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• " "2 N. % *»'. %?<£• *•'» 1 •* • . •' •• F- \ . A.. F'- "f fa -RRJF YYRF*,R IPR F, M • r' cmg ^laindralct tLVKE. EWr «* MW*- ILLINOIS. BEEILY IJWS 8EVIEI. »*' THE EA**W Ovim 15,000 people assembled in Msdiedn Square Garden, New York city, to yittif bh &, glove fljCfbt John L. SslliTWi »f Boston, and Ita Wilson, ft r^ntl^smred EoKlixb pogihst. The l*ttingwas (100 to t75 t£f«vor of the American. Wilson was to re­ ceive #1,000 if he fought, four rounds, and liftlf tin gate moner. He walked ow to Sullivan and offered io bet #1,000 that he would not lie knocked out of time, but the latter de­ clined to wager anything more. Wilson was kncoked down twenty-Raven fanes, but bravely iad cnnuingly mood out for the four rounds, aod won bis *Uowaoo% Hie battle lasted fif­ teen minntea. Hue Englishman was severely punished. Ax Millvflle, Mass.,, Joseph Garbwree hfctl a fight of twenty minutes' duration with a blaok--nake twelve feet in length, and received ten bites. Mwl J. F. CmooNas, of Somerset, , drowned her youngest child and herself in the river,...Miss Fanny Parnell, sister of Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish leader, died at BoMlentown, N. J., of peralysis of the T - '1 %• M' \ 4-**.' 4 Tkk widow of Abraham Lincoln died at Springtield, 111., on the 16th of July. There WW no alarming symptoms in her case until the evening preceding her demise, when she waa stricken with apoplectio para'ysis, and ut­ tered her last words: ,fI am dying." She was the daughter of Hon. R. 8. Todd, of Lex­ ington. Ky., and was in her 64th year. She WM" married in November, 1842. Secretary Lincoln is her only living child.... A conflagration m Colfax, W. T., destroyed llfty-eigfat buildings, the entire business por­ tion of the place, with a loss of §250,000, and left the inhabitants without supplies. It is ht the fire waa the result of incendiarism, Two TEARS ago, at Millville, Mo., Dr. was murdered by Dr. Keyes, the lattsr being sent to the insane asylum, whence he was released. When he made his appearance at the scene of the murder he was promptly shot dead by a son of Dr. Roberts, who surrendered to the officers. Oil is discovered in Mahoning county, Ohio, by parties drilling for oohl, ana much excitement prevails in the neighborhood. HKHBY JANSES? and Charles Boneetein, Swedes, and William Warton, fought in the tovta of Httsman ¥alley, New Mexico, about a blanket. The Swedes cut Warton nearly to pieces. He in turn killed Jansen and mortally wounded Bonestein. THE renegade Indians from San Carlos Agency were engaged in a fight by Ma], Chaf­ fee, commanding portions of the Third and Sixth cavalry, in a wild and remote section of Arizona. Twenty-six Indians were killed, and all their baggage, hora» and mules captured. The military casualties were slight.... The funeral of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln was held' at the First Presbyterian Church, in Springfield, IlL Among the pall-bearers were Gov. Cullom and Geu. MeClernand. The remains were placed in the vault at the monument, where vast those of her lamented husband. NEARLY 100 White Mountain Apaches left Ban Carlos Reservation, and when forty miles away attacked a train, killing the driver 'and running off fifty head of stock George H. Imioff, over 107 yeara of age, a soldier un­ der Napoleon Bonaparte, died at Richmond, Ind. John Springer expired at the comity in­ firmary at Marietta, Ohio, at the age of 198. * TOE SOUTH. SENATOR BBOWN, of Georgia, has giwi #50,000 to the State University at Athens, Oa. The interest of the money is to be used for the education of poor young men... .A col­ ored barber at Devsll's Muff, Art., voted the Democratic ticket, and a Bepubiican darky at­ tacked him with a brick and broke up his shav­ ing apparatus, for which ha was wot through the heart Tn condition of United States Sena- ,ar Geonfi4 whe is lOKMtb, ia prooooaoed - U •F '('?•<% 'K %, •• • ^y. >*( • W - Ite : itbaoKMtb, Th> citizens of Key West, Flak, as­ sembled m mass meeting and denounced the ' stay that yellow fever existed in their midst ....The tsteamer John Wilson soak In the Atfltafataj-' river, a in Southern Louisiana, and mlm of the passengers and crew periahai. WLlllCUi THE Secretary of War issued a cir- • letter to the employee of the War Depart- calling for full information regarding their positions, the date of their appointment, what State, etc., and also enquiring the number of relative*, if any, otherwise employed in the Government servio% THE Gimenbaokers of New York held a oouvention, lasting two days, at Albany. Ephenetos Howe was nominated for Governor and James Allen for Lieutenant Gevernor. The platform reaffirms the ground taken at the Chicago Convention in 1880; denounce* the oon- ' tract system of prison labor as an outrage on civilization; demands that all land owned by individuals or corporations in. excess of what is required for their personal use or for the transaction of their business should'be taxed •o as to render its ownership valueless; pro­ nounces in favor of civil-service reform and protests a»rainxt monopoly of money, transpor­ tation, land and labor... .TheTexas Democrat­ ic Convention nominated John Ireland for Gov­ ernor. Gov. Roberts, who has already served two terms, forbade his name being placed be- _ fore the convention. QMS. NEWTON ' M. CURTIS, a special ' agent of the Treasury Department in the New York Custom House, was convicted recently of receiving money paid to him as assessment* by Federal employes to be used for political pur* poses. His counsel moved before the United otktes Circuit Court, in which the conviction wis had, for an arrest of judgment and & new trial. The eouft decided last week that the law prohibiting political assessments i constitutional. On the other points raised Tin ship Theobald, with a crew of tfMtMffl men, Which sailed from Pbfladatphia for San Francisco Dec. 16 last, i* supposed to be kit....Earthquake ahooks were fait at the OteiK Maris*- aad Oafofc OL, on the 90th of fpKr At Ow Mexican capital many walls fell, twMMSkbatagthefaeavfeat rfnoelSM, bat in 0»ta> no dam«g» wasjjtfiBWd. JOHN BBIOMT has tenebwed hia rmng- satimi as a member of the British Cabinet. The cause of hia resignation WM the Egyptian policv of the Government, culminating in what Mr. Bright ooosiders nn^nstifiaUe nse of force in Alexandria. He was apposed to sending the fleet to Egypt originally for any political purpose. He considered that England had no business to interfere with the internal affairs of Egypt, having no serious interest there*, exoept in the Suez canal, and the canal was never menaced by Arabi or anybody else. DE FRKTCXNET, in opening the debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on the Egyptian question, expressed the belief that armed intervention had become imperative by the massacre of French subjects in Alexandria. The English alliance, he said, had never been shaken. The Sues canal oannot oease to be free, even if France must be one of the powers to protect it....Utter destruction threatens crops in Ireland. Excessive rains have pre­ vailed. and unless the weather improves suffer­ ing will result. Coii. BRACK*HBUBT, in charge of crim- inal investigations in Ireland under the Re- pression act, resigned his position because the Lord Lieutenant disagreed with his scheme to have the police join the secret societies, and then turn informers... .Smyrna, in Asia Minor, has been visited by a conflagration which raged for seven hours. Fourteen hundrod houses were destroyed, and 6,000 persons wdre ren­ dered homeless. Only one life was lost. EIGHTY-THREE business structures were destroyed by fire at Port -au-Prince, Hayti. Plundering was indulged in during the confla­ gration. ADDITIONAL^NEWS. THE WAR III EGYPT. AAfleea from Aknadiia of Sunday, July 16, J» the effect that Arabi Pasha was from Qalrat iv§ marching ia force on AleiaiidM«» tegwhtohaloig flrmMfenaf Jamas Wh«a the ton mie of being approved. kL lfr. Bberman inU Snmow was taking precautions Ik 1 the aimek. AiaM bad been depoaad is War MlwIatar by tha Mhedfrre. «The fire contin- aad, and incewlkuriaa were shot dM^r. It is baBersd that 'Whole familiee of Europeans w«e thrown late the Hamas. Five of Arabi's aoldicn were captured by and handed ow to the Khedive, who gave orders to haTe them shot by loyal troops. English sailors flogged many Arabs who were of arson, pillage, or rape, and four men ^ribttoiy shot for murder, and wm as a •py. market had but EOfOp6AQ s Turbsh CBARIISS £RA»I<ACOH and others were committed for trial in London for publishing blasphemous libels in the Free-thinker Great disasters have occurred in Bohemia by excess­ ively wet weather. Numbers of persons have ̂ been drowned by floods, and the greater part of ; continued to issue orders and make appoints ̂ * | ments in the name of the Khedive. It i was rumored that Europeans to the number a grain ' market had reopened, hundreds of people were starving and houseless. The bombardment is kno+rn to nave almost ex- tsnaiaeted the Egyptian artillery oorpa. Amer­ ican marines were the first to land at Alexan­ dria tc aid in restoring order, and were speedily followed fey Germans, neither re­ ceiving instruction ' from their Governments. In the identical note presented by the powers to the Porte Turkey is urged to dispatch an expedition to Egypt to occupy the country three months, the term to be extended_npon the 'demand of the Khedive, and no Commissioners to accompany ih« Seymour issued a manifesto at Alex­ andria, on July 17, announcing that he had un­ dertaken, with the consent of the Egyptian Government, the restoration of order. No­ body was |llon-od to leave town after sunset. Some improvements were noted m the aspect of Alexandria. The ruins had been cleared away in some quarters, and dangerous build­ ings" demolished by dynamite. The tire bad al­ most entirely ceased. One hotel was opened, and provisions had begun toerriva from the oountry. Though iuoendiaiiss ond robbers were being shot when captured, pillxgtng still continued to some estent. In the provinces anarchy was re­ ported to rale, and a massacre of eighty Europeans was said to have occurred at Mantah, Refugees irt m Cairo reported that a holy war was being proclaimed, and an out­ break among the natives of that city was be* Ueved to be imminent. The situation at Alexandria was practically unchanged on the 19th. Order was being grad­ ually restored under the surveillance of the British marines. An unsuccessful attempt was nude to burn the building o octipied as the head- quarter! of the American marines. Arabi Pasha Ooogsr and Apes presented telsgraphio protests from tsbaeafltenaffeoturers against a. change in tba rato ofUsxation, and asking for rebatss if the bill jMMLTbe House arranged for the expanses of the Government by extend­ ing tf» provisions /at the joint resohakw of Jane SOi The Oommittee on Ktections made reports Otvjke Virginia and Maine contested aaat% pfenootxiing in favor of Cabell and Used, and the resolu­ tions were adopted. Mr. Calkins called op the South Carolina oase of Smalls vs. Tilraan. on which Mr. raised a question of consid­ eration. The House proceeded to vote, all but two Democrats deolining to answer, the result showing fifteen lees than a quorum. The doors were closed, and several roll calls took plaoc, a quorum being «|>tsined at 6 p. m. Mr. Wa te opened the diseussicn in behalf of Bmalta, when anadjournmsotwaat̂ nn. Besoluttoos attaptad by Fifth Army Corps at Detroit, asking that justice be done Fits John Pprter, wero presented to the Senate July 19, by Mr. SewelL Mr. Logan introduced a bill to so modify the Chinese law as to permit them to pass through the country without stop- pint;. ' It was laid aside without action, and'the tax bill was taken np. Mr. Williams denounced the measure as a temporary expedient by the Republican party to quiet popular clanor. Mr. Beck's amendment to fix the tobacco Tax at 12 cents per pound after January next was agteqg to. A motion to retain l the stamp bank checks and drafts for THE HATIOH'g HOWTH. fiiewth of Om Vaiie* MrtM •ertag tike LtiMit P>ca<s js Cssipawa Hiik •snrwpch The population ot the United States nrast now be aboot'fiB,600,00ft. Recent enumerations of population in Great Britain, France and Italy enable as to contrast the growth of this with other nations. In ten years Great Britain has gained in population about 3,400,000; in two years tne United States probably gained about 8,700,000. In ten years France gained 1,200,000, having lost to Germany a population of 1,600,000. Germany, with that increase, gained less than 4,200,000, or about 2,600,000 from other causes, so that the joint in­ crease of both Germany and France, with 77,000,0C0 of people ten years ago, has been less than one-half greater in ten years than that of the United States has been m the two years jnst ended. Austria gained from 1869 to 1$80 only 1,981,000 inhabitants, and Italy from 1871 to 1881 only 1,651,000, so that their joint increase in ten years waa less that of the United States has been in two years. Europe has been disturbed by wars, it is true. But this country was also re­ tarded in growth by a great civil war duriilg the previous decade. Looking back three decades, which inolude two of over §100 was rejected. Thrf house joint reso- ne»/»A ancl nrn«T»ntv W ««.li lution to extend the appropriations to Julv was general peam> ana prosperity for each appropriations passed. The President nominated William Hale, of Iowa, to be Governor of Wyoming ; J. 8chuyler Crosby, of New York, for Governor of Montana, and W. W. Hoover, of California, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizana. The House resumed consideration of the South Carolina contested-election case of Smalls vs. the crops is destroyed. THE Almshouse at Erie, Pa.; which contains 300 paupers, is heated and lighted by natural gas. An idiotic inmate got into the boiler-room the other day and turned on the supply valves, and was nearly dis­ emboweled by the explosion which fol­ lowed, the building being partly wrecked.... Fairtield, Me., suffered a terrible loss by a con­ flagration. About ten wood-workiug mills Were destroyed, by which 6 JO persons are thrown out of employment. Tho loss is over tl0u,000, with smali insurance James F. Wa'sb, who murdered Barbara Groenthai in a fit of jeal­ ousy, Jan. L 1881, was legally strangled in the Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn. THE Advisory Commission, consist­ ing of the Hon. E. B. Washburne, ex-Senator Thurman and Judge Coolej , appointed by the trunk-lines to adjudicate upon the question of differential rates on freight between points in the West and New York. Philadelphia and Balti­ more, have submitted their report. The commission in effect sustains the position taken by the Baltimore and Ohio a'id the Pennsylvania Railroad Compa­ nies, who have insisted uponjthe right to carry ireight. at lower rates from Chicago to Balti­ more and Philadelphia, by reason of the shorter distance, than the rates charged by lines deliv­ ering freight into Sew York. The commission does not assume to decide that the present rates of differences should be indefinitely con- tinned, but it upholds the principle of differ- iropeaniL t* of 205 had Been massaend at Kafer-el- dwar. Attempts had been made to fire Cairo, and it was feared that the European quarter would be burned by the people. Dorvisch Pasha had been summoned to .Constan­ tinople to give bis views of the situation. The Egyptian question was debated in the House of Commons and the French Chamber. De Freycinet ami unced the French policy as an alliance with England and action in concert with the behests of the powers. In Parliament it was announced that the identical note sent to the Porte was still unanswered ; and the character of the Government's replies tor ques­ tions was criticised by the Conservatives. Gladstone a«snmed full responsibility for Ad­ miral Seymour's*actious. Cable dispatohes of July 21 state that Tur­ key, in consideration of the deference shown by the powers to the sovereignty of the Sultan in Egypt, has consented to participate in the in­ ternational conference. France and England have requested that some of the powers be des­ ignated to protect the Suez canaL De Lesseps informed Admiral Seymour that the passage of men-of-war through the canal would be a breach of neutrality. Spain has sent tour ironclads to Alexandria. The Governor of Alexandria had retui nod f i om a trip to Can o by way of Port Sa d. He reports having 8< en Europeans massacred and iheir houses p llaged at Damanhourund other points. ential rates governed by the relative ! The scouts of Arabi Pa»ha were sevtn miles and the relative cost of service. FIRE destroyed the Cass avenue plan- ing-mill at St Louis, valued at $100,000. and damaged the railway-supply store of M. M. Buck to the extent of $30,000. from Alexandria, but he had been ordered by the Poite not to move on the c ty. His last act was to divert the waters of the tf ahmondeh I- V Bloody Fight with Desperadoes In Ari­ zona. A recent telegram from Albuquerque, N. M., says : Arizona vigilantes are again at work, and last week Bill Mulcahy, Jack Kingsbury and Nevada Jim, who killed two Mexicans and mor­ tally wounded two Americans at Calabszas, were pfewded bj- an organized! party of • fifteen. The pursuit was kept up with vigor during Monday, and at 4 p. m. the fleeing murderers were lighted in the distance, the animafe they rode being nearly fagged, heading for a pre­ cipitous peak. With ft yell the punraera sparred their horses onward, The doomed desperadoes succeeded by a superhuman effort in reaching the goal of their hopes, where they dismounted and sought refuge in the recesses of its rocky tides. As the pursuers approached they were received with a voiley from the Winchesters with which the fugitives were armed, and one of their number named Uennesny was wound­ ed in the shoulder. The avengers then withdrew and held a hasty consultation, determining to kill or capt­ ure the villains at all hazards. The party dis­ mounted and cautiously advanced, keeping as much •« possible under "cover until toe base of the rocky elevation was reached, when, vath a shout of defiance and a volley from their six- shooters, a rush was made. With the coolness of desperation the murderers awaited the on­ set, and once more the Winchesters were brought into requisition. The blttle lasted but a few minutes. The ambushed cutthroats fought with a fury born of despair. Two of them were quickly killed, and the third, Nevada Jim, was brought down by a shot through the thighs. The vigilantes spared his life till a rope could be procured to hang him. He suddenly seized a revolver belonging to one of his dead com­ rades, which was lying near, and fired at Fallehy, who fell, pierced through the lung. Laughing derisively, he then sent a bullet crash­ ing through his own brain. Coffee. Some idea of the rapid growth of the coffee trade of world may be obtained from the fact that the total production, which was 675,000,000 pounds in 1859, has now risen to 1,300,000,(MX) pounds, or nearly doubled. In Europe alone I the consumption of coffee is said to have j increased 240,000,000 pounds in the I single year 1879. As for the producing j™,™ . i countries, it seems that Brazil now holds court was aiso adverse to the arcusedT and j ^ie first place with a total of 560,000,000 motion for a stay and for a new trial was j pounds against 330,000,000 in 1870. The ore denied. [ emancipation of the slaves is, however, THE Obio DemocraticBtateConvention J expected to lead to a falling off in the renominated Hon. Jcnn W. Oakley for Supreme ! crop, unless the Chinamen and coolies •Court Judge, J. W. Newman for Secretary of j imported from Asia should prove unex- - State, and Henry Weible for member of the I P®ctedly well suited for the work of cul- Bosrd of Public Works. The platform de­ nounces the extortion of money from office­ holders to corrupt the ballot as the most insidi­ ous danger to free government. J. G. Thomp­ son was defeated for member of the Central Oommittee,while his rival for the Chairmanship, J. H. Farley, was selected to represent the Twenty-first district, but Thompson won the day at kst, being elected Chairman of the Execui ive Committee The Georgia Demo­ cratic Convention nominated Alexander H. "Stephens for Governor, and Thomas Hardeman , tot Congrest man- «,t-Lu rge. it can be ascertained in 1852, 1871 and 1880; that of France in 1851, 1872 and 1881; that of Austro-Hungary in 1842 (no enumeration between mat date and 1857 is known), in 1869 and in 1880, and that of Italy (including states of the Church and other political divisions now embraced), in 1848, 1871 and 1881: 1881. 1871. 1851. Oreat Britain.. France. Germany Aueiro-Hungarr "•* n United StaMs 35,246,502 37,3-'l,18») 45,231,061 37,SIS,900 28.4*2,639 '1880. 50,155,763 31.845.370 3K,102,921 41,058,792 35,634,858 2«,801,154 1870. 38.558.371 27,737,863 36,783,170 32,559,055 35,'*86,957 23,617,153 I860. 23,191,876 News received at Alexandria from the interior of Egypt confirm the reported assassinations of Europeans. Numerous massacres occurred in the outskirts of Cairo. Arabi Pasha has pub­ lished a special report of the Alexandria bom­ bardment for She' natives, alleging that eight ironclads were sui>k, two burned, and fourci.p- tnred by the Egyptian. troops. He also issued 1 proclamations denouncing the Khedive, and maintaining that an "irreconcilable war exists between us aud the English.'! Tee notables m'et hi "Cairo, declared tft# Khedive to be a traitor, and deposed him, and issued a proclamation declaring war with Englsnd, and inviting all good Moslems to take up arms. British troops have sailed from India for Egypt. All the French war-ships have left Alexandria. Italy has ordered forward a permanent squadron of four iron-clad s. Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley will command the British expedition abont to be dispatched. Turkey is said to have agreed to send troops, De Lesseps telegraphed to Paris that immediate action was necessary to protect the Suez canal. The French battalions for Egypt are to rendezvous at Toulon. Niner, a notorious SwisB adventurer, is aiding Arabi, and will be executed if caught by the British. WASH LATERAL* I THE total value of exports Of of bread- stuffs for the twelve months 'ended June 80. J®B2, is $176,977,491!. IIIEOT. DANENHOWKB h&s written to gibers of Congress urging that an appropri- 'VlBon of $25,000 made to bring the bodies of tivation. Next on the list come the Dutch Indian possessions, which export about 150,000,000 pounds, the British East Indies, now exporting over 140,- 000,COO, and Venezuela, producing about 100,000,000. On the other hand, the Antilles islands have long been declin- ipg in the scale. Jamaica does not sup­ ply half as much coffee as in 1805. Mar­ tinique has fallen still more entirely out of the race, and the Reunion coffee, which was once highly esteemed, and is still declared to be of excellent quality, finds no longer any market in Europe' j owing to the unfashionable bitterness of its taste. A Self-fcoised Woman. The tramp ascended the front steps, De Long and party home... .Judge Advocate j after taking the precaution to read the door plate, rang the bell with a free- and-easy confidence born of previous success. The door was opened bv a woman, as the tramp had anticipated. " Is Mr. Brown in ? " he asked. The woman took an inventor^ of his f»oe and clothing, and replied : "No, Mr. Brown isn't in, but Mrs. Brown is. I've just .sent Brown for a country, we find that the United States has more than doubled in population, while not one of the European rations has increased as much as 30 per cent, in thirty years. The following table gives the population of Great Britain in 1851, 1871 and 1881; that of the states com- Tillman. Mr. Harr stood in front of the Speak- ' posing the German empire as near as er's desk, and with & small cane point- * -- ' --' ' •" * ed out the boundaries of the new Congressional districts of South Carolina, and denounced the work as downright villainy. Messrs. MouUon and Simonton argued in sup­ port of the sitting member. Mr. Evins, after arraigning the Republicans for corruption and gerrymandering, Objected to their lecturing the peoplt of SSuth Carolina on political moral­ ity. Mr. Tillman, speaking in his own behalf, expressed the fear that his State would be re- cons tracted for the purpose ©^plunder, and announced that he would be returned to Congress by negro votes, Mr, Smalls was then seated by 141 to 6. The Democrats abstained from voting. The Alabama oase of Smith vs. Shelley was taken up, Mr. Ranney obtaining the floor, x'iie Tax bill was discussed at length in the Senate on July 20. Mr. Voorhees denounced the measure as favoring a privileged class. Mr. Harrison claimed that his colleague was not in harmony with other leading Democrats. Mr. Jonas subnuttedifigures to show that the sugar interests coul&mt stand a reduction m price. Amendments ffirtrike out the provision repeal­ ing bank taxation was rejected. It was agreed to fix the tax on tobacco at 12 cents per pound. Mr. Dawes reported an amend­ ment to the Sundry Civil bill appropriat­ ing $260,000 for additioual purchases of beef for the Indians, to be distributed by the Secretary of the Inferior. The House, after arguments on the Alabama contested ejection case by Messrs. lUuney aud Calkins, declared vacant the seat for tne Fourth district, Mr. Smith having died recently. Mr. Reed called up a tesolution to amend the rules, to which Mr. Blackburn obj-c.ed. A vote, in which the Democrats remained silent, showed the House- to be devoid oi a quorum. An exciting debate took plaoe in the Senate July 21 over the report of the conference com­ mittee on the River and Harbor bill. Mr. In- galls, of Kansas, bitterly attacked the report of the committee, and was answered by Mr. Mc­ Millan, of Minnesota, in charge of the bill, very warmly and earnestly. The report was adopted. The House Revenue bill was then taken up. An amendment by Mr. Biyard to retain the tax on matches was rejected--8 to 45. A bill to authorize 8. L. M. Barlow and others to lay a cable to Europe was referred. The President nominated Charles W. Tavey' to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Thir­ teenth district of Illinois. In the Hou«e, Mr. Page submitted a disagreeing conference re­ port on the River and Harbor bill, and a new committee was appointed. Mr. Hiscock pre­ sented a confoenoe report on the General De-' ficiency ABp^ifaitMhbiU, on which an agree- aU olamum mmpt that relative to the mileage of Senators, and the House decided not to recede from ita disagreement on that issne. A bill to modify tho money-order system was. passed, in which provision is made for the issue of postal notes for less than $5. Another measure was passed to fix the salaries of rail­ way postal clerks, dividing them into five classes. The Senate bill to authorize the Post­ master General to extend post routes twenty- five miles beyond i» rminal points, amended to permit the employment ot necessary temporary aid at the expense of a derelict contractor, was passed. A bill to fix the compensation of lonrth-class Postmasters inside of $1,000 per annum, exclusive of money-order commissions, was passed. general Swaim, in his report to the Secretary ? W^.mamteins that the proceedings of the Si * i , 80n court-martial were irregular •euai. but makes no recommendations. THE National Department of Agrkmlt we announces that an office for theCollection fa Swn statistics will be established f-riKma ** * reCent &P]?roPriatiGn by SENERAL, ' Ik Buenos Ayres, during service* in i cent's worth oj yeast"; when he comes : back he'll have to put out the line and ; hang out the wash; then I shall send j him out with the baby, and after that • he will have his sweeping and dusting to do. No, you can't see Brown to-day, and 'twouldn't make any difference if tou could; I attend to the business here." The tramp said he guessed he'd mis- taken the house1 nod Mrs. Brown, as she slammed the door in i*" fsoe, said *^"> reckoned he had. Memory of Garibaldi, a curtain in a public #ok fire, producing a stampede. A wall toppled ^er on the assemblage, killing twenty people ....Wallace Ross announces his readiness to v.1. SPW Hanlau five races on consecutive davg with - IP postponement on account of the Weather, f tte prize to be $1,000 a side for each race * Sad the distance three to five miles ' She list of victims of the toy pistol* ia |be vicinity of Boston since July 4 has swollen - fe> forty, and Cincinnati report* ftix Within three days from the same cause. In ^ . <48>ioago the victims number above a dozen. -:m:£ DOINGS Of CONGRESS. There waa considerable discussion in the Senate, on the 15th, on a resolution direoting the Secretary of the Interior to suspend action on the payment of a double pension to Gen. Ward B. Burnettf-but no action was taken. A resolution was adopted calling on the President for oopies of .the declarations of Bulwer and Clayton upon the ratification of the treaty. Mr. Anthony introduced a bili to repeal so much of the Army Appropriation law as provide* for tho retirement of Gens, Sherman and Sheirdan. The Pension Appropriation bill, covering $100,000,000, was taken up. An amendment calling for an anuual list of pensionersborae on the rolls was struck out, and th§ bili was passed. The Senate insisted upon its amend­ ments to the River and Harbor bill, and a confercnce committee was appointed. In the House Mr. Csnnon reported "the dis­ agreement of the conference committee on the legislative appropriation, and the conferees were reappointed and instructed to insist on their views being considered. A resolution was adopt­ ed that the Committee on Civil Service Retorm consider tho inequalities Df salaries of Senate and House employes, and another that the President be requested to furnish information in regard to the pool recently entered into by the French Cable Company. The House then went into committee of the whole on the Senate amend­ ments to the river and harbor appropriation ̂ none of them being Concurred in, even the, Hennepin canal project failing. Consideration of the Internal Revenue bQl was resumed in the Senate July 17. Mr. Beck urged his amendment to reduoe the tax on manufactured tobacco to 10 cents per pound- Mr. Sherman sounded a note, of warning in re­ gard to the heavy appropriations, when the subjcct went over. Mr. Allison reported the disagreement of the conference com­ mittee on the legislative appropriation, and a new committee was appointed. Concurrence was given to the House amend­ ment to ihe Senate bill to promote telographic communication between Europe and America. An executive session closed the proceedings. The House waa the scpne of another bitter personal altercation, the participants being Messrs. Hewitt, of New York, and Robeson, of New Jersey. Mr. Hewitt rose to a question of privilege, and called attention to a sentence ap­ pearing In the lieeord as a speech Dy Mr. Robe- Bon, reflecting upon him (Hewitt), which had hot been uttered on the floor, and asked to have the objectionable phrase stricken out. Mr. Robeson retaliated by words of ridicule. He upbraided Mr. Hewitt for his connection with tho Moray letter, and ridiculed hint for his pretensions to be a greater man than his father- in-law, Peter Cooper. Hewitt retaliated by saying that a man who would sub­ mit to be characterized by a fellow member a liar, perjurer and thief was so low that any­ thing lie might say was of no consequence. The Speaker declined to order the offensive sentence to be struck from the Record. The House refused to fix a date for the con­ sideration of the bill for the admission of Dakota,. A Senate bill was passed for the sale of the site of the old Postomce building in New York for f 600,0C0. Mr. Robinson introduced resolutions in the interest or American citizons in Britii h prisons, and calling on the Secretary of the Jfevy to report whether or not American sailors are performing police duty in Alexandria tinder the British Admiral. Mr. Bingham re­ ported a baii in regard to the pay at letter car­ riers. A petition of the Qutteau ]onr% asking an allowance of #6 per day, was presented in the Ben&te July 18, and referred. By a vote of 39 to 20, w executive session wss then held, dur- Power of Railroads in Polities. Just how heavy a weight the railroads of this country might throw into a po­ litical balance may be approximated by considering that there are in the employ of railway corporations 1,600,000 men, who, with few exceptions, are citizens in the prime of jif^. They constitutenear- ly oue-sixth of the voting population of the republic. The power to wield any considerable portion of so mighty a force would render its possessor well- nigh independent of laws and of the men who are supposed to make them.-- Philadelph ia Record. ' Conditions o? HealtJu The conditions of health are few but ulcerative, 1. Pure air. 2. Pure and nutritious food. 3. Proper exercise. 4. Undifttarbad sleep. 5. Regularity. 6. Temperauoe in all tilings. 7. Pleasant and active mental, moral and social conditions. 8. Right bodily positions. 9. Cleanliness. 10. Sunlight. --Herald of Health DUBING the great floods in Louisiaua there was seen one day moving through the aisles of shadow among the tail gum and oak trees, whose foliage made a green roof for the voyagers, a little raft some twenty feet long by nine feet in width. In the bow sat a young wife of 20, holding her child. In the center | there was a heap of plain country furni- ! ture. Behind this were piled pots, kettles and pans. On her right, with sad features and doleful faoes, were four de«>r hounds, and behind them, resting on the beds, an old shot gun and rifle. Pulling at the oars was the husband. Hardly two inches out of water, the flat moved along and passed out of sight. It represented all the worldly goods of a young planter, saved from the flood. He had some forty-eight miles to go to reach his former home. A CORRESPONDENT from Boston writes us to know what the word Nihilist is de­ rived from. We are surprised that such ignorance should exist in such a towQ as Boston. The Russian assassins are called Nihilists from the River Nile. They are dirty, like the water of the Nile, and have Budden uprisings. Like the Nile, their sources are unknown. Nobody knows where their head is, and it u not healthy to try and find out If you do not think this is the right answer you had better hunt up a Nihilist and make him te.l you all he knows.--Texas Si/tings. WE think we go in lor pretty costly trousseaux, but they are nothing com­ pared with those provided among Paris­ ian swelle in the last oentury. That o'i Mile, de Matignon, who in 1783 married the Baron de Montmjwreacy, cost 4125,~ 000. Iti££k^LI>S#«hats. Yeara. 1870 1871..... 187 2 187 3 187 4 187 5 187? 187 7 187 8 1879..... Illinoi*. .. 27,715 .. 35,214 .. 27,7I1 .. 28,417 .. ao,m .. 27,900 .. 23,440 .. 83.000 .. 31,610 .. 44,898 .. 60,958 Total 360,394 311,049 in the large kitehen, lAtelt Sok teried --to the eyes in half a big watermelon. The surprise was mutual, and explana­ tions followed. "WelL" said Bill, " I ssked Jess "for a big lie, and, not, only rit it, but was fool enough to believe it, wouldn't believe him again if 1 knew he was dying." THE EARTH'S *WIN SISTER. The increase m population of the-five nations of Europe has been from 154,- 992,698, about thirty years ago, to 183,- 870,348 in 1880 or 1881, a gain of 28,- 877,650, or 18.6 per cent.--about .62 of 1 per cent, yeerly. The increase in the United States in thirty years was 26,- 963,907, or 116.2 per cent.--about 3.87 per cent, yearly. In thirty years ending June 30,1881, the increase Of population in the United States has been greater by 2,100,000 than during the period above mentioned, so that this country has gained 29.060,000 in thirty yeara, and more than the aggregate increase in the five countries of Europe during a period extending in some cases much longer. This marvelous growth, as we well know, is in a large measure the fruit of the free institutions the birth of which we celebrate to-day. Rare fertility of soil, exhaustless resources and other manifold blessings have done much, it is true, to give the nation growth, but fi«a government has been more potent than any or all other causes in bringing to these shores the 9,400.000 persons who have immigrated since 1850.--NewYjork Tribune, The Chief Wheat-Raising State. According to the census reports of 1860, 1870 aud 1880 Illinois outranks every other State in the Union in the amount of wheat raised. According to the reports of the United States Obm missioner of Agriculture, during the eleven years beginning with 1870 and including 1880, Illinois took the first rank in quantity of wheat raised in 1870, 1871, 1879 and 1880. California led in '72, '76 and '78, and Iowa in 73, '74, '75 and '77. Illinois held the second place every time that she was not first, exoept in 1877, when Minnesota led, and in 1878, when Indians was second. The follow­ ing table, carefully compiled from the reports of the United States Commis­ sioner of Agriculture, shows the wheat crops of Illinois, Iowa and California for the eleven years ending with 1880, ex­ pressed in thousands of bushels : Iowa. California. 14,17.1 16,757 25,600 21,504 28,b80 23,800 8u,(KMt 22,000 41,990 85,000 83,877 993,083 The above totals show that in the to­ tal amount of wheat raised in the period designated Illinois leads, Iowa stands second aud California third. Tho aver­ age crop per.annum in Illinois for these ^eleven years was 32,761,326 bushels; in Iowa, 28,277,186 bushels; in California* 26,643,964 bushels. ^ <* * - , • ft < ' V V The Pleasure of Poverty. I heard a man who had failed in busi­ ness, and whose furniture was sold at auction, say that when the cradle, and the crib, and the piano went, tears would come, and he had to leave the house to be a man. Now, there are thousands* of men who have lost their pianos, but who have found better music in the sound of their children's voices and footsteps going cheerily down with them to poverty, than the harmony of chord ed instruments. Oh, how blessed is bankruptcy when it saves a man's children? I see many men who are bringing up their children as I should bring up mine, if, when they are 10 years old, I should lay them on the dis­ secting table and cut the sinews of their arms and legs, so that they could never walk nor use their hands, but only Bit still and be fed. Thus rich men put the knife of indolence and luxury to their children's energies, and they grow up fatted, lazy calves, fitted for nothing at 25 but to drink deep and squander wide, and the father must be a slave all his life in order to make beasts of his children. How blessed, then, is the stroke of disaster, which sets the chil­ dren free and gives them over to the hard but kind bosom of Poverty, who says to them " Work 1" and working makes them men.--2/enry Ward licecher. Received What He Asked For. Jesse C. had the reputation Of being the " biggest liar" in seven counties, and was never known to come out be­ hind. One hot day Bill H. sat on the shady side of his barn. After dinner he saw Jess riding in great haste toward towD. Bill hailed him and went to the gate. Jess asked what he wanted. " Stop and tell us a big lie," said Bill. " No time for lying now,'{ said Jess. ** Your Uncle Sol died suddenly an hour ago, and 1 am going for a Coroner and a coffin." And on he went. Bill ran to the house and told his wife. She gath­ ered up the children. He hitched the horse to the wagon, loaded in his family, and posted off. four miles through heat and dust, to Uncle Sol's. On arriving he found the family and two neighbors MsH sf Bcsewblucs VMSHM aai Our Sun. There are many points of resemblance between the globe we tread and the planet Venus. They are both of nearly the same size, Venus being only about 300 miles smaller in diameter than the earth. The seasons on Venus are be­ lieved to be very like our seasons, since her inclination to the plane of her orbit resembles that cf the earth. The day on Venus, according to the best esti­ mates of the period of her rotation, is only about half an hour shorter than our day. The weight of bodies on Venus is nearly the same as on the earth. Her year is only about 225 days long, instead of 365, and, being nearer the sun, she gets considerable more light and heat than we do. She has an atmosphere more extensive than ours, which is visi­ ble at times as a ring of light around the edge of the planet. Certain spectro­ scopic observations have led£to tne infer­ ence that her atmosphere resembles ours in its composition. If she haa an at­ mosphere like ours she undoubtedly has oceans and rivers and clouds, and with them animal and vegetable life. In fact, there is some reason to think, from the telescopic appearance of Venus, and her excess) /e brightness, that her atmosphere is more cloudy than ours, for the upper surface of clouds reflect light as brilliantly as snow. If this is so the clouds may serve to pro­ tect the planet's surface from the in­ tensity of the sun's rays. Mr. Proctor says of the similarity between Venus and the earth: "Had Venus but a xnoon as the earth has, we might doubt whether in the whole universe two orbs exist which are so strikingly similar to each other." The question of Venus' moon is eneof the most interesting and puzzling in as­ tronomy. Some astronomers pretend to have seen Venus' moon; others deny the possibility of its existence, not on the ground that there is any physical reason against it, but because the best modern telescopes have never revealed its pres­ ence. Mr. Proctor, after reviewing the evidence, is inclined to put Venus' moon in the category of astronomical il­ lusions. But then astronomers used to talk confidently of the " snowy poles of moonless Mars," and now we know that Mars has two moons. Moreover, these moons have, since their discovery, been seen with many telescopes which never showed them before, so that the mere fact that big telescopes have not shown Venus' moon is not conclusive evidence that it does not exist. The most interesting result that could be obtained by the study of Venus would be the answer to the ̂ .question, Is the planet inhabited? At present the as­ tronomers appear tcKTSte pretty unani­ mously of the opinion that if any one of the sun's family of worlds beside the earth is inhabited Venus is most likely to be the one. The faith of those who believe in the doctrine of the plurality of worlds, having been driven from the air­ less and waterless orb of the ancient moon, and repelled from the fiery fur­ nace of the sun, from the deserts of Mars and the tumbling vapors of Jupiter and Saturn, and being unable to penetrate the mysteries of far-away Uranas and Neptune, may yet rest upon Venus. There is the same round of seasons and alternations of day and night? there is air, there is water, and the force of grav­ ity is almost precisely the same as on 'earth. ArguMg ftom analogy, itmSr^be assumed that Venus is the dwelling place of a race like ourselves, who look with admiration upon the earth as Hie chief ornament of their midnight skies. A Life Depending Upon the Dlee. This story is authentic. It is found in the memoirs of a Prussian officer of distinction, who gives a simple, un­ affected narrative of the scenes and events through which he passed, and who betrays nowhere the least disposi­ tion to exaggerate. The following re­ markable incident he gives as it came under his own observation. He was at the time on the staff of Gen. Winter- field, one of the most skillful and com­ petent captains of his day; and Winter- field was the General in command at the time spoken off. Two soldiers had been condemned to death. In a drunken condition at night they had assaulted an officer of the line, and one of them had drawn a knife upon him, but he could not positively say which of the twain held it. And the mon themselves did not know. Neither of them remembered anything about it. So both of them Were condemned to be shot. They were both exoellent soldiers, and only one of them had been guilty of using a weapon. The officers of the division, including him who had been assaulted, asked that the men might be pardoned. At length Winter field said he would pardon one of them. Only one had held a knife* and only that one ought to die. He would pardon one, and the men must themselves decide which of them should be shot. How should the decision be made ? " Let us shake the dice," said one of the condemned. And the other agreed to it. And anon it was agreed to by all interested. The two men took their places by the side^ of a big drum, and were to throw the dioe upon its head. Two dice were given them and a proper box for shaking. The first man threw two sixes. He gioaned in agony. He felt that he had consigned his comrade to death. But when the second came to throw he also threw two sixes. 4' Wonderful!" cried the lookers-on. They were ordered to shake and throw again. This time the second man threw first-- two aces. " Ho ! good! You will live, Peter." But when Peter came to throw the dice presented those same two aces. And now the beholders were wonder- stricken indeed. Another throw was ordered, and Peter threw a five and a deuce. The other threw---Jive, deuce. After the excitement had again subsided the men shook once more. Thetir3t threw two fours. "Oh! now throw fives, and save yourself, Peter." Peter threw--two fours. At this point the Colonel ordered them to stop. He went and reported the marvelous result to Wintertleld. Said he: "Clearly, General, Providence will have those two men to be saved." And saved they were. The General cared not to oppose the wonderful fate of the dice. It did seem providential, and so he accepted it. .and the redeemed soldiers lived to prove that the saving fate had given back to Prussia two of the very best and bravest of her son*. THBBB are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make %rinkles end not dimples.--O. W. Mo{mes* Haidaa, ere and. The climate of Ike Queen Cbariotte islands is mrnnaaltnlj fawH «ad tfeey* f are -r«ovsred-viflL I' magnifioent oonttMoos trees. Meant-! ains 4j,000io5,000ieet high rise In tMr|. : oentrt portion, and tilerf aro penetrated, on all sides by dark deep fiords with, rooky walls, ̂ To the northeast, it is true, a widest strotoh of low and nearly-level country;' oeeurs, whigh may some day support |" fanning population, hut at the present.̂ time its ""w"-- Hl)ej ifjth undergrowth, and bwrkMed with proe-ltt trate trunks in every stage of Alecay, |;C; offer little to induce either IBOIRB or: white to penetrate totem. The therefore, thcnigh euj|tivatmg here there along the shotes small potato* !̂ patches, are essentially fishermen. Fewp? patha or trails traverse the interior off the islands, and these some formerly nsed when the population was greator are new abaodonedL 51| The halibut is found in great abund-*, anoe in the vicinity of the andL it is more particularly on this ftwb thafc. t the Haidaa depend. Their villages arel^ invariably situated along the shore,W?l often on bleak, wave-lashed parts of the*, coast, but always in proximity to pro-- ductive halibut baqks. Journeys aroC made ia canoe along the ooast. The* , canoes are skillfully hollowed from the^ll great cedar-trees of the region, which,, after being worked down to a certain^!4 small thickness, are steamed and prerM pared by the insertion' of cross-pieee® ^ till they are made to assume a moetli graceful form, and show lines whicht1 would satisfy the most fastidious bhip-. % builder. In their larger canoes the das do not hesitate to make long vov~ ages on the open sea; and, in former days, by their frequent descents on the " coast of the mainland, and the facility^ with wbioh they retreated again to their!® own islands, they rendered themselves., more dreaded that?, any tribe from Van-i couver to Sitka. In their mode of life, and the in-C - genuity and skill they display in theiei manufacture of canoes and other artielesj the Haidas do not differ essentially fromh the other tribes inhabiting the northern part of the coast of British Columbia^ and Southern Alaska. In the Queen Charlotte islands, however, the peculiar style of architecture and art elsewhere among the Indians of the west coast, more or less prominently exhibited ap-r pears to obtain its greatest developmen t, : Whether this may show that to thrfj^ Haidas or their ancestors the ia&ro* duction of this is due, or indicate merely . that with the greater isolation of thesife people, and consequent increased"-' measure of security, the' particular ideas*, of the Indian mind were able to body?'. themselves forth more fully, we may ; never know. The situation of th#'i! islands, and the comparative infrequenc# ' with which they have been visited; for manv years, have at least tended to- preserve intact many features which have already vanished from the custom^;; .and manufactures of most other tribes!' As before stated, the permanent vii-#3 lages of the Haidas are invariably situ* jj ated at the seashore. They consist gei}*.!;y erally of a single long row of houses; with but a narrow grassy border between, it and the beach, on which the canoes of the tribe (for each village consists of a- chieftaincy) are drawn up. In front of. each house stands a symbolical carved post, while other carved posts, situated, irregularly, and differing somewhat ut-Xf form from those proper to the houses^ ,?, are generally memorials to the dead. Such a village, seen from a little distance off; the houses and posts gray with the- weather, resembles a strip of half-burned> forest with dead " rampikes." The lit­ tle cloud of smoke from the various fire^ may, however, serve to indioate its true/. character. -- Georg4 M. Dawson, Hk"J Harper's Magazine» ' "" How He Not Jieft, - ' A. Aower oame up, or rather it earner down--a shower never comes up--so- >. unexpectedly that nearly everybody was ( ; taken by surprise, and Jefferson street, was in a panic. Young Masher, who- - never goes without an umbrella, saw his opportunity, and, sailing up to the prettiest girl with the prettiest hat in. all Burlington, made a bow that is- warranted to kill across the street, an4 ; said: •.'* "May I offer you my umbrella?" "Oh, thousand thanks," she said;.' "papa will bring it down to his office in. the morning," and she sailed away dry- shod, leaving him desolate and soaking: in his loneliness, like a pelican in the wilderness, and as a weather-vane upon the -house top .--Burlington Mamtke^e. Ornithological. An immigrant English family strolled1 from Castle Garden into Nassau street, ' enjoying the sights. They stopped in ; front of the window of an enterprising j sign and emblem-maker, who had a. | brass eagle displayed. "Whatever is 1 that?" said one of the children, "is iti> an 'en ?" "No, child," said the mother* "it is a howL" "Stuff 1" exclaimed^, the father, "hit's a Hamerioan heagle^/ a hemblem of this blarsted oountry !" THE MARKETS. 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