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|§cpc«t|! f laiadcalct v J. tAN 8LYKE, Editor ̂ ^ ^cHEXRT ILLINOIS. ,, THE PAST WElZK 4;̂ DOMESTIC NEWS. SJfea The KaftU FIRE partially destroyed the Penn- j,Tack Works, at Norristown, Pa., the "Wfcther night. The works were insured. ..i</ EDWARD R. THOMPSON, retired COM- feaodore of the United States navy, died at <», ,Philadelphia lately. THE Rogers Locomotive works, at ateraon, N. J., burned lately, earning a loss #235,000.... .Sixty horses were burned to at the destruction of the New York a few dayB ago. %%' TheWr*U ^ $$ THE saw-mill of Frank Nicolin, at jTordan, Mina, burned the othe#^day, with an -v<; ̂ •lewf.or 1® oeaaecttoa with it The loss is about •f, '̂ 70,000, THE course of true lore runs pr$&y " , Jteooih in Salt Lake (Sty, notwithstanding the i/̂ K'Jtecision of the Supreme Court They go on ^Jaarrying and giving in marriage the same as ,ti ^,<pv«?r. The Mormon newspapers denounce the [ Supreme Court, and insist that ita judgment ; ' ^1*a9 rendered under the influence of popular ' pressure. At a recent meeting of the Anti- - " §*olyg*r»y Society of Salt Lake a memorial was " J'S îidopted asking Congress to amend the act of 80 that the general reputation of the oon- .'<r.;i|ogal relation may be regarded as proof of mar- v 3|%iage, and the polygamous cohabitation the of- t :»Men8e' JV ® HON. ISAAC P. CHRISTIANCY placed his f'Resignation as United States Senator in the * lands of Gov. Croewell, of Michigan, Feb. 10. f n«||.. .A Government inspector of cattle has gone A '- î|n duty at the Chicago stock yards. He gives t , Certificates for cattle designed for export. lire ,.(i ylattle are not to be received at English ports ,,v, j>fter March & _V IN the cat being made for the Chicago ; , ;|nd Alton railroad at Kansas City, the other -' - j|ay, the almost perpendicular walls, ninety feet ' -$igh, caved in, and buried the workmen and ' %ieir teams under 6,000 yarda of falling earth, r 11 Inhere were four teams in the cut at the time, ten men working at each team. Six per- were killed outright and several wounded. fei| THE thirteenth annual meeting of the i t Northwestern Dairymen's Association was held • j Recently, at Chicago. This meeting was well f jlfcttended, and the debates and reports were of Inatnfawto the dairying interest J ~ 1 The South. THE work of removing the bodies of* ;* r -, «?< u "/'Ihe victims of yellow fever in the Southwest ; is believed, in some quarters, to have caused a i |fevival of the epidemic. A gentleman who has ^JjMrived at St Louis after a tour through the confirms the reports of its reappearance, j^^everal deaths from yellow fever occurred jfiuring his stay in New Orleans, and at Ifacksburg he saw the funerals of four vic- |pims . tp this pestilence... .A national Conference of colored citizens will be *T jfceld at Nashville, May 6. The ob- ' Jectof the conference is said to be to consider *Mlhe situation of the colored people in the South q. a elativo to the enjoyment of life, liberty, ; i Juid property; also their educational, social * and political condi- and the question of emigration.... B. S. Pinchback (colore!) has accepted the iBition of Revenue Agent in the Louisiana Sistrict Thomas S. Drew, elected Governor If Arkansas in 1814 and re-elected in 1850, died " !^ |̂eoently in Texas. Political. Wi A JOINT caucus of Democratie Sena- tore and Representatives was held atWashing- l̂ lfon on the 10th inst, at which it was decided to ^Attach the propositions abolishing the te?t-oath •|V!for jurors, providing a method of drawiDg Jurors in States where there is no provision for i:w îat purpose, and repealing the Federal Super- ,̂%isors of Election law, to the Legislative, Ex- 'p j^cntive and Judicial Appropriation bilL >'&?> MICHIGAN Republicans hold their > % #}tate Convention at Lansing, March ft W. Fleming has been elected to Congress ,;Jtrom Georgia, in place erf the late Julian Hart- ̂Jidge A Washington dispatch states that JBen. Garfield will not consent to be the Be- ^^ublican candidate for Governor of Ohio. The Democratic Senators, at a caucus held on the 14th inst, decid ̂that it would not be expedient to do more than to attach to the appropriation bills the clause repealing the Itî irors' test oath, and as to the other matters v ,. §hat they caa b9 postponed until the regular . session. The Chairman of the caucus, Senator Wallace, was directed to notify the House Dem , .4 f^wratic caucus of this decision. This removes i.*ll danger of an extra session. ̂THE President has addressed the fol- Rowing letter to Gen. Edwin 8. Merritt, the *ij|iew Collector of Customs at New York: MCDEABQENKBAL: I congratulate you on yoiu ^ sponftnnatlon. It ia a great gratification to me, very j ^honorable to you, and mil prove. I believe, of aig- |i»i service to the country. My deaire la that the ii Office be conducted on strictly buslnem principles yfnd according to the rules Cor the civil service " Which were recommended bythe Civil ServiceCom- ttiasjon in the administration of Oen. Grant. I want yon to be perfectly independent of mere influ. ence from any quarter. Neither my recommenda­ tion or that of Secretary Sherman, or of any mem­ ber of Congress or other influential person, must specially regarded. Let appointments and ro- • ;5.vjaoveto be made on business principles and se- - ̂ ^cording to the rules. There mtist, I assume, be a few confidential places filled by those you parson- ally know to be trustworthy, but restrict the area f of patronage to the narrowest limits. Let no man y I ' lje put out merely because he Is a friend to Mr. l.'Y'Arthur, and no man pot in merely because he is : % **mr friend. The good of the service should be the en* i® view. The best means presented, it to me, are the roles recommended by the , 1®vU Service Commission. I shall issue no new * if>T^er on 016 subject at present. I am glad you ap- , Improve of the message, and I wish you to see that ^||Bllthat Is expressed or implied in it is faithfully ̂^carried out Again congratulating you and aasur- t̂ng you of my entire confidence, I remain, ain- tnrOnb&A*ltaatn; • i ̂ 4- Washington* THE President has directed his Cabi- ii'-pet officers to submit to him the names of all HJflie important officers under their respective ^;flepartments which expire soon, the object . 'ybeing to send in either new names or reappoint * • pthe old ones before the Senate adjourns and •î papees into Democratic control. - THE Senate has confirmed the follow­ ing Postmasters: Indiana--Robert A Smith, ; Honesdale; Margaret SiUyman, Pottsviile DliBOir-OliTera HaV»na; 0. D. San­ born, Chenoa. Michigan--Luther Whiftley, Muskegtm; & D. Bingham, Lansing; Charles D. Crandall, Big ItapidK Hon. Joseph Casey, formerly Judge of the Court of Claims, is dead. GEN, ORB was before the House com­ mittee the other day, advocating the bill pro­ viding for more suitable military posts for the pruteotion of the Rio Grande frontier. AT a meeting of the select committee appointed to inquire into the Presidential elec­ tion, held in Washington last week, Senator Matthews explained his connection with the Jim Anderson scandal. He acknowledged hav­ ing tried to get an office for Anderson, but stated that it was in view of his having rendered proper service to the Republican party. He believed at the time that Anderson was an ̂hon­ est man and really deserved recognition in some substantial way for the service rendered in the Republican cause. He madtf a full and com­ plete acknowledgment that he had been grossly deceived, and that Anderson had turned out, contrary to expectations, to be a raseaL He insisted that he knew nothing of the frauds to which it afterward transpired that Anderson had been a party. Much less could he have been in oolluBion with Anderson, in so far as to trying to get him rewarded for his connection with the so-called frauds. Mr. Matthews rays that he is an innocent man and guiltless of the charges made upon him of knowledge of, and connivance at, the frauds which it appears his protege Anderson had participated in. Hon, Horatio C. Bnrcliard, Congress­ man from the Fifth District of Illinois, htm been appointed Director of the United States Mints, vice Dr. Linderman, deceased. MieceUancout. A SEVERE gale has swept away about 400 feet of the breakwater at St John, N. B., which oast a few years ago $250,000. KOBDEKSKJOLD'S Polar expedition has been heard from. It is laid up in winter quar­ ters, hut safe. George Williamson, United States Minister to Central America, has resigned, and gone into the mining business in that country. The Cheyenne Slaughter. ' THE Committee on Indian Affairs of the United States Senate having decided that the interests of humanity and justice to both the Indian service, the army, and the Indians themselves demand that the Cheyenne out­ break and its dreadful consequences should be investigated from the original causes to the massacre, Senator Allison, Chairman of the committee, last week submitted a resolution to the Senate, which was adopted, calling for a special committee of five, who are to go to the Indian Territory and sit during the recess of ,. .; Sfke JFtotter C»m«a<tlw. A VERY explicit denial was entered by Mr. Tilden of any connection with the negotia­ tions for the sale of electoral votes in either of the States, before the committee, at New York, on the 18th inst He appeared before the in­ quisitors at his own request, and not in answer to a subpoena. In his statement Mr. Tilden said: "The publication and translations in the New York papers I have read. I did not recog­ nize a single dispatch, either' in the cipher or translation, which 1 had ever seen before. I never entered into any arrangements to pur­ chase the vote of South Carolina or Florida. I had no information and no suspicion that any such communications were being carried on until I saw the dispatches published in the New York Tribune. I had no knowledge and no dealings with any parties to these negotiations. I never authorized any such negotiations in any form whatever. In regard to the Oregon dis­ patches, I did not .know that they came in cipher until after the meeting of the com­ mittee to investigate thefh. A day or two a'ter the election, Gen. Grant wrote a letter, recommending committees to go South and see a fair count I had nothing to do with the selection of the committees. I was very busy all the time, and did undertake to correct the idea that they were my personal agents, and this report had no foundation. They represented the Democratic party. None of them, so far as I know, went to those States authorized to do anything that a gentleman might not da From the 7th of November, 1876, until Dec. 6, of the same year, under no circumstance did I enter into any combination for seeking cer­ tificates by venal inducement. There never was an hour nor a minute that I entertained such a thought To the people who, as I be­ lieve, elected me as President of the United States, to 4,000,000 of citizens who were defraud­ ed, I owed it to proclaim that I would not yield one jot or tittle of my right" Gov. Tilden was cross-examinod at length by Messrs. Hiscock and Reed, who only succeeded in making his denial of connection with any corrupt bargain more explicit and circumstantial E. L- Parris testi­ fied that the cipher telegrams addressed to Mr. Tilden were intended for the National Commit­ tee. George W. Smith, Mr. Tilden's private secretary, failed to remember anything about the Oregon dispatches. The committee then resolved to examine no more witnesses, and left that evening for Washington. THE full Potter Committee, in ses­ sion at Washington on the Ilth inst, did no business of importance. It was announced that the majority would introduce no more tes­ timony. Thm JTIeeMoM A SESSION of the Teller Committee was held at Washington on the 12th inst Gen. Reuben E. Davis, of Mississippi, Greenback candidate for Congress in the First district, testified to intimidation, and said the white man could not vote in the South against the Democracy without being ostracised. But he dreaded the assassin's knife more than he did ostracism. He claimed that, by a fair count, he could have beaten CoL Muldrow by 10,000 votes. William Yaasar, once State Treasurer of Mississippi, believed that the colored people of that State were not allowed to vote as they wished. AFFAIRS in Mississippi were the sub­ ject of the examination of several witnesses before the Teller Committee on the 18th. J. H. Field, of Columbus, testified he did not know of a single instance of intimidation or attempt to prevent any one from voting. Col. Muldrow was elected owing to his popularity. The elec­ tion was peaceful as any he had before wit­ nessed, and he neither knew nor heard of com­ plaints of intimidation or ballot-box stuffing. Capt W. W. Humphreys testified that tho late election was more peaoeable and quiet than usua'. Nobody was prevented from voting. He thought it a fair and honest election as any in any of the States. Freedom of speech and of the press was fully recognized in Mississippi, and any man could make a speech there pro­ vided it was not calculated to create a breach of the peade. The Chairman then appointed as a sub-committee Messrs. Hoar, McMSlan, Kirkwood, Garland, and Wid- laoe to inquire " whether, in the year 1878 ̂ money was raised t>y assessment, or other­ wise, upon the Federal officeholders or em­ ployes for election purposes, and under what circumstances and by what means; and, if so, what amount was So raised and how the same was expended." FOHEIGX INTELLIGENCE, THAT definitive treaty we have heard so muoh about in the last six months is at last signed. It provides that all the San Stefano stipulations which were modified by the Treaty of Berlin shall remain as modified. The re­ maining stipulations are abandoned in favor of the present treaty, by which the war indemnity is fixed at 300,000,000 of paper rubles, and set­ tlement is deferred. The payment for the maintenance of the Turkish prisoners will be by twenty-one installments, but is not to begin immediately. The examination of accounts is expected to last two or three 3 ears. The Russian evacuation of Turkish ter­ ritory will be completed forty days after the ratification of the treaty. THE English seem to have quite a heavy job on their hands in South Africa. The particulars of a disastrous fight are received from Cape Town by cable. On the 2lst ulc. a column of about 800 men Was cut off and an­ nihilated by the Zulus. A large train was also captured. About fifty British officers were killed. DKIBECQITE, the Director of the Mint at Bordeaux, France, has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment and 125,000 francs 3ne for embezzling 1,400,000 francs in bullion lodged m tho mint by the Rothschilds. Delbecque substituted galvanized copper bars for the bull­ ion embezzled... .The Russian army in the Balkan peninsula suffers muoh from spotted typhus. , * MOXSIGNEUR DESPREZ, Archbishop of Toulouse and Narbonne, France, has been made a Cardinal THE most alarming predictions are made as to the possible terrible confequencesof neglect to guard against the introduction of the* plague into Europe. In the Italian Hotise of Deputies a high medical officer declared that should the disease succeed in passing the bar­ riers set up by the sanitary authorities, it would be likely to carry off one-thirds? of the popula­ tion of Europe... .Princess Caroline, widow of Prince Lucien Mijrat, died at Paris a few days ago. PARLIAMENT reassembled last week. The speech of Lord Beaconsfield at the opening of the House of Lords contained the following: " The object of the Government's interference in Afghanistan has been completely accom­ plished. We now holfd the three great high­ ways connecting Afghanistan and India, and I hope we shall always retain them We havo secured a frontier Which I hope and believe will render India invulnerable, in a way which will trench as lit­ tle as possible on the independence of Afghan­ istan." O'Kelly, the last of tho Fenian pris­ oners, has been discharged from prison in Great Britain, on condition of qi':"ing the country. FRE8B. TOFICSti- CONGRESSIONAL. FKBBUABY &--In the Senate, the House bill was passed providing for the payment to officers and soldiers of the Mexican war of three months' extra pay provided for by the act of July 1#, 1848. and devoted the remainder of the day to routine business of trifling Interest. In the House the Army Appropriation bill Was passed, including the two important amendments relative to the organization of the army and to tho railroad telegraph, and defeating the amendment which proposed to transfer the Indian Bureau to the War Department. Mo other bnsiness wae trans­ acted. FEBRUARY 10.--In the Senate, the House bill authorizing an Issne of certificates of dep6sit of the denomination of $10, to aid in refunding the public debt, was amended by increasing the rate of Interest from 3 to 4 per cent., and then passed.... Mr. McCreery addressed the Senate in favor of the transfer of tho Indian Bureau to the War De­ partment. and Mr. haddock made a speech on Ag­ riculture Mr. Morrill introduced two financial measures--one authorizing the conversion of na­ tional gold bonds, and the other amending the , Revised Statutes relative to the deposit of bonds by associations.----^ln tne House, motions to suspend the rules and pass the bill repealing the law in regard to the tent oath of jurors, and also the law for the appointment and payment of Supervisors of Election and their aids, were rejeeted--yess, 126; nays, 113--not the necessary two-thirds voting in the affirmative.... A motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill to establish postal savings banks was defeated--yeas, 89: nays, 184 Mr. Action introduced a bill to re* store the franking privilege....The General Appro­ priation bill was discussed. FKBBUABY 11.--In the Senate, a resolution was adopted ordering the Committee on Agricult­ ure to consider what can be done by the General Government to better encourage and foster agri­ cultural Interests... .Mr. Cameron (Pa.) submitted a joint resolution providing for a commission to consider and report what legislation is needed for the better regulation of commerce among the States. In the House, the entire day was de­ voted to the consideration of the General Appro* prlation bill. FEUKUAUY l'i--In the Senate, the Committee on Indian Affairs reported that they were unable to make a report at this session upon the Indian slaughter at Fort Robinson, and, at their request the matter was referred to a select committee.... Mr. Saunders addressed the benate in support of liis hill to authorize the temporary '.ransfer of the c.mtrol of certain Indians from the Interior to the War Department. The House was engaged all day upoti the Legislative Appropriation bill. FFBBUABYIS.--In the Senate, the bill author- zing the conversion of gold bonds was passed.... rhere was a long debate on the bill to restrict Chi. aese Immigration--Messrs. Sargent, Grover and Morgan advocating, and Messrs, Matthews and Hamlin opposing the bill. In the House, the tl>iy was devoted to the Legislative Appropriation Mil. and to memorial exerciace of the late Julian Uartridge. of Georgia. FEBIIUAKY 14.--The Senate consumed the day in discussing the bill to restrict Chinese immigra­ tion, without coming to a vote. In tho House, there was a wrangle over the bill, reported from the Committee on Military Affairs by Mr. Bragg, to place Gen. 8hlelds»on the retired list, which waa ended by the matter being referred to tho committee of the whole. The balance of the day was devoted to the consideration of private _____ ALL RIGHT. A reverend gentleman, who resides in a neighboring town, has the misfort­ une to own a son who is addicted to drink. The other night, when the fam­ ily had retired to rest, the son returned home in his usual condition. When the father opened the door to his grace­ less offspring, he exclaimed, sadly, "Drunk again, Henry! drunk again!" "All right, father," replied the staggering reprobate; "so am I!" IN Montgomery, Ala., last year, there were issued to whites 138 marriage UoexuMS, and tonegrotti 563. THE new President ot France, Jules Grevy, is one of the most solid of French statesmen, and will command the respect of both Radical and Republican ele­ ments. He is moderate in his views, and his policy will be one of concili­ ation, which will probably not fail to give stability to the cause of self- government in France. JOHW R. REED has been the gas man of the Walnut Street Theater, Phila­ delphia, for fifty-four years, and has never missed a performance in all that period. He is somewhat eccentric, and in his will is the following provision: " My head shall be severed from my body and my body shall be placed in a vault, but the head shall be brought to the Walnut Street Theater, there to be used as the skull in ' Hamlet,' and I do bequeath my head to the said Walnut Street Theater for that purposd* ^ BOSE PATTERSON and Jimmy Brown were pupils in the public school in Eliza- bethtown, Ky., and their boyish love was centered in Nannie Hobbs, who enjoyed and encouraged their rivalry. They quarreled over her, and she laughed; they cuffed each other, and she was proud of being the cause of their jeal­ ousy; but when they armed themselves with pistols, and went out to fight a duel,*slie raffwith all her mights to tell their parents. Bose's father arrived on the scene just in time to prevent blood­ shed. A CHINESE couple were married by a Sacramento Justice, who informed them that, according to section 500,000 of the Code, it was necessary that the bride should be immediately kissed, either by her husband or somebody else. The bridegroom said it was contrary to Chi­ nese propriety for a husband to kiss his wife before folks, but if the Justice would exclude the Chinese spectators he would obey the law in the presence of the Americans, whom he regarded as of no account. His suggestion was fol­ lowed, and he kissed his wife. , THE people of Europe are to be com­ miserated on the unfortunate opening of the year 1879. Commercial distress, Socialistic agitations, politic^crises and plagues have rapidly followed each other, and now the people are threat­ ened with a reopening of the Schleswig question! The smitten Europeans are actually talking of emigrating to Ameri­ ca in great numbers, evidently having heard nothing of the virulent investiga­ tions which are ravaging whole districts in this country. How MANY a time and oft the irony of the old proverb has been proved--the fields are green that are far away. A yiear ago a large number of laboring men were sent-out from Philadelphia to Brazil to work on the Madeira and Mamore railroad. The offer was tempt­ ing, and they went forth with the most pleasant anticipations of light work and plenty of wages. Having penetrated 1,800 miles from the coast, endured sickness and privation, encountered savage tribes, and been defrauded of their wages, they now return tattered and torn and penniless, and cured of the folly of searching in tile antipodes for a fortune. have perished in Europe, 24,000,000 in Asia Minor, India and the adjacent countries, and 1.3,000,000 in China. The historian writes concerning the appear­ ance of the plague in Europe: "Terrible omens in the heavens overwhelmed the nations with dread. In 1337 a large comet appeared; in following years came immense multitudes of locusts; but in 1348 the end of the world seemed at hand. An earthquake devastated Cyprus, Greece, Italy and the Alpine valleys. Mountains cavefl in. In the province of Carnthen, in Austria, thirty villages and a town were utterly de­ stroyed. The atmosphere became thick, fetid and confusing. Wine became turbid in the barrels. Fiery meteors illuminated the sky. A pillar of flame was seen over the Papal palace at Avig­ non. These terrors were followed by a murderous plague. It originated in China, was carried through the whole of Asia, and in Germany received the name of the ' Black Death,' because it covered its victims suddenly with black pustules, and often killed them instan­ taneously. It spread over the whole of Europe." For twenty-five years the awful epidemic maintained its annihi­ lating sway, while at the same time droughts, famines, floods and earth­ quakes destroyed city and country, and vast swarms of locusts everywhere in­ flicted the direst ravages. Meantime, the whole order of nature seemed re­ versed. In midwinter the severest rains were experienced, and in summer long- continued and severe frosts, and volca­ noes that had been long thought extinct opened their craters anew. Some have attributed the origin of the epidemic to the atmospheric changes produced by the convulsions of the earth, combined with the decay of organic matter--the myriads of locusts and the unnumbered bodies of men and animals. Some have also attributed that frightful epidemic to the then recorded approach of several planets to the sun. Inasmuch as four planets enter the perihelion in 1881, we have at least this similarity between the present time and that dreadful period; and this circumstance, combined with the sudden outbreak of the plague that is reported from Europe, may give rise to the fears that the coming planetary proximity to the sun is perhaps to have an evil import for poor humanity. THE number of acoidents to railroad trains in 1878 was smaller than that of any previous year in the history of rail­ roading, being 740, as against 891 in 1877, and 1,283 in 1873; the number of killed and wounded is also the smallest on record, 756, as against 1,047 in 1877, and 1,172 in 1873. One-fourth of the deaths and 28 per cent, of the injuries are to be attributed to the Tariffville, Mingo Junction and Wollaston disas­ ters. Nearly all of the accidents have been due to derailments and collisions, and the chief cause of the former has been misplaced switches. The greatest change is the decrease of accidents from broken rails, which, contrary to the re­ cord of all former years, rank next to the lowrast in the list. The growing use of steel rails adds much to the safety of life. THE news which reaches this country concerning the plague in Eastern Eu­ rope consists solely of the recital of the extraordinary precautions taken by the various governments against its intro­ duction to the territories tinder their jurisdiction. Nothing at all going to show that the pestilence is making rap­ id progress or any progress at all is re­ ceived. It is quite possible that the Russian Government, in view of the damage which has already been done to business in Russia by the panic, is sup­ pressing the news of the plague's spread, and trusting to the military quarantine to save the great cities of the empire from its ravages. It will probably be found, when the exact facts are ascertained, that the fright has been altogether out of proportion 4$ the danger. ! IT is estimated that not less than 52.000,000 persons fell victims to the black death in Asia and Europe toward the middle of the fourteenth century. Of these, 15,000,000 am suppoeed to JOSH BILLINGS. Mr. Shaw, otherwise " Josh Billings," has given a serious biography, as fol­ lows : " I am from Massachusetts. My father and grandfather were both mem­ bers of Congress and distinguished men. At one time it was intended that I should be the private secretary of John Quincy Adams, and I went down to Quincy, where he lived, and stayed with him three months. I had plenty of en­ ergy* and knew how to talk, and, I thought, how to write, too, but nevior how to make money. I turned away from Mr. Adams, and have been nearly all my life a frontiersman. As long ago as 1835 I joined a party with the inten­ tion of crossing the plains to the Pa­ cific ocean and colonizing under the Mexican Government. At that time there was hardly a trail across the con­ tinent, and we had to give the scheme up; but I settled as far West as it wa& possible to live, and there I Spent most of my maturing years." LIKE SON LIKE FATHER. A young man in Boston recently re­ ceived a bequest of $25,000. He had been poor, and the sudden acquisition of wealth rather turned his head. He began to spend the money in reckless dissipation, in spite of the efforts of his father to restrain him, and kept on until only $11,000 was left The father begged that this remainder might be given to him for safe-keeping, and the son, being then ill from long drunken­ ness, and very penitent, readily com­ plied. The father put $10,900 into a pocket in his shirt, and started out to spend the other $50 in a frolic. That night he slept on a bench in a bar-room, and in the morning every cent of the money was gone.-- Worcester (Mass.) s&k: ' u. | KMNTUCKIA1TS. Four ex-Kentuokians elected United States Senators in a week is doing very well. They arts Vest, in Missouri (beating four other ex-Kentuckians); Call, in Florida; Walker, in Arkansas, and Jones, in Louisiana. Gov. Routt, ex Eentuckian, made a good race for the Senate in Colorado, and Oglesby, retir­ ing Senator from Illinois, is also a native of this State. Marks, the new Governor of Tennessee, and Porter, one of the new "Governors " of Memphis, are also Kentuckians, as is also Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, and the list might be indefinitely extended did Space permit. What a pity we can't induce some of our great men to stay at home!-- Louisville Courier-Journal '•Mi arMINGS AMbUT SOLDIERS. lite soldiers are the seasoning of the, f ., Government, for they are mustered in, ' , its service. They are great slovens, fort . .v> they dress up only when ordered to do'1 ,<f K so. They are not sown broadcast, but are drilled in straight lines, and they J are sometimes mowed down. They mark time so that, while it slipa^ away from other people, they keep it; they are very cruel to tame, however, for . they bea$ it frequently. ^ Soldiers have napsacks, but they do not sleep in them. They never slum­ ber, for their sleep is in tents. They pitch their tents to make them water- * proof. As a rule, soldiers are water­ proof when camped near a distillery;, of course soldiers will frequently take- a cold, but they will more frequently take a drink, if they can get it as easily. They have always Welcomed the month of April after they left a bleak march. Soldiers are fond of dancing, andf have many balls in their camp; but j they are awkward'fellows, for they fall into line. Those on the inside belongv ? to the corps, while those on tbe eotnd&' stand there to picket. ' Some weapons used by soldiers are- never paid for- bayonets are always charged; they are frequently out of order, too, and the soldiers ordered to- fix them. The cavalry soldier goea slay riding, and it is a hoss-pi table sight to see the charger shot from under hint rider. If you treat the officers to mveh tywl whisky before the battle opens, the sol­ diers will likely retreat before the battle closes. Soldiers frequently take only the heart of a city--that is where they shell it first. The soldier discharges the order of the officer, and the order of the officer discharges the soldier. Many an old veteran has been caught in lyin' of battle, after the war was over. W. J. NILKNOC. C^JfXHA, Ohio. EASY, BOYS. 4 A man once, doubting the joys of single-blessedness, undertook to prove the contrary by experience. Owing to a melancholy, not to say gratefully-ac­ knowledged, illness, his wife was brought to her death-bed. Unfortunately for her husband's aspira­ tion for freedom, her death occurred ia winter, and her husband, wishing to offer every respect to her who could no longer be but the semblance of herself, ordered the pall-bearers to escort the bo^y on their shoulders. Owing t6 an extremely slippery pavement, they slipped while turning a sharp corner, bringing the re­ mains to the ground with such violence that resuscitation followed. Time wore on, and the husband be­ came a living monument of patience. At last the wife actually died, and her faithful spouse, being obliged to ignore his private suspicion by her near rela­ tives, was to give the same respectful orders as before. This time, how­ ever, he himself formed one of the corpx de garde, and, though summer ~ was the*season, he could not restrain his feeling, but, as he reached the fatal corner, whiSftered: " Easy round^ this comer* boys? JE-a-8-y now!" ^ THE ELECTRIcSflGHT. EdisOn has succeeded iiv subdividing the electric light and in nleasuring the current, l^he only thing that bothers him now is the corrosion of ua platinum in his lamps. As soon as thai difficulty is overcome, gas monopolists |(iii begin o tremble. l\ HE who would rise in the w Josh Billings, must pay for thi THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Biras $8 IB Hoos 3 50 SCARLET Now that scarlet fever is prevalent, we would say. to our readers that far. more depends upon careful nursing than upon medicines. Do not ever wake a child up to give it medicines. Noth­ ing is better than warm lemonade or slippery-elm.--.BuraJ New Yorker. COTTON. FLOUR--Superfine WHEAT--No. 2 COHN--Western Mixed OATS--Mixed RYE--Western POKK--Mesa LAUD CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice Graded Steers.. Cows and Heifers t 80 Medium to Fair 4 (M) HOOB 00 Ftooa- Fancy White Winter Ex.... 4 75 Oood to Choice Spring Kz. t 75 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring No. 3 Spriug COHW--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 BYE--No. 2 BAMJEY--NO. 2.;.....^.. BUTTKK--Choice Creamery..... Fresh ........ roiiK--Mess .. 8 85 LAUD MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 1 No. 2 CORN--No. 2 OATS-No. 2 ....... RYK- No. 1. BARLEY--No. 9 ST. LOUIS. WHEAT- -No. 2Red Fall CORN --Mixed " OATS--No. 2..... RYE PORK--Mesa LARD <1» says 8 SO (65 3 1 08 <§ 44 O 47 SI & 82 69 ̂_ 8 $5 @10 60 , 7 4 75 -Red. CINCINNAII. WRKAT- Couit... OATS RYE "" Point--Meet ****** LAHD. 1,"^ loudJaL'*"** WHEAT--No. 1 White... . . . . . . . . . . ̂ No. 2 Red ;;; ^Ooiuf * OATS-NO. 2 "^* > BKntorr. 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