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! mt pt|tnrg Jlamdtaltr. J. TAN SLTXE. rmiwn. JtoHEXB?, - HJJNOIS. theia-for awhile to baniahment ifiucumKiL AND DOMESTIC. To My M»pl«>< Tour time is com*, my taH wad stoalght-limbed maples. Whose boles the wrathful wlnd» have blenched, not bent: We're done, si last, with frosta and enow* aa ato­ pies, OP haled This is your tfflWt; ye shall no more be flouted With le»fle«B honors by the vaunting spruce, Whose verdant arms old winter's legions rooted, While all your blazoned banners drifted looae. Already have its plowing shield's grown dusky, w mle emerald Unle arc ueepeuiug in the brake; And odors, resipon* no more, but musky. Steal from the beds where the young violets wake. ! mark your slender twigs against the azure '* Grow bossy with the rounding of their gema. And soon soft leaves will vail each fine embrasure, And crown your ample brows with diadema. For every blast that through the spruoe went crooning, Rentle breeze your tender breasts shall stir; Tour grateful shade shall woo the lovers' nooning, When he will read sweet parables to her-- Po sweet the mid-day silence shall be golden _____ Of thrash and orioie, in the morn that sing; tiess dear their notes than thoes, both aew and olden, : Which lovefe &ung eoataaiea to young heads bring. And so, my maples, tall and verdure-crested, Ve shall Sing back the flouting® of the spruce, Till the bii«ht minstrels in your bosoms nested With happy even-songss to strife give truce. I love you all, oh trees, that round my garden Stand sentries twixt me and the common air; Nor less the spruce than maple count I warden, To shnt without the ill, within the fair. Qrand winter trees that draw your fringy curtain To shield my cottage idols from the snow, t sing in strains nor grudging nor uncertain Tour somber vigilance while tempests blow. And if I praise vou, maples, in my rhyming. And brush the spruce's light reproach away, bid you heed how gifts depend on timin », And trees, like all our treasures, have their day. •William C. Richard*, in Harper's Magazine. Around the Farm. BOCKPORT, Mass., appropriates the proceeds of her tax on dogs to the pur­ chase of books for her public library. A WISCONSIN inventor has invented a 'arming mill which, in addition to the usual cleaning, separates the wheat ac­ cording to the market grades. THE Massachusetts Society for Pro­ ofing Agriculture has imported fifteen iigs--a trio of each breed recognized >y the Rjjyal Agricultural Society of England. EASTERN pork-packers are sending to California something new in smoked eat--small pigs being cured entire, so hat the purchaser obtains from the lame package--done up in canvas--hams, ihoulders, and bacon. A. W. PAUL, an extensive grower of isparagus at Dighton, Mass., stated that e could not afford to cultivate this crop f the seeds which are produced an- lually were allowed to germinate on the groand.--Mr. Flint's Report. THE Massachusetts State Board of Sigriculture has voted that every agri­ cultural society receiving the bounty of he commonwealth be urged to main- at least one scholarship at the Agri- jultural College at Amherst, and to se- lure the attendance of one or more stu- lents. Arras being stung by a wasp or bee, e first thing to be done is to remove he sting. This may be done with a pair >f small tweezers, or the sides of the round pressed with a small key so it may squeezed out. Then apply to it im- aediately spirits of camphor, sal volatile >r turpentine, or failing these, rub it ith a little common salt, or a little moist obaoco or snuff! Aiiii coarse weeds may be removed by Iropping into the heart of each oil of itnol. It should be applied with a stick lotched round for an inch or two at the nd the better to hold the liquid, one lip of which will hold enough to kill me or more plants, one drop being suf- icient if the acid is good; the vitriol •lisses in burning np the weeds. The iticks shouM not be pointed, the bottle laving a wile round it for convenience if carrying.* It is, of course, needful to trust the vitriol ami its-irs- to..a.onrrf® rson. A FRIEND burned his barn down in a ery easy way. Ho want out one night fodder, and struck a match against e door-casing. The flame caught on e dust and lint and beards of wheat, d bits of chaff that had settled there, d ran up the timber like a streak of ghtning. It caught the hay overhead, d in twenty minutes the barn was flat >n the ground. Some valuable stock urned up, beside all the grain just liar- ested, and all the farming implements oused there.--Country Gentleman. A CORRESPONDENT of the Southern iantation says that he accidentally dis- vered a way and time to destroy that •eat garden pest, the out-worm. On licking up a piece of board in his gar- en, he found several worms under it. uriosity led him to turn up other oards, and he killed seventy-six worms all. The bext day he turned up the e boards, which he had carefully re- laced, and killed seventy-eight worms, is suggestion is to lay boards about e gardens for traps, watch them and estroy the worms. A YOUNG iuraey lias a smooth black g ; in an old one the legs are rough d reddish. In domestic fowls the omb - and legs ate smooth when the bird young, and rough when it is old. The ills and feet 01 geese are yellow and ,ve few hairs upon them when the bird young, but they are red if it be old. he. feet of a goose are pliable when the ird is fresh' killed. Geese are called reen until they are two or three months "d. Ducks should be chosen by the t, which should be supple, and tbey ould have a plump and hard breast, he feet of a tame duck are yellowish, ose of a wild one reddish. If the rear d of the keelbone of a dressed fowl elastic, so that you can bend it? a trifle, is a certain sign that the bird is not ore than a year old. About the flonae. MOTH PATCHES.--These may be re­ moved by the following remedy: Into a |int bottle of rum put a tabiespoonful * flour of sulphur. Apply this to the latches once a day, and they will dis- :>pear in two or three weeks. To GROW .PEACHES. --Take small, underripe peaches, pare them neatly, and put them into a kettle with water nearly to cover them, and set them over a gentle fire; to each quart of peaches, put half a pound of sugar; let them stew until the sirup is rich. Serve cold for tea or dessert. HAND* CHOW CHOW.--Chop together, very finely, a head of cabbage, t>ix green peppers, six green tomatoes; add two teaspoonfuls of mustard, one table- spoonful of salt, a little cloves and all­ spice, and vinegar to wet it It will keep a long time. * TOMATO SALAD.--Take ripe tAnatoes and cut them in thin slices; «$»rinkle over them a small quantity of finely- chopped green onions; add salt, pepper, vinegar and oil, if liked. The oil should be in the proportion of three table- spoonfuls to one of vinegar. Serve with any roast meat. SAXLLY LUNN.--Warm half a teacup of butter in a pint of milk; add a very little salt; seven cupfuls of flour beat in till perfectly smooth; then add pressed yeast, or half teacup of home-made. Pour this into a pan and bake as soon as light. These cakes are delicious for tea. BOILED PIOKUBD CABBAGE. --Wash the cabbage thoroughly, cut the heads into quarters, boil in salted water until ten­ der ; stick whole cloves scattering over each quarter, then put them dawn in layers m a jar or tub, add a few red pep­ per pods, cover with good cider vinegar. The boiling before pickling is a decided improvement upon the usual way of pickling raw cabbage at least, so says a friend, who ate it at my table over twenty years ago. A CELEBRATED Freusli instructor in the art of cookery says that fat meat is more profitable to buy than iean. He adds: "Many buy inferior meat on account of the waste of the fat that is found in good meat. When the fat is wasted it is the fault of the cook, who does not know how to use it. The fat skimmed off the broth of boiled meat, and that coming from the trimming of raw or cold meat, is much superior to fry with. Lard flies all over; beef fat never does when prop­ erly melted. To melt beef fat or suet, cut it in small pieces, and set on rather a slow fire, in an iron pan. As soon as it begins to melt, skim the melted part off with a ladle, and turn it into a stone jar, which you cover when cold. Put it away in a cool, dry, and dark place. A careful cook never needs lard for frying purposes, but always has more fat than is necessary out of boiling or roasting pieces." Origin of the Holly Hagnires. At the time when the name of a land­ lord in Ireland was the synonym of cruelty, there lived in the County Bos- common an old widow named Molly Maguire. She had a small holding of land, and struggled hard to bring up the family of boys which her husband had left her. The constant failure of the crops made her somewhat tardy in paying her rent; and at length the land agent--an unscrupulous man--deter­ mined to eject her from the little home that was so full of sacred recollections to her. He summoned his "crowbar brigade"--a gang of men kept in those days by every land agent for the pur­ pose of evicting tenants, throwing the houses over the heads of those who re­ fused to leave, and seizing the cattle of others for rent--and went to the " shill­ ing" (hut or cottage) of Molly Maguire. The gray-haired matron was alone at her spinning-wheel when the cruel gang came. They commanded her to leave ; but so attached was she to the old hearth, so heart-broken at the prospect of eviction, that she said she would die first, and refused to be dragged from the hut. The brigade then commenced the work of destruction, and, laying their iconoclastic hands on the cottage, soon hurled it over the prostrate form of old Mrs. Maguire, who was killed in the ruins. The cruel act stirred the popular senti­ ment to a white heat, and, at the old woman's wake, a few enraged and des­ perate men pledged themselves to be re­ venged lor her death. Headed by two of Molly Maguire*s sons, they banded themselves into a society, to which they gave the murdered woman's name, and, in a short time, it spread throughout the adjoining counties of Mayo and Galway. Land agents were occasionally shot, barns burned, and often in the morning an ageni went into his domain and was shocked tp see his line herd of cattle disfigured by having their tails cut off during the night. These atrocities con­ tinued for some time, but at present are unknown in Ireland. The introduction of the Molly Maguire movement into the coal regions occurred about the close of the war. It was revived by some dis­ satisfied and desperate miners, for the purpose of having revenge on mine- bosses and others in authority in and around the collerieu, and received its title from some of the old workmen, who, in their younger days, at home, held tryst with the leaders in some se­ cluded spot where the " peelers" would not be likely to find them.--Cor. Chicago Tribune. Stocking a Deer Park. About ten months ago Col. Hollister, of Santa Barbara, Cal., caused to be made an inclosure of 1,000 acres of land. The fence was of the kind known as "pole fence," i. e., made by setting chaparral poles closely in a trench and binding the tops together with wire. This kind of fende is impassable forkny- t'nngwithout wings largerthana weasel. Subsequently one of the Colonel's herd­ ers reported to l»im a family of deer within the enclosure, and an examination proved that safely impaled within the immense park were four or five of those beautiful animals, including a fawn or two. The deer will be closely watched and cared for, and in the course of a few years the inclosure will be well stocked with their increase. Agriculture iu the West. The wonderful progress of agriculture in the West during the last quarter of a century may be gathered from the fact that in Minnesota, according to reliable statistics, where, in 1850, only 3,000 acres were under cultivation, and the production was 1,400 bushels of wheat, 6,000 of corn, and 16,000 of oats, there were, in 1875, 2,816,413 acres under cul­ tivation, and the product aggregated 31,475,000 bushels of wheat, 15,775,000 bushels of oats, and 9,500,000 bushels of earn. TURKisH BARBARISM. The Atrocities In Bulgaria--A DLIFNM to this Age--Awful SeeneiatBatok-AHesp of Skulls Discovered. A correspondent of the London Daily News has sent to that journal a com­ plete and harrowing description of what he saw in Bulgaria. We copy froto his letter of Aug. 2, written at Tatar Ba- zardjik, in the heart of the province, the following statement: Since my letter of yesterday I have supped full of horrors. Nothing has yet been said of the Turks that I do not now believe; nothing eould be said-of them that I should not think projable and likely. There is, it would seem, a point in atrocity beyond which discrimination is impossible, when mere comparison, calculation, measurement, are out of the question, and this point the Turks have already passed. You can foUow them no further. The way is blocked up by mountains of hideous facts that repel scrutiny and investigation, over and be­ yond which you cannot see and do not care to go. _ You feel that it is superflu­ ous to continue measuring these moun­ tains and deciding whether they be a few feet higher or lower, and you do not care to go seeking for molehills among them. ILOU feel that it is time to tarn back; that you have seen enough. But let me tell what we saw at Ba tak. Batak is situated about thirty miles south of Tatar Bazardjik as the crow flies, high up in a spur of the Balkans, that here sweeps around to the south from the main range. The road was only a steep mountain path that in places might have tried the agility of a goat THE VALLEY DESOLATED. ^ After three hours' climbing by paths so steep that we were obliged to dis­ mount and walk half the time, without then seeming quite safe from roll­ ing down into some abyss, mounting higher and higher, until we seemed to have got among the clouds, we at last emerged from a thick wood into a de­ lightful valley that spread out a rich carpet of verdure before our eyes. A little stream came murmuring down through it, upon which there was built a minature saw mill. It appears that the people in Batak did a consider­ able trade in timber, which they worked up from the forests of the sur­ rounding mountains, for we afterward observed a great number of these little mills, and were even told there were over 200 in and about the village. The mill-wheels are silent now. This little valley, with its rich grassy slopes, ought to have been covered with herds of sheep and cattle. Not one was to be seen. The pretty little place was as lonely as a graveyard, or as though no living thing had trod its rich greensward for years. We ascended the slope to to the right, and when we reached the top of the ridge which separated it from the next valley, we had a beautiful pan­ orama spread out before us. The mountains here seemed to extend around in a circle, inclosing a tract of country some eight or ten miles in diameter, con­ siderably lower down, which was cut up by a great number of deep hollows and ravines that traversed it in every direc­ tion, and seemed to crass and cut off each other without the slightest appear­ ance of anything like reference to a watershed. It looked more like an en­ larged photograph of the mountains of the moon than anything else I oould think of. .» Down in the bottom of one of these hollows we could make out a village, which our guide informed us it would still take us an hour and a half to reach, although it really seemed to be very near. This was the village of Batak, which we were in search of. The hill­ sides were covered with little fields of 1 wheat and rye that were golden with ripeness. But although the harvest was ripe, and overripe, although in many places the well filled ears had broken down the first-decaying straw that could no longer hold them aloft, and were now lying flat, there was no sign of reapers trying to save them. The fields were as deserted as the little valley, and the harvest was rotting in the soil. In an hour we had neared the village. SKULLS AND SKELETONS IN HEAPS. As we approached our attention was directed to some dogs on a dope over­ looking the town. We turned aside from the road, and passing over the debris ©f two or three walls, and through several gardens, urged our horses up the ascent toward the dogs. They barked at us in an angry manner, and then ran off into the adj lining fields. I observed nothing peculiar as we mounted until my horse stumbled. When looking down I perceived that he had stepped on a human akiill partly hid among the grass. It was quite dry and hard, and might to all appearances have been there for two or three years, so well had the dogs done their work. A few steps further there was another, and beside it part of a skeleton, likewise white and dry. As we as­ cended, bones, skeletons, and skulls became more frequent, but here they had not been picked so clean, for there were fragments of half-dry, half-putrid flesh still clinging to them. At last we came to a kind of little plateau or shelf on the hillside, where the ground was nearly level, with the exception of a lit­ tle indentation where the head of a hol­ low broke through. We rode toward this, with the intention of crossing it, but all suddenly drew rein with an excla­ mation of horror, for right before us, almost beneath our horees w«a a sight that made Ub It was a heap of skulls, intermingled with bones from all parts of the human body, skele­ tons nearly entire, rotting; clothing, human hair, and putrid flesh lying there in one foul heap, around which the grass was growing luxuriantly. It emitted a sickening odor, hke that of a dead horse, and it was here the dogs had been seek­ ing a hasty repast when our untimely approach interrupted them. In the midst of this heap I oould dis­ tinguish one slight skeleton form still inclosed in a chemise, the skull wrapped about with a colored handkerchief, and the bony ankles encased in the em­ broidered footless stockings worn by the Bulgarian girls. We looked about us. The ground was strewed with bones in every direction, where the dogs had carried them off to gnaw them at their leisure. At the distance of 100 yards beneath us lay the town. As seen from our standpoint, it reminded one some­ what of the ruins of Herculaneum or Pompeii. There was not a roof left, not a whole wall standing; all was a mass of ruins, from which arose as we listened a low plaintive wail, like the "keening" of the Irish over their dead, that tilled the little valley and" gave it voice. We had the explanation of this curious sound when we after- ward descended into the village. We looked again at the heap of skulls and skeletons before us, and we observed that they were all small, and that the articles of clothing intermingled with them and lying about were all parts of women's appareL These, then, were all women and girls. From my saddle I counted ooout a hundred skulls, not in­ cluding those that were hidden beneath the others in the ghastly heap, nor those that were scattered far and wide through the fields. The skulls were nearly all separated from the rest of the bones; the skeletons were nearly all headless. These women had all been beheaded, worm ASPECT OP THE TOWN. We descended into the town. Within the shattered walls of the first house we came to^ was a woman sitting on a heap of rubbish, rocking herself to and fro, wailing a kind of monotonous chant, half sung, half sobbed, that was not without a wild, discordant melody. In her lap she had a babe, and another child sat beside her patiently and silent­ ly, and looked at us as we passed with wondering eyes. She paid no attention to us; but we bent our ear to hear what she was saying, and our interpreter said it was as follows : "My home, my poor home, my sweet , home; my hus­ band, my husband, my poor hus­ band; my home, my sweet home," and so on, repeating the same words over and over again a thou­ sand times. In the next hongA were two, engaged in the same way ; one old, the other young, repeating words nearly identical: " I had a home and now I have none ; I had a husband and now I am a widow; I had a son and now I have none ; I had five children and now I have none," while recking them­ selves to and fro, beating their heads and wringing their hands. These were women who had escaped from the massa­ cre, and had only just returned for the first time, having taken advantage of our visit or that of Mr. .Baring to do so. They might have returned long ago, but their terror was so great that they had not dared without the pres­ ence and protection of a foreigner, and now they would go on for hours in this way, "keening" this kind of funeral dirge over their ruined homes. This was the explanation of the curious sound we had heard when upon the hill. As we advanced there were more and more; some sitting on the heaps of stones that covered the floors of their houses; others walking up and down before their doors, wringing their hands and repeating the same despairing wail. There were few tears in this universal mourning. It was dry, hard, and des­ pairing. The fountain of tears had been dried up weeks before, but the tide of sorrow and misery was as great as ever, and had to find vent without their aid. As we proreeded most of them fell into line behind us, and they finally formed a procession of 400 or 500 people, most­ ly women and children, who followed us about wherever we went with their mournful cries. Such a sound as their united voices sent up to heaven I hope never to hear again. . . *HE ORIENT. Interesting Budget of News from and Japan. By the arrival of the steamer City of Peking at San Francisco we have dates from Shanghae to Aug. 15, and Yoko­ hama, Aug. 23. CHINA. . The report of the massacre in King- kuohfer is fully confirmed. The Roman Catholic Church was destroyed, the officiating priest tortured and killed, and his assistant torn in pieces. Dead bodies were taken from the graves and defiled, and hundreds of the congregation were slain. The French Minister is taking active steps to secure the punishment of the guilty parties, among whom are numerous officials of rank. Several other assaults and murders of Christians have followed, and forty buildings were destroyed. The damage to property is estimated at 000,000. The difficulty with England still con­ tinues unsettled. The authority recently granted by the Peking Government to viceroy Shen, of Nanking, proves to be insufficient,, and the British Minister having signified liis dissatisfaction, Vice­ roy Le Hung Chang has been appointed to confer. The latter official, however, postpones visiting Cliifu, the place of meeting, and it is reported that he is detained in Tientsin by the fear of vio­ lence from his own subordinates, who bitterly oppose submission to the British demands. The situation appears more critical daily. ' The Taku forts are strongly reinforced and the Peiho river is obstructed. The Chinese Govern­ ment is greatly embarrassed by the re­ newed revolts and intrigues of secret societies, and by the want of money; the native bankers refusing to fur­ ther advances. JAPAN. By order of the Government most of the restrictions upon travel to the ancient capital Kioto and vicinity will be removed Sept. 1. The export duty upon Japanese paper is abolished. The famous temples of Kawiakura, near Yokohama, in decay for many years, are to be restored by the Government. A Bud'jii.. "' -ion has sailed from Yeddo for the Loo Choo Islands. E. Peshine Smith, the legal adviser of the Japanese Foreign Office during the past six years, returns to America by the City of Peking. He received distin­ guished marks of attention on taking his leave. The prolonged drought causes great injury to the rice and other crops. Paint. The early Massachusetts fathers did not believe in paint. The Be v. Thomas Alien, of Charlestown, was brought up in 1630 for "having paint about his dwelling," and only escaped by showing that it was done before his time, and that he disapproved of it. The first Boston church was never painted, and a list of Boston mechanics, in 1670, does not in­ clude a painter. This abominatian did tot become common until after the rev­ olution. THE MUTE POETESS* .»d H.r [Correspondence of the Baltimore American.) This well-known writer and poet is Laura C. Bedden, a deaf mute, who was educated at a school for deaf mutes in Mystic, Conn., and has written some charming verses, though never able to hear a word spoken by herself or any other person in her life. Up to within a few years she has not been able to utter an intelligible sound, but medical skill and modern science have finally succeed­ ed in developing a peculiar voice through which she can express herself to those accustomed to hearing it very well, but strangers find it extremely difficult to un­ derstand what it is she tries to say, and replies have invariably to be written or communicated by deaf and dumb alpha­ bet. The sound which she produces is pre­ cisely that of a materialized voice m a dark seanoe. It is as if it were pro­ jected upon the air by some instrument­ ality in her throat independent of her volition, for it comes with gasps and apparent effort, which is almost painful, and though it has sweet tones, is incapa­ ble of proper ^nodnlation, because the speaker <J.O08 Dot hftoy JjpygoJ^ Slid. Oftll- not graduate it as if if were entirely un­ der her control and subject to her will. But she is a very bright, attractive woman, nevertheless, dresses with great taste, and is exceedingly fond of society. The romance of her life--tor it had a ro­ mance--has ended, or perhaps only be­ gun a new and more interesting chapter by her marriage test Wednesday to a young lawyer of this city, Mr, Edward W. Searings, a native of Western New York, where his family hold an influen­ tial position and are highly respected iu the SYien&'s society, to which they be­ long, and by the public at large. Mr. Searing is a rara avis now-a-daya. Possessed of a considerable talent, he is at the same time a man of high honor, industrious, loyal, devoted, and true. The deaf mute has really won a much better husband than many girls who have the use of their eyes and their tongues. 1 have heard, on excellent authority, that Miss Bedden was engaged to be married once before to a Presbyterian minister, who had known and loved her from childhood, but exercised tyrannical authority over her. Her wedding gar ments were even prepared, but he har- rassed her to such an extent, insisting that her life should be governed by such ' I'- All Sorts. BUOHAM loose has reduced Ms BtOflk of wives to eighteen. THE Boiton Herald minted an ft--m 4 ! about a " bold sneak thief." |g, A REJECTED lover in Virginia City blew up the offending woman's home with dynamite. THE paupers In the Warwick county v-nuiana) poorhouse are marrying aitttt rate of four couples a month. . MR. BOSS has spent $60,000 In faqnl- mg for his son Charley, and seems to ho as far from finding him as ever™ ' . THE Japanese have arranged for an international exposition, to take plaoe shortly after that of France haa closad. "A POSTAGE stamp neatly framed" was the prize awarded to the worst shot at the late target Practice of thn State Artillery. A, rigid laws, that she should only write religious tracts and hymns, and be snb- }*ect in all things to his will as the rule of ler faith and action, that at a late mo­ ment she rebelled and broke away from his dictatorship. She said it was not her fault if God had made the world seem a pleasant place to her, and if she felt more like singing songs than psalms, and praises than giving utteranoe to groans; that her whole nature cried out for free­ dom, for expression, for love and good will, and that to beoome the mote echo of his thoughts would be crucifixion. So the brave Laura gave up all idea of being "supported," and went on writing musical words out of her own heart, which found a response in the hearts of many others, doing also "correspond­ ence " and many other things, and grad­ ually winning her way to acknowledged position. Her future residence will probably be in New York. ' ""What Our Resident* Were Wdrth. Washington left an estate valued at over $800,000; John Adams died moder­ ately well off, leaving about, $75,000; Jefferson died so poor that if Congress had not purchased his library at $20,000 he would have been a pauper; Madison was frugal and left about $160,000; Mon­ roe died so poor that he was buried at the expense of his relatives; John Quincy Adams left about $50,000; Jackson died worth about $80,000; Van Buren left some $400;000. It is said that he did not draw his salary while in office, but at the expiration of liis term of service drew the whole $100,000. Polk left an estate valued at $16§§(M)0; Taylor had saved something of his pay while in the army, and died worth $160,000; Tyler married a lady of wealth; Filmore was always frugal, and added to his savings by mar­ rying a lady of wealth, and was worth about $200,000; Pierce's estate was valued at 050,000; Buchanan left 0200,- €00; Lincoln about $75,000, mil John- son $50,000. • -r v The Supply of Cattle* The annexed table shows the number of cattle in the States and Territories named, in 1860 and 1878 : State*, Illinois /.... Kentuoky. 9*0,000 Missouri too.000 Iowa 180,000 Xanaaa...... 45,000 Nebraska 41,000 Colorado None. Wyoming... ... None. Utah .. KoM. ' t74,OO0 Idaho None. -100,000 Montana None. 144,000 Nevada « • None. 143,000 Oregon None. 277,0W Washington Territory None. 140,000 In 1860. .1,425,000 In 1875. 1,985,000 1,200,000 1,«23,0M 1,486,000 *93,000 *r»;,ooo £76,000 . #>5 tHKi r?4j " 3,831,000 Ibcreaae. 9,021,000 8,881,000 .5,190,000 Was It a Theftf "See that! see that!" exclaimed an anxious-acting man as be grasped a policeman's arm on the Chicago base-ball grounds one day this week. '4 Wh--what?" said the blue-coat. •' Why, that fellow stealing there- stealing--" " No; wh--where?" demanded the officer, as hegrabbed his club and danceu around. . " Why. there"--explained the citizen, pointing to the grounds--"that player there--stealing a base !" The policeman gave the fellow a withering look, and then wilted. C At- cago Journal. Matrimony at the Hub. - There were but 3,416 marriages in Boston last year, a decrease of. 632 from the previous year, and of these 92 groomB and 70 brides were under the legal marriageable age. The birihs also were fewer--11,032, or a decrease of 697, the ratio to population being 1 in 31.02. The males exceeded the females by 262, and thore were 81 twin births. The deaths were 1,146 more than the year previous, 8,968 in all; and, acoording to sex, the male deaths were in the ratio of 1 in 35.03 of the male population, and the female deaths but 1 in 40.34 of the female population. HORATU S BONAB objects to the ing of the cross by fashionable ladies M a personal adornment, and the ladies are--cross about it. THE Rev. Wm. A. Cornell, of Free­ dom Plains, N. Y., hanged himself be­ cause he had lost his voice, and WM compelled to stop preaching. A HORSE that was being shod, in Poughkeepsie, reared suddenly and struck his head against a beam with such force that Ma neck was broken. A WAITS® advertises in Chicago far employmect,giving as a recommendation hk ability to " fold napkins in 300 dif­ ferent ways,, in the perfect image of every kind of bird.'* A MAN who tried to drown himself by S" imping from an excursion steamer In oston harbor, was so fat that he couldn't sink, and the boat sent for him found him Seating like & cork. THE Banes are greatly exasperated by a ministerial decree forbidding dogs te run loose. Thousands of valuable brutes have been destroyed on aa uuauthenti- cated report of a few cases of rabies. A KENTUCKY farmer says that his old sow is in the habit of chewing off grape­ vines that grow upon convenient trees, and, with the tree end in her mouth, swinging over the fence into a cornfield. THE man in London who suddenly de­ serted his family, and lived for fourteen years just round in the next street, is a standing instanoe of the complete isola­ tion which it is at any time possible to command in the largest cities. A GALVESTON merchant received a let­ ter last week which has been nearly eleven years on the way. The news it contained was more like reading a page of ancient history in the local columns of a daily paper than like an epistle from a friend not 1,600 miles away. "You are entirely welcome," said a man, as he yielded his seat in a horse-car to a young woman. She looked puzzled, and so did the listening passengers. " Entirely welcome, entirely so," he re­ iterated. " I didn't hear your thanks, but you are just &s welcome for nil that." Ix less than one month the value of silver has fallen 10 per cent, in Calcutta. Business is practically at a stand-still, and a feeling of despondency is creeping over all India. The natives hail the prospect of a gold currency with intense delight, because gold is more easily hoarded than silver, and gold coins would be more valued as ornaments for females and children. IT is hmxi work to oonviot a man of violating the license law in Thompson- ville, Conn., as a prosecuting agent dis­ covered, much to his chagrin. Out of a large number of witnesses put on the stand, only three ever heard that Will­ iam Maddock kept a saloon, although a stranger oould not go into the town without seeing it, and not one man oould be found who had paid for a drink there. The agent left town a disgusted man. Two PBOFESSOBS of Urban a University discovered last week, in a mound in Champaign county, Ohio, eight human skeletons, twelve feet under ground, in­ closed in a wooden tomb. One was a child's skeleton, with a string of shells around the neck. While the professors were burrowing one side of the shaft gave way, and a scientist was buried, bruised and nearly suffocated. As soon as he was dug out he called for a spade sand went at it again. MTRBOTTBI takes the palm for numerous " anti" societies. In one of the conn ities in that State an Anti-Horse-Thief jSociety has been formed. Its only ob­ ject is to protect the community from horse thieves, to promote the arrest and prosecution of criminals, and to see that justice is done and that no pardons are signed after sentence is passed. The means it adopts for carrying out the lat­ ter clause of its constitution is not in­ fluence with the Governor. THE Washington mills in Lawrenoe, Mass., will reduce the price of board in the corporation boarding houses to $2.20 per week for females and $3 per week for males. The Everett and the Pemberton mills will reduce the board of female operatives to $2.25. The Pa­ cific allows a charge of $2.50 for females and leaves the price of men's board to be determined between the operatives and the boarding-house keepers. In Lowell the corporation boarding house rate is uniform at $2.20 for females and $2.90 for males. AN English paper celebrates a gentle­ man who distinguished himself at a re­ cent entertainment in that country by concocting the following set rhymes lor-' the word "Arragon * T' • K'.id there lived in olden days A jr 'tlpruan ot Arrasron, And as a cook his wife he'd pralM As jngt a perfect paragon, To sini« tartare she would supply The right amount of tamm; And so when t*he was oat bird IBtfl (Her name was Sai.) ^ " Where'HSarah gone?" Which makes a very fair pendant for. Canning's rhyme to "porringer The Duke of York a daughter had, Likewise a silver porringer; Be (cave the vesaei to a cirl. And gave the Prince of Orange her I Ifce Pottftville Bank Failure. One of the worst bank failures which has ever occurred in this country is that of the Miners' Trust Company at Potts- ville, Pa,., whose liabilities • $1.382,- 141, whne the assets are only $186,747, and not al' « .i them availaHa The de­ positors propose to find out who is re­ sponsible for this wholesale squandering of their money , and they have appointed a committee to make a thorough investi­ gation and criminally prosecute eveiy one who has made any improper use«« the funds. fir. , * Vidfr • -fir • . . • K i t