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otrg $laindtalcr, J. VA -̂SLYKE, Fubuskkk. oHENRY, ILLINOIS. AFFLTLCULTURAL AND DOMESTIC, Ugkt on the Farm. Vow all clacked home to their fetthsr .bads Are the velvety cliicks of the downy heads, In the old Dutch style with the beds above, " ' All under the wings of a hovering love. With a few chinked in, as plump as wrena, ' Around the edge of the ruffled hens] With noM on the gram the dog keeps With long-drawn breaths in the old fi»™ The cattle stand on the scattered straw, And ocase the swiag of the under jaw. The cat's eye« riiine in the currant bush, Dew on the grass and stars in the huah. tod m.«» »Va 1. - T» -- ~ <***«**• >--&*. 5.1 iigjui.mug«uUg IB swinging hie lamp to the bull-frog*# chug. And the Blender chaps in the greenish tights. "That jingle and trill the sleigh-bells nights. The shapes with the padded feet prowl round, And the crescent moon has run aground. And the inky beetles blot the night And have blundered out the candle light I And everywhere the pillows fair Are printed with heads of tumbled hair. Time walks the house with a clock-tick tread, Without and within the farm's abed! *- Jboond the Farm. So FAB we have observed (both races 'together and in the same neighborh ood, Biore spare honey is obtained from the Common bees than from Italians, and as inany swarms'.--Detroit Tribune. I BATE learned by experience that if you can behead a sheep and let it bleed •nd kick until it is dead, and then hang ifc by the hind legs and skin it, and th n remove the entrails without letting any Of the contents of the bladder get on the meat, you will have good, sweet mut­ ton ; if otherwise, yon will have some­ thing you can't eat.-- Williamette Farmer. A CHBAP garden roller is made of a joint of stovepipe. The ends are stop­ ped by a bit of board cut in a circle, with holes in the center for a half-inch iron rod. The ]ripe is filled with dry sand after one piece is put in and the rod inserted. Then put in the oilier end piece and nail tight. Make a small box to go on top and attach the handle to this box. The roller can thus be weighted as much as is necessary--Ru­ ral Affairs. A CORRESPONDENT of theUtica Herald ••ays that the simple treatment of indi­ gestion in horses consists in feeding on toiled oats and hot bran mashes twice •daily, and giving alterative medicine. Give one of the following powders every evening mixed in a mash. Sulphate of iron, two ounces ; carbonate of soda, one and a half ounces; nitrate of potash, one •dunce. Divide into fourteen powders. ^Moderate exercise and careful grooming are also essential. A CORRESPONDENT of the Ghicago Tri­ bune says : It is not generally known that cisterns can be made without either brick ot stone wherever the earth is suf­ ficiently compact to admit of digging out the soii and leaving a firm bank on which the cement can be spread to the thick­ ness of one or two inches. The cement soon hardens, making a wall as stiff as a etone jug. The top may be covered with plank, with timber support, and then oovex over all with about two feet of earth to keep out the frost. A man-hole through which the cistern may be enter- •ed for cleaning is necessary. JUNE is the best month in the year for pruning, because the wounds made by the saw or knife hardens soon, and the sew wood and bark immediately com­ mence to grow over and cover them. |The pruning of young trees should be care­ fully attended to in order to bxing the head into a desirable shape, and the present month is the right time for the operation. An indiscriminate pruning In June should not be practiced, for large trees are generally covered with fruit at that time, and very few fruit­ growers like to cut off large limbs or branches which are in full bearing. Old trees that have set no fruit may be Severely pruned at this time, crossing branches removed from all trees, and suckers grubbed up. A low growth of branches should be encouraged, not only for shading the trunks from the direct rays of the sun, but also for keeping the fruit near the ground where it can be conveniently gathered. THE farmer who keeps the bulk of his farm in well-managed grass and main­ tains a select stock of dairy cows is gen­ erally in more comfortable circumstances tlian the man who keeps the greater part of his land in tillage. It requires con­ sider able skill to keep up a stock of superior milch cows and to select males that will impress their good qualities on the young stock so that a continual im­ provement will be taking place. In the case of milch cows it is said "that which comes out in the pail must go in at the mouth." It is certain that an abundance of milk of the best quality cannoff be obtained without a plentiful supply of pasturage or forage of the best kind and pure water. The most suc­ cessful dairymen find sowed corn and sugar beet valuable supplements to pas­ ture and hay, at the most critical time. In summer the watering place for stock should be in the wood lot where the shade of trees keeps the water cool, and is also a protection to the gattle from the direct rays of the sun; press out the water, mash, and pass them through a colander; then put them in a saucepan over the fire--salt, pepper, a little powdered sugar, butter, and cream; stir till they are dry, and serve bot. There is very little nutri­ ment in turnips, but in early spring they make a delightful relish. A CORRESPONDENT of the Gerraantown Telegraph says : If the weather is cool we kill and clean a chicken a day or two before usiug ît. Chit up and parboil as usual, without salt or pepper. Then pour off the liquor, add a good lump of butter to the chicken in the saucepan and a little flour, stir until very slightly brown, return the liquor seasoned with pepper and salt, and cook slowly with careful stirring until quite done. We are not heavy handed with salt, as this can be added at the table to suit tastes. IF one portion of vegetables are boiled in pure water, and another in a little water to which salt has been added, a decided diffeimce is perceptible in the taste and odor, and especially in the ten demess of the two portions. * Vegetables boiled in water without salt are vastly inferior in flavor. This inferiority may go so fay in case of onssne that they are almost entirely destitute of odor or taste, though when cooked in salted water they possess, besides the pleasant salt taste, a peculiar sweetness and strong aroma. They also contain more soluble matter than when cooked in pure water. This explains the advantages of an addition of salt to the boiling water. And it is im­ possible to correct, by addition of salt to the vegetables, the want of flavor in such as have been boiled without it. A Rat, < Yesterday morning (says the Burling­ ton Hawkeye) a lady wno lives out in West Hill was moved, by reading the "city lyric" on the subject, to go down into the cellar and see how the moisture was. She did not go down, however, for the water was there before her, and had been there all night, and had driven the rats out to higher ground, like the poor people in Happy Hollow. She nad not mere than opened the door when a great rat sprang between her dress and •pet--oh--ur--oh--skirt, and scrambled up to an kneasy resting-place. The next instant the lady had him in her nervons grasp, holding dress, skirt and rat with a desperate grip, despite the wriggling and squirming of the rodent. And back into the kitchen she went, and the mati­ nee opened. The lady is a good church member, and has never taken a lesson in dancing in her life, but she waltzed across the kitchen, and galloped through tho sitting-room, and polkaed down the hall, and schottisched back to the dining room, and reeled back into the kitchen, where she jigged, and shuffled, and pir- outted, never missing a step, and fur­ nishing her own music all the time, while her sister and three children ran after her, shrieking and wailing for help, under the impression that she had gone mad, and beseeching her to tell what was the matter. She told them at last, when the orchestra was out of breath, and, when she told them, they all shrieked in chorus and ran out of the room, but returned, climbed up on the table, and begged her to turn the rat loose. Perish the thought, she said. In all her wild dance, while striving to quiet her nerves, she had clung to that rat. It had caused her too much fright to escape now. She held on to him, and wasn't going to let go of him till the beadsman was ready. A council of war determined that the best way to kill a rat was to put him in a bag and pound or drown him. The lady ordered the galleries cleared, and then, with many shrieks, and trembling but determined hands, she emptied the rat into the bag that her sister had given her, and called in the family. "When the house was again in session, the rat was chased into a corner of the bag, the lady who had captured it put her foot on the bag to keep him in his place, and her sister, poising the heavy poker over the rat, took good aim, raised the poker high above her head, shut her eyes, and averted her head so that ehe might not see the carnage, and then, summoning all her strength, struck the deadly blow. A loud, piercing scream, that curdled the blood with the intensity of its ago­ ny. and as the executioner opened her eyes she beheld the unfortunate rat­ catcher at the other end of the room, seated on the floor, swaying to and fro, nursing her bruised and beaten foot, while the rat, greatly frightened by the noise, ran out of the bag, jumped on the baby's head and scared it into con­ vulsions, leaped from the baby on to the table, flopped into a crock of butter, scrambled through a pan of milk, jumped off the table on to the window sill, and ran under the house to conceal its emotion. About the House. To STRENGTHEN weak eyes, not sore eyes, bathe several times a day in salt water ; sea water is still better. JELLY-MOLDS should be washed with the white of egg to insure a clear im­ pression. Dipping in hot water spoils the sharpness of outline. DEATH TO ANTS.--One of our corres­ pondents suffers from the incursions of urge black ants, and asks how they may be destroyed. The surest method is to place old bones or a sponge saturated with molasses and water near their haunts, and when the bate is well cov­ ered with ants, plunge it and them into scalding water. CAULIFLOWER. -- Cut in the early morn­ ing, when the dew is on it, trim off the outer leaves, cut the stem away close, • and an hour before it is cooked, put it into cold salt water; then put it into salted boiling water, and beil slowly till " it is tender, which will require from fif­ teen to twenty-five minutes, according to ~-§ize. The moment it is done, drain from the water and serve immediately with melted butter. MAHCTD TURNIPS.--Boil till tender, Bloss' Manuscript. Of the late George M. D. Bloss' curi­ ous manuscript the Cincinnati Enquirer, with which paper he was editorially connected for twenty-four years, says: " The peculiarity of his chirography, which was so often commented upon, was supposed to arise from some pecu­ liar defect of the brain. Although he knew well enough what the characters ought to be, he lacked the ability to transmit to the muscles and nerves of his hand the conception of his mind. He had the pen by the extreme end. His writing was simply a species of hieroglyphics, but he made his charac­ ters always alike, and one could by close study in time learn to decipher them. Many persons suppysed that his bad manuscript was caused by chorea serip- torum or Scrivener's palsy, but this was not the case. His chirography was something wonderful in its illegibility, and there is scarcely a printing-office in the country where there isn't a sample of Bloss hung up somewhere to try the oompositors. A SCALPED MAN'S STORY. Exiles of krin. A rumor reached this oountry a few days ago that all the Fenian prisoners confined in Western Australia had es­ caped in an American whaling ship. According to a prominent Irish-Ameri­ can nationalist who was interviewed by the New York Herald, the rescue of these exiles had been in contemplation for four years, and was probably effected nearly two months ago. The details of the plot he declined t u make public, on the ground that it might jeopordize the saf ety of those who aided in the escape. How It Feels to Have Your Top-knot Torn Oil by the Aid of an Indian's Knife. {From the Kansas City Times.] There arrived her© on Friday even­ ing's Kansas Pacific train a parly of three persons, direct from Dead wood City, the new mining town in the Black Hills. Learning that one of the party had been shot and scalped by Indians, a reporter sought them out, and from Mr. A. P. Woodward, formerly of Bos­ ton, but latterly of Custer, obtained the following interesting facts relating to a recent massacre about seventy miles north of Fort Laramie. Mr. Woodward was accompanied by T. S. Gates, of St, Louis, and Herman Qanzio, of jijywau- kee, tne Vounded and suffering from a wound in the scalp. The scalp in. in fsotj half gone. It has often been said that a man can live after being scalped ; but until last Friday evening no ocular proof had been produced in this city substantiating that fact. Herman Gamzio's head, from the center of the forehead back to the crown of the head, is at present one mass of sores. The hair has been cut away by the surgeons in charge at Fort Laramie, but the pear-shaped patch, made by the scalping*knife is thus made all the more distinct. The poor fellow has ̂ been in hospital since the 13th of April, but his companions have stood manfully by him, and reiterated their intention to see him through to his home. In conversation with the re­ porter, with whom he had been previ­ ously acquainted, Ganmo said, describ­ ing his mishap : " You see we were coming down into the valley of Hut creek, on our way to Fort Laramie, when we thought we saw Indians coming down the creek to the right. Instead of camping there, we thought it safer to water our stock and go on into the hills and make a dry camp in the bushes, if we could not make Running Water creek, where a large camp of freighters was reported. "I had been sent on ahead up the hill, just where the big stone hut stands by the road, and with a boy named Kountze, from Omaha, sat down to wait for the wagons, which were slowly comiqg up out of the valley. When the wagons reached us I started on alone through the rocks and pine bushes to seek a good camp. A few hundred yards further on I looked down a ravine to the right and saw five mounted Indians ride across the valley. I started to go back to the train, when at least a dozen Indians ran at me Out of the brush, and you bet I ran and hollered for help. In a minute more two or three of them shot at me. I felt a sharp, stinging pain in my left leg, and another in my left shoulder, and I fell. Then they were upon me in a minute, and one of them put his knee on my back, while another hit me a clip with a club or a butt of a gun, I don t know which. I had no time to think. All I knew was I was being scalped ; my hair was held tight. I felt a hot, a red- hot, stinging sort of pain all around the top of my head--being torn out by the roots ; it was too much ; I couldn't star) d it; I died--at least I thought I did. But my scalp was saved just as it was being torn off. The boys at the wagons had seen me running ; saw the Indians and came om--thirteen of them--and got up just in time to prevent the red devils fin­ ishing their work. The Indians, as well as my friends, thought I was dead. But I came to again, and my scalp was laid back. It was only half "torn off, as you will see, and is growing again nicely." The poor fellow was taken to Fort Laramie, and received every attention, and as soon as he was able started for his parents' home in Milwaukee. He is the first white man who has felt the "Injun's " hand in his hair this year who has lived to come home and tell how it feels. The Black Hillers spent yester­ day in the city, and last evening con­ tinued their journey eastward. Decline of Pennsylvania's Iron Trade. "Yes, sir, Pennsylvania has lost its iron trade, and we are sorry to say that we think the best days for the trade in this State are over," said one of the leading iron men of the Keystone State. " And I will tell you why we think so," he continued. " Look at that mill across yonder. It is the largest of its kind in America. The Phcsnix Iron Company commenced building it five years ago. It has a greater rolling capacity ftliM.ii any other establishment in the country. They finished it just as the great panic of 1875 struck them. It has never been in full operation, and it is a question whether it ever will. " Note the furnaces that are idle. Go up the Lehigh valley, as I have done lately, and then come down the Susque­ hanna districts, and thence through the Schuylkill valley, and see how many stacks are in blast. Fully two-thirds are cold and bleak as black gnosts, and hun­ dreds of thousands of dollars are invest­ ed and not a cent of income is derived. Around Pittsburgh there are a few mills going, but the margins are so very nar­ row that the mill owner is constantly crowding down the prices of the work- ingmen, and the result is continual strife and discontent. "The truth is, and we might as well acknowledge it now as at any other time, Pennsylvania is played out as an iron commercial Center. It may never again have the great trade it once pos­ sessed. It has shifted, and slowly but gradually the iron business is being di­ vided, and it will not be long before each State will more or less contribute to its own demand.--Phcenixville {Pa.) Cor. New York Sun. Frozen to Death in May. Two Swedes, crossing the Snowy range on foot, left the Summit house, in Berthoud pass, on Sunday, and start­ ed down the west slope. Both carried bundles of blankets and provisions, each pack weighing seventy-five Or eighty pounds. On Tuesday evening one re­ turned to the Summit house. He was snow-blind, frost-bitten, and had barely strength enough to walk. He reported that his companion had frozen to death. Soon after leaving the Summit the storm set in, and they became bewildered, be­ numbed with cold, and lost their way. They threw away their blankets to facili­ tate their movements, the matches with which they were provided, being wefT, refused to ignite. A party of men at Summit went down the trail, or road, and on Wednesday found the dead Swede. The snow was so deep that the removal of the body seemed out of the question then, so they buried it tempo- rwnly under six feet of snow.--Benver {Col.) News, March 27. I» a Den of Rattlesnakes. The stream known as Pine Creek has long borne the reputation of one of the most prolific of trout streams. Durinir the latter part of last week our townsmen Heiwy Morse and Wm. Kimball having received favorable reports of the May fishing-started for their favorite summer £ffc?r a day's fishing they filled then: baskets, and in capital spirits set out for their lunching place. The spot chosen was a ledge of a precipitous bank of rocks, shaded by a giant hem­ pen; free pbout thirty feet above the stream, fend lx>uii3«d nil sides, save the one facing the water arid ft rather DMTOW W&y, Ijw An AVaii rocky wall ten or twelve*feet in height. A sufficient number of trout were soon dressed, the lunch basket was taken fronajte place of security, and a blazing fire kindled tb cook the fish. But as the heat began to increase, a colony of rat­ tlesnakes mew uneasy, and determined to xnvestsgat the cause of their dis­ turbance. - ^imbftjl *at this time had descended xrom their elevated position in quest of some Bordeaux, while Morse was busy cooking the fish. The snakes, several in number, had. crawled meanwhile from their hiding places and were sounding the ominous rattle, familiar to man and beast alike as the certain precursor of danger ahead. But the crakling of twigs in the fire deafened the sound. It mis not until Kimball wes climbing upward that he took in the situation and ap­ prised his brother sportsman of his dagger. The snakes stood coiled, and prepared for an attack. Morse sough* hastily for a way of escape, but the rep­ tiles stood in his path, and, save the deep pool far below him, he was hemmed in on every side by a precipitous wall of rock. His lace blanched with fear, but _ his resolve was soon taken, and, leaving rods, luncheon basket, and well filled creels, he sprang with a bound into the pool thirty feet below. Fortunately, his descent was attended with no more serious results than a thor­ ough drenching, for the water was deep and being an expert swimmer, he found no difficulty in regaining a foothold on the opposite shore, on less dangerous ground. Both Morse and Kimball by this time concluded they had had suffi­ cient experience for one day, and with­ out rods or fish baskets, with the bottle of claret as their only consolation, they lost no time in taking the nearest route for their hotel.--Rochester {N. F.) Ex preM. A London Romance. Like a chapter out of some weird ro­ mance it sounds, the story of Helen Smee and William Kemptou Vance, as it came out upon their trial, concluded on the 2d of June, in the Central Crim­ inal court at London. It appears that the woman had been abandoned by her husband and had been very sick, and had made up her mind, if she became sick again, to commit suicide. To pro­ cure the means of doing this in such a way as that a post-mortem examination would not discover her self-destruction, and that there might not be any scandal about it, she inserted an advertisement in one of the daily papers stating that a professional gentleman engaged in an in­ teresting experiment wanted the assist­ ance of a medical man or student well up in chemistry, whose services would be well paid for. The advertisement attracted the attention of Vance, a chem­ ist, who seems to have been well nigh as poor and woe-begone as Romeo's apothecary; and, after some correspond­ ence, it was agreed that he should be paid £10 for furnishing her a poison such as directed. At this stage the ne­ gotiation was interrupted by one of the letters between Vance and Smee hap­ pening to go to the dead-letter office, where its strange contents excited sus­ picion, and it was turned over to the police. The result was that both were arrested and tried for conspiracy to mur­ der and to commit suicide. On her ar­ rest, Mrs. Smee, with a simple pathos that told volumes of misery, merely said: " I only intended to have the drugs in readiness, as I have been very ill and weak, that I might have used them in case I was ill again. I have been very lonely since my husband left me." But that availed nothing, and, under the English law, both were convicted of conspiracy to compass her suicide, and Vance was sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months, and Mrs. Smee for six months--which, of course, will make her more liable to commit suicide than before. A Desperate Lover* A Maine man, being refused by a wid­ owed lady for whom he worked, and to whom he made an offer of marriage, went into the kitchen, emptied a pail of water on the floor, spread out a red ban­ danna handkerchief on it, tied another around his neck, laid down in the pud­ dle, and uttered a sound half way be tween the notes of a dving swan and a calf with the oolio. 'the lady of the house went to the spot as soon as she could, but when she stepped in the water and in the dim light of the morning saw Tuttle stretched out among the red stuff, she was so terrified with his sanguinary appearance that she went into a swoon, from which she was not restored until three hours had elapsed. Tuttle was ar­ rested and put under bonds to keep the peace--so ended his dream of love. Shotting Down. Hard times and the approach of dry goods prices to "hard-pan" have in­ duced the managers of the Atlantic cot­ ton mills, one of the largest concerns of the kind in Massachusetts, to make arrange­ ments for a cessation of work when the stock on hand id worked up. The nom­ inal net assets of the mills are nearly 32,000,000, but the debts, something more than $800,000, are likely to be troublesome, and unless additional capi­ tal is furnished, may entail sacrifices. The flush times which were enjoyed by manufacturers for a dozen years are not likely to return in a hurry. ALCOHOL, as a stimulant, has been dis­ continued for the last three years by the Wrexham Union Board of Guardians in England. They substituted beef-tea, milk and eggs where pauper inmates needed extra nourishment, and have thus not only saved six shillings annually per head, but the health of the paupers have greatly improved. I EUROPE. The Eastern Q«estlon-Pro«peets of a Sec­ ond Crimean War. ' F1*® the Ghicago Tribune.] & 1®5urope drifting into war? iPteo weeks ago Abdul Aziz, Sultan of Tur­ key, was deposed by a sudden popular revolution, and Mured Effendi, his nephew, ascended the throne of Othman. The news was received in England with Jubilation. It was regarded as in the interests of peace, notwithstanding Eng­ land's refusal to accept the Berlin agree­ ment of the three powers. Under the influence of this feeling Turkish securi­ ties improved, and the English creditors felt easier, while the three great powers that had met at Berlin remained omin­ ously silent. In diplomacy, aa in war, 1 radical changes are made Abdul-Aziz has left a ieg^y to his successor1. Before he is fairly upon his throne, he finds himself sur­ rounded with the preparations for a great war--tho Servians and Bulgarians col­ lecting their armies and hurrying them to the frontier to make common cause with the other Sdaves ; the Black sea swarming with Russian gunboats; the English war vessels steaming across the Mediterranean toward the Bosphorus; Greece placing her little army on a war footing and negotiating a war loan of money. • j The relations between Turkey and the Christian insurgents and between Tur­ key and the three powers now begin to lose interest as compared with the dis­ turbance of the relations between Great Britain and Russia. If the signs are to be trusted, the Eastern question looms up again, and another Crimean war is inevitable, in which England must side with Turkey without the co-operation of France, and with Austria and Italy in active sympathy with Russia. It is to prevent the absorption of Con­ stantinople by Russia, and to seal up the Bosphorus against her, that England is now moving her fleets. Russia, while ostensibly remaining tjuiet and urging a pacific settlement, is m reality engaged m active warfare against Turkey. Servia, Bulgaria and Roumania swarm with her agents, exciting disaffection among the people. The Servian troops, which me now ranged on the frontier, are officered by Russian generals. She holds the Sclavie provinces like hounds at the leash, ready to let them slip at the proper moment. She has already many war vessels in the Black sea„ and has issued orders for the construction of many more. If she can obtain control of the Bosphorus, she will not only have an outlet to the Mediterranean, but she will never again relinquish her hold upon it Once in possession, she threatens Egypt, compels England to hold Alexandria in order to defend the Suez canal, and threatens not only to cut off England's route to Asia, but to endanger her Asiatic possession. Onee in possession of the Bosphorus and locking it up, she holds Asia at her mercy. She will sweep down tne Euphrates to the Persian gulf through Tarkey in Asia. She already holds Toorkistan, and will drive the weak powers--Persia, Cabool and Belod- chistan--before her like chaff before the wind, thus reaching the borders of Hin- dostan and threatening British India. All this hangs upon the possession of Constantinople. The little breeze which began in Herzegovina a year ago has now developed in a tempest, and the dreaded Eastern question is forced upon England again. Diplomacy may once more ward off the conflict; the events of one day may precipitate it. In case it comes, the map of Europe must be re­ constructed. Roumania, Bulgaria, Con­ stantinople, the Bosphorns, all go to Russia; Servia, Bosnia and Montenegro to Austria, forming a colossal Pan- Sclavonic empire; Macedonia and Thes- saly to Greece; Northern Austria to Ger­ many, whose cunning Chancellor sits like a spider in his web, watching the flies buzzing about him. What goes to England ? She will take Egypt, if France will allow it. Meanwhile, the Russians will be between her and India. There may be another Crimean wars but this time England will not have France, Italy and Austria to help her. Did the Sultan Kill Himself. [From the New York Son.] Mankind will be apt to remain in doubt for aoine time whether the deposed Sul­ tan really committed suicide or whether he was assassinated, according to the old Turkish custom which has been illus­ trated even within the present century. It is the official announcement that he committed suicide ; but the fact of its being official does not give assurance of its trustworthiness. The conspirators of the Divan had learned that the news of the strangling of the dethroned sover eign would not be received with satisfac­ tion by the Governments of Europe. The Emperor of Russia had instructed his Ambassador at Constantinople to look after the safety of Abdul Aziz, and Queen Victoria had sent similar instruc­ tions tq the British Ambassador. The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs was so stirred up by the reports sent abroad on the subject, that he telegraphed to the Turkish representatives at all the courts of Europe a hasty denial of the "malevolent rumors concerning the deposed monarch's fate." But it would not be out of keeping with Turkish tra­ dition, if at the time this dispatch was sent out, Abdul Aziz had already been dis­ posed of. The very day after his de­ thronement we received a dispatch, which was immediately contradicted, that he had been suddenly overtaken by death. It willfce hard to penetrate the mysteries of the palace of Tcheragan, in which he has been confined smee his overthrow. . . . . . There is doubt thfltf if HO WBS ftftsfts* sinated, the new Government would de­ ny it, and trust to the concealment of the ^Whatever may have beeii the fact, it is certain that Abdul Aziz must have been almost distracted by the troubles which preceded Ms dethronement; and, therefore, the account of his suicide is not entirely incredible. Not Guilty. There was a pretty sharp tramp tried before a jury in the Recorder's court the other morning. The Recorder asked him if he had any objection to make to the jury, which looked like it might have been a detail from FalstafTs recruits with which he said he was ashamed to march through Coventry. The tramp replied to the question by loUing up his eyes and calling on "the power above" that whenever he objected to a jury like that he hoped his right arm might cleave to the roof of his mouth. The jury pronounced him "llOjl guilty" without leaving their seats.-- Sm fim^onio HeraM. f ILLINOIS ITEMS. PROF WORTHEN, the State geologist of Illinois, has gone to Beaver county, Utah, for the purpose of examining some silver mines out there. "COMPANY halt 1 About face 1 Take your seats! March 1" was one of tike military orders of the Decoration celebration at Elmwood, Til. CHARLES REED, who murdered LaW* renoe, the New York Orphan Asyltdli boV. at MftfamniHi a fa-ar 4avo um Kga in a aav. i u •* v , ---*» ~ n >--rp~i -*** of trouble I declared insane by tne Probate pourt, and will he taken to Jacksonville THE East St. Louis and Carondetet railroad recently filed a resolution in the Secretary of State's office authorizing the- issue of $300,000 seven per cent bonds, which was adopted at the stockholdesir meeting of May 27. ? :£* EDWARD BETRGESS, a EARO«TIFE?R.; 'fit* ployed in the railroad shops at Mount Vernon, was instantly killed Saturday while at work assisting in raising some cars which were off the track, by the breaking of a brake which held them up. 3?HE Western Academy of Homeopa* thy convened at Galesburg last week, ' The attendance was fair, and a numbsr of interesting papers were read, besidas the discussion of topics pertaining to this particular school of medicine. MAYOR BROWN, of Galesburg,. pre­ sented a communication to the Common Council, charging Marshal Fowler with obstructing the execution of the laws of the city. The Marshal has employed legal assistance, and a first-class libel suit will probably grow out of the communi­ cation. JAOK HAVKRLT, a brakeman on the Chicago and Alton railroad, was hit on the back of the head, at Chenoa, by ft stone thrown by one of three persons who were put off a freight train at thsd Slace by the conductor and brakema% [is skull was fractured, and he is in, ft dangerous condition. Loms HA&BERSTAx*r, formerly of Na- Eerville, is under arrest at Hobo-en, N. J., charged with conspiring to set fire to his grocery store in tne latter place for the purpose of getting an in* surance of $4,500 upon the stock. Hjft had taken Ms clerk into his confidence who in turn had told his wife. The contemplation of the crime was too great for the clerk,and hiswife, and they made a olean breast of the plot to the police. ON Wednesday of last week a sale of short horn cattle--a part of the product of James N, Brown A Sons' Grove Park herd--took place at Grove Park, neaif Berlin, Sangamon oounty. About fifty head were sold--the sales aggregating nearly $14,000. Prioes ruled low. The average price paid for cows was 8273, and a trifle less for bulls. The buyert were mostly prominent short horn cattle dealers of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri* and Iowa. ROBT. METERS, of Meredosia, Morgan county, has been arrested on the charge of murdering his wife. Mrs. Mayers was found one morning last week at an early hour, lying at the foot of the cellar steps of their residence in a dying condition,with her body braised and crushed. She died a few momenta after being found. Mayers and Ms wife' had lived unhappily together for years, and the circumstances point strongly to him as the murderer. So says a Jack». sonville dispatch. AT Galesburg, last Saturday after* noon a lire was discovered bursting from the roof of G. W. Barnett's grain warehouse, situated near the Chicago* Burlington and Quincy railroad depot. Before the flames could be extinguished the building, together with two other smaller warehouses, was entirely con­ sumed. The fire originated from ft spark of a passing engine which fell upon the roof of the larger building. Loss, $10,000; insurance, $6,000, in the Home of Hew York, and Phenix and Hartford, of Hartford. Qravediggers51 Strike* There has been a gravouiggois' strike at Liverpool. It seems that the Burial Board lately refused a demand made by their gravediggers for shorter hpurs. This refusal led to the men striking work. Since then violence has been used toward one or two of the new gravediggers engaged to replace the others. There is something alarmi ng in the prospect of a general strike of grave- diggers. Even the warmest advocates of cremation can hardly view without ' anxiety the sudden stoppage of the pies- •' ent mode of sepulture. " A Startled Buffalo. Gen. R. M, Oano, well known throughout Kentucky, has had an ad­ venture. While buffalo-hunting on the Texas frontier, after killing seven fine cows he attacked an old bull. His horse was killed beneath him by the ac­ cidental discharge of his revolver, and' as the animal fell h© was thrown over its head directly' toward the infuriated buf­ falo, who, astonished at the boldness of the charge, turned tail and left the Gen­ eral in possession of the field. IN Connecticut's last year, there were, 466 divorces to 5,385 marriages, with an average of about 360 divorces a year for the last fifteen years, the prevailing cause being " general misconduct;" in view of which figures the Churchman finds satis­ faction in knowing that, "as yet, the Connecticut statutes forbid the 'mar­ riage' of a man and his step-daughter. SEVEN o'clock a. m.--Boy has terrible toothache ; can't go to school. Half past 9 a. m.--A solitary figure may be seen aknUririg through the streets leaduig to the creek; perch and chubs bite. Half-past 6 p. m.--Seene, woodshed ; dramatis person se, the eld man, one trunk strap, one boy. Let's draw the curtain. ONE Ohio editor says of a contempo­ rary Who had assumed the part of a mummy in a dramatic performsBcoi " He was obliged to put a little anima­ tion into himself to come up with, the character,, and to wear more recent linen; but that was about alL Nature had ad- ^ixably qualified him to act the part."