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,<v . . . .. ' • * P*feJ!sl»er. !r"r-5^' . ' . ; < h , f. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. ' , .OVHftXXT FARAOlAfM. *' Tho Pope has appointed Cardinal * tLo^enzo Nina Pontifical Becretaryof 8tate. ^ ,The insurrectionists In Bosnia have assassinated the Governor of Mostar. • - i vOun P. Hoyt, of MiOmgia, una uSm .appointed Governor of Idaho Territory. iThere were thirty-nine failures in ? CMeago daring the month of July, the li&bil MM of which aggregated $1,722,895. In the international shooti ng-match, la London, on the 6th, Capt. Bogardt)*, the American champion, won by one bird.' The Workingmen's Congress in Paris, announced for the 3d of September, has been prohibited by the French Government. The Greenbackers of Texas have nominated a full Bute ticket, headed by W. H. Hammons for Governor, and J. 8. Raines for Lieutenant-Governor. r A proclamation has been issued in Herzegovina announcing that all persons who offer resistance to the Austrian* will bp, trfed by dram-head court-tnartial. -> At the recent Kearney meeting, in Boston, resolutions were adopted extending a hearty and united support to Dennis Kearney, "the apostle of the laboring classes of Cali­ fornia." ' The American Minister at Constan­ tinople has sent a gunboat to investigate the alleged molestation and maltreatment of an American female missionary by the Greeks in Thessaly. ' At the recent election in North Caro­ lina the Democrats elected ninety-seven mem­ bers of the Legislature, the Republicans fifty, and the Independents nine, with fourteen dis­ tricts reported doubtful. . On the 7th, the Treasury Department f issued the sixty-sixth call for the redemption $5,000,000 of the 5-30 bonds of 1865, principal and interest to be paid at the United States Treasury, on and after Nov. 7. . The trotting horse Ranis made the ijnprecedented time of a mile In 2:13J£ min­ utes, at Buffalo, on the 6th. This is the fast­ est time ever made by a trotting horse to har- .1*666. A Rome (Italy) dispateh of the 6th says an arrangement had been consummated -; l>etween Bismarck and the Vatican, on the ba­ sis of amnesty for all offenses against the German Ecclesiastical laws and the re-estab- ' lihmentof the convention formerly existing. The fast train on the Pittsburgh, Cin- cjbjnati «&6t. Louis Railroad, which left Pitts- lmrgh a little before midnight, collided with a freight train near Mingo Junction, Ohio, on ~k the morning of the 7th. From fifteen to twenty persons were killed and from forty to -j. ^fty mortally injured. A Washington dispatch of the 8th eays the demand for the standard silver dol­ lars was steadily increasing. So far during the then current week the banks had called ' for $300,000. There was little demand for the certificates for silver dollars, which had been ftfnted to the extent of $19,000,000. -41 A few days ago, Mrs. Elinor Will­ iams, wife of Rev. W. R. Williams, of New­ ark, N. J., was burned to death by the explo­ sion of a can of kerosene, with which she at­ tempted to kindle the kitchen-fire. Mrs. Anna Zellers, of the same place, was also, on the same day, terribly and fatally burned by the almilar careless use of the same explosive. Dennis Kearney, the "Labor Re- er," of California, addressed a large and athusiastlc audience of workimrmen in Fan- etafl Hall, Boston, on the evening of the 5th. I Large numbers were unable to gain admit­ tance. The speaker assailed capitalists and nonopolists, the publishers of newspapers and the telegraph manners in ;v?~orous and ' rioinewhat profane terms. He spoke of the • < tlctory the '•'•Ims •ito,liave:2eMeYed'!nCaliforB!n,3U!ladvft'"d the < » , Jipjk'-Sjnen to ot loose.fr'-ajijl psitj/esaad . "If a&siw.' ; f 'Tiie-Oiiiy chunks insula uy tie G&alh Committee of the New York produce Ex­ change in the last year's grades of grain are the insertion of the words u pure amber" in Soc 1. amber winter wheat, which shall be trlght, sound, dry, plump, pure amber and J wsU cleaned; the substitution of the word . * winter" for white in No. 1 amber white (wheat, which shall be sound, dry, plump and well cleaned, and the insertion of the words **or amber" in No. 8 red winter wheat, which * Jhall consist of sound, red or amber winter . wheat unfit to grade No. i. Other grades tm- ; Ranged, • _ 1 • The Chibago Journal of the 6th says • "Of the crop prospects in the Northwest that • ipK wheat and oat harvests were turning out i fpirly, notwithstanding serious damages in some localities. Corn was doing well, with prospects of a fair average yield. Barley short, potatoes not yielding as well as had . expected. Fruit, where not killed in the . <*rly spring, generally turning out well; Southern Illinois and Eastern Michigan will gite a fine yield of peaches, apples, etc. The damage done to the wheat crop in Northern - Wwa and Southern Minnesota was not as di»- , astroos as hrst reports indicated. An anti-Chinese de m oiistration oc- ettrred in San "rancisco, on the evening of the 5th. The gist of one of the speeches was Isaat a committee of workingmen had waited 1 the Board of Suuervisors, and would wait t aptsin, and if it would not listen to a petition S i fl' people to demolish Chinatown as a nubile nuisance, the workingmen would be , ®&r=h span that loc&lltv and I-leave not one brick upon another. This ap> , l peal met with an outburst of applause. A . }Jfe»olution was adopted to organize the work- Pnw£%°5 8tate lQto a Committee on Public Safety for mutual protection, subject to the call of the Vice-President of the Exeo- = uttve Committee of Organization. ton and the entire State officers were renomi­ nated. The platform reaffirms the platform OF 1S76; guarantees full protection to all Classes of citizens; opposes fusion with Re- publican; advises the encouragement of 1m- -migration, ete.* etc.'., The Mastin Bank, of Kansas City, Mo., suspended on the 3d. Its liabilities are stated at nearly 12,000,000, with assets nomi nally about the same in amount. The whole­ sale grocery firm of R. M. Bishop <fc Co., of Cincinnati, was also among the failures an. nou need on the 3d. .a*-. The freedom of the City of London was presented to Lords Beaconsfield and Salis­ bury on the 3d. The former delivered an ad­ dress, in r/hich he expressed himself as san- MiiilA rvf f WUMSMS \ Br*"*--•' f/v»u>«mvuv Complete returns from the late, Ger­ man Parliamentary election show the following results: Conservatives elected, 93; Liberals, 110; Ultramontanes, 96. Sixty-six second bal­ lots are necessary. The cabmen of Paris have struck for higher pay. An alarming degree of sickness pre­ vails upon the Island of Cyprus. The coinage of gold during July was #89,000, and of standard silver dollars, $1,- 847,000. Reese, Traff & Woods* steel man­ ufacturers, of Pittsburgh, Pa., failed on the 5th. Tho liabilities of the firm aggregate #900,000, and their assets about $600,000. The Topeka National Bank, closed its doors on the 5th. The failure was brought about by the suspension of the Mastin Bank of Kansas City. An insane young lady of Boston, aged twentv-seven years, a few days ago, poured kerosene over her head and clothes, •et it on fire and was burned to death. A Rochester (N. Y.) dispatch of the 3d says Prof. Lewis Swift, who had just ar­ rived home, confirmed the discovery at Den­ ver, during the recent eclipse, of the Planet Vulcan. He and Prof. Watson agree as to the distance and direction of the planet from the sun, and expect to confirm the discovery bj other observations. A London dispatch of the 6th says over 17,000 Russians in Bulgaria were down with typhus fever, Including Gens. Todleben and Schouvaloft. Great excitement prevailed at Bu­ charest, on the 6th, in consequence of a mis­ understanding between Russia and Roumania over the proposed boundaries of the Dobrudi scha. The Democratic State Convention of Louisiana met, on the 6th, and adopted a platform recommending the levee system; de­ manding aid for the Texas Pacific Railroad and the Brazilian Steamship Line; indorsing the Nicholls Government, the State Funding law and the Fraud Investigating Committee of the National House of Representatives; expressing sympathy for the laboring classes; demanding the abolition of the National Banking system, and the substitution of greenbacks for National Bank notes, the same to be receivable for all debts, public and pri­ vate, etc., etc. Four delegates who offered to sell their votes were expelled from the Con­ vention. E. A. Burke was nominated for State Treasurer. The Delaware Democratic State Con­ vention met, on the 6th, and nominated John W. Hall for Governor. A hard-money plat­ form was adopted. Resolutions were aUo adopted denouncing the conspiracy whereby Mr. Hayes was inaugurated President-, and indorsing the course of the Potter Investiga­ tion Committee. The journeymen shoemakers, of Chi­ cago, si ruck, on the 6th, for higher wages. They demanded an increase from 19 a week to fl'i. The employers offered $10.50, which they would not accept, and therefore struck. At the session of the Cabinet in Wash- lngton, on the 6th, the Secretary of War said he had news from the Rio Grande that sev­ eral Mexican companies were being organized for the purpose of repelling raids across the river by United States forces. Matters were regarded as becoming serious. The Secretary said raiders upon this side of the river would be followed into Mex'co, though the sincere wish of the Government was that there would be no occasion for future crossing by our soldiers. The Cabinet did not think any ne oessity existed for any additional orders to Gen. Ord., Joseph Nimmo, Jr.* Acting-Chief of the Government Bureau of Statistics, has <? " of the !fn- -aftd tsparts of the Vfor the 'years 1S77 and 1878, ending June 30, showing ifce fr'Hc^ng r^eie Ta!r>es: Exports of merrVrr f se fn 1*78, ?93; foreign, total, $694,884,200; imports, $437,051,533; excess of exports, $357,- 832,667. In 1877, exports, domestic, $589,070,- 2S4; foreign, $12,804,996; imports, $451,328,- 127; excess of exports, $151,152,093. Exports of gold and «Urer !n 1878, $33.733,225: im­ ports, $29,620,313; excess of exports, $3,911,- 912. In 1877, export*, $56,162,237; imports, $40,774,414; excess of exports, $15,387,828. The total excess of exports over imports in 1878 was $261,744,579; in 1877, #166,539,917. A Vienna dispatch of the 7th says 8,000 Montenegrins had joined the Insurgents in Herzegovina. There were indications that a holy war would be proclaimed in Bosnia. The Austrian Cabinet was strongly urging the Porte to clearly define its intentions in view of the Bosnian and Heraegovinan difficulties. On the afternoon of the 7th, an ex­ plosion occurred in a coal mine at Screraers- ton, near Berwick, Eng. There were thirty- five men in the mine, only two of whom bad been rescued up to the moraing^of the 8th, and they were badly burned. A Bismarck (D. T.) telegram of the 7th aays the grasshoppers were doing much damage to ihe crops in that region. They were slowly moving eastwardly. A Cincinnati special of the 8th to the Chicago Intrr-(Kean says considerable excite­ ment had been caused in the former city by the announremcnt that a manufacturer there was engaged in the manufacture of a large quantity of hand-trrenades. An Enquirer re­ porter was Informed by the manufacturer that the report was true, but whether they were for Communists or not, he could not state. He said he received an order for 20,000 from California parties, and that was all he knew or wanted to know. The dispatch says it was suspected by some in Cincinnati that the missiles were intended for that sec­ tion. it is further stated that a letter had been recently received by an officer of the So­ cialistic Labor party in that city from a lead­ er of Communists in Pennsylvania, saying that the Communists in tliat State were armed * Court It -Kane, sent for t! ;'ifiieit-flistiiier, itance to the their ^uties. Greenville, S. C., for the custody of the United three Internal Revenue ham and Moore--under ii killing of an employe of who, it is said, was offer! officers when in the The Sheriff refused to release the prisoners himself, but quietly permitted the Marshal to secure the keys. The latter thereupon re­ leased the prisoners and at ontfe locked them up again, thus satisfying the writ of habea* corpus and placing the prisoners ttt th0 /juris­ diction of the Federal Court. The dory Nautilus, froia BeveHfi Mass., reached Havre, on the Sth, having made the passage in fifty-six days, The announcement was made, on the 8th, that the Prince Imperial, of France, bad been betrothed to Princess Thyra, of Den mark, sister of the Princess of Wales, of England. By the explosion of a Russian pow­ der magazine at Fratesti, in Roumania, on the 8th, fifty-five persons were killed and thir- ty-onc others more or less seriously injured. The Colorado Republican State Con­ vention, which met at Denver, on the 8th, r&> nominated James B. Belford, for Congress; T. W. Pitkin, for Governor; H. A. W. Tabor, for Lieutenant-Governor; N., H, Meldrum, for Secretary of State; M. S. Oulver, for Treasurer and C. W. Wright, for Attorney- General. The platform adopted condemns the seating of Patterson by Congress; favors a Currency of sold, silver and paper equal in value; approves the Resumption act, etc., etc. The South Carolina State Republican Convention met at Columbia, en the Sth. The ninth article of the platform which was adopt­ ed reads as follows: u We deem ft inexpe­ dient to nominate candidates for Governor and other State officers because, owing to the condition of affairs in this State, occasioned by rifle-club rule and two years of Democratic supremacy, it is impossible for Republican voters in many counties--without incurring great personal danger--to organize for the cam­ paign or to vote at the election when held." Thirty-seven new cases of yellow- fever and seven deaths were reported) in New Orleans, on the 7th. The Board of Health had resolved to make no more statements for the public press respecting the disease in that city. A dispatch of theN$th says several cases had appeared among the workmen on the Eads jetty improvement, below the city, and work there was entirely suspended. CAPITAL AND LABOR. meeting of the Congre««lonal Commit- fo on the Labor Question. THE workingmen1 S representatives were on the stand again, on the 3d, and they laid the blame of the depression in business to Na­ tional and State legislation, the granting of lands to railroad and other corporations and the grant­ ing of large interest on bonds. They advanced the idea that the Government should waist men to settle on the public lands. W, A, A. Carsey, who said he was a bricklayer and an editor, declared that, in his opinion, the foblie-sefaool system was bad. The Government, e claimed, should establish schools where me­ chanical trades and art® wmnld be taught. He denounced ihe contract system, under .National, State and City Governments, and said that un­ der that system the work was of the worst possi­ ble construction, and it gave an opportunity to men to trriud down > the laboring cbu-s and employ Chinese and others, agr.inst whom American laborers could not compete, beeauee the latter cannot live as the former do. lie thought it bad policy for MH.V Government to encourage swarms of foreigners to drive out the native laborers. Knowing the temper and needs of the woikingmeii, he felt oertain that, if Con­ gress did not step in at an early day with ame- • norating legislation, the coming winter could not pass without trouble, and ^ithuat s reyeti tion of the labor riots of last summer. A good movement would be the institution of a compre­ hensive system of internal improvements, and the inflation of the currency to carry on im­ provements. George W. Maddox, of the " Congress Jf Hu­ manity." wanted the Government to "issue $14,000,000,000 or so to New York to build, docks and HO forth," and comparatively similar sums ensKAb. " The debate on the resolution of cen-„ VA ' v"'" VMV vwuimuuiBifl iu ui»i< owiie were sruicu Sure upon the members of the Government with hand-grenades, and proposed "to do ef- yss concluded In the Br tish House of Com- * loons, on the evening of the 2d. The resolu- Hons were rejected by a vote of 195 to 838--a . €roverument majority of 143. I The South Carolina State Democratic Convention was held on the 1st. Gov. flamp- fective work when the time comes." Of course, these statements are partially made up from rumors, and need confirmation before being accepted as facts. A demand was made, on the 8th, by the United States Marshal open lbs Sheriff at to other cities to be expended in public works. When these works would have made sufficient returns, then let the Government be paid back, and the notes destroyed, as cancelled bonds are. Mrs. Myra Hale, who announced herself a member of the " Congress of Humanity of the World," said the first step necessary to bring back prosperity to the country was to grant suf­ frage to women. .,Crive women the ballot and ev­ erything would be lovely and perfect. James t) Donnell, who announced that he lep- rewnu'd only his sovereign self," said the non­ sense of previous speakers the past two days had pained him. He wanted neither greenbacks nor Communism, nor an eight-hour law, but he did want some satisfactory manner of arbitration between master and man, a restriction of the rights of patentees, and the right to work wher­ ever and whenever he could get is, aua iot an many hours aB he ohoae. SEVERAL "labor reformers** were before the Committee on the 6th. Among them was one named llobb. who read a lengthy state- litent and naid nomas lud a give a title for land, for God says, " Ye aball not sell the tend f«wwr." We have violated the laws of 'God, and fraud and penury piov.iil eve*,?where. # Maurice Culien. lorn-cily a 'a;u:uf«&tuier o£ "flk f'onVs, F^id Mr«e rr^nnfacturers had crowd­ ed him out, and were crowding out all the sm»il dealers, ana he the to st- i'tl to .xJ.UittlC.lKS. _ Mr. .Graham, Secretary of the Woxlvinguicn'a Union, held that we do not desire ihe ouiinn* of the Old World to come here and upset %ur Government. He did not intend to denounce capital when hoi'.estiy accumulated, but he de- fiitum-eii srailroMu uiuiwjLH>lies and the raising of prices of provisions, etc., by stock-Jobbing and L-ttior.. Red--e.the hir'ff stop sectional Icgisiatiun. Stop E«ilTOuu jola m»id give iue country the benefit. Our shipping has been driven off the seas by foreign iteamer? He would tax steamers in favor of freight. He be­ lieved the large unemployed population in cities "e Ianda e ouUid*" the Labor Bnre&u to employ 1&- Another believed the tsanae of the de- , -- . -- . , , B c t o w t a n s , a l l o f w h i c h enght be remedied. A third witnen advo­ cated building homes in the West for the unem- ployed. A fourth said awchinaqr was the curse e of later, and should he crashed fint; he would also iemonetise gold sad silver. A fifth wiid the present destitution altogether due to rnm-guzzlinjr and beer-swilling; abolish ail traf­ fic in liquor and beer, and prosperity would re­ turn. Jfcnry D. Rothschild, clothing manufacturer, thougiit the business still profitable, but per­ centages lower. He believed m ten hours per day for labaropsaad workingmen generally, t he eight-h6ur system was the cause of dissipation. He would not give »laborer time even for amuse ment. The introduction of machinery increased employment. If the workingraaa. saved his wfites when work was plenty and prices high, he would not now suffer from want. Mr. Kothschild's remarks wrto received with hisses and cries of " Get out." QUESTIONS lO IHK PUBLIC. Mr. Hewitt read the_following questions, which the C<»mn)i1it« wjbmifc to the public: The Congressional Committee earnestlv re­ quest* the co-operation of the public in all sec­ tions of the country in obtaining information to aid in the practical solution of the important question submitted to it. It especially invites suggestions from representative men in all de­ partments of business. It proposes the follow­ ing questions; to employers of labor throughout the country: 1. What were the selling prices of your prod- ucta in low, and ill each subsequent year uown to 1878, inclusive? 2. What, were the wages paid by yon in each of these years for labor employed? 3. Where the parsons furnishing information pre willing to do so, the Committee invites them to state the percentage of profit made by them in each of these years upon the capital employed in their bneiness. 4. What were the wholesale and retail prices of the leading articles of family consumption dur­ ing each of these years in your vicinity 'i 0. What is the. difference, if any. between the' rents of tenements occupied by operatives in the years 1866 and 187H in jour vicinity? 6. W hat waa the comparative amount of the products of your business in quantity and value , in the years i860 and 1878? 1. State the comparative steadiness of the em­ ployment of operatives between the years 1860 and 1878, inclusive. The Committee invites suggestions from em­ ployers and employed as to the extent and causes of the present depression of business, and as to any special Federal legislation vhich, in its opinion, would tend'to relieve ihe same. The Committee will hold their next session in the New York Postoffice, Aug. 20. The Committee then adjourned nntil the date above mentioned. ought to lie sent to the prairie Ianda and settled thereon by private enterprise. SVr. Hewitt maed Mr. MarelialS.a large ship­ owner, to give hie views. Mr, Marshall said he did not want any protection against steamers. He thought the removal of taxes aa much as possible consistently with revenue necessities would revive trade, and the abolition of the pro­ hibitory law preventing Americans from buy­ ing their vessels abroad would revive the ship­ ping trade. Horatio D. Shepherd, of the National Reform Association,_ attributed the present depression to mistakes in the currency question--too much inflation and not enough taxation. The President of the Cigar-Makers' Union spoke of the cause of the depression in the cigar trade only. He said while the number of cigars manufactured steadily increased the condition of the cigar-makers got worse. The trouble has been caused by the Greueril Government by a system} of taxation which throws business into the hands of large maitu- facturew. The first cause is the introduction < f 8.( 00 Coolies into the trade in San Francisco, and in New York the tenement-house system caused min. The system is a shame and disgrace. The whole family, man, woman and cnildren, work day and night, from fourteen to eight­ een hours, and still only make enough io live, or rather starve, on, and when the cigar-makers struck for wages, the landlords, who were the manufacturers, turned 1,000 wretched families into the streets. He asked that the tenement-house system be abolished, and that cigars be allowed to be made only in factories. He waa not orawsed to Ohinamen as a rule, but he WIN opposed to ,the importation of Chinese or any other labor tinder such a system. He wa*. opx»osed to she importation of all labor by contract. GEOTIOE E. MCNEILL, President of the International WosMngrmen's tTnion, residing in West Bomerville, Mass,, was the first witness, on the 6th. The whole difficulty, in his opinion, is the wages system of labor, or, in other words, that the wage system and the steam engine are contemporaneous and that the productive power has exceeded the power of consumption. He fa- vomi an eight-hour law throughout the country. Mr. leek, of Danliury, Conn., thought that, in­ stead of lending hundreds of millions of dollars to banks, the Government should lend aorne few nrndred millions free of interest to the working- nj }». He read a long petition to Congress ask- i"g th° government to loan any man *5.0 W to build a house with, the amount to be paid hack by mstal ln.entu. O':® iu favor of abolishing the United Htat/'s Senate, restricting the powers of Congress and the Preside it, issuing #08 per cap- ita, ouituuiing IMAUS of labor to six, aad allowing L Hit at the Somber Dress-Goat* THERE have been several attempts in Paris within two or three years, among men of fashion, to devise some other kind of masculine full dress thau com­ plete black with white cravat. But they have, it is to be regretted, ended in nothing. Inasmuch as France has fastened upon civilization the perpetual dress-coat, black trousers and waist­ coat, it is her duty, since she is the tyrant of mode, to prescribe more va­ ried and appropriate garments. Noth­ ing could be more unattractive, un­ graceful and unbecoming to the mass of men than this regulation costume. Hardly one in* a hundred looks at all well in it. and that one would look better in almost anything else. It is an esthetic pity that men cannot be at­ tired on social occasions in something approaching picturesqueness, in some­ thing at least suitable or desirable. The idea of putting all of them, irre­ spective of size, shape or complexion, in exactly the same garments is pre­ posterous. A dinner or evening party, a ball or reception, is made, so far as they are concerned, to look Kke a fu­ neral, each of them uniformed in sol­ emn black. Women dress in a hun­ dred difl'erent ways. They wear what is thought to belong to and become them, and thej^present to society a va­ riegated and alluring spectacle, in sharp and delightful contrast to their brothers. When will men have inde­ pendence and individuality enough to rid themselves of this odious tyranny of ujdv clothes, and dress as befits them! Tne hideous dress-coat and its lugubri­ ous concomitants have enforced their despotism entirely too long.--N. T. Times. • Mothers and Sons. FATHERS must be content to stand second to mothers. It is the mother who has to teach the babe to know the father, and slowly to frame its unused red lips to speak his name. The father is the first stranger the child grows fa­ miliar with, but the mother never was a stranger--the infant first widens its fresh eyes by fixedly gazing in her face. There is no face in all the world which a man ever knows so well--not even hers with whom, at a far later day, he stands before the altar, and who hence- fa: tli shares his name. The gentle sad­ ness of this theme only comes fully out when we remember urat, iii the course of ••things, a time arrives when that most familiar of countemtnecs is seen under a change. Mothers grow aged, it may be infirm, while sons progress­ ively tower up into their prime of life. Then the early attitude of this closest- related pair on earth is touchingly al­ tered. She who in the first period gave all help has now to lean on the grown figure which she once lightly dandled as a child, now standing before her strong and straight as the father did in the long-gone days. God has given to men no sweeter, dearer, richer feel­ ing than a grown son has when repay­ ing to an aged mother a little tithe of the loving care she early lavished upon him. In this relationship of motner and son God has made sure that every rough male heart shall have a tender spot--one sacred recollection. And whenever it dawns upon the mind that it was He who gave the loving mother, joy for that most bountiful of all be­ stowals draws the son of the earth mother toward the Father who is itt Heaven!--Blackwood's Magazine. BRAIN WORKERS need much sleep, generally get but little. They stimiuate tooanueh--many with coffee, tea, or tobacco; some with wines or spirits. Overwork generally means over-stimulation, or over-eating, or both. If a man takes no stimulants, he rests when he gets tired. Stimulants hide fatigue and exhaust life.--Dr. Nichols, in Dr. Footers Health Monthly. WHILE Adam and £ve were yet in Eden, when onr fair young grandmoth­ er knew there wasn't anotaer living soul in all the wide, wide world, but herself and her snoring husband, we don't suppose she ever went to sleep without first looking under the couch of moss and leaves 44 for a man,1' and rousing Adam from his first sweet nap to ask liim if he was sure he had locked the front jdoor?--Burlington Hawk-Eye. THERE are over 25,000 iiouring mills in the United States, giving employ­ ment to 60,000 men. These mills turn oat. annually 60,000,000 barrels ol flour. ILLINOIS STAT® HEWS. DURING the storm, the other evening, the planlng-mlll of John Volk & Co., at Rock Island, was struck by lightning and fired. The destruction was complete, involving a loss of #25,000. During the same storm two build­ ings were struck at Moline, but not destroyed. JAMES BOWMAN, ex-Marshal of Altamont, attem, ted suicide, the other night, by taking laudanum. , He was not expected to recover at last accounts. ARRANGEMENTS have been m*de By the Cairo City Council to enforce th«r qrammWee regulations against steamboats and railroad- trains from below,"not only forbidding the en­ trance to the city of yellow-fever patients, but of any species of baled goods liable to convey Infection. THE following is a statement of the re­ ceipts and disbursement* of the State Treas­ ury for July, 1878: KBCEIPTB. Reserve fond... V-Mrf v;$265*920 IS School fund .w.«. •• 134.413 58 Military-- ...ts .. 4.629 81 Local bond f and.................. .. ... -165,200 38 Total-...'.......' .......... i|670,163 92 "Vvt >.;' ••/ ...:^g#299,185 09 8,054 48 ....... 356 00 0,344 95 itefeerve fund. •. Bchool fund - l Illinois River improvement. Local bond fund. . Total f»)2,490^22 J. H. CHAPMA^/vfhile attempting to board a freight train at Roodhouse, the other ni?h$, slipped and fell under the train. He was fatally hurt. * DB. F. N. ELLIOTT, of Qulncy, caught his foot in a frog, the other day, and was run over and killed. ! - / K THERE was a heavy wind storm at Anna, on the afternoon of the 4th. A number of build­ ings were unroofed, and great damage was done to the growing corn crop. MR. HANKY, the Greenback candidate for Congress in the Sixth District, has published a challenge to Gen. Henderson, the Republi­ can candidate, for a joint discussion of pdRti- Cal Issues throughout the district. ' " THE Prohibitionists of the Eleventh Dis­ trict have nominated Hon. Wm. H. Pouge, 6f Jerseyville, as their candidate for Congress. THE extensive grain stacks of B. M. Hutch­ inson and George Kellogg, farmers, living n$ar Charleston, were burned by incendiaries* on the night of the 3d. THE steamer Golden Crown reached Cairo from New Orleans, on the night of ihe 3d, with a case of what was said to be yellow fever on board. The authorities compelled her to anchor in the river, abreast of the city. DAVID MASON swam from the lake shore, in Chicago, to the crib, ft distance of two miles, on the 3d. ; AT a barbecue given by the colored people at Caledonia, in Pulaski County, on the 3d* a general fight occurred, In which William Free­ man and George Rutled^e were killed. IN July there were 1,067 deaths in Chicago --more than double the number in June, but 19 less than in July of last year. Of these, there were 554 of persons under one year of age, and 162 of ages ranging from 1 to 5 years, while only 33 deaths are reported of persons between 5 and 20 years old. ALL Springfield was convulsed with laileh- ter, on the 3d, over a trick played by the Reg­ ister upon the Gazette, the paper lately estab­ lished there. It seems that the latter, being deprived of press dispatches, has been accus­ tomed to reprint the press reports contained in the other papers ar d leading them, as spec­ ials. The jRegister, on the 3d, prepared and inserted a bogus dispatch in its issue, purport­ ing to give an account of a severe storm at Winchester, which, it said, killed the pastor of a German church, in his study, and that with his last breath he uttered the words: "Ich habe diese nachricht gestohlen." The Gazette had its advance copy duly delivered, and pub­ lished, very conspicuously and with display head-lines, the bogus telegram. When the public read arid translated "Ich habe diese iiacJirieht gektohlen" ("I have stolen this dis­ patch"), all Springfield burst into a roar of Inextinguishable laughter. Gov. CULLOM ha« been appealed to fdr a company of militia to protect the coal-mines of Stanton, Macoupin County, which are threatened with destruction by the striking miners.. He has ordered the Sheriff of the county to the scene of the disturbance, with orders to call to his aid such force as may be found necessary. A FEW evenings ago, at Colehonr, far Cook County, the home of Martin Finerty was broken Into and the family aroused at mid­ night by three men, one of them masked. Finerty attempted resistance, ^jit before anything could be said he was gagged with a 'handkvivhtef and hound by two of the men, while the third devoted his time to gagging his wife. After a hard tussle the binding was at length accomplished and thenron nrocccded to exirmine'the hci^-e for . vnlmHnn, ,sccr*?!ng to know what was wanted, and it proved to be a number of papers owned by Finerty, among which were some note&, one of which is for 92,500 by tt Chicago man, payable in a few d a y s . A f t e r g e t t i n g t h e p a p e r s a n d f J P . f n cash the fellows departed. THE trains of the Illinois Central Railroad from New Orleans are not allowed to enter Cairo, owing to the yellow fever which pre­ vails at the former city. Until the authorities of Cairo get over their alarm and rescind their order, the Illinois Central will take its New Orleans trains via Fulton, Ky., where a health- officer is stationed to prevent persons from the infected city going through. Ox the 5th, at Rock Island, Mrs. Susan M. Goldsmith died. She was born Feb. 10,1801, at Krie, Pa., aud came to what was then Rock Island garrison, at fifteen years of age. She landed there in August, 1816, aqd fQr Ave years was the only white woman in that re­ gion. Mrs. Goldsmith was intimately ac­ quainted with Blackhawk, Keokuk, Powe- shelk and other Chiefs of the Foxes. Ox the 4th, three women were killed in the Mississippi Bottom, ten miles west of Jones- boro, by the fury of the elements. The top of an oak tree was twisted off and fell upon them while they were running toward a house for shelter. The names of the unfortunates Wtere Mrs. Smith, a widow, afios Mttlpar,; *»r daughter, and a Mise Mathias, THE report to the Governor for the month of July, of the Joltet Penitentiary, makes the following exhibit: Convicts received, 53; dis­ charged 59; leaving on hand, Aug.1,1,712; via, 27 females aid 1,685 males. - - _ • (fettle-Ash Casting Ite Ink. lt». FRANK AUCKLAND, the well- known English naturalist, describes, in Land and Water, his good fortune in seeing, under favorable conditions, a cuttle-fish casting its ink. Three or four specimens of cuttles live in the Westminster Aquarium. One of them, in passing the window of his tank, evi­ dently mistook the naturalist for a foe. "So, writes Mr. Buckland, "as he swam along he ejected from his ink- bag a jet of what looked like a cloud of the most intensely black smoke that ever came from a factory chimney. Instantly the water lost all transpar­ ency. Mr. Cuttle-fish then went into the middle of the water he had so art­ fully made opaque. When there he ejected more ink, and in less than half a minute the water round him became blacker than the blackest thunder­ cloud ever beheld. The ink gradually dispersed itself through the water, forming clouds of the most delicate shadings, fading off from the very black place under which the beast was concealed. Not even Turner, the great artist ever imagined such a cloud. This ink is used in the arts, sepia being the- very substance token from the cuttle- - fish and dried. Without doubt this power of shooting ink is a .wonderful means of protection to preserve the an- ijffial from being eaten by its enemjesr atod it may not be impossible that the idea of gods and goddesses appearing from the clouds and disappearing into clouds, so often described by Virgil,- might have taken its origin from the power of the cuttle-fish to surround it­ self with a cloud cf ink. May we not also compare this cuttle-fish to a volum­ inous author who conceals his idenity in clouds of ink?" ANOTHER RAILROAD HOBSOQ. ----- v*?*, Fearfhl Collision on tMe PitMrarli^. Ciiicfniiati ic St. Louis Railroad-- • Fifteen X*ernon0 Killed and many" . Others Injured. A Pittsburgh (Pa.) special of the 7tii to the Chicago Tribune gives the fol­ lowing account of the recent terrible railroad slaughter at Mingo Junction, - Ohio: Mingo Junction, a straggling village of fif­ teen or twenty houses, is situated on the Ohio -• River, just below the mouth of Cross Creek, and about four miles west from Steubenvflle,. Ohio. Three years ago it was the scene of a frightful railroad accident, in which J. N. Mc- Cullough, General Manager of the Pennsyl­ vania Railroad, and several others, lost their lives. A year later another smash-up occur­ red, within a, few rods of the former one, which sent half a dozen mangled and bleeding- victims to their graves. Another horror was added to the list this morning, far surpassing either of the preceding In the number of killed and injured. Most of the victims were • English and German immigrants who Were on their way to the West. The accident took place just before day­ break. A dense fog prevailed at the time, which obscured the view and added to the misery of the situation. The cause ot the calamity is attributed to Sterling, conductor of the freight train, who acknowledges that his watch stopped twenty minutes before the collision, but without nis knowledge. This caused an error iu his calculat ion of time, and fifty or more mangled bodies, many of them lifeless, is the horrible result. The details «ie as follows: The fast line going west on the Pan-Handle Railroad, which left Fittsburgh about mid­ night, arrived at Steuben pille a little late, and left there seven minutes behind time. It was composed of two postal-cars--one for Cincinnati and one for St. Louis--a baggage- car, an emigrant ear, two ordinary cars and a sleeper. This train was in charge of Con­ ductor Edward Morrill, of Columbus, and, be­ ing behind time, was running unusually fast. At Mingo Junction, at 1:50 a. ni., just" after pasbintr Cross Creek, where the road leaves the Ohio River, and while rounding a sharp curve on the west bank of the creek, the train dashed with fearful velocity into freight j train No. 18, Conductor Sterling, which • was off her time, the conductor's watch, it is said, having stopped twenty minutes without his knowledge. The trains rushed together, and a fearfu! wreck ensued. Both engines > were demolished and thrown down an en- bankment thirty feet. The first postal-car was completely wrecked, three of the'fourjn- i mates killed and the other's leg broken. The 'second postal-car was more lortunate, being only thrown down the embankment, where It stands on end. All the inmates escaped with slight wounds. The baggage-car was a total j wreck, the baggage being strewn in all direc- ; tions. The emigrant car, in which the great­ est loss of life occurred, was completely de­ molished. A large crowd soon gathered from the i, country for miles around, coming in buggies, : wagons, on horseback and afoot. The people ; set to work with a will to extricate the wounded, dead and dying. Everything was > done that could be done to alleviate the suf­ ferings of the injured, who were placed on a ; special train and taken to Steubenville. • Both of the engines were broken, twisted ^ and wrecked so completely as to resem- j ble a mass of old iron. Very few in the em- , igrant car escaped death or injury. The scene } is indescribable. The moans of the dying and sobs and screams of the living rose above! every other sound. Dead and mangled bodies were $«n Jar all directions, and in every every degree of mutilation. The injured added their : cries to the dreadful din, which pierced the soul like a prolonged wail from the region of lost spirits. Up to this time (nine p. m.) fit- | teen have died, and several more cannot sur-, i vive till morning. ^ J Arnoiig iLv- killed are the following: T. D; 1 Graham, Head Postal Clerk on tho Fast Line , • of Cincinnati; W. R. Johnson, Assistant: Postal Clerk, Cincinnati; August Auuiuwojij- Local Mail Agent on the postal car, Clerks;] i !r:?r£, W. Va.; Mrs. Anna Cnl'.en, of Bridge; port, Conn. eon, ^ausrhter in-law am, ,i grand daughter were badlv Injured); Fat; ;; rick Gannon, Barren Hill, MontgG3.;*,r. ^ County, Pa.: Bernard Miller, an cmf i grant from Bremen, Germany; an un­ known woman, large, fleshy and witJ the appearance of being a German; Fret Gross, Man helm, Germany; John Curry' Tyrone, Ireland; an unknown woman. nnn< whom was found the address of Miss Flenken No. 353 Sheridan street, Allegheny; an UP known German, with a ticket from New Yor : to Cincinnati; John Dugan, engineer of th passenger train, Burgettstowu; Mary McDot a|p, Lcjtffen, Eng. --Pun--Exclusively literary : Wh doesn't Lord Lytton pay up? Wh should he always be Owen Meredith ?- P * THE MARKETS. NEW TOBK. LIVE frrOOT-Cattl«|. Sheep.. 3.60 FLOUR--Good t«»,Ohoici".".X... 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