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3the Jfltgcniis $laindfaler, J. VAN BLYKE, POBUBHXB. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. RICULTtBAii AND DOMESTIC* Around the Farm. ~ IT IS well to observe caution in chang­ ing cattle from dry feed to fall pasture. The safe way is to feed on the usual dry fodder before turning out, bring up the stock early in the afternoon, and feed Again on dry feed with roots. Another precaution is to dose each of the calves and yearlings with two ounces of Epsom salts for two days before it is turned out, and then graduate the feed as men­ tioned.-- Valley Farmer. chicken a little JWHBN you see a <£Soopy, and its tomb getting dark, re­ move it at once and doctor it for cholera; its discharges are green, and, if it were allowed to run loose, would spread the disease. As a preventive we use a .handful of salt twice a week in a wash­ basin full of bran mixed with a little meal, and throe times a week give corn at night on which a little coal-oil has been poured--just enough to coat every grain and no more. Clean out your chicken-houses; whitewash them and scatter carbolic acid around.--Poul­ try Journal. THEY should never be set in an or­ chard beneath the trees. An open, sunny situation ought always to be se­ lected. The ground, which should be deep and rich, will be highly benefited by a mulching of long, strawy manure, both summer and winter; and cleanli­ ness and order must prevail in all their surroundings. Raspberries should not be planted deep. Many a plantation has been lost from this error, notwith­ standing the soil has been in good con­ dition and the plants entirely sound and healthy. Give the crown at the apex of the roots a very slight covering with soil.--Independent HEAVES in horses arise from rapture •of the air-cells of the lungs, either on ac- -count of improper food or the right kind of food improperly administered, ill-ven­ tilation, and protracted indigestion. Sometimes, however, there is really no assignable cause, unless a hereditary predisposition. In treating this ail- meat; g .eat attention should be paid to the quality and quantity of the food given; musty or badly-cured hay or oats must be avoided. Water should be given an hour or so after the animal has been fed. Give daily in a mash, of roach lime finely powdered, half an ounce; linseed-oil, two ounces; and ar- senious acid, four grains.--Moore's Mural. A METHOD of extracting sugar from bay appears to have been just discovered in Germany. The inventor says hay contains 17 per cent, of its weight in sugar, and that the HOW process is warm­ ly supported by " influential industrial circles." It has justly been shown, however, that a meadow in fair condition gives only, fifty tons of hay and after­ math per tnorgen, which, at the assumed rate of 17 per cent, of its weight, would give merely 850 pounds of sugar, where­ as the 150 cwt of beet-roots grown on the same area would give at least 1,800 pounds of sugar, or the sixty cwt. of po­ tatoes that could be grown on a morgen of land contain 20 per cent, of their weight of starch, convertible into 1,347 pounds of sugar. As a commercial speculation, therefore, the new invention cannot well be profitable.--Rural New Yorker. SOWING too thickly, the London Farmer informs us, is a fault among farmers quite as common in Europe as in this country. Some seem to think that the thicker they sow the heavier -will be their crop, a view of which ex­ perience has shown the fallacy. Beside the waste of seed, often very considera­ ble, nothing is more conducive to the "laying" of the crop than over-thick sowing, and, if much wet weather is ex­ perienced, the crop will be little else than straw. And, though it may thrive better in dry weather, the ear will be deficient both in quantity and quality, especially on sandy soil or poor land generally. The quantity of seed to be sown in a given aiea depends on the cultivation and manuring bestowed on the soil, and the more carefully these have been attended to tlie greater is the chance that every grain will grow vigor­ ously, and the less wisdom in sowing too thickly. > About the Hoan. Do NOT eat pie with a knife. AN untidy person cannot make good butter. HARD water becames nearly soft by boiling. CHAIRS were made to stand upon four legs, not upon two. ' TEA or coffee should be drunk from the cup, not from the saucer. To CURE A CORN.--Bind on it a crushed cranberry for a few nights. OYSTER OMELET.--This differs from egg omelet only by adding one dozen of finely-chopped oysters with a little pars' ley to every half-dozen of eggs used. IF those persons who use hair-oil would sit upright instead of resting their heads against the wall-paper, much mortification aud trouble might be spared their friends. WAFFLES.--Mix one quart of sweet milk, one heapiag-quart of sifted flour, five table- spoonfuls of yeast, ali ttle salt; set it over night. In the morning add two well-beaten eggs aud a table-spoon­ ful of melted butter; bake in waffle- irons. CORN-STARCH CASE.--Two cupfuls powdered sugar, four cupfuls corn starch, one-quarter cupful butter, three eggs, a teaspoonful of cream of tartar mixed with the corn-starch, one-half tea- epoonful soda dissolved in one-third cup­ ful of milk. OYSTER SHORT-CAKE.--This is very nice, and the pastry can be made as for any other short-cake. While the cake is baking, boil one quart of oysters with half a cup of water, half a cup of milk and half a cup of butter, season with pepper, salt and thicken with a spoonful of corn-starch. When the Cdke is done split open and spread the oysters be­ tween the pieces and some on top. CITRON CAKE.--Four eggs, three cup­ fuls sugar, one cupful, butter, three cupfuls flour, half a cupful milk, one spoonful royal baking powder put into the flour; then cut the citron in small pieces and stir into the cakes; flavor with nutmeg and a little grated lemon-rind. SWEETEN THE BREATH AND CLEANSE THE TEETH.---Always clean the teeth at night just before retiring, for particles of food collect between the teeth during the day, and if left there all night will decay, causing tlie breath to become of­ fensive and also prove very injurious to the teeth. Scrub the teeth with a hard brush, using little, if any, soap; sprinkle in a little powdered borax (ono pinch will do) until the gums are hardened and become accustomed to it; rinse the mouth often with borax water; it will prevent it from becoming sore or tender. If artificial teeth are worn, cleanse them thoroughly with borax, and when con­ venient let them remain in borax water (every night if possible); it will purify them and help to sweeten the breath. A Wilderness in Central Africa. In his conversation with me at Ujiji Livingstone ascribed much just praise to all of the region west of the Goma mountains. It is a most remark­ able region--more remarkable than anything I have seen in Africa. Its woods or forests or jungles or bush--I do not know by what particular term to designate the crowded, tall, straight trees rising from an impenetrable under­ growth of bush, creepers, thorns, gums, palms, fronds of all forms, canes, and grass--are sublime, even terrible. In­ deed, nature here is either remarkably or savagely beautiful. At a distance everything looks charming. Take your stand on any eminence or coigne of van­ tage for view-seeing you may please, be it the crest of a ridge, the summit of of a hill, the crown of a rock, and if you look around you will find yourself de­ lighted, fascinated. A hundred or a thousand different outlines are in view of ridges and rangeB, peaks and cones, the boldly waving or softly rolling, of gradual or abrupt slope, of mounds, lit­ tle patches of levels, of the grand and the picturesque, in bewildering diversity of form. You will exclaim that you see the splendor of the tropics--that you have caught nature rejoicing and happy. Over all she has flung a robe of varying green ; the hills and ridges are bloom­ ing ; the valleys and basins exhale per­ fume ; the rocks wear garlands of creep­ ers ; the stems of the trees are clothed with moss; a thousand streamlets of pure, cool water stray, now languid, now quick, toward the north and south and west. The whole makes a pleasing, charming illustration of the bounteous- ness and wild beauty of tropical nature. Look closer and analyze all this that you may find how deceptive is distance. The grasses are coarse and high and thick. They form a miniature copy of an African forest. Their spear-like blades wound like knives and their points like needles; the reeds are tall and tough as bamboo ; in those pretty- looking bushes are thorns--truly the thorns are hooks of steel; the crown of that yonder low hill with such a gentle slope is all but inaccessible. See that glorious crop of crimson flowers on that low bush in the middle of the lawn green. Pause, my friend, before you venture to pluck them. First, that lawn is a deception; it is a forest of tall trees you see, and that beautiful, gor­ geous poison bush is nearly thirty feet high, and those green banks of vegeta­ tion in those hollows are almost impen­ etrable forest belts.--Henry M. Stan­ ley's Letter to New York Herald. Eating Philopena. In Germany they manage this little pastime in a very pleasant way. When a couple meet after eating philopena no advantage is taken of the other until one of them pronounces the word " phil­ opena. " This is the warning that now the sport is to begin. Let us suppose that a gentleman rails upon a lady. She invites him to walk in and at the same time speaks the talismanic word. If he accepts the offer to walk in he is lost, until she remeves the ban by telling him to go away. If she asks him to take off his hat he must resolutely keep it on ; if to be seated, he must stand, or, if at the table she should hand him any article which he accepts, she wins the forfeit. During all this time he endeavors to take her by surprise, for the acceptance of any offer from the other wins tlie game. Both aro conslnrtly cxercising their wits to prevent being caught, and the sport often goes on all the evening. Peiheps the gentleman brings a little present and says, " Knowing that I shall lose my philopena, I have brought it along--here it is." If she is caught off her guard by the smooth speech she loses, for he immediately claims forfeit. If neither wins at the first meeting, the sport is continued to the seoond, and it may happen that half a dozen parties meet at tbe same time, all anxious to win of their philopena partners, so that the scene often becomes ludicrously amusing. It is " diamond cut diamond ' in very truth. Salaries of Newspaper Hen. The leading editorial writers on the London Times get 2,000 guineas per annum, which is a pretty fair salary. The largest salaries paid in America are not quite equal to this. Dr. Connery, the managing editor of the New York Herald, receives $8,000; Whitelaw Reid, of the Tribune, $12,000; Charles A. Dana, the editor of the New York Sun, 812,000, besides his profits as a stock owner; Hurlbut, of the World, $10,000. The Boston newspapers pay well. Has- call, the editor of the Herald, gets $10,000, and has just received a year's leave of absence to go to Europe, his salary being continued. The Western preen pays very fair salaries. The lead­ ing editorial writer on the Chicago Times gets $5,000, and the managing editor $6,000; Watterson, of the Courier-Jour- nal, $7,500, and an interest in the profits; Sheehf n, of the Chicago Tribune, $6,000. The largest sum paid in America to any editorial writer is that received from the. New York Herald by Mr. Charles Nord- hoflf. He gets $10,000 a year, and writes when and what lie pleases.--New Or­ leans Times. FARMER BACKMAN, of Hamptonburg, Orange county, N. Y., has realized the handsome sum of $100,000 from the sale of horses from his farm within the past year. Gov. Stanford, of Cali­ fornia, purchased $42,800 worth during his visit to Mr. Backman's plaoe last summer. A pair of 2-year-old colts were lately sold for $2,000 each. CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE* Mjrsteir Sarrounitfng' th*f*t«nd«a Egyptian Obelisk. rFroto the BpriigafM Republican.] This bringing toLftiiion of Cleopatra's needle is an event noway novel in char­ acter, jet it gives rise to some curious reflections on the way of fate. The old Egyptian King who reared this obelisk would be much amazed to witness its journey to an alien land so strong a wit­ ness to his wisdom and his futility. If any peoples might be surprised at the mockery of time, tlie ancient Egyptians might. They reared their temples and their heaven-pointing obelisks for eter­ nity, and certainly deemed their land as* eternal as their monuments. Cleopatra's needle had never anything to do with the sumptuous Queen, but perhaps received its name in some hu­ morous traveler's comment, for in her time the ambition that carved such weighty monuments in one block from the quarry did not exist; only miniature obelisks, five or ten feet hign, were made then, and the colossal monoliths of the age of the Pharaohs were being carried away by Roman conquerors. This one was dragged, with another like it, down to Alexandria in that period, and but for some change of rule in Rome would have doubtless graced the Eternal City with twelve that were taken there. They came from further south, way up the Nile; this present obelisk and the one that adorns the Place of Concord in Paris may have stood before a temple of Thebes, cr Heliopolis, but that we do not know. We know that Thothmes III,, who reigned thirty and some odd centu­ ries ago, first raised it to preserve his name immortal; but a mere name on a stone is not so vivid and interesting as the figure of that unnamed Pharaoh of the Hebrew narrative, who would not let Israel go. Perhaps Tliothmes III. was that Pharaoh, and,if it were proved,then indeed he would begin to live. It does not bear alone that name of Thothmes, for Rameses the Great, whom the Greeks called Sesostris, graved his name upon it about a century later; and still anoth­ er of his successors added his irrelevant name and titles, much as a school-boy of to-day scratches his initials on Bunker Hill monument. Precisely what the obelisk meant to the ancient Egyptians no one can cer­ tainly tell. It was a religious symbol, for everything seems to have borne for that race a religious meaning. Its name in their tongue signified " the rays of the sun," according to Pliny, and that and its derived Greek name of obelisk (which means a skewer or spit--whence naturally, 44 needle ") both point, in the estimation erf many scholars, to a con­ nection with the ancient worship of the sun, as tlie generative principle, by the means of phallic symbols. Other schol­ ars scout the notion as wholly wild. The Jachin and Boaz of Solomon's temple are believed to have been obelisks, for thus the Egyptian obelisks were placed, in pairs, at the entrance of temples, and there are archaeologists who consider the paired towers on Christian cathedrals a modification of the primitive obeliskal idea. We cannot tell how much one re­ ligion borrows from those that have gone before. Ponome, one of the students of Egyptology, says that there are no obe­ lisks found on the west bank of the Nile, as no pyramids are found on the east bank in Egypt proper, 44 the obelisk ap­ pearing to be a decoration of the cities of the living, symbolized by the rising of the sun; as the pyramid is of those of the dead, symbolized by the Betting of that luminary." Mailing Colorado Beetles. A circular has been sent ont by the Postmaster General reciting that lie has received a "communication from the British office, stating that it has been found necessary to take precautions against the admission into the United Kingdom of Colorado beetles, several live specimens of this destructive insect having been discovered in the mails re­ ceived from tlie United States, either surreptitiously inclosed in newspapers or forwarded as specimens in packets under the privilege of the pattern post." The Postmaster General instructs Post­ masters to "examine, as far as may be possible, the newspapers and other packets before dispatching them in the mails, for the purpose of detecting the presence of these beetles, and to detain all such packets as may be found to contain them." THE subterranean telegraph wires in Germany have proved highly satisfacto­ ry. The eonductibility of the buried wire, instead of decreasing, has, on the contrary, somewhat increased, and no fault in the insulation has made itself apparent. It is believed that in the long run the buried wires will prove the cheapest. Posts and insulators, con­ stantly demanding renewal, axe thus dis­ pensed with. Dudley Hansford's Fate. Last Friday night a mob of about for­ ty men went to the house of Austin StmmB, in McLenan county, six miles above Troy, with the evident intention of mobbing Simms. But he succeeded in getting under the floor of the house, and the mob did not find him. After their failure to find Simms the mob pro­ ceeded to the house of his brother-in- law, Dudley Hansford, and called for him to come out, and warned him not to fire on them from the house or they would burn it down and every person in it. Hansford left his wife and child and went out. He knew what the mob want­ ed, as he had been warned some three weeks before that if he did not leave the country he would be killed. He begged them to shoot him, and not hang him like a dog. He was taken about two miles from his house, in a northwesterly direction, and hung to a small rnesquit tree, where he was found Saturday. We are told that the mob was not masked. Hansford was a noted cattle man, and was once a citizen of this county. His character has not been good.--Belton (Texas) Journal. More Telephonic Discoveries. Still another development of the pow­ ers of the telephone has been made. An experiment in New York demonstrated that the current of one telephone would divide itself into numerous smaller currents, sufficiently strong for at least six telephones, a discovery un­ paralleled in the science of telegraphy. Connections were made between the central office and six other places in the pity, and a cornet played in the central offlbe was distinctly heard in six offices. A rather embarrassing discovery was made the other day. Whilst putting np a new line, the person engaged in the work accidentally dropped the wire of a line between a business establishment and the residence of one of the proprie­ tors, and overheard a conversation be­ tween an employe, at the place of busi­ ness, and the wife of the proprietor, at home. Fortunately no were betrayed. THE METHODISTS. Appointments for th« Coming r««r at th« Roclc KSver Conference. The following appointments were made for the ensuing year by the Bock River Conference, at its session last week; Chicago District--Presiding Elder, W. C. Willing; Chicago--Clark Street, M. M. Park- hurst, A. W. Spencer; Wabash Avenue, A. W. Patten; Michigan Avenue. John Williamson ; Trinity, Wilbur T. Crafts; Langley Avenue, T. C. Clendenning: State Street, S. M. Davis; Grace Church, John Atkinson : Grant Place, T. P. Marsh ; Centenary, H. W. Thomas, D. D.; Market Street, J. Nate: Winter Street, George Chase; Ada Street, J. M. Caldwell; Park Ave­ nue, S. McChesney; Western Avenue, S. H. Adams, IX IX; Pulton A.\i nue, W. H. Holmes ; Dickson Street, Jfi. M. lioring ; St. Paul's, Aaron Gumey ; Hakted Street, W. Craven; Simpson Street * J. R. Allen ; Kossuth Street, to be sup­ plied ; Brighton, to be supplied; Englewood, 1>. E. Bristol; Grand Crossing, J. W. Rich­ ards : Ravenswood. D. M. Tompkins ; Rogers Park, to be supplied ; South Evanston, to be suppSied ; Evan»toii, B. M. Hatfield; Evanston, Second, to be supplied : Wilniette, to be sup­ plied ; Libertyville, S. T. Show; Lake Circuit, to be supplied ; Wankegan, W. D. Atchison; Benton, to be supplied; Oak Ridge, to be supplied ; N«rthfieldl to be supplied ; Des- Aiifctin, Watson Thatcher ; Oak Park, F. P. Cleaveland ; River Forest and Maywood, to be supplied ; Wheaton, Rufus Congdon ; Turner, William P. Gray; Geneva, John M. Caldwell: Batavia, W. C. bandy, D. D.: St. Charles,Philo Gorton ; La Grange and Lyonsville, to be sup. plied; Downer's Grave, 8. S. Hughes ; Naper- ville, S. H. Schwartz : Hinsdale, J. C. Stough- ton. Agent of Western Book Concern, Luke Hitchcock, D. D.; editor of Christian Advo­ cate, C. H. Fowler: professor in Garrett Bibli­ cal Institute, Miner Raymond, D. D.; General Superintendent of Chicago Relief and Aid So­ ciety, C. G. Tiuesdell; Superintendent Mis­ sionary Western Seamen's Friend Society, Lud- wig Salisbury ; missionary to Arizona, Charles F. Cook; professor in Northwestern College, Jesse G. Cross ; agent Cook County Bible So­ ciety, 8. G. Lathrop; chaplain Newsboys' Home, Chicago, J. J. Tobias: pastor West Side Tabernacle, Alexander \ouker. J. B. Wentworth, transferred to Genesee Confer­ ence. Rockford District.--Presiding Elder, H. L. Martin; Rockford Centennial, Hooper Crews; Court Street, C. E. Mandevillo: Winnebago Street, R. 8. Cantine ; Wiunebego, John Adams; Byron and Westfield, J. W. P. Jordan ; Belvidere, W. S. Harrington ; Garden Prairie, [T. L. Patterson] : Roscoe, J. H, Reeves ; Stockton, G. J. Irving ; Round Prairie, George L. 8. Stuff : Poplar Grove and Capron, R. Beatty ; Harvard ana Chemung, M. G. Shel­ don ; Big Foot, J. M. Clendenning; Richmond, Peter C. Stire ; Solon and Spring Grove, J. H. Bacon; Ring wood and McHenry, William A. Adron ; Munda, G. L. Wiley ; Dundee. W. P. Hill; Woodstock, 8. Earngey ; Franklinville, W. C. Wire ; Elgin, William H. Burns ; Ma­ rengo, A. H, Schooninaker ; Cherry Valley, G. C. Clark; Charter Oak, W. F. Delap ; New Milford, O. E. Burch ; Harlem and Woodruff, Joseph Odgirs; Burritt, k. M. &nart. Secre­ tary of Sunday-School Union and TfMt Society, J. H. Vincent. Freeport IHstrict.--Presiding Elder, J.* I. Moore ; Freeport First, 8. A. W. Jewett, D. D.; Embury, G. 8. Young ; Galena, James Banme ; Hanover, [J. H. Sewell] ; Council Hill, W. H. Record ; Scales' Mound, F. F. Farmiloe ; Apple River, D. W. Linn; Warren, Joseph Crammer; Nora, [B. Dickens]; Lena, C. A. Bucks; OrangevilU, (11. A. Harwood] ; Dakota, G. II. Wells ; Durand, T. H. H&zeltine ; Slierland, J. M. Coulee; Pecatonica, William H. Haight; Foreston, Henry J. Huston; Lanark, Alouzo Campbell: Mount Carroll, E. W. Adams; Savanna, G. P. Sullivan ; Thompson. Joseph 8. Best; Fairliaven, [Edwin Breen] ; Elizabeth, Samuel Cates; Woodbine. [W. J. Silverton] ; Loran, 8. Lauver; Van Brocklin, to be sup­ plied Dixon District--Presiding Elder, Isaac Line- barger; Dixon, G. B. Van Horn ; Albany, T. R. Satterfield ; Amboy, Ed. M. Battis ; Ashton, J. 8. David ; Bethel, M. C. Smith; Burlington, Isaac J. Whitcomb ; Blackberry, John O. Fos­ ter ; Coleta, H. T. Clendenning ; Cortland, N. O. Freeman; Creston, J. H. Thomas ; DeKalb, Lewis E. Curtis ; Eldena, [James Trewartha] ; Erie, J. P. Morris ; Franklin Grove, John T. Cooper ; Fulton, M. H. Treggo; Geneva, H. M. Sprin, ger ; Hampshire aud Harmony, B. H. Cartwright; Kanesville, N. M. Stokes ; King­ ston, R. H. Wilkinson; Leaf River, J. G. P. Shadford; Lee Centre, George W. Perry; Light-House Point, W. A. Cross; Lodi, [W. B. Leach] : Lyndon, Joseph Wardell; Malta, [B. M. Smith]; Millegeville, C. E. Smith ; Morri­ son, C. W. Carr; Mount Morris, A. T. Need- ham ; Oregon, Isaac E. Springer ; Poio, J. O. Cranib ; Rochelle, O. T. Matteson ; Rock Falls, A. H. Miller : Sterling and Broadway, J. R. McGriftin; Fourth Street, Lewis Meredith; Sycamore, F. A. Hardin. Mendota Dist. let,--W. H. Smith, Presiding Elder; Aurora--First, A. J. Jntkias ; Galena street, S. D. Paine; Arlington, B. Close; Earl- ville, J. R. Burns ; Freedom, T. L. Halliwell; Hinckley, W. Goodfcllovv; Loland and Suydam, J. G. Campbell; Maiden and Dover, T. Coch­ rane ; Mendota, F. A. Bond; Milliugfcon, S. Searl; Mehigin, C. H. Hoffman ; Newark and 8heridan, J. W. Lee; North Prairie, [P. S. Lott]: Oswego and Little Hock, E. H. Beal; Paw Pav£ J. Hartmau ; Piano, W. H. Tiuballs ; Prairie Center, F. B. Hardin: Prophetsiown, Seymour Stover- Princeton, John Ellis; Sandwich, Thou. Chipperfield; Steward and Twin Grove, H. N. Stodder; Somonauk and Northville, T. C. Young; Sublette, Edwin Brown; Sinclair, M. J. Averill; Shabbona. A. B. Metier; Tanipieo, and Spring Hill, T. Pomerov ; Waterman, W. K. Beans ; West Bureau. W. J. Minty Walimfc, R. Proctor; Wyanet, J. I. Yates ; Yorkvilie, C. Breokrus. Agent American Bible Society, Ca­ leb Foster. Financial agent of Jennings Sem­ inary, W. S. Harrington ; principal Jennings Seminary, Martin E. Cady. Joliet District--Presiding Elder, W. H. Gloss Joliet, Ottawa Street, N. H. Axtell; Richard Street, E. C. Arnold; Kaukakee, First, William Aug. Smith; Second, W. R. Hoadlev ; Ottawa, T.R. 8trobridge; Morris, Sanford Washburn; Plainfteld, J. W. Phelps ; Lockport, William H. Strong : Lemont, M. H. Plumb ; Wilming­ ton, E. W. Drew; Elwood, William Clark; Chanahan, R. K. Bibbins; Lislron, G. W. Window; Peotone. Henry Hill; Manteno, J. S. Norris; Minooka, James Borbridge ; Platte- ville, Gideon Libby; Frankfort and New Len­ nox, G. K. Hoover; Crete, H. W. Reynolds; West Peotone, N. Critchett; Momence, John Roads; Twelve Mile Grove, A. H. Needhani; Seneca and Marseilles, Thomas Sweet; Mau- lius. [C. M. Hurlbut]; La Salle, J. H. Ailing ; Peru, [H. R. Antes]; Mokena, R. Gillespie; Blue Island and Morgan Park, C. W. Crall; Dalton and Thornton, to bo supplied ; South Chicago, to be supplied'; Genier, [E. Trevoi]; Monce, W. H. Crawford. J. A. Northrup transferred to South India Conference. The names in brackets are those of probationers. ONK Harvard student is paying his way through college by turning his room into a stationery and book-store, and another, a graduate from Wesleyan University, is meeting his expenses at the law school by working shop. Batehery of RansUtns in the limit on Plevna--Reckless Disregard of Hamao * life. '< (from the London Telegraph.] * * * The plan of the Russians was to bring on three or four regiments of four battalions apiece, one after the other, in a great column, with very little distance between the battalions--an ob­ viously foolish proceeding when within 800 yards of our position, as the great gaps in their ranks which our sheila soon began to make very quickly showed. As they approached the hill the Muscovs broke into open order, and made a short rush for a line in the ground which of­ fered some little cover, and thence the;, treated us to a storm of rifle-bulletb, while their guns in the rear shelled OTU redoubts and intrenchments liberally. I did not see many Turks fall, however, for shell-fire, although terrible for indi­ viduals if it chance to come on them, is not dangerous for troops in a long, high, narrow trench, or a well-made redoubt. The Russians appeared to think other­ wise, and for nearly an hour continued their distant shell and rifle-fire, not moving nearer till nearly 2 o'clock, when they began to come up in earnest. To attempt to describe what followed is past the power of writing. No sooner did they show themselves in the open than their first rank was almost swept away by the fearful fire which the Turks poured in upon them. On rushed the second battalion, getting a little further up the hill, but sharing the same fate. A third made a little more progress, only to cover the ground with corpses event­ ually. Then a fourth line was all but mowed down, the men behind still push­ ing up the hill over the thickening bodies of their fallen comrades, maintaining the while a heavy fire, but not greatly injuring the Turks, who were nearly covered by their intrenchments. I am afraid to say how many the Russians were losing at this moment, but there must have been thousands of them beat­ en down by the storm of bullets which came upon their masses as they as­ cended the deadly slopes. Still, on they came, the troops that were killed being constantly replaced by others, till they were actually so near the top of our ridge that they could fin? into the intrenchments, and weir officers did, as a matter of fact, use their re­ volvers. Young Dr. Ryan, a brave young Irishman here, has since dressed several revolver wounds received during this struggle. At that supreme moment the Turks were reinforced, and, rising out of their cover, made a rush forward. Away went the Russians pell-mell, the Turks firing into them and cheering loud­ ly as their enemy ran down the hill to gain the shelter of the valley--not many of them getting away,however, so dread­ ful was the hail of bullets. Over the trenches now, too, went the Turkish cavalry a little way in pursuit, being, however, unable to ride far on account of tlie Russian batteries, which thun­ dered upon them from the hill beyond, killing, however, a good many more of the Russians than of our horsemen. The fight so far had cost the Czar nearly 3,000 men, and had given him no ad­ vantage. The cannonading continued, but, as I now heard the attack quicken­ ing on the northern side, I hastened ov<fr there to see what might happen. exports $17,000,000 worth of anally. SOBO lawyer has a successful prao- JopHn, Mo. ip«ea» 1,800 c S01V& OHIO was originally spelled Oyot # STEAM cultivation of land is increas-",: ing in Etatope, FBAUCK butter ann A NEGRO tice in THE Supfcaie Court of Texas is be­ hind only 1,800 cases. IN China wheat te sown quite <dose in seed-beds and afterward transplanted. THE State of Virginia offers a bounty of $1 for the scalp of every gray fox, and! $1.50 for red ones. FOB the year ending June 1,12,000,- 000 pounds of dried apples were export­ ed from this country. MASSACHUSETTS has about 1,200 kin of flowering plants and 4,900 varieties insects that feed on plants. THE valuation of the State of NeW Yorkfor the year 1877aggregates $2,255, 739,318, an increase of $289,473,040 over 1876. EIGHTY-ONE THOUSAND passenger* sailed from New York during the lasS . year. More than one-fourth landed England. ^ ;it- To SKB a pretty girl putting on a post- : age-stamp makes a fellow wash he warfl the Father of his Country, or even Ben Franklin. A NEW HAMPSHIRE farmer has RAIS©4 * < from two beans, planted this season, 't': 1,670 beans; one stalk produced 990, thO. ; ' other 690. . , X- IT has been found in Hawaii and Ta*- #;̂ hiti that Chinamen are cheaper to main* ^ tain, and less apt to be discontented,than ̂ Irish or German workmen. f THE Dutch are still at war in Acheen, and lately lost two officers and sixty men while eighty were wounded. Th^ir Acheenese lost only thirty-eight killed|M »fi and wounded. A CURIOTXS fate seems to be in store fof . the isle of Elba. It is to be visited by the Italian Ministers of Interior Marine, who contemplate establishing |r large penal colony there. THE six principal articles imported bjr Great Britain are grain and flour, about 8270,000,000; raw ootton, $235,000,000; wool, $125,000,000; sugar, $110,000,000; lumber, $75,000,000; and tea, $7OSOQO,O0(V THE horns of the Abyssinian ox ar» nearly four feet long and seven inches in diameter at their base. The Abyssinian buffalo is double the size of our oxen; and two will draw as much as fori* horses. oensus statistics of ~ " in I , which was held by five doubts. There was no effort whatever to turn our position; a heavy cannonade was showered upon it from batteries more or less distant, that was all. All along tlie top of this hill or ridge ran a long trench, connecting each battery with the next to it The task of the Russians was to clamber up in the middle of all, storm the trench and take the redoubts. I never heard of a madder enterprise in my life; the man who made it must have been a military idiot. To resist the at­ tack Osman Pasha had sent Adil Pasha, who commanded here, sufficient troops to cram his intrenchments with men, as well as redoubts. He had also sent a couple of reserve battal­ ions, and ammunition supplies in such abundance as to enable Adil to in a barber's SOMEBODY says: " Every failure is a step to success." This will explain why the oftener some men fail the rioher they become. diligent enough to obey the order ikat Russian advance consisted of about nine battalions, who came on with great impetuosity, and met with the usual re­ ception. I know how easy it is to ex­ aggerate losses at a moment of such ex­ citement, but to me it seemed that not a man of the first six battalions which topped the slope escaped. A huge dark mans of bodies marked the spot where they stood; and, when, later in the day, a Russian prisoner was taken, he him­ self said that only five men had escaped the carnage at that time. This attack was no sooner over, however, than a new assault began. Another deep column of men made a fresh attempt to climb the 1, ytiiwhino- forward iust as they did on Ing mass _ sfi#U and bullets as "it descended the slope. It was simply a human butchery, nothing more or less, and the Russian officer who ordered that attack is fright­ fully responsible for the slaughter he oaused. I do not think the Turks on this side lost 500 men. I am sure the Russians lost nearly 7,000. The mad­ ness of the assault may be judged when it is known that, had they entered the trenches, they would still have had to contend with five redoubts full of men and two reserve battalions, by whom they must have been destroyed very quickly, as their supports, from the very nature of the ground, would have been unable to come to their help for many minutes. There never was a chance of the undertaking succeeding; it was a willful, camel, ignorant waste of the ROB sian soldiers' lives. ed. The President was grit to kbone, and, while he was pane' e discontented debater, the latter sort of winding twist on the midc finger of the right hand with his inokh ore, and in about two minutes the end of that finger dropped off, and was spit out by the bottom man, who did the biting. Tlie President of the society has his haprl in a sling, but he is President lot all that.--(ialvexton (Texas) News. $22,500 for a Cow. At a recent sale of short-horned oows in "England a beast named " Fifth Duch­ ess of Hillhurst" was sold amid