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i |?laiudcakr .•>, j. VAN SLYKE. E«tef W»* • I r ILLINOIS. . ItcHENRY. W E E K L Y l E f f S R E V I E W . THI3 RAST. >3 GO FA* nine boys have died in Phila- * ! «fclphift from injuries received by the explosion of toy-pistols on tlie 4tli and 5th of July. The Um ranged in age from 10 to 16 year* and < one was injured in the hands, which re- " * fUted in tetanus and death. J)^ TANNEB'S condition WM reported * il good at the close of the twenty-eighth day of <i • i Ms fast His weight was 129^', a loss of one j |pnnJ in the preceding twenty-four hours. . . DB, TANNER entered upon the tliirty- ^ Ittt dav of his, fast in prime condition, and * confident of completing his tremendous task. " Be took his umal two-hours' drive in the morn­ ing and filled his demijohn with well water. 5fce scales showed that he had gained half a pound in weight in the twenty-four hours. His noise was 84: temperature 98.80; respiration, jj" weight, 130 pounds. THE Middleton (CT) Savings Bank . WM robbed, recently, of $8,500 while some of Ike officials were at dinner... -Three men ^ve 'j > Sen killed by black damp m a Potfcmde (Pa.) ,.•!. colliery. , ^ iCENSUS returns from the thirty-two moflt populous counties in New York indicate that the population of the State will exceed 8,000,000, : A CHANGE for the worse in Dr. Tan- ." * Wr'q condition was noted at the close of the . . thirty-second day of his long fast. He was re- " ported weaker than at any time since the begin­ ning of his self-imposed task, and his eyes wore » dull and heavy look. During the day he vom itcd an ounce and a half of mucous, tinged with raging a respectable white woman In an ad­ dress before the Mobile Cotton Exchange, the other day, Prof, liiley, Chief of the United States Entomological" OomminKion, reported that in most of the fields throughout a large extent of the territory visited by him he found the cotton-worms preying upon the growing crop. FUTTKKN masked men broke into the home of a p6aceable«negro, twenty miles from Atlanta, Ga., pounded hint and his wife almost to death with clubs, and fatally shot their two children. Great indignation is said to prevail in the neighborhood, and money is being raised to prosecute the villains, some.of whom have been arrested. THE population of Kentucky is esti­ mated at 1,734,331, which is an increase of 413.321 over the population in 1870. The esti­ mate is based on official return ̂Ttodl fbtty- two counties hiHhe SUtv. CEKERAL. OFFICERS of the American vessels fired j on in Cuban waters deny the statement of the Spanish authorities that they were within three miles of the Cuban coast when overhauled Gen. Grant, it is reported, has been elected President of a Colorado mining company, at a salary of $25,000 a year. CHICAGO continues to lead all compet­ itors in the race for the national base-ball cham­ pionship. The record of the competing clubs is as follows: Club*. Chicago. Cleveland. Providence Boston Worcester........ Trov.... Buffalo Cincinnati. ..-- A MEXICAN army officer was impris­ oned by the police at Monterey for drunken­ ness. Some of his comrades took 100 men and stormed the jail, l»ut they were gallantly re­ sisted, and finally driven off by the police f«we and citizens. Three officers and fourteen men were killed or wounded in the Split. GEN. HANCOCK, in addition to his bile and*wasweak and helpless for nearly an j present duties, has been assigned to the corn- hour afterward. Notwithstanding the symptom^ mand of the Department of the South, during of weakening, the doctor was confident that he ! temporary absence of Brig. Gen. Augnr. could hold out for forty days. His pulse was ! PA88IKQ SMILES. GMNW «•». LoM. 40 7 * . 18 36 20 33 35 31 24 19 25 17 30 II 33 recorded at 72 ; temperature 98 3-5 ; respira­ tion, 15; weight, 127) j' pounds. His strength was tested by the dynometer and found to be 80 kilemeters on the right hand and 75 on the left j A FIRE in the lumber district of Buf- j falo burned over an area a quarter of a mile in j length by 500 feet in width. The total loss is j $225,000 and the insurance $93,000 C. I Branscom, of Branscom & Co., commission merchants, New York, is under arrest for hav­ ing in his possession «122,000 in forged bonds j of the city of Jacksonville, Fla. | ON the thirty-third day of his fast, ! Dr. Tanner was reported as greatly improved, ] the apparent symptoms of weakening exhibited on the previous day having partially disap­ peared. He walked twenty-five laps around Uic inclosure in the hall--about two-thirds of a mile--in eighteen minutes. His gait was free and steadv. A letter was received from Mary J. Frindahs, Milwaukee, Wis., offering the doctor "her hand and heart." The letter greatly amused him. ITIXB WIARRT YANDERBILT'S mare Maud S. beat trinket in three straight heats at Chicago, giv- iag him a double distance in the last, which _j«s made in 2:13}{. This time is withm three- quarters of a second of the best ever made, and is considered remarkable for a 6-year-old mara, ID one of the heats Maud S. made a qnarter- -nile at the rate of 2:08.... .The official census returns make the population of the Second district of Kansas, comprising fifty western counties of the State, 335,000--an increase of 275.000 since 1870. The census of the entire State will probably show a population of 1,000,- THERE was a sudden termination to a colored camp-meeting near Hillsboro, Ohio when a gang of white roughs who invaded the THE Western Nail Association at Pitts­ burgh has resolved unanimously not to sell nails at less than $3. The card rate here- k Pmi/APKTjFHiA girl who pads her bathing suit says it iB the safest and purest way to reform. ! A GREAT number of rheumatic peoplo who object to the round dance like tobe around when it is danced. BEKCHER professes to honor the man who slops over. He says if a man has a b'g bucket and only a pint of water he won't spill it. AN Illinois lady writes that the mission of a widow in this life is to tell to her casual male acquaintances how elegant all other men are. F.T.T PERKINS understands something about the distillation of wood ashes; but he says it is impossible to get a lie out of whole cloth. WHEN the trunks of a society belle are driven into Saratoga the ancient inhab­ itants thiuk that a lot of circus wagons are entering the village. A LADY being asked how old she was replied: "I was married at eighteen; my husband was then thirty. Now be is twice as old--that makes me twice* its old. I'm thirty-six. On its death bed the Corry Daily Press exclaimed: "You might as well try to drive a railroad spike with fl, tack hammer as to run a nonpareil newspaper in a small pica town." THE following explanation of a legal term is offered by a Teutonic member «< the Cauton Police force: "Ven I git me out a habeas scorpions I can chust as veil catch a man where he ain't as where he is." "THE Lord loveth a cheerful giver," but it doesn't count for a man who puts twenty-five cents in the contribution box on Sunday, and then makes his wife economize on butter during tiie re­ mainder of the week in order to make up for it. WHEN a man fails to laugh at one of the King of Burmah's jokes, he is knocked down and traveled over and strewed about. And it's a great blessing tofore was £3.25. but many haVd "been selling , that the King's jokes are always so fuuny at $2.25 and £2.85. I that nobody ever seems able to help ANOTHER American vessel -- the ; laughing at them. schooner George Washington, from Philadel- J JUST now the newspapers are teeming phia--was recently bombarded and searched off j with the paragraph, " Don't drink ice- the Cuban coast by two officers and ten men ! water when you are hot, "and it is one belonging to a Spanish "unboat. The facts of j that should be regarded by all. The j the outrage have bten placed before the author- ; HmA to drink ice-water is along in the j ities at Washington. dead of winter, jvlien it is a tight scratch j THE jury in the case of the steamer j to keep from freezing to death. • Seawanahaka, recently burned on Long Island j "THE concatenation of circumstances," i sound, have returned a verdict exonerating the Evarts, "has not evolved out of my i ! United States Steamboat Inspectors from all J p^fe-emineiit position in the administra- ' ' blame, as tliey find that the boat was provided | ^on any elements except such as were «t>unds attempted to demolish the sutler's nt and had a regular pitched battle with the officers. About fifty shots were fired, and i the following State ticket: dubs and bowlders were freely used. Three men are very badly hnrt probably fatally, and many others more or less injured with all appurtenances required by law. Tiiey j severely censure the crew for their want of dis- cipline and want of concert. WASHINGTON. COMPLETE returns show that, during j the fiscal year ending July 1, last, the receipts j of the Internal Revenue Department were ' 1124,516.617.38. Of this sr.m #23,935,614.49 j was collected in Illinois, $6,213,636.49 in In- i diana, $854,859.78 in Iowa, $364,689.64 in Min- ! nesota, and $2,698,576.79 in Wisconsin. , POLITICAL. THE Maine Democratic and Green- 1 back State Committees were in session nt Au­ gusta last week. The result of the conference ; was a determination to pool their femes, raise a large amount of money, flood the State with speakers, and wage an aggressive campaign. THE West Virginia Democratic Con­ vention, in session at Martinsbnrg, nominated : CoL J. B. Jackson, of Parkersburg, for Gov- j ernor. Tun Ohio Greenback Convention, in session last week at Columbus, nominated For Secretary of A. Llovd, of Seneca; 8u- D. W. C. Louden, of | State. Charles preme Judge, _ TT; "C i Brown countv: Clerk of the Supreme !v « Schroe^er,elJte.rf<1 i Court, Charles Bowsall, of Columbiana : Mem- theofiieeof Dr. Alfred Lefevreand shot him of the of PQ^IIC Works, Amos dead. Both parties were o^ < Roberts, of Knox county : School Commis- tion, Schroeder being teller of the London and Hioner K Smart, of Ross countv ; Presi- flan Francisco Bank, and Lefevre a long-estab- d U ', E^ore-at-large. Harvev Keilogg, of felied and popular dentist A woman was at - - b • 00 the bottom of the trouble The Utes are not willing to sign the treaty surrendering their present reservation until they see the region where it is proposed to locate them. LAST week's receipts of grain in Chi­ cago amounted to 475,768 bushels of wheat, Lucas, and L. T. Foster, of Mahoning. roKEiejr. MORI THAN 300 lives were LOST by the late earthquake at Manila Montenegro has ordered a levy of all men between 16 and 60. , , , . , . , # ; It is reported from Vienna that the powers; J,056,913 bushels of corn, 272,592 bushels of j ^ decid£f to give Turkey just three weeks Oats, 50,695 bushels of rye, and 5,998 bushels of , in which to make up her mind to obey the j barley Mrs. J. B. Marvin, of Atchison, Kan., j voice of Europe At a communistic soiree in i " has given birth to a girl baby weighing only one | PariK violent speeches were made, enlogizin ; 1 «nd three-quarters pounds. The child is per- the commune and its defenders, demanding a I fectly developed and bids fair to live.... ; European republic, annihilation of Kings and j l)an Timney, of Shelby county, Ind., had a ; social revolution. quirrel with his stepfather about some trivial ' matter, and wanted to shoot him. The young man's mother stepped between him and his in­ tended victim, whereupon he turned the re­ volver on himself and blew out his own brains. ... .A saw-mill atpiagley, Mich., blew up, caus­ ing the death of two men and seriously wound­ ing several others. As usual, a defective boiler was the cause. BuRGiiARg blew open the safe of C. S. Wood worth A Co., at Marshall town, Iowa, and secured $4,000 worth of securities A fire at Quincy, I1L, 'destroyed E. C. Pfanschmidt's planing-mill, the Gardner governor-works, Bennett & Duff's foundry, Harns & Bee he's old | JOSEPH PEDRAHITA, an American citi- i zen, claims $200,000 damages from the Spanish 1 | Government for false imprisonment in Cuba. ! I A row-boat was run down by a steam j ; launch on the Thames, and a gentleman and ; lady and two children were drowned The ( j steamer Hazeldean, from Bilbao for New- ; , castle, recently sank in the British channel. I ] Five of her crew were drowned , In the recent engagement between Cuban in- | surgents and Spanish troops the former are re- 1 I ported to have been badly worsted, losing three 1 j of their principal officers--Gen. Medina, Gen. ; I Fleites aad Col. Johnson, the latter an Amer- | ican A pleasure steamer capsized in a squall dissentaneous to a successful aspiration after a more elevated situation; all my strivings for a boom have resulted in a boomerang."--Puck. "GOODS at half price," said the sign. "How much is that teapot?" asked the old lady who had been attracted by the announcement, "Fifty cents, mum." "I guess I'll take it, then," she said, throwing down a quarter. The dealer let her have the teapot, but took in his sign before another customer could come in. THE Albany Argus relates that two Vassar College girls were on their way home over the Albany and Susqnehanna Railroad the other day. "Maryland!" yelled the brakeman, as the train pulled up to a station. "What did he say?" asked one of the girls. "Maryland," re­ plied the other. "Oh, let's get out!" exclaimed the first with sudden inter­ est But they were too late. The train had started. A lady had in her* employment a young man from the country. On cer­ tain occasions he was instruced to inform any company who might ring at the door, that "Mrs. was not at home." One day John made this reply to a lady, who shortly went away, leaving a card and a promise to call again. As the card was handed to his mistress, she said: *'John, what did you say to the lady?' «'I told her that you were not at home." <'Well, John, I hope you did not laugh." «'Oh, no, ma'am," said John, "I never laugh when I tell a lie." IT was a sad occasion. The doctors said the man couldn't live, and weeping friends surrounded his bedside. But he was not reconciled to depart. He was young and there was much to hold him to life. He struggled hard, mentally, to accept the situation, but he couldn't feel fight about it. At length he opened his eyes and asked in a feeble whisper if There he wrote the speech that is now historical, gathered up the sheets, read them over and left them. The late John T. Harper, who was present, put them in a pi uce by themselves, intending to preserve them as a souvenir. While they were gone to the convention, how­ ever, the ubiquitous hired girl came into the room and "put it to right," and car­ ried the papers away. This is about the way with all extemporaneous speeches, although Bob is a man who needs ns little preparation as any one.̂ --JReoria Journal. Under a Blanket. A queer law-suit has just been brought before the magistrate of this city. Mr. McNick had a house for sale, and, when Mr. Pallinger called to negotiate, Mr. McNick said : " This is the best house in town, sir ; every convenience, and the most pleasant place in the world. You know that the weather recently has been exceedingly Warm# M " Yes," said Mr. Pallinger, wiping the perspiration from his face. " Well, sir, the hottest night this year I slept under a thick blanket. The only way I can account for this is that the air, while whizzing round the angles of this peculiar locality, gets cool. Striking the lence over tliei'e, it whizzes into this room and cools everything." How about the air in winter ? asked Mr. Pallinger. , _ "Why, sir, it is simply charming. It creeps along the fence till it gets warm. You know that along a fence is the warmest place in the winter. Well, the air creeps along the fence, bumps against that post over there, turns, and comes into the house. One night last winter I had to sleep without any cover over me, and inj) the morning when I got up I found that a man in the next house had frozen to death." "You say. Mr. McNick, that Til have to sleep under a blanket ? " 44Yes sir." "I'll buy the house and pay cash for it, and to-night if I don't sleep under a blanket I shall demand my money and keep the house." "All right, sir, you'll sleep under a blanket. I'll be around early in the morning." Mr. Pallinger took possession. When he went to bed, Mrs. Pallinger remarked, "John, you told me this was^a cool house ; why, I believe I'll melt. Pall- inger threw open the door and perspired. Next morning McNick called around. " Give me my money !' demanded Pallinger.- "It's the hottest house in town. My land,! it got so hot that, if I had been suddenly transferred to the in­ terior of a cook-stove, I would have taken cold." , "Hold on! I said •that you would sleep under a blanket." " Yes, and I didn't." " Come here," said McNick ; and he conducted Pallinger to the roof of the house; directly over the bed, and showed him a blanKet, held down by four bricks. As Pallinger had slept under the blanket, McNick refused to return the money, and, in an attempt to recover it, Pallin­ ger has entered suit .--Little liock Ga­ zette. A Texas Horse Trade. A man by the name of Smith, living in Galveston, Tex., kept a livery stable. Among other horses in his custody was a fine bay horse belonging to Jones. This horse, in cavorting about the stable- yard, ran against a wagon and broke his W. Of course Smith was responsible. All he had to do was to send for a police­ man, have the animal shot, and pay Jones about $60, the value of tlie animal. Smith notified the policeman, and started out to see Jones, and inform him officially about the accident. Now, Bmitli is considerable of a wag. Hap­ pening to meet Brown, he asked if Brown did not want to buy a horse. Brown wanted a cheap horse, and one that was safe, so that when Smith put the ques­ tion to him he replied: "May be so; if you have the right kind of a horse. Is he a steady, quiet horse?" " He is' the quietest horn you eTer saw." "Won't bite or kick, and is Rot likely to ran away?" "If he bites, kicks, or runs away I'll give your money back." "Humph," said Brown, "what are you asking for tlie wonderful animal?" " I'll let you have him for $21. Give me $1 down, and your note for $20 more, and it is a bargain. I have no more use for the horse, but I want money right off". Brown thought to himself, "Smith has been tampering with cotton futures, aud is strapped," so he planked down the dollar and gave his note for the bal­ ance. ; If Brown was pleased with the trade, Smith was still more so. He called to several friends, and treated the crowd with the dollar, after which the proces­ sion re-formed and marched down to the stable to see Brown's new purchase. When they got there the policeman had already shot the poor brute, and he looked like all he really needed was an inquest. Brown looked very much that way himself. He turned pale and then glishman fancies that some people have as many lives as a cat--that a cat. in fact, has nine lives; yet lie holds that care will kill a cat, and that May kittens should be drowned. He is scarcely alone in thinking that the more you stroke a cat's back the higher she raises her tail. In other words, that flattery feeds van­ ity. He lets the cat out of the bag ; but so do others, and they all agree that it is in the nature of a cat always to fall on its feet. Only he talks of turning cat in pan, and of raining cats and dogs, or sees folks dance like a cat on hot bricks. Story About Artemns Ward. There are yet living in Pottsville, Pa., several gentlemen who never hear the name of Artemus Ward without a smil­ ing recollection of a pleasant night spent with that droll genius. In the winter of one of the earlier years of tlie war Arte­ mus Ward was advertised to deliver his famous lecture on the Mormons in the Town Hall at Pottsville. Much curiosity was excited by the announcement of his coming, and there, was every reason to expect that the hall would be crowded on the evening of the lecture. But one of the fiercest snow-storms that ever visited the town raged without intermis­ sion all day, and the night was wildly stormy when the lectmfer was driven to the hall. He. found awaiting him there only five men who had defied the storm. Advancing to the front of the stage, and becking with his finger as if to a single individual, Artemus said, in an ordinary conversational tone, " Come up closer." Not knowing precisely what to do, the audience of five compromised with their embarrassment by doing nothing. Arte­ mus changed his tone to that used by one who wishes to coax, and said : " Please come up closer and be sociable; I want to speak to you about a little mat­ ter 1 have thought of." Having succeeded in getting his audi- dence to move up nearer the stage, the humorist said : "I move that we do not way nimselt. Jle turnec pale ana tnen | luive lecture here this evening, and got red behind the ears. Then he smiled, j -'e instead that we adjourn to the but it Avas not a particularly healthy I « good particularly healthy smile. Smith tried to help matters; and as soon as the crowd had quit holding their sides, he said: "Now, Brown, I don't want you to tell anybody that I swindled you. I call on these gentlemen to witness that I've done tlie square thing. This is Jones' bay horse, the identical one I sold you. I guaranteed he would not bite nor kick, and you can't provoke him to rim away. I think he fills the bill. I want you take him off or I'll charge you for keeping him." "Boys," said Brown, "don't give me away. I know I am not the only fool on Galveston Island. Let's go and hunt for a duplicate, and I will set 'em up." They strolled out and met Robinson. "Look here, Robinson, don't you want a right good horse at a bargain? I've just bought Jones' fine bay horse. He cost restaurant beneath and have a time." He then put the motion, voted on it himself, declared itj[carried, and, to give no appeal from the chair, at once led the way to the restaurant. There he introduced himself to his intended audi­ tors, and spent several hours in their company, richly compensating them for disappointment in the matter of the lec­ ture by the wit and humor of the stories and anecdotes without number that he told. And that is how Artemus Ward lectured iu Pottsville. Business* Maxims* A prominent merchant has compiled the following maxims for his own inquiry and experience : 1. Choose the kind of business you understand. 2. Capital is positively required in .... . , business, even if you have real estate ongmally, and he is in just , mitside ^lld credit eJver so good. ̂̂Superstitions about Thnnder. ""AlmostTair the tribes in tlie United States believed the thunder to be pro­ duced by the wings of a great bird, and that the lightning was the serpents that were invariably connected with the thunder bird. Among the ancient tribes of the Mississippi valley the thunder, therefore, |ppon became a tkunder god, who could be propitiated with sacrifices. The Illinois Indians offered up a small dog when a child happened to be sick upon a day when there was much thun­ der, supposing the latter to be a cause of the malady. Many accidents, like conflagrations, were attributed to this angry god, and some tribes did bloody penancesof propitiation, often burning to death their own children. Statements that the Indians adored the thunder, however, seem to be erroneous. It was the cause of the thunder that they wor­ shiped, and before which they burned tobacco and buftalo meat, or cut off the joints of their fingers or threw their children into the lire when they were The Peruvians had the same condition he was when I got him." " Oh!" said Robinson, " times are hard, and horse feed is awful high. A high stepping lior&e, like Jones' bay will eat his head off in no time." "That's where you are fooling your­ self. He eats less than any horse you ever saw. By thunder, no horse can eat less than he can." "Ain't he a little frisky?" Brown shook his head and replied: "You are doing that horse injustice. You can tell by looking at him that he is not that kind of an animal. Ill let you have him for just what I gave for him --$20--$1 down, and your note, secured by such men as Heidenheimer, for the balance. I've got to have money." Robinson thought it was mean to take advantage of Brown's distress, but then it was not his lookout. If he was out of his head, why didn't he have the court appoint him a guardian. So he planked down $1 and gave the note, on the con­ dition that the horse would go in a wagon. "You bet," remarked Brown, "he'll go in a wagon. Come on, boys, let's spend this dollar." After they had wiped off their mouths, the" procession re-formed, and started to inspect the animal. Sure enough, three niggers were lifting him into a wagon. "There," said Brown, " I told you he Don't say I 3. One kind of business is as much as a man can manage successfully. Invest­ ments oil the outside do not generally pay, especially if you require the money in your business. 4. Buy cautiously and just what you want, and do not be persuaded to pur­ chase what you do not need ; if you do, you will soon want what you can't buy. 5. Insure your stock; insure your store ; insure your dwelling, if you have one. If the rate is high it is only be­ cause the risk is great, and of course you should not take the risk yourself. A business that will not pay ior insuring will not justify running. 6. Sell to good, responsible parties only. Sell on a specified time, and when your money is due demand it; do not let the account stand without note or in­ terest for an indefinite period. • 7. Sell at a reasonable profit and never misrepresent to effect a sale. 8. Live within your income; keep your business to yourself ; have patieiyje and you will succeed. 9. Competition is the life of trade, but in trying to run your competitor out of business be careful you do not run your­ self out. 10. Advertise your business in your home paper. It pays te patronize the printer. What Sorts of Invalids Had Better to Colorado. Persons suffering from any of the fol­ lowing diseases will be greatly relieved, if not permanently cured, by n sojourn here, especially if they will subject themselves to Judicious medical treat­ ment suitable to the climate and their changed condition. The iron and soda springs at Manitou, five miles distant, with which there is almost hourly com­ munication by rail and coach, will prove reliable adjuncts in the good work: General debility, nervous or other­ wise, arising from material causes or overwork, mental or physical. Consumption in its earlier stages ; dis­ eases of the liver, stomach, spleen, blad­ der, and of an uterine nature. Bronchi­ tis and asthma, organic and functional scrofula in all its protean forms, nasal and pharyngeal catarrh, especially when contracted in damp localities, and chron­ ic malaria poison and its many compli­ cations. _ I know that bronchitis will be re­ lieved, if not entirely cured. Have a case in my own family. Mrs. C. had ' been afflicted with it for several years- before we came here. Three months'" residence has nearly entirely relieved her. I had determined to advise no one to* come here, either for health or fortune, but the certainty of finding relief from bronchitis and asthma is so clearly man-' ifested in the case of Mrs. C. and others, that for once I break my Resolution, and. urgc all persons afflicted with these dis­ tempers to come. insomnious persons will be greatly: benefited byyfhis climate. I cannot- giye the reason. Some attribute it to an unusua^amount of ozone in the at­ mosphere. I speak from personal ex­ perience on this subject. In no other land have I ever found sleep so gentle, so sweet, and so refreshing. The sleep> of adults is as profound and as calm as that of infants, and there is no courting of the charmer. She comes unsought, like a good angel, and spreads her oblivious mantle over wearied soul and body, and you know nothing till next- morning, when your first perception will be the unspeakable glory of Cheyenne as you gaze on its purple sides through the chamber .window. There is another class that may rely on finding relief--the obese. If there be any unhappy wight who desires to- lose some of his avoirdupois, let him come. One singular feature in our population is, there are no fat people here. If the Prince of Wales had only known this in his day, he would have avoided Beau Brummel's heartless in­ quiry. People afflicted with consump­ tion and Bright'a disease in the advanced stage, or laboring under organic disease of the brain or heart, or nervous affec­ tion depending on organic lesion, had better remain away. Iu the case of consumption in an ad­ vanced stage, however, tliis much can be said : The patient's pathway to the tomb is smoothed by an almost utter ab­ sence of physical suffering. Death gen­ erally ensues suddenly and without pain, life simply going out like a candle. --Letter from. Colorado Springs, €bl. fci >bacco factory, Jarnetts ice-house, and ; on Lake Brienze, Switzerland,'and sixteen per- numerous dwellings barns, sheds, etc. The ! 8orw were drowned... .The German Goveru- total loss is placed at^ over 4150,000. ... ! ment has expelled from the country Mormon : missionaries making proselytes. The Cherokees m Indian Territory lynched two Creeks, the other night, and the Creeks have just retaliated by filling two Cherokees with bullets . .The complete census of Nebraska shows a population of 452,512 Tlie census returns from every district of Oregon shows a population of 175,535, an increase of about 93 per cent, rinoe Census returns from seventy-six counties in Illinois show a population of nearly 2,750,000. It is estimated that the remaining twenty-six counties will increase these figures to 3,125,000. The census of Minnesota, now complete, shows the total population of the State to be 780,072, an increase of 340,366 since 1870, or little more than 77 per cent. THE wheat crop is now being har- j vested in Nebraska, and will be a third less than ! the average. In Minnesota a yield of from ' twenty to thirty bushels to the acre is antici- : pated. in Dakota Territory, the crop is larger ! andltetter than ever before. In Illinois and ad- | jacent States the winter wheat has been i gathered in good condition, and the spring wheat is now being gathered. I G. W. CABLEW was on trial at Mober- ! ly, Mo., for outraging a respectable married woman. While he wag being conducted from the jail to the court-room, he was set upon by Crump, the husband of the outraged woman, and shot to death. Carlew ran round with his handcuffs on begging the people lor God's sake to protect him, but Crump finally overtook him and emptied his re­ volver into him, and he died in ten minutes A man and woman under arrest at Fremont, Neb., are said to be old man Bender and his daughter Kate. DISPATCHES from Los Pinos Indian Agency report that "forty-eight chiefs and I head men of the Uncompahgre Utes have signed ! the treaty. The success of the com- • , mission is assured beyond doubt. Ouray i assured the commission that no trouble i will be experienced in getting the White River and Southern U&s to sign, now that the Uncompahgres have agreed to the •naty... .The census of Arizona givos a popu­ lation of 41,580, including 1,600 Chinese and 4,54& Indians, but excluding the Reservation and Pueblo Indians not taken in the census. THE SOUTH. A HOBRIBUE murder is reported at Abbeville, S. C. One Abraham Martin knocked Ida wife down and then, standing on her as he would on a log, chopped her shoulders rides into shreds. They had been married thirty-five years, and had fourteen children. An English bark luu» arrived at Mo­ bile with nearly all on board down with the pttow fever. ̂ A KKOKO named Diggs has been hanged ̂ Mf'm infuriated mob at BockviUe, Md., forout- A CABLE dispatch chronicles the re-1 Extemporaneons Utterances, storation of capital punishment by another of j We see that at the school commence- the Swiss cantons by which it was abolished. • ment a favorite selection is Ingersoll's To further secure the beneficial effects in the j "The past rises before me like a dream." urease way of t<;rror to evil doers, this canton has also jt j8 credited to his address to the sol- ' •:' : en^d thf STval1 ex«cuti"'Jf HhaU .J* diers at Indianapolis. The first time he public A St. Petersburg dispatch says the , , ., ' - ,, . reports of Gen. SkobelefTs death are untrue. delivered it was m this city at the un-% i ANOTHER disaster has overtaken the , v?i,inS oiu so+1lfher81 monument sever­al years before tlie celebration at Indian­ apolis was thought of. It was recog- overcome with fear. , --, as an ideal a stone that had been split | wouu gQ into a wagon. _ by the lightning. They offered it gold , ^v iudled you. He will eat less than any and silver. The natives of Honduras (f[or3e you ever owned. You will save burned cotton-seed when it thundered, j hig value in horse feed in two weeks. „ A j Other Southern tribes made no sacrifices j just try and see if he is not gentle. the ieader of the village band was at j on the approach of a storm, but abased j Tickle him with a straw." * themselves in the most abject fear. The wild rice being aquatic, and looking like an arrow or spear, it is also attributed to the thunder spirit as its origin. In Mexico great temples were built upon the sacred spot where lightning had struck. A curious notion among Pe­ ruvians was tlfat the preserved bodies of twin children who died in infancy should |be worshiped, supposing that one of them was the son of the thun­ der, the origin of this idea being the fact that the thunder god of that people was one of the celestial twins of Apocatequin and Piquerad. The tradi- home. H so, he desired, as a last dying request, that the band be brought out and allowed to play one of their favorite airs--No. 6, he thought--under his win­ dow. The appeal was granted, and be­ fore the concluding strain was reached a submissive smile hovered about the shrunken lips of the departing one, as he murmured, " I'm resigned. Nothing-- worse--can--happen--now." Then his light went out.--Cincinnati Saturday Night. The spectators applauded. Kobinson looked like he ought to go along with his horse to keep him in countenance.' In conclusion it is whispered on the Strand among capitalists that some of the notes have already passed into the hands of innocent holders, and as soon as they mature, protests will be in order. ---Oalvcston New*. Narrow Escapes. Sometimes, when I look back over my life, I am amazed to see how the pages of its record are dotted with hair-breadtli 1 British arms in Afghanistan. Ayoob Khan, at I »W 'hen - . v5ry toe effort, but the maud near Candahar. They were driven ten 1 miles with great slaughter, only a rem- j nant escaping, and they barely saved | themselves by taking refuge in the fortiflca- 1 tious of Candahar. It was the most disastrous repulse yet sustained by the English in Afghan­ istan, and will probably lead to an entire reopen­ ing of the campaign. Turkey's reply to the collective note of the powers has been delivered to the Ambassadors at Constantinople. It declares celebration was a local affair, and, al­ though it was reported in the papers here and the speech given pretty fully, it at­ tracted no special attention and in a short time was forgotten. When he de­ livered it in Indianapolis some of the Peoria people thought they recognized their old friend, and they went to the files of the papers, and there, sure ^ escapes. I escaped the dangers and tloii was* utilized by' Pizano's mission- I hardships of the Revolutionary war by to teach the doctrine of the j waitiug until the war had been over aries Trinity. -Exchange. a readiness to execute the Montenegrin conven-'L V .W.. 1 * ' . lion in three weeks, but. relative to Greece, it j enough, was The past rises before me 8t&tefl that it is impoHHible to surrender Janina, j like a dream in pretty much of its old Larrissa, and Metzovovo, and urges further I coloring. He had brushed it up some, ! trimmed it down and made some verbal changes; but to all intents and purposes it was the same speech. Those who negotiations. HEAVY and continuous rain-storms in ; several counties of England have laid hundreds | of acres of grain and caused irreparable dain^ ; age Contagious pleuro-pneumonia has again made its appearance in some of tlie English I counties England is straining every nerve | to repair, at the earliest possible moment, the j defeat of Gen. Burrows in Afghanistan, and ; large reinforcements are being seut thither. I listened to him in Indianapolis thought it was the sudden inspiration of the mo- ; ment. The fact of it is, the inspiration ! of the moment is quite as likely to make j a fool of a man as it is to put him on his mettle. A man does his best work, when 1 he has the time to prepare it, and the I better he prepares the better he does it Employ Good Teachers. j ^ a general thing. A friend of Inger- Don't try to get " something for noth- i soil in this city relates that four years ing." It can't be done. | ago before he went to Cincinnati to Good things command a price in this 1 nominate Blaine, he went into Bob's world. If you are a farmer and your j office one afternoon and found Ingersoll wheat is extra, it commands an extra walking the floor. As the other ap- price. " •! proached Eob turned around and said: If you have superior stock it commands j "Like a plumed knight he entered the an extra price. j lists and tore the tongue of slander from If you are a good School Director and 1 the throat of treason." The friend did you get a good teacher, he is worth more not know what he meant, but when Bob Postal Cats. So engrossing is the partiality of the domestic cat for its home--so vehement its yearning to return thither when cir­ cumstances over which it lias no control have resulted in its transfer to unfamil­ iar localities--that certain Dutch nat­ uralists have come to the sage conclu­ sion that Grimalkin may be utilized as a letter-carrier with considerable ad­ vantage to the public interests. These worthies propose to organize a service of post-cats, and are at present engaged, by a series of ingenious experiments, in testing pussy's capacities for delivering the mails. Selecting Luik for their headquarters, they thence dispatch a number of cats, securely tied up in woolen bags, to the neighboring villages, where they are freed from con­ finement and turned loose, with neat packets of letters firmly strapped to their backs. At once their domestic in­ stincts come into full play, aud they swiftly flee homeward with unswerving directness. Of thirty-seven cats, thus constrained to serve their country, not one has hitherto failed to fulfil its postal function with excellent punctuality. It is feared, however, that when a double 1 ^ uot a dead one. --. __ service shall be arranged, difficulties and > c!af. wouid be a good friend if it did about sixty years before I got born. When the Brooklyn Theater burned I was in Burlington. When the yellow fever broke out in New Orleans I was in Minnesota, and immediately skipped out for Canada. When I was a boy, at school, one day all the boys in school wer« fiogged all 'round for robbing an apple orchard, and the flogging didn't do a bit of good, for every beggar of them had the cholera morbus all that night, just the same. And I? I was attending another school, twenty-three miles distant. When all of my brothers and sisters were down with the scarlet fever I wap down South in the army, and when I read the letters from home I laughed aloud to thiuk of my great good fortune, and that I would only have to be shot at once or twice a week instead of having to take medicine three tunes a day. When a man comes to the j ! office with a little bill, nine times out of j ten I am out. And if»-jby some as ton- j ishing blunder, I a|i in. then indeed 11 Coring Snake-Bites. Dr. Upshaur, of Carroltou, Miss., writes to the editor of the local papei : I saw a statement in your paper in re­ gard to the use of ammonia as a cuie for snake-bite. I desire to add my testi­ mony. I have practiced eight years in the Yazoo swamps. I have attended many cases of snake-bite, both of rattle­ snakes and moccasins. My treatment has invariably been to cut down freely with a bistoury, dilating the oriflfces made by the two fangs. After permit­ ting a reasonable amount of bleeding, I stuff into the wounds the dry salt of car­ bonate of ammonia. At the same time I give a tolerably strong solution of the same internally, say five or eig|it grains every fifteen minutes, until a drachm has been taken (less, if sufficient). Upon dissolving, the ammonia is rapid­ ly communicated to the blood, and through it to the tissues previously vis­ ited by the poison. The latter, as is the case with all animal poisons, l>eing of an acid reaction, the powerful alkali, r on overtaking it, instantly neutralizes it, | destroying its specific properties. I rely upon this treatment always, and I have I never had any trouble with such cases, 1 The whisky treatment is adjuvant only, | and I attach but little importance to it. Gen. Grant's Wedding. " I remember Grant's wedding well," said Mr. Darby. "Old man Dent met me on Third street and asked me to come around, as Julia was going to be married to a fellow named Grant. I knew Grant; so when I got home I asked my wife if the wanted to go to a wedding. " ' Whose ?' said she. " • Julia Dent's,' said I; ' she's .going" to marry-ft man named Grant.' "' L«'pose we might as well go,' says- "It wasn t much of a wedding. A. Methodist minister performed the cere­ mony." " Did they have a wedding-tour ?" asked the reporter. "Well, no; they didn't have any money, and the walking in those days wasn't Very good ; so they just staid at home." . 44 Where was the Dent residence ?" 44 Corner of Fourth and Cerre streets." 44 The way of it was," continued Mr. Darbv, 44 young Lewis Dent went to- West" Point as a cadet. He there be­ came acquainted with Grant, and, on one of his vacations, brought the future- President home to make a visit. He thus became acquainted with Julia, and they were shortly afterward married."-- St. Louis Olobe-Democrat. Didn't Violate the Rule. • An editor was accosted one day with 441 thought it was a rule of your paper never to give the authorship of any edi­ torial article ? " 44 That is our rule," said the editor. 44 But tlie proprietor of this paper told me who wrote the 4 leader' yesterday," continued the caller. 44 Indeed," quoth the editor ; 44 who was it?" " He said he wrote it himself." 44 In that case," answered the editor, quietly, 44 he did not violate the rule. He merely lied. ' THE MARKETS. NEW YOliK. HKKVES. . Hons... . The First Life-Boat. The first life-boat of which there is any record was designed in 1784 l>jKJl Mr. Lukin, a coach-builder in LOIK^^ and, strange to say, a native of an in­ land town. He chiefly aimed at mak- ins: an ttnsinkable boat, or, as lie termed it, an " uninimergible" boat. This ho accomplished by attaching a considera­ ble amount of cork outside the boat above water, and by. constructing inside the boat a series of water-tignt spaces or The volume to- which .$7 00 <5>10 09 . 4 85 (nj 5 15 . II vc* 11^ . 3 H«' (<$ 4 40 . 1 04 1 10 45 inl 48 . 36 (4 b8 82 <n! 83 .14 50 @15 00 ">X [ I' j.ouu--SniMU-liue WIIKA r--Nil. 'i I «'or.N--Wcnteru Mixed | OATS--Mixed | KYK--We-teru 1'ojtK--idefcs LAUD CHICAGO. UKKVK.K--Choice Graded Steers 4 CO <»7 4 85 Cows and Heifers 2 50 3 75 Medium to Fair 4 10 4 25 II008 3 50 @4 85 FLOUR--Fancy W hite WJAter Ex 5 50 <<$ 6 00 Good to Choice Spring Ex.. 4 25 (<$ 5 00 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring. 90 ($ 9'i No. 3 Spring 80 <$ CORN--No. 2 35 (at OATS--No. 2 * 23 (i>» RYE--No. 2. 74 (G BARI.EY--No. 2 \ 75 (G BI'TTEK--Choice Cfaamery 26 <£ Euos--Fre»h .. 12)^(3 PoBK--MFIW-uj. ...» 15 50 @15 75 LABD .>. 7 (A 7 V MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--NO. 1 1 01 ® 1 10 No. 2. .: 04 (g 95 83 sa 24 75 70 27 14 compartments. water could tod access, if the sea _ „ broke over tlie BOAT^Wfts thus reduced J COHW-NO. 2 35 considerably, an^fhe buoyancy of tho j £ 72 Loms. keel was fitted to increase the stability, j con^-Mi^2 .'.'.".'" The plan of construction was souud so j OATS--No. 2 as far as it went, although far inferior to j J";."li l* ?5 am more uufortunale, but the man is in j CQ1.^ BEIT helped to keep the boat afloat • BABUCT-NO'a.'.".'.'.!!" no better luck than before.--Jiurdctte, if ghe were thns swamped. An iron I , W#B,8T- in tht: Hawk-Eye. <S' <3 Cats and Proverbs. The Spaniard, says a writer, like the j t^at now adopted, and it is a matter of j se 24 72 73 90 35 24 ($15 00' Y* 1 1 ! Italian, plays the cat when he dissimu DOUL)LP ; 1 IU A /IREFUL ON A. UTI STTVS regret that only one boat on Lukin's plan was placed on the coast. than a common " school-keeper." Pay them enough to secure the best talent, and to enable them to improve themselves as well as the children. 80, too, of school tsupplies. Buy the best. They are the most durable, and in the end the cheapest, though they cost a trifle more to start with. In other words, don't try to get something for nothing, simply because you occupy a public position.--American Journal of Education." x •. went to Cincinnati and nominated Blaine he saw that even then he was conning over in his mind what he should say. Those who saw him then fancied that he went up in the heat of the moment and uttered the first thing that came into his head. The fact was that on the top of all his siudy, the night before, E. C. Ingersoll, nis brother, and R. H. Whit­ ing insisted that he should carefully prepare himself, He sat down at a table 111 their room in tlie Burnett House. delays may arise from the meetings ot post cats on tlie high road. If the feline postmen ci.n be inspired with a high sense of duty, overriding personal im­ pulse, all will be well. Failing this, we apprehend that irregularity in delivery will take place. --London Telegraph. PABKERSBTTRG, in West Virginia, has a 10-year-old hero. He plunged into a river to save a drowning playfellow, came very near losing his own • life through the clinging of his terrified companion, and "dragged him up a steep bank, where both lay a while, completely exhausted. Then the rescued one in­ sensibly rolled back into the water, and the brave little fellow again performed the difficult feat of getting him oat. not scratch, and he thinks a cat which mews is not a good mouser. An Italian savs one had better be the head of a cat than the tail of a lion ; a wary German goes like a cat round hot broth, and be­ lieves it too late to drive the cat away when the cheese is eaten. Many l>e- lieve that a good cat often loses a mouse, that no cat is too siaftli to scratch, and tnat yon cannot keep away tlie cat when it has tasted cream. The Russian CINCINNATI. WHKAT ®1 COBN 30 OATH 28 Bn 70 PORK--Mesa 14 25 LABD 7 TOLEDO. WHKAT--No. 1 White 03 No. 2 Red » 97 CORN--No. 2 39 7X® IX The Indestructibility of Matter. The indestructibility of matter can be readily demonstrated, says the Scientific American, by preparing a couple of a glass tubes of equal weight, each being OAT^-NO.' 2.'.'.".'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'."..'!!!!!20 tilled with pure oxvgen, and containing ; DETBOIT. a few particles of carbon, free from ap- j preciable amount of ash ; that prepared from fine loaf sugar gives very good re­ sults. The tubes are of precisely equal f°r weig an<? are,he™etic îy t ?? the mice - the Arab says that when the ! heating one of them the charcoal is cats^Ld mice are on good terms the pre- caused to burn, and ultimately to disap- STlr; the Turk tells us that pear ; th^tube and contents, however, lo cate can hold their own against one are, of course found still to balance the hon. Another Turkish saying is, 4'It is other tube (which has not been heated), fast dav to-dav as the cat said when it j being of precisely the same weight as Smld LtgSt'at the liver." Tue En-i it was at first. 4 75 96 CORK--No. 1 42 OATS--Mixed 33 BARLEY (per cental) 1 05 PORK--Men. 15 00 INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. a Bed. 90 CORN 35 OATS 28 PORK--Clear .'15 00 EA8T LIBEBTY, PA. CATTU-^Bekt. 4 75 @ 92 @ 40 ® S3 (3 71 ($14 60 » 1)i <3 1 01 <3 98 <4 40 <4 27 G 5 25 <£ 1 07 <3 43 <$ 33 <£ 1 75 @15 50 @ 92 @ 41 <4 29 @16 00 Fair. Common.... HOOK liar @ 5 00 <3 4 50 « 3 75 6 0U (4 6 25 '50 £ 4 GO 4 00 3 00