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< ^ •'* * * • * \ «J? .V* A; • -& PHSP** g#nt| IbUtdn J. VAN turn, U hraiMMv. ItcHENRY, ILLINOIS. I- VEEKLT liffS REVIEW. THE EAST. Jay Okmiaj's magnifioea* at Irvington, on the Hudion river hM burned. Low,100,000 A*enU <* «» nrrioc hiw arrested, In Now York «-hn have been mannfactur- .. At Blinitlin nine men who have l>een manufactur- ImmJ wwmhtliiff counterfeit silver coin.. Lawrence. Mam.. Miss Finkham was »hoti«*1 faatantLv killed bv her paramour, Mr. Ward- Mttn, ft BiMried man with a family, . ••beefluenUy shot himself, and u not likely to s Jloover. Asaloiwy. . Thb large manufacturing establisli- gent of F. F. Adams & Ox, it Brie, P*., Iw keen burned. Two firemen were killed and Mveral injured by a falling wall.. •till working hard and hopefully on the electric Iteht. He claims to have proved that its subdi- *hion is not an impossibi'itv. and that U| invention will soon be perfected. I lie cost w liffhtinc the city of New York by his method Xl lie be ^ethhig like *2:000.000. By an" accident to a Central Vermont ! «««** departments to his successor the otty fftn so disabled that two hour* were reqnired to repair it, whslo the flames wen rag­ ing. Tbe Mtmatod loss is 9930,000. Tran nopoes, who for some time hare been charges on tbe county of Bedford, Va., were laat week Bold at auction for §4, un­ der an old vagrant law. The purchaser will have their labor for three months. A boiler explosion made a total wreok of Fabci's Boap factory nt LooisvBle. The car­ penter and engineer were blown fifty feat and are fatally injured, and a girl named Lottie Ott cannot survive. The Joss is •50,000, A negro couple of Prince George county, Va., locked their two children in the home and went out to pick peas, when the building took fin and the little ones perisbad iu the flames. GENERAL. Capt. Howgate still hopes to start his Arctic expedition next spring oa a staunch steamer thoroughly equipped Twenty-two pennons were lost by shipwreck in Pleasant bay, off the coast of Nova Scotia, during a recent gale. Advices from Mexico report an un­ wholesome condition of affairs in that republic. President Gonzalez is unpopular. His in­ auguration, which occurred recently, was wit­ nessed with extreme indifference by the people, while ex-President Diaz was loudly cJheered when he left the palace after delivering the his fe&in, near Walliugford, Vt, Conductor Camp­ bell was fatally injured, and seventeen passen- gMn in a sleeping-car more or Jess hurt... .A Soman and two children were burned tofoath aft Olean, N. Y Two men were killed by the tKplosion of a boiler at Latrobe, Pa. Sarah Bernhardt had a narrow ea- Seidenberg k Co.. tbe well-known cipar manu­ facturers of New York and Key West, have failed with liabilities of $500,00(1 .. The negro rebellion in Cuba has been checked and the leaden executed. A Chilian fleet of eighteen vessels at­ tacked and captured the Peruvian town of Pisco, and burned the rollinpr-stock of a rail- 'Hffcpa from death at the Boston Theater. As she j belonging to English capitalists. The ' 4ky on a lounge in the death scene in " Ca- i Peruvians lost 150 men and the Chilians 400. A rtlle " a lame and heaw mantel began to tot- force of 10,000 then landed from the fleet, and to toward her. She quickly rose to her feet, j took up its march through theiea valley for ihen tbe lounge was crushed by the fall- j Lima, a distance of 126 miles. The Peruvians w nrooertieR. The play was quietly ; have sent out three divisions to check the 111- feh^K the point of intermption..;. Naders... .The National Board of Trade has Oiarles A. Burt, a brewer and maltster of Al- I adopted the draft of a bill to prevent the fcanv shot his mistress and then committed j adulteration of food and drugs, as also a re«o- •klde Joseph Brown & Brothers, whoie- | lution that the coinage of silver be left to Mle tfrvlgoods dealers in New York, have j the discretion of the Secretory of the xTeas- Jkiled "Seir liabilities being $92.000 ] ury The Western Union Telegraph Com- TEhe Alabama and Great Southern Railroad | pany has reduced its rates an average of 15 Gbninanr are about to tunnel Lookout mount- j per cent, to all points where it comes into.com- rfn in order to connect their road,-which has petition with the American t nion Company.... Heal? and Wtbh, indbtad Land LMgosra, Mqoitted at Cork, aid received a ~. .There are rumors in Paris Rochefort's sanity. Bochefort, in his journal, calls Gambetta a liar, rob­ ber, forger, false Genoese, and a wretch worse ban Thiers or MacMahon.... Josiah Caldwell, of London, a railway con­ tractor, has suspended, with liabilities of £500,- 000 A dispatch from Pari* announces the founding of the Panama Bank with a capital of 14,000,000 francs, and the Commercial Panama Companv, for food supply, with a capital of 2,000,000 francs. Emigration is said to be one of the measures contemplated by the British Govern­ ment to settle the Irish land problem. It is the intention to send many farmers to Man­ itoba at the public expense. Owing to the disturbed state of Ire­ land the landlords are unwilling to invest money upon their property, and the laboring classes are suffering for want of employment. The Land League has called upon the farmers to provide work for the idle hands... .William Pence Jones avows his intention to throw his farm into a pasture and leave Ireland. The consignees at Liverpool refused to receive his sheep, as the Land League threatened tht m.... The fund for the defense of Parnell now amounts to $50,000. Michael Davitt's ticket- of~leave has been canceled, and he will be _ re­ arrested. The First battalion of the Twentieth regiment, at Malts, has been ordered to Ireland. The Grand Orange Lodge advises members of the order to arrange nignahi by which they can assemble promptly at any hour of day or night... Boycott wrote to Gladstone, asking to be in­ demnified for losses caused by his having to quit Irtiand, and was answered that he was largely assisted by troops The German budget estimates the expenses of the next flsoal year at 588,077,960 marks. ^r ||s present termimiB at Waohatchie, with Cliai- IknoogA. about five miles distant. Skats in the New York Stoek Ex­ change are held at $25,000... .L. M. Myer, of Anousta, Ga.. reports having been robbed of frf.ioo in a sk*; ping-car between New York .WfA Philadelphia." ITHE WEST. The growth of railroad traffic in this country has been marvelous. In 1857 the gross earn­ ings of all roads was $39,45fi,353 ; in 1861 the earnings had reached $130,000,000; in 1871, $408,329,208; and last year the earnings amounted to $529,012,999. Statistics presented at a meeting <of the Seamen's Union, in Cleveland, Bhow that in the period from 1834 to 1877 the loss of 864 CONGRESS!ON AL SUMMARY. Ibt proposed restoration of Fits-John Poctar to the rolls of tbe army was the oooasloti of an all* day debate in the Senate on Monday, Deo. 18. Mr. Edmunds made a vain attempt to limit the effect of the bill to one year. Mr. Carpenter held that Porter must be pardoned by the Presi­ dent Hearty 100 bills and resolutions were introduced' in the Houaa. A resolution by Mr. Crapo declaree that the construction of tho fimuna oanal by foreign capital, through a charter from any AT a fire in a building occupied by the i liveg on the lakes could be traced directly to Oroon Manufacturing Company, in Cincinnati, j the overloading of vessels. WASHINGTON. The smnnRl report of the Oommission- of Education puts the total school popula­ te firemen lost their lives by being overcome |ky smoke. The property was damaged to the extent of $40,000... John Dilley and wife, re­ dding in Henry county, HI., were murdered in theirbed bv a* burglar, who obtained only two Watches. Awakened by the groans of their ; another, a young girl and two small boys went i Hearly a mile to arouse the neighbors i ... *ev. Dr, Goodell was assaulted in the streets . . «f St. Louis by rnifiana, and badly beaten and gal before he oould summon assistance They . %»ve been having some severe weather in Col- , . •rado. Partit'8 crossmg the Sangre-de-Crinto •jange have died from cold, and the cattle herds Aave Buffered immense loss. Three deaths by " • frqeging are reported from Rosita, and two travelers arriving at that pi act; lost all four Smbs of their bodies A half-breed Indian ,/ liamed George Scott was lynched by masked ^ _ *ien, at Brazil, Ind., for an outrage on the wife - ,mt his employer. _ LT .M.; Dispatches ci the 15th inst., from ilunnewell, Kan., state that affairs of the European government, can­ not be " Banctloued by the United States. Mr. Meyers offered a reeointion cA'ling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for a de­ tailed statement of the moneys paid V. 8. Grant Iroin 1801 to 1877. Mr. Calkins secured the passage of an expression of wynipathy with the uu- h»ppv laboring classes of Ireland. Mr. McUoid preeeuted a bill to regulate oom- meree by railroad, providing for a uniform rate of fare and freightage, and for c Congressional Committee of Inquiry and Enforcement. Mr. Deuster introduced a bill to terminate existing treaties between the United Stated and tho North German Confederacy; Mr. Warner one providing for a commission of live Representatives, four Senators and five experts, to revise and readjust the tariff. Mr. Willis offered a bill to reduce the postage on letters and letter-matter to 2 ccnts for each one-half ounce or fraction thereof; also, to reform the civil service of the United States. The. latter provides that all persons who have been iu office four years shall retain their places during tjuivu™ rn OVLUV.D n.a -- I L'ood beliavior ; that aU future appoint- avera^e daily attendance (seven btatcs not re- . mentg made from among those who make the beat porting) was 5,01)3,298. In the Southern States lowing at competitive examinations; there shall . .. . c^Jz . . tion in 1878 at about 14,500,000. The number enrolled in public schools was 9,294,316. and the porting) • , the total school population was 5,187,584, and | the number of scholar* enrolled was 2,710,495. | It appears, therefore, that the whole number j of children growing up in ignorance in the year . mentioned was 4,114,077, of whom 2,477,089. or i coiifiderablv more than one-half, were in the late ! I slave States". About 9t'0,000 were negroes ! ! Secretary Thompson has resigned the Navy j i portfolio. Mr. Thompson leaves the Cabinet to i ! take charge of the American branch of De Les- j j seps' canal project Gen. Walker it) only j j waiting for returns from one of the fourteen ' districts of Texas before reporting the. total of I I the census of each State and Territory Jus- j j tice Strong, of the United States Supreme | Court, has concluded to retire from the bench ; * ^Oklahoma raiders were rapidly approaching 4 ! *ndouter^the^ser\"ice^of the Philadelphia and '•isriBia. Great dissatisfaction was caused by a J:-- **~"1 J r,~ "" Report that large numbers were entering the Indian Territory at other points, and the set- v#ers declared t hey would wait no longer. The •fficers,, realising tliat something must be 4oue at once, called a meeting, at which Dr. Bobert Wilson, of Texas, was ajiptjinted a Committee to go Ip Washington and confer with the ProBSent ana* Congress jJJtah has a population of 143,907, of which 69,- are fisnales. and 43.933 of f«»eign birth.... W. T. HoU*oot agent of the American Ex- j New Orleans. Beading Railroad Company as its chief legal r Iviser. Thb President has appointed Edgar Stanton, of Illinois, Consul General at St. Petersburg, Russia. Gen. O. O. Howabd having been ap­ pointed to the command at West Point, it is understood that a new military division will be created for Gen. Sehofield, with headquarters at at Dubuque, Iowa, killed his t thfin kluit himy«lf All lijf • in pronouncing the man insane »#'#ku he committed the terrible deed. He was 4boat40 years of age and a very popular man. «.. .Medicine Ball, a well-known Indian chief t#f the Brule tribe, was killed at .... fhe Ix)wt-r Brule Agency by the " »ccidentil discharge of a pistol in the " iMinds of Indian Agent Beveridge An asso­ ciation, of which Horace Rublee is the head, jAm purchased the Milwaukee Daibj News, and m will, after the 1st of January, be run as a ..^^ispaUicaa newspapor. Two mkn engaged in digging a well »r Arcada, 111., were overcome by gas and 1 before they could be rescued Another family has been prostrated in Chicago from the ffects of raw pork garnished with trichine James Jonen, the wife of a farmer living 1 Napoleon, Mo., tried to till a lighted lamp Thb confirmation bj the Senate of Gen. Razen to be Chief of tbe Signal Service did not meet with that opposition which some had predicted, and it was followed by theunan- . imous confirmation of Col. Nelson A. Miles to be Brigadier General Cadet WTiittaker has applied to President Hayes for trial by court-martial. Whittaker asserts that ho is innocent of every charge made against him The President has nominated Judge William B. Woods to succeed Justice Strong on the Su­ preme bench. Judge Woods is a native of Ohio, but be has been presiding over the Fifth circuit, which comprises Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. The annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Mr. Nimmo, Jr., shows the value of American bread and breadstuffs ex­ ported for the year ending June 30*to be $288,- I roe, of Michigan, to be Marshal for the We«tern dis- 036,835, of cotton $211,535,905, provisions $127.- < Wet'>f Michigan ; Ezekiel & Turner, of Tennessee, ' ' - - - - ' - : to WXTnited Ktateu «Jud»e for the Western district of Teimeiw-e: Alexander Hughes, of Dakota, to be Be­ lie no preferences for any class of citizens, but sol­ diers and sailors. The President will he entitled to ten places in each department for such as he may choose. The credentials of Mr. Taylor, elected as the successor of Gen. Garfield, were presented. Objection was made to admitting iiini to a seat, the opposition claiming that, the S:ate having l>een ap­ portioned into new Congressional iliHtricts, the dis­ trict was reconstructed, and was not tbe same aa that which Gen. Garfield represented. Mr. Taylor qualified, and the credentials were referred to the Committee on Elections. Senators Beck, Kernan and Morrill wore ap­ pointed on Tuesday, Dec. 14, a sub-committee to oonsider a bill which provides for tbe free purchase and register of foreign-built ships by American citi­ zens. Mr. Williams introduced a bill providing for an appropriation of $1,000,000 to be ueed in pre­ venting the dissemination or introduction of infectious or contagious diseases among domestic animals in the United States. Mr. Morrill offered a resolution virtually declaring that the exifting telegraph lines interfered greatly with the business of the Fostoffice Department, and inquiring whether tho telegraphic service should not be placed exclusively in the hands of the Government. The bill for tho relief of Fitz John Porter was passed, being amended to provide that within eighteen mouths the President may appoint him to a Colonelcy on the retired list, without pay lot the time iiit^rv^iting Hint* Iu Us House, Mr. Morgan introduced a bill for the incor­ poration of the Maritime Canal Company of Nica­ ragua. Among the incorporators appear the names of Gen. TJ. S. Grant, K. D. Morgan, H. J. Jewett, Solon Humphreys, William Denuison, Howard Pot­ ter and others. Tue bill proposes that the capital stock shall consist of not less than 500,000 nor more than 1,000,000 shams of $100 each. Mr. lilckiiell announced that l.e would let the electoral-count res­ olution go over the holiday adjournment. A. W. C. Nowlain wm appointed Postmaster of the H nise. An hour wm se>«s t iu committee of "~xa> whole in hearing various propositions for refunding the bondx matur­ ing next year. Messrs. Kelley, Buckner, Gillette, and McMillan offered amendments, " and Diplomatic Appropriation bill cdttu for " Appropriate Young Intro men. and ly disab'ed seamen. Among sent to the Senate were the followihg: James Mon- ttevlaf the Oder. £'One tfhlngfr certain," said Mir. Hath­ away, mphaikialby, "forty gallons of cider won't keep while we're drinking; it There must be something put in it to keep it from spoiling, and I're heard that musterd-seed is the article." "I agree with you," observed Mr. Lef- fingwell. "If we don't take care of it, the ciiior will sour: but I incline to the idea that horseradish is the best. Put in horseradish and your cider will keep all winter." "Let me remark, gentlemen," said Mr. Anderson, laying down a chicken wing and wiping his mustache, "that raisins are what you want. Dump in plenty of raisins, and you're got your cider where you want it. Think so, Mr. Sherwood?" "I can't say I do," rejoined Mr. Sher­ wood. "There is no doubt but that the cider will spoil unless you put in some­ thing. but what you want is borax. A pound of borax will keep that barrel of cider until spring." Each gentleman sustained his view with potent arguments, but the dinner was finished before any conclusion was arrived at, and the party separated. "They can talk about their borax, and raisins, and horseradish till they're gray," said Mr. -Hathaway, as he flopped out of bed at daylight the next morning, "but I'll have my mustard seed in before they roll over," and cautiously stepping down stairs, he extracted the bung and poured a liberal dose of the seeds into the barrel. "That will keep,"he mut­ tered, "for six years," and, driving the bung home, he went back to bed. "It's clear to my mind that Hathaway is trying to save that cider by faith," muttered Mr. Leffingwell an hour later, as he groped around for his clothes. "Mustard seed! Why, he might just as well put in squash rind. I'm going to fill that barrel with horseradish before he's up, and show him how to keep cider. Mustard seed! I'll head a sub­ scription with $5 to test his sanity." And Mr. Leffingwell shivered down to the cellar and cracked away with a ham­ mer until the bung flew out like a bullet. "There!" he ejaculated m he poked the horseradish in with his thumb, "that'll do the business," and with chat­ tering teeth he prowled back to his room. "One would think to hear these people talk that they'd been brought up in an orchard," said Mr. Andersen to himself, as he jabbed the right foot into the wrong slipper. "Borax! Horseradish! Mus­ tard! What that cider wants is raisins, and that's what it's going to get." Upon which Mr. Anderson crept down into the cellar, and inoculated the barrel with a couple of pounds of raisins. "Its be­ ginning to spoil already," he soliloquized, eying the floating seeds and radish sus­ piciously, but without identifying them. "If I hadn't been lightning quick we'd have been drinking vinegar by dinner­ time." And, satisfied that he had saved the beverage, he went back to the sheets. "What I'm afraid of," remarked Mr. subtle that he who make* a good violin is no longer a servile imitator. A com­ monplace instrument may be quite with­ in the scope of a good pattern-maker, but a really fine ^jolin, such as a grea- soloist will accept, one perfect throught out the whole register, one that re­ sponds to the least touch of the finger, that, makes a pure and unalloyed sound, with the tone quality, whether you just toucn it, or rasp it with your bow-- well, that is nothing less than a chcf-d'truvre. Why, there are only four people to-day in the world who can turn you out such an instrument.--Harper's Magazine. An Eccentric Needle. One day at an old-fashioned oountry quilting in East Tennessee the mountain boys and girls were playing some game like "snap." Miss Maria Peelers was being chased around the room by JaikiA Soby, her ardent admirer. She gave a scream suddenly, and began to examine the sol© of her foot, which--as is the custom in that region--was shod with nature's own morocco. It was found that she had stepped on a needle that had fallen by accident upon the floor. As there were seven or eijjht inches of black patent thread hanging from the eye of the needle Jarkin insisted upon pulling it out, but Maria screamed with fright at the bare mention of the tiling. She would not suffer any one to touch the string. So Jarkin took her up be­ hind him on his horse and took her home to the old folks, intending, by the assist­ ance of the old man, to prevail upon, her to let the needle be pulled out. Lo! when they had made tne trip there was no thread visible, and it was thought that, as Maria's feet had dangled along, it hod caught on a bush and pulled out. All parties were in despair. Ma­ ria was considerably frightened, butonly complained of a dreadful stitch in her leg. Jarkin went home, after vainly training his own eyes to flnd that of the needle, leaving Maria, as she said, to let the thing heal and work out. nie next day Jarkin called on Maria to see if the place had begun to fester, but the 4iole, where the needle had entered, was scarcly visible, and Maria was complaining of only a little stitch in her knee, and was in such good spirits as to place Jarkin in ecstasies. From day to day the visits continued, and Maria and Jarkin had forgotten all about the needle. Maria now and then complained to her mother of a peculiar stitch in different localities, but went cheerfully about her work. When Jarkin called in the long even­ ings it was evident that he sat very close to Maria, and while that silent ecstasy spoken of in novels would steal over them they would forget everything but their own little heaven, until a secular snore from one of the old people in tho back part of the room would cause them to stir. This thing continued until one night, after they had been together longer and closer than usual, Jarkin re­ moved his arm and sighed that lie must go. As he went to rise he gasped from a sharp stitch in his side next to MnriA. , Maria edged spasmodically toward Jar- Sherwood, as her opened his door care- ! kin, catching a short breath and hold- fully and slipped down stairs, "what I'm ing to him convulsively. Jarkin felt an afraid of is ihut those fellows will begin to tinker ifrith that barrel before I can get there. If they manage to stick their foolishness in first I'm gone, but if I can empty this borax before they're around, there s so much cider saved." Mr. Sher­ wood belted away at the barrel until the bung toppled out, and in went his borax. "That's the business," he observed with great satisfaction, as he replaced the bung. "It will teach them boys not to be so dogmatic with their remedies here­ after." ~"I don't bclicfa^fhat cider was very •good in tbe flrirt pp®?" said Mr. Ander­ son, as he pushed his glass from him that night at dinner. "We got swindled on that cider." "I think so," said Mr. Sherwood. "It had a bad taste when we tapped it. isn't fit to drink now." indescribable puin in tlie effort to part. Maria hung to him with ejaculations no more tender than indicative of great physical pain. Finally they clnng to each other in wild alarm. Each ex­ claimed : "What's the matter! O! Maria! O! Jar--Jar--Jar--kin!" The old folks awoke and, struck a light in great trepidation. Seeing the couple clinging to each other, the old gentleman insisted upon immediate separation, but Maria i screamed, "He can't; Oh, he can't!" I Jarkin was in too much mysticism to | solve the question, and all the old folks did in their vain efforts to«eparate iliem was to elicit great cries of agony. After many ineffectual attempts the thing was given up. As both parties seemed to be in the extremest mental and physical It j anguish, a doctor was sent for, and after arrived. Upon ground that those parts of the liturgy which imply a belief in the Trinity could not be any longer employed. Many of them by imperceptible degrees glided into Unitarianism, but it was not until 1815, at which time Dr. Channing threw his influence into the scale, that the name began to be much used. The sect had its birth and still has its head­ quarters in Boston. It has made no con­ siderable progress in the United States, for we find that so late as 1870, accord­ ing to the Federal census report, out of 72,459 church organizations of all kind-., the Unitarians only possessed 331, and wefc the owners of 310 church edifices. A Base Impostor. A fftnner from the vicinity of Hemp­ stead appeared in front of the Stock Ex­ change and entered into conversation with a citizen who was waiting in the door by asking: " The convention in there breaks up at 3 o'clock, don't it?" " Yes, that's the hour," was the reply. " Do you know Jay Gould when you see him ? " "Oh, yes." " Is he in there t" " I presume so." " Well, I wish you'd point him ont to me when he comes out. The citizen promised to do this, and within a few minutes he kept his word. The farmer took a square look at the railroad and telegraph prince, and then turned and asked: " Are you dead sure ? " "Oh yes." " Can t be no mistake ? " "No." " Well, it's about as I suspected. A few days ago a great big slouch of a fel­ low halted at my gate and began meas­ uring my ground with a tape-line, and squinting around in the most mysterious manner. I went out to see what was up, and, after beaiing around for a while, he said he was Jay Gould, but I didn't know what he looked like." " It must have been a fraud? " " I am sure of that now. I pumped around to find what he was up to, and he finally said he wanted my place for an orphan asylum. He was going to build one as big as a palace and take care of all the orphans in the country." "And of course you treated him well?" " Didn't I! Why, for three days he lived on the fat of the land and slept in the parlor bedroom. He was going to give me $2f>,000 for my land, and the way we killed chickens and turned out sweet cake for him made the old woman sick. He finally jumped the house and took my Sunday suit and fiddle worth 98." " I don't believe Gould would steal a fiddle." "That's what I thought, and so I came over to have a look at him. It wasn't Gould at all, but some base im­ postor." "Aud you are so much out." "Well, it looks that way; but the experience is worth something. It may not be a week before some one else will come along with a ten-foot pole in his hand and a theological seminary in his eye, and claim to be Russell Sage, and the way I will knock him down, and step on him, and walk over him, and drive him into the sile will pay me a profit of 50 per cent, on the investment." -- Wall Street News* many weary hours arrived. Upon m- "I'd head a subscription with $5 to ! vestigation he found a short, black-pat- send that cider man to the Penitentiary," j ent thread running from Maria's side to observed Mr. Leflingwell, severely. "It i Jarkin's Bide. A new light broke over is not good cider. We could not have j Maria's face at the revelation, while all The cbnsuiar , put anything in to keep it. What do frith oo&l-oil. The inevitable explosion fof- j 043,242; mineral oils f36,218,625, tobacco *18,- flogved, and Mrs. Jones and her two children, 442,237, Nearly 900 bills providing for fcged respectively 6 years and 6 month*, are the "Victims In Oakland, CaL, Miss Elizabeth - *iMer, aged 18 years, was shot dead at the gate :5'jpf her residence toy the accidental discharge of i ;"ft pistol in the hands of her affianced, John •;®eotchIar. j" A BOHdSR exploded with frightful ef- Mfect in a Garrett*ville (Ohio) factory. The ^boiler was blown twenty rods, cutting down iu its flight trees of considerable size. Several >peratives were injured, but only two fatally. John C. Armstrong, a farmer of Carroll- »n, 111., qnarreled with his brother Ciinton bout a baggy trade. The latter struck tlie for- ser with a wagon yoke, killing him instantly 'he bonded debt ef Missouri, as nhown by idal reports, in $16,2&8,000, not including 009,000 of bonds i-Hued to the Hannibal ana Joseph railroad, for which that road is re- msible, and •230.000 revenue bonds. Of i debt only about ^S00,0()0 can be refunded a lower rate of interest than it now bears.... . .. ro more ooinj.aiiit-K of Federal cavalry iiave leached Caldwell, Kan., to keep watch of the Oklahoma colonists. A i>i8patcix from Bawlins, Wyoming, > says the infamous road agent and murderer, Cteorge Parrett, alias "Big-Noaed George," Bus been sentenced to b® hinged next April. George is the last but one of the worst band of road agents and robbers that ever infested Wyoming, The last act of tlie gang was an at- feenpt to turn & Union Pacific jwuwenger train .into a chasm 150 feet deep at Big Springs in 1878. Two Deputy Sheriffs pursued the **ng and were killed. George confessed his wime, dasiring to be hanged in expiation At Eufanla, in Indian Territory, two foll- Woodi went to the house of Elias McVeigh and «hot him dead, filtisward inflicting mortal wounds on & men named Barrett with an ax. The band of adventurers gathered at the payment of private claims are pending before the House at Washington, and are being acted upon at the rate of fifteen each day. POLITICAL. A national convention of colored men has been called to meet at St Louis on the 2d of March. The object of the convention, as stated in the call, is to secure for the negro proper representation in the distribution of Governmental patronage. Campbell, the Gentile candidate for delegate in Congress from Utah, protests of Public Money* at Yankton, D. T. A bill was simultaneously introduced into the Senate and House, by Senator Hill and Mr. Bel- ford, of Colorado, on Wednesday, Dm 15, for the gradual retirement of all greenback* leaa th«n $5. The bill to devote to public education a part of the proceeds of, the sale* of public lands was supported by Messrs. Burnside and Morrill, and warmly advocated by Mr. Brown, of Georgia. Mr. Pcudleton introduced a Civil Service Iteform bill. It provider that admis- tion to the service l»e determined by competitive et- amination, and that promotion shall be Rovertuxl by examination, efficiency, |and experience. Mr. Pen­ dleton hw also introduced a bill to protect Govern men tenipioyes . from political assessments, the Senate unanimously confirmed the nominations • . 1 _ _ , . . . . . . . , „ . o f G e n . H a v e n a s C h i e f S i i m a l < i t H o e r a n d o f G e n . against a certificate being issued to Cannon, | Miles a« brigadier General. Tlie House pawed the on tbe ground that the latter is a subject of i Senate bill granting a pension of $100 per month to Great Britain and & polygamist. | widow of President Tyler. While the FOBEICR. Latkb estimates of the loss of life by the widow of President Tyler. While House wa* in committee of the whole the Fortification bill, which finally pa-toed, Mr. Baker, of Indiana, called attention to the fact that a foreign man-of-war conld reach the dockx in the coal-mine explosion in Wales make the nnm-! New York without injury from cur defenses, Mr. ber of persons perished at 100. Twenty-two bodies have been recovered so far Tbe municipali­ ty of the city of Rome, in spite of the opposi­ tion of the clerical members, has granted a site in the public cemetery 10 the Cremation Com­ pany The British Government has placed two more regiments at the disposal of the Irish Executive. Capt. Hbickpoie, a wealthy farmer, made a vain attempt to veil some hordes in Limerick, as a Land-League bellman paraded the streets foroidding people to pur­ chase. A landlord, named De Courcy Harris, w as Boycotted out of the hunting field p.t Charle- ville. The Claremorris police patrol fired on a party of susjtected men and captured one of them Baudry d'Asson, the French irrecon­ cilable, has brought both civil and criminal , actions against Gambetta and the questors of | the Chamber of Deputies for his recent ex- 1 pulsion Madame Thiers, widow of the late Caldwell, Kan., who propose to invade Tmii^ j President of the French republic, is dead. Territory, were greatly surprised at the ap- j A CABINET council, summoned to con- pesranoe of the leaders of four nations of the j sider measures for the restoration of peace and Were | order in Ireland, was in session at London, last tbe S^Twoild efteSte themes ' ̂ Ifc WU-8 agreed-that-if tLe ̂ * .. fcwd and was nearly cremated iu tlie flames A six-story brick Idock in Cleveland, occupied ! by the Co-operative Stove Manufacturing Com- I pany, has been destroyed by fire, causing a I loss of 490,000.... Josiah Bmithers, an inmate Of the Jail at Columbus, Ohio, having been convicted of ars m, cut his throat in his cell. THE; SOI/VII. " Well some one help me get on my lutse?" archly asked Miss Estelle Snyder, the of Mitchell county, N. C., while standing Id front of a oouutrv store. Charles Posten started eagerly forward to'help her, but Will­ iam Hprings, who was standiug near, reached *0 her first and helped her on the horse, receiving a sweet smile and thanks from the fair 1 ' equestrienne. As the young woman ; stsrted to go, Springs went u;> to i ; Posten and in emphatic language com- •g't- plained of his intu-ierenco. vih« rouiatk «SMged Postui, who drew a n^-ol.Mr end de- . Mberately tired all 0 e hsll.t tbrougb the uody of Kprings, l:il'in<x Liui - in the rruaun<: of the }wng wfflMii. a ust'in tl».*n "own h:«t ro- . irpiverand flri.. ..James Dftvi,:, Itev- jL suae Collector, «.is lullc', »n t u. w. Cauip- )MM, United "Sta'.c!' O^minis-<omr, tente-i »' "I --111 Ij to Jcsiai ih a light with ii- • dl-iiilcm, near CooksvfHe, IVnn lurf 'uTTeit-o the loss of seventv-tive |i. are, including the C»tsfc»tn H;>use away. And then there was silence, and each gentleman wondered if it wouldn't have been better to let the other gentlemen try their various recipes before zealous­ ly administering his own.--Brooklyn Eagle. Bringing Up Children. Few mothers know just how to govern their children. If a neighbor calls in to have a chat, she don't like to be inter­ rupted every few moments by the noise of half a dozen children. "Give me the others were thrown into the deepest conjecture. Upon signifying that she could ai last solve the riddle, the parties waited breathlessly to hear. *'It s that needle." "What needle, Maria ?" "Why, hits been workin' all this time, that nee­ dle I tramped on at the quiltin'." The mystery was solved ; the thread had not pulled out on the way home, but as the needle had worked in out of | sight the thread had followed. It had i continued its course about Maria's mem­ bers, and now all those inexplicable pains, which had for six months dis­ turbed her, were accounted for; and Jarkin had been so persistent and so ! close in his attentions that the needle | had, imperceptibly, in a protracted sit­ ting of the two, worked out of Maria Was Joan of Are Burned ai the Stake. The Mayor of Compiegne is quite a genius in his way. He knew that the prevailing notion was to secularize every­ thing, and consequently he invented a republican manifestation in honpr of Joan of Arc, tlie Maid of Orleans, who defended Oompiegne against the English and Burgundians in 1430, and was be­ trayed into the hands of John of Luxem­ bourg, who surrended her to the English­ men who burned her at the stake iu the market-place at liouen. The ruins of the Maiden's Tower show where the Picardy arolier pulled the unfortunate Joan from her war-horse, and when those who are fond of going back to the history of other days think of the legend and then of that horrible statue of the Maid of Orleans at the end of the Rue des Pyramides in Paris, they must deplore the fact that the man of Picardy left no descendant who would come forward and unhorse the figure that surmounts the pedestal. M. Charles Monselet has thrown some doubt on the legend of Joan of Arc hav­ ing been burned by the English. He quotes a paragraph from tlie Mercure of 1683 announcing that certain documents recently discovered led to the conclusion that Joan of Arc had been married, and that, consequently, Bome unfortunate victim must have been sacrificed in her place at Rouen. The documents con­ sisted of an attestation made by Father some bread and butter, mother." " Jane ! int̂ 1^" and' aa it were, stitchedTliem | Vigner, who said: "Five years after the has broken my doll, mother." "Jim j together. ! judgment, of Joan of Arc, on the 20tli day corpus. Arrangements are l>eing made to rem force the troops in Ireland by 5,000 meu. Baron Dowse, holding-court at Gal- way, has received a letter threatening him with death should any Land Leugner be convicted. The Irish Land Les^ue has adopted a manifesto which condemns outrages and threatening letters as harmful to the cause of land reform. It insists, however, that there shall he no compromise with landlordism.... In its efforts to firing its disbursements within its receipts, Japan has ordered the sale of va- I rious factories established to stimulate the in­ dustries of the peeplo, and propom s to recall the Ministers to Italy, Ho1 land and Australia. ... .The Progressists aud D. mocrats of Ger- ! many have obtained a tremendous victory in i the late election*. This is partly owing, to the • new Coin laws. Pabxell, Davitt and Dillon report having received letters threatening them »itii death. A merchant of Dublin has be n summoned by the Clare Land League to justify an eviction. Commercial travelers, summoned as jurors in tho st te trials, have received warnings from cu-tomers against vo'*ig to convict. John Fo -er, cue of the p.itv who al t the ears of a l.ailiil near Trr.lee, although identified., by the victim, lias* I-eon acquitted. William Benre Jones, a land-owner of County Cork, has icon warned thi.t h» grave will be dug opposite bm CHbaon reported a bill appropriating $1,800,000 for Um improvement of the MissiBBippi river. A bill authorizing the President to enter the name of Gen. Ord on the retired list with his brevet rank of Major General waa introduced in the Sen­ ate on the 16th inst, by Mr. Maxey. The appear­ ance of Gen. Grant caused a recesa of ten mln- utea. Mr. Sanndera presented a WU for tbe sale of part of the reservation of tbe Omaha. Indiana, in Nebraska, and Mr. Hoar a petition for woman suf­ frage in the Uurritorla*. Prolonged debate took place on the Educational bill, which went over. In the House, Feruamlo Wood presented a ooncurrcnt resolution for a holiday recew of two weeks from tho 22d, which was adopted. The pen­ sion appropriation was dincuM*e<l in committee of the whole, aud subsequently paHred. Near.y a.l the - member* of tho Hou>e came to the Speaker's dexk and trrocU d Gen. Grant. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, introduced a bill to take from the treasury $100,00*.',000 in ooin, and discharge that amount at interest-bearing debt at its maturity. The President nominated Theodore F. HiiiKiMor, ol Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of Idaho Territory, and Edwvrd P. Cliamplin, of Michigan, to be Re­ ceiver of Public Moneys at Dead wood, D. T. Mr. Wallace introduced a bill to establsh a uniform system of bankruptcy In tho Senate on Fri­ day, Dec. 17. Tbe Seuate refused to concur in tbe resolution passed by the House to adjourn from the 22d inst to the Sth prox. A motion to reconsider was alterwards adopted. Mr. Blaine offered a resolution that the Judiciary Committee in quire into the expediency of increasing tbe number of Supreme Court Judges to thirty" n. After prolonged debate on tbe Educational bill, Mr. Telier'a amendment was adopted, providing that for ten year* the proetcds of the wile# of pubic lands shall be p*i<l ti tbs several States ac­ cording ti the prop.irt.on of persons over 10 years of age who not read or write. The measure was th»ti patted by 41 to «. The Senate patwed the hi:] appropriating $250,000 t/ rebmld tlie Peusiicola Ou t ni lioiue, recently de- stroyed by fire, and then adjourned to Monday. The Houtte paHW;'! the, Senate bill granting a pension to Ihe widow of Gen. Melntzelmin. M <\ A'dr ch intro­ duced a bill to give the city of Chicago title • to the lake front. Corn Cote. Hie oobs of Indian corn snntam a large amount of potash. Its ashes con­ tain twice the amount of that material than the ashes of the willow, which con­ tains more than any other wood. Potash is one of the minerals for which the far­ mer pays, in one shaue or another, large sums of money, and this frequently when there can be seen lying around his prem­ ises uneconomized quantities of *lii« has snatched my bread and molasses, mother." " Say, mother, can't I go out and play a littje while ? " These, and other such questions, mingled with cries and boisterous laughter, are not very entertaining to company. Some moth­ ers allow their little ones to draw their chairs up to the table as soon as they begin to spread it for a meal, and they will spat the plates with their hands, claw the biscuits, finger the sugar-bowl, make landscapes on the butter-ball, put the knives and forks iu their mouths, etc. If they are allowed to do so when no one beside the family is present, rec­ ollect you will have an uupleasant job to keep them from doing so when company is nt hand. And, if you succeed in ac­ complishing the task, the feat is about as tliin as to drop in suddenly npon a lady at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and find her rushing about the room with a broom in her hand. It is a sorry tiling to hear children calling out at the table: Give me some more meat; I won't have that! give me a piece like Tom's; I want some bread ; not that old piece of crust! why in thunder didn't vou give me some teal" etc., etc. Wfio is to blame for Buch unmannerly procedure? Of course it is not for me to say ; but any one can guess right the first time, without stopping to think a great while. Some children will be sure to run into the house if a visitor calls, in order to hear what is said ; and frequently we meet with children that take the load in conversation. What a shame, to bring children up in such a manner, when it would be just as easy to make little la­ dies aud gentletaen of them. Violin Making. Violin makinsr in its perfection is one of the most difficult of callings. It is apparently nothing more thsui the ad­ justment of certain bits of' woi)d, which are planed, filed, saw-cut, scratched, sand-papered, carved, pegged, glued, and varnished; but to give it the soul requires the highest capability of hu­ man intelligence. Hands must work in a material which, though easier to cut than metal, cannot lie kept up to the same degree of precision. Fingers must be subservient to bra:n. For a guide you must have the tine appreciation of tone quality.- If with mechanical dex­ terity you possess the necessary fine­ ness of ear, your wooden oase will give out the sound of a Guarnerius, a Steiu- er, or an Amati. Tfee trick of it all is so together. His Month Saved Hint. "John Hall, you were very drunk last night," said his Honor, as a send-off. "I think not, sir." " Well, you have a right to differ. Officer, was this man drunk ?" " He was, sir." "How drunk?" "Well, he fell down four times in crossing the road, and the last time he fell he settled down for a nap." " That'8 our case, Mr. Hall. Have you any defense ?" "I have, sir. I had not tasted any liquor of any sort all day long. Just l>efore I met the officer I gdt choked, and that was what ailed me when he picked me up." "Choked! What with?" "With an apple." " Have you got it ?" "Yes,- sir. When the officer shook me he shook the apple out of my gullet and I put it in my pocket to bring and show you." He thereupon pulled from his coat- tail pocket a frozen greening larger than a cottee-cup and laid it on the desk. "Do you mean to tell me that you had that apple in your mouth ?" "Yes, sir. I was going to take a bite when it slipped down into my gullet, and if the officer hndn't given me a shake I might have suffocated." " You can't get the apple into your mouth! No such story will go down here." "See here, Judge," and he opened a mouth big enough to take in a quart bowl, tossed in the apple, rattled it around and dropped it into his hand again with a smile of triumph. "You may go," said his Honor, after a long silence. " With such a mouth as that you'll eat more than you can earn in any prison. Take your frozen apple and go your way." "Thank you. I'd like to bring my brother in some day and let you see his mouth. He can hold a pint of hickory- nuts and sing a song at the same time." --New York Herald. The Unitarians. Unitarianism in this country has passed through much the same phases as in Great Britain. After 1740 Arinn views of the person of Christ were pretty widely diffused through New England, and hi 1787 t«iok place the first secession from the Episcopal ehnrch, on the of May, Joan, the Maid, visited Metz. On the same day her brothers called to see her. They thought she had been burned, but when they saw her they re­ cognized her at once. They took her with them to Boquelon. Whereon a yoe- man named Nicolle gave her a horse, and two other persons contributed a sword and a plumed hat, and the said Maid sprung very cleverly on the said horse, saying a multitude of things to the yoe- man Nicolle." The old priest wrote this history with his own hand, and made oath as to its sincerity before a public notary, adding as a proof of what he had advanced a copy of the original contract of marriage between "llobert des Armoises and Joan of Arc, otherwise known as the Maid of Orleans." Compiegne has treasured up a faithful souvenir of the heroine, and about fifteen years ago a subscription was opened to enable the town to erect a statue to her memory. The idea was started by a rather unpopular person, and was soon allowed to drop. The present Mayor again took up the matter, and with the aid of the muncipility has at length succeeded in giving the town a Btatue of the Muid, wliosa words, J'irai voir me bonsamis de Coiriph yne," have been cnt in the pedestal.--London Globe. , A Turkish Joker. The best known story of the tradition­ al Joe Miller of Turkey is that of his thrice tooling an assembly of true be­ lievers out of a sermon by three success­ ive jocular replies. The first • time he f :r.jn<led the pulpit I10 said : " Oh, true believers, do yon knew what I am going to say ?" Tlioy replied : " Nowhereupon he asked : " Of what use is it to preach to such ignoramuses ?" and came down from the pulpit. The next time, when he asked the same question, they answered : . " Yes, we know whereupon he sam: " Then it is useless lor me to tell you," and came down. The third time, having taken counsel together, the congregation prepared an a'is>ver which they thought would cor­ ner their joker-preacher, and said : "Some of us know and some of us don twhereupon he promptly re- p'ied : " Let those who know tell those who 4on*t," and onoe m ore came down. ALL SORTS, ̂ Gw.N. P. BAKM is lecturing in York. Wendell Phillips is 89 years old, Mas. Abraham Lincoln gets aF«d» end pension of $3,000 a year. Form newspapers and one literary magazine are edited by ladies in Texas. Owing to ill-health, Congressman Do La Matyr has decided to remove to Flo­ rida. Congressman Alex. EL Stbfhens, of Georgia, is suffering from dyspepsia. even more than usual for him. Secretary Schxtrz, it is said, spend* more hours in department work than any other member of the Cabinet. Bkecher thinks that "honest men are very scarce in the market." Honest men are not in the market at all, Mr. B. Washington ladies are preparing a silken tapestry for presentation to link. President Hayes as a testimonial of her high moral worth. It was calculated in England some time ago that not one book in 1,840 goes through a second edition, sad not one in many thousands a third. The Government ol Italy pays only $12,000,000 yearly for pensions, despite- two or three wars and revolutions *.«d the pensioning of civil officials. Drcnkbnhess is spreading so much in Germany that a new measure for its punishment and prevention is being pre­ pared for presentation to the imperial Parliament; The Russians are paying great atten­ tion to the revolver as an instrument of warfare. Upward of 60,000 of these; handy weapons are being made at Ber­ lin lor the Russian army. " Which do you like best, your father • or vou* mother ?" inquired a visitor of a little chubby-fist. " Oh, I like ma the best. She spanks me with the soft side of her hand ; pa takes a shingle." Lewis H. Redfield, the oldest editor in New York--outranking Thxsrtow Weed by some months--celebrated his 87th birthday at Syracuse by giving a dinner to the press of that city. Japan wends per cent, of her an­ nual exports to this country, and 15 per cent, of them to Great Britain. On the other hand, of her imports but 10 per cent, are from this country, and 57 per cent, from Britain. John G. Thompson, Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, has purchased a half interest in the Colum- iimbns (Ohio) Daily Times, and will be­ come its editor as soon as his term of office expires. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler and others have petitioned for a charter for an ele­ vated road in Boston, with a capital of $1,000,000. The road is to be shaped like an inverted V, with three rails, one at the apex and the other two at the bottom of the arms to steady the cars. Prince Napoleon, it is said, is going to embark in the newspaper business. When people begin to come in inquiring for " that blankety blank scoundrel who put that blankety blank lie in this blan­ kety blank paper about me/' he will be­ gin to have some idea of what trouble is. Two men are litigating at Elizabeth- town, Ky., over a slave trade that took place in 1855. The defendant bought a negro of the plaintiff, but, finding the slave unsound, made the plaintiff take him back. Plaintiff discovered that the negro was unfit for work, and in 1869 brought suit to recover his value. Tho case is still on. The plaintiff is 70 years old and the defendant 80. •Miss Mart Anderson purchased afc St. Louis a diamond necklace and pend­ ant for $5,000. The necklace is com­ posed of nineteen very large and beauti­ ful diamonds, all first-quality gems. From the necklace is suspended a pend­ ant of exquisite beauty and workman­ ship, which is one mass of diamonds. In the center, and directly above it, are two very large solitaire diamonds of five carats each, surrrounded by seventy- seven smaller diamonds, so arranged as to give the appearance of one immense solitaire of great value. He Laughs Best Who Laughs Last. The train had started" o f L A young man rushed breathlessly in. " Got left, I did you?" "Well, ain't I here?" ho ' responded. Then one said he could go | across the bridge and catch it, and an- ' other told him when the next train would | go, and made various suggestions. The | chap looked at the disappearing train a ; few seconds, when somebody asked, | " Where were you going ? " Then the I wicked fellow said, "Oh. I wasn't going j in it, but there was a fellow in the train I to whom I promised to pay a bill." j His Honor. | Stepping into the office of a lawyer ; who prefixes "Hon." to his name, Jones ; was informed by the clerk, "Mr. Blank j was talking of going to New York. I Very likely liis honor has gone." "No 1 doubt of it," said Jones, as he closed the I door; "no doubt of it--if he ever had !any." THE MARKETS. $6 TS «13 00 4 80 (ft 6 Y214 12 <4 " V 3 40 ($ 4 00 1 15 & 1 J1 6* @ 59 40 (3 44 1 08 <£ 1 04 IS 00 «US 2ft » 5 #0 e • 50 3 SO oil 3 75 4 80 <3 4 70 3 SO <$ 5 00 6 75 .0* 0 25 fit 1 13 0 1 01 & 40 (4 32 & 8C a 87 NEW YORK. Bketm Hoos Cotton Floor--Supnrfine j Wheat--No. 2 Spring Coiin--Ungraded.. Oa rs--Mixed Western K*k--Western..... Pona--Mesa Laid CHICAGO. Bkkvxs--Cbotee Graded Steera.. Cows snd Heifers Medium to Fair Hoos. Floub--Fancy White Winter Ex. Good to Choice Spring Ex.. & 00 <$ 5 60 Vhut--No. 2 Spring 1 01 ($ 1 03 No. 3 Spring 97 ($ 89 Corn--No. 3. M ($ 40 Oatr--No. 3 80 & 33 Rvk--No. 2. 88 <3 87 Babut-NO. 3 1 13 ($ 1 14 Butter--Cboies Creamery 33 @ 33 Eooa--Fresh 36 9 37 Pobk--Mesa. M 75 @13 10 La*D 8& MILWAUKEE. Wheat--Na I. 1 06 No. 2 1 00 Corn--No X 89 Oats--No. 2 31 R*e--No. 1 86 Babijct--No. 2. 86 ST. LOUIS. 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