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imrg fllaiudcitlct I. VAN SUKE. Editor and PuWfchor. HcHENRT, ILLINOIS. •' - w» THE Methodist Episcopal Conference, recently held in New York, daring their iwiot appropriated for foreign ud domatio Mil- •bono the sum of #689,488. MRS. GARFIJBMD, in acknowledging the receipt of the final statement mad® by Mr, Oyru* W. Field with regard to tt>« Qen, GWP- fteld family fund, takes occasion to return to the contributors thanks for their expressions of the high esteem in which they held her hus­ band. She accept* the trust for herself and her children in their father's name, and hopes io u«e it in a way worthy of biro, and satisfac­ tory to thows by whom it haa been bestowed. WAMuitcnroiv. AN interesting incident is narrated by the Washington Star as occurring at a Cabinet meeting held soon after the York town celebra­ tion. The President thought it the Attorney General's duty to oonduct the pro#eeution of Guiteau, the assassin. Mr. MscYcsgh denied this. The President thereupon named two prominent lawyers t* prosecute Guiteau. THK Naval Advisory Board, which has been eonsidertng the reorganization of the navy, reports t« Secretary Hunt that there are •ow only twenty-one ships of war efficient <* W E E K L Y N E W S R E V I E W . TTEE KAWT> *r-- Qorernment emninc twt ttuough the bnrsted bank at Newark and re­ ports assets of $2,036,252.98, and liabilities of •4.446 263.43. Shareholders will lose an amount equal 'to their stock, and depositors may re­ cover 60 per cent. MRS. MART M. LOT* and her daugh­ ter, Sarah E. McDowell, were tried ana son- •icted at Pittsburgh of conspiracy and forgery in the procurement of a pension for a som, and eentenoed to two years' imprisonment in the county Jail, and to pay a fine of $300 and costs of prosecution. Mrs. Love is about 70 years of age, and her daughter 40 A sad tale of offering is that of the crew of the schooner Delia Hodgkins, which, after ... . abandoning their vessel off the New England worth repairing, and recommends the construo- coast took tie ship's launch, and, in two days' i tioa immediately of forty-one ships of various ' K 1 ctiMM, It recommends wood as the best ma­ terial for gunbeeifi, ami for vessels of all other kinds a stool keel covered with wood and sheathed with oopper. The cost of the forty- ene vessels is estimated at $31,000,000 and it will take eight .rears to finish them. FOLLOWING is the text of the Presi- Aent's Thanksgiving proclamation: _ It has long been the plons custom of oar people, with the Ciosios of tie year, to look 1>ae% upon the bletsings brought to them m the changing oovrae of •HMOER, and to return solemn ttu.nbn t* tho *11- ftving emroe from whom they Saw; and, although at this period, when the Tailing leaf ad­ monishes ua that the time of our sacred duty is at liaad, our nation etill lies in the shadow ef its great bereavement, and the mourn­ ing which h** fiH#d our hearts still finds sorrowful esjoresfiioe toward the God before "whom we but lately bowwl in grief and supplication, yet the count- Ifw Deneflts whloh have showered upon us during the past twelve months call for our fervent gratitude wd make it fitting that we should rejoice with thank­ fulness that the Lord In His infinite mercy has most •igiiitlly favored our country and our peoples Peace without and prosperity within have beea vouchsafed t* ua No postllence has visited our ShoroK. The abundant privileges of freedom which our fathers left us in their wisdom are still our in­ creasing heritage, and if in parts of our vast domain eornc affliction has visited our brethren in their for­ est homes, yet even this calamity has been tempered and in a manner sanctified by the generous coinpas- eion for the sufferers which has been called forth throughout our land. For all these things it is meet that the voice of the nation should go up to God in devout homage. Wherefore I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the limited States, do recommend that all the people ob­ serve Thursday, the 24th day of November, instant, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, by Ceasing, so far as may be, from their secular labors, md meeting ia their several places of worship, there to join in ascribing honor and praise to Almighty God, whose goodness has been so manifest in our history and in onr lives, and offering earnest prayers that Mia bounties may continue to us and to our children. In witness whereof, I have hereunto. Bet1 my hand and seal of the Umted States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 4th day of November, in the year of our liord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and of the Inde­ pendence ef the United States the one hundred and Mxtb. OHKSTEB A. ABTHCB. PRESIDENT ARTHUR returned to Wash­ ington, on the 9th inst, from a week's visit to WAW York. It is said thai a complete Cabinet Company four young ladies wared American flags from the windows, and at the American Exchange an assemblage of 300 ladies tnado a similar demonstration. The United States flag WAS conspicuous in the decorations of the citv During the month of October 490 agrarian offenses were committed in Ire­ land, of which only thirty-two were committed in Ulster, while M winter contributed 223, Con- naught 188, and Leinster 102. A MATO landlady has reduoed the rent ef one of her tenants from $75 per tnnnm te $42.5®, and has made proportionate reductions is other cases, rather than go before the Land Commission to fix the rent. The tenants on the Irish estates of the Earl of Buckingham- shir* and Mr. Fetherston have refused to pay rents unless the landlords make a reduction of IS per cent, all round. The Mayo farmers are making application to the Land Court Oape Oosst Castle (Afrioa) dispatches state THE SIGNAL 8ERYICE. Report of Chief H«**•"«*• The report of Gen. W. 15. Hazes, Chief (Sig­ nal Officer, contains many matters of interest, among whioh the following may be noticed : " I have endeavored," he says, " to bring this service into active sympathy and oo-oporation with the ablest scientiOo intellects of the country. In this direction and in response to my Srequest, the National Academy of Sciences has appointed an advisory committee of con­ sulting specialists with which I may confer as occasion demands. I tako plea pure in ac­ knowledging this courtesy as showing the es­ tablishment of more intimate relations between the scientific interests of the United States and the Signal Service. "This year has been distinguished by addition- tfeat the King of Asfc&ntee murdered 200 young ! al progress and by decided improvement, girls mmU mix their Wood with the mortar ! which I will briefly rocite: The establishment exposure to ihe storm, five men j died of cold and exposure before » , passing vessel picked them up.... | Hanson A Van Winkle, wholesale dealers m chemicals, of New York, have been obliged to suspend pft"VTD6nt owing to tiic failure* of ui# Newark bank. The United States Circuit Court has appointed a provisional receiver to take charge of the Nugente' factory at Newark. Baldwin *""* been admitted to bail in bonds of $100,000. Two FREIGHT trains on the Erie nil- road oollided near Port Jervis, N. 1., and George Dorr, a conductor, and Jerome Grovei and Mark Coxson, engineers, were killed. Both trains were badly wrecked. NTJOKNT, the aider and abettor of Baldwin, the mastodon embezzler of the Me­ chanics' National Bank of Newark, N. J., is worth $1,000,000 in real estate, much of which will be taken for the benefit of the bank's creditors. Two old three- story brick tenements, on the corner of Grand street and South Fifth avenue, New York, suddenly collapsed. The firemen hur­ ried to the eoene and took oat the dead and maimed. About a dozen persons were killed or fatally injured. THE Produce Exchange, of New York, has decided to erect a building to cost $2,000,- •00....By the breaking of a rope of twisted steel, the elevator in the Belvidere Hotel in New York fell from the fifth floor, killing John Mercer and severely injuring four others.... Tue death is announced of Rev. Dr. John W. Mears, of Hamilton College. used for the repair of ene of the state build­ ings. It is a custom of the country -- After a Cabinet council at Paris, Premier Ferry and colleagues haaded their resignations te the President, and Gambetta was intrusted with the task of forming a new Cabinet. ADDITIONAL SEWS. A FEW mornings ago all Omaha was startled by the announcement that Watson B. Smith, Clerk of the United States Court, had been found murdered at his office-door, in the third story of the United States Court House, in Omaha. A revolver of a large caliber was found sticking in his left pantaloon* leg, near the foot, with the butt-end exposed. His key was still in his door, which ho was about to shut np on departing. The door ww partly open. Two letters whica _ fh\X7I?l?isfSfth"dhSTa ̂from £2 j -late will soo. be prepared for premutation to hand. It waa apparent that ho intended to mail them,' down-stairs in the post-office as he should leave the building. His hat was on the bi of his head f nil of blood. He had turned out the gas in hii office, and the murderer probably turned out -the gas in the hall, and laid in waft for him, and, as he was about to close his door, put a revolver to his head and fired, striking above the left temple, the ball going clear through the head and landing on the floor. At the Coroner s inquest several threatening let­ ters were produced. CoL Smith was a promi­ nent temperance man, and had taken an active i part to enforce the Slocomb Liquor law. j At a citizens' meeting indignation was ex- j pressed and $5,000 subscribed for a reward for i the arrest and conviction of the murderers, i Deceased was a prominent and respected oiti- ! zea, a man of correct habits, a zealous member of the Baptist church, and was widely known through Nebraska. He had been Clerk of the United States court for over twelve years. A dreadful tragedy oeeurred in Iowa City, Iowa. A dissolute saloon-keeper, nrr"~* Alton Stein, murdered his divorced wife, stabbed his mother-in-law, and then committed suicide. He had formerly lived in Chicago, and at one time was em­ ployed on the staff of a German paper there. Residents of Iowa and her sister States of the VToct have served notice upon Whitelaw Beid and Mrs. John J. Astor that they desire so more street waifs from New York. Some of these Arab* have ripened into train- wreckers. A PABTY of hunters near Fort Steele, i Wy. Ter., used arsenic by mistake for cooking ' purposes, instead of baking powder, and near- j iy sil of them died from the effects of the dose. - ARIZONA advices report a fight be- tween hostile Apaches and United States cav- , airy in the Apache country, in which fourbuoks were killed and three women and some children ' captured. The Apaches were scattered by the ; engagement. j THE explosion of 400 pounds of pow- • der in the Quincy mine* on Lake Superior, | killed two men and a boy. Ah Kim, a Chi- ; ' nese missionary student at Marietta, Ohio, snf- j feeing disappointment in a love affair with a ; servant girl, killed himself with chloroform. A Qri.NCT paper gives the following ' estimate of the amount of damage in that re- ! gton by the recent flood in the Mississippi river: In the Warsaw drainage district $600,000: m the Indian Grave district, $750,000; in tbe Sny Maud district, £1,000,000; in Quincy b*T3jx& the city, $30,0<J0; in and about Alex- ; ttftna, Mo., $250,000; to Keokuk and the St. ; Lou(p railroad, $100,000; to all other rail- I roadl, 660,000; to the open lands north of the j Sny levee, and immediately south of Quincy, ' ^jg> $15*),000; making a total of $3,005.000 [ Ed Williams, one of the notorious Williams j brothers, has been arrested by Sheriff Kil!an, I at a farmer's two miles south of Grand Island, and was lodged in jail, awaiting the coming of I the Sheriff of Pepin county, Wis... .Two cow- boyB were lynched at Shakspeare. Arizona, for stealing cattle. Two MASKED men entered a jewelry •tore in Kansas City, where only a boy WSB in attendanoe. One guarded the lad with a re­ volver, while the other transferred to his Oyer- coat pocket goods valued at $1,500. the Senate. The retention of Postmaster Gen­ eral James will depend upon the action of the court on the star-route informations All the personal effects of the late President Garfield, including his books, pictures, etc., were removed last week from the White House to the Baltimore and Potomac depot for trans­ portation to Mentor. Special cars were placed at the disposal of Mrs. Garfield by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for the re­ moval of the goods. The Alderney cow pre­ sented to the President was sent on the same train with the goods. THE amounts due the bonded Pacific railroads from the United States Government for military transportation for the year has boen taken by the Secretary of the Treasury to apply to their indebtedness to the United States. It amounts to $836,638. IK the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Judge Cox decided that proceed­ ings by infprm&tion in the star-route cases wa« improper, holding tftat the crime charged against Brady and others is "infamous," and that the proceedings should be by indictment. The informations were therefore quashed, i and Brady and his fellows have gained a j substantial victory. Col. Cook, after Judge j Cox had rendered his decision, made a per- I sonal explanation of his course in the matter, j 1 Col. Cook says that the star-route people will j : be now proceeded against in the rogular way, > | by indictment, and that there will be no 44 let- I ' up." The star-routers have won the first i ' round, however, and their victory makes them I defiant. CoL Totten, thoir leading counHel, said in open court, replying to Col. Cook, that the cases would never be brought before a petit jury. THK Governor of [Louisiana has con­ vened the General Assembly in extraordinary session Dec. 5 AT Marion Station, Miss., on election day, a band of negroes opened fire on the whites at the polls, by which four white men were killed and two seriously wounded. A. T. Harvey, Democratic candidate for County As- ; •essor, was slain. Two armed squads went to | the scene of the trouble from Meridian, and found 100 negroes barricaded in the house of Edward Vance. After a fignt, in which John Vance, colored, and A. G. Warren, of the Sheriff's posse, were killed, about thirty ' negroes escaped to the woods, under a hot fire, j IT is claimed by those who have seen j both, that the Atlanta Cotton Exposition ex- j oeeds in interest and far exceeds in value to this country the Centennial Exposition at Phil­ adelphia The Capitol at Austin. Tex., with the archives of the old republic and the Alamo monument, have been destroyed by fire. The pecuniary loss is $300,000. SULLIVAN, alias Delauey, one of the young men who was sentenced to seventy years' imprisonment in the Arkansas peniten­ tiary for robbing a train on the Iron Mountain lailroad, died a few days ago of " home-sick- ness." He was 23 years of age. SHERIFF KEETEB, while trying to cap­ ture a horse-thief at Yellville, Ark., was fatally _ shot. W. J. Fuller, a moonshiner, shot Leon- Jarrell in Habersham county, Ga., because he suspected that Jarrell gave information about his moonshining operations to the reve­ nue authorities. SENEBAL. THE whaler Belvidere, which ar­ rived from the Arctic seas at San Francisco, brings news and mail from the Arctic relief steamer Bodgers. Lieut. Berry, of the Rodg- «rs, has established the fact that Wrangel Land is an inland. Capt. Owen, of t&o Belvi­ dere, says that from his observations he would not be surprised to hear of the JeAnnette com­ ing home by way of Ureenland. POLITICAL. JUDGE FOLGEB will not enter on his duties as Secretary of the Treasury nntil the cases now pending before the New York Court of Appeals are disposed of. SECRET ABY WINDOM is said to have proposed to President Garfield at Long Branch, the week before the latter was shot, a plan of civil-service reform for the Treasury Depart­ ment. This plan, which met with the approval of the late President, proposed to allot to each State a number of appointments ; the ap­ pointment of a committee of three in each State before whom candidates for the plaoes should be examined at least once a year, the examination to be so conducted as to test the experience and capacity of the applicants; ap­ pointments to be made from among those who stood highest on the list, according as vacan­ cies to whioh the State of the applicants was entitled occurred. It was also contemplated that, other things being equal, soldiers, their widows and children should have a preference. THE President has received a number ef protests against the retention of Publio j Printer Defrees, urging the appointment of a i younger and more active man....It is said | President Arthur has offered the position of i Secretary of the Interior to James A. William- I son, of Iowa, formerly Commissioner General | of the Land Office The New York Herald | publishes an interview with Secretary Blaine relative to the new Cabinet. He says it will be I " Grant from top to bottom after Jan. 1." Blaine will retire in December. IN connection with the United States Senatorship from Virginia, the names of Bid- dleberger, Massey and John S. Wise are men­ tioned. .. .There will be two colored members in the next Virginia Senate and eloven in the House. THE various departments at Washing­ ton have completed the estimates for the next fiscal year. Nearly every department will ask for an increase ever the amount _ voted last year. The Secretary of War will ask for $2,000,000 on account of the increase in the price of supplies. The Interior Department will ask for $100,000,000 for pensions, of which $65,000,000 are for "aecrued " pensions ; and the Navy Department will ask for $31,000,000 for new ships. The Poatoffioo Department is nearly self-sustaining, and no demands will be made on Congress for any large appropriation. A HORRIBLE railroad slaughter oc­ curred near Corsicana, Texas. A freight train on the International and Great Northern road ran into a gang of convicts, killing twenty-three and wounding a large number. The accident was caused by an open switch. IN the jail yard at Frederick, Md., Felix Munshower was executed for the murder of James WetzeL The doomed man asked for and obtained an extra hour of life after all was ready... .Henry Jenkins, who killed Winfield Saunders to obtain his money, was hanged at Favetteville, W. Va., in presence of thousunda of * spectators Joe Harris, a Georgia negro, was hanged at Greensboro, in the jail yard, for killing E. T. Langston. GEN. DUMONT, Supervising Inspector General of Steamboats, in his annual report recommends that the Board of Supervising In­ spectors be abolished, and, instead thereof, that the Secretary of the Treasury be em­ powered to convene a mixed committee com­ posed of local and Assistant Inspectors to examine and report to him upon the efficiency of any device to be used upon steam-vessels, and which may require his approval. He also reoommends the appointment of local and Assistant Inspectors by the Secretary of the Treasury on the nomination of the immed­ iate superior officer of each grade; al?o, that the superior officer be given power to suspend subordinates pending investigation of charges involving incompetency, neglect of duty, or misbehavior The annual report of Surgeon General Barnes states that $250,000 will be needed for the medical department of the army fOr the fiscal year. The death rate was nine per 1,000 among white and twenty per 1,000 among colored troops ; the total deaths in the army from all causes were 245. He reiterates the demand for $250,000 for a medical museum at Washington. AMONG the numerous conflagrations arc the almost complete destruction of Wood­ cock, N. B., a town of over 4,000 people, the loss being placed at $80,000 ; six hotels at Old Orchard beach, Me., valued at $72,000 ; tho Metropolitan Iron-works at Richmond,. Va , the estimated loss being $100,000 ; the Orphnns' Home at Womelsdorf, Pa.; Fowler's spoke fac­ tory at Fowlervilie, Mich. ; the Atlantic flour- ing-mill at Denver, Col., worth $40,000 ; Bar ber's shin^le-mill at Cedar Springs, Mich., and various buildings at Modesto, Cal., value $50,000. Dr. Boynton, of Cleveland,Ohio, says, in an interview, that the original wound received Ly the President was not necessarily fatal; that I Bliss forced himsslf into the management of ; the case, and, by his incompetency and a!mo.it- ! criminal carelesKness at the beginning, ren- j dered Garfield's recovery impossible An ' Irish National Convention has been- called ! to meet in Chicago Nov. 30 for a three-days' j session. 1 CHINESE advices via San Francisco | report the opening at Tien Tsin of the worn- ' an's hospital. Li Hung Chang and other high ! native officials were present. United States, Minister Angell made the inaugural address ' i Serious earthquakes have again occurred at j Scio. The people have fled, and the village is | sinking into the earth. j | ATTORNEY GENERAL MAOYEAOH had j | an interview with the President the other day. ' After the interview he told a reporter that his relations with Gen. Arthur were quite cordial, i and stated that the recently-published stories j about the Cabinet scene, in which he and the ; President were represented to be the chief | actors, were pure fabrications. No such scene ever took place. i under your sanction, of a permanent school of instruction at Fort Myer, Va.; the raising of tho standard of the personnel of the Signal Corps ; the gystemization of tho dutios of the signal service ; the preparation of new instruc­ tions for observers of the service ; the prep­ aration of new and improved forms for tho re­ cording and preservation of meteorological data ; the preparation of special bulletins for tho press, containing weather information of Eublic interest; tho forecasts of weather, of ot or cold waves for periods exceeding twenty-four hours ; the forecasts of " north­ ers " for the interior plateau ; the adoption of a new storm-signal (the cautionary Northwest) for the interior lakes ; the arrangement for the increase of river service, and wider publications the to have occurred that his boy might have inherited his own strength of par- pose. The same day Leon took, not a penknife, as the popular tradition has it, but an inkstand, whioh he dashed with such violence against the eye as to destroy it. Shocked as was oltl Gam­ betta, "he would not give in, and Leon returned to the Lycee. THE ARMY. The Interior Department I of warnings of floods or ioe-gorges : ' - - changes and improvements in tne "pub­ lication of the international bulletin and the monthly weather review, with their aocompanying charts; the increased in­ formation added to the fanners' and to the railway bulletins; the organization of a servico for the special benefit of the cotton interests of the South; the extension of special fro,-.t-warn- ing to tho fruit interests of the country; the investigation into thermometric standards and into barometric standards; the preparation of new hvgrometrictables containing correction for altitude; the revised determinations of the alti­ tudes of signal-service stations; the computa­ tion of monthly constants for the reduction of observed barometric pressures to sea lovol; tho arrangements for original investigation in at­ mospheric electricity, in anemometry and in actinometry, and m'the last subject, especially with referenco to the importance of solar radia­ tion in agriculture and the absorption of the sun's heat by the atmosphere; the co-operation in an expedition to the summit of Mount Whit­ ney, Cal., for the determination of problems in solar physics; in metrology, the preparation of oonversion tibles for the English and metric systems ; the co-operation in the drop­ ping of time-balls at signal-service stations ; the publication in quarto form of special pro­ fessional papers; the offering of prizes for essays of great merit on meteorological sub­ jects ; the organization of State weather ser­ vices ; the new investigation of danger lines on Western rivers ; the organization and equip­ ment of two expeditions for meteorological observation and research in the Arctic regions of America, one to be stationed at Lady Frank­ lin bay, the other at Point Barrow, Alaska, both co-operating in this work with a system of station* established in the Polar region by International, conference ; the establishment of a system of stations of observation in Alaska. 44A series of experiments has been made with •tin-flashes, with a view of improving upon the forms of heliograph to be adopted for the gen­ eral usee of the army, and it is believed that the isipreved heliograph selected combines great simplicity with efticiency, and possesses amon"colored troop8 ; the total deaths in the I many practical advantage*, so far «s known, amon0 . r** 1. i , gyer nnnlar instruments in other services. NOVEMBER ELECTIONS. Elections were held in twelve States, on Tues­ day, Nov. 8. The general resnlt of the polling is summarized below. In New York, Maxwell, Democrat, is elected State Treasurer, and Carr, Republican, Secre­ tary of State. The Democrats have a majority of two in the State Senate, and a majority of six in the Assembly. The four Congressmen elected to fill vac nicies are equally divided between the Re- put'heans and Democrats, being a Republican loss of one. The Democratic majority in New \ oik city is 37.000. Brooklyn elected a Repub­ lican Major, Sheriff, Supervisor-at-Large, ten (out of a total of thirteen) Supervisors, and live Aktaroien. In Pennsylvania, Bailey, Republican, is elected Stntt; TreatHircr by about 7,000 majority. Mrisuaelniscats. with but two towns to hear fiom, mude the following vote for Governor: Lou:.; (lifp X CO,582 ; Thompson (Dem.), 53,- 508 ; Au'licw* (Prohibition), 4,775; Aliny fGreenback). 1,7-31. The Legislature is largely IleiiuMicau. In Connecticut, out of fourteen Senntors vote! for, the Republicans elected ten, which give*1 them seventeen out of twenty-four in the Semite. The TIOUKC stands 149 Republicans to "During the past year stations of ot>serva- tion on the habits and ravages of the Rocky Mountain locusts or grasshoppers were es­ tablished in those sections that the experieuoe of past years has shown to be most exposed to the ravages of these pests. These stations, were at Omaha, Grand Island, North Platte and Sidney, Neb.; Cheyenne, W. T.; Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, CoL; Fort Sill, I. T.; Fort, ow/1 oil B+atirm® on t.hrt United States military telegraph lines in Northern, Central and Southern Texas, and those on the northwestern military telegraph line in Dakota and Montana. Where civilians were employed in making the observations their services were voluntary and without compensa­ tion, the Government bearing the necessary expenses for stationery and telegraphing. 4'It is gratifying to Htnte that not a single re­ port of the ravages of locusts has reached this office, and their presence has been announced only at Grand Inland, Neb., Fort Supply, L T., and Fort Elhytt, Tex.; but in no instance has any danger reen reported. 44 This year, for the first time, the Chief Sig­ nal Officer has caused to be prepared and is­ sued, twice daily, special bulletins for the press containing meteorological iafornuUiou of popu­ lar interest to a greater extent than can appear, for want of space, in the official synopses and indications. They treat especially of high winds, •evere storms, tornadoes, heavy rainfalls, floods, extreme temi>cratures, sudden arid great changes in temperature, frost:', t' luperatures specially reported from health re*oi t , during the season when frequented, and, v.h. .. the condi­ tions sufficiently warrant, fair or r.ihiy weather,as the case may be, predicted for two days in ad- vanoe. There are also forecasted the move­ ments of the so-called ' warm waves' and 4 oold waves.' " In addition, the Chief Signal Offieer causes to be regularly made, daily, each morning, by all officers who are liable for detail in the Indi­ cations Division, forecasts or deductions of the weather conditions for the day succeeding that on whioh the forecasts sre made. If the result of these studies is sufficiently successful, indi­ cations will, in time, be issued for all districts for periods of more than one day. "The river reports, giving the average depth of water and notices of the dangerooB rises in I the different great rivers of the interior, foi | the benefit of the liver commerce and the pop- i ulations in the river valleys, have been regu- I larly made, telegraphed, bulletined in frames, ' and also published by the press at the different j river ports and citios. "The manner in which these reports ara I prepared and used, and the mode by which s { 'danger-line' has been determined, with i water below which there is considered to be no | danger, while every rise above it is dangerous, I have been sufficiently explained in preceding ! reports. I " The information published in referenoe to this danger-line, in connection with the daily reports of this office, has, on the occurrence ol river floods, enabled those interested to judge of the probable limits of the rises of water to be expected at the different plaoes on the rivei I banks and of the dangers to be anticipated. | This knowledge has made possible necessary precautions for safety." Gea, Sherma.nl** Annual Report* Gen. Sherman has submitted' his annual re­ port to the Secretary of War, inclosing the reports of Gens. Drum and Sackett, and the reports of the commanding Generals of the divisions and departments. The General savs. referring to the reports of the latter, that they all show that onr companies are too small for efficient discipline and for economical service. When the treasury was poor and loaded with debt, the army endeavored to gracefully submit to overwork, but now, says Gen. Sherman, they appeal for relief, and it is recommended that Congress repeal that clause of tho existing law which limits the enlisted force of the army to 25,000 men. Considerable space is devoted to the discus­ sion of the subject of officers' servants, Gen. Sherman maintaining that no soldier should ever be oompelled to do menial labor without compensation, or without his consent, and he recommends that the existing law be repealed or modified so as to secure this end. Referring to West Point, he says it has been, and must continue to be. tho fountain-source of military education in time of peace. In his judgment, the military academy at West Point fulfills its uses, and ean safely be intrusted to prepare boys to become the soldiers of the future. There ars in the army 430 companies, neoes- Bftrily widely scattered over our vast domain, te guard the property and prevent, as far as foresight can, complications and troubles of every variety and kind ; at one time protecting eettleiH against Indians, and, again. Indians against settlers. When these occur itia always (sudden, and reinforcements have to be hurried forward from great distances and always at a heavy cost for transportation of men, horses, wagons and supplies. This cost in the aggre-; gate will, iu my judgment, be more that suffi­ cient to supply"an increase of 20 per oent. of private soldiers--all that I would ask for this time--because I believe this increase will add little, if any, to the annual cost of the army, and yet give great relief to our overtaxed soldiers. In the last ten years our frontiers have so ex­ tended under the protection of our small army as to add at least #1,000,000,000 to the taxable •wealth of the nation. This has enabled emi­ grants to settle up remote parts Of the country, and is the principal cause of the great prosperity which is l'elt throughout all parts of the country. When the national treasury was poor and loaded with debt, the army en­ deavored gracefully to submit to overwork, but they now appeal for relief; and I do most earnestly ask the honorable Secretary of War to apply to Congress to repeal that clause of the existing law which limits the enlisted force of the army to .25,000 men, and to enact that each and every company in the army may be enlisted to at least fifty privates, making sixty-two enlisted men and three officers to each 430 companies, thus increasing the army proper to 36,660 enlisted men, which number, in practice, will probably never exceed 25,OOO.^This should lorm thecom- batant force ; and, as experience and universal practice have demonstrated the necessity for an­ other or non-combatant force, 1 further urge that special provision be made by law for each of the following separate and distinct purpo­ ses--viz: Engineer battalion Permanent recruiting companies and parties. THE LANDCOU1IT. Ce--Wsialloa Ai--f the Irleh Laa4- leHs Over Its Verdicts. DUBLIN, NOV. 7. The Irish Land Court has given during the past week unequivocal indications of the spirit in which it intends to administer tbe Land act. Justice O'Hagan's definition of a fair rent is such a rent as will enable the tenant to live and thrive, This was laid down at the opening of the court, a fortnight ago, and has sinoe been applied by the Assistant Commissioners at Belfast with startling results to the rents on the Crawford estate, and on the corn-money tenant estate of Dundonald, both of which may be called rack- rented. In both the rent was reduced an av­ erage of one-third all round. The Commis­ sioners expressly said that neither estate had been managed with the liberality expected or usual with Irish landlords ; hence the reduc­ tion is greater than the probable average. But these cases afford an example of what will happen to rack-rented estates generally. In both cases the Commissioners personally ex­ amined minutely the properties. There is no Beaie Whims of Anthers* . Terepli Bar. - feWis CJarneadee, the philosopher, seldom wrote without dosing himsef with helle­ bore, Eapolis, CratiniiB, EnniuB are saM never fco have sat down, to compose till they were intoxicated. Dryden often had himself bled, and, like Puseli, ate raw meat to assist, he said, his imagination. Shadwell, De Quin- oey, PealmaneAsar, Dean Milner, Col­ eridge, and Bishop Horaley, stimulated themselves with opium, as_ De Musset was helpless without absinthe. Gray seldom sat down to compose without first reading through some cantos of the "Faery Queen." Corneille fired him­ self "with the pursual of "Lnean." Black- stone never wrote without a bottle of port wine «n his desk, nor Schiller with­ out a flask ef Rhenish within call. When ! his imagination was sluggish he would ! sit with his feet in hot water, drinking coffee "to thaw the frost on his witei" reason to suppose that their decision will be re- j Montaigne was never happy without his versed if appealed from, nor is an appeal ex- ; with his pen in his right hand while his left was smoothing the glossy back of his favorite tabby, meditated his "Eesays." Boxborne, the great Dutch scholar, could never write a word with­ out a pipe in his mouth, and as he pre­ ferred a long pipe and yet required the use of both hands, he bethought him of a very ingenious device. He had a hat with an enormoms brim, which impsnd- pected. The decision of the same Com­ mission respecting improvements is regarded as still more formidable to the landlords. It substantially declares that improvements shall be presumed to have been made by tbe tenant unless the landlord oan prove the con­ trary. This reverses completely the presump­ tion supposod to have been created by the act, and shifts the burden of proof to the landlord, disregarding even express contracts between landlord and tenant, under which the improve­ ments became the landlord's The result is ; ^ ̂ front of Ma {ace; through this he that, in fixing a judicial rent, such improve- 1 T IL I J. - ,L ments, which in manv cases cover a large por- ! ®®d® a ^°^e. to support his pipe thus se- tion of the value of the property, will be con­ sidered as forming no part of the capital on which the landlord is entitled to receive rent. The decision has produced something like con­ sternation among certain classes of landlords, and will oertaiidy be appealed from, though curing the double advantage of shading his eyes and enjoying without inconven­ ience his favorite luxury, and in this way he produced his voluminous and valua­ ble writings. Hobbes had the. same every act and word yet proceeding from the j weakness, 4'ten or twelve pipes with Land Court indicates that it is disposed to hold to this sweeping principle. The effect is an enormous increase in the business of the couit, which, before these deci­ sions, had shown signs of becoming unmanage­ able. Applications pour in by the tiiousand. League organs are beginning to claim this at the resuit of their new policy. Be­ ing unable to prevent r tenants from resorting to the court, they now encourage liti- ;ation with the view of creating a complete candle" being his invariable concomit­ ants at the desk, and Dr. Parr was not less dependent on tobacco. Southev could never write a line except at his desk, with his books round him and with familial- objects near by. Milton could, he said, never compose anything to his Satisfaction except between the vernal and autumnal equinox. At those sea- ook. The truth is, tho farmers are acting for > eon& his poetry came like an inspiration. Enlisted men detailed on general servioe^clerkB) Ordnance Department (laborers and mechanics) West Point detachments (military academy^ Prison (,'uard at Fort Leavenworth (special) Hospital stewards Ordnance Serjeants Commissary Sergeants Indian scouts Signal detachment Total 3,789 j and Which number, added to the 26,660 before explained, will m.ike the total enlisted foroe of every nature and kind 30,449. Gen. Sherman submit** a statement of the actual number of euiisted men in the regular army Oct. 15: Cavalry .0 6,883 Artillery 'J,401) Infantry ln,630 Total combatants 19,815 Kon-couibatants (engineer battalion, ordnance department, recruiting service, Kignai corps, etc.), 8,781 Total enlisted foroe of army 23,596 " Nearly every general officer commanding troops on the frontier asks for a larger increase than I have herein indicated, but this may be better accomplished by giving to ihe President the right to increaso, at his discretion, com­ panies most exposed to danger to any number i metals. themselves, having understood from Justice O'Hagan's opening address th;it the court was to be a Tenants' Court. From recent appear­ ances the court will be called on to readjust th« whole rental of Ireland. When, through a slip of the tongue, Mr. Smith, Registrar of the Land Court, proclaimed, on Oct. 19, that "the Court ol the Land League" was open, he unwittingly told the truth. Mr. Justice O'Hagan and his colleagues did not hesitate, at the open­ ing day. to declare, almost in so many words, that they intended to interpret the Land act and to execute it solely in the inter­ ests of the tenant applicants, and the Sub- Commissioners are religiously living up to thai profession. The landlords expected severe treatment, but they did not count on being ab­ solutely garroted. Mr. Parnell made a great point against the Government by de­ claring that tenants who had been evicted during the fierce agitation in the spring would lose the benefits of the act. But Mr. Justicd O'Hagan has ruled that all tenants ejected within six months before Aug. 22 (the day the Land bill became a law) are entitled to its advantages ; and, furthermore, that when a reduction of rent is ordered it shall apply to all sales which have occurred since Aug! 22. This sweeping interpretation of the foggy fiftieth and sixtieth sections of the act alarmed the landlords, and I believe some of them re­ solved on consulting eminent lawyers in Ireland and England, with the view of testing its soundness. But they were told what they At other times, in spite of the most strenuous efforts, he would be unable to bring to the birth a single verse. Thom­ son, Collins, and Gray had the same su- perstitution about themselves. John­ son, with his usual bluff common sense, ridicules such fancies, and calls them unworthy of any sensible man--the good doctor's theory being that a man who had the power of writing always could write "if he set himself doggedly to it." William Prynne, the voluminous author | of the "flistrioinastrix," was nothing j "without a long quilted cap which came | an inch over his eyes." Buffon was help- j less without a spotless shirt and starched i frill. Still stranger were the whims of j Graham, the author of "The Sabbath," ! and Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, who, ! if we are to believe De Quisssj, found ; eirth vein never ran happily unless they : gat down to their tasks with boots and spurs on. An eminent modem novelist I finds his pen and imagination powerless i unless he sits surrounded by lighted | candles in a darkened room, and Horace i Walpole tells us that Lord Orrery found ; no stimulus so efficacious as a Bharp fit not even to the House of Lords. GOLD AND SILYER. of the gout. The great Dutch scholar, , , . , ^ ih. Isaak Yossius, and our own poet, John ous lit to ]i&T6 known--that tzi6 Mt xn&kos th# < it •» i ±. Land Couuiiissica a court of final jurisdiction, \ Phihpps, would employ a servant to and that there is no appeal against its decisions, comb their hair while they meditate their works. Coleridge told Hazlitt that when engaged in composition he never found his vein so happy as when he was walk­ ing over uneven ground, or making liis way through a coppice with the twigs brushing his face. Wordsworth, on the other hand, preferred a straight gravel walk where he could wander mechani­ cally and without any impediment to and fro; in this way almost all his latter j poems were composed. Lord Bacon had a fancy for inhaling the fumes of a bottle of claret poured out on earth which had • been newly upturned. Product •( tbe IHine* of the United Stales. About two years ago Congress voted an ap­ propriation of $5,000 for the collection of statistics touching the production of the precious metals in the United States. The work was assigned to the San Francisco Mint Bureau. The work of the compilers was completed about tho 1st of January. The report makes a lar^e volume of 395 pages, covering the bullion production in all the States yielding precious A Beautiful Yoice. Madam de Stael would have gladly parted with some of her wit if she could 98 i)imocittts, a Democratic gain of eighteen i parted with some of her ov**r iRtt vei.iV election. i only have been beautiful. It would not T., 4V.,. T> LII I • .. .. .. . rOBEIGlf. A JOUBNAXJ8T in Germany has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for insinuating that Bismarck used his publio position to crush out a peasant proprietor. IBISH landlords are alarmed over the rentals fixed by the Land Commission, and fear the practical confiscation of their property. A mass meeting of the tenants of Sir John Ennis, at Athlone, resolved to demand an abatement of rents or appeal to the Land Court. LEFBOT, who murdered Mr. Gold, a retired merchant, in a railway carriage on the Midland railroad, between London and Bright­ on, has been convicted of the crime. Chief Justice Coleridge's summing up was decidedly against the prisoner. After being sentenced to death he still maintains his innocence. WHILE a few meetings are privately held in Ireland, the Land League is practically dead. In its place a new and more respectable organization--the Home-rule League--has been revived. It has for its directors several Irish members of Parliament, and is indorsed by I Parnell and his fellow-agitators at Kilmain- i ham. The Land Court have now 17,7til : cases to settle. As an instance of their rad- | ical revisions of rental, a case in Limerick ! county is quoted where the tenant was paying i £19 a year rent on a farm of about three acres, i Which the court reduced to £9. Sir Maurice j O'Connell, nephe.vof the great liberator, has i made a considerable reduction in rents to his i tenants at Tralee In the Lord Mayor's pro­ cession at London, the stars and stripes were ! borne through the streets to Guildhall, preceed- I ed by drum and life band playing "The Star Spangled Banner." Soon afterward followed j a band from the training-ship Warspite, I giving '• Yankee Doodle." People in the 1 streets gave free vent to their enthu­ siasm. At the office of tbe United States Cable In Wisconsin th.- Republican State ticket is elected by mivirfrities ranging from 5,000 to 7,000. The Republicans have a good working majority in both branches of the Lcgi-lature. In Virginia the Beadjusters have elected their candidate for Governor (Cameron), and capt­ ured a majority of the members of both branches of the Legislature. The Democrats carry Maryland by a good round majority, though the Republicans gain several members of the General Assembly. Iu Mississippi the Democrats sweep every­ thing, the majority for Lowery for Governor being estimated at 25,000 to 30,000. In Minnesota, Hubbard, Republican, is elected Governor by a majority estimated at 25,000. All the constitutional amendments of general effect were adopted. The land-bond proposition was defeated. llie election in Colorado was for the purpose of locating the State capital, and renulted in a victory for Denver by a large majority. In New Jersey an election was held for mem­ bers of the General Assembly. The Democrats be strange if the equally famous " George .Eliot" felt the same hopeless hunger for beauty (for she was a remarkably | homely woman). We see how sweet it j was to her to be praised for a grace that ; is akin to beauty. j This little story about George Eliot is | told by a Maine lady, who met the ! novelist at a hotel in Switzerland, just I after "Romola" appeared. One day : Mrs. Lewca was reading aloud in French : to a little girl iu the garden, and the I American drew near i» listen to the musical tones. Presently Mrs. Lewes . glanced at the intruder and said : i " Do you understand ? " ' " I do not cure for the matter," an­ swered the American ; "I only came to listen to your sweet voice." " Do you like ic V " said Mrs. Lewes, o ui VICUOIAI AN^UMUIV, <L11V DTILUucr&ui j * it gained three members of the Senate and four some surprise. members of the House. The Republicans will, 1 The American warmly expressed her however, have a small majority on joint ballot. ' admiration, and George Eliot's face The election in Nebraska was a very quiet lighted with pleasure as she took her affair throughout the State. The Republican , i,°.i candidates for Rnnrnms .Tudr-pa unrl TTnivnruitir ' F*VIUG • . candidates for Supreme Judges and University Regents were elected by majorities ranging from 18,000 to 21,000. MANY persons iron towels and fold them and place them away before they are thoroughly dry. This is an error, and sometimes leads to results not ex­ pected. In this damp condition there is " I thank you. I would rather you would compliment my voice than my ' Itomola.' "--Youth'a Companion. One-Eyed Gambetta. The story that Gambetta poked out one of his eyes when a child, because his father would not permit him to do as he mold which forms on them called I pleaHe(1' if\ perfectly true. What is not " oidium," one variety of which causes a skin disease known as ringworm. "A WISE man provideth for hie family," says the ancient Proverb, but the more modern style is, " An unwise man provideth a family."--Eminence Constitutionalist. THE smallest newsboy makes the most noise. generally known is that the elder Gambetta remained inflexible even after this display of willfulness. The boy was being educated at the Lycee of Cahors, and, conceiving a dislike for the institu­ tion, asked to be removed from it. His father refused again and again. At last Leon said : "I'll put out one of my eyes if you send me back to the Lycee." It was holiday time. "As you please," said the father, to whom it seems never of privates not exceeding 100, limited always in practice by the actual appropriations of money rather than by the fixed numb: r of men." The General asks for an increase of nine Majors in the Inspectors' corps, and recom­ mends that th© whole question of coast defense be submitted to a board of high officers, while a similar board should consider the matter of military posts and stations now obsolete. These recommendations are with a view to the sale and relief of the army from tho care of useless forts, posts and stations. Some old forts, Gen. Sherman admits, are worth retaining, and, in order that these may be properly taken care of, he recommends that 'the President be au­ thorized* to transfer out of the class of en­ listed men who have served for twenty- five years or more, a number not to exceed 500, including Ordnance Sergeants {now 112), and establish a ' veteran corps' to be stationed at these old forts, with the rank and pay they held at the close of their active career of army service, to be subject to the rules and articles of war, but only te be used for guarding public property. One or two offioers of the retired class and half a dozen of these old soldiers would compose a good garri­ son for an abandoned post or fort. By grant­ ing the retired officers thus detailed fuel and quarters, we would provide homes for worthy veterans, which would be most honorable ana charitable to them and advantageous to the Government" , Gen. Sherman, in his remarks on West'Poi*t, says : " The Board of Visitors substantially recommended that the Superintendent of the Military Aoademy should be a Colonel of En gineers. I will concede to the engineers ai: they ask, but when war comes the engineer naturally takes to maneuvering and parapets, whereas the infantry, cavalry and artillery must 'go in' and do the fighting. It was so in 1812, and 1846, and 1861-65. West Point is intended to make ' soldiers,' and not professional engi­ neers,and the word 'soldier' embraces everything in war. If tho engineer be a better soldier than the infantry ofiicer, then let him in war and peace have all the honor and emoluments. But our recent experience does not fulfill this asser­ tion." Gen. Sherman take* direct issue also with other recommendations of th* Board of Visi­ tors. THE population of Athens is said to be orderly, peaceable and moral to- an un­ usual degree. A correspondent who has lived long in the city reports that he has never seen a disturbance in tho streets. The natural situation of Athens, too, is favOrable to public cleanliness and health, so tlmt with little difficulty it might be a singularly -wholesome and happy city, tint owing to popular carelessness and police neglect, the streets are as filthy as they are quiet; and, as a resnlt, the warm weather of the past summer pro­ duced an epidemic of typhoidal fevers. The correspondent referred to, writing not long ago to the London Times, thus described the condition of affairs : " The butchers have been allowed to fling their offal into the streets, and dead cats and dogs are of not infrequent occurrences. Piles of fermenting rubbish lie in the va­ cant space and around the outskirts of tho city. There are no system of drain­ age, and none of emptying the cesspools into which the house-drains pour, only one of tike principal streets having a main drain, and this having no taps, and, though the police have full author­ ity to examine the drainage of each house, no houses are ever examined, and the cesspools filter off into the sur­ rounding earth. The law requires rigid inspection of the abattoirs and butchers' shops ; but, as the police have political duties and must be on good terms with the constituency, the shop-keepers are nevei annoyed, nor are tho shops inspected ; and, though to-day there is, from the I>anic prevailing, a cleaning of the out­ side of the platter, the inHide is not, and in this intense heat can not now be safely disturbed." Following is a statement of the product of gold and silver in the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880 : Gold. Silver. Total. Alaska $ 6,<J00 $ $ (5,000 Arizona, <0(1,000 2,000,000 2,4.0,000 California 17,600,000 Colorado 3,200,000 Dakota 3,(!0(l,000 O' ergia 120,000 Idaho I,y8i>,<)00 Montana 2,400,000 Nevada 4,800,000 New Mexico 130,000 North Carolina... 95,000 Orc«jon 1,OBO,OQO South Carolina... 15,000 Utah 210,000 Virginia 10,000 Washington Ter.. 410,000 Wyoming Ter 20,000 Other sources 14,000 1,100,000 17,000,000 70,000 450^000 2,500,000 10,700,000 425,000 ""isjoao ' 4,7ib|666 18,600,000 20,200.000 3,670,000 120,(00 2,430,000 4,900,0'io . 15,700, 00 SO.),000 95,000 l,10.j,0U0 lfi,000 4,950,000 10,000 410,000 20,000 14,000 Totals $36,000,000 $39,200,000 $75,200,000 After completing the above table and fortify­ ing the correctness of the total from every available source, statistics were gathered for the last half of the calendar year of 1880, in order to show the product from Jan. 1, 1880, to Dec. 81, 1880. The result shows only a com­ paratively slight variation from the reported i yield for the fiscal year, and is given as con- I firmatory evidence of the accuracy of the table I presented above. The purchases of silver for i coinage purposes in 1880 were 24,659,600 I ounces, valued at $28,691,800. It is estimated | that $2,000,000 of this was foreign production. ' This would leave $26,700,000 for domebtic pro­ duction. The amount of silver exported in 1880 was $7,750,000, and the amount consumed in the arts was #4,000,000. This gives a total product of silver %>r the calendar year of $38,- 450,000, against $39,200,000 for the fiscal year. Following is a statement of the bullion pro­ duction of the Pacific coast States and Terri­ tories, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, according to returns made by owners of mines to the Superintendent of the United States Mint at Ban Francisco, CaL: Chid. Silver. Total. California. $17,936,328 $ 767,525 $18,743,848 Nevada 2,584,792 7,776,818 10,311,610 Arizona Ter 654,547 7,790,306 8,350,823 Idaho Ter 1,641,634 1,078,316 2,620,568 Oregon 853,613 «9,671 823.284 Washington Ter... 90,000 90,000 T«r 1,900 1,900 Total* $23,462,197 $17,479,263 $40,942,033 Girls as Wood Engravers. A wood engraver, being naked why he did not employ girls, replied: "I have employed women very often, and wish I could feel more encourage. But the truth is that, when a young man comes to me and begins his work, he feels that it is life's business. He is t« cut his fortune out of the little blocks before him. Wife, family, home, happi­ ness, and all are to be carved out by his own hand, and he settles steadily and earnestly to his labor, determined tc master it, and with every incitement spurring him on. Ho cannot marry till he knows his trade. It is exactly the other way with the girl. She may be ae poor as the bov, and iu; wholly depend­ ent upon herself for a living, but she feels that she will probably marry by and by, and then she must give up wood engraving. So she goes on listlessly: she has no ambition to excel; she does not feel that all her happiness depend? on it. She will marry, and her hus­ band's wages will support her. Shf may not say so, but she thinks so, anc it spoils her work." SPEAK of people's virtues, condone their infirmities; if you can say no good, talk no ill of them. THE MARKETS. NHW YOBK. r 00 911 * Hoas 6 SO ® 6 60 COTTON 11^19 12 FMBB--Superflae, 4 00 ® 6 08 WEUI-NO, 2. Spring 1 86 # 1 S® Ho. 2 Bed 1 40 ® 1 43 OOB*--Ungraded. * W ® 69 OATS--Mlzed Weatarn 4» ® 48 POBK--Mesa...... IT 00 $17 60 low). 11*® 11* CHICAGO. Bnvu--Cbotee Oracled Steeri.... 0 10 Cow* and Helfera 9 40 Medium to Fair 6 00 HOOR 8 76 FLOVS--Fancy White Winter Kx.. T 60 Good to Choice Spring Kx. • 00 A Stage Driver's Story. " I had only made one ran down here," said our stage driver on a journey in New Mexico, " when, passing one of the sidings, we took on a Simon-pure, double-iiisted ' gray,' oue of the pioneers; these fellows who had lived a life in ad­ vance of civilization, making the way easy for others, but always leaving in time to escape the press and improve­ ments, the foundation for which he had so surely laid. Evidently he had never before seen the interior of a car, for it was some moments before he concluded to seat himself, which he did cautiously, and with that quick, nervous twinkle of the eye which men constantly on the alert for danger exhibit. Let me say here that in this country every man car­ ries a pistol, and generally in his back- pocket. Well, as I hatl already seen the other passengers' tickets I took my time about matters, and slowly walked up to my man and put pay hand, with the usual quick motion, behind mo to get my punch ; but before I could say ' Ticket sir 1' quicker than powder the muzzle of a six-shooter swelled under my eyes, amd a hearty voice rang out : ' put her back, stranger; I've got the drap 011 ye !' You may laugh, but I shook hands with him over a free ride, anyway." BONE-BLACK is used in manufacturing blacking, which is generally prepared by mixing fdur parts bone-black with one of sulphuric acid, adding four parts of syrup and a little water. « T 25 9 4 00 ® 6 50 ® 6 SO (* 7 75 0 6 75 (9 1 28 WHEAT-NO. 2 Spring 1 2T Mo. 3 Spring 1 12 OOBN--No. 2 58 OATS--No. 2 « RTK--No. 2 9* BAHLIT-NO. 2 1 06 Bu I TEE--Choice Creamery 30 Eoos--Fresh 22 POBK--MEEK 1® 76 LABD MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 1 } No. 2 1 £ COBS--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 RYE--NO. 1 BABUJT--NO. 2 "J? PORK--Mess J® gT.'iotia"" WHEAT--Ho. 2 Red. 1 85 COBS--Mixed 62 i OATS--No. 2 42 RYE. 9® POBK--Mees 17 00 LABD 11 CINCIMNATL WHEAT 1 37 ® 1 88 COBN 62 @ 83 OATS 44 @ 46 RYE. 1 05 C4 1 06 Pork--Mess 18 00 @18 26 LABD 10>«£ 11 TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 1 White 1 34 No. 2 Red 1 35 COBS 60 OATS 43 DETROIT. Fnona--Choice 7 00 WHEAT--No. 1 White 1 33 CORN--Mixed 62 OATS--Mixed 45 B\kl.rt (pec cental) 1 70 POBK--Mess 19 60 «1 *5 ® 69 ® 44 <A 95 | l 0 6 <S 35 @ 23 ($16 00 10XO 11 O 1 32 O 1 28 @ 60 9 43 ® 94 <» 97 <316 00 @ @ 1 36 @ 63 <£» 44 96 <ai7 25 INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red 1 31 COBN--No. 2 63 OATS 43 • EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTLB-- Best < 00 Fair 6 25 Common 4 00 HOQB 5 75 SHEEP 2 60 @ 1 35 @ 1 36 @ 61 (4 44 O 9 35 05 1 34 6 63 0 47 & 2 30 @19 75 0 1 83 @ « @ 47 @ 6 25 @ 5 50 (4 5 00 <9 6 60 <3 * 00