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s'*-;' t i AM . «if5 * . i .3* * £> / If jfe{|eir| pi«ii2etler. # W(MPr. ••iMl it# SPITOME OF THE WEEK. n» oia worn®. ,«il A OORSTANYINOPLE dispatch of the " ' ttja paper* had been discovered at Pera Midhat Pasha, and Jhf JpJMln the recent attempt to re- »*t>lace Mtttad on th* throne. ' ' ! THE Russian Government las :4e» fUNd to abolish jury trials in pqltticsS cases* _ to I *ha invitations to the E*mip«a« Cute- T f' . ffMiBs, to meet, at Berlin, oa wep} dispatched on the 27th. They won Issued by #l»m «*dprince Bismarck. '• " «• >» t a REPORT prevailed, on' the 27&, t«t » fhat Austria had occupied the Island of Ada- •fi iiii hlv jt#leh» whlcl1 Rasste promised to Seryia. t 14 ai.it A Sr. Petsrsbubq telegram of the «i r>t. <" •'•7th says the Russian Imperial Bank was so V ioueoicu iu»i> wits wweSsiMeiit uld Hot W ,v . f*re to continue the publication of the weekly /,i reports. The bank's affairs were in a condi- jn,;d' > '-®on of almost hopeless confusion, $ A DISTURBANCE bccurred' toil the *th, ltf Belgrade, »nd a crowd pelted Pftnce ffilan'a palace and cheered f6r forogeorge- fjttch. i THE Austrians toavo occupied the ihrthera entrance of the Pigdeal Pass of the & H itti • »/*$ iarpathian Mountains. j W. & A. LAYCOCK, timber merchants, f t: ! ^ Yorkshire, Eng., have tidied for #600,000. !? ' •„ THE health of Pope Leo is alid to be THE cholera has appeared at Morar, , - • ' , »India, Of forty-one Europeans attacked, -» **,- ' jjrfrty died. in The London Times of the 28th ad- *»*M s *locates the establishment of a British pro- «*£ • .•ectorate over Turkey in Asia. i -.<& PRINCE Gortschakoff "has so far ( ̂ covered from his iate illness aS to be aUe to ||ave his bed. „ • ,i - A BELGRADE telegram of the 28th pys that Co). Markovitz, a Greek priest, and •Is others, were recently publicly shot at Anjelovatz. * "* EARL RussEll died at his home, near Sbndoa, on the night' of the 28th. He was 4^arly eighty-six years old. 'i ? DURING the first three weeksof tiie jftuls Exposition, 756,400 Admission tickets were sold. A LONDON dispatch of the 29th says , there was considerable uneasiness in diplo- '•atic quarters in consequence of an apparent "1$mV $• "iff *•!« • <U '-•'jfett T. V. ' [-$£.• " . cbanpe in the attitude of Austria. While En- - ^and had agreed to the Congress, Austria was continually making demonstrations un- fhTomble to Russia. She had concentrated fee Fourth Army Corps in Galicia, Eastern ? " Transylvania and Dalmatia, and ordered her < tpn-ciads to the coasts of Albania and Mace­ donia. Strategical points on the road to Her­ zegovina were also being examined and for- m •i*u' THE Sultan has ordered the xekistate- " Tbent of ex-Sultan Murad at the Tcheregaa m falace, atid the release of those engaged in iilhe recent emeute at Constantinople. THE Cretan insurgents have refused 1» amnesty offered them by Ihe Turks, * rough the British Consul, toft hMe- oltaed accept a regular armistice. THE weavers and spinners 'Of Mac- jesfield, Eng., have agreed, unconditionally, return to work at the 10-per-cent. reduction landed by the masters. A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch of the t '" 'Vltbult. says the Mohammedan Insurgents her 80,000, ns'Well aimed and impregna- hly located. -i>.» '** The London Globe of the 30th nit. hn the following as the understanding 5 which has been reached between Russia and Great Britain subject to the decision of the Congress: Bulgaria to be divided into two " Provinces, one north of the Balkans, und6r a mi Xclnce, the other south oi the Balkans, but r. ,, < pot touching the Egean Sea, with a Christian Governor; Turkish troops to permanently '1 quit Bulgaria; England not to oppose the re- •' ' frocession of Bessarabia or the annexation of ' Batoum; the international arrangement rela- \ , '-live to the Danube to be settled by the Con- k ; t«jprcEs;Euesia not to advance her Asian frontier or take indemnity in land or interfere with the < ' 1 'claims of English creditors; the question of * :tedsiQ?iity to be settled by Congress; The&salj, . , |Cpirus and other Greek Provinces to be reor- -Bayajsid to be.cqd£d toamd " 1 jtotour to Persia; the passage of the Darda­ nelles and Bospborus to remain ins&zfci ,7^9. THE German iron-clad Grosser Kur- # :• i v-furst collided with the iron-clad Koenig WB- i, Aelm in the British Channel, three miles from Folkestone, ne&r Dover, Eng., on the morn- * . pig of the 31st ult. The Grosser Hurftuat m" Wank almost immediately, and her boilers ex­ it 1 • vrploded as she went down. ' Petweea: 800 mnA .v.: .;K)0 persons perished. i /. , i A SOME (Italy) telegram of the 31st ̂ Bit. says the Pope was ill in body and dis- Jjjjressed in mind, by the plots and cabals or- ||ani£ed to defeat bis promised reforms, M </.i - iianifested'a desire to abdicate the Papacy. 11 ' Til lEW WORLD. ' The Seventh annual meeting of the ;; "Women's Baptist Missionary Society of the ; i JEorthwest was lately in session at Indianapo- . . , vUe, Ind. Encouraging reports were made _ from the societies in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, f llichigan, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin Minnesota. Mrs. Robert HarriB, of Chi­ sago, was elected President, with one Vice- .H'lPreeident from each State; Mrs. J. A. Bray- °* <^ îcaS°i wa8 chosen Recording Sscre- • 4 ^' ̂ rB* ®acon) of Dundee, 111., Cjorre- eponding Secretary, and Mrs. C. BlackaU, of Chicago, Treasurer. Hon. Clarksok N. POTTER, Chair­ man of the Committee to investigate into the . alleged frauds in the late Presidential election, . - *?a }*tter ̂ » friend ip New York, says the < title to the Presidency rests upon the decision of the Electoral Tribunal, everv- •" one submitting to that determination. "If ^ k Stl(lU - app®r that there was fraud, which probably .fleeted the Electoral vote, ^>mm^®8ion did not notice, -££-- ?ssasdj -«ju8i8 for cor- recting the error, you cannot beUeve that f - such a proceeding under the law would lead -Itf to a disturbance. * * * It is exactly be- cause this is not Mexico, and because the peo- . ,,ple prefer determining questions by legal 'methods, and, if legal methods have not been /WpidrMbdj to invent legal n.ethods of deter- <'4ndalng them, and to submit to the de l^tennfnstton thtis arrived at, that the •;. ^jjjcouiytiy cauaot be Mexicaniaed. Hav- ff^Ing acceDted the Eledfcoral Commission, we Wert hottnd to submit to its results, but we ought at least to be al­ lowed to show, if such was Aha fact, that the returns upon which the Ciwillilnilon passed, were procured by fpHd.H He says he does not beUeve there isap| danger of a dill war growing out of the »w«Wgation. ,M M.-GEN. Key has writtejgt an open letter 16 the people Of the, in which he reproaches the members* of Con­ gress from that section for deserting the Ex­ ecutive, and asks the people to reefi&atf those representatives who have shown such subservience to Northern revolutionists. Mr Kev says the unseating of Mr. Hsyas wMl in­ evitably lead to a bloody civil war, and he £p- tiiSto the and honor of the peo­ ple of his native section to prevent such a catastrophe,, f •, The main features of the Army bill, as it passed the House, on the 2Sth, are as fol­ lows : Fixing the strength ot the armf a 20,- 000 men; reducing the force of various staff departments, and providing for a board to re­ organize these departments; fixing thu num­ ber of Major-Generals at one, and of Briga­ dier-Generals at three; reducing the number and rank of aides-de-camps; redudlng the pay and emoluments of officers; transferring the Indian Bureau to the War Qepsrtment, and prohibiting the employment of troops for civil purposes, unless specially authorised by aet of Congress. ' The Massachusetts Prohibitory State Convention isrto be kdd oa; the 11th of Sep­ tember. . ,,, J,-':! • & • • THE National Greevvbaok Labor Re­ form party of New York will hold a State Convention at Svracuse, on the 23d of July. Or the 30,600 looms in Fall River, Mass., 12,000 were idle on the 23th, and 4,000 operatives out of employment! THE Iowa Democracy mot in State Convention at Cedar Rapids, on the 29th, avid nominated the following ticket: For Secre­ tary of State, T. O. • Walker; Auditor, Col. Eiboeck;, Treasurer, E. D. Fenn; Register of Land Office, T. S. Bardwell; Judge of the. Su­ preme Court, J. C. Knapp; Clerk of the Su­ preme Court, M. V. Gannon; Reporter of the Supreme Court, .7. B. Elliott; Attor- ney-General, John Gibbons. The reso­ lutions favor a tariff for revenue only; denounce the Republican party, its measures and its men as responsible for the financial distress, the misery and the want which now afflict the Nation; deprecate the 'funding of the non-Interest bearing debt, and Insist that the bonded debt be refunded at a rate of interest not exceeding 4 per cent.; favor the equal recognition of gold, silver and United States notes in the discharge of public and private obligations, except where other wise provided by contract, and to that end favor the unconditional repeal of the Resump­ tion act, and the coinage of sliver on equal conditions with gold; oppose any further re­ tirement of United States notes, and favor the substitution of Treasury notes for National Bank bills; declare that a thorough investiga­ tion into the election frauds of 1876 should be made; that it is the duty of the Federal Gov­ ernment to take immediate steps to Improve the great Western rivers; etc., etc. THE Turners of the United States, lately in session at Cleveland, O., adopted a platform In which they demanded the aboli­ tion of the Senate and Executive Department of the Government, and the concentration of power in the hands of the House of Repre­ sentatives ; the establishment of a bureau of • labor statistics; Governmental supervision of laborers; free school; abolition of land grants: taxation of incomesabolition of all monop­ olies; abolition pf direct taxation, etc., etc., etc. GREAT excitement was caused in Cin- icfniiati, on tht 00th ult., by the discovery of the body of Hon. J. Scott Harrison, who was buried the day before in the family vault at North Bend, in the dissecting-rooms of the Ohio Medical College. A son of Mr. Harrison, accompanied by a friend, was in search of an­ other body which had been stolen a few days previous from the same locality, when they came across the corpse of Mr. H. It had not before been known that the body had been stolen. The janitor of the college was ar­ rested. There was great excitement at'North Bend, where the deceased, who was a son of the late President Harrison, resided. The well-known and venerable editor «M»d poet, Wm. Cullen Bryant, fainted and fell down the stone steps as he was about to enter the residence of a friend in New York, on the afternoon of the 39th ult., and was quiet seri­ ously injured. He had on that day been one of the speakers in Central Park, on the occa­ sion of unveiling the bust of ^ came quite fatigued. THE Democrats of Georgia have ijiwiilsmted K. W. Cobb for' Governor, W, W. for Secretary of State and J;*H. Via- ant im Treasurer. ( Chixf-Jcstice Gault, of the Ne- «r**ka <Supr?_L2* Ocrurt, died, a few days ago, at .Nebraska City, of dropsy. THE Pesmsylvania Prohibition State ticket is a follows; For Treasurer, F. H Lane; Lieatenant-Governor, John 8hallcross; Beersstsry of Internal Affairs, Calvin Parsons; Supreme Judge, Daniel Agnew. THE next Republican State- Conven­ tion of Maine is to be held at Portland, on the 1»* of August Senator Blaine has been elect­ ed Chairman of .the £State Committee. THE Rhode Island Senate has unani­ mously passed a resolution declaring the title of Mr. Hayes to the Presidency to have been Eettled beyond all question by the Electoral Commission, and deprecating all' proceedings looking to any question of such title. The House, subsequently, by a vote of 43 to 10, concurred in this action of the Senate. IN a letter to the Washington Post, on the 24>th ult., Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, replies to certain criticisms by Clark- son N. Potter upon his action in opposing the Investigation resolution in the House. He characterizes Mr. Potter's statements in this connection as being untrue, and says he looks upon the whole of the investigation proceed­ ing, "concocted as it was, conducted as it has been, as most unwise, most unfortunate and most mischievous. Its effect will be to dis­ turb the peace, bartnoQy and quiet of the country. Neither Sir. Potter nor anybody else can prevent It." BOTH the Philadelphia Commercial Exchange and the Cincinnati Board of Trad have adopted resolutions declaring against any reduction of the United States Army, but favoring an Increase in its numerical strength and efficiency. AT Mansfield, Ohio, on the 31st ult., Edward Webb suffered the exfreme penalty of the law,'for murder. A large crowd, various­ ly estimated at from 8,000 to 15,000, broke down the JaUlnclosure, and, despite the efforts of the guard and the Sheriff, witnessed the hanging. John Henry Robinson, a colored man, was also hung, at Caroline Court-House, Va., for killing Elim Roy, his sweetheart, and Fred Kobiusoit, also colored, at Groesbeck, Tex., for a felonious assault uppq a wfcite woman, named Mrs. Lena Whatley. THE Potter Investigating Committee 1 held it* tyrst formal meeting, on the 81st alt., and finally decided to ings with open doors, pervisor of West ready to give his examined. Mln poenaedjnd, it country liihnee. signed from the ^ (HI.) had been appoin r proceed- erson, Su- as present was not been sub- tiro to this hftdte- r. Springer l-|. -- f.,.. *.», SENATE.-r-On the 25th, the concur- pent resolution was passed dedsring that the provisoes of the existing WHMrfQr betweeif China and the United 8ta*e«f<aHt*rto£ unre ̂ strictei immigration to this "<9pntry from China, might wisely be modifiefie as to sub­ serve the oest interests of^bothptevernoients, and inviting the attention of tmrSxeCutive to Seeing this the man began to walk more leisurely; reache<ith« spot at last and calmly took in a Carriage. *' mierl is I asked the static-master, pfrogjfeig aq%> iously tomng* the faintesradjba,"1 re^fffeathe in'genni'u^ cattle-deawvlwfth a grin that plainly told the official he had been hoaxea; and the train made a start this time in real good ewnest.- London Cor. San Francisco Chronicle, <f-'i V:i * 'i IIIIKois OEOKOK BUFFI noton, a prisoner in the Jef- f^rson County J all# created c^iiNtorable ex- _ cltement the other afternoon by making a the subject--The House blityMijf$rovidc for | told str|ke foj" liberty. ,11# climbed to a small «fe notices of contdfc under tM-j some twfintv feet </ from the ground, ] romov«d erne of the iron bars, .na,br th«rti ,: of his blaqket* which ho had^ut in lStripe, suc- House.--A bill was reported and^& ferred to apply the proceeds Of the sale of public lands to the education of tha people The Army Appropriation bill wagt^ltpn up in Committee 01 the Whole, and sel^m proposed amendments were disposed of. « ' ' Senate.--A bill was introduced and referred, on the 37th, to repeal the existing «... J.L. u. -jtf 4 •»-_ 1 f«Aco uu capuai auu ucpuoiM* UA Mit68K& auu bankers, and to impose taxes on dfvideiads In excess of 8 per cent--A resolution was agreed to requesting of the PirjIfliTiit ccpics of all correspondence, not alrearagubmitted, and of all memoranda and TaiiMmfe in pos­ session of the Government reWrnig to the selection of Mr. Maurice Del fosse as one of the Commissioners under the Treaty ot Wash­ ington on the Fisheries question....After the further consideration of the bill to provide a permanent form, of government for the Dis­ trict of Columbia, a motion to take up the bill to forbid the further retirement of legal-tender notes was agreed to--28 to 26. House.--Several bills won intro­ duced and referred, among which were the following: To regulate the sale of United States securities; to establish a permanent sinking-fund; to encourage and aid fhe higher education of the colored race in the District of Columbia and In the several States; to es­ tablish a National University at Washington. The Army Appropriation bill was further amended in Committee of the Whole and re­ ported to the House, and a vote on the amend­ ment increasing the limitation of the strength of the army from 80,000 to 25 000 men result­ ed--yeas, 116; nays, 130. Mr. Garfield changed from yea to nay, so that he might move to re­ consider, the vote" then being 117 to 119. Messrs. Garfield and Hewitt rose, simultane­ ously, to move to reconsider, and the latter was recognized by the Speaker, who claimed that the Chair was bound, by all parliamentary practice, to recognize the gentleman iU charge of the bill. A motion to lay on the ta­ ble the motion to reconsider was Anal­ ly carried--121 to 114--thus limiting the strength of the army to 20,000 men. Messrs. Pattet-soQ, Williams (Mich.), Wigginton and all the Texas members, except Reagan, voted* with the Republicans in favor of the amend­ ment increasing the limit to 25.000 men. , Senate.--A bill was reported, on the 28th, from the Committee on Foreign Rela­ tions, providing for the payment of the award made by the Fishery Commission, at Halifax, under the Treaty of Washington; also a con­ current resolution approving of the views and recommendations embracea in the report of the committee on the subject The House bill to forbid the further retirement of legal- tender notes was taken up and passed--31 to 18. House.--The Army Appropriation bill was passed after being amended so as to provide for the transfer of the control of the Indians to the War Department--180 to 115; fixing the number of cavalry regiments at eight, and of Infantry at eighteen; and prohibiting, under penalty of fine and im­ prisonment, the employment of any part of the army as a posse eormtatm, or otherwise, under the pretext or for the purpose of executing the law, except when snch employment" may be expressly authorized by act of Congress--.130 to 117--The conference report oh th«MM to. BBcoownye the growth of timber on Western prairies isrreed to The Senate amend­ ment to the l ill for the repeal of the Bank­ rupt law v i agreed to A favorable report was made on the bill to establish a postal savings depository, and to aid in refunding the interest-bearing indebtedness of the United States. Senate.--A motion was made, on the 29th, and defeated by a tie vote--26 to 26 --to take up the House bill to remove the legal disabilities of women to practice in courts of the United States A bill was in­ troduced and referred to establish a Board to be known as the Pacific Railroad Commis­ sioners The Conference report on the bill relative to the cultivation of timber on the public domain was agreed to, and the bill was pasged--Several amendments to the Legis­ lative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill were agreed to, among them being those restoring the number and compensation of employes of the Senate, and of plerks, mes­ sengers and laborers in the various Executive Departments of the Government, the offices of Assistant Treasurers, the Mints and Assay Offices throughout the country... .Adjourned to the 81st. s House.--The Senate adjournment resolution •was called up, and was amended so Ss to fix the day of final adjournment op the 17th, instead of the 10th, of June, and the resolution, as amended, was adopted... .The Conference report on the Consular and Diplo­ matic Appropriation bill was agreed to.. ..A bill was introduced and referred to secure the most efficient arms for the use of the Regular Army and military--Adjourned to the 31st. Senate.--Bills were passed, on the 81st ult--providing for the appointment of an additional Circuit Judge in the Seventh Judi­ cial Circuit, composed of the States of Indiana and Illinois; the Legislative, Judicial and Ex­ ecutive Appropriation bill, with several amendments....On motion, the concurrent resolution approving of the views of the Com­ mittee on Foreign Relations embraced in the report accompanying the bill providing for the payment of the award made by the Fish­ eries Commission, at Halifax, was -taken up and debated. „ ' House.--Bills were passed--appro­ priating $20,000 to defray the expenses of the Potter Investigating Committee; Senate bill for the relief of settlers on public lands under the Pre-emption laws in reference to the com­ putation of time for perfecting titles Mr. Springer was appointed on the Special Inves­ tigating Committee in place of Mr. Cobb, who resignedon account of ill health. . cesSfOily made hiB exft from the prison. The daring operation was witnessed by a number of interested spectators, who soon gave chase.! THe Sheriff also joined In pursuit, and that officer succeeded in capturing his bird and re­ turning him to his cage. . . <s 1 < . Bkll THOMAS, a negro boy^ abotit nineteen years old, shot and fatally woun3ed Agnes Edwards, a white girl, sixteen years old, at Hodges Park, a station oil the Cairo & St. Louis Railrdad, on the rooming of the 24th, He was subsequently arrested. and taken to Cairo to await c-xamlnatlcn.. A VBRY strange and sad occurrence hap­ pened In Lincoln, on the 24th, to Mr. 0. Smith. Mrs. Smith died very suddenly, hav­ ing been in delicate, health for some time, and when Mr. Smith, who was off working, was apprised of the fact he was struck dumb. Physicians say he is incurable. AT Danville, on the night Of the STth, a couple. of police officers rushed in on John Griffith and Dick Rees while they were .bur­ glarizing the grocery store of Benjamin Palm­ er. When the officers arrived 099 oi •' burglars bad his pistol leveled at Mf. Palter, who is an old gentleman of seventy years, and who slept in the store, but who had wakened up on their gaining an entrance. The timely arrival of the officers probably saved the old gentleman's life, as well as secured the burg­ lars. Rav. Da. GEO. F. SWtmoub has reconsidered his declination of the Bishopric of the Spring­ field Diocese, and announced that he will ac­ cept. His consecration ocenrs in Trinity Church, New York, on St Barnabas Day, June 11. THE following opinion by Hon. & M. Etter, Superintendent of Public Instruction, was made public, on the 30th ult.: SPBINGFIELD, 111., May M, 1878. J. D. Oowall. Esq., Treasurer Town M, fiatige 8: Dkar Sik--Yours of the 17th reached me this morning, and in reply will say: 8chool funds of all kinas are considered as State property, and the Trustees are only the agents of the State, elected to carry out the wishes of the Legislature as expressed in the statutes, and therefore cannot be taxed. The land in quesiion in your Town­ ship became the property of the State as soon as the ow ner deeded it back to the Trustees for school purposes. Hence, it cannot be taxed for any purpose whatever. If this Lind oould be taxed then all notes and mor gages, token for school funds would be taken for taxation, which would be inconsistent, as the State would tax her own property. Trust es are nowhere in the statute given power to levy a tex or appropriate any portion ot the public funds for the payment of taxes therefor. If the property is taxable, the taxes cannot be paid. This opinion is clear ly es­ tablished in the case of the CSty of Chicago vs. The People ex rel. Henry B. Miller, Illinois Su­ preme Court Decision, volume 80 page 3 4. Yours, fafUjy CI Al ii1 1 m» n 8. Ai. Eiteb, Superintendent Public Instruction. . FROM the forthcoming crop report of the State Board of Agriculture the following val­ uable table, showing the amount of com in the producers' hands in the several counties, CO0W?O||. Adams.... Alexander. Bond Boone.... Brown .....LK iaiur 4,370 70 493,95 1,124,6:5 1.184,6 1,484.876 Bureau... 5 721.38D Calhoun...... 4H2.6» Carroll 2,681,366 Cass 8.(08,8# Champaign.. 6,067,646 Christian.......'. 8,410,640 Clark , 1,658.22# IS hat's in a Same* Sbvkral stories are told which ex- hibit the autocratic character of Lord Leitriih, who was murdered, the other day, in Ireland. Here is otie of them. Lord Leitrim ruled matters with such an iron hand that his name alone was sufficient to awe all those who lived round him, and even to cause a railway train to put back into a station it had actually left, as my tale will prove. One day a respectable-looking man, dressed like a cattle-dealer, or some­ thing of that sort, was seen hurrying along the road toward a line of ^railway which passed near the part's house. A train was just uuuui w s 1&11 froiu the station, and, the time being up, the official had given the signal to proceed; the whistle had sounded, and the engine began to move on. Then the stranger, still hurrying, waving his hat, and shouting, called out loudly, " Lord Leitrim! Lord Leitrim!" The Station* master, in a great state of excitement, immediately signaled the train to stop. It pulled up, ami then backed till it was once more level with the platform. Clayr.-.. .... .... Clinton.... Coles Cook Crawford.. Cumberland DeKalb DeWitt Douglas..... DuPage ••• Edgar Edwards Slfkigham...... Fayette-- Ford... Franklin. ... Fulton-- diOlatin ... Greene-. 13.398 990,150 i 8,078.4H0 1,672.'74D; S ,280,088, 4 059,980 2,248,250 1.875.960 1.617.946 3,013,834 897,818 1)72. <35 ' 1,245.118 3,977,792 w,im • 3,640.8» :3.081,177 ;» 4.: tw.' Grundy Hamilton. • Hancock. ... Hardin -- Henderson.. Henry Iroquois .... Jackaoji. -- Jasper JetteiBon.... Jersey --.. JoDavieqs<< Jonnaon -- Kane Kankakee . ........ 1 v,wuw K e n d a l l . . . . . . . 1 1 2 6 6 , 8 « Knox 14938,h0# Lake ' 756,246 LaSalle .... i.A. i WA Lawrence 678 &22 Tee. .."....i.. 3,983,9® Livingston ;r. •;:. rr;. ,99S H 008 Sis. 355.830 2,932,191 mi.aio 7,619 916 SS2.&I2 872, MS 674 434 713,368 s,oao.s& 983.190 1,662.401 6,428 648. Logan Macon. . iU Macoupin Madison Marion.. Marshall Mason Massac ...r....,, MclJonough-........"... McHenry -- McLean Menard-- Mercer /c" Monroci.... ;.... Montgomery.. 4...* Morgan Moultrie.... C.......... Ogle Peoria..... t;. 4,40 i.4«4 4,3 <2 611 2,398,560 2,416,700 1,391,830 8,89,),736 Otl.oH 494 3&J 1 2,»i97 , l®' : 2,1'. 9.39# i 9,:iii:i,0l6 ; 2.183,73* , 4644.496 1,096,830 <, 1.534,141 ' 4 717,944 . 1,559 904 4,645.474 •'pr-r.. ;6. Piatt:1 Pike........ P<-PS..; Puianki--... ...<U Putnam. Randolph.. ......... Richland.........i. Rock Island Saline ..,»...;i'.i'on . v tiuyler.... Scott Shelby •tartt ;.... St. Clair . ...... Stephenson.', i t,*i Tazewell.. Union.. ••.' vernuilion Wabaah 177,4 a 2,877,849 f 3,3<i2.97#, » 1,273 870 657,078 .1.204.JW" 2,269.930 1,067,416 3,242.361 "" 925,f - ! V V! ...U.t VI* "V Washingtou,....... r...». Wayne. White Wintcride Will \ViiHamBon... .f. 1 v'innehatr«».'i i »4..... .*... Woodfwd .....n.. ... To*!.,...:...'.. 2.034,720. 3 843.144 2.730 3« 863.5W 8,752,i'88 £6S,326 fi KU R«l " 174:706 • 726,108 1,384.738 3 681.048 5.7 I.3J0 3 OS* , 4.6W.6gB> -M9.88l.7fi --An .ill-natured editor women all use paint, and he face against it"--Chicago Adwiinr. *•^3 fc: ' 1,748,304 59,274 134 959 213.216 445.462 ' 8,432 828 72.39G 1,072,546 1.819,607' 2,487.734 443.383 579 678 l.rO,142 168.424 923.544 886 370 250,616 358,512 1.420.975 562,062 ' 375,192 #04.488 £01.147 99,454 243.110 ' 124.516 1,869,£62 310.875 • 2,624,112 270.294 1,127.736 2.120.14S G01,61M ©96.757 177,675 293 219 , 8 020,48!) 2,524.401 56 284 200.745 68,932 285,347 666.451 245,797 332,480 1,928.592 481,037 1,185.809 75,624 8,034.496 119 630 1.474,069 6,559,f06 2,200,242 1,083.153 287,827 483,a*0 139.185 , 2^34,453 222,8-4 113,697 809.180 316,404 2,325.76:^ 545,939 , 1,393,330 1(19.683 460,243 707,691 327,579 1,858.189 1,91.0,416 24.837 1,064.804 - 840,741 131518 85,318 700.628 427,099 3(11,095 497.415 283.955 1,227,772 472.11)1 266.861 289,08.; 1,462.460 610.416 1,268,2H? 354,514' 215.887 l,200.66fi 83,748 129,6!̂ 87.1*2 180.017 8.435.998 1,716.3% 89,450 696.217 I 2^04,750 says the ** sets his Tl»« Beoe»l 3Pw»ado« after- damage ._ e loss of s<Wrifffiife8. "^jL'hO"* foS§#iij^ particu­ lars ai^gfven by telegraph:' A lar«e stone brewery and several buOdlnes suraoup4in«: It were demolished. Atthe residence of John Spenselev there was a Jar£e family reunion. Mrs. Waller, mother of John Waller, one of the party, was instant­ ly killed. The rest of the inmates ot the house miraculously escaped with only «light lUj!«e>fafByresidence W .tudsje CoThrm was also struoK by the storm, and his mother, an aged lauy, killed. After wrecking Mr. Spenselev's house, the cyclone lilted the house of Mr. Leonard from its foundation and shivered it to atoms In the Sir, carrying with It Mrs. Leonard, Whose body W»* found Bhnnt. 100 yard*distant, manfrfed Jit a fearful manner. It next carried off the house of John Cole­ man, badly injuring Mr. Coleman, his two daughters and Tip Allen, who were in the house at the time. • Benjamin Bennett's house was totally de­ stroyed, and Mrs. Bennett thrown over In a wood-pile, escaping with but little Injury. The houses of James Prince and William Jaoka were destroyed. At the brewerv of C. Gellman the storm did the great the houses of Mr. Gellman and Mr. Adams, and badly injuring a Miss Zimmer. The brewery building and barn connected tttocer. with were totally demolished, and a number of valuable horses killed. The houses situated iu the summer-fijarden of John Jenck, opposite the brewery building, were destroyed, and Mrs. Myers and Mary Jenck were killed. Mr. Bohan's family, who lived a short distance from the gardens, were dangerously injured, and Mrs. Bohan died about midnight. , , • . The house of Martin O'DoWd was reduced to ruins. Mr. Beardsley's house and bara . were carried seven or eight rods from the. foundations. William Cocking's house was taken, and nothing left but a few pieces of the furniture. A school-house, about two and a half miles east of the city, was carried 0$, with the teach­ er and scholars. Two of the scholars, a broth­ er and sister, were killed and the teacher slightly injured. The teacher, while holding one of the smaller scholars in her arms, was thrown several rods. Most of the children are unhurt. MINERAL Ponrr, Wis., $I*y 26. The storm originated twelve miles south­ west <j? thfe c!fy, doing no considerable dam- age until within one mile of here, when It struck II. Phillips' barn and carried it away, killiug Ave cows. After leaving the Town 01 Mineral Point it divided, and came together again bix miles east of here, in the Town of Waldwick. It swept everything before it. for a distance of twelve miles, where it again di­ vided. Mr. Kramer's place was totally de­ stroyed, and flhe next was Powers'. About fifty houses and barns were destroyed from here to Adamsville. Between this plsee and Darley's store, three miles, sis persons were killed, and the school-house, church and store demolished. Moscow is also in ruin, and foul person* killed. Two families are blown away, and as yet nothing has been heard of them. From there to Perry is eitrht miles, and noth­ ing is left where the tornado struck. Perry is carried away. The damage from hero to Per­ ry is estimated at $100,000, and fifteen lives lost. The Welch settlement, ten miles south­ west, is completely demolished. Several re­ ceived injuries that will pjove fatal, ifclefeared. Siz funerais took place in thit city on yes­ terday. r MADISON, Wis., May 34. The tornado which passed over this place last night proves to have been more widespread and destructive than was thought last night. The storm came from the direction of the southwest, passing through a section of the State where no telegraphic communications are established, hence details of the great de­ struction and loss of life are meagre. Enough has been received, however, to show that the devastation and sacrifice of property and life has been appalling. In the vicinity of Prim­ rose, twenty-five mU$s southwest of this city, from there through Mount Vernon to Paoli, the storm seems to have done widespread dam­ age. From twenty-five to thirty barns ind farm-houses were blown down, some of them uttterly destroyed and the debris carried oft before the mighty avalanche of wind, some of it falling twelve and fifteen miles away, one shutter of a house falling in Lake Mendota, near this city. Some twelve or eighteen persons are known to be killed, and large numbers severely in­ jured. Graphic yet terrible descriptions are fiven of the terrible; effect of the tornado, earns and wagons are reported taken from roads, and carried in the air and dashed to the ground. At Dr. George Fox's, near Oregon, two valuable horses in a pasture were taken up 100 feet in the air, carried fifty rods, and dashed to the earth, killing them instantly. The stdrm came from the direction o£ Mineral Point, where ft wrought such terrible damage, raised from the ground seven or eight miles southwest, of Madison, and again struck the earth near Fort Atkinson, northeast of here. Near Irimrose and Paoli the storm seemed from a half to a mile In width, and swept ev-* cry thing before it, mowing doWn trees, fences, buns, houses and sknhber$ i^ a scythe. „ BAiiRiNoroN, 111., May ^25. The peculiarities of tlia tornado, '.which• swept through this town last Thursday do not seem to be appreciated by any of the cor­ respondents. The formation of the great roll- in£ ekind, which expression fitly describes the tornado, was seen by a witness who explains that it was in reality a joining together of two clouds approaching from opposite direc­ tions,.and that neither one had any danger in it until joined with the other. It seems to have kept almost a uniform height through­ out the whole ef its career; that is, after it struck the home five miles from here. Before that time it had been gradually dropping to­ ward the earth, but after that it maintained substantiallj the same height all the way This is very clear from the fact that in the low places, bogs and marshes through which it parsed it scarcely touched anything, where­ as, when it came to a rise of ground, or a hill of any kind, its force was terrific. The appearance of the country over which it passed is most extraordinary. There is v/hat might be called a furrow about 300 feet, wide, perfectly black, and having not a fixed thing resting in it. That is, the turf was torn up and thrown either out of the track or fop- ward some distance. The fences were taken bodily, excepting here and there a few posts. The hedges were stripped perfectly bare. Most of the trees were torn up by the roots, except in a few cases where they were smalL In these cases the insignificance of the object saved it. The blackness which characterizes rhis swath or furrow of 300 feet is due to the fact that the whole of the soil around about is of black loam after a few inches have beeu cut off. All through the path of the wind, and for as much as & half a mile on each side, the f ronnd is sprinkled with various kinds of ticks and lumber, and, curiously enough--a thing which cannot easily be explained--all these are stuck in the ground and arc ap- right. One can see a fence-board and the timber of a barn standing side by side upright, and to look at a field over which the storm passed gives one the idea that some one has gone over it and driven stakes in It. This ap­ pearance is found from the beginning to the end of the career of . thecloiiui. The Cloud made some curious discriminations which are hard to explain. For Instances at Braun a place it annihilated the house itself, and even went so far as to tear out the stone linings of the cellar. And yet, within fife feet of tnat place; it left the floor of a kitchen and it took one of the beams out of the bara and brought it forward Some 100 feet, throwing it down near where though the barn was some distance further an in the direction that the clond was going. Again, it killed almost every liv­ ing thine with which it came in contact, but made a curious exception of Braun'* horses. It smashed up his hogs, and sheep, and poul­ try, but the horses were comparatively unin­ jured, aad will recover. It la most remarkable to a person living here to see the path p'eked out by the clond from the time it left Elgin until the time It disappeared. Its full force struck but one house, though others were •omewbat affected. And yet lit was almost im- werek l ine through the at, least a dozen [I ingenious man path for such a \ one house, as to the right or have taken at In this vicinity. The Transit of Mercury and "thw l̂ -, ter-Mercarfal Body. THE observations of the Aransit of Mercury across' theT Wn Vhich were ouiHluuwdirtift; VM'RJUM lMHMomical observa|ori^ throughoM|-Jffi|C<>untry entiy found be aheadanfm otEere behind predicted time. ' A large num­ ber of Pwn]]nntr nhntodran}* were however, obtained, "and by the*aid of these and a comparison of the data de­ termined in various localities reliable results will probably be reltfcted. At Naval Observatory, in Washington, Prof. Newcomb found that tie planet came into view twenty seconds ahead of the time predicted hy Leverrier and more than a minute ahead of the Ameri­ can table. '1 he statistics are as fol­ lows: Internal contact at ingress, s from Leverrier\a_taW»*ar4&W. 4ok f&me.; ob­ servation, lQli. 4m. 28aee. Internal contact at egress, from Leverrier's ta­ bles, 5h. 34m. 17sec.; observation. 5h. 33m. 51sec. u » The object of observing the transit of Mercury is altogether different from that soijght in observing the transit of Venus. In the latter case' the aixp was to determine the sun's distance from the parallax, and to this end the ob­ servations were made from localities on the earth's surface where the latter was greatest. Mercury is situated at a much greater distance ^from the earth than Venus, and its orbit is smaller, while it is so difficult of- observation that the position of its orbit, is very im­ perfectly known, a fact indicated by the difference above noted between Lever- rier's and the American tables. Now, if accurate data relative to this orbit can be obtained, in such lies the deter­ mination of the question of the exist­ ence of the alleged Vulcan or fnter- Mercurial planet. It will be remem­ bered that, by observing the perturba­ tions of Uranus, Leverrier reached the conclusion that the same could not be produced save by the influence of some undiscovered planet, and assum­ ing the existence of this body he calcu­ lated its position) and on poiptihg his telescope to the point in the heavens where nis calculations led him to be­ lieve it would be found he made the magnificent discovery of Neptune. Reasoning analogous to this induced him always to believe in the existence of some, body which causes the pertur- bationsi of Mercury. He fo und tnat the perihelion of that pianet advances much more rapidly than can be ac­ counted for by any definitely known disturbing cause. In other words, as the planet sweeps arolind the sun ih its nearly circular path and reaches the point nearest the sun (the latter being eccentrically placed as regards th$ or­ bit), it advances about 246 miles; or one-thirteenth of its diameter, at each recurring revolution. As the planet approaches its aphelion the effect of a large motion of the perihelion would be to cause the planet to be further ad­ vanced in its orbit, and hence the time of transit would be hastened, and this would point to the existence, or rather tend to confirm Leverrier's hypothesis, of some unknown attracting matted ex­ erting an influence. That this result has been realized by the observations of Prof. Newconjb is evident from the foregoing figures, 'and the same appears to be true from most of the uncorrected data telegraphed by other observers throughout the country to the daily journals. Of course, admitting the probable presence of an undiscovered attracting body to be substantiated, it by no means follows that that body may be the imaginary Vulcan. It may simply be an aggregation of riieteoric i^Mfes. or matter existing in the corona and protuberances of the sun itself. The observations. Of the total solar eclipse of July 29 next will perhaps shea some light on this last possibility, and may even bo the means of reveal­ ing Vulcan, if it exists, a$ ope of, pur correspondents, who has made uiat supposititious planet the object of much study, published the fact some time ago that Vulcan ought to be quite near the sun at the time mentioned. Meantime, in order to know exactly how far "the results of the recent observations tend to substantiate $he conclusion indicated, it will be necessary, to wail until the astronomers at the different observa- *torie»mafce their cosMparisoni and fRal corrections; which will probaoly iccfjpy considtefablV tfih'e.--'Scientific Ameri­ can. --Not a case of small-pox has been reported * in^oston foi eleVen iponfts. THE MARKETS* NEW YORK. May SI. 187& 98.60 @$10.60 &£0 <& 6.00 3.60 @ 3.60 4.66 5.75 •141X© L12 H I S r I 6.70 ® 6.75 1 .07* & 48 LIVE STOCK--Cattle- J0-") S h e e p . / Hogs FLOUR-- to ('hoice. 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