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DU VOTED TO THE IN TE R E STS OF CH ATSW O RTH A N D VICINITY .

R. M. SPURGIN & CO., Proprietors. OFFICE—Over Hall Sc Crane s. Terms—$2.00 a Tear.

, YOLUME IV. CHATSWORTH, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 15.1877 NUMBER 45.

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FARMERS,ATTENTION !

I have ju s t received the largest stock o f

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IMPLEMENTS,E v e r b ro u g h t to this m a rk e t, and to w h ich I call y o u r especial a t­te n tio n . T h e stock consists o f a va rie ty o f

Reapers and Mowers!

O f the m ost popu lar styles, such as

wood’s self Binder,J. P, Mannys Reaper and Mower,

And the Celeb ated McCormick Reapej* *and Mower-

I also have a large lot <>i the

Purst & Bradley Hay Rakes!T. If. A CO.'S WAGON,

and the well knownM I T C H E L L W AGON ,

[ am also agent for the celebratedNICHOLS. SHEPARD & CO’S

BS&J

Vibrator Threshers,All are requested to call and ex

atuine this select stock before pur eh isioo elsewhere. Gome a-ot IPwill im ke it to your in terest to hii v of me.

S. Crumpton,Chatsworth, III.

Mortuary eft’s Salei i ' k k a h b y lh * “ l r o c r l i i i n m o r tg a g e deed

I i p o w e r o f n ftle . d n t '- d th e t w e lv t h d ' . v o f r l l . A . 1 .1876 a i id f i le d lo t re c o d m I l ie o rd e r ’s o ff ic e o f L iv in g s to n C o u n ty , n i ­ls , th e fo u r t h d a y o f M uv A . I> )H75 a n d n -iled in h o o k ZN o l m o rtK a g e R , n i l page A u g u s t G ro s k u th a n d Y n h a u im G ro s k u th

he to w n o f i ' l ia t s w o r th . T l v ln g s to n C o u n - an<l S ta le o f I l l i n o is d id c o n v e y u n to r g a re f K . W y m a n , th e f< ) llo w ln g i le s c r lb - i r e m ls e s s i tu a te d In th e to w n o f c h a ts , .-tli. C o u n ty o f L iv in g s to n a n d s ta te o f n o ts t o - w i t : p a r t o r L o t n u m b e r th re ein U loeU n u m b e r t w e n t y - l iv e (25) o f tt)e n o r C h a ts w o r th tn s n ld C o p u ty a c c o rd . to th e o r ig in a l p in t o f s a id to w n , a n d

re p a r t ic u la r ly d e s c r ib e d as fo l lo w s to . : C o m m e n c in g a t a p o in t o n th e N o r th• o f s a id lo t th re e , (3 I f t y - f lv e <55) fe e t n th e N o r th -w e s t c o rn e r o f s a id lo t th re e

T h -nce r u n n in g s o u th t o th e s o u th l in e a id lo t . T h e n c e e a s t e ig h te e n (IS) fe e t, ■nee N o r th to th e n o th l in e o f s a id lo t . ■lice W e s t e ig h te e n (181 fse t to th e p ln c e o f I n n in g , to se c u re o n e c e r ta in p ro m s s o ry e e x e c u te d b y s a id A u g u s t G r o s k u th a n d ■ a n n a G ro s k u th , o f e v e n d a te w i t h s a id r tg a g e deed p a y a b le to M a rg a re t E . W y - n (o r th e s u m o f T w o H u n d re d a n d e n ty d o l la rs d u e o n e y e a r f r o m d a te w i t h ir e s t a t te n p e r c a n t p e r a n n u m n d w h e re a s s a id p ro m is s o ry n o te w i t h r ig h ts a n d t i t le s n t s a id n o te a n d s e c u r- s a n d In c id e n ts th e re to w a s a ' d h a v e n d i l l v a n d la w f u l l y a s s ig n e d b v th e s a id rtga g e e , M a rg a re t E . W y m a n , to th e u n - d g n e d W e s le y J S k ln b e r . nd w h e re e s d e fa u l t h a s b e e n m a d e In th e m e n t o f s a id n o te a c c o rd in g t o th e te rm s re o f a n d th e re Is n o w d n e o n th e sa m e s a id p r in c ip a l a n d te n p e r c e n t In te re s t l ie sa m e s in c e A p r i l , t w e lv t h A . D . 1875 m u t in g to th e s u m o f T w o H u n d re d a n d e n ty - th re e d o lla rs a n d s ix te e n c e n ts a t d a te o f t i l l s n o t ic e .o w th e re fo re , p u b l ic n o t ic e Is h e re b y g lv t h a t In p u rs u a n c e o f th e p o w e r andI a n th - a in m e b y th e s a id m o r tg a g e d e e d v p s t- w l II o n T u e s d a y , th e I f t t l i d a y o f O c to b e r

i 1877 a t th e h o u r o f o n e o ’c lo c k In th e i n o o n o f s a id d a y o n th e a b o v e d e s c r ib e T re m ls e s In f r o n t o l th e b o u s e o n s a id m ise s In th e to w n o f C h a ts w o r th . 0 m m - i s ta te a fo re s a id s e ll a t p u b l ic a u c t io n to h ig h e s t b id d e r fo r c a s h * to g e th e W ith th e

iae a n d a l l o th e r Im p r o v e m e n ts th e re o nI nil r ig h t , t i t l e a n d •o u t t v o f r e d e m p t io n h<- s n ld A u g u s t G r o s k u th a n d Y o h a n n a is k c . th , t h e i r h e ir s a n d a s s ig n s t h e r e in .WRtf.EYJ. SKINNER, M o rtg a g e e , v i j .i . i a m 1 H t u . U t ’y fo r M o r tg a g e e . ’>nte<I S e p te m b e r 15, 1877.

Town and Vicinity

Don’t fail to hear Cumback.

Pete Gerhart is building an engine house,

Dan Brighaui returned from Freeport Thursday noon

Mr. N. C. Kenyon took the first premi­um ou his Bantams at the Fairbury Fair.

Jas. S. Smith went to Peoria Thursday morning to attend the Central llliuois Fair.

T. W. Worrell, Esq., a former citizen returned from the far West, Wednesday night.

We hope to see CuinbacK greeted with a large audience Wednesday evening, Sept. 26th.

Boys, if you want a girl to go to a dance go after her yourselves iusteud of sending her little brother after her. It looks more like business.

Furniture.Everything in the furniture line can be

bought cheap at Hall’s furniture store.

Miss Anna Jackson, who lias been out iu Colorado for the past year iu quest of health, returned this week, Her health has been greatly improved by her visit.

J. T. Bullard, W. W. Sears, M. l’ ilz- maurice, Johu Dorsey, Wni. Altman and Cyrus Giimore were delegates to the straight Democratic Convention held at Pontiac last Tuesday,

M. H. Hall returned from Cherokee, Iowa, last Saturday night. While out there he visited all the points of interest in the vicinity, among which were Sioux City, Pilot Rock, Little Sioux’s Bottom, and other places.

Jackson Brigham and son have openod a new butcher shop in the room south of Tuckermnn’s shop, and will be pleased to “ meat" all those who may choose to favor them with their patronage.

Dau Brigham went huuting Wednesday. When he returned we asked him what luck. He said he killed a “Considerable ” That kind of birds are very scarce in this coun­try Chris Cooper will stuff the curiosity.

A letter came to the Post office the other day addressed to the Superintcndant of the Chaisworih Gas Works, and the Colonel put it in Win Irwin’s box. Gas Works are much needed and we sincerely hope brother Irwin will start the factory again.

Wanted—By everyone who has au intel­ligent conception of its value, Health. Health depends upon the possession of pure blood; and pure blood is the sure posses­sion of those who use Dr. Bull’s Blood Mixture, acknowledged as a superior blood purifier

From Paxton.For several days it lias been rumored that

James Jackson an old citizen of Ford coun­ty, living about 8 miles north-west of Pax ton, was in serious trouble. The whole mat­ter culminated last Saturday when it he came known that he has been negotiating forged paper to a large amount. Parties interested met at his house that day, when he made a full confession and turned over most of his property to he applied on the 8purius notes. Now comes the strangest part of the whole proceeding While en­gaged iu this business Jackson suddenly grew faint and lost conciousness. Two physicians were summoned, but in spite of their efforts he died about five o’clock Sun­day morning. In less than twelve hours he was burled by hU family in the eometery here. It is generally believed that lie pois­oned himself, which belies is corroborated by the testimony of attending physicians. This affair has created intense exoitement. Jackson was a man over sixty years of age well known and respected. His finan­cial standing was good, and curiosity is alive to know why he acted in this incomprehen­sible manner. The forged names were those of his immediate neighbors, good responsible farmers. Earl, of this place, holds $000. Goodell, of Loda, $700; Fred­erick, late county clerk, $112, and others are coming in with anxious faces.

The Democratic C onvention at Pontiac, Tuesday, nomiuaied J, T. Bullard for Treasurer, and Jonathan Duff for Judge. A committee of three, of which W W.

| Sears is chairman, was appointed to confer with the Democrats of the northern part of

[ the county for the purpose of selecting the best men for the other offices.

, A man hailing from Sullivan Ceuterbear- ; ing the uncommon name of E. K. Brown, i attended the Fairbury Fair iast Thursday, j and represented himself to the managers J of the Fair as connected with the Plain- PEALER. The managers, after tak ing his measure, came to the conclusion that his story was too thin, and gave him the grand bounce from the judges stand. When last heard of he was resting his weary bones iu the Calaboose of Fairbury.

For Sale.I will sell my Store and house and four

lots for twenty-five hundred dollars, five hundred dollars cash, the balance can run four years at ten per cent interest. The lot is 104 feet west front by 200 feet south front and is bordered on the north by rail­road side track making a desirable place for lumber or coal yard.

The Store is 20x60 ft, two stories high, ami the house 16x24 ft, story and a half high, both well furnished throughout. There is a good well of water 26feet deep, stoned up and a large wooden cistern; Also a coal house 12x12, 8 feet high, and a shed 3(1x32 feet, 14 feet high

This is a most desirable property fo ra man who wants to live near hits business.

F. Felker

CHURCH AND SOCIETi DIRECTORY,C H U i i C H E S :

Catholic Church.—Services every two weeks.

Mass will he celebrated ou Sundays at 11 a. in. week days at 8 a. in. J Movnihau,

Pastor of St. Patricks Church.Baptist Church—Services every Sab­

bath Morning services at eleven o'clock, evening at 7. Sabbath school at 1 p. m. Rev. Mr Kenyon, Pastor

Evangelical German Church —Ser vices every iw’u weeks, Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. J Schafle, Pastor

M. E. Church.—Services every Sunday morning services at eleven o’clock, evening services at seven o’clock. Sabbath school at half past uiDe a m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening Rev Samuel Wood, Pastor.

P resbyterian Church.—Services every Sabbath both morning and evening at the usual hours Sabbath school at half past nine A M. Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings. Rev Mr. McAfee, pastor.

S O C I E T I E S .MASONS

Chatsworth Lodge. No. 639, A. F. & A. M.—Meets ou the first and third Friday evening of each month, over Shroyer & Taylor’s storeroom, at 7 p m AU visit­ing members arc invited to attend.

R. Rumbold, W. M.Wm. Gingerisch, Sec’y

O D I) F E L L O W S .Chatsworth Lodge, No 389, I O. O.

F .—Meets on Monday evening of each week, at 7 o'clock, over Wakeiin's store.

O Radinski, N. G.P. J. Gerhart, Sec’y.AU visiting members are cordially invit

ed to attend.L iv ingston Encampment, 123,1. O.O.

F —Meets at (lie above place on first and third Tuesday of each month. W .Ong,P. J. Gerhart, Scribe. C P.

Business Locals.

Go and see tliose new sole-leather trunks at Beach Bros’.

You can buy the best Imt for the least money at Beach Bros’.

Oysters ! Oysters!Fresh Ovsters at the old “Oyster

Depot,’’ two doors east of Ohats- wortli Bank. J. L. D elong.

Dr. Harters fever and ague Spe­cific is the remedy for chills and fever. Safe at all times under all conditions, and never fails to cut'e. For sale by E, A. Bangs <fc Co.

If you want anything in gents or boys clothing call at Wyman’s as he has just reooivi-d a fine assoitipent and good styles at exceedingly low prices.

Mrs. P. J. Gerhart went to Chi­cago this week for more millenery goods She now has as nice a stock of goods ns can he found in Central Illinois. Ladies give her a call be­fore purchasing elsewhere.

A No 1 safe for sale cheap, ply to Amos Roberts, tit Roberts Lantry’s.

Go to Will Hall’s for furniture of all kinds at prices to suit the times.

Take Notice.During August I will sell my

s ock consisting of hardware, pumps Ac., at cost. Call and see bargains.

F F e l k e r .

Use Bangs’ doulde extract lemonHalf barrels of white fish at brick

store for §4 "Jo.

Bangs’ King of Pain the best pain killer and liniment known.

15 pound Kitts white fish for $1.00 at Hull A Crane’s.

3 pounds young hyson or japan “T” for $100 a Brick Store.

Hall Crane sell clean new salt for $1.80 per hand.

Choice winter wheat Flour for $1.85 per stick at Hall A Crane’s.

For constipation and i: digestion use Bangs dandelion /'ills.

For a good square meal, step in to L- Mette's.

Use Bangs’ celebrated condition powders tor horses and cattle.

A first class two seated Democrat wagon for sale cheap. Apply to

J. 8. Doolittle.

Beach Bros, have just received a new ihvoiee of clothing which they will sell at low figures.

The place to get more Sugar, Cof­fee, Flour, Tea. or anything else in the grocery line glass or hardware line lor the dollar, is at Hall & Crane’s. If you emit believe it, try them. “ The proof of tli« pudding Ac.’’

A new line of Gents', Youth’s and Boy’s fine clothing for the fall trad at John Young’s.

Mules For Sale.A pair of five year old mules for

sale. Enquire of Hall A Crane.

Dr. T. II. Smith, of Bloomington, will be in Chatsworth ou Wednesday, Septem­ber, 26 and every alternate Wednesday thereafter. If you have teeth to fill, pre­pare to fill them now.

MONEY TO LOAN,On improved real-estate, in sums to suit borrowers at 9 per cent interest.

C. A. Wilson <Sr Co.

Loan Agency.Loans on Farm Lands procured

in sums of $50U and upwards.Apply to

SAMUEL T. FOSDICK,Chatsworth, 111.

How it is Hone.The first object in life with the

American people is to “get rich'*; the second, how to regain good health. The first can be obtained by energy, honesty and saving; the second, (good health) by using Green’s August Flower, Should you be a despondent sufferer from any of the effects of dyspepsia, liver complaint, indigestion Ac., such as sick headache, palpitation of the heart, sour stomach, habitual cos­tiveness, dizziness of the head, ner­vous prostration, low spirits Ac. you need not suffer another day. Two doses of August Flower will relieve you at once. Sample bottles 10 cts regular size 75 cts. For sale by E. A Bangs A Co.

Kate F Stillwell, his wife, did make, exe­cute and deliver, unta the undersigned as trustees, their certain deed of trust of said date, conveying thereby the premises there­in and hereinafter described for the pur­pose of securing said John Stillwell’s prom- isory notes for the sum of $88,887.08, ihir ty three thousand eight hundred and eighty- seven dollars and three cents, said notes bearing date July 1st, 1874, and countersigned by Nathaniel C. Kenyon, oue of the trustees, uud said notes being payable in oue, two, three, four and five years after date, without interest until due; And, whereas, default has been made in the payment of a part of said notes due July 1st, 1875, July 1st, 1876, and July 1st, 1877, to the amount of about $7,000, seven thousand dollars, uud ap­plication lias been made to us as such trustees by the legal holders of said notes to sell said premises in accordance with tiie provisions of sa>d deed of trust.

And whereas by the terms of said trust deed if there is default in the payment of any of said notes at the time they become due the whole amount secured by said deed shall immedihtely become due and payable, and by virtue of said default there is at the date of this notioe now due about the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars [$22,000 ]

Now, therefore, we, Robert Rumbold, Samuel 8 Puffer and Nathaniel C. Kea- yon, Trustees as aforesaid, hereby give no­tice that in pursuance of such application, and under the powers und for the purposes expressed iu said deed of trust, we will, on Monday, the fifteenth day of October, A.I) 1877, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the northeast door of the warehouse, situ­ated on the right of way of the Toledo, Pe­oria and Warsaw Railroad, in the Village of Chatsworth, Livingston County, Illi nois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the premises convey­ed by said deed of Trust, and all the right, title, benefit and equity of redemp lion of said John Stillwell, his wife, their < heirs and assigns therein, which said prem­ises are situated in the town of Chatsworth county of Livingston, and state of Illinois, and known and described as follows to-wit:Lot eight [8], in block twenty-one [21], of the original town of Chatsworth. Lot one[1] , in block two [2], of Boise & Wyman’s addition to the town of Chatsworth, lot two[2] , in block twenty-five [25], of original town of Chatsworth, the undivided one half of lots six [6] and seven [7], in block five [5], original town of Chatsworth. Also five acres off of the north part of the fol­lowing described tract of land to-wit, com­mencing at the north east corner of the southeast quarter of section four [4], of township twenty-six [26], north range eight [8], east or the third principal meridian, thence west one hundred feet, thence south four hundred and sixty [460] feet, thence wTest three hundred and seven [307] feet, thence south eight hundred and sixty [860J feet, thence east four hundred and seven [407J feet to the south east corner of said section, thence north eighty rods to the place of beginning. Also the grain ware­house and elevator with the fixtures, belt­ing and gearing situated on the right of way of the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Rail­way on the north side of the track and south of lot two [2] of block twenty-five [25] in said town of Chatsworth.

Dated, Sept., 7th, 1877.N. C. Kenyon. 1R . Rumbold. v Trustees.S. 3. Puffeh. >

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D R Y G O O D SHATS and CAPS,

BOOTS and SHOES,

PRESS GOODS,

PRINTS, Ac., Ac.

We have the largest and beststockof

GROCERIES!Ever brought to Chatsworth, which

We am selling extremely cheap. We make a specialty of all brands of

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Ap- Trustees’ Hale.Whereas, on the twenty-third day of

October, A D. 1874, John Stillwell and

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DIABOLICAL BARBARITIES.

Accounts ot Hussion unit Turkish Outrages lu Itulgariu.

Tlie Russian Government has sent to its Ambassadors abroad a dispatch say- tug:

“ Beside Several oases of Turkish bar­barities already published, our troops, tin oocupyiug the batteries in Soliipka pass, fouud there heaps of heads belong tug to Russian soldiers, whose mutilated bodies were found in the neighborhood, j Correspondents with the Russian army j say that in the early struggles in Sohip- ka pass not one Russian who fell in the place temporarily occupied by the j Turkish troops was found alive. From twenty to thirty of these unfortunate men had been decapitated, and several of the bodies were found with feet, hands, ears, noses and other parts cut off, and breasts slashed by yataghans. Heads had been carried into the Turk­ish camps, where they were found

the Russian troops after the occupation of the works.

“ The contraction of muscles and torsion of members showed that the horrible tortures of mutilation had been inflicted while the victims were alive. One body, decapitated and otherwise mu­tilated, had been extended on a litter where it hail been placed when wounded, and not far from it the bodies of two lit­ter-carriers, also decapitated, each of whom bore the badge of the red cross.”

The Turkish Minister of Affairs has addressed a dispatch to the Diplo­matic Agents of the Porte abroad, Bay­ing :

“ Every day brings to light a great number of Mussulman women and chil­dren belonging to the district of Kazan- lik who escaped the massacre. Two hundred and fifty Mussulman women and children were found barefooted and in a most deplorable condition. A num­ber of Mussulman women and children could not be recovered, having been massacred by Bulgarians. Twelve thou­sand Mussulman men, women, and chil­dren fell into the hands of the Russians and Bulgarians. Two thousand were rescued by the imperial troops. Meas­ures have been taken to deliver the rest, but news was received that every Mus­sulman who remained at Kazanlik had fallen a victim of the Bulgarians. The women and children were made prison­ers, and taken to the Balkans. ”

A Feat in mountain Climbing.Mr. Charles Wiener, who for the past

two years has been conducting a scien­tific expedition in South America, under direction of the French Government, claims to have succeeded in making the first ascension of Mount Illimani, in Bolivia, one of the few known lofty peaks on the surface of the earth left virgin of the foot of man. On the 10th of May, with two companions, he reached, as he believes, the top of the mountain, and ascertained the height of the southeastern peak to be 20,112 feet. He gave this peak the name of the Peak of Paris, which name has been recognized “ officially” (by the French Sooiefy, as we suppose), and deposited on the summit in a hermetically sealed tube a document recording his ascent and claim. Lieut. Gibbon, of the United Htates navy, many years ago, in the course of his very interesting journey, attempted to climb HlimEini from the side of La Pas. but retired after attain­ing a height of 13,000 feet. The highest peak of the South American Andes ever ascended by men of European race, be­fore this feat of Mr. Wiener is that of of Chimborazo, the summit of which was reached by Boussingault in 1831, when a height of 19,695 feet was ascer­tained by him.—New York World.

A Great French Gambler.Blanc, of Monaco, lias left 1,000,000

francs to the Church of St. Roch,300,000 francs to the poor of the first arrondissement, 500,000 franos to the infirm priests of the Maria Theresa Asy­lum and 100,000 francs to the chapel of the Roquette prison, where criminals under sentence of death hear mass for the last time. He had the virtue to con­fess that it was by God’B own mercy he never passed that place of worship. It was his intention, if he died in Paris, to have been attended by the Abbe Crozes, chaplain of La Roquette, who attends assassins to the scaffold, and gives them a parting embrace before M. de PariB and his aides strap them to the swivel- board of the guillotine. His fortune in Frnnoe and on the Riviera comes to88,000,000 francs. The legacy duty of bis Swiss estates amounts to something over 200,000 f’ ancs.

If Blanc had been the Duke of Wel­lington he could not have been buried with more solemn state.

Blanc’s four unmarried oluldren are the greatest catches, going iu the matri­monial market, and they are (fotprinijiad to marry into none bnttne noblest Bosses in Europe.—London TYuth.

A Historic Kiss.Thor© is a paragraph in the naval or­

ders of to-day which shows that the Sec­retary of the Navy is but a man, and is forgiving. The order is this: “ Mid­shipman Clarence A. Corbin is dotaohed from the Omaha, South Pacific station, and ordered to prooeed home and report his arrival.” Shortly after the ball given on board tbe Hartford, at Norfolk, to the Grand Duke Alexis, during his visit here last winter, a paragraph appeared in the society papers stating that, on the occasion of the ball given the Grand Duke Alexis tit Norfolk, a scene was o v casioned by a young naval offioer remind­ing his partner in the danoe, who has since

j r -------------------- -------------------- ;married, that upon a similar occasion, in j one of the ports of the Mediterranean, | he had kissed her, the kiss being a for­feit iu the game of “ walking arouud the caps tain. ” The prudes of society were shocked and reported the youug mao to the Admiral, who, in turn, reported him to the Secretary of the Navy, with the recommendation that he be sent to the South Pacific as a punishment. The rec­ommendation was adopted, and Midship­man Corbin was immediately seut to the Ossiopec ou the South Pacific station, where he has since remained in repent­ance of past misdemeanor.— Washington Cor. Chicago Tribune.

LOST LIFE.

Mormon Prophet.liviug stream

when

Burial of theUntil uearly uoou

poured through the Tabernacle the doors were closed. The total num­ber reached nearly 18,000 persons, who had taken a last glance. The most af­fecting scene witnessed was that of an Indian chief, who, arrayed iii a gorgeous blauket and feathers, burst into a vio­lent tit of grief as he looked upou the body. A large number of Indians and Chinese passed through the building. After the entry of the crowd had been cut off, the great family of Brigham Young, including nearly all his wives and children, filed around the coffin. His three venerable brothers wept as they viewed the familiar features, and the wives appoared prostrated with grief. Then the coffiu was taken from the me­tallic case, ami the features fully ex­posed, wheu John M. Young, Brigham Youug, Jr., Daniel H. Wells, the apos­tles, and general church authorities viewed the body. The coffiu was then fastened up, aud placed upon a cata­falque raised above the heads of the audi­ence. The ccffin was of plain rosewood, with silver handles, without inscription. George Q. Cannon read a paper prepared by Brigham four years ago, containing his wishes in ref­erence to the burial of his body, re­questing that it be placed iu u coffiu of good red-wood boards from two to three iuches larger around than neces­sary; that his body be laid on a cotton bed with his head on a pillow, dressed in the usual temple robes; the coffin to have the appearance that if he wanted to turn a little to the right or left lie could do so; the male members of the family Dot to wear crape or black mourning; the females uot to purchase mourning bonnets or dresses for the occasiou, but they might wear them if they hail them. If any of his friends desired to say a few words at the funeral ceremonies they might do so, but he desired no crying or mourning.

After singing an original hymn by C. W. Penrose and the performance of the “ Dead March in Saul,” the congrega­tion was dismissed by Apostle Orson Hyde, and the procession moved east, eight abreast on the sidewalk, protected from the crowd by ropes for the entire distance. At Eagle gate, adjoining the Prophet's residence, the cordage turned northwest through his grounds to j;he cemetery on the hill overlooking the valley.—Salt Lake Cor. Chicago Times.

Destructive Storms in Chili.Advices from South America report

that Valparaiso and Santiago have suf­fered from fearful rains and great inun­dations, with loss of life and property; other ports of the republic have also suffered from the unusually heavy rains. In Valparaiso the raiu fell heavily for thirty hours consecutively, more thau enough to produce a general iuundation, and convert the streets into navigable canals. According to the raiu gauge the total fall of rain during thirty-six hours was between five and six inches. The otherwise dry and sandy raviues were converted into veritable rivers, aud the rush of water was so terrific that the sewers were unable to withstand the pressure and burst in every direction. The water flowing through the streets found its way iuto the cellars and lower stories of the houses and warehouses, in­flicting incalculable damage aud loss on their iumates and owuers.

Many bridges have been injured and some nave been entirely destroyed. There have also been several landslips, and the loose earth finding its way iuto the sewers further impeded the passage of the water and materially assisted in forcing in out of its natural channels. Mauy houses were injured through the same cause, aud several were completely demolished, involving the death of thoir unfortunate inmates.

All communication was interrupted between Valparaiso and Santiago, as the line in many places was inundated and otherwise injured. Street traffic was al­so temporarily suspended. Iu Santiago and other parts of the country the raius have been equally severe, and of course the extent of the damage iu equal pro­portion.

The Lone Star State.Texas, which had 818,579 inhabitants

by the ceusuB of 1870, now claims to have 1,750,000, and that the census of 1880 will show at least 2,500,000. This increase is on a scale of magnitude un­precedented in the history of the coun­try. Illinois lias hitherto borne the palm, advancing in twenty years (1850 to 187C) from a population of 851,470 to 2,539,- 891, but Texas proposes to do as much as that in half the time; and, even if the Texas claim be somewhat magnified just now, it is certain that a groat tide of migration is moving thithorward from

not only the Southern but the Eastern and Western States, our own Hlinois colonies being no inconsiderable portion of the whole. —Springfield (III.) Jour­nal.

Tjik latest in the amusement line, aud one very popular amoug tho Vermont farmers, is the “ corn roast.” Thef;etter-up invites liis friends, builds a ar^e fire in the yard or field, arouud

which ali gather and proceed to roast green oorn on sharpened sticks. Songs, stories and jokes are sandwiched in until weariness drives them into the house.

Meinoir » ( • Man Who Died at 71, Yet or Lived at All.

A few Mteeks ago there was fouud dead iu hiB hoq^e at Dijon, France, Paul Le- grand, a man of 71, and a well-known character of the city. Evidences of sui­cide, iu the presence of a half-emptied laudanum bottle, aud a tumbler with the dregs of a dose of poison iu the bottom, wore at hand, and ou the table beside them was tne following most curious memoir—a memoir winch will take its place iu the collection of literary curiosi­ties of the century, and by which the author seems to have proved, very con­clusively for himself, at least, that, dv- iug at the age of 71, he had uot really lived at all:

“ All suffering, pain, ennui, despair, sorrow, desire and regret should be taken from our lives,” he writes, aud then pro­ceeds to deduot those experiences from his own score of years, and to foot up the loss.

Tho whole memoir may perhaps be explained by oue of the opening clauses:

“ At tho age of 3 years I was weaned,” it says. “ At 6 I spoke, but badly; at 7 years I cracked i*y skull, aud at 9 was cured. I therefore deduct these nine years from my existence—for it cannot be called life to drink the sour milk of the nurse, to speak incoherently, to crack one’s skull.

“ At 9 years I began my studies ; but having a hard head, in consequence of my cracked skull, I was slow of in­struction. At the end of two years I kuew my alphabet, but at what cost! The letter Z alone cost me 1,400 blows with a ruler, and the twenty-three others martyred me. At 12 years I could read, it was true, but my body was wealed with those alphabetical scars.

“ Theynow endeavored to teach me Latin, and I forgot my French. At 15 years I kuew absolutely nothing at all, and iu consequence of a bread-and-watcr diet was a mere skeleton. I therefore deduct, for my school-days, six years more from my miserable life.

“ At 15 my father apprenticed me as clerk to a notary. Now commenced a new species of martyrdom. I rose at 6, swept the office, built the fire, and was kicked by the head clerks, while my father, in consequence of the complaints made agaiust me, deprived me of my dinner. The five years I spent this way I deduct oft’ what is left of my life.

“ At 20 years my father, disgusted with me, shipped me ou a vessel at Cherbourg. I washed the forecastle, coiled the cables, climbed the masts, reefed the sails, and received at least thirty blows on the back with a marliu- spike each day. This lasted for four years, and at the eud I had no back left at all.

“ At 24 years my father made me a mercer, aud married me to the daughter of a turner. On the night of the wed­ding I discovered that my wife had a wooden leg, manufactured by her father. The poor woman made me a thousand excuses, and I pardoned her iu cousid- eratiou of her dowry of 30,000 fraucs, in­vested iu a mortgage on a Guadaloupe sugar plantation. But soon the negroes of Guadaloupe revolted and burned my dowry. Nothing was left me but the wooden leg.

“ At 30 years I lost my wife ot a tu­mor ou her good leg. I had passed the six years of my married life repeating every minute, ‘ What a fool I was to take that wooden leg !’ I therefore de­duct these six years from life.

“ Having, like all the world, spent a third of my life in sleep, I deduct twenty- four years more, which is less thau a just estimate, as I am a great sleeper.

“ Oue year more I lost, minute for minute, in hunting for the key of my secretary, which I always mislaid. Three years vanished by my making such re­marks as ‘ What time is it ?’ ‘ I t is bad weather to-day,’ ‘I ’m tired,’ ‘ Mou Deau ! Mon Dieu !’ etc., etc. Six mouths spent iu blacking my boots, and six in brush­ing my hat. One year lost in the Ins- tween acts at the theater. Another in listening to new plays. year againin complaining of soups with too much salt iu them, of overdone cutlets, indi- gestious, and hard eggs. Total, then, seventy-one years.

“ I thiuk, then, that in rendering up my life to God, I am not making him a present of anything of much account.”

Gen. Lew Wallace aud Indian Warfare.Gen. Lew Wallace, the Indiana sol­

dier and novelist, has made a proposi­tion to the War Department to allow him to enlist a regiment or battalion of front­iersmen for permanent service in the United States army. He contends that the regular army is a failure as far as Indian fighting is concerned ; that the Custer massacre was but a repetition of Braddock’s defeat at Pittsburgh 1005mars before, and worse as far as the oss of life was concerned. He accounts

for the inefficiency of the army iu Indian warfare by pointing out the necessity of loading men down with supplies, while the Indians ‘‘ travel so light. ” He wants to raise a regiment of men to be mount­ed on Indian ponies, who can ride, aud shoot, and subsist as the Indians do. He wants every man in the regiment to be familiar with the Indian mode of war­fare, so they can cope with them ou even terms. The Secretary of War thinks, and so replied to Gen. Wallace, that such a regiment as he describes would be very serviceable, but he does not con­sider himself possessed of the authority to order its enlistment. Moreover, he thinkB that the regular army, as far as its numbers go, is as efficient as any force can be. I t is true they could travel faster if they went each ou his own ac­count, without regard to discipline, as the Indians do, and supply trains are always a drawback. Gen. Crook’s cam­paign in 1875 and 1876 with pack mules was as successful as any oould have been, because he was numerically Btrong enough to follow np his advantages as fast as he gained them, while Gen. How-

ard has only a handful of men, mostly infantry, and has had to stop several times for reinforcements and supplies.

Our Population.Already people are beginning to spec­

ulate os to what the population of the United States will be iu 1880. The gen­eral estimate ranges between 45,000,000 and 47,000,000. Twelve States have taken their census in 1875. Michigan took one in 1874, aud Missouri and Ne­braska in 1876. The following table ex­hibits the figures of population by these enumerations compared with the late United States census in 1870. The right- hand column shows the percentage of increase in the population of each State:

State*. C .S . Cfel- su s , 1870.

S ta teCennueea. laereane 7Si-

Ct.

IOWH.......................... 1,194,0*) 1,350,544 156,642 13K an aa a ..................... 364,399 528,437 164,038 45L o u is ia n a ............... 726,915 867,039 130,124 13ManattohiUH-ttH . . . . 1,457,351 1,651,912 194,561 13M ic h ig a n ................. 1,184,059 1,334,031 149,972 13M in n e so ta .............. 439,766 597,407 167,701 36M is so u r i .................. 1,721,295 2,085,537 364.242 21N e b ra s k a ................ 122,933 267,717 134,7 109N e v a d a ..................... 42,491 10,049 24N ew J e r e c t ............. 900.096 1,019,413 113,317 13N ew Y o rk ............... 4,382,759 4,705,208 32-2,449 7O re g o n ..................... 90,923 104,920 13,997 15U iiode In la n d ........ 217,353 258,239 40,880 19S o u th C a ro lin a .. . 706,606 823,447 117,841 17W isc o n s in ............... 1,054,67' 1,233,599 181,929 17

T o ta l ................. 14,610,636 16,863,020 2,262,384

This rate of increase (about 151 per cent.) would not hold good in the other States, for if the same average percent­age of increase were applied to all the States it would give us a population of 44,564,881 for the year 1874, as against 38,567,617 in 1870, and would carry the population above 50,000,000 in 1880, whiob is hardly possible in view of the fact that emigration lias fallen off to a half or third of what it was previous to 1874. The State which will exhibit the greatest gain at the next census will probably be Texas. The enormous size of the State, and the quantity cf its fer­tile land, have attracted vast swarms of immigrants. We should not be greatly surprised if Texas reaches fully 2,000,- 000 of souls in 1880, making her the Em ­pire State of the South, as she will eventually be of the Union if not divid­ed into at least three States.—Chicago Tribune.

A Brave-Hearted Mother.Yesterday afternoon there arrived iu

this city Mrs. Helena Scranton and five children, the eldest not being yet 14 years old, who have made a very inter­esting journey within the past month.

Mrs. Scranton, with her husband and cLildren, resided on a farm in Manitoba, 130 miles north of the boundary line. Early in July her huBbaml was taken sick, and after a brief illness died, leav­ing his wife aud family and unharvested crops to get along as best she might without money. To pay the expenses of the funeral, Mrs. Scranton secured an advance on the growing crops, and, when she had paid the laBt tribute to her dead husband, had nearly $90 in cash.

With this sum she procured a few necessaries, aud, selecting a camp outfit from her household furniture, set out with her children tq traverse 200 miles of wilderness, hoping with what money she hail left to buy passage by way of the Northern Pacific railway and great lakes for herself and children to Youngs­town, Ky.

The little party were eighteen days on foot, camping out at night, aud subsist­ing almost wholly on berries and tbeEroduct of the boy’s—-the eldest child—

unting forages. Occasionally they re­ceived assistance from Bettlers, and, meeting a large stage-load oi passengers on their way north, received a paper sack filled with crackers and a purse of $8 cash. They reached the railroad in good health, and, receiving reduced rates of fare by rail and steamer, arrived here with $38 in hand and in excellent spirits.

Wheu it is realized that the youngest child is not yet 3 years old, and that an­other child is just turned 5 years, the success of the long tramp will be appre­ciated. Mrs. Scranton left last evening for Kentucky, by way of Indianapolis, and hopes to reach her father’s home Sunday morning with a little money left. —Detroit Free Press.

Glue as a Cure for Cuts.A correspondent of the Scientific

American writes as follows: “ For the past twelve or fourteen years I have been employed in a shop where there are over 300 at work, and, as is the case in ali shops of this kind, hardly a day passes without one or more of us cut or bruise our limbs. At first there were but few who found their way to my department to have their wounds bound up, but after a while it became generally known that a rag glued on a flesh-wound was not only a speedy curative, bnt an effectual pro­tection again«t further injury. I was soon Obliged to keep a supply of rags on hand, to be ready for any emergency. I will here cite one among the many cases cured by glue: A man was running a boring-machine, with an inch and a quarter angur attached. By some means tho sleeve of his shirt caught in the augur, bringing hiB wrist in contact with the bit, tearing the flesh among the muscles in a frightful manner. He was conducted to my department (the pat­tern shop), and I washed the wound in warm water, and glned around it a cloth, which, when dry, shrunk into a rounded shape, holding the wound tight and firm. Onoe or twice a week, for three or four weeks, I drossod the wound afrejh, and it was well. The man never lost an hour’s time in consequence. The trnth of this hundrwls can testify to. I use, of course, the best quality of glue. ”

A c o m p a r a t i v e summary of the Pres­byterian Church in tho United States for the last six years has been published by the Rev. Dr. Hatfield, Stated Clerk of tho General Assembly. The compari­son shows the following: Synods, iu 1872, 35; in 1877, 37; Presbyteries, iu 1872, 166; in 1877, 175; ministers, in 1872, 4,441; in 1877, 4,801; churohes, in

1872, 4,730; in 1877, 5,i&3: communi­cants, in 1872, 468,164; in 18f7, 557,764; contributions for congregational pur­poses in 1872, $5,012,907; in 187T, $6,273,218. The total of contributions for all purposes in 1872 was $100,86,- 526; in 1877, $8,296,361.

BATTLE OF THE LOM.Purloin and Invincible Valor of the l a ­

in* t leal Mohammedans.[W ar Cor. New York H erald.]

Your correspondent has just witnessed a victorious engagement for the Turkish arms from the heights opposite Popkoi, on the river Lorn. The battle com­menced iu the morning with a forward movement of the Turkish divisions o Medjid Pasha, who commanded the Turkish right, and Fuad Pasha and Sabid Pasha, whose divisions formed the center and left. The advance by the forces under Medjid was made in gallant style, the men taking open order and skirmishing as they neared the Russian position. The advance was well covered by the guns of the Turks, who took ad­vantage of the frequent elevations of the country to rush their batteries forward to points where they oould not only ma­terially help tho infantry but make hot work for the Russian batteries on the heights beyomL On both sides the ar­tillery practice was excellent. Medjid and his men pushed their way to the vil­lage of Karaliaesiuikoi, where the signal to charge was given, and with a rush they were over the Russian intrenchments on the hill. The slaughter was terrible on the Turkish side during this part of the en­gagement, but the men stood it nobly. The’Russians, who at first met the in­coming rush of the Turks with great bravery, were sooh forced to yield. They were driven precipitately down the heights commanding the valley of the Lom with great loss. Meanwhile Sabid Pasha attacked the Oascliilsler, a lofty hill crowned by a tliree-gun Russian battery. I t required a very brilliant dash to carry this difficult position, but it was successfully accomplished, the gnus silenced and captured, and the Russians killed or driven back in head­long haste. The attack, indeed, had been successful at all points and the troops shouted “ Allah!” “ Allah!” with a fiery enthusiasm that told of their elation. A general advance was now or­dered, and in a short time the bridge over the Lom was reached, aud the Turks crossed unopposed to the left bank. The villages on that side which were held by the Russians were soon captured and were shortly after seen to be in flames. The Russians now evacu­ated Popkoi. As might be expected, this victory has created the wildest enthusiasm throughout the whole army. *

Mrs. R. B. Hayes.The pleasant impression which Mrs.

Hayes makes on all who meet her con­tinues to grow stronger the more the public grows acquainted with her. A recent visitor to the Soldiers’ Home, Mrs. Hayes’ summer residence, says of her that she is a thoroughly charming woman in every respect. “ In personal appearance she is most prepossessing. Her eyes are large, dark, and very bright aud expressive, and they light up her face delightfully. Her mouth is large but handsome, with admirable teeth, and it is very mobile and sympathetic. Her dress on this occasion was a hand­some and heavy black silk, open at the neck, and with a mass of white niching about the throat, setting off her dark hair and eyes and complexion admirably. Her maimers are perfectly easy and sim­ple—in short, those of a thorough wom­an of the world (in its best sense); and in her intercourse with every one who meets her there is suoh perfect courtesy and cordiality as would set at ease in­stantly the most awkward and embar­rassed visitor to the Presidenti 1 man­sion. Altogether, it is a long time since any one has occupied the White House so excellently well fitted to administer its hospitality as Mrs. Hayes.”— New York Tribune.

Lying in Saratoga.We’ve got a fashionable yonng man in

Saratoga whom we call the truthful man.

The other day he told some young ladies that he composed the “ Nightin­gale Polka”—the original one—and that he is soon to issue two more bird polkas as good as the Nightingale.

“ Oh, do tell us the names of them !” gushed the young ladies.

“ The Canary Bird aud the Bob-o’-link Polkas,” he said.

“ How do yon write this bird music, Mr. SimmonB?” asked all of tbe yonng ladies at onoe.

“ Oh, I take the oanarieB and bob-o’- links, pack ’em in salt and ice, and put them in a refrigerator. Then when they sing the notes come ont in a solid form —frozen stiff. Then all I have to do is to pick ’em up, make a wax impression, and from this impression cast the notes in zinc, and the printers then set them up like typo. Oh. I don’t mind every­body’s knowing tho secret!”—Saratoga Cor. New York Sun.

Her Watering-Place Home.I t is a strange tiling to see a city chap

at a oountry party ; but he was there, and in his conversation with one of tho prettiest lasses ventured to inquire :

“ Were yon ever at a watering-place ?”“ Oh, yes,” replied she, “ I live right

at one. ”“ Indeed !” exclaimod he, growing in­

terested, “ where might it be ?”“ Oh, just ont here a little way,” was

her innooent reply. “ My father keeps tho railroad tank !’’

The city chap, wondering whether she was in earnest or making fnn of him, there dropped the subject.—Chicago Journal.

A Minnhatolib boy had his thumb cut off with a buzz-saw and tho local pa­per heads the aooount: “ The insatiate buzz-saw returns to its ghoul-like feast of human gore.”

THE LITTLE FOLKft.The Adventures o f MJtttades F e t e r k l u F a u J .L ittle M il tie d e« t o t e r k iu P a u l,d o in g d o w n to th e yoetoffioe o n e day in fe ll,Am h e lo ite re d eioaR th e ro * d , ch a n c e d to M py A tree th ic k w ith f r u i t l a a n o rc h a rd oloee by.“ O h o !” be c r ie d g le e fu lly , •* F ee I— F o l —FI 1—

K um !T h o se a re n ice -lo o k in g ru s s e ts — 1 g u e ss I ’il h » \e

to m e .1 c a n 't s ta n d b y a n d see good f ru i t h a n g th e r e an d

ro t.1 rea lly c a n ’t do It— indeed I can n o t !"

So lit t le M lltlad es 1‘e te rh in P au l,H av in g looked all a ro u n d , lest p e rc h a n c e L ucie Sol (T h a t w as w hat p eo p le c a lled M r. S o lo m o n Sly, W hose o r c h a rd i t w as) sh o u ld be w a tch in g n e a r by, H e g o t o v e r th e Wall a n d c lim b ed In to th e t r e e — lO, ih e r e n e v e r uhis su c h a s m a r t c lim b e r as he 1) A nd p re se n tly fo u n d h im se lf h ig h in th e tre e -to p . W ith m o re a p p le s a b o u t h im th a n te n m e n cou ld

ea t Up.

T h e n h e b ra c e d h im se lf f irm ly an d ta s te d a few ; A nd f in d in g th e m q u i te to h is ta s te se t to .D ev o u rin g o n e a f te r a n o th e r u n tilI n a very s h o r t tim e h e h a d ea te n h is til!.A nd he b re a th e d a m o s t h e a r t - r e n d in g sig h as be

ceused,“ Ah 1 th e y say th a t e n o u g h is a s good as a f e a s t .” M u rm u re d l i t t le M tlil& des P e te rk in P au l “ B u t I c a n 't e a t enough . I ’m so d te a d fu l ly sm a ll.

“ I ’m d e te rm in e d , h o w ev er, I w on t leave th e m a il ," C o n tin u e d M iltiad ea P e to rk in P au l.“ I h a v e se v e ra l b ig p o ck e ts , I ’ll j u s t fill th e m , to o — I t w o n 't d o a n y h a rm Ju s t to lay in a fe w ,”W hich w as n o Booner th o u g h t o f, be s u re , t lia u tw a s

d o n e .H e s tu f fe d a ll Ills p o c k e ts q u ite fu ll, ev e ry o n e .T h e n he c a u tio u s ly tu r n e d h im a b o u t o n th e lim b , T o c raw l b ack —w h e n a f r ig h t f u l th in g h a p p e n e d to

h im .

A las, p o o r M iltiad ea P e te rk in P a u l 1 T h e re cam e a g re a t c ra s h —th e n he fe l t h im se lf fa ll D ow n— d o w n , w ith a r u s h a n d a b u m p ; a n d I fe a r T h a t h is life a n d a d v e n tu re s h a d e n d e d r ig h t h e re , B u t th a t , lu ck y f o r h im ! h is g ra y c o rd u ro y ja c k e t (W h ich w as q u ite n ew a n d s to u t) Irak so b ig in th e

O atig h t f a s t o n 1th e en<5 o f i lh n b ; a n d lo f th e reY o u n g M lltlad es h e lp le ss ly h u n g in m id a ir .

T h e n l it t le M iltiad ea P e te rk in P au l,A lm ost f r ig h te n e d to d e a th , beg an s tra ig h tw a y to

baw lA t th e to p o f h is voice : “ 0 , d e a r ! H e lp 1 Oo-oo-

o o !I c a n t g e t u p o r d o w n 1 O, d e a r ! W h a t sh a ll I

d o ! ”A nd h is c r ie s , b e in g h e a rd in th e n e ig h b o r in g lo t,Q uick ly b r o u g h t M r. S o lo m o n Sly to th e sp o t,W ho. p e rc e iv in g o u r h e ro , sa id g r im ly : “ H o ! ho !W h a t’s th e m e a n in g of all th is . I 'd ju s t like to

know ?

“ T h a t 's a q o e e r s o r t o f f r u i t fo r m y tre e s to be b e a r in g 1

O h .' i t 's yo u , s ir . I t r u s t y o u w ill g e t a goo d a in u g .What is that th a t y o u say ? H elp y o u ? H u m p 1

W ell, now , rea lly ,I sh o u ld Bay y o u 'd b een h e lp in y y o u r s e l f p re t ty

f re e ly .1 a m s o r ry I c a n ’t s to p to len d m y a s s is ta n c e ;B u t th e f a c t Is, e 'e r n ig h t I m o s t tra v e l Borne d is­

ta n c e .J u s t h a v e p a tie n c e , a n d m a y b e y o u 'll g e t r ip e an d

fa ll.M y d e a r y o u n g M iltiad ea P e te rk in P a u l."— Wide A w ake f o r S ep tem b er .

A Great Woman.

Many of the readers of the Wide Awake have doubtless seen Tom Thumb and his little wife and friends. Not so many of them, perhaps, have seen per­sons who are as much larger than aver­age human beings as Tom Thumb is smaller. Shall I tell them about a woman of unusual stature, who once lived in the State of Maine? She may be living at this time, for it was not many years ago that I saw her, and she was then not middle-aged; and, as she wap somewhat sensitive regarding her remarkable size, perhaps it would be as well not to give her real name, but simply call her Sylvia, Bince she was bom and brought up iu the country.

When I saw Sylvia she was probably not more than 35 years old. She must have been then nearly seven feet tall, and was said to have grown a little within a year or two before. My young friends will better realize what it is to be nearly seven feet high when I tell them thut when Sylvia sat in a high-backed rocking-chair, in which if a tall man sat his head would just reach to the top of the back, you could go behind her and put your fingers across the top and under her arm ; or she could easily sit in it, with her elbow resting on the back, and her hand supporting her cheek, as other people lean an elbow on the arm of the clp'ir on which they sit.

Yet Sylvia had been a very little baby —even smaller than usual. She was one of twins, and they were both so very small that in the night, when the babies were in bed with their papa, who was not at all a large man, he turned over in his sleep and crushed one of the poor babies to death without knowing it.

But either he was so shocked at what he had done that he was more careful in future, or the mother took the precau­tion to save her other baby by putting it to sleep out of his reach ; for Sylvia, the small twin that was left, managed to get through her babyhood without being mashed by her papa. She was always small of her age, and a delicate little thing, and did not begin to take on un­usual proportions until she was as old as other girls are when they cease grow­ing. Instead of stopping when she was 17 or 18 years old, as most girls do, she simply kept on growing and growing, for ten or a dozen years longer, just as fast as children grow. She was never fat or plump, but had the rather meager habit which children have who grow rapidly.

When she was 22 or 28 years old she fell on the icy door-step and broke her arm. The doctor who set it was aston­ished to find that the bones were yet soft like a little child’s, instead of firm and hard, like a grown person’s; and this softness of the bones seemed to continue until she stopped growing.

Sylvia’s parents were poor people, and by the time she was a woman they were growing old, and she was obliged to do something for their support as well ns her own. She could not work any faster, or earn any more because of her superior size ; iu fact, i t ' is not strange if she did not feel b o strong and well as other girls, since so much of her force Avent toward growing. She used to go out an.ong tho villagers and towns­people and nurse sick neople and thke care of little young babies ; she. was a very careful and tender nurse, and 1 have heard it said that When ahe wr.s holding a little baby, instead of tnkipg it on her arm,, ns roost of us do. she laid it on oue of her hands toward her finger-ends, feet along her wrist, and warm, loving hand, ns in

with its hefid and its little

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the little creature would go comfortably to sleep without a thought of how ex­ceedingly funny it was, to be thus liter­ally held in the hollow of one’s hand.

Everybody loved Sylvia, not because she was a great woman, but because she was always kind, and gentle, and helpful; aud even the rude boys in the street, who were sometimes tempted to shout and jeer at her, because it was so droll to see a woman so much larger than any man iu town, were generally polite to her; partly because they knew how easily slie oonldSlick them up and toss them over the euce if she chose, and partly, perhaps,

because most of them remembered how kind and patient she had been when some of their friends were sick, or when their mothers needed help.

Once Sylvia went to help a farmer’s wife who had more work on her hands than she could do alone. Sylvia was not only handy and faithful, but she was by this time unusually strong and capable of do­ing hard work. One evening she had been Straining the milk into big pans in the kitchen—they used big, heavy, brown, earthen pans, not often seen in cities—and she started to carry them down cellar. So she took up a pan, holding nine or ten, perhaps twelve, qnarts of new milk, and went toward the oellar door.

Now this was an old-fashioned kitchen, and hod in theoeiling overheat! a row of hooks which were made to hold long poles for the purpose of drying apples, pumpkins, and other things. Ordi­nary people were obliged to stand in chairs in order to reach these poles, and the drying apples were quite out of the way above people’s heads. But Sylvia was not an ordinary woman ; and as there were at this time no poles in the hooks she forgot about them, and as she passed too close to one it caught in her hair aud held her fast. The poor woman could not raise her hand to her head to free herself, because both hands were steadying the great pan, swim­ming-full of milk ; she could not even move her head back and forward to try and unhitch it, because such shaking would spill the milk on the nice, white kitchen-floor which she had jnstsooured : and there was no one but herself in the house at the time, as the farmer was in the barn-yard with his cattle, and his wife had stepped into a neighbor’s house.

So poor Sylvia could do nothing but stand and wait, and occasionally give a faint call for help ; for surely no one could shout very loud, with her head caught up .by the hair, aud her whole attentiou engaged in holding without spilling a heavy pan of milk. More than half an hour passed before poor Sylvia was liberated from her painful predicament; and even when the farmer, coming in for nnother milk pail, dis­covered her sad plight, he laughed so immoderately at the aiTaix that it took him a long time to free her. In fact, it was said that he did not know what to do first, arid actually went to the neigh­bor’s to call hiB wife, without thinking to relieve poor Sylvia first, by taking the pan from her aching hands.

By and by Mr. Barnum, the showman, heard iu some way of Sylvia, and he at once sent an agent to see her, aud try to hire her to come to his museum ih Bos­ton as a curiosity. Now poor Sylvia was just as averse to beiug stared at as you or I would be; she could not bear to be set up for a show and have all man­ner of people looking at her and making remarks about her broad shoulders and her large hands, so at first she refused.

But her parents were getting old, and she could not obtain by her poorly-paid labor many little comforts which she knew they needed; and, moreover, she had greater expenses than most country women, since it took so mnny yards of cloth to make her garments'. All her friends and acquaintances joint d in tell­ing her that it was really her duty to ac­cept Mr. Bamum’s offer, which was a great deal more money than Sylvia had ever earned or seen in her life; and so, finally, after many tears, she decided togo-

Of course Sylvia could never buy any­thing ready made, as she could never find any garments large enough. All her “ things,” excepting shawls and handkerchiefs, had to be made on pur­pose for her, shoes, stockings, and all. She had always been obliged to wear knitted gloves or go bare-handed ; but when she was going to Boston for the first time in her life she thought she ought to have a pair of kid gloves. She searched iu all the stores aud seut all over the country, hoping to find a pair of men’s gloves which she could wear ; but none large enough could be found, either of kid, silk or cotton, and poor Sylvia was obliged to go to Boston with a pair of home-maUe gloves.

Mr. Barnum treated Sylvia very kind­ly, but he made tjie most of her size, wishing her to wear high head-dresses and high-heeled boots, which added greatly to her gigantic appearance, and, in consequence, she looked n great deal larger in Boston than she ever hfid looked in Mnine. She was a good woman, and she was undeniably a great woman.— Wide Awake, for Sep­tember.

Gruiily's fu n era l.

Grunty was dead ; the children were quite sure of that, so they thought lie must have a funeral.

“ And we’fe going to dig the grave very deep, Aunt Jennie,” said Lillie, her brown eyes dancing with fun, “ and we want you to eoiqe to the funeral. We arc going to bury him with honors.”

“ Well, I ’ll be there, Lillie. Need I- hring an extra pocket-handkerchief?”

“ Oh no, indeed," said Lillie, “ only bring a pocket full of rooks.”

“ A (pocket full of rocks ? What do you mean, child ?” T asked in surprise.

“ Oh,” said Lillie, coolly, “ you’ll find out when you get there. I t 19 to be atp2 o’clock, mind, aunty dear, just nfb r din­ner. ”

W h e n I g o t t o t h e “ f n n r i l . ” a s l i t t l e

TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD.H h u sr lu b ls Case of Its Successful Opera­

tion.(F ro m H it N tw Y ork T im es .]

The substance of the tostiuvop J given

Ned called i t the children stood beside m irregular hole in the ground, about a foot deep. It was in the middle of the garden, because the earth was soft and easily dug there. Ou the ground lay the fire-shovel, an iron spoon, the long- ^handled skimmer (very much bent) and i t f ul7 r Robert Williams, wTuSSe ^ e a lh ! tkiverul clam-Bhellfl. It had taken all occurred in June, consequent upon the these to dig Grunty s grave. loss oi four ounces of blood during

“ Now- Annt Jeu,me. said Live as 1 tniU8fu8ioI1 will be rt.iulj,v rtHm]led, an QHiue up, y-yiug to l o ^ proper) y solemn, lUW0Uut of '" you are to beat Grunty out of us. ’

“ Out of all of you? Perhaps

the'unpleasant effluvia. Whe& this was made known the sufferer f O m honr- age, and, as he slowly realised what im­agination had done, he rallied and was soon oil a favorable roach*© the best of

toy medical experts at th^^j^|iktijt ^ j health’again.— Reathnp )\fiu</i*:

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

N ew York city owes $132,(XX),000.

'.printed uvh*vou M<.nr o l i

mean Grunty and his family, for if Wbl irffKia is dead he cannot go hopping aboni down the throats of first one and then

fairy, Auut Jennie,another. ”

“ O, but he’s a said Bun me.

“ Yes, he divides hiin.-elf up into as !many piece, or persons as there areehil- j t r u n n i o n , if the slightest c ^ reaches dren, explained Lillie, “ and then hops! the ft reivers v. in, or if a particle of air down every single child s throat, aud^j enters the opened vein o f either p

instaat deiUU,icsni's. AcXXndingL,

testimony was to the effect that the operation of transfusion is an exceeding­ly hazardous one, and that it should be resorted to only in extreme cases. There are a number of risks involved in it. If the blood becomes chilled dluring

sometimes he hollers aud sometimes yells and cries, and O, just everything."

“ iljut ito.you kigjy lie is dead?”| I ‘ > '

‘tO, We choked him to deatM” saidLee.

I killed him wid candy,” said Bun-nie.

“ Well, children,” said I, “ if you are quite sure this old wicked fairy is dead, I ’ll chuck him out the best I can.”

I then began ou Lillie, who was the oldest, and who I knew would not cry. She stood over Grunty’B grave, and held her mouth wide open. I beat her on thb back till she choked.

“ There,” said she, “ Grunty’s out of me.”

Then it was Lee’s turn, and then Ban- nie’s, and, last of all, dear little Ned’B, who got a very small beating indeed.

“ Now,” said Lee, with a sigh of re­lief, “ old Grunty is dead a.' d in his grave, and we’ll cover him up. Where’s your rocks. Aunt Jennie ?”

“ {There! I forgot nil abont them, said I, “ but I ’ll get a few brick-bats across the garden. Will that do ?”

“ Oh, yes, very well,” they all said. Then we all went to work, pitching in

stones, and brick-bats, and dirt, till we had quite a monument raised over old Grunty, who had disturbed us all so much. Then we went back to the house and I painted on a little board these words, for an epitaph:

H e re L ie sGbunt Grumble Growl,

K il le d by fo u r l i t t l e c h ild re n , to d e liv e r th e c h ild re n o f th e w o r ld f ro m h is

c ru e l o p p re ss io n .— youth’s Companion.

Cruel Murder by Convicts.A horrible tragedy occurred at the

State’s prison at Wethersfield about 1 o’clock this .momiDg, which resulted in the death of Wells Shipman, the night watchman. Last evening at 6 o’clock when the prisoners were put into their cells Henry Hamlin and William Allen weut into their quarters ou the third tier with the rest, of the prisoners, and every­thing was apparently all right, but after the ceil doors wore locked Hamlin, who lmd a false key, opened the door and managed to make his way unseen to the upper tier of cells, secreting himself be­tween the ccIIb and the ceiling which forms the floor oi the prison garret. At 8 o’clock, when the watchmen made their List tour through the prison before lock­ing the Blide bars, they found the count of the prisoners all right, for Hamlin had fixed iu his cell with his shirt and the straw from his bed a dummy which had the appearance of a man asleep in bed, so that everything appeared all right.After the cells hiul been finally locked and the watchmen had retired to their quarters Hamlin came down from his roost, unlocked both slide bars and the door to Allen’s cell and let his partner out into the priBOu. The two then started for the roof of the cells iu order to make their escape. Their movements were heard by Shipman, the watchnnui, who fired two shots at them. These shots brought the prison-breakers to the ground floor, when they caught Mr.Shipman, gagged him. and fastened his hands behind his back with a pair of handcuffs that they had secured, proba­bly from some friend outside of the prison or some overseer of the work­shop. Shipman managed to work thegag out of his mouth and called for help. LjWfcn& disease is ’ no longer trouble- Hamlin then went to him and told him to keep still or he would fire, he having secured Mr. Shipman’s revolver at tho time he gagged him. Shipman again cried out, and Hamlin placed ttye re­volver at the breast of the prostrate watchman and fired. The firing of these shots aroused the people iu the prison, who immediately gave the alarm, and iu n few moments the prison was surround­ed by the prison guard and the citizens of Wethersfield, all armed to the teeth.After killing the watchman Hamlin and Ms partner went to the top tier of cells, and by the nse of nn iron bar broko a hole through the thin ceiling and got into the prison garret, and from there' into a cupola ou top of the warden’s quarters. Here they remained until dayfcraak, the guard firing two Or three times at the convicts, but failing to hit them. At daybreak the prisoners, find­ing that escape would be impossible, surrendered themselves to tin* guard/The probabilities are tiiat Hamlin will be bung, as the murder was one of tie most atrocious ones in the State siuce tho killing of Warden Willard by Wilson.

I — Weih^rsfiM i f 7.) Cor. < 'isitmffo: ^ ' <*<

Self-Supporting Indians. 1 CjThe Commissioner of Indian Affairs’

has received a letter from the ^Vgent oi* tin* Omaha Indians, in Nebraska, in

, which lie estimate s the crops which these Indians, about 1,000 in uuuibeiv will raise this year, ns follows : /Y^eajt,0,000 bushels ; oats, 600 bushels ; pota­toes, 5,000 bushels ; corn, 27,000 hnsji-

anii turnips, onions, etc., 850 husn-

i<operation is always undertaken reluc­tantly, and its details and results are of paramount professional interest. It was recently performed successfully iu Will- iamsburgh, under conditions that are considered especially unfavorable. The patient was John Adam Kohlepp, of Ten Eyck street. For four years he was a sufferer from consumption, and for Six week* preceding the Operation lie had nofc left his bed, and1 had become emaciated and listless; violent tuber­culosis hud affected liim ; liis left lung was nearly eaten away ; and even under strong doses of morphine sleep was al­most impossible to him. Dr. Charles J. Stahl, who attended him, was per­suaded, for reasons that will be stated, to perform the operation of transfusion upon him. A volunteer to give the blood was found in the person of Louis Burk- hardt, of Stngg street—a strong, healthy mau. On the afternoon of July 11 the parties met at Kolilepp’s bedside, and, the instruments having been prepared and placed in warm water, Burkliardt’s arm was bandaged to swell the blood­vessels, and a vein pricked with a lance. Four ounces of blood were drawn and emptied into a small porcelain dish, where they were rapidly beaten with a wisp prepared for the purpose, to which the fibrine clung, leaving the strength- ening properties of the blood belund. This residue was in turn poured into a glass vial attached to one extremity of a rubber tube, the other extremity of which extended about three-quartera of an inch into an air-trap in the form of a glass globe set upright upon a stand. Fijom the further side of the base of the globe another rubber tube, whose con­necting extremity is at a lower elevation than that oi the first tube, is depended, which terminates in a hollow needle similar to that used in hypodermic in­jections. The instrument is known as Whitehouse’s. It is kept constantly in warm water during the operation. The blood passed through the instrument rapidly, and was injected into the pa­tient’s median basilic veins, at the hol­low of the elbow. Before the operation began Kohlepp's pulse was feeble and accelerated, but as soon as the blood en­tered h is system the pulse beat slower and fuller, and a gentle perspiration ap­peared upon his body. Then his face became turgid, and congestive symp­toms appeared, causing a temporary dis­continuance of the operation. After about twenty minutes, the congestive trouble having subsided, three ounces more of blood were transfused. At this point Burkhardt complained of weak­ness and thirst, but lus system was not impaired, having previously undergone frequent venesection in Germany. He remained at home for a day to escape any possible ill effects from the loss. As soon as he quit the room Koh'epp fell asleep, not awakening for seven hours ;“lie then ate with apparent relish, a thing he had not done for months, and again fell asleep. CM the day foljowipg he dressed hilhsPlf, out md hot venture beyond his room • four dnys later he walked upon the street without assist­ance. On July 26 a second operation was performed, iu which four ounces of blood were transfused. Siuce then lie has been convalescent; night sweats have entirely left Mm ; he breathes easily • the short, jiacking cough that

els,els. Some of these Indians receive

1 small annuities l'rfifn the GovermnMri,| but as a rule they are self-supporting, at. ! least that portion of them living after the ‘ manner o’ the whites.

some, ^ud for a week past he has done Bevbral flours’ light work daily. On Sun­day last he walked two and a half miles. The operation will be repeated .within a month in-tlie hope Of ariprting the dis­ease by evcatrizauop, it iieing consid­ered impossible t-u ortidicatejt.

The Effect of Imagination.HenjrvCL Erphman, jqdsidiug near. |

liotthdflr^ of the coiihty, near Sweet- wood, is a large owner of iron-ore lands, and the possessor of considerable pr°I*v tarty,, Up to witliin several we^ka ago 1|» won Wlo eiifl hearty, aufi," ngtwitb- nfemdfli't his abundance of tide world's goods, h* generally wore one suit of ( cJothep .during the week and on Sunday. Several weeks ago he was startled be­cause I10 imagined thnt a very foul smell | either (gone from bis ears; br mouth, 6r j

'the pores iff iiis Bkrq/ He was greatly alnwnhd, wid unegineA be woa smUdg iuto galloping consumption, and was gradually decaying. He was unable to

1 sleep, liecame haggard and emaciated, and i-vou ins fiiQiuUi iMigou to imagine Hint his Opd vipp n#:A»pMi*ad. Me w< nt into the nMdft’aud iu the woods, deter­mined to light down the disome, but

the seme d^eiuHul> 4 ,, r

chopper niets#mi day. Tie woodsman with him. and stood

him, when the woodsman asked tiro siek man for lus cofit. Tt wfis examined.' The woods- 1 man carried it away twenty yards, and it [ was discovered that the stench followed. Tlmfoof* was then Uior,oqgJ|lv examined,^ and a dead mouse was fouud ill the lin­ing. The mouse hod ny some means [ gotti t! into lining of his coat and died j t!i>>r< . ;uid his decayed remains caused 1

ay your master.si an proverb.

Four hundred years ago there were seven metals known to man, aud now there are fifty-one.

At Salma, Kan., Wallace Pohlson fell forty-five feet down a stone-linad well nod came oat uninjured.

Recently moequitoes drovd a Pilutka ' Flu. ) itrnaaher out of his pulpit while he was delivering a sermon.

L ast year, in England, 1,249 persona were killed on the railroads, while 1,528 were killed by carriages ami •wagons.

The population of Austria consists of 0,000,000 Germans, 15,000,000 Slavs, 8*000,000 Hungarians, and 500,000 Ital­ians.

B i s h o p Haven, speaking of his trip to Africa, represents the Christian people as the only ones who undress when they go to bed.

The vineyards near Bordeaux, France, yield a million hogsheads of wine an­nually, of wiiich one hundred thousand are made into brandy.

The British army in India, exclusive of Europeans, has 177,721 men; 27,900 Mohammedans, 2,270 native Christiana, 250 Jews, and the rest Hindoos.

We take annually about $35,000,000 worth of coffee from Brazil. We pay for it in flour, lard, coal oil, lumber, ma­chinery and other things, and—gold.

I t is estimated that between 1848 an A 1876 British and Irish emigrants to the United States and the colonies sent to their friends at home about $100 ,000,- 000.

The value of French eggs importe d into England during the first half of 1877 was no less than 36,000,000 francs, or nearly treble that of similar importations in the corresponding period of the pre­ceding year.

The number of miles of railroad on wiiich the strike produced an entire stop­page of traffic was 11,242, and the gross receipts lost by the rail oads during the suspension of business are estimated at $15,000,000.

An ice machine in Dallas, Texas, just finished, produces ice cakes thirty feet long and Bix feet wide, weighing from10,000 to 12,000 pounds each. They are formed by freezing fine rain or spray. The work cost $30,000.

Hon. T. C. Platt has been to the- Black Hills, and thinks that justice has- not been done them as a gold-producing country. He ventures the prediction- that from $6 ,000,000 to $8 ,000,000 in goldt will be taken out this year.

Clara Morris doesn’t make the enor­mous profits some people imagine. Lux­uries are to her necessities. Whenever she plays she pays $ 10 to a physician to- be in attendance behind the scenes. For evening attendance in a Bhort season of “ Miss Multon” her bills ran up to $300

More than 60,000 pounds of beef bufi ter made from beef fat is weekly con­signed from Philadelphia to one London firm of provision merchants, and it is- only a short time since an order for qa less than 4,500,000 pounds was equally divided between a New York ana a PhiladelpMa firm.

The bodies of three men were found hanging to a tree recently, in Red River county, Tex., vrith a placard pinned to one of them bearing all the information that is known of them. It read: “Here is where we found them, and here is where we left them. They stole horses in Ar kansas, and we are from there and strangers here !” The bodies were taken down and buried by the citizens of tho neighborhood.

California is not alone in her compli­cations growing out of the Chinefi ques­tion. Australia is also alanned, -partic­ularly Queensland, a colony established in 1859. The head of the Government at Queensland has sent a dispatch to the Preiniers of the other colonies, notifying thefti that the colony is completely flooded with Chinese, who are flocking there in great crowds by virtue of a treaty between Queen Victoria and the Chinese empire, ,

Some twenty-five years ago thirteen men, six of Massachusetts and seven of New Yqrk, entered into an agreement that, ns each died, the aurviyore |h©ulA attend his funeral, and that tBodeparted- should appear to the others, If Yoskiblo. Only two now survive, one in Spring- field, Mass., and one in Albany, and, so far as known, no eotnibunications have yet been received from the other world The Springfield survivor is 61 years old, aud sayB he has slept alone the three or four nights following the death of each nl thifothih'H, in tho Vain hope of hear ing from thorn. nV

w fe­

ll n A o nwoods out

long talk dose to examine

Yon holt We.When R eid Marshal Von Moltke was

a t imple Colonel he astouished the mi m- bers of'his mess i>y regularly taking 10 Frederick d’ors out of Ms pocket at din­ner, and laying them beside his plate. Always after dinner he pocketed the goH, butfcotoedirp his coat, looked sourly around, and disappeared. I t was re­solved to ask him the meaning of Ins strange behavior. “ Well,” he said, “ I have uotice<j|, from the time I entered this regiment, that the conversation at table has always turned on women, or cards, or horse-racing, and I have deter­mined to make a present of ton pieces of gold to the first man who should start a sensible subject. No o n e has yet earned them.”

1860.oo

1877-

THE OLDEST HOUSE IN TOWN.

HALL & CRANE,O lta r to t u e P u b l i c a t la r g e , o n e o f th e b e s t s e le c te d s to c k s o f m e r c h a n d is e l o b e fo u n d In

L iv in g s to n C o u n ty , c o m p r is in g in p a r t as fo l lo w s -

I 1 1 W M

TIN AND SHEET IRON WARE,G la ssw a re , Queensw are and C h in a ,

JOH2T YOU1TG,A g e n t fo r th e

N EW A M E R IC A N

S E W IN G M A C H IN E S ,

BUTTRICK’S PATTERNS.

W A K E ,T O I L I? 2 & E ‘/'V, V A S E S , S T A W T E D A W D T A T A W E D

b i r d c l a g k e s ,

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•Shoes a n d W a ils , L o c k s , L a tc h e s , C h a in s.

Groceries Staple and Fancy.\F lo u r , S a l t , M e a l, \ E ish , JG reen, C anned a n d D r ie d " F ru its .'

W e w o u ld c a l l p a r t ic u la r a t t e n t io n to th e

“Woman’s Rights Cook Stove,”■ F w U h f ^ h i e V e r o f fe re d , ln tl118 8 e c llo » . H a v in g s o ld n e a r ly tw o h u n d re d■ w i t h i n th e la s t tw o y e a rs w e k n o w w h e re o f w e a f f i rm , w h e n w e s a y th e y a re

1 a r E x c e l le n c e , A. N o. 1, a n d c a n 't be b e a t , ”

H a v in g re c e iv e d m y s to c k o f f t p r in g a n d •S u m m e r

DRY GOODS.Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes,

IS G OODS,

Piece Goods, Prints,

Readymade ClothingW a ll Paper &c.

1 a m p re p n re d to o f fe r to < h a ts w o r tb a n d v h

c in t t y , th e b e s t s e le c te d s to c k , a n d

th e t>est v a r ie t y o t g o o ds , to

be h a d In to w n .

JOHN YOUNG,

C H A T S W O R T H . 111.

.lit F W S f P ® A i F E O S A & f ¥ *I ro n , W ood a n d C hain . The “ G o u ld ’s I ro n T u m p s ” s ta n d u n r iv a l le d ,

a n d th e W ins h ip Wood T a m p ,” ta k e s

l n 1t l , e 1J,o r t ,1 ' w e a t , as h u n d r e d s c a n te s t i f y w h o a re u s in g th e m In t h is e o u n tv « » o u r g o o d s in c a r lo a d lo ts , th u s s a v in g la r g e ly in t r ^ g ln s w h ic h w,

^ d iv id e w i t h o u r c u s to m e rs , a n d o n la r g e sa le s w e c a u a f fo rd to s e ll n n h w i i e l l o n v f l r v R m u i l r» a q u i, ~ i .. j .. i . . w . . w. a i io r a to s i i j , a n a w l l

C H A R L E S L. C O Y N E R ,

Attorney at Law,

And Collecting Agent.Office over Hinman & Delatour’s store.

F O R R E S T , - - IL L IN O IS ’

ITO TROUBLE TO SH O W GOODS,y o u b u y o r n o t— w e s h a l l e v e n be g la d to see v o u a n d e o r d la i iv 1 .1 , - u n

o f f r ie n d s to c a l l a n d see o u r Im m e n s e s to c k o f g o o d s . D o n ’ t Ib rg e t th e p la c ^

T h e o n ly B ric k Store in T o w n .

o u rh o s lo r g e t t h e p la c e , a t

JDEALER IN

Lath, Shingles, Fence Posts,SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, HAILS,

Patent Building Paper,LIMB, HAIR, CEMENT,

Plastsr, Erick, StoneS Sand.A large stock of the celebrated

J. F. m u & SON’S

PUM PS!—A N D —

E A Y E SPOUTING.Constanly on hand ,

At the Red Offloe. W e st of th e DCHAT8W0RTH - ILLINOIS

and OZZiS I

Bracket Lamps,

Hanging Lamps,

Chandeliers,

Gasoline Stoves,

Oil Stoves,

Street Lamps,

S u p e r io r I l l u m in a t in g O ils a n d e v e ry v a r ie ­t y o f g o o ds p e r ta in in g to th e L a m p a n d O il B u s in e s s . L a rg e s t a s s o r tm e n t and lo w e s t p r ic e In C e n tra l I l l i n o is . L a rg e C h a n d e l ie rs fo r C h u rc h e s , H a l ls , S to re s , A c ., a s p e c ia lty , a t

Cooper’! Central Lamp and Oil Store,

115 Frontstree*., corner Center. Opposite New Post Office Building.

Aloomington, Illinois,

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Harness & Saddles!C olla rs, "Whips, l l r id le s , d-c.

REPAIRING PROMPTLY EIECUTED.

A l l w o r k w a r r a n te d o f t h e b e s t m a te r ia l o n o c h a rg e . C o m e a n d see a n d s a v e m o n e y -

Don Curios on Boyi.All men were boys once, and some of

our mast refined and cultivated women once were‘‘tom boys," full of fun, full of mischief. Boys are comical pieces of me cbiuism, and we, as adults, do more laugh Ing at their actions and sayings than we do at all the rest of mankind combined. Where is there a boy but what wants to he a uianl Where is there a man but what looks back upon his boyhood with surprise, mingled with wonder, delight, and ro­mance?

It surprises you when you remember how you run away from school, and went swimming in April, when the water was almost as cold as ioe, and you got the rheumatism by it, and it settled in your knees, and you would not inform your mother until your knees swelled so large that you could not pull on your pauts, and it wus onl) by luck that you was saved from dying. You wonder, too, how you ever survived the awful shock you got when your father’s mule tossed you about sixteen feet over his head, and you came down on a pile of rails, your breath all gone, and the mule standing over you with h look of iunoceuoe coupled with a look which seemed to say, ‘‘how do you like that, boss ;1” You remembered #too, how, when apples were beginning to get ripe in early June, you climbed to the top of oue of the trees to gel the tiucst led apple, and the limb breaking lowered you to the ground as fast as gravity could bring you, leaving you again wtthout any breath, from which you soon recovered more and more resolved to have that red apple, and not feeling quite stout enough to attempt auoilier such aiperilous voy age, you iry throwing stones and sticks at the coveted treasure, but after oue or two unsuccessful attempts you meet with another difficulty; not far from the apple, in a place you had uot happened to see, was au old fashioned “hornet’s nest, full of the black rascals, aud in your at­tempts to strike the apple you had struck the nest, and the air around, was full of them, who were investigaiiug the matter, try iug to find out, who dared molest their honored abode, when presently oue of them more observing than the rest, spied you,

• aud made an attacK at your eye, you left about that time to be made fun of by every one you meet, for having so much lid to your eye So much for that experience.

Boys are never idle; they are very often not at work which is prolitahle, si ill they are never idle; there is not a boy among my acquaintances but who has some good qualities and I like boys no matter how bad they are, I can’t help but like them, and I take every chance to help them. Still if you try to help them they think you are trying to deceive them, und will not allow you to do them a favor, yet there are some, that will take u favor nnd will remember it ever afterwards. If they like llieir work, they will do almost as much as a man, if they don’t like it, you had belter keep au eye upon them, for to shirk is no harm in their eyes, and even if it was they would be apt to do it anyway. Boys follow the example of men with whom they come in contact.If men smoke they think they ought to smoke, if men drink beer they think they are obliged so to do unless taught better; in fact our boys of to day our mimics; and we are sorry to say our young Americas smoke, chew, drink and swear; now this ought not to be so, and our teachers (which are all men no matter what their occupa­tion) are responsible If men swear, boys will swear, if men drink, boys will do the same, if man use profane nnd vulgur lang­uage, boys will do likew ise. To illustrate, two ragged dirty iil-clud little fellows were going along the street the oilier day, one was heard to remark, “my paw” belongs to the temperance, he does, and that* what I am going to do next summer when I get to be a man. The other remarked “oh thats nothing,” “my paw” belongs to the real re­form, he does. He’s got red ribbons all over him, he has,and thats what I am going to be when I get to be a man. The boys all want to be men, and if more of our meu would set good examples our future gener­ation would be difierent; boys will be boys, and they will sow their wild oats, and the sooner they sow them the better, and as “Billings” says let them rot in the ground.—more anon.

L. C. SPEICHER,Manufacturer of

B o th l i g h t a n d h e a v y , w i t h w o o d o r l i o n a x ­les . M y B o g g le s a re as g ood as a n y m a d e

In lo ie lg n m a n u fa c to r ie s , a n d a re as c h e a p , less th e f r e ig h t .

F a rm e rs , d e a l w i t h y o u r m e c h a n ic s a t h o m e a n d I t w i l l a lw a y s p a y y o u .

F L O W S P O L I S H E D

A n d g ro u n d In th e b ea t o f s ty le - S h o v e ls te m p e re d a n d p o lis h e d . s t r i c t a t t e n t io n p a id to r e la y in g l ’ lo w s . O ld P lo w s m a d e as good as n e w b y p u t t in g n e w p o in ts , hee ls a u d la n d s ld e s o n v w h ic h w i l l be d o n e In goods ty le .

H orse Shoeing a Specia lty .B la c k s m lth ln g o f a l l k in d d o n e o n t h e |

s h o r te s t n o t ic e , a n d w a r ra n te d .

Give moL. C

Chatsworth,

a Call.SPEICHER,

Illinois.

T H E BOSS

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W . S . W a k d lin ,

T h e m o s t e x te n s iv e d e a le r In a l l k in d s o f

FLOUR, SALT, WOCLENW/.FE

WILLOW-WARE, CROCKERY,

GLASSWARE & QUEENSWARE.

I a lw a y s h a v e o n h a n d a n e n d le s s v a r ie t y o

LAMPS AND LANTERNS !I m a k e ft s p e c ia lt y o f

C H O I C E F L O U R

A n d s h a l l k e e p th e b e s t b ra n d s o f W in te r a n d S p r lu g W h e a t F lo u r , G ra h a m F lo u r , O at M ea l a n d T o rn M ea l, b y th e s a c k , b a r re l o r c a r lo a d , a n d g u a ra n te e d t o g iv e s a t is fa c t io n .

The Very Rest Fresh Roasted and Ground Cottees and Spices con­

stantly on hand, Give me a call.

W. H. WAKE UN,Chatsworth, Illinois

F 1MPLES.1 will mail (Free) the receipt for prepar­

ing a simple V e g e t a b l e B a l m that will remove T a n FRECKLE8, PIMPLES a m i B l o t c h e s , leaving the skin soft, clear a n . ’, beautiful; also instructions for producing a luxuriant growth of hair on a bald head or smooth face. Address Ben Vandelf & Co., Box 5121, No. 5 Wooster St, N. Y.

CHATSWORTH MARKET.D e p o r te d a n d c o r re c te d w e e k ly , b y l l a l l A

C ra n e , d e a le rs In S ta p le a n d F a n c y G ro c e r ie s H a rd w a re , S to v e s , Q u e e n s w a re , G la ss , T in ­w a re , E tc . , E tc .

went to Peoria, last Snn-Fred Seibold day.

Gov. Cumback is one of the finest lec­turers in this country. His fame has grown until no lecturer in the West has a better name than he.—IowaStata Daily Register.

The report of the oat crop by the Board of Agriculture of this state estimates the number of bushels to be 61,145,088, valued at $16,260, 647. The number of acres re­turned 1876 was 1,660,778, while this year there was some 1,556,164 acres, with an av­erage yield of thirty-nine bushels to the acre.

Dr. H. 8. Berry, of Fairbury, 111., Veternery Surgeon, will be in Chatsworth, Monday, Sept. 17th, and each Monday following to attend to business in his line of practice. The Doctor has had 80 years experience in the veternery business and Ib capable of treating all diseases peculiar to horses or cattle. Headquarters at San- ferd’B Livery Stable.

HO a 37 39(a. 40

loo^lle 50 @ .05 19 a 20

loo a l io 1 30 <a 1 45

30 @ 4o 20 til 35

New Corn.............................K ye.............................................. ... ......W h e a t ...................................................B a r le y .......... '..........................................o a t s ........................................................F lax B ead ........... - ...........................T im o th y 8 e e d ...................................H u n garian S e e d .............................M ille t S e e d .......................................C lo v er ........................................................ 9 5o @ lo onP o ta to e s ..................................................... 40@60B u tter ........................................................... lo @ 12L a rd .......................................................... lo @ 12L iv e H o g s.................................................. 1 00 @ 4 25L ive B e e v e s ............................................ 2 60 @ 8 ooT u rk e y s ..................- ............................... 6 8C h ick en s per d o z . .„ ........................... 2 00 a 8 60Eggs p e r d o z ........................................... 0

R E T A IL M A R K E T .Coal per t o n .................................... 3 oo a 4 ooFlo u r—Sp r in g per s a c k .................. 190 a 2 oo

“ —w in te r per s a c k .............. 2 in a 2 50—B u c k w h e a t per s a c k ....... 1 00 a 1 26

Corn Meal p er sa c k .................... ......... 80 a 36A pples per p e c k .................................... 26 a 80O n ion s per p e c k ................................... 20 a 25P o ta to es per p e c k ........ ........Beans per peek., Coffee per lb., r lb

10 a 1560 a 76 26 a 35

S u gar per lb .............................................. 10 a 14T s a —Yo u n g H y s o n ............................. 3o a 1 2<>

1 * — Japan p er lb ..................................... 80 a 1 20<< —O olong p er lb ................................... 00 a l 26“ —Gun P o w d er per l b ........................ 50 a 1 25

S y ru p s per g a l ............................................ 50 a l 10O i l —Carbon per g a l............................ 10 a 85

■ • —L in seed p er g a l......................... 76 a 8u“ —M a ch in e per g a l ............- ........... 60 a 1 25■ * N eats fo o t per g a l ......................... 1 25 a 1 40** D an forth ’s F lu id p er g a l ........ 96 a 80

L im e per b b l... ..................................... l 80C em en t per b b l.................................... 8 soSand per t o n ............... 2 60N a lls per lb ........................................... 4 a 8Brick per m ..................................................... 18 noC om m on L u m b e r ........................................ 10 ooL ath p e r m .............................................. 3 60F lo o r in g per m .................................... 83 00 a 38 OPS h in g le s , per M ........................................... 8 60S id in g ................................................21 oo a 22 no

D R Y GOODS.U n b lea ch ed M n sl)n per y a rd .B leach ed M u slin per y a r d ......P r in ts per y a r d .............................D e n n lm s per y a r d .......................J e a n s per y a r d .............................. .T ick in g per y a r d ...........................F la n n e ls per y a r d ........................

“ C an ton per y a r d .......C otton Hats per in .......................Crash per y d ...........................« ......

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H . C. T O W NSKNl>, G e u . T i c k e t A g t

C H IC A G O i c A L T O N R A IL R O A D .

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G O IN G N O R T H .E x p re s s M a l l , N o . I , a t 3 40 p . m . L ig h t n in g E x p re s s , N o. 3, a t 3 34 a . in D e n v e r E x p re s s , No. •i, a t 11 43 a . m T h ro u g h F re ig h t , N o. 11, a t 7 40 p . m . T h ro u g h F r e ig h t , No. 13, a t |o to p. m . --to o k E x p re s s . N o . 15, a t l 4u a m . S to c k E x p re s s , No. 17, a t 5oo a. ru . W a y F r e ig h t , N o . in , a t 7 15 a in .

G O IN G S O U T H .E x p re s s M a ll N o . 2, n t 1 17 p. in .E x p re s s , N o . a t 12 57 a. in . o ress . No 6, a t 4 29 p. iu _F re ig h t. , N o . 12, a t (1 2o p. in . K a n s a s F re ig h t . N o . 14. a t 10 1 j p . in . T h ro u g h F re ig h t , N o . 16, a t 3 34 a in . T h ro u g h F r e ig h t . N o . 18, a t 5 flu a . m . W a y F re ig h t N o . 20 a t 1 17 p . in .

J . 0 . M o M E L L IN , G e n . S u p t . ■IOS. C H A R L T O N , G en . T ic k e t A g e n t.

A . IP C o p e la n d , T ic k e t A g e n t .

L ig h t n in g D e n v e r K x -

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L e a v e s P e o r ia , 2 10 A . M; B lo o m * In g to n 4 16 A M. 6 la n s f le ld 5 42 A

M . C h a m p a ig n 630 A M . ; D a n v i l le 8 2 0 \ M . A r r iv e s . In d ia n a p o l is , II 3 0 a m ; C in ­c i n n a t i , A 3 0 p m ; D a y to n , 4 5 0 p m ; L o U ls v I l le , v ia < r a w lu rd s , ' i l le , 7 4 0 p r r t c o n n e c t in g w i t h t r a in s fo r th e E a s t .

t t% .rh is t r a in h a s R E C L IN IN G C H A IR S L E E P IN G C a R, w i t h S ta te R o o m s f r o m P e o r ia to I n d ia n a p o l is .

L e a v e s I ’ e o r la 10 20 a m ; B lo o in - in g to n 120.1 p m , M a n s f ie ld , 1 o4

p m . C h a m p a ig n 1 34 p m —D a n v i l le , 3 05 p m . A r r iv e s , I d D I A N A P U L Is 6 0 0 p m . C IN C IN ­N A T I 10 20 p m , L o u is v i l le , 11 1 0 p m , N a s h ­v i l le . 8 Z 5 a m , ’ 'n y lo n 1145 p m , C o lu m b u s 12 45 a m. W h e e lin g 7 35 a in , P i t t s b u r g ? 50, a in ; B a l t im o r e 7 .35 p m . W a s h in g to n 9 07 p m . P h i la d e lp h ia 7 2 0 p m . N e w Y o r k 1 0 15 i le v e la n d 7 3u a in , B u f fa lo 110 p m . A lb a n y 12 45 a n t . B u t o n e n ig h t o u t to p r in c ip a l E a s te rn c i t ie s . Q u ic k e r t im e th a n t h is is N O T m a d e b y o u r c o m p e t i to r s .

f i L e a v e s P e o r ia 7 20 p m , B lo o m - ^ I n g to n 9 3o p m , A la its f le ld 10 05

p m . C h a m p a ig n 11 40 p n t . U anvrl l l e 124 a m - A r r iv e s a t In d ia n a p o l is 4 20 a m , C in ­c in n a t i 8 45 a m . N a s li-I x t u ls v i r le 8 30 a in . v i l l e 6 5f> p ra. D a y to n 9 8 6 a m , C o lu m b u s , 12.30 p m . W h e e lin g , 8 25 p m . P it t s b u r g 7 45 p m . B a l t im o r e 7 45 a m . W a s h in g to n 9 12 a in . P h i la d e lp h ia , 7 35 a m : N e w Y o r k , 1 0 35 a m . C le v e la n d 2 45 p m . B u f fa lo 8 40 p m . A lb a n y 0 20 a m . B o s to t t 2 40 p m .

« 3 _ T h ls t r a in h a s R e c l in in g C h a lr S le e p In g C a r w i t h S ta te R o o m s, w h ic h r u n t h r o u g h to C in c in n a t i v ia H a m i l t o n .

Nos. 4 a n d m a k e c lo s e c o n n e c t io n a t D a n ­v i l le . r o a c e ln g T e r r a H a u te , V in c e n n e s , E v ­a n s v i l le , L a fa y e t te , L o g a n s p o r t , F t . W a y n e , T o le d o n n d D e t r o i t In a d v a n c e o r o th e r l in e s

A D V A I T T A G I -H S .T h e I . B . A W , Is th e o n ly l in e to I n d ia n ­

a p o lis , r u n n in g I t s t r a in s th ro u g h t o t h a t p o in t w i t h o u t c h a n g e . I t Is th e s h o r te s t , p o n - s e f iu o n t ly m a k e s th e s a m e c o n n e c t io n s as i t s o o m p e t l to r s w i t h o u t e x c e s s iv e speed.

This Is th e o n ly ron te w ith T w o d a lly lin e s o f S leep ers.

I f v o u t a k e t l i e l . B A W . R o u te y o u s a v e ' >NE c h a n g e o f O a is .

A d d re s s th e A g e n t, a n d g e l s c o n y o f o u r N ow M a p F o ld e r , g iv in g f u l l I n f o r m a t io n

H o w to re a c h . l ie E a s t a n d S o u th , "

G E O . B . W R IG H T , R e c e iv e r . (N O W 5 P R O W N . G e n 'l P ass. A T ic k e t A g t

I n d la n a n o l ls . In d .

If you wantt M . .

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job pruttiug ,Call at the

“ Plaindealer” Office.All kinds of Job Work, such as

Letter Heads, Note Heads,

Statements,

Bill Heads, Cards,Sale Bills, Posters,

Hand Bills, & c „ & c „Executed on short not:ce and at

reasonable prices.

N. C. KENYON

— DEALER IN —

B O O K S , S T A T I O N E R Y , T O Y S ,

Notions, Periodicals, Etc.

A l l H E P O S K O F F H 'K

C h a ts w o r t h , i t i I I I .

M . R X X SX 2T C , A. D A F F A N ’SDKALXK IK

“ 5! Lntery & Feed StableCrockery, Glass A Queensware, Woodenware,

CANNED A DRIED FRUIT,C IG A R H * T O B A C C O ,

A n d e v e r y th in g k e p t I n a F ir s t - c la s s G ro ­c e ry S to re .

H IG H E S T M A R K E T P R IC E P A ID F O R P R O D U C E .

R e m e m b e r th e p la c e , o p p o s ite S t i l lw e l l 'sW a re h o u s e .

M y M o tto Is F a ir D e a l in g ,

QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS.L. METTE,

D e a le r In

F an cy Groceries !J U S T N O R T H O F T H E D E P O T ,

j e s to c k o f F r u i t s . N u ts , C a n d le s , .Aakes, A c., a lw a y s o n b a n d . A good

a la rg e s to c k o f F r u i t s . N u ts , C a n d le s , P ies, C V . . . .

R E S T A U R A N T !In c o n n e c t io n . Ic e C re a m , L e m o n a d e , a n d •S odaw a te r. c ig a r s o l u l l th e b e s t b ra u d s .

W a rm M e a ls * -HI h a u rs .

( J. (iunHul’s Old Stand, )

Chatsworlh, - - Hi.I Horses hoarded on very reason­able te»-ni8. Parties wishing to drive into the country will find good teams and buggies at my stable.

0. SANFORD,

Livery,Fd W e Stalls,CM A’ITS WORTH , IL L .

T r a n s p o r ta t io n fu rn is h e d to a n y p a r t o l th e c o u n t r y , o n q u ic k t im e . H o rs e s b o a rd e d b y th e d a y o r w e e k .

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Soaps, and Powders, Hair Oils, 11andkerchief Extracts,Feather Dusters, Clothes, Crumb. Hair Tooth

arid Nail Brushes, Painters’ Dusters',Varnish, Paint, and Striping

Brushes, Whitewash Brushes,

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White Pine Gum Strengthening Plaster,Dandelion Pills. Green Ointrn nt,

Condition Powders for Horses and

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WHITES J nsriD L lQTJOBS !E v e r b ro u g h t to t h is to w n , a n d s o ld fo r m e d ic a l use o n ly . W e a lw a y s k e e p o n h a n d

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Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Glass and Putty,P h y s ic ia n ’s P re s c r ip t io n s A c c u ra te ly d is p e n s e d a t a l l h o u rs , d a y o r n ig h t .

C H E W IN G AND S M O K IN G TOBACCOSB L A N K B O O K S , W A L L E T S , S T A T IO N E R Y , P E N S A N D P O R T F O L IO S , P E N C IL " , P A C K E T

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—Popular Science Monthly for September.

BARBING OUT A SCHOOLMASTER.

My early life wae made miserable by one Mulbery Bangs, a gentleman of the old school, who devoted himself to resil­ing, writing and arithmetic, and the gen­eral use of a stick. Upon my head and other parte of my person he imprinted himself so positively that I can see him now as plainly as if we had parted but yesterday. He was a stout man, who made in his figure, when seen in profile, Hogarth’s line of beauty, being round- shouldered and crooked in the lege. He wae a blonde. The hair of liie head had that sunny tinge eo much admired to­day, and when rubbed down with a tal­low candle, as was his wont to dress it, was so smooth and straight that the boys believed that the flies slipped down it and broke their legs. His eyes were dark and fierce, and hid under the cavernous recesses made by his bushy red eye­brows, seemed to watch like evil spirits over his precious nose. The nose was a ruby nose, bottle in shape, and when Bangs was angry, which appeared to be all the time, it glowed like the headlight of a locomotive. His mouth was finished without lips, and resembled a slit in a piece of sole leather.

My early experience gave me a distaste for the whips in schools. But I am far from siding with the sentimentalists of the present day, who advocate kindness and moral suasion. The easier teach­ings—not the best, but, in fact, the only ones—are those of the rod, that gave us a realizing sense of pain to the hotly, and drilled us into patience and self- denial.

Boys are of two sorts—good little boys, who die young, and bully hoys, who can­not be killed.

As the last-named only live to be men, instead of being transplanted into anerels, it is well to discipline them through the only process known to animals, and that is the discipline of fear. The old adage is not far wrong that said, “ When you meet a boy whale him—for, if he has not been in mischief, he is going in .”

What may have been my feelings when suffering under the stick of old Bangs, my objection to him now rests not so much on his use of that instrument as the beastly appearance and character of the man. Later in life I was the scholar of a man who was as severe with the roil, almost, as my enemy Bongs ; but to my dying day I shall remember him as one of the noblest of men and tlie truest friend I ever encountered. Alexander Kinmont lived and died in the obscurity of a select school, with the generous im­pulses and large, hearty brain that ought to have secured him a high posi­tion among the teachers and leaders of men. From that school came boys so disciplined to study, nnd so filled with the love of learning, that they, in mak­ing their mark in the world, lived to il­lustrate the beauty of the system.

T did not, however, sit down to write !

of this, but to give in brief some of my earlier experiences. I t wuh understood throughout the country that the boys were justifiable in barring’ont the mas­ter, and, if successful, were not only en­titled to a vreek'B recess, but the admira­tion and praise of their parents. Old Bangs was famous for his power of re­sistance, and boasted that no school of his had ever succeeded in conquering in such attempts. On the occasion to which I refer we had two big boys in school, named Bill Henning and Bob Strong. They were knotty-headed, broad-shoul­dered and hard-fisted fellows, who worked through the summer for means to attend school during the winter. Each, in turn, had been unmercifully whipped by the master, and it was un-

1 derstood throughout the school that the barring out of Master Bangs was to be

j accomplished and old scores Bettled.The evening before the general en­

gagement, Bill and Bob, our noble lead­ers, with a few confederates, stole back to the Bchool-house, armed with hickory poles. Breaking open the door, they

i whittled one end of these tough saplings | to a point, and then hardened the points

in the fire. Then placing these in a i corner ready for use, with a stout cord,| they gave orders to the boys willing to I take part in the fight to be on hand at i the school-house before daylight next ! morning.

At the time indicated nearly all the lads were in attendance. Some were pale and trembling, others were noisy and boastful; but I observed that the real- leaders and reliable soldiers were quiet— so quiet, indeed, that one might doubt them, “ Men are but boys of a larger

j growth,” said Dryden, and that solemn pomp of a poet, Wordsworth, assures us that “ the child is father to the man.” In the animal propensities and tastes that survive our boyhood this is un­doubtedly true, and many and many a time since, in hours of peril, I have re­enacted the same exhibitions of char­acter that occurred on that cold morning in December among the boys.

Our first order was to cut and carry in enough wood to serve the garrison dur­ing a siege. This was promptly exe­cuted. Then the window-shutters were pulled to and securely nailed, the door closed, and desks and benches piled against it. After two port-holes were opened by removing the chinks and daubing, and gathering about a roaring fire in the huge fireplace, we awaited the

'approach of the enemy. As the time approached for the master’s coming a dread silence fell upon the little crowd, so that when he did come we could hear his heavy tread upon the crusted buow, and many a heart sunk and face whitened in terror.

Our leaders sprung to their posts on each side of the door, and, on being or­dered to surrender, boldly demanded a week’s holiday and a treat of cider and apples.

This was sternly refused.“ Fire !” cried Bill and Bob, and two

poles were thrust out with all the strength the stout arms could give them. They took the indignant pedagogue in the sides with such force that, but for a thick flannel overcoat,holes might have been in his wicked body. As it was, he staggered back, and for twenty minutes or more we saw him sitting upon a log catching his breath and rubbing his wounded sides. We gave no end of loud cheers, claiming for ourselves the first knock down, if not the first blood.

At the end of twenty minutes the mas­ter arose. Digging a huge stone from under the snow, he approached and threw it with great violence against the door. The stout oak batting fairly shook under the blow, but held its own. Another, and another followed amid jeers and laughter; encouraged by our noble leaders to keep up the courage of their followers. The fourth stone split the door, and the fifth broke the upper wooden hinge, and but for the barricade within the breach would have been available. The enemy now, being aware of the defense within, suddenly dropped the stone and ran in at the door. We were not to be taken by surprise. Again were the sharp lances thrust out. One hit with decided effect in the commissa­ry, vulgarly called stomach; the other, as he stooped doubled by the pain, in the face, inflicting an ugly wound from which the blood flowed in profusion. He retreated, and we saw him fairly dance with rage and pain. The more of this he indulged in, the wilder grew our delight, which we testified in screams of laughter.

He soon ended this exhibition, and disappeared around the school-house, evidently on a reconnoisance. There was a dead silence, and we realized that which we have so often felt since, the unknown movement of a silent enemy. This was ended by a noise upon the roof, and soon volumes of smoke pouring into the room told us that strategy had taken the place of assault. Wo were to be smoked out.

For a moment onr leaders looked puz­zled. Fortimately, in the excitement ol' the conflict, the fire had not been fed, and now only a few embers and chunks supplied the smoke. These were scat­tered upon the broad hearth, and water thrown in to extinguish the remainder. Then Bill and Bob, selecting four of the stoutest poles, thrust them up the chim­ney, and, at the word, we gave, to use our own phrase, “ a bloody hist.”

The eonsequeners were a rattling of falling boards, with the unmistakable thump of a heavier body upon the ground. Wo found afterward that the master had not only covered the chimney- top with boards, but had seated himself upon them; the sudden and unexpected “ hist” hail tumbled him off. We heard dismal groans and cries for relief from the enemy.

Some were in favor of going at once to his assistance; otherR, more cautions, op­posed such a merciful errand.

“ He’s hollerin’ too loud to lie hurt much,” said shrewd Bob.

We had a division in our council of

war. This ended in a call for a volun­teer to make & sortie aud investigate. Jack Loder, one of the most daring and aotiveamong the younger boys, responded. A shutter on the opposite fide to the ones for help was opened quickly and Jack thrust out. The result of this was notonly a cessation of groaning, but a chase that we witnessed through the port­holes. Jack was a good runner, and when the two disappeared over the mead­ow, into the willow thioket Jack was gaining on him, and we had good hopes of his escape. To our dismay and horror, in half an hour we saw the mas­ter returning with poor Jack in his ^rasp. He had a hostage, and was swift in his use of the advantage. Stopping before the house, he began whipping the poor fellow unmercifully. Jack’s cries were piteous.

“ Oh, let him iu, boys; let him in, he’B a killin’ o’ me,” rung in our ears. There was a hurried consultation. The benches and desks were quietly removed from the door. A sortie had been de­termined on. The master stood at the side of the house south of the door, and as soon as the opening was made Bill unclosed a shutter and proposed a par­ley. The answer was a rush at the open window by the master, who began climb­ing in. Brave little Jack seized him by the legs, and before he oould kick him off a dozen stout lads were clinging to them, while as many more held him on the inside. Bill seized the rope and at­tempted to pass the noose over his arms. In the hurry and confusion of the fight he succeeded only in getting it over his head. Pulling it as the boyB did, there was a fair prospect of ending the useful labors of this teacher by strangulation.

That he deserved it no one of us doubt­ed ; but Bob, having climbed over the master in the window, and with all the school pulling at the ends of old Bangs, was soon master of the situation; getting hold of the rope, and assisted by Bill, he succeeded in tying the arms of the almost exhausted man to his sides. He was then tumbled from the window as unceremoniously as a pig.

“ Will you give up?” demanded our leader.

“ No,” gasped the master.“ Then we’ll put you down the well,

hanged if we don’t !”The brave old pedagogue still 'refus­

ing, he was dragged, rolled and tumbled to the well-ourb.

“ Will you give up, dem you?” de­manded Bob.

“ No, I won’t .”He was shoved inside of the bucket,

and orders given to lower. But the weight proved too much for the lads, and, the crank of the windlass slipping from their grasp, the learning of our district went whirling to the bottom with a thundering noise befitting such an exit. This was more than we bargained for. Had we really murdered the mas­ter? Bob and Bill, assisted by the stoutest, began pulling up the un­fortunate old fellow. I t was hard work, and, tugging at the windlass, they just caught a glimpse of his blonde head when a wild cry of “ fire !” caused them to let go, and again the venerable Bangs rattled down with a splash iu the water.

The school-house was on fire ; the ohnnkB pulled out by the boys had com­municated to the floor, and the dry, old concern was in a blaze. A few neighbors, who just then arrived, gave the alarm, and attempted to extinguish the flames. To do this they called for water, and the first bucket brought up contained the vanquished teacher of reading, writing, and arithmetic. He came up with his teeth chattering, and when lifted out and untied was too weak to stand or sit.

The school-house burned down. The master was carried to a neighbor’s house, and for weeks hung between life snd death. We were regarded as heroes by the country side, and in the burning of our place of torture aud the sickness of the master we were the happiest set of little animals in the world.

I t is a long time, I am sorry to say, since then, and most of the actors in the drama have passed away. Bob, one of our gallant leaders, is now a well-to-do farmer in H linois; while Bill fell in the bloody fight at Stone river.—Don Piatt.

Speed of Glaciers.A striking confirmation has been af­

forded of the correctness of the estimate that glaciers move from sixteen to eighteen inches a day in summer, and less than half that distance in winter. In 1820 a Russian physician, Dr. Hamel, attempted the ascent of Mont Blanc, when three of his guides were swept away by an avalanche, and never more heard of. Some years later Prof. Forbes made some observations on the glacier toward which these guides were drifted by the avalanche, nnd from the rate of the glacier’s movement he was led to pre­dict that within forty-five years from the time of the accident some remains of the unfortunate guides would be reaching the terminus of the glacier in the imme­diate neighborhood of Chamouni. This came to pass. Iu the summer of 1861 human remains were found there which were identified as those of Dr. Hamel’s party.

Raising Rabbits for Their Skins.In some parts of Europe it has been

proposed to raise rabbits for their skins, but a note of warning comes from Now Zealand that these animals multiply at such a rate us to prove destructive to crops. In parts of New Zealand large tracts of rich pasture land have been converted into a wilderness, nnd sheen- farming and rattle-raising are becoming impossible. Farmers that used to keep15.000 sheep can now scarcely keep as many hundred. One land-owner in­closed with a stone wall an area of10.000 acres, the work taking seven years to complete, and involving an ex­penditure of $35,000. About 500,000 rahbitr-skins were exported from Hobart Town in 1874.

BRIDGING THE BOHPHORUS.Capt. Eads’ Next Exploit—Connecting Eu­

rope with Asia—A Work o f Six Years, with the Estim ated Cost of •*5 ,000 ,000— The Longest Spun In the World.

iFrom th e N ew Y ork T im es.]ames B. Eads, engineer of the

iron bridge at St. Louis, aud who has so successfully planned and constructed the jetties at the delta of the Mississippi river, has also made elaborate plans for a grand iron bridge over the Bosphorus, connecting Peru—European Constanti­nople—with the Asiatio shore. This project of the distinguished engineer is now for the first time made public through the courtesy of Mr. A. O. Lambert, civil eugiueer, who has been largely oonneot- ed with great works of railway and bridge construction in several countries of the Old World, and also in Nebraska, Montana, Idaho, and particularly in the Southern States. Mr. Lambert, in con­junction with Capt. Eads, drew the plans, made the calculations, and assist­ed lit the surveys. It will oe seen that the work, wiien constructed, will be the most important of the kind ever com­pleted, affording to the Turks if that day ever comes, a ready back door out of Europe, in which they took up their res- denoe some 400 years ugo.

The bridge will be about 6,000 feet long—over a mile—will have fifteen spans; will be 100 feet wide, and, save the masonry and flooring, will be built of iron. The height of the roadway above the surface of the water will be 120 feet, thus affording ample passage­ways beneath the arches for ingoing and outgoing ships. I t will be observed that thiB elevation of the bridge above the Bosphorus is some sixty feet less than that of the Brooklyn bridge above the East river, with the difference that the latter is a suspension bridge, while the former will present a series of fifteen bold arches thrown over the most at­tractive water-scape in the world. The greatest feat of engineering will be the bold central arch, 750 feet span—over an eighth of a mile. This is the longest span ever contemplated, and its construc­tion will necessitate the most careful labor and no small outlay of money. In order to accomplish this single portion of the work alone two great caissons will have to be sunk in over 100 feet of water, and this can only be done by coffer-dams, and special contrivances in their com­pleteness yet unknown to engineering. The current at the point where these piers will rest is very strong, coming through the Dardanelles from the sea of Marmora, and rushing to the Black sea. The two central piers constituting the back-bone of the bridge will be fifty feet thick, of solid granite blocks locked to­gether with iron braces. A side view of the bridge will present below the highest points of the arches an intricate system of reinforce braces. I t is in this part of the construction that great ingenuity, nice mathematical cal­culation, and delicate mechanical skill must be employed. By an invention of Capt. Eads a new feature will be intro­duced, <«o that a train of cars or any other heavy burden will not superimpose its weight at any one point over which it may be at the moment, but will be dis­tributed throughout the 6,000 feet of the supports, thus practically making it an easy task to build au arch of 750 feet. This is accomplished by uniting all the main bracing from pier head to pier head, and connecting the minor rods, so that the whole forms a complete system, making one brace dependent on the other. The action of heavy weights, of troops marching to a common step, of rapid locomotion by the cars, is thus in ­stantly communicated through every foot of the supports, and every part is made to do its duty. The magnitude of the undertaking may be understood when it is stated that the main piers will be two hundred and seventy feet high from the foundation to the summit. The aggregate height of the fifteen piers ■would make a single pier of Half a mile in height, or eight times the altitude of the ball on the top of St. Paul’s Cathe­dral, London.

It is estimated that the cost of con­struction will not exceed $25,000,000, and the time to complete it six years.

A Hairy Child.We must say that the child Gracie

Gilbert, the little daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. Giles Gilbert, who reside sixteen miles east of Angola, in Northwest township, Williams county, O., is the greatest living curiosity we have ever seen. The child iB about 18 months of age, finely formed, bright, sprightly and heaithy( and almost entirely covered with hair. The hair on its head is some twelve r r fifteen inches in length, and is very heavy. Its whiskers are three or four inches iu length. On its back, body, turns and legs is a thick, heavy, but fine, silky growth of hair, covering almost its entire body, and some two or three inches in length. And, strange to say, there is no repulsiveness in the sight, no deformity, and, moreover, no humbug. Bamum, with all his grand splurges and big blowing as to the curi­osities nnd humbugs he exhibits, never lias hail a real, genuine actuality, a liv­ing curiosity, human or otherwise, that surpasses this pretty little child, Gracie Gilbert. —Steuben (Ohio) Republican.

The Colorado Beetle.The demand in Germany and England

for specimens of the Colorado beetle is so largo that an artificial supply hns been stimulated. I t is said that at a sugar factory in Cologne a specimen of the sug^r beetle, which bears a strong resemblance to the ravaging insect of Canada and Colorado, was discovered. A model was straightway made of the interesting creature, which, inclosed iu a neat box, was offored for solo to a curi­ous public. The demands have been so numerous that the beetle can hardly Ire supplied fast enough, no fewer than 10,- (M>() boxes haveing been exported to Fin­land.

B E T T E S THINGS.

»¥ OKOJUU* M’DOKALD, . , >B e tte r to sm ell thu v io le t oool th a n s ip th e g lo w in g

w ine ;Better tu Unk * hidden brook than watch a diamond

shine.Better the love ol genUe h e a r t than beantjr’a favor*

proud;Better the rote’s living seed then rotes in a crowd.Better to love In loneliness than to bask in love a

day;B e tte r th e fo u n ta in in the h e s r t th a n th e f o u n ta in

by th e way.

B e tte r be fed by m o th e r 's h a n d th a n e a t a lo n e a t w i l l ;

B e tte r to t r u s t In good th a n say : "M y good* m y s to re h o u se f ill.”

B e tte r to be a l i t t le w ise th * J in k n o w led g e to . a b o u n d ;B e tte r to te a c h a c h ild to to il th a n fill p e r fe c t io n 's

ro u n d .

B e tte r to s it a t s m a s te r 's fe e t th a n th r i l l a l is te n in g s t a t e ;

B e tte r to su sp e c t th a t th o u a r t p r o u d th a n be s u re th a t th o u a r t g re a t .

B e tte r to w alk th e rea l u n se e n th a n w a tc h th e h o u r ’s e v e n t ;

B e tte r th e “ Well d o n e !’’ a t th e la s t th a n th e a i r w ith B houting re n t .

B e tte r to hav e a q u ie t g r ie f th a n a h u r r y in g d e lig h t;B e tte r th e tw ilig h t o f th e d a w n th a n th e n o o n d a y

b u rn in g b r ig h t.

B e tte r a d e a th w hen w o rk is d o n e th a n e a r th ’s m o s t fa v o re d b i r t h ;

B e tte r a ch ild In H o d 's g r e a t h o u se th a n th e K in g of a ll th e e a r th .

WIT AND HUMOR.A f e a s t of reason—The entertainment

of an idea.A prudent man is like a pin; his head

prevents him from going too far.L ittle things should not be despised.

The little toe is the smallest on the foot, but it always has the largest corn.

What city does a kiss resemble? Nice. Why is a kiss like a sewing ma­chine ? Because it seams so good.

Said a Sunday-school teacher the oth­er day : “ Who was Luther?” Replied a Jersey boy: “ He made matches.”

“ What is the interior of Africa prin­cipally used for ?” asked a teacher of a pupil. For purposes of exploration,”' was the reply.

“ Go, my son, and shut the shutter,” this I heard a mother utter. “ Shutter’s shut,” the boy did mutter. “ I can’t shut it any shutter. ”

A w i c k e d man killed himself in the lowest level of a Nevada mine, and the account says: “ Thus his alleged soul was saved over half a mile of transporta­tion.’’

When a young woman makes up her mind that a hen shall not sit, and the hen makes up her mind that she will, the irresistible meets the immovable, and every law of nature is broken or per­verted.

H e was making a call, and they were talking of literature. ‘ ‘ The Pilgrim’s Progress, ” she remarked, ‘ ‘ always seems to me painful. Of course you are famil­iar with Bunyan.” He said he had one on each foot.

A Deadwood paper announces that Mrs. Marquette, whose husband poisoned himself on Monday night, married again Tuesday morning. This is only a proof of the buBiness-like character of the denizens of Deadwood.

“ W e r e yon a member of the army ?” asked a traveler of a wooden-legged man. “ Yes, sir,” was the reply; “ I was mem- bered by a recruiting officer, dismem­bered by a Russian artillerist, and re­membered by a peg-leg manufacturer.”

‘ * Doctor, my daughter seems to be going blind, and she’s just getting ready for her wedding, too ! O, dear me, what is to be done?” “ Let her go right on with the wedding, madam, by all means. H anything can open her eyes marriage will,”

A m e m b e r of an American club ob­jected to the publication of the list of the meeting nights of the club, “ be­cause,” he said, “ if it’s published, we married men will have to account for the off nights. ” The motion to publish was lost.

“ Why is this called Jacob’s ladder ? ’’ asked a charming woman as he and she were going up the steepest portion of the Mount Washington railway. “ Be­cause,” he replied, with a look that em­phasized his words, “ there are angels ascending and descending occasionally.” He squeezed her hand.

“ L andlord!” “ Yes, sir.” “ W hat’s that?” “ Butter, sir.” “ Does it belong to the League?” “ Sir?” “ Has it any ambition to excel as a base-ballist?” “ I don’t grasp your meaning, sir.” “ Well, it should, for it’s the best fly-catcher I ever saw.” “ Oh, I see! John, take this away, and bring the gentleman some of the muffin butter. ” Silence prevailed. —Doui/tville Courier-Journal.

This is the scientific way: “ If a man falls asleep in the sitting posture with his month open, his jaw drops; the tongue not being in contact with the hard palate, the suctorial space is oblit­erated; the soft palate no longer adheres to the roof of the tongue; and, if respir­ation can be carried on through the mouth, the muscular curiam begins to vibrate.” And this is the popular form: “ If a man doesn’t keep his month shut when asleep, he will snore.”

During a debate which took plnoe some time ago in n Scottish Town Coun­cil, on a question where much diversity of opinion prevailed, a bailie, among other reasons in support of the measure, stated that it would be of immense ben­efit to posterity. On hearing this, the Provost, who headed the opposition, got up aqil said: “ I ’m really surprised to hear ony man tiring forward sick an ar­gument. What reason hae we to sacri­fice oursels for the gude o’ posterity ? Point oot,” lie continued, striking tlie table, anti looking triumphantly at, hie opponents— “ point oot ae single instance wlmur posterity hns ever been o’ the least benefit to us.”

E ngland lias 65,000 acres in hops, and consumes annually 67,200,000 pounds of them.

THE CHICAGO BANK FAILURE.S c e n e i In F r o n t o t t h e B a n k r u p t I n s t i t u ­

t i o n —T h e W r e tc h e d e n d B e g g a re d D e ­p o sito r* .

(From the Chicago T rib u n e .]The news of the failure of the State

Savings Institution took all the deposit­ors by surprise. Nearly all of them had recovered from the July Bcare, and were firm in the belief that the bank had suc­cessfully weathered the storm, and that their interests were secure. So firm were they in the faith that some of those who had drawn out small amounts during the scare regretted their action, by which they had out off what interest was due on their deposits. There were more careful ones who dosed up their accounts during July and August, fearing to run what seemed to them a dangerous risk. But there was that other class, utterly unsuspecting, whose previous doubts and fears had been quieted, and who were living along in fancied secur­ity. To them the news of the failure came with all the suddenness and crush­ing effect of a blow in the dark. Trust­ing, they had been deceived; and the savings of years, often of a lifetime, scraped together from the results of weary toil, seemed gone forever. Such was the picture they painted to them­selves in the first moments of anger, sor­row and disgust following the general spread of the news. Then they began to reflect. Something might be saved from the wreck. Hope, which is said to be the only medicine for wretched souls, began to dawn on their minds. With the feeling of those who would know the worst and build their hopes on the smallest chance, they resolved to visit the place where their little wealth was locked up, and learn on just how slender a thread these hopes might hang. Accordingly, the sidewalk in front of the State Savings Institution presented, as early as 7 o’clock, a scene wholly un­usual at such or any other hour. Men and women, boys and girls, some appar­ently well-to-do, and others with the signs of poverty depicted on their pinched, wan faces, and their mean, well-worn, threadbare garments, were there; some of them modest and sad, more of tiiem brawling and mad. Here was a poor woman who took in washing. In her hand she carried a pass-book wrapped in a dirty handkerchief. With her pass-book—the title to wealth stowed away in the vaults—she pressed forward and sought to gain what satisfaction she could out of a fat policeman standing on guard at the door and keeping out all outsiders except those who had keys to the safety-deposit boxes. She didn’t get the satisfaction she wanted, and had to fall back. Then a man whose clothes seemed to say he had seen better times came up and recited his griefs to those around him. He had managed to save $1,200 in gold, he said, when ho was outin California, had put it in that ---------- bank, and now it was all gone. Andhere were these bank officers going scot free. Why, if he’d stolen a loaf of bread, he’d been jugged for it. And his voice grew thick, his tones more angry and excited, and it is more than probable that the tears would have flowed had not a burly Irishman behind him, in a red- checked flannel shirt, put a damper on him by singing out: “ Oh, you needn’t talk; there’s many poorer’n you as has lost every cent they had. We’re all in the same boat.” A newspaper man, as he contemplated the loss of his care­ful savings, muttered: 1 ‘ Wouldn’t Ilike to seek a Sioux Indian, that had been fed on raw beef about two months, on that d—d old reprobate Spencer. ”

“ Wish we had him here,” said a rough­looking workingman, who had overheard a knot of men talking about Spencer and his absence in New York, “ we’d fix himon the nearest lamp-post, th e ------------thief.” A job-printer on Clark street told the reporter that he and his mother had managed to put away $4,000 for a home, and to keep them during a rainy day. I t was all they had, and now they would have to begin over again. Two Irishmen, who had been taking care of gentlemen’s horses down on Wabash avenue, and doing any odd jobs they could get, said tfiey had saved $2,000 between them, and now the savings of twenty-seven years were all cleaned out. An old German walked up to the door and demanded to see the cashier. When informed that that gentleman was not around, the old fellow started out on a fierce tirade against the bank officers, telling the crowd he had been working for years, and had saved up a little money, but now he supposed he’d have to start again. “ Never mind,” said he,“ I ’ll be rich in ten years, and it’ll be all right.” In closing his harangue, he sarcastically advised his willing hearers to take a piece of the bank’s doors or the stone walls home with them to feed their wives and children on. At a later hour in the day a little old woman, poorly clad, but of respectable appear­ance, her features sharp and thin, her eyes snapping fire, and her arms flourish­ing a very dangerous-looking umbrella, bitterly denounced the bank-officers for what they had brought upon her. “ I had my last dollar in the world here,” she said, “ and those sharks have ruined me. Talk about mobs 1 Why don’t you mob the rich men’s houses, the castles of those who rob the poor, in­stead of fighting and killing each other ? Oh, God, is there no meroy, no pity for the poor? Must we grow poorer that they may become richer?” There were murmurs in the crowd of “ You’re right, mum,” but, for the most part, the losers and the ouriosity-mongers looked stolid­ly on, realizing that denunciation would do no good, and that the only thing to do was to wait and see what the assignee oould get out of the wreck.

There were a great many sad sights to be seen in the vicinity of the doors, and a great many sad stories heard among these woe-begone depositors. There are few more piteous sights in life than that of some agod and infirm creature who, after years of sore toil and privation to hoard up enough to smooth his way to

the grave, suddenly finds the prop knocked from under him. Not a few such sorry spectacles were witnessed yesterday.

One old oouple came up whose case excited general sympathy. They were a pair of aged brothers, who have for years past been earning a scanty pittance by doing chores, running messages and the like for families along Wabash and Mich­igan avenues. By dint of keeping down expensee next to nothing, they had man­aged in the oourse of several years to scrape together between them about $2,000. The look of Monk misery and utter helplessness tie v showed was enough to melt a hen i f of stone. And this was only one of numerous inci­dents of a similar character which came to light.

Most of those who were seen at the bank were poor working people, young and old, who have the winter before them and no work in prospect to keep the fire burning. A considerable num­ber of colored folks were among the groups, and they appealed to accept the situation with more cheerfulness than any of the others. They were anxious to find out just what kind of a dividend was to be doled out to them, and, when quietly assured by some gloomy brother that they need hope for nothing, they would walk off with the remark that they would take care and not get bitten again.

These are only a few instances out of many which could be furnished to show that the failure fell heaviest on the poor­est and leaBt-suspeoting class.

Distribution of Cabinet Offices.The following table represents, it is

believed with a great deal of accuracy, the number of representatives which each State has had in the Cabinet, from the beginning of the Government up to the present administration :

Secretary o f State—Massachusetts, 5 ; New York, 4 ; Pennsylvania, 2; Delaware, 2 ; Mary­land, 1; Virginia, 6 ; South Carolina, 2 ; Geor­gia. 1; Louisiana, 1 ; Kentucky, 1 : Illinois, 1 Michigan, 1.

Secretary o f the Treasury—Maiue, 1 ; New Hampshire, 1 ; Massachusetts; 3 ; Connecticut, 1; New York, 4 ; Pennsylvania. 7 ; Delaware,1 ; Maryland, 2 ; Georgia, 2 ; Mississippi, 1 ; Kentucky, 3; Tennessee, 1 ; Ohio, 3; Indi­ana, 1,

Secretary o f HTir—Massachusetts, 5 ; Con­necticut, 1 ; New York, 4 ; Pennsylvania, 3; Maryland, 1 ; South Carolina, 2 ; Georgia, 2 ; Mississippi, 1 ; Louisiana, 1 ; Kentucky, 2; Tennessee, 2; Ohio, 2 ; Iowa, 1; Illinois, 3.

Secretary o f the N avy—New Hampshire, 1; Massachusetts, 5; Connecticut, 2 ; New York,2 ; New Jersey, 3 ; Pennsylvania, 2 ; Mary­land, 3 ; Virginia, 5 ; North Carolina, 4 ; South Carolina, 1.

Postmaster General—Maine, 1 ; Vermont, I ; Massachusetts, 3; Connecticut, 4 ; New York, 2 ; Pennsylvania, 1 ; Maryland, 2 ; Georgia,1 ; Kentucky, 4 ; Tennessee, 2 ; Ohio, 2 ; Wis­consin, 1.

Attorney General—Maine, 1; Massachusetts,4 ; Connecticut, 1 ; New York, 3 ; Pennsylvania, 5; Maryland, 5 ; Virginia, 4; South Carolina,1 ; Georgia, 2 ; Kentucky, 4; Tennessee, 1 ; Ohio, 1 ; Missouri, 1 ; Oregon, 1.

Secretary o f the Interior—Virginia, 1 ; Mis­sissippi, 1 ; Ohio, 3; Iowa, 1 ; Ilunois, 1 ; Indi­ana, 2 ; Michigan, 1.

In all, therefore, the Cabinet officers have been distributed among the States as follows :

Vermont.

C o n n e c tic u t.

P e n n sy lv a n ia .,

. . . . 3 G e o rg ia ................. ......... 8___ 2 M ississ ip p i........... ......... 3. . 1 L o u is ia n a ............. ......... 2. . . . 25 T e n n e sse e .............. . 9 K e n tu c k y ............. ......... 13. . . . 1 9 O h i o . . . . ' . .............. ......... 12. . . . 3 In d ia n a ................. ......... 3. . . . 20 I l l in o is .................. ......... 5. . . . 3 M is so u r i............. ......... 1. . . 1 4 M ic h ig a n ............ ......... 1. . . .19 Io w a ..................... ......... 2. . . . 4 W isc o n sin ........... ......... 1. . . . 6 O re g o n .................. ......... 1

The following States have never had arepresentative in the Cabinet: Rhode Island, West Virginia, Alabama, Ar­kansas, Florida, Texas, California, Min nesota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Nevad«.— Chicago Tribune.

Fighting on Tea.The Russian soldiers are said to live

and fight almost wholly upon tea. The Cossacks often carry it about in the shape of bricks, or rather tiles, which, before hardering, are soaked in sheep’s blood and boi .ed in milk with the addi­tion of flour, butter and salt, so as to constitute a kind of soup. The passion of the Russian for this beverage is sim­ply astonishing. In the depth of winter he will empty twenty cups in succession, at nearly boiling point, until he per­spires at every pore, and then, in a state of intense excitement, rush out, roll in the snow, get up, and go on to the next similar place of entertainment. So with the army. With every group or circle of tents travels the invariable tea-caul­dron, suspended from a tripod; and it would be vain to think of computing how many times each soldier’s pannikin is filled upon a halt. It is his first idea. Frequently he carries it cold in a copper case, as a solace upon the march.

English Agricultural Returus.The following iB a summaiy of the

agricultural returns of Great Britain for 1877, issued from the Statistical and Commercial Department of the Board of Trade :E X T E N T O F U N B I N G R E A T B R I T A I N U N D E R C U L T I ­

V A T IO N .Wheat, Rarity, Oats, Potatoes, acres. acres. acres. acres.

1875 ..3,342,481 2,609.701 2.664,009 522,6531876 ............2,995,957 2,633,109 2,798,430 505.0881877 ............3,168,540 2.417,588 2,754,179 512,471T O T A L N U M B E R O F L I V E S T O C K I N G R E A T B R I T A I N .

Cattle. Sheep. Pigs.1875 ....................... 6,012.824 29,167 438 2,229,9181876 .......................5,846,302 '28,172,951 2,293,6201877 .......................6,697,280 28,168,815 2,498,665

M b s . C ra po , who crossed the ocean in a dory with her husband, is very pious. She declares that they would have been drowned in a storm had not God inter-

Eosed, in answer to her prayer, and rought about a calm.An English paper says that while at

the great seminaries of Ei glish learning there are professors of Arabic, Sancrit, Chinese, Telegu, Tamil, Hmdoostani ami Bengali, there are none of Turkish.

An American traveler in Europe lias obtained at Hesse Castle a oopy of the original report of the battle of Trenton, in which the Hessians were defeated, during our Revolutionary war.

► iTURKEY.

A Brief History of the Ottoman Umpire.[Eugene Lawrence in Harper’a Weekly.]

From the heart of the highlands of Asia the Turks make their appear an oe in history, savage, fierce, untamable, at an early period, the relatives of the Tar- tor, Hun, and all the lowest forms of the Eastern nomad; and the annals of no nation or people have shown so unvary­ing a course of degrading and disheart­ening cruelty. No historian, no novel­ist, has been able to invest any portion of their career of conquest and decay with (iny elevated interest or auy strik­ing pictorial display. The Moliammeds and the Solymans, Orchan and Otliman, are equally disgusting to prose or poet­ry, and the labors of Knollys, Von Ham­mer, Creasy, and Palgrave are all wasted, in a literary point of view, upon a theme from which literature shrinks, and at which human nature shudders. Some traits of intellect and progress invest the Saracens with a poetic luster; the Persian was the lover of song ^nd graceful fancy; the Egyptian has left his solemn and awful mystery written on stone; but the Turk has little more claim to the atten­tion of mankind than the savage beasts who prey upon the people of India, the tigers that leap from the jungles of Hiu- doostan. He sprang from his covert in the eighth oentury, and in the tenth was the master of Jerusalem, in the fifteenth fixed his seat at Constantinople.

With the Eastern branch of the Turks we have little concern; they have long been lost in the superior fortunes of their Western relatives. But in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Otli- man and Orchan, the hero Kings of the Ottoman dynasty, rose to fame, and Othman, the first Sultan of his race, spread the rule of the Turk to the wallB of Nice and Nicomedia. Like all his successors, he was a murderer and a par­ricide, and when his uncle Dundar opposed one of his military plans Othman shot him dead with an arrow. He died, and was succeeded by his sou Orctian, whose exploits are sung by poets and told by historians to stir the patri­otic ardor of the Ottoman youth. Or­chan formed the Janizaries from the cap­tive Christians, he conquered Nice, trie great capital, made Asia Minor his own, married at 60 the youthful daughter of the Emperor Cantacuzeue, and his son Solyman, the Black Prince of Turkish history, firt t led the Turks across the Hellespont; a dream of the crescent moon floated before him until he saw its silver rays span the Bosphorus, and heard mysterious voices calling liim over the narrow sea. Solyman died be fore his father. Amurath I. suc­ceeded, and the wave of Turkish conquest spread over Europe and Asia. From Othman, their first Sultan, the Turks were called Ottomuns,and the fame of their cruelty and their valor startled the warring kings of Germany and the divid­ed realms of Italy and France. When Bajazet the Terrible crossed the Balkans, conquered Servia, defeated the Causad- ers of France and Germany (1396), and massacred his prisoners before the walls of Nikopolis, the fate of Europe seemed decided. The nomads of Asia had proved the masters of the art of war, and em­perors, princes, and knights fell before the ruthless Janizaries. Bajazet cried out that his horse should eat oats on the high altar of St. Peter’s. His generals overran Hungary, Styria, Greece. Con­stantinople, feeble, fallen, stood isolated in the midst of a conquered world; one victory more, and the Turk must have held the heart of Europe, and stopped the progress of mankind. But at tiiat moment another Asiatic monster inter­fered to save the West—another horde of nomads assailed their savage brethren. Tiinour avenged the chivalry of France, and Western civilization owed an im­portant respite to the brutal rage and rivalry of the Eastern savages. Bajazet fell before the arms of Timour, and the conqueror of Europe, tradition relates, died chained in liis iron cage.

Bajazet fell at a moment when the Europeans were slowly rising from the degeneracy of the middle ages, and when GotliB and Vikings had learned some of the arts of civilized life. In 1399, Henry of Boliugbroke had usurped the English throne, and his son, Henry V., was soon to carry waste, misery* and degradation to the realm of France. There was to be no rest for many a year to the haph ss people, am1 the rage of their masters was nearly to complete their ruin. The Italian republics were foiling into decay, and freedom lived no longer except in name. The papacy had lost all influence; and at the Council of Constance the armed princes and kiugs of Europe de­posed the Pope and fixed the laws of the papal succession. Germany was soon to be torn bv the rage of religions warfare, and the death of H u b s proved more dan­gerous to the Roman see than even the deposition of John XXIII. All over Europe was only weakness, division, de­cay, when suddenly it was told in all its capitals that the Turks were once more ^xtwerful, that they were advancing to the siege of Constantinople, and that the fall of the Greek metropolis must load to the conquest of the West.

The siege began in the spring of 1453. Twenty-nine times, it was computed, the Byzantine city had been besieged, eight times it had been taken ; but never be­fore had it been assailed by so formida­ble a host as that which now enveloped it in a cloud of ruin. Far aB the Greeks could see, the long lines of the Turk on both sides of the Propontis incompassed their crumbling walls. Mohammed II., young, fierce, patient, skillful, led on the invaders with savage eagerness. Constantine Pabeologus, last of its Em­perors, almost a hero, had resolved to perish or conquer in the capital of his race. The fortifications of Constantino-

Ele woro immense and powerful, shaken y time, the work of an earlier ago, and

scaroely fitted to bear tho shock of that new artillery which had supplanted the battering-ram and the Greek fire of the past. The cannon roared against the

ancient battlements, and the tower of S t Roman us trembled before the un­accustomed shock. The Turkish fleet was routed by a few Christian merchant­men ; the despair of the feeble garri­son seemed almost to insure the safety of the the city. But at length Moham­med’s ships occupied the inner harbor ; the mighty walls were breached ; the city of Constantine and of Christianity awaited the final assault; and Constan­tine Palieologus knelt for the last time in the Church of St. Sophia, trod hastily the palace of his ancestors, and placed him­self like a true hero with his few com­panions at the fallen tower of 8t. Ro- inanus. The immense host of Turks pressed on. The Greeks resisted with the courage of Marathon or Leuetra. Thousands fell before their feeble arms; until at length the hostile torrent poured into every part of the city, and, in the dead of the night, in the fair month of May, filled with nameless hor­ror and despair the Christian capital. Constantine lay dead under the heaps of slain. Mohammed II. rode through the breach of St. Romanus, conqueror, it seemed, of Europe.

To this he aspired; and it was to rav­age and subdue Italy that all the labors of his life tended. At Belgrade the chivalry ol Europe successfully opposed the Janizaries; yet the Turks conquered at last Albania and Herzegovina. The Senators ot Venice might see from their palace roofs the ravages of the invader; Rhodes escaped, but Otranto, in Italy, yielded to Mohammed. His next cam­paign was to plunder Naples, conquer Rome, when death fell upon him, 1481, and Europe was for a moment safe.

A civil war followed the death of Mo­hammed, and it was not until Solyman the Great ruled over the Turks that the peril of the West became once more im­minent. In 1520-66 the reformation, printing, the New World, an enlarged civilization, had softened the manners of Europe. But the Turks had shared in none of these advantages, and had aided in no labor of progress. Conquest and war were the only purpose of the nomad race, and once more trie fierce Asiatic hordes began their assault upon the centers of Western knowledge. Hun­gary was overrun, Rhodes fell before the fleets of Solyman ; and on the 10th of May, 1529, at the head of 250,000 men and 300 cannon, the Sultan moved up the Danube to begin the first siege of Vienna. In the autumn seven encampments formed a circle around the hapless city. Solyman stimulated his soldiers by threats and promises, and a feeble gain- son of 16,000 men, under Count Salm, defended the crumbling walls. Had the Austrian capital fallen, the Turkish em­pire must have extended over the heart of Europe, and the Rhine and the Elbe might have obeyed the worshipers of the crescent. But the defense wub heroic; even Solyman yielded to the valor of the despairing Austrians, and amidst horrible outrages and the mas­sacre of countless Christians, led back his savage army, decimated and dis­graced, along the Danube. Yet when he died he left an empire mightier than that of Rome, reaching from the Caspian to the cataracts of the Nile, and from Belgrade to the Persian sea.

Decay followed ; no second Solyman arose. The vices of the most terrible of despotisms sapped the strength of the Turks; and it was not until 1683 that, under a feeble sovereign and in a less hopeful spirit, the Ottomans began the second siege of Vienna. France and Louis XIV. suggested and probably urged the unexpected movement; an army of 275,000 Turks, and, with their followers, reaching to more than half a million, gathered around Vienna. The siege began on the 15th of July, and only 11,000 men, under Count Starem- borg, resisted, amid the shattered walls and bursting mines, the fierce onset of the Janizaries. Europe looked on, ap­parently unmoved, while its chief bul­wark was falling; the heroic garrison were left almost alone ; the walls were breached ; the city was lo s t; the hour for the final assault drew on, when sud­denly on the Kalenberg hills ap­peared the Poles and Sobieski, and struck the immense host of Turks with a horrible destruction. They fled, torn and beaten, followed by a merciless mas­sacre, to their lairs iD Bulgaria and Bel­grade, and over Europe spread a sudden thnll of joy as sincere os that which had followed Marathou and welcomed Leuetra. The Turks have uever recov­ered their strength, and the surrounding nations have preyed incessantly upon the declining resources of the Ottoman power. Austria has freed Hungary, Russia seized the Crimea. Always en- jjaged in the most horrible and yet often not unjustifiable wars, the Turks, the tigers of the East, have fought bravely for tlieir lives and property, but in vain. Tameless, unchangeable, still an Asiatic nomad, the Ottoman lias sunk into a de­cay from which neither diplomacy nor arms can rescue him.

A despotic government is an anomaly that modern civilization can scarcely tolerate. A despotic caste, cruel and immovable, is what modern intelligence chiefly abhors, and the Ottoman rule in­cludes both of these fatal defects. Its Sultan, the offspring of the harem, nur­tured in a perilous school, has ever vi­brated heretofore between imbecility and overbearing tyranny. I t is impos­sible to point out an Ottoman Sultan who has not been a horrible murderer like Mohammed II ., a savage like Soly­man the Magnificent, or an idot, the Blave of women and of slaves. The Ot­toman officials have always imitated their musters; the Ottoman soldiers have shown their real character in Bulgaria; the Ottoman raoe has proclaimed itself wholly unfit to govern civilized meD; their new constitution may bo of no avail; and the shocking war that rages in the East will not prove altogether without good results if it reduces the Turk to condition of equality with the intelligent people he aspires to oom-

maud. As a barrier to the growth of knowledge, the Ottoman rule most be swept away forever.

BRITISH HARVEST PROSPECTS.Au Increased Demand Upon the United

States Predicted.James Caird, in his annual letter on

the harvest nrospeets in Great Britain, printed in the London Times of Sept. 2, says :

“ The extent of the wheat is greater by nearly 200,000 acres than last year, but 400,000 acres, or one-ninth, below the average of the ten preceding yeans. On a careful analysis of returns from farmers in various parts of the country, I find that in twelve of the principal wheat counties, which represent one- lialf of the wheat growth of the king­dom, three-quarters of the returns bIiow that the crop is below the average, while one-quarter give an average crop. For the remainder of the country the defi­ciency is somewhat less in proportion. Returns show a very general deficiency. They are below an average crop, but not greatly below. The general yield is better than that of 1853, 1867, or 1875, the three worst crops in thirty-four years, but I fear that it will not be equal even to the defective crop of last year, and that, notwithstanding the increased acreage, we shall not have more than between 9,000,000 and 10,000,- 000 quarters of the home crop. The re­duction of consumption consequent on the enhanced price may reduce the year’s requirements to 20,500,000 quar­ters. On the two conditions, of strict economy in consumption and an early harvest next year, the foreign supply we should in these circumstances re­quire might be limited to 11,000,000 quarters. This takes a most favorable view of our position, for north of the Trent most of the crop is still unharvest­ed, and is subject to risks of late season and very unsettled weather. If we were the only country that required help, and if we could rely on a continuance of the large scale of foreign imports which has marked the last four years, there would be little cause for apprehension, but with the exception of some parts of Spain all Western Europe is deficient, and the ports of the Black sea arc closed, while the renewal of famine in India can hardly admit of an increase of supplies from that quarter during the present

therefore, look to considerable in­ker exports of

if the vast re­

year. We must,America for a crease even on the last foui* years, and, war in Turkey continues, the sources of the United States and Canada will indeed be severely taxed to make good the wants of this country and West­ern Europe. The small home crop of 1875, supplemented by the largest import we have ever yet received, afforded five and one-lialf bushels per head. The de­ficient crop of 1876, with an import which somewhat exceeds 12,000,000 quarters, has afforded very little over five bushels. If the Black sea ports con­tinue closed for the coming harvest year, we may have to restrict home consump­tion to considerably less than five bush­els a head.

“ The other liome-growu crops prom­ise little aid, barley being deficient, and oats not above an average, while pota­toes are much decreased. In 1866 and 1867. when, from too deficient cropB and comparatively small imports, the quan­tity of wheat for consumption fell below five bushels a head, the price was 64 shillings. In the past twenty-five years the quantity has on several occasions fallen below that mark, and the price of these years lias averaged 60 shillings. If, therefore, the Black sea ports con­tinue closed during the coming harvest year, we may be thankful if it goes no higher.”

Vanderbilt.There is but one Vanderbilt in New

York, and he is familiarly called “ Bill.” I t was a question how lie would meet the responsibilities thrust upon him by stepping into the huge shoes of his father. Some men who had operated with the old Commodore for years said that William was a better railroad man than his father Many shook their heads and doubted. So far Mr. Van­derbilt has exceeded public expectation. He lias shown a great deal of practical wisdom in the late strike, proving that he has the tact of one of his own bump­ers—yielding as well as striking. Mr. Vanderbilt is a peculiar looking man. In size and appearance he resembles John Jacob Astor ; his frame is her­culean. He is very stout, and seems to be puffed up bodily. His linir is sandy ; his countenance florid; his whiskers huge and of the English cut, and he would easily pass for a man who was born within sound of the Bow bells. He is a man of few words; resolute in his opinions even to obstinacy, and through all his gifts runs a streak of caution and hesitancy. He has an ele­gant mansion on Park avenue in upper New York. He is very domestic in his habits. Mrs. Vanderbilt is distinguished as one of the best housekeepers in the city. She personally superintends her own domestic arrangements, and knows how to lend a hand herself in ease of emergency.—New York Letter.

The Phylloxera.A rival to the potato bug in European

fears is that other American visitant, the phylloxera. This little pest has been detected at work in several Swiss vine­yards—at Neuchatel, Boudry and Colom- bier, whore delicious white anil red wines are produced. Straightway the infected areas were incirclcd by a zone of white flags, guarded by police, and no stranger allowed to enter them. Then men were set to work pulling np every vine, saturating its roots in petroleum and buriing it, while the whole soil was treated with a thorough medication war­ranted to kill out any of the insects ex­isting therein. They oertainly have an energetic plan of precautionary farming over the water, as the Cologne potato- field and the Neuchatel vineyards attest.

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CHATSWQRTH PLAINDEALER.SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1877.

The finest oysters we ever saw have just been received at Mette’s. \ good many of them weigh a pound. Go aud see them, and carry a can home with you tor dinner to-morrow.

E. A. BANGS.

T o w n a n d V ic in ity -

Gilman is to have a shoe factory.

Bloomington is to have a croquet tourua uient.

The Eastern Railroad Companies talk of raising the freights.

’Squire Shroyer was in Pontiac last Mon­day.

The Supervisors meet at Pontiac this week.

Elder Trask has our thanks for a bucket of delicious grapes.

M. A. Wheeler spent Sunday with friends in Chatsworth.

Orr Brigham was home Sunday visiting parents aud friends.

Darius Hall, of Peoria, was here Tuesday on his way to Watseka.

Go where you please, but pay as you go^j— Business is always rushing at L C. Speien- er’s. In dull or lively times y ou will always find him or his men driving away at some­thing. You will rind people going and coming with their work. All that is want­ed is the money aud the worn will be done promptly. L G Speicher’s is the place to go.

Ed Bangs attended the Democratic Con­vention at Pontiac last Tuesday.

Jack Brigham has decided not to go into the Cucumber seed business this fall.

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Murray, of Peoria spent last Sunday with John Young aud family.

The boys say the girls gave Fred the shakes. It was the regular old fashioned “ager.” The boys were wrong.

Mrs. Park, of Wuukeshaw, Wis., a for­mer resident of this place, is here on a vis­it, the guest of Mrs. James Stillwell.

Ike Jackson left last Tuesday for Kanka­kee, where he will attend Court in the ca­pacity of short-hand wfiter.

Several f ist trotting horses, on their way from Ouarga to the Fairbuy Fair, were guests at the hotel-de-Dallan the lirst of the week.

The passenger train going east last Tues­day' noon was an hour and a half late, caused by the mail aud baggage car break­ing down at Kruger.

Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said: “I’ll stop borrowing my neighbors paper and take one myself. ”

Beans, beans,Beauliful beans,Boston baked beaus,

At L. Mette’s.

Dr. Harter’s Eever aud Ague Specific is in every sense of the word a ‘‘Specific.’ Will cure the Chills and Fever, aud pre­vents its return. For sale by E. A Bangs & Co.

“The lord helps those who helps them­selves. ” Advertise in the P l a in d e a l e r By thus doing you will show your willing­ness to help yourself, and be deserving of Help from others.

Mr. aud Mrs. Johu Timm started Wed­nesday noon for a trip up among the north­ern lakes. They will be absent for about two weeks. They will visit the family of Mr. R. A Vanalstyne, at Gleubeuluh, Wis., while away.

Miss Ella, a sister of Mr. George Tor­rance, who has been here visiting for sever­al weeks, returned to he home in Danville, last Tuesday Miss Torrance succeeded in making a host of friends during her short stay here, who regret to see her leave.

Jim Dorsey and Len Marston took in Peoria among other excursionists last Sun­day. They indulged in sulphur baths while there and now look like skeletons They forgot to take off their standing collars, and came very near being drowned.

Some one barricaded the front door of Billy Wakelin’s grocery store last Friday morning with boxes and jugs. Billy has employed Irwin and Rowe to work the mystery up. Rowe has tackled the boxes, aud Irwin the jugs. These two gentlemen have had much experience in this business, aud will no doubt sift the mystery out of the boxes aud jugs.

If it be true that hardship is a good school for developement, than from phys­ical standpoint, babies should have a growth as symetrical as it is surprising. It would be so were they kept free from the disorders of babyhood by safe and ju­dicious treatment. Every one who has used it pronounces Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup the best remedy known for the complaints of early childhood. 25 cents per bottle.

M a n a g in g a M u le .

You, Nebuchadnezzah, whoa sail!A** Wliar is you tryin’ to go sail?

I’d hab you for to know' sail,I’s a-holdin’ob de lines.

You better stop dat prauciu’You’s pow’ful fond ob dancin’,But I’ll bet my yeah’s advancin'

Dat I’ll cure you obyour shines. Look lieah, mule! Better min’ out— Fus’ t'ing yoq know, you’ll fin’ out How quick 1 11 wear dis line out

On your ugly, stubbo’u back. You need’ut try to steal up An’lif dat precious heel up;You’s got to plow dis fiel’ lip,

You has, sah, for a fac’.Dar, dal’s de way to do it!He's coinin’ right down to it;Jes’ watcli him ploughin’ troo it ;

Dis nigger ain’t no fool.Some folks dey would ’a’ beat him; Now, dat would only heat him—I know jes’ how to treat him;

You mus’ reason wid a mule.He minds me like a nigger.If he was only bigger He’d fotcli a mighty figeer.

He would, I tell you! Yes sah! See how be keeps a-clickin’,He’s as gentle as a chicken,An’ neber thinks o’ kick’n—

Whoa dab, Nebuchadnezzah!Is dis lieah me, or not me?Or is de debbil got me?Was dat a cannon shot me?

Hab I laid lieah more’n a week? Dat mule do kick amazin’—De beast was spil’d in raisin’—By now I ’sped lie’s grazin

On de oder side de creek.

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E B A L L B O L L H C G .S T I L L C L O S I N G O T T T .

Boland's Aromatic Bitter Wine of Iron is j the best spring remedy for impoverished j blood, physical prostration and impaired digestion. Ladies troubled with ailments incident to delicate constitutions will find it invaluable. E. A. Bangs & Co., Agents.

Prices astonish everybody! must be closed out! ! !

Goods almost given away! ! But they

The T. P. & W Railway Co., with its usual enterprise, have made arrangements for cheap excursions to Peoria, along their Eastern division every Sunday. The train will leave here at5;20 a. m. and return at 10:00 p. m., thus giving excursionists a chance to spend the day in the parks of Peoria. Fare for the round trip from here is $1.45.

When Uncle Sammy Webster liar any­thing to give away lie generally hunts up ! the most worthy persous upon whom to* bestow his gifts. He raised a large num­ber of Concord grapes this year, aud in the fulluess of His generous heart carried a large bucket-full of them to every minister in town, not forgetting the poor editor. Ac­cept our thanks, Uncle Webster, it is all wre have to give He who giveth to the poor leudeth to the Lord.

Mr. J. W. Morris, of Bloomington, has permanently located in Fnirbury, and lias engaged in t lie upholstering business. He will pay especial attention to tHe repairing of lounges, niattrasses, sofas, chairs, &c. He will also make over hair niattrasses. Those tiaviug work in his line will do well, to give him a call.

Important Decision.Tiie Bupreme Court of Pennsylvania lias

decided that a note drawn in the usual form but containing, in addition the words “and five percent collection fee if not paid w'hen due,’’ is not for a certain sum of money, and is therefore not “ negotiable paper.” Judge Sbarswood, in giving bis opinion, said:

“It is a necessary quality of negotiable paper that it should he simple, certain, un­conditional, and not sifbject to any contin­gency. It would be a mere affectation of learning to cite the elementery treaties and the decided cases which have established this principal. It is very important to the commercial community that it should be maintained in all its rigor. Applying it to the note sued upon in this case, we are of the opinion that it violates the rule.

In the paper now in question there enters as to the amount an undoubted element of uncertainty. It is a mistake to suppose that if the note wns unpaid at maturity the five per cent would be payable to the hold­er by the parties. It must go into the hands of an attorney for collection. It is not a sum necessarily payable. The phrase

i collection fee necessarily implies this."

This week in addition to what we offered last week as follows:

Plaid Suitings, 8 and 9 cents, worth 12h and 15 cts. Tycoon Rep, l l i cts, worth 25 cts. A few more of those 8 cent goods reduced this week to 7. Those 18 cents goods reduced to 15 cts. Get some before they are gone.

L ad ies I r o n F ra m e , F u l l R e g u la r H o s ie ry in p la in a n d S ilk C locked .

Large line white goods, such as Swiss Mulls Victoria Lawns, P. K. Striped and

Checked Nausauk, White Tucking&c., &c.

Black Alpaca, 2A cents former price 40 cts. Black Alpaca, 35c, for­mer price, Odets. Brocaded Alpaca, 30c, former price 50 cents. Black Cashmere, 85 cts, worth $1.00 Black Cashmeres, $1

Trunks and Valises at panic prices.worth 1.30.

There has probably never been such an opportunity for people to buy

GOODS CHEAP,As this: Our Stock is

Large and Fully Assorted.We give below prices of a few articles to give you an idea of this sale.

Good w ide Sheeting, 6 7-2 , 7 a n d 8 c. Very h eavy. Good bleacheg M uslin , 6 7-2 c. L aw n sda te a n d F r u it o f

Loom , TUeached, 9 7- 2 cts Chiyiol Shirt­ing fro m 7, to 72 cents, fo rm er

p r ic e , 70 to 7 6 . L ick in g ,9 to 76 f o r 77E S L .

Cashmere and Alpaca S u i t e ,A L L AT COST,

BLACK SILKS AT COST.(Good time to buy Silk Dresses.)

G. A. BA N G S.

E . A . B A N G S A CO..B A N K E R S !

CHATSWORTH, ILL.

C o l l e c t i o n s M a d e a t L o w e s t R a t e s .

Formerly $1.25; Now $1.00.

We have a large line of Silk Parasols which we are bound to sell orG IV E AW AY.

Lisle Thread and Cotton Gloves at one-thirdFormer Prices.

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Children’s and Gent’s Hosiery at cost.We have a large stock of ladies’ Ties, Collars and Cuffs, Ribbons and

Silk Handkerchiefs, all to he sold at Cost without reserve.

GENT’S FURNISHING GOODS,Such as White Shirts , Neckwear, Collars and Cuffs, at Cost.

u r n , worn l o u t s o n s !i

Good Loom Dice Table Linen at 28 cents. Crash, Towels, Napkins, all at cost.

We mean business, and invite all to come and see for themselves. We are, determined to close out our Dry Goods. With thanks to the people of this vicinity for the liberal patronage we have enjoyed, we are very truly,

BEACH BROS.

A (ieieril Basking Bsiiimi Tniuctri.

Chas. A. Wilson. R. B. M. Wilson.

C. A. W ILSON & C0.t

B A N K E L S .[S uccesso rs to th e B a n k o f C h a tsw o rtliJ

C H A T S W O R T H . I L L - — o ---

A Gmm.I Banking Butinas: TrantacU.Money Loaned on Real Estate

D rafts b o u g h t a n d so ld on a ll th e p r in ­c ipa l c i t ie s of th e U n ited B ta te s a n d K urope . t ic k e ts so ld to a n d fro m E n g la n d , I re la n d , S co tla n d . G erm a n y , F ra n c e , N orw ay , S w ee- d en a n d o th e r c o u n tr ie s .

D R . C. K . W IL E S ,H O M C E O P A T H IC

P h y s i c i a n & -S u rg e o n ,W ill a t te n d ca lls d ay o r n ig h t. Office o v e r

K elk er’s h a rd w a re s to re .CHATSWOR'I'*, ILL.

DE. C. TE.TTE.Office a n d R esidence In th e house fo rm e r ly

occup ied by Dr. B y lng ton

C H A TSW O R TH , ILLIN O IS.

G T O R R A N C E .

A i t e m e y utL& w- Ani Soliciior In Chancery.

W ill p rac tice In a il C o u rts o f th is S ta t. . Particular Attention Given to Collection*.

Office o v e r the I’ostofflce ,( 'llA T SW O R T U 111',

SAMUEL T. FOSSICK,(Successor to Fnidirk A Wallace.)

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,C h a t s w o r t h , - - I l ls .

W ill p ra c tic e In L iv in g s to n au d a d jo in in g co u n tie s . A ll legal b u sin ess in tru s te d to m y ca re w ill rece iv e p ro m p t a t te n t io n .

J . H . M E G Q U I E R * Justice of th.© Peace,

Real-Estate and Collecting Agent.Office over Post Office,

CH A T S W O R T H , - I L U N O I

W . W . S E A R S ,

Real Estate and Collecting Agent.

AJCD A UCL IO jVL'JSLx .

Office near the Depot.

CH ATSW ORTH, - IL L IN O IS ,

P E T E R S H R O Y E R ,D e a le r In

Hard and Soft Goal!CHATSW ORTH, ILI,.

O rders so lic ited a n d p ro m p tly filled.

CH A TSW O RTH , ILLINOIS.

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WALLBICBS l M E T R E 'S ,

MEAT M ARKET!JU S T EAST OF TH E BANK.

All k in d s o f F re sh a u d S a lt M eats c o n s ta n t ly o n h a n d , a t th e lo w e s t m a rk e t ra te s .

H ig h es t cash p ric e p a id fo r fa t C a ttle , Sheep, Hogs, H id es a n d T a llo w .

ROBERT HUUBOLD,

6ENERAL INSURANCE A6ENT!C H A TSW O R TH , ILL.

I a m a g e n t fo r th e HOME, o f N. Y., H A R T ­FORD, o f C o n n ., CONTINENTAL, o f N. Y„ FR A N K LIN , o f W est V irg in iaa n d th e W A8HINGTON L IF E , o f N. Y . Cal 1 on m e a n d I w ill w rite y o u up a po licy a t th e lo w e s t p o ss ib le ra te s . I a m also a g e n t for th e old re lia b le AiRna In s u ra n c e C o m p an y , of H a r tfo rd , C onn

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WM. A. MILLER, * - - PnorRiBTOR.

Junction C. & A. and T ., P, & W. R. R’s.

Oh b n o a , I l l i n o i s .

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