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. _c ' -i: .""V: . ' . '* . --„--.--.... -- ;--• --. - ' * * "»' • * ...... y ' - \ . . . . . . * ' . • • \ , J . F . . . ' • gSHtpcnqr f lamdcalet I. VAN M.YKC, Etftor «M 1 r . , L'-' McHENRY, ILLINOIS. WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. / THE EAST. j^pupioclamation to the citizens pf York, Mayor Greco announce* that the reserve •apply of Croton will be exhausted in sixteen days unless there is a heavy rainfall, and ettr loins the ntraost economy in the use of water. Henry Stewart, a negro octogenarian, who hid ®125,WW insurance placed on his life by •peculators, died at Harrisburg, Pa. It is al­ lied tnat policy holders |»w the f iloona OT- ders to supply UM old wan with all to whisky he desired. JtaoME INGAIIIIS, a shoe manufacturer of Lynn, Mass., has suspended, with liabilities of f80.000 Three banks in Philadelphia have acoepted an offer by Washington Butoh- it'l gone to settle at 40 cents. AT a worlds fair meeting in Boston, fee President of the Old Colony railroad prom- imd #500,000 from the steam roads, and the Furniture Exchange agreed to take 150,000 in itock. Gen. Francis A. Walker will accept the Presidency... Henry Ward Beecher has retired frou the editorial managementof the Christum Union, but will continue to give that paper his Mnnons, and contribute occasional articus. Mr. Abbott succeeds him in the management. DUHINO the burning of a tenement hoase in New York » man named Parkerson, Xriag in the top story with hi* wife and two children, dropped them out of the window as the only means of escape, and in descending that way himself struck the wall of the next house and fractured the skull of the youngest fhiM and sustained severe injuries himself. SPONTANEOUS combustion fired the dry-goods house of Weechler Abraham, in Ful­ ton street, Brooklyn, causing damage to the amount of $250,000. Engineer Lynch waa badly burned, and a fireman named McShane was injured by a fall through a hatchway. THE Michigan Central Fire-Relief Commission reports 2,600 dependent families and states that fevers prevail among them. A NORTHWESTERN freight train •which aaaed through Sterling, EL, early in the morning took on five passengers. When some miles out they drew a revolver on the conductor and de­ manded his watch and valuables. He produced a weapon and made them throw up their hands. A brakeman then disarmed them, and three of | the party were jailed at Morrison, two escaping, i Lafayette, Ind., is going to have a public i Ebriry. LORD & WILLIAMS, who for years have done an extensive mercantile business at Tuc­ son, Arizona, have made an assignment. Their liabilities are estimated as high as $400,000, and their creditors are chiefly merchants of San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Lord ii Postmaster at Tucson condnrts the. TInitfjd States depository for the Territory The Mississippi River Improvement Convention met at St. Louis on the 26th ult About 500 dele­ gates were in attendance. Mr. McEnnin, Pres­ ident of the SL Louis Board of Trade, de­ livered the address of welcome and bespoke liberal appropriations and extensive improve­ ments in the great water highway. FOUR cow-boys, ike and Biliy Clanton «nrf Frank and Tom HcLowery had been parading the town of Tombstone, Arizona, for several days, drinking heavily and making themselves obnoxious. The City Marshal ar­ rested Ike Clanton. Soon after his release the four met the Marshal, his brothers, Morgan and Wyatt Earp, and J. H. Hollidsy. The Marshal ordered them to give up their weapons, when a fight commenced. Abot£ thirty •hots were fired rapidly. Both the Mc- Lowery boys were killed and Bill Clap­ ton mortally wounded, dying soon after. Ike Clanton and Wyatt were wounded The six-story glucose factory at Peoria, 111., owned by the Hamlins, of Buffalo, was swept sway by a fire which broke out in the meal- drying room. There were 1,600 barrels of pro­ duct in the building. Only a two-inch stream of water could be turned upon the flames. The employes numbered 250. The loss is $500,000, and insurance $275,000. THE September fires in Huron and Sanilac counties, Michigan, burned out 2,053 families, comprising 9,591 individuals, and their loss of property is estimated at §1,583,- 081. The losses on chnrcties, schools, manu­ facturing establishments, etc., are estimated at $320,000. The aid received in money and in foods aggregates (1,005,632. tween the Baltimore and Ohio and Chesapeake sad Ohio roads, a distance of 6pi^ milesi^ A the laws of New Jersey, with a capital of 910,000,000, WASHINGTON. IH the Criminal Court at Washington Oapt. Howgate pleaded not guilty to the charge of embezzlement, and was committed to jail in default of #30,000 bail The District Attorney stated that an indictment for forgery had also been found against him The reductions on the star and steamboat postal routes have •nearly reached their limit; the saving effected being $525,000 per quarter.... Judge Cox has assigned Leigh Robinson to duty ae associate counsel in the Ouiteau case. The committee charged with the work of rairing funds for the Garfield Memorial Hos­ pital at Washington appeals to all pastors to deliver discourses ana take collections Nov. 5 and and forward the amounts realized to the Treasurer of the Cnited States.... A Washington dispatch of Oct. 24 says that Assistant Postmaster General Tyner does not intend to resign nntil he has fully explained to the President how much abused he is. how he is the victim of circumstances over which he had no control, and how generally he is mis­ understood by the public at large. Mr. Tyner sayp about his mucfe-talked-of report on star-mite frauds that he did not sup­ press that report ; that, on the contrary. he presented it to Postmaster General Key, who told him to lock it up, as its publica­ tion might injure the party; that President Haves was fullv aware of its existence, but did not wish it published for the same reasons which Judge Key put forward. Mr. Tyner alleges, moreover, that he preeented the report to Postmaster General James soon after that gentleman's appointment as head of. the Poet- office Department, and that Col James has based all his proceedings against the star-route ring on the report. ON the morning of the assassination President Garfield removed CoL Amos Web- stsr from the Registership of Wills at Wash­ ington. and appointed Mr. Ramsdell to succeed him. Gen. Grant has caused this action to be set aside Secretary Blaine entertained the French and German guests at a banquet in Washington at which the Senators and their wives were present. IN the case of Guiteau, the assassin, the District Attorney at Washington said, in opposing postponement, that the punishment of the murderer was of more importance than the attempt to prove his insanity. Judge Cox postponed the trial to Nov. 14. because he had appointed counsel "by order of the court," and it was fair to give him time to prepare the case. Mr. Trade, a prominent criminal lawyer of Chicago, will defend Guiteau. He claims that his client-elect is really insane, and ascribes a c*use for his insanity The President, it is said, will fulfill the design of the late President Garfield by taking steps to stamp out the crime of polygamy in Utah. CHARLES J. FOLGER, the new Secre­ tary of the Treasury, was born in Massachu­ setts in 1818. His first office was that of Judge of Ontario county, New York. He served eight years in the State Senate, was Sub-Treas­ urer of New York, and now holds the position of Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals... Lieut. Frederick Collins, one of the most ac­ complished officers of the navy, died of typhoid fever at Washington. POLITICAL. STRATHAM, a Democratic Readjusted has been nominated by the President to be Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va., to succeed s straight Republican named Wilson Secreta­ ry Kirkwood declines to oppose Hon. James F. Wilson as a candidate for Senator from Iowa. . A WASHINGTON dispatch of Oct. 25 says: "Edwin D. Morgan has declined the treasury port folia Judge Folger is holding a consultation with several of the President's personal friends in New York. Attorney Gen­ eral M&cVeagh has practically vacated his po­ sition by leaving for Philadelphia. The Presi­ dent notified Cabinet members that he was too busy to see them, and informed a Senator that he would not prolong the session beyond Thursday evening.".... j gtituencies. Derby winner win be bred in tfc within six years Mr. Forster continues to enforce the Coercion act in Ireland with great vigor. Several arrest* were made, including the President of the Kilkenny Land Leagne, O'Neil, the Secretary of the Cork League, and Stack, a Tralee Fenian.... The RUSH INN Government has become con­ cerned over the emigration of Jewish citizens to tho United States, and will endeavor to set­ tle them in two agricultural provinces A Mormon elder has been imprisoned at Hate*' burg for frying to make proselytes The will soon re-Emp^or ^*4 Empress of^Brazil * i ADDITIONAL SEWS. Tntf Steamer Jennie Gilchrist, a ^tern- wheel packet, left for LeOJaire, fifteen miles above Davenport* Iowa, with twenty-eight per­ sons on board. She had in tow two barges heavily loaded with freight, and was strug­ gling hard against the current. When about sixty rods above the draw of tho Government bridge, at Dav­ enport, for some reason unknown, her engine refused to work. Tha boat imme­ diately swung around and drifted helplessly against the bridge, was careened, filled with water, and tho lights extinguished. The ter­ rible screams of the passengers attracted the attention of the guard at the draw-bridge, who sounded the distress signal. Skiffs were im­ mediately Bent out, and succeeded in picking up several passengers and the crew. Six or seven perooas are know* to have feund a watery grave. THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which has been fighting Vanderbilt on passen­ ger rates between Chicago and tho seaboard, now resorts to a different sort of warfare, on« in which increased speed will be the weapon of offense. The Pennsylvania announces a new arrangement, to be known as the " limited ex­ press train," to consist wholly of Pullman pal­ ace cars, which will make the run from Chicago to New York in twenty-six hours' actual run­ ning time. A slightly increased rate of fare will be charged. THREE desperadoes in jail at Tiepa Amarilla, CoL, planned to kill the guard and escape. When the fa^t became known the cit­ izen? lynched the tho, named Lockhardt, Coulter and Slim J. Hinckley, agent of tht Utah and Northern railway at Franklin, Idaho, was shot dead by a ban3 of masked robbers. GEN. BENET, Chief of Ordnance of the United States army, Reports the expenditures in his department during the last fiscal year to have been $1,637,593. He recommends an in crease in the appropriation for arming and equipping the militia. He says the efficiency ol the army requires the peremptory retirement of officers when they reaoh the age of 62. ALLEN JOHNSON (colored) was hanged at Charlotte, N. C., for the murder of an old blind negro named Crump in January of last year. The murder was committed in ordei to get possession of a little money which Crump was known to possess... .Robert Rich, a mail messenger at Burnside, Ky„ is charged with rifling registered letters valued at over $100,- 000. GEN. BOULANGEB, one of the French visitors, awoke in a Philadelphia hotel to find a burglar standing beside a table containing his watch and E4ouev= The< Ge.nc-rftl seized, his sword and held his prisoner until the arrival of the police. The fellow proved to be William M&rston, a noted criminal, and he was prompt­ ly iudicted, convicted and sentenced to serve three years in the penitentiary Ezra P. Cook and his wife, a very old couple, were found dead in their home near Bellows Falls. Vt. It ia supposed that Mrs. Cook, who was of unsound mind, administered poison to her husband and then committed suicide by striking herself with some deadly weapon. THE result of the German elections is a rebuke to Bismarck and the Conservative- Clerical coalition. The Government lost many seats to the various factions of the Liberal party. - The Progressists gain more largely than any other faction, though the Socialists developed unexpected strength m many con­ stituencies. Bismarck's son, William, was de­ feated for re-election at Mulhausen by the Lib­ eral candidate, who polled 5,000 more votes. It is thought that the Oppo­ sition. may prove strong enoifth to make necessary another dissolution The Ladies' Leagues are to be suppressed in Ireland. A parcel containing nine pounds of dynamite was found in an Irish railway car. FOLLOWING is the full vote cast in ' The Government has offered a reward of .£300 1 for the arrest of the murderer of Maloney. At I Carrick-on-Shannon an armed band entered ! the houses of the tenantry and threatened the 1 rent-payers with death. ! JUDGE FOLGER will not enter on his The Minnesota Legislature balloted for Senator, Windom receiving twenty-nine votes out of thirty-eight in the Senate and eighty-six out of 100 in the House Ex-Gov. Morgan, it is said, was anxious to accept the Secretaryship of the Treasury, but his'wife and his physicians stren­ uously opposed his accepting, and they suc­ ceeded in getting him to decline. A FRENCH steamship has arrived at Mew Orleans with 160 emigrants from Tyrol, who are going to Texas to work on a railroad. ....JudgeKey, ex-Poetmaster General under President Haves, interviewed by the Nashville American, stated his belief in the honesty of Bftdy and Tyner. A LAfeoE number of planters are en­ gaged in the cultivation, of figs in the State of AJxansas, and so far with success. MBS. BRADFORD, a sister of Jefferson Davis, died at New Hope, Ky., and was buried In the cemetery at Gethsemane Abbey, at New Haven, Ky The German guests of the na­ tion were formally welcomed to Baltimore. Ibe fire department was called out for theif edification, and in a collision which occurred Six men were severely injured. Chief Shaw •ad Lieut. . Mettle well receiving fractures •f the skuil At Petersburg, Va., the toy- Vfetol has taken off another victim. The day is not distant when this toy will be classed with •ther deadly weapons. RICHMOND terminated her centennial I Ohio at the October election: Republican, 315,- j 419; Democratic, 287,645; Prohibition, 10,000; I Greenback, 7,100; total, 620,164. ExrSena- tor Pinckney Whrte was elected Mayor of [ Baltimore without opposition, and the other nominees of the regular Democracy were 1 elected by overwhelming majorities over the '• Anti-Ring" candidates, who only polled an average of 5,000 vote#. roBEien. { HXHBT POPB, of Leadville, has been * arrested tor an attempt to salt ninety-seven I toss of ore which he was selling to the St. Louis Smelting Company. He was caught in the act by Manager Laker, by which $295,000 1 were saved In attempting to light a tire with duties as Secretary of the Treasury until the cases now pending before the New York Court of Appeals are disposed of. 6 EXTJUA SENATORIAL SESSION. The President pro tem. laid before the Ben- ate a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury in response to the resolution adopted turpentine, a watchman caused the destruction i of the Chieago and Northwestern car-shops i /u P*P?r8i pamphlets, etc., published at Winona, Minn., the loss being -910,000. Four ranchmen on the Gila river were recently murdered by the White Mountain Apaches. The latest break in the Sny levee is eleven miles below H&nuibal, Mo., where the Missis­ sippi is seven miles in width. IN a railway collision near Leicester, England, three persons were killed and many terribly injured Tw» boats, containing twen­ ty-four persons, have reached the Irish shore from the steamer Clan Macduff, which was wrecked off the coast of Wales with twenty-two passengers and a crew of thirty-nine The British Government has concluded that it cannot seize the office of the Land-League organ, but can arrest the editor. Hayden, Chairman of the Roscom­ mon Tow* - Comimpsion, has been , , .. . - . , _ • jailed. In spite of the Government's procla- oelebration m fine style. There was a grand . mation, a lafge meeting was held near Coach- procession, which took two hours to pass a , ford and resolutions passed to pay no rent. ten point, and which was witnessed by an ; Under the name of the Farmers' Pro-ni -- -- . sense gathering of citizens with 20,000 vis­ itors. At the close the British flag was run up over the Capitol building and tainted... .Thos. J. Cox and J. W. Crawford, who are described in the press dispatches as " highly-respectable citizens," had an altercation at Montgomery, Ala. Cox was seriously cut and Crawford dan­ gerously wounded. Hogaa, a bystander, was shot in the leg. NINE Governors attended the cotton exposition at Atlanta. Cotton was picked from a patch inside the inclosure and suits of clothes manufactured before dark for Govs. Bigelow, of Connecticut, and Colquitt, of Georgia. Ther© is no abatement in, the demand for Con­ federate bonds. A Richmond bank has pur­ chased nearly $5,000,0**0 of the coupon variety at $8 to $5 per $1,000. No less than £10,000,- 000 of this trash changed hands in London within the past three days. THE OENEBAL. Mexican Central railway has completed its track 92% miles long from the capital, and expects to reach Leon bv June. tective Association the Land League held a secret meeting in Dublin.... As fast as the French repair the railroads the Tunisians destroy them. Ali Bey's force is in such a mutinous condition that the officers, who are Frenchmen, can only compel them to march by threatening to shoot them. ! CONFEDERATE bonds have been bought I at Frankff>rt-on- the-Main for per cent, of : their face. The demand for them came from | Rotterdam parties The police of Frankfort- ; on-the-Main recently seized all posters in res­ taurants giving information to those intending t to emigrate to the United States The • French forces in Tunis have lost 900 men by | disease--typhoid fever causing the greatest mortality. I KEENE'S Foxhall won the Cam- I bridgeshire stakes on the Newmarket course, | defeating thirty-two competitors, among them ! being the most celebrated English race­ horses, Bend Or, Lucy Glitters, Tristran and ' others. The race was very exciting between Lucy Glitters and Foxhall, the latter win- but that *182 was paid for etc., to make lemonade for the Secretary,' fifty-three and one-qnarter gallon* of bay rum, which cost $360, was put in the bills as deodorized alcohol. A little en­ tertainment gotton up for some of the friends of Mr. Sherman, who attended the Chicago Convention in his interest, was paid for out of the same fund which supplied the price of his lemonade. 1 In the Senate Uie oath of offloe waa adminis­ tered to Acting Secretary Shober oh the mora­ lise of Oct. 25. On motion of Mr. Sherman, a resolution was adopted authorizing the Libra- to receive and preserve tn© paoers of Ai&rqum d© liocliHini)tftUf to await „ their purchase for $20,000. Alnonfr tfi* confirmations were those of Hans Mattson, of Minnesota, to be Consul General at Calcutta ; J. F. Winter, of Illinois, to be Consul at Rotterdam ; Willard B. Wells, of Michigan, to be Consul at Dundee » and Howard M. Kutchin as Collector of the Third Wisconsin district Postmasters--Thomas 8. Case, at Kansas City, Mo.; 8. H. Bauman, at Mount Vernon, Iowa; S. C. Glover, at Grand Haven. Mictu Mr. Ransom offered a resolution on Oct rtrpifinniiy the inquiry into the condition of the Potomac, which was adopted. Mr. Sher­ man called up the resolution for an investiga­ tion of the disbursement of the contingent fund of the Treasury Department, mod­ ified BO as to give the committee leave to send Ujt persons and papers, and it was adopted. Among the nominations sent in by the President were those of Charles W. Beaton, of New York, to be Superintendent of the Census ; Frederick Knefler to be Pension Agent at Indianapolis ; Henry M. Cooper to be Revenue Collector for Arkansas; and Mrs. Jere Baldwin to be Postmistress at Council Bluffs. | A resolution for the payment iof extra com­ pensation to employes was adopted on the 27th nit A communication was received from Gov. Colquitt, tendering an invitation to the Cotton Exposition at Atlanta. The President sent in the nominations of Charles J. Folger for Secre­ tary of the Treasury. Thomas L. James to be Postmaster General, and Frank Hattoo to be First Assistant Post­ master General, all of which were confirmed. John L. Beveridge was named as Sub-Treasurer at Chicago, and John S. Harris, of Louisiana, for Surveyor General of Montana. Charles W. Seaton, of New York, was confirmed as Super­ intendent of Census. Seven hours were spent in debate over the nomination of Stratham to be Postmaster at Lynchburg, Ya., without action. The Senate, immediately after going into ex­ ecutive session on the 28th ult., resumed th« contest over the nomination of Clifford Stratham as Postmastei at Lynchburg, Va. Hill, of Georgia, spoke in opposition to con­ firmation two hours. The debate was then continued by Morgan, Morrill, Hoar, Sherman and others at great length. The speeches were interspersed ^rtth a number of roll-calls on mo­ tions to adjourn, and other dilatory pro­ ceedings, and were also diversified by a spirited colloquy between Logan and Voor- hces as to which of the two had heretofore BIIOWU himself the better friend of the Union soldier. The session closed at 2:50 in the morning, without any decided action being taken on the nomination. Most of the time after midnight was taken up calling the roll on various dilatory motions. Ghastly Commercedpublisher a list of articlels on exhibition at an un­ dertaking establishmtpt lat Vinqennes, Indiana, which, for suggesting things ghastly, it would be hard to exoel. Their ennumeration is as follows : Article No. 1-- Is an ax covered with blood, which waa the instrument used by a man named Provost, on the night of October 2, 1878 in killing the Vatchell family, composed of humband, wife and •dded to our list of clover pests. The speaks of three species, two of which hate been brought to notice the present and the third _ ttSftt was the one which Was so destruct­ ive to the pastures in the northern coun­ ties of our State last spring, which waa supposed by many at the time to be the j army worm, but by rearing it has been found to belong to a small plain crambus moth, to which the common name of the vagabond ' crambus' has been given. A Panama Wedding. At 8 o'clock we started to the house, our black maid at our heels. When w« reached the building I said to her : <;Jo» sepha, you can now go home." "O," said she, "ye bin in casa primera," (I see the house first). I can not tell when she came home, for the last I saw of her she was with a crowd of servants as black as herself. We were ushered into an immense parlor, with large velvet mats on the floor, a grand piano, hand- some willow furniture and an abundance j Miller was blown thirty feet, through of pretty things. The guests were seated i the outside wall of a frame house. x - . 1 | T h e s e c o n d i n s e c t i s a l e a f - e a t i n g w e e v i l . two sons. This was the rnoBt terrible! t ^ murder that eVBr occurred in cinity. ., No. 2--A car-pin which killed Samuel Perkins, in September, 1878. ' No. 8--Is a towel with which provost committed suicide, by hangings/himself in jail, three days after his horrible butchery. No. 4--A knife that killed two men in this city, one of them named Philips; happened in 1874. No. 5--Another knife whic/h on All Fool's day, 1878, in the hands of Mitchell Mallett, sent Joe Ousleman to the other shore. ' No. 6--A brick that, thrown by a small boy at his playmate; killed him instantly, May 29, 1876. No. 7--A rope found on a man named Smythe, drowned in the Wabash, May 29, 1878. No. 8--Two masks worn by two men who were shot and killed while in the act of robbing the store of Watts Bond, in Oaktown, Indiana, January 3, 1879. No. 9--A knife found on D. Prenelt, drowned in the Wabash, December 26, 1876. No. 10--Pocket-book found on Jno. Carroll, who died in jail, January 12,1878. No.' 11--Brass knuckles found on a man killed on the railroad. No. 12--Another pocket-book found on a man who committed suicide by drown­ ing in 1874. No. 13--A cuff bnttom which was found on Harry J. Ryerson, who, while full of rum, in the waiting room of the Union depot, on the night of June 19, 1878, fell upon a spitoon and broke his No. 14-pA strap with which S. St. Cows committed suicide in jail, Novem­ ber 12,1878. No. 15--A buckeye found on Cal. Fer­ guson, who was drowned April 20, 1877. No. 1&--A bullet that killed Tom Lindley, in May, 1875. No. 17--A razor with which Charles Taylor, colored, murdered William Thomas, colored. No. 18--A strap which was found on an unknown Cincinnatdan, killed by the railroad in 1875. No. 19--Suspenders of a man kicked to death by a inula. No. 20--A piece of suspender and small piece oi iron found iusidcof the bod" of James Coleman, who was killed by the explosion of a boiler in Clarke & Buck's foundry, December 11, 1877. No. 21--Key-ring check, which was on a man found dead ih bed, May 1, 1878. No. 22--Five cent piece found on Mr. Hawkins, drowned December 27, 1877 ; body recovered February 19, 1878. No. 23--Bundle of clothes found with a baby murdered November 10, 1877. No. 24--Boot of John Miller, who was killed by an explosion, the same that killed Coleman on December 11, 1877, in a circle, in the center of the room, j Aftar a little wait the bride came in | dressed in white satin, made with many I pleatings, thf train headed with a trail- j ing .vine of ffange blossoms. • She wore j also a wreath and a handsome tulle veil. Her own income, I may add, is four hun­ dred dollars per month. The groom | now joined her, and they shook hands j with all of us. after which tliey retired | to the room adjoining, where they j waited until all had assembled. Two j lovely little girls held her train Seventeen other articles of less impor­ tance are enumerated. Mr. Gardner, the owner of these relics of crime and accident, conceived the idea of his museum ten years ago, and since thai time has exerted himself to make his strange museum of rtepectable propor­ tion. introduced from Europe, first noticed in Yates county, New York, last summer, never known to attaok clover in Europe, but threatening to prove destructive to it here. The third is a species which occurs in New York as entirely harm­ less, but suddenly appearing last year in Kansas as- very destructive."--Chica­ go Times. A Man Wfto Pusetf • Terrible Sight. Parson Biggs, an old-time preachfer from "away in the country," on his first visit to Little Rock, went to the resi­ dence of old 'Squire Muckle, who at one time had lived in the parson's neighbor­ hood. The 'Squire's family were ex­ ceedingly glad to see the parson, for years ago he had taken off his saddle at the 'Squire's gate, and had eaten corn bread and cabbage with the family. After singing*the o!d familiar song and pray­ ing the old familiar prayer, the 'Squire conducted the parson to the bed-room designed for the rest of the good old ser­ vant. " What do you call this ?" asked the parson, regarding with an air of inter­ est a mosquito-bar, suspended over the bed. " Why, thatis a mosquito-bar." " What account is it ?" "To keep off the mosquitoes." " Brother Muckle, I thought that you were too sensible a man to give away to these town fixins. You told me that when I came to see you that we would have a revival of the old days. Now you want to hang the thing over me. Take it down, please. I'm afraid that the vanity that I've allers heard lurked about these towns is taking hold of you." The bar was taken down, and the old man blew out the candle, which he al­ ways carried in his saddle-bags, with a " puff," and retired. The'Squire and Mrs. Muckle slept in an adjoining room. They had been in bed but a few moments when Mrs. Muckle remarked : " What was that noise ?" " Pow-pang !" came from the adjoin­ ing room. "I don't know what it is," answered the 'Squire, stuffing the corner of the pillow into his mouth. " Slap!" came from the next room. " Did you hear that ?" exclaimed Mrs. Muckle. " It's nothing," said the 'Squire.^ " Something is shaking this bed, Mr. Muckle." " Slap, slap-!" " Go in there and see what's the mat­ ter with the parson, Mr. Muckle." "Chuck, chuck, chuck," was all that j Muckle could say. " You act like a man that hasn't got any sense. You'd lie here and see a man die in the next room." " How can I lay here and (chuck) see a man in the (chuck) next room ? The door is shut and the light's out." " Slap, bang !" " You must go in there, Mr. Muckle." " Why don't yeu go ?" "Think I'm going into a man's room? All right; if the old man dies it ain't my fault;" and Mrs. Muckle turned over, Muckle chuckled himself to sleep. Influence Music. "I has received a letter from Boston." slowly remarked Brother Gardner, " ax- lovelv little girls held her train as we i jjj' me my observashuns 9M de infloo- marclied in procession to the Cathedral. | ence of music on mankind, x reply dat Arriving there we found an immense ; mankind widout music would be chaw- by the various departments from MarcB 1789, to March, 1881. The, communication, wtuch • states that the "records of the Treasury Department fail to give the information called for, was laid on the table. Xpe Senate confirmed W. W. Dudley, of In­ diana, Commissioner of Pensions; Robert F. Crowell, of Minnesota, Deputy Sixth Auditor ; John Cromb, of Minnesota, Register of the Lfcnd Office at Crookston, Minn.; George W, Wilkinson, of Nebraska, Indian Agent, Omaha and Winnebago Agency, Neb.; Frank M. Tracy, Postmaster at St. Joseph, Mo.; Capt. Montgomery Sicard, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department: Capt. John G. Walker, Cfcief of the Bureau of Navigation ; Commodores Jam^s UL Spotts and James W. Nichokon, Rear Admirals ; CaptS. Samuel R. Franklin, Edward Y. McCauley and John C. P. De Krafft, Commodores. The President nominated John L. Kaine, of Wis­ consin, to be Appraiser at the port of Milwau­ kee, and Edward F. White, of California, to b« Coiner at the United States Mint at San Fran­ cisco. Mr. Edmunds offered a resolution in the Senate, on Monday, Oct. 24^ appointing Chief Clerk Shober acting Secretary, which was passed. Ex-Gov. Morgan, of New York, was nominated for Secretary of the Treasury, and the Senate confirmed the nomination after a two hours' discussion. Gov. Morgan ac­ cepted tho position, it is understood, with the understanding that he can resign if at any time the duties of the office are too great for his physical strength. Gov.,Morgan is over 70 years old, having been born in Washington, Maes., Feb. 8, 1811, and is said to be in rather j feeble health. Among the Preside" t's nonii- I nations were Rev. Henry Highland Garnett I (colored), of New York, for Minister to the | Afncan republic of Liberia, and John M. j Bailey, of New York, for Consul at Hamburg. I The nomination' of John L. Kaine, to be Ap- i praiser of Milwaukee, Wis., is withdrawn, the ! office having been abolished. Senate confir- I mations--Receiver of Public Money, Eben W. • Cottrell, of Detroit. Registers _of Land Of­ fices crowd of all classes of people, among them hosts of negroes. The four very largte steps leading to the altar were filled with those black hordes of men and women. I counted fifty-five and then grew tired of census-making. As soon as Father Figaro (the priest who Comes to give our pupils religions in­ struction) began the ceremony, this rab­ ble dosed about the couple, so that no one oould see her from the outside. I qaw a woman pushing a little darkey with nothing on but a fragment of an o'riginally very scanty shirt Hght on the bride's train. After the ceremony we filed back again. There was not the rush to congratulate her as with us; a few gentlemen went up and "felicitated" her, but it was very fu­ neral. Ice cream, champagne and cake was served, after which a dish of pud­ ding with meringue kisses and a little silk flag on each section. This was purely a Spanish sweet and is called dulce matrimonia. Champagne, ice, candied fruits and more cake followed, and the wedding was ended.--From a Private Letter. [From the New York 8nn.J The following letter relates to a sub­ ject of extraordinary importance: " To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN: PleaM inform me what the inclosed insects are. The worms I found in some old wheat, and the tlies around the granary. They begin to fly about 6 o'clock in the even­ ing, and then settle down by the sides of the bin. Are they in any way con­ nected? And will they do any harm to the wheat? OLD SUBSCRIBER." We regret that the writer of the above omitted his postothce address in his note, because it is quite important that our readers should know from what part of the country noxious insects are re­ ceived, that they may be on the lookout. for the same species. The small, silky moths, of -which our correspondent sends us specimens, are the parents of the worms found in his wheat; and, furthermore,. they are among the most destructive lng/ytfa known, being no other than the noted Angoumois grain moth (Qelechia ceraa- lella), so named because first discovered in the province of Angoumois, France, about 150 years ago. This insect has already caused the de­ struction of thousands of bushels of corn, wheat and other kinds of grain in this country, and from present appear­ ances it will soon make the keeping of grain over winter a very difficult matter in the United States, because the moths deposit their eggs on the grain in the fall, soon after it is harvested, and the trorms work on it all through the cold weather, as well as in the summer, when stored in bins and granaries. If the Government or the farmers of this coun­ try could arrest the progress of this in­ sect by expending $5,000,000 at f.Mg time, it would be the best investment ever made by our people. We have been watching the progress of this pest for the past ten years, and find that it has become pretty well dis­ tributed 0ver nearly all the grain-grow­ ing regions in both the Northern and Southern States. As early as 1732 thia same grain moth was so destructive in some parts of France as to nearly cause a famine among the people, and it would not be at all strange if the same thing should soon occur in this country, as no effort is being made to check the ravages of this and several other imported grain- destroying insects. Remove all your grain, and have it ground up, or otherwise disposed of; then thoroughly fumigate your granary with sulphur, or sprinkle with carbolic acid diluted with water. Do not put any grain in the bins this season, but store it elsewhere, because every moth must either be destroyed by poisons or Starved out before the same building will be a safe depository for any kind of grain again. Furthermore, your neighbors must do the same, or the moths will come from their barns to yours. Until rigorous measures are adopted the spread and ravages of such pests cannot be pre­ vented. Laws must be enacted by the General Government for their suppres­ sion, and then enforced to the very let­ ter. As soon as European countries find that we are sending them infested grain they will want no more of it at any price ; and by that time our farmers will learn what it costs to harbor their ene­ mies. The Canse of Earthquakes. Dr. K. Yon Fritsch, of Halle, dis­ cusses the subject of earthquakes in the Verhandlungen of the Berlin Geographi- Next morning when the parson ap-! cal Society. He maintains that the , r „ OUJ~ , Charles M. Webb, of Wisconsin, at Gfn .Turwa W„n» rJ e* ni • u i J""8 only a bead. Tristran was | Deadwopd; Charles W. Pierce, of Ne- • JAMES WEEB, of St Clairsville, j beaten by a neck for the second place | bruska, at Lincoln, Neb. -, Alexander M. ' * Kairwan, " the holy city " of Tunis, is evident- j Eggett, of Wisconsin, at Kan Claire, Wis. ly doomed. An army of 30,000 men, under five Mr. James F. Meline'ts report of the lrnuds Generals, is marching thither, and one oolumn. 1 curried on in the custodian's division ol the that of Gen. Saussier, has safely marchea Ohio, died from a blow struck by his son. Ho served three terms in the Ohio Legislatipre..... A steamship left Liverpool last week with 400 Mormon emigrants for this country. THE explosion of a boiler in the hub factory of Pinneo & Daniels, at Dayton, Ohio, ruined the building and killed the fireman and a girl in the street, seriously injuring three workmen. The damage will reach ^12,000 _ pr'eme Court ^o^Oh^h'. Justioe °,f the, Hn' i Grand Hotel in Panama for 1206,000," Tnd will K succeeded by NicholJ^Lm^orth. ! • • • Hungary has a sensa- Aftor a long and pleasant season of cheap rail- road fares, which proved a godnend to persons Of limited means who wished duiing the fall to indulge their traveling propeiiKities, the great tnink roads have commenccd the restoration Of prices to the former basis. through Kairoulia pass, which is "considered one of the defenses of the city. Ben Amar, one of the prominent Arab lead­ ers, has retreated after being routed by the French Baron James Roths- [ child, the great banker, is dead The Interoceanic Canal Company has bought the tion in crime. Burglars entered a hou*e and murdered the entire family of nine people, in­ cluding a man 90 years old and an infant. THE Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Austria intended to have an interview at Krzeenovice, an Austrian town, a short dis- Treafcury Department, and which Senator Hhtr- j man's resolution called for, was presented to the Senate. The report says that the otiiee was created in 1876, and one O. L. Pitney van put in charge at a salary of £2,400)% This was increased to $2,500 the following year. ; There was no authority for the creation of i the custodian's department, or the appointment ! of the custodian, and that both acts were illo- gal and unnecessary. Not only that, but the I way in which fluids were disbursed was con- | trary to law ; that only in relation to the pur- , chase of ice, fuel and carpets was there even the | semblance ol'legality; that in the purchaseof sup- I plies all the precautions token by an Ordinary i business man were neglected; exorbitant prices were paid; no inventory was ever made of the IN New York the following passenger tancefromCrawco, but the interview did not take | stock in hand; supplies which were paid for fates were adopted on the 27th ult by the New ' " """"" •» ' - J --1 1 York Central and Hudson Hirer road : Boston to Chicago, via Albany, -SO. 10-. New York to Chicago, £0.25. The Pennsylvania railroad . and Baltimore and Ohio rates from New York to Chicago are fl4, and £15 from Boston. Vanderbili's course from this time will, it is claimed, be governed independently of the action of competing roads and to the protection of his New York business. Tho Erie has had to increase its freight tariff Congrerismau Clark, of Missouri, has caused divorce papers to be served upon his wife. CHABTERS have been taken out in Maryland, West Virginia aaa Ohio for a rail- place, owing to the fact the Czar was informed | were never delivered, and two prices) drawn that the Nihilists were aware of the time and j from two different funds, were in sqrne cases place of the interview. Both monarchs are ; paia ior tnose undelivered goods. Tbus 11 greatly puzzled as to how the Nihilists be- i yards of Wilton carpet and tho cost of laying came acquainted with their intentions j and making were paid for twice out of the The London Sporting Life says that the horses | contingent fund and once out of the public that Foxhall defeated for the Cesarewitch and j building fund, and the carpet was not de- Cambridgeshire stakes are far superior to i livered until the investigators had com- those defeated by Rosebery in 1876, the only previous occasion that the same horse in the same year secured both stakes. THE victories of Foxhall on the En­ glish turf caused the shipment of a stallion and thirty brood mares to New Mexico from Liverpool. One of the British sportsmen in­ terested in the venture has laid a wager that a menced their work. One Moses was paid for 03734 yards of carpet which ho did not de­ liver untd the investigation had com­ menced, and then it was of an inferior character. Cabinetmakers were paid out of the fuel, light and water fund ; fifty-two dozen of fileholders, which cost $502, were never de­ livered ; $132 was paid out of the gas fund for what was pu^down in the biQ ju candles, but "Skip-Two." The most difficult and fashionable form of " solitaire " at cards is called the " skip-two. It is said that the game is so ingenious and interesting that in Eastern cities clubs are formed to play it, communication of success being made by telegraph and letter. The elements of calculation and chance are about equally divided. The possible combi­ nations of the game may be said to be incalculable. The full pack of fifty-two cards is used. They must be thorough­ ly shuffled to begin with, and then l»id out one by one in rows on a large table. Whenever as thus laid out a card of the same suit as the last one in the row is to be found three cards back, "skipping two," it can be placed on top of the last card in the row. This, of course, dis­ turbs the order of the original arrnuge- ment, and may bring cards of the name suit within two cards of each other. In that event tho two may be placed in a single pile, that to the right being the one on which the other card must be placed. It will often happen that the four suits may be moved in this way at the same time and in doing this the memory is taxed and great ingenuity needs to be frequently displayed so as to combine the cards in such a way as to bring those of the same suit within two cards of each other. When the cards on the table offer no chance to move the player draws from those in the hand until all are exhausted. The result of the game, if successful, is the combination of all those of the same suit in a pile by themselves, thus mak­ ing four piles. Failure is reached when, the cards in hand being exhausted, there are no further moves and more than four piles remain on the table. Special cards, smaller than those gener­ ally used, so as not to take up too much room, are sold with instructions how to play what is really a fascinating home game, requiring considerable exercise of memorv and a vast deal of patience. in' each odder up in half a day. Music am de stone wall dat surrounds marcy, peace, charity and humanity. Onjy las' week I war writin' down my obaerva- shuus fur de las' forty-seven y'ars, an' I will gib dem to de public as follows: " De soun' of a hoss-fiddle brings up old reekoleckshuns an' starts de tear of regret. If played long 'nuff, an' de wind am in de right direckshun, it will cause de listener to shell out a subscripshun of $2,000 to'rds a new cull'd Baptist Church. Try it once and be convinced. " De soun' of a harp hits a man below de belt. He begins to fink of all de mean fings he ever did, on* -to wish he hadn't, an' at de eand of fifteen minits he am all ready to step ober an' pay his naybur $1 apiece fur de hens he shot in his garden las' spring. " De soun' of de fiddle grabs on to seben different h'art strings to once, an' a man am knocked so fiat dat he will es­ teem it a privilege to ien' you $10. " The jewsharp goes right to de soul. If your wife am all ready to 'lope off wid de hired man, de notes of de jews­ harp will take her bonnet off in sixteen seconds. If you keep a hired man you should also keep a jewsharp. " Pianer musifl sometimes hits and sometimes misses. Ize known it to make an old bald-head go home an' pass two hull hours widout cuffin' de chil'en, an' Ize known it to cause a young gal to slide down ober de ropf of de kitchen an' 'lope off wid de owner of a . side­ show. " De guitar alius brings sadnesfean' a resoiushun to begin on de 1st of Jinua- ry to quit runnin' out nights an' play­ ing policy. "De brass band might soothe a sor- rowin' soul if de said sorrowin' soul didn't have all he could do to hold his hoss. " De melodeon used to produce a de­ sire on de part of de listener to be buried under a yew-yew tree, but I li'ar dey have improved it so dat a pusson had as lief be buried under a basswood. " De organ fills the soul wid awo an' strikes de heroic chord. If you am layin' fur a man doau' tackle him jist arter he has bin takin' in de notes of an organ. "De banjo--yum! If you want my dog--my hoss--my house an' lot, play me de banjo an' keep time wid yer i'ut. I spect de music of angelic harps am sweet an' soft an' dreamy, but if dey want to keep us cull'd folks satisfied up dar' a leetle mo' ban jo an' aleetle less harp am do fust prescriptioh. Let us now attack de bizness of d© meetm'." THERE are 40,000 breweries in Eu­ rope, and of all the houses in England and Wales the formidable number of 113,000, or one in every forty, are devot­ ed to the sale of liquor in some form or another. ^ Insects Injurious to Crops. Prof. Linter, New York State Ento­ mologist, says : " There are more insects than all the other classes of animated nature combined--estimated at half a million in all the world, and at least 50,- 000 in the United States. Only a small part of these are positively injurious to man and domestic animals. Yet the en­ tomologist cannot confine his attention to the species known as injurious, or even to those of his own country. Not a year passes without some new injurious insect presenting itself for special study, either from a cliauge in food plant, such an increase in number as to make it in­ jurious for the fir.st time, or by importa­ tion from abroad--usually from Europe. Thus, within the last two years, no less than five injurious species had been peared at the breakfast table, he pre­ sented a swollen appearance. His face was covered with bumps, and his hands looked as though they had the nettle rash. " I lay there and fight them things all night," he said, solemnly. "Reckon you'd better put up that thin looking sheet," and bowing over his plate, he said, "Gracious Lord, make us thank- ful for these, Thy many blessings."-- Little Rock Gazette. Men and Women as Workers. Leaving laziness and mere lymphatic indifference out of the question, men and women differ much in natural tendency to work. A man may be very far from idle, and yet have none of that agreeable instinct of activity which is born with some people. We must also distinguish between activity in a favorite study or purpose and mere labor. Absolute toil we may put on one side. But we must draw a line everywhere between labor in which the whole of the force and sugges­ tion has to come from within and to which the inducements and solicitations lie outside. Inclination being supposed equal, it is more easy to get through any course of business in which one thing turns up after another to excite the at­ tention and quicken brain and hands, than to carry through a task in which the immediate goals of exertion are not near, and the internal spring of effort has to be wound up from time to time without the help of a tangible, outward Hoc age. There is an old rhvme--which was probably unknown to Mr. Mill, for in his "Subjection to Women" he treats the point as a new one--which says, " That from rise of morn to set of sun, woman's work is never done." That is quite true ; but if it is a hardship, the hardship is mitigated by the fact that I woman's household duties have a "con­ catenation accordingly," in which the solicitation or impulse is supplied from without, with the advantage (which also applies to much of men's ordinary busi­ ness) that the social feelings count for a good deal in the concatenation and the impulse. It may be noted, meanwhile, that women get through all their duties --and, no doubt, through their highest studies--with less waste of power than men, and with less apparent concern about either pain or uneasiness. This we do not mention as a discovery, for it is commonplace, but as a thing to be borne in mind.--London Spectator. She Got Her Money's Worth. A Scotch maid servant informed her mistress that she wished to many, where­ upon the old lady made her a present of a five pound note toward housekeeping. Shortly afterward the girl called ana pre­ sented her husband, who was old, blear- eyed and lame. "Why, Betty," ex­ claimed the mistress, " is this the man you've got?" "'Deed, mem," said Betty, imploringly, "what can one expect for five pounds?"--Hugh Miller. cause of earthquakesynust be sought for at a rather small depth, the greatest depth ascertained not exceeding ten or fourteen miles, and usually far less, while rather feeble forces produce earthquakes which are felt at great distances. It is knowh that Krupp's hammer, which weighs 1,000 centhers, and falls from a heiglith of three meters, produce sen­ sible concussions on a surface of eight kilometers diameter; while the recent explosion of the Leimbaeli dynamite manufactory was felt at Halle and Merse- berg, forty-one and forty-five kilometers distant While showing how easily con­ cussions are produced by causes com­ paratively feeble, Dr. Fritsch points out how earthquakes might be and must be produced by the increase and decreas« of volumes of rocks under the influence of physical and chemical forces, snd by concussions, by the opening of crevices in rocks, and by the subsidence oi masses of rocks due to these agencies. Many schists are subjected, as is known, to extension, and when crevices arise the schists must enter into oscillations which must produce very varied phenomena, according to the direction and the fore« of the oscillations, much like to what is seen in the oscillations of tuning-plates. Peculiarities of Journalism. Newspaper men don't go into business p l a c e s a n d s a y : " S e e h e r e , I d o n t i e the way you arrange your show ww > and I'm going to have it fixed. N all. But other men are continually coming into newspaper offices with s ery similar complaints. Isn't it abo that people looked upon a newspaper as a business operation ?--AT- w Haven ister. IF TWO thermometers--exposed equally to the sun--be covered, one with white, the other with black .the. ment under the black vSSth will indicate a higher temperature than the other. THE great Junius said he never knew a rogue who was not unhappy. Of course not. It is the rogues who dre not known who are the happy ones. There's plenty in this country.--Steu- benville Herald. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. ff ®'J * Hons 6 75 @ fl •» .. ~ FLOUB--Superfine ^ ^ @ J WHEAT--NO. 2 Spring 1 41 <3 } « No. 2 Red. 1 <9 1 « Corn--Ungraded ® 1? Oats--Mixed Western @ *1 Pqhk--Mess K ?5 $* Lard "X® 18 CHICAGO. Bkeves--Choice Graded Steers 628 @70® Cows and Heifers 3 40 ® 4 OS Medium to Fair 4 90 ® S 4S HOGS 4 00 3 6 M Flodb---Fancy White Winter Ex.. 7 75 ® 8 ® Good to Choice Spring Ex. #00 @ 6 TO Whjcat--NO. 3 Spring J ® J No. 8 Spring 1 " Oobh--No. 2 . . . . . . . . 2« S gi2r£V ::::::::|i« ISiS-Na i 1 * Butter--Choice Creamery ?? Pork--Mess*" .J."."":::.'"" '•* «16 » MILWAUKKH. Wheat--Na J ® j No. 1 j* 1 1 87 Cork--No. "1 § <q Oats -No. " » ~ R*k--No. - a] Bari kt--No. J4 ® 9S Pork--Mm *• @16 * K Lbmi" - ' "* Wheat---No. 9 Bed a 144 (& 1 45 Corn--Mixed S3 @ 6# Oats--No. 3 45 <9 46 Rye 104 0 1 06 Pork--Mess 17 00 «17 35 Lard UJf® 11)4 CINCINNATI. Wheat 1 44 @ 1 46 Corn 68 @ 69 Oats 46 @ 46 Rye 1 12 (i) 1 IS Pork--Mess .19 75 @19 00 ••••• ••••• 11*® 11* TOLEDO. Wheat--No. 1 White 140 @143 Na 3 Red 1 41 @ 1 43 Corn 64 @ 66 Oats 44 @ 45 DETROIT. F i.our--Choice 7 0 0 @ 8 3 6 Wheat--No. 1 White 1 37 @ 1 38 Corn--Mixed 65 @ 67 Oats--Mixed *6 @ 91 Barley (|>er cental) 1 TO (at 2 30 PORK--Mt-ss 30 25 <8,20 50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat--Na 2 Bed 1 42 @ 1 43 Corn--No. 3 64 @ 66 Oaib 44 @ 46 EA8r. LIBERTY, PA. Cattle--Beet. 625 @636 Fair 6 75 ($ 6 00 Common :4 25 @ 4 75 Hoos ..' 6 75 @ 6 86 Sheep 3 66 @ 4 90