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*llw,,ww' J, VAX 8LYKK, Ellttri PvUUMMT. HcHENET. : : ILLINOIS EPITOME OF THE WEEK. CtTMUDl* MKAeRAM*. e Emperor of Austria has accept- tbe resignation of the Hungarian Cabinet. <Jen. Sherman arrived in Washings tea, on the 7th, from his extended Western «!>• ' , ' Potter, Wilson & Co., shipowners and Colonial merchants, of Glasgow* Scot­ land, have failed for *3,000,000. t-. Germany has notified the Porte that Us recent note in relation to the Austrian oc­ cupation of Bosnia was offensive to all the Powers. The Russian evacuation of Turkey has been stopped for the present in conse­ quence of the murder of Christians in the^uh .During the celebration of the mass. 4a>I ir • U m .k 1- \T««, ir^-i, ™ Wets evacuated. Pirates made their appearance in the Persian Gulf, and the British Minister has asked permission from the Forte to send a man-of-war to operate against them. Twenty-three stone houses, thirty-one wooden ones and seventy warehouses, the whole valued at 2,000,000 roubles, were burned at lUazin, near Moscow, on the 10th. The United States Treasury held, on the 6th, $349,533,150 in Government bonds to secure National Bank circulation, and #16,858,400 to secure public deposits. The New York State' Democratic . Committee met, on the 7th, and elected Wm. Purcell, of Rochester, Chairman. The candi- t of the Tilden men was Gen. Fa&lkner. Field-Marshal Count Von Moltke, the COmmander-in-Chief of the German Armies, bac tendered his resignation, upon the ground Of extreme age and rapidly-increasing infirm- The German Socialist journals advise .their followers, in the event that the Anti-So- cialist bill, now pending before the German Parliament, passes, to emigrate to the United i or Asia Minor. Gen. D: D. Colton, Vioe-President of the Southern Pacific Railroad and President Of the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, died recently, at San Francisco. He loaves a very large estate. Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, of Mexican War notoriety and Brigadier-General in the Confederate service, died at his place at the liiouth of the St Francis River, in Arkansas, on the 8th, of congestion of the li^Jrr-r Gen. Banks failed to secure a renom- nation for Congress in his (the Fifth Massar chusetts) District, at the recent District Re­ publican Convention. The fifteenth ballot re­ sulted in fifty-one votes for Selwyn "Z. Bow­ man and fifty for Gen. Banks. The house of John Conquest, about two miles south of Clio, Mich., was burned, a few days ago, and the charred remains of Conquest, his wife and child were subsequent­ ly found in the ruins. It was thought they Were murdered and then the house set on fire. the English project for reform in Asia Minor Without important modifications. A Yankton (D. T.) dispatch of the 4th says the Red Cloud Indians, numbering over 6,000, then in camp on Pass Creek, were very much disaffected, and had abandoned their agency on the Missouri River. They had become tired of waiting for the pro uised per­ mission of the Commissioner to move to White Clay. They had been joined by many of Spot­ ted Tail's renegades and it was thought the runaway Cheyennes from the South intended to join them. Dr. James Irwin, the Agent for the Red Cloud Indians, was on his way to Washington, having received the promise of the Indians that, if he would lay their case before the President, they would await events, without making any further move, until they should learn the result of his mission. According to Bombay (India) tel­ egrams of the 6th, tribes containing 150,000 fighting men had joined the Ameer of Af­ ghanistan in hostile movements against the British. Tribes numbering 50,000 warriors were neutral. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 6th •ays Russia had threatened to occupy Turkis- tan if Great Britain occupied Afghanistan. • On the Chicago Jockey Club Race­ course, on the 10th, Rarus (to wagon), Hope­ ful (in harness) and Great Eastern (under saddle) trotted a race in which Hopeful Won the three straight heats, Rarus being second. The time was 2:17 and 2:10. Rarus' time was 2:1S>£, 2:IS and 2:17. The State Department at Washington .has received intelligence of a serious insurrec- Wdto In' the Danish Island of Santa Cruz, in the West Indies, and have sent war vessels there to protect American residents. It waa reported, on the 4th, that the mob had cap- tared and burned the Town of Fredericksted. The Chicago papers of a recent date chronicle the death, in that city, of Gen. Sher­ idan's noted war horse "Winchester." The horse was given to the General in 1862, by Col. Campbell, and was then three and a half years old. He was ridden by the General during the war, and took his name from the famous ride to Winchester. , The walking match in New York (Sty, between the champion O'Leary and ifohn Hughes, of New Jersey, terminated on the 5th, in an easy victory for the former, who did not find it .nelcessary to come up to his previous record to win. During the six days' walk O'Leary made 408 milesr and Hughes 311. The latter was said to be used up. A general order has recently bee: led from the War Department in Washin calling the attention of officers of the army a section in the Army Appropriation bill, passed at the last session of Congress, prohibii ing the use of the army as a ponsecornitatun, ex­ cept in such cases as may be expressly author­ ised by the Constitution or acts of Congress. The Missouri Republican State Con­ vention met at St. Louis, on the 9th, and nominated candidates for State offices as fol­ lows: Judge of Supreme Court, Alex F. Denny; Superintendent of Public Instruction, , Roderick Baldwin; Land Register, W. T. Nor- dell; Railroad Commissioner, John B. Tracy. The resolutions favor the payment of bonds and legal-tender notes in gold and silver, etc., «*c. ' In reply to an inquiry whether, un­ der the new postal regulations, bank notes and greenbacks feari be mailed as third-class natter, the Postoffice Department has ruled that " bank notes and greenbacks, having Written signatures, or signatures added by means of fac simile stamps, or other mark or ifgn added to the original print (engraving/, •pught to be sent in the mails, would be sub­ ject to letter rates of postage, under Sec. 156 Of the Postal laws." snouib A Vienna dispatch of the 4th says Ministerial crisis had assumed large pro­ portions. The members of both the Hunga- , i|an and Austrian Cabinets had consented to aetain their portfolios only on condition that ; vount Andrassy, the Premier, retires. *'1(1 The Porte received intelligence, on f"ibe 4th, that Saad Getden Pasha, on announc- that he had received orders to surrender Vodgoritza to the Montenegrins, had been •urdered by the Albanians, and 156 officers £d men belonging to his command mas­ked. Vienna and Constantinople telegrams 0. the 4tli announce that the Turkish Gov- i|-nment had finally definitively rejected the Austro-Turkish Convention. It was alto Mated that tfcs Fort* haft refused to adopt at St. Xavier'e Church in New York, on the 6th, a man named John Carpenter ran up the aisle brandishing a huge butcher knife and plunged it into the back of a woman yarned Mary Lyon. He was subsequently arrested, and said that he had mistaken the woman for his wife. The injured woman Will recover. It was reported from London, on the 7th, that the Government had decided to leave the conduct of the Afghanistan cam­ paign very much in the hands of the Indian Government. . A Vienna dispatch of the 7th says war between Austria and Turkey was one of the near probabilities. During the few days preceding the 6th, a band of Cheyenne Indians left their reservation and struck across the States of Kansas and Nebraska, leaving, in their track, wide-spread desolation. Men, women and children were murdered, stock killed and houses burned. The State authorities quickly gathered a force of frontiersmen and started them in pursuit, but up the 7th they had not been overtaken, and it was believed they had scattered in the direction of the Sioux agen­ cies. Deputy United States Revenne Col­ lector Phillips returned to Nashville, Tenn., on the 7th, from a raid in Overton. Jackson, Fentress and Putnam Counties. Several il­ licit distilleries had been destroyed. A fight was had with about fifty armed men near Livitagston, on the 3d. Firing continued un­ til the ammunition of the revenue force was exhausted, compelling them to retreat. Four distillers were reported lulled and several wounded. The Colonial Trust Corporation, of London, defaulted in its payments, oh the 8th, and decided to go into liquidation. Collin, Dunlap & Co., sewing-cotton manufacturers, of Glasgow, Scotland, failed, on the 8th, for £150,000. At Wollaston Heights, a station on the Old Colony Railroad, five miles out of Boston, on the evening of the Sth, an excur­ sion train, consisting of twenty-two cais and two engines, ran into a train just emerging from a side track, and both engines and five cars plunged over a steep embankment' and were totally wrecked. Sixteen persons were instantly killed, including several news­ paper reporters, and about 100 persons were injured. Some of the latter will die. President Hayes issued a proclama­ tion, on the 8th, reciting that it had been made to appearto him that, by reason of un­ lawful combinations and assemblages of per­ sons in arms, it had become impracticable to enforce, by ordinary course of judicial pro­ ceedings, the laws of the United States within the Territory of New Mexico, and especially in Lincoln County, and that such laws had been therein forcibly opposed and their exe­ cution resisted; he, therefore, admonished all good citizens against aiding, countenancing, abetting or taking part in such unlawful pro­ ceedings, and warned all parties engaged in such proceedings to peaceably disperse and return to their homes on or before Oct. 13. Sec'y McCrary issued instructions to Gen. Sherman, on the 8th, by order of the President, directing the General to notify the proper military officer that, after the date mentioned in the President's proclamation relative to the disturbances in New Mexico, he should proceed to disperse by military force all unlawful combinations or assem­ blages of persons within said Territory. Gen. Sherman at once issued the necessary order to the Brigadier-General commanding the Military Department of the Missouri. On the 9th, the Russian Charge d1 Af­ faires at "Constantinople informed the Porte that 4,000 wagons filled with Christian refu­ gees were following the retiring Russians toward Arianople, and asked that a Commis­ sioner and a detachment of troops be -*ent to reassure the people. The returns received on the 9th, from the recent election in Iowa, indicated a Rcpubilcau majority in the State of about 15,000. All the Republican candidates for Congress were elected. The news from West Virginia ̂on th« 9th, was to the effect that the newly- eletted State Legislature would' be largely Democratic. McKenna (Dem.) for Congress, in the Third District, would have a majority of about 500 over Walker (Hep. and Green­ back). The First and Second Districts had been also carried by the Democrats. The Democrats carried Indiana at the late election by about 10,000--that being the majority on the State ticket. The re­ turns received, on the 10th, indicated that the State Legislature would consist of twenty five Democrats, twenty-four Republicars and one National in the Senate, and fifty-four Democrats, forty-one Republicans and five Nationals in the House--thus securing Voor- hees' re-election to the United States Senate, The Congressional delegation would proba­ bly stand as follows: Republicans--First Dis­ trict, Heilman; 5th, Brown; 9th, Orth; 10th, Calkins; 11th, Cowgili; 13th, Baker. Demo­ crats--Second District, Cobb; 3d, Bicknell; 4th, New; 6th, Myers; 8th, Hostetter; 12th, Colerick. Def*i6crat and National--Seventh District, De LaMatyr. The Republicans claimed, on the morning of the 10th, a majority in Ohio of from 8,000 to 10,000, the Democrats conceding the State by 5,000. The Atepublicans carried Hamilton County, by majorities ranging from 200 to 1,000--Butterworth's majority over Sayler (for Congress), being 1,066. It was 'thought at Cincinnati, on the 9th, that the 'Ohio delegation in the next Congress would stand as follows: Democratic--Third District. McMabon; 5th, Lefever; 6th, Hill; 7tlr, Hurd; 8th, Finley; 9th, Converse; 10th, Ew- ing; 11th, Dickey; 13th, Warner; 14th, Ath- erton; 15th, Geddes; total, 11. Republicans -- First District, Butterworth;2d, Young; 4th, &cifer;18tfc, Heal; lOtb, MtSihlej; 17U>, Monroe; 18th, Updegraff; 19th, Garfield; 90th. Townsend; total, 9. London dispatches of the 10th an­ nounce the commencement of hostilities be­ tween the British and Afghan troops. A Berlin paper of the 10th publishes a dispatch from Russia announcing the be­ ginning of an agitation in Russia having for its object the forced abdication of the Csar. A Turkish for^e of 150,000 men has been gathered at Novl Bazar to oppose the further occupation of that section by Austria. Ex-State-Treasurer Mercartas ar­ rested at Kansas City, Mo., on tjfcth, onan indictment found by a Jackson Cot®# tirand Jury, for violating the statute forbidding the Treasurer to derive any benefit or advantage from the deposit of public money, and also on an indictment for embezzlement. At the same time the present State Treasurer, Gates, was also arrested on similar Indictments. Mercer was held to bail in the sum of 917,000, and Gates in the sum of $12,000. Complete returns from the recent town elections in Connecticut show eighty towns Republican, fifty-five Democratic, and thirty evenly divided. Last year seventy were ^Republican, sixty-nine Democratic and twen­ ty-six divided. A Dubuque telegram of the 10th says the returns received there from the Iowa election indicated that the Republican ma­ jority In the State would not exceed 5,000 to 8,000. The Greenback-Democratic candidates for Congress in the Sixth and Seventh Dis­ tricts (Weaver and Gillette) were probably elected. The other seven districts were car­ ried by the Republicans. A. Burlington dis­ patch of the same date gives figures which indicated a Republican majority in the State of about 15,000. The Chairman of the Dem­ ocratic State Central Committee thought the majority would be less than 5,000, with a possibility of the election of the Democratic candidates for Auditor aud Supreme Judge. A courier arrived at Camp Robinson, Nebraska, from Carlton's command, on the 10th, and reported that up to the time of his leaving the Niobrara River, Carlton had seen none of the fleeing Cheyennes. THE VELLOW-riVSB SCOVBQI. It was reported from Cairo, 111., on the 6th, that many families were leaving the city by trains and wagons. Four deaths from black vomit occurred on that day, and most of the suspicious cases had developed into yellow fever. No new cases were reported, on the 6th, and the total number then sick dfd not exceed ten. The Yellow-Fever Commission ap­ pointed by Surgeon-Gen. Woodworth, con­ sisting of Dr. S. M. Bemis, of New Orleans' Chairman; Dr. Jerome Cochrane, of Mobile, and Prof. E. Howard, of Baltimore, met in New Orleans, on the 7th, for the purpose of inquiring into the origin, spread, effects, treat­ ment and results of the yellow fever and as to its contagious or infectious nature. According to the news, on the 7th, the outlook in the fever districts of the South was still a very gloomy one, a steady increase of the plague being reported from all points. The demand for nurses from the small towns tributary to Memphis exceeded the supply. Forty-eight deaths were reported in Memphis and suburbs, on the 7th, and forty-one in New Orleans. One new case and two deaths were reported in Cairo, 111. The steamer John M. Chambers, loaded with supplies for the suffering towns on the lower Mississippi, reached Memphis, on the 7th, from St. Louis. The cargo was valued at $30,000--$3,000 of which was in medicines. Twenty-four deaths inside and seven­ teen outside the City of Memphis were report­ ed, on the 9th. At New Orleans there were forty deaths and 143 new cases reported ; total to date--cases, 10,929; deaths, 3,303. There were two deaths and four new cases in Cairo. The fever was very fatal in the entire country around Vicksburg; five deaths occurred in that city. The news from other towns in Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee was to the effect that the disease was still spreading With very fatal results. The general situation of affairs in the infected districts of the South was unchanged, on the 10th. A slight abatement in the fever was reported from some of the smaller towns, and a spread of the disease in other localities. Rain had fallen at Memphis since the morn­ ing of the 9th, and the continued warm weather was destructive to all hopes of an immediate relief from the deadly plague. The deaths in Memphis numbered twenty-two and seventeen in the suburbs. "Five deaths and fifteen new cases were reported at Browns­ ville, Tenn.; three cases and one death at Cairo, 111.; forty-eight deaths and 113 new cases at New Orleans, and several new cases and many deaths in other localities. Further calls for aid were being made. The amount contributed in Chicago had reached nearly $100,000, and proportionate amounts had been realised in other Western cities and at the East A Young Bear Hunter. "FOREST STEVENS, son of Amos Stev­ ens, of Gallauher Township, went out squirrel hunting yesterday, taking with him a dog, shotgun and squirel ammu­ nition. While stealthily traversing the" wilds of that township in the afternoon, he was much surprised to meet an old she-bear and a playful he-cub face to face. Having no bear Ammunition, and having too much grit to run, he gave the mother bear a charge of squir­ rel shot, which, if it did hot hurt her, certainly gave her a bad scare, as she turned ana fled, leaving her cub to take care of himself. The dog and the cub had a lively set-to, in which the dog came out second best, the clawing and cuffing of the cub being too much for him. Two or three charges shot did not seem to hurt the cub in the least, and he made his way up a tree. The young hunter then rammed a couple of wooden plugs into his gun and blazed away. The plugs hit the mark, and cubby tumbled to the ground, and, after another lively tussle with the dog, gav« up the ghost. Young Stevens then shouldered his game and started home, satisfied with his day's sport. He brought the carcass of the young bear to town this morning, and exhib­ ited it to prove the truth of his story.-- Lock Haven (Pa.) Journal. --At the last session of the Legisla­ ture of California women were admit­ ted to practice law in that State. Mrs. Clara S. Foltz is the first lady that has been admitted to the bar under the statute. She was examined by sohie of the first lawyers of the State as to her fitness, and pronounced fully pre­ pared. She is the mother of five chil­ dren, and during the period of her study attended to her familv and did her own housework unassisted. The Yellow Fever. ̂There is nothing more pitiable, more pathetic, more disheartening, or more terrible than the daily narratives of the spread of yellow fever in the South. We know the limits of a great catas­ trophe almost at once. We know, when night descends upon the battle­ field, the whole list of the dead and wounded. In great convulsions of Na­ ture, we can definitely measure the limits of destruction. Hitherto in the history of epidemics it has been possi­ ble to fix metesahd bounds, and to say with some decree of positiveness what localities would be spared and what would suffer. There is an element of certainty in these hdrrors; in the pres­ ent yellow-fever epidemic there is no element of certainty except its wide­ spread and sudden fatality. From the very day that the yellow plague crossed the Gulf of "Mexico in the ill-fated Italian bark and was landed in New Orleans, it commenced to spread with inconceivable rapidity. It is not yet three months ago that a brief dispatch announced a case of yellow fever in New Orleans, and now the wires of the whole country are burdened with plague-dispatches; then a line or two toid the story, now it takes several columns in each morn­ ing's issue of the daily press to bring the saddening tidings of disease ana death; then an operator could send the news in a minute, now the telegraph companies cannot supply men fast enough to gather and send the news. In hardly longer time than it took the Italian vessel to bring the seeds of death from Havana to New Orleans, it had not only obtained lodgment in that city, but had commenced a rapid march up the Valley of the Mississippi, assist­ ed by the malaria of its swamps and bayous, and now it has clutched all of Louisiana and Mississippi, a part of Western Alabama, Eastern Texas, and the western portions of Tennessee and Kentucky, has followed the Ohio River to Louisville, skirted along Southern Tennessee into the otherwise healthy mountain regions of Northern Georgia, and sent isolated cases even into the Northern cities. The region now lying in the shadow of death embraces an area 500 miles in length and 150 in breadth, east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio River, the west bank of the Mississippi, through Arkansas and Mis­ souri, having been spared, though it is equally as'swampy as the other. Hitherto the yellow fever has been confined to certain localities, usually cities, and even to certain parts of cities, which have not observed sani­ tary precautions. This time it is om­ nivorous. It searches out every One. It spreads through rural villages, vis­ its farms and plantations, and clutches even isolated families living miles away from inhabited centers. Like a fire sweeping over the prairies, it spares nothing. Like the tide rising over the lowlands, it tills not only tne rivers, but every little ditch and gully. Thte very winds of Heaven seem to be full of its germs, and blow them, as they blow the winter's flakes, into every crack and crevice. It strikes one man down in the crowded city streets; it at­ tacks another at work on his farm; it searches out and grapples with another so far away from his kind that he has not heard the monster is abroad in the land. It makes no discriminations in its terrible march of destruction. "With equal hand" it knocks at the door of the hovel and at the\portals of the malison. It has swepfc-a#ay poor families and rich fam­ ilies. It has ravaged the uncleanly quarter of a city one day and the clean­ ly quarter the next. It has been as fatal with those who are acclimated as with strangers. It has not only taken the whites. hut the blacks, who have never had it before. It strikes those who remain at home, and searches out those who have fled into the country. Doctors and nurses who have grappled with it heretofore with impunity are now swept off by hundreds. So far as it has spread, no place or person can claim to be exempt. If one' remain at home or remove elsewhere for safety, he knows not at what minute the yel­ low monster may fasten its fangs. He can only wait in grim and silent de­ spair its terrible coming. It is the most disheartening feature that these terrible results have been ac­ complished notwithstanding the almost superhuman efforts that have been made to arrest its course. It has de­ fied all remedies. It has baffled the skill not only of the best physicians in the South, but of hundreds of ,£ke best physicians and nurses of the North, who nave lent their assistance, in many cases only to swell the daily roll of death. Every city, town and village of the North has sent relief. They have showered himdr«ds of thousands of dollars in money and great stores of material comforts upon the afflicted South to aid their associations in their brave and beneficent work, but all this generosity has been powerless to stop tne progress of the fever. " So had begins, but worse remains behind." Business is paralyzed. Sis- ease, even quicker^ than panics and hard times, has brought trade to a standstill. The cotton fields are white with the harvest, with noohetO gather the staple. The sugar crop may share a similar fate if the disease does not stop soon. New Orleans, shut off by a rigid and almost cruel quarantine, not only from the North, but even from the Southern interior towqs languishes. The trade of her merchants is para­ lyzed. Her workshops are closed. Thousands of her workinojmeu are with­ out employment and without money. It is estimated that the Goveriunent will have to feed 50,000 of her people for weeks to come. From these causes alone, the Soufch, after having lost thousands of her people, must lose millions of money, and be set back just at the time when she had begun to recover from war, and panic, and civil confusion. It is a hard fate, and one for which history hardly records a par­ allel. National pride, honor and sym­ pathy alike appeal to the more fortun­ ate sections of the country not to stop in the work of well-doing until the af­ flicted South is lifted to her feet and hegled.--Chicago Tribune, Oct. 8: . --Tennyson is an incessant smoker. He uses a clay pipe of the old fashion, with a stem a yard long, and smokes common Virginia pigtail tobacco. He never uses a pipe the second time. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. ' J. E. MAGIE, the State Frinter Expert, has sued the Springfield Register for libel, claim­ ing 125,000 damages. The alleged libel con­ sists in a statement which the Itegixter copied from another paper, in substance to the ef­ fect that he charged for services not per­ formed. THE following table shows the total assessed and total equalized value of each class of property in the United States: ' i Atsessat Private Property. Vain a. Personal property...,..#169,815,08# " " J,829 Lands Town and city lota.... Railroad Property. Personal property..... Lands Town and city lots... 447.942,8 19? ,031 £58 815,802 1,199,960 2,182,761 Evualited Value. •165,828,359 439.7Sl.456 209,342,880 778,332 1,085.752 2,200,911 Totals $818,987,409 $818,987,090 Difference 281 OK the last da; of September there were in the Jolitt Prison 1,636 convicts." THE Republicans of the Second District have nominated Col. George R. Davis for Congress. JACKSONVILLE wants the State Fair next year. So does Chicago. SBNATOR-ELECT SLATER, of Oregon, is a brother of Dr. L. R. Slater, of Taylorville. EXPLORATIONS in mounds in Washington County have resulted In finding many Indian relics, and several skeletons of men. These skeletons are larger than those of the present timq. AT the late session of the Illinois Masonic Grand Lodge, at Chicago, T. T. Gurney was elected Grand Master; William H. Scott, Deputy Grand Master; Louis Zeigler, Senior Grand Warden; Daniel M. Browning, Junior Grand Warden; O. H. Miner, Grand Treas­ urer; John F. Burrill, Grand Secretary. THE Secretary of the State Board of Agri­ culture has been notified that a complaint ex­ ists to a large extent among the cattle of Lo> gan County, which resembles the foot-and- mouth disease which was so fatal to the herds of Great Britain and Canada. If the disease shall continue, it is probable that the State Board will be called together and measures taken to prevent its spread. Two HUNDRED AND FORTY acres of land from the farm of the late Jacob Strawn, in Morgan County, were sold a few days ago at the rate of 166.66 per acre. THE office of State's Attorney in Morgan County, heretofore held by JameB N. Brown, has been declared by the County Commission­ ers vacant, on account of the removal of Brown from the State, and an election for a successor has been ordered to take place in November next. THE other night, near Decatur, William Wilson, an aged blind man, hearing a train behind, jumped from a Peking Lincoln & De­ catur bridge, and fell heavily to the ground, sustaining injuries which are likely to prove fatal. THE assessed value of the right-of-way, tracK and rolling stock of the various railroads ln the State has been fixed by the State Board of Equalization at 186,410,516. THE Illinois Conference of Free Methodists, at its recent session, made the following ap­ pointments tdi the ensuing year: Fox River District--W. F. Manley, Chairman; Chicago, C. 13. Ebey; Chicago Mission, T. West- srdale; Aurora, «J. G. Terrill; St. Charles. Eljrin rind SouthjElgin. M. V. Clute, E. A. Kimball and J. D. Marsh; Lodi and Sycamore, P. Miller, D. P. Baker; Crystal Lake, 0. W. Fnnk: Cary and Algonquin, F. H. Haley; Marengo, C. S. Spald ing; Belvidere. O. Frink. Rock River District--W. F. Manley, Chairman; Winnebago, J. Buss; Freeport and Lena. A. F. Ferris; Ashton and Grand Detour. F. W. Kent. Galva District--W. W. Kelley. Chairman; <ial- va and Kewanee, James Spr;igue; Sheffield, E. C. Best; New Bedford, F. A. Miller. Central Illinois District--VV . W. Kelley, Chair­ man; McLain and Waynesville, H. S. Abb >tt: Athens, C. H. Rawson, supply; Jacksonville ana Whitehall, J. G. Templeton. Belleville District--W. W. Kelley, Chairman; West Belleville, W. A. Hyle, supply; Alma and Lebanon, J. J. Hales; St. Louis, Morgan street, 8. Adams; St. Louis Mission, M. Collins; Cal­ vary. Mount Hope, W. B. Walls. John Wilson, Missionary to Sweden; 0. H. Brant, Missionary to Washington Territory. THE other morning, at the coal works of C. B. Laning & Co., of Petersburg, John Bar­ tholomew was seriously injured by the pre­ mature explosion of a blast which he was pre­ paring to fire. He had put the powder into the hole, and had just commenced to tamp in the wet clay when his tampingrbar struck some sulphur, causing a spark, which Ignited the powder. His partner told him not to stand in front of the hole, as something might hap­ pen to tire the shot, and he had just stepped to one side when it went off, tearing his right hand, putting out one of his eyes and filling his face and breast full of powder and fine coal. EX-LIEUT.-GOV. HOFFMAN, now a Wiscon­ sin farmer, took the first prize for wheat at the Wisconsin State Fair. CORNELIUS DOHEMUS, a Springfield volun­ teer, has been sent to take charge of a drug store at Holly Springs, Miss., for the Howards. THE Governor, Auditor aud State Treasurer have agreed upon the rate of State taxes for the current year, as follows: For general State purposes, 1 9-20 mills on each dollar, or 19% cents on each 9100; for State school purposes,, 16-20 mills on each dollar, or 1-3 cejats on each $100; for State military fund, X-20 of 1 mill on each dollar, or % cent on each €100; ag­ gregating 3 3-10 mills on each do) cents on each $100 of valuation property. IN tne southwest part ot Mouime on the 8th, a young man, namedGe Brandon, eighteen years old, was Charleb Everman, a neighboring farmer,^un der the following circumstances: Everman is a big, stout^han, about twenty-five years of age, addicted to drinking and rather a hard case generally. Young George Brandon was much like Evefman in many respects, though a mere stripling. A difference arose between them about a hog that young Brandon was fattening, along with others, on halves, for a brother-in-law. Everman claimed that this brother-in-law of Brandon's owed him some­ thing, and, in George Brandon's absence, went and took a hog out of Brandon's pen and put it in his own. On Brandon's return, he learned that Everman had taken a hog, and at once went to Evcrman's, near by, to reclaim the porker, whereupon angry words passed, when Everman assaulted Brandon with acorn-knife, striking the retreating boy several strokes across the back of the neck with it, severing the 6ptnal column, and almost severing his head from the body, causing instant death. SCHUYLER COUNTY is said to have the hog cholera badly. A Bailroaa Romance. A LOVE story that ends happily, if the end of it is yet, comes from Springfield, Ohio. A certain Col. August Dotxe, who got his title in the late war, lives at Springfield and takes boarders to help him live. He has a wife and two or three daughters, and one of the latter--Gussie Dotze--is eighteen and a blonde beauty. Among the boarders were three young men, who occupied the same and all were madly in love with tlitegirL They agreed on the superb lovefmessirf Gussie so well that they quarreled abotft Her every night, and their lives in that treble-bedded room were not happy. They could not decide among themselves which of them was best entitled to the girl, and so they all resolved to propose at the first opportunity and trust to luck or love. Of the three she favored Frank Harrington, but nothing was settled. Gussie was not ready to give a positive answer, but Harrington had the best of the three. Now the Colonel particu­ larly hated those three boarders for their marked attentions t,o Gussie. In fact he hated all Gussie's lovers, and swore vengeance on them in a lump. Beside the three inside the house, sne had a few outsiders. Whenever the Colonel found an outsider there-chat­ ting with Gussie in the parlor, the vis­ itor soon shot himself out the door, and sometimes scaled the fence without waiting to open the gate. The Colonel was tne worst cruel father that ever had a marriageable daughter At length Gussie got tired of the tyranny, and Gussie's mother took sides with her against the old man. The mother liked Harrington, and that settled it. The Colonel found Gussie and Harring­ ton in the parlor one evening, and told the latter with many oaths and impre­ cations that if he ever caught him talk­ ing to his daughter again he would wipe the floor with him until he was a corpse. Then Harrington prepared to leave his boarding-house in a fit of anger and disgust at his treatment, but Gussie and her mother got round him and pre­ vailed upon nim to stay. After this Harrington and Gussie stole meet­ ings outside, and one of the rejected room-mates Hold the Colonel what was going on, who sometimes made night excursions with a revolver and a base-ball bat, looking ,for the lovers. He never found them aiul whs never quite satisfied about those^^clan­ destine meetings, but he kept his ciyiel eye on Gussi# and the rejected ro6ih- mate helped him watch. Gussie out­ witted them. She cleaned up the lodg­ ing-room, and Harrington had given her the key to his big trunk. She adroitly slipped her clothes in the trunk piece after piece until there was a trunk full. Then Harrington re­ solved on leaving, and Gussie and her mother did not object this time--and the Colonel could not. Harrington took his trunk to the depot to watch the chances. He had already procured a marriage license and had it in, his pocket. The only thing to do was to get Gussie to the depot in the nick Of time for the train. A midnight train was selected, and Gnssie made it. The rejected room-mate was on watch and discovered the plot. He apprised the Colonel of the elopement. The train was just getting under full headway when the Colonel arrived at the depot with his revolver and club. At Me- chanicsburg the Rev. Joshua Knight boarded the train accidentally, and not by arrangement. Harrington knew the minister. He had his license to get married. Gussie said " Yes." The minister agreed to tie the nuptial knot, and to prevent accidents Gussie Dotze and Frank Harringt6n were. fasj, mar­ ried while going at the rate of forty miles an hour. The happy couple got off at Marysville, where Harrington's parents live. The young man's moth­ er had previously told him to" be sure he was right ana then go ahead, and/ she was daily expecting visitors; so the young people were not exactly a Irar- prise party. At last accounts the Col­ onel* had not followed the couple with his revolver and club.--Missouri Re­ publican. _ . A NEW ENGLAND scene: Grand «old hills, pine-clad and scarred, towering to the clotids in their majesty; gur­ gling brooks, winding through green meadows; fields of corn, with the breeze waving and rustling their ripen­ ing heaps and floating streamers; winding around through these a stretch of yellow road, silent in the glare of the sun; on the road a solitary potato bug, toiling laboriously east­ ward.--Danbury Jsews. --Prof. David Swing does not believe t in boys playing cards furtively in the wood shed or hay loft. No, it is not safe. There is no knowing when the old man will come bulging in with a raw-hide that looks like a Russian Peace Commissioner. A high and de­ serted attic with a locked door is the only safe place. --Burlington Hawk-Eyt. --The great American pie-biters liye in Wilmington, Ohio. Last year a family of seven person in that place consumed, by actual count, 1,165 pies. •--The label upon a bottle of chill remedy, requesting the patient to shake well before using, isr really tantalizing. THE MARk'F.TH. NEW YORK. LIVE STOCK--Cattle, .'i Sheep .... . Hogs... FLOUR--Good to Choice.. 8.60 3£7 _ 4.16 WHEAT--No. 2 Ghic&ao (New). .95 % (JOHN--Western Mixed .46 2*1 OA'f B- -Western Mixed -27 RYE--Western....'* .65 POKE--Mess. 8.W 6*60 .06 .90 Oct. 11, 1878. 97.00 ©$10.50 ~" 6X0 4.10 4.75 .96 .48* .58* 8.75 6X3 .09*4 .43 LAKD--Steam. CHEESE - WOOL--Domestic Fleece. CHICAGO. BEEVES--Extra- #4.85 Medium-...... i 3.25 Butchers' Stock 2.25 Stock Cattle 2.40 HOPS--Live--Good to Choioe.. 2.50 SHEET*--Common to Choice... 2.65 BUTTER--Fancy Creamery.... JO Good to Choioe J6 EGGS--Fresh JfWHMfr"* W hite Winter# Fair to Good do Red Winters ' Springs Choice do Patent do GBAIN- Wheat, No. 2 Spring.. Corn, No. 2.. 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