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flainclcafa I. VAN tLYKE, IdBwwiPiMWwr. MoHENRY, - - ILLINOIS. •T W E E K L Y I J E J S R E V I E W . fHIS EAST* Imx Dinr, the builder of the Han- Mid St Joe and Union Pacific railroads, died at Jamaica Plains, N. Y., last week. He leaves property estimated at $1.000,000.... Michael O'Heara,* man of considerable wealth, Who resided at Pittstield, Mass., stabbjid his wife to death, and then committed suicide. KENWOOD PiiiLr was arrested in New j lH*frict. ^1; " V \V g* | fork, Oct 27, on a charge of forging the Gar- field-Morev Chinese chean-labor letter. Philp is one of the editors of TnUh, a daily paper in which the letter was first printed. C. RISLKY & Co., coffee doalers in New York, have failed for $800,000, mainly oa ac­ count of a shrinkage in the value of goods.... The Ansonia watch and clock works, Brooklyn N. Y., said to have been the most complete of the kind in the United States, and having been ill operation for only fourteen months, were destroyed bv fire last week. The loss its over #1,000,000, and the insurance $400,000. PHILP, who was arrested in New York on a charge of forging the Garfield-Morey let­ ter, was arraigned for trial on the 28th nit Hart, one of the proprietors of Truth, ap­ peared on the witness-stand, but refused to produce the letter. He was handed over to a Police Captain for contempt of court At the afternoon session the original letter was shown, bnt the prosecution demanded the envelope, and an adjournment was necessary to secure it CoL A. F. Itockwell, of the United States army; James McDermott, of Brooklyn, Journalist; ex- Sheriff Dagget, of Brooklyn ; %nd Daniel F. Ames, nn expert, testified that they believed the Moray letter was tin the handwriting of Philp. A FIBH at Lynn, Mass., bturned sev- f' etal factories, involving a loss of about #150,- ]£. «oo. <$t| THOU examination of Kenward Philp on a charge of concocting the Morey letter was ; resumed at New York on the 29th nit The ;opening feature of the day was the surrender •V of the envelope by Hart the publisher of Truth, to Judge Davis, when testimony of State, at the October divided as follows: Tnwiwnd, Rep. .989,018 Lang, Dem v.... ....843,014 Lloyd, Groenbaofear .................... 4,703 Dots, Prohibitionist 4,715 Townaend'fl plurality. 18,999 The vote for Judge of the Saprera* Court foots np as follows : MeTlvaine, Rep ....364,044 Follett, Dem U *41,003 U«KR, Prohibitionist London, Green backer...^. 6,578 McTlvalne'H pTnr nitty OT.041 In 1879 the total vote in Ohio was 669,170, including a Republican vole of 336,261, a Demo­ cratic vote of 319,138, Greenback 9,072, Prohi­ bition 4.145 FOLLOWING are the official majorities on Congressmen in Qhio, %tthe October elec­ tion : ; v Majority. L Benjamin Biitterworth, Bap. .....1,298 II. Thomas L. Young, Rep .1,004 IIL H. L. Morey,Rep 1,028 IV. Emanuel Kehnitz, Rep.... V. Benjamin Le Fever, Dem..... VI. J. M. Ritchie, Rep ...... VII. John B. Leedom, Dem. .... VIII. J. Warren Ki-ifer, Rep IX. janien S. Robinson, Rep X. J. B. Rice, Rep XI. Henry S. Neal, Rep -j.. XII. George L. Converse, D«a.-; „, XIII. Gibson Atbert 'ii, Dem.., XIV. George W. Gaddia, Dem.;...,. XV. Richard R. Dawes, Rep.. ...... XVI. Jonathan ITrnlegiafr, Rep.,..,. XVII. William MeKimUey, Rep. XVIII. A. S. McO.ure. Rep.. ...: XIX. E. B. Taylor, Rep XX, AnionTownseuti, Rep......... •\.5 : h/ ;•>? **'< R m by experts in handwriting j^was lis­ tened to. Albert Southworth ancr William E. Hagan, expert*, testified that the writing of the letter was similar to the acknowledged writing of Philp. Mr. Leet a newspaper reporter, also testified that the letter was in Philp's hand­ writing. A number of postoffice employes, in­ cluding Mr. Fearson, Assistant Postmaster at Mew York, testified that the postmarks on the envelope were not genuine. iTHE WES*. GKOBOE LOVKTT, of Charleston, Mo., qoarrele^with his wife about some property belonging to her, beat her brains out with a flat-iron, and then cut his own throat from ear to ear William L. Church, a pioneer mer- .... chant of Chicago, is dead. He had resided in that city since it was an Indian trading post Sifc and held various positions of honor and trust A gravel train on the Cairo and Vincunnes railroad jumped the track sixteen mile * from Cairo, wrecking nine or ten ears and killing one man outright, wounding two so severely as to render amputation of their limbs necessary, and seriously if not fatally wounding three or " , V • .*! , V # h R. J WASHUVGTOJI. | THB Secretary of the Inten«r has j decided that the 8t. Louis census whall be re- I taken, and Calvin M. Woodward is to be ap­ pointed Supervisor for that purpose. A WASHINGTON telegram says there is I some embarrassment relative to the capture of i the Victoria band in Mexico, The indications ! frofti the information already received at the War Department are that the Mexican Govern­ ment does not desire to retain these Indian^, claiming that they belong to the United States, and certainly our Government does not wish to provide for them. THE excess of exports over imports of merchandise, stated in specie values, for the nine months ending Sept. 30, were $73,760,430. The excess in the corresponding nine months of 1879 was $161,498,336. The excess of im­ ports of gold and silver coin and bullion during the nine months ending Sept. 30, 1880, was $29,529,705 ; corresponding months of 1879, 425,481,732 Sitting Bull has made applica­ tion to the War Department for terms of sur­ render. Gen. Terry is said to have been given full power to arrange the terms of the sur­ render, and to otherwise act in the matter. eniGRAL. W*C P. ADAIB, a Cherokee chief, who commanded a brigade of his race in the Confederate armv, died at Washington last week William H. Vanderbilt has presented Capt. Stone, of Cincinnati, tho manager of Maud S., with a silver vase holding a relief portrait in gold of the peerless mare ; Bair, the trainer, with a magnificent gold watch ; and the groom with $500 in greenbacks. COL. TERRASSAS, the officer who oom- | manded the Mexican force that put an end to the career of the notorious Apache chief Vio- ! tori*, in his official report of the affair says : j " On the 14th, in the afternoon, I attacked Vio- ! toria's band in the Castillo mountains, and I j surrounded him on the next morning. By a i simultaneous attack we took his position, leav- • ing Vic:oria and sixty warriors and eighteen ! women and children dead, with sixty-eight Wis 714,444, | the policy of exhorting the people to preserve the peace, and hereafter to let them take their own course, which in pretty sure to lead to trouble. JUSTIN MCCARTHY, the distinguished author, journalist and member of Parliament has Joined the Irish Land League as a protest against the Government prosecutions A startling report comes from Afghanistan that Abdurrahman Khan, the Ameer whom the En­ glish placed upon the throne of Cabnl about the time that Gen. Roberts left that city for the relitf of Cauda liar, has been murdered by tho revolutionists, and that the city is in n state of anarchy.... Bismarck has si'Ut a oomiuinsion to Alsaee io study the condition «f tho work­ men there. Two EMINENT French painters have passed away--Muril Guillemin and Frederic Schopin There seems to be no doubt that the country round Cabnl is in a distur!>ed state, j All communication between that district and j British India has been cut off. THERE is great excitement in England j and Ireland over the impending prosecutions j against the Land League. A Dublin dispatch j says that between Templemore and Thurles ; signal flashes on the most-approved military : system are carried on nightly, and answered by flashes from various points on the hills. There apppears to be quite a system of communication by such signals and flashes which is generally considered ominoHK of mischief. At a meeting of the Dublin Diocesan Synod a resolution was passed urging the Government ^ take measures to protect their Protestant countrymen. The Home-Rule Confiideration of Great Britain and representatives of radical clubs in London have passed resolutions condemning the prosecution of Irish agitator*. THREE THOUSAND miles of Persian ter­ ritory are overrun by warlike Kurds, who are engaged in an indiscriminate slaughter of tho inhabitants The British islands have been visited by a storm of unpre­ cedented severitv." In the interior many vil­ lages and railroad tracks were flooded, and on the coast the disasters to shipping were numer­ ous.' Twenty-eight vessels ars known to have been wrecked, and thirty-one lived lost A messenger Kent by Riza Pasha with a procla­ mation to the inhabitants of Dulcigno, in ref­ erence to the cession of that place, has been murdered Bcven persons were killed by a railroad collision at Herstal, Belgium. Many others were injnred. DISPATCHES from Capetown, South Africa, say: " Mr. Hope, magistrate at Quobo, has been treacherously murdered, many of Chief Umblonhlo's people witnessing the crime. The tribe is now in open rebellion. It is re­ ported that Mr. Welsh, magistrate at Tiolo, has been murdered. There have been several minor engagements in which the colonials were successful. The Government has called out 3,000 more colonial troops." 328 810 6S5 ....."..*,918 .-.1,139 . . . . . . . M < > 8 a,138 ..'4,189 3,47.1 ....... 8,867 ....... 50'J 3,848 8,571 ....:.. 5,096 15.0,78 5,3'iS four others Elias SimMns, Chief of Polioe of ] women and children, and two captive prisoners recovered. Ono hundred and eighty animals of different kinds and all the arms and plunder were left in my possession. I lost throe men dead and twelve wounded." WM. CAWTHBOW, an old and wealthy resident of Toronto, is dead. He leaves prop- Pittsfield, 111., was shot and killed by Elliott Bnker, whom he was attempting to arrest. A DISPATCH from Leadville, .CoL, says : " The body of Michael Hendricks, said to be a nephew of Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, was found murdered two miles from here. The , , „ T, murder is supposed to have been committed by | crty eptlmatedat *6,000.000 Sara Bernhardt, two McCnllum brothers, young Hendricks hav- , the celebrated French actress, has arrived at ing been implicated in the murder of their j New York, rfnd will visit the principal cities of brother, and acquitted." ! this country in a professional capacitv The . c.It i^T, .. | total number of immigrants who landed in the A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch says the j United states during the month of September three highwaymen, Mays, Hicks and another, | was nearly 55,000. k: '< who escaped from the Idaho penitentiary, and | killed two of "their pursuers, have been capt- • tired near Salmon Fails and returned to prison* j A HORRIBLE tragedy is reported frord ' Wabashaw county, Minn. Robert Lowe shot RECENT deaths: The Hon. E. D. Mansfield, & veteran newspaper wntan*ud au­ thor, well known to| readers of the mr York Times as " Veteran Observer," and to those of the Cincinnati Gazette as " E. D. M.," in Mor- his wife and infant child, and then went into ! row CX)Unty, ^lu.°> aged 80; Capt J. J. War- the bush about a mile from his residence and ! ?nal}' an Ohio and Mississippi river steam- killed himself. The ball passed through Mrs. ! hpa'rnani Memphis, Tenn., aged 70; Lowe's heart, killing her almost instantly. The Bishop D. 8. Daggett, of the Meth- child, 2 years old, was shot in the head a little above the temple, and survived about an hour and a half. The murderer shot himself in the * back of the head, at the base of the brain, and no doubt died immediately. Domestic trouble ti IM the cause ot the tragedy. *>• FEARS of an Indian outbreak have caused Gunnison City to be placed under oon- tool of three volunteer militia companies.... i Charles Throop and Henry Muun, who were :i. employed in painting the outside of the Public Library building at Cincinnati, feli from a scaf- the odist church, at Richmond, Va. ; Hon. John 8. Brazee, a leading member of the Ohio bar, at Lancaster. Ohio, aged 80 Mrs. A bra ham Lincoln arrived in New York, last week, from France. Her form is said to be heavier, and her hair has grown nearly white.... The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union was held in Boston last week. Miss Frances E. Willard presided, and claimed this year as the most encouraging the world has ever seen in the progress of temperance re­ form. THE following statements, furnished '^ntly MS ab°Vt ^ Sid<iWalk' Were ^ the Census Office at Washington, exhibit • THIS Chicago Tribune says 'the reralte of tbo fimt 000111 of tho population a careful recapitulation of the ravages of the great storm of Oct 16 on the lakes shows that upward of 500,000 damage was none to vessels and ear- goes, and that ninety-three persons perished. There were seventeen total wrecks, involving a *" loss of 4153,000, and in all sixty-six vessels were >: \ f. damaged to a greater or less extent \ *S "THB polioe of Minneajioiis have capt- r '"-';.-Ji nred a woman who for eighteen months has worn male attire and represented herself as a 5 J nephew of August Belmont of New York, while engaged in studying medicine and . making matrimonial engagements - J f \ B y t h e c o U i s i o n o f t w o p a s s e n g e r •\S - trains on the Panhandle railroad, near Steubenville, Ohio, James Cunningham, : V Michael Cunningham and Thomas Langan, who .. J were in the baggage-car of one of the trains, ^ and Thomas Anderson, one of the firemen, '̂' "j".' were iftfimL Kone of the passengers werela- •/ jnredi'f . Hi- raEaovnrn. PEESS STANLEY and Tom McClure, two farmers, had a difficulty in Morganton, Oa., and when on the way home at midnight Stanley drew a revolver and killed McClure. Two men were along, and Stanley cocked his pistol and made them both swear they would not tell who killed McClure, and that if he was ever arrested they would testify in his f.tvor. A womaa who witnessed the difficulty walked ten miles to tMm to tell of it A MERCHANT of Woodland, Carroll oounty, Va., named Allison, suspected Hawks, his partner, of undue intimacy with his wife. One morning he told Mrs. Allison he was going from home for a few days. Instead of going as he pretended, he secreted himself in the vicinity of nis home, returned late at night, and found his wife in Hawks' room. Allison drew his re­ volver, shot Hawks dead, and lodged two bullets in his wife's body, inflicting serious but not necessarily lata! wounds. DANVILLE, Va., has been having an epidemic of crime. Within the short space of forty-eight hours five murders were commit­ ted m that town. Mary Mitchell was fatally •hot by her paramour, Barton Smith. John population of the State of Ithode Island and the District of Columbia: Rhode Island--Total popula­ tion, 276.530; males, 133,034; females, 143.496; native, 202,600; foreign, 73,930; white, 269.- 533 ; colored, including 67 Indians and 27 Chi­ nese, 6,597. District of Columbia--Total pop­ ulation, 177,638 ; males, 83,594 ; females, 94.044; native, 160,523 ; foreign, 17,115 ; white, 118,236 ; colored, including 13 Chinese, 5 Japanese and 6 Indians, 59,402. DR. EDWARD SEOOTN, the celebrated French physician, noted for his treatment of nervous diseases and his prominence in the great work of the education of imbeci'es, has just died in New York at tho age of 69 years On account of the great increase in transatlan­ tic trade, several of the transatlantic steamship companies are adding to the number of their vessels, and two new companies have been al­ ready projected The revenue cutter Wol- cott. stationed on the Pacific coast, has seized the English sloop Alert for cruising in Ameri­ can waters without papers. CASUALTIES : The rotary bleaeher and boiler at Hinsdale, N. H., bijrst; one man was killed and several injured. A Eureka (CaL) dispatch says the schooner Ed ward Parke capsized on Humbollt bar; a sailor named Christianson and Robert Williams, a passen­ ger, were drowned. Two persons were killed and several injured by the explosion of a boiler in the mill of Jasper Smith, at Guntersviile, Tenn. FOBEICIV. A CABLE dispatch says the F.ngliah authorities have completed arrangements for prosecuting the members of the Land League, and that frequent meetings of the leading agi­ tators are being held to discuss the situation. Mr. Parnell, M. P., it is said, will be among those indicted. The indictment will be the longest document of the kind in history.--The tenants of King Harman and other landlords, of Sligo, are threatened with death if they pay rent.--A British soldier has been arrested in County Mayo while drilling the Irish peasantry Lady Fitz- william, of Loudon, has been made the victim of a heavy diamond robbery, some of the brilliants having a liistorv tract able to the days of William IV. .A cable dispatch reports Growth of British Cities. The opinion, quite generally enter­ tained, that London is ono of the few large British cities which grow rapidly, is very erroneous as the figures plainly show. It is nearly eight years since the last census, and the Registrar General consequently supplies various estimates, annually, of the population of the prin­ cipal towns, founded on the ratio of in­ crease between 1861 and 1871, in order to form a 1 mais for calculation of yearly rates. From this it appears that Lon­ don now oontains 3,620,868, an increase since 1871 of 306,008; Liverpool, 538,- 338, an increase of 44,5)33; Manchester, 361,819, an increase of 10,64t); Leeds, 311,860, cui increase of 52,649; Sheffield, 297,138, an increase of 57.192; Bristol, 209.947, an increase of 27,395; Bradford, 191,046, an increase of 45,210; Hull, 140,- 347, an increase of 24.455; Salford, 177,- 849, an increase of 53,048; Newcastle, 146.948, an increase of 18,505; Ports­ mouth, 131,821, an increase of 18,262; Leicester, 125,621, an increase of 30,402; Sunderland, 114,575, an increase of 26,- 333; Oldham, 111,318, an increavseof 28,- 689. London is equal to eighteen of the largest cities; Liverpool and Glasgow are very near one another in population, the latter having 39,818 more people than the former. The density of population varies groatly in the leadiug towns. Fot example, it is 11.4 in Norwich; Newcastle* 27.4; Sunderland, 41.4; London, 48.0; Manchester, 84.3; and Liverpool, 103.3 per acre. Many of the small uncommer­ cial towns of Great Britain are station­ ary, others slowly decline.--N. Y. Timet. Early Rising. A German physician of celebrity has lately been investigating the subject of early rising, and has come to the con­ clusion that, far from making a man 4i healthy, wealthy and wise," it has quite the contrary effect, and shortens life instead of prolonging it. In tho majority of cases which he lias inves­ tigated, the long-livers have indulged in late hours, and at least eight out of every ten persona who attained the age of 80 and upward were in the habit of not retiring to rest until the small hours, and remaining in bed until the day was far advanced. He has no doubt what­ ever that early rising is a most perni­ cious habit for those who go to bed late, and, like Charles Lamb, thinks it better for everybody to delay getting up until the morning has had a chance to be­ come well aired. Barney killed Denis Marooney. Thev quarreled thl: matrimonial engagement of Miss Kellogg, about a doe. David Graves and fid Coleman i celebrated American prima donna, to a got into a difficulty about the wife of the for- j French Ma;quis A cable dispatch from mer, and Coleman was fatally shot Scott ' London announces the death, in that Hankins was murdered bv unknown parties, ] c'ty, of Harry Beckett the comedian and his Ixxly thrown into the canal. A peddler : Russia has provisioned for six months named Haggerty put an end to the existenoe of ! t'le fortified posts on the Turcoman steppes a 1 and concluded other arrangements for the ad­ vance of 9,000 men on Central Asia The St. Petersburg Golox says that Russia, which usu- aaother peddler named Conrad with a club. A BRUTAL murder for money in Geor­ gia has led to the unraveling of a mysterious ally exports 3^0,000,000 bushels of grain, will tagedy occurring two years ago. Tom Beth', a ' ^iav<"to import some this year in consequence negro, killed Judge H. J. Moore with a maul, v rv treuera' failnro of th<> UnHwinn cmn and, on beiug arrested, confessed that he wng the murdOrer of James Defour and wife, of bry general failure of the Russian crop. The prospect- for future good harvests, more- muiuuci "j ..uiiivn i^uuiu n.iiu wiic, or I over. are notcfcicouraging Peru has accepted which crime an innocent ma nis under conviction, jme<iiation proffered bv Minister Christiancy, * ! aQd named its Commissioners The postofiice POLITICAL. j at Manchester, England, has been burned. JCHJB fallowing are the official figures j OPEN revolt prevails in Natal, and the of the total vote for Governor at the October i Praves^ apprehensions are entertained for Gen. •taction iit Indiana: Porter, Republican, 280,- i ^ark au<* his command. The origin of the 1B1; Landers. Democrat 222,740; Gregg, Nation- I hx>nble was the decision by the Cape Govern- *1, 14,863. Plurality for Porter, 7,551. . .The I ®"™ent oaty white shall carry ftre- liouisiaua Supervisor of Registration, having ' ^ Prussian newspaper editor has been announced that the registry books in New ^" ;uced to. a iine of 500 marks or fifty Oriews would be kept open "a longer period . imprisonment for having pul>- than| we law authorized, was arrested bv United r>_;&u ,!e libeling and insult- StatAtr'Supervisor Pearson, on Charge of ille- . liwoiarck and tending to y^iK?rtMri^»rin<r voteiB. render that statesman contemptible f - t ti-l „# « a . |Mr. Tarnell and his brethren of the Land THE total Tote of Ohio to Secretary I League are said to have decided to Young Farragut's Bargain. When Admiral Farragut's son was 10 years old the father said in his hearing that when he was old enough to make a good contract and keep it lie had a bar­ gain to offer him. The son rose up and asked the lather what the contract was. The Admiral said: . " The proposal I intend to make is this : It you will not smoke or chew tobacco, drink intoxicating or strong wines, till you are 21 years of age, I wiU then give you $1,000." "I am old enough to make that bar­ gain now," said Young Farragut; "I will accept the offer," The bargaih was closed, and when •oung Farragut was 21 the cosh was nanded over to him. THE London Time* %ays: "The new and apparently most valuable method of preparing raw meat, discovered by Prof. Artimini, of Florence, and patented in this country, promises to have a great effect upon our markets. According to a report by Profs. Barff and Mills, of the Glasgow University, and Dr. Stevenson, of Guy's Hospital, meat six months old was found to be perfectly sound and good, the muscular liber unchanged, and the nutritive properties unimpaired. The material employed is said to be less expensive than salt, and not only whole­ some, but pleasant to the taste. A NORTH CAROLINA man planned to frighten his wife by a sham attempt at suicide. He was to very gently hung himself, and a friend was to cut him down; but the friend was not prompt, and the plotter was choked to death. ' WE are not very observing, but we have noticed that the first thing any woman does on alighting from a carnage is to carefully put her right hand in con­ junction with her back hair, just to soe if if s all right A COUNTRY paper speaks of a meteor " about as large as a basket." The tail must have been as long as a pi*3ce of string.--Chicago Inter-Ocean. SHE wanted to know if the age of glass was the glacial period, and was informed that she couldn't slide into science in that way^ THE Sutro Tunnel has been too much of a bore for its owners. ttaud ln Sugar. I had read that sugar-refiners used bullocks' blood to clarify the liquor, and in my simplicity asked my friend where was the bullocks' blood. He laughed vefy heartily at my ignorance, and told me there had not been such a thing used in Greeno»k since he had known anything about the trade, now over thirty years. What struck me most was the sand and mud that my friend showed me had been taken out of the raw sugar when I Haw it filtered ; and I that day registered a TOW that I would never again be tempted to buy "real raw sugar " for domestic use. I shudder as I think of the quantity of mud that I must have eaten in my time, and feel annoyed at having been deluded into paying a penny a pound more for the "real raw sugar" than I could have bought the pure refined- article for. I told my friend what was passing through my mind, at which he again laughed, and said : " Every one that comes to s^e through the refinery says the same thing. You sometimes hear grocers charged with putting sand in their sugar. They really do nothing of -the Bort It would not pay them to do so, even if they had a. mind. If the use of raw sugar were given up by the public, we would never again hear of such an accusation against the poor grocer." My friend, seeing the dis- gnst I had displayed at the sand and mud, took me to the laboratory in con­ nection with the refinery, where h® said he would show me even worse than mud in the raw sugar. He took a small glass Teasel like a tumbl&r, into which he put about a teaspoonful of " real raw sugar,"' such as is sold in the shops., and then pourel some water slightly heated over it. In a short time little specks appeared on the surface, scarcely visible to the naked eye, two or three of which he ! )laced under a microsoope and bade me ook through it. To my amazement I saw little insects like lice orawling about. I asked what they were, and was told they were the Acarua aacchart, or raw- sugar mite, and that they abound in raw sugar, more especially in the better de­ scriptions. I asked if there were none to be found in refined BUgar, and my friend said no; that they were all either retained in tho filter-bags or killed dur­ ing the boiling. I understand a celebrated ohemist has estimated that there will be as many as 100,000 of these creatures in a pound of raw sugar. I learned that there were about a dozen refineries at work in Greenock, turning out about 250,- 000 to 300,000 tons of soft, refined sugar per annum, being more than a third of all the sugar consumed in Great Britain. Greenock has great natural advantages for the refining of sugar, having excel­ lent harbor accommodation, where the largest vessels can discharge the raw material, being near to the Lanarkshire coal-fields, having an unlimited supply of water at a very cheap rate, and a plentiful supply of cheap labor.--Cham­ bers' Journal. it was a singular spectacle in mid-ocean. The tree had been stripped of its bork entirely, but the ends Of various branches* Remained still with the trunk. It is possible that the strange and lonesome traveler had been set afloat by some of the West India hurricanes d several weeks previous." Distressing Condition of the Russian Peasantry. The Busman correspondent of the Temps sends a frighti'ully-vivid descrip­ tion of the demoralization, the drunken­ ness, the misery, and poverty of the Russian people. His accounts are fully confirmed by a series of articles in the Galon. The Russian writer doubts whether the peasantry have been gain­ ers--whether they have advanced in civ­ ilization--since their emancipation in 1861. Assuredly they are no longer sold like cattle; their children are no longer taken from them; they are not flogged, nor are they subject to the dis­ cretionary arbitrary power of the noble or liia bailiff. Nor are they driven in herds to work for him five or six days in the week. But they have less land, less wood, less credit than before. The landlords, their owners, formerly pro­ tected them against the police, who now pounce upon them for various kinds of imposts unknown to them before. Then they had but one master ; now they are subject to the Mayor, to the tax-gather­ er, to the Chief of the Commune, to tho tribunal of Zemstvos, to the Judge, and to other functionaries. Against their exactions, arbitrary and frequently illegal, they have no appeal. With their vaunted self-government they have less security and order than before. All the hopes which were raised by thoir eman­ cipation have been dispelled; they have fallen into apathetic discouragement, all because they who are charged with the administration of affairs are not ani­ mated with the Czar's liberal intentions. Aftfer having granted a somewhat too- extensive autonomy, the authorities sought to impede its development. The rural police and other functionaries were invested with arbitrary powers to impo-.e fines and penalties. Additional vexa­ tions restrictions were imposed in 1874, and the disheartened peasantry, seeing the hopelessness of their plight, have fallen into the most degraded drunken, nees and its attendant misery. Multi­ tudes who were well-to-do peasants have seen all swept away from them--their cattle, their homes, and ail; they now grovel like the beasts of the field,"where shelter can be found. M. Koohelef, the author of these articles, insists that the state must begin by enforcing agricult- tural improvements; tne moral and in­ tellectual development of the peasantry would follow, were the tribunals to be reorganized so that the peasant could have confidence in the integrity of his arbitrators. Hints to Stammerers, I commenced operations by writing out a very large number of ordinary sentences as they presented themselves. Having examined these sentences one by one, and knowing well where I should fail in uttering them as they stood, I sought to devise some method by which these consonant initials might be got rid of, or, at all events, dimin­ ished. It struck me that if I could con­ trive, by any artificial division of the words composing each sentence, to bring the consonants at the end of a division, instead of at the commencement, a grand object would be thus achieved-- for conaojutnis & the end of a word pre- Serfi nff^pecial difficulty ; the glottis having been already opened l5y the pre­ ceding vowel sound, the terminating consonant flows out almost as a matter of course. It is as when we pour liquid from a full bottle. At first it runs in­ termittently, with a "gluk-gluk," but when once enough of the liquid is out to admit the air freely the obstruction ceases. In a similar way the object of the stammerer is to prevent the glottis from closing when once it is opened. To ascertain whether or not my idea was practicable, I wrote out in the ordinary way one sentence at a time. I then rewrote this sen­ tence, not divided into simple words, but making every initial consonant the final letter of the preceding word. Hav­ ing divided the words composing the sentence I then read them over aloud many times, according to this artificial division, to try if they were pronounce­ able without any gross peculiarity. I practiced this method incessantly, both in reading and colloquial speaking, and, to my astonishment, 1 discovered within a few weeks that I was wielding an in­ strument which was almost invariably successful; and with this consciousness of increased power my confidence daily increased, so that I could frequently speak without regard to any method. All who had known me up to this time wero perfectly astounded, and anxiously inquired by what means so remarkable a change had been effected; for mine, be it observed, was no mere occasional hesitation, but a most habitual, unmis­ takable, and inveterate stammering. Shortly after this change I had numer­ ous transactions, which involved a large amount of talking, with a gentleman oc­ cupying a somewhat superior position ; and, being anxious to know whether the working of my mental machine was at all observable to outsiders, I asked him whether he had ever observed any pecul­ iarity in my speaking. His reply was ; " No; only that you speak very distinct­ ly."--Chambers' Journal. A Fellow-Feeling. The manager of a dramatic combina­ tion playing an engagement in Detroit was approached on the last day by a stranger, who asked for a pass for that evening: "Why should 1 give you a pass?" WM the blunt demand. ."On account of the fellow-feeling," was the serene reply. "Sir, I do not know you." " Neither do I know you, but that isn't the fellow-feeling I had reference to." " Do you belong to the profession?" "No." " Then I fail to see how there is any­ thing in common." "You struck this town last Monday, didn't you ?" asked the strauger. " Yes." "Bo did I, and I'm going out of it to­ night dead broke, same as you. That's my point, may it please the oourt." The "court" whistled a melancholy tune, figured up the cash receipts onoe more, and then wrote the pass without further argument. A Tree at Sea. The Hartford Courant makes mention of a curious si^ht at sea. It says : " The passengers by the steamer Leasing, about three days before their arrival in New York, parsed a tree standing as irect in the ocesm as it ever stood on land. It was judged to be about fitteen feet out of the water, with stumps of branches extending a foot or two from the trunk. Its erect position might have been due to the oiinging of mussels or heavy shell fish to its roots--at all events, One Hundred Lasbee on the Bare Back. M. S. Boot, of this city, a gentleman who«s verqpity will not be questioned in this community, gives us the following statement of a scene which he witnessed a short time since in the eastern portioi of this county : "I was at Campo. An Indian had been found guilty of break­ ing into the house of Mr. Hevrick and stealing some blankets. He was tried before justice of the Peace Gaskill and turned over to the old Indian Alcalde and sixohiefsforpunishment. They sentenced him to receive 300 lashes. They were just getting ready to tie him up as I started for dinner, after putting out my team. The prisoner was a large young man, six feet high and well proportioned. He was tied up by the wrists with a long rope, and the rope was passed through the springs of a high seat on one side of a wagon and over the Other side, the victim being drawn up so that his feet would just touch the ground. TTi« feet was spread and each tied to the wagon- spokes, and his body was tied at the hips. His shirt was removed, and then a stalwart Indian administered the pun­ ishment with a leather lariat, by whirl­ ing it round his head and bringing it down with his utmost force upon the naked body of tho prisoner. The blood poured from the writhing man's back. After a strong man had administered fifty strokes he was so exhausted by the task that he gave way for another fiend, a younger and more muscular Indian, who continued the infamous torture. Fifty lashes had already been laid on, and the young devil continued to cut into the flesh fifty times more. I spare a recital of the awful shrieks and cries of the poor tortured creature. When the 100 lashes had thus been adminis­ tered, the Indian Alcalde told the almost- dying man to leave the country, or lie would be hung if he ever came back. Mr. Gaskill says: 'After one of these Indians has been whipped once he will never steal again ; it makes a " good In­ dian " of him.' This prisoner when let down fell to the ground, and could not move without support from his sister." ---San Diego Union. Tower of London. ̂ The Tower df London is intimately connected with the history of England. It is the place where noted political and religious persons have been tortured and beheaded. It still contains some of those instruments of torture. The lilst time it was used as a state's prison was in 1820. It is also the place where the crown jew­ els are kept, which are valued at $12,- 0C0.000. Among these is the celebrated Koh-i-noor. Its early history is unknown. It was obtained from the Lahore Govern­ ment by the conquests of the East India Company, and arrived in England June 80, 1850, and July 3 was presented to the Queen. The crown of Victoria con­ tains one large broadcast sapphire, six­ teen sapphires, eleven emeralds, four rubies, 1,3G3 brilliant diamonds, and 1,273 rose diamonds, 147 table diamonds, four drop-shaped pearlB, and 278 pearls. The prisoners confined in tho Tower of London sometimes made inscriptions upon its dreary walls. The following is one : "Be friend to one. Be ennemye to none." A square fran& contained the following from the same hand, dated Sept. 10, 1571 : The most unhappy man in the world is he that LH not pacieiit in ad­ versities. For men aro not killed with the adversities they have ; but with ye imps- cir.nce which thev suffer.. Venice. An Italian gentleman _ says that, after Rome and Genoa, Venice is probably the richest city in Italy. Ven ce is al­ most free from debt. This gentleman says that three Venetians are each worth more than $40,000,000. About 200 families own more than $200,000 each. Three thousand Venetians are employed in the making of glass beads. There is a handsome trade in combing or sorting hemp. Travelers who go to Venice look at the gondolas and feed the pig­ eons, and fancy that because the bells of horhen are not ringing and their drivers are not quarreling there is much less trade there than there is. Odd Tests* Englishman traveling in the East, not being quite satisfied with the ap­ pearance of the mare he rode, asked his Arab servant if he was sure she got her allowance. " O, yes," he replied; " my country­ men often steal from one another, and rob their friends' horses ; but I can al­ ways find out if your mare has been cheated. I put seven or eight pebbles in with the barley, counting the num­ ber exactly. The mare never eats peb­ bles ; and if any one steals from the bar­ ley, he is sure to take two or three peb­ bles with it. If I find the pebbles short in the morning, I have hard words, and they cannot tell how I know, and so they give up cheating her." A speaker at an American " conven­ tion," on being addressed by a gentle­ man as " Colonel," repudiated the mili­ tary title, declaring he was not even a Cuptain. "Don't you live in Missouri?" que­ ried his new acquaintance. He owned that he did live in Missouri, and in a house with chimneys. "How many?" was ./the next ques­ tion. " "Two." ̂ \ '; " Then I was right at first," exclaimed the interlocutor. "You see, I lived in Missouri, and know how it is. Over there, if a man has three chimneys on his house, he's a General; if two, he's a Colonel ^ if only one, he's a Major; and if he lives in a dug-out and has no chim­ ney, he's a Captain anyhow; so I was right after all." When Col. Ellsworth, who was killed at'Alexandria, Va., in 1861, wanted a chaplain for his Zouaves, he sent word to the applicants for the office to meet him. at the Astor House, New York, at a certain hour. The room was full of aspirants to the chaplainship long be­ fore the appointed hour. At last the clock struck the hour, and, while it was striking, in walked another candi­ date. The Colonel rose froth his seat, held out his hand to the lasti comer, and said: " You are my man ; I can depend upon you, for you come at the appoint­ ed time.'! ' Autumn Berries. Charming winter bouquets ean 1M made with autumn berries and grasses. Brightest and best is the climbing bit­ ter-sweet, whose capsuled berries, of a brilliant, waxy scarlet, with coverings of orange, brighten not only their native liedga-rows and forests, but, transferred to tha parlor mantel, light up as a min­ iature " burning bush," to wliich it is closely allied. Euonvmus Americanus is a shrub, from two to five feet in height, called also bitter-sweet or burn­ ing bush, from its brilliant appearance in the early autumn. These berries onoe gathered are a "joy forever," as time has but little power to destroy their beauty. They lose, to be sure, much of their glossy freshness, but suf­ ficient brilliancy of color remains to make them u.seful in filling up bouquets of grasses cr grains. In and out among the flowery foliage of the woodbiue hide the purple clusters of berries, swinging in their slender red stems. Next we find the black alder, as it is called. It Ls a native of our woodlands, a Trim, up­ right shrub, of al>out eight feet in height, scarlet berries clinging all winter to the naked twigs. The native dog-wood, cordus stolonifera, are dotted over with a small, white berry, that we gather to relieve the blaze of our red clusters and bring out the shades of the purple wood­ biue. The American holly, with its glossy leaves, and the useful barberry, must not be forgotten. A few clusters of rose hips, though they lose much of their beauty in drying, and some of the little apple-like fruit, the thorn, Avill finish our collection for this time, except as we pass the old garden on our home­ ward way, where we stop for the beauti­ ful white wax balls, called by some snowberry, symphoncarpus racemosus, that swing half the winter over the mossy garden wall. A half-hour spent in arranging our gleanings will add beauty to the unoccupied nooks and cor­ ners of the room, and repay us for our pleasant labor in gathering winter bou­ quets. Millions of Dead Letters. The following interesting figures are from the report of A. J. Dallas, Chief Clerk of the Dead-Letter Bureau at Washington : Number of dead letters received during the year, 3,353,651. Of theso, 2,665,844 were sent to the Dead- Letter Office, because unclaimed ; 56,188 were returned from hotels, the parties addressed having left for other places; 94,062 were returned from foreign coun­ tries ; 289,618 were held for postagd; 1,179 contained unmailable matter; 201,889 were misdirected ; 35,773 were to fictitious addresses, and 9,167 contained no addresses at all. The disposition of these letters and packages was as fol­ lows : Opened and returned to the writers, 805,918; returned to owners without opening, 364,008.; filed for further action, 30,549 ; opened and now in hands of Postmaster for further in­ vestigation, 1,817; destroyed, owners not being found and letters being of no value, 2,105,931 ; on hand at end of year, unopened letters, 45,433. The great mass of the above letters contained nothing of value. Of the re­ mainder, 26,264 contained money to the amount of $49,438.77, and 21,974 oon- j tnined drafts, checks, notes, etc., to the | amount of $1,526,216.65. The number containing books, merchandise, etc., ! was 56,308; containing photographs, 30,957; containing postage-stamps, 73,749. Most of this property has been restored to the owners ; a small amount, i however, is still in the custody of the department. That which was unclaimed and could not by any possibility be re­ turned to the Fenders or parties ad­ dressed, were sold at public auction, realizing the sum of $3,405.12, which has been turned into the treasury. Where Women Were Needed at the ' Polls. David Hopkins and Gustave Dettloff were candidates for School Trustee in District No. 1 of New Lots, L. L, at the last election. Mr. Hopkins is a farmer, and was seeking re-election. Mr. Dett­ loff is connected with an insurance com­ pany in this city and is a well-known resident of the town. The friends of Mr. Hopkins, about an hour before the closing of tho polls, perceived that there was danger of their candidate's defeht. A consultation was held, and it was de­ cided to utilize the new law giving wom­ en the privilege of voting. Accordingly several farm wagons Were procured and sent through the district to gather in the farmers wives and daughters. The wagons returned to the polls with 107 women, all of whom voted for Mr. Hop­ kins, thus saving him from defeat. It was too late to use a counter-poison.-- New York World. and method of study, sleep, exercise,, bathmf, care of the eyes, and stimu- lants. He advises students to maW j breakfast their principal meal, not be­ cause the forenoon is usually longer and more fully occupied than the afternoon, but because a hearty mid-day dinner is- apt to incapacitate one for both mental and bodily work during a large part of the afternoon. He thinks that break­ fast should always include oatmeal mush, or cracked wheat, with plenty of milk ; and that in place of meat, at feaafe | for an occasional change, twy or tlyree eggs are desirable. *.. Anta. , "WFTfT7' 'T That ants have some kind of sign lan­ guage has been proved by Sir John Lub­ bock. It is unquestionable that if an ant discovers a store of food her com­ rades soon flock to the treasure, although this is not invariably the case. It ha*- been urged that this fact, taken alone, does not prove any power of communi­ cation. An ant observing a friend bring­ ing food home might infer, without being; told, that by accompanying the friend on the return journey she might also participate in the good things. Thia argument has been met by Sn* J. Lub­ bock's compelling the ant who found the treasure to return to the nest empty- lianded. If she took nothing home, and yet others returned with her, he argues*, there must have been some communica­ tion between them. As the result at carefully conducted and striking experi­ ments, he concludes that ants are In possession of something approaching Iff- a language--that they ore able to ask. their friends, when occasion requires, to- come and lend them a helping hotyd. i Relatives are invariably recognized. Young ants, reared from eggs taken from, a nest, were, when they reached maturi­ ty, introduced to the maternal abode, and, although the old ants could nevBt- have seen them until tlvat moment, yet. in all the oases (ten) they were undoubt­ edly recognized as belonging to the COOK munity; a stranger ant is invariably at» once attacked and killed. It would seem that the recognition is not personal and. individual, and the fact that they recog­ nize their friends even when intoxicated^" ! and that they know the young bo;n in their own nest even when these have I been brought out of the chrysalis by | strangers, seems to indicate that the recognition is not effected by means of any sign or password. The political conviotions of ants are deep-rooted,. When a queen was introduced into a^ queenless nest she was at once attacked, and destroyed; it would seem as if ants. which had been long living in a republic* could not be induced to accept a qneen^ Taking Him at His Word. The inhabitants of the North of iSn- gland are a matter-of-fact people. Tlra following incident illustrates their shrewdness and ready resource. In a, village in one of the dales lived a kind- ' hearted but somewhat hot-headed woman*, who entertained the minister when lie • came to preach there. On the occasion, of the first visit of one of this fraternity she d<3omed it necessary to ascertain hiSv preference for tea or coffee for break­ fast; so, as she was going on with th&> preparation of the meal, she went to the stair-foot and called out the name of her guest. But no answer was vouchsafed., her call. Wonderinglv she waited ?a- while, and then, repeating her call, she? was answered by, " What do you want?"* in anything but a gentle tone of voice.. "1 want to know whether you'll have> taa or coffee to your breakfast." "IH have either, or both," was Chie* odd and stinging reply. " You've got out on the wrong side of,, the bed ta morn," said the irritated (lamer to herself; "but I'll fit up yer order, my * man." So saying, she went to the cup­ board, took thence another teapot, and,, putting therein equal quantities of tea and coffee, she made a strong decoction thereof for the preacher. Presently he felt that he had a strangely-flavored bev ­ erage before him; so, pausing, he asked,. What's this, missis?" , ;«H "It's both, sir ; and yon shall either* snp it or gang without. ? • : -- Conundrams. v : Why are the glories of Greece like- iron ? Because they ore o'er. . . When is a bell like a tale related When it is tolled (told). Has time more than one head ? Ye*, judging from the number of people who* declare either their watch or clock ahead of time. Why is revenge like a poor debtor ?' Because it promises much and pays lit­ tle or nothing. Why are ministers bad mathemati­ cians ? Because they make the result of* joining one and one, one. Why is a man's foot like himself ? Be­ cause it has a sole (soul^. THK strength of six F.nglinh-NP<><TLCI«G - religious bodies is estimated in rouna. numbers as follows : Episcopalians, 17,- 750,000 ; Methodists, 14,000,000; Roman Catholics, 12,500,000; Presbvterians^. 10,000,000; Baptists, 8,000,000; Co«- gregationists, 7,000,000. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. .$7 00 @10 BO THB Detroit Free Prem, which is good authority on such tilings, says: " Corkscrews can now be made and sold foracenl" Hoos COTTON Ft.orr.--(Superfine WHEAT--No. 2 Spring......i..... CORN--Ungraded OATB--Mixed Wen tern KYK--Western .- Pork--Mess LAUD CHICAGO. BEKVXH--Choice Graded dteera... Cows ami Heifers Medium to Fair HOOK , FIX>UB--Fancy White Winter Ex... 5 50 io, 6 00 Good to Choice Spring Ex.. 4 60 (>» 5 4 TO (3 4 W) 11 (at 11*. . 3 85 4 35 ' . 1 18 <£119 . 65 @ » . 36 @ 38 . 1 01 <$ 1 OS .15 00 (glS G» . 5 00 (3j 5 75 . 2 40 (4 3 50 . 4 10 «$ 4 40 4 30 4 76 WHKAT--No. 2 Spring No. 3 Siwiug OoitM-- No. 2..... OATH--No. 2 RYB--No. 2 BAULKY-- NOL 2 IH'TTEK--Choice Creamery EGGS--FRETOJ Pons--Mess LAUD MILWAUKEE! WHIL4T--No. 1 No. 2 ... Conw-- No. a 1 00 ($ 1 02 92 US 40 S3 9 « <3 3» • "* . „ @ 2» .18 16 (#19 OC 8 <» 38 28 81 69 26 19 I 03 ($ 1 08 1 DO (4 1 01 89 4» 28 « 29 88 @ 8K 72 (ji 73-sr. LOOIS. WHKAT--NO. 2 Red..... L 00 A t 01 Cons--Mixed 89 (4 ^ OATS--No. 2 Uri:--No. 1 BAUI.KY--No. 2. OATS--No. 2 KYE Pokk--Ue8» I.AIJK WHEAT Cons OATH JtYE 28 (4 83 84 16 00 <£15 as 7»i<M 8 CINCINNATI. I 02 43 (g) 44 M (4 35< 1 89 <a rn, 89 at* . POUK--Mem... J 14 is Healthy Hints to Students. "Health Notes for Students" is a neat little pocket pamphlet, condensed by Prof. Burt G. Wilder from his course of six lectures on hygiene, delivered at Cornell University. It eml>odies many useful suggestions respecting choice of room, food, clothing, ventilatior, time LUII> .. TOLEi>6. *HKAT--No. 1 While No. 2 Red. CORN--N .2 OATS--No. 2 DETROIT. Fco un--Choice WHEAT--NO. 1 White Cons -- NO. 1 • 'ATS--Mixed " KAUT.EY (per cental) Po:tK--MCM „ w „ INDIAN VPOLIS. ' ><F> WHKAT--No. 2 Red 98 A 90 co«»....rf^ « 1 Oat» SI tg 33 POBK--C.eor j5 75 (£IE 00 ^ EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTLE--Beet 4 90 <». 5 00 Fair 8 70 (£ 4 0tt» 8 « <sM (A 1 « 33 34 1 16 C« 1 *»•* ?} 15 75 (^16 00* Hoos.. SBEXF. 8 26 4 9 Mix jrbi .. 4 86 <$ 4 06* ™ • .. 8 00 ® 4 7S|i' • \.fs{£jS! -