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i i i in11 nil mil mi iiiihiii i Wii .1 » ipiupp •iiipiiiuiiL nw«i -i • ..U' :--: •••'FER---- * emg |lainitaler. it McHENRY. M J. VANDYKE, PUBT.THHFH. ^;r " • jf.rT ILLINOIS. A«RiCULTUEAL AND liUMfeSliC. A round the Farm, PAINT which is put on in the 141 will last or nearly quite as long again as the flame grade which is applied in the spring or summer. The extreme hot weather of the summer months is not favorable either for the preservation or the line appearance of paint.--New En­ gland Tfnrncntenrt. , SOME poultry raiser, in order to de termine the comparative fecundity of ducks and hens, selected three of each, all hatched in February, and suitably fed| In the following autumn the ducks laid 222 eggs, the hens none. In Feb­ ruary the laying season tegan, and, up to August, tlift total number of eggs laid by the hens was 267, or 86 each, and 8V3, or 131 each for the ducks. A CUKE FOB LUMPS.--A neighbor of mine had a colt hooked by a cow. It had a lump on its side as large as a peck measure and as hard as a stone. I told him to rub it with goose grease. He did so; a bucketful of matter ran out of it, and in about six weeks it had entirely disappeared. Last year I had an ox with a lump on his jaw-bone about as large as h hen's egg, and as hard as a stone. I began rubbing it with, warm goose grease. In about a week it became very soft, broke open and disappeared.--Cor­ respondence Farmers' Advocate. CULTIVATION OF SORGHUM.--The cul­ tivation of sorghum should be the same as that of corn : Plant in hills three or four feet apart, with the fertilizer in the hill; put in half a dozen seeds to the hill and thin out to three or four plants; oover the seed about half an inch, and cultivate frequently and well. Or, it may be easily grown in drills or broad­ cast. Its principal use in this latitude would be as a green crop. Some per­ sons say that it will give a greater and better yield than corn will. We do not believe, however, that sorghum will pay Itere.--Toronto Globe. FRED HAYDEN has on his model fruit- farm at Alton, 111., thirty varieties of strawberries which he has fruited. The Downing is the most valuable in the list, all things considered, in this local­ ity. Its only fault is, it is a little soft; that is, it is not so hard as the Wilson; but it is ahead of the Wilson in every other respect--better quality, more pro ductive, and stands the hot sun better. Mr. Stewart said that if he was confined to one variety he would take the Down­ ing every time. It was a little soft, but he had shipped it to Chicago and Mil­ waukee in good order.--Chicago Trib­ une. » THE Norwegian method of making hay is as follows : The grass, when cut, is hung up on poles to dry, where it re­ mains until the wind and sun cure it. The sun does not burn it; on the con­ trary, it is as bright and green as when growing. In some fields strings of fences are seen, bearing thin loads of hay, several rods in length. Some farmers plant posts in the fields twelve feet apart, and in the upper part of these posts pegs are inserted about one foot asunder. On these pegs poles are laid, and on them the grass is hung, where it remains until it is thoroughly cured. The result is the very best of hay. To PLANT and harvest crops is attend­ ed with much care and expense; and most farmers exhibit commendable in­ dustry up to this point, but, when those crops are to be fed out, many of them do it with the greatest recklessness. Corn is thrown to the hogs in muddy, slushy yards; hay is scattered upon the .ground, to be trampled in the manure by the cattle; and the cleanly sheep re­ ceive their hay and grain in the same manner. Were it otherwise, we verily believe that one-fourth more stock could be kept on the same provender, and be in better health and condition.--Col- man's Rural. ... VALUE OF HORSE FEED.--From an ex­ change we take the following table upon this subject: " The comparative value of horse feed is found by experiment to be as follows : 100 pounds of good hay is equal in value to 59 pounds of oats, 57 pounds of corr, 275 pounds of car­ rots, 54 pounds of rye or barley, and 105 pounds of wheat bran." Such tables, however, carefully prepared, are too indefinite to be of any practical value, and beside they are too liable to be affected by attendant circumstances to be accurate. It cannot be meant that either of the varieties of oats valued in comparison with hay would be an equivalent substitute Journal. for it.--Canada ups chop ped raisins, two teaspoons baking powder, one cup flour; a little salt; cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg to taste. Steam or boil three hours. TOMATO SOUP.--Make a broth of chick­ en, beef, or lamb/have it very rich, i. e., boil the meat two or three hours--three pounds in four quarts of water; boil it down nearly one-half; strain it; pare and cut up one quart of tomatoes, b6il them in the broth half an hour; strain again; season with a table-spoonful of butter, a little salt, and parsley if desired. SCOTCH COLLOPS.--Get two pounds of round of steak, chopped fine; put in a frying-pan a lump of butter half the size of an egg; melt, dredge in a little flour, brown, and then put in a cupful of water or more; etir to make a gravy; chop up an onion, put it in; then put in beef­ steak; stir often, and cook twenty min­ utes. FOR bleeding at the nose the best remedy as given by Dr. Gleason in one of his lectures, is a vigorous motion of the jaws, as if in the ict of mastication. In the case of a child a wad of paper should be placed in its mouth and the child instructed to chew it hard. It is the motion of the jaws that stops the flow of blood. A VERY excellent vinegar may be made by putting into thirty gallons of water, milk warm, three gallons of good mo­ lasses and one quart of yeast, such as is employed for making bread. Mix well and keep in a warm temperature with the bung of the barrel open, to give it a chance to work. The bung must be covered with gauze to keep out flies. In due course of time it will become first- class vinegar. Mortality Among Southern Negroes. The rate of mortality among the col­ ored people of some of the cities of the South is indeed startling, and well worthy the attention of all thoughtful men. In Richmond, for instance, the average of deaths among the negroes is fully twice as great as among the whites. During the week ending Aug. 28, fourteen white persons died there and twenty-five col­ ored. For the corresponding week last year the official report shows that the total number of deaths among the whites was only eleven, while of the colored population twenty-eight persons died. Week after week the mortuary reports of Charleston, New Orleans, Memphis, Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta and Mobile tell the same startling story. The aver­ age of deaths among the blacks is three or four times as great as among the whites. In a recent interesting commu­ nication on this subject, which was pub­ lished in one of the Memphis papers, it appears that the official mortuary reports of that city show that during the year 1876 there were 652 deaths among the white population and 601 among the ne­ groes. In other words, considering the proportion of white and colored inhab­ itants, the death-rate among the negroes was nearly four times as great as among the whites. During the months of July and August of this year the official re­ ports show that 128 whites and 148 ne­ groes died, or, considering the proportion of the population, more than five negroes to one white. The case of the city of Memphis is not an isolated one. As we have already stated, reports similar to the above come from all parts of the South. The causes which lead to this terrible death-rate among the colored people need not long be sought after. They are only too apparent to those who are conversant with the modes of life of the negroes of the cotton States. They neglect or starve their offspring, abandon their sick to their own resources, indulge every animal passion to excess, and, when they have money, spend their nights in the most disgusting and debil­ itating debauches. All these facts nat­ urally lead to the question, Are the ne­ groes going the way of the Indians; are they being " civilized from off the face of the earth ?"--New York Times. - t - > 4 - l. 'I ; THE INDIANS. The Death Bate In the Principal Cities of Europe. The Frankfort Gazette publishes the following interesting table on the death rate of the principal cities of Europe, from Jan. 1 to June 30, 1877 : No. o/ Death Rate Xames of Towns. Inhabitants, per 1,000. * About the HOBM, MOLASSES LEMON PIE.--One cupful sugar, one cupful molasses, one cupful water, one and a half table-spoonfuls flour, two lemons, and one egg. This makes one pie. To CURE weak eyes take rose leaves-- the more the better--and put them into a little water, then boil; after this strain it into a bottle and cork it tight. You will find this liquid very beneficial in re­ moving redness and weakness from the eyes. FLANNEL CAKES.--One quart of sweet milk, three table-spoonfuls of yeast, one tea-spoonful of salt, flour enough to make a good batter; mix it the night be­ fore; in the morning add two well-beat­ en eggs and one table-spoonful of melted butter. TTAUTI waters are rendered very soft and pure, rivaling distilled water, by merely boiling a two-ounce vial, say in a kettleful of water. The carbonate of lime and any impurities will be found adhering to the vial. The water boils very much vuicker at the same time. GRAPE PRESERVES.--The fruit should be ripe, yet firm; cut each grape in two with a'sharpknife and remove the seeds; to each pound of fruit a pound of sugar; put the sugar into a kettle with just jnough water to dissolve it well, and let it boil five minutes; then throw in the fruit, boil ten minutes and skim out; cook the sirup until quite thick, and, when almost culd, pour over the grapes. ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING.--Three cups of bread-crumbs, one cup brown sugar, three eggs, one cup nicely-chopped beef suet, nearly one cup sweet milk, two Prague 178,870 Posth .......i'M . r. "15,401 MuuicL.t.* ... v,». 209,000 Naples... i 154.918 Konisbcrg in Prussia. 421.645 Vieuua 714,548 Trieste 127,2fi2 Stockholm... .... ............ 14<'.845 Odessa 177,700 Breslau 257,OCO Berlin 998,304 Rome 278,099 Paris 1,988,806 Glasgow 555,933 Manchester •. 359,213 Hamburg 35G,653 Liverpool 527,083 Cologne 136 092 Bucharest 220,000 Turin... 217,806 Danzig 301,637 Warsaw. 300,000 Dresden 202,295 Stuttgart 302,8011 Birmingham 377,436 Brussels 188,609 Copenhagen 215,000 Bremen 106,544 Leipzic.... 135.585 London 8,533,488 Edinburgh 218,729 Frankfort-on-Main.. 117,808 46.6 43.2 35.9 35.4 32.7 33.2 30.4 30.3 30.1 2».T 23.9 28.6 27.9 27.5 27.5 27.3 27.2 26.9 26.5 26.4 96.0 25.8 25.4 25.4 34.9 94.9 24.3 23.9 23.2 22.9 2X8 21.8 Norway. The population of Norway in 1665 was about 400,000 inhabitants. Since 1815 it has increased 1} per cent, annually, and the census of 31st December, 1875, gave the number of 1,817,000 inhabitants. In the last thirty years the annual excess of births over deaths has been, on an aver­ age, 1.38 per cent. The principal cause of this is the small mortality, which, on an average, only amounts annually to 1.76 per cent, of the population--a pro­ portion smaller than in any other Euro­ pean country. The mortality of new­ born infants is, in Norway, on an aver­ age, 11 per cent., while everywhere else it has been 15 to 20 per cent.; and it has always been less for female than for male infants. This small mortality may be due to the fact that the women in all classes of society always suckle their in­ fants during the first year, and often much longer. A Curiosity of Nature. On the bank of the race, and about 100 yards above the Palmer lead furnace, Washington county, stand two trees-- a sycamore and a maple. A limb of the sycamore has grown into and through the maple. Not a great while ago the limb broke from its sycamore mother, and has since grown sycamore leaves and balls, through the nourishment of the maple.--Sedalia Bazoo. A Grand Pow-Wow *|M; Wilhitgtoii-ffe- Oog, Yellow Bear and Oth*r Sioux Stetfoa- mes Interview the Prealdint. rWaoftingUm Cor. Ohiragjio Time*.] The fakrax delegation arrived at thfefr Great Father's house packed in two om­ nibuses. It was a great disappointment to the waiting crowd who expected the Sioux warriors to come upon horseback in true Indian style. The delegation, as it drove up, looked like a lot of circus people on an excursion. They had de­ cided to appear in Sioux full dress, load­ ed down with every variety of savage or­ nament. Their appearance at the White House created a positive sensation. The fine bearing, exquisite self-possession and stoical indifference of the Indians gave them an air of superiority which cheapened every one who came in con­ tact with them. Mr. Hayes and his Cabinet never looked more thoroughly uncomfortable than they did during the hour and a half passed in council with the visiting chiefs. The council scene was very picturesque. The large east room, rarely used ex­ cept on occasion of evening recep­ tions, was thrown open for the use of the distinguished visitors. The upper half of the room was filled with seats occupied by the lady and gentlemen friends of the President and the Cabinet people. Just in front of these the In­ dians were arranged in a half-circle. The President sat in a low chair facing them and remained sitting during their interminable speech-making. Secretary Evarts sat upon his right. Secretaries Schurz and McCrary, Commissioner Smith and Gen. Davis sat upon his left. The half-breed interpreters were more than usually conspicuous in their awkward, clumsy translations of what was said, and they mumbled their words so that they were nearly as unintelligi­ ble as the Indians. President Hayes listened very patiently for two hours and a half before he gave up. Each Indian speaker planted himself in front of the President, and broke out into what ap­ peared to be a guttural monologue, oc­ casionally intensified by some emphatic demand. Hayes politely looked every chieftain in the face, but looked embar­ rassed throughout at his being obliged to listen to what he could not under­ stand. The sang froid of the Indians was superb. They coolly fanned them­ selves as they calmly talked, showing in no place any trace of embarrassment. Their story was uniform. They all want to be good, and want to be hired to be good also. The craft of Indian diplomacy has seldom been better illustrated than in the speeches, in which several chiefs spoke of the suggested removal to the Missouri river region as a distant rumor which they have heard. They wished to hear no moire of such a rumor, and the great Red Cldud precluded all argu­ ments from the President to-morrow by saying : " I do not wish you to men­ tion tnat name (the Missouri river) to me. The Missouri river is the road to whisky and ruin." The Indians were agreed upon the benefits of civilization, although there was considerable variety in opinion as to what white civilization is. Wagons and schools, fertile lands and agricultural implements they all desire. The wild­ est sons of the plains had desires as crude as the chief who, a few years ago, here as one of the council, told the Great Father that he wanted a house with stairs in it; he liked to walk up­ stairs, and he thought that if he could have a house with stairs in it he could be civilized. Big Road, a chief who has never seen civilization before, and who is fresh from the north and the Custer battle­ field, sjsid he was not a man to bar­ gain with anybody, but that he wanted to be civilized, and would be satis­ fied if the Great Father would give him 8,000 boxes of money to get civilized with. f ' Another chief, He-Dog, had no less mercenary ideas. His notion of civili­ zation was wealth. He had come to see the Great Father, to learn how toe white people got rich, and he wanted to get rich. Signs ot Trouble with the Chejwnnei. Some documents have been forwarded to the Indian Bureau at Washington from the Cheyenne Agency, in the southern portion of the Indian Terri­ tory, which picture a most deplorable state of affairs. Another Indian war is one of the things most likely to break out at any time from that section, as the Indians are starving. They have abso­ lutely nothing to eat, and they have the only alternative of starving or breaking out and going upon a search for food. When this is brought about, the whites will follow them up, two or three of them will be killed, and the result will be as heretofore--general massacres and expensive military campaigns. All this is possible and likely to occur, and it is simply because these Indians are being robbed by the thieving agents of the Indian ring. It is the old story over again. Nice Calculation. Toward the finish of the individual long-range match at Creedmoor, Mr. Washburn and Mr. Blydenburgh were the chief centers of interest, for both were known to be high men, and both had been shooting steadily as they ap­ proached the finish. Mr. Washburn was the first to give his fifteenth shot at the 1,000-yard range, and,his total score be­ ing discovered to be 207, the crowd edged toward the squad in which Mr. Blyden burgh stood to await his last shot. If he could make a bull's-eye his total also would be 207, and, as his score at the longest range would stand better than his adversary's, the highest prize would be his. He calmly set himself to the task, wind gauge and elevation being, as he estimated, all right, but, as he pulled the trigger, a lull of the wind let his bul let speed more to the westward than he had calculated, and carried it just out­ side the upper left edge of the bull's- eye, thus making a difference to him of $300. As he looked. at the red disc go­ ing up to mark his defeat far first place, Blydenburgh stamped his foot, threw down his hat impatiently on the turf and muttered something about " half a point of wind." Subsequently, in conversa­ tion about the match, he said he believed that was the dearest half point of wind ever known at Creedmoor. A point of wind on the windage of a rifle, the hind and foremost sights of which are thirty BIT inches apart, means a good deal at 1,000 yards' distance from the target. A marksman said that with his gun a point of wind meant twenty inches at the long­ est range. At 900 yards it meant eighth een inches and sixteen inches at 800. During a portion of the match he shot with ten points of wind and made bull's- eyes, the breeze blowing so stilly that it carried a bullet sixteen feet eight inches out of its course during the few seconds it took to pro from the muzzle of the gun at the 1,000-yard range to the target. So the successful marksman must estimate the force and direction of the wind pretty accurately in order to put his bullet in the bull's-eye thirty-six inches in diame­ ter.-- Utica Herald. Corporations Without a Heart. It would not be a pleasant task to re­ view the list of influences which led to the great strike. Some of them^--more important than has been popularly imag­ ined--have had little notice; and they lie so far back or so deep down that they are not likely to be talked about. That the railroad force of the country has been very badly demoralized is evi­ dent enough ; but if we should say that its demoralization had come mainly through its rulers and employers we should be met with pretty universal in­ credulity, if not. with indignant protest. The example which directors and managers have set to those in their em­ ploy has not been a good one. The men who have done the hard work of the railroads have looked on and seen others get rich by illegitimate means. They have seen whole boards of direct­ ors drop off gorged from schemes that have left the stock interests without a drop of blood in their veins. They have seen stock watered, tampered with, robbed. They have seen railroads which had absorbed the livings of trustful widows and orphans managed solely for the private interests of their Presidents and directors. They have seen roads built with bonds that were lies, and were known to be lies. They have seen roads in ruinous competition with each other, while they were compelled by thif competition to do tiieir work at small wages. They have been made to"* work upon the Sabbath, and have been prac­ tically shut away from all religious in­ struction by those who, with sanctimoni­ ous faces and conveniently obtuse con­ sciences, have " taken sweet counsel to­ gether, and walked to the house of God in company." The railroad corporations are very few that have manifested the slightest interest in their employes, be­ yond getting out of them what it was possible to get for the consideration agreed upon--Dr. J. G. Holland on " The GreaJt Strike;" Soribner for Oc­ tober. The Great Wall of China. The great wall of China was measured in many places by Mr. Unthank, an American engineer, lately engaged on a survey for a Chinese railroad. His measurements give the height at eigh­ teen feet, and a width on top of fif­ teen feet. Every few hundred yards there is a tower twenty-four feet square, and from twenty to forty-five feet high. The foundation of the wall is of solid graliite. Mr. Unthank brought with him a brick from the wall which is supposed to have been made 200 years before the time of Christ. In building this immense stone fence to keep otit the Tartars, the builders never attempted to avoid mountains or chasms to save expense. For 1,300 miles the wall goes over plain and mountain, and every foot of the foun­ dation is in solid granite, and the rest of the structure solid masonry. In some places the wall is built smooth up against the bank, or canons, or precipices, where there is a sheer de­ scent of 1,000 feet. Small streams are arched over, but in the larger streams the wall runs to the water's edge, and a tower is built on each side. On the top of the wall there are breastworks, or defenses, facing in and out, so the de­ fending force can pass from one tower to another without being exposed to an enemy from either side. To calculate the time of buil ling or cost of this wall is beyond human skill. So far as the magnitude of the work iB concerned, it surpasses everything in ancient or modern times of which there is any trace. The pyramids of Egypt are noth­ ing compared to it.--London News. Insensible to Bee Stings, The Beading (Pa.) Times says: " The village of Fritztown, this county, possesses an anomalous character, known by the name of ' Tommy.' who is said to be insensible to the pain which usual­ ly attends the sting of bees, yellow jackets, wasps and hornets. He can take honey from bee-hives and bumble­ bees' nests without either stupefying or destroying the bees. He destroys all the hornets' and yellow-jackets' nests that he can find, and, although frequent­ ly covered by the insects which have alighted upon him in swarms, he has never been known to flinch, Upon get­ ting hold of a hornets' nest he empties it by shaking the hornets out of the ap­ erture. ' Tommy' is employed as a la­ borer upon the farm of William Miller, of Fritztown." Why Young Women Marry Elderly Men. Jennie June says that money is not so often the reason why young women marry eldeHy men as people imagine. She says that the young man of the day is not the desirable husband that the young man of fifty years ago was ; he is not so thoughtful, sober, painstaking and conscientious ; he lives *in a club, has no love of home life nor desire to build up character and reputation as a man and a citizen ; his ideas of life are bounded by the theater and the doings of his little set; and in too many cases his ambition is to own a racer and be on intimate terms with the ballet. Natural­ ly mothers " shrink from intrusting their daughters to such youths as these, even if they have the opportunity, and are better pleased to bestow them on older men--men who have sown their wild oats; who know how little of real value there is in the temporary excitement of pleasure ; who have, perhaps, been mar­ ried once, and have learned to value home and the guarantees it affords for permanent happiness." FBANCISCO LOPEZ, on trial in Corpus Christi, Texas, was set upon in court and choked almost to death by the mother of the man whom he was ac­ cused of murdering. ILLINOIS ITEMS. MOLINE means " City of Mills." THEY are building a new Presbyterian church at East St. Louis. THE Piatt County Fair, after paying all its bills, had $2.25 in the treasury. MONEY-OBDEB officers were estab­ lished in Dunleith and Hanover on the 1st of October. THE red ribbon temperance move­ ment is having a great run at Jersey- ville. * THE Illinois State Catholic Total Ab stinence Association held its sixth annua session at Chicago last week. THREE prisoners escaped from the Adams county jail the other night by re­ moving the stones from the outside wall under one of the gradings. DR. V. A. TURPIN, a well-known prac­ tical business man of Chicago, has been appointed by Judge Moore as receiver o the Fidelity Savings Bank. THE State Auditor has registered $34,- 000 in bonds of MonticeUo township, Piatt county, issued under the Refund­ ing act to cancel indebtedness. THE reunion of the old Fourth Caval­ ry at Joliefc recently was a complete suc­ cess, there beirg in attendance some seventy-five war-scarred veterans. AT Virginia, Cass county, a newly-or­ ganized militia company has adopted the title of " Lippineott Guard," in honor of Gen. G. E. Lippineott, ex-State Auditor. THE house of Hon. George H. Har­ low, Secretary of State, at Springfield, was entered by burglars (supposed to be from Chicago), the other ni^ht, and robbed of money, silver-plate, jewelry, and a watch. THE scaffolding has been removed from the top of the lantern on the State House, and the new flag, which floats from the new flag-staff, is fifteen feet higher than formerly, so the flag now floats at a height of 383 feet. THE Governor has issued a proclama­ tion offering $200 reward for the arrest of the unknown murderer of Robert B. Little, who was killed at Sparta, Ran­ dolph county, recently. The lost murderer is supposed to be a tramp. THOMAS PHILLIPS, father of Gen. Jesse Phillips, died at Hillsboro, a few days ago, at the age of 87 years. He had been a resident of Illinois since 1.818, and of Montgomery couuty since 1825, and was a soldier of the Black Hawk war. THE following are given as the re­ ceipts of the Illinois State Fairs for each year for tUe past ten years: county of second St. Elmo shooting affray. Particulars are meager, bntsubr stantiallv as follows: David Conrad, who had stolen some oxen, while being par- sued by a Sheriff's posse near Herrin's Prairie, turned on his horse, and, with a shot-gun loaded with buck-shot, fired at the crowd. One of the pursuers named James received the charge, whioh tore one side of his head to shreds and in­ stantly killed him. The murderer fled, and was not again seen until some par­ ties recognized him and a confederate ail they got off the Marion train at Carbon- dale. The men quickly started out of town, taking the railroad going south. As soon as notified Deputy Sheriff Toler followed them, tracking them to Basky- dell, where the men were seen at dark, stfl going south. It is supposed they were making for Missouri, and otfficepB< have followed them. , ,t 1868, Quincy $13,028 1869, Decatur 2>>,fi4i2 1870, Decatur 29,145 1871, Du Quoin... 13,515 1871, Ottawa 21,97a 1873, Peoria $29,960 1874, Peoria 81,774 1875, Ottawa 16,251 1876, Ottawa. .... 8,410 1877, Freeport.... 24,219 DANIEL GOTT killed W. Neely last week, at Norris City. Neely went into Gott's drug store, demanded liquor, and was refused. He then drew a pistol, locked the door, and told Gott to get him the whisky or he would kill him. Gott drew his pistol and fired. INCENDIARIES caused two fires at Cen- tralia a few nights ago--a house and a barn, located in different parts of the city. The house was unoccupied by people, but contained quite a quantity of wheat, potatoes, and household goods. A widow named Williams owned the same. The household goods were saved. Loss about $1,000. With the barn was destroyed a thrashing machine belong­ ing to William Middleton. Loss about $500. A GRAND LODGE of the Order of Knights of Honor was organized in Springfield last week by Past Supreme Dictator A. E. Keyes, of Mansfield, O., acting instead of Supreme Dictator of the World J. A. Eger, he being detained by sudden and continued illness. The next nice til.g will be held at Decatur, June 11, 1878. THE Supreme Court has made the fol­ lowing appointments of Judges to duty in the Appellate Courts of this State: First District--Judge William W. Heat- on, Judge Theodore D. Murphy, Judge George W. Pleasants. Second District --Judge Edwin S. Leland, Judge Na­ thaniel J. Pillsbury, Judge Joseph Sib­ ley. Third District--Judge Oliver L. Davis, Judge Chauncey L. Iligbie, Judge Lyman Lacy. Fourth District--Judge James C. Allen, Judge David J. Baker, Judge Tazewell B. Tanner; Tint Quincy Congregational AsoOiiia- tion was in session at La Harpe last week. The convention opened with thirty ministers present. Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. W. A. Cutler, of Dallas. The following offi­ cers were then elected for the year: Rev. Charles E. Marsh, of Summerhill, Moderator; Frank Halbour, of War­ saw, Secretary; Rev. W. A. Cutler, Register and Treasurer. Reports from the various churches show, in the aggre­ gate, a fair share of prosperity. WILLIAM PAINTER, an Englishman, committed suicide by hanging himself in the county jail at Effingham one night last week. He was found next morning by the Sheriff, suspended from the iron bars of the window. His shirt, torn into small pieces, served as aTope. His feet touched the floor, and he evidently had to hold up his legs in order to hang. Painter was committed to jatt for the murder of Andrew Strobel, at Altamont. Painter seems to have been drinking hard for several months, being drunk at the time he killed Strobel. Since his in­ carceration in jail he has been nearly crazy, fearing that a mob would hang him. He has no wife, children or rela­ tives in this country, his parents resid­ ing in London, England. A HORRIBLE murder took place last week at O'Fallon, about eighteen miles from St. Louis. A number of miners were in town, and among them a man named George Jones, considerably in­ toxicated. Jones became belligerent for some reason, and boasted that he could whip any man in the crowd. There was a miner present nnmed Au­ gust Siger, between whom and Jones there had been a previous difficulty. When Jones made his boast Siger said: "Jones, you can't whip anybody!" whereupon Jones replied : 11 I'll show you, d--n you !" at the same time draw­ ing a huge butcher-knife and stabbing Siger three times, the last thrust being through the heart and death ensuing in­ stantly. Jones was immediately arrest­ ed, and the indignation of the miucrs against him was so great that it was with difficulty the Slieriff could save the prisoner from mob violence. NEWS is received from Williamson ILL SORTS, •• . . Uii... : • Ajjj- NEW ENGLAND has $750,00&,00ft lit Mr savings banks. CALIFORNIA wants a hundred agricult* ural oolonies from the East. Is" * OUT of the little town of Richmond^ Ind., a third-rate circus scooped $5,000. A TEXAN has contrived a machine for taking wood on trains without their stop­ ping. « IN 1825 there were only eighty-foot ohnrches in New York city. Now thesto are 489. THE Suwanee river that the old sooff tells about has just been opened to steamboat navigation. THE "two mules that drew the wagon in which Jefferson Davis was captured have been burned to death in Atlanta. A MEMPHIS negro bought a coat for five dollars on credit, and sold it for fifty cents in cash, so as to go to a cir­ cus. JUDGE MORROW, of Jefferson county, Ala., has been impeached before the Supreme Court for habitual drunken­ ness. A SICK old Chinese woman was found in an abandoned house in Eureka, Cal,, where her relatives had left her to starve to death. CALEB OFSHTNO and some of Ms neign- " bors in - Newbury port went fishing and caught 2,000 mackerel and 200 cod in twelve hours. ,* , f l IF one saw how macaroni was made ftnr dirtv Italians, in filthy shambles in South Fifth avenue, nobody would eat it, saya a New York paper. A FARM-HAND for harvesting is paid jn Central Italy 7 oents a day, and consid­ ers himself a fortunate man to find em­ ployment at that rate. JUDGE HILTON, it appesrs. irapn't so much opposed to fair-dealing Israelites; 'twas the Jew sharps he wanted to dis­ courage.--Boston Transcript. LAND-OWNERS along the Sacramento river have, in a convention, resolved not to employ Chinamen, and to induoe others to cease giving them employment and selling them land. IN Kentucky the constant roar ot small arms in the coin-fields reminds one of a long-continued battle. The owners of the fields have to defend them against the ravages of squirrels. THE Mammoth caves of Kentucky am ' to be connected with the outer world w a railroad, and a modern hotel will be built near them, news which cannot fail to be welcome to tourists. > THE nation is a great creditor as fill' as debtor. The six Pacific railroads-- Union, Central, Southern, Kansas, Sioux City and Western--owe it $92,636,751, which pays no interest until maturity la 1897- A PAIR of boot lasts have been made for Leonard Wilcox, of Rome, N. Y., who is seven feet in height, and weighs 600 pounds. The lasts are twenty-two inches in length, seven in height, and eighteen around the instep. JUDGE BIDDLE, of the Supreme Court of Indiana, has invented a musical in­ strument somewhat like a violin, and cuclcit Si tetrachord. It may be mado in different sizes, so that twelve instru­ ments will constitute & lull string band. A RESOLUTION has been adopted by the Flat River Baptist Association, of North • Carolina, requesting the churches to re­ port the number of moderate drinkefa among church members, and the amount of liquor distilled by church members. AN Englishman who has made a bet of £50,000 that he will in six years walk through France, Germany, North Rus­ sia and Siberia to China, has started from Calais on his journeying. His bet obliges him to return through India, Persia and Southern Russia, and from there over Greece and Italy to France. He must be in Liverpool by the 1st of July, 1883. PRINCE BISMARCK appears to be a thor­ oughly impartial person. A military friend gave him an elaborate disquisition the other day on the deeds, errors and chances of' the Russian and Turkish armies, and, when he concluded, asked the Prince plainly what he thought about them. Bismarck answered with this laconio sentence: "I think that each army is getting the thrashing it de­ serves !" IT is estimated that in the world there exists, in a population of 350,000,000, steam engines aggregating the power of 14,400,000 horses, of which the United States, having 40,000,000 population, owns at least one-third or 4,800,000 horse po1 round number, thirty steam power to the #xtent^~. to multiply their prodtumen, same numbers of Americans wo to the extent of four horses. A LITTLE GIRL'S SOSG OF AUTUMN. » The autuiun has filled me with wonder to-day, The wind seciua BO sad, while the trees look BO The sky is so blue, while the fields are so brown. While bright leaves aad brown leaves drift through the town. I wish I could tell why the world changes ao: But I am a little girl--I cannot know ! The sun rises late, and tht n goes down so soon, I think it is evening before it is noon 1 Of the birds and the flowers hardly one oan M found, „ „ Though the little brown sparrows stay ™ ?!»S* round. ., . I wish I could tell you where all the birds go( But I am a little girl--I cannot know ! * O autumn ! why banish such bright things as UUft Pray turn the world gently! don't scare them away ! And now they are gone, will you bring them If they come in the spring, I may not be her* then. <my go they so swiftly--then come back so slow t Oh, I'm but a little girl 1--I cannot know