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m t m m e n t t g f t l a i n d e a U r , J. TAN SLYKE, PUBLISHER. cHENRY, ILLINOIS. JULTUBAL AND DOMESTIC* In Starrest-Time. ' . From the reddening forest ... . _ Drop the yellow leaves • , "" Sturdy reapers merrily . Are binding up the Bheares. Yonder goes the laden wain, Bumbling on its way, % Shaking like a jovial host That makes his toil a play. Strings of birds are winging Their way across the sky; And on the upland spaces The colors glow and die. The mists are on the distance; But like a polished shield, Hit by a thousaud lauoes, Lies one unsickled field. --Good Wards. Around the Farm. „ WE have never tried parsley on the table, but we know there is nothing bet­ ter for pigs in summer. --A tlanta Con­ stitution. To UTILIZE feathers of ducks, chick­ ens and turkeys, generally thrown aside lis refuse, trim the plumes from the Stump, inclose them in a tight bag, rub the whole as if washing cluthes, and you will secure a perfectly uniform and light down, excellent for quilting into cover­ lets and not a few other purposes.-- Morris Rural. I HAD three large bowlders in one of my fields. They weighed about three, four and five tons, respectively. I took some old stumps, old fence rail, several brush heaps, and the small limbs of an old apple tree--in all I had perhaps a little over half a cord of wood. I put it upon the bowlders and set it on fire, and it made them as full of cracks as if it were glass. The heaviest piece did not weigh over 100 pounds, and some of the smallest pieces did not weigh over five pounds. Some kinds of stones will not crack at all, while others will crack into a hundred pieces with less than one- fourth of a cord of wood burned around them.--Ohio Farmer. TIMBER for building purposes or for the use of coopers or wheelwrights, should never be cut before December or January, when the circulation of the sap is thoroughly arrested. Immediately the tree is cut down, it should be freed from all shoots and branches, and sawn into planks as soon as possible, so that these may be at once seasoned by ex­ posure to the air. By taking these pre­ cautions decay and dry-rot will be avoided, and the wood will keep excel­ lently; but, of course, the advice is in­ tended only for those who get out their own lumber, or can have it done accord­ ing to their wishes, for the greed of dealers will force the cutting of timber at untimely seasons.--Exchange. THE question how to apply superphos­ phate depend on what crop it is applied to. If on a crop that is cultivated in Mils, like potatoes or corn, the super­ phosphate should be put in the hill and mixed with the earth before seed is planted, to prevent injury by contact. If for ridged crops, superphosphate filjouh,! l*e 89wn l>roadcast after harrow­ ing. The ridging plow will roll It In­ ward and mix it with the earth. For drilled crops special implements are made, which sow the manure and the seed together. When these implements are not used, the superphosphate is sown broadcast and the seed is then drilled in; or the superphosphate is composted with the barn-yard manure.--loronto Globe. IT should be our aim to be as free from the evils of a fluctuating market as is in our power. One important step toward attaining that position is to raise all we can for the maintenance of our poultry. Oats are a surer crop than any other of the grains, and are excellent to grind for fowls, mixed with corn. Any poultry-raiser who is so fortunate as to possess a piece of land that can be used for this purpose should thoroughly pre­ pare the soil for the reception of the seed, which may be the common, old- fashioned sort, or one of the new kinds, such as the Excelsior, Australian, or Surprise, which are full meated (weigh­ ing forty pounds to the bushel, and con­ sequently superior to common oats, Any surplus would find a ready market at remunerative prices.-- Poultry World. WEED YOUR FLOCKS.--Sell, slaughter or give away poor, scrawny animals, and it will stand you in pocket. If keeping •poultry, keep only the breeds that lay most eggs or lay on most fat. Keep sheep that yield the heaviest fleeces or the heaviest carcasses; a scrub animal will fleece rather than benefit you. A cow that gives a pound of butter a day eats no more than a beast that yields a pound a week. There's a great saving in selecting for the butcher those breeds of cattle that attain their maximum weight in two years, rather than those •who take four to do it. The best breed of hogs manufacture a maximum num­ ber of pounds of meat from a minimum number of bushels of corn. A "plug" of a horse does little work before " he has eaten his own head off." Three years ago a young Vermont farmer had a dairy of sixty cows. Up to last year he had weeded out twenty-five of them; and now reports that he makes just as much butter from the thirty-five selected ani­ mals as he used to make from the original sixty. Of course, he feeds and attends to the smaller number more carefully than he did to the larger, but there is a great saving in the extra food and atten­ tion that would be required by the twenty-five discarded brutes. -- "Rural New Yorker. About the House. CRAB-APPLE JELLY.--Cut in halves and boil in water till soft; two quarts water to lialf-peck apples ; strain and add one pound of sugar to one pint juice; boil twenty-five minutes. CANNED CRAB-APPLES.--To five pounds apples take three pounds sugar; make a sirup, and when boiling put in apples and boil until soft; seal immediately in heated cans ; no paring. KING'S PUDDING.--Beat six eggs ; add one quart of sweet milk, one pound of white sugar, one dozen of soda crackers, four large apples, cut in very thin sUces, and a little salt. Spice to taste. Bake about two hours. A FEW kernels of browned or a spoon­ ful of ground coffee smoldered on coals in a sick-room or musty room will purify it in a few moments and for a long time. Let me illustrate, even though I use strong terms. A pole-cat was killed in a hen-house, and immediately coffee was burned on the spot; the atmosphere was not only endurable on the premises that night, but next day bore less of the stench than did places three-fourths of a mile distant.--Chicago Tribune. A REMEDY FOR CATARRH.--Dry and powder mullein leaves as fine as you would powder sage ; then smoke as you would tobacco, letting the smoked escape through the nostrils instead of the mouth. This is one of the best of rem- dies for catarrh in the head. It has en­ tirely cured a case of over twenty years' standing, when every other remedy heard of had failed to do so. It may require a little practice to let the smoke escape through the nostrils. Mullein will be stronger gathered before the frost injures it, but will answer even if dug from under the snow. It will also be found an excellent remedy for cold in the head.--Cor. New York Times. A Lion and Leopard Fight. The following story comes from Hun­ gary on the Danube. An encounter be­ tween animals so ill-matched in size and strength as the leopard and the lion, must rather be a slaughter than a fight; and so it proved in this case. The Zoological Gardens at Prestli have just been the scene of combat worthy of Nero or Elagabulus. The cage ten­ anted by a lion and lioness happened to be next to that in which dwelt a fe­ male leopard, for whom the captive queen of the forest entertained a special hatred. Probably she was jealous of the bright eyes and beautiful skin of her neighbor, and may possibly have sus­ pected her lord and master of casting a tender regard or two across the barrier which separated the dens. The suspicion, brooded over in silence, became a devouring passion, and it rip­ ened into certainty at the precise mo­ ment when vengeance happened to be­ come possible. The keeper of the gar­ dens had inadvertently one day left hanging within the lion's cage the chain which served to draw up the partition, and the lion was not long in seizing it and beginning to pull. Whether he was animated with a spirit of fickleness or by curiosity alone must remain forever a secret. But the result was that the partition flew up, and the road remained open from one cage to the other. Through it instantly rushed the lioness, breathing hatred and malice; but the lion had no sooner dropped the chain and prepared to follow in chase, than the portcullis fell and the passage was barred again. In the meantime, however, a struggle commenced between the two lady war­ riors such as has not been seen m Eu­ rope since the palmy days of the amphi­ theater. The leopard, worsted at the first onset, attempted to take refuge from the foe by jumping and hanging to the top rails of the cage. It was all in vain, however. She was brought to bay again, and com­ pelled to fight face to face with the ter­ rible invader. For twenty long minutes the battle raged in royal style. The neck and shoulders of the lioness were deeply furrowed with red gashes. But her victim wa* overinatcned, and at length thrown on her back, when the coup do grace was given by the savage fangs of the vie or. Nothing remained, at the end of the encounter, of the pret­ ty spotted skin but a few torn and man­ gled shreds. Industry and Stupidity of the Bulga­ rians. Headquarters life, dreary as it is here, is likely to become drearier when we move nearer Plevna. The villages in this immediate vicinity may be de­ scribed briefly as rich and dirty. The farmers have hundreds of stacks of grain in their yards and scarcely any article of furniture in their houses. The Bul­ garians strike me as a people who sit down but little. Such a piece of furni­ ture as a chair is almost unknown among them. The beds in some of the cot­ tages are made of baked earth, arranged in the form of a shelf near a huge win­ dow, through which cool breezes blow; but in winter there is nothing to do but to retreat to a kind of cellar. It is to be hoped that one result of the advance of the Russians will be to farther the civ­ ilization of the people in this section. They have many virtues bift no graces. The women are industrious beyond praise. If they walk from one village to another they twirl their distaffs all the way, and when their household du­ ties are over and they are talking by the fountains or in the little groves they are all busily knitting. They are ava­ ricious here, and that which seems most to annoy them is that they should be asked to yield up some part of their store, although, let it be understood, they are always well paid for everything that is taken. Some of them do not comprehend the value of money, and look stupidly at it when it is put into their hands. They have never made any effort to assemble stores for the Russians of to aid them in any way other way than by showing them the roads and warning them of the approach of the enemy. Sometimes, in despair, one feels like comparing them to the water buffaloes. Those noble animals appear to resent any attempt to make them de­ cent or lively as an insult to their moral character.--Edward King's Letter to he Boston Journal. The Catholics of New England. In 1776 there were about forty Catho­ lics in Boston, and after the Revolution the Catholic Church made rapid pro­ gress. The first church was built in 1803. In 1825 there were 15,000 Catho­ lics, one-half of whom were in Boston. In 1877 the statistics of the Church in New England are as follows: One Archbishop, 6 Bishops, 549 priests, 507 churches, 16 chapels and stations, 2 colleges, 168 ecclesiastical students, 32 academies and select schools, 86 parish schools, 15 asylums, 6 hospitals, and a population estimated at 900,000. There are in Boston 30 churches and chapels. Since 1840 the Catholic churches in Bos­ ton have increased five-fold. The Cath­ olic churches are larger, as ft" rule, than the Protestant, and have each three or four services every Sunday. They num­ ber hiiif the population ot Boston. THE aveinge price of a camel in the East is $80. ANDRE'S CAPTORS. : « , j£rhe Truth of History. > ^tom the New York World.] A monument is erecting in Schoharie county to record the virtues and exalted patriotism of David Williams, one of the three men who arrested Maj. Andre in the year 1780 as he was going to New York with papers from Gen. Benedict Arnold to Gen. Clinton, who was then in command of the British forces. From that day to this Williams, Paulding and Van Wart have had the credit of acting solely from lofty motives; they spurned the offers of money which were made to them by Maj. Andre to permit him to escape; they loved their country more than gold, and yet there are stories told about them which place their action in an entirely different light from this. It maj be true that our historians may have not dealt justly with them, and that, like many other monuments which tell the glones of dead men, the monument which stands to their memory at Tarry- town and the one which is rising in Schoharie to David Williams do not ad­ here striotly to the truth. The word " tramp " has but lately come into use in America, but old men who live in Scho­ harie county and know " Dave Williams " by tradition, say that he at least of the three famous patriots was in effect neither more nor less than a tramp, and the story runs that his two companions in arms were as bad as he. This is very sad to think of, and if it be true we will not be inclined to think better of tramps there­ for, any more than our appreciation of the moral and intellectual condition of geese is heightened by the remembrance that once by their cackling they saved the lofty city of Rome. This new story of an ancient deed is that, as Paulding, Williams and Van Wart were one day sitting under a tree near Tarry town, enjoying a game at cards, they saw a well-dressed gentleman riding along the road, and were struck with the happy thought that as the place was lonely it would be profitable to rob the solitary horseman. They at onoe unhorsed him, took him into the woods and proceeded to plunder him. In his stockings they found, not the desired money, but important papers which they saw it would be to their interest to trans­ mit to Government. They did not, as they should have done, take their pris­ oner at once to a superior officer as one who had failed to give a satisfactory ac­ count of himself; it was only when they discovered that his watch and the money about him were of less -?alue than their living prize would be should they turn him over to the authorities that they be­ came patriotic. According to this ac­ count, they were therefore mere free­ booters. Their inestimable services to the country had their source, so far as their authors are concerned, in sheer ras­ cality. Good came from their evil, it is true, but the moral quality of their ac­ tion is not such as to entitle them to monuments and praise. feet further they would have gone down a precipice 100 feet in depth, near the scene of the railway disaster at Carr's Rock in 1868. The track was blocked six hours. Oysters and Star Fish. As the oyster culture is so important a business here, a few words about the oyster's most dreaded and deadly foe, the star fish, will be appropriate, and we have gathered from authentic sources the following tolerably reliable informa­ tion on the subject: The star fish de­ stroys and devours the oyster eagerly* The star Mis -wett Mmrad, of those useful members ; and, to make* matters worse for the oyster, lias an ey^ on the end of each arm. It is also fur­ nished with hundreds of small legs and feet. Its mouth is in the center of the body, and it moves slowly, but very " sure," when after prey. It can propel itself over rough surfaces and into all nooks and crevices, and is found gener­ ally upon rocks, near which they fasten. If one of his arms becomes broken in any way, as by getting it entangled in a crevice of a rock, oy. having it bitten off by a voracious fish, determined upon making havoc upon this particular star, the deficiency is soon remedied, as an-, other arm grows, which replaces tho missing member. Some species of the star fish possess the power of demoral­ izing or breaking itself in pieces, and thus multiplying its kind, as each piece retains vitality and grows into a perfect specimen of its kind again. The star fish is a sociable animal. It generally travels in " schools," or mass-meetings, when, doubtless, schemes for raids on the unsuspecting oyster are devised, and nefarious information and ideas in­ terchanged. When he is hungry he gets outside of dinner by, as it were, turning himself inside out, a novel pro­ cess, not to be recommended to the genus homo as a means of appeasing appetite. He turns his stomach out of his mouth and envelops the morsel to be ingulfed. The star fish is set down by scientific men as a mere "walking stomach," being such a tremendous gor» mandizer of sea-food. They are partic-. ularly fond of oystersj and when the presence of a fine bivalve is discovered nothing can exceed it ih lively apprecia­ tion of the morsel, not even an American at a clam-bake.--New Haven Journal. New York Cr as uses. No street in the world (except possi­ bly in London) represents in the short space of two miles and a half anything like the enormous aggregate of wealth represented by Fifth avenue residents between Washington square and Central Park. We , give haphazard a few names: Mr. Rhinelauder $3,000,000 Ames Lenox 6,000,000 Marshal) O. Roberto 5,000,0(10 Moses Taylor 8,000,000 August Belmont 6,000,000 Robt. L. and A. Stuart.» 6,000,000 Mrs. I'araii Stevens 2.000,000 Amos R. Eno 5,000,000 John Jacob and William Astor 60,000,000 Mrs. A. T. Stewart 50,000,000 Pierre Lorillard 3,000,000 Jame« Kernochan 2,000,000 VVm. H. Vanderbilt 75,000 000 Mrs. Calvert Jones 2,000,000 Mrs. Mary Jones 2,000,000 Mr. James Gordon Bennett 4,000,000 Mr. Fred. Stevens t. 10,000,000 Mr. Louis Lorillard 1,000,000 JEFF DAVIS AND THE WALLOWS. GOT. Morton's Proposition to lak« Charge of the Confederate Chief--Did tho War Governor Have a Soar-Apple Tree ? ( l [From the Atlanta (Qa.) Constitution.] A distinguished Northern statesman, in writing to Andy Johnson when Pres­ ident, and just after the bailing of Jef­ ferson Davis, referred to that distin­ guished state prisoner and congratulated Mr. Johnson on his happy "riddance of his white elephant." It will be remembered that while Mr. Davis was in prison in Fortress Monroe he was a source of very great anxiety, not only to President Johnson, but to the Federal judiciary and to the leaders of the great Republican party. The manner in which to dispose of him was a constant question of debate with them, and it is certain that no two of them ful­ ly concurred in their estimate of what would be justice in his case. The Amer­ ican people looked anxiously to see how " traitors were to be punished and trea­ son made odious," and who were ready to be made responsible for the fate of Jefferson Davis. Europe looked on to see the end of " the great rebel," and to judge of our honor and magnanimity by this unparalleled occasion and its in­ cidents. Tike war Governor appears upon the scene at this juncture and in this con­ nection. At this time he was Governor of Indiana, and not regarded as a man of such violeut hates and desperately re­ vengeful character as he has been in the light of his higher station and the influ­ ence of his greater power. Among the papers of the late Presi­ dent, Andrew Johnson, are the originals of the following papers, which are true copies. The first is a telegram, as fol­ lows 3 INDIANAPOLIS, NOV. 14, 1865--10:30 ft. m. His Excellency, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States: If there in no question of jurisdiction in the way, Davis can be indicted and tried in Indi­ ana, as the rebel army. 5,000 strong, under the command of Gen. Morgan, invadea the State. The court and Grand Jury are now in ses­ sion, and if Davis will be sent hero for trial, in cage he is indicted, he will be tried. There will be no difficulty in getting a jury that will do justice to the Government--and to Davis. 0. P. MORTON, Governor of Indiana. To this startling proposition to shoul­ der "the white elephant" and relieve the Government of all further anxiety on his account, President Johnson made the following cautious reply : WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14, 1865. Gov. O. P. Morton, Indiauapolis, Ind.: Jurisdiction is one of the question!! which has been much in our way. Tho place of trial must bo determined hereafter. If tho court and jury find true bills against him it would not interfere with a trial at any other place. Bills have been found against him at some two or three places in Tennessee and in this Dis­ trict. ANDREW JOHNSON. _ We do not know whether Morton went further in the matter, and had, or at­ tempted to have, bills of indiotment pre­ ferred against Davis or not, but it is very apparent from the tone of his telegram, and particularly his last sentence, that he was anxious to get his hands upon Davis. n We once asked the ex-President what Morton meant by his telegram ? * "J suppose," replied Mr. Johnson, "he thoughtl wamefiDfivTsHTrnrg.** That Mr. Johnson did not want Davis hung, and the reason why he did not, we may make plain at another time. Gen. Robert Toombs, reading this telegram, was of opinion that Morton was then fully informed as to Mr. John­ son's intended policy toward the South, and sympathized with it, and sent the telegram in the hope that Mr. Johnson, before the assembling of Congress in December, would accede to the propo­ sition and turn Davis over to the courts of Indiana, and thereby relieve himself of the "white elephant" and Congres­ sional interference on his account. Gen. Toombs seemed to think that Morton, at tliat time would have quietly Jet the law take its course, whatever the result to Davis, and that result Gen. Toombs thought would have been acquittal. The Hon. Alexander Stephens, upon the other hand, is of the opinion that the telegram was a plain business propo­ sition to get away with Davis by a quick and certain process, commonly called "hanging by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead!" Other distinguished gentlemen, in­ cluding Postmaster General Key, lean to the one or other of these opinions. We leave it to Senator Morton's biog­ raphers and the readers to judge what the true purport of the telegram was, but again we ask : " Did the war Governor have a sour- apple tree." FEDERAL FIXAJiCE. Receipts and Expenditures tor Three Months. The following statement will show the receipts" of the Government for the three months ending Sept. 80,1877, com­ pared wit'-i the corresponding three months of 1876: Customs Internal revenue.. Miscellaneous 1876. . .$37,564,728 .. 28.813,336 .. 6,742,460 * 1877. $36,484,248 28.S28.73l 8,705,487 Total.... $73,110,524 $73,718,466 An examination of the foregoing fig­ ures shows that the receipts from cus­ toms and internal revenue fell off in the aggregate during the last fiscal quarter $1,355,085, as compared with the same quarter of 1876, the falling off in cus­ toms being SI,070,480 and internal rev­ enue $248,605. Compared with the re­ ceipts for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1875, the receipts from customs show a falling off of $7,749,378, while the inter­ nal-revenue receipts show an increase of $329,000. The following statement will show the expenditures of the Government for the last three months, compared with the corresponding three months of 1876. These figures do not include interest on the public debt: 1876. Civil and miscellaneous.... .$15,937,203 War Department...... J 9,715,661 Navy Department..,. 6,174,354 Interior Depaijtment.. 9,817,124 1877. $15,685,228 2,309,794 4,152,635 9,209.800 Total .$41,044,342 $31,357,457 Thus, while the receipts have fallen off, the economy in expenditures has more than compensated for the loss, and the quarterly balance shows a profit of over $1,500,000 in favor of the current j fiscal year. N'ational-Hank Circulation by States. The following statement by the Comp­ troller of the Currency shows, by States, the amount of national-bank circulation issued, the amount of legal-tender notes deposited in the United States treasury to retire national-bank notes, from June 20, 1874, to Oct. 1, 1877, and the amount remaining on deposit at the latter date : e-S-l States and Territories. Maine New Hampshire... Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut. New York New Jersey.... Pennsylvania Delaware Marylaud Diet, of Columbia. Virginia West Virginia North Carolina... South Carolina... Georgia Florida...i.... Alabama Mississippi,... Louisiaua. ...* Texas Arkansas Kentucky Tennessee Missouri Ohio Indiana. Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota Kansas • - > . . - P . . . . . . Nevada Colorado Utah Montana Legal-tender notes deposited prior to June 20, 1874, and remaining at that date Total $248,000,000 Here we have some eighteen families, living near each other, who derive fixed yearly incomes from a capital of between $240,000,000 and $250,000,000.--New York Sun A Train Cut in Two by a Rock. At Carr's Rock, N. Y., a few nights ago, a rock weighing forty tons fell down the cliff, striking a freight train of forty- five cars, cutting off twenty-two of them. The car struck, which was loaded with grain, was wrecked. Thirteen cars left the track, but were uninjured. No one , was hurt. Had the cars xsdved a few Horrors of a Turkish Exsoution. As we walked about the town yester­ day morning we could not avoid coming upon five street executions and witness­ ing the whole disgusting proceedings, not that they were to me any novelty, for during the two or three days I was in Adrianople it seemed as if I could never get out of the sight of men dang­ ling in the air. As soon as a likely-look­ ing shop is reached--say one with sun- blinds supported with brackets--the offi­ cer cries "Halt!" and a sbldier, carry­ ing a stool and a rope, steps on one side and arranges the latter over the bracket. The man steps on to the stool, the noose is placed around his neck, and he is drawn off his feet. There is no drop, but in every case, I am told, the poor wretch dies just as those we saw did-- that is to say, instantaneously, and ap­ parently with little pain, being, in fact, choked instead of having the neck broken. I have dwelt upon this, not to satisfy the morbid craving for details in such matters, but to call the attention of some scientific man to the subject; for, if our patent drops and new-i'augled hanging apparatus are not so merciful as the other method of hanging, then our capital criminals are punished in excess of what the law demands. To be hanged by the neck till one is dead is a different thing from having the neck partially broken and the circulation of the blood, and perhaps the nervous system gener- erally, stimulated into intense activity.-- Adrianople Cor. London Times. Two PANELS of twenty-four jurors each were exhausted, and only six jurors chosen, in a case in Oakland, CAL, be­ cause the prosecuting witnesses were Chinamen, and the jurors would not be­ lieve a Chinaman under oath. 122,130 116,100 90,000 2,819.640 313,200 159,470 1,166,380 1,682,970 1,006,425 400,620 161,000 720,440 602.520 30,000 97,000 *246^600 ' 1,349,180 820.664 1,485,772 935.360 809,185 953,38(1 <>35,400 '94,566 '2,735,606 229,340 90,000 1.774,500 724.860 4,005,720 3,323,981 4,258,539 6,871,000 1,858.390 1,1(M'|,899 1,964,462 1,438,221 748,471 233,080 . . . . . 224.183 357,991 45,000 3,813,675 Total.. $36,090,835 $76,069,820 $14,436,552 a &>; 111,899 4,320 40,900 269,132 *58,058 3,199,606 142,504 1,412,712 '215,846 171,294 2S7.085 191,007 320,780 131,210 142,215 Currency Statistics. The Comptroller of the Currency fur­ nishes the following exhibit of the issue and retirement of national-bank notes and legal-tender notes, under the acts of June 2D, 1874, and Jan. 14,1875, to Oc­ tober, 1877. National-bank notes outstanding when act of June 20, 1874, was passed $349,894,183 National-bank notes issued from June. 20,1874, to Jan. 14, 1875 $4,734,500 National-bank notes redeemed and retired between same dates 2,767,232 Increase from June 20,1874, to Jan. 14, 1876 1,967,268 National-bank notes Outs tali ding Jan. 1 1875 National-bank notes redeemed and retired from Jan. 14, 1875, to date .$58,866,036 National-bank notes surren­ dered between same dates.. 8,459,800 450 Total redeemed and snrren- ' dered $67,325,836 National-bank notes issued be- tweep same dates 31,356,335 Decrease from Jan. 14,1875, to date... 35,969,501 National-Dank notes outstanding to date $815,891,949 Greenbacks on deposit in the treasury June 20, 1874, to retire notes of insolv­ ent and liquidating banks 3,813,675 Greenbacks deposited from June 20,1874 to date, to retire national-bank notes.. 72,256,145 Total deposits 76,069,8^0 Circulation redeemed by Treasurer be­ tween same dates without reissue 61,633,268 Greenbacks on deposit at date 14,436,552 Greenbacks retired under act of Jan. 14, 1875 25,085,068 Greenbacks outstanding at dcte 356,914,932 daily, one educational agency announces a list of 10,000 schools from which fathers, mothers and guardians may make their selection. From such an abundance a lifetime would be too short to choose. The Four Per Cents. The want of immediate success in ne­ gotiating the new 4 per cents in Europe is admitted by the Syndicate, but claimed to be temporary only. European in­ vestors refuse to invest in so low-priced a security so long as there is even a re­ mote contingency that the European war may involve greater nations than the present combatants, and so create a great demand for capital and high rates of interest. The 4i per cents, stand in the way of the 4 per cents. Many of the former are changing hands in London, and at so low a price as to prevent the sale of 4 per cents, at the figure put upon them. But the 4£s will soon disappear. The New York Sun reports that people who subscribed for the 4 per cents, seem more anxious to sell out and forfeit their 2 per cent, deposits than to pay in' the remainder of their subscriptions. The cause of this is said to be the increase of interest rates, call loans commanding 7 per cent. {Schools in England. The English parent of boys and girls of schoolable age must be in a state of perplexity just now. Saying nothing of the notices of academies and schools advertised by name which occupy two or three columns of the London Times ILLINOIS ITEMS. THE Richmond (Va.) Fire Insurance Association has withdrawn from business in this State. CHARLES SCHAMB and Mrs. Reeder aged respectively 60 and 69 years, were married at Freeburg. THE Joliet Penitentiary reports to the Governor receiving 150 convicts during September, and discharging 80. THOMAS MATES, of Jersey county *»NN been sentenced to the penitentiary lor life for the murder of his wife last spring. THE Catholic temperance societies of Northern Illinois and Southern Wiscon­ sin celebrated Father Mathews birthday at Freeport THE Illinois Supreme Court, which has been in session for over a month has finished up its business for the term and adjourned. THE body of Wm. E. Stich, Township Assessor, was found in the woods near Mount Vernon, the other day. All the circumstances indicate a case of deliber­ ate suicide. THE Comptroller of the Currency declared a dividend of 10 per cent, in favor of the creditors of the First Nation­ al Bank of Winchester, malting in jQj dividends of 20 per cent THE Southern Penitentiary Commis- misioners say that they propose pushing the work of building the prison at Ches­ ter, and that if not enjoined by the Cv urts they will have cell-room for 500 convicts by Feb. 1. THE Illinois and Michigan Canal Com­ missioners have reduced the toll on lum­ ber from Chicago to Heniy 1 mill per mile per 1,000 feet, and no lockage. The toll has been 4 mills per mile per 1,000 on all through lumber. Gov. CULLOM has issued an order re­ moving Messrs. Holden, Millard, Lipe and Mnus, and appointing Peter Shut- tier, Emil Wilken, Sexton M. Wilcox and E. E. Wood as their successors in the Chicago West Park Commissioners. THE Governor has commissioned the Rev. Fred. H. Wines, the Secretary of the State Board of Public Charities, Commissioner to represent Illinois at the World's Prison Congress, to be held at Stockholm, Sweden, next August. THE State Department of Agriculture is sending out a circular-letter inquiring for publication the success financially and otherwise of the 124 county and oth­ er fairs held in Illinois this most success­ ful season in the history of fairs held m this State. A NUMBER of cattle in the vicinity of Salem have died recently of a disease supposed to be Texas fever. The dis­ ease is believed to have been communi­ cated by cattle taken from a wrecked freight train and pastured there for a day or two. THE Cairo and St. Louis narrow -gauge railroad has suspended operations, which causes considerable complaint among the people living along the line. It is thought efforts will be made to compel the company to comply with their •barter,-.. THE General Convention of the Epis­ copalians, at Boston, has confirmed the proposition agreed upon at the recent convention of the diocese of Illinois, to divide this State into three dioceses, with the Bishopric headquarters at Chi­ cago, Springfield and Quincy. THE second annual convention of the Sabbath-school workers of the district, embracing sixteen counties, met in Jacksonville last week. Edwin A. Wil­ son, of Springfield, was elected Pre si- gent : Charles M. Morton, E. Payson Porter, H. G. SpaflFord, and B. F. Jacobs, of Chicago, took an active part in the proceedings. , The people of Grafton and Alton, or parties interested, will, it is reported, shortly institute proceedings to enjoin the Southern Penitentiary Commissioners from proceeding further toward the build­ ing of the prison at Chester. The alle­ gations of the complainants are that Chester does not fulfill the requirements of the law u» a location. THIS committee appointed to examine the books and affairs of the German- American Bank of Quincy publishes a statement of the effects of the institu­ tion. They amount to $230,975.50; lia­ bilities, $118,092.47. The committee declare the bank perfectly solvent, and that all the liabilities will be paid in full. THE Governor, Treasurer and Auditor have determined the rate per cent, of the equalized value necessary to raise the State revenue to meet the appropriations passed by the last Legislature, and or­ dered the same certified to the County Clerks. The rates are: For general State purposes, 2 7-20 mills on the dollar, or 23* cents on each $100; school purposes, 1 4-20 mills on the dollar, or 12 cents on the $100; for State military fund, 1-20 mill on the dollar, or | cent on the $100. Aggregate, 3 6-10 mills on the dollar, or 86 cents on the $100. The total equal­ ized value of taxable property of the State upon which the above rate is com­ puted is $931,198,7(54. A Bright Young Cadet. The following schoolboy's essay on *• Time " has been delighting the British examiners at Woolwich: "The value of time is useful for getting their living. It is most useful. There is not a minute too loose. It was invented by Alfred the Great, who made a very long candle. Time is used for the purpose of telling people the time. Many men make their living by making time. Some make their livelyhood by making watches clocks. Time passes very quickly for man or boy. Man for his labors and boy for his work. There is a time for all things, especially for grown-up people." Turks and Temperance. The unspeakable Turk is doing his share of the missionary work of the world by delivering one of the greatest temperance lectures ever listened to. The endurance of the Turkish soldiers, and the facility with which they re- . cover from the most desperate wounds, are justly attributed to their temperate habits of eating and their entire absti nence from alcoholic .drinks. -- Totedo> Blade. -•y •' . , . r