealthy citizens of Cincinnati have purchased the lease of the base-ball grounds in that town, and propose to revive popular interest in the game... .The eonflagra- tien at Tombstone, Aneoua, swept over a space of six blocks, destroying about 150 buildings fiul entailiag a l«*w» of nearly 6250,000. A cigar-lighter ignited the fumes from a barrel of whisky which was being opened in a saloon. About 800 people are homeless. DR. A. CHAPIN, of Charlotte, Mich., out his throat at tbe county poorhonse while in an insane condition. He is said to have been 107 yean of age, and leaves a wife, a osotena rian, also a charge on the county Judge Samuel H. Woodson died very suddenly at Independence, Mo., a few days ago. He was one of the pioneers of that region, and had represented the district in Congress A party of Cincinnatians own the Union Depot property at 8L Louis, which is valued at about *900,000, and are about to transfer it to Jay Gould. THE aoirra. A SOUTHERN physician was inter- sfewtst! at 8L Louis in regard to yoilow-fever prospects. The former states that there are etwee at Galveston aud Vera Cruz, and that Memphi-t has been only partially sewered, the alleys being as filthy a« ever. A new diaatMe, called hematuria, hag uwept away many people in Mississippi this yr@r. ' Tatin VERGE and Robert Dill had an altercation at Marshall, Texas, which resulted in the former being shot dead by the latter. The murderer fled, but was pursued by the Sheriff's posae, who overtook him. He was called upon to surrender, bat refused. Vlre wet. opened on him, and he fell literally riddled with bullets A correspondent of the Louisville Courier- Journal is authority for the statement that a womau residing is Jackson county, Ky., was recently delivered of seven children. They are all living and healthy. They weigh about (our ponnds each, and resemble each other very closed A single highwayman stopped the stage twenty-five miles from Galveston, Texas, the other night, and compelled the two passengers to a ight and asnst him in rifling the mail, which lasted a couple of hours. ST. LOUIE hm tried the experiment of four large barge* of corn to New Or- 1 in June, and the inspectors at the latter city report it hot and out of condition. The result is considered of such importance that the chief grain inspector at Ht. Louis has been sent down to make a thorough examination of (be damaged grain. COL. CASH, of South Carolina, who ldlled Shannon in a duel, has been acquitted. The Baltimore and Ohio road will furnish 91,000,000 to extend the Valley road of Vir­ ginia into the heart of tbe mineral region.... 1 New Orleans correspondent has mvesti^at<d the question of grain transportation by bjrges, and declares that, while within two mouth* 100,000 bushels have l>eeu condemned as unfit for shipment, none that left Ht. Louis in (.ood condition has ariived in bad order. Tlie grain •3,838.100 ; 37.299.014 pounds tallow, valued at *2,524 119 ; 7,452,567 pounds butter, valued at tl.493,059 : 32,023.771 pounds cheese, valued at $3,714,261. There has been some falling off in sal tod beef, bacon, lard and bntter; the others show an increase as compared with the same period last year. The value of the ag­ gregate exports of prjvicioua and tallow for the seven months ending May 31 was *81.878,- 409, being a gain of nearly $12,000,<"00 as com­ pared with the corresponding seven months of 1880. GEN. BRADY, late Assistant Postmas­ ter General, has petitioned the Criminal Court at Washington for an immediate investigation of the charge of star-route frauds. Col. Cook, the special counsel for the Government, stated to the court that not a single case is yet ready for submission to the Grand Jury, and that oomplete failure would result from using the testimony in its present condition. Tue court, therefore, ordered that the cases go over until September, to which date the Grand Jury has a recess. POLITICAL. THE balloting at Albany for Senators, on the 18th inst., resulted as follows: For the short term : Wheeler, 29; Conkling, 20; Ja­ cobs, 34 ; Cornell, 5 ; Lapham, 13 ; scattering, 4. For a successor to Piatt: Depew, 44 ; Piatt. 17; Kernan. 34 ; Cornell, 5; scattering, 5. In the Assembly, a concurrent resolution for final adjournment on June 20 was tabled, tbe Demo­ crats only voting in its favor. Ex-Yice Presi­ dent Wheeler's arrival there is regarded by the half-breeds as significant. He says, in an interview, that he is not in any sense a candidate for Senator ; that he is in favor of Depew, and will use his best efforts to elect him. Senators Conkling and Piatt had a conference with Gen. Grant, at tbe Filth Avenue Hotel, which was attended also by Vice President Arthur, Senator Joned. of Nevada, and New York politicians of local note. The advisability of the ex-President's going to Albany was discussed, but it was deemed beet that he should not. It is averred that Conkling declared that he would not go back to Washington except with Piatt, and, though pressed by his friends to change his decision in this matter, he declared it final. IN the monotonous balloting at Albany, on the 20th inst, Wheeler and Jacobs had 24 votes each for the short term, and Conkling 23. Depew got 37. Kernan 25 and Piatt 21 for the long term. Ex-Vice President Wheeler said the only way out of the deadlock was the election of any man Conkling miyht select as hix suc­ cessor. Grant, Piatt and Conkling conferred together in New York, aud in the evening the candidates left for Albany President Gar­ field repudiates the tender of the Marshalship of New York made by John L Davenport to Senator tttrahan. IN tbe twentieth ballot at Albany for Senator, for the short term Elbridge G. Lap- ham, of Canandaigua, received 25 votes, Wneeler getting 38 and Conkling 33. In the twenty-first ballot, Depew had 50, Kernan 51 and Piatt 27, for the long term. Both factions remain fism, and promise to hold on, if neces­ sary, all summer. Robertson continues at Al­ bany, instead of taking his new office, which Merritt retains until tbe Benatorship business is settled. It is proposed to continue the nominations at Saratoga Eighteen out of twenty-^even members of the Virginia Republican State Central Committee met at Richmond pursuant to call. In accord­ ance with a resolution passed by the committee la«t February, that no member of the commit­ tee who acted with any other organization could continue as a member, John N. l>ewis, the Chairman, and candidate of tbe Mahone Republican coalition for Lieutenant Governor, was exi>elled, and Gen. A. C. Wickham was ap- 1 pointed Chairmm in his stead. The commit­ tee then decided V* call a convention for the 24th of August at Staunton, to nominate State otfioers. THERE was a flurry of excitement in the New York Legislative Convention on the 22d, caused by ramon that the administration men intended attempting to secure one of tbe vsovncien by declaring the vote* for Jacobs un­ constitutional and void, he being a member of the Legislature and ineligible under the State law, whenever any Republican should receive a majority of the remaining votes. On the second ballot, Mr. Wheeler's vote reaching 50, before the vote was declared, a Democratic member mentioned the prevalence of the rumor, and changed his vote from Jacobs to Ciarkxon N. Potter, and this was fo'lowed by a general change of Democratic votes, which wore scat­ tered upon sixteen or seventeen different candi­ date®. After adjournment a Democratic can- cue withdrew Jacobs and put up Clarkson N. Potter in his place At a conference of the stalwarts Mr. Conkling made a long speech, warning his folowers 10 " t>eware of the cor­ rupt group of polit cians who are striving to destroy the true Republican party and iu prestige," and pleading with them to be htead- faat in tlie faith of that party. He said & great deal coiu-erning tlio immense power of railroad corporation*, that are unscrupulously using millions to "debauch sworn legislators," and hoped that his words would produce "the moH profound impression of wbich they were capable." Mr. Conkling'* opinion in the mat­ ter of "Senatorial courtesy" wns not forgot­ ten, and he moisted that "'if two Republican Senators are elected, fcljey must be pure stal­ warts and men whose characters are above suspicion." Two ballots were taken that day, with the following result: First--Depew, 52 ; Pla't. 26; Whe«ler, 40; Conktin<, 32. Sec­ ond -- Depew, 50 ; Piatt, 25 ; Wheeler, 50; Conklin?, 32 Congressman Einory Speor, of the Ninth Georgia district, has publicly ex­ pressed his purpo.-te to vote with the Repub­ licans in the organization of the m-xt Bouse. IN the first ballot for Senator at Albany , on the 23d inst., Ciarksou N. Potter bad 53 votes for the short term, Wheeler 60, and Conkling 32. Tbe vote 1 or the long term gave Depew and Kernan each 53, and Piatt 27. In tne bribery investigation, James Tillmghast, of tbe New York Central road, explained what use he made of $20,009 in currency iu his private business. John i. Davenport testified th it lie was author­ ized by Henry K. Knox, of Washington, to tender a JJur«!ialsbip to Senator Strahan.... After a long discussion over tbe aduiirsion of delegates, the Democratic State Oonvtni ion of Maryland nominated Hon. Thomas J. i&ea'ifjg for Comptroller... .Nelson Dmgley, Jr., ex- Governor of Maine, has been nominated by tbe Republicans to ocsupy Frye's vacant seat iu tlie House of IiepieseuiatiVi-H at Washington.... Fifty white republicans of Virginia gathered at Washington to express to ti.e members of the Cabinet their desire for a coalition with Mahone an'l to protest against tbe removal of J0I111 F. Lewis from tbe < hairmanship of the Republi­ can State Central Committee. THE ballot for Senator for the short term, at Albany, June 24, give Weeeler 45 votes, I'ott-r 44, aud Conkling 30. For the 1 >ng ts-rw, Depew and Kernan got 45 each and journeJ without ordering a Stat* Convention, from whMh it is inferred no ttatoet will to pnt up. OINBRAL. Tax proposal to change the course of the river Nagas, in Mexico, to cause it to flow through Durang*. caused a large body of oiti- zens of Coabuila to invade Durango, destroy property and stampede the inhabitants. Pres­ ident Gonzales has sent agents to make an in­ vestigation. .. .Adelina Patti has at last con­ cluded to visit the United States with her own manager. THB immense importation of Ameri­ can flour into England "will gravely change the system of English bread supply," says the Mark Lane (Loudon) Express... .The heirs of the late Antbouy J. Drexel, for whom Drex- cl boulevard, Chicago, is named, are having a fountain made in B rlin costing #40,000. which they will proeent to Chicago as a memo­ rial of their deceased relative. THK Bostonians owning tlie Santa Fe road have just organised at Tucson, nnder the laws of Arizona, the New Mexico and Ari­ zona road, 369 miles in length, to run from Deming to Tucson, with a capital of *30,000,- 000. The track-layers on the Atlantic and Pa­ cific road have r ached the Lttle Colorado river, about 300 miles from Santa Fe Hart- ma nn. the noted Nihilist, is about to leave Lon­ don fur New York lie v. Dr. Cnmminge. of Boston, has been chosen President of the Northwestern University, at Evanston, III. SOME statements abusive of Secretary Blaine having got into the newspapers as ut­ tered by R. B. Hayes, the Maine statesman wrote the ex-President, and received the assur­ ance that the paragraph was an utter fabrica­ tion. ... At the request of the Chintse Govern­ ment, Lieut. D. Pratt Manning, of the United StatuscMarine Corps, lias been selected to pro­ ceed to China and organize a similar corps Prof. Samuel A. King has secured funds for an experimental balloon voyage this fall from the Mississippi river to the Atlantic seaboard. THE prize drill at Louisville resulted In a victory for the Porter Rifles, of Nashville, the second honors being carried off by Company C, of the First regiment of Chicago President Garfield has accepted an invita­ tion to visit St. Albaus, Vt., and attend ail educational anniversary John R. Bucbtel, of Akron, Ohio, has tendered another check to the college bearing his name, making hi* gift f200,000. THB astronomers all over the world are excited over the raddai re-a| - pearance of the biilliant " comet of 1812," in the northeastern heavens Qu r.erly- dividends of 1 per cent, on Michigan Central and 2 per cent, on Lake Shore stock hwe been declared The Pope has appointed Dr. McMullen, of Chicago, Bishop of Daven­ port, which diocese comprises tbe southern half of Iowa. FOREIGN. THB King of Spain has sent word to the Spanish Minister at Constantinople that he will gladly receive persecuted Hebrews into his dominions, not oniy because he thinks it is proper and just, but to compensate the perse­ cuted race for the harsh treatment and perse­ cution of the Israelites by his predecessors.... Members of the Italian National Club at Mar­ seilles hissed a regiment of French troops just disembarking on their return from Tunis. In­ stantly the oitizens surrounded the club-house and demanded the removal of the Italian flag, which order was disregarded. While the police were endeavoring to calm the people, the Dep­ uty Mayor tore down the escutcheon, and troops were Bent to guard the club-house A new dynamite discovery was made in St. Petersburg. This time the terrible explosive, amounting to 150 pouudfe, rfxa incased in india- rubber hags, with fuse# attached, and placed under % bridge which spans the Catherine canaL THK IrifSh census gives tbe " Gem of the Sea" a population of 5,159,849, a decrease of only a quarter of a million in eleven years. The Itali&n Government is getting ready to resume specie payments A new steamer, the Elbe, built in the Clyde for the North German Lloyds, steamed seventeen knots an hour on her trial trip. Herr Von Gofisler, the new German Minister of Public Worship, is in­ clined to favor peace with the Vatican In the French-Italian riots at Marseilles it is ••aid that eight {HHons were killed and twenty- three wounded. There were a large number of arrests The French army of occupition in Tunis will consist of 1 ,000 men Sews from Candahar (C&bul) announoes that the Ameer's army has had a pitched battle with and defeated the troops of Ayoob Khan with heavy less. J. PIERIK>NT MORGAN, of New York, has concluded negotiations in London, by wjiich tbe Wabash consolidation may acquire posses­ sion of the Cairo and Vinoennes road, 167 miles in length. THB British House of Commons has rejected the bill for the abolition of capital pun­ ishment by a vote of 175 to 89. John Bright voted with the minority Weston, owiug to sickness, dropped out of the pedestrian contest at Loudon in tbe middle of the week. Rowell made 2ti0 mil « and Westou 201. Tflbs steward of the Bey of Tunis has taken refuge at tbe English Consulate in that city with jewels and securities valued at 1,000,- 000 francs The census of the United King­ dom, which is rapidly approaching completion, will show the population to be about 35,000,000, an increase of about 4.000,000 in ten years In a duel at Paris Louis de Cassagnac wounded Capt. Herrisant in the shoulder. Two OIL mills and a factory in Mar­ seille?, where Italians were almost exclusively employed, have been burned, involving a loss of 6,000,000 f rancs. Beecher's Money. One of the mysteries of the age is what Henry Ward Beecher has done with his money. At one time he was in receipt of $20,000 from his church, $10,- 000 from his newspaper, $20,000 from his lecturing and $10,000 from marriage fees, literary works and his books, mak­ ing a total of $60,000 a year. Yet Beecher never hud any money to spare. His household was modest, not expen­ sive ; his wife was apparently not ex­ travagant ; he gave nothing that was known to charity, and yet he wan always imuecunious. When he wanted to help Til on he gave a mortgage upon his nouse, and now he has sold his house, furniture and buildings and gone to live with a married son. He told me he did this because the young birds had all grown up and flown out of the nest, and yet it was a marvel that in his old age he should leave his comfortable home upon the Heights of Brooklyn and go into narrow quarters as a boarder. He spoke with a sigh and very evident re­ gret at the breaking up of his olr* house. This was strange, but the unfinished story in regard to his farmer, Thorn an Turner, at Pet k-skill, is still mor« strange. When Turner died Mr. Becclier took charge of his papers, and burned a large number of them, among which, it is alleged, were a number of promissory notec. The whole thing ha i a queer look, and the question wuich agitates newspaper men is where has all the money he has made in the last cent­ ury, amounting to millions, gone to? Perhaps it is one of those mysteries that no fellow can find out, but the curiosity of the natural man will prompt liim to find out the undiscovered channel through which it flows.--Philadelphia Rccord. Chained bj HU Collar-Bone. A Buddhist priest was seen in Hange- how asking for alms in the public streets. He bore round his neck a heavy iron chain, which on close inspection could be seen to be attached to his Ixnly by a small silver chain passing arouud his collar-bone, through tlicfiejM^ Numerous placards posted in the strepb announced that the alms solicited l»y the priest were for the sake of rebuilding ft stone bridge in the neighborhood of Sliaoshing. He hoped, of course, that the sight of tlie pain inflicted on himself would soften INTEMPERATE SHOPPING. Intal AlMtinrace froaa Sboppisf a«d the KhsppinpWsneN'i nsdsiatioa Wlsty. [From the New York TtuMSil The awful prevalence of the vice of shopping among women is one of those fcigns of the times wbich lead the thought­ ful patriot almost to despair of the future of our country. Few people have any idea of the extent to which our women are addicted to this purse-destroying vice. Statistics show that of every 1,000 women between the ages of 18 and 45 no less than 693 are habitual shoppers, and of these more than one-half notoriously shop to what would be universally con­ sidered exoess. Even girls younger than 18 are frequently found shopping. Mothers have actually been known to teach girls of tender years to shop by urging them to "play store" with one another, and to go through the ghastly mockery of buying useless things with unconvertible pin currency. When these children grow a little larger and go to school, their mothers supply them with pocket-money, and abet them in going into shops and openly buying ribbons and things; It is now a difficult task to find, even in a retired country farm­ house, a girl\who is absolutely uncon- taminated by shopping; for, although there may be farm-houses remote from all kinds of shops, nevertheless the tempter, in the shape of the peddler, will search out the innocent farmer's daughters, and with his wily ways lead them to take the first steps in a career of headlong shopping. The husbands that have been ruined and the homes that have been made desolate by wives whose passion for shopping has mastered them, are almost without number. The amount of money annually spent in shopping by the women of Ameiica is KO enormous that in comparison with it the amount spent by men for whisky seems too trifling to deserve notice. How to fight this terrible vice is a question to which there has hitherto been no satisfactory answer. We cannot look to legislation for any relief. Neither can we hope for any­ thing from the efforts of professional anti-shoppiug lecturers. These mis­ guided women take the extreme ground that all shopping is a sin per se, and denounce every shopkeeper as a fiend incarnate. They insist that the moder­ ate shopped is as bad as the woman who wallows in shopping, and that she who buys a calico dress is aa bad as she who buys forty yards of trimmings or insertion. If one of these lecturers happens to be an eloquent woman, a reformed Bhopper, with a fund of comic anecdotes and pathetic stories iljuitra- tive*of the follies and miseries of shop­ ping, she is moderately sure to draw a large audience, but she produces little or no effect in reclaiming confirmed shoppers. Sometimes the lecturer may induce a few women to sign the total- abstinence shopping pledge, but of the signers nearly every one relapses when the excitement of the lecture has been forgotten. The truth is that people will not be brought to regard total ab­ stinence from shopping in*any and all circumstances as a Christian duty. The first ray of hope on this dark matter has been afforded by the organ­ ization of the " Shopping-Women's Mod­ eration Society." This society owes its origin to several intelligent and upright women who fully recognize the evils of excessive shopping, but who do not con­ sider that shopping in moderation is necessarUy wrong. As is well known, the favorite purchase of the confirmed shopper is "trimmings." After the habit of stop ping becomes fixed, calico, baregei lioaflry, and even gloves cease to satisfy the victim. She craves the stronger stimulus of " trimmings," and on these she squanders her own or her husband's substance. The " Shopping- Women's Moderation Society " pledges its members to abstinence from trim­ mings, except when ordered by an ex­ perienced family dressmaker, and for­ bids them even to approach a counter where " trimmings" are sold. The members of the society also agree to in­ dulge in shopping of any kind only in the afternoon, and never' as a mere amusement. The funds of the society will be used to aid such confirmed shop­ pers as show an earnest desire to re­ form, and for the relief of distiessed and impoverished husbands whose wives have ruined them by excessive shop­ ping ; and every member promises, in employing servants, to give the prefer­ ence to those who do not shop. The influence of a society which thus rejects the extreme measures employed by the professional anti-shopping lect­ urers, and appeals in a reasonable way to the intelligence of the community, ought to be very great. It will receive the support of the very large class of people who are disgusted with the vio­ lence and intolerance of the professional agitators. It is really the fitst organ­ ized effort to meet the evil of excessive ahopping whieh has jet been made. A Temperance Storj. Governor St John, of Kansas relate* in one of his speeches the following in­ cident: "A poor woman witl. a baby in hei arras came to me with a petition for the pardon of her husband, who was sen fenced to ten years in the penitentiary for homicide. Aftei examining the pa­ pers I said to the woman: " 'I am bound by my official duty, and must not consult my personal feel ings.' "The pty-ir woman standing with the child iu her arms, made the following plea: " 'Hear me and I will tell you the true story. We were married seven years ago. My husband was sober, industri­ ous. and thrifty. By great exertion and self-denial we finally gol our home paid for, and were happy aud prosperous. In an evil hour the State licensed a saloon between onr homo and his workshop. He was solicited to enter this saloon and weakly yielded. Hour after hour lie silent there playing cards. One day he became embroiled iu a drunken quarrel, aud fired by drink, struck a man and killed him. He was tried and sent to the penitentiary for ten years. I had nothing to live on; and by and by the Sheriff turned us out of our comfortable home into a rough shanty, neither lathed nor plastered. The cold wind came in through the walls and ceiling. My oldest boy took sick and died. Then little Tommy took sick aud died. Now this babe in my arms is sick, and I have nowhere to take it. The State licensed that salon; the State murdered my chil­ dren; and now, in God's name, I want you to set my husband free.' "I said I would, and I did." l'latt 27.!.. Tub Republican Executive Com- 'tl,e hearts and looseu the pursestrings of miitee of Mississippi met last week, ani ad- the passers-by.--Japan Oateite, Atheist Martyrs. A ridiculous paragraph is going the rounds of the press stating that Col. In- gersoll expects to be shot every time he goes on the platform by some religions fanatic. Oh, pshaw ! Go right on with your lectures, Colonel; nobody is going to hurt you. Why, what harm have you done Christianity, that any Christian Hhould want to shoot you ? Go on with your lectures. You're a thousand times safer than any Christian was when the Bible-haters had the floor in the first and second centuries. That was the time when the live lions got fat on re­ ligious lecturers, and they weren't atheist lecturers either. Don't be scared, Rob­ ert. It isn't your crowd that has been in the habit of furnishing martyrs. What a funny little book the lives and sufferings of ali the men who have died for their devotion to atheism would make. It would l»e very brief. It would only read, "There are no atheist martyrs." Ah, no. When they had a chance to l»e martyrs they hung on to life, and died natural deaths at the age of 90 or 97 or somewhere around there. And now, when martyrdom is altogether and entirely out of the fashion, it won't do for them to affect a fear and a willing­ ness for it. "Honor bright," Colonel, "it will not do."--Burlington Hawk- Eye. England's Yolnnteer Service. A military writer in the United Serv­ ice Magazine, in criticising the volun­ teer service of England, conveys some interesting information concerning that branch of England's power which is not generally known. The organization of the volunteer forces was the result of a fear of French invasion in 1859, when the relations between the two Powers were strained to that point that war seemed inevitable. It was in November of that year that the Government gave its consent for the formation of a volun­ teer army, and in a few days nearly a hundred thousand men were under arms, aud were speedily drilled. Since, that time the force has grown rapidly. In a year it swelled to 177,000 men, and now there are 200,000 well-drilled men in the volunteer ranks, who, by regular target service, have become experienced and skillful marksmen. According to the writer to whom we have referred, the Government supplies each battalion with an Adjutant, Sergeat Major, Drill In­ spector, Musketry Inspector, and Arm­ orer, all of whom are regulars. They are inspected yearly by regular officers, and upon certificates each battalion re­ ceives $5 for every man who is up in drill, and ten shillings for each extra- efficient, tlie test being his marksman­ ship. All the other expenses are met by the volunteers themselves. They pay for their uniforms and for their ammuni­ tion, except the conventional sixty rounds of ball cartridge for target prac­ tice, as well" as for all their incidental expenses. Probably $1,000,000 will cover the entire expense of the Govern­ ment for its home army of 200,000 men, which auswers to the levies made by conscription on the continent and excels them iu soldiership, because they have the advantage of drill and a certain amount of Government inspection under the supervision of regular officers. They have never yet been called into active service, and probably never will, except in case of iuvasion, which is a very dis tant contingency, when they would be utilized as a home guard behind the ranks of the regular army. The writer iu question does not place a very high estimate upon their efficiency, for the reason that their discipline is not kept up, and they are crude and raw, but the same objection might have been urged agaiust our own volunteers at the out­ break of the War of the Rebellion. It does not take very long to mold men into shape and teach them to fight who are patriotic and in earnest. It was not very long before our volunteers went into battle with all the steadiness of regulars. There is no reason to suppose that Eng­ lish courage is inferior to our own.-- (Viic.aao Tribune. The Llama. The South American llama will bea- neither beating nor ill-treatment.. The animals go in troops, an Indian walking a long distance ahead as a guide. If the delay be too great, the Indian, becom­ ing uneasy toward sunset, after all due precaution, resolves on supplicating the beasts to resume their journey. He stands about fifty or sixty paces off, in an attitude of humility, waving his hand coaxingly toward them, looks at them with tenderness, and at the same time, iu the softest tones, reiterates, " Ic k ic!" If the llamas are disposed to re­ sume their course, they follow the L, dian in good order and at a regular pace but very fast, for their legs are verj long; but, when they are in ill-humor, they do not even turn toward the speak­ er, but remain motionless, huddled to­ gether, standing or lying down. The straight neck and ita gentle majestic bearing, the long down of their always- clean and glossy skin, their supple and timid motion, all give them an air at once sensitive and noble. The llama is the only creature employed bv man which lie dares not strike. If it hap­ pens--which is very seldom the case-- that an Indian wishes to obtain, either by force or even by threat-*, what the llama will not willingly perform, the in­ stant the animal finds itself affronted by words or gesture he raises his head with dignity, and, without making any at­ tempt to escape ill-treatment by night, lies down, turning his looks * toward heaven. Large tears flow freely from his beautiful eyes, sighs issue from his breast, and, in half or three-quarters of an hour at most, he expires. The re­ spect shown these animals by Peruvian Indians amounts absolutely to supersti­ tious reverenoe. When the Indians lead them, two approach and caress the ani­ mal, hiding his head that he may not •ee the load on his back. It is the same in unloading. The Indians of the Cor­ dilleras alone have sufficient patience and gentleness to manage tlie llama. Old Age. The brain in old persons at the nge ol seventy, diminishes both in bulk and density, aud thus becomes lighter. It* capacity for continuous hard work if thereby lesseued as really as is tlia: ol the body foi muscufer labor. As an old man, however, has the ac cumulated knowledge, skill and practi cal experience of almost a. lifetime, and that wonderful facility which comes oi habit, he may with good health and care, do much of his best work in the neighborhood, say, of eighty. He cannot bear mental strain, and hr. must not attempt mental "spurts," but he can still show himself a "workman that needetli not to be ashamed." Since, however, the brail, is not so firmly supported by the skull, and i* slighter in texture, the bloml vessels are more easily dilated 01 ruptured. The danger of paralysis and apoplexy is still further increased, l>ec:iuse the blood ves­ sels become in old age more or less ossi­ fied and brittle, and thus unable to sus­ tain a sudden rush of blood. The aged should carefully abstain from every form of violent action, and, indeed from every violent emotion. The full term of toil, whether in rearing and sup porting children or in the service of the public, earns a right to what is the nor­ mal physiological condition of age--free­ dom from all that annoys, perplexes, harrasses, excites and burdens. Aw ELDERLY lady said her husband was very fond of peaches, and that was his only fault. "Fault, madam," said one, "how can you call that a fault?' "Why, because there are different ways of eating them sir. My husband takes them in the form of brandy." EARLY SOUTHWESTERN POLITICS. Hsw Sarfeant S. Prcntl«a Responded to ike Charge of Drnnkennovt. [W. H. Spark*. In Philadelphia Times.] Prentiss commenced the canvass of the State, which his opponent wisely declined to do, and thus avoided a conflict on tbe stump with him. McNutt was the nom­ inee of the Democracy for Governor, and by that party considered competent to meet Prentiss. They met but once, and so overwhelming was the triumph of Prentiss that McNutt declined to can­ vass further with him. Prentiss' march through the State was an ovation. Crowds followed him from county to county. The meeting with McNutt was accidental, but it was turned t® account wonderfully by his imprudences and Prentiss' retort. McNutt in liis speech urged as a reason for the defeat of Prentiss his dissipated habits. He admitted his great abilities, his masterly genius, pronounced him the first man of the State, intellectually, but regretted his want of morals and de­ plored the consequences to the State and himself. t He urged that his slavery to the bottle was rendering him useleos despite his genius, learning and elo­ quence. Prentiss said in reply: " MY FELLOW-CITIZENS : You have heard the charges against my morals, r.agely, and I had almost said soberly, made by the gentleman. Had I said this it would have been what lawyers term a misnomer. It would be impos­ sible for him to do or say anything so­ berly, for he has been drunk for ten years. Not yesterday or last week, in a frolic or socially with the good fellows, his friends, at the generous and genial board, but at home by himself, save his one solitary love "friend--his demijohn. Not with the high-spirited or high-met­ tled men whoso souls, when mellowed with generous wines, leap from their lips sublimated in words swollen with thought brilliant and dazzling as the blood of the grape inspiring them. No, but by himself, selfish and apart from witty men or ennobling spirits, in the secret seclusion of a dirty little back room, and on corn whisky--the son of old Virginia and the spirits of old Ken­ tucky. Why, fellow-citizens, as the Governor of the State, he refused to sign the Gallon law until he had tested by experiment that a gallon would suffice his cravings for one day. "Now, I will admit, fellow-citizens, that sometimes when in tliis enjoyment of social communion with gentlemen I am made merry with them and the rich wines of glorious France. It is then I enjoy the romance of life. Imagina­ tion, stimulated by the juice ot the grape, gave to the world the song of Solomon and the psalms of that old poet of the Lord, glorious old David. The immortal verse of wandering old Homer, the blind son of Scio's isle, was the in­ spiration of Samian wines, and good old Noah, too, could have sung some good and merry songs from the inspiration of the wines he planted, but having to wait so long his thirst, like the Democratic nominee's here, became so great that he was tempted to drink too deeply and got so drunk he could not sing. And this, I fancy, is the reason why this distin­ guished gentleman never sings. Per­ haps there is no music in his soul. The glug, glug, glug of his jug as he tilts and pours from his reluctant mouth the corn so loved of his soul is all the music dear to his ear unless it is the same glug, glug, glug as it disappears down his capacious throat. Now, fellow-citi­ zens, during this ardent campaign which has been so fatiguing I have only been drunk once. Over in Simpson county, where the people are poor and honest, 1 was compelled to sleep in the same bed with this distinguished nominee; this delight of the Democracy ; this wonder­ ful exponent of tlie principles and prac­ tices of the unwashed Democracy, and in the morning I found myself drunk on white-corn whisky. I had lain too close to this soaked mass of Democracy and was drunk from absorption." This was more than the Governor could stand, and he declined a further canvass with Prentiss. surance, he repaired to tile scene of ac­ tion, and the distance--twenty-five paces --having been duly measured, boldly faced his opponent, who, on the signal l>eing given, blazed away, and neatly perforated the critic's hat just half an inch above his head. " Confound it!" exclaimed the latter to hiB second, who was congratulating him on his gallant bearing; "why didn't you tell me that- he wis going to spoil my new hat ? I Would have put on an old one." Trencher-Mates. In six weeks 1 was as much at honie as if I had been a Mohammedan all my life. I formed friends, had little tiffs and jealousies with my companions in the household--we all having the same interests--and even eating out of the same plates, without offering to bite, though the disposition to do so is so strong as to be barely under control. Darwinites may safely take my word for this fact, and are at liberty to make use of it as a startling analogy. My tren­ cher-mates were a blind Moulvi (Doctor of Divinity) and a gentleman with only two fingers on his right hand, the only one with which a Mohammedan may take food. I had, with infinite pains, worked this myself, thinking I would stand a better chance ; but the first time I sat down I found 1 had immensely un­ derrated my friends' abilities, for I nev­ er saw two men with such an alarming capacity for curry and rice, or who showed such extraordinary skill at put­ ting it away. At first I was a little fas­ tidious, and had lather a prejudice in favor of not seeing a greasy black hand scratching merrily among my food. I did not seem to enjoy it as much as I ought; however, it was only a prejudice which I had to overcome. I began by imagining lines drawn over the dish, separating a corner of it to myself, and operating inside these bounds. This sol t of thing did not last long ; the two- fingered gentleman's two long fingers would come angling along through my rice wall before 1 had got my third fist­ ful swallowed, or the Moulvi's skinny hand would wave like a mesmeric pass over the dish, scatter grains of rice that had stuck to his fingers from the last mouthful over it, and then alight on my most meaty morsel, a piece I had per­ haps had my eye on from the first; but it would have shown greedy haste on my part to have taken it so early in the play. No, I hadn't a chance with these two thieves, for they got away five-sixths of the mess every meal, and with such grace, too. "Bless you," they would say, " how little you eat, Mohammed Amin!" as they shared the last mouth­ ful between them.--"A Visit to Mecca," Keane. SaJnte-Heave as a Duelist. Sainte-Beuve, the eminent critic, was once engaged in a duel, the cause of which is forgotten. While the prelim­ inaries were arranging, it began to rain slightly, and the author of " Volupte," who had prudently brought his umbrella with him, held it over his head with one hand, while he firmly grasped his sword with the other. This proceeding ob­ jected to by the seconds as irregular, he coolly replied that "it was quits suffi­ cient for him to risk his life, without running the chance of catching cold into the bargain." He, however, did not lack courage, which is more than can be said of one of his colleagues, who, finding himself under the necessity of accept­ ing a challenge, only consented to do »o on being confidently informed by his second that in the present case the duel was mere'v matter of form, and that his adversary would take care not to hit liim Somewhat comforted by his as- Bismarek's Escape from Death. Hard by, where the Kteine Maner strasse debouches into UM Linden, Prince Bismarck had a narrow squeak for existence at the hands of yoong Blind, not many months before I first made the personal acquaintance of the eminent German statesman. It was Hot, however, tiU the autumn of 1867 that, one ni^ht during a long tete-a-tete with which he honored me in his old house in the Wilhelm strasse, he gave me a de­ tailed and graphic account of hisrencon- ter with Blind, aud placed my finger on the bony excrescence which had devel­ oped itself on one of his lower ribs in consequence of the injury inflicted thereon by a bullet discharged from Blind's revolver at a moment when its muzzle was in actual contact with the Chancellor's body. "I owe my extrordinary escape from death," I10 observed, "partly to the sol­ idity and hardness of my rib, and partly to the strength of my muscles. Blind had scarcely raised his pistol when I grappled with him, and got his right arm in a tight grip, which I never re­ laxed until he was secured by a patrol of the guard. Of the five shots he fired while we were struggling, only this one," pointing to his side, "took effect, for I had my wits about me and managed to kelep his pistol-hand bent outward, except just at the end of the tussle, when he succeeded in turning the barrel full upon my body. But the bullet, though it stung me so sharply that I thought it had gone clean through me, only glanced off my rib. I ran a much more imminent risk from the fair-plfcy instincts of an honest Prussian guards­ man than I did from that foolish lad's revolver. You see, he was a Kwmlliah fellow, and I am rather a big one. While we were wrestling, my hat fell off, and I suppose my bald head proved a tempting object to one of the soldiers who ran up to see what was the matter, hearing the report of the pistol; for this worthy fellow, perceiving a tall man, as he fancied, ill-treating a short youth, clubbed his rifle, and would assuredly have brought the bvtt end down with a crash upon my bare pate had I not caught sight of his attitude iu time to shout out, ' Hold on ! I am Bismarck'-- upon which he dropped his weapon in a much greater fright than even my own." --Swiss Times. Planning Work. Even in housework the brain may save the body a great deal of labor. L wom­ an who plans her work beforehand al­ ways accomplishes a great deal more than her less-methodical sister, and with less fatigue to herself. Before she rises in the morning her breakfast is thor­ oughly planned, and the order in which the different details are to be carried out is quite decided upon. It makes all work easier to have it thus planned be­ forehand, and many a weary woman might secure many bright half hours to herself every week if she would but in­ augurate the system. It is just like packing a trunk--you know how easy it is for one skilled in the business to put in a third more than one who piles tiling* in " just as it happens." It is always such a pleasure to look back on a well- packed day and jee just what has been done. People whose days are full of idleness and ease do not have a monop­ oly of happiness by any means. Those who have nothing to do except to make themselves comfortable are generally peevish and discontented. Work has manifold advantages; and the woman who has led a busy life cannot be con­ tent to rest in idleness. Insanity from Kissing. The "kissing games," in the country, sometimes bring about strange results. Mrs. Thomas Armour, of Schuylkill county, Pa., is insane from being a mere looker-on at one of these games. 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