Bloomington Progress, Volume 16, Number 11, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 June 1882 — Page 4

TWE EAST. At WilkesbarMi, Fa., six workmen were being let down the Stanton coftl-pit in a bixket, when their lamps ignited the gas, and a tem6o explotiioa folio vrod The engineer in! mediately hoisted ihe iron bncket, aad in it wire found fonr of the men fatally burned.... TIic foortn well in the new-oil Held in Warren eoanty. Pa., was utruck last week, And in tlowiog i the rate of 3, QUO barrels per elay. Pr oas of oil arc the lomial for eight yean, and the new deld promises to bo of greater breadth bin any heretoforo discovered. A pasbgbb train on tha Clarksburg and Western mad, in West Virginia, waa thrown ov;r a trestle r,t Witltoo's Station. Some of tho train men escaped by leaping, bnt Conductor J. W. Smith was fenotwly injured. A Mr. Oary, tff Sew York, d.ed in great agony, and a Mr. OoMeborongb, of Baltimore, expired ran afterward. Ten others were badly wonrdedv A Net Yobx telegram reports " a better feeling ahmkik the merchants in tbe mctropolirt, and an improved demand for seasonable goods is apparent. Apprehensions of an impending erisut have diminished, and the money market is easy.. ...A smash-Op on tbe New lor Central road resulted in the death of the engineer and fireman of a passenger-train. By an explosion of fire-damp in the Diamond mine at Wfllesbarre, Pa,, eight men wero terribly burned. The affair was caused by a muter going in with an open lamp, in spite Of awning. Miohask. Davos addressed aa audience of 5,000 people ir. the Aeademy of Music, Sew York city. Tbe vast crowd rose as one whm Dsvitt stepped upon the stage, cheered till they were hoarse, and appUndod till they

reexnanefea.

Jonssox'a Harvester Works, at Brockpott, K. T., were swept away by fire. Loss, 5(0,000 ; insured for 4)300,000. One man was burned to death, four bnndred and fifty men were thrown out of employment Fonr newspaper offices in Buffalo were crippled by a strike of printer), those on the morning papers demanding 83 cents per 1,000 ems.

A oebibxiB murder and suici-le ooenrred at Jackson, Utah. Brans Schumacher, a saloon keeper, got drank and proceeded to whip his wits. He closed bis saloon, and in bis fury seized a niutket, and, leveling it at his wife, fired. The ball struck her in the atoraacn, inflicting a death wound. Passersby heard the Snog and summoned the police. Three of them repaired to the placeand broke in tbe door, whore they foetid the wife weltering in blood. Schumacher picked up the musket and ran np stars. Policeman Schweimer followed him, and when just at t he head of the stairs Schumacher leveled the weapon, pulled the trigger and a hall went crashing through the brain of the ofiieer. who fell back mortallv wonudeJ. Schnmacber then shot himself, dying in a few minutes. The tragedy produced wild excitement at Jackson.. ...A northbound pas-enier traia on tbe Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad met with a Sanaa accident near Bedford, Ind. They were bus and running fast to make up time. Scaring the White Klvcr bridge the rear coach tamped the track and rolled down a steep embankment, pulling the other coach, engine and tender, mail and baggage with it. The engine alto flew the trick, both lodging about half way down the embankment. There were thirty-five or forty passengers ra the train, all more or bMS injured. John Ctu iOny, the engineer, was terribly scalded, and diet in a few hour. Tie injuries of several of the passengers were of a nenoos nature. Aftbb an illness of nearly a year exGov. Wax. Dene Hon, of Ohio, died at Columbus, sged 97. He was Ohio's first War Governor, Postmaster General under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, was appointed by. President Grant a Commissioner of the District of Columbia, and was President of the Nitional Republican Convention of 1364.... Tie household goods of the BrookueSu bankre bbers were sold at auction at Kirkeville, Mo., at high prices. One of the gang had a fine msdKal library and the skeleton of a child. Tiie four members of the gang pleaded guilty, and are already in the Hmsouri penitentiary on sentences of of twenty-five years each At Ginton, Ohio, Grorge'&cXnlleuwas found with a bnlkt-holoin his breast, and m wife dead m bid with a bullet-bole under the eye. He says an unknown woman entered the room and commoted the deed Two ladies were drowned . while bathing, at Bed Wmg, Minn, Reports from sixty points in Northern Minnesota and Dakota are highly favorable tn regard to tbe wheat crop. The crop outlook to Mwhireui, Trims, Iowa and Wisconsin is higliiy favorable. Six persons were drowned in linn scanty, Eanv, while attempting tb cross a creek in a wagon. The victims of, the sad accident wis lbs; Seal and her tww children, two " ctikireo named Jaukk r, ami one child named Jixkott Fabxkbs in Pika county, Ohio, axe burning their oats to protect wheat from the ' army worm. Sear Cimleville a large field of btxiey has been entirely destroyed..,.. Five of the, principal gamblers of St. Louis among thera Bobert C. Pate, Peter Manning and Henry X Pate pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to su months in jail. The vast herds ot cattle on the trail in the Indian Territory and feeding their way northward shonli before long have an effect on tbe present extortmoaw condition of the beef market. Nearly 100,000 grass-fed cattle will be sent forward before Una driving season is

Thw big bridge at St. Tjouia, which fa owned and managed by a monopoly, is hkely to have a competitor. The Chicago and Alton, the YandaKa, the Indianapolis and fit. Louis, and tbe Ohio and Murdsahppi railroads are preparing to build a new structure at or near that csty. in order to escape the exorbitant charges imposed by tbe present company. . . . .The Iowa

cyclone made one dip into Kebraeka. At a paint on the Platte nver, in Bailer county, a ball mile of prairie was dug up aa by a great plow and a number of cattle killed, their bodies being tossed into the air like feathers. Fortunately, it was an unsettled part of the country.

Jambs Mitoueix, of Mount Sterling, Kj waylaid and outraged a farmer's wife, and waa Jailed. Five armed men took the offender from the omens and hanged him to a railroad trestle Ten Degrees and a white sleeping in a cabin in the, bed of Two Mile creek, near Winchester, Ky.. ware drowned by a sudden flood. A BATrrat with Winchester rifles, in wktoh fifty shots were fired, took place at Llano, Texas, between two-squads of citizens One man was killed, one mortally wounded and three others injured. The District Court made a requisition on the Adjutant General for a company of State troops. MoBSajr HamiiToi", a negro, who was accused of murdering Hiss Banna Benton, of Bonneville. Miss., was shot dead in a field by a pan,y of eight men... ..At Wmohester, Tenn, a party of citizens lynched a negro named Htiddk coo for an onfirage on a wbiie widow named Vacghan. Tax Federal Grand Jury at Austin, Texas, has indicted ex Marshal Busseil for emheattsmentof ,558. WA9lll!rrf. Atyct atoms R Boxk&bb, of Virginia, and Wm. McMahoo. ef New York, have been apfomted on the TnrUT Commission, in the places of Messrs. Wheeler and Phelps, who declined. Boteler is a Iiemocrat, but formerly a Whig. Be. was in the Confederate Congress, and is a fanner. McMahon is a Republican. He has been a clork in the New York Custom Heme, and has a knowledge of the practical operation of toe tariff laws The Utah Cnmmlsainn, at agreed upon by the Cabinet, is ss foLows ' Ex-Senator Bsmsey, of Minnesota; ex-Senator Paddock, of Nebraska; A. B. Carieton, of Indiana ; James B. Pettigrew, of Arkansas, and C. A Godfrey, of Iwoa. . . . .The Government Director of the Ujon Pad fie railway, apporited by President Arthur, are Bobert IL Dakar, of Wisconsin; George G. Haven, of New York ; George . 8pencer, of Alabama ; Watson Psnish, of Kehraaka, and Isaac H. Bromley, of Connecticut. Fob the new Alabama Claims Oontmiagion providad for in tbe Geneva Award bill, President Arthur has selected ex-Senator Jamea Harlan, of Iowa, and Judge Wells, a member of tho former commi.ision. ...At Wsshinzten, on June 19, Justice Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, to whom Guiteau's eounsei applied for a .writ of habeas corpus, filed a denial of the application with tbe Clerk of tbe Court. Jmtioi. Bradley holds that the Court of the Distinct of Colombia had full jurisdiction of the case, and that no reasons exist for granting the writ. Envoy Tkescots was again examined as a witness before too House Foreign Affairs Committee oa the Bbipherd Peru business. His testimony was unimtortant. This closed the investigation, and tho committee will now prepare its report. Tra Arkansas Democrats nominated aUh; candidate foi Gowrw Judge James

3. Berry, a one-legged ex-Confederate soldier, who is now a Circuit Judge. Thx Arkansas Oemooratio Convention nominated for Congressinan-at-Large 0. B. Breckinridge, a son of the late Gen. JohnC. B., and nnauimonsly passed a resolution eulogizing Senator Garland and urging his re-election, Thk Canadian general elections took place June 30, and resulted in the choice as members of the Dominion Parliament of an increased maloritv of supporters of the na

tional policy of tiae Premier, Sir John A. 4I&0maM. SElVERAXa " Ax attache of the Chinese Legation, in passing through Denver, stated that his Government will return fifty students to American colleges, finding that their recall was a mistake There were 104 failures in the United States during the last week, a decrease of twenty from the preceding week, but thirtyeight more than the corresponding week l&st year ..Dr. Jules Orevaux and his party of seventeen, who were exploring the northern tributaries of tbe Amazon, were murdered by Obah Indians in Bolivia. Jakes Vaughn wits executed at Pinckneyville, Perry county, EL, and Milton Ylirbery at Albuquerque, N. M. The latter was a frontier desperado, and committed many henious crimes. Vaughn murdered the City Marshal of T&maroa, 111., Ang. 4, 1881. Both culprits strangled easily A mob at Rico, CoL, took from jail two murderers named Thomas Wall and Trinidad Charlie and hanged them in a small cabin. Thrkk was an immense labor demonstration in Pittsburgh. Df legations wero present froma all the surrounding manufacturing districts, and there were 30,000 workingmen in prooessiou, while the parade was viewed and cheered by 50,000 spectators. Thk Canadian fishing sohooner La Syrene, with a crew of seventeen men, was sank on St Peter1 bank, coast of Now Poundland, by a hugo iceberg . . . .Miohael Davitt arrived at New York, June 18. and was immediately driven to the Everett House. The Gormanic, upon which he took passage, was detained by fogs and icebergs, and the committee of reception failed to meet him at the proper place. Advices from Chihuahua city state that the Mexican troops had another fight with the Indians at EncttullQS, in which fifteen Indiana were killed and twenty taken prisoners. Five' Mexicans wore Killed. A cable dispatch from the New York .Zfrrad correspondent, accompanying the Rogers expedition, tells the sad story of tho discovery of the bodies of Iiout De Long. Surgeon Ambler, and tbe rest of the officers and crew of the Jeannette, whose fate has for several mouths remained a mystery. All perished within a short distance of each other, martyr to the folly of attempting to explore the awful region of eternal cold. In their terrible trail southward from the wreck of the Jeannette DeLong and his parry endured unimaginable horrors of hunger and exposure. Their scanty stock of food exhausted, they roasted and ate the leather of their boots, and wrapped their feet in rags, until a merciful snow-storm came upon them and buried their pitiable Bufferings out of sight

in a common grave. . . .Twenty-seven Apaches, captured recently bv Mexican troops, were taken out in a field at Chihuahua and shot. Eaclt met Ins death with calmness.

sTtHlBIOK. As East, Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was riding through Dublin he was

stopped by Miss Anna ParnoU, who attempted

to speak to him. . Earl Spencer told her he was unable to hear what she was saying, but that he would talk with her at the Castle. Miss Pameil states that she bad been shocked to

near that the erection of huts for evicted tenants in County Limerick had again beoa stopped, and that she had asked Earl Spencer whether this report was true. From bis pretending he could not hear her. Miss Parnel! bolieves he was ashamed, ana that he would gladly escape from the odious position in which he has placed himself. She urges all who

are connected witn tbe building of tne nuts to persevere. "If one man is arrested," she sajs, "let another take his place, so as to leave no shadow of excuse for the continuance of this

outrage on humanity." She believes if the people do not show a little determination, children will be murdered by exposure. ...A dispatch from Alexandria says the number of Europeans killed in the late riot is estimated at 250. Many were thrown into tbe sea, and are being daily washed ashore. All the bodies hear the marks of bludgeon or bayonet wounds.

Dervish Pasha telegraphed the Porte

that the presence of the allied squadrons at

Alexandria was an obstacle to the restoration of

order. The Khedive ordered the formation of

a new ministry, with Arabi Pasha at the head of tho War Department. The Secretary of the Sultan has left for Egypt with fresh instruc

tions. England: has sent the torpedo-ship.

neaa w Aiexanana, ana noma six transports . in readiness: Germany has dis

patched the gunboat Hoirieht, and Austria has a man-of-war ready to sail. Ten thousand penons are believed to have left Alexandria. All tbe power have agreed on the immediate assembly of a conference on the

Egyptian question, and Spain asks representation, on the ground tbat the Suez canal is the shortest route to her Eastern possessions

Twenty-four thousand pounds was collected for the maintenance of the Irish Bnspects. Of this amount 18,000 was expended, and Miss ParneU writes that the fund should now he efrrmd

Iw tiie reconstruction of the Egyptian Ministry Arabi Bey retains the War portfolio.

He has no intention of "takings back seat," bat evidently means to remain the virtual ruler

of Egypt, He has already ordered C100,000 worth of torpedoes to plant in the harbor of Alexandria a quantity sufficient to make verv

unsafe ancborage for a foreign fleet of whatever dimensions, should he decide on ordering European war-vossala to vacate Egyptian waters.

ADDITIONAL JEWS. How. John B. GbinnklTj appeared on the Chicago Board of Trade in behalf of the people of Iowa made desolate and homeless by the recent cyclone. He was introduced by Mayor Harrison, all business waa stopped, and promises of aid came from all sides. After listening to his touching recital of the devastation wrought by the tornado a committee was rppointcd to raise funds and supplies. John . FdrweU, the merchant prince, started the hall by subscribing 1,000. Hajotcok, Ontario, was the scene of a horrible triple tragedy, the other day. A man named Forbes, rcconQy from Erie, Pa., killed his wire and a man named Balston, because the former rern-ied to live with him, and wound np by killing himself. Thk convention of the regular Cameron Republicans of Pennsylvania re-assembled at Harrisburg and nominated Marriott Brosius, of Lancaster, for Congress, in place of Thru as Marshall, declined. The differences in he party wore referred to tbe S:ate Central Co-u-mittee, with power to act A few delegates urged a new Stato Convention, but there was manifested email disposition to placate the independents The Republicans of Vermont have nominated John L. Bamtow for Governor, Samuel E. Pingree for Lieutenant Governor, and W. H. Dubois for Treasurer. Neaej-y 10,000 men participated in the parade of the Grand Army of the Republic at Dalttmore, which was led by Gen. B. B. Ayres, imd reviewed by President Arthur. A new feature was thees-ort furnished by Maryland and Virginia militia, many of whom served in the Confederate armv, . . , .The ship Escambia, wheat laden, left San Francisco for Portugal, and was caught in a heavy sea and sunk just outido the harbor. The Captain, engineer, steward and cook escaped, while fourteen of the crew penabod. The Saltan is urging the Khedive of Egypt to return to Cairo, and Gen. Stone and Other Americans give similar advice. The Ministers have ordered all Europeans employed by tne Govenms-rsi to return to their work at Cairo A St. Petersburg dispatch aavs that

an important discovery of a Nihilists

nlaee has been made on Vaaila

island. Forty-nine persons were arrested, in-

cwuuik numary men ana outers or position, and a large quantity of dynamite seized ; also a mass of correspondence and plans of the Kremlin at Moscow. . . . Meilling, the Prussian student, through whose help the Russian Government obtained maps of the coast defenses of Germany, ha committed suicide. Boston has formed a league of eightyfive prominent citizens to enforce the provisions of the Liquor license law. Hon. BufuaS. Frost is the President. The Greenback State Convention of Arkansas nominated Rafn K, Garland, a brother of United States Senator Garland, for Governor. . . .In the Third Congressional district of Maine the Greenback Convention nominated Mr. Ladd as his own successor. A boeler explosion at Williamsrleld, Ohio, wrecked a saw-mill and instantly killed Thomas Thompson and diaries Dunham, and so wounded Almond D. Brooks and Frank Chamberlain that they died soon afterward. WuXiIak Robo$s, Lewis Salenma and BartoSantmeyer were killed, and Jacob Baker and Frank Patterson seriously injured, by the tailing of a bank of earth and stone at the Mount Vernon cotton null, in Baltimore county, Md.

D0I5GS OF C0K6BES8.

Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, offered a resolution

m tho Senate, June 15, for a special committee

to investigate the cause and remedy for labor

strikes. Tho Bonded-Spirits bill was taken up. Mr. Wmdom said tho Honse measure would encourage combinations dangerous to tho revennos of the Government Mr. McMillan moved the indeliuite postponement of tho bill and its amendments, which was agreed to, by 83 to 20. Mr. Maxoy urged the passsgo of tho joint resolution to renppropriato $375,000 to pay debts due Southern mail contractors at the outbreak of the war. Mr. 1'lumb secured tho adoption of a resolution rrquoating the President to fnrniah tho correspondence regarding the conduct of tho Britinh Minister at Lima in connection with Miniutor Hurlbut's negotiation for tho bay of Chimbote. Tho House went into committee of the whole on tbe river and harbor appropriation. Mr. Pape explained its provisions, and a long debate ensued, only two pages of tho bill having been read when the adjournment took place Mr. Hoar introduced a bill in the Senate, on tho 16th, to provide for tho performance of the duties of the Presidency in cases of a vacancy in both the Presidency and Vice Presidency by vesting tho succession in the members of the Civbinot, beginning with the Socretary of Stato. Mr. BlairprcHonted a bill for a t.latue in Washington of Benjamin Franklin. An set was passed to authorize the Orogon Pacific road to bridge tho Willamotto river. Some debate ensued on tho bill to reappropriate $375,000 to pay Southern mail coniraclors, when it vas laid ovor. Tho bill to enable national batiks to extond tlioir corporato ox-Biiinco oamo np. A long dwrossica took place on tho proviso to exempt national bonks from attachments and injunctions by Ststo courts, and it was eipmiKcd. Mr. Miller

uirroaucou a dui to aiuoorizo uio ooutuom Pacific and other railroads to consolidate. Mr. Blair offered an act to permit freedmen to eater certain lands in Indian Territory. Tbe House in commit I oe of tho whole had under consideration tho River and Harbor bill, and considerable progress was made. All attempts to amend or alter the provisions of the bill as reported were vigorously and successfully resisted. Mr. Blackburn reported back Uio Military Academy Appropriation bill A resolution waa passed setting snide $33,000 for Arotic explorations. An evening session was held, at which sevonteen pension bills were passed, including one to givo $50 per month to Mrs. Dandridgo, a daughter of President Zachary Taylor. . There was no session of tho Senate on ths 17th inst. The House considered the Rivet and Harbor bill in Committee of the whole. A motion by Mr. Springer to strike ont the item of 8300,1)00 for a reservoir at the head waters of the Mississippi was defeated. An amendment by Mr. Page was adopted, that the Secretary of War carrv on by contract tho works contemplated in tne bill. The committee rose, and the bill was passed by 119 to 47. Mr. Robeson reported tbe naval appropriation, which waa recoinmitted. The House bill to protect immigrant oa shipboard and a joint resolution reappropriating (375,000 to pay Southern mail contractors were passed by the Senate on June 19. Mr. Hoar reported, as a substitute, a bill to provide for the performance of the duties of President in case of a vacancy in the Presidency and Vice Presidency, putting the succession upon tho members of the Cabinet Tho River and Harbor bill was received from tbe House, and Mr. Kellogg gave notice of several amendments. The House bill to extend tho oharten of national banks was taken up, and caused a prolonged discussion. A new section, reported by the Finance Committee, was adopted, authorizing the refunding of SW-per-cent bonds into 3-per-cent. bonds. The President transmitted a draft of a bill to enlarge the Pawnee reservation in Indian Territory. In tbe House Mr. Eelley introduced a bill to abolish the internal-revenue tax on tobacco and cigars. Mr. Washburn presented an act authorizing the removal of obstructions from navigable waters. Bills were also introduced to establish an international peace commission of nine members, who aro to serve for ton years, and to prevent discrimination in transportation ovor Pacific railroads. Under suspension of the rules, bills were passed to facilitate tho trial of contestedelection cases and to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to give out standard silver dollars for trade dollars. Along debate took place on the bill providing that Collectors of Internal Revenue shall be appointed for a term of four years, tho measure being defeated by 81 to 100. The rule ware suspended, and the pension appropriation of $100,000,000 went through without division. Fruitless efforts were made to secure an appropriation of 9400,000 for the extension of the Mint at Philadelphia, and for pensions for officers of the revenue marine service. A bill was passed levying an emigrant tax of SO oents per head on vessel bringing foreigner to our shores, the amount to be paid to the Collector of Customs. The joint resolution authorizing the erection of a memorial column at Washington's headquarters at Nowburgh and making an appropriation to defray the expense of the Centennial Celebration was passed by tbe Senate June 20. Bills were passed to appropriate $15,000 for approaches to the Monad City Military Cemetery, and to set aside $12,000 for a road from New Albany to the National Cemetery near that city, as also an appropriation of $300,000 for an extension of the Executive Mansion. In presenting tho credentials of Mr. Anthony, of Rhode Island, Chairman Davis remarked tbat the re-election of the gentleman for a fifth consecutive term wai the second instance in tho history of the Government Tho bill to extend the charters cf nitional hank was taken np, the pending question being the issue of gold certificates. After an argument on a double standard, the Senate went into executive session and confirmed the nomination to the Tariff Commission by 32 to 22. Tho House passed the Senate bill authorizing a report on the amounts dno the States and Territories for suppressing Indian hostilities.- Mr, Young introduced a hill providing that the tax on distilled spirits be reduced to 59 cents per fallon, aud tbe tax on beer and ale be fixed at 0 cents per barrel, with a deduction of 7Jper cent on stamps sold to brewers. A bill was passed appropriating 100,fl00 for a publio building at Erie, Pa. Mr. Updegraff reported a substitute for the Senate bill to cx a day for the meeting of Electors of President and Vice President and to regulate the counting of votes, on which a snirited interchange of sentiment took place. The substitute was rejected and the 8enate bill was recommitted. Sixty Republican members of the House held a caucus on the Internal Revenue bilL It was resolved that tho provisions in regard to tbe tax on bank capital and to special taxes on liquor-dealeis be eliminated, and that the bill be called up for consideration. A bill authorizing publio buildings at Lynchburg, Abingdon and Harrisonburg, Vs., ma passed by the Senate on Jons 20. Mr. Morgan's resolution to investigate the cause of the labor strikes was referred to the Committee on Education aud Labor, to report within a we ;k. The bill to extend the charters of natio ial banks was taken up. The pending amendment for the if sue of silver certificates was adopted. A proposition was carried iiat tio issue of gold certificates be suspended whenever tbe aviilable treasury stock of that nw-lal falls below $100,000,000. It was agreed that no national bank sball belong to a clearinghouse in which tdlver certificates are not received in settlement of balances. Mr. Reck offered a provision requiring national banks to receive and payout silver dollars and certificates on tho same terms as gold, but it was voted down. A clause was adopted punishing the unlawful certification of checks by a fiiu. of 5,009 or imprisonment for five years. Mr. Allison gave notice that he would offer tho Hennipen Canal bill as an amendment to the River and Harbor bill. In tbe House, the bill for the erection of a Congressional Library building was taken up. Mr. Townshend charged that tho measure embodied a job of Eastern parties, against which remark Messis. Reed and Humphrey entered a hot piotest, and the bill was postponed to Dee. 12. An act was passed to authorize the Rock Island and Southwestern railway to bridge the Mississippi at New B wton, IIL Tho hill to reduce Internalrevenue taxation was considered in committee of tbe whole. Mr. Kelloy estimated the revenues of the Government for this yoar at 3-100,-000,000, and said the bill proposed a reduction of only $23,000,000. Mr. Thompson spoke for an hour in opposition to the measure, when a largo number of amendments were snomitted. The committee rose without having taken action. TUB DETROIT BEDNI05.

Yearly- Meeting- of the Army of tne Potoatae, The Society of the Army of the Potomao convened at Detroit on Wednesday, Juno H, and was called to order by Gen. Charles Devon, Jr., it President Gen. Andrew AHumphrey, 0. 13. A., waa elected President for the ensuing year. The other officer were reelected. The various army corps represented in the Army of the Potomac hold corps renuions during tho afternoon. First corps elected Gen. E. G-; Bragg Presidout : Sooond, Col. N. S. Ohnrjh, Ithaca. Mich.; Fifth, Gen. James MoQuade; Sixth, Col. James H. Piatt: Ninth. Gen. John G. Park. O. S. A.; Twelfth, Cant W. W. Bush, Lockport, K. X., who claims to have been the first enlisted man in the War of the Rebellion; Nineteenth, Gen. It E. Paine, Wisconsin j Civalrv, Gen. W. Wells, Vermont Gen. Francis A Walker sent a letter accepting tbe position of historian of the Second corps, and Gen. Hindu, of Wisconsin, made a rousing speech to his old oomrades, whom he had oomo 8,000 miles to see. At the meeting of tbe Ninth corps. Gen. X. E. Bpragne, of Massachusetts, read a beautiful tribute to the memory of their late President

Uen. Sheridan was received with deafening cheers by the Cavalry corps, and made a brief peech, expressive of kind regard for hi old

comraucs. The reception in the Musis Hall in the evening was a grand event The auditorium was beautifully decorated wiih mementoes of camp life, interspersed with the rude engine of war. Got. Jerome welcomed the veterans of tbe Army of the Potomac, He said : "X shall not linger long in the grateful duty imposed upon me of giving you a wolcoma to .the State of Michigan. Wo recognize in you the surviving coworkers in one of the greatest periods of our hiitory illustrious agents in ths accomplishment of a mighty triumph far transcending tho ordinary exploits of arms. Xoa are conspicuous witnesses to the truth, nover represented at tho military reunions of nations across the Atlantic, that a free reSuhlican government by the people knows ow to take caro of itself. It was vour fortune to have been placed in the foreground of the conflict. It was the Army of the Potomao that began the war, and when it fighting was done the war had ceased. Tbe rebel Army of Northern Virginia, defending the re Del capital, represented in the eyes of tbe world the idea of organized hostility to the Vuion. Tbe Army of the Potomac, protecting the capital of the nation, and striking directly therefrom at the heart of its enemies, represented in the eyes of the world the idea of organized loyalty to tho Union. You saved

Washington, and yon captured both Richmond and its defenders. ' The Governor then dwelt upon the long services of this great army, and Did it a warm welcome to the State that had furnished 90,000 men to tho Unior. army, and whose representatives wero found with tho Army of tho Potomao from the first crossing over 'the Long bridge into Virginia to the fall of Richmond, and whoso dead strewed ever; one of that armv'i battle fields. Mayor Thompson, in. a brief, bnt cordial peech, welcomed tho veterans to the hearts and homes of the citizens of Detroit General Devens, on behalf of the Army cf the Potomac, made a brief but eloquent response. John Boyle O'Reilly, of Boston, then read hi poem, entitled "America," which was a very neat production, indeed, and was received with great applause, Gen. E. S. Bragg, of Wisconsin, was then introduced, and delivered tho oration. This was an elaborate defonse of Gen. McCIellan's organizing ability aud military skill, was high in its praise of Fits Jean Porter and strong fit it incidental condemnation of Geo. Pope and Secretary Stanton. Tracing the history of the Grand Army from the first to the last, he closed in these word: " Oh, my countrymen, the Army of tho Potomac was the array of deeds worthy to live in history. It fought more pitched battles and lost more men on the field than any of the armies of the United States, aggregating a grand total of 93,858. It was often reputed, bqtnevor with dishonor. Broken, it rallied again ; driven back, it returned vigorously to battle As the sturdy oak on the utouniaia lido, stripped of its limb and riven vith thunderbolts, refuse to bow to the storm, but, conscious of its strength, lifts it head in grim defiance to the elements, no this grand old army, shattered, worn, with thinned ranks, bleeding sons in every hosp.feJ, its dead strewn on scores of battlefields, bore to the front her battered, blood-stained banners until the sun of Appomattox gilded them iriih the luster of a flmil victory- In its vocabulary 'there is no such word as fail.' Proud is the record of any soldier of whom it may be truly said : ' He was ol the Army of the l'titoman.' " The close of the address wa greeted with great applause. The audience then loudly called for G ex Grant, who was on the platform, who acknowledged the compliment, but declined to speak further than to express his gratification at being present with bis old oomrades in arms, -uid to doclare his belief that volunteer armies v era the best in tho world. They fought for lovu of country, and not because they were hired. Sheridan alsoxtocuned to make a speech, but

expressed gratification at meeting with old

friends. Speeches were made br ex-President Have

and Gen. Sickle, and the exercise of th evening closed.

The second and last dt.y of the reunion witnessed a grand procession in honor of tho veteran guests. The streets wero everywl-ere lined with thousands of people, and the appnarance of the most prominent, soldiers was gre ted with great applause. Grant, Sheridan, Ha-res, and Sickles were, of course, the ohief attractions. The procuKsion was a mile and a half long. In the afternoon two steamers gave tho guests a ride on the Detroit river. The exercises closed with a banquet at M isio Hall, where the menu cards were in the form of a canteen, opeir.ng on a hinge. 3xPreaident Haves responded to the toast, " Jur Country;" ex-Gov. Austin Blair to 'The Volunteers ;" Gen. fcickles to The Army and Svv," Gev. Jorome to "Tho State of Mu lligan,'" and Mayor Thompson spoke for the sit? of Dolroil. RAILWAY BUILDim It is I.m-erely on tne Koom The Number of Mile !on!ruclcl During-Ike Year. From the Bauway Age. Early in the beginning of the present vimr the impression began to prevail that tho construction of new railway in this country liad for a time practically ceased, tbe result, it was behoved, of a nataral revulsion from the fui ore for extensions which had characterized 1 81. That year, it will bo remembered, was noted for the construction of a far-greater railway mileage than any previous yes; in the history of (he country, aggregating between 9,000 and 10,000 miles. This seemed to bo adding to our railiray system at an excessive and unwarrantable rate, and it ps assumed that, a marked decrease would ensue. Thus far, however, this year, these predictions have not been justified, lnt, on tne contrary, strango to say, the mileago of new roads already completed is far greater than during the same period for uny previous vear, and considerably more tlan twice as great aa that for the first five months of 1881 even. To show these remarkable facts we have taken pains to obtain information as nearly complete as possible of the progress of b-ack-laying on each road in the country, from which we have made a summary by States, i.nd present in the following table a statement, so far as we have it, of the miles of track laid in the United Statou during the five months from Jan. 1 to June 1, 1883, giving also the numoer of lines concerned : TRACK UID FSOX UK. 1 TO JU5X 1, 1882.

a W.W S J.W

State or Territory, Alabama. Arizona Arkansas California Colorado............ Dakota. Florida

Georgia.,

Idaho 2 lUluola.

Indiana. Iowa 6 Kansas & Louisiana 1 Maryland. & Minnesota....... S Michigan...., 1 Mississippi 2 Missouri.... Montana 1 Nebraska 2 Nevada 1

New Jersey a

New Mexico...

New Y irk North Carolina.. Oblo Oregon Pjnusylvanta.... South Carolina... Tennessee , Texas

ntah.

1

. M . . . 1 . . 2 . 4 . 10

1

1J1.U0 'X.IK 293.00 l:iM C .00 .00 4W J'i.OO 21:. 00 aer.w Uii.00 fc.M 11.50 S." .'M .'JO li.oe it .00 (il'.UO i.kj If.OO M i.oo ; ldi .'.a ti:.ou 2;;.7i fii.oo t.oo 41.00 m .oo IK .00. IK'.O HI. 00 ll.OO

INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.

Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming , I

Totala in 36SUlcsaRdTerriUirie.120 a,48C.I From this table it will be seen that during the past fivo months tracklaying has been in progress in thirty-six Stales and Territories upon at least 120 roads, and that, within tbat time no less than 3,480 miles of new railway havo been added to tbe United States. These figures, moreover, are iiacetssarily incomplete, as quite a number of roads havo not yet responded to our inquiries for information, and on a number of others tracklayiug had but recently commenced. Although, as has been said, construction during 1881 was remarkably rapid, yet at this time last year only about 1,600 miles or new track had been reported, or leas than 15 per cent of the aggregate for the present yoar, and not much more than 15 per cent of tlie total laid in 1881. A similar rate of cnnstru Uon for the remainder of this yesr would show tbe prodigious total of about 23,000 miles for 1882, but, of course, no such increase is now possible That railway construction has by no m i a been suspended, bnt that, on tho other hand, an enormous mileage is to be added, is indicated by the large number of companion r--cently incorporated, as well as by tho fact Unit preliminary work i in progress on many other

lines which havo not reached the stage e f j tracklaying. By running through our own files (

since Jan. l, wo una wat wo nave reiorreu 10 no less than 225 oompaniss either newly incorporated or iu process of construction, these being in addition to the 120 covered by our table of tracklaying, and in addition to tbe others on which tracklaying is in progress but has not been reported. We believe it safe to say that there are at least 350 lines, covering at a moderate estimate a total of 25,000 miles, upon which work is now either in progress or is proposed to bo commenced during the present year ! Of course, some of these projects may not speedily be undertaken, and a financial revulsion would put a temporary stop to many lines now under construction; but if the coming harvest throughout the country is good, and business docs not experience a serious set-back, it is not unlikely that tho mileago of railways constructed during 1882 will nearly equal (be remitrkabl record of 1881,

Chemical JKanufaciojra. Census BuSetin Ho, 286, which relate wholly to the manufacture of chemicals, show tbut there are 1,319 establishment devoted to that industry in too United State. Tbe capital invested, inolu'ling building and machinery, 1 $85,180,856. This investment gives employment to 29, tOO persons, whoso aggregate eif wages iu the year of 1880 amounted to tll,820,72a Th total value of all materials used was $77,344,281, and of products $117,407,05-1. Manufactured manures formed tho prinoipul product, which was valued t 413,921,400. and common hard soap come next, being 18,299 -850. m Itecline Of Breadstuff Exports. The advance statement of the Bureau of Statistics of exports of domestic breadstuff from, the virious customs districts " of tbe United States during the month of May make a poor exhibit as compared with the oorros ponding month of -1881. Tbe total valuos cf exports for May, 1882, are $10,107,4.15, againet $19,804,618 iu 1981. The total values for five months landing May 31 of the present year wore $65,509,617, against $01,375,239 for the corresponding period last year. The totals for the eleven mouth ending May 31 were f 167,953,532, the .mount for tho eleven mouths end

ing slay 31, 1881, being 244,U55,413. Production of (Mold and Silver. Tho Scorotary of tbe Treasury recently transmitted to Congress tho report of tbe Director of the Mint upon the production of gold and silver in tho United States in 1881. The total product of geJd for the year was $34,700,000, of silver, $43,000,000. Colorado takes' the flr.-it place among tbe producing States, with a yield of moro than $20,000,000. California follow,! with a yield of nearly $19,000,000, and Nevada, which at one time ranked first, is now third, with a product of less than $9,000,000. Tbe Tide of IniniigTatlon. Daring Uio month"of Hay there arrived in the customs eiutnotg of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Huron, Minnesota, Now Orleans, New York, PassamHirnoddy, Philadelphia and San Franaisco 111,035 immigrants. Of this total number of immigrants ttiero arrived from England and Waleii, 13,404; Ireland, 19,747; Scot land, 3,015; Austria, 4,890; Belgium, 100; Denmark, 2,700; France, 645; Germany, 41,747; Huugarv, 648; ltalv, 5,141; Netherlands, 1,947; Norway, 7.161; Ilussia, 1,U86; Poland, 1,138 Sweden, 19,372; Switzerland, 1,849; Dominion of Canada, 10,(22: China, 4,801; and from el other countries, 664. The total number of immigrants arrived iu the custom districts named from the principal foreign countries for the eleven mouthii ended May 31, 1882, as compared with the same period of the previous year, wa as foJows : Countri'S. 1883. 1881. England and Wale 77,137 67,41 Ireland 6,l.i 01,79cSci.tlund 1C,666 1-J,fi2ll Austria 17.897 I6,T Gertnaur.,.,., 226,010 175,301 Norway 23,33 17,40 Bmdeu 62,984 89,061 Dominion of Canada 04,539 110,07!China 20,710 7,4i All other oountr.us 93,419 61,59 Totals 685,34 303,181 Snake Charmers. Some years ago, when Cairo waa the Cairo of the "Arabian Nights," and not the disreputable-looking second-rate-French country town it is now, we inquired for any possible successor tu the old sunke-chormer whom old Anglo-Indians may remember to have seen playing with his cobras before Shepherd's Hotel. (Wan he not at the Zoo in the wonderful rear 1851, and did he not promptly decline, without thanks, onr offi-r of two or three lively capellew then iu the collection ?) After some trouble we lighted on a furtive Arab caitiff, in the usual loug Hue shirt, girded about the waist to form the upper part into a species of upleuoban ot sporran. In this hrt seems, to keep his dirty pipe, his packet of frousty tobacco, and whatever small portable property he had acquired more or lews houestly. With him we resorted to divers ancient stables and outbuildings in the suburbs, and conjured him to find a snake. Placing a simidl wexMlen pipe between his lips he tootled quaintly an old Arab air, now low, but hardly soft, and now high and loud. Thus he wandered, tootling and furtive, and we following and expectant. At last, arriving at an old half dark, evil-smelling stable he appeared to get excited, gave vent to still wilder squeaks aud squeals, circled round and round under a big inlm tree beam, and at last, with an ear-splitting note, ha squatted suddenly down, dashed his hand apparently upward, and clutched a big cobra, which he evidently intended us to believe had been charmed from above. I say apparently, for I am certain that he lost the brute cut of the ' bosom" of his blouse. Now this was very pretty, but hardly satisfactory; so, instead of giving our charmer "backsheesh" (having a man in authority among us,) we promised him bastinado if he did not capture a snake in the open. Very limp about the loins and very yellow did that Arab caitiff show through his brown skin, but we were relentless. "Cobro or Toko !" and so ha nearohed with the greatest oare not to find what, in fact, he did not want to find, At last one of us spied the tail of a good-sized sunke protruding from some unnamable rubbish. "Now, my friend, -natch us that snake, or" He tootled not tlie " or " had taken the music out of him and, overcoming with a risible effort his shuddering horror, he caught the tail in one hand and rapidly ran the othei up the body till he reached tho neck. Pinning this between his finger and thumb, he caught up the tail of liis blouse, and forcing the brute to close his jawii upon it, tore it out rapidly, a;?ain aud Again, evidently with the intention of tearing out the poison fang!, which he did at last, to a certain extent, to his own satisfaction ; but he was wary to the end, and, instead of putting it into his poucu with his old friend, he knotted it up in a rag. And so he went his, way and we went ours, with a gentle feeling' Unit if we had been " done " we were to a certain extent aware of the fact. By the way, unless my memory lias utterly given way to my imagination, I elistinetly remember seeing it; 1851 the cobras strikbg and drawing blood from tho arms of the old Arab snake-charmer and hi clover boy. Many wonderful things he did, such as producing a cataleptic rigidity in the snake, as easily emeived as produced things I should tike to see ft;j uu. 7Vic London Field. Stato Fairs. The fallowing is s list of State and independent f air to ho held this fall : Ohio Columbus Aug:. 28-Sept. 1. Indiana Indianapolis.. ..Sept. 3i-29. Illinois BprluiillKld Sept 23-30. Michigan... Jaeksou Si-pl, 18-22. Iciwa ...lies Moinoe Hept. 4-8. Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Sept. 17-21. Wisconsin Kaunas Topeaa.. Sepi. 11-16. Montana Helena Kept. 26-30. Arkansas I,ittlo Book Oct. 10-21. Xeliraak Omaha Hrpt. U-lfl. Texas Austin Oct 17-21. St. Liinls St. Louis Oct 2-7. tvolorado ,., Denver Aug. 1-Oct 4. South Carolina... Columbia Nov. 14-17. Til-State Toledo Sept 11-16. Kmitben! Ouio. Ontiul Ohio Mecbanicsburg.Bept. 19-22. KabiiM Kubiua Auk. 21-2. niuncliestfr Ii:aitcliester....AiiK. 28-Hppt. J Wellintfton. . Wellington Kept. 22-24. Ihn-tfoni HarUord Hept. 6-8. tiu-arowy County Independent . . . Wa-liington Hent 27-2. Jamestown Jamestown Aug. 0-11. rataskaia Pataskaia Aug. 22-25. Kowcouierstawii..Nuwcomarstovneici. 3-6. Westervibe WostorviUe Kept. 50-22. Cljde Clyde Oct3-S. Nun-London New Ix)iidon...8ept 6, eto. Ureentleld (Ireeillleld e let 10-13. Western MichigucOraud Rapids.. Kept. 25-90. MahaBka County ..Oakaloosa Aug. 28-Sept I Carboudale District, ill ...Carboudale Oct. 9-13. Toronto, Canadu..Torontq Sent. 11-23. Northeastern Ind. Waterloo Oct, 2-0. Cambridge Git. ..Cambridge Oity.Sent 19-33.

The Storm If hat Mr. tyiitliiopper Saw, "Yes, gentlemen, that was rather a severe storm, bllv it wouldn't comparo with some I've soon. Why, a wind came along here a few years ago that lifted a street ca clear from tho track anil held it against the siele of a house for fonr days. Another time I saw a barrel of ashea picked up nt the Union 'Depot, just as I was leaving for Denver, and I'll bo hanged if that barrel wasu't emrried every foot of the way out there, and then dropped in a back yard owneel ly a brother of the man who had it in St. Jjouis. And dust 1 Why, one day while I was. shilling my Utilise,

nailed the shingles all over the roof, and thought it took a great many shingles to do it. Well, when I came to investigate, I found 1 had been nailing th.sm to the dust ! Another time " But a bystaneier considerately kilted hint, anel the Keeording Angel had tone to sharpen her pencil. &l. Louis Hwnel. The Ready Letter Writer. The third letter of the series, is that of a young man asking for the position of humorist .on an English paper. It should be in about the following language: White Eivkb, Coibado, ) March 1, 1882. Editor of Loudon tturglo: Dear Sir It is with some hesitation that I uddress you on this occasion, relative to the subject of securing a lucrative position on your great journal as chief humorist and pun promoter. I am aware that my experience so far lias been somewhat limited in this line, but I heipe by patience and a proper course of dieting to bring myself up to a point where I iray establish a repuaitiou both foi myt-eif and your paper. 1 have attempted several times to hold down a like position on American journals, but so far have not miulo ti nt mark which my ungovernable ambihition seems to crave. I hope to strike

the popular gait iu a few weeks so tlat.l

in Kuglatitl 1 would nave no trouble. My jokes are of a grave and at times almost sud complexion. They are a stylo of grief tainted humor, which cannot but attract tbe kindly notice of your people.

Heretofore I have filled the position

of undertakers foreman with wonder! ul success ami could still hold the position if I desired it, but it is too cheerful in Us nature. I want something that will chasten and soften my rebellious nature. I want something that will give me a constant reminder of my dying condition. What I want is to mingle with woe aud suffering. I feel as though life should not be p. holiday and a picnic. It should be a groan, shudder, or a prolonged death rattle. I am fully impressed with the idea that we can ouiy be purified through suffering. No man can fit himself for death it he glid-as evenly through life. It is therefore my desire to enter your office and be thrown in constant contact with the corpse-like presence of your jokes. I would love to mingle with the bony relics of your staff and hear their grim aud awful puns. Please do not tarn me away, but give me a chance to sit in the ghostly glimmer of your smile. I do not care for a large salary on the start All I would require would be the wholesome contact I would be brought into with the ghouls and wreckers of human hilarity. My morbid longing for the dead and decaying humor of forgotten years would then be put at res. This wild hunge:.' l!or something acutely ad and hcart-broksn would be stilled. Please write me as soon as possible, and believe me ever Dei irily yours, Sombeb O. Paia. ItOramie lioomerani.

Divination by Keans of Sheep! Bones. M. G. Perrot speaks, in his "Msmoires d'Aroheologie d'Epigraphie, -3t d'Histoire," of divination by sheep's bones. This method of penetrating tlie secrets of the future is largely resorte d to at the present time, and the Greek peasant has confidence in it as absolute as that which his ancestors regarded the examination of tho entrails of a sacrificial victim. This practice is, however, no longer restricted to diviners at d sorcerers only; on solemn occasions each man may net aa his own augur on behalf of himself and his family. I remember once when I was returnixg from an exoursion into Achaia, near Aigion, I waa obliged to atop in ti e evening in the outskirts of Mourla, at a peasant's house where I asked hospitality for tho night. He took me into a room where his wife and his four children were beginning their evening meal, of which he invited me to partake. I think it was a few days after Easter, and ti e food set before us waa mutton. Tie children had just begun to talk freely, and conversation was becoming animated, when , al l of a sudden my ha it flung something violently on tbe ground, struck his forehead, and as I looked nt his wife, seeking-in her eyes an explanation, she burst into tears. A young gid of twenty waa lying on a rug at the end of the room, in tho shade ; I had not observed her. She had recently fallen ill. Her father, taming his eyes toward her, picked up the object he had thrown down and handed it to me. It was 'the blade -bone of the sheep. "Yon ate nothing, perhaps," he said to me; "nevertheless, it is written there thtit my daughter iii going to die ; she will not recover." T. endeavored to dissuade him from this idea, but in vain ; all tlie family were plunged into despair, and gave way to the wildest grief. As faio would have it, the young girl actually did die a few day afterward. During tho war of independence the same method waa employed for foretelling the issue ol the struggle, and the famous Captain KaraiBtratris was guided by tho presage in engaging in or deferring an aotion. Oertain conditions are hidispensablo to the prediction of the future by the bone; the sheep must have been purohased by the person who eats it, and kept alive for three days in his house; otherwise tho presage applies to the person who has sold the anima. This superstition was especially cherished by the brigands., but it is to be presumed that they found some way of eluding its restrictive conditions, for they are notii the habit of pmtshasing their sheep, an 1 they liave no lnuses to keep them iu. Tht Nineteenth Century,

AGRICULTURAL. Treatment of Bona.

Tho American Agriculturist savs :

Bones accumulate on every iarm, aim hunt for them will bring cjt any faoro than one would expect to find. When properly treated, they fanush, very ..valuable food for growing plants. Whole bones, as they are thrown out from tho kitchen, are so slowly decomposed that they are of little use unless applied very largely. They need to be broken up or made fine in some way, that the large amount of phosphoricaoid, etc, contained in them may be available. It is hot practicable for ordinary farmers to have bone mills, and the next-bout thing is to brk thera np with: an ax or hea vy hammer, and mix them with unleached sah js, keeping the heap moist enough so the alkali will "eat" them, anel render the bones soft. Tho bones thus treated will crumble to fine pieces whoa dried, and are then ready to be spread upon the land. Every farmer should see that all oonea are made into a valuable honjainade fertilizer. Blue-Grass Pastures. Many persona condemn blue-graea pastures by reason of their lack of knowledge how to uiie them. Blue grass never becomes tough except the seed fetal ks, no matter how long it is permitted to grow. If it is cropped short, tho ground becomes dry and baked and produces little or no pasture. We have seen thousands of acres made almost perfectly worthless in this way. Cattle are turned on it before it gets high enough to show green, and it being sweet and tender, and overstocked, it is kept in this condition nil cummer. Btock should not to turned on it until the grass is well ntarted, and is high enough to shade and keep tlie soil moist and mellow. And them limit the stock so that thoy will not at any period in tho season out it short enough to expose the surface of the soil to the son. Thus protected the land retains its moisture, and produces an abundant crop of the bent grass for stock tlie whole year. Other grass may bo eaten short to keep it tender, but not so with blue grass. The farmer who knows how to tr.jat his blue grass prefers it to any other, and it will produce more food than any other grass. And the main thing to observe is not to keep too much btock for the pasture. Corn, and Bow to Flaat It. The best and most effective methods of cultivating this oereal have been thoroughly tested on the experimental farm of the Rural New-Yorker, aud, after a loug-continned series of experiments on all kinds of lands, and under all kinds of circumstances, that journal sums up its experience as follows : For raising corn sod ground is be st. If farm manure is used, it U bst,t to harrow it in than plow it under. If spread upon the sod and plowed under, do not plow deep. If concentrated fertilizers are used, plow aud harrow, and- then sow tho fertilizer and harrow until the ground is thoroughly tilled. All dry, concentrated fertilizers as raw bone flour, for example should bo well mixed with ah' -equal quantity of moist earth, otherwise a considerable part cf the bone Hour will bo blown away. A more even distribution of any kind of chemical fertilizer can be made if extended with soil than if not A surface dressing of from 400 to 600 pounds of csoncentrated fertilizer on sod ground, if well prepared, ie a auflicrient quantity. Do not manure in the bill or drill with concentrated fertilisers. Of all methods of manuring, this is, in the end, the most wasteful anel ineffectual. Plant in drills, dropping one kernel every six inohes. Mark the drills four feet apart, if the variety of oorn grows as tall as ten feet, and at the first hoeing cut every other plant where tho stand is full. Some Hintf on 8heep-Ba.ia.ing-. For thelast twenty years I hare bought and fed sheep. I soon learned to ovoid buying grease and wrinkles, because they wouldn't fatten readily, and not seU as well. . I have always bandied our common Merino sheep nth a fair amount of success, having bought and sold them by the car-load that averaged over 140 pounds per head, and I think thev were good mutton. But in 1878,1 shipped to New York some sheep, tho beat of which I found were bought for the foreign trade, bnt wero all. dressed before snipping. I have since then tried crossing with Cotswold on very ejrdiaary Merino ewea with creat success in two ways, vis.:

iweight of carcass and wool. I had thirty

lambs dropped in March; these L washed tho 'first day of August, and sheared them the eighth h.y; they sheared three pounds seven ounces of very clean wooL Tho nest May I washed, and sheared them tie 8th of June, just ten months from previous shearing. At this time they sheared eight pounds and eight ounces of the cleanest and nicest wool I ever saw. Tho next winter I fed aud sold theia, except four; those wore sold averaging 172 ponnels per heatl, not yet 2 years old. The four that I kept ran in dry pasture without grass. I received first premium at the Stato Fair Inst fall for fat sheep. Michigan Fanner.

Longfellow's Independence. The most urbane and sympathetic of men, never aggressive, nor vehement, nor seli-asserting, ho was yet thoroughly intlepeudent, and the individuality of his genius hold i ts tranquil way as surely as the river Charles, whose placid beauty he so often sang, wound through thit meadows calm and free. When Longfellow came to Cambridge, the impulse) of Transcendentalism in New England

was deeply anevting scholarship ana literature. It was represented by the most original of Arm ricau thinkers and the. typiunl Ameiioan scholar, Emerson, and its elevating, purifying anel emancipating influences are memorable in our moral and iutaJeotual history. 'Long, fellow lived in the very heart of the movement. Its leaders were his cherished friends. He, too, was a scholar and devoted student of German literature, who had drunk deeply also of the romance of Gorman Uio. Indeed, his first important works stimulated the taste for Gurmo-n studies and the enjoyment of its literature more than any other impulse in this country. But he remained without tlie charmed Transcendental circle, serene aud friendly and attentive. There aro those whose career wa wholly molded by the intellectual revival of that time. But Longfellow was untouched by it, except as his sympathies wero attracted by the vigor and purity of its influence. His tastes, his lntureets, his activities, his career would have been the same had that great light nover shone. II ho had been the duotile, cohering, imitative nature that the more ardent dijoiplcs of the faith supposed him to be, he would have been, abnorbed and tiwept away by tho flood. But ho was tu untouched by it as Charles Lamb l y the wars of Napoleon. George Willixm Curtis. The Czar likes to go to ohuroh, andia particularly fond of all the chants but one, which is tbe chants of being suddenly blown up with dynaruifc) concoaled iu his hymn-book,

Coloring Butter. The practice of coloring butler has of lato years become well nigh universal in nearly all the great dairy districts of the country. There aro innumerable patent doctoriqgs used for this purpce, and it has become a part of every taster maker's outfit to have on band a nupply of coloring, by tho use of which he is enabled to grass butter during the entire rear. At all events the coloring gives the buttor a rich, yellow apiiearanoe, which, although it is a species of deception, is none tho less what night bo termed the winning card play-d by tho buttermakers. Tho manufacturers of the compounds claim that, being mado from purely vegetable matter, no injuriouti effects can possibly follow its use, yet there are those who claim that these coloring compounds are more or less injurious. The"tlemand for rich yellow butter continues, and in order to supply this dom and it becomes neoessary to resort to artificial means to secure the color. Butter of tho natural white ooor, as is the ease when cows are off grass feed, will not bring as high a price, although perfectly sweet and pure, as the same quality permeated with coloring matter, which brings out a yellow, orwmy appearance. People, particularly mcitiejs, are sufficiently well pleased with anything that tastes sweet, and it is become a question whether tho countless imitations of butter do not answer every purpose. In nauy canes consumers cannot tell the difference, and some practical men assert that Chicago pfrocers pnrohafco oleomargarine and ether substances and sell the stuff for prime oreamery. The efforts- of the produce dealers of this tnty to prevent this traffic tlo not seam perfeorly consistent when one stops to oooeider that nearly every package of real butter is filled wbh these coloring frauds. A recent Bastern exohnnge says taat hundreds of barrels of the peculiar oil used in the manufacture of oleomargarine are shipped to ostensibly-honest creameries, where it is workeel up and shipped to the consumers as tlie best of lilt-edged creamery butter. The present high price of good butter ought to fnntrantee a pure quality at least, but it would seem that in the scramble for money the American dairyman is rapidly tieeoming aa unscrupulous as tho venders of other fraudulent goods. The dividend-paying factories, and the concentration of the manufacture of butter into a few hands, has perhaps many advantaged, bub. to the lover of good, genuine batter, the system is becoming a source of suspion,0ftwao Tritrunt.

goUaekeepeta'IBtat" f-.PAQHETTI iXD ToKATO SoOP. Bofl

ounces of the fine aoULanaeaioni '

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lifben minutes ; drain in a cloth; out in incur lengths: put iaA eaooetpaa with two quartsoi beof broth, quart of toniatw pure and a little silgaf bboiJ test minutes longer, skim, potir in a soap tureen, and serve with grated Farziaaaa cheese armngel separately oil apliie. Brandt Swj,fb Hub one-ouartsr of a piiond of butter into one-Iialf pentad ot flour, add one-half pound of rnoiat sugar, one-half ounce of ground gioger, sac. the grated rind and juioeof ale meat. Mix with a little molaeaea to a past) thin one ugh to spread on Una. Bake in m molerate oven, and when 3v onoogn ont into Htripti while still pa tbo tins, amUhemroUitrejimdtheflngwrs. When colli put in a tin at once, or: they wis lews their criapntsa. -.'--- Itiox and A ptusi PtTDinwei. Buil wupful of rice for ten mwi ifaa, drain it through a hair sieve until quite dry. Pu t a cloth into a pudding dish and lay the rice round it like a oj-toaV, Cut six apples into quartern and Uy them ii the middle of the rice with a utttt cshepped lemon peel, a couple of cloveeSuid soma mis ar. Cover the fruit with some rioe, l;ie up tight and boil for an hone, .Hervo with melted butter swewten ad and peiurcA over it, or with cream. Appu FRrtritBaPailbaTairo soon apples and cat ihom into thin aioeit Moisten them with sherry, pfcnr a glaao of brandy, quarter of a pound of - siigar, some powdered ennaamoii'andngi'atod lemon peel over them, and let thAa e-tahd . an hAn, tnminirtl.MniiMf umputlfllMi

then dip them in fritter bitter an-1 fry them in boiling lard-; diaim:toff every particle of fat and spnnkteJalKttle powder d sugar over them ; servadtpfc, They are very moo with , roast dock, or wild. -metit of any kind. Creak f'rs. Take flour- taongti for the crust, salt it and mix with cream, roll the crust, sprinkle aotne flour between so that they need . not. stick together, bake in a qniok oven'; 'rhen done separate the crnsta isnd take two table-spoonfula of flour, -ther same of white sugar, one egg; beet all togetbec; boil one-half pint of milk, put in tbe batter of sugar and egg ana stir tdl it thickens, then add some extracts of lemon, and put it between the crnsta and yon nave a nice pie. About Sotrpa. Many heineekeepers do not realise that soup should be the daily', and not the ewesasional fa traduction to the dinner.' Well ma Bothing-ejan be more palatable, and few tiiinga are more generally reiliahod. For, those, who do. not care for soup every day, the Branewick soups are ao easily prepared that it

is well to always havei haU a

in the house ; then, it ooaipany; eomea at the "last minute," a& company will sometimes, and you dinner m scant, the sonp will cover all deficiencies, tx soap, aa (be old man said. ia veirv flllinV1 I think that tne

cane, of beef and ox tail preparations mako the most eatsseinpr . Every kitchen should be'furntslied with a poroelain-lined kettle, and tight-fitting cover, to be need in the preparatimol sou jib. The liquor ia whi ah .meats have been boiled furnishes an excellent basis; After the meat is served, the liquo can. be cooled; then ttte fat removed from the top ; tlien strained tbroagh a eve and placed in cool place for nee the next day. For vegetable soup,1 add to the liquor a flnaly-cltoppod- oniein, carrot, potato, two or three stalk ol celery and a table-spoonful of rioe or barley. Let the soup come to a boil, then skim the ncum from the top; after this keep it slowly Mmmering nntu required for the tabK k The Bog of Siagarav, It has always tieen supposed that no

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Alia ieiu-, muwevtu-, wbh nuuoegnwiv pes' formed by a dog a few dc.ya ago. The name of this able animal is unknown, and it is only too probable thafc ne wfll be :nentiot) ed in history merely as the ' JDog of Niagara.- 'f He first attracted attention while he

was in the rapids above too laitaand aa he struggled with the current whiot waa swif dy sweeping him alone Was supposed that he bad only a few momenta? to live, Htf waaseentoplinge oyer -fno$ falls, and then, to the amazement eif alt who had watched' his descent, he emerged from the cloud of spray that rise, at the foot of the ' eatet. and

clim bed upon a cake of floating jce. The news that adog had gone over the falls aud was still ahve spread rapidly, and in a few moments tho bank of the river was lined with people. .The dog floated down the river on his cake of: ioe, bnt he bad very little ermfidence ii its seaworthy qualities, and howled, loudly for help. Of course no. one oonld help him, for it. would have been fapoaable to roach him with a boat, and had a rope beezi thrown to him as he passed, under the liusperisvon Bridge it i hardly pb- -able tbat he could havo caught' i Soma distance below the bridge the river forms a Ur ible v.hiripcpTr and when the dog and his cake of m reamed tho whirlpool they were Ciirrieeljarctmd at a frightful speed. ftestintlyJthe sake of iix broke in two, and theV dog was thrown into the water. He jitrugeled bravely for a few moments, and then disappeared under the wavegand never rose again. - When it ii remembered that when the dog reached the foot of ths falls, .'inn dreds of tons of water mu.it have fiJlen V - i t . tt: a a. -l

npott nun ana irawn .uiit uwu wwm the bottom of the river, it seems almost incredible that he should have been able to rite to tho surface and 'to' roach hie cake of ice. Had he esoappd the w iirlpool and reached the ah.M, he wsuld have I wen the most famous of living doga. Har-fyer's Young People.

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