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'mm Igcgrnrjt ftainflcalh 1. VAN SLTKE, C Mar aid Publisher. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. • E E K L Y R E W S R h i E V . >1 * • THE EAST. '•rt'!̂ Owraaai OIUNT, the youngest brother «t i (Jen. U. 8. Grant, died recently at Morris Plain*. N. 3., aged 48 yean. He was a partner 0t bis father in the leather bnsine&s at Galena when the war broke out, but came to Chicago in 1865. Eight years later he was •mt to an insane asylum, where he haa been under treatment for a long time.... Gen. Robert Patterson, who commanded a por­ tion of the Federal army at Bull Run, haa just 4tod at bin home in Philadelphia, aged 86 yean. ... .A bar-tender in New York, on opening the iM-box the other morning, found the proprie­ tor's corpse resting on a beer keg. It is believed that, in distress from the heat, he spent the Bight in the box, and was frozen to death. A movement bae been inaugurated in New Yank to prevent the adulteration of lager-beer. ... .A fire, at East Tannton, Mas*., destroyed a iMtge wire and nail mill, with a, loss of f 150,000 40 $200,000, and throwing (wndtaroW mm tttt of employment AT New York, an the 8th inst., William Gale, the English pedestrian, finished 6,000 quarter rnilea in 6,000 consecutive ten Minutes, and continued on the track for four­ teen additional quarters. Ho then shouted out that he would bet 9500 to fl,000 that he oonld feotnmencc at once and cover 500 milea within •even dnys. THE Loose of a negro named Charles H*>ody, at Lake Vill*ge, N. K., was burned on Jtfy 4, three children perishing in the flames. The Coroner's jury finds that the little ones were murdered by their parents and the house aet on fire to conceal the crime Judge James D. Colt, of the Massachusetts Hupreme bench, committed suicide at his office in Pitt afield, Mass. He held the revolver ag&'nst his right temple. For some time he has been in very bad health The mam exhibition building at Philadelphia has been sold to ^n agent of the Pennsylvania railroad for $97,000. The building cost #1,600,000. Some 75,000.000 feet of lumber and 8.500,000 pounds of iron were used in its eouKtract on Four colored men have gone on duly with the police force at Philadelphia. They are the first on record, and are regarded with great curiosity. THE widow of ex-President Fillmore has just died at her home in Buffalo. She was In her 71st year. In October last she suffered a severe stroke of paralysis. The only survivor of the ex-President is an unmarried bon by his first wife Maud 8. law. red her record to iJO^i in a mile on the Rochester track. Vauder- bdt was present to witness her triumph Gen. Grant has purchased a house on East 8ixty- Ixth street between F.fth and Madison mwiines, New York, for $95.000. Col. Henry & Hayes, one of the leading coal operator* of Pittsburgh, who won a Captaincy in the regular army, w&s Secretary of Legation at Copenha­ gen, and made a fortune of over $3,000,000, wd after & lingering illness. dian artillery team won the Marqma of Lome's prise for the hattecy which oookl quiekeat un- THK "Civil-Service Reform Associa­ tion of the United States" met at Newpoif, R. I., under the Preeidency of George William Curtis, and adopted resolutions approving the ("ivil-S* rviee Reform bill introduced into the United .s;ntes Senate last (u wion by Mr. Pen­ dleton, of Ohio, calling on members of Con­ gress and Henators to aid in making the bill <aw; favoring competitive examinations at various convenient po nts in the United States for those who might wish to be examined for positions in the civil service ; declaring it necessary that the Civil-Service Reform League of New York should be aided in its work by local organiza­ tions, and declaring that the bill introduced in the House of Representatives last session bv Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, provides practical anj judicious measures tor the remedy of the abuse known as jxilitical assessment, and urging un- compromising opposition to arbitrary removals i American sections an 'rather poorly "supplied. mount and remount Odd jPtoeM. They wen in compet ition with and beat eleven teams of Brit­ ish volunteer artillery At Jastrow, in Western Prussia, inFMQf<ra!Ua, and in W«etern Russia' the Jena an niferiog persecution. In Russia •ixtaea village* have been burned, and at Karat, thirty-nine persons were killed.... Minister Sorter reports that the Russian wheat crop bide fair to be the largest ever nieed in the empire.... .The Boer Government has been fonnfcliy proclaimed. It is to be known aa the South African Republic. THE International Exhibition of Eleo- trical Apparatus was opened at Paris on the 10th of August, by President Grevy. The Ger­ man, French and Belgian sections are reported to be very well filled, but the English and KUMXBOTTB reports from points In Uli- •ois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Minneso­ ta, Iowa, Nebraska and other States (says the Chicago Tribune) present varying phases of the crop outlook. In many localities rains have greatly improved the corn prospect, but fa others the stand is very poor, and the show­ ing for other grains is not encouraging Gen. Hatch ha# gone to Fort Craig to direct the movement against the renegade Apaches from the Mcscalero Agency. His forces com- wise five companies of cavalry and forty In- <han scout* A dispatch from Blue Ridge Jgency, Neb., says that Crow Dng, Captain of Pislice at Hose Bud Age nee, shot aud instantly kil ed the Indian Chief Spotted TaiL There had been an ill-feeling between them for some Hue. ABOUT forty armed and masked men Hfitited the jail at Fredonia, Kan., to secure two Murderers named Hardin. The outer door was battered down and the guards overpow­ ered, but one of the latter threw his pistol to a jBuoner, who mortally wounded the leader of Jjpe lynchers and stopped proceedings. , REPRESENTATIVES of nearly all Jhe selling-mi k west of Pittsburgh convened at Cincinnati, and passed resolutions to pay only Pittsburgh prices for skilled labor and to em- j jlov only non-union woikmen A flood at I Central City, Col., caused by the bursting of a j miu-cloud, did damage of $50,000. One man j was killed. A volume of water five feet high ran 1 through the streets, and at some points the debris was piled up twenty-live feet hi«h A blaze at Pawnee City, Neb., swept away more than half the business portion of the town, tety firms l aving been burned out The loss ii placed at $45,li00. A FRIGHTFUL explosion, resulting in the death of five persons, occurred in St. Clair eounty, IIL Laborers on the farm of Henry Young prepared to return to work after break­ fast, and were approaching the i-team thresh­ ing machin •, when the boiler burst, scat­ tering destruction in every direction. Five men were killed outright, and five otticrs were eo seriously injured that their lives are de- spamd of. Tlie machine was shattered in a thoueand pieces, and the wheat took fire, which spread to all the surrounding properly. The •lock-yard and all its contents were consumed in the flames. Hon. O. H. BBOWOTNO, who died at Qnincy, Hi., filled the unexpired term of Stephen A. Douglas in the Senate, and was Secretary of the Interior in President JohnMra's Cabinet He was born in Kenluckv in 1806.. . The murder of Spotted Tail seems io have been done in cold blood. Crow Dog has been sent to Fbrt Niobrara to await trial for murder.. . A fire at Trafalgar, Ind., burned down tourti en business houses, leaving oniv three in the town untouched. The lotat loss will be about $50,000, only partially covered by in- •urance J. C. Drake, a voung Englishman, •tnployed by Tu> ner, Fra-er A Co.,grocers, of St .Joseph, Mo., as traveling collector, has disap­ peared with a collection of $17,000. REV. DR. H. W. THOMAS, the distin­ guished Methodiat div ne, is to be arraigned for heresy next month, at Chicago. He is charged with denying the truth of the doc- Vines of inspiration and atonement taught by • we church, and teaching the doctrine of pro­ bation after death for those who die in sin, thereby antagonizing th« doctrine •f endless punishment for the wicked. The trial will excite widespread interest.... l*te advices from New Mexico report great • alarm in that Territory over atrocities perpe­ trated by renegade Indians. A party of six or • pore killed seven persons near Elrita. An- ^ther band of twelve tired into a camp of 1 j^chison railway men near Rinoon. THE BOURN. I* Weakly county, Tens., a father •nd son named Osbom, lying in ambush, gfaot and seriously wouaded Frank Pat® and his son WUlie. The Osborns were arrested and gave •ail. ^ Leaving McKenzie for home, they had 'got within sight of their dwelling when they v were riddled with buckshot from a party eon- •Baled. A group of twenty men, all white Kwd-tiauds, were standing close to the house of £• =• CS.vburn. near Hartsville, 8. C., when a fcroke of lightning killed four and wounded ten of the number. There was no storm at the toe. though a heavy rain fell shortly after- ward. ALL prominent places in New Orleans were adorned, a few nights ago, with placards, signed by the Committee of Safety, which de- ^ to® lews must be en* reed, oorrup- downm ° stopped, and hoodramism pot SEVERAL colored men were killed near Lexington, V*., by a slide in a cut on the Ricta- w^edat workUe£heny,railr0ad' on which th«y TO^VICL Hi* of the persons tolled were CHARLES CBOCKBB, President of the Bonthem Pacific road, reports the laying of a • Sf H 1 dV11he?°nd El Paso, and pre- ' by July "**• 66 WLLTICAL, OEN. CWATIMBR8, of Mississippi, an- jnounoes that he will be a candidate for the % 1Unitod 8toto* Sen*te. against Senator Lamar, e*p4re- ^ t*1® olose of the > ~ sj'^llih Congress. He wodaims himself a. r# .ttreenbacker. irom office, and the interference of members of Congress with the exercise of the appointing power. THB Republicans of Virginia met in State Convention at Lynchburg. The "Straight- oats "were in a minority, bat their leaders, Congressmen Dezendorf and Jorgensen, and the Chairman of the State Central Committee played a sharp triok on the Coalitionist*, shut them out from the convention hall, and admit­ ted only those who would act under their instructions. Those who were shut out oigantzed a convention of then: own. A com­ mittee of conference was then appointed. The conference committee failed to bring about peaue. The Coalitionist*, or Mahone.te* in­ dorsed the regular Readjust* r platform and adjourned without making nominations. The "Straight-outs" nominated Gen. Will­ iam C. Wickham for Governor, Sam­ uel M. Yost, of Staunton, for Lieutenant Governor, and Jiilge Willonghby, of Alexandria, for Attorney General. All these gentlemen have declined, however, and it is probable that no other persons will be nomin­ ated in their places, in which caae there will be a square, fair, stand-up fight between Read­ justee and Democrats. oeneraL ' IT is reported that instructions have* been received from the Chinese Government modifying the original order for the return of the Cninese students in this country. It is be­ lieved, at any rate, that this order will ulti­ mately be reconsidered. There is a suspicion that the refusal of our Government to permit Chinese yoiiths to enter onr mil tan- sclioo s in large numbers had something to do with the recent action of the home Government.... Assistant Postmaster General Elmer says that #314,606 were saved to the government during the month of Jnlv by the discontinuance of the star routes needlessly and i o doubt fraudu­ lently established. Since the 4th of March there have been saved, through the action of Postmaster General James. $1,381,442. Brady's work is being gradually undone The State Department has l>een advised that the Turkish decree against the importation of American pork is a dead letter, as cargoes of hams have passed the custom hoosee ana gone into market THE Castle Garden Labor Bureau is daily in receipt of numbers of telegrams from all parts of the Union, but especially from South Carolina, Texas and Pennsylvania, asking that emigrant families be sent to these places. Farm men are everywhere in request. Com­ petent hands can get $18 per month and board, and railroad laborers can obtain $L50 per day. Servant-girls are also in request. EFFOBT8 are being made in Arizona to secure the removal of John C. Fremont from the Governorship, as for the past three' years he has spent most of h<s time at the Eat-t... .One county in North Carolina gave 21 majority for prohibition. Seventy-three others retort 98.965 majority against it. THE Fenian torpedo-boat has been inspected by a United States omcial in New York, who says that it is of no practical use exoept for harbor defense. The British Gov eminent has been over-solicitous about it. A WASHINGTON telegram of the 11th inst. says " To-day President Garfield wrote his first letter since the shooting. It was to his mother at Mentor, and assured her of his confi­ dence in recovery. Mrs. Garfield read to him considerably to-dav, both from private letters and newspapers. The President is beginning to take mufih interest m public affaua." vuHracTen. Gn. BoQrET, of Mexico, sent to Chihuahua (S troops in that district, He has orders to con­ centrate ail available forces and march »riiT>~t the Indian marauders who hare ero-sed the border Francis Hurphy the temperance ora­ tor, has sailed for Liverpool, to orcaiiize a re­ formation m Great Britain Miss Ciar* Louise Kellogg, who has arrived at Sew York, states that the police of St. Petersburg opened her letters and cut her newspapers. SECRETABY HUNT has instructed Ad­ miral Wyman, comma tiding the North Atlantic squadron, to send all the available vessels of bu command to participate in the Yorktown celebration. Oct. 15. THE febrile condition of the President for several days having suggested to the sur­ geons that the cause was the detention of pus in the cavity of the wound, they took advant­ age, on the morning of the 8th, of the patient's unproved condition to make another incision into the track of the bullet below the margin of the twelfth rib. This operation was •ucceHafullv performed, the President having first been etherized. Although suffering some nausea from the anesthetic, he soon regained his previous condition. The present incision, the physician* declare, can be left open ana unobstructed as long as may be necessary, and the best results are confidently expected. A WASHINGTON telegram says of Gui- tean, the assassin: " He has now been confined in jail over five weeks. It is rather a singular fact that no one has ever called upon him ajt the jail with a frien j|v purpose, that during his wanderings in this city he never made one friend who now manifests any substantial interest in him ; that no letter has been received by Guiteau proffer­ ing him conns* 1 or assistance. Such an abso­ lute destitution of friends is something unpre­ cedented even in the casu of the meanest crimi­ nals. Ho has never ankod to have anybody sent for. Officials at tbe jail state that Guiteau is a very tract a. tile prisoner. The representa­ tions frequently made that he is rest­ less and querulous are not founded on fact. He is more composed now and less nervous han when first taken to jail. He has settled down, the officials say, to await philosophically for the result. rAt no time smce his confine­ ment, it is stated by his attendants, has he xhown any manifestation of sorrow or remorse. H<- shown some anxiety about the President's condition and hopes that he will recover." THE first official act of the President since the shooting was performed on the 10th inst. He affixed the signature "James A. Garfield" to a document which oxtradited a crim­ inal wanted by the Canadian authorities for for­ gery. He signed his name tirmlv and suffered no evil effects from the unusual exertion.... Secretary Blalno and family have gone to Augusta, Me. They will bo absent from Wash­ ington several weeks During the year end­ ing June 30, 1881, 4,334 pilots were examined by the Marine Hospital Her vice, and 116 were pronouuoed color-blind. GEN. MAXIMO JABBZ, Micaraguan Minuter to the United States, died suddenly at his residence at Washington. roHEien. Dumao the month of July 269 "agra­ rian" outrages were committed in I eland. Of these 165 were cases of intimidation; that is to say, threatening letters, and twenty-five eases of injury to property. Tnere were eleven as­ saults, twenty arsons, seventeen cattle mann­ ings and four cases of tiring at the person.... Tbe Goto*, a rather free-Sf eakiug journal printed atKt. Petersburg, is in trouble again. This time it has been susp nded bv Government order for six months tor too-plain comment upc.n the conduct of the Prince of Bulgaria, and for giving some unpalatable facts about d sorder on board Ru-sian war vessels at foreign stations Tbe Viceroy of India has informa­ tion that Ayoob Khan is preparing tor an ad­ vance on CibuL AN express train from Manchester came into collision with a Liverpool and York express train near Blackburn. England, and manvpeople were very badly injured, several, it is believed, fatally. Tne destruction of prop­ erty was very great A Loudon dispatch says that threshing haa oomniencwl in some dis­ tricts of England, and tbe qinlity of the grain has been found variable, and the yield not above the average. The Scotch wheat crop U reported to be poor and disappointing John Dillon, M. P., has been released from prison on acoount of his failing health. AT ShoeburynefiH, England, the Cana- An electric railway, an electric boat and a Tissandier balloon attracted a great deal of at­ tention. THJERE were ninety-eight deaths from yellow fever in Havana during the month of July, and during the week ending Aug. 6 there were *hirty-«ix deaths and 200 cases in that city... .The Cornell University boat crew en­ deavored to beat the Austrian on the Danube at Vienna, and secured a lead of four lengths, but the collapse of one oarsman ended the straggle at the center of the course. The Vi­ enna crew won a trophy valued at £250 ... A machine operated by four clerks, which telegraphs 1,200 words per minute, is a feature of the electrical exhibition at Paris. ....There has been very little rain in Switz­ erland Ijar the last two months. The grass burned np, and there is no chance to harvest the usual second hay crop....John Hill Burton, the Scottish historian apd bi­ ographer, is dead. ADDITIONAL HEWS. THB Emigration Commissioner* of New York have commenced suit against the steamship companies to recover $40,000 in­ spection duty, being fl for each immigrant landed at Castle Garden during June and July. The suit is brought under an act passed at the last session of the New York Legislature, and its constitutionality is called in question by the steamship ovners The death is announced at Wilkesbarre, Pa., of Stephen Butler, aged 92 yeare. He was the eon of Colonel Zebulon Butler, who com­ manded the settlors at the massacre of Wyo­ ming in 1778. Ex-Congressman Ongen 8. Seymour, formerly Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, died at Litchfield. LIGHTNING struck the Atlantic Flour Mills at St. Louis and in an instant the whole structure was in flames. Four of the opera­ tives perished in the building. Several others wqre badly hurt and bruised, some, it is feared, fatally, in escaping. It was beyond human power to save the mills, which were valued at £200.000, and insured for $150,000 The Supreme Court of Nebraska has pro­ nounced constitutional in every particular the liquor law which compels saloon-keepers to pay licenses of $500 or 11,000 and give $5,000 bonds At the chain of lakes, near Waupaca, Wis., some scientists have exhumed from an Indian mound a skull of nearly twice tbe usual size A band of cowboys recently attacked a caravan Irom Sonora on the way to Arizona, killed four ot the party, and carried off §5,000 and the pack animals. The civil authorities in Arizona seem powerless, and the Mexicans hold the Americans responsible for the outragas. THE wheat crop of Nebraska is pro- nonncod a failure. Barley, oats, rye and flax will prove a fair crop. Owing to the excessively hot weather and the total absence of rain recently tne corn crop will not be near an average.... The fall-wheat crop of® Illinois, according to tlie State Agricultural Department, shown a falling off of about 59 per cent, from the crop of last year, and is probably the worst in quali­ ty and quantity grown in the State for twenty years. The crop of this year will not dis­ hearten the farmers of the State, however, and it is probable that a larger area will be sown this fall than ever before. BENJAMIN BIRD, a oolored man, was hanged at Jacksonville, Fla., for the murder of a policeman during a riot at that place in i June, 1880. Bird confessed his crime before I he was taken on the ecaffold, but there asserted j fair innocence. The noose broke once, and it j was only after a second spring of the trap that j Bird was dispatched. George Griffin, colored, ' wa* also hanged at Birmingham, Ala... .The . war in Perry t ounty, Ark., in at an end, and the I brave miiitia Lave returned to their homes. | WASHINGTON telegrams of the 12th | inst report the President's condition, at that date, as fairly satisfactory. The pulse ruled rather high, but the attending surgeons seemed to view this lightly, and asserted that tbe patient was steadily improv­ ing. Dr. Bliss was slightly poisoned by a cut from one of tbe knives used in removing the pu<< from the President's wound. Dr. Blackburn, the Governor of Kentucky, ex- pres-es the opinion that Guiteau's bullet was deflected to the spinal column, and that the President will undoubtedly die irom his wound. RAIDS continue to be made by insur­ gent Arab tribes, which, not content with rav­ aging Eastern and Southern Tunis, have now turned to the thicker-populated and richer do­ main bordering on Algeria, 'lhere appears to be a paucity of French troops in both govern­ ments, and the Arabs have things all their own way. * CROP REPORTS. The Minneapolis Tithune, prints estimates of the yield of wheat in every county of Minne­ sota, showing as follows : Total yield, 40,856,685 bushels; average per acre, a fraction less than fourteen buahe s; excess over last year, 1,434,- 880 bushels. Nearly all the grain in tbe State will grade No. 1. Oats and barley are a fine yield. Corn prospect unequa led crop. A telegram from Des Moines, Iowa, says: "TLe reports no far gathered at this point from most of the counties are rather discouraging for a good crop. Wheat, taking the State over, will hardl^gvield the seed used m planting. Thousands of acres have not been touolied, and others harvested which left the farmer m debt for the cost of harvesting." A gentleman who lately returned to Lincoln, Neb., from the western pirt of tho State, re­ ports corn in a very bad condition. He says that nome fields are " all dried up," and that, unless there is rain soon, the crop will be al­ most a total failure in Western Nebraska. A Kaunas City paptr priuts reports from nearly every town in Kansas reached by tele­ graph giving the condition of the crops. " Considerable alarm has been caused by the continued dry weather, but the reports are in tbe main cheering, showing that the damage up to the preseut time has been much less than feared here. Taking into account the iucreased acreage and the ladure of tbe crops iu the western portion of the State lastyear, it seems fair to estimate that this year's crop of both wheat and oorn in Kansas wiil be near­ ly up to the amfottut produced last year, provided rain comes in a week or so. Some sections have suffered severely, while others will produce an average crop. In localities which suffered last year, with some exceptions, there is a cheering prospect at present Taken all in all, there is as yet no cause for serious alarm. Reports from Southwestern Missouri are much the same as from Kansas." The Horse's Friend. Even a horse may find it advantageous to have " a friend at court." A market gardener noticed that a basket in which was plaoed fresh cairots was frequently emptied. He asked the gardener, who Baid that he could not understand it, but would watch for the thief. A quarter of an hour had elapsed when the dog waa seen to go to the bas­ ket, take out a carrot and carry it to the stable. f. Dogs d<f not eat raw carrots, so further inquiry was necessary. The observers now found that tlie dog had buhim ss with a horse, his night companion ; with wagging tail he offered tlie latter the fruit ot his larceny, and the horse made no difficulty about ac­ cepting it. The scene was repeated until the car­ rots were all gone. The dog had long made a favorite of this horse. There were two horses in the stable, but the other received no, notice, much hvw car­ rots !--Advance. IT was Artemus Ward who said there were two things in this world no one was ever prepared for--twins. i--•! on tlie Hudson. This siftajMwg' sport is described and illustrated in Serifmcr, from which we quote: " You go on down the river now with a good wind on the beam. The playful breeze freshens in flaws, as if trying to escape you; but still you follow its way­ ward motions. You start when it starts, flit over the ice with its own speed, turn and glide with the lightness and the praoe of its own whirling dance. The ice-yachts darting about look like white- winged swallows skimming over the ice. As they cross and recross your course, you hope that every Captain knows his business and will avoid collisions. The ice-yachts have anticipated your wish, and* flown away to various points of the horizon while yourj thought drew its alow length along. The ice seems to be running under you with great speed, and you sometimes feel that you might easily drop off the open, spider-like frame of the yacht. By such rapid mo­ tion, the bubbles, crystals and lines of the ice are all woven into a silky web of prismatic hues. You distinguish only the cracks that run with the course, and, when they deviate from it, they seem to jump from side to side without connect­ ing angles or curves. The munds and i the windrows seem to come up at you suddenly, and dodge past. You begin to hold on to the hand-rail, and lie close down in the box. If you are J •teerrag, you feel that your hand is the j hand of fete; and the keen excitement ! nerves you to extraordinary alertness. ! The breeze sings In the rigging; the j rtmners hum on the ice with a crunch- ! ing sound, and a slight ringing and j crackling; and a little spurt of crushed | ice flies up behind each runner and ' flashes like a spray of gems. The yacht j seems more and more a thing of the air { --her motions are so fitful, wayward ! and sudden. The speed with which you I approach a distant scene makes it grow | distinct while you wink with wonder. | Things grow larger, as if under the il- ; lusions of magic; you feel the perspect- j ive almost as a sensation. You turn I toward a "brown patch of woods; it ! quickly assumes the form of headlands ; j these are pushed apart, and a gorge ap- I pears between them ; while you Btare, a j stream starts down the rocks, behind : the trees; a mill suddenly grows up; i the rocks are now all coated with ice ; \ statues of winter's sculpture are modeled before your eyes, and decked with flash­ ing crystals just as you turn away to some other point of the horizon. So you seem to be continually arriving at distant places. " A regatta is to be sailed over this course, and you arrive in time to see the start. The yachts all stand in a row, head to the wind. At the word, the first in the line swings stern around till her sails fill; she moves off at once, and the crew jump aboard--one man standing or lying on the windward runner-plank and holding on to the shrouds, and the helmsman and another man lying in the box. Then the other yachts successively swing around; and, in a moment, the whole fleet is under way, gliding in zig­ zag eourses among the windrows and mounds. They all diminish in apparent size with astonishing rapidity; they seem actually, to contract in a moment to a mere white speck, skimming about the river miles away. You join the crowd of men and boys stamping and slapping to keep warm; you exchange a few words with a friend, and, when you turn around ogam, behoid the yachts sweep­ ing down upon you ! They grow as they come, flying at you with a wayward, er­ ratic course, and you feel the wonder of embodied speed. The ten-mile race of the ice-yafihts is lost and won in as many miimtMfor those who sailed it these minutes were filled with more ex­ citement than is found in many a long lifetime." dough and the State Prison Convict. In my own experience, I have found among those who seemed the most reck­ less and hardened some spot in the heart that was vulnerable, some chord that can be touched. Once while speak­ ing to the convicts in one of the State prisons, a man sat before me with a face almost demoniac in its expression ; it was a face that repelled and yet attracted me; it was what some one has called the "attraction of repulsion." As he fixed his eye on me, cold and steely, with the cynical curl of the lips and a sneer, he almost fascinated me, and I thought of Coleridge's lines in the " An­ cient Mariner,"-- "He held him with his glittering eye." My wonder was, Who can he be ? Evi­ dently a man of large brain, of more than average intelligence ; and while he fascinated, he embarrassed me. The thoughts that flashed through my mind while I was speaking were, " I can not move this man, my words fall on him like solt snow on a rock. I wish he would not look on me." I became al­ most confused, and saw a smile pass over his face--a half-contemptuous smile --as if he were conscious of the power he possessed. Seemingly, by concen­ trating all his powers of will, he had almost gained control of me. I turned from him with an effort, and said: "There may be some before me who think tney are hardened, are past feel­ ing ; God only knows whether they are or not; but ot'teu we cultivate that hard­ ness, when the world turns against us. There may be some here who had a good mother ; and even here, when alone in your cell, in the silence of the night, you remember that mother, and tlie little prayer she taught you as you knelt at her side, aud her gentle, loving hand rested on your head. You almost hear the words whispered in your ear; and no human eye seeing you, the tears come, and you are melted into tenderness ; bnt in the morning you harden yourself again into recklessuess." I said some­ thing like this, steadily keeping my faoe turned from the man, when I was inter­ rupted by so bitter a cry--"Oh, my God!"--that I turned, and the man, who had risen to utter the exclamation, had sunk in his seat and Was audibly sobbing. I was told by one of the offi*sers of the prison that he was one of the hardest eas 'S, the most repelling, the mo>t ob­ livious to kindness of any man that he had ever come under his supervision. The remembrance of a mother whose heart he may have broken molted the strong man, and he became as a little child. • Origin of the Sisters of Charity. In the year 1617, when Vincent waa one day going up the puipitatChatillon, a lady who hnd come to hear him preach detained him for a moment, with the request to make mention in his sermon of a poor family living about half a leagne from Cbatillon, where there waa much sickness and gre^t need of help. Vincent was a«ked to recomm nd this family to the charity of the congrega­ tion. This he did with such effect thut several of tbe people i-et out, on leaving the church, to vi*it the poor fami'y, and took with them bread, meat a'd • t er things for their relief. After vespers, Vincent went also to visit them, and waa Surprised to meet so many of the people coming back. His practical eye at once perceived that the matter had been car­ ried to excess. The poor people had received far more than they could use. Many of the provisions would be spoiled before they could be availed of, and the family for whose benefit these offerings ' were intended would be as badly off as before. Vincent began to think that system and organization were needed. He formed a parochial association, which he called the Confraternity of Charity: 1 and out of this little streamlet of gocd works at Chatillon grew a vast organiser tkm for the benefit of the poor. Fortunes Lost in Cornwall. Every tourist in Cornwall is familiar with the deserted engine houses and ruin­ ous chimney stacks which form so char­ acteristic a feature of the scenery of the Western mining districts. They have their picturesque aspect, but they are the evidences of wide-spread ruin. To thousands of families they have been, in the phrase applied to an unprofitable speculation by Car"yle: "The grave of the last sixpence." They stand there by scores and by hundreds, dilapitated, stripped of every morsel of wood or metal that would sell, towering over wide wastes of rubbish-heaps, their high- sounding names forgotten. Millions drawn from the wealth and the poverty of outside investors have within the past thirty years been buried in tlie bowels of the Cornish hills, or have found their way into the pockets of some wily pro­ jectors. It. is not twenty years since a shrewd Cornishman made large profits by disposing of shares in a mine with a high-sounding name, near his native vil­ lage ; upon inquiry the magnificent mine Sroved to be merely a pit some score feet ' ep, with a windlass and a bucket I This gentleman was indeed rather too clever, for he speedily found himself in jail, but after no verv long time he was let loose again upon Lis prey. How many aliases he has had since then, or into how many mine-broking firms he has developed, probably no one but himself knows, but more than one well puffed mine of the present mining revival is known to have owed its origin to his energies. It may be quite true that, on a capital of JJljOOO, Devon Great Con­ sols made in its earlier years more than a million profit; that South Caradon gave its wealth on even easier terms; that Tresavean paid £60,000 dividends in one year. But let us look a little fur­ ther into the results, and we shall dis­ cover that the families that have realized wealth by mining, and not from the dues they have received as lords of min­ ing property, are few and far between. Often within the life-time of the indi­ vidual, frequently in the next generation, mining has taken what mining gave. The greatest mining fortune of the last two or three generations was that which eventually came into the hands of the late Sir William Williams. Hia eldest son and heir adhered to the traditions of his family in supporting mining enter­ prise, and--he died insolvent--London Standard, Making Things Over. "Maria," said Mr. Jones upon one of his worrying days, "it seems to me you might be more economical; now there's my old clothes, why can't yon make them over for the children instead of giving them away ?" •» '8 Because they're worn out when you're done with them," answered Mrs. Jones. "It's no use making over things for the children that won't hold together; you couldn't do it yourself, smart as you are." "Well," grumbled Jones, "I wouldn't have closets full of things mildewing for want of wear if I was a woman, that's all. A penny saved is a penny earned. ' That was in ApriL One warm day in May Mr. Jones went prancing through the closets looking for something he couldn't find and turning things gener­ ally inside out. " Maria!" he screamed, " where's my gray alpaca duster?" " Made it over for Johnny." "Ahem! Well, where's the brown linen one I bought last summer ?" "Clothes-bag !" mumbled Mrs. Jones, who seemed to have a difficulty in her speech at that moment. "Just made it into a nice one!" " Where are my lavender pants? yelled Jones. " Cut them over for Willie." " Heavens 1" groaned the husband. Then, in a voice of thunder : ," Where have my blue suspenders got to?" " Hung the baby-jumper with them." "Maria," asked the astonished man, iu a subdued voice, "would you mind telling me what you have done with my silk hat; you haven t made that over for the baby, have you ?" "Oh! no, dear," answered his wife cheerfully, "I've used that for a hanging basket. It is full of plants, and looks lovely." Mr. JoneB never mentions the word economy or suggests making over --he had enough of it. An Ancient Aqueduct Reopened. After a breach of 1,600 years the aque­ duct built by the Emperor Augustus to supply Bologna with water has been re­ stored to use. Nineteen hundred years ago the imperial engineers tapped the Setta near its junction with the Reno, about eleven miles from Bologna, and brought its water to the city through an underground passage. They followed the course of the Reno, tunneling the hills, sinking their work beneath the beds of the precipitous torrents which rush from the mountains into the river, and bringing the waters tt> the gates of the city, where they were divided, one por­ tion going to supply the public baths, and the other probably destined for the fountains of streets and public squares. The work of tunneling and the mason­ ry were so thoroughly well done that both stonework and brickwork are still as solid;as the rock itself, the only con­ siderable breaks being where the turbu­ lent Reno had washed away with its clayey banks several portions of the aqueuuet, or where the headlong tor­ rents which rush down into its stream had excavated their own beds and car­ ried away tlie artificial substructure. The restoration of this important work is due chiefly to Count Gozzadini, who caused an accurate survey of the aque­ duct to be made about twenty years ago, and in 1861 published the results of the investigation in an elaborate me­ moir. Since then the work of restor­ ation has been going ou with a thorough­ ness and skill calculated to make the new work as enduring as the old. The aqueduct was originally made of brick and stone cemented with lime and vol­ canic sand, and the unbroken portions remained as hard as granite. Katiier Conservative. The old maid of the period is usually a rich old maid, and her virtues are of the conservative order. Such a lady was recently addressed by a widower with seven children who de­ sired to marry her. " Sir," she said, " I would not live in the house with seven children of my own, much less anybody else's." The widower said: " You astonish me." And, after a lit­ tle while, " What am I to do with my seven ch'ldren?" " Offer them to some girl in her who doesn't know any better," the maiden lady, and the widower said he believed he would. ' A Most Reaarkable Lire. - A correspondent at Honesdale, Pa., sends to tha Philadelphia Times the re­ markable history of George A ver y, whberiiWieer is equal to that of Hugo's hero, Jean Valjeau. In 187U Avery, then about twenty-one years df age, was charged with the murder of JouijBayes, of Pike County, Pa. He waa'wzestea and an officer detailed to bring him to Milford. Evidence of the muftter waa reported to be so conclusive that he could not possibly escape hanging.' On their way to Milford the officer imbibed freely of liquor and finally got " blind drunk." Avery secured the keys which unlocked his handcuffs and shackles ».n<j took them off, putting them in the bot­ tom of the wagon. He took the reins from the stupidly drunken officer's hands and drove to the nearest hotel, where he arrived with the officer in charge at a late hour. He put the drunken man in bed, roused him the next morning, got him in the wagon, drove on to Milford, the county teat of Pike County, when after he l.ad put the officer in bed at a hotel he went up to the jail and delivered himself up to the keeper. He was confined there till September, 1870, when he was tried for murder and to the great surprise of every one acquitted. Immediately after he was discharged by the court he waa arrested, charged with burglary, con­ victed and sent to State's Prison for a year and a half. He served his term, reading law during his confinement. When he left the Eastern Penitentiary he returned home, opened a law office, arrested several citizens who had testi­ fied against him when he was on trial for burglary, charging them with per­ jury, and failing to make out his case was sentenced to pay the costs. He had no money, so he went to to prison again, where he remained till his friends could scrape up enough money to get him out. When finally he became a free man he returned to his old home at Rowlands. From that time forward burglaries were numerous in that section but never could evidence sufficient to convict Avery be obtained. After a while the young man went to Oil City, Pa., and hung out bis shingle as a lawyer. Clients were plenty and fees large. Avery was reaping a golden harvest, when he was convicted 6f forgery and sent to the Western Penitentiary, at Alle­ gheny City, for four years and eleven months. While there he fell in love with the keeper's daughter, and she pro­ posed to assist him to escape, but he refused to leave prison till his time was out. At the end of the term he returned again to Lackawaxen; soon after pro­ fessed religion, swindled a neighbor out of a $100 and was induced bj tne neigh­ bor, who enforced his. arguments with a shot-gun, to refund the money. He then went to Luzerne County, where he got into difficulty and went to the East­ ern Penitentiary again for a short term. Upon being released the last time he went to the mining regions of the West, where he opened a law office and specu­ lated instocka He "struck it rich " and cleared over half a million dollars, gave up his stock speculation forever, sent for his fiancee, the prison-keeper's fair daughter, who went West, and they have just been married. Avery is only about thirty-two years of age and writes to friends at Honesdale that he is new an honest, upright man, and that the next time he comes East it will be as a United States Senator from one of the Western Crying BaMet. Why Is it that at every public gather­ ing there is invariably a woman with a .baby that always cries ? The pair were never known to miss any assembly and and the vocal selections are of the choicest nature. Music ,of this kind is not calculated to soothe the average man. On the contrary it excites his wrath aud makes him say uncomplimen­ tary thiugs about the baby, and he wishes the woman would take it out. That is something, however, that she doesn't do. S»hn has come to give the crowd a serenade and it is useless, to expostulate with her. She thinks she will be able to quiet the dear child and she sits there patting the little one which is yelling at the top of its lungs and making such an infernal din that Ihe speaker can't be heard ten feet from where he is standing. Tlie baby could, in all probability, as well as not have been left at home, but as it was good just be­ fore starting, of course it wouldn't raise any racket after it it got into the crowd. No sooner does it get into a place where people are trying to hear, than it sets up a squawk that makes a • man's hair stand on end and causes cold chills to play tag up and down his Bpiual oolumu. The shrieks are heartrending and there is no way of stopping the racket except by carrying it out of hearing, when the little cherub suideuly becomes as quiet as a graveyard. No speaker can deliver an address aud be etnphatic, with a squalling baby in frout of him emitting njpre noise to the second than a dozon steam whistles. It creates a feeling of uncertainly iu his mind and gets him off the theme. The theatre is one of the worst places a woman cau take a child. It. is intensely annoying to listen to the distressing howls just when one is most deeply interested in the play. The dis­ cordant yelps destroy all interest in the drama and engender desperation in tlie man of the strongest nerves. Much'as it is hoped that the custom of packing vociferous children to entertainments may fall into disuse, there is but little probability of the millennium in- this regard coming in time to benefit the people of our generation. Give us a rest on the young ones, and the sooner the better. | Tbe Penalty of a Ray's Philanthropy. It's a great thing to be a philanthro­ pist So Mr. Goodheart thought, and at the suggestion of his neighbor, Mr. Snide, he resolved to have a grand pio- nic for the poor bootblacks of the city at his elegant country house. So he sent a' man to huut up a lot of the boys and bring them out there one fine afternoon. They came, a good huudred "off them, and the old gentlemen received them with smiling faces and kind words. " Make yourselves right at home, boys, and have just as go.»d a time as you know how to," he said to them. Then he left them to go it and went into the house. In about fifteen minutes his head gardener came in and asked him if he had given three of the boys permis­ sion to ride upon his Alderney cow, and to throw rocks and hard names at who- ev. r objected. Mr. G. said " No," and went out to see about it. He finally in­ duced the boys to quit that ainu^ienient, and then his coachman came and said if he wanted to have any fish in his trout pond he'd better go and stop the boys from fishing in it. He did so and began to feel rather annoyed at their proceed­ ings. But' he stood it and didn't ncold. Presently his dog flew by with a bottle attached to his tail, and the whole gaug s«. t off iu pursuit, and ran over his flow­ er beds and into "the conservatory and upset valuuhl* plants, and did a heap of damage. Then he ordered the gang started for the city, and m hunting them up four were found to have just got the barn afire by smoking in the hay. Vig­ orous efforts, however, saved the build­ ing and the boys wt>re shipped arflgr. And then Mr. G. sadly told his men to try oud repair the wreck while he went over to see the neighbor who suggested, the affair. And tjiey parted foes. And Mr. G. declares he is not and never will be a philanthropist. It'a harder tl^HI being a hero.--Boxton Po*t. Glycerine. The name is derived from a Omit wwrd signifying "sweet,"and has refer­ ence to taste. As oil consists of acids and glycerine, the latter is obtained by separating the oil--the same is true of fat--into its component parts. The uses ol glycerine are Incoming more and more extended and valuable. There is no application that is better than % few drops rubbed daily over the hands, to keep them moiet and smooth. The hands should be first moistened with water, as the glycerine otherwise ab­ sorbs moisture from the skin. Glycerine and carbolic acid--three ounces of the former to fifteen grains of the latter--are among tbe most effective applications for chapped! hands, and equally for a scurfy skin. It may be used two or three times a day. Glycerine is also said to be exceed­ ingly effective in some eases of piles. • gentleman who had suffered from them for years, and whotse case appeared to defy medical treatment, was cured by taking it daily with his food. A dose would be from a half to a whole tsUs- spoonful. Writers in the London Lancet strong­ ly recommend it for acidity of stomaoh. Its use for this trouble was first discov­ ered by a private gentleman, who had long been a sufferer lvom it. Having read in the paper that glycerine kept milk from souring, he said to himmWt " Why won't it keep me ? He tried it with complete success, and was able thenceforth td take food from which he had been forced to abstain. It was subsequently employed, by physi­ cians with like results. It does not remove acidity; it only prevents its occurrence. - Take from a teaspoonful to a table-spoonful immedi­ ately after eating; or take it in the tea in place of sugar.--Youth's Companion, Caught by a. Bunch or Oranges. A gentleman's destiny threw him one day, alone and unprotected, in the im­ mediate vicinity of two artificial oranges attached to a brown chip hat. The scene of this drama was a Broadway om­ nibus. The oranges, potent to attract and concentrate the attention of the passers by, were powerless tib conoeal the humiliating fact that their wearer, for some cati^e or another, was wanting in that most excellent thiug in woman, a porte-monnaie. Owing to the absence of this trivial appendage, ^he brown chip hat might have been ignbminiously expelled from the vehicle had not the gentleman, without onoe removing his eyes from the oranges, gallantly deposited in their behalf tive cents in the money box, a process which gained him a charming look of acknowledgment from a pair of bright eyes, peeping from un­ der the brown hat, as well as a droop­ ing wave of recognition from the golden fruit of the Hesperides. Some time afterward the hero of the omnibus ad­ venture found himself on a boat bound for Newport. Au unexpected palpita­ tion of the heart caused him to turn i a bonnet brushed past him. On such a point there could be no passible illu­ sion. The oranges again--tyid an inti­ mate friend of his own providing for them an eligible nook on the deck of the steamboat^ A passport to the society of the clup hat one legit mately obtained, such progress ensued in the; line of its ultimate subjugaton that when the oranges were iuwt *1 to transform them­ selves in^o a wreath of orange blossoms, without a muratur they consented to this retrogressive movement.--The Hour. A Lost Lover. The officers of the Government receive some very amusing letters now and again. General Walker, the Superin­ tendent of the census, received a doleful account the other day of a - lost lover. The letter was a bona fide one aud was from a lady, au unmarried lady, from one of the Southern States. She said her lover left herfifteen years ago, taking with him, as" a loan from her, a few hundred dollars that her uncle had left her. She gave the name of her lover as also her own, and said her lover might possibly be dead* She had certainly not heard from him siuce lie went away, although she had taken great p iins to discover his whereabouts. She had been waiting for the names of the census to be published, but she was get­ ting tired of waiting. Therefore she begged that General Walker would look over the names and tell her where her truant lover could be foundj or if he was dead to tell her where he was buried. She inclosed a stamp for a reply. Gen­ eral Walker has not yet had time to go through the fifty millions ot names to oblige this faithful womau, but if he does it at all it will be some rainy Sun­ day when he can't go to church.-- Wash­ ington Letter. THE MARKETS. 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