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t. VAN SLYKE, Editor M4 Publisher. MCHENFCY, ILLINOIS. WEEKLY REITS REVIEW. THE EAST. HANKIBAII TT tirr.ra will aooept the flpuiiKb mnwion, and Oapt Boutelle, of DM Bangor Whig, will be Secretary of Lection. ....At Deep River, Ct., Pratt, Read St Oo.'« piano-key factory burned. LOBS. $150,000. A NEW granite monument, costing •6,000, bae been placed over the grave of William M. Tweed in Greenwood Cemetery.... lite wife of ex-Senator T. O. Howe, of Wia- eonriu. dud in Washington at the reeidenae of OoL Enoch Totten. AT McKeesport, Pa., in an attempt to recover some stolen goods, Mr. McClare, a hardware merchant, was shot dead by the thieves, an oftioer was fatally wounded and two othf ru M.non»ly. THK rooms at a hotel in Asbury Park, M. J., of Capt John Bofinger and family, of Bt. Louie, were robbed of f 10,000 worth of jew­ elry. Other gueste of the hotel were also robbed,.. .Thn assessors of Boxton have ap­ praised that cilv at $665,513,900. The amount to be raised for'municipal expenses is $3,173,- 280. DR. TANNKB has located at Erie, Pa. He is preparing a proposition to the medio*! facnliy of New York to fast for three months. Ho declares that, if the air in his room be atroiigly charged with electricity, he can obtain the negative element from the disintegration of bis .tiBMio. and fast for ninety-five days, ..George Walker, of Boston, who abducted a 7 ytar-old child from the front of a house in Hew York, was sentenced to ten yean in Btate pnson. Canada, which was 8,670,4*6 In 1870, is now ml ported as being 4,350,933 --an increase of 640,- 49S, or sometnmg test* than 20 per cent, in ten years. A DISPATCH from the city of Masat- lan, Mexico, says "an explosion occurred in the Government magazine there, oaosed by a guard smoking. The building was situated in the center of the business portion of the town. Tne explosion completely razed the maga­ zine and destroyed many houses in the immediate vicinity, beside doing con­ siderable damage to a number of others, and killing a large number of people. Immediate­ ly afU-r the explosion the soldiers and citizens went to work to recover the bodies of those known to be buried iu the ruins. Seventy bod­ ies were recovered, among them Fran- ciso Pera, the Distr.ct Judge. The number of killed and wounded is not vet known, as several bodies are said to be still buried under the rums. The York- town Congressional Commission and the York- town Centennial Association haveeelected Oct. 18 as the day on which the ceremonies shall commence at Yorkto«m. THK Commissioner of Internal Rev­ enue has addressed his annual communica­ tion to Secretary of the Treasury Wuulom. " Durng the past fisoal year," he savs," $136,- 229,902 was collected and paid into the treas­ ury. The sum coll cted the past five fiscal years was $602,310,787. The entire amount, without any loss by defalca­ tion, has been paid iiito the treasury. The expenses of the internal-revenue service the past fiscal year will be bhown upon the final adjustment of the accounts to not exceed $6,063,330. Entire expenses the past live years, £21.902 330, being 3.37 per cent., and in the disbursement of this money there has been no loss to the Government.n Tax death is announced of Bishop E. O, Haven, of the Methodist church, at Salem, Ore., and of William G. Fargo, President of the American Express Company and Mayor of Buffalo, also of Mr. James Clark, the senior member of the Clark Thread Company of Newark, N. J., at Paisley, Scotland. WASHINGTON. FOLLOWING the recent appointment of a commission to inquire into and report upon the best plan for building up the navy Secretary Hunt has concluded to orgauize a sub-commission in each of the navy yards in the country. These commissions will be in­ structed to ascertain the amount of old worn- out material accumulated during and since the war, and which is of no use to the scivice. He takes this action with a view to asking au­ thority from Congress for the sale of such old material. THR Commissioner of Agriculture proposes to investigate in earnest what can be done to reclaim and render marketable the arid regions of the West, and has formed a commission consisting of Prof. Hilyard (col- ord), ex-Gov. Famaso, of 'Nebraska, and T. 0. Jones, of Ohio--three of the moat eminent scientific agriculturists in the country--to visit the region Forty-three Postmasters of Presidential offices having failed to report the amount of business transacted at their respective offic. s during the last quarter of the fiscal year within a month Attorney General MacVeagh. CroWe bad dis- ! after the clo8e of. tLe quarter (the 30th of posed of hie busint'M and was preparing to go ! or their sureties are liable for A TKRRIBM explosion took place in 1he distillery of the Woolner Bros., Peoria, I1L, by which eighteen persons were badly injured, Bine of whom have sinoe died and several more are not expected to recover. The distillery was burned on June 6, and the proprietors wefe en­ gaged in trying to save a tub of beer that was saved from the fire, and. through the defects of the machinery and the pipes, the still-tub exploded with fearful results....A dispatch from San Marcial, New Mexico, says: Two Me^cans and two miners were murdered be­ tween San Jose and Fort McOrea by Iudians, who are supposed to be heading irom the Black Range. Reliable news from Eagle re­ ports the burning of a ranch and a number of Mexicans and two unknown miners by the In­ dians near there. It i* thought there are three bands of Indians prowling about the eountrv, as their signal-fires were seen from Bugle tat night. P. W. CBOWK, of infernal-machine notoriety, was arrested at Peoria, I1L, by the United States authorities, on an order from through the conntrv raising recruits for the Iruh Chuae. Numbers of the leading Irish citi­ zens of Feoiia gathered, and bail in the sum of •1(> ,000 was tendered, but the Marshal would not accept bail, and took ins prisoner to Chicago.... The Evansviile. Rockport and EasUru road has double the amount received at their respective offices during the quarter. MR A GARFIELD received letters of sympathy and condolence from the Christian Churches of Southampton. Chester, Southport teen purchi'.sed by the Louisville, New ! and Liverpool England, together with a draft Albany and St. Louis Air-Line John Wiler, one of the pioneers of Mansfield, Ohio, died at the age of 101 years. A SAN FRANCISCO telegram reports the airival in that ci'y from Mexico of Ambrose Lomprax. of Natchitoches, La. Lomprax was with the party of surveyors that were attacked by Apaclv s -outh of El Paso, State of Chihua­ hua, and thirt- en killed. lie says he jo ned the party the day before the attack. The night before trie massacre bo lost a • or-e and a hired boy, and thought lie saw Indian signs. Next day the party started on, and he lingered half a mile behind. When the party was among the sapd hills the fighting began. Lomprax »ays the party were weil ainiod aud brave ium, but had no leader and ri.d riot know how to fight Indians. He tried to juin the party. but n as uikeu prison­ er by the Indians, and would have been killed but bis lost Mexican boy appeared and told the Indians he was wealthy?' aud could be ran­ somed. He was secured and could not see the field. Tho surveyors fought desperately against the Indians, who numbered forty-five or forty-six, of whom f-ix were killed and' nine wounded. Ail the whites were killed, six of them being dispatched while lying on the field wounded. Lomprax says the Indians were under command of Victoria, as he knew that clnef very well by sight A Deadwo jd di- patch reports the discovery of rieta carbonate nine mile* from the city, a MI tu­ ple of which a-Kayed *2,fi00 to the ton." Miners •re flock ng thither from all parts of the Black Hills Sitting Bull's party will be divi led up at Branding Rock, and distributed among dif­ ferent ageneus. receiving the same treatment as other Indians. INTELLIGENCE has reached Denver from Fort Craig that Apache Indians attacked the Mitchell party of ten Americans and twenty-six Mexicans out from Chloride City on • trait in lied canou. The fight lasted until dark. Three Indiaus were killed. Nine Mexicans and Americana were wounded and killed, with two missing. All their horses were taken by the Indians A fire which broke out in a dancc-bouse at Truckee, Nev., destroyed every Indues* house in town except three, and many residences. The loss reaches the i ouud sum of $350,000, with insurance of one-third that amount It is announced that the work of rebuilding has already lie^un It is stated that Jay »iou!d has purchased a large portion of the stock of the National Stock-Yards, near East St. Louis. A fire at Dead wood burned $ 100.000 worth of property. THE Meecalero Apaches who left their Mservation have crossed tho Bio Grande near flan Jose. They killed two herders and a miner near Ban Marcial, and firod upon a party of thirty-six Mexicans and Americans who "ere in piuvuit of them.... An artillery battalion, encamped near Grass Valley, CaL, had a sham fight, and, in storming a fort, several commissioned officers and be­ tween tweuty and thirty men were mora or leu •wooded, but none seriously. THK MXjTH. A FIXE originated in the locker of the •toamt r Idlewild, lying at the wharf at Memphis, destroying t bat vessel and the Osceola Belle, and was barely kept from burning the Joseph Lee. The steamers were valued at $45,000 The civil authorities of Pt-.riy county, Arkansas, anboiiiioj their inability to enforce the law or to anest the HKHIIBBUIB of Editor Matthews. Governor Churchill has ordered General New- • J® proceed to Perryville with a company rf uiiliUa and assist in preserving order, ewhng out any other portion of the railiua he may deem nooes-arv. The expedition Jeft Little Rock last week George W. Tabb, foreman of the jury which convicted John brown of ti eat-on. died"at Har­ risonburg, Va Superintendent Dang, of the flew Orleans mint, reports to the Treasury De­ partment that he will, during the mov. ment of the cotton and sugar crops, put out from New Orleans between 8,000.000 to 10,000,000 of standard silver dollars. THE corner-stone of a monument to Gov. Caswell, the Revolutionary war Governor of North Carolina, was laid at Raleigh by the •s sonic fraternity. The ceremony was wit­ nessed by 10,000 persons. MBS. DR. 8. W. BIRD, of Hamilton, Lonoae county, Ark., gave birth to a girl child weighing twelve pou ids, with its brains the < utside of its cranium. of .£100 as a contribution to the building lund of the Church of the Diseiples in Washington, which the President and his family attend. The draft was sent by the u embcrw of the Christian church in England as a token of thankfulness for the preservation of tho President's lite Mr. Lorintr. tho Commissioner ef Agriculture, has reqii'-sted Prof. C. A. White, of Greeley, Col., and Prof. Samuel Aughev, of Lincoln, Neb., to act as a commission for the selection of a site for sinking experimental w» lls in the arid plains east of the Rocky mountains. GTTITBAU has placed in the hands of District Attorney Corkhiil a petition asking that he be released on bail. It iB not at all likely that Guitean's prayer will be granted, aud it is certain that if he were released he would not be quite safe. It is saidthat there, have been formed in Washington, Baltimore and Phil­ adelphia organizations wiii^ii would deal with Guiteau after a fashion whioh that person would not li»e. COMMISSIONER RACM HAS issued a statement showing by collection districts the amount of internal revenue collected within the i st fiscal year. The collections in Illinois. In­ diana, Minnesota, Ohio, Iowa and Wuoonsin were as follows: ILLINOIS. \lXxtricta. tD,905,167.6P Fifth *ll,*25,ir.77 237,248. S'.MSovmith <i7,H84.77 6tW,4i» fiilEiiriith .... 1,407.2*:.90 1,203,221. B'j|Thirtoeath.. «J2,4«lt.^4 INDIA A. 201,752.571 Seventh .... 2,253,770.27 Fourth 3,3fi9,731.14 Tenth 174,92fi.iy Sixth 1,094,927 1K)| Eleventh.... 96,156.41 MINNESOTA. First llC,126.8M|8eoond 349,013.51 OHIO. First 12,538,'46.58! Tenth Second Tli.nl Fourth rtrst.. 1,0*9,508,12 1,398,2X7.92 1W5,S71.89 8CG,53«.h2 Third .... 1,8 6,871.l?|FJeventh ... Fourth 5!3,r,82.8<i|Fiftc«nth... Sixth %)2,21<i.il2|KigUteenth . Seventh.... 594,593.3. | IOWA. Second r«7,340.i:C|Fonrth 10f»,04fi.(Hi TUttd " 281,317.001 Fifth 219,08100 WICC'-'NSIN. . First !i,373,693 <A IThlrd 22il.859.00 Second Iti9.982.0t 'S'xth 13«,559.tS) Tha total internal-revenue collections, from all sources, for the past fiscal year aggregated *13.. 220,902. F0LL0wi?m is the Inst official public- debt statement, issued on the 1st inst.: Rix per cent bonds $ 178,055,150 Five per cents 489.704.ii3U Four and one-half per oenta 2.'><l,OtR Ki!) Four per c«utn 73S.69.y.>-V> Rflfnndinc certificates.' 6,fi38,504 Kavy pension fund 14,00U,tXXI Total coin bonds M stored debt Le^al tenders $ Certificates of deposit.,. Gold and silver eertitt- cstes Fractional currency. Total wltboet intersst. ToUl debt Tots! interest Cash in treasury Debt less cash In treasury.... Decrease dtiring July Current liabilities-- Interest due su'i unpaid...!... . Debt on »hicii interest lias ceased...... Interest iher"on Gold and sii»er certificates United Stated notrs buld for redemption of certiftcatcH of deposit. ;... Cssh balance avsiiabl* Aug. 1,1881.,.. $1,621,1 U.IOO 9.9i>9«UU 946,741,901 10,740,UX) •7,r'3,HP0 T,098,#i5 422,8U,946 . .$2.(153, '83,961 14,015,017 23<),878,190 $l,8:«l.ri20,7H8 10,07.-, U23 2,H44,4:» 773,6(W 57,733,000 10,740,000 154,827,274 Total $ 236,878,190 Available assets-- Clash in treasury > 236,87*,190 Bonds lsraed to Pacific railway compan­ ies, interest payable in lawful money, principal untntanding $ 61/123,512 Interest seemed and not yet paid...... 323,117 Interest paid by United Ktote* (1,467,272 Interest re(*aid by coiiipameK-- Interest repaid Dy traii«iKjrUition ct mails 14,42(3,644 By ossh payments of B per cent of net earnings. <06,198 Baisnce of interest paid by the Unitsd Mates M.885.428 GUITEAU'S petition to be admitted to bail, says a Washington disj atch, is iu some respects one of the most remarkable documents that has ever been drawn np for the considera­ tion of a court of justice. It is now :n tho pos­ session of District Attorney Corkhiil, in whom Ouiteau has tho most implicit o ntideuoe, and to whom he intrusts all his secrets, if a man well developed, has* a "fin""form "and^o^d" i wl'° 80 and unreservedly can be forguty, save that the eyes are inclined to stare MLITICAL, Ex-Gov. DctQLKi, of Maine, is Beputilican candidate for Congress to fill the Jicaiicy created by the election of W. P. Frye to the Henate. THE conservative Democrat® of Yir- gima gathered at liichmond in Btate Conven­ tion on the 4th inst. Thomas 8. Bocock was made permanent President The pUtfonn de- I olaros that the maintenance of the public i flVOusi of Virginia iB an e^neutial means to tb© moniotion of her prosperity. John M. Daniel, Of Kickmond, was nominated for Govomor Horth Carolina held an election, on the 4th tart., on tho liquor qutsUon. The Probibi- tfonists failed to carry a count v. *ud Wcre do- tatted by 40,000. , SBBIERAL. Tn population of the Dominion of said to have any secrets. Giutoau is undoubt­ edly becoming ansiaus to escape the penalty of his crime. It is apparent thst ho has had enough of imprisonment, and that be has made up his mind he will seek to escape the penalty of the law by a plea of insanity. His petition to be admit tod to b»il 'is drawn iu lo^al form, although there is much in it that no lawver would care to in­ sert, wh'le there is much also that a cunning man, who is determined to feigu insanity, or a man really insane, would mskis a part of his application. Khould a lawyer be appointed to conduct Guitean's case, this application wi'l nil questionably be used as evidence of insanity. Ouiteau, in asking for release on tail, ex­ presses great sorrow that the Presi­ dent has suffered so much and so long from the wound be indicted. He ask-i his r' lease because he fours thut con­ finement will make him insane. He repels with scorn the idea that he is now insane, or that he wws insane when he conceived or committed the criin*. He insists strongly that he is now imt s&ys that he leek " the nimbus of insanity playing around his brain." He then goes on to recite some facts that indicate that there is insanity in his father's tamily. He announces thut he proposes to make his own defense, with competent legal assistance. Guitean wiuits his temporary roleano, not only that he may escape impending insanity, but that be may take a trip to Europe, where he wiafcM to remain a month or twa ro Hcics*. AMONG tho Irish members who re­ fused to vote for the third reading of the Irish Land bill are Paniell, Biggar, Healey, Red­ mond, Arthur O'Connor, Le^mv and T. P. O'Connor. It is reported that these gentlemen left the House amid "derisive choeriug." It is quite probable that this iittle band of " ex­ tremists," as they are called, may be the nu­ cleus of what may become a very formidable party in the House of Commons.... The Spanish Government has addressel a re­ monstrance to the French ministry with refer­ ence to the plundering of the Spanish Vice Con­ sulate when the French troops entered Sfax. The Chief of Police of Rome has been dis­ missed for allowing the disgraceful street tiot dur ng the reinterment of the remains of the late Pope Pius DL PARNKILL was "named" in the House of Commons for interrupting the debate on Indian affairs to allude to the Irish political prisoners. Mr. Gladstone then moved that the offender be s us (tended for the remainder of that sitting, which was carried by 132 to 14. Before it was decided, however, Parnell arose and left the House The Londou Standard says that the indications point to an average wheat crop in England, that the barley crop will certainly be an average one, the root crops will lie poor and the potato Ci op excellent. The prospects of the Scotch farmer are not qui e so bright as in England. The crop prospects in Ireland are excellent A Panama paper states that some Chilians fell into the hands of the Peruvian Gen. Monto- neros, who horribly mutilated them, in revenge for the shooting of some brutal Peruvian out­ laws In a terrible explosion in a mine at Lourches, France, ten persons were killed and twenty grievously wounded... vPrince Napo­ leon has written his partisans in Franoe, advo­ cating a national plebiscite for eieoting a chief of the nation. SHEIK MAHMOUD, one of the leaders in the movement to excite a "holy war n against the French in Africa, has been arrested in Con­ stantinople by order of the Fiench Consul sta­ tioned there. He was immediately taken on board a French man-of-war, and will be sent to Franc > to auswer a charge of conspiracy against the public peace in Algeria. Docu­ ments were lound in bis possession showing the existence of a vast Moslem conspiracy against Franoe In the oase of McGrath and McKevitt the dvnamite fiends, the Liverpool jurv found both prisoners guilty, and sentenced McGrath to pen.il servitude tor life and McKevitt for tif- teen years Ayoob Khan has occupied Canda- har, from which he was driven at such expense of blood and treasure by the British a short time ago. BRADLAUGH, true to his threat, at­ tempted to enter the British Honse of Com­ mons by force. He was removed from the Lobby by the police and escorted into the Piilice yard, where he stood for some time with his arms folded, three officers barring bii way to the House. When the House opened the Sp itker declared tho door closed, and Gladstone asserted that Brad- laugh has n iw no more right than a stranger. At this niO'iient Brndlaush endeavored to torce ail entrance to the House, but was dragged from the tioors and handed over to a party of six policeman, his coat being torn in the struggle, lie Mir-n went to Bow street for a snrbnious against the police, which was refused, but the niagis rate urged him to file information for assault A SYNDICATE of American, French and German bankers has resolved to oonstruc a canal from Baltimore to the Atlantic, across the peninsuin of Maryland and Delaware, at an estimated cost of !fr8,;;W.00<). The cut will be 120 feet wide, 26 leet deep, and requii^ eighteen months to complete. " Baltimore com­ merce will thus gam 225 miles of sailing.... The French Government having invited the United States Government to send some officers to witness the autumn maneuvers of the French army, Secretary of W ar Lincoln has designated Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield, Oil. Holiert 8. Lamotte and Capt. James Chester to act on the occasion. PATRICK T. HICKIB, a young Irish­ man of London, has been convicted of threat­ ening to kill Secretary Forster unless he re­ leased the Irish prisoners and resigned his office. The verdict w is accompanied by a rec­ ommendation to mercy, and the counsel for the crown announced that Mr. Forster desired that the sentence be the li«h est consistent with justice The treaty between the English anl the Boers has been signed and ratified, and the Govern­ ment of the Transvaal turned over to the Boers. The native chiefs are very much dis­ satisfied, and threaten to rebel against Boer rule at whatever cost....The American ship Calcutta has been lost on the coast of Africa. Only three men were saved. ADDITIONAL MEWS. THE Edison Electric Light Company is now putting wires in a district ki New York for 14,000 lights, and has purchased two build­ ings m Pearl street in which to place its ma­ chinery N. O. Greenfield, who murdered his wifo, was hanged for the crimc at Hyra- cuse, N. Y., last Friday, after years of delay. FIVE convicts at the California peni­ tentiary, locatod at Folsoro, made a break for liberty, knocking down the guard, and rau to the river. The officers and guards pursued them. One was wounded in tbe leg. aud captured; ai o her wus shot dead; another was capt- uied, he being afraid to cross the rivir, and oi:o attempted to cross, but was drowned. The fifth made his escape The iittle town o/ Covelo, Cal., has been well nigh destroyed by fire, the loss aggregating $55,000. A PETERSBURG (Va.) telegram says: "John \V. Green, of the firm of Walton A Green, commission merchant* of this city, aud a man named William Lee, who arrived hern from Lit'leton, N. C., met in a oar-room at Jarratt's Hotel,'.where Green refused to drink with Lee. Tne re usal led to insulting words. They met later and Lee cut Green's throat, iu three places, while Green shot Lue. BJL.1I men died within a few minute^. ' Turc Mississippi Democratic Conven­ tion, at Jackson, nominated Gen. ltobert Low- ry for Governor on the t^irtieih baliot. WASHINGTON dispatches represent President Garfield as progressing favorably to­ ward reoovery. He now partakes at regular in­ tervals of goodly quantities of solid and liquid foods, and sleeps quietly without anodynes. Hi > tongue has begun to luttime it* natural apjiear- H nee, and there is considerable improve ment in the process of digestion and asxiiniUutni. The discharge from the wound is iu every re­ spect satisfactory, and there is a very strong GEN. HANCOCK has received an invita­ tion from Secretary Lincoln to command the troops at the Yorktown celebration, aud prom­ isee to make that feature of the ct rcmonie- very impressive. Admiral Porter will command tho war vessels which will participate in tuc celebration. THE Hon. Levi P. Morton, the new Minister from tbe United States to France, ami Geu. Noyes, the retiring Minister, had au inter­ view with President Grevy at Paris. Alluding to the friendship existing bet wren the two na­ tions for a century, they trusted it would become perpetUHl. Both nstious had been foremost in maintaining a Goveinmeut "oi tho people, for tho people and by the people, and America was proul to bo united with Frmjce in tho main­ tenance of such a form of government.... The Lmp> rors of Austria and Germany bad a half-hour's consul'atiou at Gasteiu on the £>th hist., alter which Emperor Wuliain accompan­ ied Francis Joseph to the railway utation and bade bim a hearty adieu ou his departure for Munich In the recently discovered conpir- acy at Kt Petersburg sixty persons, some of them of high rank, are implicated. The do- teetiou of tnis plo , is said to I*) the roasou l ir the Hudden jouinty of the Czar and tannic ... Moscow. J MA MY had a vaccina nsb Upon ber sr.ow-wbin- urns, 8kf> w«rne<l her beau to tlii« effcct For fear be'd do it harm. ••t when they came to p rt that night 8lw gave a mightv gral<, And whispered. " H g me awful «tgh» And nsver salad id* ae:<b -- Jtaiitai CUf Tlmm. tirobn/ ihty that tbe wound round the ball is lealing. The hypodermic injocticu* of mor­ phine have boon omitted by the physickns. What Gyros field Saw In Asia. "There is no unusual discomfort about railway travel in India. Railway management there is of a> high order, and, an to expense of operating, exceeds anything to be found in the United States. But about 83 per cent, of re­ ceipts of Indian railways are required to meet the expense of operation. What one of our railways can report as favora­ bly as that ? "The Japanese are one of the clean­ liest people on earth, personally. But as much cannot lie said of them morally. It is the custom of the whole nation to bathe daily, but it may shock you to know that, until recently, men and women bathed together perfectly naked. The Government has established a law against promiscuous bathing, and the bathing houses are now made with a partition to separate the men. and the women, but it is not very high. A few years ago it was a very common thing to see men and women stark naked taking a bath in front of their houses. The re­ lation of the sexes in Japan are unfort­ unate, bat no worse than elsewhere in Asia, "The most refined Japanese are ex­ tremely courteous and agreeable people. We were invited to visit a Japanese merchant, with whom I was much pleased. Our reception was as curious as it waw cordial. We hod to remove our shoes at the door, and enter and make our*bisit in our stocking feet. Our host introduced us to three of his wives. I do not know how many more he had. It will give you some idea of the ele­ gance of onr entertainment if I tell you the tea we drank was made before us in a golden teakettle. " The hills, mountains and volcanoes of Japan are exceedingly beautiful. The groves which occupy so much space in Japanese cities ate very attractive. The inland sea upon which we crossed to Nagasaki is as beautiful as any water I ever sailed upon. "Shanghai and Hong Kong are not filthy, and Saigon, in Cochin China, is cleaner than New York has been in many years. But the people do not bathe as frequently as in Japan, and the people are not as clean. The Celestials are sinewy, and have great endurance, but they would doubtless look less sal­ low and. their physical condition would improve if tliey were not restricted to such monotonous diet. Jftice is whole­ some food, but they live almost ex­ clusively upon rica, and the poorer class have hardly enough of that. " The* dwellings of the natives are poor everywhere in Asia. The only fine private buildings are the houses of for­ eign residents. The pagodas of the great cities of China are conspicuous above the hut-like houses of the people, but they are much inferior to the mosques aud temples of India. As we sailed from the" ports of China the pago­ das were the last objects of sight, and, as we approached Singapore, the south­ ernmost point of Asia, and passed through the Straits of Malacca to Pe- nang, the temples of heathen deities were the first objects to attract our at­ tention. So it was at every Asiatic port we entered. As we sailed up the Bay of Bengal to Rau.oon, the capital of British Burmali, twenty-live miles within the motrth of the Irrawaddv, the greatest pagoda in the world raised its great golden dome imposingly before us. .A Village of Terrors. A Detroitejf who had business in a village in Washtenaw County drove out there iu a buggy, .and of course went to the iftwf'or, his dinner. The landlord made no iilqtliries ifntil after the meal was eaten and paid for and he then found opportunity to inquire : "Were you going out to 'Squire Browu's place ? " " No. " "I didn't know but you were a light­ ning-rod man, and I was going to say that the Squire has threatened to shoot the next one on sight. We don't go much on them fellers around here, and I'm glad you are somebody else. Maybe you are, going over to judge Hardy's to sell him some fruit trees for fall set­ ting ? " " No. " " Well, that's lucky. Only yesterday the Judge was remarking to me that the next fruit tree agent who entered his gate would want a coffin. Fact is, I my­ self have got to do some kicking to pay for being swindled on grape vines. You are not a patent-right man, eh ? " " No. " "Well, that's a narrow escape for yon. We've been swindled here ou hay forks, cultivators, gates, pumps, churns, and a dozen other things, and I'm keepiug six­ teen dozen bad eggs for U6e when the next pateut-righter shows his face in this town. Perhaps you are a leo- turer ? " "No." "Well, you haven't lost anything. We never tnrn out very strong here to a lecture. The last man who struck UP lectured on 4 Our Currency,' but didn't take iu enough of it to pay me for his supper. You are not a book-canvasser ?" "No." " That's another escape. We've been laid out here so often that if an agent should offer to sell a $20 dollar Bible for fifty cents, we'd suspect a trick to beat us. Strikes ine now that you mav be a lawyer ? " " No. " * " Good 'nnff. Last one who Bettled here had to leave town at midnight, and we don't want any more. Say, what are you, anyway ? " "A politician," replied the De- troiter. "A politician! Then git! For heaven's sake don't stand around hore if you value your life! We've just im­ peached our pound-master for embez­ zling the public money, aud the excite­ ment is HO iuteuse that the Democrats will ride you on a rail or the Republi­ cans* duck you in the water trough. Git right up and scoot ! "--Free Press. City and Country. The city population of England, ac­ cording to the last censnt, is vigorously increat-iug, while the rural, which, ac­ cording to the eon-us of 1871. was proved to bo stacuaut, is actually, in some parts of <he West at least, growing li'^s. It does not prove that En.rlund is • Incoming lefss able to feed itself because j the agricultural element of the popula­ tion is diminishing. The soil can be worked with much fewer hands now than of old, and the farms will send more food to the cities when less is con­ sumed at home. Tho converse of the proposition is, a given number of agri­ culturists needs more space for its oper­ ations, and this can be better found in Am> rica and Australia than in England. --New York Tribune. European Breweries. There are in Europe about 40,000 breweries, which produce annually near­ ly 2,2.r>O,000,000 gallons of malt liquor. Gnat Britian alone produces a third of the entire quantity, or, to be exact, 785,- 017,002 gallons. Prussia comes next with 318,579,998 gallons; Bavaria, 260,- 757,602 gallons; Austria, 245,975,158 gallons; and Franco, 155,980,000 gallons. It will thus be seen that the Teutonic nations are eminently the beer produce rs, as they are also the principal beer drink­ ers ; where wine is to be had nearly as cheaply as beer tne malt liquor is not preferred. The proportion in which beer is consumed varies very much. Bavaria heads the list with 54 gallons per head per annum, or rather over one gallon a week. Belgium is next with 30 gallons, and Eugland is about the same, namely, 29 gallons, or, roundly speaking, something over half a gallon per head per week. In Germany ex eluding Bavaria, the average consumpj tion is 19 gallons, and from this a gTeat drop follows, to 9 gallons in Scotland, and 8 J inlreland, whisky being preferred. Austria consumes only 6 gallons of beer per head, and Fi ance only 4. Browning's Incoherencies. 1V> those who think that Browning's mannerism is altogether an affectation, and the result of mature deliberation, I may observe that it is his natural man­ ner, for his very earliest poetical at­ tempts are written in precisely the same style which now so annoys and puzzles his admirers. Compression and con­ densation of language was the habit of his mind from youth. He has often boasted to me that if I could find a su­ perfluous word in any of his composi­ tions, even tLe very longest, he would never write another poem. His pecul­ iarity occasioned much fan among his literarv contempornri s ; Home said it was like reading Euclid, while Charles Mackay declared it to be the wrong side of the tapestry of verse; but I think that Jerrold's joke was the b st. He stated that, having retired to tbe seaside to recruit, after a severe illness, bis physician ordered him to abstain en­ tirely from reading. While his wife was out one day, a parcel of books arrived from London; among them was Brown­ ing's Sordello, just published. Jerrold sat down with the volume in his hand, resolved to have a mental treat; he read a page, paused, and looked puzzled; he read it again, with the same result; he then closed the book, exclaiming: "Great Heaven! I have lost my intel­ lect during this illness; here have I read a thing twice and don't understand a word of it!" His wife returned at that minute, he thrust the volume into her hand crving, " Bead this, my dear--read this!" Mrs. Jerrold complied, and then, with all a woman's quickness, exclaimed: " It's all gibberish--that man's mad.'* "Thank God," ejaculated Jerrold!. "then I am not an idiot." Charles Dickens solemnly asserted that, for an entire week after reading "Sordello," "he felt like the fag end of a mob." Leigh Hunt, with his humorous exag­ gerations, when asked by a friend how he liked "Sordello," replied: "I don't know, my dear boy; you may as well ask me what I think of London in a fog. I dare say it's a very fine city, but I can't see a bit of it." But perhaps Mrs. Mars ton, the dram­ atist's wife, pushed sarrasm to its ultima thule, when she said she "did not think it at all hard to understand--indeed, it was altogether too plain to please her." --1 homas Powell. tyieen Elizabeth's English. We are reminded, says a writer in Belgravia, of the celebrated letter of Queen Elizabeth to Sir Christopher Hatton, by Stoke Pogis manor. It was invested in his daughter-in-law, the widow of Sir William Hatton, who mar­ ried Sir E. Coke, aud it does not seem that she was happy with the great man, for they lived separately for some time; and, on hearing of tho death of Coke she went at onee to claim it with her broth­ er, Lord Wimbledon; but at Colnebrook she met the physician, who assured her that the great lawyer had improved in health, aud she went back to London much disappointed. There is more than one version of Sir Christopher Hatton's obtaining posses­ sion of tho Bishop of Ely's house in. Hol- born. It is even said that in the first instance he only wished tn build a town- house in the garden, but the Bishop ob­ jected, aud thou he thought that Ely Place itself would suit him better, and hence the weli-known letter of the Queen to the Bishop. But probably there was really a gentle hint to his Lordship that the Lord Keeper wanted the house for his town resilience on lease, and that was sufficient to induce the prelate to offer it. Queen Elizabeth, then having herself taken a fancy to it, occupied it in place of the Lord Keeper ; but a new Bishop of Eiy, who considered the see and all its belongings sacred, entered au objection to the arrangement, and re­ ceived the reply which makes anything in the " Complete Letter Writer " read very weak indeed: " PKOUT£ PRELATE- You know what you was before I made you what you are now ; if you do not immediately com­ ply with mv request, by I will un­ frock you. EiiiZAiifem." The Death Rate. The National Board of Health Bulletin re­ cently made the following report of the death rate in every 1,000 hi foreign cities: Iondon ...19.1 Liverpool Purin Havre 33.'.- Vienna 85.3 Kingston, Canada 71.7 MoDtrcnl 28.6 Muvttua I.yoas 27.4i \tatamorrtn, Mexico. .78.4 Oeueva J2..ri;It:.> de Janeiro 29.0 Amsterdam 2o.o|ixith, ScotUud 2RT.'J Frankfort 20.f'j Dundco 17.8 Hamburg lift. 51 Glasgow 2Z0 Bruoeela 20.71 The death rate in cities of the United 8tatee was ad follows: New York •0.4lPort«mooth 4(5.1 Brooklyn 37.3'[tidianup>i:i«. 27 3 Philadelphia 27.2 Kichmoiid 8.2 Pittsburgh 82.7' KvHiiNvilie. 26.3 WaRliiu^tun, D. G. ...33.5 Chicago **.o Newark 3o.!> Peoria 17.8 Providonce '23,7 A urorii. 8.8 Boston 1H.7 JHckeonviUe 14.8 lowell... 21 1 El^in 35.7 Richmond,Va 60.4'Mohne 7 4 ^hoeing 3i.2,Kock Island ...".G5.3 Otiarien oa 45 K Lake 43.1 At'tti .ts. 41.3 Quiucy 22 8 Kivanoah 32.3' Milwaukee 21.l> Mobile 4<>.:'.| n. Paul 15.0 •Se^nis 55.71M i:m ca;K>li« 33.4 N«>w Or'evns 3«.2|East Saginaw 22.0 Litt^o Kock S5,i'.iF;iut 12.4 Naolivill® i>7.i*|ldnnfng 12.7 Memphis fc9.i)|Dulni(jVie OiarkHviile 28.4 Kooknk Mnrfreesboro 4 '.8 I'avenport T tMiton 37.2, St. Louie 'Lonipvire 24.«j')nulia B.mlii if (irvaa 40.H Liwrc-nce C!e\e'aud 21.8; Halt Lake City... Dayton 22.8 Los Ange e* Matanv raa in Mexico shows tbe groatest d«ath rat" of any foreign city, nnd Home, Ga., the largest of any in the United states. ..'11.2 . . 2 6 8 ..2..7 ..37.2 ..a .9 .. 18.4 2 ..21 7 Clothing and Disease. It may not, perhaps, be known tliat a man wearing dark clothes is more liable to infection from contagious diseases than he who wears light-colored gar­ ments, because particles which emanate from diseased or decaying bodies are much more readily ubsorlied by dark than by light fabric*. This is easy of proof. Expose a light and dark coat to the fumes of tobacco for five minutes and it will be found that the dark one smells stronger than the other of to- liacco smoke, and it will retain the odor 1 inger. THE Paris Jockey Club pays its chief cook a salary of $5,000, and has done so for m dozen years. His great specialty u soup. FACTS FOB THE CUBIOUS. CJape Island, N. J., the sea has gained on the shore fnlly a mile since 1776. The tides on the eastern shore of the State are observably growing higher. DUBINO the reign of Napoleon I a book of birds for children was sup* pressed because it contained the phrase : " The cock is rather the tyrant than the chieftain of the farm-yard." EVEEY shell fired by an army during siege operations costs, with the powder with which the mortar is charged, the sum of eight dollars--enough to support a poor family for a fortnight. THK lead used in sounding from a ves­ sel usually weighs about fourteen pounds, but in deep-sea soundings a weight of not less than 150 pounds is frequently employed. Wire has been largely used for a line, as it makes less friction in suiking through the water. With hemp rope a sinker of 300 weight js sometimes twenty minutes in reaching the bottom in 1,600 'athoms of water, so great is the friction of the line. THE oldest monument in the world is in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. This is the lintel stone of a tomb which formed the last resting-place of an officer who lived in the time of King Sent, of tbe second dynasty, whose fate is hxed by M. Mariet+e more than 6,000 years ago. The stone is covered with that del­ icate and finished sculpture which dis­ tinguished the early periods of Egiptian history, and wan immeasurably superior to the stiff and conventional art of the latter ages of Egypt, which we are accus­ tomed to see in European museums. THE Japanese are remarkably exempt from deformed feet. The reason of this is to be fonnd in the shoes they wear. The wooden sandals worn in Japan have a separate compartment for the great toe, and make a clanking noise on the streets. Straw slippers are also worn, and a traveler setting out on a journey will Btrap a supply of them on his back, that he may put on a new pair when the old is worn out. They cost but a cent and a half a pair. They are rights and lefts, and leave the foot free to the air. They are never worn in the house, being left outside the door; passing down a Japanese street long rows of them are seen at the doors, old and new, large and small. It is sur- pris.ng to Bee how rapidly the Japs step out of them, and pick them up again with their feet without stopping when leaving the house. As THE most valuable wealth a country can possess is its healthy population, the tables of mortality are wotth study; and from these we fiiTd that on the lirst day of life seventy-eight boys die, to sixty-three girls. In the first week of life 168 boys die, to 153 girls. In Prussia the mortality among females is the greatest from 10 to 13 years of age; and from the 25th to the 40th it is greater than at other periods of life, and yet at all periods of life the census of females compares favorably with that of males. In England, taking a period of seven years, there were eight men to fifteen women who were alive at 101 years; three men to five women at l(/2 years; two men to three women at 103 y< ars of ago, and no man to one woman who lived to 104. It is observed that only one person in 1,000 born lives beyond 94 years. FBOM a comparison of the results of recent deep-sea soundings, it appears that the following are just generaliza­ tions : 1. The water of the South Pacific is in its whole mass cooler than that of the Atlantic. 2. The water of the South Pacific is, down to 4,225 feet, somewhat warmer than that of the Atlantic, but below that depth cooler. 3. The bol torn temperatures are generally lower in the Paci4ic than in the Atlantic at the same depths and in the same degree of lati­ tude ; but nowhere in the Pacific are found such low bottom temperatures ' as in the Antarctic portion of the South Atlantic, where temperatures of --0.3 centigrade to --0.6 degrees have been measured. 4. In the western parts of the Pacific and the adjoining parts of the East India archipelago, the tem­ perature of the water reaches its minimum at depths between 1,787 and 6,937 feet, remaining the same from this depth to the bottom. In the whole of the Atlantic the temperature from 8,937 feet to the bottom gradually though slowly increases. A Welsh Opinion of Boyalitj. It is, we think, to be regretted that the Prince of Wales has declined to allow his name to be used in connection with the National Eisteddfod of Wales. The loyalty of the Welsh people is bpyond question, but *vlien they ask a Uttle favor it ought, if possible, to be granted. As there must have been reasons why his Royal Highness declined to have any­ thing to do with the Eisteddfod it seems a pity they were not stated. We make these remarks because the refusal of the Prince to patronize the Eistoddfod has not only created a sore feeling in the Principality, but it has also exposed him to vulgar abuse, aud has given the en­ emies of the Monarchy the opportunity of attacking not merely the Prince him­ self, but also the Queen and the Royal family. Thus, a contributor to a Welsh news­ paper elegantly declares that the iuci- deut has "shortened Royality's life in this country fifty years." "Already," he continues "the Welsh preBS have been heard to grumble, not only loudly but augrily, at this uugra-* cious conduct of him who some day holies to be called His Most Gracious Majesty. In the columns of an English daily last week appeared an article which, though not (because of the old absurd veneration for Royalty so long prevail­ ing) so outspoken as it might have been, may yet be considered the first mutter- iugs of a storm which will one day bnr.st as stm ly as it is now brewing. Men, who, if you had spoken to them *ueer- ingly or slightingly of the principle ai Royalty a few months back, would have turned away from you in disgust, are now begiunmg to see through the mists of prejudice, and to question tho use of the thing. When not only the utter uselessness, but the positive evil, of that w hich they have to pay so dourly for shall become apparent, then will it and other fooleries and sins be sent packiug. As a begiuning in the right direction, allow me to suggest the dropping from all toasts lists of the insane custom of drinking the healths of the Queen, the Prince of Wales and tho rest of the Royal family. Welshmen have (although not for the first time) received prool positive that none of thorn are of auy use to Wales. Even the musical and literary members of that family--the fiddling Duke of Edinburgh and the studious littlo Leopold, whom the ir­ reverent believe to be iu training for the Arbisliopric of Canterbury--have thought themselves above patronizing Welshmeu of like pursuits with themselves.--Lon­ don Figaro. " Had Father be Kicked." Phvsicians frequently send patients to take riding lessons, particularly rversong whose occupations are of a sedentary, character. One stout, red-faoed merchant, a little past middle age, who was so recommended by his doctor, came up to try the prescription one morning last autmnn. He had not been on a horse sinoe he was a boy, he said. They put him on an easy-going, tract­ able horse, and he jogged about the ring for one hour faithfully. Then he dis­ mounted stiffly, with many grimaces and a few pithy remarks, waddled into the office, and declared himself. •'That," said he, "lets me out. I can get e*i actly the same results for half the money and in half the time, by hiring my por­ ter to kick me.Exchai\g^. "The Levees <*T Hie lKfesliffppf. In Louisiana the levee system is ot comparative ahtiquity, having had ite beginning in the earlier years of the eighteenth century, and the Embank­ ments long ago came under the jurisdic­ tion of local and State Oovernn^ent and assumed the dignity of public wixrks. In Mississippi and Arkansas, however, the reclamation of the swamp was an enter- prae of much more moderate date, hav­ ing its origin almost within - memory of persons now. living." and, at'first--and, indeed, for a long time--# was exploited solely by individual effort,. The earlier settlements on the river between Memphis and Vlcksburjg--gen­ erally wood-yards with small appurten­ ant corn-fields--were made upon unusii-. ally-high spots, whioh, although really formed by antecedent inunfiwtaBii, ob­ tained, absurdly enough, the reputation of being "above overflow," because, for a number of years, they had ttbt been actually submerged. They were prized accordingly, and the oorn-fields' of the wood-choppers were gradually trans­ formed into cotton plantations, at first, of course, of very limited dimensions. Similar elevated spots were sought out and subjected to culture, and, before any leveeing operations iiad been at­ tempted, the river bank on both sides was dotted with settlements of pioneer planters, who sought to utilize the fertile doit by cultivation. A very few years, however, sufficed to demonstrate the fallacy of the "above-overflow"; preten- j sion; the planter's mind relinquished the delusion that land should be high- it was sufficient that it should be dry-- and the proprietors doemed it expedieat to fortify against their common enemy. The water-marks left by the flood upon trees, stumps and fences were as plain as paint; these indicated the level of the water and supplied the want of engin­ eering science. A make-shift levee of| primitive style was constructed, very! near the river bank, because less land. | was thereby thrown out, and because J the ground is always highest upon thei margin of the river, sloping thence m- j land. As the plantations increased inl number and approximated eaiU other,! the principle ot co-operation appeared ;f levees were built across unoccupied? lauds until there were disconnected strings ten, twelve or fifteen miles long. The construction of these was far froir f-abisfa -tory. The operatives were gen erally the plantation negroes. At thai time the Iri^h ditchers aim levee build ers had scarcely made their appearand in the country. The colored people ar» not usually distinguished for their skit in the use of the spade, and cannot a all compete with the Hibe rnian. Som years there was high water, carry in dismay to the planter's heart; s<ni years there was low water, iuspinn confidence and s curity; occasionall there was no "water " at all--the rivi did not get out of its banks, and was therefore, held in contempt In 184- however, the Mississippi, having uppa: enily lost all patience with this p rsts ent intrusion upon its domains, "spre. itself," to use a vulgarism singularly d scriptive of the operation, and treat* its unbidden guests to a first class " b overflow," the like of which had not be< seen since 1828. The river rose ear aud went down late ; it overflowed t! whole country, jmd filled up the enti swamp ; ruined all the levees, great a small; remained at or near high-wal mark week after week and month afl mouth until late in July, and did I finally retire w.thin its banks ui nearly the middle of August.-^- Wi L. Mur/rce, &r., in Scribner. muj A LONDON DaVy Ntfwa corresponde writing from Nelson, New Zealand, sa; j " Whoever in England, whether farm I tradesman, artisaii or laborer cau by I i honest and honorable meaus manage! i keep a roof over his head, let him bvJ [ means stop where he is. The saf speculator in this directim i$ uudouf fedlv the British firmer with a modeii capital, but even him, in view of the I prices of produce here, I would advisi wait till we see the effect of the bei times which have already begun. gun." I a great <f IT IS said tliat the sun, as i tral life-givintr, h- at-diffusing lumin emits 2,;>0t).000,000 times uvre I than that which the earth receives. ! the total amount of heat emitted: the sun is sufficient to melt a covering solid ice around its b> dy ten aud a 1 miles thick in fwentv-fvir lwvirs. f . . .16 wt 11 Vrt THE MABKETS. KEW YOKK. Bnras HOOK o>ITTOW FLOOTIM- Superfine ^ WHKAI--No. 2 Spring No 2lied. CORN--UNGRADED . O TH--Mixed Westten...........i.. l'< r.K.--Mews OETIOiUHX ' BKXVES--Choice GrfuUvl Stoers 8 75 t'oWH and Huifers U IN) Medium 10 Fair 5 M HO«H 5 SO Fia)C»-- Fancy White Winter Ex... 6-75 Good to Choice Spring Ex. & so WHEAT--No. 2 Spring 1 20 No. 3 Spring 1 04 Ooan-- No. 2 r>l OA «- Nr.. 2 ; 82 Bvx--No. 2 St. BAHi.' v--No. 2 * l»0' BU-ITIB-- Choice Creamer^.. ' 20 Bte--Kreab .......... It foi K--M«M LABD 11V, MILWAUKEE. WHXAT--No. 1 I 17 No. 3 1 la CVIUH--No. 2 4'.) OATH NO. 3 SO lirv -No." t H 5 BAULKY--No. 2 73 Poit*--MOM N JS I LAKD |IV j ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 3 Bed 1 jji C Rl)--Mixed ft:) OATS--No. 3 _ 35 ! RY« 79 PORK--Mesa.. 18 2.^ IAIII) " HI/ CINCINNATI.' f 119 CORN JJ OAT* 87 BTK 84 h)*l--Mux 18 00 LAUD TOUCDO. W HEAT--No. 1 White ... 1 No. S Bed. 1 Con* OATS J.'J DiTEorr'."" J r-otrn--Choice II WHK*T--No. 1 White 1 COKM--No. 1 OATS-- Mixed BAHI ET (per cental) 1 Pobe--Mom 1# INDIAN AP0LI8. WHEAT--Nat Bed 1 Con*--No. 3 OATS EAST LIBEBTY, PA. OATTLX--Beat 8 FWr fl Common. 4 Hoa*. « 113*1-1