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y - ; r* : : " . " ; " - * . • • • . . :V! i&'sWV- . „ J. VAN SLYKI, MrHENBX. m---jt--i--J-- Publisher. iliiSNoia COWKKCTICUT woman has given her Mil a large comforter made of hair cat ityak her own head during ten yeeife '? A BRAND-ITBW babv in North Carolina njoicar* fetltrf diVoted supervision of ttwm frroat-cnuni^fathiOT and two <rreat- grandmothers. * /*»*, JI_ -- , . A NBGBO inBulJockcDunty, Ala., whjle raising a crop last year, slept in one end off a hollow log and kept his oooking in the other end. who had promised to be present a part of one day at least. Arrangements had been made for a special train to bring him from New York to Stonington. He was compelled to be absent, however, on account of the death of his brother. A DIAF mute' at Baleigh, N. C., has lamented a hat fan, which tarns on the inside of the hat, and is saidjo keep the head as oool as a cucumber. THE employment of female clerks was considered by the Civil Service Com­ mission in Canada. It was deemed not advisable to employ them for this rea­ son: It wonld be necessary that they should be placed inrooms by themselves, and that they should be under the im­ mediate supervision of a person of their own sex ; but we doubt very much if sufficient work of a similar character can be found in any one department to fur­ nish occupation for any considerable number of female clerks, and it would certainly be inadvisable to place them in small numbers throughout the de­ partments. __ A WOMAN in Portland, Ore., has adopt­ ed a novel way to get rid of her husband. She is a believer in spiritualism, and stated that she received a communica­ tion stating that her husband would die a certain day in the near future. She so worked upon the poor man that he actually fell sick, and became nearly frightened to death. When at his worst she ordered her mourning clothes, and calmly talked to him about his notions in regard to another husband for her, and whom he preferred she should take. Finally, his anger overcame his fears, he braced up, and determined to post­ pone his death to an-indefinite date. A FARMER, living in Green county, Wis., recently had a. most desperate en­ counter with wolves. He went out late in the evening, (to drive some sheep WHELE a colored women of Long home, and in passing a swamp he heard island was watching a fishhawk, recently, j snarling and barking. He had taken an a hornet flew into her mouth, which was old musket along, thinking perhaps he wide open, stung the root of her mouth, might shoot a partridge or some small then went down her throat and stung j game, and loaded it with No. 4 shot, her intSMSllyr HSr Whole system Teas ' Not feeling unsafe, he advanced toward UNDER the new Khedive! decree abol- taring slavery in Egypt, domestic slavery in futtfre will be rendered impossible, families possessing slaves noypare not to be deprived of ^their^ property in them, but no ne# slaves are to be admitted! run i j mrrrr--^ WILUAM BBBBT, of Cincinnati, was engaged to marry the widow NewMrk, and the day appointed for the wedding Was close at hand. Mrs. Newkirk's daughter Clara came home from a con­ vent-school to witness the ^c&reipony. Clara had ali of her mother^ character­ istics and the additional charm of youth. Berry transferred his love to tlwdaugh- ter and eloped with her. ' >c poisoned and for days her life was in danger, but^she pulled through and will doubtless keep her mouth' shut in the fattp&.,*vj,; W. W. GooautE, of I^ookfleld, Mo., aged 77, is said to be the oldest locomo­ tive engineer in the United States. He was a steamboat engineer on Lake Erie in 1832, and began running a locomotive engine on the Baltimore and Ohio rail­ road in 1834. He afterward worked on different roads, inciting the Norwich and WorceBljefc' "in 1&46, and was once sent to China in charge of some engines. A" woMANjexhorter among the negroes of Georgia tfetfrs c& Her heacl a halo of burnisl^ Vms*./} wfrich she says was given to , her by an angel,, who ap­ peared to her, as a reward for superla­ tive piety, and is the only only one ever conferred on a person before reaching heaven. Its possession, she claims, gives hdr miraculous power over dis­ eases, and enables her to intercede ef­ fectual^-far siignprs. ^ j.., SINCE Gen Hazen took charge of the Signal Service Bureau, the number of stations, for the display of cautionary storm signals ,on the lakes, and on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, has been in­ creased by eleg^y A great extension of military telegraph lines is now going on undercharge of the officers of the ser­ vice. In the Department of Jkfissojiri 250 milesof line will be built to oonnect isolated/miKtary jkiits.! , . the sound, and there saw two old wolves and five three-quarter-grown .whelps wrangling and fighting over the dead body of a sheep. He got to within two rods of them before they heard himf when he fired into their midst. Immedi­ ately the whole seven came bounding toward him, and before he had time to climb a tree they were full upon him. He reversed the gun and used it for a club. The fight lasted an hour, and so savage and ferocious were the wolves that as one after another of their num­ ber received a death-stroke from the old musket they pounced upon their fallen comrade and proceeded to devour him ; at this juncture the farmer would rush in with his gun and kill another. After the hour's skirmish the seven wolves lay dead at the farmer's feet. During the fight he had every bit of clothing torn from his body, his hands and legs badly bitten, and the lower part of one ear snapped off. 11 -- H*..l 1 -I ILLINOIS NEWS. TmxmMm Pi*|Mil|< Following is a statement showing the assessment of property in the severa counties in the State of TOinola as re­ turned to the Auditor of Public Accounts for the yo«r l881: !j fToteJ rotwc *<ha«...v.. Aleian <!*.... Bond .. Boone........ Brown ...j„ Bureau - Calhoun.-..; ('.amtM ctomiw:::::::::::: OhriBtian.. C.ark ....1............ ; Ciinton C leg.../.'.... Cook Crawford;..S..... Cumlwrtand «.... Be Kaib... I>e Witt... I»OUgl«ft .. DuPage £dpr .. KdwtHIi Effingham. ..... Fayette Ford. Franklin.............. Fulton..;..... ........ Gallatin.. Greene Grundy.. Hamilto#; HaneocS.............. Hardin Hendoraon...........i,! Hearv..,.- Ircqno,#.... T..4. J acknon 4 . ,a»per .Tefferso# Jorsey Jo DavlHM.. Johneon .............. Kane. Kankakee.......... Kendall r.„ Knox ................i Lake........ La Salle . . < Lawrenoe Lee Livingston .' Logan Macon ................ Macoupin Madison Marion Marshall.............. Mason Massac jf.... McDon<ragh<. . . MoHcnry McLean..., ......' Menard Mercer Monroe JT.i" Montgomery Morgan T Moultrie Ogle.... Peoria Perry Piatt Pike Pope Pulaski Putnam......" t... Randolph. Richland. Liock Inland Saline Sangamon. Schuyler.. Scott Shelby.... Stark St. Clair. Stephenson. 'lazewell Union Vermillion Wabash Warren Washington Wayne White Whitesidea Will ^Williamson. Winnebago. Woodford Cotton A afrSeited in New York the other day, for stealing a loaf of bread from the basement of a private resi- dence."" Ttro bread -was inside the grat­ ing door, and the tramp hooked it with a long piece of wire, .He had with him a long reed and vn ordinary table-knife. With the reed hi ife said to .suck milk from pails inside grated doors, and the knife he uses to cut bread when he gets it as far as the bars of a door. THB Czar has a curious ornament on his writing table. It is nothing less than a piece of the foul bread--a mixt­ ure of unin use-ron trying! to Iif< donti4|i«^« and |innutcitious ref- le peasants have been in ojfie portion of his f was v ignorant of the distress in the district until a newspaper published the facts, and now keeps the bread before him on a letter-weight that he may see what his people have been obliged to eat without his knowledge. SOME years ago an estimate was made, of what three criminal bjothers had cost an English community In twenty years. The account stood thus: •ather and the Quakers of 1682. Times change, and men change with them. So do their views of what is right and just. To-day the Friends are held in fellowship by the Christian peo­ ple, and their preachers are welcomed to the pulpits of« other denominations. Two hundred years ago, the great New England divine, Cotton Mather, could write concerning them the following letter, and think he was doiug God serv­ ice. The letter is said to have been dis­ covered among some old papers in the Massachusetts Historical Society, and bears date, "September ye 15, 1682," and is addressed to "Ye aged and be­ loved John Higinson:" " There be now at sea a shippe (for one Friend, Elias Holdcroft, of London, did advise me by the last packet, and it would sail sometime in August, called ye Welcome.) II. Green was master, which has aboard a hundred or more of ye heretics and malignants, called Quakers, with W. Penn, who is ye scamp at ye head of them. Ye General Court has accordingly given secret orders to Master Malachi Huxlett, of ^e brig porpoise, to way laye ye said Welcome as near ye coast of Codd as may be, and maker cap- tives of ye said Penn and his ungodlie crew, so that ye Lord may be glorified and not mocked on ye soil of this new country with ye heathen worshipp of these people. Much spoil can be made by selling ye whole lot to Barbadoes, where slaves fetch good prices in rumme and sugar, and we shall not only do ye Lord great service by punishing ye wicked, but shall make gayne for his ministers and people. " Yours, in ye bowels cf Christ, " COTTOX MATHER." ThajLord was so unmindful of the ~ dfhis chosen people that he al- wed William Penn to escape good Master Huxlett, and " His ministers and people" were left to mourn the losa of their "rumme and sugar." iMll properly. $16,688,713 2,050.553 8,049,728 «,802,9l'.2 3,465,866 10,495,554 1,188,050 5,460,024 4,044,941 9.987.383 9.234.929 2,388,029 2,"flV04 3,559,71# 5.639.861 i 1,932,43! 1,172,757 10,131,380 5,32-',758 4.275.930 5,760,8>0 5,934,838 1,975,155 2,399,425 3,320,9i*4 3,256,523 1.180.384 11,659,234 1,805,472 6,107,764 V 5,061,358 1,459.042 #,275,918 771,2*4 3.303.161 13,504,065 #,541,975 3,004,286 1.751.862 I,656,431 4,7x9,650 4,971,987 621,953 •18,492,370 4.729,897 5.11S, 94(? 15,085,734 6,265,217 33,157,290 1,734,896 10,1139,098 10,4i»8,29S 7,941,594 9,880,757 6,060,881 13,671.314 S,973,a%€ 4,939,^76 3,811,94!) 1,174,567 9,783,345 9,229.756 18,119,0.9 4,612,088 6,555,990 2,350,575 7,410,801 10,716,369 2.972.162 12,647,270 15,06'.t,722 2,020,976 5,023,747 8,568,512 1,347,723 748,078 1,875,880 3,711,143 3,153,521 8,178,-88 1,166,815 18,448,134 3,76i«,6i>6 3,217,440 7,395,293 4,8S4,734 16,940,384 9,416,725 9,415,154 1,890,244 II,067,712 1,706,405 7,6<'4,053 4,344,181 2,1,41,21)6 1,634,033 #,303,361 13,079,722 1,455,606 8,768,2 « 6,964,695 Total. $575,934,93# $746,679,673 The following summaries will also be of interest The first of them shows the value of lots and lands, the seoond of personal property: BKAL nun. "f .. f!3,105,8» .. 1,516,81* .. 2,343,2TB .. 8.592,0» l,694,hW 8,44341 779,18# 4,214,7J0 3,54i,4W 7,954,3» 6,^8,3 f f t 1,831,74$ 2.033,7M 2,751,6« 4,219,11$ 96,027, in i, 431,214 810.5$$ 7,887,411 4,277,5$1 3,175,91$ 4^76, S$T 4,711,34$ 1,332,5» 1,862,39$ 2,297,l« 2,575,9$$ 800,5$$ * 8,545,6$$ 1,246,04$ 4,636,4» 4,149,148 984,3|$ 7,270,3W 548.8$$ 2,519,3M 10,625,01$ 7,329,90$ 1,423,574 I,215,11$ 3,890,6$$ 3,363,949 36<,J7S 9,947,31$ 3,8t>2,4$> 4,591,941 10,291,8rt 4,416,1T4 17,395,901 1,'^61,064 8,038,630 8,222,218 6,393,387 7,*;93,83S 4,589, ISO 10,882,388 2,640,2ST 3,961,aw 3,170,345 6,421,«m 6,754,383 13,767,681 3,4h(i,548 4,747,48$ 1,744.345 5,230,613 8,62)1,568 2,288,2(7# 9.191,710 12,007,467 1,551,700 4,021,34$ 6,54-2,254 789,634 569,40$ 1,477,198 2.739.298 1,612,391 6.172.299 786,896 14,29(>,006 2,755,319 2,278,5®1 5,579,734 3,88.1.198 14,462,767 7,406,398 7,4;U,516 l,226,i. 99 8,510,834 1,349,803 6,946,689 3,372,817 1,46H,903 1,029,180 7,039,788 II,089,637 868,947 6,466,900 5,599,133 Impro*«d •ores.. lands, Number. Firitie. Unimproved lands, Average. $368,660,(91 $ 13.$2 $,076,837 $6,136,$T0 36,307,867 4.41 $399,786,781 $ 11.63 146,668,144 ,480,034 61.70 Total lands.... 34,884,494 Improved lota $79,711 Unimproved lot*... #77,797 Total lota 857,508 $176,148,178 $905.43 Total value of railroad property as­ sessed by Assessor* $ 2,069,967 Total value of all property in State. 746,679,678 rUSONALIX. Xumber. Valve. A vrraq*. 921,136 $25,418,310 $ 27.59 $,045,366 30,528,846 10.04 112,361 3,539,418 31.30 1,088,544 1,403,862 1.29 ..2,672,074 6,354,800 2.00 4,637 898,371 309,716 304,818 34,820 32,666 Twenty-four prosecutions... Maintenance in prison. 1$1 150 Hnvan years' transportation tar one. 100 Value bf depred*a*il* J. 1 /I.. . .1. /i JL..... 8,130 Total.... J..1! i'.V.-J/s.... t..... .£8,061 Nearly $18,000 feere spent on this one family, and-atthe!time the computation was made the eldest brother was but 24. Their deprttftttfobs Were estimated at$l&awe«k, . : : 'i- JUDOC GRAY, of Massachusetts, is a candidate for the United States Supreme Court Judgeship left vacant by the death of Justice Clifford, and has the support of Senator Hoar. Ex-Attorney General (now Judge) Devens is also a candidate, and will have the Hayes in­ fluence, whioh will not be a recommenda­ tion to Mn Blaine, the 'New'England member of the Cabinet. Senator Ed­ munds, rf Vermont, is in the New York circuit,* aad is not believed to be a can­ didate. THERE was a convention of the Palmer family at Stonington, Ot., Aug. 11. The fttrfeet bo^a amused themselves by saluting eviry stranger as "Mr. Palmer," and' they deldom itoissed it. Four hun­ dred Palmers had registered the day before the ' reunion. There was a good deal of disappointment at the absence of Gen. Grant, who is a direct descendant of Walter Palmer's oldest daughter, and The Horse and tne Han. The man has cut away the frog be­ cause he thinks the horse will be in­ jured if the frog touches the ground. He has then cut a deep groove at the base of the frog. This is to give a well- opened heel, as he is pleased to call it. He has scooped away the sole to "give it spring." He lias soored a deep notch in the toe for the shoe. This is evi­ dently a conservative relic of the time when nails were not used, and the shoe attached by three pointed clips ham­ mered over the edge, one in front and one on cither side. Then he has im­ proved the whole of the outer surface of the hoof. As the Creator has furnished this part of the hoof with a thin, hard, polished plate, forming a sort of varnish which is impervious to wet, the farrier, as a matter of course, rasps it all away up to the crown. And as the Creator has placed around the crown a fringe of hair, which acts as a thatch to the line of junction and throws off the rain upon the water-proof varnish, he cuts this away with his scissors. Lastly, the Creator having given to the horny hoof a mottling of soft and partially trans­ lucent brown, gray-blue, yellow, black and white, never exactly the same in two hoofs, much less in two horses, the farrier takes a blacking pot and brush, polishes up the hoofs until they look like patent-leather boots, all four exactly alike, and then contemplates his work Vith satisfaction. In his own words, he has "turned out a finished job of it." ONE of the noisiest members of the West Virginia Legislature is a Beekman Wyatt. His colleagues call him Beek Wyatt, but he doesn't be quiet, just the Hornea.... Cattle Mules and Sheep Hogs Steam engines and boilers Carriages and warons. Watches and clocks... Sewing and knitting machines Pianos *. Melodeons and organs Steamboats and sailing vessels Ml Merchandise Material and manufactured articles.. Manufacturers' tools, etc Agricultural tools and machinery Gold and silver plate and plated-war*. Diamonds and jewelry Money of bnnks and bankers Credits of banks and bankers........ Moneys of other than bankers Credits of other than bankers Bonds and stocks Household and office property Grain of all kinds .... Bank stock Total paraooal 3,539,418 i ,403,362 6,354,800 1,006,064 6,377,428 937,689 1,492,391 1,301,073 674,671 336.16 16.01 3.00 7.39 63.43 30.66 601,80$ 689.33 $21,458,849 3,268,658 1,887,012 4,918,306 92,886 52,703 . 3,771,089 . 1,279,071 . 13,830,281 . 16,904.5X1 1,108,422 . 12,176,469 . 6.815,500 6,321,948 .tl68.674.7Y7 State Items. THE Eidgley planing-mill, at Spring­ field, Valued at 910,000, was swept away by fire. • THE cabbage worm has destroyed nearly all the cabbages in some parts of Sangamon county. GEN. GBANT is confidently expected to attend the reunion of his old original regiment--the Tweniy-lirst Illinois--at Effingham, Sept. 21. THE Socond brigade of Illinois militia will go into camp at Bloomington on Sept. 7, simultaneously with the reunion of veteran soldiers and sailors. A SEVERE storm, resembling a cyclone, visited Randolph township. McLean county, the other morniug, and played havoc with the small crain, . besides breaking down trees and fences. MRS. GEORGE PLACE, the first person married in Stephenson county, has gone to the better land. She was a daughter of William Waddams, who in 1832 had the only homestead between Rockford and Galena. THE Dlinois and Michigan Canal Com­ missioners have been urged by citizens of Joliet to turn the Desplaines river into the canal because of the neglect of Chicago to erect pumping-works at Bridgeport. A TURKEY gobbler at Lincoln, some weeks since, actually drove a hen from her nest and sat upon the eggs until they were hatched, and is now looking after the brood of four little chicks with all the maternal care imaginable. TWENTY-EIGHT fett of piling on the harbor improvement at Waukegan washed away a few days ago. Engineer Whitney declares that the appropriation of $30,000 by Congress is insufficient to to commence a substantial harbor. THE State's Attorney in Boone county, whose duties have not heretofore called for the display of a high degree of talent, and whose compensation is only $400 a year, asks the Supervisors to vote him assistance in the trial of Dr. Cream. THE sale of $150,000 Cook county 6-per-cent. bonds at 109.21 and accrued interest shows that money is abundant and Cook county credit good. This is the last of the issue of $750,000 of Court House bonds authorized by law. A MAS bull attacked Mr. John Mc­ Millan, a prominent farmer of De Witt county, and before help could be ren­ dered gored him, wiring a serious wound. He was passing through the field when the enraged animal attacked him. PETER DAHI., a young and robnst Norwegian, died at the. County Hospital of Chicago of hydrophobia, after the most horrible suffering. He was bitten large March in the fleshy part of the hand by a street cur, receiving a mere scratch, like that of a pin, an inch long. The wound quickly healed without showing the presence cf any poison. There was no post-mortem examination of the body. Physicians regard the bod­ ies of jpersons who have died of the dis­ ease with even more terror than they do the bodies of small-pox patients, and no Chicago doctor was courageous enough to undertake the carving of the corpse. Hie Noble Virginia Bourbons. At the recent Virginia Bourbon State Convention, some of the orators referred to the Bourbon party as " the noble Virginia Democracy." Virginia has sometimes been referred to by Southern orators as the " Mother of Presidents;" henceforth she Trill be known as the scornful enemy of repudiation. And we need scarcely remark that, she obtains this proud title through the hoble lead-' ership of the noble Democratic party. To be sure, this noble party has con­ trolled the State finances of Virginia for fifty years, during which rather-pro­ tracted period it has not paid any part of the principal of the State debt, and precious little of the interest thereon. Of course, the noble Democratic party of Virginia has had no objection to tbie payment of the State debt during this protracted period, but it has been wait­ ing, as it were, for the creditors of the State to say emphatically that they pre­ fer 50 cents or 25 cento to 100 cento on the dollar of their claims. The credit­ ors have been slow in coming forward with propositions of this nature, and they have delayed so long tliut the " no­ ble party " has become impatient, so to speak, and is now taking the aggressive. Says the noble party: " The mainte­ nance of the public credit of Virginia is the essential means to her prosperity." What a splendid sentiment 1 The crop of Presidents in Virginia has been scant of late years, and the noble party sug­ gests, in effeet, to the " Mother of Pres­ idents" that she make a superhuman ef­ fort in the direction of increasing the production of Presidents. The noble party proceeds: •' We condemn repudi­ ation in every shape and form as a blot upon the honor of Virginia." What could he grander than that ? He who hesitates is a dastard and he who doubts is damned ! We looked for this emphatic epigram in the platform of the noble party. It is not there in so many words, but it is implied. - There is nothing mean about the no­ ble party. There is to be no element of compulsion in its debt-paying scheme. It will not force the creditors of the State to take the money due them wheth­ er they will or no. Far from it. Wit­ ness this tender and considerate lan­ guage of the noble party: " We will make every effort to secure a settlement of the public debt, with the consent of her creditors, which is consistent with her honor and dictated by justice and Bound public poiicy.*' Observe, the no­ ble party does not approach the credit­ ors of the " Mother of Presidents " in a menacing attitude, with a handful of gold eagles, and say in a loud and im­ perious tone : " Here^take your money, principal and interest" The noble par­ ty is full of "honnah, sah;" it is im­ bued with a keen sense of " justice ;" it is mindful of the high claimspf "public policy." Hence the nobl&party #fefrains from indulging in the harsh word "pay­ ment," and substitutes the more gentle, more euphonious word "settlement." How does the noble party know that the creditors of Virginia want the full face of their legal demands ? And, if not, why should the noble party insist upon full payment ? It does not insist upon full payment. It scorns repudiation, but it is tenderly conscious of the rights of creditors, and it approaches them in the honorable spirit of compromise. Says the noble party: "It is emi­ nently desirable and proper that the several classes of the debt now existing should be unified, so that equality, which is equity, may control in the an­ nual payment of the interest and the ultimate redemption of the principal." There is a little slip here, for "equality" is not necessarily "equity." For ex­ ample, the creditor who loaned the State of Virginia money at 8 per cent, interest would not be bound in equity to accept 4 per cent, interest because an­ other creditor had loaned the State money at the latter rate. Doubtless the ardent desire of the noble party for the "unification" of the different classes of the debt led to the enunciation of this father-queer ethical proposition. In­ deed, this appears from a later passage in the platform, which pledges the noble party to "use all lawful and constitu­ tional means in its power to secure a settlement on the basis of a 3-per-cent. bond." It may be observed in passing that the " Mother of Presidents " has not been in the habit of borrowing money at 3 Ser cent., and as a matter of fact the ebt of the estimable old lady bears a much higher rate of interest A propo­ sition to settle a debt bearing 7 or 8 per cent interest, overdue for fifteen or twenty years, at 8 per cent interest, may look on the surface like a sort of repudiation, but we know that the noble 1 party does not so understand it, for it says, emphatically : " We condemn re­ pudiation in every shape and form as a blot upon the honor of Virginia, a blow at her permanent welfare, and an ob­ stacle to her progress in wealth, in­ fluence and power." Who has the hardi­ hood to assert that the noble party would slap the " Mother of Presidents " in the face, so to speak ? Who believes for a moment that the noble party would in­ flict a "blot" upon the honor of the old lady, or strike a foul " blow " at her welfare, or interpose au "obstacle" to her "progress in wealth, influence and power?" Palsied be the tongue that shall dare to give utterance to the im­ pious slander! The concluding plank of the platform of the noble party is, as Dick Swiveller would say, "a staggerer." Says the noble party: "The Conservative-Dem­ ocratic party pledges itselfr as part of its policy, not ti increase the present rate of taxation." Economy is a splen­ did thing in a political party; it is just what might be expected of a noble po­ litical party like the one whose high character we are celebrating. But, as a matter of fact, "the present rate of taxa­ tion " in Virginia does not provide SI for the payment of the old lady mother's debts, principal or interest Exactly what good it will do for the noble party to " secure a settlement of the public debt of Virginia with the consent of h'er creditors " is not apparent, in connection with the solemn assurance of the noble party to the old lady's subjects that it will not draw$l from them to be devoted to the payment of the existing debt It is satisfactory, however, to know that the noble Democratic party of patriots of Virginia " condemns repudiation with the utmost scorn;" that it wants to "unify" the debt of the "Mother of Presidents ; " that it wants the consent ot her creditors to such unification; that it wants a "settlement of the debt," if it don't want to pay it; and, finally, that it wants to secure a settlement on the basis of a 3-per-cent bond, if it don't want to raise a cent by taxation to pay the rate of interest to be agreed upon. We wish it to be distinctly understood that the platform of the noble party is not a joke. Its proposition to pay the debt of Virginia without raising any money to do it with is no* a joke. Vir­ ginians never joke.--Chicago Tribttne. whirligig (whirling gig), a circular cage on a pivot, which was turned with great velocity, to the intense discomfort of the inmates. A curious punishment known as the "drunkard's cloak" was ntro- duced by the Puritan magistrates into Newcastle-on-Tyne. The drunkards were compelled to go about the town carrying around ithem an empty barrel, space being cut out of it for their heads and hands. A promi­ nent consideration in these punishments, as in those retained by Delaware to-day, was doubtless their cheapness, and this is indeed no flight consideration. Some years ago an estimate was made of what three criminal brothers had cost an En­ glish community in twenty years. It stood thus: tiranbllmr mt the Killer. It is riot uncommon to hear of a who has not sense enough to go to the mill, but it would seem slanderous to say that the majority of men who are always complaining of the millers have not sense enough to see that the majority oi the'uifRculties complained of arise from faults or conditions that the farmer may oorrect At least Mr. J, Hollister, now farmer, once a miller, says as much to the Adrian Fanners' Club in a paper on the milling question. One would sup­ pose that farmers would know enough tc take only clean wheat to mill when they wish good flour. But the fact is, the majority take no pains to clean out all cockle, cheat, light and sprouted wheat and filth. They carry a grist of such a mixture to the miller, and ask him to give them for it as much prime flour as can be made from an equal weight of pure plump wheat The miller must discount dirty, chaffy wheat He can give only as much good flour as the good wheat will make, less the toll. for cleaning it he getB well paid in the screenings, which go for feed, and which the farmer had better kept at home. Mr. Hollister advises such men to thor­ oughly clean their grain before going to Again, some fanners think a * clean thing can come out of an unclean one, or pure flour or meal can come out of a filthy old bag that perhaps has been used for carrying out rotten potatoes from the cellar, and moist and dirty, thrown down to mould, to be^ picked up in a hurry and carried off to bring home the flour in. | The very men who take dirty wheat in dirty sacks are the chaps who complain that they get short returns and poor flour from their grists, and as this class of men take only a two bushel sack at a, time, their poor wives are never sure how that new batch of flour is goiug to act, and bread-making is all luck mH nhanm in that household. Mr. Hollister says three times a year is often enough to go to mill. The flour, if packed in paper sacks, will grow bet­ ter every day, and better flour is made from large grists. Old flour is the best because the water has evaporated, and the flour has become drier and stronger. Now these facts we have before pre­ sented in these columns, and for these reasons it is our custom to go to mill but once a year, except for ground feed for the stock. After the wheat is threshed we clean up thoroughly enough to fur­ nish the family broad for a year. This, with barrels to hold the flour, and sacks to hold the bran and shorts, go in one load to the mill. We tell our miller we are in no hurry for that grist, but some day in October or November, when the weather is cool enough, and not too cold, and when the mill is in the best order, we wish him to do his best work, for which we pay by the barret We thus get the best for the least outlay. The miller likes that way, and the house­ keeper has a staple article of flour, that she knows how to manipulate. Bread- making is thus reduced more nearly to a regular and reliable operation--from which uniform results may be expected. If a farmer must, from force of habit, go to mill with one sack of wheat, he will get better flour to exchange wheat for flour.--(Vnoinnati fnmrnrroial. A Passport to Paradise. A wealthy Borah died recently, not al­ together in sanctity, for he had led a dissolute life aud had incurred the dis­ pleasure of the priests of his caste. His family, and especially the ladies of his household, were, therefore, all the more anxious for his eternal welfare ; and, ac­ cording to Borah • customs, the widow went to the Mullah's " Brother Gabriel/' who holds the post of archangel m heaven. The Mullah, however, was stern and not easy of access, and when an interview was finally granted he told the widow that, owing to the wicked­ ness of the departed, it would be a diffi­ cult and certainly a very expensive job to propitiate Gabriel. However, he agreed at last to give the necessary let­ ter of introduction. In this he asked " his brother Gabriel " to take good care of the old Borah, and, as a reward for "good behavior" during lifetime, to grant him, among other favors, a bung­ alow and a pomegranate tree. For this important and useful letter the Mullah charged the modest sum of R500. The widow hurried home, tied the letter round the neck of the departed and buried the corpse. The Borah's son--a sharp young lad, whose intellect had been sharpened by an English education --did not, however, approve of the loss of R500. He surreptitiously removed the letter to Gabriel and kept it by him for six months. He then indorsed it,* in a clever imitation of his father's hand­ writing, making the defunct Borah say that having arrived in heaven, and hav­ ing duly presented his credentials to the Archangel Gabriel, Gabriel, instead of allowing him a separate bungalow and a pomegranate tree, had given him noth­ ing but abuse. Armed with this letter, the lad visited the Mullah and told him he should invoke aid of the police for breach of contract unless' the R500 was restored forthwith. The money was paid. The facts come, as we say, from an unimpeachable source, and the cus­ tom is said to be general among the Bo­ rahs, one of the astutest classes in Bom­ bay.--Bombay {India) Gazette. Obsolete Modes of Punishment. It is a curious circumstance that pun­ ishments and forms of indictment long obsolete in the land of their origin should survive here. Delaware, as most peo­ ple are aware, retains its pillory, and not very long ago a fair Philadelpliian was in trouble on the charge of being " a common scold," an indictment which, it is asserted, has not been entered against any one in England since 1705, when Anne was Queen. The punishment specially provided of yore for scolds was the ducking stool, which, in the time of Elizabeth, was, with the pillory, re­ quired to be provided by the lord of a manor. It is thus described: "A post was placed in a pond; across this post was placed a traverse beam, turning on a swivel, with a chair at one end, in which, when the culprit was properly placed, that end was turned to the pond and let into the water, and this was re­ peated as often as the virulence of the temper required." There is evidence that this punishment was often applied. Another punishment, formerly very common for rowdy persons^1 was the Twenty-four prosecutions Maintenance in prioon Noven yours' transportation for i Value oi depredations *191 150 100 9,120 Total £3,561 Hen are nearly $18,000, and at the time the eldest brother was but 24. The depredations of the three were computed at $5 a week, but the estimate was a low one.--Xew York Times. ****' Princess OolgoronkPs Hals. I Princess Dolgorouki was remarkable for the beauty and abundance of her hair, and Court gossip tells us that, like many other great men, Alexander II. had been caught in the,filet d'amour, which, according to old Marot, the poet, cap­ tures the souls of men. The Emperors admiration for the tresses of the Princess was so great that he often said to her : " If I die first I shall rest all the easier if that hair lies with me in my coffin." The impression on the mind of the Prin­ cess was so vivid, that at the very moment the news of the Emporer's death had reached her, she cut off with her own hands the rich abundance of her tresses, and inclosed them in a sealed packet directed to the Empress, with a humble request that the late Emporer's desire might be fulfilled. The Czarina's gentle and affectionate heart was moved to the core by this sacrifice and the re­ quest, and it is well known among the ladies of the Court that the white satin pillow upon which reposed the head of the late Czar contained the last token of love and remembrance from the Princess Dolgorouki The King of Beasts. A recent traveler in Central Africa says: "Lions are one of the dangers between Zanzibar and the great lakes. They sometimes hunt game in packs of six to eight Some animals show fight against them successfully. Lions never venture to attack the adult elephant, and even avoid the buffalo, unless they are more than two to one. In general they do not attack caravans, and never in day-time. At most a hungry lion may spring upon and carry of*" a straggler while passing through' the brakes and jungles. But it is otherwise at night. When Hons scent the caravan from afar, particularly if it contains goats or beasts of burden, they approach aud announce their vicinity by terrific roars. Never­ theless, in a well-inclosed camp there is no danger; the lions never attempt to clear the obstacles, and marksmen from behind the palisades can pick them off with almost unfailing aim. There is danger only when the camp is not com­ pletely inclosed, or when those inside go out to attack them." PITH AND FOIST. THZ fly that walks on is not the butterfly. IT takes an old women well waed in heorbs to give sage adviea. Air exchange speaks of female lawyem Yes, they are all fee ""W THB dancing-master is always taking steps to improve his business. THE medal offered for the biggest lie ' - fr*; told this year has bean awarded to the author of a circus poster. THB man who went to see the board fence retired when he heard the fence f u rail and saw the plank walk. , ̂ THE colleges are busy lettering great * men, so that they can be identified if they go astray in the hereafter. |f THB demand of ope photographer to use the patent process of another ' been decided in the negative. AMAGISTRATK who is a little lax i* the administration of the law cannot bo „„ • . J aaid to be a hatchet of a Judge. - . , " ^; A VIHQINIA lady refuses to marry a ^ " bald-headed man, though he is a mil] ionaire. She explains : "We'd have a < * M family fight sometime, and he has no Vs hair to catch hold oi" ' *?•# . VjJ; A FASHIONABLE young woman a t Van- > . ' -:'C Bar was asked by the classical professorS 11 ' t1. '••'•V j 'h n " Waiting for His Mutton. During the height of the so-called "Jingo" excitement, when men, and more especially women, wei*e almost un­ endurable on account of their political vehemence, Lord Beaconsfield was ap- . parently, at least, perfectly calm. Seat- { ed at dinner by the side of an illustrious j lady he was asked in tones of feminine j petulance: " What are you waiting for? 1 What are you waiting for?"--the impli­ cation being amazement that he did not hurl England into war against Bussia. "Waiting?" said he. "I am waiting for some roast mutton and potatoes." Brutal Courage. Two muscular men of Kildare, Ark., agreed to Bettle their quarrel with a single blow of the fist, to be struck by the winner of a tossed coin, and unre­ sistingly received by the loser anywhere above the belt. The man whom chance condemned to take the blow stood up bravely, and though he sought to avoia some of its force by offering no resist­ ance, it felled him heavily, breaking his nose, and leaving him insensible for several hours. WHEN a traveler goes to Europe does he generally complete the Turin, Italy? -- Yonkers Statesman. Not always. If in summer, a Marseilles suit may bring him to France.--Richmond Baton. And if it is Tou-louse and he sees Nancy he goes to Rouen.--SteirbrnvWe Herald. Butjhe will surely have a nice time, no douot, if he goes to visit Florence. He will certainly not Sienna handsomer girl, for there Arno women in all Europe who will bear com-Parison with her.--Balti­ more Every Saturday. But she would hardly be suited with, a Bologna dinner. --Chaff. And if the Paris is not too nice, they might visit Germany and take in Cologne. -- Terre Haute Saturday Night. Suppose he prefers not to Havre accompany him, would he then be at liberty to Rome without her ?--Elevated Railway Journal. Yes, if he didn't go to Lap land. " BB JABERS," said Patrick O'Rafferty, as he was reading about a case of sui­ cide, "be jabers, if iver I take me own life it will be wid chloroform." "Niver do the loike of that, Pat," said Mrs. O'Raflerty, " for yer inimies will bring it up agin ye aftherward as long as ye live." "Iknow all that, but little I care. It's the bist way to do; for ye see ye jist doze off, and ye don't aven know ye are dead till ye wake up and rade it in the papers." "That's true," said Mrs. O'Rafferty, solemnly, and the subject was dropped. DR. BARBTT, of Nice, has successfully employed turpentine vapor in the treat­ ment of whooping coagh. The drug is allowed to stand in plates in the room occupied by the patient, a resort to which simple expedient is believed to greatly lessen the severity and duration of the malady. Dr. Barety was led to a trial of this remedy by observing a marked improvement in the case of a child severely affected who had been al­ lowed to sleep in a newly painted room redolent with turpentine odor. PITCH paper, the same as that used in covering roofs, wheu cut iuto slips aud placed in convenient situations' under carpets and behind sofas and chairs in a room will effectually repel the moth mil­ ler from depositing its eggs. If similar strips are placed inside the backs and seats of parlor suits they will render the furniture moth proof. DISCONTENT is the child of aspiration; it means that life must be something higher and holier than mere externals; it means that you have looked down into your own souls, and found their wants, and yearnings, and capabilities with which the body has nothing to da for a definition of Ambrosia. After some hesitation, she replied, " I think it is a kind of hair oil." \ A OBNTIIKMAN saw an old Highlander * one day fishing with a bent pin. HeA ^ said to the man, "Fish will never bet*^ caught with that" "Ah, they will," " the man replied, " if they'll only take its into their heads." , . t STANDING jokes are oommon enough, """ but nobody hears of sitting ones.-- / ' ? Lowell Courier. What of the young^ * man who sat down on his sweetheartVi* f f ' new bonnet and sang, "I'm sitting on k * t h e s t y l e , M a r y ? " -- S o m e r v i l l e J o u r n a l . : THE latest advices from the Sandwich. ,{i ,yV islands report that the lava thrown fromr . \ Mauna Loa is likely to destroy a portion^ 'V,1 of the town and harbor of Hilo. That, . is bad for Hilo, but it is hoped "Jack:* 1 'P1, and the game " may be saved--Norris- ' * i 'town Herald. AA AJ? • > A WICKED Connecticut man, taken/ ' - ill and believing he was about to die, , * told a neighbor that he felt the need of, ^ ^ " preparation for the next world, and * ' would like to see some proper person in^ regard to it Immediately the friend sent for a fire-insurance agent. A SERVICE was announced at Sti '* Matthew's, Sydenham, London, Vj^. children of the upper classes." Where* upon the following amendment to tlif» well-known saying was promptly offered^ ., v • by a newspaper commentator : " Suffc#" little children of the upper classes ta *' * V come unto Me." FOUK-AKD-TWKSTT boetlea piled np on tlx. , ' Overekirt and seal aacqne lying near th« door. > Jf* There a liigh-heelfd shoe, here a coraet laoe, «-*'/ " * towdeted puffs, and other things for hut antfaK , c, „ „ faec. ^ " r' , Gum-elastic garter*, bandoline for bangs-- One long striped stocking on the bureau h&nf*; i, vi Sj? i / T o t l i e r ' e o n t h e s o f a , d u n g t h e r e b y o u r p e t , - " V t f ' 4 Myrtle'H 'neatli tiw blanket, fast asleep, youW. n *} ,, --Chicago ,\urM n/ llhinne. ' i THIS is the way a Vassar girl tells 4, < P >. joke: " Oh, girls, I heard just the best 'thing to-day. It was too funny. %. ; can't remember how it came about, but ' « X' • one of the girls said to Prof- MifcW" % - , chell--oh, dear, I can't remember jus|, :*Uf- what she said, but Prof. Mitchell'^,!;' answer was just too funny for any user, . ' I . I forget just exactly what he said, but i£ ' was too good for anything." f ** "WHAT did he say to me, the beggar?* ̂ said the prisoner, in a tine burst of in* ? >'• -T ' ' • dignation: "Did you hear what h(rw called me, yer Anner ? He stopped a Btud stilt in the middle nv the street, arf"" he niver opened his blagyard head; h# took oil'his coat just, and he trowed i|> • down on the ground, like that, w.' h tuck off his bloody hat an' he trowed i| ." down on top of it, just, an' he spit on hit - hands an' clapped them, the wan in other, like that; an'that's all h© saicL„ » , the blatherin' son of a gun; an' phwaf more would ye want him to say befori?' ve take the top of him in wid a paving * hammer?" R1.UBKN KNOTT. 8«y* Heuben Knott unto his Wr, In languuRe burning hot, 44 Matilda, do you love we, dear? * 8avs she, '• 1 love you, Knott." Kay not eo!" again lie cried, ".Oh, share with xue my lot! OI). euy that you will be my bride! Kay* the, " I'll wed you, Knott." «• • Hi, cruel fair, to serve me ao! - a >'n ^. i , 4,- 'Oh I love you well, you wot!" 11 could not wed you, lteub " am a|Mfc " For then 1 should be Knott I" '"*!® A iiKht breaks in on Beuben'a.ini»4r: And in his arm« she's got ^ . J' And say a, "Pray kiaa DM, Knott*, MOSAICS. is better . , Vf* <- A SHOT that hits broadside that misses. THE chains which cramp us most an*- * V those that weigh on us least--Madatnf Swetchim. • A.'i! () MKMOHY! thou elng'lt an endleaa muae Through all the lonely chamber* of the ~ TBAVSL improves superior wine ani rm,, spoils the poor; it is the same with fh|U ; i brain- THB only amaranth flower on earth ift \ . c > virtue ; the only lasting treasure truth, * --Cowper. 1 " •» MANNERS are the hypocrisies of n»- •% -- * » . « . . • • • * - * tions; the hypocrisies are more or lead'"' </? ibs,\«r perfected. --Balzac. BKWAM the fury ot a patteat -- --Dryden, THKM lire* mare faith Is hooeat Believe me, than ta half the ereada. -- Tennymm. HBAVBN has refused genius to womallf l̂ in order to concentrate all the fire in he! heart--Rivard. IT is with happiness as with watches --tne less complicated the leas easily deranged.--Chuw/ort. To ACQUIBB a few tongues is the task of a few years, but to be eloquent in ooo is the labor of a lifetime. CALUMNY spreads like au oil spot; wa endeavor to cleanse it, but the marie ro* mains.--Lespinasse. r WHEN death consents to let us live 0 long time, it takes successively as hoa* tagee all those we have loved.--Madame flecker. A MAM'S idolatry is for an idea; % woman's is fen* a person. A man suffers for a monarchy; a woman for a King.--> F. W. Robertson. WITH the world do not resort to injtt̂ ries, but only to irony and gayety ; inju- ̂ ry revolts, while irony makes one reflect- * and gayety disarms.-- Voltaire. ti-i' 4* 1 THB oldest specimens of timber £ the world are supposed to be the dowe pins contained in the aucient temples ofjN Egypt These dowel pins are ieeorpor-K ated with the stone work, which known to be not less than 4,000 ye old, and are believed to have been made from the tamarask or shittim wood ancient Egypt--a tree now sometii found in the Nile Valley. W' IF THE men were as silent about then^ ages as the women, we shouldn't hear so» ' many army reminiscences as we do now.- The ladies are worthy of being patron- "' used after in this tv-gar«l---floftMi