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JfefJettpy fliialetlw. J. TAX SLXKE, Editor * Pmblbker. IfcHENBT. "1 s : ^ILLINOIS EPITOME OF THE WEEK. '% cinnnrr PARAGRAPHS. i. fiteveral regiments were preparing to leave Portsmouth, Eng., on the 80lh alt, for India. Russia has selected Sophia as the Capital of Bulgaria, instead of Tirnova, the ancient Capital. Sutith, Fleming & Co., London, East India merchants, hare failed, with liabilities aggregating $4,369,500. The Chinese Minister wis formally received by President Hayes, on the 28th alt The ceremony was private. ̂,, ^ The Dime Savings Bank, of Hart­ ford, Conn., failed, on the 30th nit. The amount of its deposits is $493,97$. The Austrian losses since the occu­ pation of Bosnia and Herzegovina aggregate 4,000 men np to the 1st of October. During the month of September, there were thirty failures in New York City. The liabilities were 14,307,072, and the assets $2,- 701,417. The United States Treasury held,* on the 2§th ult., $349,356,050 in United States bonds to secure National Bank circulation, and |13,S5'J,400 to secure public deposits. The base-ball champion season has Closed, with the Boston Club in the lead. The Cincinnati Club is second; Providence, third; Chicago, fourth; Indianapolis, fifth; Milwau­ kee, sixth. _ The Secretary of the United States Treasury received an anonymous communica­ tion from Boston, on the 27th, inclosing $1,500, to be placed to the credit of the "con­ science fond." . A Berlin paper of the 3d says that the late Prof. Petermano, the geographer, did not die from apoplexy, as reported, but that he committed suicide because of domes­ tic troubles. The released Fenian prisoners, Ed- ' ward O'Meagher Condon and Patrick Melody, arrived in New York, on the 29th, on the steamer Moselle. They were warmly received by their compatriots. J. B. Calder, Cashier of the Grocers1 and Producers' Bank of Providence, R. I., has proved to be a defaulter in the sum of about $100,000. The bank has been forced into liquidations consequence. The public-debt statement for Sep­ tember shows a total of debt and interest of $2,311,250,?25. Cash in Treasury, $285,342,- 240. Debt, less cash in Treasury, 12,025,908,- 485. Decrease during September, $3,196,534. The Russian Imperial Commission, tQ investigate alleged frauds in the Commis­ sariat during the late war, has charged 500 Officers of various grades, including forty Colonels, with fraud and misapplication of public moneys. The Greenback rote in Colorado, at the recent election, aggregated about 1,200. "The Republican majority in the State, over the combined Democratic and Greenback vote, will be from 2,500 to 2,S00. The Legislature is largely Republican. The ironclad treasure-coach, running between Deadwood and Cheyenne, was at­ tacked by road agents, on the 26th. Two of the messengers were badly wounded, and one passenger killed, and the treasure box robbed Of about $30,000. Senor Zamacona, the Mexican Min­ ister at Washington, stated, on the 28th nit, that the purpose of his (Government in send­ ing 5,000 troops to the border was to suppress raiding and aid the United States troops in phtting down lawlessness. The Board of Foreign Missions, in' •anion at Milwaukee, on the 3d, elected of­ ficers for the ensuing year as follow^: Mark Hopkins, D. D.,President; WilliamE. Dodge, Vice-President; Nathaniel G. Clark and E. K. Alden, Corresponding Secretaries; Rev. John O. Means, Recording Secretary; Langdon 8. W*rd, Treasurer; Avery Plumhier, Arthur W. Tufts and J. M. Gordon, Auditors; A. C. Thompson, D. D., Alpheus Harding, Ezra Farnsworth, Joseph 8. Ropes, Prof. E. C. Smyth, C.J3. Burns, Elbridge Torrey, E. B. Webb and Rev. Isaac R. Worcester, Pruden­ tial Committee. A mass meeting of Hungarians was held at Pesth, on the 29th, at which resolu- • tions were adopted violently denouncing the Government for the occupation of Bosnia, and demanding the withdrawal of the Austrian Army Early on the morning of the 28th, the steamer Adelphi left her docks 1n Nor- walk, Conn., for New York. When about a mile out her boiler exploded, tearing a hole about twenty feet square in her port side. There were about 200 passengers aboard, of whom ten were killed and twenty more or less injured. A Constantinople telegram of the 80th ult. says a special envoy from the Ameer of Afghanistan had reached that place, charged with the duty of claiming the Sultan's inter­ vention to prevent England from declaring war. There is a crisis in the Hungarian Cabinet, brought about by the opposition to the Bosnian occupation. Von^zell, the Fi­ nance Minister, has announced his intention of resigning. / The pedestrian O'Leary, of Chicago, and Johu Hughes, of Newark, N. J., started oq a six days' walking contest in New York City, on the night of the 29th ult., for $600 and the champion belt. The City Bank of Glasgow, Scotland, with a paid-up capital of £1,000,000, decided, on the evening of the 1st, not to open its doors on the following day. The liabilities are stated to be over $50,000,000. It had about sixty branches scattered throughout the United Kingdom. A Constantinople telegram of the 1st says the Porte had decided to submit the pro» posed new treaty with Russia to the European Powers for approval. A Rome dispatch of the 2d says the Negotiations for a reconciliation between Ger­ many and the Vatican had failed. Advices received from Casablanca, Morocco, on the 2d, report 320 deaths there from cholera, out of a population of 7,000, be- : tween the 17th and 19th of September, and from sixty to seventy deaths, dally, at Fez and Mequinez. A dispatch from Topeka, Kan., on the 2d, says a band of runaway Indians crossed the Kansas Pacific track the day be­ fore, sixty miles east of Hayes City, and, when eight or ten miles north of the station, came upon a lot of cattle-men, when a hand-to- hand fight ensued, resulting in the loss of eighteen citizens killed and five wounded. News was also received at Leavenworth, on the same day, that the troops had had a fight with Indians, in which Lieut. Broderick, of the Twenty-third Infantry, was wounded, and a Corporal and five soldiers werejkilled. The bodies of thirteen settlers killed by In­ dians had been brought to Buffalo Station. Charles E. Courtney, the United Btates champion sculler, was beaten at La- chine, Can., on the 3d, by Hanlan, the Cana­ dian champion, by a half boat's length. Dis­ tance, five miles; time, thirty-six minutes and twenty-two seconds. A courier arrived at Ogallala, Neb., on the 3d, with news from Capt. Mauck's command, and a report that the runaway Cheyenne Indians were last seen on Republi­ can River; that they had killed every white man they had come across on the route, had stolen horses and committed other depreda­ tions. The Indians numbered about 100 well- ramed warriors, and about 150 squaws and children. ® The Nebraska Republicans have nominated Albinus Nance for Governor; E. C. Carus for Lieutenant-Governor; Amos Cobb for Supreme Judge; 8. J. Alexander for Secretary of State; E. K. Valentine for Congressman for the long term, and Col. Tom Majors for the short term; Liedtke for Auditor; G. M. Bartlett for Treasurer; R. Thompson for Superintendent of Public Instruction; J. C. Dilworth for At- torney-General; F. M. Davis for Commission­ er of Public Lands. They resolved, among other things, that the faith of the Nation shall be sacred, and its contracts redeemed in spirit and letter; that the greenback shall not be dishonored; that our money, whether currency or coin, shall be equivalent, convert­ ible, secure and steady. . Dr. Collier, the chemist of the Agri­ cultural Department at Washington, has re­ cently been experimenting on a large scale in the manufacture of crystallized sugar from cornstalks and sorghum. From 11,237 pounds of the former he secured 2,773 pounds of juice, and from 13,958 pounds of the latter, 4,963 pounds of juice. Cornstalk juice to the amount of 2,571 pounds yielded 382 pounds of sirup, and 4,3% pounds of sorghum juice yielded 660 pounds of sirup. This sirup con­ tained 75 per cent, of its weight in sugar. The mill used in these experimentswas an indiffer­ ent one, and the sorghum was in small stalks. With a better mill, Dr. Collier thinks farmers may rely npon results 50 per cent, greater than the above. In these cases he got a good crystallized sugar. Hon. Thomas Harland, Mr. Tildes's attorney in the income-tax case, was arrested on his arrival at Detroit, on the 26th, upon the charge of being privy to the recent lar­ ceny of certain important account books which were being used before a United States Commissioner at Marquette. He was ar- ralgned before a Detroit United State? Com­ missioner on the 27th, and held to bail in the «um of $10,000 to appear Oct. 5 for examina­ tion. #* The Nebraska Democratic State Con­ tention, held at Lincoln, on the 26th, adopted a soft-money platform, and nominated John D. Howe (also on the Greenback ticket) for Supreme Judge; Alex C. Bear for Congress, ' W* ?aVlB (on Greenback tick­ et) for Congress, long term; J. R. Webster Si"* i1**? for Lieutenant-Gov­ ernor; BenJ. Parmerton for Secretary of State; E.H. Benton for Auditor: F. H. Cummin™ tor Treasurer; 8. H. Calhoun (on Greenback Heket) for Attorney-General. ** . Telegraphic- dispatches from India, received in London on the 29th, left little room for hope that the Afghan could be amicably arranged. alarming extent, in the country, and was forc­ ing refugees back to the town as the true place of safety. The cases In Port Gibson numbered, so far, about 600, out of a remain­ ing population of 700; deaths, 116. The epi­ demic in the place had nearly abated, with but few cases and but few to have the fever. The deaths in New Orleans, on the let, numbered fifty-four; cases reported, 231. These figures indicated that the disease was again on the increase. Many cases were re­ ported in which entire families, previously exempt, had been stricken down. Nurses and physicians were being sent to several smaller towns in the State where the fever was prev­ alent. Baton Rouge, La., reported eighty- eight new cases and twenty-two deaths, on the 1st ' There were forty-two deaths in Mem­ phis, on the 2d, and fifty-six in New Orleans. The total deaths from yellow fever in the latter city numbered 2,955; in the former, 2,783. The disease was still spreading rapidly in in­ terior towns in Louisiana and Mississippi, and a great panic existed. Absentees who re­ turned to the infected cities were almost cer­ tain to be attacked by the fever. A Canton (Miss.) dispatch says fhe disease there had taken a fresh impetus, and was more ma­ lignant than it had previously been. Similar reports were received from Baton Rouge and other localities. Aid was much needed at many points. The situation of affairs in the infected districts was unchanged, on the 3d. The fever was still spreading in the smaller towns. There were two deaths at Hickman, Ky., but no new cases, owing to the lack of material for the disease to feed on. The steamer Chambers, loading with supplies at 8t. Louis for the relief of the sufferers at points on the Mississippi River, received her full cargo, on. the 3d. There were on board 150 tons of ice and between 200 and 300 tons of provisions, Toothing and medical stores. The* expedition was in charge of Lieuts. Benner and Hall, with ten assistants and ten or twelve deck­ hands. ' An interesting Legal Decision. Two advertisements of Master's sale were published in' the Dover, N. J., In­ dex. On the day of the sale the de­ fendants protested against it, declaring that the sale was not legal, the notice thereof having been published in a newspaper using a "patent outside." The Master ordered the sale to take place. The defendants filed a petition in chancery to set aside the sale, al­ leging the reasons given above. The petition raised the issue as to whether a newspaper using a " patent outside," printed outside the State, was a news­ paper printed in the State in which legal notices might be legally adver­ tised. The following is a true copy of the decision of Chancellor Runyon and Vice-Chancellor Van Fleet, and very clearly settles the question relative to the legality of such advertising: IN CHANCERY OF NKW JEB8BY. Between "l JULIUS HAIKHOCSB, Petitioner, \ ̂ p<?titioI1 to TH® NATIONAL UNION BANK, |BET A8^E of Dover, N. J.. LffWte. j Upon petition filed in this Court by the above stated petitioner to set wide a sale made in pur­ suance of the commands and directions contained in a certain writ of .fori facias for sale of mort­ gaged premises, lately issued out of this Court, in a certain cause wherein the National Union Bank of Dover, New Jersey, was complainant, and Samuel Coss and others were dependents, because the advertisement of said sale was de­ fective and not in compliance with the statute in such cases made and provided, for certain reasons in said petition alleged and set forth. And upon the matter beins/ opened and argued to the Court by the respective solicitors and counsel of the petitioner's and of the National Union Bank of Dover, New Jersey, and the Court having examined the said petition and the facte therein stipulated to be true, and the exhib­ its of the petitioners, and being fully advised in the premises, it is considered by the Court that the advertisement of said sale was legal, and sufficient, and was both a substantial and literal compliance with the statutory requirement., It is, therefore, on this twentieth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun­ dred and seventy-eight, ordered and directed by his Honor, Theodore ltunyon, Chancellor of New Jersey, that the prayer of said petition be denied and the said petition he dismissed. Respectfully advised. THBOUOBK RUNYON, Chancellor* A* V. VAN FLKET, Vice-Chancellor. k true copy: H. J. LITTLE, Clark. difficulty On the 28th, after five days1 bom­ bardment, the Austrians captured Kinhnir tte last refoge of the Hersegovtnan insur­ gents. ' THE YXLLOW-rKVKR SCOUB6E. A Vicksburg special of. the 27th says the death rate at Greenville, Miss., had been horrible in the extreme Out of a popula­ tion of 400 people, 219 had died up to the 86th, and there were only fifteen persons in the place who had escaped the fever, so far. Mr. Perry's family of eleven persons, and three nurses who were in attendance upon them, all died within a few days of each oth­ er. The deaths occurred so rapidly in that town that it was Impossible to bury the bodies properly, and they had to be covered with earth in shallow noles. To prevent the citi­ zens of the place from seeking safety in flight, the people in the country blockaded the roads and destroyed the bridges over the streams, but this had not prevented the spread of the fever through many portions of the country. John M. Wood worth, Surgeon-Gen­ eral of the United States Marine Hospital Service, issued a circular, on the 30th ult., in which he details the preliminary efforts to se­ cure a Commission to investigate the yellow- fever question--as to the oriirin, etc., of the disease. He states that Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, a noble lady of New York, having offered to contribute sufficient means to meet the expenses of the proposed Commission, he had appointed Prof. 8. M. Bemis, M. D., of New Orleans, Jerome Cochran, M. D., of Mo­ bile, and a third member, whose acceptance had not yet been received, to act as such Commission. Should contributions be sufficient, or Congress so direct, two or three scientific experts will subsequently be attached to the Commission. George W. Riggs, of Riggs & Co., bankers, Washington City, had consented to act as Treasurer to re­ ceive and disburse the additional funds which may be contributed for the expense of the Commission. The Health Officer of Louisville, ky., published a card, on the 1st, stating that np epidemic existed in that city, nor was there aSy reaSon to apprehend any. Absentees need have no fear in returning. There were twelve deaths in Vicks- bu|gon the 1st. The Howard Association of that city had made another appeal for aid, in which they say the fever was spreading with fearful rapidity on the farms through­ out the country. There were fully 800 cases in the county outside of the city, and many of them were bad ones. Several deaths had occurred among them. Large numbers of refugees were returning to the city from the surrounding country, feeling that they could thereby get doctors and nurses which they could not have in the country. The disease seemed to have run its course in the city, chiefly for want of material; but the situa­ tion outside the city was growing worse ev­ ery hour. The cotton remained unpicked In the fields. f • ^'Port Gibson (Miss) telegram of the 1st says the fever was spreading, to an Bnlgarlan Industry. AMONG the Bulgarians woman is the man's equal, his partner, his help­ meet, just as she is in England and the United States. They have adopted from the Servians the best features of the communal system, but not the com­ munal tenure of property which still prevails in parts of Servia. While ev­ ery man's property is his own, the feeling of communal interest is highly developed and finds expression in prac­ tical life. Industry and thrift are their most marked characteristics. Yet, be­ cause they are religious and consci­ entiously keep all the Church days, which number 180 during the year, some travelers have described them as idle. Their frugality almost amounts to a fault. Their skill in handiwork and the mechanic arts and even in en­ gineering has attracted general atten­ tion and even admiration. One speci­ men of engineering work has become famous, ft is the stone bridge over the Jantra at Biela, a structure of un­ usual interest and beauty, even when compared with the best bridges else­ where. It has fifteen circular arches, with hollow piers which are "arched at the top in such a peculiar way that they produce a very light and graceful appearance." It is the work of a self- taught Bulgarian. Herr Kanitz, who is the ultimate authority on all matters relating to this countrv, made the ac­ quaintance of the builder and found him distinguished from his simplest townsmen neither in dress nor manner. --National Repository. A Bogus Princess. A CURIOUS case of swindling has just been tried before the Correctional Trib­ unal of Paris, with the result that an adventuress, who passed herself off as the Princess of Keuss, has, in spite of the able advocacy of M. Lachaud, been sentenced to two years' imprisonment. A few weeks ago, a " lady of distin­ guished appearance, very elegantly at­ tired," fell down, apparently m a faint­ ing fit, at the St. Lazara Railway Ter­ minus, and among the persons who hur­ ried to her assistance was a retired serv­ ant, who had already been struck by the grace of her demeanor. When she came to, he asked permission to assist her to a hotel in the neighborhood, and sent for a doctor, being assured, in re­ turn, that he would have no reason to regret his kindness; "for," added the lady, "lamthe Princess of Keuss and shall not forget your goodness." The Princess went on to explain that she had immense possessions in Germany, which, unfortunately, had been seized by Prince Bismarck, and that the worry to which she was subjected by the suit going on for their recovery, had so af­ fected her that she was often overtaken by fainting-fits. *« But," she added, with touching condescension, "can 1 regret all this, since it has procured me the opportunity of meeting with such disinterested attention?" The re­ tired servant was so completely won by this last phrase, that he begged the Princess to accept the loan of any monoy which she might require for temporary purposes; and it was not very long be­ fore the £400 which he had saved dur­ ing long years of service, had been bor­ rowed from him. After these had gone, and when the Princess still failed to re­ ceive the remittances Bhe was expect­ ing, he awoke to the possibility of his having been defrauded; and the inqui­ ries which were instituted by the Police showed that the Princess or Reuss and a well-known swindler by the name of Perin were one and the same person. Justice has been satisfied by the sen­ tence of two years1 imprisonment; but the retired servant will not, it is to be apprehended, recover his £400.--Pall Mm Gazette. A Desolate City. • TH® Memphis correspondent of the Chicago Tribune writes as follows, un­ der date of Sept. 22: Whether one sits in his house or Wanders about the deserted streets, he sees death in every direction, from Which there is no es­ cape. The epidemic of 1873 was thought to be a visitation of unparalleled magnitude. But those who bore the brunt of that strug­ gle speak of it as a holiday in comparison with the epidemic of 1878. There is only grief apparent everywhere to-day; for those who fled the city when the crisis came, as also those who remained, have lost relatives and friends promiscuo sly. The horn rs of the plague have Invaded the cottages of tbe poor and the palaces of the rich in equal proportion. The poor have not been called to bear the burden alone. Rich men escaped contact with the pestilence by flight, but they left an heritage of infamy more to be dreaded than the narrow hole in the ground which contains all that was left of the victims of disease. One of the daily pa­ pers struck a ^popular chord the other day when it denounced as a curse to Memphis greater than the plague itself those fugitives who have not contributed one dollar in money or one word of sympathy to aid and encourage the men fighting the greatest epidemic in the history of the city. And it is true. One man, whom I hear of daily, is absent at an Eastern watering-place, and from the rents of squares of buildings on Main street contributed an in­ significant sum. This, with the promise that when the Howard Fund reached a certain lim­ ited amount, he would replenish the exchequer with a further donation. REPULSIVE SCENES. Latterly the mortality has been proportion­ ately greater among the colored population th&n with their Caucasian brethren, and in these cases the repulsive scenes which char­ acterized the epidemic when at its heignt are duplicated. During the past week a physician, while on his. rounds, had his attention "attract­ ed to the Gayoso House by evidenres of Hfe within this former celebrated caravansery, and, visiting the premises, found it peopled with nearly a hundred African patients in all stages of disease. Age, sex and condition were commingled together, come in the last stages of dissolution, others manifesting the initiatory symptoms of the disease, and others beyond recovery, without medical attendance or attention, and in a fair way to resolve the establishment into a charnel house. He, of course, reported the condition of affairs at, once, and measures were taken to remedy the^ evils, which, if permitted to continue, would have resulted in a resumption of the plague with all its horrors. Another physician was called to visit a fam­ ily of colored sufferers residing on the out­ skirts of the city. The family was composed of the parents and several children, ranging in age from majority to infancy. They were the poorest of the poor, with nothing to alle­ viate their disease with which all of them were down. He did what he could for the un­ fortunate family, who were penned up In a narrow, close, unventilated apartment, and while making his investigation, discovered that one of the daughters, about twenty years of age, had been dead for several hours, and was fast being resolved into a mass of corrup­ tion, breeding a nuisance insufferable, and filling the entire neighborhood with the seeds of disease. He was the only person present who was free from the prevailing complaint, and was obliged to canvass the neighborhood through a blinding etorm for help to effect a removal of the corpse. After a prolonged and almost fruitless effort, he procured the services of a neighbor, with whose assist­ ance the body was rolled up in a sheet, taken to an outhouse and left until the storm ceased, when a rough grave was prepared and the body interred without a priestly benedic­ tion. LACK OF BURIAL FACILITIES. The difficulty experienced in procuring prompt burial has by no means been remedied, and funerals are kept waiting for craves to be opened. The coffin is removed from the hearse in many instances to enable that mbr» tuary vehicle to fill another appointment, and the relatives, often without a clergyman to perform the sad rites of the burial service, are obliged to wait until the last resting-place of a departed parent, son, daughter, brother, or sister is prepared. The same rule applies in regard to the services of an undertaker. His engagements are so in advauce of his ability to execute them that it is by no means unu- Bual for a body to be kept forty-eight hours before being coffined. Last Thursday a man named McGregor, who possessed some local fame as a Spiritualist and necromancer, died suddenly, and notwithstanding the efforts made in that behalf, lie remained unburied until yesterday, decomposition meanwhile having taken place, and creating a panic if not new cases in the vicinity of bis residence. As heretofore stated, the paupers are buried by the municipal authorities, and no time, by reason of the exigencies of the case, is wasted in getting them out of sight. Many a mournful drama fronj real life Is enacted among the worthy poor, and if ever a history of the epidemic Is written it will be fruitful with touching: reminiscences of the dark days that now hang about the City on the Bluff. One came under my observation yesterday, wh!ch is a fair type of the kird, and its recital to a party of gentleman at the dinner-table of the Peabody brought tears to the eyes of more than one who heard it. A very worthy widow lady, who had been sur­ rounded by comfort, if not luxury, in better days, had her family reduced by the disease to a little daughter, whose turn came when least expected, and. resulting fatally, left the poor mother alone in the world, the sole sur­ vivor of what had until recently been a happy family. Her means were exhausted, and tbe thought of her daughter's being buried as a pauper was too much for her maternal heart to bear. When the child was dead, the grief-stricken parent detailed the condition of her affairs to a rev- eseiHi gentleman, who has been one of the foremost in his labors for the afflicted, and asked if something could not be done to spare her this additional pane. She responded to the demands of her Father in Heaven, she said, in giving her last child to God, but if she was to be laid away by strangers' hand* and fill an unknown pauper's grave, her mother's heart would be broken. The good pastor, appreciating the depth of feeling which prompted this last request, appropri­ ated money for the dead child's burial, and Friday afternoon the innocent was laid away JJB the shade of a tree at Elm wood. --Patience and gentleness are potent and powerful, but they cannot turn a mill wheel nor break up a setting hen. --Cincinnati Breakfast Table. ~ ™" --Who can understand a cornstalk P --Camden Post. - * ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. SAMUEL BBAL, a farmer, living eight miles north of Mount Vernon, met with an the other day, which, it was thought, would cost him his life. He had been digging a well, and, reaching a rock, commenced blasting. After the blast, he descended, and the smoke of the powder which still remained strangled him, so that he called for help. The bucket they were using was lowered, and he was hauled up by means of a windlass to a height of about fourteen feet, when he by some means loosened his grasD and fell to the bot­ tom of the well, striking upon his head and shoulders, fracturing his skull and severely bruising him otherwise. He was immediately rescued, but was found insensible. THE Democrats of the Third District have' nominated Hon. Lambert Tree for Congress. JACOB SPASGLEK was fatally hurt while at Wurk, the other day, in a saw-mill northeast of Danville. A heavy plank broke his breast­ bone. TREASURER BOSS reports that the total amount of the premiums offered at the State Fair at Freeport was about $12,400, and the other expenses about $6,500. The receipts were $14,949.45, which leaves a deficit of $5,000. This will be paid out of the surplus left from last year. ^ THE following la the equalized value of town and city lots, bv counties, as fixed by the State Board of equalization: Adams, $5,029,099; Alexander, $904,029; Bond, $230,- 973; Boone, $740,563; Brown, $324,840; Bu­ reau, $1,073,650; Calhoun, $25,144; Carroll, $431,017; Cass, $616,230; Champaign, $1,948,* 011; Christian, $979,617; Clark, $240,373; Clay, $253,482; Clinton, $368,248; Coles, «922,395; Cook, $115,402,693; Crawford, $158,321; Cum­ berland, $116,503; DeKalb, $149,152; DeWitt, f470,503; Douglas, $421,104; Dupage, $856,- 841; Edgar, 1899,941; Edwards, $171,294; Effingham, $378,217; Fayette, $356,080; Ford, $365,199; Franklin, $37,161 ? Fulton, $1,- 223,704; Gallatin, $226,539; Greene, $632,- 588; Grundy, $512,713; Hamilton, $102,377; Hancock. $986,782; Hardin, $62,771; Hender­ son, $110,279; Henry, $1,209,532; Iroquois, $726,426; Jackson, $387,264; Jasper, $45,038; Jefferson, $169,896; Jersey, $719,510; Jo Daviess, $607,47(5; Johnson, $50,682; Kane, $4,095,916; Kankakee, $591,998; Kendall, $331,312; Knox, $2,524,307; Lake, $823,614; LaSalle, $3,731,992; Lawrence, $114,095; Lee, $1,373,277; Livingston, $937,803; Logan, fl,- 269,992; Macon, $1,864,473 ; Macoupin, $1,077, 550; Madison, $2,845,735; Marion, $647,190; Marshall, $53S,930; Mason. $459,501; Massac, $173,087; McDonough, $1,143,233; McHenry, $917,566; McLean, $3,745,154; Menard, $458,- 410; Mercer, $408,428; Monroe, t258,50fi; Mont­ gomery, $670,824; Morgan, $1,778,226; Moul­ trie, $244,926; Ogle, $898,627; Peoria, $4,125,- 420; Perry, $298,826; Piatt, $380,909; Pike, $683,660; Pope, $114,073; Pulaski, $94,442; Putuam, $121,455; Randolph $684,474; Richland, $391,844; Rock Island, $2,441,458; Saline, $107,671; Sangamon, $8,957,072; SchuylGr, $230,303; Scott, $274,908; Shelbv, $728,691; Stark, $-372,898; St. Clair, $3,421,- 972; Stephenson, $1,227,528; Tazewell, $1,- 518,652; Union, $214,6S4; Vermillion, $1,838,- 127; Wabash, $272,659; Warren, $820,294; Washington, $357,482; Wayne, $137,850; White, $241,922; Whiteside, $1,555,781; Will, $2,501,707; Williamson, $78,179; Winnebago, $2,166,742; Woodford, $621,612. Total, $208,- 812,997. The same body has fixed the valuation of personal property at $169,S23,46S. A FEW afternoons ago, a little two year child of Mrs. Charles Roberts, of Blue Island, upon a pair of scissors, the point pene- ting the brain just above the eye. The hurt was fatal. THE Democrats of the Second District have nominated Miles Kehpe for Congress. DR. L. M. BICKMOKE has been nominated for Congress by the Prohibitionists of the Thirteenth'District. AT the late session of the Southern Illinois Methodist Episcopal Conference, Bishop Mer­ rill announced the following appointments for the ensuing year: " „ Alton District--G. W. Hnghey. P. E.; Alton, F. L Thomson; Brighton and Paradise. J. B. Reynolds: Brighton Circuit, It. T. Kalis; Bun­ ker Hill, W. II. Tyner; Donaldson, H. Delicate; Edwardsville, W. H. Scott; Edwardsville Cir­ cuit, W. H. liruner; Elson, G. W. Farmer; Fi­ delity and Piasa. J. W. Caldwell; Gillespie, R. H. Mastsev: Grafton, J. P. Rutherford; Green Castle. J. H. Hill; Jerseyville, D. W. Phillips; Kane, N. E. Harmon; Litchfield, J. D. Gillham; Litchfield Circuit, H. A. Barton: Shiptnan, G. W. Wagn er; Staunton, L. C. English; Upper Al­ ton, 8. T. Groves; Venice, R. Pence; Van Ba- rensburg to be supplied. Lebanon District--J. W. Locke. P. E.: Bean- coup, Belleville. F. M. Vantrceze; Casey- ville, k. llitter; Carlyle, C. J. Bouts; Clements, Walker; Collinsville. H. Sears; East St. Louis, D. Caughlin; Freeburg, A. Campbell; Green­ ville, J. A. llobinson; Highland, T. A. EatoD; Lebanon, J. Earp; Nashville. L. F. Cullom; Okawville. W. McMorrow; Pocahontas, J. A. Thrapp: Shiloh, S.Brooks; Trenton, W. Van- cleve; Troy, A. Bliss; Waterloo, G. M. Whitsel; WiBetown, C. J. T. Tolle. Mount Carmel District--Joseph Harris. P. BL; Belknap. J. Hobbs, V. C. Evans; Belle City, sup­ ply. W. A. Porter; Hawthorn, J. A. Baird: Bum- sides, C. C. Young; Carini, A. Hoyt; Elizabeth- town, P. S. Hooker: Enfield, J. J. Boyer: Equal­ ity, supply, C.W. Morris; Golconda, J. L. Cun­ ningham and E. Bitueh; Grayville. C. P. Wil­ son; Harrisburg. J. K, Reef; Liberty, L. F. Crow: McLeansbpro, J. B. Thompson; McLeans- boro Circuit, supply, N. Crow; Metropolis, G. W. Scawthorne; Middlefcon, E, Root; Mount Carmel. T. H. Hei dman: New Haven. J. W. Field; New Liberty and Pellonia, N. Bascom; Opdyke, O. B. Rippotoe; Shawneetown, R. H. Manier; Vienna, J. H. McGriff. Mount Vernon District--C. C. Cline, P. E.; Ashley, J. W. Vaccleve; Benton, J. Laird; Cairo, W. T. Whitaker; _<Jarbondaie, A. B. Morrison; Carbondale Circuit, E. B. Glasgow; Chester, M. P. Wilkin; Cobden, H. Doty; Corinth, J. W. Flint; Desoto. E. Treadgold; Duquoin, C. W. Bonner; Jonesboro and Anna, M. House; Marion, A. Ransom; Mound City. K. Joy; Mount Vernon, C. Nash; Mount Vernon Circuit. J.P. Youngling: Murphysboro. A. L. Greenlaw: Pinckneyville, A. B. ltohrbough; Kichview, J. W. Lowe; Sparta, A. B. Nesbit; Spring Garden, supplied; Steelville, Lathrop; Tamaroa, G. W. Wilson; Ullin, J. Maxey; Woodlawn, supplied. Olney District--J. Leeper, P. B.; Albion, C. W. Sabine; Bellair, D. B. 81oat; Bridgeport, E. May; Clay City and Noble, A. Hartley; Fair­ field, J. L. Waller; Fiora. B. It. Pierce; Fair- view. V. D. Lingenfelter; Hebron, J. Carson, supply; Jeffeisonville, W. F. Brown; Louisville, J. D. Keeder; Mount Carmel Circuit, J. Wieden; Mount Erie, C. D. Lingctifelter; Newton. R. M. Carter; Oblong, N. Stauffer; Olney, T. F. Houts; Olney Circuit, J. B. Ravensrroft; Robinson. W. E. Ravt-nscroft; Sumner, Wm. Tilroe; Wake­ field „ It. Mdjaitghlin; Russelville, G. A. Seed; Pleasant Ridge, D. F. Houaer, supply. Vandalia District--W. F. Davis, P. E.; Alte* mont, N. B. Cooksev; Avena, L. A. Harper; Cen­ tralis. W. Wallis; Effingham. J. Gibson; Tarma, P. D. Briggfs; Hagerstown, P. C. Bascom; Irving- ton. 1). Moore; Johnsonville. A. L. Downey; Kinmundv, G. YV. Grahes; Majon. G. \V. Bur lor; Odin and Sandoval, O. M. Bottroff; Pieasant Shobonier, fr. Manifold; Vandaliiw, O. H. Clark; Walnut Hill, L. Casey; Xenia, T. J. Maswy. Battling With a Ball. HENRY GROATHERD is a German, working on the Burhans farm, a short distance above Paterson, in the direc­ tion of Little Falls. On Friday after­ noon he went across a~lot to get a pail of water from a epring at the lower end of the lot. In the lot was a bull, which had always before behaved him­ self in a very creditable manner, and which was regarded as a peaceable beast, so that everybody who wished passed through the lot and paid no at­ tention to the bull. But on Friday aft­ ernoon that bull was in a bad humor. The minute he saw Groatherd he made for him with .lowered head and mis­ chief in his eyes. Groatherd was* trudg­ ing along, all unconscious of the im­ pending crisis behind, and the bull came against him like a battering-ram. Groatherd sailed upward and landed in the grass some distance in advance. When he got up and turned to see what had struck him, the bull was coming at him again at full speed. Groatherd took to his heels, and for a short dis­ tance the race was a close one. <Gro»t- herd made a bee-line for the fence, but the bull, was too fast for him, and, in a minute, Groatherd described another parabola in the air. Groatherd was now half frightened out of his wits,, although not much injured. The bull took a fresh start, and this time he gave Groatherd a worse blow than be­ fore, tossing him headlong, and injur­ ing him quite severely with his horns. - Then Groatherd's spunk was up. and he turned on the defensive, caught the bull by the horns and held him Fast for some time. At last the bull threw him into the grass with considerable force. No less than five times was this repeat­ ed, the man sometimes being tossed in the air, and sometimes hurled heavily to the ground. A negro named Jackson, who worked on the same farm, happened to see the battle, and he got a rail from the fence and came to the rescue, beating the bull over the head until he was com­ pelled to run away. Groatherd was then picked up and carried to his home near by. A surgeon who was called found him to be badly, although not seriously, injured He had received thrusts frotn the bull's horns in both arms and in the breast, while his toack was terribly bruised, and there was hardly a spot on him that was not black and blue. The physician thinks he will recover in a short time, as none of the horn thrusts are deep, and noVi- tal^art seems to have sustained injury. A Remarkable Operation. , ON the 23d of September, 1874, a shocking accident occurr3d to . Miss Lucy A. Osborne, who was at work in a button factory in New Milford. She was stooping down to pick up some work when a dangling tress of her hair was caught by a swiftly whirling shaft, and in a flash her entire scalp was torn off. It was a frightful wound. Not only the scalp was removed but nearly all of the right ear, and a portion of the right cheek. The right eyebrow was also taken and the left drawn up from its place. The strain on the mus­ cles and chords of the forehead almost destroyed her sight. She was sent $o St. Luke's Hospital, in New York, for. treatment, where she remained nearlv four years., She is now at home with her father, Stephen Osborne, New Mil- ford, and although the marks of the terrible accident will always remain, yet surgical skill has done much to modify them. A new scalp has grown upon her head by the grafting thereon of minute bits of skin. This has been a work of several years. The pieces were contributed from the arms of the hospital surgeons. The total number of pieces used in this operation was 12,600. One of the surgeons contribut-' ed from his person 1,202 pieces, and another gave 865. The appearance of the scalp now is similar to that of a healed wQuij/d. Of course there can be no growth of hair thereon. The eyes still present a slightly drawn appearance, but their sight is very good although they will not bear a close application without weariness. The wounds of the cheek and ear have been neatly dressed, the former leaving scarcely a scar. During her stay in the hospital she was visited by many medical men, a number of them being from Europe. In the first of the grafting process bits of skin the size of nickle pieces were employed, but not with good success, and at the suggestion ot an English surgeon much smaller pieces were sub­ stituted, and with excellent results.-- Danbury News. THE London Farmers' Chronicle thinks that we require to protect the feet of our horses something after the manner we protect our own, and one would suppose that the matter of fitting a boot to the foot and leg of the cart horse ought not to be attended with any insuperable difficulty. --The system which cannot bear eus- oussion is doomed.--Disraeli. Wnen you hear your neighbor and his wife "fairly raising the roof," let these- words of the eminent British statesman permeate you.--Courier-Journal. THE MARKETS. NEW YOBK. LIVE STOCK---Cattle Sheep. Hogs. Oct. 4. 1878. 17.26 8.50 & 4.25 FLOUR-^Jood to Choier. WHEAT--No 2 Chicago (New).. CORN--Western Mixed . _ OATS--Western Mixed ^6l/_ RYE--Western -• • PORK--Mess ;... 8.75 LARD-Steam 6.72K CHEEBE. -06 W OOL--Domeetio Fleeoe .29 CHICAGO. BEEVES-Extra W-W Choioa |-25 Good 8.60 Medium'"'. 3.25 - Bute hen' Btoek..... 2.26 Stock Cattle 2.40 HOGS--Live--Good to Choice.. "8.00 SHEEP--Common, to Choioe... 8.00 BUTTER--Fancy Creamery-- JD - Good to Choioe .15 EGGS--Fresh 16 FLOUR--Wis it€ Winter*. 6.00 Fail" to Good do 4.00 Red Winters.... 4.50 Springs .... 4.00 Choice do.... 4.50 Patents dt> 6.00 GBA --Wheat, No. 2Spring.. ,82! Corn, No. 2--; jfij Oats, No.2 ,18' Bye, No. 2 .48: Barley, No. 2 1.11 PORM.---Mew I L&RD. LUMBJ MBER--1st and 2d Clear-- 82.00 8d Clear 28.00 Clear Dressed gid'g- 16.00 Common Biding-- 14,00 Oom'on and Feno'g. 10.00 lath 1J0 A Shingles 2.28 BALTIMORE. CATTLE---Best #4.60 Medium 4.00 HOGS---Good 5.00 BBKEP-Oood EAST LIBERTY. OATHJEE--Best $4.70 Medium 8.25 HOGS--Yorkers 8.50 onrnnn Philadelphia* 4.00 SHEEP--Beat 4.25 *5.12* 4.75 6.00 MQ