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$Phe ,||Ulifting fjlaindcaler. J. VAN SLYKE, PUBLISH**. toHENBT. ELLINOIR AtfRtCULTtJRlL A3» D31E3TIC. Around the Farm. "BY-THE-BY, is the great loss of weight €hat occurs in eggs which are kept long generally known ? I have weighed mine several times, and it has proved to be lighter at each successive weighing.-- Mark Lane Express. STEPHEN BURROWS, after trying for several years to eradicate a patch of Canada thistles on his farm, with very indifferent success, hit upon a plan last fall that he claims finished up the job. The pomace from his cider-mill applied to them did the work effectually.-- Whitewater Register. WARMTNO your honey before the fire ^rill not prevent fermentation, but gather increase it. Some American bee­ keepers boil their honey when fermenta­ tion begins. Boiling may act for a time, and is probably the best thing that can be done to hinder the, fermenting pro­ cess. As soon as any" of our honey be­ gins to ferment we boil it, and then give it either to poor people or weak hives.-- Cottage Oardenet. To KEEP roots sound and plump, Mr. Benjamin P. Ware, of Marblehead, a successful gardener, cuts off the fine root8 close to the body, and pares away the crown of the turnip or beet suffi­ ciently to destroy all buds or rudiments of buds. The thus doctored roots are then placed in barrels of sand or covered with earth in the cellar to prevent wilt­ ing. Removing the buds and rootlets prevents that corkiness so common with these roots when kept till late in winter, which is caused by the support of sprouts and rootlets using up much of the more tender and edible substance of the roots. Turnips and beets thus treated are as nice for the table in late winter or early spring as when first harvested.--Scien­ tific Farmer. ANIMAL manures of all kinds are good but different in the rapidity of their fertilizing effects, as well as their dura­ tion. Horn, hair and wool, as Prof. Johnson has well remarked, depend for their efficacy precisely on the same prin­ ciple as the blood and flesh of animals. They differ chiefly in this, that they are dry, while the blood and flesh contain from 80 to 90 per cent, of their weight in water. Hence, a ton of horn shavings, of hair, or of dry woolen rags contains vastly more fertilizing materials than the same weight in blood or flesh, but the effect of soft animal matter is more immediate and apparent, while that of hard and dry substances is less visible, but continues for a much longer time.-- Rural New Yorker. A HINT TO CARELESS BOYS AND MEN.-- To make breachy cattle an excellent way is, when turning stock into or out of the pasture, instead of letting down all the bars, to leave two or three of the lower rails in their place, and then by shout­ ing or beating to force the animals to leap over them. This is capital training for teaching them to try their powers of jumping where a top rail happens to be off, and, having achieved success in this, to set all fences at defiance, as incli­ nation or the sight of an abundant meal of grass or grain in a neighboring field may prompt them. Another good way is to open the gate but a little way and by throats or blows compel the cattle to pass through it. Having learned this lesson, some of them will soon manifest a resolute spirit to force their way into yards, fields, or indeed into any place where a gate Or door may have accidentally been left open. --Moore's Rural. THE implement we use is simply an ordinary iron beam plow with the mold- board token off and the share length­ ened out by putting on a piece of steel, about half an inch thick, two inches wide and twenty inches long. We at­ tach two horses to this, and straddling the row to adjust the draughty that the standard of the plow will run to the left of each hill in the row, and the long steel cutter attached to the share will pass under and cut loose the potatoes in •each hill, leaving the hill apparently, undisturbed, but loosened up complete­ ly. so that the digger, with a four-tined fork, can throw the tubers out very fast, tmd with much less hard work than without the use of this implement. We "have been digging during the last week, and in two days three men dug 800 bushels; after this cutter had been run "under the hills, and with nine-and-a-half days' work 1,150 bushels were thrown out of the hill, or about 127 bushels for -each day's work.--Detroit^ Free Press. About the House. To CURE A BUNION.--Try binding on the pulp of a lemon every night. To KEEP THE HANDS WHITE.--Never use hard water; soften it with a little borax; if the hands are very tender or become chapped, wear kid gloves all •night. SUET PUDDING.--One cupful of stoned «nd chopped raisins, one cupful finely- chopped suet, one cupful sugar, one of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, flour enough to make it stiff as bread dough. Steam three hours. USES OF TURPENTINE.--It is stated that spirits of turpentine, sprinkled through the house once a week, is a sure preventive against Bcarlet fever am1 other diseases. It is also said to keep moths out of carpets.--Our Home Journal. CREAM SPONGE CAKE.--Beat two eggs in a coffee-cup until light, and then fill the cup with sweet cream ; add one cup of sugar, one-half teaspoonful of soda, * one of cream-of-tartar and one and one- half cup of flour. Should sour cream be used, omit the cream-of-tartar. To CRYSTALLIZE GRASSES.--Dissolve about twelve "ounces of alum in two quarts of boiling-hot water; place the grasses (tied in a bunch) in the solution while it is hot; do not disturb it; when cold separate the grasses; remove all un­ necessary lumps. If the"® crystals are too large made the solution weaker. BECIPE FOR TOILET SOAP.--Take two ounces of glycerine, an ounce of oil oi sweet almonds, and two ounces of pow­ dered Florentine orris root, and melt with four ounces of mutton tallow and a ' pound of English white Castile soap ». Before the soap sets, it can be cut with a knife in any shape the fancy dictates. --Economist. POTTED PIGEONS.--After picking, drawing and washing well, cut off the pinions, dry well with a cloth, season with pepper and salt; roll a lump of butter in chopped parsley, and put it into the pigeons; sew them up, place them in a pot, cover them with butter, bake in a moderately-heated oven ; when done, put them in potting-pots, aqd pour clarified butter over. Keep in a dry place. GLYCERINE FOR OIL STONES.--About every one has more or less use for an oil stone, but in these days a good oil is hard to obtain, and kerosene is often used instead. This is a bad plan, for, al­ though it makes the steel '• take hold," it ruins the stone. Glycerine is much better, does not dry on the stone, and is easily washed off when dirty. Use soap or soda and water to clean the stone, and tiien apply the glycerine. Clean water is only needed to wasli the stone with, and, if treated in this way, the latter can be kept bright for a long time with the grit unimpaired.--Husbandman. ONIONS AS A DISINFECTANT.--Onions sliced and put in plates in a sick room are an excellent disinfectant, and will prevent contagion from eruptive troubles. They should be removed, and fresh slices put in their places, as soon as discolored. Be sure that these slices are buried, or put where they cannot be eaten, as soon as taken from the room. It is not safe to use onions that are not taken fresh from the earth, during any epidemic of eruptive diseases, as they are so quickly sensitive to or impreg­ nated with any contagion or malaria in the atmosphere.--Boston Transcript. Sea Bathing at Halves ton. The other evening quite a nice little party of ladies and gentlemen repaired to the beach at Galveston, Texas, to en­ joy for the first time during the season the delights of the bath. Everything was as lovely as could be when the beach was reached by the bathers. The south winds were as soft as the down upon the angel's wing, and perfumed with the richest and rarest odors the flowery isles of the gulf can produce. The ladies went off to themselves, and donning their robes for the plunge, gave the word when all was ready to the boys, who un­ derwent a similar change in their raiment at another place. The girls screamed nice little screams as the laughing waters would leap up to their mouths and kiss the red rosy lips that tempted them, and the boys would stand stiff and stubborn against the plunging waves, defying the strength of old Ocean's billows. The bath was be­ ing hugely enjoyed until one of the girls gave a scream. The first outburst of agony was fol­ lowed by a second, deeper and more ter­ rible than words can express. Then came the third scream, and the lady fainted-- fell lifeless into old Ocean's arms. There was gathering in hot haste about this fatal place. Men from the beach rushed with their clothes on into the sea to render all the assistance in their pow­ er to save the " dying girl." The con­ course continued to increase until the beach and the gulf were alive with anx­ ious, eager people, men and women, who wanted to know what the matter was. The unfortunate lady was seized by a stalwart arm and carried to the shore, where her brow was fanned with the brim of a Panama hat, which soon re­ stored her to consciousness. With the first gleam of reason that shot across her soul she brought another scream. This time it was "Shark ! I am bitten by a shark!" With that announcement there waa a departure in hot haste from that memor­ able spot which will live forever in the fears of those who filled up the ranks of the skedaddlers. The idea seemed to seize that delegation that a shark could travel on dry land as well as in the sea, and under this impression a tremendous assemblage of bathers,.in thin bathing costume, could be seen flying like a routed army through the highways of East Galveston. After peftce had been restored the he­ roes of this escape armed themselves with fishing-hooks, shot guns, six shoot­ ers and all the available weapons attain­ able, and started to the beach to attack the shark. He was found floating just as he was when he made the assault upon the young lady. He was roped, hooked, shot and brought ashore, and proved to be a stick of timber worth about fifteen cents. A Bonanza of Wealth in South Carolina. The most remarkable instance of a geological discovery, revolutionizing a district and enriching a State, has oc­ curred in the development of what is known as the Ashley River (S. C.) de­ posits of what seems to be the remains of cartilaginous fish, especially of the shark family, though they also oontain numerous bones and teeth of cetaceans, or whale-like aniinals, many of which were larger or as large as the whales found in the seas of the present time. From the number of their bones and teeth exhumed or washed out by the waves of the ocean, they must have ex­ isted in large "shoals," and, together with the enormous sharks of that age, animals rivaling the whale in size, must have constituted a vast marine army of ravenous "flesh-eaters" and spacious "scavengers" of the Eocene ocean. Large ships and steamers are daily seek­ ing cargoes from the Ashley, Stono, Wando, Ashepoo, and other rivers, and the State of South Carolina is now reap­ ing a great harvest. Over $6,000,000 has already been invested by Northern capitalists in mining and manufacturing the rocks into rich fertilizers, and many persons who, in 1867, were unbelievers, have now their thousands invested in it. This is a simple and true history of the discovery and development of the phos­ phate rocks of South Carolina. The exports for the past year amount to near­ ly 200,000 tons.--Philadelphia In­ quirer. The Colorado Giant. The Denver News demolishes the Colorado giant. Thousands of feet of limestone and sandstone have worn away from above the shale where it was found; there are no remains of a prehistoric people in the neighborhood; the ma­ terial of the statue is so soft that if it were buried for a year it would fall to pieces, and no anthropoid apes or v? mains of them have ever been found in this hemisphere, so that the addition of a tail is an absurdity. 0. P. MORTON. Kctwnal ptemlnlsceneea of the Stad War. Governor. Mr. William Henry Smith, of Chicago, whose long connection with public af­ fairs in Ohio gave him an opportunity to know the late Senator Morton during the most eventful portion of nis life, while the war of the Rebellion was in progress, gives the following personal reminiscences of the dead statesman : Mr. Smith said he first met Oliver P. Morton in 1853. He was at that time engaged in the successful practice of law in the eastern part of Indiana, princi­ pally at Richmond and Centroville. He was a young man of great promise-- large, strong, and remarkable for his extraordinary vigor and force ©f will. His first connection with politics that I remember, continued Mr. Smith, was his opposition to George W. Julian, the noted abolitionist, who was running for Congress. Morton didn't like him., and, with his friends, did what he could to defeat him. Sam Parker was backed by Morton and his friends, and he suc­ ceeded in defeating Julian. The enmitv between the latter and Morton never ceased. Even after the latter became the head of the Republican party in In­ diana the old feeling of animosity be­ tween him and Julian would crop out in the party councils. One of Morton's warm friends in those days was old Sol Meredith, a quaint combination of farm­ er and politician, whom I think it would be difficult to match. The main facts in his life you will find in the many articles published concern­ ing him during the past year. Every­ one remembers the thrill that swept over the country when, early in 1861, he made his great speech at a public meeting, declaring that the Union must be pre­ served at any cost. His was the first voice to utter these wofds publicly, and that speech did more to crystalize the Union feeling of the North into a deter­ mination that the Union must be pre­ served than any other public utterance of that eventful period. Again, early in April, just before President Lincoln issued his proclama­ tion calling for 75,000 troops for three months, Morton's dispatch offering, in the name of Indiana, to furnish 10,000 men to put down the rebellion created intense excitement. I think he was one of the first men to realize that the rebellion was not tc be put down St) easily as at first supposed, and he urged the necessity of the most vigorous measures. He was, from the firs*, the trusty adviser of Mr. Lincoln. The promptitude he displayed in car­ rying out his designs was little short of marvelous. Red tape never tied him down. The troops of Indiana were, ow­ ing to his energy, among the first in the field, and, through his fatherly solicitude and watchfulness for their welfare, they were better eared for than any other regiments in the army. It was he who first set the example of sending agents with the troops from his own State, whose duty it was to report their sanitary - condition at all times. When Gov. Brough become Governor of Ohio--he was elected in 1863--he adopt­ ed this plan. My official acquaintance with Gov. Morton began when I became Private Secretary to Gov. Brough, and con­ tinued until I was elected Secretary of State of Ohio. This was the most try­ ing period of the war, the dark days of 1863-4. Brough and Morton were warm personal friends, and in many respects were very similar. Both were men of great energy and will power, and from the first they worked in concert. Be­ fore Brough's election the people of Ohio looked with more confidence to Morton to protect them from threatened incursions than to Todd, our own Gov­ ernor. In 1863, when Morgan's men threatened Cincinnati, Morton was ap­ pealed to for protection and he did what he could. In his efforts to discover and put down the treasonable organizations known as the Knights of the Golden Circle, Sons of Liberty, and kindred associations he worked without ceasing, and with un- equaled energy and vigilance. Secret agents were constantly passing between him and Gov, Brough, at all hours of the day and night. The amount of work he did was marvelous. During this time I was frequently called to Indian­ apolis and know that not an hour of the twenty-four passed without some de­ mand on him for advice or action. .He was always a strong partisan, and in this respect his leadership bore a stronger" resemblance to Henry Clay than to any other American statesmen. Personally he was most agreeable and entertaining. He made friends of all he met in the social circle, and was es­ pecially beloved in his own city. He possessed all the elements of a great leader. His energy, great abilities, strong common sense, and devotion to the Union were his most marked charac­ teristics. Russian and Turk--What They Are Fighting For. It must, then, be fully understood that the Turk is not fighting for his own home or his own country. He is fighting for the right to play the tyrant--to play the Turk--in the country and homes of other men. He is fighting to guard his spoils from their lawful owners. He fights in order that he may keep the power of un­ restrained murder, robbery and outrage over as large a part of the earth's surface as he can. To the fine ladies and gen­ tlemen at Stafford House, and to the Duke who talks in their name, this seems a "sacred cause." Those who try to put a check upon the doings of men en­ gaged in this sacred cause are spoken of as " aggressors." The " aggression" of Russia consists in the noble determina­ tion of the Russian people that this state of things shall be put an end to--in their determination themselves to spend and be spent in the glorious work. If by Turkey we mean the lands so marked on the map and the people of those lands, the Russians are not fighting against Turkey, but for Turkey. They fight to free the people of Turkey from barba­ rian bondage. They fight to free the land of .Turkey from the exactions of barbarian tax-gatherers. They fight to free the homes of Turkey from the plun­ der and defilement of barbarian robbers and ravishers. They fight, in short, to free the land from the barbarian in­ truder and give it back to its own people. May such "aggression" as this ever prosper. It is grievous to us as En­ glishmen that Russia should be left to do alenet ae work which England should have done at her side. But we can none the less feel our hearts beat for those who are doing tfce work in which we are kept back from sharing. They have drawn the sword in the cause of right­ eousness; they have jeoparded their lives unto the death to put down the wrong and uphold the right--E. A. Freeman, in, Contemporary Review. Return of A. Oakejr Hall. A. Oakey Hall has returned to New York. His reappearance is as mysteri­ ous as his sudden exit, on the 16th of March test, was for a while inexplicable. Hall is once more in the bosom of his family at No. 13 West Forty-second street. Early this morning his* familiar features were recognized by some of his old friends as he rode up Broadway in a coupe. Mr. Aaron J. Yanderpool, a former law-partner of the ex-Mayor, said that he was surprised when he was vis­ ited by Mr. Hall. Mr. Hall was cheer­ ful, and seemed much improved in health. " How did he reach the city ?" asked the reporter. " I don't kno* ; I didn't ask him. I know that he was in London about twenty days ago. 1 merely guess that he came by way of Boston.5' " He intends to remain in New York?" " Yes; I think that is very certain. I always thought there was something wrong with his head when he went away. He was annoyed and nearly worn out. Now he has had rest, and it has done him good. I think that he will re­ sume the practice of his profession." Mr. Vanderpool agreed with many persona-with whom the reporter con­ versed, that no one excepting Mr. Hall knows what he intends to do, and, so far as can be learned, he has told no one of his intentions. District Attorney Phelps was asked to-night whether legal proceedings would be begun against the ex-Mayor. He said there would not be, so far as his office was concerned. " Hall has been tried once and acquitted," he said, "and, of course, he can be tried again if he ob­ tains new evidence ; but if he is tried and acquitted that is the end of it, new evidence or not. The statute of limita­ tions would bar any proceedings on the alleged fraudulent minutes of the Board of Audit. It was done more than five years ago. There will be no criminal suit against him. What civil snits may be brought I know nothing about." Mr. Win. C. Whitney, the Corpora­ tion Counsel, said that so far as Mr. Hall had ever been in the " ring" suits, the case had been settled, and he did not think there was any prospect of any suit being brought against him. Many theories are afloat as to the im­ pelling motive that brought Hall home. Tt is believed by many that he does noi know why he returned, but has been brought back by the crazy impulse of a brain that was unsettled before he left this city. A few put his return on the solid basis that he is now of sound mind and in good health, and that he intends to resume the practice of his profession, and attempt to wipe out the memories of the past.--New York W arid. A Whisky Monomaniac. A singular instance of the power of alcoholic drink was brought publicly to notio^ yesterday. A young gentleman, a journalist, a capitalist and & Christian, is the victim of a suddenly-acquired mania which is quite remarkable. He went tq visit his former home last sum­ mer in Cincinnati. On his way home to Kansas City he became sick, and, in the absence of a doctor, went to the steam­ boat bar and asked for and was given a drink of whisky. The drink, coming upon a system unaccustomed to it, created an intoxication, which has been perpetual ever since. It gave the young man such a mania for strong drink that nothing could restrain him in his ex­ cesses. There was nothing about his intoxication offensive to those who visit­ ed hi oi. On the contrary, his brilliant mi ad and inexhaustible fund of con­ versation seemed to be renewed. He knew that he was surrendering himself to drink and its fascinating effects, but paid no attention to the remonstrances of his friends. There was nothing vio­ lent in his exccsBes. He was calm, but desired to drink, and he kept on drink ing. He fend a wife to whom he war, de­ voted ; he idolized her and made every provision for her comfort. He was a member of the church and in good standing; a good lawyer, and the chosen leader of the Young Men's Republican Club. He owns a large amount of real estate, arid was on the highway to wealth and prosperity. He had never taken a drbp of intoxicating liquor in his life before this drink taken on the Ohio steamboat. Yesterday he was taken East by his father and brother, where restraint will be placed upon his actions, in the hope that the brilliant and cultivated mind may be saved from this strange and fatal infatuation.--Kan SOLS City Times. The Richmond Battle Fields. The battle-fields around Richmond are quiet meadows now, reclaimed by nature, with few signs of the days of "blood and iron." At Cold Harbor, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, and Malvern Hill, one sees little to remind him of the terrible scenes enacted there tweive aifl fifteen years ago. In the woods and on hill-sides and river bluffs in the Pe­ ninsula, where no attempt has been made to cultivate the land, sloping earthworks are still to be seen, but else­ where the intrencliments have been lev­ eled. Below Petersburg there are few traces even of such formidable fortifica­ tions as Steadman, Hell and Damnation. The Crater and the fields around it are owned by Mr. Griffiths, who was bom close by, and was in Petersburg when the mine was fired. He has built a house near the Crater, and now has his fath­ er's farm under excellent cultivation. The Crater itself has been left almost untouched, and a thick underbrush of peach trees and sprouts has sprung up from the pits thrown away by the sol­ diers during the siege. The ravine where the dead lay in great heaps or that terrible morning has been brought under the plow year after year, until now only a slight depression in the fie'd can be pointed out. The visitor has to pay 25 cents for a glimpse of the Crater and the interior of a shed stocked with battle relics. ILLINOIS ITEMS. .. . _ *Jeat is looking well all through Southern Illinois. ALTON has nearly $31,000 less to raise by taxation this year than lwt THE internal revenue collections in the Eighth revenue district fey October aggregated $186,554.40. A DISEASE resembling gennfse hog cholera is destroying swine in Ridott township, Stephenson county. THE citizens of Centralia have sub­ scribed $25,000 toward the establish­ ment of a nail-mill in that city, LAWRENCE COUNTY claims the oldest school-house in the State, built fifty-nine years ago. THERE is a project on foot in Quincy to build a levee and railroad from that place to Warsaw. THE special census of Alton, ordered by the City Council, foots up 10,500 inhabitants, a gain of 1,800 since 1870. THE Belleville Printing Company, of Belleville, has filed a petition for a li cense with the Secretary of State. A Nsw foreign fire insurance company has been admitted to this State by the Auditor--the Transatlantic, of Hamburg, Germany. OFFICIAL returns indicate that this year's corn crop of Illinois will exceed that of last year by about 90,000,000 bushels. A CASE involving the question as to whether members of the State militia, living in towns, are exempt from the payment of Btreet tax is pending in Springfield. THE Joliet Stone Company, capital $30,000, and the Union Chemical Works, Chicago, capital $10,000, were licensed recently. BARNEY SCHLOTMAN, a teamster at Quincy, attempted to snoot his wife, but, failing, fatally shot himself through the head twice with a revolver. THE third annual convention of the Sixth District of the Illinois Sabbath- School Association convened in the Pres­ byterian Chapel at Anna last week. J. W. WHEELER, a much-respected farmer, living near Bellcflower, who had been suffering from cancer for some months, committed suicide by taking morphine. THE Auditor has admitted the Trans­ atlantic Fire Insurance Company, of Hamburg, Germany, to this State. The principal office in the United States is in New York. Gov. CULLOM has issued a proclama­ tion, offering a reward of $200 for the capture aud return of Alexander Wilson, who escaped from the Pope county jail Oct. 9. Wilson was awaiting trial for the murder of James Wingard, who was killed last April. THE remains of a man named Mike Wiley, Who disappeared from Lacon thirteen years ago, have just been dis­ covered and identified. At the time of his disappearance it was believed that he had been murdered by his wife, and she was arrested and examined, but dis­ charged for want of proof. Marks on the head now indicate very plainly that he was murdered. THE following is a list of tTiepostoffice changes in Illinois made during the week ending Nov. 3: Established Eclipse Mills, Clark county, C. W. Ham­ mond, Postmaster; Melrose, Clark coun­ ty, Charles B. Rook, Postmaster. Dis­ continued--Piopolis, Hamilton county, Names Changed--Hale, Ogle county, to Stillman Valley; Spoon River, Knox county, to Elba Center. Postmasters Appointed--Calhoun, Richland county, Levi Williamson; Danforth Station, Iroquois county, Frederick Kohl; Elli- ottstown, Effingham county, B. B. Will­ iams ; Gilbert's, Kane county, »John Kelly; Prettyman, Tazewell county, Jacob Bortzfield: Walnut, Bureau county, Watson Wolf. THE Monmouth Atlas reports that at a late meeting of the Directors of the Burlington, Monmouth and Illinois River Railroad Company, the Executive Com­ mittee was instructed to locate the road from Monmouth eastward within twenty days, and commence the grading at once. Tlie balance unpaid on th: first install­ ment of stock was ordered to be collected forthwith. THE following is the statement of re­ ceipts and disbursements at the State treasury for the month of October : RECKIPTH. State revenue fund $24,483.02 State school fund 15,966.90 Local bond fund 14.544.9S Xotal $64,994.87 DIBBCBSEUENT8. Revenue fund $234,690.30 Illinois river improvements 10,630.06 School fund 1,001,750.00 Illinois Central 104,864.45 Local bond fund 2,700.82 A TEXAS sto.:k man recently sold to some parties in Southwestern Kansas 40,000 head of cattle and 2,000 head of horses for $140,000. working and efficient man, and leaves • wife and child to mourn his loss. $ THE Thanksgiling proclamation •Gov. Cullom is as follows : :41 8TATK OI- ILLINOIS, F.XPrrrcrK VnrMtrsmn. ' I, Shelby M. Cullom, Governor of the State* of Illinois. do appoint Thursday, the 29th day of November, as a day of Thanksgiving. Thi# purely national festival, which originated with • the Pilgrim Fattier*, is entitled to the respect and observance of all good citizens, as a recog- mineriutending provi-nitiou of the deuce of AliMghty God. a riff as^ «n expression of ear thankfulness to Htm for his bountafsH goodness to us as a people--not in a spirit of boasting, nor with* out a deep sense of sympathy for the nation m> severely afflicted, ft may increase our grail, tude to remember the conditio* of India, stricken with famine; of Russia and Turken d-vastated by war; of France, torn with fierov internal dissensions. From these e-fiie we have been delivered, while oar civil and religions privileges, the general good health of th* people, car magnificent crops, and the conse­ quent improved condition of all busmen* "terestsr afford us abradant ooewton far positive rejoicing. I, therefore, call upon j~e . citoams of Illinois to assemble in their places of religious worship,, and aronnd- their tables and firesides,'^to make this # .i-*1**' .a rest aiid of festivity--not forgetting rt* proper religiou»observaRce--but above all, a day for the reassembling of ecaf*- tered kindred, in order to the slower knittin* off those domestic ties which are the pledge and- ground of national union and prosperity.- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set n# hand and canned the seal of the State to be af­ fixed. Done at the city of Springfield the 2dl day of November, A. D., 1877. '8, M. CCULOW, Governor. BY the Governor: GEO. H. HARLOW. Secretarr of State. THE TEKK'S COMMISSARIAT. How the Tupfcffeh Soldier* in the Held ar» Yrovlaioned. [Shumia Cor. London Times.]] Shumla IS the center of the commis­ sariat arrangements of Mehemet All's army. There is no supply department, and consequently the Turkish system of provisioning an> army has seemed IN? volved in mystery. There is, however, very little mystery about it. The Turk­ ish passion for centralization throws ALL' the weight of administration upon out­ point in the mechanism, and the coal­ man <ler-in-chief MAKES his own ARRANGE­ MENTS for supply: The cominander-itt- cliief being now absent, Raouf Piislia, his locum tenens in Shumia, directs TH* business. In the absence of ANY military tni% all the bullock wagons have been requiM* sitioned for miles arownd. Each wago% with driver and a pair of bullocks, is- bound to serve for A month; during this time no wages or hire is paid, but the driver and his beasts are entitled to •• ration of biscuit and' chopped straw H>» spectively. The quantity of biscuit NOW being carried up to the front is about 450 tons per week. Of this, 375 tons is sent from Constantinople by the Seras- kierate in two weekly shipments; the rest is furnished by the bakers of this- place, Silistria and Varna. The wagons* convey this to the front and take back sick and wounded. Fodder for artillery and cavalry horses is supplied by con­ tracts, and the contractor in most oases furnishes the transport; The Turkish soldier receives A ration of biscuit, with a dish of stew at night* made of meat and vegetables. In bar­ racks this stew is actually a culinary tri­ umph, when lamb is fat and onions fresh. I well remember one spring see­ ing a noble lord, o£» delicate health snSflh dainty appetite, testing by repeated, spoonfuls and with evident" enjoyment the quality of the succulent mess pre­ pared for the evening meal of a provin­ cial garrison. But I hear the quantity of the stew is very slender at the FRONTS whero the supply of vegetables is uncer­ tain, and four sheep the daily allowance for a battalion. Let it be remarked that an average sheep of this part of the world does not yield more than THIRTY pounds of material for the kettle, includ- . ing tiesh, bone and edible viscera. The camp soup last night was chiefly made of green tomatoes, ma sea of which bobbed rare bits of fatless mutton. I was not tempted to taste the compound, but it looked green and smelled sour, and did not seem to have much comfort' in it for a drizzly night. The subject of the Turkish commissariat is as soon ex­ hausted as its resources. 1 have said all there is to say about it„ exccpt that all, goes well till the SUUIJF stretches out IN some unexpected direction, and then the biscuit doer, not arrive, the fodder fails, and the whole army has to MAINTAIN it- self by foraging. Total $1,354,635.63 THE attention of the Auditor has been called to the fact that some insurance companies, organized under the Town­ ship Insurance law, have been taking risks on churches, school houses, black­ smith shops, store buildings and carpen­ ter shops. This, according tp the in­ terpretation of the law by the Superin­ tendent of Insurance, is a violation of the law. Those companies are only authorized to issue policies on detached dwellings; barns, except livery, board- iug and hotel bams, and the other farm builoings, and such property as may be contained therein. Those insurance companies having issued policies on property other than that named in the law have exceeded their authority. AN accident occurred at the new Court House at Chicago, a few days ago, re­ sulting in the horrible death of John Ackley, one of the foremen in the stone­ work. He had charge of a force of men at work on the southeast corner of the building, and was on the wall directing the hoisting and setting of a stone. The stone in question weighed 7,100 pounds, and, when upon the wall, was found to 'be out of plumb, and the deceased or­ dered that it be again raised, that the difficulty might be remedied. His order was obeyed, and, when it had been raised several feet, he crawled beneath it and with his trowel proceeded to make the level correct. While under it,, one of the " lewises," an iron spike by which the stone was held, broke, and, the stone railing on him, he was ciushed to death. He was extricated as soon as possi­ ble, but life was nearly extinct, and he breathed his last in a few moments. He was about 48 years of age, a hard­ A House of Our Own. Next to being married to tlx* right person, there is nothing so important in one's life as to live under one's own roof. There is something more than » poetical charm in the expression of a wife writing to a friend, who said: " We have our cozy house ; it is thrice dear to us because it is our own. We have bought it with the savings of our earn­ ings. Many were the soda fountains, the confectionery saloons, and the necessaries of the market we had to pass; many a time my noble husband denied himself the comfort of tobacco, the refreshing draught of beer, wore his old clothes, and even patched-np boots ; and I, O me ! made my old bonnet do, wore the plainest clothes, did the plain­ est cooking. Saving was the order of the house, and to have a home of our o\^u had been our united aim. Now we have. There is no landlord troubling with raising the rent. There is no fear harbored in our bosom that in sickness or old age we will be thrown out of house and home, and the money which otherwise would have gone to pay rent is sufficient to keep us comfortable in the winter days of life." Willing to Pay in Wrate-Stesss. The Portsmouth (N. H.) Times relates the following: "A dealer in certain neces­ saries of life, who has been long and tenderly caring for a dearly-beloved wife afflicted with a very painful and incura­ ble disease, hat! occasion to seek the col­ lection of a bill of goods, which had been standing some time, of a man who is acting as agent for grave-stones. Meeting the individual one day, the proverbially accommodating dealer pre­ sented the bill, whereupon the agent put on that thoroughly confidential and patronizing mood for which he is pe­ culiar and, after various pleas, coolly suggested that the bill be allowed to stand a little longer; • at least,' said he, in substance, 4 until the decease of your wife, who can't possibly live long; for then you will want a grave-stone, which I can furnish, and then we can balanoa the account.'"