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: \ •iv-: -i»' i r m, • Jflcfiicnttt f?l;riu<I?;ilre I. VAN SLYKE, EdRwr «Ml PRMMMT. " " ̂ r, %l: McHENRY, ILLINOIS. •i ' i ~«>a.': <H - • J . •EEKLT lEffS REVIEW. THE KASfT. BISHOP KKRFOOT, of the Diooese of PHIibwgh, died at MoyfrwUle, Pa., after a prolonged ill new. THE saw-mill of the Sherman Lumber Company, at Potidam, N, Y., with 2,000,000 feet of lumber, and eightwn homes, were da- gtroved bv fire, canting a loss of $100,000.... John A. Appleton, a member or the eminent publishing fino of D. Appleton & Co., died ill New York the other day Justice Clifford, of. the United States Supreme Court, hftB suffered the amputation of his foot for gangrene. GEN. JOHN C. PEMBERTON, who com­ manded the rebel forces at Vicksburg during the memorable eiege, died the other day at Penn Yan, Pa., at the age of 64 years By the explosion of keroBene which was being need to hasten the lighting of a fire, Mrs. Mary Kray and her daughters, Mrs. Hattie Monahau and Hattie Kray, were fatally burned •(Brooklyn. JTTST outside of St Paul, A freight train of forty-three cars on the Omaha road broke apart, the rear section starting back down a high grade, and striking another train at the depot at the rate of sixty miles per hour. George Trider, a veteran engineer, was killed, and a less of $50,000 inflicted. The track was rooted up for fifteen rods Ex-Senator Fhin- «u W. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, is dead. THE Williams brothers, fugitives from justice in Illinois, killed Deputy Sheriff Colo- man, of St. Croix county, Wis., and Charles Coleman, formerly Sheriff of Pepia county. The slaughter occurred at Dimwit, twenty-two miles south of Menominee, while the officers were attempting to arrest the outlaws. Gov. Smith offers f500 reward for their capture, and has authorized the use of the LiUdington Guards in running them down. IOWA and parts of Illinois were visited by seven storms Sunday, the 10th inst, which did great damage to crops, railroad tracks and buildings. A CYCLONE swept over the vicinity of Fairfield, Minn., fciiHng four persons and wrecking all the houses and bridges in its path. IOWA crop prospects for July are: Com, 77 per cent, (it is believed that the pro­ duct will be 60,000,000 bushels less than the previous vear) ; winter wheat, 55 ; spring wheat, 91--a deficit of 17,000,000 bushels being ex­ pected; oats, 92; flax, 99; barley, win­ ter, 1'2}4; barley, spring, 83 ; potatoes, 93; sweet potatoes, 81; rye, 87 --The Michigan wheat crop is estimated at 17,600 000 bushels, and that of Kansas at 20,000,000 bushels.... The Excelsior Manufacturing Company's worka --better known as Filley's stove foundry--in St. Louis, have been partially destroyed by fire. Loss, $75,000. An ice-house was also borned, involving a loss of $17,000 Of 549 at Cincinnati in one week, 363 were i by tine excessive heat. * ,» c *<; >•»" ^ ; M .k"aa\f THE SOUTH. L» a long interview at Mississippi CHy Jefferson Davis declared the attempt on the President's life only an outgrowth of the greedy scramble for office which has of late yean been so marked. THE body of Thoihas K. Pugh, the •on of ex-Senator Pugh, was found recently by a Mexican scouting party near Carrezal, Chi­ huahua. The body was horribly mutilated, and Mr. Pugh was evidently tortured to death by the Apache Indiana, into whose hands he fell. There were three gunshot wounds in his body. THURSDAY, July 14, was quite gener- allv observed bvthe neonfe of Kentnckv and 80,1111 Amerieau republics, has a revolution on The President, Gen. Guzman Blanco, nati, Pittsburgh and other cities imaged (torn 88 to 105 in the shade. PASSENGER rates from the seaboard to the Western cities are wholly demoralized, fhe war was commenced by the Boston and Albany road, which made a reduction of $5, Mid waa sustained by similar rates on the Erie, New York Central and Baltimore and Ohio until tba fare from New York to Chicago is now f 16 the American linos and #14 by the Canadian. East-bound rates from Chicago have bean fluctuating from #20 down to f 12. The pre­ diction is recorded that $5 will soon purchase a ticket from this city to the seaboard, and that a reckless war is at hand. A FIRE at Joliette, Quebec, consumed nineteen buildings, valued at over 1100,000. CAFT. LUNDBORG, a Swedish naval architect, has made designs for a paribenger steamer to cross the Atlantic in six days. The vessel will be 500 feet long and 74 broad, and be propelled by four compound engines, hav­ ing 22,800 horse-power. Lundborg's main idea is to construct a ship whose main body shall divide the water horizontally, and he projects the hull below the water-line.... Delia Poeier, a religious monomaniac confined in the Tongue Point Lunatic Asylum, near Montreal, fancied that her cellmate, Gertrude Roberts, was a frightful dragon intent on de­ vouring herself and ail the other inmates. She attacked her companion with a piece of board, crushing her head into jelly. An inquest waa held into the death of the woman Roberts, and the asylnm authorities were censured. AT a meeting of Directors of the Bal­ timore and Ohio road, tho resignations of Vice Presidents King and KeyBer were accepted. Robert Garrett was elected First Vice Presi­ dent, and Bradford Dunham appointed Gen­ eral Manager of tho Western division Two missing whalers, the Mt. Maliastou and Vigilimt, have been heard from. East Cape Indians informed Capt, Barker, of the whaler Progress, that they had found both vessels ice-locked. On the Vigilant were three corpses, who were supposed to have died during the first year of their captivity The celebrated trotting mare Maud S., whose record of 2:10% over the Chicago track was the fastest in trotting annals, beat that perform* ance last week at Pittsburgh, trotting a mile in 2:10} j The Captain and passengers of the British bark St, Lawrence, from RicT de Janei­ ro, saw two comets on the evening of Jon* 28, one in the northwest and the other in the northeast. THIRTEEN deaths have occurred in Baltimore from lockjaw, occasioned by explo­ sions of toy pistols on the 4th of July. Nn- merous deaths are reported in other localities from the same cause There is a revival in the iron trade, the only drawback to the output being tho excessive heat, which is beyond the laborers' endurance. Mills are sold six months ahead for steel and three on iron.... Mr. Moody, the evangelist, denies that Guiteau, the assassin, wm in any way associated with him m the ministry. He says he always saw through the man, and believed him to be dis­ honest and a little crazy. rOBCKUf. THE formers of France count* on a good crop of wheat, and declare that the vint­ age will be one of the best for fifteen years.... Another complication has appeared in the East. Dervisch Pasha, the Turkish commander in Albania, reports that the Auetnans at Novi- Bazar are making arrangements to advance on Salonica, and the Turkish Ambassador at Vi­ enna has mildly protested against such a pro­ ceeding, but the Austrian Government hag blandly informed him that Dervisch Pasha is mistaken. Two SETS of pilgrims from France were about td visit the Pope--the one in August, the other in September. The Pope has in­ formed the intending pilgrims that it would not be safe for then? to visit Italy at the pres­ ent time, as the Italians are not greatly in love with Frenchmen just now, and might give the f ilgrims the wrong kind of a reception.... he Sultan has assured France that in sending troopfi to Tripoli his Hole object was the main­ tenance of order. France regards the assur­ ance as satisfactory, and the project of a French expedition to Tripoli is therefore aban­ doned .. . Venezuela, the most northerly of the Arkansas as a day of thanksgiving fur the r»» ' wary of the President Nuncuu IJT the contest for the short-term yO--twhip at Albany, <m a» 9th. om*_ Pattar SB voim Laphaat**?. Cao&Sasr Si sad WheelH1 L Tbe Tote t~x the '.aotc term pn Miller 68 votes. Hernia 30 and Wbeefer 19. THE ballot at Albany on the 11th inst. far a Senator for the short term gave Lapham CO votes, with 70 necessary to choice; Potter and Conkling 28. For the long term Miller had 61 votes, Kernan 48, and Wheeler 18. A committee of five, appointed at a recent meet­ ing of the stalwart Republican members, made an appeal to the joint caucus committee to unite in a call for a caucus, arguing that the election of the present candidates, Lapham and Miller, would cause two vacancies in the national House of Representatives at a critical period. The Chairman of the Benato caucus committee replied to the effect that the Conk­ ling faction neglected the opportunity to par­ ticipate in just such a gathering as it now asked for. IK the ballot for Senator for the short term at Albany, on the 12th inst., Lapham had 68 votes, Potter 52, and Conkling 32, with 78 necessary to a choice. For the long term Mil­ ler received 70, Kernan 52, and Wheeler 21.... The Wisconsin Greenback State Convention was held at Watertown on the 12th inst. The fol­ lowing State ticket was nominated by acclama­ tion.- Governor, E. P. Allis, Milwaukee; Lieu­ tenant Governor, David Giddmgs, Fond du Lac; Secretary of State, Wilson Hopkins, Chip­ pewa; Treasurer. Gerhart Lammers, Sheboy­ gan; Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. JL Gaynor, Wood; Attorney General, Joel Fos­ ter, Pierce; Railway Commissioner, T. G. Bran­ son, Crawford; Insurance Commissioner. L. Merrill, Dodge. IK the balloting at Albany, on the 18th inst, Lapham led for the short term with 89 votes. Potter had 52 and Conkling 82. For the long term Miller had 71, with 78 necessary tor a choice ; Kernan 51 and Wheeler 28. Conkling told" a New York reporter that unaer no circumstances would he withdraw.... The Democratic Convention of the State of Ohio met at Columbus July 13 and nominated J6hn W. Book waiter, of Springfield, to the Governorship. Other nominations were made as follows: For Lieutenant Governor, Edgar X. Johnson, of Cincinnati; for Supreme Judge. E. F. Bingham, of Franklin; for State Treasurer, A. F. Winslow, of Cleveland ; for Attorney General, Frank C. Dougherty, of Highland county ; Public Works, John Crowe, of Defiance. The platform declares iu favor of "tariff for revenue only, levied and ad- Justed in its details with a view to equity in the public burdens and the encouragement of productive industries without creating mo­ nopolies." THE joint ballot for United States Senator at Albany on the 14th gave, for the short term, Lapham 70, Potter 54 and Conk­ ling 32. For the long term Miller had 73 and Kernan 54. The Assembly subsequently adopt­ ed a resolution to adjourn on baturdav. Julv If, by a vote of 62 to 61. WASHINGTON, BECBETABY KJBKWOOD has decided that pensioners who have been inmates of sol- •diers' homes, and who leave these institutions without the consent of the managers, are en­ titled to rcseive their pensions directly. He holds that, if the care of soldiers' homos is not given to or is repudiated by the soldier, the soldier, and not the in­ stitution, is entitled to the pension.... Pension Commissioner Dudley recommends the discharge of a hundred clerks and a re­ daction in tne salaries of over sixty. The un­ adjusted claims number 120,000. THE aggregate annual savings in the •tar-route mail service made by the reductions the last four months amount to 11,066,778. Addition*! reductions have been ordered, which WUl effect a saving of over SI,200,000 annually. ..^Attorney General MacVeagh holds that the OototiiiKBioners of Soldiers' Homes are not en­ titled to the bounty land-warrants turned over w them as the effects of deceased soldiers. OENKBAL. D. O. Mijom has given to the Univer- siter of California *75,000 to endow a chair of intellectual and moral philosophy. THERE has been unparalleled suffer- Ing trom the heat at many points in the coun­ try. Many cases of sunstroke are reported. °fv gravin have be«» harvested •JT moonlight, the harvesters dreading the S rays. The mercury at St Louis, ™»cin- hand. has nearly 10,000 men under arms. AT Cette, a seaport town of France, a fire in the railway warehouses destroyed over two square miles of sheds, burning 1,000 trucks Kid passenger-ears At Zurich, the Swiss "i«»ii Conad hk|s dseadedntw a burg*major­ ity, not to allow the Socialists, Nihilists, Com­ munists, etc.. to hold their universal congress in that city. FATHER SHKEHT forbids any petition to the British crown for his relief. Michael Davitt is in excellent health and spirits. A gen­ uine Irian agricultural laborer is to be put in the field for Parliament at an early opportu­ nity. Edmund O'Brien and John Hyde, of tho Middleton Board of Poor-Law Guardians, have been nabbed under the Coercion act In consequence of the recent onslaughts on the German residents of the Bohemian capital, 173 German sojourners at Bohemian watering- places have petitioned Prince Bismarck to take steps to protect the Uvea and properties of Ger­ man subjects in Bohemia Wliiie the indica­ tions are that the crops in France, Spain, Rus­ sia and Italy will be far above the average this year, the reports from Germany indicate that even a medium yield is not anticipated Judge Lawson, in opening the assizes at Kerry, referred to the large number of cases on the calendar, and to the state of lawlessness pre­ vailing in the county. The Kerry jurors did not pay much attention to Judge Lawson's charge, however, as, notwithstanding his instructions, they acquitted all the per­ sons charged "with agrarian offenses.... The remains of Pope Pius IX. were removed from St. Peters to the Church of San Lorenzo, in Rome, at midnight, Tuesday, July 12. An immense procession of members of the Italian Catholic societies followed the remains. There were some interruptions by persons who shouted, " Long live Italy!" but the disturb­ ers were dispersed by the military. BBADLATTGH has given notice to the Speaker of the House of Commons and to the other officials of that grave body that he in­ tends to raise a row on the 3d of August On that day he will present himself at the bar of the House, will offer to take the oath, and will resist expulsion with all the force which he can The destruction of the BasUle was commemorated at Paris, on the 14th of July, with great enthusiasm, the city being brilliantly illuminated at night Prince Bis­ marck has made a demand upon the Sultan to return the ransom money recently paid to Roumelian brigands for the release of two CHptive Germans Hessy Helfman, the Nihilist woman who was sentenced to death at St. Petersburg for com­ plicity in the murder of the late Czar, will, it is believed, have her sentence commuted by the Czar It requires 7,000 troops and 2,000 pieces of artillery to protect the Bulgarian National Assembly in session at Sistova. Prince Alexander himself feels safer on board a gunboat on "the beautiful blue Dan­ ube" than being in his palace in the city ... The Siberian plague, which attacks both men and horses, and which is fatal to both, has broken out in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, and has proved very destructive. The doctors, who are inefficient have made no headway against the disease, which is spreading with alarming rapidity. Peasants sell the skins of beasts who die of the plague, and thus tend to spread its destructive effects. Jewesses of Tangier are famous for their eyes, teeth and complexion*, and for their figures in early maidenhood. At 35 they are shapeless old women, Sans teeth, B*»B tyet, sans taste, sans--everything. --T. B. Aldrieh, in Harper"» Maga­ zine. LATEST NEWS. BY the burning of the finishing-room of a mill at Slaterville, R. I., a loss of $100,000 was incurred, and 700 operatives lost their em­ ployment. .. .Bonesetter, a famous trotter, owned by H. V. Berais, of Chicago, and valued at $15,000, fell dead in tho socond heat of * race on the Pittsburgh track The United Stat** Underground Telegraph Company is laying in New York a bunch of seventy-five fire-alarm wires, in long wooden boxes covered with a preparation of silica. A TRAIN robbery occurred on the llock Island rcftid, at Winslow Station, near Cameron Junction, SB>., on the night of July 16. When the train which left Kansas City in charge of Conductor Westwall reached that point, at 9:30 p. m., a gang of desperadoes appeared, and side-tracked the train. Every car was boarded. The conductor was killed and the passengers robbed. THE wheat yield in Illinois this year, it is estimated, will be 37,000,000 bushels less than the yield of 1880, Michigan's yield will bo 14,500,000 bushels less, Ohio 12,000,000 bushels and Iowa 17,000,000 bushelB. The total short­ age for the four States, therefore, will be 80,- 500,000. FRAKK BROWN and Jesse Myers, two of the gang of desperadoes who terrified tho people of New Madrid county, Missouri, last spring, were hanged at Sikeston. About 0,000 person-* gathered to witness the execution Willis Reeves, a negro, was hanged at Van Buren, Ark., for the murder of Joseph Drake, also colored. Reeves made three determined efforts to escape from the platform of the gal­ lows, the Sheriff falling through the trap with him... .At Marianna, Ark., Isaac Green and John liardin, two negro murderers, paid the penalty of their crimes on the gallows, in pres­ ence of 8,000 spectators. THERE was little or no change in the political situation at Albany on the 15th, the ballot proving almost a repetition of the one recorded the previous day. The Senate refused to concur in the House resolution for au ad­ journment on Saturday, July 16. Ex-SPEAKER RANDALL thinks that the shooting of President Garfield will tend to ce­ ment the various sections of the country, and that, if his administration be a success, he will almost certainly be renominated in 1884. RETURNS received at the Agricultural Department up to July 1 indicate an improve­ ment in the cotton crop as compared with its condition in June. The average condition is 95, against 100 at the same time last year. Tho wheat-crop prospects are much better than they were in June, and the average will be about 83 throughout tho country. In the Atlantic Slates the crop will be only slightly inferior to that of last year, but in the Northwest and in Ohio aud Indiana the average will fall below 70, and in Illinois will not be over 60. Of the spring-wheat States, Iowa returns an average of 72. There is an in­ creased area of corn, but tho condition of the crop is by no means as promising as it was at this time last year. In the Atlantic States the crop has suffered from the cold, wet spring. In the Southern States it is fair, except in Texas, where the drought has caused serious damage. In the West and Northwest the aver­ age is below that of last year, particularly in Iowa. IK five days after the assault on the President, tho Western Union Telegraph Com­ pany laid by enough earnings to pay a divi­ dend of 2 percent A careful examination of the criminal code of tho District of Columbia shows that the penalty for an assault with intent to kill may be ten years' imprisonment and a fine of §1,000 The Anglo-American Cable Telegraph Com­ pany, the Direct United States Cable Company and the French Cable Company have given notice that, on and after the 1st of August, the rate for the transmission of telegrams from Fiance and England to New York will be re­ duced to 25 cents per word. A TEBRIBL.E incident, illustrative of the latent brutal savageness of the Russian t peasant c6mes front Pontfre, in* the Profinoc* of Koorsk, Russia. A farm superintendent im­ prisoned nineteen persons in a barn, and ths village mob fired it burning the men and women alive. Women of Tangier. The Moors are handsome men, haughty of feature, and with great dignity of carriage. The Arab women, of whom we met- not so many, left their charms to the imagination. Though they were muffled up to the eyelids, showing only a strip of buff forehead, they gen­ erally turned aside their faces as we ap­ proached them. Their street costume was not elaborate--a voluminous linen mantle, apparently covering nothing but a wide-sleeved chemise, reaching to the instep and caught at the waist. Their bare feet were thrust into half-slipper, and their finger-tips stained with hennr^ Some had only one eye visible. In the younger women, that one pensive black eye peering out from the snowy coif was very piquant. The Hebrew maidens were not so avaricious of themselves, but lit the:'r beauty frankly blosscm in doorways and at upper casements. Many of the girls were as slender and graceful as vines. In their apparel they nppeared to affect solid colors--blues, ochers, carmines and olive greens. They have a beautiful national dress, which is worn only, in private. The Mosquitoes Abroad. What the Americans have been send­ ing us lately are mosquitoes, one of which has had the assurance to sting the nose of Mr. O'Shaughnessv, M. P., with all the impudence imaginable. After this attack on a Home-Rule member of Parliament who knows where they will stop ? It is no good pleading privilege of Parliament with a mosquito. Not even the sacred person of a Minister of the crown may be secure from the rav­ ages of the microscopical insect which makes American nights hideous with its menacing buzz and its highly-irritat­ ing sting. Are we in England to be tor­ mented with these emigrants from the States, brought over in the luggage of some too-careless passenger ? In size the mosquito is a too-ridiculous thing; but it hums in a mysterious way, and the smart which is left by the extremity which stings is felt for days afterward. In view of this highly-questionable gift from America it is impossible to be 60 enthusiastic as we might otherwise be over tho victory which an American horse has just accomplished on the Ep­ som downs. Doubtless the news of Iro­ quois* success has provoked the most in­ tense rejoicing across the Atlantic; but we hope that sufficient good feeling ex­ ists over there to plunge the inhabitants in remorse and make them heartily sor­ ry that they «ver sent us that mosquito. The balance of things is not fairly ad­ justed when the American mosquito bites Mr. O'Shaughnessy'snosc, and yet an American thoroughbred carries off the blue ribbon of the English turf. We want some compensation for the malev­ olence of the insect, and if that forward insect effects a permanent lodgment in these isles, and takes to rearing progen­ ies of baby mosquitoes, the affair may become an international one, and we may perhaps seek the arbitrament of a Geneva tribunal to settle the terms of compensation. If Englishmen forget this annoying animal, and hasten--as they no doubt will--heartily to congrat­ ulate America on its first great victory at Epsom, why, it will be a mark of a true spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation-- iu spite of all causes of complaint--011 our side of the " big ferry."--London Teleyraph. THE new Mnuieipal Laboratory of Paris for testing food and all articles hav­ ing a bearing on health, is already ac­ complishing good results. A large num­ ber of samples of wino have been found to be adulterated. Watered milk has been so often found that a panic among the milk-men has resulted. French chocolate has been found to be adulter­ ated with a great variety of substances. The laboratory is iu charge of an able chemist with competent assistants. The articles examined are those Bent in by the inhabitants of the city, and whenever adulterations are discovered, the matter is immediately placed in the hands of the police for investigation aud prosecu­ tion. A department of the lalioratory is specially fitted up for tho examination of pork for trichinsa. "LEONORA" sends us a poem, begin ning: "I ask but one small share in that great heart of thine." You had better emigrate to Utah, Leonora, where they keep such material in job lots. We do a strictly wholesale business.-- Quincy Modern Argo. THE PRESIDENT. ' WABKIHOTOI*, July 14. The condition of President Garfield, this morning, ia better than at any time sinoe he was shot, and the hopefulness of his surgeons almost amounts to confidence in his ultimate reoovery. The fever has decreased. At 2 o'clock this morning his pulse was below 100. and his temperature about 100. Dr. Bliss sa:d at 10 o'clock last night that he was satisfiwl the culminating point had l>een passed, and that the condition of the President will steadily improve from day to day. 8np"Ui ation ia progressing naturally, the wound has a healthy appearance, and there is little to dread now irom secondary hemorrhage or blood-poisoning. The patient continues to take more nouriMment each day, and there has bean no gastric disturbance recently. Yes­ terday, in addition to eating a slice of toast, he chewed the breast of a woodcock, but did not swallow the fiber. Dr. Woodward, one of the physicians in at­ tendance, stated yesterday that the patient has suffered from " circuriipcribed peritonitis" since the second day, bilt that its ex-bent h is been reduced each day until now it is scarcely perceptible. He says the abatement of tho inflammation shows that tho bullet is doing no harm. On being asked . if there were other signs of improvement he said that persons without any medical knowl­ edge could not fail to recognize a great improve­ ment in the President's condition during tho past few days by simpiy looking at him. "His eye is brighter," his COlor better, aud he moves with less difficulty. An increased amount of nourishment has been given with good results, and the wound is doing well," said the doctor. Dr. Bliss said : "If no new compli­ cation arises the President will be substantially out of danger by Saturday." Dr. Hamilton said that for his part he expects the President to recover, and tuat^he finds added cause for confidence every hoar. " The President," he says, " is doing as well as can be expected, and his chances of recovery are excellent" The refrigeration apparatus constructed in the basement of the White House works ad­ mirably. It supplied the President's room with 18 000 cubic feet of pure dry air at a temperature of 54^ degrees yesterday. Tho coolness of the siclftoom has an excellent ef­ fect on the patient. Before he went to sleep last night the President asked Dr. Reybum What was the news, and the doctor replied by tailing him that "the Gov­ ernors of several States had in view to issue, when the President^hould be out of danger, a proclamation for a general day of thanksgiv­ ing and praise to God for the an­ swered prayers of the nation." The pa­ tient seemed to be greatly touched and grati­ fied at this information. CoL Rockwell re­ marked to the President that "the heart of the nation was in his room.'* The words seemed to impress him greatly, and afterward he murmured inbfflfeleep: "The heart of the nation will not let the old soldier die." WASHINGTON, July 15. Each day the President's condition shows steady improvement There is no reason to doubt his continued progress. He raised his bill of fare yestaftjay by eating a roast-beef sandwich half thTsize of his hand. He said that he was beginning to tire of baby food* He would have eaten another sandwich if the doctors had thought it best The tem­ perature of the President's room and of the ones adjoining was kept down to 75 de­ grees. The President did not indulge in any despondent talk. He seemed to realize, more than he has any day this week, his improve­ ment The nourishment taken by the President is slightly increased from day to day. When he can take a fair amount of food without caus­ ing fever, or overtasking his weakened system, a rapid gain in strength may bo looked for. Until then he must, of course, re­ main very weak, but the abatement of his fever, the diminution of pain and the favorable changes in other directions indicate that it will not be long before he can take an amount of solid food that will have a marked effect on his strength. There is no truth in the statement published that the doctors in charge proposed to see if they could locate the bullet by electric ap­ pliances. They are quite oontent to let the bullet alone for the present, and have no idea of having the President worried with experiments of this kind. The Cabinet people are so well satisfied with theJPredident's prog­ ress that they begin to think they will be able to take their families away within the next week or ten days. Postmaster General James telegraphed to New York latt, tihrht; "The President is do­ ing spleuduSJM^He surely out of the W^x^enatof^0plkliUg called at* the White House yesterday, lie did not enter, but s$nt his card to Mrs. Garfield, saying that he knew it would be impossible for him to see the Presi­ dent, and he did not wish to bother her with an interview. He expressed cordial sympathy and his wishes for the speedy recovery of the President The flood of false statements about Guiteau and his crime have prompted District Attorney Corkhill to give to the public an accurate ac­ count of his movements. Guiteau arrived in Washington March 6 and put up at the Ebbit House, where he remained only one day ; he thereafter roomed at various places in the Capi­ tal City. On the 18th of May he determined to kill the President, but had not money enough to buy a pistol. Toward tiio end of May he visited O'Meara's gun shop in Washington, examined several pistols, and remarked that he wanted one of large caliber. Soon after he succeed­ ed in borrowing 4s 15 from a too-benevolent Washington gentleman. Of this KUHI he spent $10 in purchasing the pistol with which he attempted to kill the President Having pro­ vided himself with the pistol and with suffi­ cient ammunition, he began to practice with it, firing at a board and at other marks. On the Sunday of the 12th of June he followed tho President to the Christian Church with the intention of killing him there, but he saw that, on making the attempt, he would be most likely to shoot somebody else beside the President, so he left. Before leaving, however, he noticed that the President sat by an open window. Guiteau examined this window, and came to the conclusion that he would shoot the President from it through the head on Sunday, the 19th of June. He learned, however, that the I'resident was about to leave for Long Branch with Mrs. Garfield on Saturday, the 18th, and went to the depot af­ ter having practiced with his revolver that morning, his mind fully made up to do the deed. Mrs. Garfield, as she leaned on the President's aim at the depot, looked so very weak and pale, however, that Guiteau says he had not tne heart to shoot him in her pres­ ence, and, feeling that ho would have another opportunity, he left the depot. On Wednes­ day, the 22d of June, the assassin followed the President, who went out riding with his son and United States Marshal Henry, but as the carriage did not stop the fiend was foiled that night. On the evening of the 1st of July he followed the President to Socretary Blaine's residence, and then dogged the President and Secretary Blaine as they walked from the latter's residence to the White House, but got no opportunity to carry out his murderous purpose that evening. The following morning after breakfast ho went to the Pennsylvania depot, inlrl VMI » for a ®on6iderable time, exam- med his pistol t° see that all was right, and. when tli© 1 resident entered the l&dieH* waiting- room, ho walked up behind him and fired two shots. WASHINGTON", July 1G. The President continues to steidily improve. The physicians are sanguine that the worst is passed, that pyemia need not be feared, and the recovery of the President is only a matter of a few weeks. H s appetite is becoming normal, and the increase in strength is the result of his diet. Surgeon Oem-ral Barnes said this morning that, all though the attending physicians did not foe­ like throwing up their hats aud saying the President was out of danger, they couid yet say th.it he was prac ically so," unless unforeseen complications arise, and (here were no t>igns of such. "On', need only look at the President to bo sssurcd of hi* con­ tinued improvement," added Dr. Barnes. Dr. Bliss says that the President is about out of danger, the crisis may be said to have passed, and on the whole he is prettv safe. •' The case progresses nicely." he continued, " and every one about the White Hou-e feels as if hope may well be buoyant" Dr. Reyburn is equally hopeful. Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, of New York, has written to a friend saying that he feels con­ vinced that a mistaken diagnosis was made in the President's case--that tne ball iustead of passing throngh the liver was deflected down­ ward by Ktriking tho eleventh rib, and then lodged in the muscles within tho pelvis. Dr. Hamilton'* opinions ar 1 shared by many emi­ nent burgeons through the country. . The physicians have decided not to try on the President tho Bell electrical instrument for locating tho ball. They say that the bull is all right, and doing very nicely, aud that there is no reason or necessity of disturbing tho Presi­ dent by an experiojeni to locate it The in­ strument may be used when the President gets wel', but not before. The AntomaJtic Undershirt. There is one man--Prof. Johnson, of Chicago--who has come to the relief of perishing humanity with what promises to be the most valuable invention of the age. This is "Johnson's Automatic Un­ dershirt," a garment which, so to speak, changes itself, and automatically modi­ fies its warmth in accordance with the thermometer. The material of which this garment is made is kept a profound secret by the inventor, but it is of such a nature that it expands rapidly with heat aud contracts with equal rapidity when exposed to cold. When the atmos- spere is at the temperature of zero, (Fahrenheit) the "Automatic Under­ shirt" is thick, compact, and warmer than the warmest flannel. As the tem­ perature rises the fibers of the fabric lengtheu, and it becomes more and more porous, until, at the temperature of 85 degrees, it is a mere netting, which ad­ mits of a free passage of air and is cool­ er than any undershirt that has ever yet been devised. Thus the wearer is never tempted to change it on account of changes in the temperature. On a warm spring morning he finds that his underslirit is cool and comfortable, and if a snow storm comes up before night, he still finds himself appropriately clad. The "Automatic Undershirt" thus effect­ ually provides against the dangers insep­ arable from discarding or retaiuing flan­ nel undershirts, and can hardly fail to save thousands of valuable lives. There is precisely one objection which the caviller may make to this matchless garment, and that is that it will become uncomfortably long as the warm weather appoaclies. Ihe inventor has anticipated this objection, and his "Automatic Un­ dershirt" is made in sections, neatly laced together, so that it can be short­ ened to any extent at any time. To slightly shorten an undershirt is a very different thing from* radically chahgiug it, and the fact that Prof. Johnston's in­ genious garment can be shortened at will renders it ideally perfect. What is the steam engine, or the tele­ graph, or any other famous invention in comparison with the "Automatic Under­ shirt?" That inestimable garment will bring peace of mind to millions of men who cannot tell whether to change their flannels or to cling to them. It will les­ sen our death-rate at least one-half, and Prof. Johnston's name will be famous long after Keeley and Gamgee are for­ gotten.--New York Times. Sign Lore. A. gentleman advertised in one of our daily papers for an ice chest to hold so many pounds of ice and a new harness. The wonder was why he wanted to keep his new harness in an ice chest, until it was noticed to be an error in punctua­ tion. A barbers sign once read: "What do you think I'll shave you for nothing and give you a drink." When his customers asked him for the drink and refused to pay, lie took them outside and read to them: "What! do you think I'll shave you for nothing and give you a drink." Detaclfed sentences often present a quaint expression: "Job printing!" said an old lady, read­ ing the familiar sign, "poor- man, he must be awful tired of it, for he's been at it ever since I can remember!" In a druggist's window at Chicago there was for many years a sign: "Ar­ tificial eyes," aud immediately under it: "Open all night." A merchant once told a sign painter he wanted a neat sign with a couplet in rhyme, painted in gold letters; when the man brought the sign the inscription read: • "Sugar and tea sold." The merchant asked angrily Where the rhyme was, when the painter read it to him: "Sugar and tea s-o-!-d." A sign on a tobacco factory reads: '•Twenty boys wanted to strip." "Shirts re-enforced" is the legend in a Detroit dry goods store. It means that they are provided with double yokes. "Mr. Jones' Shirt Store" read an old lady, cautiously. "Well, why doesn't he get it mended?" "Pocket-books reduced to fifteen cents," was the notice iu a store window, and a wag passing remarked that he was reduced to nothing. I11 Pennsylvania there was an old house called the Harrowgate. In front of it aud directly 011 the sidewalk hang an old gate with this inscription: "This gato hangs well aud hinders none; Refresu, and pay and travel on; Good ale for nothing' to-morrow," Another sign reads: "I, Patrick McDermott, livos here; I sell good porter, ale and beer; I've made my sign a little wider To let you know I keep good cider." --Detroit Free Press. Theory of Meteorites. One of the oldest theories, and the one that is, perhaps, most consistent with known facts and laws, is that me­ teorites are bodies moving round the sun which occasionally enter our at­ mosphere, and are either frittered into dust or reach the earth as aerolites. In other words, they are abnormally large fragments of comets. Small fragments are dissipated in the higher regions of the air by the intense heat produced by friction, and give rise to the phenome­ non of shooting stars. Larger pieces appear as fire-balls, and very large masses fall through the air iu a state of combustion, which is not, however, suf­ ficiently intense to consume their vol­ ume before reaching the ground. This idea of a celestial origin seems to have originated among the Greeks. Plutarch says : "Falling stars are, according to the opinion of some physicists, not erup­ tions of the echereal lire extinguished in the air immediately alter its ignition, nor yet an inflammatory combustion of the air, which is dissolved in large quantities in the upper regions of the space ; but these meteors are rather A fall of celestial bodies, which in conse­ quence of a certain intermission in the rotary force, and by the impulse of tome irregular movement, have been hurled down not only to the inhabited portions of the earth, but also beyond it into the groat ocean, where we cannot find them." The views of Diogenes of Appollonia are expressed thus : "Stars that are in­ visible, aud consequently have no name, move in space together with those thut are visible. These invisible stars fre­ quently fall to the earth, and are ex­ tinguished, as the stony star which fell burning at Mgoa Potamos." Cliladni, as the result of his investigations, advanced the opinion that meteors are bodies moving in space, being either accumu­ lations of matter originally created, or fragments separated from a large mass of a similar nature. Sir H. Davy of­ fered the same explanation in the " Phi­ losophical Transactions" for 1817. These views, or rather a inoditication of them suited to our increased knowledge of cosmical ways and means, liavo their modern advocate in Prof. H. A. New­ ton, of Yale Colleg e.--Tirustey's Maga­ zine. 'TM, BE dashed," said the water, and it went over the dam. WISE WORDS. TitKT despise riohes that despair of them. TKUPERATK anger will become the wis Philemon. AMBITION is but the evil shadow Of aspiration.--George Ma#Donald. SUSPICIONS amdngst thoughts are lilro bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twi­ light, THOSE that want friends to open them­ selves unto are cannibals of their own heart. GOD hears the heart without the word, but he never hears the words without tiie heart. ALWAIS there is a black spot in the sun shine; it is the shadow of ourselves-- Carlyle. BLOWS are sarcasm turned stupid; wit is a lorm of force that leaves the limbs at rest.--Felix Holt, ANGER ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; anger concealed often hard­ ens into revenge.--Bulwer Lytton. No MAN puts rotten app'.e? in ltis pouch Bfoause their upper side looks fair to him. Constancy in mistake is constant folly. --Felix Holt, EXCLUSIVELY of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our k nowledge consists of aphorisms, andthe greatest and best of men is bnt an aph­ orism.--Coleridge. A THOROUGH-PACED antiquariannotonly remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think it proper to remember.--Colton. AN APOLOGY in the original sense was ia pleading off from some charge or imputa­ tion, by explaining or defending princi­ ples or conduct. It therefore amount­ ed to a vindication.--Crabbe. WHEN a man is dangerously ill, the law grants a dispensation, for it says : "You may break the Sabbath on his behalf, that he may be preserved to keep many Sabbaths."--The Talmud. I NEVER work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry I can write, pray and preach well; for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mun­ dane vexations and temptations depart. --Luther. Gush Over Engineers. Says an engineer in a communication in the Detroit Free Press-. So much has been said of the dauntless courage and self-sacrificing heroism of locomotive en­ gineers, as displayed during the few seconds intervening between the discov­ ery of immediate impending danger and the actual oocurrence, that it has become the snbject of much annoyance to our profession. During my experience of over ten years of slow and fast trains, on various prominent lines, there has never been, to my knowledge, one accident where the presence of an engineer on his engine, after certain acts have been per­ formed (unless as a precaution to per­ sonal safety), was not the hight of fool- hardiness, and this in justice to all con­ cerned in the general result. On a passenger train, after the air brakes are applied, the engine reversed and the sand lever open, the presence of a whole cab full of cool-headed, experi­ enced engineers would not alter the re­ sult one single bit. Now, as to the ' 'ea­ gle eyed hero" who has so many lives at his mercy in times when mortal danger stares his train in the faoe, what is the man there for if not to use every possi­ ble exertion to avert impending calamity. Is it not the intenion of his super­ iors th»t he shall take the train safely to its destination, and in passing over his run to use every precaution for safety? We are familiar with and use daily meth­ ods for safety unknown*1 to the public and not definitely provided for in the regulations of the company. An engin­ eer who would abandon his engine at the first sight of danger without having first used the means at his command to lessen the result would (except in very exceptional cases) be hooted out of the country. From the very earliest ap­ prenticeship of an engineermau it is daily brought to his notice that the cor­ rect and proper thing to do in all cases where a sudden stop is required, is to reverse and open the throttle, using sand to keep the wheels from slipping, and in his usual work on local freight trains he has it oontinually in use before him, while doing switching, etc. Thus long before he becomes a passenger engineer it is second nature to him to adopt this method when occasion demands. In addi­ tion to this means all passenger trains are provided with air brakes and their appli­ cation becomes from frequent usage quite as mechanical under all circum­ stances as in the previous mentioned means provided. It takes much less time tliau those uninitiated can imagine to accomplish all that is possible for an engineer to do to stop his train; a very few seconds suffice, and nearly always he lias ample time to jump and save him­ self from quite probable injury. We who are daily liable to be subjected to the requirements know the uselessness of running unnecessary risks, and how few are the thanks we receieve from our em­ ployers when (and they are the ones we are the most concerned in keepiug on the right side of), perchance, one of our number, by au error of judgment, suf­ fers personal injuiry. If the truth were known, it is now quite freely accepted as a fact, that after the usual means to stop have been made, that many a good man has gone to his death by reason of being seized with a sort of paralysis, and being rendered helpless for the time being by the thought of tho terrible calamuitv to follow. It is customary to tell the fire­ man to jump, and, as he can in nowise assist iu these emergencies, he usually escapes unhurt. Human Endurance in the Water. Man and animals are able to sustain themselves for long distances in the water, and would do so much oftener were they not incapacitated, in regard of the former at least, by sheer terror, as well as complete ignorance of their real powers. Webb's wonderful endurance will never be forgotten. But there are other instances only less remarkable. Some years since, the second mate of a ship fell overboard while in the act of listing a sail. It was blowing fresh ; the time was night, aud the place some milt s out in tLe stormy German ocean. The hardy fellow, nevertheless, mauaged to gain the English coast. Brock, with a dozen other pilots, was plying for fares by Yarmouth; and, as the main sheet was bchtyed, a suddcu puff of wind upset the boat, when presently all per­ ished except Brock himself, who, froui 4 in the afternoon of an October evening to 1 the next morning, swam thirteen miles before lie was able to hail a vessel at anchor in the oiling. Animals them­ selves are capable ofeswimming immense distance?, although livable to rest by the way. A dog recently ewnm thirty miles in Amcrica in order to rejoin his master. A mule and a dog, washing overboard during a gale in the Bay of Biscay, have been known to make their way to shore. A dog swam r*shore with a letter in his mouth at the Cape of Good Hope. The crew of the ship to which the dog be­ longed all perished, which they need n it have done had they only ventured to^ tread v a er as the dog did. As a cer-^lll tain ship was laboring heavily in the trough of the sea, it was found neadfal,. 5 in order to lighten the vessel, to ttiroW^ some troop- horses overboard, which had » been taken in at Corunna, The poor- things, my informant, a staff-surgeon, told me, when they found themselves | abandoned, faced round and swam fori miles after the vessel. --Popular ence Monthly. China as a Maritime Power. |f| Much as Americans may affect to de-* spise the Chinese and their enterprise, * yet the time is coming when, without sharp and decisive action on our part, that people will be far better represented . in the ocean carrying trade than our­ selves. The Chinese appear to have > awakened to the importance and value of carnage by sea between their own and other countries, and maifest a dis­ position to embark in the business as a > matter of profit. As a fair beginning, they have put on a line to compete with • the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Already tho China Merchants' Steam i Navigation Company have two steamers' engaged in the Pacific trade. Thia en­ terprise, backed up by the Imperial gov­ ernment, is about to be re-enforced by three new iron steamers, all of which are being constructed on the Clyde. While the subjects of the "Flowery Kingdom" are making this movement to • secure the China-American trade, our' own importance in Chinese waters is : rapidly on the decline. The time when we could look with satisfaction upon the number aud size of Amerieau clippers engaged iu the China trade is passed, and a once flourishing business is rapidly passing into other hands. The annexed . figures, showing the state of trade in 1876 aud 1879 between the treaty porta of China and other countries, have been compiled from statements made by the United States Consul at Shanghai: . 187U , , 1878 No of No. of Flag. vessels. Tons. vessels. Tons. Britixh 10.00!) 8,126, W4 8,604 5,181,643 Cbtneae f>,«82 4,35* 696 3,063 1,404.805 ' German 1,007 721,(K!6 1,587 001,678 • American... 931 27 •.632 8,547 2,41(1,421 French 164 154,995 228 178,74»' Japanese.... 151 138,208 125 117 184 Spanish 316 46,419 276 72,212 Danish 197 42,407 202 64,610 Siamese 78 30,930 99 44,027 Dutch ?2 16,658 02 23,471 Swedish A Norwegian.. S9 15,998 114 36,347 Russia 12 10,'228 ' 47 35,694. Austrian .> 3 580 If the foregoing figures be correct, tho- nUtnber of American vessels engaged in the China trade, in three years decreased to the extent of 2,616, and their carry­ ing capacity to the amount of 2,139,789 tons. It will be seen, however, that while the tonnage under our own and some other flags dr reased, the Chinese gained more than ~ ' per cent, in ves­ sels, and more than treble their tonnage. This, too, in spite of the active efforts of England to secure the great bulk of the trade. This speaks well for the active enterprise of China, and is an evidence that the people and rulers of that coun­ try are beginning to appreciate the im­ portance of their trade with other na­ tions. Americans on the Pacific coast pre­ tend that they have no fears of competi­ tion from the Chinese, but experienced merchants declare that they will not only maintaiu their position there, but ere long will be exhibiting the "dragon flag" on the Atlantic, as a competitor for European freight. Once started in a maritime career there is no calculating to what extent China may carry her en­ terprise, nor what a formidable competi­ tor she may in time become for tho car­ rying trade of the world. The wants of the people are so few and simple, and their ideas of compensation so limited, that she coidd man aud victual her ships at a cost but trifling When oocnp#re<l> with other countries. In this she would have a decided advantage, and her ship owners, in bidding for the carrying trade, would doubtless be content with a much less margin of profit than their Eu­ ropean and American competitors. China, at all events, mauifests a disposi­ tion to become a maritime power, and it, is not safe to predict that, once started on her career, she will not become in a marked degree the common carrier of the world. Stranger things than this have happened iu the world's history.-- N. Y. Economist. For the Hurried Hungry. Many tired men who have eaten little during business hours, and who have a few minutes to spare before the boat or train starts, try to find temporary relief and acquire dyspepsia by hastily eating ferry pie and drinking ferry beer or lem­ onade. A physician recommends that in such an emergency the famishing and thirsty man should take a few small raw clams with red pepper, the juice of the olnms not being waited.--New York Post ^ UNSELFISH and noble acts are the most radiant epochs iu biography. When wrought in earliest youth they lie in the memory of age like coral inlands, green and sunny, amidst the melancholy waste of ocean. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. B*FVE<« $fl 25 <212 00 HOOK 6 20 @8 50 COTTON llJCv* HJtf I^LOUB--Superfine 4 Oft @ 4 65 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring 1 20 i* 1 21 No 2 Red 1 26 <» 1 27 CORN--Ungraded 46 fnl 56 O >TH--Mixed Western 48 («A 43 1'OIIK--Meat..., 17 40 (£17 50 LABD 12^^ CHICAGO. 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