FONTAINE BROS., Editors and Publishers.

VOL XXIV.

fo\tai\e brothers,KDITOUS AND PROPKI ETOItS.

Terms—sl.so Per Year.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.Sheriff -

- . EDWARD WHEEL AS'Clerk of Circuit Court - R. P. RRONSONCounty Clerk ...

- F. J. WOODCounty Treasurer I. L. MOSHERRegister of Deeds - I*. -V. CHRISTENSENDistrict Attorney - - O. L. WILLIAM SSchool Superintendent, - TANARUS, E. NASHCounty Surveyor - WM. SCOTTCoroner - -

- 7.. P. KIPP

Circuit Judge - - - G. L. PARKCounty Judge - GEO. R. GARDNER

CHURCH DIRECTORY.CONGREGATIONAL.—Wax. J. S. Norris.

Services eyery Sabbath at half past 10 a.m.,and half past 7, p. m. Sabbath School at 12 MPrayer Meeting every Wednesday evening.

METHODIS7' KPISC.—Rev. P. S. Bennett.Services every Sabbath at half pastlOA.M.. ami7p. m. Class Meeting at G p. m. SabbathSchool at 12 m. Prayer Meeting every Thurs-day evening.

ROMAN CATHOLIC. —Rev. Ciias. Bkykrle.Services every Sabbath morning at 10 o’clock,Catechismat I p. m. Vespers at 3p, m.

GARDNER cUtAYNORATTORNEYS AT LAW.

tfi'Will practice in the several Courts of theSeventh Judicial Circuit. Otiice over FirstNational Bank.

JOHN HASVhVI,DEALER IN

GENERAL MERCHANDISE.Highest market price paid for Farm Produce.

Coods delivered to any part of this city orCentralia. Call in.

GRAND RAPIDS I.ODGK SO. 128,

A. 1 .V A. >l.155.. Hold their regular communieatious on

the Ist and 3d Wednesday of each month.Lemuai. Kromer, W. M.

Seth Reeves, Sec.

T. OF H.No 77. Hold tlieir regular meeting!* on Fridayevening--- of each week, in Temple Hall, overCity t'ush Store.

F. J. WOOD, W. C. T.I*. HORTON, R. S.

CIIAS IIEIISCIILEBWAGON & BLACKSMITH SHOP

Wtf'Remember the place, head of the plankHoad, east of Rablin House.

GEO. L. WILLIAMSATTORNEY A COUNSELOR

Ollice over Drug Store at east end of bridge.U/'AII legal business promptly attended to.

MISS GORDON,MILLINERY STORE.

New Millinery GoodsKept constantly on hand.

Opposite First National Bank.

J. O. HEBERT,PHOTOCRAFEiR !

Gallery third door south of P. O.Grand Rapids, Wisconsin.

kinds of work done here.Prices moderate and we guarantee allcustomers satisfaction. Call in.

McCARTY & DALY,’

Market!Dealers in All Kindsof

FRESH, SALT & SMOKEDMEATS.

SHOPS IN GRAND RAPIDS ANDCENTRALIA.

Our Shops have justbeen renovated and re-furnished, and we keep nothingbut the best ofStock. Highest price paid for Stock. m2stf.

L. C. JAHREN,

MERCHANTTAILOR.

FIRST class work always.Wo guarantee satisfaction in every

case. Use only the best material inthe market lot trimmings.

Shop in basement of St. Amour’sstoic, 2d door north of bridge.

july2ltf

Seth Reeves & Bro.Sta l>le> and Fancy

GROCERIESAnd

PROVISIONS,At

MILLER’S STOREGRAND RAPIDS, - WIS.

A full and fresh stock of ChoiceGroceries constantly on hand.

All kinds of Flour and Feed. Farmers pro-duce, Fresh and Canned Fruits, and anythingelse usually found in a first-class groceryhouse.

My prices shall always be reasonable, andence here of nearly a quarter of a

to m,?AoUßht to,ye a favorable introductionhri -k Sure

18* all anct se eme at the Miller

Grand Rapids. Jan.2o. 1881SETH ReEVE3,

I *}~r‘ day at ho®o easily made,V* “Costly outfit free. Address Truk A Cos.Augusta, Maine- mchlTyl

WISCONSIN CENTRAL,Milwaukee & Northern

ami Wisconsin & MinnesotaRAILROADS.

The Shortest and Best Route to

Chicago s MilwaukeeAND ALL

Eastern, Southern & SouthwesternPoints.

The Direct Line, via Junction City, toWAUSAU and JENNY.

Unequalled Facilities for Travelersto

ST. PAUL, MSNMEAPOLSS,And all Points in _Minnesota.

Woodruff Sleepers, the Best inTHE WORLD.

Between Chicago and Stevens PointOther Elegant Sice,ter* without Upper

Berths, between Appleton,via >lc-

naslia-Neenali amt .liihvaukee.

Passengers going south Ajan takecither car as occasion demands, andthus obtain a whole night of undis-turbed rest.

The return sleeper leaves Chicagoat 9 p. in. via. C.. 31. St. P. R’y.

The sleeper from Milwaukee will bein readiness for passengers at UnionDepot, Heed st. at S;3O p. m.

Through Coaches are run from Ab-botsford to St. Paul.

Connections are made at Abbotsfordwith all trains from the North andSouth on the Wisconsin Central 11. 11.with those on the Wis. & Minn. 11. R.there is no delay in either direction.

CONNECTIONS:At Miltcanlce— With C., M. & St. V

R’y for all points East, West andSouthwest. [Note—The throughcars of tills line to and from Chicagoare run via C., M. & St. P. R’y. j

At Plymouth —With is. & F. Div. C.<fe N-W. PCy, lor Sheboygan andFond du Lac.

At Ernest .Junction—With Mil., LakeShore & Western Railway.

At Green Jinn—With G. B. & M. R.11. for New London and C. & N.W. R'y for points North.

At Mcnusha- Neenah —With C. & N.W. R’y for Oshkosh.

A ' Medina Junction With Mil. LakeS. k W. R’y, for Oshkosh.

At Amherst Junction—AVith G. 1L kMinn. R’y for the west.

At Junction City With Wis. A alleyDiv C.. M. k St. P. R’y for Wau-sau and Jenny.

At Ahholsford Connections are madebetween trains on Wis. C. and Wis.& Minnesota R'y.

At St. Paul —With all railroads northsouth and west.

.1/ Portage—AVith C., M. & St. PR’y for Madison and the west.

At Ashland —With Steamers for allLake Superior points.

F. N. FINNEY, JAS. BARKER,Gcn’l Manager, Gen’l Pass. Agent,

Milwaukee. Milwaukee.

ndv been Fold in this country and in Franc®~v erv one of which has given perfect satisfactbn. And has performed cures every timewhen used according to directions. '> c nowaav to the afflicted and doubting ones that wewill pay the above reward fora single case ot

I .A >1 i : BACKThat the Fad fails to cure. Ihis Great Reme-dy will POSITIVELY and PERMANENTLYcure Lumbago, Lame Back, Sciatica, GravelyDiabetes, Dropsy, Bright’s Disease of the Kidncys. Incontinence and Retention of the urine,Indamation of the Kidneys, Catarrh ot tooBladder. High Colored Urine, Pain in the backSide or Loins, Nervous Weakness and infact all disorders of the Bladder and UrinaryOrgans whether contracted by private diseasesorotheiwise.

. _ ,Ladies, if you are suffering from FemaleWeakness. Lcucorrhoca. or any disease of theKidneys, Bladder, or UrinaryOrcan^

YOU CAN BE CURED!Without swallowing nauseous medicines, bydimply wearing

PROF. GUILMETTE’SFRENCH KIDNEY PAD,

which ceres by absorption.Ask your druggist for Prof. Ouilmette s

French Kidney Pad, and take no other, jfhehas not got it. send S2 and you will receive thePad bv return mail.

TESTIMONIALS PROM THE PEOPLE.Judge. Buchanan, Lawyer, Toledo, o..says;

“Oneof Prof. Guilmette s French Kidney Padscured me of Lumbago in three weeks time. My

Cae had been given up by thebest Doctors as

incurable- During all this lime I suffered un-told agon v and paid out large sums or money.

George Vetter. J. P., Toledo, 0., says: *1suffered for three years with bciatia and Kid-nev Disease, and often had to go aoout oncrutches, I was enttr ly and permanently cur-ed after wearing Prof. Guilmette s Fircnch Kid-ney Pad four weeks.” _

Squire N. C. Scott, Sylvania. o_., writes: 1have been a great sutterer for 15 years ivithBrights Disease of the Kidneys. For weeksat a time was unable to get out of bed: tookbarrels of medicine, but they gave me onlytemporary relief. I wore two ot Prot. Guil-mette’s Kidney Pad six weeKS,and I now know1 am entirely cured.”

.Ray ,t Shoemaker.Druggist, Hannibal, Mo.“We are working up a lively trade in yourPads, and are hearing of good results fromthem every day.”

PROF. GUILMETE’S LIVER PADA\ ill positively cure Fever and Ague, Dumb

Ague. Ague Cake, Billious Fever, Jaundice,Dyspepsia, and all diseases of the Liver,Stomach and Blood. Price SI 50 by mail. Sendfor Prof. Guilmette’s Treatise on the Kidneysand Liver, free by mail. Address

French Pad Cos.,F'eblT yl Toledo, Ohio.

AP/ia week in your own town. Terms and $5JpOOoutfit free. Address H. Hallktt Cos.,Portland Maino.

SEWS XGTES.William H. Vanderbilt is the larg-

est individual holder of registered 4per cent, bonds, his share of thembeing worth in the market to-day,nearly $00,000,000.

Delegate Pettigreav, of Dakota Ter-ritory, expects that Southern Dakotawill be the next state He claims apopulation of 110,000, with thousandsswarming in.

Farmers residing in the vicinity ofQuebec complain of the extremedrought, which threatens to destroy thewhole hay crop. A copious rainfall ismuch needed in the locality.

A party of twenty-three Indianchildren from the institute at Hamp-ton, Va., are being taken to Berkshirecounty, Massachusetts, to spend thesummer working among the farmers to

gain practical knowledge.

The Washington Post says it is notgenerally known that Secretary Blainetendered to Mr.* Jacob Astor, severalweeks before the latter went abroad,one of the highest and most imnortantforeign missions, which Mr. Astor de-clined on the ground that he does notdesire a public life.

The dynamite fiends have brokenloose in France. On Wednesday an at-tempt was made to blow up the stat-ute of Thiers, at St, Germaine, with abox of gunpowder. The statute wasonly slightly injured. The police au-thorities are trying to discover the per-petrators of the outrage.

Three ring-leaders of the anti-Jewishrioters at Kieff, Russia, have been sen-tenced by court martial to twenty, ten

and six years’ imprisonment, respec.lively, two others have been exiled toto Siberia, and three persons have beensentenced to short terms of imprison-ment.

It is believed that a dispatch hasbeen sent from the foreign office, Lon-don, to the American govenment, call-ing attention to the operations of theFenians in Now York. In the houseox' commons Mr. Stanhope gave noticethat he would on Monday refer to thismatter.

The Swiss government, which pro-hibited the importation of Americanmeats soon after the French prohibitorydecree was issued, has, after careful in-quiry and thorough investigation, de-clared that no prohibition or compul-sory inspection of American meats isjustified or will be required. Now letFrance act honestly and follow the ex-ample of Switzerland.

Silk first came from China, and theChinese still have many important se-crets connected with it unknown toEuropeans. In a good year they sendas much as $25,000,000 worth of rawsilk to England alone. The “hanks,”or books, as they are called, arrivewith caps made of a single cocoon.This is done by a process unknown inEurope.

A southern physician was inter-viewed at St. Louis in regard to the yel-low fever prospects. The former statesthat there are cases at Galveston andVera Cruz, and that Memphis has onlybeen partially sewered, the alleys beingas filthy as ever. Anew disease calledhermaturia, has swept away many peo-ple in Mississippi this year.

During the mouth of May of thisyear 117,482 immigrants arrived in thiscountry, and during the eleven monthsending May 31, 534,294 arrived. Ofthe latter number 175,306 were Ger-mans, 110,611 came from Ireland, 57,-861 were English and Welsh, 12,628Scotch, 7,443 Chinese, and 138,649from all other countries.

It is stated tnat in view of the suc-cess of Secretary Windom’s 3j percent, refunding scheme he will notmake any recommendation to congressin reference to refunding legislation.As long as the secretary can convert

high interest-bearing bonds into lowinterest-bearing bonds without furtheraction by congress, it is deemed bestnot to unsettle business relations bygiving rise to any new agitation aboutrefunding schemes.

The youngest son of President Gar-field, who has just made arrangements

to become a member of Williams Col-lege, is reported to be engaged to bemarried to Miss Clamie Bradley, ofMentor, 0., the president’s home. Afew years ago Miss Bradley was abright little miss, eignt years of age, inthe Universalist Sunday school of Troy,X. Y. It is rumored that many inti-mate friends of the young lady wereaware of the intentions of young Gar-field before his father became presi-dent. The Pittsfield (Mass.) Journalsays: “Many Berkshire people will re-member well the family of which MissBradley is a member. And it -dll bebelieved by all that although the presi-dent’s son is young and has a collegecourse before him, his married life willbe none the less happy because of aong engagement.”

Devoted to Politics, Agriculture, News, Local Inflnation, and the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

GRAND RAPIDS, WIS., THRSDAY, JUNE 30,1881.

TELEGRAPHIC.Condensed for Connient and

Ready Reaag.

WASHINGIN.

The treasury will disbse as interestpayments, on or before Ji 1, about $30,-000,000.

Forty-two million dots worth of 5per cent, bonds have beeio far receivedby the treasury for at 3-1 percent.

Secretary Kirkwood, ll not only callto account the Central tific speculatorAuditor French, but wileompass his re-moval. General Jere Isk, of Wiscon-sin, who hasn’t been ablo pick out any-thing to suit him, stands the doorway.

The president’s pernal movementsare somewhat uncertain,ut he will prob-ably devote his attentioiiuring the heat-ed term to Mrs. Garfield health, and sopreserve his own Irom tl innoyance ofimportuning delegations

Mark Hopkins will erertiin PresidentGarfield at the Wilhais college com-mencement; Secretary Biinewill be theguest of President Chadurne, and roomstor nearly all the meiofcrs of the cabinethave been secured at a btel.

(’has. H. Howard, a rother of Gener-al 0. 0. Howard, has ben appointed toan Indian William H.Turner, a clerk in the nosloffice depart-ment having charge of sir-route contracts,has been removed,

Upton, the assistant secretary of thetreasury, has been ordced to London, totake charge of the wrk of extenoingbonds held abroad. Wether this will bethe last of his public areer is a disputedquestion.

Private dispatches mnounce the sud-den death, in Washingon, of George W.Jones, Jr., recently apointed paymasterin the navy. He wasi son of Gorge W.Jones, of Cincinnati. The family wereexpecting him home,until the dispatchcame announcing his eath.

Charles A. Axciiisia well-known em-bezzler, formerly of tie secret service ofthe treasury departmet, has been recap-tured in San Francisco In addition to apackage of importmt papers he hadcounterfeit national lank notes of fivedenominations and a Dad SSO greenback.

George Taylor, tb Washington law-yer involved in the sotton claim fraud,wants it known that 'llarence A. Sewardof New York, was the attorney ©f record,associated wiih two lavyers who are dead.Mr. Taylor represent over $4,000,000 ofthe claims now before the Franco-Ameri-can commission, arid las taken an appealto the supreme court.

Under instruction from the secretaryof the interior, Coloidl Edwards, agent ofthe Winnebago and Omaha tribes, haspartly negotiated tlusale of a reservationof twenty thousand icres by those tribesto make a home for tie Poncas, who num-ber 120 souls. Whit Uncle Sam peddlesout land at $1.25 per acre, the Omahasthink $lO would be a modest figure for aconveyance.

A lawyerof Waslington, named GeorgeTaylor, formerly a member of congressfrom New York, u said to have acquiredan immense fortice in a few years bycorrupt methods, and is believed to holdnearly $6,000,000 jf the claims made be-fore the Franco-American commission,which board he was largely instrumentalin creating. A decision just made by theUnited States cou’tof claims brands Tay-lor as guilty of subornation of per jury, andas having manufactured a claim uponwhich he was paid nearly $300,000.

CRIME.

Robert Martin, in English machinistof Newark, N. J., shot his wife dead andinflicted a mortal wound on his child.

At a private residence in Cedar Springs,Mich., some professional burglars ob-tained $750 without bieaking a lock.

Three liberal deputies in Bulgaria havebeen attacked and mortally wounded byunknown men.

In a duel at Paris, Louis de Cassagnacwounded Captain Herrisant in the shoul-der.

Some miscreant blew up the store ofDr. Conkiing. at Centerville, Cal., withgiant powder, nearly killing the owner.

At Newark, N. J., a machinist namedMartin shot and killed his wife and mor-tally wounded his child, a three-year-oldKiri.

At Wilson, N. C.. Manly Ellis ended aquarrel with Wright Newson by shootinghim dead. Both were in love with thesame girl.

The Japanese feat of disembowelingwas performed upon himself by MatthewO’Donnel, a laboring man of East Sagi-naw, Mich., while suffering from deliriumtremens.

In an affray at Marshall, Tex., RobertHill killed Isaac Verge. The former fledto the canebrakes in Louisiana, where asheriff’s posse riddled him with bullets onhis refusal to surrender.

Two of the clerks of the outgoing rev-enue collector at San Francisco prove tohave been embezzlers, and the new ap-appointee hesitates to enter upon his du-ties.

Zachariah WiLSOn, a murderer, whobroke jail at Carthage. 111., for whose ar-rest a reward of S7OO was offered, wr asnabbed at Schell City, Mo., where he hadgond to kill B. F. Herrick, the horse-thiefdetective.

Camillia Yillertia, a Protestant min-ister in Mexico, was fired upon at Tezcu-co by a Catholic, and is now in jail oncharge of being the attacking party, butBishop Butler is making efforts for hisrelease.

Milton Yarberby, town 'marshal atAlbuquerque, New Mexico, gives the peo-ple something to gossip over. About fourmonths ago he killed a nephew of ex-Governor Brown, of Tennessee. On Sat-urday, ho murdered a carpenter employedin the railroad yards.

Thr noted Wisconsin train wreckers.Peter and Willis Vanderhoof, have justundergone trial at Appleton, AVis., andthe jury spent a whole night in pronounc-ing them guilty. The law permits theirconfinement in the penitentiary for tenyears.

Of the 242 persons arrested at Mar-seilles, 60 have been liberated and 10 willbe tried for murder. Two steamship com-panies tendered free passage to Italy to allafraid to remain, and 600 have taken ad-vantage of the offer, while 200 more havepetitioned for free transportation.

Nick Roach, who was shot through thejaw while attempting to burglarize a Chi-cago dry goods store, secured a suspensionof sentence on the pledge of AldermanHildreth that he should be sent into thecountry.

An investigation, which for some time

time has been going forward at the Keo-kuk elevator, controlled by Jack Sturges.shows that 120,000 bushels of grain havegonewhere no trace can be found. Civiland criminal suits will at once be com-menced.

Two negro waiters employed by the Owlclub, of Chicago, which has rooms in Mc-Vicker's theatre, indulged in a quarre7

,

when Luther Ross stabbed Edward Stannard in the left breast with a large pocketknife. The victim lived but a few min-utes. The murderer, apparently uncon-scious of the effect of the blow he hadgiven, made his appearance in the roomsduring the evening, and was taken to jail.

On a Hannibal and St. Joseph train,near Chillicothe, Mo., J. M. Kiser, a com-mercial traveler, of Quincy, was firedupon three times by a stranger,* who thenpulled the bell-cord, stoppeu ‘.he train andleaped ofl. The first shot took effect inthe right arm, inflicting mortal wounds.The assassin left a valise which showedthat he was Colonel Keith, of Columbus,Ohio, who is known to be insane.

FOREIGN.

Prince Leopold has taken his seat inthe house of lords as duke of Albany.

Broad streams of lava are flowing downthe northeast side of Vesuvius.

Hartmann, the noted nihilist, is aboutto leave London for New York.

Iroquois is the favorite at London inthe betting for the St. Leger stakes, byfive to two.

The German Minister at Pekin has de-manded of the Chinese government thepunishment of the pirates who plunderedthe German bark Occident.

England has refused to co-operate withItaly against France with regard to theRoustan and Tunisian diplomatic interme-diary. The fact is England, with a largeforce in Ireland and troops in India andSouth Africa, has all she can attend to atpresent.

A farmer named Cox has been arrestedin Dublin on charge of inciting riot inLimerick county ; Hazel, secretary of theGoet branch of the land league, has beennabbed under the cocercion act.

For attempting to blow* up the townhall at Liverpool. McKeritt and McGrathhave been committed. The latter is alsocharged with causing the explosion at thepolice barracks. The town hall at Bir-mingham is strictly guarded, on a warn-ing from London.

There has been a fresh outbreak againstthe Italians at Marseilles, and troops werepromptly marched to the scene. Abouttwo hundred arrests have thus far beenmade, mostly of Italian workmen, and fourFrench rioters have been sentenced to im-prisonment.

Members of the Italian National clubat Marseilles hissed a regiment of Frenchtroops just disembarking on their returnfrom Tunis. Instantly the citizens sur-rounded the club-house and demanded theremoval of the English flag, which orderwas disregarded. While the police wereendeavoring to calm the people the deputymayor tore down the escutcheon, andtroops were sent to guard the club-house.

FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

It is rumored that small-pox has brokenout at the penitentiary at Joliet, 111.

Havana reports eleven deaths fromyellow fever during the week, and twentyfrom small pox.

A cyclone passed over tie western por-tion of Montague county, Texas, destroy-ing houses and fences and injuring crops.

The fire in Treadwell’s carrying shopsat Salem, Mass., on Thursday morning,inflicted a loss of $75 000, on which therewere policies for $47,750.

A train was thrown into a creek nearFreeport. Pa., by striking a cow. The en-gineer, fireman, and a passenger wereinstantly killed.

Henry A. Grover, of Foxboro, Mass.,bought a bicycle at Attleboro and startedto ride home, but fell off and broke hisneck on the way.

The boiler of a dummy engine explodedon the wharf at Medford, Mass., shatter-ing a schooner and several buildings, kill-ing two men and injuring four others.

The chair factory of A. P. Johnson, onthe corner of Green and Phillips streets,Chicago, was destroyed by fire. The lossis $60,000, and the insurance $16,000. Sixmen were more or less injured.

The weather at New Orleans has beenexcessively hot for the last three days,and thirteen cases of sun stroke, seven ofwhich proved fatal, have during the timeoccurred in that city. At Vicksburg thethermometer reached 101 in the shade.

At Elysville, on the main stem of theBaltimore and Ohio Railroad, a freighttrain collided with an accommodationtrain. Thomas Zipp, eng’neer of thefreight, jumped from the engine andbroke his neck.

Capt. C. A. Sparks, of the whaler Ed-ward Lee, left his ship in a small boat tofollow a school of whales, and was lost,together with his boat’s crew of five men.After waiting four days, the mate return-ed to Vineyard Haven, Mass., with thevessel.

Louis Larnereaux, a farnfer, was kill-ed by lightning Sunday evening near Sloan,lowa. A neighbor with whom he wastalking was standing within two paces, butwas only shocked. The only trace on thebody was a slight *ed mark on the fore-head and the beard singed.

The conflagration at Tombstone, Arizo-na, swept over a space of six blocks, de-stroying about one hundred and fiftybuildings, and entailing a loss of nearly$450,000. A cigar-lighter ignited thefumes from a barrel of whisky wh'ch wasbeing opened in a saloon. About eighthundred people are homeless.

GENERAL NOTES.

No new developments: have been madeas to the Victoria disaster by the trials of iCaptains Rankin and Parish tor man-slaughter.

A web-goods factory, the first to be es-tablished in the west, will soon be erectedin Milwaukeeby a company with SIOO,OOOcapital.

The production of anthracite coal forthe first five months this year was $10,680,-272 tons an increase of 1.680,233 tons overthe produce for the same time last year.

District-Attorney Woodford, of NewYork, has appointed as his assistants a sonof Postmaster General James and a nephewof Roscoe Conkling.

The legislature of the Mexican state ofVera Cruz oilers a reward of SIOO,OOO tothe inventor of a preventive for yellow fe-ver. Such an inducement ought to stimu-late the sluggish Greaser to active efforts.

The prize drill at Louisville, resulted ina victory for the Porter rifles, of Nash-ville, the second honors being carried off

by company C, of the Ist regiment, ofChicago,

The Ute commissioners, accompanied bySapavanaro and Guero, escorted by a cav-alry company, left Grand river on horse-back last week, going toward Utah, carry-ing provisions on pack-mules.

The heirs of the late Anthony J. Drexelfor whom Drexel Boulevard, Chicago isnamed, are having a fountain made at Ber-lin costing $40,000, which they will pre-sent to Chicago as a memorial of their de-ceased relative.

Tobacco cultivation in the UnitedStates, for ISSO, is placed at 473,107,583pounds. The average yield per acre isshown to be 731 pounds, varying from1,559 pounds in Massachusetts, to 471pounds in North Carolina.

The suit of William S. Williams, ofNew York, against the Western UnionTelegraph company, to restrain the issueof $15,000,000 new stock, has been dis-missed. A similar decision is expected ina case entered by Rufus Hatch.

A comet of vast size, with a bright cen-ter and fan-like tail, was plainly visible tothe naked eye just before daylight nThursday. Astrovomers at several eastern

foints are claiming credit for itsdiscovery,t is believed to be the great comet of 1812,

which is due this year-At Biddeford. Maine, the celebrated

Pepperell Mills paid off their hands andshut down. Non-striking operators weresent to the company’s mills at Laconia,N. H., while the strikers scattered insearch of work. This can hardly be deem-ed a triumph for the strikers.

The crossing of theRio Grande by Lieu-tenant Bullis, of the United States army,in pursuit of border marauders, evokes astrong protest from the Mexican press.The Patria, while confessing the inabilityof its government to prevent such inva-sions, asks the authorities at Washingtonto give the matter calm consideration.

The banquet of the sons of Maine resi-dent in Chicago was in every sense asuccess, especially as a large delegationofthe Pine Tree state were present as guests.Judge Drummond delivered the addressof welcome and Professor Rodney AVelchthe poem. Among those responding totoasts were Hannibal Hamlin, E. B,Washburne, James H. Howe, and MarkH. Donnell.

A remarkable piece of news comesfrom the Nashville correspondont of theLouisville Courier-Journal. He says thata woman living in Jackson County, Tenn.,was a few davs ago delivered of sevenchildren in one evening. They all resem-ble each other except as to weight, andare healthy, well-formed babes. Theminuteness of detail regarding thephysicians’ trips backward and forwardsuggest that the story is a true one.

Hllwantew nai’KKi.

Milwackk*. June 27.—Flour.—Scarce andfirm. Wheat—Strong and advancing; No. 1,hard, nominal; No. 1 nominal; No. 2 hard,1.15V; No. 2. 1.12 V; 1.12 V lor seller June;1.13 V for seller July; 1.14 V for seller August;1.11V for seller September; I.IIV for sellerOctober; No. 3. at 1.04V; No. 4, and rejected,nominal. Com—Stronger, No. 2,45- Oats—Quiet; No. 2, 37. Kye—Higher; No. 1, 96.Barley-Unsettled; No. 2, 1.08.

Chicago Market.Chicago, June 27. —Fiour—Demand fair;

market firm. Wheat—Active firm and higher;No. red winter,l.lOal. 16V&No. 2 Chicago spring,1.13 V for seller cash; 1.13 V for seller June;1.14 V for seller July; 1.14 V for seller August;1.12 V for seller September; No. 3 Chicago spring,1.02@1.07; rejected, 76@81. Cora—Strong andhigher; 47V@48 for seller cash; 47V@47V forseller June; 46V for seller July; 46V for sellerAugust, 47V for seller September; rejected,44V- Oats—Active,'firm and higher; 38V forseller cash and June; 37V for seller July; 28Vfor seller August; 27V for seller Septem-ber; rejected, 42V- By©—Firm 96. Barley—Steady and unchanged; at 1 00. Pork—Quietand weak; 16.35 for seller cash; 16.30a16.32Vfor seller July; 16.42V@15.45 for seller Au-gust; 16.50 for seller September. Lard—Steadyand in fair demand; 10.95 for seller cash; 10.97Vfor seller July; 10.97 V bid for seller August;10.82Va18.85 for seller September. The“Drover’s Journal” reports: Hogs—Receipts,3,000; shipments, 4.800; good quality infair demand; mixed packing, saloc lower; 0.60a5.95; light yorkers, 5.50.560; choice heavy,6.00@6.25. Cattle—Receipts, 5,000; shipments,2,500; steady and fairly active; exports, 5.90@6.15; from cars, prime, 6.6o—highest price inmonth; good to choiceshipping, 5.ii0@6.00;poor to medium, 5.10a5.50; butchers, steady, 2.30a5.25; thorough grass Te; an5,3.40a4.15; stockers’and feeders’, 3.25a4.75; fine feeders, 5.00a5.10.Sheep—Receipts, i.800; shipments, 400; strong,active; for good, poor, fair to slow; 3.50@4.25;good to choice butchers, 4.50@4.75, exports.s.ooa5.25; all shorn.

Applied Theology.From the Albany Argus.

At a meeting of the Woburn Confer-ence, Farmer Allen ,of Wakefield related the following anecdote;

One Sunday morning, while a certaindeacon was preparing for church, awandering wayfarer, or in modern par-lance a tramp, appeared at his door,pleaded his hunger, and begged forsomething to eat. The deacon lookedsolemn and frowningly but reluctantlygot a loaf of bread and began to cut it;but while doing so took occasion to ad-monish the beggar concerning the er-ror of his ways, After reminding himthat it was holy Sabbath wr hich he ■wasdesecrating, he asked him if Vie knewhow to pray. “'So,” was the reply,“Then I’ll learn you,” said the deacon,and commenced to say the Lord’sprayer.

But jlast as be uttered the first words“Our Father,” the beggar interruptedhim with the question, “What, is heyour father and mine, too?”

“Yes,” the deacon replied.“Why,” exclaimed the beggar, “we

are brothers, then, ain’t we? Can’t youcut that slice a little thicker?”

Prejudice Kills.

“Eleven years our daughter sufferedon a bed of misery under the care ofseveral of the best (and some of theworst) physicians, who gave her diseasevarious names but no relief, and nowshe is restored to us in good health byas simple aremedy as Hop Bitters, thatwe had poohed at for two years, beforeusing it. We earnestly hope and praythat no one else will let their sick sufferas we did, on account of prejudiceagainst so good a medicine as Hop Bit-ters.”—The Parents.— Telegram.

NO. 27.

IS A M TSU I LL.

There are 585 Chinese children in thSan Francisco public schools.

By the desire of the late King ofPrussia his heart was interred in aheart-shapcn marble casket at the footof his parent’s grave.

A cynical old bachelor says that“lovers are like armies. They get alongwell enough until the engagement be-gins.

An easy way to make hard watersoft is this; “Fill the wash boiler withhard water, then put a half a teacup-full of wood ashes intoa little cloth bag,let this lie in the water until that iswarm enough to use. This is worthknowing.

“Just think of it!” exclaimed Jones;“Pingrey’s new block is one thousandmeters long.” “Is that so?” asked Fogg,adding, “By the way, Jones, how longis a meter?” ‘ ‘Blamed ff I know,” saidJones, but judging from the distancemy gas meter covers every month itmust be immense.”

“Hi! where did you get themtrowsers?” asked an Irishman of a manwho happened to be passing with a re-markably short pair of trowsers. “Igot them where they grew,” was the in-dignant reply* “Then by my con-science,” said* Pat, “you’ve pulled thema year too soon.”

How wonderful are the revelationsof science. It has been estimated thata boy can hear a call to dinner thougha mile away, in a thousandth part of asecond. But a call to duty. Well, wedon’t wish to be hard on the boy. butit often takes a lifetime for him toundertand it.

A New York lady who in conse-quence of a great revers# of fortune,has been working for a fashionablemilliner, says she is absolutely amazedto find to what an extent in the days ofher wealth she was swindled in herbonnets and dresses.

“My sou Albert,” said a fond NewKaven mother, “is very popular. Heseems to know all the girls.” “Hush,”said the neighbor who was leaning overthe fence. “He must be terribly missinformed.” It isn’t known which of thewomen fainted.

Twenty-one princes and twenty-eightprinceses are loafing around Paris withno visible means of support. Theprinceses being poor, the impecuniousprinces turn the cold shoulder to themand go and hunt the light-headedAmerican heiresses.

Miss Gordon-Cummings says that avenerable cannibal in New Zealandwhom she visited, in company with anobese divine, stroked down and gentlyprodded the reverend gentleman in amanner painfully suggestive of SydneySmith’s joke of “Cold curate on thesideboard.”

In lowa, ayoung man named IsaacHood committed suicide because ayoung lady refused to marry him. Thecoroner’s inquest developed mitigatingcircnmstauces. It seems that Hoodasked the young lady to marry him,and she responded, “Ike Hood not.”As soon as Hood saw the point, he tiedwith the result stated. The young ladyhas not been arrested.

Captain John M, Gill of Pekin, Ky,,owns one ofSanta Anna’s wooden legs.During the Mexican war Captain Gillthen a young man, was a member ofthe Fourth Illinois regiment, andfought in the brattle of Cerro Gordo.Santa Anna was on the field at theopening of the engagement, being in acarriage drawn by six mules. Whenhe realized that the Yankees were vietorious and that he was in danger ofcapture, the Mexican general pulledoff his wooden leg left it in the carriage,and mounting a mule, in light flyingorder escaped. Captain Gill was thefirst American to reach the carriage,and thus obtained the curious trophy.

“It’s wicked, it’s shameful, it’s a dis-grace to society, this flirting with mar-ried women,” remarked a middle-agedlady with spectacles and a sharp vis-sage, to her traveling companion. Hewas a nice looking man, and replied bysaying: . .

“Ah, then you are not married?“No,” she said tenderly, moving a

little closer to him, and gazing at himthrough her glasses with adie-away ex-pression, like that of a setter puppywith the distemper. “No.”

Then he asked her if she wouldn’tlike some peanuts, and left the car to

i get them; but he didn’t come backI again.

Mrs. Mackey.I see by the foreign papers., says a

New York gossiper, that there is sometalk in Paris of the marriage of MissMackey, the daughter of the greatCalifornia millionaire, to a noblemanwho was quite distinguished during theThiers and MacMahon administrations.Mrs. Mackey, it is said, will soon leaveParis, and come to New York to live,her husband having bought a splendidresidence on Fifth avenue, for a half amillion. She’ll be missed in Paris, nodoubt, for she has been a Lady Bonn i-ful to a good many people, I hear, inmore ways than one.

I remember an old friend of mine, a’49-er, once telling me about the Mac-keys, and how they got their start in life,which led to such big results. Mackeyused to keep a small saloon, and dealtwith the commonest kind of custom,and ray friend would frequently seeMackey’s wife about the place. Shewas very plainly dressed in those days;a common gingham was good enough;and as for diamonds! why, you mightas well have talked of buying the moonin those days, and it was sometimeshard lines to make both ends meet.But the mining excitement came, andMackey was lucky enough to be ableto make a little venture with Flood,O’Brien, and some others, who after-ward “struck it rich.” He is nowworth, they say, $30,000,000 to $40,000-000, and his wife at a recent entertain-

; raent given abroad, literally blazed withdiamonds. I suppose when she comeshere she will lead the fashion in NewYork society. Sometimes, in thepauses of all extravagant frivolity,however, she now doubt finds a mo-

-1 ment or two to think of the timeswhen, in her simple gingham, she usedto help her husband serve the custom-ers at the little bar in the far west.