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h"- -iri-r* -r~'-;•••>-?;• mmms T^rS, .'. y-." p'- »**<• I * • t-i • jj||j PtSmc jjtoimtaltr. f J. YAH SL.TKK, PUBUMOL ILLINOIS, AGRICULTURAL AHD DOMESTIC. *® *y Maples. Tour ttm hu oome, my tall and maples, Wkow boles th« wrathful winds hare blenched, not bent; We've done, at last, with froata and non aa raplee, , Or haled them for a while to hMiJiwwrf1 TW«U your hour; ye shall no more be florrtpfl , leafless honors by the vaunting sprue®, ver<^®nt arms old winter's legions rontod. While all your blazoned banners drifted IOMM. Already have its growing shields grown dusky, while emerald tmts are deepening in the brake; , And odors, resinous no more, but musky, Steal from the beds where the young violets wake, 1 mark your slender twigs against the azure Grow bossy with the rounding of their germs, And soon soft leaves will veil each fine embrasure, And crown your ample brows with diadems. For every blast that throturh the spruce went oroOn- A gentle breese your tender breasts shall rtir; Tour grateful shade shall woo the lover's nooning, When he will read sweet parables to her-- 80 sweet the mid-day silence shall fee golden Of thrash and oriole, in the mora that sing; Loss dear their notes than those, both new and olden, Which love's • young eoatacies to young hearts bring. And so, my maples, tall and verdure-crested, Ye shall fting back the flouting* of the sprues, TUi the bright minstrels in your bosoms nested With happy even-songs to strife give truos. I love yon all, O trees, that round my garden Stand sentries twixt me and the common air; Kor less the spruce than maple count I warde , To shut without the ill, within the fair. Grand winter trees that draw your fringy curtain To shield my cottage idols from the snow, I sing in strains nor grudging nor uncertain Your somber vigilance while tempests blow. And If I praise you, maples, in my rhyming, And brush the spruce's light reproach a,ways I bid you heed how gifts depend on timing. And trees, like all our treasures, have their day. --Harper'o for May. Around the Farm. BKWSKH hay and grass is a hard time for cattle. Corn is cheap and is well invested in good cattle. As THXRKis a surplus of horses in this country, a. writer recommends that arrangements be made to furnish the French meat market with fat horses. MB. G. THOMPSON, in the Rural World, states that the hog product of Missouri is $6,000,000 annualW, but that the cost of fencing against *this same hog is 010,000,000 annually, being a loss on the hog of $4,000,000. MR. HOIIBROOK, the originator of the Excelsior potato, has successfully used a composition in the cultivation of corn that is made as follows: To one barrel of ground bone take three barrels of ashes and three pints of common salt. Mix well, saturate with water, and let it stand three weeks, and dry off with one barrel of plaster and one barrel of loam. THE different breeds of dogs exem­ plify the hereditary instincts. We see the rat terrier grubbing in the earth in search of vermin ; the untrained pointer often points when first taken to the field ; the shepherd dog shows a dis­ position to guard stock; and the first instincts of hounds are to trail--which -verifies the old saying that a good hound is bred so. WASHINGTON tells us that when he su­ perintended the care of his sheep the Average weight of fleece was over five pounds, but after he had been absent from home for a few years the average weight was less than three pounds. Regularity in feeding sheep makes heavier fleeces and better wool than a feast on one day and a famine on another. A continual improvement should be taking place in the flock. At every shearing time old sheep, and all • that produce an inferior quality of wool, or a light fleece, should be culled out of the flock and put up to fatten. IF land is to be pastured instead of having the crop gathered by the scythe or moj^er, it should be fed as it grows. It would not be profitable to mow a field every day; the harvest would be too mail to pay for the labor, but cattle can gather me feed as it grows without much extra effort, while the grass will be in its very best mnditioa. For the production of milk nothing liaa yet been found superior to the short, sweet, xe- -cently-gFowii leaves of grass. If pas­ tures are understocked, or if they are turned into too late in the spring, the grass gets old and toughs and is rejected by the cattle unless they are very hungry. Cows are not early risers. Unless disturbed thew#IH\lie on a cold morn­ ing till the day gets well started; ap­ preciating the cheap warmth of a com­ fortable bed as much as the farmer him­ self. The horse is quite different, and bestirs himself nobody knows when. It is not often that we catch him nap- Sing, unless he is very tired. § te would look out every once in a while in the night, if he ooold, and see how the weather goes. Last night, for the first time this winter, I gave Ringbone the liberty of his box with an open east window twice as large as a horse collar. Rising at daybreak--for a wonder--I found the horse with its head out of that window winkings! the pleasant view, one might think, and calculating the charms of an early spring of grass like an old hay speculator.--Hartford Couranl. About the House. IN polishing or washing door or other articles projecting from a paint­ ed surface, protect the paint by slipping over the articles a piece of stout paste­ board or cloth, having a hole in the cen­ ter large enough to slip it on. p CLEANING- 'VESSELS.--All sorts of ves­ sels and utensils may be purified from long-retained smells of every kind in the easiest and most perfect manner, by rinsing them out well with charcoal pow­ der, after the grosser impurities have been scoured off with sand and potash. LEMON PIE.--The juice and rind of -one lemon grated into one cup of water, <me cupful of loaf sugar, the yelks of two eggs, three tableepoenfuls flour. -Frosting--Beat the whites of two eggs, Add four tablespoonfula white sugar, spread on the pie, and bake lightly in the oven. CITRON OAKS.--Beat four eggs and •said one pound and a quarter of sugar, three-quarters of a pound of butter, one •sud a half pounds of flour ; dissolve one teaspoonful of soda in a pint of iV*» and add one teaspoonful of lemon extract and half a nutmeg. Beat to­ gether, lastly adding one-half pound of citron, cut in thin pieces; bake in a quick oven, not too hot FIG PUDDING.--Half 9 pound of bread crumbs, half a pound tig*, rax ounces suet, six ounces brown sugar; jnince the figs and suet nicely; a little salt, two eggs well beaten, nutmeg to taste : boil in a mold four hours. Serve with wine sauce. FRKKCH JUMHUM.--One pound sugar, one-half pound tratter, five eggs, fkrar enough to mix so as to roll out nicely ; flavor with two teaspoonfuls of vanilla ; before rolling the dough sprinkle the board with powd«rftd mimw • mil jgxy thin and cut with biscuit-cutter. PORK AND BEAKS, BOSTON WAY.-- Three pints of beans, soak over night, parboil until quite soft, net to break up; add salt and two tablsspconfula of mo­ lasses, three -quarters of a pound of pork; scarify the pork, fill up with boiling water ; bake in an earthen pot in a good oven ail day ; keepadding boiling water; don't allow them to become dry. A BED ink for marking clothes, which is not attacked bv soap, alkalies or acids, is prepared TO follows: Enough of finely- ' powdered cinnibar to form a moderate thick liquid is very intimately mixed with egg albumen previously dilutee! with an equal bulk of water and beaten to a froth, and filtered through fine linen. Marks formed on cloth, with this liquid • by means of a quill are fixed after they have become dry by pressing the cloth on the other side with a hot iron. The ink will keep in well closed bottles for a long time without separation of the sus­ pended cinnibar. A black indelible ink is made of one and two-thirds parts of nitrate of silver in sixteen parts of dis­ tilled water and adding two parts of gum arabic and one-third part of say-green. Small Conveniences. It is quite astonishing how much 00m- fort and satisfaction results from little causes. A box, bag, drawer, or basket for needles, thread, scissors, thimble, buttons of all sizes, tape, strings, wax, etc., and a vast amount of patience, for men-folks dislike to wait while such ar­ ticles are being hunted up. Neatly trimmed lamps are another convenience, though some prefer to trim them just be- fore lighting, as they become dusty be­ fore evening. This can be obviated by twisting a piece of paper tunnel-shaped, so as to cover the chimney and burner, or if durability is preferred, covers made of fancy paper with strips of gilt to cover the seams and edges are very pretty. The stocking bag or basket, with different colored balls, and differ­ ent sizes of needles, can be hung under garments, and is always ready for use and not in the way. A place sacred to pens, ink, paper, envelopes, and pencils, where one can jot a thought without get­ ting riled in spirit locking for material, thereby becoming debtor to our fellow- man for defrauding him of the useful idea that circumstances evolved for his benefit, come under this heading. Book shelves are another really sensible artiole, and if never so cheap are an ornament. Any storekeeper would reserve for you the pieces upon which cloth is wound, for the shelves; a piece of strong twine filled with spools will complete it. Stand the books edgeways, so that the titles can be read without needless handing* Lamp-lighters save the disagreeable smell of matches; an old basin with ft mop or brush for stove-blacking; a w»> or jug, with scissors, rags and kerosene, for lamp-trimming, are convenient and essential. Save everything. No matter if it is old-fasnioned, or you are tired of it. Lay it away, and in a year or two it will seem fresh and do a good service in another form, Mid save a few pennies, which put with other little savings will buy a nice book or pay the subscription for some desirable publication. I do not mean the inconvertible odds and ends that accumluate in a house, and fill it up needlessly, as some are, merely be- cause, they possess & passion for saving all things, but only such as taste and judgment can convert into useful and ornamental articles.--Maine Farmer, fversab THK Ma '̂ f s r* Standard Weights and Measures. The following tables are Tr^rth pre­ serving : 2'tsh*l. iLb$. Bushel. v ,.. £-^8, Wheat, a..... 80 Rye.. ..66 Com,: iwiled ••*...66 Coi n, in ear 70 Oats 32 Clover seed, red 63 Timothy seed ..46 Millet seed ...60 Buckwheat ... ....63 Bran 20 Charcoal. 30 Corn maal 80 Plastering hair 8 Onion sette .26 Peas 00 Hominy.. 60 Irish potato*... 60 Sweet potatoes.. 60 Dried peacttes 33 Dried apples 24 Flax seed 66 Barley 46 Malt 84 Beans, white 60 Hungarian seed 00 Onion seed 67 Salt, coarse 60 Oanary aaed SO Bine grass seed 14 Turnips... 60 TO MEASUBE CORN IN A OWB. Having leveled the corn in the- crib, measure the length, width and depth, and multiply them together, and divide the product by one-fifth, and you have the number of bushels in the car--for shelled com take one-half. To be strict­ ly correct, add a half bushel to every one hundred. Corn, approximately, one hundred ears to the bushel. HOW MUCH SEED TO THE AOB1C. The quantity of seed sown broadcast to the acre is about as follows : Wheat, bu lyto } Barley, bu ljtf to 24 Oats, bu 1 to 4 Ry«, bu 1 to a Buckwheat, bu. K to 1 \c Millet, bu.; 1 to 2 Indian oorn, bu 1 to 2 Beans, bu 2 to 3 bu 2* to 9X Hemp,bu... 1 to ltf Flax, b«c , , C j . jfto 2 Timothy, quarts 12 to 94 Mustard, quarts... «... ... 8 to 20 Red top, quarts... .....12 to 16 Flat turnip, lb* 2 to 8 Bed clover, lbs 10 to 16 White clover, lbs 3 to 4 Kentucky blue grass, lbs 10 to 10 nnu*d Rr&8*',bs 20 80 The quantity per acre, when planted in rows, is about this : Broom xvn, bu. . 1 to 2 ' Kean* bu l^to 1 bu jjto a Peanuts, bu ... • 1 to 2 Onions, lbs * a to B Carrots, lbs • 2 to Parsnips, i 4 £ - Beets,lbs < 0 to 6 ^GMDOTJS CAKES--A perfect suooess will be found by following these direc­ tions: lo one quart of milk add the yelk ofanegg, a pinch of salt, and a table- rooonful and a half of baking-powder. mC* *n I, ̂ ?ur enough to make a batter, lhen add the beaten white of the egg, stirring it a very little-just enough to mix Ae egg in the butter. The same ree ̂makes delightful apple fritters. ̂ knot is easiest to nnfr, lltlK M. Kclter m me oramittee appointed to present |nes of the offlceWof the day aud Ov«|ig Committees, made the follow- BeP^port. Demi8"'"1' °/ Day-- now e President*-*A. H. Hanley, Mo- resum; James Crow, Crystal Lake; tabulaf statement of the conventions yet to be held : TH* DEMOCRATIC CAITVASS. v Democratic State conventions for ibe *he election of deleg&tes to the Nation*! convention have been held as follows, up to date «• Massachusetts, Sept. 22, 1875; Louisiana, Jan. 6 ; Texas, Jan, 7 ; New Hampshire, .Tan. 11; Connecticut, Feb. 23 ; Rhode Island, March 16 ; Pennsyl- vama, March 22 ; Indiana, April 19 ; Nebraska, April 19 : Oregon, April 26 : New York, April 26 ; South Carolina, May 4. In Georgia, conventions in the various Congressional districts chose delegates April 26, The whole number of thus chosen is 292. The Democratic National convention at St. Louis will be composed of 788 members. But one delegation thus far ehoron to SL Louis has been instructed. The In­ diana delegation was instructed to pre­ sent the name ofs and vote for, Mr. Hen­ dricks. The New York convention in­ dorsed Mr. Tilden for the Presidency. Though the delegation were not formally instructed to vote for Mr. Tilden, it is known that they are nearly all for him. ana, as the delegation were instructed at Utioa to vote as a unit in the National convention, it is as good as settled that the thirty-five votes of New York9 repre­ sented by seventy delegates, will be thrown solidly for the Governor. The Nebraska convention did not instruct, but the delegation is unanimously for Mr. Tilden. The conventions of Con necticut, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Texas expressed no Presidential preferences, and their delegations go uninstructed. The following is % list of the Demo­ cratic state conventions yet to be held for the purpose of electing delegates to the National convention at St Louis: DaUs. State, Location. 1® Nevada UBroon M»y IT Ohio. . Cincinnati. ™ay 18... Kansas Topeks, 28 New Jersey Trenton , May 24 Colorado Pueblo, May 24 Michigan. ijrasing. May 24 California. 8fccrs5sieato. May 2S Kentucky. LonieviUji. May 31. Maryland BalUtnors. May 31,.,.,..... Alabama...... .r-Mcatgciaeiy. May 31 Virginia Bichmondii May 81 Tennessee. Nashville. May 31 Missouri Jefferson, OUj. J one 1 Minnesota St. Paul. June 1 Wisconsin. Milwaukee. J*1*** 8 West Virginia.. .Charleston. June 13.........Maine. ......Bangor. June 14 Mississippi .Jackson. JIUH* 14..... ...North CVOUIM..JWrfA. June 14 Arkansas Little Rook. June 21 Florida Qwincy. June 22 Illinois Springfield. THE REPUBLICAN CANVASS. t Republican State and Territorial con­ ventions for the election of delegates to the Cincinnati National convention have been held as follows: Texas, January 12; Indiana, February 22; Wisconsin, February 22; Connecticut, February 29; Utah, March 9; New York, March 22; Rhode Island, March 23; "Vermont, March 29: Ohio, March 29; Pennsylva­ nia, March 29; Mississippi, March 31; Nevada, April 5; South Carolina, April 12; Virginia, April 12; Montana, April 19; Colorado;, April 20; California, April 26; Massachusetts, April 26; Arkansas, April 27; Oregon, May 3; Georgia, May 3; Maryland, May 4; Michigan, May 10; West Virginia, May 11. These conventions chose in -the aggre­ gate 432 delegates. The Massachusetts convention, elected but four (the dele­ gates at large), the others being left to the choice of the district conventions. The State Executive Committee of North Carolina has > chosen four delegates at large, so that the whole number of dele­ gates chosen to date is 436. The whole number of delegates in the Republican National convention will be 752. The Pennsylvania convention in­ structed its delegates (58) for Mr. Hart- ranft; ths-Ohio convention instructed for Mr. Haves (44); the Months Terri­ tory and Maryland conventions in­ structed for ML Uiaine (14) ; Mr. Blaine ;.-*as also indorsed by •. .aoluti:<-i *. g the 'nomination for Breaiaent by the conven ­ tions of Virginia, California, Oregon and Wisconsin, representing 60 delegates. Mr. Conkling has received the recom­ mendation bv formal resolution of the convention of New York; and Mr. Mor­ ton follows with the indorsement of the Indiana, Arkansas and Mississippi con­ ventions. The conventions of Rhode island, Texas, Vermont, Colorado, Ne­ vada, Utah, Georgia, Michigan . and Connecticut left their delegations to go to Cincinnati untrasmaeled. t The following is a list of the Repub­ lican State conventions yet to meet be­ fore the assembling of the National con­ vention at Cincinnati. Date. State. May 16 Alabama.....- May 17..........Tennessee.,. May 17..........New Jersey. May 18 Kentucky. . May 23...... ....Nebraska Fremont. May 3* Minnesota St. Paul. -- i n o i « : S p r i n g f i e l d . .Missouri. Jefferson City. M»y 24 New Hampshire..Concord. Alabama MoBtgomeiy. M»y M Kansas .... Topeka. JJay J® Louisiana.... ..New Orleans. "•J f}*• • Des Moines. ' • • • • • • • • . . F l o r i d a M a d i s o n . It will be noticed that two Republican State conventions "are set down for Ala­ bama---that of May 16 being called by the Wiekersham wing of the party, and that of May 24 by their opponents. In Maine the delegates are to be chosen by Congressional districts.' In North Caro­ lina the delegates-at-large have already been selected by the State Executive committee, and the other delegates will be chosen by the District conventions. Horse Against Velocipede. A large attendance of sporting mwi were in Deerfoot park yesterday, to see the trot of A. B. Williams' w. g. White- cloud agamst David Stanton's ride on a bycicle. The distance was five miles. Before starting Stanton had the call at 1©0 to $40. H© was allowed an eighth of a mile start on account of having to ride nine feet from the pole. The diam­ eter of the wheel is fifty-eight inches. At the word horse and man went off at a rattling gait. Stanton led for the first half mile, but was easily passed by the horse within ten lengths of the score on the first mile; time 3:05. The second mile was finished by the horse in 3:21. Stanton completed two miles to the horses two miles and a half. At fcbe two- Loeation •••• Montgomery. ... .Nashville. .. ..Trenton. .... Louis vlUo. gled w'» son) s o the gr© to'seen their e luarter mile pole the hone >d Stanton, making his third 2:53. On the fourth mile the going easy and weM, while plodded pluekily on, but it was town aithiif; he was beat. The horse deserte score in 2:56. The fifth was Btpnot«/*est m^e» horse trotting in t^l^g Stanton by a mile and ten ready HTotal time of the fife ~ 15:06.--New York Stm. miles, Boy Suicides. * A TOUlu HANOB HIMSELF MA FORTUNE HAD BEEN SQUANDERED. James II. Fair, a lad of fifteen years, amember of the family of Mr. Tyler Watts, living in Union avenue, Jamaica, hanged himself on Friday, Some years ago his father died at Stewart's Run, Fa., leaving young Fair $17,000. This vras invested in bonds, and was in charge of an uncle. ^ His mother contracted a second marriage. The uncle having oc­ casion to go to Europe, and the step­ father appearing trustworthy, the seou- rities were placed in charge of the latter. While the uncle wan away the mother died, and Mr. Tyler Watts, who had married the mother's sister, took the boy into his family. It was found tkat the ctepfather had been squandering the fortune intrusted to his keeping, ana before Mr. Watts could stop it; by ap­ peal to the law about $15,000 was irre­ coverably gone. It is believed that this loss preyed upon the boy's mind, as he is represented to have been very fond of money. It is understood that het some days ago, made an attempt to hang himself, but failed in consequence of the too great length of the rope. He had repeatedly told schoolmates that he intended to commit suicide either by shooting or hanging. On this occasion his preparations were very carefully made. He went into the coal house, a few steps from the back door of the main house, placed a door upon the top of some coal and wood, and arranging some wood on the top of this doer, laid another door above this, making a scaffold. He then tied a strip of bed-ticking over a beam, mak­ ing a noose at the other end, which he placed around his neck, and then jumped off the improvised scaffold- having a fall of about a foot. Some of the inmates of the house hearing a noise looked through the coal-house door and discovered the suspended body, with the legs and arms twisting convul­ sively. He was cut down as soon as possible and carried ix,to the house, and restoratives were applied, but all in vain. Uoroner Henderson impaneled a jury, and the verdict was " deliberate suicide." Young Fair was a very handsome lad, disposed to be self-willed, and repre­ sented to be somewhat wild. It is said, in evidence of the fact thai the hanging was not accidental and the result of a foolish experiment, as some supposed, that only a few days ago he had some cards printed, having on them only Ms name, which he distributed among Ms mates to remember him by, saying that he intended to kill himself. ANOTHER BOY HANGS HIMSELF. Charles Titus, aged sixteen years, in the employ of Nathaniel Philips, of Harbourtown, Mercer county, N. J., committed suicide by hanging himself in his employer's barn, on Friday. The lad had been in unusual good spirits all day, and Mr. Philips left him plough­ ing in the field while he took a drive lo Lambertville. When he returned he found the boy's body.--New York Sun. Historic Dates in Hay. The month of May was a oonspicuous one in our revolutionary and pre-revolu- tionary history. In May, 1766, the ac­ tion of the Virginia Legislature, led by Patrick Henry, insisting upon the rights of that colony to make its own laws and impose its own taxes, exerted a power­ ful influence over the rest in shaping popular feeling into a settled purpose. In May* 1771, there was he outbreak in North Carolina caused by the tyranny of Tryon, the royal Governor. In May, 1774, Louis XVL ascended the throne of France, and at the same time com­ mittees of ediTcspondeuoe, representing Boston, Dorchester, Roxbury, Ikookline, Newton, Oharlcatown, I;yn !-and Lea;iiigt'.;:>, mol la Fancoil Hall, and proposed a general dfcsontmtisncs of trade r ith England, and Boston appealed to the other colonies for aid and com­ fort in the straits to which it was sub­ jected. South Carolina was the first to reply by shipping 200 barrels of rice, and promising SQii-more. In May, 1775, a company of 170 volunteered from Connecticut and Western Massachusetts; now Vermont, led by Ethan Allen, marched to Lake ChampMn, and cap­ tured in succession the important posts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. At this time, also, the sturdy Presbyterians of Mecklenburg county, N. 0., met in formal convention at Charlotte, and uni­ ted in a distinot declaration of inde­ pendent rights and powers. May 10, 1775, the second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia, and among other acte adopted the volunteers then encamped about Boston as a Continental army, of which Washington was Com- mander-in-chief. In May, 1777, the Earl of Chatham entreated a cessation of hostilities, and Baron Kosciusko, Count Pulaski, and Baron Steuben offered their services to Congress. In May, 1779, the west coast of Africa and the Channel Islands were in turn the scene of c®nfliot between Great Britain and France. In May, 1790, Russia, Denmark and Sweden uni­ ted in a declaration of armed neutrality, ther EnmnMn natifY ILLINOIS ITEHS. DR. SNMTNB, of B1NNMMGT>M HAALRFFFF by death a blooded stallion. John Ed- saU, worth S4.000. AN attempt to reduce the price of liquor-sailers' licenses, at Danville, from 8600 to $300 was defeated Monday night. There were twenty applicants under the oontinued rate. A OBRMAN who was sent with a horse and wagon from Bloomington to Ells­ worth lost his way and wandered about for four days before reaching his desti nation. He couldn't speak a word of English. LAST Saturday a family reunion oc­ curred at Springfield, at which three brothers and two sisters met together for the first time in twenty-one years, the oocasion being the thirty-fifth birth- day of the youngest brother, Capt. J. N. Reese, of the Secretary of State s office. IN the United States District court at Chicago, last week, O. L. Beara, one of the Supervisors and Board of Audit of the town of Walnut, in Bureau county, was fined $400 and ooets for contempt of court, in refusing to a edit a judgment recovered against said town, The amount, wa» paid. THS wholesale druggists of the North- w68̂ l̂ted \vitIi3?iVr .MV Quincv, last thTp'mg well patronised. price William H. Purdy died Tuesday at 8J o'clock A. M^ln the 60th ThongMlessmiM, He la not virion*, and he has no ial maKce in his heart, but his thought­ lessness leads to more human misery than results from the premeditated wick­ edness of a deliberate transgressor. On Saturday he scattered orange-peel on the stairs and lobby of our building, oontinued this along down the street as he went, occasioning several strains one severe fall as liis victims incautious­ ly trod thereon. He belongs to a large family, all of which throw banana wHw and orange-peel -pen the pavement, not for the express purpose of the life or limbs of the wayfarera. bat because they have in their hearts in thoughtful regard for human welfare.' '* His brother is the man who carries aa UMoreila over his shoulder, with the pomt well back, which describes an are of three feet as he swings his body in walking. Several persons have been in* jured m the face, one-nearly lost his aye, and nm-.iubvi of lesser grievances haw I been inflicted through h% habit but IMI didn t intend to injure any one, although )IA garner of hlfl Age. of theFimeral services at th ̂Methodist Tmurch on Thursday May 18th, at H don, Dock P. M. He is to be buried with place, honors of Knight Templar of foul order he was a member. from Richmond is improving this Spring, his deTeral new buildings being "built and JL^yiers beJn& arrauSed to erect this sea- jaiL Fences are being repaired, new built* dwellings and other build* years,gs repaired* front yards fitted up A stornamental trees, shrubbery, &o», put »nd a.t and a general renovating and ,dff&'utlf^ggLg.n. ^ a fear, The Richmond Gazette has become a k^^xed fact, and makes its weekly visits our citizens, aud is distributed in the blam^eighborlng towns, saying to all the the bteople "Richmond still lives." B. B. THBegun Is a live, wide-awake young at Spnan, and Is bound to make his mark in of Mti,e world, and is publishing a first-class ^country paper, and it Is for the cltiaens Richmond to say whether the Qaaette animdhall be a success or a failure.̂ iargei' ."'n ' . drain , GREENWOOD prioei EDITOR PLAISI»KALK&:--As we acaln he will not stop the practice unless it is made criminal by act of the legislature. His own cousins, quite a number of them, are the men who cross their legs in the cars and omnibus, thus wiping their feet on the dresses and pantaloons nf thqWellow-pasrongera. One of tham Ally found in the cabin of the Jt, either near the door or the at Is ̂ wheelhouse, where his fed boot trips every passer who Tf)t go by him with great care. He Haifot put his feet on the floor and lloiiem in a little while the thwwg Jj, to procure a life-membership abftme of the great benevolent soin- so fondly patronises In his Sun* Attributions. Jnore distant relatives who stand A with a friend in the middle of ljv»ewalk, thus greatly obstructing aiWve!' or slowly up the .with curved elbows, or whisk gh a crowd with a cane under their ntfcre all readily reoogniaed without Solrther description. They are a st amily, and they are nuisances in tar oommunitv they take up their -p-New York Journal oj Germ* SSl seat ourselves with pen In haad, upon *«£this the opening of another wetkof Refo busy toil, wondering to ourselves what New we cau write that will be of interest to Gov. your many readers, the attention of Ea^our mind's eye is drawn by the scene In nature spread out before our Phy»> ujd Vision, while we musingly sit [discovered w-j sue DJWIIBU MIU ira/inir out upon our quiet little village, ph explorers, ate quite wonderful. LnnLedwltU US* in their blankets of beaut g ent is a matter of some lmpoxanc®. teripersed here and there with grovesreservation should be kept as a na- ofbeautiful timber, planted out byl park, and the Springs would natures own hand, mingled togetlicd an exoellent site lor a national with those, which the artistic skill lotion* could be l^sed for handiwork of man h.ve pl.c*d «n wort] Swec prest Wint] Char the the I the C A I Chin ed fo child (Trac Duri brom honct rest „ warr Arkansas Hot Springs. G j decision of the Supreme court shes the right of the United J tb the Hot Springs property in IBBS which has been claimed by Ifers. The district in which these table Springs are located lies I the Ozark motmteins, and was |jut as a reservation when John y Adams was President. When rthquake depressed so much terrf- Wow Cairo Conjpws gavo tho • Those farms were untenable tho ige of pre-empting as much land py had lost, not already taken up, fi certain limits. A few of them bted Uie prospective value of the Springs and squatted near theuf ̂ government hardly knew of the e*» iiment for years, but at length eon- I their claims. Within a few yeaife Springs have acquired great oeleb- Their healing and medicinal prop, which were known to the TnriiaiMi bj the Spanish and naiiumvFi-. r r D6 Kept under wise and efficient sition, upon the Bosom of Mother|l!.arti)^tiou for benefit of the people ̂ as a source of profit and for the beanti-p than the profit of a few unaarn- fyiug and comfort of home surrounds adventurers. ine-s all of which in a few days mora will be decked iu their robes of bright "Strict DlsdpMna.» preen foliage, ready to catch the bright/ steamer Crocus has landed 850 ttattiWiy idiiar£iS'>\iiiai,,'Sieo1K £S ib^ ^ptain lUce in JSf the l of the ^re now jth Esq- y owing tiid firm o«e same ai TL -- his wife, and then killed himself, but things look now as though Mrs. Txaoey did Gio lulling aeiseK. '• " s THE contract for building *he new Courthouse Peoi'"* has been let to P. P. Decker, of Chicago, for 0206,- 071.30, which T,7as the lowest bid put in. Decker built the Exposition building a Chicago, and is said to be a builder who is fully competent to carry out his pro- rition. He thinks the building can ereoted considerably inside of two years. There were ten bidders in all, eight from abroad and two from Peoria. Decker's bid and the action of the Board of Supervisors gives general satisfaction, and everybody is rejoiced at the early prospect of a handsome Court-house. The b'ttlldiug is to be of Amherst, Ohio, atone. Tan Chioago 7Yme«-Early case, or rather the Dayton-Manlove branch of it, was reopened, at Rookford on© day last week by Louis A. Manlove stepping into court and entering a plea of guilty. It will be remembered that Manlove was one of the editors of the Rockford Times, who published some very malicious arti­ cles about Edward A, Griggs, of Chi­ cago, accusing him of the authorship of the original letters upon which the 7lme«-Early scandal was based. Griggs indicted both the editors three months ago, but the indictments were imperfect mid were quashed. They were reindicted last week, however, and Manlove now a full confession, which is entered with his plea to mitigate the sentence. In this confession he declares that he ther Eiwww*m n.Mnn, was persuaded to publish the scandalous To Pleasure The undersigned having pure } that they had the most pos- e proof against Mr. Griggs. They :cither promised, according to this doc vespectiui.j ent, that if Griggs brought action rioasure-Soekers an ^ would defray all expenses and fur- SatJfiil pJrtie. Mi<\ make trl l AU P~of. On these repreaentstioM send the articles to the Having got them into _ lynn and his, legal ad- >r gave them the cold shoulder, *n»l Ifanlove has taken this means to «Wr his own skirts. kl«o Wllmot, Wis., on short articles in h guarantee a quick trip and pleasi engaged to a ? inflations. This Boat is e.icago Courier. °ew "Is rtttedu'p iiYsplen~dul styj>" muss he says Flynn anefhia legal ad • i t h ospeeial reference to the cjer gave them * f v"' Manlove has V«r elected first President . . num sbirt„_ new w of che United States, and John Adams, Vice-president. Upon April 30, 1789, Washington entered upon his first ad­ ministration, and at this point the his­ tory proper of the United States begins. --Brooklyn Union, OnD workmen are being taken back to the bureau of engraving and printing in Washington at $1.50 per diem. < " Dent be in a Hurry* The Chicago Timet thinkw there la no need to be in a hurry about starting to the Centennial, The show will not be in fair running order before June; and, moreover, railroad fares will probably oome down handsomely after the first rush kkover. i they were horribly ill-treated, tain of the vessel, when ques­ tioned, churlishly remarked that ** strict discipline" had been enforced. He said: "The fellowstrould be continu­ ally coming on deck, and wouldn't go fellow "when, ardared. .So ta make thepa'. go withont too •much violence 1 g<* some long pokers nmd©s which I kopt in the fumaco rod hot all the time. It op- . orated likes charm. When the China*, men would get obstreperous all I had to do was to order out my poker men, when they would scamper below very quickly. I did not have to touch the same one twice I can tell you." The captain laughed, says the reporter, as though remembering some ludicrous in­ cident. The Olimameis thus kepi crowded beneath the decks must have suffered terribly, and upon that point the capiaiii said : " Moat of the trouble we had on the trip was when the ieJtows weml below. I turned hot water over them once or twice, but generally all that was necessary was to fire a revolver over their heads. They are a oowardly set, and heartily afraid of a*revolver." The prejudice against Chinaimen is so strong in California that the captain's brutalilQr is not oensured there. -m •i#r:' M A Sylvan Bootjact. One day last week a young man fof one of the rural districts went into the woods to do some work, and while there one of his boots felt uncomfortable, and he resolved to draw it off to see what was the matter. To do so he thought the crotch of a sapling that stood near him would answer the purpose of a boot* jack. He placed his heel in the crotch and gave a pull, but he slipped and fell on the broad of his hack, witn one of his feet high in the air, sticking fast in his new-fashioned bootjack. From this un­ comfortable position he was unable to extricate himself, and he lay there strug­ gling until 10 o'clock the next day, when he was discovered and released by party of friends who had been htm for him all the previous night. .Sine., his suspension, Lyman does not consider the sapling bootjack a great success, and he will hereafter draw off his No, ll's with a convenience that will not serve him such a dirty trick as the sap-. , , ling did.--New Lutxm ( Wis.) Argu*. . ̂ .v<0 HBKB is woman's rights? Two h dred women of Guilford, Conn., Out Wednesday, with hoes, rakes, and wheelbarrows, and cleaned up tb village green in regular houseko^ style, while the men sat around grinuu^ and whittling dry-goods boxes,.and toy' ing to look as though they were ashamed.