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I. VAK SLYKC. E«tor ami MM». MOHENRI, ILLINOIS. E l f S B E V I E W . Httvord in the annual ool- Ht^kfee lengths. The race vu SNew London, (Jt $100,000 conflagrations took night last week--woolen mills at tin, Mass., and stove works at Spring Pa. * IN response to a call for a meeting of |- /tftteen* of New York, to take action in regard to * * * the attempt on the life of President Garfield, number of gentlemen assembled at the of Commerce. After appropriate edorewea by several persons. Cyras W. Fiald .aMaotinced that a land of $250,000 was to he subscribed, to be invested in •*•%#•! **^"^Ttdted States bonds and be deposited with a <.*(•< * 'itwiit company, the iacome to be paid to Mrs. - %(Oarfield, the prineip.il to be divided among * par children after lier demise. Subscriptions ' i theamoimt of $39,000 were received in a ST.Hi#ew minutes. The Secretary of tbe Chamber telegraphed Postmaster General James that < earn had been niged. ' *• " «>.' . THE Commissioners of Taxes estimate > T • II'MM««!*» presentvahieof real and personal property *! the titty of New York at f1,186,946,000, an '1 toorooae of $42,000,000 over last year There * % a #75,000 fire in Newark, N.J.--a brewery.... "Jfi,'**'"""^'-iRosooe Conkling, in a letter to Attorney Gene- #*» «.:<«- 4mi SfscVe&gh, calls hie attention to the broad , ' jdistinction between assailing the life of au in- ° ** *t< mwdiwl and an attempt to take a life of special „H u.:'amine to the whole people, and suggests rigor- , oils punishment for assaults on high executive • officers. • A GRAIN warehouse above Port Huron, ,, Hich.. filled with corn, was burned, the esti- mated loss being $10,000. ' A I>ASOBEB engaged in grading a rail- track at Edenville, Iowa, expressed the 4 tiope that President Garfield would not re- •^iWomr. and was so badly pounded by a follow- i ^mkmfin that he died. IN Cincinnati, flames broke out in . . Jtf&rquift's carriage factory and speedily ex- " tended to and destroyed the Union furniture " * ' - 'Writs, Closterman's chair factory and Meader*s •j rn- ffiNrnitare sh«p. Charles Peat perished in the , flames and five persons were injured. The loss reach #500,000. •» *'11*' *:s THE Ute Commissioners have returned •**-* <*§oih® cantonment on the Uncompahgre, after »*'••linking 500 miles on horseback through Colo- and Utah. They report having made a fetoction for the new reservation A stage Was attacked by Apaches about 100 miles south K1 Paso, and fonr passengers and two .^jiiiuis killed. One passenger escaped in a twodad condition. • «: V. aovra. T . ADAM THOMPSON, colored, was executed «t Dallas, Texas, for killing John Schmnaker #-tjhe years ago. ^ THREE children of Sheriff Micken, of ' "Hernando county, Fla., aged 8, 11 and 14, murdered by a negro in whose charge ^ * %ey were left. After robbing the house, the 4end endeavored to lull the lather on his way home, but, instead, was captured, confessed fcis crime, and was lynched in presence of 200 Bribery Investigating Committee held a meet­ ing without reaching a vote on its report. THE attempt on the life of the Presi­ dent seems to have had no influence on the stalwart vote at Albany. Two ballots were taken on the 5th, in which Totter had 47 for the short term, Wheeler .% and Conkling 31. The vote for the long term gave Depew 48, Kernan 47, Wheeler 24, Crowley 19 and Cor­ nell 15. BOTH houses of the N«T York kegis- lature, on (he 0th inst., unanimously adopted resolutions of sympathy for the wounded Pres­ ident and his afflicted family. Mid of condem­ nation of the murderous deed of his aw^ilnnt. The ballot for Senator for the short, term on that day was as follows : Potter, 53; Wheth­ er, 42 ; Crowley, 6 ; Kogers, 4 ; Conkling, 82: Cornell. 6: Lapliani, 11; Folger, 1. The vote for Piatt's successor stood : Kernan, 63; Depew, 53; Cornell, 18; Chapman, 4 : Crowley, 19. Sixty-five members of the New York Legislature signed a call for a caucus of the Republican Senators and Assemblymen, to agree, if portable, upon candidates for United States Senators. Only sixty-three were present, however, and the" meeting was deferred for one day. Majority and minority reports were made by the Bribery Investigating Committee, which are not conclusive one way or the other. The majority report submitted the evidence taken, but gave no conclusion, owing to the matter being in the hands of the court. Tax joint convention of the New York Legislature balloted twice for Senators, on the 7th inst., the closing vote for the short term giving Potter 52, Wheeler 43 and Conkling 30. For the long term Kernan received 52, Depew 49, Crowley 18 and Cornell 17. At a conference of the Republican members in the evening it was agreed to hold a formal caucus next day, fifty-nine signing the call. The supporters of Conkling held a secret conferenoe ana resolved to like no part iu the caucus. IN accordance with the arrangement of the previous day, fifteen Republican Sen­ ators and fifty-one Assemblymen of the New York Legislature met in caucus at Albany, on the 8th inst, to place in nomination two Re­ publican candidates to succeed Conkling and Piatt. A letter was read from Chauncey M. Depew announcing his withdrawal from the contest. Tbe nominees were ex-Vice President Wheeler, Gov. Cornell, Congressman Warner Miller, Congressman Crowley, Sherman Rog­ ers, and Ljun in Tremaine. On the fourth bal­ lot Miller received sixty-two votes, and his nomination was then made unanimous. Can­ didates to succeed Conkling were then balloted for, and on the second ballot Congressman Eldridge G. Lapham received sixty-five votes, all that were cast, and was de­ clared the nominee of the caucus, which then adjourned. The Stalwarts met in caucus, and resolved to support Conkling and Crowley. GENERAL. THE race on the Ottawa river, in which Wallace -Ross defeated Trickett, Gaudier and others, was witnessed by 20,000 persons. Han- Ian acted as referee, and was presented by the corporation with a chain and cup A party of contractors have sailed from San Francisco for the Isthmus of Panama, to build twenty villages along the survey of De Lessens' canal. California redwood will be used, and nearly #1,000,000 will be disbursed Fifty-four national banks were organized dur­ ing the fiscal year just closed, nineteen went into voluntary liquidation, and there were no fall ores. The number now in existence is 2,122. THE Mercantile Agency of Dun, Wy- man A Co. announce the extent of business failures for* the first six months of 188L In number they amount to 2,662, as compared with 2,497 in the first half of 1880, and 4,018 in 1879. The liabilities for the first half are stated to be #40,000,000, comDared with 133,000,000 the first six months of 1880, and a desire that negotiations shall be opened be­ tween those states which took part in the con­ ference, and that another conference be sum­ moned to meet April 12, 1882, to perfect the work and its details. The conference then ad­ journed. ..Ml, OARFIELD. #65,000,000 in 1879. The semi-annual circular The temperance work which has been J jpsuedby Dun, Wyman & Co. contains reports . , _ from forty-four trade centers, nearly all of ,* JMs&wesy carried on in Georgia for several | which indicate a highly-prosperous condition • >•4 . ponths past culminated in the assembling of | of business, with reports almost uniformly ' -a •!# Stat® convention at Atlanta at which i00 counties were represented. Judge W. J ' 5 *-»•<! H. Underwood, of Rome, was elected Presi- . 4eni It was resolved to ask the Legislature to pass a prohibitory act Four persons were ; » f I killed ana fourteen wounded near Covington, t)tM|ty.^on the 4th, by the collision of two picnic THE explosion of the boiler of a porta- >?** threshing-machine on a farm in Talbot *1** * r%om*y, Md., killed three persons and seriously j e j several others. The accident was . )i>oaiwd by a reinforcement of cold water. favorable as to the condition of the crops, not only of grain, out also of cottou, rice, sugar, tobacco, etc. The entire business outlook, as indicated by this authentic return, seems extremely favorable. The necessity of some caution is at the same time indicated. The Chicago Times has obtained the views of the Western State Boards of Agriculture as to the growing crops. In Ohio the yield is expected to be about ,80 per cent, of "that oC last year, the early sdwn being the best. Michigan is about the same as in 1880, and only ten or twelve bnshels per acre are looked for. Indiana expects a crop of only 30,000,000 bushels, as to A NCMBEB of persons took refuge in a j against 47,000,000 last year, the quality being Hi Mfcaf**0 ** Decatur, Ala., during the prevalence of a thunder-storm, when a stroke of lightning , .lolled four and seriously injured eight w 1%3<%amn«l Irivias was hanged at Alexandria, parish, La., for the murder of A. J. Hmim n »%<""" WASHINGTON. SECJUETABT KHMCWOOD rasper dod The- ^Ajj^jophilus French from the office of Commissioner „, ,-aPf Railroads, whereupon Mr. French intimated *" Tils intention to resign at once... .Secretary Windom has issued a call for all the outstand- tj fawrqgistered 5-per-cent bonds. Prior to Oct. 1 > tkOblers can have them cashed in fall with inter- *bMlHtst,oii presentation at the Treasury Department. The amount involved is about $30,000,000 James B. Fry, Assistant Adjutant General, has been rellted. Gen. Hancock has asked promo- 'JUIJWB ior CoL William G. Mitchell, of his staff. THB public-debt statement issued July • u u follows;: ... »«««»*•bona* • i»V"8,<»o * ' •* u , *treper oen-Ui . 430 .841 ,330 » Bow and one-half per oesta 250,<)00,<)00 Fonr Mr cents 738,659,760 - ) \ 1 tSkfurtfcig certifleates 688,800 ,«»y pension fund 14,000,000 rs: mJ' < w [ ».| Total interost-bwuinj debt Matured debt. * f s"»« |l*«alteuder® . Cartificatee of deposit... *ui 1- Fractional earrency U4 and ailvar oerttft- *** ** oatea... • Sir. t T«tal without interest. , Total debt » Total in terert «»l^tnOaBhlatee«iry 6,723,866 >46,741,561 11,925.000 7,106,MS 66,949,466 .$1,680,067,760 432,721,954 43,069.013,569 .. 20,918,657 ... 249,363,415 I lit Debt lew osMh to treasury $1,840,59^,811 Decrease during ilune. Decrease since jiiine 30, lMu s Current UabiJitte»-- Interest due sad unpaid ...$ Debt on which interest oeaaed. Intareat thereon. OoMand silver eertificetei! f United States aotea held for redemption of certificate of deposit. i Cull bsianina available JuJjr 1, 1jB8l! !! • Total..., A«ailatd|i aeaeta Caahln treasury 12,323,169 101,673,488 2,125,544 6,723,865 718,686 66,949,460 11,926,000 170,920,869 $ 240,963,415 .$ 249,863,415 Bonds issued to Pacific railway Ma, interest payable in lawful money, , jwiacipal outstanding.. < Interest accrued and not vet paid Internet paid by United States , interest repaid by companies-- . Mitereist repaid oy tranHT>ortation of mails By cash payments of 5 per osnt of net earning^ Balance of interest paid by the' United 8tato* 84,447,211 Tra rerj last appointments made to 64,623^72 1,938,706 4i»,628,566 14,426,126 656,198 excellent. Wisconsin has a large acreage in spring, but a half breadth of winter wheat, and the crop is in fine condition. The Iowa board estimates the spring-wheat crop at half that of last year, and the winter sown at 44 per cent MBS. GARFIELD had a narrow escape on her hurried journey from Long Branch to the bedside of her husband. The parallel rod of the engine broke while the wheels were making 250 revolutions a minute. The broken bar tore the ties for two miles before a stop could be made. Itailway men pronounce it a miracle that the engine did not jumD the track and cause the death of all on board the train At the sand hills, about forty miles south of £1 Paso, the decaying bodies of thirteen men of the Mexican Central surveying party were found by some American tourists. The news was at once carried to El Paso, from which point a strong detachment of troops was sent out. It is believed that the massacre was the work of the remnant of Victoria's band of Apaches, who for months have been commit­ ting depredations in the Sierra Candeleria. REPORTS are received of massacres by hostile Apache Indians in New Mexico and Northern Mexico. A stage coach was attacked south of £1 Paso and its four passengers and two drivers killed, and there is a report of the killing of a surveying party of thirty persons on the Mexican Central railroad. OVJBB 800 Mormon immigrants, chiefly Scandinavians, arrived at New York one day •last week, in charge of £lder BocellL King David Kalakaua, of the Sand­ wich islands, has arrived in London Twenty-three recruits deserted from a nartv obtained in Canada for the Northwest Mounted Police, while in transit through the United States In the City of Mexico a Spaniard has been arrested having in his possession f30,000 worth of Havana lottery tickets which he had stolen from the office of the lottery iu Ha­ vana* rOKCIGlf. IT is reported that the Khedive 6f Egypt will soon decree the abolition of slavery in his domain. There is great trouble brew­ ing between the Turks and the Greeks. Tur­ key holds on to the frontier, instead of ceding it, and has askod for and been refused an ex­ tension of time for the evacuation thereof. IT is stated that France and other countries of the Latin Union, and probably •Holland, will undertake to be bimetallic. The proposal by America to coin annually au amount of gold and silver equal to the annual produc­ tion meets with great favor in the conference at Paris. AN English journal announces that France intends to mobilize 120,000 men and dispatch them for three months to Northern Africa to secure tranquillity in French posses office by President Garfield, previous to being ,s diotby the assassin Gaiteau, were the follow- , ! "58 '• vJiarleg Psyson,of Massachusetts, Charge I sions in that quarter, it i-i said that the rela- » ^ ree at Copenhagen, vice Cramer, trans- tions between France and Turkey have been ferred to Switzerland ; George W. Carter, of Louisiana, Miuister to Venezuela, vice John Baker, recalled ; and the Rev. Henry Highland Garnett, of New York, Minister Resident and eUeral 10 Lioeria> vice John H- Smythe, WALKER BLAINE, son of the Secretary, fcnJSabi8du,ie"MThirdAi<ista,it THE Secretary of the Treasury sub­ mitted to the Attorney General the question » whether national banks should be permitted to iJflPW't any lawful money other Than green- backs to the credit of the fmid for the rodemp- ts®n of (MRjulating notes. A decision has been a prepared holding that gold and silver may be deposited for the redemption of circulating notes, and that coin may he paid out by the lreasvnr in redemption of national-bank v . . • « ,hh . \ . . ; mmcAL. OH the announcement of a ballot for the long term at Albany, on the 1st inst, the name of Thomas C. Piatt was withdrawn, at L 'town request, and that of Crowlev was sub­ stituted. The ballot for the long term gave D*»6w and Kernan each 48 votes, Crowlev 20, MM Cornell 16. For the short term Potter had * i»*s«, Whseier 88, and Conkling 28. Tte strained to the utmost. Five small Turkish iron-clads have been sent to Tripoli to make an armed protest Against French invasion Intense hot weather prevails in Eurone. At the British camp in Aldershot, during a shim fight, four soldiers died of sunstroke, and sev­ eral others were prostrated Mr. Stephenson, a Liberal member of Parliament, presented a j petition 1,100 yards long, and bearing 84.324 signatures, in favor of closing public houses (saloons; on Sundays, in the House of Com­ mons. A COMPANY has been formed in Paris, with a capital of tl0,000,000, to develop the mining resources of Canada A daughter of WASHINGTON, fititf #i 1 CONDITION or THE BOTTKalNO PATIKNT, . ' Yesterday was another day of favorable Symptoms in the condition of the President, the most favorable being the discharge of "laudable" or healthy pus from the wound. This gives the physicians great confidence that there is no danger from hiood poisoning. The vellow color of the skin has to some extent disappeared, and with it all fear of the effects of jaundice. The President partook of more nourishment than on any day sinco the shooting. The weather was very favorable to the condition, and the work of producing artificially a better atmosphere in the sick­ room is being pushed. The quickened pnl.se arises from the process of suppuration, which was expected, and which iu the opinion of the physicians is progressing very favorably. The President maintains his courage and hopeful­ ness. and the chances of his recovery increased 100 per cent, yesterday. The only message of sympathy which has been shown the President is the one sent by Gen. Grant, He has also been shown tbe resolutions adopted by the Williams College alumni. He has been told, however, that the public anxiety in his regard hat been interse, and that telegrams and letters of sympathy were coming from all parts or the civilized world. SEEKING NOTORIETY. It is stated that a number of brominent Washington lawyers are anxious to defend Gnitean on account of the notoriety it may give them. Some of these persons have sought access to Guiteau, but liave been refused on the instructions of Disirict Attorney Cork- hill. Insanity will be the ground of defense, but it is quite certain that the prosecution will try to show that Guiteau is sane and entirely responsible for his acts. NO CONSPIRACY. Chief Brooks, of the Secret Service Division, who has been investigating with a view to as­ certaining whether Guiteau was a member of a conspiracy, has come to the conclusion that there has been no conspiracy, but that Guiteau acted alone. Chief Brooks does not think Gui­ teau is insane. He is only eccentric, but his eccentricity is of a fanatical and exceedingly mean variety. CONCERNING OUTTEAE. " When will the matter be laid before the Grand Jury?" asked a reporter of District At­ torney CorkhilL " No action will be taken regarding the case until the result of the President's wound is finally det rmined." " What can be done with Gnitean if the Pres­ ident lives ?" 1 "If the President lives, the c^me will be as­ sault with intent to kill." "Are you ready yet to give out the papers taken from Guiteau ?" " That question is asked me by everybody, as if there was something very grave contained in (hem. These papers are not so very import­ ant. The only very important thing I have is a full detailed history of the crime from its in- oeption to its culmination, which I believe is accurately true. That, in due time, will be given to the public. I will say in addition that I think it exceedingly cruel, considering the fervid state of the public mind on tMg subject, and the horror with which every man regards the assassin, that any man's name should he mentioned in connection with him. He is an egotistical, presuming, dishonest man. attempt­ ing to borrow money of people ; claiming ac­ quaintance with persons whom he only knew by the fact of his going to them and speaking to tliem; speaking of persons as his friends whom he had no acquaintance with at all; attempting to obtain money by representing himself as a saan of great political influence, both here and in New York. To mention the names of these citizens in connection with this man at this time is improper and unjust. While everybody who has known anytiiing about tbis man at all has been perfectly willing to detail to me his entire relations with Guiteau, still there is scarcely one of them but has re­ quested that his name be kept from the pub­ lic." "He was in the habit," continued CoL Cork- hill, speaking of Guiteau, "of going to the Riggs House, to the Arlington, and to Willard's, occupying the reading-rooms and conversing with people occasionally, although he was not generally communicitive." " I would like to hear more abont that de­ tailed statement." The statement to which I refer is a detailed statement of the crime, why it was done, when it was done, and just how it was done, given by the prisoner himself after I had told him certain facts that I bad ascertained. I then got from him what I believe was a correct statement. He was so solicitous about its be­ ing correct that he even sent a messenger to me to return to the jail, as he wanted to say to me something that had escaped his memory. He was afraid I would learn it somewhere else, and then think he had concealed something from me." LETTER FROM EX-SENATOB CONKLING. The following correspondence between ex- Senator Conkling and Attorney General Mac- Veagh has been made public ; CONKLING TO MACVEAOH. FIFTH AVKHUZ HOTKI.,) NEW YORK, Ju!y 5. (T Mv DEAK SIR : In the abhorrence with which all decent men alike shudder at the attempt to murder the President, I have piven thought to a matter to which your attention may or may not have turned. Our criminal code treats premediiated homicide in all cases alike, irrespectHe of the victim. Murder being vialtf d by the greatest penalty, perhaps no distinction between one case and another could be founded on the public relations held by the person slain. But, iu the case of an attempt to murder, a broad distinc­ tion can be made )>etween assailing the lift of an In­ dividual and an attempt to take life of special value to the whole people. The shocking occurrence of Saturday demands that the definition and punish­ ment of assaults aimed at hi«h executive officers, whether successful or not, shou'd be made thor­ oughly rigorous. The man who attempts the life of a President, if moral]}1 responsible, commits an offense which the nation ought to guard against and punish by the exertion of all the power civilized nations may employ. I sug­ gest tbis as deserving cf consideration. My profound sympathies are with tho President and with all of you every hour. The conflict of reports keeps hope and fear striving with each other, with nothing stable except the facts and trust that the worst is past I wish you wou:d express to the Pres­ ident my deepest sympathy in this hour, which should hush all discords and enlist prayers for litB safe deliverance. Please, also, give to Mrs. Garfield my most respectfnl condolence. Trusting that all will be well, cordially yours, KOSCOK CONKLING. MACVEAOH TO CONKLING. T / WASHINGTON, D. C., July 7. The jHoii. Roscoe Conkiing, Fifth Avenue Hotel. New York: Thanks for'your letter of the 5th, which has Just reached me. Its suggestions will be carefully con­ sidered, and its kind message of sympathy will be conveyed to the President and Mrs. Garfield at the earliest opportunity. WAYNE MACVKAGH. A MUNIFICENT OUT. Postmaster General James received a tele­ gram from George Wilson, Secretary of the New York Chamber of Commerce, requesting the Postmaster General to say to Mr*. Garfield that the members of the New'York Chamber of Commerce have subscribed $260,000 to be pre­ sented to her, both as a token of their sincere esteem and sympathy and as a means of re­ lieving the mind of the President entirelv from anxiety with respect to the future of his fam­ ily. To this telegram Postmaster General Jsmes sent the following replv : EXKCCTIVK MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C.,i July 7. )" George Wil«on, Esq., Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, New Yorls City: Your dinpatch has been handed to Mrs. Garfield. On receipt of it she remarked that there was so much that was touching and beautiful in the sym­ pathy of (tie people of the whole c< i t 11 try that she did not dare trust herself to think ol it. THOMAS L. JAMES, Postmaster General. GEN. SHERMAN. "In your opinion, General, is there any foundation for the belief that tbe shooting was the outcome of a conspiracy, however small or insignificant, political or otherwiseV" asked a New York Herald correspondent. "Not at all; not at ail," said the General, with evident impatience. " To talk of a con­ spiracy of any kind in any way is to talk the wildest bosh. Tne dreadful act was commit­ ted by a fool. He don't even rise to STREAMS OF GOOD AND BAD LUCK. Wtmw m rsrlAMi Belief laterftr* wttli BMIMIM* KallnNiSi In fhlaa. Dr. D. Bethune MeOartee, who for thirty-seven years was engaged ill mis­ sionary work in China for the American board of foreign missions, and is now in the diplomatic service of that country, has given some explanations in regard to the attitude of the Chinese toward rail­ ways. "To understand the opposition of the Chinese to railroads," said Dr. McCartee, "you must know something about their superstitions. In China, considerations of good and bad luok enter into every transaction in life. In their conception, luck is a sort of material substance that can have a course like a wind or a stream. For instance, a house opposite to the junction of a street, with the street in which it stands, is an unlucky position. The bad luok that may happen to flow down the opposite street will run ri^ht into the house. In such a case a sign will be put up to keep the bad luck away, such as: "The stone of the great mountain is here. "This refers to the sacred mountains worshiped by the high dignitaries of the empire. Only the Emperor may wor­ ship the heaven. Officers of the highest rank worship the sacred mountains, the various powers of nature are worshiped by the lower official grades, and the common people worship their parents and ancestors. It is not at all necessary that a piece of the &tone of the sacred mountain shall, be there, for the Chinese believe you can humbug the bad luck by simply declaring thut the stone is there. Sometimes they put up a bar­ rier to keep off a stream of bad luck. In front of every mandarin's office there is a large wall called pih-ho-Chang, which means'the wall keeping off calamity.' Sometimes measures are taken to divest a stream of bad luck. I know of a house where a road came opposite the back door and then*ttame around the house. It so happened that several cases of ill­ ness occurred in the house, and it was concluded that the trouble arose from a stream of ill-luck pouring down the road into the back door. So they closed the door and made the road zig-zag, so as to diminish the foroe of the stream. "Good luck is supposed to flow in the same manner as bad luck. If a man's ancestors are buried in a good place, a stream of good luck flows down the fam­ ily; if in a bad place, then a stream of bad luck descends. So careful are Chinese in such matters that they will keep a corpse unburied for several years rather than take any risk. They make their coffins very thick, and put packages of quicklime in among the wrappings of th ; bodies so 'that they do not become offensive. I have many a time slept in a room that had such a coffin in it. You must not thiuk that these things are merely the superstitions of the ignorant Divination is a recognized science in China. The board of astronomers of the empire fix the lucky days for marriage, house-building, or travel, and these are published iu the official almauacs. And then there are innumerable Fuugsliwui doctors, whose business is to decide questions of luck. Fungshwui means literally 'wind and water,' but the idea is best represented in the English by the word luck. The direction of luck streams are always considered in building, and hence it is that pagodas are always found at the junction of rivers, the forks of roads, or the intersections of valleys. "Now, you can imagine how much trouble railway building would cause in China; what innumerable streams of good luck it would cut off, or streams of bad lucu it would divert upon poor peo­ ple who put their -houses out of reach of such influences. The Chinese do not have cemeteries, and tombs are scattered in every direction through the coin try. Nowhere could a railroad be laid down without desecrat­ ing the tombs and lacerating the feelings of the people. When an English com­ pany built a railroad from Shanghai to Woosung--only fourteen miles--people stood on the track crying and beseeching so that it was sometimes necessary to stop the locomotive to put them off. The company never would have obtained a charter from the Chinese authorities had its intention been known. Their appli­ cation waB for permission to build a horse-road, which was granted. The protests of the Chinese authorities were disregarded, and the company, sustained by Sir Francis Wade, the British am­ bassador at Pelrin, carried things with a high hand. There was 110 traffic for the road, and finally the company sold it to the Chinese government for a good sum. The railroad was theu taken up." the English Gen. Fyers fell into the sea at I ^.e dignity of a crazy man ; and if he is ~ .. .. - . - - what may strictly IKS termed insane, he is so because of his wonderful self-conceit and con­ suming love for notoriety. Conspiracy! Not at all. It was simply the act of au individual more or less out of his mental gear, and, there­ fore, partially responsible for his act. From Hyeres, France, and in the effort of her moth­ er and sisters to save her all were drowned Lefioy, the English newspaper reporter who murdered Mr. Gold in a compartment of a carriage of the London and Brighton rail­ way, was at rested in East Loudon. He has made a full confession of his crime A new political party has been formed in Germany, under the natne of Anti-Progressists. It is composed of the Conservatives*Liberal Con­ servatives. Anti-Hemitics and a portion of the Clericalists. THE International Monetary Confer­ ence at Paris adopted resolutions proposed by the French Mid American members, expressing what I have heard and read, this is my opinion of the miserable wretch and his motives. A POOR old rheumatic lady said to her physician : " Oh I doctor, doctor, I suf­ fer so much with my hands and feet!" "Be patient, dear madam," he sooth­ ingly responded, "you'd suffer a great deal more without them." Meteorology. The study bf meteorology has made immense strides. The tracking of storms over the entire northern hemisphere by means of the international system of sim­ ultaneous observations, and their chart­ ing and monthly publication under the direction of Professor Abbe, of the Gen­ eral Weather Service of the United States, is an accomplished fact. This valuable publication is based upon the reports from regular stations in the United States and Canada, a large num­ ber of monthly records of voluntary observers and army post-surgeons, the logs of vessels, the international system of observation, reliable newspaper ex­ tracts, s[>ecial reports, and the labors of the State Weather Services of Iowa, Ne­ braska and Missouri The work involves great sagacity and skill in the line of investigation, and is supplemented by monthly graphic charts, showing the tracks of oenters of areas of low barometer, the isobars, isotherms, prevailing winds and rainfall for the month, not alone in the United States, but over the whole northern hemisphere. In a recent publication, tracks ot storms, with date and place of their central areas, were traced over North America, Europe, Siberia, Hindostan, China, and Japan Sea and the northern oceans. It is com­ mon and, for all practical purposes, suf­ ficient to say a storm developed in the northwest, passed over the country, and disappeared in the northeast. Instances may be cited of a storm, traced from its appearance in tho western part of this country, thence, moving eastward over the Gulf of St. Lawrence, thence north­ eastward across the southern portion of Greenland, thence southeastward over Iceland and Scotland, and thence east­ ward over the North Sea, disappearing iu Central Europe. Another, whose track was based upon reports from China and Japan, logs of vessels in the North Pa­ cific and reports from Unalaska, was found to have made its appearance in Southern China, moving northeastward over the China Sea, thence over the Japan sea and Japan, and thence pur­ suing an easterly course to the western coast of North America, where it gath­ ered reuewed energy, and its subsequeut passage over this country was recorded by our own unequaled Weather Service. --Cincinnati Commercial. Ripe and Sweet It will not take many years to bring one to the period of life when men, at least the majority of writing and talking men, do nothing but praise. Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. It is a fact that most writers, exoept sour and unsuccessful ones, get tired of fliuling fault at abont a time when they are be­ ginning to g> ow old. At 30 we are all trying to cut our names in big letters upon the walls of this tenement of life ; twenty years later we have carved it, or shut up our jack-knives. Then we are ready to help others and care less to hinder any, because nobody's elbows are in our way. $ ' • j*5: Realities of War. A popular writer thus describes # bat­ tle: **\Ve have been fighting at, the edge of the woods. A moment ago the battery was a confused mob. We look again, and the six guns are in position, the detached horses hurrying away, the ammunition chests open, and along our line runs the command, 'Give them one more volley, and fall back to support the guns.' We have scarcely obeyed when l>oom! boom! opens the battery, and jets of fire jump down and scorch the green trees under which we fought and struggled. The shattered old brig­ ade lias a chance to breathe, for the first time iu three hours, as we form a line and lie down. What grim, cool fellows those cannoneers are! Everr man is a perfect machine. Bullets splash dust in their faces, but they do not wince. Bul­ lets sing over and around, they do not dodge. There goes one to the earth, shot through the head as he sponged his gun. '1 hat machinery*- loses just one beat, misses just one cog iu the wheel, and then works away again as before. Every gun is using a short fuse shell. The ground shakes and trembles, the roar shuts out all sound from a battle- line three miles long, and the shells go shrieking into the swamp to cut trees short off', to mow great gaps in the bushes, to hunt out, and shatter, and mangle men until their corpses cannot be recognized as human. You would think a tornado was howling through the forest, followed by billows of fire, and yet men live through it--aye, press forward to capture the battery. We can hear their shouts as they form for the rush. Now the shells are changed for grape and canister, and the guns are fired so fast that all reports blend into one mighty roar. The shriek of a shell is the wickedest sound in war, but nothing makes the flesh crawl like the demoniac singing, purring, whistling grape shot, and the serpent-like hiss of canister. Meu's legs and heads are torn from bodies, and bodies cut in two. A round Bhot or shell takes two meu out of the rank as it crashes through. Grape and canister mow a swathe and pile the dead on top of each other. Through the smoke we see a swarm of men. It is not a battle, but a mob of men desperate enough to bathe their bayonets in the flame of the guns. The guns leap from the ground almost as they are depressed on the foe, and shrieks and screams and shouts blend into one awful and steady cry. Twenty out on the battery are down, and the firing is interrupted. The foe accept it as a sign of wavering and come rushing on. They are not ten feet away when the guns give them a last shot. That discharge picks living men off their feet and throws them into a swamp, a blackened, bloody mass. Up now, as the enemy are among the guns! There is a silence of ten peconds, and then the flash and roar of more thau 3,000 muskets and a rush forward with b&yonets. For whut? Neither on the right nor left, nor iu front of us is the living foe! There are corpses around us which have been struck by three, four, and even six bullets, and nowhere on this acre of ground is a wounded man! The wheels of the gun cannot move until the blockade of dead is removed. Men cannot pass from caisson to gun without climbing over rows of dead. Every gun and wheel is smeared with blood; every foot of grass lias its horri­ ble stain. Historians write of the glory of war. Burial parties saw murder, where historians saw glory." Very Gullible. Thirty years ago Mr. Wm. Hall, of New York, lent a "friend" named White $30,000 worth of bonds and checks as a security in a speculation, with the under- stalling that they were on no account to be converted into cash. The friend immediately converted them into cash and disappeared. Not long ago he went to Hall's house, and iu spite of Hall's auger placated him by representing that with the !$30,000 which he had appro­ priated to his own use he had goue to California, had made a large fortune and had traveled across the continent for tho express purpose of refunding the money. Mr. Hall was charmed and entertained White royally at his house. White pretended to be sincerely sorry for the roguery of bis youuger days, and entertained his host* with graphic descriptions of California, and amazing yarns al>out the way iu which he had made his princely fortune on the Pa­ cific slope. Hall believed every word he said, and agreed to lend him" $6,000, on White's turning over securities in ' 'a sealed envelope." He had already paid him $1,200, when Mrs. Hall, rising at 5 in-t'ie morning, carried the envelope to the Chief of Police. On opening it, the papers were found almost worthless, and White was arrested. How a man cap­ able of being gulled after this fashion was also capable of accumulating $30,- 000, or 30,000 cents, is a mystery that would puzzle even a phrenologist. The Miud Survives tlie Body. I scarcely know how it is, but the deaths of children Beem to me always less premature than those of older per­ sons. Not that they are iu fact so, but it is because they themselves have little or no relation to time or maturity. Life seems a race which they have yet to run entirely. They have made no progress toward the goal. They are born --nothing further. But it seems hard when a man has toiled high up the steep hill of knowledge, that he should be cast, like Sisyphus, downward in a mo­ ment. That, lie who has worn the day and wasted the night in gathering the gold of science, should be--with all the wealth of learning, all its accumulations --made bankrupt at once. What be­ comes of all the riches of the soul, the piles and pyramids of precious thoughts which men heap together? Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe ? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for cen­ turies and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years! • I am content to be­ lieve that the heart of man survives-- somewhere or other--his clay.--Harry Cornwall. ENOLISH PLUM PUDDING.--One pound of raisins, after they are stoned, one pound of currants, one pound of suet finely chopped, one pound of sugar, one pound of flour, one pint of sweet milk, eight eggs, one-half ounce of cloves, one- half ounce of cinnamon, two nutmegs, a lemon and orange peel grated, a little mace; place in a mold or pudding-bag and boil four or five hours; when done stick top and sides with blanched almonds and cuts of citron; cover with brandy and send to the table lighted; eat with a liquid sauce seasoned with brandy. ORIENTAL AMU8BMEWTS. Sons® of the Pmnliarltlen olJaMacw TFI»eat4srii. The entrances and exits to and from the stage of a Japanese theater are all made through the audience by a long, raised platform down one side, corre­ sponding with one of our side aisles, and introductory remarks are made from it. Prompting is not so adroitly done as with us. An attendant in black squats behind the star, book in h and, and reads every word of his part to him in full view of all but those of the au­ dience directly in front, since lights are not used, but each actor is accompanied by an invisible (a man with his face covered with a black cloth) who holds a candle at the end of a long pole, just under his face. The attendant must be well up in the action of the part, for he is never in the way of his principal, but nimbly manipulates his candle so as to avoid intercepting him. Women do not act, but men represent them, and it is noticeable that men who are above the average height are always chosen, and whose natural voices are anything but effeminate. Stars are paid well, the best at the best theater getting $1,000 per month. The dressing is quite as ex­ travagant as ours, and he requires no less than forty servants, so thai his ex­ penses, like those of ail high-salaried. people, are large. The stage has a thirtv-foot turn-table in the middle cf it by wnicli scenes are changed quickly by simply turning it around. Tha stage machinery is quite simple. An upright post, a foot in diameter, was the pivot of the turn-table, and the periphery rest­ ed on well-greased wood bearings, and. the jx>wer was that of a couple of coolies applied to a stick attached to the rim. The curtain is a light cotton cloth hung on a wire. The lights are large candles with thick paper wicks, which require snuffing every few minutes, and are snuffed by an old fellow who handles the snuffers with a professional flourish, occasionally dropping a red end into a box without stopping to apologize. The foot and fly-lights he snuffs while the play is in progress, going in and out among the players, regardless of the situation. The play lasts all day and all night. A box for four costs $2 for a whole day or a whole night. Parties go and stay all day, lunching and smoking at pleasure. It iB an extremely social sight. The Chinese theaters do not give any idea of it. The ventilation is good, odors are not offensive, the gay dresses of the people in the boxes are pleasing as well as their good faces and their bright eyes. That they are a sympa­ thetic people is proven by the fact that during the Melodrama, while a poor blind orphan was reciting his tale of sorrow, heads were bowed all over the house, and women " had real good cries" such as might flatter Clara Morris, were she on the stage. The streets in the vi­ cinity of the great theaters are filled with peep shows, and monkey shows, and low-priced comic theaters and wax figures, and side shows of all kinds, which are interesting for a glance, b\>t not generally entertaining. "The Good Old Days." An old man in Massachusetts, 75 years of age, furnishes to the Springfield Re­ publican a sketch of the fashions and manners sixty years ago, and the changes which they have undergone in that time. To many they will be famil­ iar, but to large numbers seem like the story of a strange land and unknown people. His father was a miller, and earned less than $1 a day, on which he was obliged to support twelve children. He had to go to jail for debt, while the son went fishing to keep the family from starving. The school-house cost $100 to $200. In the same place stands a $25,- 000 school, with teachers receiving four or five times the amount of salary. The school children then had to make their manners when the elders passed by; now the children " will insult or swear at you, and if you get by without a missile at you or your horse you are lucky." "Chester W. Chapin, one of the wealthiest men in Massachusetts, at 21 years of age, hired himself out for $12 a month. Now you would insult a strip­ ling of 18 to offer him such wages." Peo­ ple used to hide up-stairs or down c liar .vhen they saw the Tax Collector com­ ing, and he would often have to hunt them out of their holes, even when the family said " they were not at home." There was a great deal of music at home in those days-- " for treble, the flax spin­ ning* wheel played or run by one of the girls; for the tenor, the large spinning- wheel played by another girl; for bass, the old lady whacking away at the old loom, all working to make their music profitable and healthy." The old gentleman does not believe in "progress. Then, families of ten children, all taught to work, were the fashion, instead of two or three little pimping children and a sickly mother not as well able to take care of them as the mothers of that day were of ten without a hired girl. " The children now must be in fashion--lie in bed un­ til 8 or 9 in the morning--no appetite, little vitality. They play on some kind of instrument, and go to school to be crowded with more kinds of lessons than our old school-teachers ever knew. But this is the fashion and pretend­ ed improvement of this age. Perhaps this generation does not look at these things as I do, but I think that health, economy and morality are not improved by getting high wages or a fashionable education." The rising generation are spendthrifts, he says, waiting for the old people to get out of the way^so that they can lay hold of their money. " Old men, keep the corn-crib locked !" he cries. When the fare by stage between Springfield and Boston was reduced to $5, it took a man two weeks to earn enough for that journey, which con­ sumed seventeen hours. Now a man can easily earn enough in a day for the three hours' trip. News from Washing­ ton and Boston only once a week--a great treat. " Well," says the old man, reflectively, "the old fogies, so called, must soon step off and let this fast gen­ eration run the thing, and, if they don't run themselves to the devil, we shall be thunkful Pay a* Yon Go. No habit is more pernicious than that of contracting debt. When once under the influence of creditors, the obliga­ tion will weigh one down as a millstone, and it will require the greatest self-de­ nial and perseverance to get rid of the burden. It is not uncommon for inex- pericneed young people to live beyond their means. In the hope of restoring fortune and credit, theft or forgery is eommitted. Such examples are dailv chronicled as the cause of many suicides, and are shown in the numerous inmates of the State prison, whose careless habit of contracting debts was the first step to that disgraceful abode. Pay as you go. This is applicable to everystation in life, to the rich, the poor, the ignor­ ant, the wise. Avery striking illus­ tration of the latter is afforded in Lord Bacon. Ho possessed one of the greatest in­ tellects ever created, yet he seen^ed to be naturally endowed with this weak­ ness; and, though of splendid literal JET attainments, woe always for this failt a needy man. At one time, so many and so pressing were the duns he received, that he yielded to temptation and was guilty of taking bribes ; he afterward «on- tessed, and was removed from his lofty position of Lord High Chancellor, degrad­ ed and humbled. _ Bad debts scatter misery and desola­ tion; they transform palaces into hovels, and change rich garments into pitiable rags. The credit system tends to bank­ ruptcy and poverty. If you would have a clear conscience and a happy heart, pay as you go. Th« Ways «r Plants. In a great many cases leaves are said to sleep; that is to say, at the approach of night they change their position, and sometimes fold themselves up, thus pre­ senting a smaller surface for radiation, and being in consequence less exposed to cold. Mr. Darwin has proved experi­ mentally that leaves which were pre­ vented from moving suffered more from cold than those which were allowed to assume their natural position. He has observed with reference to one plant Maranta arundinacea, the arrow-root' a West Indian species allied to Canna, that if the plant has had a severe shock it cannot get to sleep for the next two or-three nights. The sleep of flowers is also probably a case of the same kind, though, as I have elsewhere attempted to show, it has now I believe, special reference to the visits of insects; those flowers which are ferti­ lized by bees, butterflies, and other day insects, sleep by night, if at all; while those which are dependent on moths rouse themselves toward evening, as al­ ready mentioned, and sleep by day. These motions, indeed, have but an in­ direct reference to our present subject. On the other hand, in the dandelion (.Lcontodon), the flower-stalk is upright while the flower is expanded, a period which lasts for three or four days; it then lowers itself and lies close to the ground for about twelve days, while the fruits are ripening, and then rises again when they are mature. In the Cyclamen the stalk curls itself up into a beautiful spire after the flower has faded. The flower of the little Linaria of our walls (L. cymbalaria) pushes out into the light and sunshine, but as soon as it is fertilized it turns round and endeavors to find some hole or cranny in which it may remain safely ensconced until the seed is ripe. In some water-plants the flower ex­ pands at the surface, but after it is faded retreats again to the bottom. This is the case for instance, with the water-lilies, some species of the Patamogeton (Trapa nutans). In Valisneria, again, the female flowers are borne on long stalks, which reach to the surface ol the water, on which the flowers float. The male flowers on the oon- trary, have short, straight stalks, from which, when mature, the pollen detaches itself, rises to the surface, and, floating freely on it, is wafted about, so that it comes in contact with the fe­ male flowers. After fertilization, how­ ever, the long stalk coils up spirally, and thus carries the ovary down to the bottom, where the seeds can ripen with great safety.--Sir John Lubbock, in the Popular Sciencc Monthly. Bayard on the Natural Affections. Senator Bayard said a pretty thing and a true one at an orphan asylum in Baltimore, the other day: "The best part of a man's life is in the world of his natural affections, and that realm has laws of its own that neither knaiy o^r heed King, Kaiser nor President, n6r Reichstags nor Congresses, and are deaf even to the voices of shouting popular majorities, but heed and obey rather the gentle voice of woman and the cry of helpless and feeble childhood." Cricketer's Whiskers. She--" Why don't you grow a mus­ tache, Edwin ? You would look so much better." He--"Well, but I don't want one. I've got a pair of cricketer's whis- ier6." Lllitf -- "Cricketer's whiskers! What are they ?" He--"Eleven on each side, dear."--London Fun. VESTA, the largest of the minute plan­ ets known as "asteroids," is computed to have a diameter of about three hundred ; miles; and Echo, the smallest, is proba­ bly about ten miles in diameter. Some mathematician has lately furnished the rough but interesting calculation that the suu is a thousand times the volume of Jupiter; Jupiter, a thousand that of the earth; the earth, a thousand times that of Vesta; and Vesta a thousand times that of Echo--the "baby" of the solar system as at present considered. A vast number of bodies far more minute than Echo is doubtless moving about the sun, but these fragmentary masses are so small as to be unseen by astronomers except when they flash as meteors through the upper regions of our atmos­ phere on their way to the earth. THE MARKETS. . 8 7S $13 00 . S 95 6 26 . 11 M UK . 4 00 @ 4 CO . 1 30 @ 1 21 @ 1 27 ,«T S3 £ « «J17 00 . 1 26 : 3 .1# 60 11 MEW YORK. BEKTKS Hoon COTTON FLOUU -Superfine. WBKAT--No. 2 Spring. 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