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WEDNESDAY, SEPT: loth, 1S75.' JT. VAN SLYKi; Alitor. JKS^Myriads of grasshoppers passed over central s»d southern Illinois the SSfBi of the week, in a south-easterly direction. They did no damage in this State, but seemed disposed to go south deposit their eprf?f. \ fll^Gen Spinner, afterfourteewwars of honorable service as Treasurer of the United States, is now a private citizen. His name will * be forever recognised as the synonym of personal >r and oflieittl fidelity. ; ^ tjft»George E. Earlie, On© of J&c editors of the Elgin Gazette, lifts been appointed mail Agent on the FQX River Road, from Elgin to Geneva Lake. The appointment is a good one' and we -congratulate brother Barbie on 1^| good' .fortune.. ' l^-The stilt fiistitute<l in JS66 by Jas. A. Whelan.of St. Charles Parish. Louisiana, 'against Gen. Slieridaif, to recover $358,778. the value of sugar, mo­ lasses, mills, etc., confiscated by the de­ fendant in, 1867. while in command of that State, is about to be tried. The defense is that . the General only obeyed ordem ' f -.'. $SF'The statements given in the "tel­ egrams if true, will prove that the fail-" ure of the Bank Of California will turn out not a failure in any sense, but a mere suspension. With five million dollars excess of asserts over liabilities after allowing a million for shrinkage, the institution ought to be sound, and shortly resume the transaction of busi­ ness as usual. ISjF'Isn't Goyernor Beveridge doing "•little to miich pardoning ? It is an­ nounced from Jolict that his executive clemency has been exercised in behalf of no less than ninety-six convicts in the State Penitentiary since, the first of last January, an average of twelve a month. It is alleged that of these, twenty were murderers. We cannot conceive how such a wholesale use of the pardoning power can be justified. •®""The Mexican bordef troubles ®tlll continue iifc, lias been received at Washington, from a prominent officer on the Rio Grande, to the effect that cattle stealing and murders of peaceable American citizens •re still perpetrated by Mexican ma- .randers, and in all probability will con­ tinue, in spite of the forces sent there unless they can break np the liquids of assassins and thieves on either side of the river, and as far in thg interior of Mexico as may be found necessary. An International armed force appears to be necessary, as the marauders flee jurisdiction to the other toes <*Prpursuit. Fatal Folly of Practical .Joking. The folly of practical joking found a ••d illustration at Sullivan, Illinois, oil the 18th ult. George Stark, a young man of a jealous and not hopeful dispo- «ition, wasYilxmt to be married to a Hiss Knight. Some mischievous com­ panion told him that his aftiancetl was untrue to him, and that the wedding wardrobe which she was engaged in preparing, would be worn at her ap­ proaching marriage with another. Seeing that Stark/-fnaTHi'ested much feeling, they thought to caVry the joke /•rthjer, by gMn/biin pro/ended proofs ^bf the faithle^^s of t4»e young lady. •^Fithout reflectiontiTneft them,loaded his pistol, went to Miss Knight's home, and there shot her, and then killed him­ self. It is thought tlie young lady may recover. She is a most estimable per­ son, against whom no word of censure fcan be uttered, and the tragedy which has brought siich intense sorrow to two families, fs the mournful consequence of practical joking. 'The heathenish practice of "ha­ iring" in voguQ in certain American colleges, and which l'esuked last year In the death of one student, has again been the cause of an outrage at Yale, where it has been tried on a Chinese student of high rank. The reverence which the Celestials have .for their queues may be very absurd and redicu- lous to us, but it is .none the less a ' se­ rious matter with them. To loose it- if to a Chinaman of rank, a calamity little less than death itself, and however much we may laugh at the idea, it be­ comes us to treat this peculiarity with indulgent good humor. We may mike fan of the queue as much as we please, we may pull it, we may eveir tie tin pails to it, but when we go further and destroy it we outrage hospitality as well as commit a personal olVence of gravity. The Yale students did this. They subjected a Chinese student, the other day, to the hazing process, and in the operation cut oft his queue. Of course he was at once thrown into dim­ pair. By losing his pig tailhcalso loses caste, and is subjected to humiliation Mid dishonor. The matter is so. serious that it has been reported to the Chinese Minister at Washington, who has sent • statement of the outrage to the Em­ peror. ' What may be the result can hardly be conjectured; but if the gov­ ernment are called upon to apologize for the offense it would be nothing pain ticularly strange and hardly a demand that could be refused. ; tfuNDA. . EDITOR PLAINUKAKKU: -* Early on Thursday morning last hews was brought to this place that an accident had happened to the Night Express near Harvard, caused by the washing away of a bridge by the heavy rains, resulting in the killing of eight per­ sons ami t lie wounding of several more. At 10 A. M. your correspondent, accom­ panied by Wm. Height and L. Benthuv- sen started for the scene of the acci­ dent. At Woodstock we passed a train on which was a man badly cut up,, the first, signs we had of the disaster.-- When we arrived at Harvard we met Dr. Lowell, of Crystal Lake, lie was on the freight train just ahead of the Night"„Passenger, that went into the ditch, killing two men. They were at or near Cliiiton.Junction. The Night Passenger, whenthe accident happened, was crossing the bridge twenty rods north of Lawrence, and the forward part of the engine had got across when it went off the track, the drive wheels striking in the dirt just ready to roll back into the preek, which w&s about twglve feet, when the force of the train striking the ei^jitio drove the drivers deep iu the mud. jarring the bridge aiid causing it to give way for thirty fe the fender going down into the aw chasm first, the other cars piling on top, with the exception oft One passenger car. The Baggage a/ul Express cars were smashed to pieces and floated oft down the1 stream. One passenger car, with the top off„ was lying at right an- gles/with. tlitf track, forty feet away, right side up. The water tank was jarred oft" jt9r foundation and carried through the bridge and d&\vi\ stream two miles, where it nowj^sts in a pond. The engineer, Mr. Morris, was found wedged-A between . the lever and the boiler, badly/sealded and burned, and cut and Jmrfled about the face. His re­ mains were taken by his brother with a special train to Janesville,, via. the Madison Division. The fireman, (no one can tell how he escaped being kill­ ed) is badly scalded and was taken to Ay errs Hotel, Harvard, He will proba­ bly recover and be the only one who can tell just the facts as to how the accident happened. Jim Ranus, Conductor oM the train, i^liurt badly but not danger­ ously. James Fury, the baggageman, lived to be extricated from the ruins when he expired. Dr. Lowell examin­ ed a man who had an envelope in his pocket addressed to P. II. Black, and found that lie had not been hurt but died from drowning. The creek below the bridge was full of broken cars, trunks, mail bags, Express Books, clothing, &c., which were picked up and sent to Chicago on the mail train Thursday evening, together with three dead bodies. Five dead bodies also laj* in Avers Hotel. There was also an accident on the Iveuosha Division. The engineer on a freight tr^in by a flash of lightning noticed the rails gone just ahead of the engine, and told the fireman to jump for his life, which he did, the engineer following. They both -went into the water and mud up to their necks and were not hurt. The engine went into the ditch arid eight freight cars, loaded with grain, were piled upon her. The head brakeman, Mr. Herrick, had just been to the caboose and tried to get £f man from Car.v to go ahead, but it rain­ ed so he would not go He had just ar- rived-at the forward•, part of the train when he was killed, life neck being bro­ ken aiul the back part of his head torn completely off. He was intending to leave the road the next day. Three more persons are missing. A boy who has been to work for Thomas MeWherter, near the riveij, went in swimming last Sunday and caught cold in his limbs. He has not been able to work since. Mr. MeWherter sent him home to his parents in Chica go, last week. He had been picking pickles. There was a match game of ball be­ tween the pickups and scrubs of this village last week. Dr. Horn umpiring. The boys? said he would decide all one way for one side and make the other side get six men out for one inning Quite a good deal of sport and a little fun. • Mrs. S.W. Mallory, left' for Pine sBluft, Arka nsas last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. L. 1). Lincoln have been visiting rel atives at Marengo, They report a very huge crowd at the re­ union there and a good time. James Sheldon is sick.- He is threat­ ened with typhoid fever. His brother Homer had his leg broken in Chicago, by falling on the sidewalk a short time ago. It was his crippled limb that -he has not walked on for years. The firm of Johnson .& Co. have dis- olved, John Evensou having bought out his partner. John will run the store now. Mrs. Chas. Vfcrmilyia was taken worse and Dr. Morse was sent for last Saturday morning. GREENWOOD. EDITOR PI.AINDE AT/ER:--The recent heavy rains and flood of the past week have done an immense amount of dam­ age through this section. Mr. Toles loss is severe; it having swept away the greater portion of his Mill Damy some ten rods or more, some of it quite deep: besides washing away a great deal of fence, lumber, &c(. The amount of dam­ age done to roads, bridges, fences,&c.' especially along the streams is very great. Some of our farmers lost nearly all their hay. Mr. W. H. Couch had five stacks float off on to a neighboring farm; foitr of them was afterward driv­ en back by a reverse wind, upon his own land again. Mr. A. E. Baldwin Principal of the Genoa," {Wis.) School commenced his labors on Monday this week.. The Doci. is a first class teacher, and with ajl a genial whole squled fellow; Some of our farmers have commenced cutting up their corn, * ; ^ The Picnic, which was Is 'be.' We understand it is postponed* Until after the County Fair. V Mr. John (Irookshank is preparing to put up a new blacksmith Shop in the place of the. old one, which has started for the EastwV We have in successful operat^n^hat is known as, "The Greenwood Mutual Protection Association," which was or­ ganized nearly a year ago; for the pur­ pose of protecting ourselves, or rather its Members, against tli« depredation of those thieves whicl^are becoming so numerous in our land. In our next, we will endeavor to give a list of Its1 Offi­ cers, members, &c,. , .., As'the time for our County Fair is near at hand, would it not be well, for us to look over our various domains, and see if there is not something we can take to help add to the interest of the fair. We are well awftre that our annual Exhibitions are but a poor and meagre representation of our Counties bej.t production, were there a mofe general interest taken in this di­ rection. Some claim to be dissatisfied, and find fault with the way, "the tldwf is running Others say, 'it does not pay.' but of the former class we would ask do not most of you, usually attend the Fair? And do you not generally in doing 60, purchase a membership ticket? If so, why find fault? You are a Member, and have a right to vote at the annual meetings and help run? the thing.'1" But,"Oh' it's no use, the whole thing is run by a Ring," Who we would again ask, is responsible .for the making and forming of this Ring, if ring there be ? As a general thing, the majority rule,;and the minority quietly, submit; Some we find are complaining on account of the admission fee for the coming Fair. To such we would say; buy a membership ticket; it will cost you but one dollar for the four days, yourself and wife, and all'f our ehIlcken, under nine years of age, and wilfcost you nothing more, 1$ enter whatever article or animal you may wish to for exhibition. " - Now Mr. Editor about those big po­ tatoes, you have been telling us about. We have some potatoes up this way. We took from one hill a few days since (but before the. heavy rain, so that they were not water soaked) two pota­ toes the united weight of which -was 3^-lbs, besides less than a half bushel ©f small ones. They were of the. late Rof-e variety. We would have been glad to have placed them upon your table, but did not think about your table un­ til we had thought of our own. Too bad, but we'll try again and then we'll he-- EVKX. 86^ The Fat men held their animal celebration the other day at Norwaik, Ct. One hundyed and eight . members •were present and their gross weight was twelve tons Six hundred and seven­ teen pounds.^ The biggest man was made president and deposited 373 pounds of humanity in the chair, which Should have guaranteed him a perma­ nent situation. The fat men are ab­ stemious, 300 frkegs Qf beer or nearly tliree kegs to a man being perfectly satisfactory to quench theif thirst. Only three kegs of beer to wet up 363 pounds of human clay is a mighty sight too littlejuid'borders on inhumanity. &5?J The damage to the cotton crop by the recent tloods of the Mississippi in the Memphis district, extending from the Missouri line to the mouth of the Arkansas,-is variously estimated at from thirty thousand to one huudred thousand bales. The river was repor­ ted as having come to a stand at. Mem­ phis on the 14th, standing at a fraction over thirty-three feet eleven inches, (jvhicli is higher than it was in the spring. ~ | Machine repairs and all leading 1 machines kept by E.M.Owen. Waukegan Cigar Manufactory, E. Ml. DENNIS, Proprietor. Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in, * CIGARS, TOBACCO, -AND- Pipes of Every Description. 55 GENESEE STREET, WAUKEGAN, , ILL. JUST ARRIVED. MRS. C. H. MOREY, , Wishes to inform the imblie that she lias just received a splendid assortment of " Fall and Winter Milliaery, Consisting of the T.atest Styles <,f u its Bon­ nets, Flowers, silka, Vidve'ts, Kibbons fences Embroideries Ties, &<>., &o., in fact'everv- thinj? in the Millinery line. Don't fail to call mid examine Prices, Stvles and" Oualitv of tioods, which DEFY COMPETITION. Brick Block, 2d Door Xorth of Colby's Drug Store, MbHEIUiY, - - ILLINOIS. • : - W. a* tae CiieaiM* mil ̂ BEST PLACE IN Mc||pY 1 TO Bl^Y Dry Go GROCERIES,, N O T I O N S Grocierj, Glassware, etc., etc. WE SELL FOB CASH OR READY PAY, And OAN AND WILL sell Goods as lowas any House in McIIenry County. Pay the Kigftisi Market Price BUTTER -FOR- EGCSy POULTRY, etc IU CASH OR IN GOODS ! Give us a Call in can what, we sav. aud learn we HOWARD & SON. McIIeri^, 111., July 20th, 1875. MOUNT'F ROOT B I T T E H S . TTTT ->, TlITTEi? V for its intrinsic properties, i.s known i(M one .of tlie Best Tonics of the Age. As a laxative Liver -Cleaning, Blood Purify­ ing; Medicine, it luis notit.s superior. It should be tuken in quantities from a 'Rible^poon full to a .sinail wine according in tin1 lid o,r 'the'degrei lass full three times a day, t'-eiirrtji ni l uy;e of tlie lnva- »f sickness.' For 8a3o by tho Cass or Bottle, -- BY -- L. KAPPLEK, Patentee, Woodaito<*k, 313. Adininlrttratrix Sale «f Iteal Estate. BY VIRTtTKof an order and decree of the County Court of McIIenry County, Illinois made on "tite petition of tite undersigned KUen Fris!n*c A'tministratvix of the Estate of Thomas Frisliee deceased, for leave to sell the Real Estate of said deceased, at the August Term A. l>. 1#75, of said Court* to wit: oil the cixtuenth day of August 1875, I shall on the TWENTY SECOND I) VY OF SEPTEMBKU next, at two o'clock in the afternoon of said day, sell at public sale at tho premises in Nun- da in said County, the Real Estate described, as follow, to-wit: The north part of the north east one-fourth south wes;t one four) li of section number two (•J) town number forty-four (-U) range number (S) containing thirty two an 1 one. half acres in McIIenry 'County," Illinois, pn the following terms, to wit: Three hundred dollars cash in hand and llie balance in one year With interest at ten per cent per a 11 tun the purchaser to give approved security, and mortgage on the •premises sold, to secure the payment oil tho remaining purchase money. ELLEN FlUSiSEE," Administratrix Of the Estate of Thomas Frisboe, Deceased. Dated August 17th, A. D. 1875. E Administrator's Notice. STATIC OF ALZINA RCUBEE, deceased. The undersigned having l>een appointed Administratrix of the Estate «1 Alzina Bug- bee, late of the County of McHenry and State of Illinois, deceased, liereby gives notice that she will appear before the County Court of McIIenry County, at tlu> Court House, in Woodstock, at. th'e Octot>er Term, 011 the third Monday in October, next, at which time all persons having claims against said Estate are notitle-1 and re<i nested to attend for the pur­ pose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate pavinent to the undersi<rned- Da ted the 'J5th day of August, 1S75. 5\v6 1X)KATMY OWEN, Administratrix For Sale- fi^lie undersigned offers for Sale his property, X situated opposite the Riverside House, in McIIenry, 011 the most reasonably There is'a good and substantial builaing, terms, suit­ able for a store or ot her business, the upper jmrtof which is titled up for a residence. Con­ nected with this'is four acres of choice land, a good barn and some fruit. Persons contem­ plating purchasing will llnd it to their inter­ est to call and look this property over. a. F. A. lllUBABD. McHenry Ilk Aug. ICt h, 1S75. l\>r Sale. A Store and Lot formerly owned by L. Stod­dard in the village of jVIcHenrv .'is offered for sale very cheap. For. particulars inquire of (». C. Thdmas, residing four miles west of said village, or of Jacob stor&dealer I11 Hard­ ware opposite Owen's Mlll.- '4^' G. C. THOMAS. August 30 1875. M'EEimY BREWERY. King & Herbes, Proprietors T country and wiirraiiUd as represented.-- HE l>est of Beer Shipped to any part of _ «'«utntry ami warranted as represents' Orders solicited amjl promptly attended to. THERE 18 NO U8E IN GOING OUT OF TOWN TO PU&CHA8M ANYTHING IN THE LINE OP y *£ STOVES, TIN WARE. FAPMiiuo rnn. . ' T - --- -- > wwhO| nvi, W h e m i l k ^ ^ L B o u g h t f w L E & 8 M O N E Y a t t h e H a r d w a r e £3$t- . --OE^-r M . •, ;>/•. # •' - THE POST OFF8CE. We have STOVES that, make frozen men iaugh^andfteU them, you Can Steal Them. We also manufacture ' * f • » Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Ware. Into any Shape or Vessel desired. We make a point to do JOBBINOOF / Promptly, andWarrantit done weU, We mike Timvarh a Spedctlk/> becatm we think on this we are Master of the Situation; Come andtfee far Yourself „ T„ A OJ f JOHN M. SMITH. McHenry, 111., Aug. 2(1,4875. We are.now opening one the largest, and Best selected stocks of the Celebrated Boston * S • y k Ready - Made Clothing! EVER BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET, CONSISTING OF MEN, BOYS AND YOUTHS WEAR, Which for DarabHity of make and^tyle of cut is make. Also JustJReceived another Invoice of the Buffalo « far superior to any other well known Rochester and Custom made Boots s Slioes WE IIA VE YET SOME SPECIAL BARGAINS IN r Dress Mi Shawls, SKIRTS, PARASOLS, etc., to Close. We shall offer in due season a hax^ Line of & Fall and Winter Dry Doods PRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, SKIRTS, Ac., and Shall make Prices as LOW A3 THE LOWEST. Smith Bros. & Co. McHenry, Aug. 31st, 1875. Bargains! Bargains ! NOW IS THE TIME AND ALDRIGH & SMITH'S Is the Place to Secure Them. GREAT CLOSING OUT NAIiC --OF-- Remnants, &c., Below Cost for the next Thirty Days, as we wantjjthe mone and room for our Fall purchases. A large line of DRESS GOODS at 20 to 30 cents 4>er yM-d. Pigues at 20 to 26 cents. Percales at 15 to 20 cents. Lawns 10 to 12 cents. Linens and Grasi C l o t h s A T C O S T . • _ * ' We are daily receiving new" and 8casoiia1)le goods which wejwill sell * low prices for Cash or Ready,Pay as any House in "the West. ; Have added largely to our stock of GROCERIES, and now have as fine * line as found in the market, including a choice selection of Japan Teas, new • crop, fifcatir Please try them. v ALDRICH & SMITH. Richmond, IU., July 27th, 1875. ,