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'"*£> ^ I. VAN SLYKE. Editor •» id Publisher. UcHENBY. ; " ILLINOIS. WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. THE EAST. A N*W YORK telegram of Aug. 22 Hyi: 44 A new cine to the resting ph» of the late A. T. Stewart is being worked. Borne ten Ago a boy left a detective agency a crude painting, representing a scene in a lonely •x>r, willi the words in one part of it: 44 Stew­ art's body lies here." The following note ac- «t>mrmnied it: "This location M in Cypress Hill Cemetery. Bo very careful in approaching the grounds. You will be watched. Don t be wen making observations, for they will see von and follow you." After consultation with Judge Hilton, it was decided to make a search. Th« esmctcry was visited on Saturday, the spot in­ dicated "found, and four gTave-diCgers spent fbe sficrnoon at work. Nothing but a coffin- acrew was found, though there appeared to ba •videnceM that the ground had been dug op at • the place indicated ia the picture. THE will of the late Mrs. Millard Fill- aore, the widow of Presidont Fillmore, be _ _ (dteattiB to public and charitable institutions j ve#r8 appropriated to his about $50,000, and disposes of an estate valued ; one-fourth of the sigi M $300, (XK). j over which he had absolute control FLAMES originating from an explosion j HTO private yacht on the Potomac was , j actually constructed with Government money near Cape Serdn mad had viotualod for the winter, if he found that be had to be out, so long. THX Postmaster General has issued the foUowinjrOrdor, in answer to requests for instnictiotfi on the general subject of annoying poaW-cards: " When any©ne is annoyed or expects to be annoyed by postal-cards sent from any parttotiar place, of from aay known persons, he may direct the Postmaster at the point named to destroy all postal-cards ad­ dressed to *»*™i or cards from any person named BO addressed, and so far as the dis­ charge of the duties of the office permits sufficient examination the Postmaster should comply with the request The same roquest may be made of the receiving ^Postmaster. The direction to the Postmaster should be in writ­ ing, and should be filed for preservation.".... Further examination and investigation of Capt Howgate'a administration as disbursing officor of the Signal Servioe leave little doubt that he has used #100,000 of the m6ney of the United States for his own personal purposes. Like all per­ sons who have made free with public funds, it appears that Howgate has lived in mast lux­ urious style, entertained his friends mast roy­ ally, and paid extravagant prices fot every­ thing which he used. A WASHINGTON dispatch to the Chi- oago Time* mjB that Oapt Howgate's embes- zlement bids fair to show up #400,000 on the books. The Attorney General has caused him to be rearrested and held in $90,000 bail. Gen. Hazen believes that Howgate has for four own Use about signal-service fund, '•IjjlF gas destroyed the fruit warehouse of War- flier & Merritt, Philadelphia, burning to death 'two employes. The loss is reported at $250.- ,000 Teirence Conolly, of Newton, N. J., after abeUining from food for forty-three "days, has commenced to take nourish­ ment, When he began his abstinence he wes ' ttnable to leave his Wd, but of late ha t walked across the room and seated himself in a rock­ ing-chair. He ceased to eat because his stomnch would not retain food... .That huge monopoly, the (Standard Oil Company, has at . last a competitor in the Buffalo and Rock City Pipe Line Company, which has just commenced delivering oil. "AT Hartford, Ctf, the pacing horse > Little Brown Jug, owned by Mr. H. Y. Bemip, cf Chicago, lowered tbe pacing record to 2:113* , beating by a seoond Sleepy Tom's record of 2:123-4, and also accomplished the three fast­ est consecutive mile heats ever paced or trot' «d--viz.: 2 J134, 2:1154, 2:1234. THE mental aberra tion which inspired Jpr. McL Ostrander to commit suicide at Pitts­ burgh, Pa., a few days ago is said to be owing to excessive smoking. The suicide was in the Sabit of sitting for hours puffing at a meer­ schaum supplied with the strongest " plug" to­ bacco. ... A mock fight between the British and the American* with their French allies took place at the soldiers1 reunion at Portland, Me., Sod was witnessed by 40,000 persons. THE WEST. THE Apaches made a raid on the min­ ers near Nutt Station, New Mexico, and killed George Daily, the general manager. Lieut Smith and four soldiers also fell on the field. Vhe loss is charged to the colored troops, who fled when the Apaches made their appearance. ... .Estimates based upon actual measurements from 1,000 thrashing machines in the State of in the back yard of the signal office. His jqaethod of securing signatures of blank vouch­ ers was audacious enough to entitle him to a premium. He owns reil estate in Florida. Virginia and the District of Columbia, and is knorn to hold large quantities of stocks, from which the public treasury may possibly realise something. DCRING the past twelve months (end­ ing July 31) the total value of imports of mer­ chandise into the United States amounted to $683,972,221. The exports for the same period were $355,722,371. The imports in­ creased about $40,000,000 over the pre­ vious year, while the exports lost about the same amount OENE1LU. SECRETARY WINDOM has notified the holders of the outstanding 5 per cent, regis­ tered bonds maturing the 1st of October that the Treasury Department will redeem such bonds without rebate of interest Secretary Windom explains that he has taken this oonrae because he thinks that it is as wall to pay now as st any later time. H. O. ABMOUB, of New York, 'wants the public to understand that there is no oor- ner in August wheat, hot that a shortage equa to our entire export of last year has brought prices to a fair level. He thinks oorn will fall below an average crop by 300,000,000 to 400, 000,000 bushels Completed reports of the condition of w the crops and the harvest prospects throughout the world are being published in Lon­ don. From these reports we see that, except in Austria, Hungary and Holland, the harvest will be below average--in France slightly be low; in Great Britain about 10 per cent below. Wheat is reported good in Germany, and bar- Ohio, and submitted by the State Board of 1 ley very good in Russia. The harvest in Spain Agriculture, show a heavy falling off in the yield of wheat and corn" as compared witu 1880. The shortage in wheat is 25 per cent, or 38,000,000 bushels yield, against 82,500,000 last year ; m corn, 30 per cent or •0,000,000, against 105,000,000 bushels last year. Oats show an increased yield of 1,500,- #00 Oregon reports her stirplus of wheat at •00,000 tons. The tug A. B. Ward was blown to atoms by the explosion of her boiler in the river at Chicago, and two members of her crew of five wera killed and three injured, one, the Captain, most d&ngerouaiy. A RICH find of silver about ten miles from Deadwood *as followed in forty-eight hours by the creation of West Virginia City, the election of a Recorder, the settlement of 1,000 persons, and the opening of nine saloons and two faro banks. On the fourth day a daily newspaper appeared Nine wholesale houses and their contents, valued at .*250,000, were t swept away by fire st EvansviUe, Ind. One '•reman was killed and another fatally injured **§y falling walls. The insurance aggregates Wit ' 1 Gov. FREMONT, of Arizona, has sug­ gested to the Secretary of the Interior an ar­ rangement with the Mexican Government to - devote the peninsula of Lower California to a reservation for the Apaches, barring their egress by military poets on either side At JCexiDgton, Mo., an omnibus running to the de­ pot was stopped bv four masked men and the passengers robbed of all their valuables. >VTH. FLAXES which appeared in the stable of Schultz' candy factory at Wheeling, W. Ya., Swept away that building and destroyed the Paxton block. Hie loss is esti­ mated at $60,000 .A fire in G-rawer street Hew Orleans, destroyed the liqaor store of Patterson A Bovard and the cigar store of fismuel Levy. Loss, 450,000 Irvine, tbe county seat of E-itill oountv, Ky., was almost Stotirelv destroyed by fire. Loss, about $75,000. ' GEXKRAX. LESLIE COOMBS, OI Ken­ tucky, the Isst of the pioneer warriors of that State, died at Lexington a few days ago, aged 88 years. He was a Captain in the War of 1812, and raised and equipped a regi­ ment to aid Texas in her strug­ gle for independence. He was a trusted friend of Henry Clay. He was several limes Auditor of Kentuckv, and suffered defeat for Congress at the hands of John C. Breckin- fWge- M*ny years ago he lost a large fortune building railroads, and two years since be wag left almost destitute bv the burning of his .home. FBB swept away the shops of the • Oslwsion, Houston and Ban Antonio railroad, at Harrisburg, Texas.. ..Nearly sU the business portion of T)aingerfield, Tex., wss burned, causing a losa of f28.000 The chief buildings of Arkansas City, Ark., . were swept away by a fire which originated In the explosion of a coal-oil lamp, "he lose is reported at 1100,000 and the insurance as very light In Edgefieid county, 8. C., Buzzard and son had a fight with Timmerman with shot­ guns. Father and son badly wounded, and the adversary killed....At Ewait's Cross Roads, Ky. J. S. Offuti was shot and killed by hia brother-in-law, We P. Current... .luCook coun­ ty, lex&B, Blanton and Todd shot each other dead with revolvers. DANIEL C. DI JABNETTE, who has represented the Richmond district in the Fed­ eral and Confederate Congresses, died at Fred- «nckabnrg, Va The fanners of Kentucky. with an eye to tbe failure of the corn crop m their State, are flooding the Louisville stock­ yards with cattle and hogs. POLITICAL. SBIUTOK BECK was interviewed M to the probablto course of the Democrats In case of the death of President Garfield. He counseled . the sinking of party feeling and the election of a conservative Republican to the Presidency pro tem. of the Senate, nmmg Henry B. An­ thony as a type. GREENBACK State Conventions were will be poor, while in Italy and Belgium nearly all the crops are much below the average. In the Danubian provinces of Turkey, from which Great Britain draws largely, the cereal crops as a whole are good. COL. W. A. COOK, as special attorney for tho Government, on behalf of the United States, brought civil suit against Capt H. W. Howgate to recover (101,257, the amount of his defalcation, under the plea that he had left the District Writs of attachment on his real and personal property were issued and served. George W. Riggs, the well-known, Wash­ ington banker, died last week aged 60 years. THE United States steamer Alliance, Commander Wadleigh, arrived at Hammerfest, Norway, on the 26th of July, in search of the Jeannette and the missing whalers. Com­ mander Wadleigh report* that the Mayors of the varioun districts of Iceland were furnished with a description of the jeannette, and that they (the Mayors) would furnish the fishermen and walrus-hunters with a description. jj&e ice, in a northward direction from Hammerfest was reported very heavy. FOREIGN. ADVICES from San Domingo' to the 2d inst state that on July 29 emissaries of the Government discovered the hiding-plaoe of Gens. Ramon, Perez and Julius Fras, and three wounded officers belonging to the party of Gen. Alvarez. On the afternoon of the same day all were shot in the cemetery of San Domingo City, notwithstanding the interces­ sion of the diplomatic corps and the ecclesias­ tical body. An immense crowd witnessed the execution from the fortress wall. Tho diplo­ matic corps again asked in vain for the pardon of nine more adherents of Alvarez who had been condemned to be shot, and eight of the number were shot that day. THE dynamite fiend is abroad in Switzerland. The Grand Council of Zurich has prohibited the holding of a Socialist Con­ vention there. The Socialists have appealed from the Council's decision to the Federal Tribunal. And now the members of the Fed­ eral Tribunal are threatened with destruction by dynacniUs if their decision is not favorable to the Socialists. Not only that but they have threatened to blow up half of Switzerland, and begin there a conflagration that will burn up the world. FRENCH election returns show that 364 deputies have been re-elected, the whole number being 483. The Republicans have been the principal gainers. The fact that the Bonapartist candidates were defeated in Corsi cats significant, and L'Ordre, the journal of that party, admits that Conservatives of all Hhades have suffered a disastrous defeat A letter from Mazatlan, Mexico, gives the following details of the explosion there : One hundred and fifty pounds of powder blew up. The first day thirty corpses were removed, and the following- six days four or five daily, when the authorities interdicted further removals, considering the work dangerous. All the windows in the town were demolished. REPORTS from various parts of England indicate that the recent heavy rains there hare done immense damage to the crops. The hay crop is in a particularly bad state, and is begin­ ning to rot in many places. The Irish crops are also threatened by Ireland's weeping sky. Grain in that country is much damaged, and the potato blight has appeared once more.... Asiatic cholera in raging in Siam. The deaths among the natives at Bangkok are variously es timated at from 100 to 300 per day. PAKNELL'S manifesto to the Irish elec­ tors of Durham is described as " most violent" He declares it impossible for his party to enter into an alliance with any section of politicians who support the present Britislt Ministry, charging it with haviug banished personal lib­ erty from Ireland, and with having j reduced it to a worse condition than that of Russia under the third section.... The imion of Italy with Germany and Austria is deprecated by Gimbetta. He sees in it a menace to France, with whom Italy is not 'just now on very cordial terms The Directors of v PRESIDENT GARFIELD. WASHINGTON, Aug. M. The President is growing weaker, and it is expelled tb4t the end is nigh. Hope still re­ main# in the breasts of those nearest him, but it is the hop® which agists as long as a spark of life remains in tho prostrate form. The patient is losing strength, and the liquid nourishment administered seems to have no strengthening effect whatever. His mind wandered nearly all of yesterday. The trouble appears to arise from the condition of the swollen parotid gland. The pas has accumulated in at least half a dozen oells ill addition to the one in which tho incision was made on Wednesday, and the inflammation is spreading, it is feared, ito tbe direction of the brain. All these indi­ cations point to blood-poisoning. One who is in a position to know says that the pus which flows from ths wound is no longer of a healthy character, but has become thin and watery; that it isths eioeptoon now when the President's mind is clear, and that for a greater portion of the time his mind is in a wandering, partially- stupid, condition; that there is no longer haitlly a possibility that he can live, and that the final result, it is feared, may be expected Saturday or Sunday. He has vitality enough, it is believed, to last at least forty-eight hours. Mrs. Garfiela, either blinded by her hope or misguided by the physicians, has not until within a few hours realized that the President was in BO low a state, or that it was possible that he would die. She was very much over­ come when informed how very low he was, and that the physicians feared the worst Blaine's midnight dispatch is almost hopeless. The only hope he has is in the fact that the stomach retains a small quantity of liquid food. Beside that, ail is dark. The President has lost, not gained ; bad symptoms have appeared. The swollen gland is red and angry. Other symptoms excite alarm. The mind is wander­ ing and somewhat beclouded. His strength is failing. That is the startling story. WASHIKOTOK, Aug. *7. Twenty-four hours have elapsed since hope of the President's recovery was abandoned, and he still lives. He may continue to live for three or four days, the doctors say, but the mournful conclusion remains that each day draws him one day nearer to the grave. The capital is in mourning. The outward signs of grief have not been yet put on, but all hearts are as deeply stirred as though the end had come. The nation is watching at the bedside of a dying President, and the vigil is nearly fin­ ished. To describe the painful anxiety with which every word uttered by the physicians to-day, every look and gesture by the men who are fighting with death, has been re­ ceived, would be imnossible. The most encouraging words which they could utter conveyed so little hope that the worst would almost have been preferable. When the President was shot, and the physi­ cians could not tell whether ho would live out the night of the 2d of July, all hearts were gladdened by the news that he liad one chance to live. Twice since then has he been down almost into the depths of death, and stout hearts trembled, but did not faiL Even now he has a chance for life --the chance that a glimmering spark of Vital­ ity always holds out--but too feeble and unoer- t&in for "human hearts to grasp. The thought of the gnef which prevailed in the sick-room was sufficient to bring tears to many eyes. A strong, true and patriotic man, faded and wast­ ed almost beyond recognition, lying upon his couch, at times his mind wandering and his nervous fingers nodding in accord with some unfathomable symphony of an unsteady brain, the face disfigured by an ungainly swelling, from which the accumulated poison slow­ ly dropped; departed strength visible in shrunken features and motionless limbs; his stricken wife seated by the bedside per­ forming, with loving hands, every comforting ministration. She who has been the great supporter of her husband in his trouble, feeds him as she would feed a child, and gives no evidence of the agony which is tugging at her heart. The physicians are constantly by the sick man's side watching anxiously for some new danger to be met, or eagerly looking for the first manifestation of a favorable change. In this manner the hours fly by and night falls without a sign of hope or a ray of comfort While it cannot be said that there was much, improvement in the patient's condition yester­ day, it is at the same time true that he did not lose ground, and that he held his own better than was anticipated by the physicians. He took more than the usual quantity of liquid food, and assimilated it, and no symp­ toms of gastric disturbance followed. His mind was clearer than on the day before, due, doubtless, to the fact that the suppuration through the ear of the parotid gland rawovsd the pressure from the brain. The patient rested more easily and slept more than on the previous day, and the color of his skin and Ins general appearance was more healthy. The pulse and temperature were somewhat higher than on the previous day, however, and the character of the pus flowing from the wound was not as healthy as it had been. There was less of it, and it appeared to have a watery appearanoe. Dr. Boynton thinks that this is owing to the Presi­ dent's enfeebled condition and the thinness of bis blood. Mrs. Garfield has not yet lost hope. She firmly believes that her husband is going to recover. There was a very touching episode in the siok-room last night The patient recognized his wife sitting by his bedside, and, addressing her in a weak and trembling voice, said: " Crete, you had better go to your room and get % little rest" Mrs. Garfield begged to be per­ mitted to stay a little longer, whereupon the President remarked that he feared the time was at hand when they should separate for­ ever. Mrs. Garfield was severely shaken by this last remark, but, like the brave, good woman that Bhe is, she mastered her feelings and appeared composed. CoL Cork hill, District Attorney at Washing­ ton, has been summoned home from Cape May. He says a secret organization has plotted to take Guitean from jail and inflict upon him torture which will be a warning to assas­ sins. Even the jail guards await an excuse to shoot the fiend, who has had scarcely any sleep since the first relapse of the President. ADDITIONAL NEWS. $75,000. It is in tke shape of an Athe­ nian temple, the outside being gran|te and the inside marble. At the 011 trance stands a life-size st»tue of Mr. Bowman, in the most advanced style of modern realism, with hat a&d gloves in one hand and ft wreath of immortelles in the other. Millions it the Mint. Over $5,000,000 in broad, salmon-col­ ored bars or bricks of gold, occasionally darkly tinged with copper-like coating, arrived at the United Stntes Mint They came in 100 wooden boxes, about two feet square and a foot deep. An ex-, press-wagon, with several custodians, earned them, and they were rolled and dumped into the weighing room like so much lead. To the men in the mint the daily handling of fabulous sums of the precious metals begets an indifference that puts it on a par with the common­ est merchandise. Not an ounce, how­ ever, is free from the closest scrutiny while within these walls. Although a man may walk in from the street and stand at a step before the open door of the weighing-room vault, where $30,- 000,000 is stored with but a single offi­ cial in sight, it would need but the slightest alarm to have a score of men with loaded weapons in their hands standing on the spot. Unlike foreign mints, no display of armed protection is made, but the precaution is nevertheless complete. The largo consignment yes­ terday came from the Assayer's office in New York. Each box contains a " melt," or, in other words, the entire refined contents of a crucible, each varying in quantity, and every brick was num­ bered. The meh who do the heavy work opened the Ooxes, took off the pa­ per wrappings, and piled the bricks upon the scales. Then the clerk weighed them and carried the bricks into the vault. The entire weight was 266,960.78 ounces Troy, or over eleven tons. The actual net weight valuation was $51,- 104,466.31. If any one could count $30 every minute, agd keep it up without stopping, it would take within a fraction of four months to count this amount in coin. In the mint all the counting is done by weight and measufe. Piles of various kinds of coin are measured, and, if they are of the requisite num­ ber of inches each way, and the weight corresponds, the money is set down far more accurately than if the money had been counted by the deftest fingers.-- Philadelphia Times. A Wedding in Lapland. A wedding is announced at the church, whose bells are pealing. We invite ourselves. A score of us enter the building. It fe like most Lutheran churches, plain; but there is an altar with "seven candlesticks" and candles; a large cross, perfectly white ; a pulpit midway, and commodious pews and seats. The hour is 2 in the afternoon, not in the morning, though as to light­ ing the church, it ia "all one." Some dozen or so of the natives, all females, with handkerchiefs upon their heads, are present. Our party is seated at the front. I remain at the door. My wed­ ding garments are not up to the highest style, but, as the procession enters the front door, I fall in behind with the small boy of the family. The bride is a tall girl, with inflammatory hair and cool demeanor. The groom is a thick-set, stout man, whose hair is erect, and whose imperturbability is quite equal to that of the woman whom he holds, gently, by the hand. She is dressed plainly in black. A long white veil depends from her back hair, held by a circlet of ivy, a plant in great request and reputation here in Norway. The and bridegroom, pamw. pass including pafSBis, "pass up to the plat­ form with them and take seats on either side. A priest comes out from the aay- tum and stands before the altar silently, with his back to us, while the precentor from a side platform raises a sweet song, with whose music there is not so much accord by the audience. Then the bride and bridegroom kneel, a prayer is said and the two are one and all are happy. The bride is arrayed at the door, and the scene is concluded. held last week in New York and Massachusetts. ' Bank of England, noticing the continued In the first-named State Epictus How waa nomi­ nated for Secretary of State, and John Hooper for Comptroller, Dennis C. Fealy for Attorney 0*5eral, -^Hen G. Woods for Toeasurer, and ; H- Gould for Surveyor General The Massa- Convention nominated the follow- ticket: Governor, Israel Andrews I shipments of gold to the United States, have raised the rate of discount to 4 per cent. CAPTAIN HOLDEW, who has recently removed to Cincinnati from Marietta, Ohio, has been an enthusiastic collector ° êrnor' Dr- George Dutton, of of spiders ever since his college days. S>Bter,t of i In the Pu ûit°f this ningular fancy lie uie rarmcrs at tne « A t̂ir^&.Vh.tJey'Tf ^hburnhlm ̂ i ̂collect*d nearly 25,000 s--I caused by the recent rains M very great Attorney General. D. O. Allen, of L^nn. In : embracing 4,000 species, from Mi^i^ppi Gen. Ben Kiiig wa. nominated for j of the world. EDWAKD MCSOBOVK, Treasurer of the Musgrove Alpaca Company of Chicopee Falls, R. L, left home a short time ago and has not Bince turned up. An examination of his books shows that Musgrove made pretty free with the moneyB and paper of tbe company be­ fore he disappeared. It is believed that his stealings are about 140,000 The New York Grapo-Bugar Company has been incorporated by Thomaa C. Piatt and others, with a capital of $1,000,000. It will have a branch establishment at Des Moines, Iowa. J THE Chicago Tribune says that "late reports received from various ports of Kansac j confirm previously published news from that | State to the effect that in consequence of the | thought and tbe unusually hot weathci [ the corn crop will not yield more than i one-half of the average, and may fall | below one-third. Tho farmers of the eastern counties of the State will be the great­ est sutTerers. In the newly-settled western portions of the State the crop is reported to be good"....The large packing house of J. C. Hately, at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, has been swept away by tire. The loss will aggre­ gate about *800,000. BEN PERKINS was hanged at Livings­ ton, Ala., for the murder of a colored brother. Andrew Sanders was hanged at Covington, Tenn., for murder, and John Mundy was hanged at Edgefield. 8. C., for having mur­ dered his wife while laboring under a fit of jealous rage. All three of the executed men were negroes Four horse-thieves engaged in their peculiar business near the town of Dolores, Texas, re­ cently, were arrested by the constables, and while being taken to jail were captured by a party of persons who suffered at their hands. They were then put to death. A CABLE dispatch states that each day makes the English harvest prospect# more and more gloomy. The weather has turned against the farmers at the critical moment The loss It is almost impossible to gather corn, and it will soon cease to be worth gathering. Tho Lon- Planting Trees. You can have no idea of the exquisite delight of a planter ; he is like a painter laying on his colors; at every moment he sees his effects coming out. There is no art or occupation comparable to this; it is full of past, present and future enjoyment. I look back to the time when there was not a tree here (A.bbotslord), only bare heath; I look around and see thousands of trees grow­ ing up, all of which, I may say, almost each of which, have received my person­ al attention. I remember five years ago looking forward with the most delightful expectation to this very hour ; and, as each year has passed, the expectation has gone on increasing. I do the same now; I anticipate what this plan­ tation and that one will presently be, if only taken care of, and there is not a spot of which I do not watch the prog­ ress. Unlike building, or even painting or, indeed, any other kind of pursuit, this has no end, and is never interrupted, but goes on from day to day, and from year to year, with a perpetually aug­ menting interest. Farming I hate ; what have I to do with fattening and killing beasts, or raising corn only to cut it down and to be constantly at the mercy of the seasons ? There can be no such annoyances or disappointments in planting trees.--Sir Walter Scott. A SHEFFIELD (England) firm are mak­ ing steel-faced plates, by a process not yet divulged, which are apparently de­ stined to work a revolution in the matter of armor for ships ok war. Tho iron platas hitherto used have had to bo of enormous thickness to withstand the im­ pact from the heavy shots used, and tho ships have, therefore, been of unwiv Idly size to bear the weight, while the armor, even if it stopped the projectile, has in­ variably been cracked and split in ull directions. Experiments recently made on behalf of the English Government, and by the French as well, show that the new steel plates not only shatter the projectile itself, but show no wounds be­ yond the dents caused by the collision. The French ships of war now being built will, therefore, be protected by the new armor. Governor. Gtax. WICKHAM, oi Virginia, in a tengthy review of political issues in that State, declares that no Republican can vote for the I Adjusters' candidates, and announces that he ln favo,jof the election of the Dem- °<^tW nommees hoping subsequently to Z. otate the Republican organization. WAIUIKOTON, A uracil has been received at Wash* iagton from Capt Hooper, of the United bottles, with labels giving name, col­ lector, and locality. California furnished 5,000 specimens, and New England as many more. One species is represented by 108 specimens from all parts of the United States, showing how much effect environment has in modifying form. The collection is supplemented by a full and complete catalogue of the literature of the subject, comprising about 70,000 references on 10,000 cards. This valua- States steamer Corwin, Bent into the Arctic I contribution to the study of this little- seaa in search of the Jeannette, stating that | ^nown branch of natural history ho specimens all parts __ „ They are arranged in glass don Times says that a bad harvest means ab- - solute ruin to the English farmers. It moans also tbe curtailment of landlord piivileges and a radical reform of tho English land law* Latest news from Candahar is that Ayoob Khan's force is discontented and rapidly di­ minishing. He is believed to be contemplating a retreat to Herat The British herring fleet was lately caught in a gale off Peterhead, Scotland. Considerable loss of life is re­ ported. he had heard nothing of that vessel on tha ' hopes to complete &ud publish at an the country. It is erected i - 'JMfeeriao eotA:, that ,1M HAD discovered MI ' ®»riy day. . of bis wife and daughter and A C«stly Tomb. Sir. John B. Bowman, of Cuttings- ville, Vt., is mentioned as having built one of the most magnificent tombs in "in memory cost nearly A MOST improbable story is going the rounds, credited to the Sedalia, (Mo.) Ear gle, in which it is alleged that a woman in that city has fallen in love with her hus­ band. If the press does not let up on such stories as this, it is only a question of time when the public will lose all confi­ dence in any statements whatever.-- Peck'8 Sun. HDSSIA is a big country. A recent traveler, Rev. Henry Lansdell, in his five months' journey from London to the mouth of the Amoor, all across the Czar's dominions, went over 2,600 miles by rail, 5,700 miles by steam and 3,000 by horse, or altogether 11,600 miles, utmost in a Htruitflit line. WITH very rare exceptions Western farmers now prefer twine to wire for binding grain. A LUMBERMAN'S LIFE# M«ftlnfr I<«K* in (he sirraiM <TT I'cnimiiviiiiia -- The Fiisciaatlwi And Ihto^er of the Work. [From the Philadelphia Times.] The post of danger is on the jams, and the most skilhul men are sent Pit­ falls will open in the midst of a solid mass of timber and then close in a mo­ ment, after having dragged a man down beyond all help; a log will move afewinch- es slowly and unnoticed, and then with a movement like an arrow strike a luck­ less man, crushing the life out of him in an instant. On every side dangers are lurking, and he is fortunate that passes a spring without injury. There is some­ thing attractive in the looks of a log jam, and if the fascination that danger has were taken from it still men would rather work there than on the shore. The long, narrow sea of white timber, creaking and writhing with the action of the current; the water roaring and foam­ ing as it escapes from its prison under the logs, and the logs themselves molded into fantastic shapes by the terrible pressure behind them, 9II have an attrac­ tion for men who are impressed by strength or picturesqueness. After a jam is formed the jam-breakers are eent on it, and the boss may be seen directing the work and examining to see what holds it. Sometimes it is one log, and again it will be several knotted together in such away as to almost bailie the most ex­ perienced, but generally one or twO "floods" will start it. The floods are made by the large floating dams, and will raise the water several feet, lifting the jam up into the air aa if it were a toy-boat. If a specially large flood is needed, two and sometimes three are used at a time, the flood-gates of the lower dam being opened just as the water from the dam above reaches it. In this way an immense " splash" is ob­ tained that only the most refractory jams can successfully combat. There are few grander sights to be seen anywhere than the moving of a large log jam. The grand strength with which they move, tearirg out the larg­ est trees and forcing everything before them, and the fierce motion of the logs, like the crazy shuttles of some giant machine, and the perfection of force, compel enthusiasm from the most phleg­ matic spectator. The wild hurrahs of the men on the logs add to the excite­ ment, and the observer is quite sure to find himself running along by the side of the moving mass, cheering as if he had won a battle. The men who are at work scarcely realize the dacger, they are so carried away with the excitement, and they may be seen jumping from one log to another and cheering as if per­ fectly safe on solid ground instead of on a dangerous sea of moving logs that are continually rising and falling and dodg­ ing this way and that, driven by the flood of water furnished by the floating dams. The skill shown by experienced floaters in riding logs is wonderful, and it seems impossible for human dexterity to reach such perfection. A jam will sometimes form where precipitous rocks make it impossible for the men to escape on either side, and they* must ride the logs ior several rods. In such places the water is always swift, sometimes form­ ing rapids, and watching the logs jump­ ing, tumbling, rolling along with a deafening roar, one wonders how men can live among them for an instant. Behind the jam breakers come the sackers with their teams, drawing the logs that jams have forced far out on the banks and rolling in those on the shores. " Bringing up the rear" is the technical term given this work by the lumber­ men, and it is no more desirable than occupying the same position in the army. It is terribly cold work, too, wading in the snow water, ice freezing on the levers and on the clothing wher­ ever exposed to the air, and makes the spectators shiver to see them. But the hardy lumbermen don't mind it. They expect it, and their strength is equal to the demand. At meal-time they all come with prod­ igal appetites for their rations, that are as hot as they can be eaten. Hot bis­ cuits, potatoes, eggs, meat, tea, coffee and everything else, solid and liquid, are smoking like the steam from a loco­ motive, while generous draughts from the cup that inebriates add their fuel to the general fire. No cold victuals are current in log-floating time. All the ohill required is found in the ice-water, and something has to be taken to coun­ teract its influence. The nights are spent in camps where the roaring fires, burning all night, par­ tially dry the wet clothes that must be put on in the morning. Coming into the room where the clothes are hung, a great cloud of steam is seen that rises to the ceiling, where it condenses, and either falls down in drops or evaporates 011 the warm boards, and the clothes are all smoking as if engaged in a con­ test. When the river is reached the life changes. There are few jams to break, less wading and more riding in boats, and all the work is easier and less dan­ gerous. If the logs stop on a rock that is out in the middle of the river, a boat­ man carries some men there, who may roll them off and get into the boat again without danger and without getting wet. There are logs along the shore to be rolled in, but the water is not as swift as in the runs, and in the deep water a man can stand with comparative safety. Eve­ rything is easier, and the day the river is reached is almost a holiday among the lumbermen. The Speed of Thought. Helmholtz showed that a wave oi thought would require about a minute to traverse a mile of nerve, and Hirsch found that a touch on the face was rec­ ognized by the brain and responded to by a manual signal in the seventh of a second. He also found that the speed of sense differed for different organs, the sense of hearing being responded to in a sixth of a second ; while that of sight re­ quired only one-fifth second to be felt and signaled. In all these cases the distance traversed was about the sapie, so the inference is that images travel more slowly than sound or touch. It still remained, however to show the por­ tion of this interval taken up by the ac­ tion of tho brain. Prof. Donders, by very delicate apparatus, demonstrated this to be about seventy-five-thousandths of a second. Of the whole interval, for- ty-thousandths are occupied in the sim­ ple act of recognition, and thirty-five- thousandths in the act of willing a re­ sponse. When two irritants were caused to operate on the same sense, one-twenty- fifth of a second was required for the person to recognize which was the first; but a slightly-longer interval was re­ quired to determine the priority in the case of the other senses. These results were obtained from a middle-aged man, but in youths the mental operations are somewhat quicker than in the adult. The average of many experiments proved that a simple thought occupies one-for­ tieth of a second. Overwork. An English scientist considers worry and overwork to be the most important causes of debility. The men, he says, who first enticed women and children nto an industrial career, and they who have in later, times devised the scheme of competitive examination, have done more to enfeeble the British than Can be counterbalanced by the most perfect systems of drainage and ventilation, with the highest personal cleanliness superadded. Trust Tour Wife. A man who has made a few hundred dollars dear of his business was afraid to invest it and equallv afraid to tell his wife he had such a sum. So he hit upon the expedient of hiding the wallet which contained it in an unused parlor stove, and feeling sure that no one would molest it, went about his business with the feel­ ing that it was safe. But one day his wife made a fire in the stove to burn up an accumulation of rubbish, and, happening to mention the fact to her husband, was astonished to see him jump up and run round like one possessed. "You have ruined me, ruined me!" he Bhrieked. "All the savings I had were hidden in that stove. Oh, What idiots women are I" "I think you acted more like an idiot," answered his wife calmly, " first in not telling me you had the money, next in putting it in such a place. Had you trusted me that money would now be out on investment instead of being burned up." The man wrung his hands and groaned and made life a burden to himself and family, until he finally quieted down and acknowledged that he had no one to blame but himself. Then his wife gave him a bankbook with the amount he had lost credited to him. "It was just by the merest chance that I found the wallet," she said, "and then I felt hurt and indignant to think you could not have trusted me with even a knowledge of your savings. If I am not fit to receive your confidence, I am not fit to be your wife." Peace was restored and it is safe to surmise that the husband never again failed to trust his wife. Women, especially those who have had little contact with the world of busi­ ness, are not unfrequently gifted with large instincts, which give them a quick insight into business matters. No man who has a proper appreciation of his wife will sell a cow or a horse off his farm without consulting her. No mer­ chant will bujr a stock of dry goods with­ out exchanging ideas with the partner of hiB life ; trust your wife, not feebly and with restrictions, but fully, in whole measure. It is said that men are what their mother's make them. Many a man who has gone down into the depths would have been saved from moral and temporal disaster if he had only trusted his wife ; not in the day of adversity, but in the day of prosperity. * "Sho! What do wimmin know about business ?" says some Solon to his household. Not much experimentally, it may be, but as the most disastrous failures ore always made by men, it may be possible a woman might at least have a position as look-out on the ship to signal " danger ahead." The men who have become famous in the world have always relied upon the judgment of their wives. A French writer sayB that when a man has toiled step by step up a long flight of stairs he will be sure to find a woman at the top. The man who distrusts his wife's intel­ ligence is to be pitied. .The man who ignores it as beneath his dignity is a fool. A Whale Parent's Devotion. Sperm whales usually travel in schools, and, in going into a body com­ posed of "cows and calves," the latter, id though yielding but a small amount of oil, are " struck " first. By this method both are captured. The mother will not leave her offspring, neither will it attack the boat; but will remain close to the calf, apparently urging it to es­ cape by sounding or by flight. The " little one" can only remain a short time under water, consequently its dame is almost constantly a target for lances, which she will continue to receive, al­ though not being fast to the boat, until life is extinct, when the calf will be killed. She will sacrifice her own life in the attempt to assist her young, and to any one, except a whaler, it would appear like a cold-blooded and heartless murder. Even they cannot help admir­ ing the devotion, and will endeavor to make the struggle as brief as possible. The " calf " exhibits no suoh filial affec­ tion, for, if the mother is harpooned first, he will immediately take French leave, leaving the "old lady" to fight her own battles. Extreme caution is used when striking a calf to avoid a mortal wound, as his death is sure to be followed by the flight of the oow, who knows it instantly. The Underground World of England- The proposed tunnel between England and Franoe under the Channel has sug gested the preparation of some interest­ ing statistics in regard to what may be called the underground world of Eng­ land. According to these figures the number of persons employed in English mines, many of whom live in them con­ stantly, is more than three hundred and seventy thousand; in other words, there are men, women and children below the surface of British soil sufficient to form one of its largest cities of the second rank. The length of tunnelling in which they labor is set down at the extraordinary figure of nearly fifty-nine thousand miles. The deepest gallery is at the level of twenty-eight hundred feet. These facts and figures are adduced in support of the practicability of constructing and operat­ ing the Channel tunnel. Tbe depth of the Channel, it seems, is nowhere more than one hundred and eighty feet, and taking this as a basis it is estimated that the lowest part of the tunnel would not be more than two hundred feot from the surface. If the engineer's figures and theories be correct the project is not only practicable but simple.--New Ttork Herald. An ^Uncomfortable Suggestion. Mr. and Mrs. Topnnody were get­ ting ready to go out to call on a friend the other evening, and Mrs. T., desiring to look well, was arraying herself in a great variety of colors. Topnoodv no­ ticed it and began to comment. Said he: " Mrs. Topuoody, I think a woman of your age ought to wear more subdued colors." "Oh, do you?" was the response. " What would you suggest as boccming your angel wife ?" "I think a black dress is simple, tasteful and becoming/' "Indeed?" " Yes, indeed." " Well, then, Topnoody, suppose you die and leave me a widow so that I can wear tho color you think most becoming to me. Of course, you can't see me in it, but it would be such a pleasure and comfort to me to know that I was jpleaq- ing my poor, dear, dead husband. Then Mrs Topnoody smiled in such a very satisfied way that Topnoody eon- eluded his suggestions were possibly too Ercvious, and he busied himself tieing is necktie while Mrs. T. distributed the rainbow tints as she pleased.-- Stcubenville Herald. NEW YORK claims 75,000 self-support- ing women. ' FACTS FOB THE CURIOUS. / THE full capacity of the lungs is about 320 cubic inches. ABOUT two-thirds of a pint of sir is in­ haled at each breath in ordinary respira­ tion. THE skin contains more than 2,000,- 000 openings, which are the outlets for an equal number of sweat glands. THE little sea animal called the pholas penetrates into the hardest rocks ; ftM yet its boring apparatus is simply a fleshy substance somewhat resembling, a tongue, soft and yielding. MUSSELS swim by & slight opening and closing of the shells. They grow by line particles which form around the edge. These lines are said to indicate the yearly growth of the creature. THE star-fish is believed to commit suicide. Edward Forbes is responsible for the statement that a star-fish found in the Mediterranean, when attacked, if unable to defend itself, escapes by drop- ing to pieces. First the arms break off one after the other, then the disk breaks itself into fragments. Not hAing able to defend itself, as a whole, it kill« itself in detail. PHYSICALLY the ape is enough like a man to be his brother. The skeleton of apes generally, if we except the tail, has about the same number of bones as maw, The proportions of its parts, except in minor instances, are also such as in man. Nor are their shapes, except those of the jaws and haunch bones, greatly differ­ ent. The same rule of resemblance holds throughout all their structure. > THE effects of professions and|fvsS$es on mortality are great, the term ' of fife varying from 65 years 11 monthsNfor clergymen to 40 years and 10 months lor lithographers and copper engravers. Tin England, according to the census-office statistics, the duration of life has been found most defective among the steel- workers, polishers and grinders, and next to these the life of the collier--that fearless delver in the bowels of the earth --is least secure, owing greatly, no doubt, to the occurrence of accidents in mines. , A CALIFORNIA hunter had occasion to cross a very wide and rapid stream. Among his dogs were a terrier and New­ foundland. The terrier refused to enter the water, and the Newfoundland tried several times to lead him in, by bodily plunging in and wagging his tail in a confident manner, but the terrier only kept further from the stream. At last, disgusted by the timidity of the little cur, the big dog rushed at the alarmed terrier, seized him by the neck and jumped into the torrent with him. The terrier yelled " murder " and "police " in the most expletive language known to the canine tongue, until the New­ foundland deposited him safely on the other side. THE Icelanders are said, at one time, to have taught bears to jump into the sea and catch seals. The China birds are equally well trained ; for at a signal they dive into the lakes and bring up large fish, grasped in their bills. In Greece the fishermen use branches of pine, steeped in pitch, and lighted ; the inhabitants of Amorgos used cypress- leaved cedar, which served, when light­ ed, as a flambeau; and the Chinese flsh in the night with white-painted boards, placed in a manner to reflect the rays of the moon upon the water doubly. These attract the fish to the boat; when the men cast a large net, and seldom fail to draw out considerable quantities. Anchovies are fished for also in a similar manner. Daisy's Story. "Oh," said Daisy to her mamma, " I wuz in the parler last night behind the sofy, when the young preacher come in to see sister Kate, and they did set too close up for anything ; an' the preacher said ' Katie dear, I luv you;' an' Kate said ' Oo, 00an' then the preacher, he kissed her right Bmack in the mouth, and said, ' Dear Katie, how good the Lord is to us poor sinnersan' Katie said, 4 Oo, 00 ; an' then--an' then--' " "Well," said her mamma, "you wick< d child, what did you do?" " W'y mamma, I felt so good, I blurted right out, 'Let us pray,' an' you ought to seen them two people, now they jumpt up, and I looked at Daisy all scrunched up in a corner. It wuz just too awful, mamma, for any use." Daisy was not slippered that time.-- Steubenville He, akl. TrEY tell of a very cultured divine in Boston who, instead of saying : " The collection will now be taken up," im­ pressively remarks : " The accumula­ tion of moneys will now ensue." But a Philadelphia clergyman, a great athlete sud lover of sports, forgot himself once Mild said: "Here endeth the first in­ nings--Let us pray." " DID you break that window, boy?" said the grocer, catching hold of the fleeing urchin. "Yes, sir." "What d'ye mean, then, by running off in this manner ? " "Please, sir, I was running home to get the money. I was afraid if I didn't run quick I might forget." THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BKETZR M OA HOOK 1 0# 1 • H COTTOW ' W FLOUH-- SUPERFINE * TO <4 # 60 WHKAT--NO. 2 SPRING 1 33 1 ^ NO. 2 BED. ..... 140 ® COM--UNGRADED OM--MIXED WESTERN.... J® PORK--Metis 18 25 @18 75 LA*D CHICAGO. BBETES--Choice Graded Steer*..... 8 00 (§ 8 40 Covru and Hotfers ' 3 00 @4 26 Medium to FAY 500 @840 HOOD ;. 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