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^ % ^00 tgcfrarg fHamffealct •4 \ - --r -- 'i J. VAN SLfKE, EDITOR AND PtmuxaMu fc •/'" >V McHENBY, : : ILLINOIS i n • i n i . IB f i f iCT WEEK, DOMESTIC NEWS. The East. A : , Several Tennessee colonies we being formed in the region of Lowell, Mass. They Ifft'QiMSSC' *"8 wttt® to K"* Tennesson. %. The Duke of Argyll and hit two * daughters arrived at New York last week, taid ** v were'prfVBtMy entertained at a dftmwr parly , f , * • » • ; b y C y r a s W. Field, Among those present C-' .*fM weare becietary Evarta, Peter Cooper, JamesQ. W-j.'** Blaine, and Major Cooper. | i f f? Ui 'Y . (H- A furious tornado risited Boston, a few days ago, causing the destruction of a vast i amount of .property and considerable life. A Y ! r i n i I > ,kh * nyf} copatits fonnd a watery grave. Several smaller $• f* t' Ait J* crafts were wrecked and the occupants drowned. / 'k*iH, In the city, numbers of houses were unroofed, yacht was upset in the t>ay, and five of its oc- chimneys and signs blown down, and thou- sands of dollars' worth of window-glass ^,1 • rf , broken. The storm swept over Fitchbnrg, ^ ' *'* Y Springfield, Fittsfield. Worcester and other 'i',* * towns in the interior, playing havoo where?»r struct It was the most fnrioac audde- ",•' " etmctive visitation of the kind ever espeti- * v * " * -« ®*»ced in New England. '1 Pitts* Agricultural Works, at Buffalo, ,: i:A > <$y .V one of the oldest and largest manufacturing es- * J • A'-f, tabllshments in Western New York, has been ft ii'-- K-1 destroyed by fire. 7 * Cox, the negro who murdered Mrs. *s&<' Hul1'" New York»h" bem found «>d ^ ^ 4»s sentenced to be hanged on the 29th of August !/P > 4 Gk>v. McClellan, of New Jersey, »4*u granted ft reprieve in the case of Covert Ben- * a " ' ' n e t t and Mrs. Smith, for the murder of Police • Officer Smith, until Aug. 15t* The storm in New England, hereto­ fore mentioned, was more wide-spread in ex- jtent and destructive in its effects than first re- * ports indicated. A yacht capsized Nattas- beac^« sn<* *oar persons weri drowned. - ^#OBB man, two women and two children were si\ ̂ ^lort off Governor's island. The rain-fall was Y very heavy in various places, and some of the 'I hailstones measured seven inches in circum- ferenoe. lightning caused the loss of a few -'VjiiTeB. Two boats capsized off Bcituate, and '4 ̂ ! three persons were drowned. Near Montreal, *v^Mrs. Peter Robertson was killed by lightning. • Bound about Kingston and Saugerties, N. Y., - ; the crops were rained, and barns and oot- ', houses blown down. The hailstones resem- sV-F ' 'Wr • , 11 f|J g bled large chunks of ice. ij Gen. William F. Barry, commandant ' >at Fort McHenry, and Colonel of the Second United States Artillery, died last week at Balti- ' 'more, after a brief illneFB,* of bilious dysentery. John Hope, convicted of the robbery -Jf (N. Y.) Savings Bank of |pf #S,000,000 securities and cash, has been sen- .-"^tenoed to the Stats prison for twenty years, ii A "Granger law" has been passed by n^tbe lower house of die New Hampshire J Legislature. A board of commissioners will have power, under this act, to regulate the charges of all railroads in the State. |t|; The South. Ifcanphia dispatches of the 14th re­ port no new cases of yellow fever in the city and the exoi*ement subsiding. Physicians are of the opinion that there will be no epidemic : there this summer. 7 f i In one day last week there were fif- | <•« 'Ifega deaths from sunstroke In the city of v., « ' < Charieskm, S. CL < >< * *a Southern lynching: John Brecken- -«ri i •» v'i ridge, a young mulatto, who committed an as- •&<-> - >»-»taaultupon a respectable young woman near Carlisle, Ky., was taken out of jail at a late L "< i * kour of the night, carried by a mob beyond the city limits, aad hung to a tree. A negro named •• j fi I Lucius Weaver, charged with a similar offense upon a married lady at Strawberry Plains, Tenn, was taken from the guards by a mob, ^carried into the woods and shot to death. y A party of Indians have been mur- r^^dering and robbing near Fort Davis, Texas. iiiii|SThe meager accounts of the" outrage do not in- tii dicate whether the raiders were Trom across the ,4|̂ tKWder, although the nearness of the locality to ttir4r-j: the lurking ground of the Mexicui cut-thrcats ' . makes it lik^lv that such is the case. Mm w!*«» Five new cases of yellow fever were \ '•> reported to the Memphis Board of Health on 14*^' •"fes toe 17th. The cases occurred under one roof Y*l in the southern part of the city. A general ^ . / Hh panic ensued, and citizens began to flee from M: peatilenca as last a* they oould get away, •ttytv' ~jjt ^ve new cases of yellow fever and 'i»* f4* IS 006 ^eat̂ were reported at Memphis on the 18th inst There was great excitement in the ' *i'l r 1 ' <%, and everybody was leaving that could get The relatives of the late Mrs. Dorsey, ( «ho bequeathed 825",000 worth of property to ̂M D&vis, *ill contest the will Davis vu toe guest of the lady before her death, and the 1 - ®°Qte8t will doubtless be made on the ground ® 43/1 ortheiusaulty of the tart- atrhr . * $' !- '•{% 'th* €>• • ' .-t-V ,'j i &•: ' >**,* / : ' u fk t Wmi. Daniel Kouser, a weil-f.nown temper­ ance lecturer, was recently drowned in the Miami river, near Dayton, Otiio. Chicago elevators contain 8,649,080 j bushels of wheat, 2,578,278 bushels of corn, '>».*/»•/* ' 867,127 bushels of oats, 61,686 bushels of rye, and 81,377 bushels of barley, making | grand total of 6,73 ,̂552 bushels, »£•""»* 1,3U3,187 bushels at this period last year. Milwaukee warehouses contain 1,397,( 60 bushels of wheat, 7,654 bushels of com, 13,880 bushels of oats, 3,794 bushels of rye and 92,817 bushels of barley. Stock or lumber, etc., in the hands of ninety Chicago U yard-dealers: 283,282,633 feet of lumber and n i y? timber; 135,755,000 pieces shingles; 21,801,790 $ . ,t\, pieces of lath; 539,351 feet of pickets, and "W* pieces of cedar posts. John Charles Adrioc Hamilton, grandson of Alexander ri ̂at Mer­ ced, Cal., a few d^s ago. Arthur Townsend was murdered by ̂ Indians in Tulare county, CaL, last week. Tlie J Indians were lynched.by white settlers. w 1 # i It is currently reported in Milwaukee toat Alexander Miwheli, President of the Mtf- £ "ih waukee arid St Paul railroad, has gone t» %:•), "ji Europe to negotiate for the control of the Northan Paciho ruad. A statement has beeii Issued by the .'ti M ®eP&rttnen* gi^g the number of men fur- '* /' • nisUed the Union army by each State and Tei- *•> ~ • ,• - J i )' i, $ y;* ' . : ' W •* ' a . f Missouri.... .199,111 Kentucky J . 79.025 KlQRftB. • • i».« . 20,151 renneasee . 81.092 Arlwwas.. . S.289 North Carolina... . 3,166 California. . 15.745 Nevsrta. . 11)80 Oregon . 1,810 WnshiiiKton Ver.3 964 Nebraska TSr.... . 8 159 Colorado Ter . 4.9 8 Dakota Tar SW Mew Mexico Ter. . 6.661 Alabama . 2576 Florida.. . 2,190 Loulsiaaa,^ /. Miseisfipjil...,|. . ,8.2*4 . r. 515 Texas . 1.965 Indian Nation... . 8,508 ritofy and the District of Columbia, from April 15,1861, to toe olose of the war of toe Be- bellion. It shows tbat the total number of volunteers was 2,678,967, distributed as fol­ lows: Maine 78.114 New asmpslitrtt... 86,<«» Vermont. Msssschuaetts... .1M.04« Rhode Island..... Oonnscttout. 67,879 Mew fork 0t.WR Sew Jerscv. M,0t0 Pennsylvania. SB6.1OT Delaware.. 18.670 Maryland 60,816 **e8t Virginia a,9tH Dist. ofOolumbia.. 16,878 Ohio 8l»,«5BO Indiana 1fl7 147 llliuoiB 86»,147 Michigan 8»,S7* Wi8conatn Minnesota *>,052 Iowa.............. The troops furnistied by the Southern States were, with the exception of those of Louisiana, nearly all white. Honda furnished one regi­ ment of cavalry, Alabama one white regiment, Mississippi one battalion, and North Carolina two regiments of cavalry. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Raum h»s sent a circular to all Collectors of Internal Revenue in toe "moonshine " districts informing them that, although th&n*ual appro­ priation for the fees of toe United States Mar- shal-j has not been made by Congress, his office will not relax the efforts to suppress fraud by the seizure of illicit distilleries, and the prose­ cution of offenders. He directs Collectors to relieve as much as possible the Marshal from the embarrassments of his situation, and in­ forms them that ko proposes to give toe neces­ sary force to execute the law* An Associated Press telegram from Washington says: A memorandum of the financial operations of the Government has been issued from toe Treasury, showing that the reduction in the interest- bearing debt from toe highest point, Aug. 31, 19G5, to July 1,1879, amounted to $583,386,594, and the reduction in the annual interest charge, when the present Juwjling operations are com­ pleted (Aug. 1,1579V, will be #67,203,919. The total debt has been reduced $729,224,315, and the reduction since March 1,1877, is $61,553,- 880. The bonds refunded under the a«ts of July 14, 1870, and Jan. 20,1871, amounted to Sl,39f>,022,000, on which the annual interest charge was $SI,673,{H?. In place of these bonds there will be issued when the pres­ ent refunding operations are completed, which will not be later than Aug. 1, 1879, bonds on which the annual interest charge will be 961,- 765,880, making an annual saving hereafter in interest charge, on account of the refunding operations, of #19,907,607, of which amount #14,207,177 arises from transactions since March 1,1877. Bonds have been sold for resumption purposes sinoe March 1, 1877, toe interest on which represents the *"""*•! coat of ooin re­ serve, as follows: Salt Annual int. TUle of loan. p.c. Amount. charge. Funded loan of 1891..4£ #6 <,tHX),000 #2,t«.).000 funded loan of 1807..4 86,000,000 1,000.000 Total ~ #90,100,010 #8,886,000 Making a net annual saving in interest through the refunding and resumption operations since March 1,1877, of #10,372,177. In addition to the above bonds, there were issued in 1878, to replace the coin used in payment of the Halifax award, 4 per cent bonds of 19J7 amounting to #5,500,00<X Two vessels on the Eastern ooasi, one at New Orleans and a fourth on toe lakes, are enlisting bojs for toe United States navy. A Washington telegram says that on account of the extreme bad condition of the low lands or flats, and eastern shore of the Po­ tomac river lying directly south of the Execu­ tive Mansion, President Hayes has arranged to absent himself from the city during the month of September, in order to escape the malarUl atmosphere which will necessarily rise from the quarter mentioned. The President intends spending the greater portion of the month at his home in Fremont, Ohio. Since the 1st of July ihe Treasury Department has issued warrants for arrears of pensions to the amount of #4,810,000, making the whole amount paid under the appropriation of #25,000,000 for that purpose #10,^19,000. At the present rate the appropriation will be ex­ hausted in a few months. Under the provisions of the Thur- man act, the Treasury Department is buying bonds to be applied as a sinking fund for the final redemption of the bonds issued in favor of the Pacific railroad by the Government Every month an amount due those roads by the Government for transportation is withheld, and to tbat amount purchases are made, The bonds are S per cents., as prescribed by the act So far #318,500 in these bonds have hea»,plaeedto the credit o£ the fund. 5 • JtoHMeal. . The. Greenbackera of Pennsylvania also held their S ate C invention, on the 15th. A. fu'l tiiket for Sttte offices was'nominated, headed by Peter Sutton, a wealthy farmer of Indiana county, for State Treasurer. The Wisconsin Greenback State Con vention was held at Watertown on the 15th of July. OoL K. Mry, of Vernon oounty, wae nominated for Governor; Col. W. L Utley, of ctaeine, for Lieutenant Governor; George W. L e, of Grant, for Secretary of State; P. F. Griffi b, of Onhkoeh, for State Trea urer; George B. Goodwin for Attorney General, and Mr. Searle for Superintendent of Publio In­ struction. The pith of the resolutions adopted by the convention is as follows: They de- nounoe the monej despotism that has grown up in this country ; demand the payment of the bonds in greenbacks; convict labor to Be abol­ ished ; the rate of iutereat on money should not exceed the rate of profit; denounce all efforts of both parties to make a solid South or a solid North; denounce the coinage of gold and silver dollars; the issue of greenbacks may be limited to the dtmiGd of trade; demand the abolition of the national banking system; denounce all fusion or coalition with either of the old parties, and invite all honest men to join them; a man may dedunt bis indebtedness above bis credit when listing his property for assessment; the public land* mu«t be kept for actual settlers, ai<d no more grants to corporations. The Pennsylvania Democrats held their State Convention at Harrisburg on the 16th inst D. O. Barr, of Allegheny couhty, was nominated for St«te Treasurer by acclama­ tion. The platform "favors a constitutioual currency of gold aird silver and of paper convert­ ible into coin," upholds Congress in its fight with the National Executive, and denounces the latter as a usurper and eonspirator against ihe people's liberties, • The Iowa Prohibitionists met in Con ve&t on at Cedar Rapid'*, the other day. After oonsVWabie noise and confusion, a resolution w a s 5 J M t e t > t 6 d t h a $ w a s dient to ma^te nominations for officers, and then an adjournment was voted. Subsequently about forty delegates met and nominated the following State ticket: For Governor, Prof. G. T. Carpenter, of Oka­ loosa; Lieutenant Governor, Frank 8. Qtap- bell, of Newton; Supreme Judge, J. M. fpSk; Superintendent of Publio Instruction, Prsf. 3. A. NMh, Dee Moines. j > Washington dispatch: "A tele#*m from St Paul announces that the President has stood by his original intention in offering the position of Secretary of War to ex- Boiator Ramsey. The appointment is to take tffect when MeOrary can assume toe Iowa judgihip. A letter has been received by the President from Mr. Ramsey, accepting the office." J ' Tlie Chicago Daily News prints a sensational dispatoh from Washington, an­ nouncing that President Hayes has conceded to be a candidate for a second term; tfeat Senator Logan is to be Secretary of War; that Hon. E. B. Washburne is to be appointed Senator in Logan's plaee, and that Gov. Cullom is to be appointed Minister to Buesia. • A call has been issued for a conven­ tion of the National Greenback-Labor party of New York at Utica, Aug. 28, for the nomination of a State ticket i ^ MitoeUnMtm*. ^ J§; Information has recently been re­ ceived by the Treasury Department at Wash­ ington, which shows that the entire coast of Alaska, including the islands, and embracing 2,600 miles of sea frontage, is a vast reservoir of fish, rhis report to the Treabnry discloses the existence of a new store of wealth for American industry. This information is con­ tained In a report from Special Agent of toe Treasury Morris, who spent two years in investigating .the resources of Alaska. From this report it is apparent that as fine ood-fishery banks as exist anywhere In the world lies along the ooast of Alaska, from toe peninsula of Una- laska, through Norton's and Kotzebue's Sounds into Behring Straits, and that the fish in quality and size are equal to those caught off the banks of Newfoundland. Capt White, of the United SUtes revenue marine service, who was on the Alaska waters last year, reports that he Bounded along the shores of Alaska for 7UU miles, and found the entire length a oodfish bank, with plenty of halibut Friends of the United States yellow- fever Commission may be interested in learning tbat its members are busily prospecting for fever-germs in Havana, where there were 117 victims of the yellow pestilence laet week. Dun, Barlow & Co.'s quarterly com­ mercial report shows that the number of fail­ ures in the country for the second quarter of 1879 has been smaller than for any previous quarter in five years, and that there is an in­ crease of over 20 per cent in business. The growing crops, and the demands for the same, continue to excite comment from all sections of the country. The hot weather and abundant rains, with the large acreage, seem to indicate that the coming crop of corn in the United States will be toe largest ever grown. There is a good report of this crop from nearly all sections. Of wheat there is more fear. In many sections of Iowa the chintz bupz have done great damage. Storms of wind and hail in other localities have seriously injured the crops. And yet, notwithstanding all, if the weather is propitious for threshing during the next month, a great crop will be gathered. The steamer State of Virginia, bound from New York for Glasgow, was wrecked on Sable island, 125 miles out from Halifax, N. S., during a dense fog, on the night of July 11. The passengers and crew took to the boats, one of which was capsized in attempting to land. The rest of the passengers and crew were safely put ashore. The Secretary of War, upon the rec­ ommendation of Gen. Schofield, commanding at West Point, has dismissed six cadets for haz­ ing. A few days since Gen. Hazen wrote a long letter to the War Department complaining of Gen. Sherman's order promulgating the proceedings of the Stanley court martial, tak­ ing the ground that the reflections contained in said order were m just and uncalled for, as he had not been under trial, and, in concluding, requested an investigation into his conduct, etc., at the several engagements mentioned in the Stanley triaL The request has been refused by Gen. Sherman, and Hazes, who is now at Estellevitle, Ohio, is ordered to join his regi­ ment now in Dakota. A frightful accident occurred last week at Point aux Trembles, twenty-one miles from Quebec, Canada, caused by the overturn­ ing of a yacht A party of fifteen put out from the village, composed of people from Quebec and Point aux Trembles, and about half an hour afterward, when about the middle of toe river, were met by a gale of wind which com­ pletely overturned the yaoht, and of its occu­ pants eight sank to rise no more. The steamer St* Antoine, which chanced to be approaching, quickly steamed to the spot, and, by putting out her boats, succeeded in saving seven of toe fifteen. News was received in New Tork of the total loss of the English screw-steamer Burgos, in St Mary's bay, during a dense fog, while going from Montreal, Canada, to Liver- uooL No lives lost /" FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The funeral rites over the remains of the French Prince Imperial were held at Cam­ den House, Chiselhurst, England, on the 12th inst Many of the English royal family were present, and there was an imposing military and civil escort The solemn ceremonies were witnessed by many thousand people. Information comes from the American Minister at Berlin that Bismarck has been con­ verted to bi-metalism, and is determined to use his influence and authority toward the restora­ tion of the double staudard in the German em­ pire « A dispatch from Calcutta reports that the King of Burmah has massacred twelve per­ sons. The Egyptian steamer Samanoot, bound from the Mauritius islands to Alexandria, was recently lost at sea; twenty-five lives were tost The Mark Lane Express, in its last review of the British grain crops, says: "In consequence of the continuance of rain, wheat m*de little if any progress. The ears have scarcely begun to appear. The bulk of the hay remains uncut, or, in oises where it has been cut, has bpen left lying to rot. In Scotland, crops are fully three weeks behind hand. The pastures, are 9>ostly well covered. Potatoes are loot­ ing fairly. On toe whole, the agricultural prospects there, though far from promising, are leas gloomy than in Koglaad." De Xiesseps, in a recent speeoh at Rouen, France, declared that the friendship between France and the United States would facilitate the construction of the Darien canal. He believed the canal would be completed in five or six years. Diphtheria is now raging as a terriblf epidemic in Bessarabia, and a dispatch from Berlin announces that the Asiatic cholera has made Its appearance in Smolensk; so that what With the Nihilists and the evils resulting from an almost bankrupt treasury, Russia is having more than her share of afflictions The question of the emancipation of the Jews in Roumanla has reached its crisis through the resignation of the Ministers, who state that they cannot obtain a majority in fa­ vor of the measure demanded by the powers. It is intimated that unless the Roumanians re­ cede from their position on this matter the na­ tions which have already reoognized the inde­ pendence of toe countries will recall their Am. bassadors. The purser of the steamer Etna, which arrived at New York the other day from Port an Prince, Havti, reports as follows: At Port an Prince Monday, June 30, Petit Canal, brother of the President, shot DeLorme, a member of the Legislative Chamber. A gen­ eral shooting affray ensued, in which forty other members and some of Canal's adherents were killed. Advices from South Africa state that the King of the Zulus had made fresh overtures for peace, which the British military authori­ ties had met half way. Owing to the rot which has attacked the potato crop throughout France it is estima­ ted that the deficiency in the same will amount to 15,000,000 sacks. Several disturbances have occurred at Lyons, France, caused by the Bonapartists. A number of officers are implicated, and will be punished. Bismarck and family have gone to Kissingen. Advices from London state that E. P. Weston will leave for New York with the Astley belt on the steamer Arizona in the last weeK of August Sir John Astley intends to accompany him, and several distinguished pe­ destrians, Corkey, Bowel], Brown, Vaughn and Hazael will follow to compete for toe trophy in New York in September. CHOP PROSPECTS. SUMMARY OF REPOETS FBOM THE UWTXRE COUNTRY TO THE NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. Returns to the Department of Agriculture at Washington of the cotton crop sllow that the condition of Jnne, which was ninety six, has not been maintained, and fs, for July 1, ninety- three. Figures indicating the condition com­ pared with June figures are: Condition. Gain. Lot*. North Carolina .......104 >6 .. South Carolina 81 ... 18 Georgia 86 .. 7 Florid* »1 .. 4 Alabama 66 .. .. Mississippi M ..- 7 liouisiatia 98 .. 2 Texas ;;... 80 .. 4 Arkansas...............' 108 8 Tennessee 101 7 « .. The condition of toe other crops is tons stated: # Corn--The area planted in the whole country exceeds that planted last year. Carolina, Mis- issippi, Arkansas and Tennessee show the larg­ est gain in the ftouth. Ohio and Indiana show some decrease, while Illinois increases 7 per cent The States west of the Mississippi river matte the largest gains as a section, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri all ranging from 1C4 to 118. The condition in all the Southern States is low, on account of drouth in Texas-- not over half a crop. The Northern States show a fair condition, while those west of toe Mississippi river show a very high average, over 100. Tobacco--The acreage for toe whole country shows a decrease. In toe four States of Con­ necticut, Massachusetts, New York and Penn­ sylvania, in which the bulk of seed-leaf tobacco is grown, there is an increase in average of about 13 per cent as compared with 1878. Of the States producing shipping, manufacturing and smoking tobacco, which constitutes nine- tenths of all the tobacco grown in the United States, North Carolina alone shows an increase in area planted. All the others indicate mate­ rial decrease from toe acreage of last year. The condition for the whole country is slightly below that of July 1, 1878. Massachusetts alone, of the Stated bordering on the Atlantic, shows increased condition; and Tennessee, in the West, places her oondition at 94, against 89 last year. Spring Wheat--Returns for July give aver­ age condition of spring wheat at 91 against 106 on July 1,1878. The Northern New England States range nearly up to the average. A few counties in Northern New York average 89. Texas, the only Southern State producing it to any extent, reports but 01. The Northwest spring-wheat States range from 92 to 96, but Iowa falls to 88. The spring-wheat crop of Kansas is but 68. On the Pacific coast most of the California crop is returned as spring wheat, wd the average 9& The small spring wheat crop of Oregon is full average. The condition of the crop in the Southwest and Northwest was largely affected by drouth. In some sec­ tions the Hessian fly was injurious. In the Northwest local storms were more or less de­ structive. Winter Wheat--July returns show an average oondition of winter wheat of 91, against 101 on Jnly 1,1878. The New England Sta*es average 99. The crop here was small and late, but promising. Middle States, 86. Complaints of drouth, mildew, Hessian fly and local storms. Iu the South Atlantic States the oondition is 95; stands thinned by winter killing and growths stunted by drouth in many northern counties, but farther down the coast the condition is greatly improved. This section would be a full average but for injuries in Virginia, bring­ ing the State average to 85. Georgia reports 108, with an excellent quality of grain. Com­ mercial authorities report an almost entire cessation of toe movement of North­ ern wheat to Georgia, the looal mills finding materials sufficient in their home growth. The Gulf States report an average of 75. The small crops of Alabama and Mississippi are in high oondition, but the crop of Texas is a third below the average, through drouth and local storms. Southern inland States, 98; grain of remarkably fair quality generally. States north of the Ohio river, 101; straw short, but grain plump and heads heavy, and greatly improved by recent rains. States west of the Mississippi, 89; in­ juries by chinch bugs in southern parts, and by storms in northern portions. Pacific States, 108. The winter wheat of Oregon averages U& JFME8M TOPICS. . fetfcotal average attendance of each pupil in the Chicago' public schools is only 410 days; yet the system of in­ struction contemplates a course oft twelve years. The facts are said to be about the same in all the large cities of the United States. Tat danger of transmitting disease by books has been investigated by the Chicago Publio Library Directors They have corresponded with physi­ cians and librarians in various parts of the country, but not one has ever known of a case of contagious disease having been imparted by & book Sxoax 4 calcu­ lating library. . < LARGE bodies of troops are to be as­ sembled during the present summer at the principal military stations in Rus­ sia, to be exercised in maneuvers on a large scale. Altogether, thirty-one camps are to be formed, the aggregate of the force collected in them amount­ ing to 439 battalions of infantry, 216 squadrons of cavalry, and 886 guns. Among the infantry are forty-two of the newly organized reserve battalions. ALL the Western States are expect­ ing a good crop this year, but none fur­ nish more favorable reports of the prospect than Minnesota. The St. Paul Pioneer-Press predicts that Min­ nesota will harvest this year a crop of 50,000,000 bushels of wheat, and possi­ bly as much as 55,000,000, which would be by far the biggest crop ever raised by any State. It expects that the farm­ ers wUl get $40,000,000 at least in ex­ change for this crop, and more if the European wheat crop proves short, as is now expected. IN a church in. Richmond, Ya., the other Sunday, the congregation noticed a small, insulated wire that ran down the pulpit rail, up the wainscoting, and out at a hole in the window frame. Upon one of the pillars of the pulpit, almost hidden from sight, was a tele­ phone transmitter. This arrangement was for the benefit of an invalid young lady, who for years had been unable to attend service in the church. NThe clergyman was/ anxious during the morning sermon, as his thoughts re­ verted to the distant listener, to know if she heard, and his pleasure may be imagined when he learned that the en­ tire service--sermon, prayers, hymns, 6rgan and singing--had been audible to the young lady. ON the day the duty on quinine repealed, Powers & Weightman, the largest manufacturers of the dingin the United States, telegraphed from Phila­ delphia to New York that no further purchases of bark should be made on their account. One of the members of the firm remarked: "We have re­ solved to discontinue the manufacture of quinine. Now that Congress has decided that the drag shall be admitted free, it is questionable whether we could profitably compete with foreign oountries. England, Germany, France and Italy can obtain the bark at a cheaper rate than we procure it, and with the improved machinery used on the continent, together with the low price of labor, it is almost certain that they can .undersell us. At any rate, we shall take no further part ii} the busi­ ness." • ^ , AN improved torpedo of the White­ head or fish pattern has been tested at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and been sent to Portsmouth for a course of sea trials. It is capable of a high rate of speed, and maintains its velocity for a considerable range. It is also cheaper, and, as each torpedo costs about $1,500, this is a considerable advantage. . The purchase of the secret from Mr. White­ head cost the British Government, with the improvements, altogether $3,750,- (KK). Many attempts have, of course, been made to discover the secrets of manufacture, and in one instance the authorities were outwitted by a respect­ able-looking man, who informed the officials that he had invented an im­ provement in the propeller, and induced them to allow him to take away part of the machinery. THE camel-breeding industry is promising in Arizona. Three years ago a herd of those animals was taken to Yuma, the intention being to make them serviceable as beasts of burden. The attempt was a failure, the climate seeming to disagree with them, and it was found that they were not so useful as the little mule. The owners turned the camels loose and they roamed along the Gila river, apparently enjoying their liberty and profiting by it. They have bred liberally, and appear to have be­ come acclimated and domesticated to the region, thriving as though they had been in their own native Africa. It is thought the new generation of camels will be used to the alkaline waters pe­ culiar to the Southwestern section, and can be made serviceable in transporting the mineral products of that conn try across the long deserte of sand to places where they can begprofitsbly worked. At aiiy rate tfceow&ero of the rejected i and wandering toasts feel that there is money in their camels, and will here­ after devote some care to the breeding; and rearing of them. SUPT. WRIGHT, of the MassaoTiiiiwtlii Bureau of Labor Statistics, has pre­ pared a report for the next Legislature of that State. He says that the number of convicts in 1878 in all the State pris­ ons of the Union was 29,197, of whom. 13,186 were employed in mechanical in­ dustries. The greatest number was in. New York and the smallest in Rhode Island. Three systems of labor were found to be in practice. The first is the> contract system, which is adopted in Massachusetts and generally in the> Northern States, and which consists ilk selling the labor of the prisoners for a. stipulated time and at a fixed price per day to the highest bidder, the work, usually being done within the walls of the prison, under the supervision of an. agent of the purchaser. The second i& the lessee system, which consists in leasing convicts to a party for a speci­ fied sum per year, with the provision, tjiafc the lessee shall feed, clothe and dis­ cipline the convicts, and, indeed, attend to the entire work of their oare and. maintenance. This system is adopted in some of the Southern Stateq^j The third is the "public-account" system* according to which the officers of the prison purchase all the raw materials* manufacture the goods, and sell t.h«m in the open market for the best price they can get, the same as any manu­ facturing establishment. At the rate of 40 cents per day, which was the aver­ age, the wage-earnings for the whole year amounted to $1,624,515. At $2 per day, which was the average price of similar labor outside of prisons, these same men would have earned $8,120,576. The products of prison labor, if we take the labor at $2 per day, did not exceed $20,000,000 in 1878, while the products, of all the mechanical industries of the United States amounted to $5,000,000,- 000. ; MOW WBSION BA.CAMB A WALKBB* The simple fact that Edward Pavson. Weston, who has just won a great no­ toriety as a walkist, in London, is a. Rhode Islander by birth, has already been published. The reader may- desire, to know something more of him. His father was a man of restless brain* full of Utopian schemes, and finally died insane. His mother was an intel­ lectual woman, and after her husband's- death she wrote a number of creditable books for children. After these were printed she sent her son Edward, the present walkist, out into the world to- sell the product of her brain. He traveled not only all over Providence* but also all over Rhode Island, and parts, of Massachusetts and Connecticut. He thus early acquired the habit of long- continued walking.--Woonsocket (B. J.> Patriot :;v GAMBETTd, • In the course of a very stormy debate in the French Chamber, lately, the ex­ cellence of M. Gambetta's cigars was- satirically referred to from the tribune* as was also the aristocratic proficiency of his cook. The climax was reached, with the remark that M. Gamfettta ha* a bath-room. MB. WORTH, of New Harrison, Wis.* was a remarkably handsome yoiingman. He was engaged to marry Miss t>akin,a- wealthy girl. She pointed what she thought was an empty pistol at him* and shot him in the face, disfiguring- him terribly. She now refuses to keep the engagement, saying that such an. ugly husband would make her constant­ ly nervous. 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