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~ It* ̂ sf" * * *« 2^. m* -»-- s }&*~ *. ' 1 ; V - "•'••"•'5" ̂-4R> ^ _-».i ..'fee ""\ - ,\*u *&• •* '.' ,*. >. .'••.ft;. . »!i ,.-/t ,;£k^.i.'^**i \ u. ' i#9 ***&•<<• v • ..•.**.: «*,r % „ ., Tpvr- * * »H ^ ; ^" ̂* " < *• lW>̂ 4s,'« ' h> -rm, }^h% She Pel tnrg flamdrafer. J. VAN SLYKE, PUBLISHER. &HENRY, ILLINOIS. AGRICULTURAL AND l/OMESTIC, The Evening Hearthstone* jQTadly now -trc gather ronnfl 14, For the toiling day is done, , And the gay and solemn twlli^M Follows flown the golden su#. Shadows lengthen on the pavement, Stalk like giants through the gloom, "Wauder past the dusty casement, Creep around the fire-lit room. Draw the curtain, close the Bhuttera, Race iixe slippers by ihe nre; Though the rude wind loudly mutton, What care we for wind-spate's in ? "What care we for^ratward Deeming? Fickle foitnne's frown or smile ? If around IMI love is beaming, Love can human ills beguile, "Neath the cottago roof assd paJaoe, From the peasant tt> the kinrt| • All are quaffing from life's chaufee Babbles that enchantment bring. Orates are glowing, music flowing, From the lips we love the best; * ' Oh, the joy, the bliss of knowing There are hearts whereon to rest. Hearts that throb with eager gladness-- Hearts that echo to our own- While grim care and haunting sadness Mingle ne>r in look or tone. Care may tread the halls of daylight, • - Sadness haunt the midnight hour, . - But the vcird and witching twilight Brings? the glowing hearthetone's dower, Altar of our hoUest feelings, Childhood's well-r^Kaembered shrine! • Spirit-yearnings--sorJ-revealings-- wreathe immortal round thee twine! Around the Farm. IT is said that eggs may be preserved far six months by dipping them in lin­ seed oil, asd so placing them is s layer of sand that they do not touch. Ai/OOHOii is sure destruction to the mealy bug. With a small, soft brush give them a ooat of alcohol, or let a drop iall upon a cluster of the bugs.--Moore'* Rural. ̂ THE nutrient property of many of our most delicious fruits is less than one percent., and yet the most perfect health and strength may be maintained upon a moderate diet of brown bread and fruit. -- World of Science. THB Country Gentleman says that the Canadian Centennial Commission has made official requisition for space in the live stock yards at the Exposition, for the exhibition of 150 head of horses, 160 of neat oattle, 75 sheep, 75 swine, and 300 coops of poultry. To PROTECT horses and cattle against flies, take equal parts of lard, tar and flour of sulphur, melt the laird and tar together, stir in the sulphur and rub a small quantity about tne neck, ears and flanks. The same remedy, it is .said, will prove effective against ticks, and lice. AN exchange newspaper says : "A horse was taken to a veterinary surgeon recently to be cured of a corn in the foot. In paring the corn the operator found a worm about three-eights of an inch long, and one-sixteenth of an inch thick, and sharp at each end as a needle. One end was black and the other end white. The black end was nearest to the sole, and the white end was in the flesh. After removing the worm and burning with nitric acid the oorn was entirely removed and the horse perma­ nently cured of his lameness." MB. B. B. GROOM, the well-known Kentucky breeder, is in Euro#, and in' a letter from Berlin to the Paris True KentucMan expresses the opinion that there is a wide field on the continent of Europe for the introduction of Short Horns. There is to be seen there a tre­ mendous scope of country owned by people of great wealth, and he thinks that the day is not far distant when the demand for Short Horns in Europe will be immense. At present the cattle of nearly the whole continent are of a very inferior quality. THB onion is a much more nutritions and healthy article of food than is gener­ ally supposed. It takes the place of meat with the peasantry of Southern Europe. As the English peasant takes his bread and cheese for dinner, so the Spanish and the Italian take onions with their farinaceous food, and derive more strength from these bulbs than their bulk would cnggest. They are e&ian not ik; a irelish, buS dimply for nutrition. • In that admirable book, " The Chemis­ try of Common Life," onions are spoken of as containing in their dry state from twenty-five to thirty per cent, of gluten, or muscle-forming material and the in­ stincts of the laboring classes thus coin­ cide with the deductions of nm'ftTt<y» in the use of this cheap, but nutritious food. n THERE are various opinions held by farmers and gardeners in regard to the quantity of seed required for an acre of our common field crops, still the numer­ ous tables published differ but slightly. The Maryland Farmer gives the follow­ ing, which we think is not far out of the way, and will doubtless be useful to our -readers: Artichokes 4 to 6 hurt. Asparagus, in drills 6 to 8 lbs. Beane, dwarf, in drills lto lv bush Beans, pole, in hills.... 10 to 12 qts * Beets, to drills .6 to 6 lbs. Buckwheat. ......v ••••.. .1 to 1W bush. Barley 1« to3 bush. • Cabbage in beds to transplant ^ lb. •Carrots, in drills 3 to 4 lbs. Corn, in hills, 8x4 g to 10 qts. Oorn, for soiling, ia drills 3 to 3u bush Cucumbers, in hills 2 lbs. Mustard, broadcast peck "to M bush. M elon, musk, in hills lbs. lielon, water, in hills. 3 to 4 lbs. Millet..... X to 1 buahal. -Onions, in drills 4 lbs. Onions for setts, in drills.......... 6 to 8 bush. .Parsnip, is drills ..••eeS to 6 lbs Peas in drills 1% bush. Pear broadcast..... 3 fcmah. - Potato (cut tubers) 6 to 10 bush. Pumpkin, in hills.....'.... 4 to 6 lbs. Radish in drills . 8 to 10 lbs. Sage in drillB. 1 8 to 10 lbs. Salsify in drills 8 to 10 lbs. Spinach in drills .10 to 12 lbs. Squash (running varieties) in hills. .3 lbs. Squash (bush varieties) in hills.....4lbs. Turnips in drill .. 1 to 2 lbs. Turnips broadcast 2 to 3 lbs. 'Tomato, to transplant % lb. Broom corn in hills 8 to 10 qts. Clover, red alone 10 to 15 lbs. Clover, Alsike alone. ....8 lbs. Clover, white alono.. 8to 10 lbs. •Clover, lucerne alone 16 lbs. •Orchard grass 12 to 20 lbs. Blue grass 12 to 20 lbs. <h*se, mixed lawn 2 bushels. "edtop. .12 to 16 qts. Oats broadcast....... 2 to 3 bush. Bye broadcast 1# to 2 bush. Vetches broadcast ,.... 2 to 3 bush Wheat broadcast. .1 to 1% bush. alone.... # bush. ,..)4 to 1 bush. Piaxseed ltoltf bush. Abost the House. WHEW two pieces of sugarare rubbed •Wether in the dark, a sort of electrical phosphorescence may be observed, due probably to the friction of the particles. HOUSEKEEPERS and others are much troubled to keep their dried fruit free from worms. A contemporary esys that a handful of sassafras jlbark sprinkled through a bushel of fruit is a preventive from this pest. JUMBLKS WITHOUT EGOS.--One cup of lard or butter, two cups of sugar, one- half teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful cream tarter, one cup milk ; flour enough to roll; flavor to taste; roll and bake in tins in a hot oven. GINGER COOKIES.--One cup of sugar, ©ne cup of molasses,*one cup of lard, two-thirds cup of boiling water, one egg, one teaspoonful cream tartar, one table- Bjjuvnjuil gjLugcur, uuw UuioSpuOluQl BOdft, and one teaspoonful of salt. JEUJY EoiiL.--Three eggs, one cup of sugar, one teaspoonful of cream tarter, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one cup of flour ; pour it thin into a baking-pan ; bake slowly; spread jelly over it, and loll it up. Wrap in a cloth. MUTTON CUTLETS.--Trim off all super­ fluous fat from each cutlet, dip them in an egg beater? up with a little oil, some pepper, and salt, then cover them with bread crumbs, and let them rest for a couple of hours. Fry them in plenty of butter or lard to a light b¥own -color. Arrange them in a circle on a dish, and pour some tomato sauce in the center. THE following is a good recipe for making apple butter: Pare, quarter and core one-half bushel of sour apples. Put them on to cook, with water enough to cook them, until they become soft. Then add two quarts of molasses, one quart of sugar, one quart of sweet cider or one-half pint of boiled cider, one tablespoonful each, of ground cinnamon, cloves and alspice; cook three hours, stiiring it continually. This makes an excellent sauce, and if well cooked will keep the year round. For a larger quan­ tity it will require more cooking. POTATOES lose their strength when the starch they contain is wasted by sprout­ ing, and on this account they should be spread thin on a cool floor and frequent­ ly turned to check vegetation. At this season they may be improved for table by soaking them for a few hours in cold water and putting them into hot water tb boil, without Bait; then, when they are tender nearly all the way through, pour the water off and refill the saucepan with cold water. Put in salt boil till they are quite done, drain off the water and cover as tightly as possible and set on the back of the stove or range to steam, lifting the cover for an instant once or twice. Serve hot. A BRIDEGROOM'S DECEPTION He Pretends to be Deaf and Dumb, ••»* Proves te be Married and la the rn--i •ton of All His Faculties. [From the Cohoes <N. Y.) Eagle.] \ van Ranken's Corners, Watervliet, comes to the front -with a sensation. Some years ago a well-dressed, prepos­ sessing young man, who introduced him­ self as a Mr. Avery, want to that village and registered at the liotel. He was a handsome appearing young man, and never was known to utter an oath or a profape word. In short, he was deaf and dumb, a fact that .lid not prevent mm from playing the agreeable or mak­ ing love m the most orthodox fashion to cue i eigmug belies oi tliat region. He soon established quite a reputation as a lady-killer among the fair demoiselles, and what soft things he was unable to say with his tongue he uttered but too eloquently with his expressive eyes. Cupid smiled upon his endeavors, and his love-making at length culminated in ms leading to the altar one of the love- nest of the Corners' fair daughters, and •--what was more to the point and to our story--an heiress in her own right to a considerable amount of money. Not a response did he respond while the cere­ mony was being performed, nor did he even intimate that he could talk until lie had taken a position on the dancinp floor at the grand ball given in their Young Lady Wills Her Body to the Surgeons. A singular case has been developed at the Maryland University hospital. A young woman of intelligence and respect­ ably connected, who been treated for an incurable abdominal affection, requests that after death her body be dissected for the benefit of science. In a letter to Resident Physician Ashoy, she says : " As my death must speedily result from causes which have baffled science and confused the best medical minds, I de­ sire that you shall perform upon my body, after death, an examination, and ascertain what it is that has'terminated my life. I request that such examination shall b© made privately and respectfully by yourself and a few of your medical students and medical friends. I have furthermore urged my parents and friends to allow such an examination, and to inform you at once as to my death in case of such an event, since I shall go to my home from the hospital to pass the remainder of my days. A post-mor­ tem examination can do me no possible harm, and it may benefit science, and through _ it some other unfortunate affected like myself, Moreover, I desire to express in this manner the gratitude I feel to the many medical men who have labored for my relief. Lastly, it is a duty I owe my sex and my God." She will leave the hospital and return to her home in the city, and in the event of her death, her request will be complied with by the physicians named in her will.-- Baltimore American. lmnerals in 1770. Funerals touched' weddings at the point of-feast**-3, •>>:.-id wro cftca -very expensive, showy, and pompous occa­ sions. In some psxta of the country, especially among the Dutch of Long Island and New *ork, it was the cus­ tom for a young man to lay by his earn­ ings after coming of age until a sufficient sum had accumulated to provide for him a "respectable" funeral when he should^ come to die. Oftentimes the young burgher would reserve half of the portion of wine which he had liber­ ally laid in for his marriage, to be used at the funeral of himself or his wife. Special invitations were sent out for funerals as for parties. The clergymen, pall-bearerss and physicians attending, were provided with scarfs and gloves and sometimes each with a mourning ring ; while the feast which followed the interment at the house of the relatives of the deceased, elaborate with cold roast meats, wines, liquors, and pipes, was not unfrequently an occasion of coarse excesses, sometimes descending into hilarious and noisy demonstrations. A " respectable " funeral of this discrip- tion might cost, perhaps, a thousand dollars ; while the funeral of the first wife of Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer is said to have cost not less than $20,000. --Edward Abbott's " Revolutionary Timet" , " County Nomenclature. Of the 1,141 counties in Ihe United States, more are named after Washing­ ton than any other President of the United States, the number being 29. The names of the other Presidents rep­ resented by counties occur as follows: Jefferson, 23; Jackson, 21; Madison, 19; Monroe, 18; Lincoln, 17; Grant and Polk, 12 each; Johnson, 11; Harrison, 9; Adams, 8; Taylor, 7; Van Buren, 4; 4; Buchanan, 3; and Fillmore and Tyler, 2 each. In many cases, how­ ever, in the above list counties were not named after the Presidents, but the se­ lection of a name was influenced by local considerations. There are 22 counties named after Frankiin, 20 after Colfax, 37 a , r ^an.OD» 2 after Fremont, 3 after Greeley, 1 after Hendricks, 8 after Ben- ton andBoone, 9after Cass, Marshall, Mid Putnam, 14 after Carroll, 11 after Douglas, and 18 after Montgomery. The names of almost all of the revolu­ tionary heroes except Arnold are repre­ sented in the list. honor, when he betrayed the fact that ue bad been acting a lie, andcouldspeak and hear as well as the best of them. His new made bride was only too glad to discover an additional charm in her heart's cnosen one, and her love for him only strengthened with the flifwwer*' He managed in some way to explain Ins almost unaccountable actions, and satis­ fied her relatives with some plausible story of a vow binding him to silence until a given time--his marriage. The newly wedded pair soon settled down to the humdrum routine of practical mar­ ried life, and Mr. and Mrs. Avery were the model of connubial bliss. With his wife's money the model husband bought •» farm, near Morrisville, and vns to a degree prosperous and thriving. Two children were bom unto the pair, and they were gliding down life's fitful stream a staid, steady couple, beloved of each other and respected by their neiirh- boro. v And now eorfeTlflie sequel. About three weeks &go Mr. Avery was^aken ill, sick, unto death we might say, and his family and friends gathered around his bedside to hear his last words and see him pass over to the golden shore. He straggled hai'd with the grim monster death, and piteously besought the physi­ cians to afford him relief, and save him to his family. All the aid that human means could devise was extended to him, but without effect, and he was in­ formed that his end was near. Then it WTO that he told the story of his life. With choked utterance and tear-filled •yes he admitted that he had de­ ceived his trusting wife, his con­ fiding friends, %nd had been living a false and untrue life. His light Dame, he said, was Zieglexv and he al­ ready had a wife and three children when he was married at Van Ranken's Corner under the name of Avery. He gave his first wife's address, and asked that she might be telegraphed and some atone­ ment made to her for the neglect and suffering he had cau&d her. He said he was a Major in a Connecticut regiment, had served with distinction during the late war, and had been honorably mus­ tered out as a Brevet-Colonel. He gave no reason why he had deserted his wife and little ones, and was prevented by weakness from explaining his freak of playing the mute. He soon after died and was buried with all honors. In due course of time liis first wife ar­ rived, and, establishing her identity, took evidence of her husband's death. She didn't make much of a to-do about the matter, nor did she seem heart­ broken at his demise. She was very calm about the occurrence, and explained that she was more desirous of procuring the evidence of his death and securing a pension of $3,000 that was in some way due to him from the Government than of recalling him to life. After having attained her objscfc she quietly departed, tor *»*we!?sor I" peaceable pos­ session of what of the world's goods had been accumulated from the capital ad­ vanced at her marriage with Avery. Dtfflciilty in Setting Married. A ooitplo in Kingston, who undertook to get married some time since, went, accompanied by the bridesmaid and groomsman, to a church, and were ush­ ered into the sacred edifice and escorted to the altar by the sexton, who, however, got the parties ratner mixed up, station­ ing the bridesmaid next to the bride­ groom, and the bride and groomsman in corresponding wrong places. The clergyman, not noticeing the mistake, went on with the ceremony, and began marrying the bridesmaid to the bride­ groom, when the bride served an " in­ junction" on him by exclaiming that she was the marrying party, mistake liaving been remedied, the cleryman made another attempt, and the performance went smoothly along until it came for the bridegroom to pro- due© the ring, which was essential to the completion of the oeremouy. But when that gentleman felt in ma vest pocket, it wasn't there ; in the other, not these; in the trousers pocket, not there ; and then he felt to the bottom of the re- P°oketS aud finally exclaimed : Well, sure,, there is a hole in my pocket and the ring has slipped down into my boot." And the only way to finiah the cere- mony was for the bridegroom to sit down, pull off his boot, take the ring, pull on his boot, and put the ring where it ought to have gone, and walk out with ms bnde, all of which he did.--National Baptist. The Deadly Dynamite. Late English files bring accounts of a terrible dynamite explosion in Wales, which surpasses in horror anything since the Bremerhaven affair. Tke occurrence took.place on April 21 in a railway tun­ nel in process of construction at Cym- mer, near Maesty, Wales. The tunnel was to be 1,600 yards in length, and operations were carried on night and day. The ipght gang were at work when the explosion took place. There were thirty men employed at the time, and of these thirteen were killed outright, and their, bodies found in a horribly muti­ lated condition. In the dynamite box was a day's store of the explosive mate- nal--about 200 pounds--aid also sev­ eral pounds of gun cotton and a quan- & 0/oTn>S" magazine was located about 250 yards from the mouth of the tunnel, and midway between the mouth and the terminus of the excavations already made. The explosion shattered a space iu the tunnel sixty yards in area, and the only surprise is that the entire msicfld of thirteen, have been killed outright. A Novel Wager. . ̂ drove of thirty-six mustangs ar­ rived at Jersey City, on April 18, in J0 A, SLX California rancheros. Gi wie uuimais were unbroken, and were driven out of the cars in which they had been transported like sheep. «one of the inquiries made in relation to them developed any information in regard to their ownership or purpose here, and for a time an impression pre­ vailed that they were intended for the use of Mr. Bennett's Polo Club. They had been shipped from Yisalia, Cal., on March 23, and had been consigned $o wxe Baltimore and Ohio railroad here. Application was made to the office of the Baltimore and Ohio company for in­ formation, but the reporter was informed that none would be imparted--at least not for some days. This was, however, explained yesterday. On March 1 a conversation upon the comparative mer­ its of California native and blooded stock, between a well-known New York­ er and an old Californian, resulted in a heavy wager for a race against time, to take place within ninety days after March 2, and on a track not further than 100 miles from New York. The amounts were $25,000 against $16,000. The con- < ^ie race were as follows: ' The animals to be used were the ordi­ nary grass-fed native horses, or mus­ tangs, of California, picked up out of the stock-yards without selection. The race was to be run in relays, the entire distance ridden by one man, and not more than thirty horses were t# be used. The feat to be performed was the same as that achieved by N. H. Mowery, on August 2, 1868, when, at ban Francisco, he rode 300 miles upon relays of mustangs, thirty in number, vxtain fourteen hours and nine min- nutes. The animals were to be ridden in the California style, with Mexican saddle, Spanish bit, and free rein. The horses are being exercised, and broken at their new home, while the principals in the race are making the final prepara­ tions. The affair has been kept as secret as possible, neither of the parties to the wagei being sporting men.--New York Tim es. ILLINOIS ITEMS! ' €J"APT. $HNN SHOST, oi A^ooria, is or­ ganizing an artillery company, to be at­ tached to the Fourth regiment of Illinois State Guards. Wm. L. Howeuj, a ooal miner, was in­ stantly killed one night last week by a premature explosion at Aiken's mines, near Peoria. Miss EMMA ABBOTT, a native of Peo­ ria, made a very successful debut in Italian opera in London recently. She has had the good sense to not Italian­ ize her name. THE committee having in charge the '.•O-XO _ OT . I, .. wuwug UIOUO Ssengerfest at Peoria, have concluded to erect a large hall 100 by 150 feet, with a seating capacity for an audience of 4,000 persons. GEORGE W. SLACK, a stranger, was found dead in his room at the Green Tree hotel, Springfield, one morning last week. He came from Gibson City, and a coroner's Jury held the cause of death to be suicide. TAIIPICO is again in trouble. A short in pursuit of the murderer, but were) \ t, kept at a distance by the constant rapid firing of the desperado, and at* ^ *" last accounts he had not been captured. It also appears that the Californian fir*ri ./ shots at Judge Mellman, whom he metJL. -- on the streets, but without effects t Gendeman, the first man killed, had, • / notlnng to do with the fight in which the^ftJ L-aliforniau was engaged. Citizens are? much excited, and if the murderer iafc^ • captured he will be lynched. | iPashton Fripperies. , . [From Harper's B*z*r.l J "BWpfca India shawls are the &voin$H traveling shnwlo «+ IN IMHIANI White Spanish lace scarfs are oonsid->.. • t ered more elegant than those of cream-color. «««- Marie Antoinette fichus of the dress , material are being made with woolen and^^ with grermdme costumes, also with sum-f*-fc^ mer silk dresses tliat are meant for streetfa^l' use and for the Centennial. Ladies begin to tire of the oonspicu- * ous colored stripes on hosiery, and select- . * H instead plain unbleached Balbriggans,4 f I, * AAlirico is again in trouble. A short or else those with h^"stripes of W many j either around the leg orelLin pe^pS- of its buildings were destroyed by a dicnlar rows. Railroad Rates. Another move in the game of chess now being played between the various Eastern railroads was made yesterday. The Kew York Central ordered a further, reduction in the rates on fourth class freights, making them twenty cents per 100 pounds from Chicago to New York, and twenty-five cents to Boston. This is a reduction of two and one-half cents per 100 pounds. Heretofore the charge on grain has been from two and one-half to five cents lower than fourth-class freights, but by this last move grain and fourth-class freights are placed on the same footing, twenty cents being the current rate on the former article, what the next move will be is hard to tel. It is hardly probable that another reduction in freight rates will be made, as those now charged are lower than they have ever been. Some think a reduction in passenger rates will be made soon. This is, how­ ever, doubtful at present. It was the intention to make a reduction this week, but after reflection it was decided not to be too hasty regarding this matter. If a reduction in fares does not take place within the next two weeks none will be made at all. The reason the railroads are so reluctant to reduce passenger rates at present is on account of the Cen­ tennial business, from which they mean to reap some profit if possible. The worst sufferers from the present railroad war are, next to the vessel- owners, the elevator men in this city. Most of the grain now shipped goes by railroad, and does not stop in Chicago at all. The elevators expected to do an immense business this spring, and in- rtcad of this they axe almost idle. There are, however, very few to extend them any sympathy. They are merely reap­ ing what they sowed last winter.--Chi­ cago Tribune. His Dying Message* A single shot followed by a loud shriek told us that one of my best men (Brad­ ley) -was hurt. He proclaimed his agony with a loud voice, turned over on his back and commenced kicking so vigor­ ously that the surgeon had difficulty in getting near him. "Poor fellow!" said the doctor, "shot in the bladder. I am afraid it is fataL" "Oh, my God," said Bradley, "am I a dead man?" " Keep up your spirits, my boy.'n^ver say die," said Capt. Johnson, kneeling kindly over him. "Doctor," asked the wounded soldier, feebly," " will you write to my mother that I died bravely, doing my duty, with my face to the foe, and that I thought of her when I was dying?" " Yes," said the doctor, with dim eyes and a husky voice, " I will write to her and tell her, too " But suddenly springing to his feet, with an indignant voice, he said : " Why, confound it, man, you're not hurt a bit. It is onlv your canteen that is shot. Get up, will you ?" Bradley raised up slowlv, felt hinnmlf all over, and with an exceedingly foolish countenance crawled back to his position, amid the uproarious laughter of his regi­ ment. For months after that, oh the march, in the camp, and sometimes in the night, you might hear a voice in one direction demanding, " What shall I tell your mother?" and perhaps half a dozen responses would be heard, "Tell her I died with my face to the foe," and then Bradley would come out. and search for the man who said it. He seldom found him, but when he did there was certain to be a fight.--Louisville Courier- Journal. A NEW YOBKKR suggests that young men and maidens who go to church to whisper and cackle and snigger and make fools oi themselves should be placed in a black hole under the pulpit, as in the c£d days of the New England tithing-man. , tornado, and on Wednesday of last week, before it had recovered from that mis­ fortune, it was visited by a #40,000 con­ flagration. THE trial of Judge Elmore for frilling Claibourne Coker, at Prentioe, in De­ cember, 1874, which has been progressing in the Morgan County Circuit .court, ms brought to a close last Friday, night, and resulted in a verdict of "not guity." This is the third trial of the tii6 two preceding trials having resulted in " hung " juries. THE Hon. John A. Jones, of Spring­ field, Master in Chancery of the Circuit court of the United States Southern dis­ trict of Illinois,, has sold at auction un­ der a decree of the court the Lafayette, Bloomington and Mississippi railroad, a leased line of the Toledo, Wabash and Western, for a debt of $1,445,241.91 with interest. It was bought by Mr. John T. Martin, on behalf of the bond­ holders, for the sum of §500,000. GEO. R. PARKISH, of Peoria, a con­ tractor and builder, who had taken the job of tearing down the old Court-house, while superintending the work, fell with some timbers over the old balcony to the stone pavement below. As no bones were broken it was thought he would soon recover 'from the accident, but to the surprise of friends, after suffering intensely from internal injuries, lie sud­ denly died the evening oi the day that the accident oocurred. ONE of the editors of the late Rock- ford 2%me*t Louis A. Manlove, has been fined $100 and costs by Judge Brown, of Rockford, for publishing the article aoeusing Griggs of writing the forged letters to the Chicago Times. C. M. Brazee filed several affidavits which flat­ ly deny the statements made by Man- love, in his confession. Fred <5. Day­ ton, the othor editor of the Times, stall asserts his innocence, and will stand trial on the ground that he knew nothing of the article until it was published. A ROCKFORD dispatch has the follow­ ing : " In the case of Kirton vs. Wood­ ruff, before the Circuit court Saturday, the defendant, E. L. Woodruff, was as­ sessed $780 for striking said David M. Kirton, a Chicago lawyear, and pushing him through H. H. Waldo's plate glass window. Woodruff is one of our lead­ ing lumbermen, a church member, and also a Prohibition alderman ; but, like the rest of humanity, his high office, spiritual and worldly success did not protect him from his passions, and in a fit of anger he hoisted one of Chicago's lawyers through the window of Waldo's bookstore. The lawyer has followed up the case through several courts, until Saturday, when a iury gave him (Kirton) 8780, The whole business has cost Woodruff in the neighborhood of $1,000, and has been an affair deeply regretted by all of our citizens." TBIS is what a Detroit paper has to say about Collector Von Hollen's defal­ cation: "Chicago will, probably, have a good centennial 'blow-out' on the fourth of July. At least it looks so now. The festivities v. ill be conducted by only one of the^ Chicago officials--her city collector--who has appropriated over $100,000 for the purpose of celebrating the centennial in a gorgeous manner. He passed this appropriation wJiile the newspapers, common council, and ex­ citable people of Chicago were engaged in such a hot squabble over their two mayors that they neglected to keep an eye on the city treasury. The Chicago centennial celebration will probably not be held in Chicago itself, but somewhere in Europe, where, if a toast is offered to the city of Chicago, there will be no danger of two mayors rising at once to respond to it." IN the neat railroad suit at Decatur, the people of* Illinois vs. the Toledo, Wabash and Western, a most vital point was decided. The State Commis­ sioners introduced Mr. Priest and Mr. Sawyer to prove what rates they were charged for freights on wheat and flax­ seed, and then showed that these were above their schedule rates. They also introduced attorneys Buckingham and Lake to prove that they were charged over four cents per mile passenger tariff instead of three cents, the schedule rate. The defense then offered to prove, by over a thousand pages of depositions, of the cost of their road for construction, equipping, running expenses, etc., and thus show that their rates were very rea­ sonable ones, to the introduction of all of which the Commissioners' attorneys objected as irrelevant, and the objection was sustained. The depositions being thrown out, there was very little ground left for the defense to stand upon. THERE was a double murder at Johan nesburg, Washington county, one morn­ ing last week, the details of which are set forth in a dispatch as follows: A cooper known as the " Californian,' who had been there but a short time, had a fight with another man, name not given, in which he was worsted. He then armed himself with a revolver, went to a store near by, put the pistol near the head of Fitz Gendeman, shot him dead, then went to his room, and just as some citizens were preparing to arrest him, he appeared, flourishing two revolvers, and threatened to kill any one attempting to arrest him. Constable Wilking advanced to arrest him, and was shot through the brain and killed in­ stantly. A number of afai-m The veil trimming adopted last year will be revived, with changes. The veil will be wound around the crown, and the two ends will hang behind, to bo again brought to the front around tho neck, and knotted there. Striped Alsace cottons or ginghams w-e imported by the yard, and sold for thirty-five or forty cents. They are to ' be made up into polonaise costumes, and i o »»VU MIUU MUO JUIUWU SUA omyr- na, or else with white embroidered muslin frill*. • Low-cut shoes of black kid have " ties •* on the instep that prevent them from be­ ing called slippers. They are ornament­ ed with plain steel buckles, on whioh the word " Centennial" appears, or else they have some small bows of gros grain ribbon or velvet. Rough satin-faced straw bonnets will be worn for traveling by elderly ladies, while young ladies will confine them­ selves to the comfortable round hats with projecting toque brims, or else English walking hats, turned uji on one side only, or upon. both. Leather belts are revived, and their fa­ miliar attachments of chetelaines for fan, vinaigrette and parasol will come into use again with the sensible toilettes of the centennial summer, when adapta­ bility and service are consulted rather than show. The gloves for traveling are of un­ dressed kid, long-wristed, and of darker brown or grayish shades than those chosen for mere dressy wear. The lingerie is a plain linen collar and cuffs, or else ornamented with w'mpla hem­ stitching, or perhaps a bias border of colored percale. The State of Europe, •Don Arturo de Mareoartu, rwwitty a member of the Spanish. Cortes,, has is­ sued an essay in favor of international arbitration, iti which he observes that 4'During the present peace, which tho Emperor of Germany asserts to be aa calm and as lengthened as that whioh Europe enjoyed during the twenty yews which preceded the reconstruction of the Germanic Empire, cultivated and re­ ligious Europe arms smd arrays more than 5,000,000 of soldiers, or as many In number as the whole population of Bel­ gium ; annually expends in war about 300,000,000 of pounds sterling; and if to this we add 850,000,000 of pounds interest upon national debts, chiefly contracted for war purposes, we have an amount of more that 650,000,000 per year, or nearly 2,000,000 a day, as the » sum which Europe in these latter years dedicates to secure her own extermina- tion and destruction. And as it is im- possible to estimate the cost of pauper- * f ism in Europe,, it is well to remember ' that in England and Wales alone £150,- 000,000 have been expecded under that head within the last twenty-five years. The deaths occasioned by the different wars which have occurred during the present century in Europe, Asia, Africa and America exceeded in" number the whole population of London, and it is*" absolutely impossible to calculate the myriads of millions which these wars v cost and have destroyed. And. absorbed as we are in our preparations to resist wars between nations, we never imagine that we are by such a system * exposing ourselves to provoke a social war of classes, and we f orget the exist­ ence of more tluvu five millions of desti­ tute poor who afflict the heart of civil­ ized Europe with their piteous lamenta­ tions--five millions of laborers who ^ deeply fee! the consequences of resolving international conflicts by means of force and enormous war imposts, and who might in their turn determine to attempt the employment ©f force, and in their , brutalized desperation devastate with, ~ the fire-brand of socialism tie achieve- >- ments of many generations." t The Two Websters. When Mr. Webster visited . after he had attained fame enough to precede him, an English gentleman took (tiim one day to see Lord Brougham. \ That eminent Briton received our Dan­ iel with such coolness that he-was glad to get away and back to his rooms. The friend who had taken him at once re­ turned to Lord Brougham in hfeste and anger. " My lord, how could you behave with such unseemly rudeness and discourtesy to so great a lawyer and statesman ? It was insulting to him, and has filled me with mortification." " Why, what on earth have I done, and whom have I been rude to f" " To Daniel Webster, of the Senate of the United States." "Great Jupiter, what a blunder! I thought it was that fellow Webster who made a dictionary and nearly ruined the English language," Then the great Chancellor quickly hunted up the American Senator, and having other tastes in common besides law and politics, they made a royal night of it. -- Editor's Drawer, in Harper's" Magazine for June. A CAXLHOUN (Ky.) man, who lost the power of speech by lying out dors drunk one cold, stormy night, five or six years ago, regained it when his house caught fire, and nearly buriled him up, the other night. WORKING women in France earn but little more than half the wages earned by men.