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4S ®ht ||Rt$«trg fjlaindtalft 1 J. YAM SLYXE, Txnumam. HoHEHBT, ILLINOIS, • 11. timmm. +iMmmf AGBICULTUBA MD DOMESTIC. Truant Madge. 3fc£ shadows lie sleeping on field >ud h01; The cowaucame home an hoar ago; The bees are hived, and the nests are still; Where can the child be lingering sot Oh, where can the little laggard stay, 86 swift o? foot as she ever has I>»«Q T It la not BO far, by the meadow way, To the lane where the blackberry vines begin. Her mother stands in the doorway there, Shading her eyes from the setting ran, And up and down, with an anxious air, Looks for a trace of the truant one. Hai she wandered on where the swamp flowers blow In the darkling wood and lost her way? Has she slipped in the treacherous bog below ^That hides under mosses green and gay T Nay, timorous mother, spare your fears! Your little maiden is Bafe the while. No marsh bird screams in her startled ears; Nor forest mazes her feet beguile. She iB only standing amid the rye,' There at the end of the clover plain, And pulling a daisy star, to try Whether her love loves back again; And Will bends over the bars beside-- Two heads are better than one, forsooth 1-- Leaning and looking, eager-eyed, To see if daisy tells the truth! --Kate Putnam Osgoode. Around the Farm. FARMERS should not be dependent on the market for the sale of products of their farms. Corn, potatoes, hay, oats, and vegetables can be condensed into other articles which will keep until they will sell. WE are told from time to time that forests hare a wonderful effect upon climate, increasing or decreasing rain falls, but the arguments offered pro and con are founded mainly upon theories. --Moore't Rural. I HATE found out one thing about po­ tatoes that you perhaps don't know, that is, potatoes need thinning to insure a good, early, marketable crop. At the second lioeing you pull out all the tops except from one to four, taking the small and weakly ones, and you will see the benefit of it.--Maine Farmer. UNLESS great care is used, butter is always of different colors before the first working (after salting). Some portions will have little or no salt, and oe of a lighter color, and the dairywoman should work so as to mix these portions with that thoroughly salted, or she will have streaky rolls or tubs of butter. A very little care, when working the second time, will prevent this result.--Praeti* cal Farmer. A FAST-WALKING tea, mthat would 'go over one-quarter more ground in a day, would, in a short time save enough to the farmer to pay the additional cost of such a team over a slow-walking one. Another advantage in fast-walking teams and improved implements is, one can get over the ground oftener, and thus keep the weeds under, when they would otherwise get the start and ruin the crop. THE following recipe for a cement is one of the best'for the farm and house­ hold: Take four parts gum arabic, three parts starch and one part sugar. Reduce to a fine powder and mix well. The powder should be kept in a well-corked bottle, and when required for use mix a little of the powder with water to every ounce of which ten drops of glycerine have been added. APPLES ought to have as sweet an air in their winter home as any other kind of food. They take in, very readily, the musty odors of close, moist cellars, that are little better than vegetable pits; and the difference between a crisp, high- flavored apple, and one that is flabby and poor, is often simply the difference in the storage which they have had. This fruit needs gentle handling, a cool, dry room, just safely above the freezing point, and distance from all rank vege­ tables or unpleasant odors. AN exchange, remarking on the chaf­ ing of the breasts of horses, says : " The common practice of using pads of sheep­ skin under the collar is objectionable, especially in warm weather, because it accumulates heat and makes the breast tender. A better way is to take a piece of thick and smooth leather, cut it just the size of the collar, or a little wider, and let it lie flat on the neck and shoul­ ders of the horse. This will lie still and smooth on the horse's neck, while the collar itself moves about, and so it will 5>revent chafing. In addition to this, et the breasts of working horses be washed off every night with clean water." "THERE is a vast difference," says an exchange, "in the flavor of eggs. Mens fed on clear, sound grain, and kept on a clean grass run, give much finer-flavored eggs than hens that have access to stable and manure heaps, and eat all kinds of filthy food. Hens feeding on fish and onions flavor their eggs accordingly, the same as cows eating onions or cab­ bage, or drinking offensive water, impart a bad taste to the milk and butter. The richer the food the higher the color of the eggs. Wheat and corn give eggs the lest color, while feeding on buck­ wheat makes them colorless, tendering them infit for confectionery purposes." About the House; POTATO CHEESECAKES.--Four ounces, of masLed potatoes, butter, flour, and sugar, aad two eggs ; mix all together with a fcrk, and bake in tins lined with puff past*. To BRUHTEN BLACK KIDS.--You can polish up «ld black kids nicely by put­ ting them •jn your hands and rubbing the surfacewith black iuk, using it more freely on tl$ most faded spots. When dry," they rill look quite bright and fresh. EGGS wrn ANCHOVY SAUCE.--Boil some eggs hrd, cut them in halves, tftkft out the ylk and pound it in a mor­ tar with a iitye anchovy paste; then replace this ii the cup formed by the white of the eg, and garnish the dish with a little watt-cress. To REMOVE IK FROM THE HANDS. -- Rub them with inegar and corn meal. If that does not aiswer, take half a tea­ spoon of oxalic aid in a basin of water and wash your hjjds. But rinse them well, or the poisoqus acid makes them rough. CHEESE PuDDiNG--Grate three ounces of cheese, five oun«s of bread, warm one ounoe of butter in a quarter of a pint of milk, and TTIIT with the above, then add two well-beaten eggs, a little salt, pepper, and mustard ; mix all well together, and bake in a piedisli for half an hour. SOAK' over night one cup of oatmeal in one cup of cold water and a little salt; in the morning, add one cup of sour milk, one tablespoonful of sugar, one teaspoonful of soda, and fine oatmeal enough to make them as stiff as fritters (wheat flour will do to thicken it, but oatmeal is better). This will make two cakes if you wish to bake it like "John­ ny cake --we like it that way. A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Cul­ tivator says: For kitchen and pantry floors there is nothing better than a coat of hard paint; the cracks should be filled with putty before it is applied, and the paint allowed to dry at least two weeks before using. Then it is easily kept clean by washing (not scrubbing) with milk and water ; soap should never be allowed to touch it. Red lead and yellow ocher I prefer for coloring ; the former makes a hard paint that wears well. FRENCH PANCAKES--Half a pint of milk, two ounces of bu iter, two ounces of loaf sugar, two ounces of flour, two eggs. Put milk, butter and sugar into a saucepan to dissolve (not boil), beat eggs and flour together till quite smooth, then add the other ingredients and well mix. Divide this quantity and put it in foUr saucers to bake for twenty minutes; lay two pancake? on a dish, spread pre­ serve over, and cover with the other two pancakes. Serve hot. k«YPT AND ABYSSINIA. Termination of the War -- The Horrors of the Campaign -- An American's Suf­ fering* in the Hands of the Abyssinians. [From the New York Times,] From a private letter from an officer of the Khedive's army in Egypt we take the following: The result of the fighting in Abyssinia between the Egyptian troops and King John's army, the Gov­ ernment at first, it appears, feared to have known--certainly feared to publish the truth, and not without good reason. Perhaps it was a continuation of her tra­ ditional Oriental policy which has worn a rut out of which she can't lift herself, but must sooner or later be jolted. A part of the Egyptian forces met King John's army and gave battle, the fight­ ing continuing three days. At the end of this time King John had lost nearly half his army in killed, wounded and missing; the killed,wounded and missing of Egyptians totalling about the same as the killed and wounded of the opposing forces, which were variously estimated at from 50,000 to 100,000 fighting men. More than this, the day after the last day's fight, King John's army fell back one march and sent in a flag of truce ask­ ing for an armistice. He said he had lost a greqtt many of his people in battle, as he supposed we had also; that he did not wish to see any more blood shed; that he was a friend of the Khedive and wished to live in peace with him. He thought terms of peace could be agreed on if the armistice should be granted. It was granted and fighting ceased. The greater part of the troops have returned, and peace practically has been restored, though some of the details in winding up may not yet have been concluded. ' As it was publicly known and pro­ claimed .to the Abyssinians that their territory was not coveted by Egypt; that the war was made only against King John and his followers, by the powers of whom it had been inaugurated, it is incomprehensible why the general facts --the results of the campaign--could not have been published, and confidence and respect if not credit sustained. To an American it is only necessary to say that the American staff officers connected with the expedition did their duty char- acterisiicaJ ly. Three were wounded, one by whom was captured though afterward released, after suffering some from ill treatment. You may form some idea of his suffer­ ing, the horrors of his dreams night and day, when I tell you that he was severe­ ly wounded in the leg, then captured, stripped to the skin, arms tied behind his back until the pain from the swell­ ing became excruciating, made to walk thus for days without meat or drink, in the un obscured sun of Abyssinia, with the full conviction that if he did not keep up with the horsemen he would be murdered. He was made to sleep with­ out cover (naked) in the mountains, where the nights are so cold that two woolen blankets in addition to the ordi­ nary night-clothing are but comfortable. Then, several days after capture, to see in all directions, prisoners and friends forced by the pricks of spears to flee for their lives, and then barbarously shot down, with the fear every moment that his turn would come next; yea, in the midst of the frightful massacre, to be seized by three or four Abyssinians and hurried to a neighboring hill, where the foul deet'. could be more privately ac­ complished--more in harmony witn the usages of the people ; and, in ascending, to be iialted at a large rock, behind which he thought to say adieu to the earth, and on which two of the guards­ men and executioners sharpened their semi-"rircular-shaped sabers, whose grat­ ing suggested thoughts of such horrible mangling by their scimetars, dull and awkwardly wielded, as to find pleasurable emotions at the sight of an Abyssinian wi'Ji a gun near by, whom he begged to phoot Mm. Every large rock they came to was the same thing repeated, until they got near the summit, when a horse­ man, it is supposed from King John, or­ dered their return, and our friend's es­ cape from a barbarous death. For two weeks he was guarded by boys whom he was obliged to follow, and who delighted in torturing him by threatening motions of mutilation and death. Of the headquarters staff three were killed and eight wounded. Among the wounded are Col. Dye, Maj. Johnson, M. D., and Maj. Wilson, M. D. Dr. Johnson has recovered ; the other two will in time. Let me assure you that if the expedition did not meet with the ex pectations of those persons who thought the subjugation of Abyssinia was intend­ ed, it was not the fault of Americans.. 'TIME AND MY RIGHT." A SHREWD knight of the scissors and needle in New York advertises himself as " The highest-priced tailor in the world." He evidently knows how to catch the snobs and gudgeons. Something Concerning the Bnve Little Principality that has Thrown Down the Gauntlet to a Great Empire. [From the New York Times.] Hie coat of arms of the Princes of Servia is a whit 3 cross on a red field, with a drawn sword between two dates-- 1389-1815--and the legend "Time and my Right." A whole history is in this heraldric device. For nearly five cen­ turies the Servians have upheld the cross on bloody fields against the Turks. Through the middle ages they were the border-guard of Europe. The date "1380" represents the year of the great battle when the free Christian empire of Servia was broken by Amurath and Bajazet, and this brave people was trodden under foot by the Turks. The intervening centuries are long periods of oppression, servitude, and suffering, under a conqueror who never knew the meaning of the word mercy to a Chris­ tian. When we recall that in this long era the best youth of Servia were taken as children to be trained for Moham­ medan slaves or janissaries, and that a Christian mother often beheld her boys carried away by violence to serve the un­ natural vices of Viziers and Pashas and grow up as Mohammedan servants, and that in later years no property or harvest was safe from the rapacity of Turkish tax-gatherers and Governors--that in this long history of tyranny, religion was insulted and all rights trampled on --we may understand the deep and bitter passions which lie back of the present Servian outbreak. The date " 1815" is the year of Servian independ; ence, won by the valor of the people; and, though a nominal tribute has been paid to the Porte, Servia since that year has been a free and self-governing state. Her progress and freedom, the happiness and courage of the peasantry, the ad­ vance of public improvements, are a perpetual model to the subject Sclavonio provinces in their servitude and bar­ barism of what they would be, freed from the tyranny of the Turks. " Time and my right" is the legend which expresses the ambition of the Servian people, as well as of the ruling house. More than four centuries of defeat and disaster have not quenched the passion to be revenged on the Mos­ lem and to restore the " right" of the Servian empire. Before 1389 the Ser­ vian monarchy extended from Belgrade to the Black Sea, from the Danube to the Adriatic, and even over Macedonia and Thessaly. Montenegro is still a cliff from that primitive formation, standing over the later drift of the Mo­ hammedan invasion. Bosnia and Herze­ govina are only fragments of that an­ cient Sclavonic state. The Servians have* waited almost five centuries to avenge Kassowa, to advance the cross again over bloody fields, and to drive the crescent from Europe. It might be thought that a little state like Servia, with only a million and a quarter of inhabitants, could hardly venture to throw down the glove to a;, great empire like Turkey. But it should be remembered that the popula­ tion of this state is particularly warlike, and animated by the most bitter taadi- tional hatred against the Turks. The militia has been trained to arms and is remarkably numerous - for so small a community--numbering, it is stated, some 90,000. The. whole Turkish regu­ lar force in all European Turkey is re­ ported to be only 60,000. Then the territory of Servia and all the surround­ ing provinces has been fought over and over again in the incessant wars with the Ottomans. Every feature has been studied in a stragetio view. So natural are the battle-grounds that his­ tory repeats Rome of the battles, genera­ tion after generation. The Servians and the insurgents know their ground. Then, just outside of Servia is Bulgaria, with a population of some 6,000,000 of kindred race, flaming in insurrection and burning with resentment at the recent cruelties of the Mohammedans. To the west are Bosnia and Herzegovina, the kinsmen of Servia, and holding their own against their former master. Little Montenegro is but auother Servia, and we doubt if any jealousies of the princely houses can keep her brave army from the fray when Servia declares war. In European Turkey are eight or nine millions of Sclavonians; in Austria, close by the scene of war, four millions more of the same race. Still beyond is the great Sclavonic empire, with mil­ lions burning with ardor to aid their Southern brethren in their unequal struggle with the ancient enemy of their faith and race. Despite the inequality, we should be inclined to predict the suc­ cess of the wea&er combatant, if it were not for one peculiarity of the Turkish race. The Turks, in their degeneracy, preserved one of the qualities of a once commanding race, the "staying" power. They do n6t know when they are beaten. And, if put on the last defensive, they may hold their lines of communication with Constantinople and protract the war for years. They have repudiated practically their debt, and can now fight on with all they can wring from an op­ pressed people. The new softa, or devotee faction, ought to liave some­ thing of the ancient fanaticism, and therefore should fight to the end. The European powers will counterbalance one another, and the crescent and the cross fight their own battles on the his­ toric fields of the Danube, as they have so often done before. Open, I dropped her in. He hadn't time to spit heT out, and so he swallow­ ed and I pulled the string. Off went the gun and so help me, I never see anything of bear or pistol since." thus: The Biggest Bear Story. The Reno (Nev.) Gazette repeats it "I've fought 'em standin' and rnnnin', but the toughest citizen I ever lit into was a black 'un. He was sittin, in the chapparal eatin' manzantia ber­ ries, when my dog smelt him and went home. I sneaked up and began agra- vatin' him by shootin' at his ears and feet. I then took around Him, and with three shot cut off his tw.ilT Old Blacky heerd me shootin', and turnin' around see his tail layin' there. He picked it up and looked at the trademark, and I see in a minute that war was comin*. I lit out for a tree,- with only two cart­ ridges left and him a comin'. Well, to make a long story short, I shot twice, hittin' him both times, and he begun to git hot, so he took up the tree after me, I knocked him down three times before my gun broke. He started on the fourth trip, and I didn't know what to do till I thought of my derringer which shot a four-ounce ball. I drew her out, and tied a string to the trigger, and as old Blacky came up with ms mouth wide ILLINOIS ITEMS. CARBOLLTON, Greene county, was in­ corporated in 1833. A STEAMBOAT load of tramps arrived at Peoria the other day. THE new school-houses of Quincy are to be heated by steam. _ BENJ. CTJRBIE, of Lanark, had his right hand blown off by the premature discharge of a cannon at a ratification meeting the other evening. MONDAY last the body of John Burns, formerly a section boss on the Illinois Midland railroad, was discovered hang­ ing in a shed at Decature. No cause is known for his rashness. COLLECTIONS of internal revenue in the Eighth Illinois (Springfield) Dis­ trict for the year endinc June, 30, 1876, amount to 826,933,064^95. This is an increase of $1,092,133.68 over the pre­ vious year. The receipts for the month of June were $177,076.64. THE Board of Railroad Commission­ ers was in session at Springfield the past week. They relieved from duty their Secretary, Mr. F. T. Dubois, ap­ pointing in his place James H. Paddock, of Kankakee, formerly in the Grain In­ spector's office at Chicago. A YOUNG son of Ren Piper, of Peoria, while standing near a cannon's mouth on the Fourth, was so stunned by the ex­ plosion that he was thought to be killed. He recovered slightly, but Max Shearer, who shot the cannon, was lodged in the calaboose to await developments. TENDERS of volunteers for service in the Indian country are still being re­ ceived by the Governor. Several gen­ tlemen in Hamilton county propose to raise a regiment in two days after re­ ceiving authority to do so. Several in­ dividuals have tendered their services, among them one who wants to go as Chaplain. THE people of the village of Equality, Gallatin county, were thrown into a state of excitement on the morning of July 4, by the enactment of a - horrible tragedy, which resulted in the killing of Charles Gillespie by George McHenry. It seems that Gillespie and McHenry had been on friendly terms for some time, and had been on a spree together. In the morning they were drinking, when a controversy arose as to who was the best man. A quar­ rel ensued, and, as the two arose apparently to settle the dispute by physical power, McHenry drew a pistol and discharged it into the body of his assailant, inflicting a wound from which death ensued in a few minutes. Gillejjpie was a tinner, and resided at New Haven, where the family are well re­ spected. McHenry is a journeyman saddler, of rather bad reputation, having frequently-4 engaged in quarrels and riots. Both were single men. McHenry was promptly apprehended by Sheriff Yost and committed to jail at fc?hawnee- town. A very bitter feeling is expressed by the friends of the murdered man, and a mob is anticipated from the country. Responsibility for the Little Horn Mas­ sacre. Gen. Terry, in his official report of the battle that resulted so disastrously to Gen. Custer and his brave comrades, at­ tributes the blame for the disaster to Custer's rash gallantry, and his failure to carry out his part of the plan of oper­ ations. Gen. 'lerry says in his report: While at the mouth of tbe Rosebud I sub­ mitted my plan to Geu. Gibbon and to Gen. •Custer. They approved it heartily. It was that Custer with his whole regiment should move up the Rosebud till he should meet a trail which Reno had discovered a few days be­ fore, but that he should not follow it directly to the Little Big Horn, but that he should send scouts over it and keep his main force further to the south so as to prevent the Indians from slipping in betweeu himself and the mountains. He was also to examine the head waters of Tullocka creek as he passed it and send me word of what he found there. A scout was furnished him for the purpose of crossing the country to me. We calculated it would take Gibbon's column until the 26th to reach the mouth of the Little Big Horn, and that the wide swoop which I had proposed Custer should make would require so much time that Gibbon would be able to co-operate with him in attacking any Indians that might be found on the stream. I asked Custer how long his marches would be. He said they would be at first about thirty miles a day. Measurements were made and calculations based on that rate of progress. 1 talked with him about his strength and at one time suggested that per­ haps it would be better for me to take Gib­ bon'r oavalry and go with him. To this sug­ gestion he replied that he would prefer his own regiment alone as as much could be done with it as with two combined. He expressed the utmost confidence that he had all the force that he could need and I shared his con­ fidence. The plan adopted was the only one which promised to bring the infantry into action, and I desired to make sure of things by getting up every available man. I offered Custer the bat­ tery of Gattling guns, but he declined it, say­ ing that it might embarrass him and that he was strong enough without it. The move­ ments proposed by Gen. Gibbon's column were carried out to the letter, and had the at­ tack been deferred until it came up I cannot doubt that we should have been successful. Tbe Indians had evidently nerved themselves for a stand. I learned from Capt. Benton that on the 22d the cavalry marched twelve miles; on the 23d, 35 miles, from 5 a. m. to 8 p. m.; on the 24th, forty-live miles, ten miles further; then, after resting, but without unsaddling, twenty- three miles to the battle-field. The proposed route was net taken, but as soon as the trail was struck it was followed. I cannot learn that my examination of Tulioca creek was made. I do not tell you this to cast any re­ flection upon Custer, for whatever errors he may have committed he has paid the penalty, and you cannot regret this loss more than J do, but I feel that our plan must have been suc­ cessful had it been carried out, and I desire you to know the facts. In the action itself, so far as I can make out, Custer acted under a misapprehension. He thought, I am confi­ dent, that the Indiana were running, and for fear they might get away he attacked them without'gettiog all his men up and he divided his command so that they were beaten in de­ tail. DR. GEOBOE COOK, of Brigham Hall, a private insane asylum at Canandaigua, visited one of the patients, an old man named Bruson. As he entered the room Bruson sprang at him with an open penknife and inflicted two wounds in the face and neck, from which the doctor soon died. After his death, Bruson asked an attendant, " Have I done my work ?" " Yes, you have killed the doc­ tor," was the answer. Bruson replied, " I am glad of it." FRIUHTFIL CALAMITY. Bow Xw inty-lwo Young Women were Burned to Death at Ayr, Scotland. " The Glasgow News give the following account of the recent burning of the mill at Ayr, Scotland, by which twenty- two young women perished ; " Within the third story of the second block of buildings from Fort street, the ^ fal cnoi*1r waa TU-v.̂ ~-- a* n»M\**vui AW upcmiiVt5S resumed work after breakfast as usual, and all went on smoothly till James Barr, a laborer in the worsted department- was alarmed by a " young lass " (as he' de­ scribes her) exclaiming in a state of ex- oitement that there was a fire in the room. The girl had been worMnsr at a wool-teaser, and soon it was perceived that the wool had taken fire, apparently from friction. Barr immediately called his neighbors who gathered in large num­ bers. Three extincteurs kept in the establishment for emergencies of this kind were produced, and an effort made to subdue the flames, but without effect. No sooner was water poured on one cor­ ner than the fire spread to another, defy­ ing the utmost efforts of all present to keep it within bounds. Some one at an early period called for a sheet with which to " smother " the fire ; but with such alarming rapidity did it spread that any attempt in that direction would have been useless or worse than useless. In a few minutes those who had gathered round the spot where the fire originated were compelled to flee for their lives, leaving portions of their clothing and all they possessed in tlfe mill behind. So far all was right, in respect that no dam­ age resulted to life, but the sequel of the event wuich had just been inaugurated was disastrous and» appalling. In the garret overhead of the room described, James Barr aged 50 years, and father of the man named above, was working with 25 young women under his charge, and there the great loss of life took place, James Barr, it is alleged, on hearing the screams in the flat beneath, and on being informed that there was a fire, made an endeavor to keep the cries of those who were apparently terror-stricken beneath from penetrating his own department and causing greater consternation than was necessary. He then ran downstairs, saw the imminent danger of the whole establishment, rushed up again and gave the alarm, but was too late to effect an escape for himself or others as the staircases were all "ablaze," and the smoke and fire were such as no one could pass through and live. A scene more easily imagined that described followed. The young women rushed to the windows and called for that aid which could not be afforded them. They gesticulated and screamed and sobbed in the presence of death, and implored those outside to save their lives. Meanwhile the fire spread rapidly, the buildings one by one were enveloped, the flames shot high in the air, and before long the spot where the helpless females had been vainly seeking for succor was re­ duced to ruins, and those who occupied it were lost beyond hope of recall. Sev­ eral most painful incidents are reported in connection with this event. The old man Barr was, before the fire obliterated everything, seen* at one of the windows waving his hands apparently calling for rescue, and a large number of the girls were holding by him in the last linger­ ing hope of having their lives spared. One young woman, named Catherine McKinnon, jumped from the height of four stories and fell heavily on the ground beneath. She was taken up insensible, placed on a mattress, and removed to the Avr Hospital. She was alive when the hospital was reached, but expired in a fsw minutes. The poor girl, who was 16 years of age, fell on her forehead. Her skull was fractured, her arm broken, and other injuries sus tarined, so that all the skill which could be brought to bear could not save her life. Auother young girl, named Simp­ son, residing in High street, came to a window screaming. Her sister, who happened to be beneath at the moment, called out, "Jump out, or you'll be killed," and the little girl instantly leaped over. The sister endeavored to catch her, but as the height from which the leap was taken was very great both came into violent contact and were thrown down. The sister escaped un­ hurt, a fact which is marvelous, but the young girl Was a good deal bruised, it is feared seriously so. Her hair was burned with the flame, which just be­ fore her leap was devouring all before it. Those who had found an exit from the works now made the best of their good fortune and ran from danger, while the unfortunate persons left behind were at the mercy of the devouring element. Mothers appeared on the scene in terror, asking for their daughters; brothers and sisters looked everywhere for their relatives, who, alas! could not be saved. It was impossible to say who were and who were not among the unfortunate victims till well on in the evening, when the fire had been subdued. Hoping against hope, parents expected that their children might return at the usual hour, and waited with eager anxiety their ap­ pearance." A Western Fat Boy. A Western fat boy was transferred last Friday from the Erie broad-gauge to a narrow-gauge train of the Lehigh Valley road at Waverly. His name is David Navarre, and he hails from Illinois. He was on his way to the Centennial, where he will be exhibited. His parents, who are both small people, accompanied him. Tliis Western fat boy is 14 years and 6 months old, and weighs 475 pounds. He is 6 feet and 7 inches tall, measures 3 feet and 4 inches across his shoulders, and girts 6 feet and 7 inches around his hips. He occupied the whole aisle as he walked through the car, and it was too warm for any other passenger to sit in a seat with him. A flat car with a spring platform wagon on it would have been the proper equipage for him. He will be a bigger show than the $10,00° ox would have been had he lived to reach Philadelphia.--Binghamton (N. Y.) Republican. " COULD I," said Mrs= Woodhull, the other evening, in Brooklyn, " have the ears of all the mothers, in twenty years there would not be a criminal institution on the face of the earth." But the moth­ ers won't lend their ears. All Sorts* "BRICK " POKE BOY'S wife is going on the stag*. Two HUNDRED AXD THIRTY Hmitfia h&4 a picnic at Niagara. PETEB CUKLEI-, the Barre bank nob. ber, has become a hotel clerk in Cali­ fornia. - A COUNTY Judge in Leeds, England, fin a/I O OE t-- -• •« T ' • „ 1UI BUJIUgf JL J5© lit for honesty--you lawyers don't!" LONG BRANCH hotels keep up "war­ time" prices, which fact is Keeping down the number of " arrivals "fto a marked degree. A WARRANT has been issued in Bead- irig, Pa., for the arrest of "twenty young men who sit on a fence insult ladies going by." DOUBLE-DECKED street oars are to b© used in Boston more generally heretofore, and seated passengers are to be carried in them. THE English War Office reports tllrty- two officers still living who took mrt in the battle of Waterloo. Yet this* battle was fought sixty-one years ago. IN Evansville the police stop every person found *on the streets after 12 o'clock at night, and get a good account of thsm before allowing them to proceed. THE meanest man in Massachusetts lives at New Bedford. The other day he borrowed a dog to go shooting with, and kept him four days without anything to eat. IK accordance with an apt of the last Legislature, Gov. Smith, of Georgia, has leased the State convicts for a term of twenty years, at an annual rate of $'25,000. MOST farmers are willing to drag oat $50 worth of horses and wagons per year, rather than put in a day's work or two fixing up the highway. This is false economy. THE New York Board of Health has issued a few hints regarding sunstroke. The gist of the matter is--dress in light clothing and take the world easy--if you can, if you can't, strike and be blowed. THE minority against the adjournment of the British House of Commons for the Derby day has been increasing so steadily vear after year, that it is doubt­ ful whether it will ever be moved again. LAST week a miner named Mitch fell into a shaft forty-eight feet deep, situ­ ated in Magnolia district in Colorado, but, strange to relate, escaped almost un­ hurt, except a badly-jarred pair of ankles. < AN Arkansas professor says that for 810,000 he will drive the Indians out of the Black Hills in two weeks with bal­ loons and sharpshooters. A Sioux onoe saw a small balloon at a circus in St. Paul, and he fell back dead. TRANSIENT newspapers can be sent by mail at the rate of one cent for three ounces after July 1, instead of one cent for every ounce as heretofore. The new postal law, however, does not reduce the postage on books, circulars, medicines, etc. A CHEYENNE woman started drunk to drive to a village six miles distant, did not recognize the place when die got there, and kept right on until a journey of ninety miles killed the horse, a full supply of whisky having kept her taain fuddled. GEOBOE ELLIOTT, aged 17, at the Sheffield fair in England, ate for dinner a potato pie, a plum pudding, some gin­ gerbread, a rice pudding, fifteen squares of Yorkshire pudding, three basins of soup, beer, lemonade, and water. Then inflammation of tbe stomach killed him, GEN. PIIEASANTON holds that the rea­ son why a man and his wife fall out and chide and fight is because their electrici­ ties have become the same. When the man gets drunk he becomes a woman, and grows quarrelsome over little things. Complimentary, certainly, but so scien­ tific. HE was speaking in behalf of a moet- worthy object, when several people qui­ etly folded up their tents and decamped. The clergyman paused long enough, to say : " We are not going to take up a collection ; don't be in a hurry." No ethers went oat before the close of the service. A NEW almanac contains the following valuable chronological points : Mo. [12.] Mr. Wilkins died 1834. His wife wore half mourning. Moon in «&• * f II. To. [IS.] Very low tide--shoes. Bon in apo­ plexy. Five million years ago to-day base ball was invented. W. [14.] The Bostons will play another elab. Expect hot weather about now. A CORRESPONDENT sends to the New York Evening Post the following epi­ taph, which is written on a tombstone at Sterling Castle, about thirty-one miles northwest of Edinburgh, Scotland : Our life is but a winter day; Some only breakfast and away; Others to dinner stay, Andare full fed. The oldest man but sleeps And goes to bed. Large is bis expense That lingers out the day He that goes soonest Had the least to pay. THERE are now 40,000,000 tons of coal waste lying useless in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania. Specie Exports. According to the last quartely report of the Bureau of Statistics at Washing­ ton, just issued, the amount of gold and silver coin and bullion exported from New York for eleven weeks, ending with June 10, 1876, was $12,779,336, of which sum $7,906,111 was in American gold coin. This indicates a total export of specie for the year of about $60,000,000. With such an enormous annual outflow of the precious metals from this port alone, adding to it the export of $10,- 000,000 or $15,000,000 from San Fran­ cisco, it must be apparent that all the talk about " specie resumption " is the flimsiest sort of humbug. THE Alta California advises the 20,- 000 idle mechanics, clerks, bummers, and lunch fiends of that city to go into the country. "We have but one word of advice to offer this army, and that is this: A great harvest is about to be gathered in this State--the largest ever known--Go ye into the field and labor. A little bronzing will do you no harm, and a little hard work may do you much good, and put you on your feet again;" THE Rev. Newman Hall says that within three years the churches of Great Britain have lost 30,000 members through the vice of intemperance.