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cptt|gemig §laindealfr. - V jKS, PgBLMHM. J.\ ' "-J- HcHEltfRY, - ILLINOIS. AGRICULTURAL AUD DOMESTIC. Um XEFFHOT OP WERD OW EVIRBOBXKIFS.-- There was never a better illustration of fl point we are continually urging--that it is wind much more than frost that is so destructive to evergreens, and gives a tender character to many beau­ tiful varieties--thap the equinoctial storm of last spring afforded. The ther­ mometer was only ten degrees below the freezing point, but the injury to ever­ greens wan greater th«n at any time through the winter, when the thermom­ eter jgMK at zero.--Gardener'« Monthly. "WAOBRINO IN COM WKATHEB.--Cows giving milk need on abundance of water. The dry hay usually given affords little material for milk, and even with abun­ dance of roots, unless water is placed vrithiv easy reach, cows will tend to fat­ ten rather th an to milk production. A great difficulty in cold weather is in hav­ ing water so far from the yard that cows mil suffer long before going from com­ fortable quarters to reach it. Whenever it is possible, a cistern should be con­ structed under the barn or under ground to hold water for stock.--Exchange. REPAIRING THE MISCHIEF OF MICE.-- Tine writer had some seventeen apple trees badly damaged by being girdled by mice, many t of them olear around the tree and for a space of six or eight inches from the base up, the past win­ ter. Those trees are now in full leaf, and are apparently doing as well as any among about 100 of the same age. We •encircled the damaged places with com­ mon grafting wax, over which we wound oloth and then bound with twine. This was done as soon as we discovered the mischief and before the wood had sea­ soned.--Germantoum Telegraph. FEEDIKO NEW-BOKN CALVES.--When calves are taken from their dams imme­ diately after being dropped, care should be taken to feed them at first with their mothers' milk, which at the time of calv­ ing is peculiarly adapted to act as a gentle purgative, ridding the bowels of the calf of the meconium with whioh they are charged at birth. To induce the new-born calf to drink readily from a pail, a couple of lingers should be put into his mouth, and the muzzle then brought gently into the milk, which it will draw into the mouth while sucking the fingers.--Rural New Yorker. To BREAK UP A SITTING HEN.--Our lady friends who generally have charge of the poultry department are some­ times worried and tortured by the ob­ stinacy of hens that persist in sitting when ihey are not wanted to perform that duty. Many plans have been tried to prevent hens from sitting, 'such as tossing them in the air, or driving them from place to place; but the best way is to fasten a string to the hen's leg, four or five feet in length, and tie the other end to a stake driven in the ground, close to the path where you are in the habit' of pasting frequently. Then scare her as often as you go that way. One .day effects a cure.--American JStock Journal. RAISING COBN FOB FODDER.--One dairy farmer, who has 100 dairy cows, says" that he wants his corn grown so as to produce the greatest quantity of ears possible for the purpose of feeding his oows, and to increase their daily flow of milk ; and, from letters received from different sections of the country last fall, there is no doubt that very many farmers will make the experiment this season with sweet corn, growing it in such a manner as to produce ears as well is fodder, all to be used in the feeding of farm stock this summer and fall, and from such experiments much knowledge may be gained. The large, free-growing varieties of sweet corn are best for this purpose.--Cor. Exchange. PBGPECTIN& TREES FROM RABBITS.-- Trees {from three to ten years old, which farmers value at several dollars during the fall, are often found to be ruined in the spring. Blood or manure applied to the bark in the early winter will gen* «rally protect until the smell is gone; but even then the rabbits take hold some. An all-winter protection is better. Some use poplar bark; others cedar bark. "Would not building-paper be a good protection ? I have seen apple trees pro­ tected by, cheap barrels. When the tree is small "both heads are taken out and the baarei pressed over the tree. When the tree ig larger, a hoop is taken from each end, and every hoop is nailed to «very stave; then every hoop is sawed off between two staves; you can thus «priiig your barrel around the tree. Then th$ tipper and lower hoops are re- placedtijpll jjailecl A barrel tnus pre­ pared will protect from hogs, sheep, rab­ bits and the /ran.--Correspondence H extern Rural. V Atx«t MM HOOM. NEV^B start your Are with oil. IT is fashionable to economize. TBY lemon juice on cucumbers. FRUITS are delicious for breakfast. USE a cloth for washing potatoes. QUIET workers accomplish the most AIB pillows IN the wind, not in the sun. VAB&OT is the very best culinary pioe. USE blue tissue-paper for-wrapping up silverware. MAKE your home bright and cheerful as possible on rainy days. BUB your kitchen table with a ripe to­ mato to remove the grease. Do NOT use silver spoons to scrape kettles, tor silver forks to toast bread. NEVER starch napkins; they are in­ tended to wipe the mouth, not to scratch it. To SWEETEN a sour sponge; rub thor­ oughly in lemon juice, then rinse several times in warm water. WASH matting with warm salt water- one pint of salt to two-thirds of a pail of "water, and dry with a soft cloth. FIRST boil ashes in a new kettle, then scrub with soap and sand; fill with clean water and boil two or there hours. WHEN servants do not wait upon table, let the lady members of the family take turns in serving. It is much pleasanter than for this one, that one, or all to jump up every time an article is needed. COBN FRITTERS.--Cut the corn from twelve ears into a deep dish: mix in three eggs and one teaeupful flour ; fry in a skillet or spider, as they require consid­ erable fat. If the com is grated it will be as good. RELIEF FOB CATARRH.--A snuff made of powdered borax, and used frequently during the day; also borax dissolved in tepid water and snuffed up the nostrils. Spirits of camphor on a handkerchief, and kept near the nostrils at night after retiring, will also be of great benefit. INDBMBJJB INK SPOTS.--Cyanide of potassium will remove indelible ink, but being a deadly poison it must be carefully handled. A druggist will give the necessary information. Try a mixt­ ure of lemon juice and salt; keep the spots wet with it, and bleaoh in the sun. A BREAKFAST LUXURY.--Take eight ears of corn and grate them, carefully scraping off the cobs with a knife, so as to get all the milk. Peel one quart of good, ripe tomatoes, and cut them into the corn. Season with salt and pepper. Put in butter, and roll in three soda crackers. Let them stew steadily for one hour. To REMOVE GREASE SPOTS FROM BLACK VELVETEEN.--Have a bowl of hot water, a tooth-brush, and some pulver­ ized borax. Dip the brush into the water, then into the borax, and scour the spots; when the grease has disap­ peared rinse the places with fresh hot water, using the brash to do so; rub dry with a black cloth; shake well; when quite dry brush the places with a dry brush. TOMATO SOUP.--Boil one quart sweet milk; take one quart hot water, one quart stewed tomatoes, measured after they are cooked, then strain seeds out; put tomatoes and water together, wet one and a half table-spoonfuls corn starch with a little cold milk, put in the boiled milk and beat until it thickens a little; then put the milk in the tureen with a little butter, pepper and salt, pour the tomatoes in, stir quickly, and serve. COBN BREAD.--Put in a quart meas­ ure two table-spoonfuls wheat flour, fill it up with Indian meal, put this into a sieve with two teaspoonfuls sugar, half teaspoonful salt, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, one teaspoonful soda ; sift all into a bowl, mix it with one quart milk, one egg, and two teaspoonfuls melted but­ ter; beat well, pour into a medium- sized dripping-pan, well greased; when baked cut in squares, and serve hot for breakfast. TOMATO CATCHUP.--One peck ripe to­ matoes, one teaeupful salt, naif teaeup­ ful black pepper, two table-spoonfuls ground cloves, two table-spoonfuls ground allspice, six small red peppers, and four onions, chopped together fine: half teaeupful celery seed; wash and wipe the tomatoes, cut them up, and put in preserving kettle; add all the above ingredients excepting the celery seed; boil two hours, stirring frequently; then remove it from the fire and strain through a sieve; add celery seed and boil naif an hour longer; before taking it from the fire, add one quart good vin­ egar; bottle and seal. A Unique Bill of At the recent reunion of veterans of the Mexican war in Chicago, an old fashioned camp banquet was spread at the Grand Pacific Hotel, which was something of a novelty in its way. Long new deal tables were erected of plain boards, and entirely destitute of table­ cloths. Upon these tables plates were laid for 300. The plates were shining tin, the cups were of the same metal, and the huge piles of liard-tack which dotted the tables reminded one of old army days. The following is the BILL OF FABB : Aqua pur a, del Brazos de Santiago. Soup--Bean, a la Palo Alto; rice, a la Hasty Plate. Boiled--Corned beef, a la Cerro Gordo; pickled pork, a la Monterey; baoon, dried and smoked, a la Buena Vista. lioaBt--Mutton, de Mejioo; bull neck, a la Vera Cruz. Vegetables--Pickled onions, Caballo y Aio bianco de Cherubuscy; BOUT krout, Berza de Perro, a la Chepultepec, con vinagre de To- basco. Entree*--Baked beans, con Tocno Salado, a la Prijoles de Perote; boiled rice, con MIel de Cana de Lilians. Bread--Corn bread, a la pan de Maize o Tor- tillft; wheat bread, a !a Parinr, del Mclino del Bey; hard tack(fcics), de Wiufield Scott. Dessert--Coffee, del Rio; migar, Pardo a tar- ciado de Tampico; Mufical, de Hejico; Aguar­ diente da San Pascal. Hard Times TO 1843. Though the hard times since 1873 have been of much longer duration than at any previous period, such absolute im- pecuniosity has never prevailed in the last four years as occurred thirty-five years ago. Then Mr. Ticknor writes to Sir Charles Lyell, under date November, 1843 : " There lias been great suffering in all our States, and in some, like In­ diana and Illinois, a proper currency has disappeared, and men have been reduced to barter in the common business of every~day life. What you saw in Phila­ delphia was nothing to the crushing in­ solvency of the West and South. The •ery postoffice felt the effects of it--men with large landed estates being unable to take out their letters, because they could not pay the postage in anything the Government officers could properly receive." Brigham Young in Youth. At Port Byron, in this oounty, he painted boats. Afterward he worked in a saw-ntll near Auburn, in the "edge" of the now town of Throop, where he met his first wife, Angeline Works, whose two cousins, Canfield and Morris Worden, now reside in the Seventh ward of this city. The wedding took place at the tavern of Mr. Pine, in Port Byron, to whom Brigham owed a board bill of $17 when he went WeBt in 1830, and which he paid thirty-five years later with two drafts on New York for $50 each. Brigham was a good-natured, rather ignorant, and lazy genius, of whom the late William Hayden, of Port Byron, remarked that he did not know that he was good for anything except to make ax-helves--which he did well.-- Auburn (JV. Y.) News. "% A KENTUCKY newspaper says that an investigation of the records of the State shows that not a single or woman within its borders has been legallv mar­ ried. AFRICAN EXPLORATION. ttranc* ©r 9tanl#f*a Extraordi­ nary JowrB«Y Thri ngh th« Heart of th* African C»atlaeat-li««t at EVERY STEP by HORDES ®F Safajga ^annlfala--A Cam­ paign of Thirty-two Battles. [London Dispatch to the New York Herald.] After months of suspense, during which the gravest fears were entertained for his safety, news has come that Henry M, Stanley has arrived on the west coast of Africa," after a troublesome journey across the continent along the line of the Laulaba and Congo rivers. Stanley's letters are dated from Embowa, Congo river, Aug. 10, and say he arrived at that point from Zanzibar Aug. 8, with only 115 souls, and in an awful condition, after the long and terrible journey through the heart of the African con­ tinent. Stanley left Nyangive Nov. 15, 1876, and traveled overland through Uregga. After an arduous march of many days through a country filled with difficulties, and being compelled to transport on the shoulders of his men every pound of provisions and other stores necessary for the transcontinental journey, and be­ sides carrying, in a similar manner, the sections of the Lady Alice, the explor­ ing boat, and the arms and ammunition of his party, Stanley found himself brought to a stand by an immense tract of dense forest, through which all at­ tempts at progress were futile. Find­ ing lie could not advance along the line he had first intended to follow, Stanley crossed the Lualaba and continued along the left bank of the river, passing through Northeast Uskusa. On this route he endeavored to find an outlet westward, but the jungle was so dense and the fatigues of the march so harass­ ing that it seemed impossible to pass the tremendous barrier of the forest. To add to the horrors of his position, Stanley was opposed at every step by the hostile cannibal natives, who filled the woods and poured flights of poisoned arrows on his party, killing and fatally wound­ ing many of his men. From every tree and rock the deadly missiles winged their course, and the heavily-laden bear­ ers fell dead under their loads. Only now and then could Stanley and his men replywith their rifles, as the savages kept under dense cover. Stanley's march through these cannibal regions soon became almost hopeless. There was no cessation of the fighting, day or night. An attempt at camping merely concentrated the savages, and rendered their fire more deadly. The advance was a succession of charges in rude and skirmishing order by a guard engaged to clear the road for the main body, while a rear-guard in like manner cov­ ered the retreat. All efforts to appease the savages were unavailing. They would listen to no overtures, dis­ regarded signals of friendship, and refused gifts. They regarded as cowardice the patient behavior of Star, ley's men, so that no course re mained but to fight the way out with as little loss as possible. To render Stan­ ley's position more deplorable, his escort of 140 natives, engaged for the service at Nyangive, refused to go further, and de­ serted. They were so overawed by the terrors of the forest and the fighting that they believed destruction was certain to overtake the whole party. Learning that his ranks were thinned by this de- ! sertion, the hostile natives gathered for a grand attack on Stanley to completely crush him. It became necessary, there­ fore, to organize a desperate resistance, which was so successful that it repulsed the savages for the time, and gave Stan­ ley a chance to arrange plans adapted to his trying situation. There was only one way to escape, unless Stanley ac­ cepted the alternative of returning to Ny- angwe and abandoning the work he had undertaken. This was to use canoes. With the Lady Alice as a last reliance, and good canoes tor the party, Stanley concluded he would advance with a bet­ ter prospect of success. Although he had a decided advantage over the sav­ ages on the water, Stanley found each day's advance a repetition of the pre­ vious day's struggle. It was desperate fighting throughout while pushing down the river. In the midst of these struggles Stanley's jour­ ney was interrupted by a series of great cataracts not far apart, and just noitli and south of the equator. To past» these he had to cut his way through thirteen miles of dense forest, and to drag his eighteen eanoes and the Lady Alice overland. This enormous labor entailed the most exhausting efforts, and the men hud frequently to abandon the i •ax and drag-ropes for their rifles, to de­ fend themselves against the continuous assaults of the hostile natives. After passing the cataracts there was a long breathing pause and comparative security from the attack, while the party recruited strength for the further jour­ ney westward. Though fighting his way continuously, Stanley made opportum ty to note the interesting changes and physical characteristics of the route. At two degrees of north lati­ tude he found the ceurse of the great Lualaba swerved from its most direct northerly direction to the north­ westward, to tne westward, and then to the south west ward, developing into a broad stream varying in width from two to ten miles, and choked with islands. To avoid struggles with the tribes of cannibals inhabiting the mainland each side the river, Stanley's fleet paddled between the islands, taking advantage of the cover. In this way many miles were made with little molestation, but this safety was purchased by much suffer­ ing. Cut off from supplies in the mid­ dle of the great river, starvation threat­ ened. Extreme hunger was endured, three days being passed by the party without food. This state of things could not be longer endured, so Stanley re­ solved to meet his fate on the mainland rather than by hunger on the river. He turned to the left bank of the Lualaba, and, with the singular good fortune that has generally attended him, reached the village of a tribe acquainted with trade. These people had four muskets, which they had obtained from the west ooast. They represent the advance guard of civil­ ization toward the interior of the conti­ nent. They called the great riverIkutaYa Congo. With these natives Stanley made " blood-brotherhood," wry! pur­ chased from them an abundance of pro­ visions. After a brief rest, Stanley con­ tinued his course along the left bank. Three days after leaving the friendly village lie came to the country of a pow­ erful tribe, whose warriors were armed with muskets. Here, for the first time leaving Nyangwe, Stanley had to pgnt an enemy of equal footing as to •Spas. No sooner did the natives dis­ cover Stanley's approach than they ninned fifty-four large eanoes, and put on from the river bank to attack btm ^iree his men were Kiiiea ^d Stanley desist trying to make the natives understand that he was friendly. He offered peace-gifts, but the savages refuse.? to be reconciled, and the fight went on. For twelve miles down # n r*ver ^ maintained by Stanley's followers with great courage, and was the last, save one. of thirty-two battles the expedition had left Nyangwe. Stanley's losses during the long and terrible journey across the continent from Niangwe had been very severe. The continuous fighting in the forests and on the river reduced the strength of the expedition daily, until it became a ques­ tion whether any of its members would ever reach the coast. Stanley, with seven men, were almost drawn into the whirlpools of the Mowa falls, and six weeks later, himself, with the entire crew of the Lady Alice, were swept over the furious Falls of Mbelo, whence, only by a miracle, they escaped. TTAA AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Hayea Family, Their Servants and Horses. [Washington Gor. Chicago Inter-Ocean.} _ The President's household now con­ sists of Mrs. Hayes, Miss Piatt (a niece who has for a long time made her home with them), Messrs. Webb, Birchard and Rutherford Hayes (young men from 18 t' 24 in age), and two little children-- Fannie, aged 10, and Scott, aged 7. Al­ most any morning you can see a carriage- load of the President's family driving about town. Sometimes the ladies are shopping; sometimes they make calls; sometimes they go to the Congressional library to get books to read during the long summer days at the Soldiers' Home. Mrs. Hayes generally dresses in black, quite plainly for this city of elaborate costumes, and she often carries a large palm-leaf fan in her hand. Her carriage is quite handsome, but the horses are decidedly shabby. Nothing is quite so distinctive a mark of social position as the turn-out one goes about in, and President Hayes' horses are criticised more than they otherwise would have been had not President Grant been so fastidious in the choice of his equipages. No person ever had in Washington a handsomer turn-out than Gen. Grant used to drive. He had a pair of horses which went before his carriage that could not be surpassed in this or any other country. They cost $3,000, and were seleoted by their owner himself, who has as good an eye for the fine points of an animal as any jockey that ever handled a whip. When he left the White House, President Grant sent them as a present to George W. Childs, A. M., of Phila­ delphia. and they are now pointed out as the finest team in Pennsylvania. But President Hayes introduced into their stalls a pair of horses that look as if they came from a country livery stable, which they did. Mr. Rogers, the President's Private Secretary, paid $300 for them in Alexandria. Now, Mr. Rogers is au excellent man; he has studied theology, and he has studied law; ho knows about all that need be knophilosophy and art; he can see ttfe aire points in a legal argument or a doctrinal sermon, and can write a letter as politely as a letter can be written, but he has one important weakness, and that is his ignorance of horse-flesh. He ought never to have been trusted to buy a team. The horses are ill-matched and clumsy. They trot each on his own hook, without regard to the other. They have both been accus­ tomed to be hitched on the nigh side, and every horseman knows that to hitch two nigh horses together will spoil a team. One of them is a dark-mottled chest­ nut, with a white foot; the other is a bright bay, with a white nose. Anyone can see in a moment that those two horses ought never to be harnessed to­ gether any more than a blue bonnet ought to be worn with a green dress. Besides, they are lazy. President Grant's* old ooachman and footman, whose faces are as well known in Washington as President Grant's own. are retained at the Wliito Mouse, but neither of them takes a real active inter­ est in their business any more. Albert, the coachman, drives alone, but he looks like a widower, and acts as if he was thinking of killing himself. And it would not be a surprise to persons who know the facts if both Jerry and Albert were found some morning with their throats cut and razors in their hands. Before the 4th of March, as they rode on the box of President Grant's carriage, with their long blue coats and silver buttons as large as your hand, their stovepipe hats and white gloves, they looked the proudest men the sun shone on. But since this civil-service reform in the carriage line was introduced they have found out that this world is a hol­ low mockery and filled with sawdust. Nowadays you see Albert driving, and von notice a melancholy expression on his countenance, to which in degree of blackness a coal isn't a circumstance. He holds the lines carelessly in one hand, and he doesn't sit up so erect and digni­ fied as he used to. His coat is lial f un­ buttoned, his boots are unpolished, and he doesn't seem to care whether he .rears his gloves or not. And it's all on account of those horses Rogers bought. If Albert hadn't a large family of pica- ninnies dependent on him for support he wouldn't drive that team for love nor money; but necessity knows no choice, and he is holding on in hopes the team may die and be replaced with a better one. Albert is seriously suspected of a conspiracy to lame those horses so that they will nave to be gotten rid of. Two THOUSAND firms and individuals in San Francisco have petitioned the Board of Supervisors in that city to ap­ point a committee to wait upon the six Chinese companies, who control Chinese emigration, and those steamship compa­ nies in whose ships the Chinese are brought to California, and request them to cease from further importation of Ce­ lestials until the United States and Chi­ nese Governments shall have come to some understanding on the subject. AT Landaff, N. H.,is the grave of a Mrs. Branson, who lived in three cent­ uries. She was born in 1699 and died in 1801. iLLiaoiM mi»t TEXAS fever has carried off ft large number off cows at Virden. THK Jersey County Fair will open Oct. 9 and continue four days. IN Chambersburg they fine a MAW $10 for spitting tobaoeo on the floor of a church. FOBTX-ONK prisoners were received at the State penitentiary, Joliet, last month. DR. C. B. TOMPKINS, of Lewiston, has received the appointment of United States Pension Surgeon. A REUNION of the veterans of the Mex­ ican war will be held at Whitehall, Greene county, the 29th inst. THK Clinton Township Fire Insurance Company, of DeWitt oounty. has certi­ fied to the Auditor that the company has reorganized as a county company. THE twenty-fourth annua! session of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars of Illinois was held at Abingdon, last week, there being 150 members present. AUGUST SFB&EEB, a boy about 8 years of age, was drowned the other day while bathing in the river, a short distance be­ low Quincy. His body was recovered. AN old house is being torn down in Carlyle that was the printing office of Ned Buntline twenty-five years ago, when he published the Prairie Flower. THB Mason County Farmers' Insur­ ance Company have filed a declaration and charter with the State Auditor. This is the first new oompany to organize un­ der the new law. THE receipts and disbursements of the Illinois and Michigan canal and lock at Henry, for the last fiscal quarter, ending Aug. 81, were as follows: Receipts. $49,949.84; disbursements, $22,522.87. ^ THK Governor has issued a proclama­ tion offering $200 reward for the rearrest of Oliver P. and Jacob B, Hightower, who recently broke jail in Jackson ooun­ ty, and are charged with the murder of Wiley D. Kendrick, TH» report of the oat crop by the Board of Agriculture of this State esti­ mates the number of bushels to be 61,- 145,983, valued at 110,269,647. The number of acres returned in 1876 was 1,660,778, while this year there was some 1,556,194 acres, with an average yield of thirty-nine bushels to the acre. AT Cairo a $20,000 fire destroyed six buildings, with their contents, whioh in­ cluded McGauley's drug store, Warren's stove store, a saloon, a tailoring estab­ lishment, a cigar manufactory, and a large boarding-house. It seems that the insurance does not aggregate more than $3,000. The origin of the fixe is unknown. THE winter wheat crop of Illinois this year, as estimated by the State Board of Agriculture, from reports received, shows the following results: Acres sown. 1.739.296; average yield per aero, 17 bushels; total yield, 29,510,032 bush­ els, valued on the 20th day of July last at $1.15 per bushel, or an aggregate of $34,960,824. THE proposition to erect two addi­ tional dioceses in Illinois, making three in all, has been decided affirmatively by the Episcopal Convention in session last week at Chicago, and if the matter re­ ceives the sanction of the General Con­ vention at its next session, as there is everr reason to anticipate It wi3, tlie election of two new Bishops from Illinois will shortly follow. THE Secretary of State has notified the signers of the bond given to secure the procuring of the additional grounds ad­ joining and south of the State House necessary for the enlargement of the said grounds, that he has indicated and ascer­ tained the said grounds, and demands that they procure and furnish the same grounds to the Stat© within four months from date. The notice is accompanied by a plat of the grounds. AT a session of the Board of Equaliza­ tion, the Chairman presented a state­ ment of the amount of real-estate tax sales for the years 1871 to 1876 inclu­ sive. Eleven counties have not yet re­ ported the sales of 1876. The aggre­ gates few the several years axe : 187 1 | 907,885.6? 187 2 339,901.90 187 3 867,947.70 187 4 287,865,46 187 5 #44,878.82 1 8 7 0 . . . . . . . . . 1 8 4 , 3 6 6 . 0 3 by Holmes Brother*--one with a ««. eral stock of groceries, provisions, hard- ware and dry goous, and the other WM used as a store-house for loss on stock is fully oovered by an E surance of $3,000. - THE Springfield Journal notes the faoft that mne members of the Illinois Senate of the Twenty-seventh General Assei». bly, in session in J 871, are now dead, namely: Hon. Samuel JL Casey, of ferson county; Hon. Simeon K. Gibson, of Gallatin county; Hon. J. L. TmehaZ Vermillion oounty; Hon. W. A. Little! Joe Daviessoounty; Hon. WilliamShep- hard, Jersey county; Hon. L. 0. Km, Peona county; Hon. H. S. Senter, Me£ cer county; Hon. J. F. Alexander, county; Hon. John Early, Winnebago deaths in six years, out of a body o. ...ty cue promiiieut men, moat n *1 wer® prime of life, is a pretty large fatality. THE onlvhuman being who ever trod the soil of Winnebago county as a •!%# died at Rockford last week. The Jour± nal of that city says his name was lie wis Lemon, tie was brought into Winn*, bago oounty in 1835 by GtrmanioQi Kent, the first white settler of the coon*- ty, as a slave, he having bought him of his former master, Ornn D. Lemon, in Alabama, in 1829. On the 6th of Sep- tember, 1839, Mr. Kent executed anil placed in the hands of Lewis a deed of liberty. This deed was filed with % County Clerk of the county, and wad placed on the County Commissioner's records at the March term, 1842. Lewttp hss resided in the oounty ever , • •I S -k it" FRIGHTFUL DEATH.: >: Hre-Es«ap®« Valla to the 8M*. ; walk fron th« Third Story and la Kllkd-lngitar CircumstaaMt of tU» f Vatal Accident. ̂J [From the New York World.] , Samuel E. Hard man, of Ptovideiio^i R. I., while exhibiting a new fire-escape at the Aster House yesterday, fell from the window next but one to the roof to the sidewalk and was instantly killed. i Mr. Hardman arrived at the Astor House yesterday morning, engaged a room, and * at about 1 o'clock asked at the office for a room more conveniently situated, where he might have an opportunity of exhibiting the Kenyon fire-escape of whioh he was the manufacturer. The clerks at the office accordingly directed ?! Walter Hatton, one of the negro bell*' | boys, to show Hardman to I&». 322, one | of the rooms on the top story in a direot & line above the porch on the Broadway i entrance, Hardman entered the room, opened the window, looked out, and, shaking his head, remarked to the bell* ' boy that it was too high. The boy asked 3 him whether he would not prefer to | the experiment from some room where | the archway would not interfere with hie £ descent. "Oh, no," said Hardman, coa- t fidently: " I want to comedown direafc» | ly in front of the Broadway entrance, >"i where everybody will see me." • i,-|j Ho was then shown to room No. 23$, | just beneath the first. Hardman, as be* $ fore, looked out, apparently measuring | the height from the window to the i ground. Satisfied with his inspection, he began at once the preparations for I his descent. He fastened a cable-wire $ to the lower part of a be&poife. Thifc i wire rolls on a drum, circular in shape, I Sieoeof ordinary twine, revolves about | le dram, while attached to the wire itself is a brake which increases or rte f tards the speed of the person desoen<|» ing. ile Mr. Hardman was engaged III Total... n,813,145.99 TH* following condensed statement relative to the spring wheat crop of this State is taken from fee August repotli o£ S. D. Fisher, Secretary of the State De­ partment of Agricultnre: Acres in wheat, spring and winter, aa re­ turned by Aaeeeaon In 1876 1,188,597 Estimated acreage spring wheat is 1876... 374,688 Estimated acreage spring wheat in 1877... 348,449 Average yield per acre in 1877 in bushels. 13 Ketimated yield spring wheat in 1877 in bushels .x 3,980,534 Estimated Yalue spring wheat erop la 1877 .18,041,358 IN the Circuit Court at Monticello, Piatt county, a few days since, Judge C. B. Smith sentenced John Hoffmann to the penitentiary for life for the brutal murder of Julius Crumbier, at Mil- mine, in that county, last Januaty. Hoffmann was pursued and arrested m Oregon by Detective Haworth, of De­ catur. He made full confession of the crime to the oourt, and pleaded the heat of passion as a mitigation, and seemed glad to escape the gallows. He is 35 years old, and has borne a good reputation. A HOMIOIDB occurred near Lake Zu­ rich, Lake oounty, last week. John Robinson, a Road Commissioner, at­ tempted to open a road through the farm of a neighbor named Davidson, the road having been previously laid out. Davidson resisted, drawing a revolver, saying that he would shoot the first man who touched his fence. Robinson per­ sisted, and Davidson shot him. Robin­ son died in two hours. He was one of the oldest and wealthiest farmers in the oounty. THB National Lincoln monument, at Oak Ridge cemetery, Springfield, is ap­ proaching completion. The infantry group of statuary has been placed in position, and afterward the workmen were to put the naval group in place. The monument is a magnificent, appro­ priate and enduring memorial to the life and services of the dead President. It is a noble tribute of the State to. her worthy son. A DESTRUCTIVE fire recently oocurred at the little village of Spenoer, on the cut-off branch 6f the Michigan Central railroad, some seven miles east of Joliet. The buildings burned were owned by H. S. Carpenter, of Joliet, and oooupied his preparations two chambermaids en­ tered the room, and they, together wiw the negro porter, were the only persons with the unfortunate man at the tima of the disaster. While fastening the rope to the bed-post Hardman said, " I hopef that some of the boys will be about.* • The negro, thinking that the man re*. ferred to the crowd in the street, r# v plied, " I guess there'll be enough wheft' you get out of the window.88 " Oh, I don't mean that crowd," said Hardman; "I mean the boys from home." " Why," said the boy, 8" do you • wish to bid them a last farewell ?" At this Hardman frowned, and murmured some reply in an undertone. During the c-Jiiveroation he had fastened the belt about his body, and was engaged getting out of the window, with 1 iwbao* to the street and holding on by the iar, side of the sill. He then allowed ^ self to drop slowly, still clinging to th*' *"' ' w i n d o w . T h e n l e t t i n g g o o n e h a n d h * " " ' - ; began adjusting the machine with the o t h e r T h i s d o n e , h e b e g a n t o v . j . . . . . but before his head had disappeared :- low the stone coping of the window th^ .^4 wire snapped and he . fell, shrugging f I himself together in a crouching position*^. to the sidewalk. He bleared the porcfi entirely, as well as the steps. His " 1 struck first, with a sefcind whioh, as the ^ V negro described it, resembled the bursts" 'r-i i n g o f a p a p e r b a g i n f l a t e d w i t h a i r . T h e f M - ' man must nave been swinging ontwaicf IM :. pretty forcibly at the time when the snapped, for otherwise he could scarcely ' have gained sufficient impetus to hav*^ ' carried Ms body outside of the powjhan^^ ' steps leading to the Broadway entianoe. ^ He was probably trying to swing clear of them when the wire brake. Strangely enough, although the entrance to the Astor House is thronged with business men coming to and from the restaurant, no one was directly in the way of the fall. One gentleman^ who was walking up Broadway at the time, and was knocked off his feet by a slight touch, turning around, angrily, said, " What do yon mean ?" and saw the mutilated and bleed­ ing body at his side. The remains, as they lay upon the sidewalk, were at once surrounded by a strong cortfbn of police, who kept back the tremendous crowd which gathered. Nearly every bone in the unfortunate man's body was broken, so that when the police endeavored to carry it to the Twenty-seventh Precinct police station they found great difficulty in lifting it to the stretcher. The left , hand was bent in, and the bone of the arm protruded for several inches; the skull was terribly crushed and mangled,. . and the left shoulder pressed upward toward the head. The sidewalk in fronts » of the hotel was quite diaoolored #• a pool of blood. A OOBKBSPONDXHT of tiis NaMtm otUs «If „ attention to the fact that the astrono^-v : -• - mers of Laputa digoovered the satellite* ». i j, $. of 'Mars 200 yeaxs ago, and io really belongs the honor of the disoev-l ery. 1 m y