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'J--.. §• v /•/•p; - "j; *V. V '? '• v ' <fb V "> • » • _..' * V./ : :; t;- •? w • .:; ( %-i; ME f ¥*>:,\ <1- 'X^v '* '•' If*" •*>&<" " f If -' <7>; - - CH, ' I\"K r*r 1 ^ ̂ |^cargfl#i««caIcK J. VAN SLYKE, Editor AKD PtmuBHU. McHENKY. - ILLINOIS. THE BAST WEEK, :;;v- M*QMRSTIV NEWS* • R, ̂ The JTAST. . \J \ (T **"Sj • A New York paper says the expend- ' . f > ?tfcor«i to the present time for the construction ^ ' .*f the Brooklyn bridge are 110,528,574. A .,,i7, ir|ooatr*ct wu awarded last week for 10,728,000 ptmiK*" of steel and 84,000 pounds of iron. '̂The Trustees say the bridge will be finished by ^"^jrannsry,188t Widower Manton MarMe, the well- known New York editor, and Widow A. Iam- bard Williams, of Augusta, Me., have formed a f • W $ life partnership. They hats gone to Europe to •» aj»end the honeymoon. v' f'•ifciiK An explosion occurred last week at ?\« , Oliver's powder mill, near Laurel Run station, ^ Pa. William Whitebread, John McKeal and James Burns were fatally, and Fred Steel and William Kidney seriously, injured. \ 'jz, ; The New Jersey Supreme Court has y ' ' '*•* ' <' * > sffirmed the judgment in the cat* of Mrs Smith vV ; ****** f^-W, Ji.ts' JH* "* '1 and Cove Bennett, sentenced be hanged at R*^M s Jersey City tor the murder of Polios Officer i '-'Hiv Smith, tits husband of Mn. Smith. Theoaso 1 . .. **--• | aawgMstotbeCooriof Smn isd Appeals, I Tho WE*. ^ . "*** •"*- A Milwaukee dispatch says thafe "re- | ?ls ports from over 100 different points in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin say the lato storm %' i-i did no damage to the crops. Some of the % wheat w&a knocked down, but it is all coming f J 4 * ®P *S*'n* The grasshoppers'did considerable • damage to a small section along *Jhe Sioux val- **7^ ley. All the reports give very flattering pros- v * A panic occurred among a party of r » bathers at a Bohemian picnic at Si Paul, Mo., fif>( i ^4 on the Missouri Pacific railroad, and two of them were swept away by the current and >Ja,. drowned. 1^1 W I** '» ?:• ' - \ •<\ XMZ --'R~TF ^ »rl^< II-QI /v"; A Sioux Falls, Dak^ dispatch says that Mrs. E. Lee and babe, of that city, and Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, of Bed Wing, Minn., were drowned while attempting to cross a swol­ len stream in a wagon. Mr. Lee and a .young girl who were with the party escaped. James H. Croft and Charles 0. Wo* broth, arrested at Alamosa, CoL, for the mur­ der of William Syoek, in New Mexico, were taken from jail by 100 citizens and hanged to a «ottonwood tree. They had confessed. A Bismarck (Dakota) dispatch says the four Cheyenne Indians who wounded Sergt Kennedy, of the signal service, and killed a private accompanying him, Wars hanged, in ao> oordance with the sentence of the court, at Miles City. The total number of deaths resulting •TI'-FI" f<y ,.^u M 1* •v -?t from the destruction of the orphan asylum at > ^ Vass, Goodhue county, Minn., by the reoent storm, is thirteen. The little town of Edgington, Book Island county, Bl., was the other day the scene ^ , of a most horrible tragedy, a brother planting a * ' bullet in a beloved Bister's temple and then •" <»* falling dead by her side from another bul­ let sent by bis own hand. The parties to ths tragedy were Lse and Melinda J. Bobbins, the eldest son and daughter of a wealthy tenner namtd W. W. Bobbins. A few weeks age the young woman formed the acquaintance of a young man named Thomas Kichards, to whom she soon after became en­ gaged, oontrary to the wishes of the family, who, however, finally gave their unwilling con­ sent to the awriage. The brother, Lee, who was deeply attached to his sister, was not ad­ vised of the intended marriage till the morning of the day set for its consummation, and when be heard of it he swore it should W>t take plaoe. He procured a revolver and went out to bunt for Bichards, but failed to find him. Disappointed in this, he returned home and went up to the room in which his sister was dressing for the wedding - 1 'tf •k* - ; +>j • ;s ' * 'Y ;-j; 1 What passed between them is not known, but soon the family down-stairs beard the report of a pistol, quickly followed by another shot, and, rushing up-stairs, Mr. Bobbins found his two children lying in a pool of blood, the young lady dead, and the son unconscious and dying. Both were shot in the forehead. In the case of the girl the bullet passed clear through the head. Lee died in thirty minutes, without speaking a word, and, as no paper was left, this ki probably all tfaaf Will svsrbe known of UM tragedy. A brief telegram from Bodie, Gal., makes mention of an explosion of a powder magazine, by which several men were killed and a great many wounded, but gives no par­ ticulars of the disaster. San Francisco dispatches give some additional particulars of the disaster at the ,R*IF * • " • : I - rt I .{.UU: r>. IN -ifcv' -M r M •MI- TP liJl AI * ,-MMI Ji mioiog town of Bodie, CaL The magazine ! which exploded oontsined five tons of giant powder. The Shook was scarcely felt • ' under ground. At the 900-fSet level the W * men felt a slignt jar, but paid small attention to it Fortunately, the drifts had just been connected, so that no injury was done to any below the ground. The shock wa< felt on the surface a distance of twenty miles. Many boarding-houses, restaurants, and other buildings were more or less shattered, deven men were instantly killed, and upward of fifty injured, some of them fatally. Ex-Gov. William Allen died sudden­ ly at his home, near Chillioothe, Ohio, on the Uth. of July. He retired to bed in apparently Us usual health. About 1 o'clock he becamt* somewhat restless, and being unable to sleep he called to Dr and Mrs. Scott, his son-in-law and daughter, who at once appeared at Us bedside to aid him to arise. He signified his wish to be aided to reach & chair. While being thus helped, he retained all his faculties, but upon reaching the chair a slight but almost imperceptible change pawed over his face, and without a struggle and without a word he easily dropped into the chair. A slight fluttering of the heart was only noticeable, his head fell back, and his eyes closed as in peace­ ful sleep. WASHINGTON, 1 -'-Yi-. The friend* of Secwtalf'̂ liE^^ now say that be will certainly be appointed by fts President to be Judge of Dillon's circuit, to fctke effeot on the 1st of September, and that the President *nd Secretary McGrary both rely upon asmiunces received from the Senate Ju­ diciary Committee and other Democratic Sena­ tors individually that McCrary wilt be confirmed. Unless the President has changed hin mind very recently, it is not so certain that Alexan­ der H. Ramsey, of Minnesota, formerly United • Vr, .4^#* • ?<tf ' 7 •. "V* * "'/V""* •-'S*'-M , I if*.' •• i • v . ' - ' >1% % '• HIT U#, • ;l4 * KH < * •r4». W. M. FIT "Wh " * *"« " l3Sw>:fcf f ' States Be a tor, will be appointed McOrary'a successor as Secretary of War. Ho says a Washington correspondent A report from the Pension Bureau ahows that arrears of pensions, under the new law, In 18,893 cases had been adjusted prior to the 1st of Joly, the amount involved being #7,- 800,578, and the average to each pensioner a fraction loss than #530. The number of oases remaining for adjustment is supposed to be less than 35,000. The following cironlar has just been issued from tne Treasury Department: TBCASURT Bbpartmbht, ' "-v Oil ICC or THE Skorrtakc Washimotom, July 8. J To Collectors of CU9U*n% and Internal REVENUE^ ATITITUITU Treaxttrtr*. aiui other principal officer* QF Ok* Treasury Department; Hereafter, when sub­ mitting nominations for appointment to subordi­ nate positions under your direction, yen will state, in addition to the other information now required, the service of the nominee in the Union army at navy during the Rebellion. John Brnnw, Secretary. A Washington dispatch is responsible for the prediction that Gen. Hawley, of Illinois, now Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, will be appointed to succeed Secretary McCrary when the latter is translated from the war offioe to the circuit bench. It is reported that George 8. Seward, Minister to Gains, in view of the renewal of the impeachment proceeding against him, will re­ sign his mission. T**e Secretary of the Treasury has decided that the aot exempting quinine from duty, which took effect July 1, did notaffect im­ portations made before that date. An Associated Press telegram from Washington says: "A circular has been pre­ pared by the Attorney General, setting forth that the Judicial Appropriation aot for the present fiscal year itemizes all court expend­ itures. The different items are quo­ ted, and directions given to Marshals to mako /their requisitions in accordance there­ with. The circular cautions these officers against applying money received for one grade of service to that of another grade. Judging from information received at the Department of Justice up to date, the United States Marshals intend to proceed with the duties of their offices, and undoubtedly anticipate reimbursement by Congress." The South. A New Orleans paper reports that Mrs.*Sarah A. Dorsey, of Mississippi, who died in that city last week, leaves a will bequeathing her whole estate to Jefferson Davis. In mak­ ing this bequest Mrs. Dorsey refers to the great services and sacrifices of Mr. Davis on behalf of the South, reproves his countrymen for their failure in gratitude and appreciation for such services, and regrets this small con­ tribution wMeh she is able to nudes for his re­ lief. Memphis, Tenu., was thrown into a ferment of excitement, last week, by the dis­ closure of & case of yellow fever, and many people left the city in hot haste. The victim was an Irish shoemaker, 47 years of age, living in the southern part of the city. The local physicians pronounced it a sporadic case. Fire destroyed a square of buildings on Main and Congress streets, Houston, Texas, involving % loss of <50,000. Jfour or five cases of a pestilent fever, and pronounced by physicians genuine yellow fever, were reported to the Memphis Board of Health on the 10th inst The publio announce­ ment of the existence of these cases of the deadly disease created a wild panic among the populace, and a perfect stampede of cit­ izens began at once, the trains be­ ing unable to carry away the hundreds who desired to leave. An official order was issued by the Board of Health advising the people to remove their families away from the city until it oould be ascertained whether the fever would assume an epidemic form. This official recog­ nition of the existence of the pestilence in the city had the effect of heightening the excitement and hastening the departure of everybody that was ready to leave. The news spread along the river, north and south, and 8t Louis, Yicksbuxg, New Orleans, and otaer cities at once took the alarm, and the authorities proceeded to establish a quarantine against Memphis. A Lake Providence (La.) dispatch re­ ports the killing of Postmaster Austin by 'Squire Luek, of West Carroll, and the mortal wounding of Austin, Jr., the Parish Judge. W. H. Smith (coloredi, while crossing the street during the melee, was struck, it is alleged, by a stray bullet and instantly killed There were four hangings in the Bouth, on Friday, the 11th of July, namely: Antonio Garcia, a Mexican, at San Antonio, Texas, for the murder of Augustin Amallo, Sept 7,1878; John Davis (oolored) at Smith- ville, N. C., for the murder of Henry McLHiffie (oolored), December last; and two negroes- John Williams and Winter Payne--at Warren- ton, Ya. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Journal telegraphs as follows: "The arrival here within the past forty-eight hours of several shrewd Ohio politicians and their subsequent -conferences with Secretary Sher­ man, and the announcement that they intend to conduct from this time forward an active cam­ paign to secure for Mr. Bherman the next lie- publican nomination for President, has had the effect to stir up the friends of den. Grant and denator Biaine. The adherents of Secretary Sherman declare that they intend to carry on an aggiWtve campaign, and claim that they are rabidly gaining ground in th# We*t North." MISCELLANEOUS. Jay Gould, the great railroad king, has gone to Europe, and speculation is rife among the Wall street speculators as to the object of the visit A large portion of the city of Port an Poince, Hayti, has been destroyed by fire. South American war news gleaned from the Panama Star and Herald: Passen- geis from the south ooast report a battle at Calama and the capture of that post by the allied forces. The Chilian losses are said to be 1,500 killed. At Quillajua, on the River Loa, a small Chilian alvance guard was beaten; soma were killed and the remainder captured. Oam- pero was reported within twenty miles of Calama, and resting preparatory to attack on the place. The Chilian ironclad Blanca Eucalada was much damaged in the contest with the Huascar, and suffered, also, it is said, in loss of life. Capt Lafaye, of the Bolivian army, is a pris­ oner, having engaged in a oonsftiracy to assas­ sinate the General-in-Chief of Bolivia. In the right in Magdaiena, the Colombia revolution' irfts were victorious. Several officers and men of the battaUoE which figured m prominently n Panama on the 17th of April wsra killed. The Oolombiin Senate has directed the Presi­ dent to offer himself as a mediator between Chili and Peru. The crew of the Mexican war steamer Libertad took the liberty of taking her to sea, from Vera Cruz, a few days ago, without the consent of their officers, or the Government. Vessels were sent in pursuit, but ati&st accounts the result of the chase was not known. At the same time there was a-revolt in the garrisoa at Vera Crus, but the Government succeeded in suppressing it, after killing nine officers who, it was said, were captured and then murdered in the guard house. The discontent of the people with the Diaz Government seems to be growing in intensity, and it will not be strange if he is driven out of the country or killed be­ fore many weeks. . Additional advices from Mexico an­ nounce that the Mexican war-vessel libertad, the crew of which mutinied, returned to Vera Crus on tip 30th of June and surrendered. There were several dead bodies and prisoners on board, some or the. crew having made a counter revolt at sea. Burned: The Variety Iron Works, the planing mill of J. T. Denham, and several adjacent buildings, {in Cleveland, Ohio. Loss, $100,000; Louis Cook's carriage factory, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jos* 950,000; Wail & Wit­ ters' extensive livery fltebles at Denver, Ool, loss not stated. Grain in sight in the States and CanadI: Wheat, 13,439,000 bushels; com, 11,464,000 bushels; oats, 2s0SH8,000 bushels; rye, 436,000 bushels; barley, 879,000 bushels. Memphis dispatches express fears that the negroes, in removing to Kansas, have taken or are taking with them infected bag­ gage, from which pestilential fevers may be developed. James Gordon Bennett's Arctic ex­ ploring yacht Jeannette sailed from Ban Fran­ cisco for the ice-bound regions of the far north on the 8th of July. A Washington speoial to the Chicago Tribune says: "A gentleman here who re­ ceived a letter by the last steamer from one of the persons accompanying Gen. Grant's party, says that the report recently started that Gen. Grant does not intend to return to this country until next spring must certainly be a mistake, tor in this letter the announcement was posi­ tively made that he expected to return about Sept 10 next" FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. A Loridon dispatch of Sunday says the Bev. T. DeWitt Talm&ge preached at Agri­ cultural Hal#that afternoon to two congrega­ tions of 20,000 people each. Thousands upon thousands of persons thronged the streets lead­ ing to the hall for miles, almost blockading the passage of vehicles and pedestrians. Msny people were crushed, and Dr. Talmage's car­ riage was almost demolished by the crush of the great crowdj every individual in which was anxious to Mil' the distinguished American preacher. The deposed Sultan of Turkey, who, after being kicked out of the throne, was placed for safe keeping in one of the palaces and guarded, has effected his escape, and there is considerable excitement over the fact in Con­ stantinople. • ' The depressed condition of the agri­ cultural interest in Great Britain has finally occasioned the appointment of a commission by Parliament to investigate its causes. In a hurricane on the river Doubs, in France, a steamer with fifty-three passen­ gers was sunk. Only five persons were saved. A cable dispatch says the person who supplied the pistol to Alexander Solovieff, with which he attempted to assassinate the Emperor of Bussia on the 14th of April, is a physician from Weimar, Germany, who is also proved to have procured the poison with which Solovieff attempted suicide after his failure to kill the Czar, and to have owned the horse by means of which the assailants of Gen. Mezentsoff at­ tempted to escape. A telegram from St. Peters­ burg authoritatively states that he has been sentenced to be hanged very shortly. The crop news from Austria and most of the grain-prodncing regions of Eastern Eu­ rope continues unfavorable. Heavy and contin­ uous rains have damaged the growing crops in some plaoes, while in others they are likely to prevent successful harvesting. The work of destroying the great Bulgarian fortresses, Bustchuk, Silistria, Varna and Widin, has been completed by the Bus- Cetywayo's obstinacy has dissipated the English hopes of a speedy termination of the Zulu war. Hie King of the savages had not sent in hostages nor the cannon captured at Isandula; and the Britons are beginning to suspect that (hey have been fooled into the loss of valuable time by his peaceful professions. Berlin dispatches announce that the German Consul at Samoa has been ordered to abstain from all interference with the internal affairs of the country. Bismarck is understood to be not iu favor of annexing the Samoana. The Mark Lane Express, in its last Weekly review of the British grain trade, says: The agricultural prospects cause very grave apprehensions Should rain continue, the hay crop will be useless except as manure. The condition of wheat is unimproved. Barley in heavy land is nearly ruined. Nothing but the speedy advent of sunshine can prevent the al­ most general failure of the principal croDa Advices from Kent state that the hop crop threatens to be a more disastrous failure than for years past" The houses of fourteen out of fifteen wards forming the most important part of Irkutsk, Siberia, were destroyed by fire on the 4th, and many of the inhabitants are homeless. At Richmond, England, Kate Web* ster has been found guiity of the murder of her mistress, Mrs. Thomas, and sentenced to death. It was ascertained that Mrs. Thomas' body was boiled and thrown into the Thames, and the head destroyed by burning. The remains of the French Prince Imperial arrived at London by steamer from South Africa on the 10th of July. The cholera is spreading in British Burmatu, The report of the sinking of a steamer on the Ri ver Doubs, Frauoe, iu a hurricane, with great loss of life, is untrue. A Paris correspondent of the Lon­ don Timet states that everything tends to sho'v that Prince Jerome Napoleon intends accepting the position of the deceased Prince imperial. The British House of Commons, de­ spite some objections by the Government, has voted seventy-six to fifty-six is favor of the es­ tablishment of a Department of Agriculture sad Marshal MdeMahon, f^Plwsident of France, asked permission to;j|||Milt tlio funeral of the late Prinos Imperial ai CKttolharst A special Cabinet Council was called, and the ap­ plication rejected. The refusal was based upon the ground that similar requests by a number of distinguished offioers had been de­ nied The affair created a great sensation in Paris. One of the best-known agriculturists in Great Britain, Mr. Mechi, insists that a "fin­ ishing stroke" has been put to the agricultural disaster, and that it is now too late for crops to recover. They are considerably injured, he says, even on well-farmed and drained lands, "while on ill-farmed &nd undraioed lands the matter is simply ruinous." He admitted, how­ ever, that the damage is less to wheat than to spring crops. From mo«t parts of the con­ tinent the news continues unfavorable, and a material deficiency in the breadstuffs supply seems to be certain. The late elections in Austria have been disastrous to the Liberals or Ministerial party. Their losses in the Beichsrath, accord­ ing to the latest returns received, aggregate fifty seats. A telegram from Odessa, Russia, as­ serts that a transport which recently left Odessa for Saghalien with 700 Nihilists lost 200 from disease, in consequence of overcrowding, and landed 150 others in a dying condition. A second disaster by fire has visited Irkutsk, Russia, destroying many public and private buildings. Advices from South Africa report that the King of the Zulus will not submit to Lord Chelmsford's terms. IKIJM VIDUALITY. The woman who understands the art of dress carefully studies her own style, and dresses according to that style. There is nothing in costume so attrac­ tive as that which is peculiar to an in­ dividual. " My mother always wore it," you will hear a full-grown, nay, still more pathetic, an old man or woman say, with a glistening in their old eyes. Whatever it might happen to be, shawl or ribbon or sober gown, what tender- ners gathers about it; what poetry col­ lects around it by this link of personal use I The twist of a braid of hair, the fall of a curl, the fashion of a knot of ribbon, is through all the world sacred to somebody through this spell. " I got thiBforyou; it is your color." Where could there be a prettier compliment? Our loves and our likings thus appro­ priate and beautify the commonest things. No woman can be badly dressed who modifies the fashion to suit herself. Interpreted intelligently, even a dress may be human, graceful and easy, which interpreted without intelligence becomes monstrous; and there are al­ ways ways of using the mode of the moment which will get grace out of it. A gown is a gown whether it is inflated on crinoline or tied in with bandages; the fullness may be seemly. Good sense, understanding and individual taste will get out of both something that will disturb nobody, which the most fastidious may wear and the most fashionable put up with. It is folly to rail at an absurd fashion when a little judicious common sense will fde^foy its absurdity. WOMANLY KCOJTOXT. There is much talk of the extrava­ gance of women, and there is no doubt that when a woman puts her hand to the spending of money she can do it with a perfect looseness. Women are naturally extremists, and do whatever they do, and think whatever they think, with all their might. But to this ques­ tion of spending money there are two sides, and the balance decidedly inclines toward saving rather than spending. Women are naturally economists. They have twice the knack of saving that men have. Think of the Mauld clothes made to look amaist as weel as new;" think of the old bonnets retrimmed and brought out in the latest style; think of the twisting and turning, the contriving and saving to which many a woman re­ sorts to keep her family looking re­ spectable, while her husband never thinks of stinting himself in cigars and liquor. Many a man is kept from pau­ perism by the contrivings of his wife; many a family owes the comfortable house they inhabit more to the econo­ my of the mother than tlie savings of the father. Before men talk of the ex­ travagance of woman, they should strive to learn a lesson from their economy. NEW YOBK TBK BDBXT OF HOMI- , CIHB8. New York should be the Eden of homicides. Murder can be comihitted here with as little danger to the mur­ derer as in any place on the globe, as­ suming it to be civilised. Many of those struck out of life are doubtless of the sort who benefit the community by their exit; but their slayers are as bad as they, and their execution would be the sole benevolent aot they have had any shai'e in. The only murderers who get justice in Manhattan are those with­ out money, influence or friends. It seems impossible to hang in New York any man who wears a clean shirt, deep- dyed though his hands be & blood.-- New York paper. A. K. Gray, of Dover, Mass., is a helpless paralytic, who has been con­ stantly rocked night and day for several years. Constant motion is necessary to keep him alive, and circulation mtist often be induced by rubbing his limbs. ViBonnA boasts an immense crop of FRESH TOPICS, A ^Btcbv made by the Secretary of the Treasury shows the exports of live cattle from this country have increased from 783,395 in 1868 to 5,844,653 in 1878, or nearly eight-fold. One-half the exports are to England. Thirty or forty years ago the Church of England established a Bishopric in Jerusalem. The incumbent has recent­ ly died, and the question arises, shall he have a successor?--the original pur­ pose to convert Judea to Christianity not having been successful. _____ • Edwin Booth desires that Gray, h»a lunatic who shot at him, shall be kept securely in the asylum. "I trust Gray may become gray indeed," he says, " in kind but careful confinement, or if earlier released, that his exit may be from this earthly stage of his dra­ matic exploits to that celestial scene where idiots cease from shooting and actors are at rest. If he be ever again at liberty, my own life I shall not indue worth a rush." • • • Official reports to the agent of the Western Associated Press, at Memphis, Tenn., from the Mayors and Presidents of Boards of Health of Memphis, Vicks- burg, Jackson, Miss.; Canton, Miss., Shreveport, La.; Collierville, Tenn.; Hickman, Ky.; Grenada, Miss. ; Helena, Ark.; Holly Springs, Miss.; Decatur, Ala., and Tuscumbia, Ala., state that the health outlook has never been more fa­ vorable. In no instance has there been any indication of a Return of yellow fever. Pbiob to 1872 the Erie railway paid annually for new rails, and repairs to rails, $2,639 a mile. Since then the road has been laid with steel rails, and the repairs thereby so reduced that the annual expense on that aicoount amounts to but $253 per mile. On the entire road this affords a saving of $1,800,000. The Railroad Gazette estimates that the substitution of steel rails effects a clear saving to the railroads of thin country of $19,000,000. The extensive use of steel rails began in 1872, at which time nearly 11 per cent, of the rails were replaced yearly, while in 1878 only 5i per cent, had to be relaid. It is not every husband who, even when caught in a trap, will frankly con fess an error. But there is a certain matron in Rome, N. Y., who, if report is true, possesses such a lord. She had a talent for wax-works. Her husband boasted that he could invariably tell at a glanoe that her work was artificial She remembered his partiality for a " boiled dinner," and determined to tnake one in wax. The vegetables and meat were made and set before him at dinner, and with keen relish he struck *out for the platter before him. Lo! 'twas a false dinner. He frankly acknowledged that he was duped, and with admirable docility haod^d his pocket-book to his wife. ® Carelessness in the execution of wills seems to be predestinate. Joaiah Bacon, who was murdered in San Fran­ cisco last year, left a will which has been refused probate in Massachusetts, because it has not the legal number of witnesses, three being required, and this instrument having only two Yet Mr. Bacon was a regularly-educated lawyer, who knew the rule as well as he knew his ABC. He himsslf wrote the will, and attended to its execution. The old saw about a man who acts as his own lawyer has thus an additional confirmation. A great many lawyers' wills, drawn by themselves, have been set aside, the only explanation of the fact being sreditable to them--that is, that they do not take as much pains for themselves they would for their clients. An allpring description of Washing­ ton Territory is drawn By Mr. J. H.' Brents, the Delegate from that Terri­ tory to-Congress. The population is said to be orderly and hard-working, law-abiding, religious, and mindful of the importance of school houses in every settlement. The eastern part of the Territory is said to be a vast plain of remarkable fertility, on which immense herds of cattle, sheep and horses are raised, and subsist entirely on natural pastuies, both in winter and summer. This land produces a yield of wheat, barley and oats. The climate is mild and healthful. Hardy emigrants are constantly pouring in. The coast sec­ tions are rich in timber, fish, and coal that give employment to thousands. Last year 160,000 tons of coal, 210,000,- 000 feet of lumber, and $2,000,000 worth of canned and salt salmon were exported. Railroad lines are being rap­ idly extended, and there is abundant in­ land iiiavigation. The population amounts to nearly 130,000, and are ask­ ing for admission into the Union as a State. ( A man who represented that he was a Government agent went through Holmes county, Miss., about two weeks ago, stating that on the following Sun­ day a free train would arrive at Durant, Miss., for the purpose of transporting all who wishedio go to "^nnwrn He gave every darkey a small flag which w to be stuck in the land they squatb upon in Kansas, thus giving themselv valid title to the ground. For all tt information, of course, the poor negro had to pay, and they gave the mi whatever little money they bml. \ shrewd was the wretch, and so grapt the picture he painted of life in that the news spread like wildfi through the country, and on all sid the darkies commenced to gather T their traps preparatory to the long faf before them. Such property as thj oould not take with them they dispoc of at any prices they could get. Co were sold at $2 apiece, chickens al cent apiece, and other things in proportion and at similar sacrifices. Sunday, the 15th of June, about 1,< negroes assembled at the railroad t tion at Durant, prepared, as well as th slim means and ill judgment would b allow, for their journey to course the free train did not arrive, i the betrayed blacktt are now stram high and dry, their homes, cattle, i niture, and in some instances their la all gone, and they thrown upon mercy and charity of the Holmes county. A SMAMT DOG. A few months ago I made the quaintance of a dog, which, I thinl worthy of a place among the dogs cats Mid rats and mules that are helj the pages of Nature to determine degr e and kind of animal intellige: "Priest's" is a hotel on the way f: the Calaveras Grove of Big Trees to Yosemite. In former years on the rival of the stage the landlady W( send the dog to the poultry-yart catch chickens for the tourists' din Now, the dog "takes time by the f lock." The stage is due at 6 o'cl About 5 o'clock the dog saunters urely down the road till he meets stage, he then bounds back to the j try-yard, catches chickens, \>ites t heads off, and takes them to the c The number of chickens he kills t a relation to the number of passen he saw in the stage. A gentleman was stopping at the hotel for a few i went into the woods one afternoon a gun. When he returned the came to him in much excitement tc what game he had taken. Finding hands and his bag empty, the dog into the forest and returned in than an hour with a bird, Which he t with an air of compassion, to the HU^TEF.--Nature. F' I. QUICK WORK. People often talk about the law* lays, but it is because the pla doesn't go to work right. Yestc morning at 9 o'clock a Detroit 1 sent out a bill. In half an hour ht * word to go to Texas. In 15 mil more he had begun suit. At 11 o' he had a judgment in full, and b noon he was found doubled up o' chair in his shop, both eyes in m< ing, his nose bleeding, and his mil confused that he could only reme of seeing the defendant's coat tai he went out doors.--Detroit Free I A man living at Worth, Ga., bot fine Cotswold ram, and turned thf into a pasture with some other s| Previously he had lost' a^ numt sheep from tHe ravages df dogs, i morning, a few days after he hd ceived the ram, he saw the ram alj tilt butting something on the gr<| On approaching nearer he found dog, with every bone in its body br| Near by was a lamb, badly tori bleeding, which the dog had »tt Tlil. MARKETS. _ ' NtW YORK. £**•*«. ...fSOO Hons Itm (ti! lajsiaUf F loub-- S o p e r f t M . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 6 Wheat--No.S f Cobn--WfcBtem Idxed, 4 1 @ | Oais-- Mixed.. 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