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r?wf • • •WW\ f f k ** < t f 'v"«- x V' ^ tsfr? prp^|r n^«3*T- tStrmt) IJliiiudcalcr I. VAN 8LYKE, Editor and Publisher. HfoHENRY, ILLINOIS. • E E I I T l E W S R E V I t l * vinced him that wholesale frauds have boon ] by the treaty of Berlin, the Porto has concluded j perpetrated. The evidence in mittiisieutly con- • that it is time to act. Riza Pasha lias difr- i : elusive to warrant prosecutions under the law. patched troans to effect the ccssiou before the i j The internal revenue office has com- ™n-of-war sWl interfere, a»d hnbe^iH ^W | I tried success fully on some of the more turou,, , pletod its analysis oj the internal revenue for leul chiefs j the last, fiscal year, showing the sources wheuoe J I it came. Illinois heads the list of States in re- j spect of tho amount of revenue paid to the j Government, her total being in round j number* £23. <160,000, •19,500,000 Of which j | was from spirits. Ohio conies next ; with a total of v 18,000.000, of which $13,- LOSS OF THE YERA CRB*. 000,000 was from spirits and $3,000,000 for tobacoo products- Now York paid $16,000,- 000, of which *3,000,000 wan for spirits, £7,700,- 000 for tiilidm1, and $4,300,000 for fermented TOE EAST. 4" rivalries and bickerings between tb« two Exposition or World's Fair Committees of there1 be held i. oessfullv drawn out of t c hold of the steamer ^.]o(),()00 being for tobacco. Kentucky paid Dessonp, at New York, and will soon be placed $8,*00,000, all but *2.000.0<K» twins' ujk>u spirits, i position in Central Park. Indiana paid $6,000,000, $5,500,000 being for A PaiMCHgeT% Thrilling Story. "fcfr. A. K. Owen, one of tho surviving pas­ sengers of the ill-fated steamer Y«5i» Cruz, tells the following story of the disaster: \ At 1 p. m. last Saturday, I heard Capt. Van Sice say to Firat Officer Hntris: '• I have just noticed that the barometer is falling rapidly. We are going to have a hurrioanc." Orders STAUE AND ROSTRUM. Ella Wesneb is advertised In Iiondon as the "Idol of New York." Bandman has gono to Australia to see fj|>w his acting will take there. M. Ritdolphe jyioi>JKSKA, the son of the charming actress, is studying engin­ eering in Paris. An Italian says of the works of the Ger­ man composer Wagner that he puts sour krout on his inaccaroni. Miss Agnes Leonard, the new star, is the daughter of the late sewing machine millionaire, Isaac M. Siug»ir. Clara Morris opens her season in Philadelphia on September 13. She will homeless. The flames spread with such rapid- fftroyed by fire. The loss to the occupants i /^t^^iotlJes^hev0' wore**^©^ j wnvos broke over tlie sliip, filling the saloon and ^^Si)000'000- ^ bUlldlllg 2S JSS ^room* valued at £500,000. j art* represented as in a pitiable condition, and j ^ or , on floor taming with or as- Dr Tanker is not meeting with great j ,riil be dependent'largely upon charity during j nnri'V - 0 m 1 1 the coming winter, wr' v m ft" rain, and lifted the si up almost on her beam • a-. ,, ,. , - . ends. It was almost impossible to get about j y definite English engagements, without support. AH movable articles were Mrs. Zelda Sequin, well known as an thrown from port starboard. Tlie wind was actress and contralto, was married a few northeast, and the vessel "«"*>• 1 - - - _____ by east the 2VS&'th, fV* Baltimore, to Mr David nain saloon were carried awav ; the Wallace, of Indiana]X)lis, and brother of were given to cut up and throw overboard some cars for a Mexican railroad and some barrels of j plaJ there three weeks, oils and acids, constituting the deck load. The | Edwin BOOTH, after visiting Germany, stood on the Goat Island bridge, at Niagara, j A FOREST fire near Upton, Canada, j fterrible ! ,Frano®. w,iU to London shot himself in the head, and jun^ped into the i has caused a terrible catastrophe. A fertile rain, and'lifted tiie siun almost on her beam | m September He lias not as yet made ancry flood. His body was swept over the falls ; an<j attractive region, several miles in extent, and has not yet been reowve • j Jx^n converted into a desolate waste, four Thk Manhattan market building, a* i or five persons burned to death, and New York, which covered an entire block, and | over fifteen hundred poojjlo rendered had over 200 tenante, has been completely de- „--M In„,r „miI1M -- , , T Gen. Lew Wallace. The Chicago Inter-Ocean says: When an Indianapolis young man makes up his mind, artists and actresses might as well withdraw objections, and take a new - it--*- -- - -- -- | member into the Company. tent three census agents to Sou® Carolina to tentive. Gen. Torbert had been washed out Of j ifl explained that the' nroduction of i.- * (k ii a., I stateroom No. 5 earlv in the evening, and his | . ' , e*P"unea inat tne production OT investigate the alleged frauds in the enumera- , rigllt cheek was badly bruised. At 1 a. m. Sun- j of Zolas Aana is delayed because he tion m tuat state. I (}uv tjje {.ngine-room wnn still dry. A drag was cannot in all France find an actress capa- ! , SlBHrimAI* ! put out, but it reversed, and was um>1okh. It ble of gprforming, at least to his satisfac- : Hakm», the champion IIti°f' "'e ^^roi»e I with the oars, baa sailed for England to row j a heavy «oa, the water putting out the tiren aud j . ̂ CABliEOKAM anfioilnces that the klllg ' " j stopping the engine. The donkey engine | high-kickers, Emerson, Clark and Daly was started at the pumps, and was | brothers, have made an immense hit in working when the steamer sank. The j London, and have offers from managers anoceMi as a lecturer. His first lecture, deliv­ ered in Booth's Theater, New York, drew an audiencc of about 100 The coast of New Jersey has been swept by a northeast gale blow­ ing at the rate of sixty miles an hour, It is pronounced the severest September gule that has visited that coast since 1854. The damage along the shore is great. M <nsHALT, O. Roberts, the well- known New York merchant, Hteamshio owner, is dead. Cknsus Superintendent Walxeb has severely cut and bruised against the furniture. Good cheer prevailed, and all were quiet and composed. The servants were kind aud at- capitalist and j Tricket^ the Australian oarsman. -! W. H. Greenwood, a celebrated j,, 1 American railroad engineer, has been mnrderod , j. y i American ranroau enL A RACK to test the comparative speed > by unknown persona near tho City of Mexico. 1 endurance of hones and men came off in Chicago last week. The contest grew out of a wager that a horse could cover thirty miles in lens time than three men could go the same distance, each man going ten miles. The horse came in ahead, making the distance in 3 hours, 7 minutes and 3f! seconds. The three men made the total distance in 3 hours, 25 minutes and 5 seconds. Gen. Grant visited the Wisconsin State Fair at Madison, aa the special guest of tte managers. Sixteen miles from Fort Cummings, i $16,310,450, Hew Mexico, a party of Indians attacked a | stage-coach and killed the driver and two i passengers A fire a* St. Louis destroyed six ice-houses and a portion of the buildings of the Excelsior Manufacturing Company, involving a | loss of about $140,000. Pat Lynch and Ed ! Saunders, two firemen, were killed, and Pat j Conway and John Collins were fatally and three : other firemen seriously injured, while trying to ; check the flames It has been ascertained i that E. Ii. Hall, whose term of office as Treas­ urer of Lucas county, Ohio, has just expired, is a defaulter to the amount of $47,000. A sensational tragedy was enacted at tte railroad depot in Salt Lake City, the other day. Dr. B. C. 8nedaker was sitting in a car, when R. T. Smith entered. Snedaker arose and fired, Smith falling with a bullet in his lungs. The doctor was promptly arrested, but before the officer had conveyed him to the door Smith sprung to his feet and fired twice at his assailant, both balls taking effect and «ansing instant death. Smith was removed to the hospital in a dying condition. A woman was at the bottom of the trouble. Troops from Fort Cummings over­ took the savages who recently captured a mail- ooach in New Mexico and killed the passengers, and had a short fight with them. Three of the soldiers were killed, and several wounded. The savages then lied in the direction of Mexico. An express train on the Indianapolis sad St. Louis railway was thrown from the track on a bridge thirty feet high, at St. Mary's Station, Ind., a few nights ago. The conductor was killed, and several passengers were injured. It is thought the disaster was caused by train - wreckers bent on robbery Two citizens of Hannibal, Mo., named I)aniel •Camery and Samuel Shields, descended a mine Shaft near that city too soon after the explosion of a Wast, and were suffocated The 'Presi­ dential party arrived at San Francisco on the 9th of September, and were given an enthusi­ astic greeting, nearly the entire population tnrning out. Several of the Northwestern States re now holding their arnraal agricultural fairs, aud the display of products is perfectly prodigious. Never has earth given such nessings upon man as this year A half-breed Indian named Dixon, convicted of toe murder of a woman, was executed at Ataka, Indian Territory, on the 10th inst. Being given his choice as to the instrument of death, he selected a Winchester riflet. His own cousin, also at his request, fired the fatal ball I Advices from Mexico state that Presi- | dent Diaz has been elected to the Saaate, and I Benetiz, one of Gonzales' prominent opponents . for election to the Presidency, has been chose* j memVier of the House of Deputies. Leading ; opposition papers concede the election of Gon- , zales, although some of the opposition still j hope the election will be thrown into the House j of Deputies. j The total receipts of forty railroads in America during the month of August were against $12,572,660 in August, purser came below,calling for Gen. Torbert, send i said that the Captain wanted the assistance of j keep them abroad a year, the passengers or tho vessel would sink. I imme-i The municipal governments of St. diately got up and went to the deck, and tho ! Petersburg aud Moscow are, oh the plea. {g verge of takraptoy, trying to g„t sea was constantly breaking over tho vessel, coming between the decks in large quantities, the donkey engine going to no purpose. Finally we abandoned all hojie of saving tho vessel. There wan no excitement on board, and each man assisted his neighbor in arranging life-preservers. Gen. Torbert was a per­ fect sunbeam, encouraging and assisting ofl' l>eiiig compelled to contribute to tho opera in those cities, but it is doubtful if they succeed. Ladt managers are becoming the rule rather than the exception in England. Drury Lane, the Olympic, the Strand, _ „ w the new Sadlers' Wells, the Britannia, ki everybody. The storm was most terrific, Kuch ; London, and the Theater Royal. Brighton, waves and wind as cannot be described. The I are un(ier womftn'a .w^trol ship was listed over cn her beams by every ™ ""Uer women 8 control. wave. It was only possible to crawl from one I Miss Rose Bytinoe will star through point to another. The storm was so thick wo j the country under tlie management of making 1879. There has been an increase in mileage of 17 per cent The Anchor line steamship Anglia, bound fiom Boston to Liverpool, was i couldu't see 100 yards ; and it was impossible j Mr. H J Sargent fillinc in many places run into and sunk bv the bark Trogate. The u fac„ wind an.l rain At 4-iii n m I, , , uuxgoiik, muufe, luurnuy crew were saved but the vessel and cargo, , the Hua broke into th'e en ilie r"oon;; ^ made for Mme. Modjeska, who, valued at $1,000,000, were a total los* | makirig a craeh like a battery of artillery and ' 88 11118 ,>eel1 announced, has broken her " Buchanan, the bogus diploma peddler t dashing passengers and furniture into one mass. | contract with Mr. Sargent and will not i who skipped from Philadelphia, and afterward i The passengers crowded Social Hall, at the top return to this country this season. went on a lecturing tour in Canada with a fel- | Gf th(« utairs sniil their fnrnwpiu ndinat«5 •' | tow quack was delved over from Court-j their life-preservers, and expressed words of I Hebr Richard Wagner wrote after | right, Out.., to St. ( lair, Mich., aud taken back sympathy, They took my advice, and remamed j semug Liszi conduct "Tannhauser:" " I I to Philadelphia. on ship till she went down. Tho Captain was astonished on recognizing my second POLITICAL. | was seen just before 4:12 a. m., when the sea I self in his achievement. What I had | The Greenbackers of Nebraska have ! placed the following State ticket in the field: ' For Governor, O. T. B. Williams ; Lieutenant | Governor, B. Lansing ; Secretary of State, B. F. Allen ; Treasurer, A. V. Herman ; Attorney General, Noah A. Sheckler; Laud Commis­ sioner, David Neal: Superintendent of Educa­ tion, Dr. Mansfield... .After a stormy session i the Georgia Republican Convention passed ares- 1 olution declaring it inexpedient to nominate can- | dates for Governor and other State officers ! The New Hampshire Republicans have piaoed j in nomination the following candidates : Gov- I eraor, Charles C. Bell; Railroad Commissioners, i .Tames E. French, Charles A. Smith and ! E. J. Tennv; Presidential Electors, Nathaniel White and E. H. Winchester I Arkansas and Vermont held State elections, tho : former on the 6tli and the latter on the 7th of ; September. The Democrats carried Arkansas by a majority estimated at this writing at from 40,060 to 50,000, while the Republicans swept i Vermont by about 25,000 majority. ! The Massachusetts Prohibitionists' and one or two seamen took the boat at the starboard bow. but were killed before the boat could bo lowered. Miller, the first engineer, and his assistants stuck to the ship till she sank. O'Neil, the quartermaster, ana a seaman whoso name I do not know stood at the wheel till the vessel sank, about 0 a. m. The ship broke in half, filling the sea with wreckage of all descriptions. No idea can be formed of the ap;>eiirancc of that immense quantity of freight dashing together, with men, women, children and horses swimming or sink- riting j sound." j Mr. And Mrs. Capowski, known among | us as Mme. Modjeska, will aot visit this | country next season, as reported, but hope to renew next season the brilliant I triumps Mme. Modjeska has won in Eng- | land. She is passing the summer in j Cornwall. Mme. Modjeska was an- | nounced as Countess here, but she does ing through the surging mass, and with the | not claim that title in England. waves fifty feet high, not in swells or ridges, but in peaks, breaking like surf toward each other. Wh. n we rose on one, it was not to go down on the other side, but to be whirled over the top and sent nollinr or flying through the air to the opposite wave, and so backward and forward. Tnis lasted" two or tLree hours. Then the waves began toeomo in swelling ridges, and we rolled or fell down on tho opposite side. The wind was so terrific that planks were Convention at Worcester indorsed the nomina- j lifted by it, dropping among tho living and dy- tions of Neal Dow for President and the Rev. All were bleeding from wounds, H. A. Thompson for Vice President, adopted a resolution declaring in favor of female suffrage, and nominated the following candidates for State officer* : For Governor, (Jhas. Olney, of New Bedford ; Lieutenant Governor, Timothy K. Earle, of Worcester; Secretary of State, Sol. T. Root, of Dalton ; Treasurer, Tiios. J. Latti- rop, of Taunton; Auditor, Jonathan Buck, of Harwick; Attorney General, Samuel M. Fair­ field, of Maiden. VOBBISR. and half were dead and dying in fifteen min­ utes. The scene was appalling. I and Thomas Duingoole, fourth assistant engineer, got on a .A critic says that, while Patti sings j ballads, pronouncing eaeli word clearly, \ her notes are so distinct and round that j the hearer feels as if ho could pick up each one and put it in his pocket. Rossini | once told Mme. Nilsson to be • careful that she did not use her high notes too much, and there are people who believe that she suffers now because she did not follow his advice. *K»e Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture furnishes the following figures in regard to the wheat crop of the State for 1880 : The total number of bushels raised was 56,508,- 309, of which 53,865,505 were winter and 2,642,- 808 spring wheat. Tiie number of acres in winter wheat was 2,970,086, and 286,264 ia spring wheat Ed. J. Mnrdock, » promising youth of Cincinnati, has rohbed his widowed mother of §7,000, tte extent of her fortune, and disappeared. TUB SOUTH* A terrible tragedy is reported from Hew berry county, 8. C.: Mr. Henry Grier, an old citizen and great fisherman, went to Little river to indulge in his favorite sport, and, find­ ing that the fish were slow in biting, he pro­ ceeded to examine the water. He made out the body of a man lying upon tho river bottom. Getting help the body was taken out, and proved to be that of the old man's youngest •on. While overcome at the sickening discov- «ry, one of the men said, " Here'B another," and a second body wat taken out, and this, too, proved to be the other son of "the grief-stricken father. It was evident that both young men had been murdered and then their bodies put ni tho water A fire in the business quarter of Mobile, Ala., destroyed the buildings occupied by D. R. Dunlap, T. P. Miller & Co., Overill & Beator, t W. Porter A Co., J. B. Hazard & Co., A. G. More & Co. and F. Gomez. The loss is $360,- 000, and the insurance $230,000. Dispatches from Louisville state that •' two stages, which run between that town and I In regard to Gen. Roberts' recent vic- ! tory over Ayoob Khan, a dispatch from Afghan- ] istan says : Ayoob's camp was captured, and two lost guns of the Royal Horso Artillery, ! taken by Ayoob at the defeat of Gen. Burrows, • were recovered, and several wheeled guns of various caliber captured. The attack upon their I camp was evidently a surprise to the Afghans, A rather strange suit is now going on at Hnrrisburg, Pa., as there are thirteen piece of the dining-aaloop, twentv-fiv^ by ten ! theaters its the'defen&uits. They are all feet across. We were in the water twenty-two Plijladelphjft t4ace» qT amusemdnt. and hours. We both went bhnd at night from the bav„ rptnsed fo Jji,,,;,, f..v salt water in our eyes. When we struck the tV\i P ^ ^ °f breakers at 4 a. m. Monday our craft went to the present suit Is decided in pieces. Wo were whirled through the breakers j f^vor of the State, unit will be com- to the beach, twelve miles north of Mosquito j menced to recover license fees for the inlet. I think we had drifted fifty miles. | past ten years. The State expects to get about $50,000 from these theaters. If Gen. Torbert came ashore near New Britain, six miles above mo. His body was discovered in tlie surf at 8 o'clock on Monday morning. He still had on his life-preserver. When Mr. Pitts caught him his heart was still beating and warm, fresh blood was running from a wound over his right eye. Everything was done to re- i 0 • , . , , - • store him, without avail. He was probably s picture, and savs this about her: hurt among the breakers, being struck by a I present this weak a portrait of the State succeeds, the State can never expect to be deadheaded into any of their shows. The New York Mirror prints Carrie who apparently did not dream of being assaulted and defeated so easily in their stronghold By the capsizing of a boat belonging to Princo Galitzin, off the coast of Finisterre, on the 3d inst., Viscount Fleury, Mrs. Hennessy, an American lady, and two English people were drowned. The steamer San Salvador, in the South American cf ttle trade, was lost in tho late hurricane off Florida. Her crew, with the exception of the Captain and first, mate, was colored Yellow fever is spreading through the interior of Cuba. During the recent visit of the Czar to Livadia the track was guarded night and day by about 50.000 troops Greece has called all adult ir^ilecitizens under 30 to her army.,.. Several lives were lor,t at Herinagur, India, by a conflagration which destroyed 150 houses. The British Parliament was plank to which he was clinging. I brought "the body to Halifax river and buried it in a palmet­ to grove Too Many Points for Him. "Boss," said an old darky wliite- 'washer to Marshal Hogan, "dare's a nigger up my way wat needs taken care uv." "What has he done?" said the offi­ cer. "Oh, well, you sees, last summer he borrowed my as fur to split some kind- portrait of Miss Carrie Swain, one of the brightest and most talented young women in the profession. Miss Swain is a native of San Francisco, and h^s just passed her twentieth birthday, j Her voice is a mezzo-soprano of retnarkable compass and power. She i4 also a splendid I dancer. As an atlilep in rowing, .svvim- j ming, etc., she has fi«v equals among la- | dies. One of tlie jfivutost swimming j feats ever accomplished by a lady was I that of Miss Swam ii.st summer at l)e- ; rogued on tho 7th of September, after an un- j usually long session A Lisbon dispatch says that a steamer from Loanda brings the follow­ ing news : The Portuguese steamer belonging i to the reoently-estabiished Coanza Company . had steamed up the Congo river to Noki, two 1 hours' sail from liibi, headquarters of Henry , M. Stanley'ti expedition. Stanley told the Captain of the steamer tkat his" object wy s j not commerce, but to open a path for future ; traders. t A Lou do v dispatch of the 9th iuBt. says that an explosion in the Seaham colliery, pints of the law ; dereforedis ax am mine till I take it back an' de darn fool nig­ ger wouldn't girn it ito me. " I didn't say nulfin* or give him any Pr°- | back talk, but de odder day Hanner, my ' ole woman, went to hia house an' bor­ rowed his buck saw, an* when ho came fur it I tole him jist like he answered me, an' stood on my dignity." "Well?" "I had nine pints of the law. didn't I?" "Yes." "And how many pints am de law composed of ?" " I don't know exactly." " Well, dat's what bodders me, for dat „ ,, A ™ , ! near Durham, England, imprisoned 230 men in | nigger saw dem nine pints, shut up dis mem. amlaHthemsseneersrobbed 'Vhe stace the ^ M*;aHUreri promptly taken to res- j lei' eye fur me, pitched de ole woman to the cave was first attacked about four miles ; t^Leo^fourtl^'of them hid I l)a,1"1 alK\ Wlllke<1 off wid his saw* east of Cave City, and the one passenger on j three-fourths of them had perisuod. j hU('k an my whitewash brush to boot. board was rifled. The other coach, coming tho A London dispatch reports that the | Ef I had mne pints he nma' have had other way, was shortly afterward met by two ! arrangement between Bismarck and Von Hav- ! ober twenty, an' even den he didn't half be.„c„ cV. | ihe passengers to get out and stand in line, and. i Jnany and Austria to raise Roumania to the j PrAf Roll's T nob ordered them, at the pistol's point, to give up i rank of a kingdom, the independence of *iui. rums l-ut*. all their property. The travelers were unable ; two empires will guarantee, j Prof. Alexander Graham Bell has re- te resisr successfully, so they had to shell out. Tlie robbers took possession of all their money, Jewelry, and valuables, aggregating in value about $1,200. After the exploit they made the This would interpose the new between Russia aud the Balkans A cablegram from Constantinople announces the arrival there of the murderers of Dr. Par- It is Miss Swain's intention, during the present season, to swim from tlm iron pier, Coney Island, t*> lireslin's Uri^kton Beach Hotel. Miss Swain will In; a mem­ ber of Smith A: Mestay< •r's Tourists tluj coming season. She is undoubtedly a great acquisition to tlie company. Origin of the Horseshoe Superstition. In the very early times, says a writer in liahlichix MonUt/y, among the Celtic race an eiiigy of the patron saint, so common in churches and temple*, was much nsed in the dwellings and shops of the people, as a so-called "protec­ tion " against ill-fortune. The " glory" above the hea l of these figures--which later was often rudely carved in wood and painted--wsus represented by a circular pieoe of polished metal, to convey the effect of the shining halo or nimbus frequently seen in illustrations of the Virgin and other scripture sub­ jects. Often this metal nimbus was of semi-circular form ; and, after the figure itself had disappeared, by reason of de- | cay, the nimbus remained and was sus- able impression on the sister, he ga\\> liis mustache an extra twist, and reiter­ ated his reply with emphasis: "Ob. yes, a very line room." "I thought so," said the young hopeful, nmsinglv. " But what made you think so?" sttid the young lady's admirer, his curiosity by this time fully aroused. "Because," w£s tlie crushing reply, "Sister Mag said your room was better than your company," la Portugal. \ In the most civilized countries of tour­ ist-haunted Europe, the beggar and t.ho professional showman are prominent fig­ ures in the landscapes. In Italy the mendicants swarm in every gorge, re- Elacing the banditti who have been unted down by the bcrsaglieri. In Switzerland they beset yon at each pass and col, whining at your heels as yon enter the villages aud leave them. Even in Germany, where the "begging is ' am Mrenf/sten verboten? " they make silent appeals while the carriage changes horses, by the fore-wheel, where they have you at an advantage when pulling up a steep. In the rural districts of Por­ tugal there is no nuisance of the kind. An excellent system of voluntary relief generally supersedes the hard imposition of our poor rates; the country is decid­ edly underpopulated, and the peasants for the most part, are well to do. In some Provinces they are worse off than in others, but everywhere they are well fed and well clothed ; while in tli^ihore fertile and populous parts of the north they may be said to be relatively rich. What should you think of a laborer in this country whose wife carried golden ornaments on her person of a Sunday of tho value of from £5 to £20? And the good man himself has his gay feata cloth­ ing, with buttons of silver or glossy vel­ veteen, and rejoices in the dandyism of a spotless white shirt-front, lighted up by a gold st*ad in tlie central frill. He works hard, to be sure; sometimes his toil, in the long days of midsummer, will extend to sixteen hours, but then, like our own hard-working colliers and miners, he lives uncommonly well. He can even afford to be something of an ep­ icure, and he rejoices iu a variety of diet that onr laborers might well envy. His bill of fare includes beef and bacon, dried codfish--which is the common del­ icacy of all classes--lard, bread, and rice, olives, and olive oil, with a luxu­ rious profusion of succulent Vegetables. He is allowed gourds aud cabbages a' discretion, nor can anything be more suitable to a sultry climate. And, like the Frenchman, and his nearer neighbor the Spaniard, he is always something of a cook. Not that he has studied Refine­ ments of cuisine; but he can dress the simple ingredients of his banquets in a fashion that is inimitable so far as it goes. The belated wayfarer, who is asked to sit down to the stew that lias been slowly simmering in the pipkin over tlie embers--it is, in fact, the Spanish olla podrida--has, assuredly, no reason to complain. Then his wine, though it is "green," andpote-.it, and heady, and only to be appreciated by one born to the use of it, is infinitely superior to the adulterated beer the Englishman buys at the village "public." -- JUackwood# Magazine. _ About Leeones. They live from fifty to 100 years, and are sometimes even older than that. Most of the leeches used by medical men of this country are brought from Northern and Northwestern Europe, where they abound ift the swamp lands in great numbers. They are imported to this country by Dr. Wliite, who lives in Rhode Island, and who has great jfcirging ponds, where he prepares the dis­ gusting little creatures for the market. Cleveland dealers get their supplies fro^T him and from wholesale houses in New York city. There are two or three firms in this city who wholesale them. They sell during a single year to tlie small drug stoves and the physicians through­ out the city not less than 2,000 leeches. They bring a price of about $1 per dozen, and are easily and cheaply kept in supply. The American leech is found in parts of Mississippi and Pennsylvania, but for bleeding purposes are considered worthless, the foreign, or rather the Swedish leech being the best and conse­ quently the highest priced. At Bordeaux, France, is an immense piece of swamp land, where the leeches are captured by the million. Here there are large -num­ bers of aged and infirm horses and cattle, brought thither from the surrounding cities. Th^se animals are driven into the swamps, the leeches fasten them­ selves on tho beasts in great numbers, tho animals again reach dry land, and the leeches are gathered from their bodies, packed in rich, black earth, and shipped to this country. Not less than 20,000-horses were engaged in this won- (iiiit'ul business during last year alone. The leech itself is a queer creature. It takes an entire year tor it to digest a meal, aud if properly taken care of it will live wonderfully long with nothing m eat. Bat they are very delicate, nevertheless, and are often utHictcd with diseases peculiar to the lectin. Among these allUctions is a fatal skin disease, which oiten carries off largo numbers before its ravages can be stopped.-- Cleveland I'rctis. THE INVENTORS. AM 8mm of the Queer Thing* Tiiejr Are I .'p. The latest wrinkle in gas-meters is the patent of a Norfolk man, a price-indi­ cator showing in dollars and cents the amount due for gas. An automatic railroad switch signal has been patented by a Hartford hotel clerk. It shows danger when a switch is displaced, and will not right itself until the last of the indefinite number of switches to which it may be attached has been properly placed. down with two quarts of beer, four bof*- ties of old wine, and three of aerated water, but when he had cleared the last , of his appointed dishes--the clock dial ! then marking 10 minutes to 12--he asked for a three-egg omelette, which vanished down his tlirout before the I hoarntmck. Buoyancy of Water. Another terrible steamboat slaughter ! Presence of mind and a slight knowl­ edge of the specific gravity of the hmnan l>ody would have saved much of this frightful loss of life. There was loose Clocks can now be made self-winding wood enough about the boat to have i that is, electric clock of the Copen- floated ten times the number of passen- hagen variety. Louis Scenderbevg, the gers on the ill-fated vessel, if it had been i Dane, m charge of them, applies to them . used with judgment. The human body a mechanical contrivance which peri- ! weighs about a pound in the water, and ; ^ cutf. stream of electric a single chair will carry two grown per- ; fluid from the battery, and brings an sons. That is, it will keep their heads ; electro-magnet to bear upon the relax- ; above water, which is all that is neces- rng maiu-sprmg in such a way as to re- j sary when it is a question of life or death. , n<7 lts tellsv;? instantaneously. ; The burning vessel was close to shore, ; A yonng New lorker lias patented | the water was calm and warm, and all what lie calls water-Skates. The skate these passengers might easily have : 18 ^ i?1* ve? i n.u , Zll}c aiu^ her" : jumped overboard and paddled laughing metically sealed; is about hye feet in ; ashore, if they had onlv possessed^! . length, ten inches broad and live inches ! used the simple knowledge that one fin- i deep, with vertical sides, and tapers oft ger placed upon a stool, or a chair, or a . fore and aft or at the toe and heel, like ! 8maIl box, or a piece of board, would I a ^"Hikoat. On the deck or upper ; easily keep the head above water, while I surface there is a socket into which the ; the two feet and the other liand rnicht foot is set, the opening being guarded be used as paddles to propel toward the ; by a run of metal to keep the water ; shore. It is not at all necessary to know from washing into the socket. The botr j how to swim to be able to keep from ; torn is fitted with a double gang of auto- ] drowning in this way. A little experi- | matic paddles, one gang forward and i ence of the buoyant power of matter, • the other uft, with fave blades in each and faith in it, is aJl that is required. We ! ahg bltuiGs Are set on swi\cls in I1&V6 seeu s small boy who could not a frame ten inches square, that hangs , swim a stroke propel himself back and , vertically with the bottom of tlie skate. . forth across a deep, wide pond by means As the skate is pushed forward through j of a board that would not sustain five the water the blades are opened and offer no resistance, but when the foot rests so as to begin a forward movement with the other foot, the pressure back­ ward closes the blades aiul gives a pur­ chase on the water that materially aids in propulsion. Each skate weighs about eight pounds, but in the water, owing to its buoyancy, it has no perceptible weight on the foot. One day the invent­ or walked across the surface of the Har­ lem river on them, the movement being a sort of gliding step, in which the skate is not lifted out of the water. Incidents of Cape Cod Life. A walk on the shore in tlie early morning brings you in company with the fishermen launching their boats, and sailing over the bay to draw their nets, pounds. In fact, that sometime small boy is now writing this. Children and all others should have practice in. the sustaining power of water. In nine cases out of ten the knowl­ edge that what will sustain a pound weight is all that is necessary to keep one's head above water will serve better in emergencies than the greatest expertness as a swimmer. A person un­ familiar 'with the buoyant power of water will naturally try to climb on top of the floating object on which he tries to save himself. If it is large enough that is all right. But it is generally not large enough, and half of a struggling group are often drowned in the desperate scramble of a life-and-death struggle to climb on top of a piece of wreok of other whioifXn TZ filf T T v',neurt T™' floatinS obiect» not large enough to keep-which often are filled with blue-fish or , them all entire'Iy abov* ̂ wtftor_ Tlli j often happens when pleasure boats cap- I size. All immediately want to get out | mackerel. The water is alive with many ! a whitened sail, and in the morning suu- j light the sight is an extremely pretty j one. ^ As the fishermen reach tin I the first question asked them is, j many fish this morning?" But the , great excitement is when a school of j black-fish appear off the shore. Then ! the enthusiasm knows no bounds. The ! cry "Black-fisli! " will startle the whole village like the cry of " Fire i " although I it will not awaken the same emotions, j The alarm is sounded and re-echoed ! through the streets; men, women and j children rushing over the hills to the j bay in hot pursuit; and there is a reason : for this excitement, as there is "money ! in it." Every boat that can be obtained i is filled with an ea^er and anxious crew; j for every one w1k> joins in the chase gets ( his "share" in the profits, no matter j who lie or she. may be. The fish are j driven in to the shore and killed for the blubber and the excellent quality of oil which is taken from the jaw-bones and used for oiling the works of watches, i A great deal of money is made in this j way, ami oftentimes a single " share " will amount to fifty or seventy-five dol­ lars, while ten or fifteen dollars is almost always received. i- There are many amusing stories told about the appearance of black-fisli, and . .i ' i - of the water on top of the overturned or W •hc..w°re ' half-filled boat, and all are drowned ex- nupsfmn fW'ni ,H I cept those whom the wrecked craft will I wholly bear up. If they would simply i trust tlie water to sustain ninety-nine hundredths of tho weight of their bodies, ! and the disabled boat the other hun­ dredth, they might all be saved uuider most circumstances. An overturned or water-filled wooden boat will sustain more people than it will carry. It would keep the heads above wate» of as many people as could get their hands on the gun wide. These are simple facts, ejisily learned, and may some day save your ! life,--Trenton (JV. J.) Gazette. ( Victoria's Good Heart. There is an advantage, after all, in toe­ ing a Queen as well as a woman, when | a heroic act is to be recognized in an ef- I fective as well as a tender way. And it must lie acknowledged that Queen Vic- : toria never fails to use this, her preroga- | tive, with admirable and fine discretion. ; Two English soldiers, it will be remem- ; bercd, Melville and Coghill, were killed j at the battle of Isandula, Zululand, J while bravely attempting to rescue the ; colors of their regiment. Their widows were pensioned, of course, but tlie i they are not "yarns," either. On one Queen's own womanly heart suggosted J occasion, when services were being held J a further and more gracious recompense, m the village church, the minister being ; She sent out by the Empress Eugenie ' engaged in his sermon, some one in they two wreaths, and the Empress, after she street cried out "Black-fish!" Many 'had made her pilgrimage to the spot in the congregation heard it, and a rush \ where her son was lulled, continued her was made for the door, when the minis- ! journey to find tlie graves of theso ob- ter cried out "Stop!" Some turned • scure English soldiers and to lay the about, expecting to be reproved, but the wreaths upon them with her own minister iu his excitement only said, " Now all take a fair start! " and joined the crowd himself, and when pursuing the fish shouted out "Hallelujah ! Hal­ lelujah ! " Hfe got his "share," which amounted to $25. At another time, one man, who had failed to put in an appearance until the fish were driven in, claimed his share, hands. She wrote afterward a letter to , the Queen describing the wild, grand spot where they are buried, the heroic I circumstances of their death, as she had been able to learn them, adding a few | words of earnest sympathy for them and i congratulations for the sovereign who had men so brave to lose ; all of which the Queen copies in her own hand aud as he had not heard the alarm as soon as i bjnds with a letter of earnest sympathy | the others. A towu-hieetiug had to be • to the widows ol the dead heroes. Ger- j called to settle the matter, and though tainiy there is something in being a j it was a unanimous vote that his share ! woman as well*as a Queen. Even to a I was forfeited, yet lie pleaded his Case so I practical American mourning tor her i eloquently that "half a share" was [dead, the knowledge that these two voted him. Boston Street-Cleaning. Boston, the best-kept city on the con- , women, who had been seated upon : thrones, had suffered precisely like her­ self, and held out their hands to her in tinent, probably, has no tr-jublft with ; p'^pathy, would bring a certain ronso- kingdom , ceived the \olta prize of the French I pended in some prominent place at the Academy of $10,000 for the telephone, as "the best application of electricity." •ktimi) take a dru^ of wU^ky with'thom, and ! *>n«, the American miH»ionary. '. aeir «peedy j He values the prize chiefly, as he says, •ode off."' ' j trial is promised A terrible tragedy was as settling the question of the real in- A JACKSomnujt (Fla.) dispatch says : bo^W^AifsSalS durin^X Soraiancf S ! Ven^* • Hc ^ cr f *' tho water to ac- "Twelve wreck* by the same cyclone that j the "Huguenot*/' A new arrival, McGregor i ^ fl soon return to lec- •trnck the Vera Cruz have been reported--two ' Greer, maddened by jealousy. Hhot his own wife ! J™ n:8 ^ l \n8 Univer81ty at •teamen* and ten Hailing vennels--among them ' an<* Boudrv, a member of the French Exhibi- ! Baltimore. The pliotoplione he regards the Hehooner Ada J. Kimonton, from Peuuacola i tion Coumu»8ion, and himself. Tho two for- | as at present only a scientific toy, but so for Boston, laden with lumber. The crow was mer received severe head and face wounds, [ was the telephone at first. He thinks its -aved. Twelve^ the crew ot a Norwegian | | future use will be between ships at sea, hav i A Paris cablegram states that tlie French Gov-i , ,,, . , . - Uay" ; eminent lias decided to enforce the decrees i v.Twks and the shore, and for military com munication. bark got ashore near fit. John's The coast for 100 miles is strewn with ; - . -- - - „ • j.- it , -goodx of all descriptions from the wrecks.".... i againnt unauthorized religions establishments I '^munication. He annouueed the pos- A negro murderer, named Wash Taliferro dis'- 1 without awaiting tho result of tho suits brought | sibility of producing sound by interrupt- appeared from a convict camp at Milhcan, ! ^ the courts by the Jesuits to test the validity , ing the action of light on selenium to the .a? arm.Cfi mob> who took ; of the law- ! Royal Institute of Great Britain, in May, lum to the woods and hung him. . Dispatches from London of the 10th ! 1878, and heard just after an announce- A joint discussion in the Danville ' ' ~ " " -place the loss of life by the »eaham colliery ex- ; ment by Willoughby Smith to the Soci- {•*.) district, between Cabell, the Democratic, j plosion in Durham at between 180 and 140. ety of Telegraphic Engineers that lie •ad Btovall, the Beadjuatcr candidate for Con- ' Very few bodies had been recovered up to that i llad heard the action of a ray of light on ffin^ed?n blo™Trd^ i " ia thought the explosion originated in | « cryziLai of senium by a telephone in fee stand with bloody faces and damaged op- i 'OW(r *eal»valid tli,at *aH ,was over , connection with it. He had been expen- tip# "ie furnace, fno explorer# for a time Lad to ; menting that day with the photophone, ^ Youno De Jarnette, who, some time : ian<1 ite was satisfactory to the sci- last July, killed hia sister Mollie, an inmate a bonne of ill fame at Dnnville, Va., in order i Q . * _ _ • . S everal European powers have in- .. , , , , ,T • i • * * i . ..... ... m Scotland, educated at the University of nted Gladstone to take a holiday within heir ; E(iinb h and cam0 UyCvntulz in 1870, dominions. Ho would visit the Lmted States ! and to a chair in Boston University in entrance door or other point command- j ing view. Theefiigies in question were j not uucommingly seen by the side of the i doorway. In course of time the nim- | bus was much used as a substitute for j the latter, and was sold in shops for tliis j purpose. | Tlie tradition of good luck, as em- i bodied in the horseshoe theory, may thus 1 >o easily traced, since it became a ! common occurrence, in the due course ! of time, for the faithful adherent in the j belief in cliai*ms and symbols to adopt | the horseshoe worn to brightness, in the j absence of nny ortlier, which hc naded j over his cottage-door. Hence a piece j of metal of this shape became associated I in the common mind with supernatural j presence and care, in keeping with tho I belief attaching to the original figure of : the patron saint. Crnslied. to wipe out the (4ain on his family escutcheon, bM l**on found guilty of murder iu the first degree. Fin z kb Brothkbs' tobacco warehouse 16 ! in consequence of the stahles being on lire. A j i A <lasbinS }™ng fellow was very at- f I woman dropped dead on hearing of the death ; Present. Any one-familiar tentive to a yonng lady who secretly dul £ jof »> tbe pit. vnth the articulation of the ̂ telephone | llot faV()r h?s aml whoJ wa8 i ftRVFPAT, P!nvrmaon nnwaiHa liava in. ! could understand it. l?iof. 13ell was I)orn | n-uii --i..» l.vc.fimv •t Louisville, Ky., has been destroyed ly the. TuiWMertimated a. 1150,000. WASllI.tUTONi Washington dispatches state that Ocn. Walker's investigation of the manner of toMwg the oenma iu Booth Carolina has con- - % i 11 ̂ -SpringfleldJtepMlcan. templated visit to Australia in consequence of The barley crop of Canada is esti-I nfi (rr^nt nI.J+ at-./i.. U!.. n..«.... ,.±1 i . ** _ .*• the great distance from his Queeu-mother in case she should become ilL I The combined fleets of Europe linv- | ing assembled in Turkish waters to compel the cesa:on of Dulcigno to Montenegro, as provided blessed with an observing little brothor of only a few summer's growth. The lady's admirer was visiting her when tlie little chap broke into their presence, and, mounting the dashing young man's knee, said: "Haven't you got a fine I mated at from 9,000,000 to 10,000,000 : room ? ' "Oh, yes," proudly replied I bushels, which, after ollowing about j the dashing young fellow, whose vanity I 2,000,000 bushels for home requirements, j was evidently touched by the remark. I will leave a surplus of 7,000,000 to 8,000,- j Seeing, as he thought, in the cireum- ! 000 bushels. ' stances an opportunity to make a favor- The Sad Passenger. "Once, over these boundless prairies," the sad passenger said, "over these prairies--" "They call them 'prurries' over in Indiana," the fat passenger said. "And down in Illinois," said the cross passenger, "they c-all them 'perarries." "And up in Michigan," tho brakenmu said, "they call them 'pairs.'" "And down in Kentucky," the man on the wood-box remarked, "they call them 'perars.'" "Well, anyhow," the sad pass^nger rcwimcd, "one.;* over these plains--" "You said 'prairies' before," said the passenger with tlie s;indy goatee. "Yes, and started a very profound philological discussion by it. Well, once over these verdant prairies--" "The first time," said the cross passen­ ger, "you said 'boundless prairies.'" "Well, then, over these boundless prai­ ries once--" "Only once?" asked the f it passenger. The sail passenger sighed, but went on : "Once the painted In­ dian roamed--" "What for?" croakcd tlie wonun who talks bass. Aud the sad passenger went into his shell, and said lie would tell that story yet if he had to hir- a hall to tell it in. The Marquis of Bute was, years ago, struck with the picture of a beaver village, serving as a frontispiece to a book of travels in Canada, with the re- semI >latiee of the site to a spot on his Rothesay estate, and he conceived tho idea of acclimatizing the animal. Ho sent to Canada for heavers, and, after inclosing the shore of the lake in tho woods, he let them loose upon it. The creatures soon made themselves at home, and Ix ^uu to build as busily as it they had remained in their native forests. Tlie young Dnke of Portland was so charmed with the sight of the Marquis of Bute's beaver "colony that he determined to establish one on each side of his estates in England and Scotland. He has sent to Canada for the brutes, and is preparingcthe ground. j the disposal of offal or cleaning the j streets, while New York is always in i ! scandal ovtr these comparatively-simple : j municipal problems, and even smaller : ! cities are sometimes embarrassed. The ' Boston swill-system is a very prettv j thing. The city has three offal-yards, | into which all the offal is gathered, ! houses lioing visited twice in week a win- j [ ter, three tunes in summer, aud hotels J ' daily. The driver of each cart drives j upon a platform scalo at the yard and . j receives a ticket for the amount of his [ load ; he is paid at the end of the week j according to the tickets he surrenders, j ' which show the work he has done. But j the most interesting point for Spring- ! j field is that from these depots the offal ; ! is sold to farmers for pigs and ftfr fert.il ! j izer for from $3. GO to a cord, accord- ; ing to tlie distance they have to curt it. i | At the Cliarlcstown yard 3f> a cord is paid, j | although even from that point the tarni- ! | ers must cart it from three miles up- '•( I ward. Tlie farmers come for it hi close • wagons, and pay cash at the office hi i each yard. The removal of ashes em- { ploys 121 men and fifty-nine carts upon | a similar system, and the ashes are sold i for filling at from 5 to 25 cents a load.-- ! --Springfield {Mans.) Jiepuhlivan. i I A Voracious Eater. j j A remarkable feature of eating and ' I drinking against time is reported by the j 1 Hungarian press, and said to have been ! performed by ii youthful Magyar resid- j ing in Grosswardien. This surpassing ; trencherman laid a wager, and is de- j dared to have won it w ith several min­ utes and an omelette to spare, that he would, between the hours of 0:30 p. m. ' and midnight, devour the following j comestibles, it being clearly understood that there would l>e a full portion of each dish in succession, any two of whicli portions may be estimated as con­ stituting a hearty meal for a full-grown adult blessed by nature with a lively ap­ petite : Roast beef with paprica sauce and potatoes ; a \"ienna veal cutlet with pears ; a fillet of beef with dumplings ; grilled pork with pumpkins ; half a fowl fried in batter ; bubble and squeak ; a beefsteak with poached eggs; fried calves' liver ; calves' lira ins and kidneys; pickled veal; stewed beef; a broiled goose liver and a fricaseed fowl with carrots. He not only contrived to stow away all the articles enumerated in this comprehensive menu, washing them Jatiou. To loyal Englishwomen the few scribbled words would outvalue all pen­ sions or rewards. Downey, the poet delegate to Con­ gress from Wyoming, says that his poem in the liecot d has made him the most popn1"*- in the country. tut. iuakjlLTS. 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