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PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.
A national oouvoution of Universalista was
in nemoou at Lyun. Mum., lat week. The
HtatuticH of the Church show h Bteady increase
throughout the country.
Butterick & Co., the well-known dealem in
faahion-platea, drew iatternH, etc., of New
York, have failed.
On tho 10th of December latit Jacob SUunler
mau kL'led Louina Hiedeuwald, in New York
oity, becaone alie refused to marry him. Jacob
hat just been tried for tho crime and sentenced
to death.
Frederick Hudson, for many years managing
editor of the New York Urrald, was killed by a
railroad accident at Cou.-ord, Mass., last week.
Hudson was the author of a work called "Tho
Hintory of Journalism," and was one of the
ablest journalists in the country.
The District Attorney of Brooklyn has en
tQTs "IU prom qui in all the suits growing
out of the Beecher-Tiltou scandal, aud there is
little probability that the groat scandal will
ever conic prominently boforo tho public again.
Damaging evidence has been discovered
againnt La Fago, tho French Canadian arrested
at Pembroke, N. 11., for the horriblo murder of
Miss Josie Lougmaid.
A sad fate befell Mi. and Mrs. Murray, a
newly-married couple, at Cheshire, Ct., the
other day. The houso in which they had taken
rooms was destroyed by lire, and they perished
in tho dames.
A shocking domestic tragedy is rexrted from
Mercer, Me. Qreeideaf Tracy murdered tho
divorced wife of Hiram Walton, who was living
with Tracy, but who had been pardoned ami
returned to Walton, by shooting her with a
shot-gun. He then tied to tho woods and took
his own life. Cause, jealousy.
W. J. Anderson, until recently business
manager aud Treasurer of the Hartford (0t)
gSl ning J'ott, has been discovered to be a
defaulter to the concern to the amount of
1 20. 000.
Tho large dry goods house of Morgan UroH.,
in Montreal, was entered by burglars, a few
nights ago, and robbed of i 20, 000 worth of
goods.
A disease similar to the epizootic is making
sad havoc with the cattle of several counties
on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware
river.
A member of the Order of United Irish
men has been tried by a court-martial of his
fellows, at New York, for betraying the secrete
cf the order, and sentenced to dio tho death of
a traitor.
The West.
Chicago elevators contain H22J35 bushels of
wheat 1,022,524 bushels of corn ; 346,975
bushels of oats; 99,301 bushels of rye, and
250,141 bushels of barley, making a grand total
of 2,541,936 bushels, against 2,908,997 bushels
at this period last year.
Oen. Sol. Meredith, ouo of Indiana's most
prominent General's during tho late war, died
ast week, at Richmond, Iml., from cancer of
tho stomach, caused from injuries received in
1K62. at the battle of Gainesville. Yn., where
he was crushed beneath a bofse.
Denver, Col., is reveling in a BSnVolaai
seusation. The people of that city were horri
fied, a few days ago, at the discovery of the
mangled bodies of four persons in the cellar
of a building, their throats cut from oar to
ear. The bodies were those of an eld Italian,
his two sons and a nephew, and they had evi
dently been murdered some dayn. The wholo
matter is involved in deep mystery.
The people of Williamson coanty. 111., ibAW
a determination to make murder odious in that
1 ocality. A short time ago two assassins were
eutenced to long terms in tho Penitentiary,
aud now Marshall Craiu, one of tho worst out
laws in the county, has been sentenced to death
for tho murder of Win. Speuce.
A young German, Fritz Kaiser, committed
suicide, in Chicago, the other day, by jumping
from the top of the water-works tower, a dis
tance of 187 feet.
Elmer Washburn, Chief of the United States
Detective Service Bureau, has succeeded in
breaking up a formidable band cf coui:tertVit
ers whose headquarters hi re at Centralia. 111.
Six boxes of tho queer were UMWthtd In the
woods near Centralia. aggregating some 100,
000 in tifty-ceut fractional currency and 88 na
tional bank notes, and if 1.000 in 880 national
bank notes. The $5 notes were on the Traders'
National Bank of Chicago, First National Banks
of Peru and Aurora, aud the Paxton and Canton
National Banks, of Blinois. Several of the
counterfeiters were arrested. They had been
living a quiet life in Centralia, having excited
no attention or suspicior from tho citizen.
A Chicago paper states tha'. there are five
theaters in that city, but notes the fact, some
what discreditable to the dramatic tastes of the
community, that at but two of them is the legiti
mate drama played, all the other amusement
caterers having found it more profitable, to
pander to the tastes of the low and uneducated
classes. The two exceptions noted are those of
McVicker's Theater aud Col. Wood's Museum.
The performances at these places aro eminent
ly respectable, and are patronized almost
wholly by tho better classes.
The biggest blow which the whisky ring has
received was struck, the other day, atKt. Louis,
in the conviction of Col. John A. Joyce, late
Roveuuo Agent, upon an indictment for frauds
in the Revenue Department. The verdict fell
upon Joyce and his friends like a thunderbolt,
and has caused the utmost consternation
among tho members of tho ring all over the
West.
In a quarrel, near Clearwater, Wright county,
Minn., last week, Nathan Laughton shot and
instantly killed his brother Orrin.
Six persons, all colored, were drowned at St.
iouis, a few days ago. by the capsizing of a
boat.
The St, Louis Journal, of a recent date, says
that the great bridge across tho Mississippi at
that place, from which the people expeted so
much in breaking down oppressive monopolies,
is not only a grinding monopoly itself, but is in
league with other great monopolies for oppres
sing the people. Recently the Bridge Company
refused to give permission to the Atlantic and
Pacific T l.'.-raph Company to rrot-,8 tt.c bridgo
with their wires. The telegraph company, how
ever, believing themselves ri,'lit.. Ih; 1 tluir
wires, which were torn down by t! e bridge mo
nopolist, and tho Journal thinks the Bridge
Company is working in rho interests of the
Western Union Telegraph Company t pffft Bl
cheaper telof.Taph rates.
Virginia City, Nov., has been vis.ted by a
most disastrous conflagration, which laid waste
a large iortiou of the most imjortant part of
the city. The tiro began at daylight on the
morning of Oct. 26, in a private dwelling on A
street, and in a very short time extended to C
street, destroying tho county budding the In
ternational Hotel, and aeveral other prominent
structures In its course, and soon the whole
business portion of C street, from the odd
Fellows' building north was a mass of tlaines,
with no adequate means at hand toi
checking the tire. The offices of the
r rritorial hnh rprisf, the Eoenimj t'hnm
iU, and the ttotlijht were totally de
stroyed. From C street the tire spread across
to Pier's Oera-Houo and tho adjoining
buildings on D street to tho railroad depot Bed
the Consolidated Virginia mine. Tin- depot
hut'ciunbed, and in a fow minutes the hoisting
works of the Consolidated Virginia, together
with tho large 60 stamp mill and the stamp de
partment of the California mine were destroyed.
The Ophir mine works, which had just been
completed, wcro the finest on the Corns look
lode aud were totally destroyed. Both the
ophir and the Consolidated Virginia shafts
were bulkhoaded, so that the live was kept
out of tho mines. Tho tire continued to
rago during the eutiro morning, all doi ts to
stop ite course proving futile. There was a
poor supply of water, and the lire-engine
t-eenied to havo no effect on tho driving element.
Street after street was swept away, and fami
lies renderel houseless, huddled in the streete,
shivoring with cold and terror. Houses on ev
ery side of the burning district were blown up
with giant jowder, the authorities hoping to
arrest the flames in this manner, but a pierc
ing October wind, what they call in that country
"a Washoe zephyr,'' was blowing, and flaming
embers were carried rods away, lighting on tho
houses which had not a, ready been attacked.
It was I o'clock in the afternoon before tho lire
was finally subdued. At that time the dis
trict burned over was three-quarters of a mile
long by one-half a mile wide, embracing tho
finost part of Virginia City. Ten thousand
persons were rendered homeless, and upward
Of 88,000,000 worth of property luM been de
stroyed. The South.
John Runge, a former resident of Monmouth,
111., in a recent affray in Phillips county. Ark.,
shot and killed three brothers named William
son, and was himself mortally wounded.
The members of tho St. Loui. wtSBSJ ring
who were indicted by the grand jury have nearly
all plea-1 guilty.
A man named John Houso and his son were
shot and killed by ON Griftin in an affray at
Franklin, Tenn., last week.
A most fiendish murder was perpetrated near
Marion. Ark., the other day. Dr. L. Ballard,
while ridiug with a lady, was wnyliinl by a man
named Andrew s, w ho tired one barrel of a shot
gun at the doctor, the charge taking effect in
his neck and face, and knocking him off his
horse. After falling. Ballard asked Andrews
to raise him, which he did, into a sitting )os
turc, and then, placing the gun near his head,
difcharged the other barrel, literally blowing
Lollard's head off.
George C. Pickett, a prominent General in
the rebel army, died recently at his homo in
Norfolk, Va.
Louisville is making it hot for the gamblers
which havo so long pestered the city.
Moses P. Handy and Charles J. Jones, late
of tho editorial staff of the New York Tribune,
and James H. Beale, Jr., late of the Boston
Pott, have purahased the Richmond Va. ) Kn
ox inr.
Deputy Sheriff James Kiunehan. a man well
known by tho sporting fraternity throughout
tho South and West, was last week shot and
killed by a desperate man named Frank I'lynn,
at Hot Springs, Ark. Kinnehau, after he was
shot, managed to rise and put one bad into
Flynn. The trouble arose out of an article
that appeared in a disreputable Chicago Mflff
about Flyun's wife, he thinking that Kinnehau
was responsible for it.
Washington.
It is stated that tho recent reduction of
54-100 of a cent per pound in the drawback on
refined sugars exported, has completely stopped
tho exjortaf.ion of refined sugars from the
United States.
It is stuted that the now Interior Secretary is
in favor of turning the Indian Bureau over to
the War Department.
An effort is being made to collect the facts
in regard to the medical and sanitary hi.story of
AadononvUIo priooBt
Gov. Ames has written a letter to Attorney
General Pierrepont congratulating him for bit
MOOOOlfol effort in bringing about n peace
able condition of affairs m Mississippi.
The Commissioner of Internal BOTOBOS DO!
decided that weiss beer is taxablo like any other
fermented liquor.
A shawl valued at $1,000 was stolen from
Mrs. Robeson, wifo of the Secretary of the
Navy, while on a visit to Baltimore, the other
day.
Tho Postoniee Department has decided to
order the railway postal-car service between the
cities of Pittsburgh and St. Louis, via the Pan
H audio and Vandal ia route, passing through
Indianapolis. By this means it is calculated
that the present postal facilities of a very large
portion of the Ohio and Mississippi River Val
leys will be greatly augmented and improved.
The Commissioner of Pensions has concluded
his annual report. Tho invalid army-roll is
105,47s, at an annual cost of 818,811,118. lbs
invalid navy-roll is 1,636, at a total annual rate
of 8188,818. Tho roll of army widows is
p'l ss.r), at an annual cost of 18,818,878. The
survivors of tho war of 1812 number 18,878 It
a yearly rate of 81.524.000. The widows of the
war of 1812 DBBBBS1 5,163, at a totel annual oool
of 8495.648.
Washington dispatches deny tho rn rts of
dissensions in tho Cabinet on account of the
appointment of Chandler as Secretary of the
Interior.
President Orant, accompanied by some mem
bers of the Cabinet and other friends, visited
Baltimore tho othor day, and were entertained
by John W. Garrett, President of the Bill
OP and 08 lo railroad.
General.
The fire-fend is on tho rampage again. In
Polish Russia, the town of Widsy has been de
vastated by a conflagration, several hundred
dwelling being destroyed the town of Iqui
que, in Pern, has been almoot totally wiped
out of existence by a similar visitation and the
mining town of Fairview, Col., has suffered by
tiro to the amount of 8100,000, scarcely a house
being left standing.
A new mixed Commission U shortly to as
semble at Halifax. N. S.. to arrange for a final
settlement of tho Canadian fisheries question
Fx-Hoerotary McCulloch has Sssttsbei his
plan of resumption. He would have the Secre
tary of the Treasury redeem such greenbacks
as were offered him in 4Jf per cent, gold
bOBSS. The legal-tenders -eceived in exchange
for tho bonds would be destroyed.
The natives of Porto Rico in New York have
organized themselves into an association, after
the manner of the Cuban patriots, to assist
their fellow countrymen at home in casting off
the Spanish yoke.
There are rumors at Washington that the
i 4.000,000 to he distributed among Americans
undor the Geneva award is being unfairly divid
ed. Of this sum 3.UOO.0O0 is said to have
passed into the hands of a ring of lawyers. The
inatttr will be SSOSgbJ up when Congress
met Sk
A circular of one of the New Ycik commer
cial agencies states that during the first nine
mouths of 1875 tin io were 5,334' commer
cial failures in all tho States and Territories of
the United States, with aggregate liabilities of
8131,172,503. Tho greatest number in any oue
State was in Massachusetts, vi.. Iff, In New
York city abne there were 546 failures, with lia
bilities amounting to 831,(1(10,000.
A Montreal dispatch says Gmbord is to bo
buried on the 18th of November. Having
died on that day, six yeurs ago. the members
of tho Institute Canadicnne have chosen the
auuiversaiy of his death for the day of his
burial.
Foreign.
S ill another destructive inundation is re
ported throughout Lancashire. Warwickshire
and elsewhere in Knglaud.
The Turkish government have declared their
willingness to give the great power any guaran
tee compatible with tho nation's dignity for tho
fulfillment of her financial programme.
Tho Supreme Court of Prussia has heard the
appeal of Count Von Aruim, and refused to
reverse the verdict of the lower court.
The English Foreign Office has received a
telegram from Minister Wade, dated Shanghai,
18th Inst., in which it is said that the guaran
tees obtained from the Chinese by the British
in the recent negotiations, include tho dispatch
of a mission to England bearing an apology for
the Yunnan outrage, and safe conduct to Bur
mah for tho Commissioners of Inquiry
Preliminary work upon the English channel
tunnel has been commenced.
The recent gale on the English coast proves
to have been more destructive than first re
porte indicated. Many vessels were wrecked,
and upward of a hundred lives lost.
Tho London Tim s, in chronicling the fact
that a Manchester firm has begun to imj)ort
calicoes from tho United States, says: "Tho
fact is significant, and, as importers say that
the goods aro of much better quality and ap
pearance than ours, Manchester, it appears,
has found a competitor at last, but that must
depend upon the price."
Kaiser William, wko has been hobnobbing
with Victor Emanuel at Milan, Italy, has re
turned to Berlin.
It is again rumored that Bismarck con
templates retiring from official life, in conse
quence of ill-health.
The Mark SM gtBWSat, in a review of the
grain trade, says of the European crop i ' The
more wo know of tho crop of 1875. the less sat
isfaction it gives."
A new Ministry is to be tonne. I iu Spain, and
King Alfonso is to join the Northern army. So
says a Madrid telegram.
The extent of the destruction on land and sea
caused by the recent storms in England and
Scotland is even now but partially known,
though tho latest advices tell a fearful tale of
tlood and sbipwTeck. The floods in Lincoln
county, England, are the most destructive
known for years, tho River Trent having over
flowed its banks, washing away the railroad at
that point and doing much other damage.
Nineteen lives are known to havo been lost by
tho inundation at Nottingham and other towns
in tho Valley of the Trent, and it is feared that
tho worst has not been told. Over fifty lives
were lost on the Scottish coast.
The PliuOO of Wales embarked at Suez on
the 26th of October, and immediately sailed for
India.
The Servian Parliament has passed, by a vote
of 61 to 42, a motion for war with Turkev.
A o icer Railroad.
There has just been completed one of
the most crooked and costly railroada in
th' United States. It is called the Tahoe
and Carson NaiTOW GaOgO, The road
bed rutin along th" la&O for about a
mile, until it reaches a huge gorge in thfl
mountains, up this dark and uninviting
Oanon, through long cuts in the solid
granite, over high treotleo runs tho track
until after attaining an altitude of some
thousand feet it roaoheo the summit of a
giant mountain. To most civil engineer!
tnia peak would be an obataole onim
passable ; not so with Mr. Anderson, tho
company's very skillful surveyor. The
summit of that peak had to M reached,
and if the grade was too heavy up an
imgle of less than 15 degrees, there was
still another way to attain the summit,
and that was a zig-zag road in the shape
of the letter Z, piled one on another
across the face of the old bald mountain,
and then instead of turning a curve,
rams its catcher into a corner of the Z,
and backing out and up the grade, con
tinues in that manner until the summit
I is reached, a distance of seven and a half
miles from Plenbpook. From there
across a fertile little valley which crowns
tli summit, the road runs past BpoOBOt'l
Station, a relic of the ante-railroad uiis,
situated on the old Plaeerville freight
toad to BaOtaiaontO, Through a tunnel
480 feet long pushes the road until a
short distance beyond it reaches the
rl time station. San hh-ancinco Lulyt r.
To Stop Rlccding at the Noo.
It is worth while to know how to stop
bleeding from the nose when it be
comes excessive. If the linger is pnOBOd
firmly upon the hide artery thatanp-
pttoO the blOOd 80 the side of the face
llhVeted, the result is accomplished. The
two small arteries branching up from the
main aftorioa OB each side of the neck,
and passing over the outside of the jaw
!"iie, supply the face with blood. If
lOaO Dleedl from the rigid nostril,
for example, pass the linger along the
edge of the right jaw til! the beating of
the artery is felt. Press hard upon it,
and the bleeding will cease. Continue
the pressure five minutes, until the rup
tured vessels in the nose liave time 88
contract.
Courtney, the amateur champion oars
man of New York, who has steadily gOOO
to the front in a long series of well
earned victorh s, outdid himself and
On rybody else, amateur or profea-ioual,
th- other day, in a regatta ou C.iyuga
Lake, by rowing two miles, including
lie turn, in thirteen minutes and four
teen seconds, the quickest time for the
distance on record, and ln-ating a double
scull which rowed against him.
IH I AIMTIC IWiMi
Return ol the I'Miitlura A Very Kventful
hut I uaui-rrMful Attempt to Heath It.-li
rlng'M Strsita An lmpwaKHhlf Harrier ot
Ice UiieuaiiteredThs Graves of Frank
lin' Men Preserved.
The Arctic exploring steamer EHu&OjOSS
has returned to Portsmouth, England,
uftor mi adventurous uinl eventful voy
age in tho Arctic seas. Tho eiMe fur-
nithoff Um following Interesting particu
lars of lo r voyage
The Pandora arrived sifelvat Disco. I
(irecnlaud. and l ft that port on tha 7tli
ol August, reaching Uperunvik in time
to leave there on the 13th. After sailing
from tin port of Upernavik, Greenland,
the Pandora eTOaaad the dreadful Mel
villo Pay without mishap, for, con-
trarv to previous expectation, the usual
nelda of nank-ioa wen not visible, and ;
almost a dear she, t of W880f was found. !
Consequently the passago was made in
good time and in smooth water.
In due time the expedition rooohed
Carey Islands, whetO Commander Young
anticipated finding dia atchi itbat might
hate been left there by Oapt, Narea lo
bo taken to the British Admiralty. En
this he was disappointed, us DO aigm of
the government exploring expedition
wt re visible. There being nothing
further to be done at the island, (apt.
Young decided to steer lor f OTfiaotff
Bonnd, the northweai oomer of Baffln'i
Pay, and, on maohfng that point, en
countered for tie fust time Loo-Jloeo. So
great was the preaanro ol the floating
ice that it was with great difficulty that
the Pandora wai forced on her way.
Despite the ico and thr difficulty of
passage, Capt. Young moceeded in
traversing the entire length of Parrow
Strait, making the passage in good time.
The Paodorae prOgraai was then im
peded by a dense and blinding fog,
which was oo thick and impenetrablethat
men a few foetfrom each other were in
visible. As soon as the steamer Pandora erri Ted
at an anchorage ott Peehy Island, several
of the officeri and crew went ashore and
made an examination of the buildings.
They found the storehouse built fr the
benefit of sailors or castaways of ice
bound vessels broken into. On entering
the building the visitors found the cloth
ing and the provisions left there to be
in a state of terrible confusion. Every
thing of a movable nature was scattered
about In the most singular manner. At
lirst it seemed to be an act of human
beings, but, on further investigation, the
Pandora people were satisfied that the
destruction Of stores hail been accom
plished by Polar bears, as the tracks
of those animals were visible in every
direction, both inside and outside the
biuliling.
One of the discoveries made by the
Pandora officers was that the headboard
over the graves of Sir John Franklin's
men, who were lying buried there, were
still standing upright and in good pres
ervation. On the 'it'ith Of August the
Pandora steamed away from Peehy
Isliuid for Peel Strait, and then ensued
the most critical period of the entire
voyage, for the steamer eneouutered v.ust
fields of pack-ice, which made the pass
age of the vessel ft most difficult and la
notions one. Struggling through the
pack of ice, the Pandora steadily worked
her way onward, and despite the diffi
culty, soon passed the farthest point
iraohod by the Fox when kfoGlintock
was in search of Sir John Fr nklin's
relics. Soon after reaching that point,
the Pandora neared the island known as
King William's Land, thin DaTigating a
sea where no ship was ever before ex
cept, perhaps, that of Sir John
Franklin.
At this time the most intense excite
ment prevailed among the officers and
members of the expedition, as it was
expected that some important results
were at hand. Many believed that
they would be sure io discover traces of
the Franklin expedition, and eomc were
sanguine thnt even Sir John'l pa i M
would be found, and of eventuallv mak
ing Behring's Htraita- In this, however,
they were disappointed. EtOQUetto'l
Ishuid was discovered ahead. It was
then considered probable that the vessel
would be able to reach Bellofi Straits.
As the steamer moved forward, all hands
were gazing eagerly ahead to the south
ward, but, on ItSWmng Boquette'l Island,
olltcers and men saw the edge of the
solid pack of ice which stretch- d across
the strait from side to side in one un
broken expans" of hummock ice. This
pack blocked the entrance to Bellot'l
Straits. It was the name pack of ice that
stopped Capt. McClintock on the Fox.
So there was no hope of speedy move
ment of tho icy barrier. The random
stayed at this point until the 7th of Sep
tember, when, hading that no further
progress was possible, Capt. Young and
his officers saw that they must decide
either to remain through the winter in
she ice or return. After a mature delib
eration, it was decided to be useless to
remain in winter quarters, and that it
would be far better to return next year.
The return journey was full of ditiicnl
ties, oh the ice was rapidlv forming, and
the passage of the Pandora was a con
slant series of exciting seem sand narrow
escapes from moving ice-floes. Finally
escaping through Peel Strait, the ice w t i i 1
rapidly forming and accumulating, the
steamer at length reached Carey islands
in safety. There Capt. Young found the
long-lookcd-for dispatches from ( apt.
Nares for the British Admiralty. The
voyage was almost uneventful. The
dreaded bay once safely passed an
harmed, the Psdot8 otoamod directly
for England, and arrived safely in port.
Oapt. Young reports that fa m the
prevalence of north winds there is abun
dant ptOmiei thai Oapt. Nares will pro
SSSd to the highest latitude pOSSU h .
black Hills Ketnanciug.
As an Eldorado the Pluck Hills coun
try has not proved a SOOOOSS. The only
paying thing about it, as near as we can
discover, is it he price which the Indians
had the effrontery to demand for a
sion of their rights. There was one
other feature which came very near being
fabulous, and that was the price which
the Government Oommisaionori offered
them. Tho Indians wanted $70,000,000,
and tho Commissioners offered fl,000,
000 ; one was a little more out of the way
than the otiier, hut not much.
Tli,. .f. ,v
eminent unht just about an reasonably
pay the Indians 870,(X)),()(0 for the ces
sion of exclusive privileges granted b
the government, of no value to them, in
exchange for other exclusive privilege,
as to pay 14,000,000 for this exchange.
B TV
On the wholo, we sag lfld it iis foitunato
that the Indian were so outrageously
exorbitant m their dansttlfsl ; (Of if they
had come rtiivwli. ro within the- neighbor
hood ol the 0 wmiKHioneri' otter we
four the Imi h-r would hae bed math',
ami lit I... 8,000,000 Ul DBOAOJ, if not
moie, i . Ween thrown away, in
addition to lie U l II HHM 11)811818 tlf08lH
brained for exploring. rnLItampt
mature judgment, after a patient ami
taboriou i xplorarion of kho territory, is,
thai the Black Hille aro not worth mow
than o,k.M)o for puivlnmo outright
That is. an individual or company dosir-
in o:.!'!iisiv privil'gi'H for mining might
possibly make it pay after pnrohssing at
that rate. The (loverument Commis
sioners olh red twelve times that amount
simply us an inducement for the Indians
to move a little further hack inh a coun
try much better suited to their purposes.
ieaffO IWomim .
I SKFl'I. HINT.
some Thing not generally Known, hut
WMak Kvei v family Ought to Know.
Plants kept in the window should be
turned every morning, or the light,
striking one side only, will draw the
plant to thai side so that all its branch
es and leaves will tUTU toward the win
dow. When color on a fal rio has been acci
dentally or otherwise (! royed by acid,
ammonia la applied to n utraiixo th acid,
after winch an applicalion of chloroform
will, in almost ail oases, restore ine orig
inal color. The application of ammonia
is common, but that of chloroform is
but little known.
If the heat of the room occupied by
an invalid is oppressive, it may be great
ly lessened by hanging in the open win
dows seme towels or canvas well wetted.
Water passing from a liquid to a gaseous
state absorbs caloric. The chemical
process will lower In a few minutes the
temperature of a room by Ave r six de
grees, and the humidity distributed
m the air makes the heat more support
able. Moths will work in carpets in rooms
that are kept warm in the winter as well
as in the summer. A sure method for
restoring the paste is to pour strong
alum water on the Hour to the distance
of half i yard around the edges before
laying oarpeta. Then once or twice du
ring the season sprinkle dry salt over the
Carpet before weeping. Insects do not
like salt, and sufficient adheres to the
carpet
to prevent their alighting upon
it.
Those who are m tho habit of scalding
their tomatoes before paring them can
hardly think how much nicer they are
without scalding. It is not so difficult to
pare a fully ripe tomato without the
scalding when one gets in the liabit of
doing it. If one is paring those not fully
ripe they should have a sharp, thin knife,
and pais from the blossom to the stem,
instead of round like an apple. If they
are not smooth one can cut them apart in
tho creases, and thus get at the skin.
Washing-day will insist upon making
its unweloome appearance once a week. Penitentiary. Before bis term expired,
The linen for Monday's wash should be he organized an escape which proved
collected on Saturday, sorted and put to partially successful. W r. partial, be
soak in cold water, according to the j cause he and his associates ade good
various kinds. The body linen should i their escape, but they were all fuibsc
be put into one tub, the bed and table nuentlv captured, one of them betas'
linen into another, and the fine things
separately. Plain collars, cuffs, wrist
bands, should be strung through the
button holes on a piece of lobbin long
enough for the articles to be easily di
vided for rubbing, starching, etc. Col
ored muslins, prints and llanuels must
be laid aside to be washed in a different
manner from white, calico or linen.
Properly boiled suds are far better than
SOSp for washing, particularly if a wash
ing machine be employed. The suds
should be employed in the following
manner : Shred into an earthenware jar
the best yellow son) cut into very tine
shavings, and pour boiling water to the
quantity required. One pound of soap
a plenty for one gallon of water. Add
to this Quantity half a pound of
Scotch soda, and set the jar (covered)
on a stove or at the back of the kitchen
range til' the soap is quite dissolved. If
this be done on Saturday evening, the
soap will be a smooth jelly to OSS on
Monday morning.
Old mutton is always a groat intlic
tion. Some of its horror. can be avoid
ed by using the following recipe: Minco
very finely some cold mutton with a
few oysters or a few mushrooms ; take
some strong stock well flavored with
vegetables and highly seasoned, put it
in a stew-pan, and thicken it with roux
(i. e., butter melted over a slow lire,
well skimmed, thickened to stiff paste
with baked, sifted flour, and left to cool
before use). Let the stock ainuni r,
and stir in the roux, taking care to
stir always in the same direction ;
when a nice and tolerably thick
sauce has been made, add the minced
mutton, etc., to it, and let the mince
warm through, stirring it gently round
as it does so ; then put it on a dish, and
leave it to cool for some hours. When
it is quite cold it should form a jelly
like paste, just consistent enough to
make oft balls. These halls should be
of the shape and size of a large egg, and
then rolled In grated bread'Crumba, then
fry them Ln boiling fat. The boiling fat
should cover them entirely ; they must
be put into it one at a time very care
fully and gently, and taken out with
equal owe, to prevent the risk of
breaking them. It is for this reason
that it is necessary to egg and breod-
. ai . . r
erumo mem iwice over. orraugv
them round a dish with boiled peas,
i.v .. i. i : u .-. ;
i lencn ocuiiMci Mnimcu i'licit n ' '
center
A riECKof property near Ploomington,
111., was transmitted in a peculiar way !y
a recent decision of Judge Tipton. A
lady, dying, left it to her daughter; the
father married again, and on June 2,
1674, the e;irl died; on June 90, 1ST I, I
son was born to the futher l.y his second
Wife. The question was whether the
girl's inhei dance iWfSfftsd wholly to her
father, or w hether, under the statute, the
half-brother was entitled to the . state.
It wus decided that the half brother par
took of the inheritance, veil though
eighteen daya elapsed between the time
of the girl's' d. nth and his birth.
One of the street sensations in New
1 f .V!ls ti )i,,rsewliip- i
' niaa ft T .rir llV nil 1 1 1 ( 1 1 .ni.11 1 1
I r" " muwmwmm -v ; o -
married woman whose acquaintance he
attemph'U to form on the Street She
made an appointment witli him and
hronghl her nnsbsnd along to see fair
play while she whipped her insolent ad
mi rr.
A DESPERADO MS AT II .
KllliiiK of MuJ. (iraliam in Colorado A
niritiige, Career.
The Denver (Col.; Tribww u recent
date aaya : The ootnplioatioo n u i ' mm
ing the PocahontM mine, aitnatad at
Roaita, not far from Oanoo City, hnti
finally reatdted in a flaroo and taial oon
fliot, by which oflo) lifo hoj boon aatui
flood, if uot more. Tho man killed was
tho notorious Maj. Graham, wh wa w il
knows i" Dattfit m one of tho n ii
danajatona f daring deepen I tea.
The Majoi wiia a :iut;v- of New
York and in the early part of the Wftl 1
mnio conspicuous as ii partizan coin
munder oi me union lore. :u .ortn
Carolina, lie was a perfect etttlete,
Hpleudid horseman, an accurate shot, end
as daring and unscrupulous any UMU
who ever drew a sabre. F r hi M mioSf
ho was appointed at the elo.se I the war,
a First Lieutenant In th r ai an
and assigned :o duty in thewVsl P
the services he rendered against the Ii
diaiis, aided by more Of LOSS 1 1 ntnal in
fluence, Lieut. Qrahem 10000000000
full-blown Major, and as such became I
special favorite at Fort Le.iv orth .n.l
in the oity Of that name. While at thi-
post he paid his addreaseeto one i Um
most attractive ladies of Leavenworth,
and it was only by an accident that the
marriage was not consummated.
The night previous to the day 00
which the ceremony was to take place,
the commanding officer at Fort Leaven
worth received direct instructions from
the War Department to plao Maj. On
ham in irons, and keep him in solitary
confinement till further orders. Ai
though the order created nn
immense surprise at the fort,
I it was literally obeyed., and
Mai. Graham found nimseli m felon's
cell, instead of occupying, u- be had
hoped, a bridal couch. A court martial,
however, subsequently explained what
seemed at the time to be inexplicable.
The evidence bsfbtS the Court establish
ed the fact that Maj. Graham, while
wearing the honorable uniform of a
United States officer, had been the secret
head of a band of horse-thieves in Kan
sas; had also, while in Utah, bsOO in
league with the lowest oatSS oi gamblen
and thieves, and that he had iystl matic-
i ally stolen and sold horses from the its
bles of the government. The court
martial sentenced the Major to be dis
honorably dismissed from the rv:ee
to be debarred from ever holding any
I office of honor or trust under the gov-
1 ernmeut, and to serve a term of ten
years in a military prison. Through
some unknown influence this atsnoi
was indorsed only so far as it : ated to
the dismissal of the Major from the ser
vice. As soon as he was in possession of I
qualified freedom, the Major started foi
Denver, and here became, as of yore,
the associate of evil and dangerous
classes. His first attempt at public rob
bery was made on Paymaster Brooks, at
River Bend. For this offense h was
tried and sentenced to two years in the
killed, and the Major himself severely
wounded, ite served out tho rest ol his
term, and when released went to Posita,
where he opened a whisky-den. It WW
probably here that he arranged, with
others, the M jumping " of the Pocahon
tas mine. The "jumpers" k'-pt POSSOS
sion until day before yesterdej , w hen all
the miners in the neighborhood resolved
on clearing the mine of its fraudulent
possessors. How thin was don- the dis
patches tell. The Major was caught on
hie way to liosita. On being halted he
turned to run, but fell dead Inbistracka,
pierced by some twenty-live bails.
The imration of Life,
The following facts on the duration oi
life appear in the Deuttoh Von icfUungs
. itung: "In ancient Pom-', d iring the
period between the years livid snd :t0
A. I)., the average duration of life
among the upper classes was dO years.
In the present century among the same
classes of people, it amounts to 30 years.
In the sixteenth century the mnsn fJUTS
tion of life in Genera wss 21.21 yean ;
between 1814 and 1888 it was 40.68
years; and id the proseur time as many
people live to 70 years oi age as :itM,'
years IgO lived to the agS of "
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