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lamdraUr. J. VAN 8LYKE, PCBUSOT. .Si McHENBY, ILLINOIS. SHE JTE^VS -CONDENSED, • tHB EAST. "UttncEOf trial of the $100,000 libel rait of Theodore Til ton against the Brooklyn Eagle and Thomas Kinsella has been entered in the Brooklyn City Conrt, for the September term. ... .Archibald Baxter Jk Co., commission mer­ chants, New York, have failed. Their liabili­ ties ire stated at $300,000 The villages of Western Massachusetts wiiioh so severely suf­ fered by the fearful Hood occasioned by the breaking of the Williamburg reserrior. Hay 18. 1874, have agtun been similarly visited, though this time there has been no loss of life and the damage is incon­ siderable compared with last year's. & few nights since the dam of the SearsviUe reservoir on the western Goshen branch of Mill river waa swept away, causing a wild panic in the vil- • lag© below, tho inhabitants fleeing pell-mell to the hills. Several bridges were swept away, and the damage to property will amount to many thousand dollars Horace Binney, the oldest and most prominent member of the Philadelphia bar, died a few days ago, at the age of 97 years A Boston dispatch says: *' The excitement about the sea serpent and his alleged appearance hereabouts increases. Capt Howes, of the steamer William Law­ rence, from Norfolk, for this port, says that he saw this afternoon off Oape Cod light, some •art of a gigantic marine animal. It projected its head and neck and part of its back out of the water, and seemed to be black on the back and white on the breast, and as the portion vis­ ible was at least twelve feet, the animal must have been some near relation to the sea ser­ pent." THE Northern Pacific Railroad, with all its franchises, including the franchise to be a Company, and all the property except the lands which have been patented, was sold at New York the other day, under a decree of conrt, for the nominal sum of $100,(M)0. It was bought by the Committee representing the bondholders, who have assented to the plan of reorganization A statement of the affairs of Duncan, Sherman & Co. show their liabili­ ties to be $4,872,128, while their assets are considerably less than half that amount, name­ ly, $2,112,740. ON the CLOSING DAY of the Rochester xaces the little mare Lola, in the free-for-all race, made the three fastest oonsecutive heats on record, viz., 2:16>£, 2:15)1 and. 2:17, winning the race against Goldsmith Maid and American Girl--Three boys were drowned at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 14th, inst., while bathing Three men, named James Grog an, William Horton and Henry Martin, were drowned at Paseaic Fallt^\N. J., last Sunday, by the upset­ ting of a boat \ A GRAND international pedestrian tournament 1 is to be held in Mjpw York in October Edwin Booth, the tragedian, was recently thrown from his carriage, by the team taking fright and irunnng away, and received serious injuries. The accident occurred at his country residence in Connecticut. FOETUXATELY the accident to Edwin Booth the tragedian, which was at first thought to be fatal, turns out to be but Blight. He sustained a fracture of one rib and thqpjeft elbow bone, and in a few weeks will probably be able to resume his place upon the stage. A SAD and shocking suicide of a mother and her children occurred in Harrisburg, Pa., a few days ago. Mra. Philip Lesaiiiger, becoming madly jealous of her husband, dressed her three little children as if intent on giving them • pleasure walk. She proceeded to the canal, where. assisted by the children, she gathered stones sufficient to fill a basket, which she tied to her waist. She then clasped the unsuspect­ ing little ones under her arms and plunged into the water...." Buchu " Helmbold has just been confined in a Philadelphia lunatic asylum.... Duncan, Sherman & Co. propose to settle with their creditors on the basis of 33% cents on the dollar--A Cuban privateer, the Uruguay, has escaped from New York, laden with arms, am­ munition, and utaros for the relief of the in­ surgents. M WEST. , ItLTZB, adviccs from Corinne, Utah, state that the Indians that threatened the towtf have gone back to their reservations, and no further trouble kranticipated A Port Sully telegram says the Indian Commission icrhich have been holding councils with different tribes of Sioux in that vicinity for the past two weeks regard their efforts as very successful. All the nor­ thern tribes will be represented at Red Cloud, where a grand council is to be held Septem­ ber L Dunne the recent high water in the Ohio ,,••••• liver the levee at Sliawneetown, HI., gave way and the whole town was fiooded with eight feet of water, causing immense damage to property. Fortunately the people received timely warn­ ing of the impending disaster, and by fleeing to the hills back of town saved themselves from drowning... .The editor of the Lawrence (Kan- ses) Spirit of Kansas has Rued the editor of the Lawrence Standard for libel, laying dama­ ges at $80,000--Jeff Davis will deliver the annual address at the Bartholomew (Ind.) fair, in September... .The Toledo, Peoria and War­ saw Railway Company are selling round-trip tickets from Peoria to New York for $20. JEFF DAVIS will not, after all, deliver "the ad­ dress before the Winnebago County (Dl.) Agri- coltural Society, he having declined to appear account of the opposition manifested at under the name of the ,l New Chicago Thea­ ter." McVicker thus becomes the owner of thpf two best theaters in the city... .The miners in the Black Hills rooently held a meeting and re­ solved to peaceably abandon the region for the present. Late reports from there asy the men are nearly all leaving. A few on the upper and remote creeeks, it is said, will remain. THK painful mystery surrounding the fate of Prof. Donaldson, the aerouaut, Newton 3. Gtimvood, a Journal reporter, who ascended from CMoago in a balloon on the 15th of July, and mailed away over Lake Michigan, has at last been partially solved by finding the body of the unfortunate reporter on the east shore of the lake, between Whitehall and Pentwater, Mich. It was discovered by a stage driver while driv­ ing along the beach, was turned over to a Jus­ tice of the Peace, who, after the customary inquest, consigned the remains to mother earth in the regular burying-ground in Claybanks township, Oceana county. When found, the body was fiat on its face on a small pile of old flood-wood, The hair was nearly all gone, and the f«oe badly disfigured. The nose was en­ tirely gone, and the hat and boots were miss­ ing. An Tnflm rubber life-preserver was found on the body. The preserver had a hole in it about two inches long. That the aeronauts wait until the meeting of the council proposed by the communion sent, out by the Interior De­ partment Even if they do, this council is hound to break up inharmoniously on aooount of the demands that will be made by the Bioux for damages to be paid theta for the'Wt'Ongful invasion of the Black Hills by the miners. As the Interior Department has no fund to pay Congress is set Is Semua to ap­ propriate money, it is believed the council will certainly break up in a row. It is reported that the Sioux have already made out a bill for damages to the amount of several hundred thousand dollars. The Black Hills question promises now to have a bloody solution. THE experiment of shipping peaches from the East to the West has resulted disastrously to the forwarders, on account of the high freight rates.' The only parties who made money by the operation were the railroad com­ panies. FOREIGN. HANS HAHMOJT, of Fort Wayne. Ind., was re­ cently slain in a duel at the University of Bros lau, Germany....; A fresh reinforcement of 10.- 000 men is to be sent from Spain to Cuba..... The British Parliament has been prorogued till Oct. 29 An Englishman named Webb re­ cently undertook the during feat of swimming were lost in Lake Michigan during the g&le g,(;r0a8 the English channel without a life-sav ing apparatus. He accomplished half the dis­ tance in seven hours, when, owing to the in­ creasing roughness of the waves, it was thought prudent to take him on board the attending sloop. He was apparently qot fatigued. COL. BAKER, who was recently convicted of an indecent assault upon a young lady in a rail­ way car, has been dismissed from the British army in disgrace... .Drexel, Hayes & Co., the American bankers in Paris, are redeeming Duncan, Sherman A Co.'s letters of credit. The Carliste claim to have won an important victory over the Alfonsists at Arduna, Spain ....The insurrection in Herzegovina threat­ ens to become a religious war. ' CORTINA, the Rio Grande bandit, is in jail in the City of Mexico, and will shortly be tried by a military oourt.... Prince Charles Theodore, groat-uncle of the King of Bavaria, was re­ cently thrown from his horse and instantly killed Another rebellion has broken out in Turkish Crovatia Intelligence has beeur re­ ceived at Vienna that the inhabitants of the Bosnian Provinces have risen in insurrection along the whole length of the river Save. The telegraph wires have been cut, thirty Turks massacred, and all official buildings burned. Numbers of refugees are fleeing into Austria A treaty of commerce between China and Peru has been concluded... .More than 80,000 persons attended mass in St. Augustine .Church, London, on the 15th inst., to celebrate the fete of Napoleon. A BODY of 6,000 Carlists attempted unsuccess­ fully to raiBe the siegq of Seo de Urgel. The besiegers are expectirig reinforcements. The fire upon the city is continued, and the citadel has suffered serioub damage The sum of $350,000 has been raised by subscription in Germany to indemnify Prussian priests for the withdrawal of the state grant. This is less than half the amount withdrawn. LATE advices from South America bring in­ telligence of the assassination of the President of the Republic of Ecuador A Spanish ves­ sel, shipping materials of war at Barcelona, ex­ ploded recently, killing fifty persons A steam yacht parrying Queen Victoria and royal family,' while on a pleasure tripT the other day, ran into and sunk another yacht con­ taining a party of ladies and gentlemen, three of whom were drowned and one killed. None of the royal party were injured--Numer­ ous destructive fires are reported in Russia The war in Spain goes bravely on, with varying results.... The plot thicken* in Eastern Eurdpe, and every day brings news of a fresh uprising. Thus far the Turkish authorities have Bhown but little activity in sending troops to the dis­ turbed districts, and it is reported that those sent forward for service in Bosnia have refused to proceed, fearing to encounter the Provin­ cials in the mountain passes. The news also comes that 16,000 Dalmatians are ready to join in the fray, and that an army of Servians are on the way to reinforce the Herzegovinians, that swept over it on the evening of their de­ parture does not now admit of a doubt.... A passenger train on the St. Louis, Kansas City and^ Northern railroad went through a rotten bridge near Flattsbcrg, Mo., a few daya since. Three passengers*were killed, eight or ten had either their arms or legs broken, and some twenty others were more or less injured--The accounts of Sh&ffenburg, late United States Marshal of Colorado Territory, show a deficit of about $100,000. Shaffenburg has sloped, but the officers are after him--A terrible affray oocurred at Eberhardt City, Nev., re­ cently, between two men named Jackson and Beck. The former plunged a bowie knife to the hilt five times into the body of Beck, when a bystander struck Jackson down. Then Beck, though dying of bis wounds, crawled to the prostrate form of Jackson, took the knife which had been used with fatal effect tijfion himself, and buried it in the heart of Jackson. THE war between the competing railroads running from St. Louis and Chicago to the Missouri river has ended, and the reduced fares have jumped back to the old figures We have some more glittering stories from the Black Hills. Some miners are said to have taken out from $30 to $50 a day, and nuggets have been found weighing from $15 to $35 William Bradan, an Indianapolis stationer, has failed,, for $145,000. Speculation in grain swamped him. WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON is almost deserted, and all busi­ ness of importance* is at a standstill. During several days of last week there was not a Cabi­ net officer in the city The Secretary of the Treasury has just issued the twenty-fourth call for bonds.- The amount called for is $10,000,- 000, of the issue of 5-20s of 1864... .The Post- master-General has removed a large number of Postmasters for seeking to increase their salaries by a forced sale of stamps Secretary Bristow and Treasurer New are on the best of terms, all reports to the contrary notwith­ standing. THE following is an official statement from the Treasury Department of the government receipts and- expenditures, by warrants, for the year ending June 30, 1875: RECEIPTS. ^ Customs ..$157,167,722 Internal revenue,...., 110,007,493 Siles of pnblic lands 1.413,040 Miscellaneous sources , 19,411,195 Total .$288,000,051 EXPENDITURES. Civil and miscellaneous ... ..$ 71,070,702 War Department 41,120,645 Navy Department ,21,497.626 Indians and pensions........./.... ' 37,840,873 Interest on public debt. 103,093,544 Total ordinary expenditures $274,623,392 THE Poetoffice Department will ask the next Congress to devise a law fix^g some other standard for Postmasters' salaries. POSTAL cards" to the number of 14,298,000 were issued during the month of July....The blusted Freedman's Bank will pay 20 per cent. in a few months The Treasury Department is hurrying forward the preparations necessary to the resumption of specie payment. It is estimated that the amount needed will increase the bonded debt to $350,000,000. THE SOUTH. YELIXIW FEVER of a m&glign:nit type has broken out at Pascagoula, Miss. FRIDAY, Aug. 13, was a bafy day for hang­ men in the South. In East Tennessee alone here were three executions, viz.: John C. Webb, at Enoxville, for murder, robbery, and rape; W." H. Berry, at Rogersville, for the murder of his wife; and Ananias Honeycutt, at Tazewell, for the murder of his foster-father. All three of tlie hangings were conducted in the old-fashioned way of mounting the criminal on a wagon and then driving the vehicle from under him. At least 30,000 people witnessed the three executions. All of the culprits pro­ tested their innocence. Thomas Withers, negro boy, was hung at Lynchburg for the murder of a white girl. The criminal died hard. He succeeded three times in raising his feet to the edge of the trap, and drew himself up, but as often did the Sheriff push them off. THE railroads running between Nashville and Louisville are carrying passengers at fifty cents a head, the result of lively competition. THE steamer Hugh Martin, plying between London and Knoxville, on the Tennessee river, recently exploded her boiler, completely .vreok ing the boat Four poisons were killed and ten wounded^ L. T. COFELAND, who a short time since pub- I lished some statements in the Chicago Times, ttl account oi ine opposition manifested at j defamatory of ex-President Johnson's good Bockford....A frightful accident occurred last y - ..... week on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, at Loogootee, Ind. The express train going east It the rate of forty miles an hour ran into an open switch and collided with the train. £ve persons--the mail agent and baggage-inter of the express train, and two brakemen and another employe of the mail train- were killed outright, and six or seven pnssengers in­ jured. On the same day a passenger train on the same road was thrown from the track near Hnron, Ind., and the engine and tender plunged into Beaver Creek. No one was The cause of the accident was the removal of a rail the design of the perpetrators evidently btjng robbery A nurse in the* St. Louis Insane Asylum, the other day, gave three troublesome patients an overdose of conium in order to make them sleep soundly. He succeeded beyond his calcu­ lations. TJhe poor lunatics never awoke from their sleep,...Mr. James H. McVicker, the popular and enterprising Chicago manager, has leased the Grand Opera-House in that city, and '9111 rrm it^wiih: a. firsi-claae comedy company, name and religious belief, was tarred and feathered at Knoxvillo by indignant friends of the deceased. * POLITICAL. COMPLETE returns of the election for gover nor in Kentucky give McCreery, Democrat, majority of 36,139 over Harlan, Republican The vote for McCreery i3 about 1,000 less than the majority of Leslie in 1871. The Hottse will stand 90 Democrats to 10 Republicans! SENATOR MORTON has gone to Maine bo take an active part ia the campaign in that State. His health, it is said, is completely Restored The Governor of Tennessee has appointed D. M. Key, a lawyer of Chattanooga, to fill Andrew Johnson's unexpired term in the United States Senate. . *• GENERAL. SERIOUS fears are entertained of a general Indian outbreak. News received at Washing­ ton indicates a very unsettled condition of af­ fairs among the Sioux, occasioned by the depredations of the' miners in the Black Hill«, and it is doubtful if these restless savages will 1/ who have thus far more than held their own against the Turkish troops, and are visiting the despotic rulers, with fire and sword. FINANCE AKD TRADE. Weekly Review of th^^cafa Market. - TISXllClJCCl ' The money market remains in the same con­ dition as noted for some time past. The out­ look for the fall trade is very good. Money in ample Bupply and interest rates easy at 7@ 10 per cent., according to time and the character ef the securities offered. Govern­ ment bonds firm and a moderate demand was reported. BHEADSUFFS. The past week has witnessed a decided weak­ ness in the grainmarkets, and a rapid and quite severe decline in values. The markets have really been '-weather markets," and the weak- Currants were quiet at f 2.S0@3.(H) per ' bu. Dried fruits were firm, and for "some descrip­ tions prices were higher. Eastern apples sold mainly at 9c per t!). Halves pesehes were firm at yHj frtlOc, and blackberries closed firm at 9% <®10e. Dried peas were dull at *2.00(8)2.10 for choice green, and $1.65(3)1.75 for marrowfat. The usual dullness again prevailed in eggs, and prices vere irregular; sales ranged, at 10@ 14X«. tvoedrdittK to <J«alitv. outside being for warranted fresli laid. There was no change from week noticeable in feathers; quotaUe at 48@52c for prime live geese, 20@25o ier turkey taii, and 3@5c for chicken. Green fruits were in large supply duriag the latter part of the week, and prices were easier. Apples sold at 50c@f1,50 per brl. and 2O@40c per box, ac­ cording to qualitv. Peaches were in large supply, and some arrived in a worthless condition; sales ranged at 20@50c per box for Southern, and from 10c(®$2.50 for Delaware in one bushel boxes. Plums were slow sale, and pears were also very dull. Grapes sold slowly at 9@10c per lb. Hides were quiet but firm, as follows : 8@8Vc for green salted all round, and 12@13c for calf. There was a slight improvement in potatoes, but hardly sufficient to be worth men­ tioning ; sales ranged at 8L00@1,25 per brl. Salt was in fair demand and steady at $1.50 for Onondaga and Saginaw fine, and $1.70 for ordi­ nary OOaiBo. Vegemoiee wtsie uuii, uiit toward the latter part of the week a slight improve­ ment was noticeable in tomatoes ; sales ranged at 25@65c pet box for tomatoes, $2.75@3.25 per brl for onions, and 8@10c per doz for corn, veal was ia fair demand and steady at 5@8)£c for common to choice caruussep. The wool marker remains dull and unchanged; quotable at 38@43c for fine to prime coaise unwashed, 28@33c for do washed, and 40@53o for poor to choice tub washed. PROVraiOML There was » fair active business 'transacted in tbis market during the week just passed, but prices at the same time ruled somewhat easier. The outside orders received were somewhat lighter than usual, and the principal trading was done by the local speculative element. During the week the option for October changed from a Sremium to a aisoount, compared with seller eptember. Lard was dull and sales dragged slowly, and a decline of 30@40c was sustained in values. Market closed at $2O.8O@20,9O for cash mess pork, according to brand ; 20. 75@ 20.80 seller August, ana seller September at $20.75@20 80. Cash lard quiet at S13.30@13J^ seller September $13.40, and seller October pas nominal. \ SEEDS AND HIOHW1KES. There was a moderately active business re­ ported in timothy seed, and prices were firm though without immediate alterations. The first arrival of new seed was offered on the market on Saturday, and it boir.^ prime 'n quality, Bold at $2.70, old closed at about 4*2.80 for prime. Clover was a shade firmer • K Id at $8.00@8.10 for prime medium. FIh.v was nom­ inal at about $1.(30 for good crushing. The other kinds were entirely nominal. The offer­ ings of highwines were light and the market in consequence ruled quiet. Prices were steady at *1.19. COOPEBAGE. LUMBER AND WOOD. The quietness of former weeks was again de­ veloped in cooperage during the past week, and there was no change to note in i .rices. Quotable at $1.12V(ffil.l5 for pork barrels, and sjl.35@1.45 for lard tierces; 3sl.90(<t2.10 for whisky barrels, and 45@65c for flour barrels. It should be understood that the outside prices for lard tierces is only paid for "standard" packages--the new size adorned recently by the Packers' Association. Trade was also rather light in the lumber market, but at the samo time prices remain sluad.v said firm. Quotable at i8.50@8.75 for joist and scantling, tB.GOW 16.00 for boards and strips, $2.10@2.75 for shingles, End £ 1.50 fot lath. There ws« hut little of consequence doing in wood, and values were without change. Hickory. §8.00 ; maple, $7.00, beech, $6.00, and slabs $4.00 per ocrtl at the yards. A HUMAN BEE.HIY& Telegraphic Jtfa rket NEW YORK. BEEVES... Hoas--Dressed COTTON FLOUB--Superfine Western W HEAT--No. 2 Chicago Xo. 1 Spring. Corn OATS .".TT7...^ RYE POBK--New Mess.. LABI>--Steam... ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--NO. 2 Red CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 RYE--NO. % PORK--MEW 21 75 LABD... 13 HOAS 7 50 CATTLE 4 50 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 1, No. 2 COM--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 RTE.. BABLEY--NO. 2. J. CINCINNATI. WHEAT--'. COBN 75 OATS 65 RYE 90 POBK--MERA 2125 LABD TOLEDO. WHKAT--Extra Amber.... COBN 76 OATS...... 43 DETROIT. WHKAT--EXTRA 2 47 AMBER 1 33 COBN 75 Report** mainly to the more settled and finer weather. The reports received from different sections of tbe ceuntr^ inciicstfidi more ?£Tors,l)!s ti&rvGsts than had been expected, and the country specu­ lative element were on the selling side, while but few buying orders were received. The Eastern markets were of a less favorable tenor, aDd shippers were not disposed to trade with any freedom, while the stocks in store are large and rather heavier thain usual at this season of the year. The receipts were moder­ ately large. Values have steadily declined from tbe opening until the close. The most se­ vere decline has been on cash oats, which closed about 17c jjier bu lower. Wheat and corn were considerably lower. PRODUCE. The business transacted in butter during the week was light. The principal reason for the quietness that prevailed was the scarcity of such lots as were desired by shippers. The ar­ rivals during the week have been light, and the supply under a continued good local de- tnand was largely reduced. Dealers bein fortunate enough to have lots of butter on hand were able to obtain a shade better prices, though only a slight improvement was notice­ able. There were several parties on the mar­ ket seeking lots of the lower qualities for ship­ ment: but the few lots offered were held above what they were willing to pay, and only a limited number of transactions were made For grain bass and bagging t'iere has been a good demand, aad prices ruled firm as follows: Stark "A." seamlows cotton bags, $32.00; Ludlow "AA," Montauk "A," Lewinton "A," and Otter Creek seamless cotton. $30.00; American "A." and Amoskeag, £28.00; wool sacks, 55(ii)GQc each. There was a good demand for broom corn at the following prices: U}4(wlic for fair to extra hurl, ll(wl3e for good" to choice stalk braid, and C(«8^c for crooked. Beans were quiet and unchanged, quotable at $1.80 for round lots of Eastern mediums and $1.00f«3 1.75 for Western according to qualit y. BeeswCx remains quiet at 2o@28c for prime yellow. Cheese was not as active as" dur­ ing the previous week, but former prices were maintained; quotable at C(T/.8c for poor to common, 8@Jlc for fair to good. 10% fnrnrimoiti Intu aiw? 11/» i»-i n rnfnil $8 60 (§13 50 10K<* 10X • MM 4 70 @5 95 C* 1 83* & 1 34 (4 80 <& #7 yt 1 03 <£10 80 a i4*< . 1 32 ! 78 . 61 . 07 10 25 . 14 1 49 Bfl 44 % 90 ® 1 60 ® 67 4*>tf 71 @22 00 ® 14 (& 8 00 @ 6 50 O 1 30 <& 1 23 <§> 69 @ 39 & 80 ® 1 08# @ 1 40 @ 78 @ 70 <3 95 (§21 75 14 @ 1 52 @ 1 26>jj @ 76»4 @ 54 OATS CLEVELAND. WHEAT--No. 1 Red No. 2 Red COBN OATS JT 41 <3 1 60 <$ 1 49 Q 80 & 43 @ 1 64 @ 1 4 » @ sa 50 CROP PROSPECTS. The :Reports of Damage by the Floods Greatly Exaggerated. [From the Chicago Times, 14th.] We print this morning dispatches from all parts of the district covered by the recent heavy rains and disastrous floods in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio -f.and Kentucky. Especial attention is nes3 and the subsequent decline were dtSe jriven to the Wabash and Ohio valleys, where the damage done -was supposed to be the greatest. It 'will be observed that in but few localities is the injury done to the harvested and growing crops off great as was at first reported. The subsidence of the rivers and the week of fine weather that has ensued, have re­ vived the growing grain and dried the shocks already harvested in such a mannef -^as to leave it in very fair condition. In South­ western Ohio there will probably be two-thirds of an average yield; in Southern Indiana there will be nearly three-fourths of the usual crop of grain; along the Wabash thefe will be a little move than half a crop, while in Southern .Illinois the damage done is little more than nominal. In Kentucky everything indicates a full crop of all the principal products. It is shown that the Times was right in predicting that the first reporte'-of al­ most complete ruin to the crops were very much exaggerated. The farmers, although they will not realize their ex­ pectations earlier in the season, are far from the verge of bankruptcy, for they will not only,.have plenty of grain for home consumption, but will be able to export nearly the usual amount to the East and Europe. This is gratifying-- unexpectedly so in view of the unprece- dentedly rainy season we have experi­ enced. A TOOTH was recently extracted from the tongue of a Mr. Branson, ol Perry, Ga. About a year ago he received a pistol shot in the mouth by which the tooth was torn from the gum and firmly <ffl0%c for prime in lots, and 11c in a retail way". ! knbeded in the nicies of the tongue. Deautty ol the Pofmlatfm of the Klngitom. The United Kingdom of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, with the Channel Islands thrown in, arc only twioe as large in area as the State of Illinois, but they are all the " world's Trerkehop/' end sre supplying the unoc­ cupied parts of the habitable world not onlv with manufactures and capitalist with men. One of their largest exports is human flesh and blood, dcas up in individual packages, and skipped across oceans and seas. The tide of emigration has been flowing ever sinoe the first English settlement was made on the American coast, more than 250 years ago. It has had its ebbt* and floods, but has never been wholly cut off. Even during the revolution, some of the Brit­ ish soldiers who came to prevent our in­ dependence remained to enjoy it. iaujigTowOB uuiB itio uiiliuii iujigdOp attracted comparatively little attention before 1815. It deserved little, for by that year it had attained scanty propor­ tions. The number of persons emigrat­ ing was only 2,081. The next year it rose to 12,510, and there was a steady advance unfcil 1819, when the number was 34,987. The average for the next ten years was not as great as this, but American flush times when we were rushing upon the crisis of 1836-7 attract­ ed crowds of British and Irish subjects. In the five years from 1830 to 1834, in­ clusive, the aggregate number of emi­ grants from the United Kingdom to America was 381,956. This was thought enormous, but it is only a little more than the annual average now. Up to this time (1834) more persons had emi­ grated to the British colonies in North ^America than to the United States. Very many of them had made Canada only a hail-way house on their journey to the "States," but numbers had changed their home and not their flag. The tide turned in 1834* As late as 1839, how­ ever, the emigration «f the last twenty- five years had sent 499,899 to the colonies and only 417,765 to the " States." But from 1810 the figures were respectively to the C.uiadas 993,750,^ ana to the 44 States" 4,72(5,570. Tho oillcial record of emigration from 1840 to 1873 registers every great econ­ omic event of that time--the Irish famine, the discovery of gold in Cali­ fornia and Australia, the American finan­ cial panic of 1857, the Civil War, etc. The '57 crisis cut down British emigra­ tion to this country from 126,905 in 1857 to 59,716 in 1858. Tho outbreak of the Civil War reduced it from 87,500 in 1860 to 49,764 in 1861. The Um famine foroei) it up from 82,239 in 1846 to, i?t 1847, and 188,233 in 1848$: Itl«; 219,4 . I in 1849, and 230,885 in 1850= Corresponding figures for the North Aiuerimn Colonies were 43,439 in 1840, suui 109,680 in 1847, wheiL. it sud­ denly dropped to 31,065 in 1848. When gold was discovered in Australia, the number of emigrants thither quadrupled in a yoar. From 21,532 in 1851 it be­ came 87,881 in 1852, and 61,401 the next year, and 83,237 the next, or 1854. Jt continued to decline in Australia down to 12,227 in 1870. In 1873 the total number of emigrants from the United Kingdom was 310,612, or about 1 per cent, of the whole popu­ lation of the Kingdom.. Of these per­ sons, 233,073 came to the United States. This rate of decrease exceeds the annual average increase of the British popula­ tion between 1861 and 1871. For these ten years it was only 8.8 per cent. But the great proportionate loss was from Ireland. Nevertheless population is now increasing more rapidly than emigration and death together can thin it. Accord­ ing to the report of the Registrar-Gen- erol, the net daily increase in the population of the United Kingdom is 705. In 1865, the total population was 29,861,908. In 1874 it was 32,- 412,000. The wondenul fact shown by these fig­ ures is, that this little cluster of islands on the western shore of Europe should produce such enormous numbers of hu­ man beings. England and Wales, in which the land is owned by comparer tively few persons, are more densely populated than any other country in Europe except Belgium, which is a land of manufactures and farm patches. Yet the density increases every year, despite the hundreds of thousands who leave the teeming shores of Old England and ancient Erin for the New World.--Chi- Jiago Tribune. (VConnell's VtlU One of the most effective weapons of O'Connell was his wit, which was always at his command. There are enndreds of stories detailing instances of his power in this respect. One of these is a story where the victim was Dr. Russell, known in this country as "Bull Bun Russell," the frmous correspondent of the London Times. On one occasion, when O'Connell was to address a monster meeting in Ireland, Russell was sent over by the Times to report O'Connell's speech, the purpose being to get evi­ dence that could be used against him in case he should utter language capable of being interpreted as seditious. By O'Connell's advice, Russell was provided with every possible facility for his work. He was assigned a seat near O'Connell, where he could hear every word. O'Connell, before beginning his speech, informed the thousands of people pres­ ent that there was a very able English­ man present, who came all the way from England to report his speech; that it was to be printed in the Londoit Times, and that the gentleman was desirous to get an accurate report, so that he could swear to it if necessary. He therefore appealed to the Irish present to be quiet and orderly ; to make no noise, and to do nothing that could disturb the English gentleman, or cause him to lose a word of the speech to which lie was to swear. During these remarks he pointed out Mr. Russell personally, who was placed so conspicuously as to be easily seen by all. Then, turning to Mr. Russell, he asked him if there was anything he needed, if he was comfortably seated, if his pens were in order, and if he were ready to begin. By this time Russell had become the most interesting and conspicuous man in the crowd, Again appealing to the crowd to become quiet j and let the gentleman get such a report | as he could swear to, he informed Rus­ sell that he was about to begin. Itussell dipped his pen in ink, and O'Connell be­ gan his oration--in Irish / The multi­ tude saw the joke, and Russell was pain** fully impressed with the knowledge that he was laughed at. At intervals O'Con­ nell would appeal in English to the crowd to be silent, as the .English gen*- tleman did not seem, to get along vert well. «n<l would sot be able to »weax the accuracy of the report. Every moi* ment made Russell's position more pain- until ~.i luOi viucu and Ltuiuli~- ated at the exposure of the real purpose of his visit, and at its defeat, he ros#- from his seat, left the meeting, an<| quitted Ireland.--Chicago Tribune. A Mystery of Twenty-flre ¥esr» Cleared Up. Borne weeks since an article from a. New Orleans paper was extensively pub* lished throughout the country, to tho effect that the crew of the schooner Florida, which sailed for California front New Orleans, in 1849, and was supposed to have been lost, with all onboard, had been discovered on an islun^ in Southern Pacific, by an English vessel, which had been driven thither by 00% tinned storms. The crew stated that th& Florida had been wrecked on this im- ixihabited island twenty-eix years ago* and that in £he interval they had nol seen a human face. They declined, however, to leave the island, having es­ tablished themselves in comparative* comfort. The nanrative was said to bave> created great sensation among the sux^ viving relatives of the crew, and an effort was stated to be on foot to fit out a ves­ sel which should visit the island. The Louisville Courier-Journal of a. recent date publishes the report of an interview with a gentleman who was liv­ ing in Valparaiso, Chili, in 1849. H& states that the Florida put into Port Famine, at that time the Chilian penal settlement; that the convicts boarded her, massacred all of the crew except a young man named Marcum, and made sail for the main land. On her way she was recaptured by a Chilian war vessel and brought into Valparaiso, where the Courier-Journal'8 informant got tbe above details from Marcum's own lips. Marcum, whose parents axe still livmgf in Versailles, Ky., proceeded to Califor­ nia, where he soon after died of small* SDX, at Placerville, in that State, The ritish steamer Thetis had first seen the Florida after her capture by the con­ victs, and gave the information to the Cliilian authorities, which led them to send out the vessel which brought her back into port. A revolution was ia progress in Chili at the time, and the records of the event may be lost, but the- full details were OH the log-book of the Thetis, which may be examined in thie offioe of the British Admiralty. Exports of Wheat, For the purpose of illustrating the rising importance of wheat in our ex­ ports, we have coi^piled from the official records the following statement of the value of the national exports of wheat and flour from the year 1821 up to the present, time: EXPORTS or WHEAT AND INLOTTR FROM THE TOOTED 8TATES. i Yearly average for ten years Flour. Wheat. Total. •fuUlifl 1830..$ 4,904,308 $ 18,173 f 4,S122,«1 1840.. 5,657,960 255 443,. 5.PT3,4flB 1850.. 10.043,189 1,564,187 ll.tfOV^O I860.. 18,014,836 7,602.8«9 • 25.5U.2U.- 1870.. 22,571,304 29,593,80^ ."J.If,">,238 The year 1871.. 24,093,184 45,143,424 V ()'.», *>6,(508 1872.. 17,955,084 38,915,000 Wi,870,744 1873.. 19,381,664 51,452,254 70 833,918 1874.. 29,258,094 101,421,459 130.679.583 For the twenty years ending with 1840 the exports averaged about $5,500,000 a year; during the next ten years the av­ erage exports doubled; during the ten years ending with 1860, they ro:e to an average of $25,500,000, and even during the war decade, when so much labor was diverted from u.e field to the camp,, the export was doubled as compared with the ten preceding years. In 1871, the first year of the present decade, we> exported $69,200,000; and last year the shipments rose to $130,600,000. Ia other; words, the present export of heat and flour is twenty-four times the value of that for the average of the twenty years ending with 1840. This clearly shows what is the natural and inevitable drift of production in this country, and indicates where capital is to seek its chief employments and re­ wards. The competition between the agriculture of the two continents is at last coming out in our favor; and ou* true interest lies in affording every fa* cility to the branch of industry in which our largest achievements are won.--New York Daily Bulletin. The English Sparrow. We tee by some of otir exchanges that at last the eyes of tin* pnop);<> uiv begin­ ning to open to the true ehumeti r of pestiferous imported little pilferer. One correspondent states that he noticed from the windows of his house several sparrows in tho top of a pear tree in liis- next door neighbor's garden, very busy, and apparently picking off the buds, which were just then forming. To be sure about it, he watched them carefully through a good opera glasS, and was convinced that they were destroying al­ most every bud upon the tree. * These sparrows are not insect destroyers, but are the greatest nuisance of the bird species ever imported into America. They drive other birds away, and are very destructive to fruit, berry and grain crops. They have been known to de­ stroy entire wheat and oat fields in En­ gland and Ireland, and if not killed and exterminated, when they get more nu­ merous our_ farmers will find that they have to deal with the most pestiferous little pilferer that ever cursed the country.--Kentucky Stock Grower. How to Break off Bad Habits. Understand the reasons why the habit: is injurious. Study the subject until there is no lingering doubt . in your mind. Avoid the jjersons, the places and the thoughts that lead to the temp­ tation. Frequent the places, associate- with the persons, indulge in the thoughts, that lead away from temptation. Keep busy; idleuess is the strength of bad habits. Do not give up the struggle when you have broken your resolution once--twice--a thousand times. That only shows how mucli need there is for you to strive. When you have broken your resolution, just think the matter- over, and endeavor to understand why it is you failed, so that you may be on your guard against a recurrence of the same circumstances. Do not think it is an easy thing you have undertaken. It is a folly to expect to break off a bad habit in a day which may have, been gathering long years.