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EstabUshed 1870. VOLUME XII-NUMBER 16. IJELLEVILLE, RErUBLIC, COUNTY KANSAS, THURSDAY, NOA E.MBEU 1881. WHOLE NUMBER 588. Subscription Rates OnoCopy.ono tlOO One Copy, one year, if paid in advance LU One copy, eix months UO One copy, three months 80 -wr8pped at the office for fiyo cebts copy.

MINOR MENTIOK. Fenns TnEHE is a town in called Noodlcdooscy. SITTING BULL has cleared $2,800 by selling his autographs. DAKOTA is unusually liund with prairie fires these dayp. AN immense cotton mill is to bo erected in Waco, Texas.

DR. TANNEK the faster, has gone to Mexico to live on a ranch. CouNTEUFEiT dimes, that cut casily with a knife, are in THE British Empire claims to do one-third of the banking in the world. A SCIENTIFIC paper says books for children's eyes should bo on green paper. THE grape crop in tho upper Napa valley of California is phenomenally large this year.

FRINGE BISMARCK says medical science has made no progress in tho past 2,000 years. A SWISS statistician says tliat in tho year 2000 tho population of Europe will be 665,801,141, as against 100,000,000 at present. IT is said that 8,000 dozen of accordions were sold in tho south last year, and yet thoy wonder that immigrants will not go there. MARK TWAIN is on another bust. It is bronze this time, and the work of Mr.

Karl Gerhardt, of Elmira, N. Y. It is on exhibition at Hartford. OPIUM has increased twentj'-flve per cent in price since tho Chinese war. in California anticipated this and are reaping a harvest of shekels.

THE WORLD AT LARGE. WABHrnOTON. second auditor of the treasury has som pleted his annual report for the fiscal jcar ended June 80,1884. It ebows that the frate number of unadjusted accounts and tlalms on hand July 1, 1883, was trhtob 86,119 were for arrears of pay tv. To tbiie were added, daring tbe year, 35,741 new c'lalms, of which 14,919 are for ar- jrearsof pay and bounty; 34,088 of these old ud new claims were disposed of during tho year, leaviCR 48,681 unadjusted on the 30th of June last.

The recommendation Is made that IboSRress enact a statue of limitations which bar all claims growing out of the late war not presented for payment within one or two jcars thereafter. THE commissioner of Indian affairs, in his report says the progress of the In, lans towards civilization Is most encouraging. He urges the necessity of passing tho appropriation bill early In tho session. Congress Is urged to pass a stringent law prohibiting the calc of arms and ammunition to the Indians and to enforce the law forbid-. Idlog the sale of liquor to them.

Touching the removal of the Crow Indians In Montana, the report stated it has thus been made pos- eiblo to add to the public domain at least 3,000,000 acres of the reservation. THE director of the mint has Issued his annual report, showing the deposits of gold to have been $46,320,079. Sliver purchased for Icolnagc and deposited for bars, tt'otal value of gold and silver deposited and purchased, Tho total coinage was $57,880,931. Total amount of slUcr dol- kara iu circulation October, 1SS4, over Itlbo. Total coin and bullion available tor coinage, October 1, 872,000,000.

I TnB United States consul at Genoa, In a dis patcb'to the department of state, reports that he total number of deaths In that province 'rom cholera from Its flrst outbreak to Sept, 24 VBB.617, and the proportion of deaths to cases Was 75 per cent. Experts who investigated the matter report the spread of tUo epidemic in all parts of tho city was caused by the use bf impure water. THB reoalpts of the postofflcc department for tho fiscal year ended June 30, 1SS4, exclusive of money-order revenue, Is $43,818,035, and expenditures 40,411,772, leaving deficiency of 3,.593,137, which Is attributed to the reduced postal rates. THE rough and uncut, diamonds exported from the Division of Kimborly, in South Africa, during August last, weighed 187,809 29-82 carats; the declared value was £235,912. AN English pliysician thinks that bicycling may prove inj'urious if tho fashion of small saddles and largo wheels, involving so much pressure on tho perineum, bo persisted in.

ADMIRAL COUEUET the Frcncli com- mtinder in China, entered school intending to become a soldier, but changed his mind in favor of tlie navy physicians were summoned and everything after reading one of Captain Mar- A coLLtsiON occurred on the Wabash, near Xiiylorvllle, Illinois, Monday. The west bound freight tralb was being nm in two sections. The first had a coach filled with Italians at- taebed. When rounding a at Clarksdale mile from Taylorvllle, the coupling pin between the engine and first car brolio. A man was sent back, but too late to stop the second section, tbe engine crushing Into tho coach containing tho Immigrants.

It was pverlurned and thrown down the bank ten feet, the sides crushed In and both ends smashed. There were forty-three persons In the women and children. The wounded were taken back to Tuvlorvlllo, where valley ot Ohio since the strlko in A. Jni'FEiiY, of IIiillvlUo, Illinois, bus entered for the fiit-stock ahwiv hos said to Cralgen, the well-known agitator, presided one platform. Resolutions were passed claring that tho house of lords is useless anil dangerous, iind onght to be abolished.

No speeches were made by members of the house of common A LONDON cablegram says: In constqucnru of (the statement in the house of coramoua bv weljjli liumlrwl Tun worsted dcparlmeiit cif the BIgelow Carpet at Cliritun, jMassHchusctts, Eliut down fiT two Turnr, la iin active demand for vessels to the rebels it will bo duo to the government's 1 failure to send Jiebehr Pasha to him. Ho C.K- InLh presses the hope that, for tho sake ot the honor of England, tho Abysinlans have not been eu- Lord Edward Fltzmaiirico, under Bccretary lor carry corn from Chicago to BuHaln at Z)4 cents foreign affairs, that neutrals must regard the per bushel. French blockade of Formosa as notincatlon ot i THK mayor of New York has appointed Gon- the rajistence ot a state of war between France eriilFitzJohnrortcrtothopoliceoommissloner- and China, It Is cxpeoted that British ports will ship. be closed to transports taking French troops THE failures Ihroujliout the United States to China, and Hong Kong will be closed for for the past week were 234. refitting vessels after naval engagements or as GEXEUAI, GUESUAM has boiin iippoliitod cir- 0 base of suppllbs and stores.

cult judge at Chlcogo. i IN a letter, dated April 22, Gen. Gordon writes that he has ofteied freedom and pay to THE MAEKETS. slaves who desert El Mehdi. This policy, ho Kans.is City Grain anil Live Stock, hopes, will sound tho doom of slavery iu the I Wheat, No.

3 red winter, cash, 44; Novem- Soudan. He declares If Shendy Is captured by her. mi- No. 2 rod winter, cash, 54; October, 55X; Ueenmber, No. 2 soft winter, cash, presses the hope that, for tho sake ot the honor liV" of England, tho Abysinlans have not been eu- May, Ilye, No.

2, casu, 41; October, 41. gaged to fight England's battles. Onts, No. 2, casli, 22. ADVICES from London say the covcrnmenti) f3.0J®4.50; half of Spain and Portugal have been combined oppose the rights ot tho Berlin conference deal with the territorial claims ot Portugal in i Hogs, sales ranged from tho lower Congo.

Should the conference per-i bulk from Sheep, good to in the question her claims 1 In that country the Spanish and Portuguese envoys will withdraw from that body. I St. Louis-Wlient, ii'red, TuE residence ot J. U. Ilutehlns, In Mon I e.isli; 7T October; treol, wos ncorly blown to pieces bv an expUi- December; 77 the yVaf.

Corn, slon of gas. Tho household elTocts were November; De- thrown Into the street, and hvo nar- "Thlcal-oA 'heatrNo. 2 spring. rowly escaped death. A hule an Inch No.

3 red, 75i.2'@70; No. 3, Corn, square was found In the pli)e below tlu- niclcr. salesof cash, ai October. THE emperor of Germany has notified tlii; Brunswick diet that bo will not recognize the claim of tho duke of Cumberland to llie grand ducal throne, and that he approves of the measures of the regency against the pretender. I LOUD GUOSVENOK, one of the secretarhs ot 1 Complete omclalTctiirns from Ohio give the the British treasury, ha.s Infurnied the editor of.

a i Nnveinber, Iho year, New beat. No. 2 Bpriiig, S3K; No. 3 red, SIK: No- 2 red, S.5%@S7}s-. Co'ru, 3, araudigiijNo.

THE GOLD-FIELDS OF AFRICA. The Trouble Experienced in Reaching Tlie Prospector's Path Impeded by Bad Eoads and Bloodthirsty Pests. Far months past the late discoveries of gold in the Transvaal republic, writes a correspondent at Port Elizabeth, Africa, to Tht San Franchco CkrorMe, have been the principal topic of conversation throughout South Africa, and a large number of people thrown up employment in the colony and Natal to proceed to the new Eldorado at Moodie's. As a great many Americans are now coming out for these fields it may be interesting to your readers. to know wliero thoy are situated and what tho surrounding cpuntry is like.

Moodie's holding, ubon which the reef called after hiiu ig situated, is estimated to bo about 170 miles west by south from tlie Portuguese port of Delagoa Bay, and about the same distance northeast of Pretoria, a town of some importance, containing a couple of tliousand in- liabitants. But the actual distauooa are not known, for there arc so many roads that few parties tr.avel by the same route, and for the last twenty miles or so there are DO roads at all, and from the nature of the country, but little possibility of making any. There arc two main overland routes to Moodie's and the lields farther north to Nat and Cape the post-cart route, through Polchefs- trooni, Pretoria, and Middlcburg, the Dthcr through Utrecht and Now Scotland. The latter is a shorter route, but it is unsafe at present, owing to the unsettled state of tlio natives. There is also the route by tlie sea from Durban (Natal) to Delagoa Bay and thence overland.

This is the quickest w'tiy of getting to Moodie's, but the shances tvro that you carry yourdealh- (varrant with you in tho shape of a deadly coast fever. The road from Delagoa Bay is only lafo durinsr the months of June, July, and August, when tho waatlior is cooi and but little r.iin falls. Tho country near the coast is a succession of swamps, wliere tlio wagons sink up to of rA V'''Tf is furnished only to which support the government. gocrctiiry ot Statc- GENDAIlMEsatAgram, thccapltal of Croatlii, Koblnson, reputillcan 301 prevented fifteen members of the diet from Newmiin, dciiiocral 380,275 taking their seats, because ot cnntcnipt shown prohthilimiist for the authority of the house. THE municipal authorities ot Umeriek, bv a republican.

302,917 their axles, and two, sometimes three, vote ot twenty-seven to live, dci-ided to Jlarti'n, dem.K'nit teams of sixteen oxen eacli, Iiavo to be In their rotusal to pay the lax assessed for Inspanned to get tho blundering, un- extra police serylcc. 'fXr 'of'irVioard oi'i'ubilc Works- vehicles through. Scvorariargc FKOM all parts ot tho world congraluhitory 303,885 rivers have to be forded, and here ac- telcErams were sent to Sir Mijscs Montellorc, ot London, congratulating hlin ou reaching Kirkendall, prohibitionist 9 )4 his 100th birthday. Ogdeu, THE army of Eirypt is to be reduced to four I thousand men, with eighteen English Poland. The police force will be Increased to three Outwardly Warsaw, like the rest of thousand men.

Poland, is i)acilicd and prosperous IT IS onielally stated that Colonel St'jwart No city in Kiissia cau equal it for solid and his party were massacred by Arabs near progrcs.s, none maintains sucli a liigli cidents are more the rule than tho exception. One river, the Crocodile, is aptly named. A few weeks ago the sub-editor ot one of the Durlian papers, when crossing it, suddenly di.s- appearcd. It was subsequently discovered that at least, aconsid- Mcrawl. ryat's novels.

done to relieve their suderlngs. Fourteea of the Italians arc Injured, but none fatally, It Is thought A six-STOEY building on the corner ot Mlchl- gon street ond La Salle avenue, owned by Charles E. Culver and occupied by several OF a $40,000 lire which occurred in New York last week it is told "it gained great headway, because tho proprietor was talking politics and refused to listen to a man who told him Ijis house was on lire." I ON account of the cholera scare this year, the people who usually went to the French resorts, went instead to tho English watering i )lacc3, tho French papers arc so mad that they are calling the English hotel keepers ghouls. MISS CARRIF- WELTON, flic young lady who froze to death in a snow storm on Long 's Pcako in September, manufacturing firms, was recently destroyed left a fortune of to tlic Society '7 being James Carr, 1... foreman ot a elgar-liox factory, conducted for tho Prevention 6f Cruelty to Am- to the fire-escape, and mals of New York.

lost his life liy falling from a window sill. BuaOLAUs at Andoycr, Massachusetts, took from the residence of Professor Austin Phelps $10,000 In tjonds, and from the house ot Professor John P. Taylor securities valued nt 13.5,000. All but $8,000 ot the amount was found In bushes near the lattor's house. ADDITIOXAL details of the Pennsylvania mine disaster, near Unlontown, place tho number of deaths at fifteen.

The cause of the catastrophe is supposed to be carelessness on the part of the miners. BT the explosion of a locomotive holler near Baltimore, the engineer was blown fifty feet and-reduced -to tho fireman was scalded to death. JOHN F. PLEASANTS, editor ot a newspaper at Petersburg, Virginia, havljiffbtcu convicted of libel, was fined $5 'MU sentenced to one IT is stated iu tho funeral director 's minute In Jail, codti of rules that "there is no profcs-i THE shops of the Milwaukee and Northern sion, after that of the sacrOd ministrv, Howard, Wisconsin, valued at in which a high-toned morality is more recently destroyed by lire. WHILE firing salutes at a democratic rally in imperatively necessary tlian in that of Rondout, Ni York, four men were terribly a funeral director, and high moral injured by the explosion of connon.

principles arc his only guide." A LOSS of 1150,000 was caused wl Port Clinton, Pennsylvania, by a collision of coal trains. JOURNALISM is in a nourishing oon- One fireman wan Injured, dition in the little kingdom of Greece. w-ere killed and seyeral Injured by amine explosion near Lnlontown, Pcnnsylvii- At this moment tlicre arc 122 printing houses, which produce annually about, on tho grounds of Samuel 1,000 different works. Nearly every j. Tllden at Greystonewas wlpedoutby fiamos.

village h.as its newspaper. In Athens -f6uFpoiiticaI papers. OBIMINALlTIEa 1 A DODY nearly destroyed by qulck-limo and THE deatli of Wormley, of Washing- orc has been found buried in the woods near ton, is reviving recollectiens of some the Soldiers' Home at Tagus, Maine. It Is of tho big bills for dinners iu his res- believed to be that of Gabriel Lahelle, an In- on last winter. Justice o'Home, who disappeared about five Gray and nineteen more were enter- tained by Mr.

Hoar in that liouso at jjj second trial of Denipsey for wife mur- $100 a plate, inchuling wines, jind lJuOO derat Dodge City, Kansas, tho jury returned extra for llowers. I a verdict of murder In the first degree, which verdict was ses aside and tlie prisoner plead guilty and was sentenced to twenty years in erable portion of taken an involuntary berth inside of a croodile ommorcial prosrenly, in oniclatcd as a rilleta.get shortly the depression prev.ailing afterward. When tho lower country It as been w.ay as best ho can over a range of It has been ranks third in tho listof Russian cities, cvol of spile of tlirousliout the GBNBRALITIE3. WiLBL-n F. STOHKY, proprietor of the Chlcii.

go Titncs Is dead, aged OJ years. widely Icnown for years that tbe proprietor of hivt The TimcH was an invalid; but few besides 000 people, Moscow next, with 02,5,000, those nearest him knew the iiatuie and of his Illness. Disabled by severe accident many years ago, he never fully recovered tho use of his injured limb, or regained 'ills general health. He was compelled by sufTerine-, often most Intense, to relinquish iniich.ot his accustomed labor on The Times, which paper, as Is well icnown, his genius and encrgv had practically created. iigii, while in can over a range lofty hills.

Tho track here is bered with immense boulders, many of which are as large as an ordinary arsaw tliird, with In appearance tlicrc is little that is Polish about tlio place; it lias not that na- three-story house. 'Wagons generally break down on this section of tho i UO lai looK uy previously: and many parties have to lofty, solid whitewashed houses de- Uandon their wagon.s here and go to Europe, he had a danternus attack of pnrah- bt. letersburs sis, which further enfeebled him and li Oeto- nro" auu, UAUU will uui frovern '1 111 on country, and the only hope to get n-vwhon. ibP is to piisli forward as swarm will, "ildi'rs lind olucial bu? botJLi- none the loss, there is pluuty of gen- wlmt tlio donlccy is the beast land for the purpose of enticing capitalists to invest. Much of it would yield one hundred ounces to the ton.

Of couric, this must not bo taken as an average. The majority of tho quartz, however, is certainly very rich and the general ojiinion of okl Australian and California miners is that from two to seven ounces may be accepted as a fair general average. There are at twelve hundred men on Moodie's reef, but many of them are almost starving. The latter are mostly clerks who have thrown up situations in stores and gono up to tho fields without either money or mining experience. Tho same class of men starved in the early days of tho diamond fields because they did not possess the physique for hard manual labor and wanted to mako fortunes by working at their claims.

Men who understand mining arc doing well. Tho at present is entirely unsettled. The Transvaal legislature is powerless to protect the concessionaires, and the only law at the gold-lields is that of Mr. Justice Lynch. Native labor is not over- plentiful, but so soon as the 'Swazio chiefs find out that the lields arc being they will eventually by an Exclusive "English-speaking population, tliey will be only too willing to send down their men in parties to contract for six or twelve months' work.

A YOUNG widow, in erecting amonu ment to tho "dear departed," cleverly FBEB. W. DUVBENOIS, a p. vate liankerof availed herself of tho opportunity to in- Detroit, MIchlBan. Is He owes describe on tho tomb; "Sacred to tlio posltors from $20,000 to ond was memory of Matliusin Bonuchet, who agent for insurance companies to whom departed this life, aged sixty-eight he owe.

aggregate of over years, regretting the necessity of parting from the most charmmg and best scandal caused by a suit brought by her father of women." ogalnst her grandfather. TOM MCLISTEE, aged fifteen, wos arrested at A PARIS paper tells of a science Ohio, charged with attempting to art of discrimin- onthe Pan Handle roadat Mingo ating character by the beard. Close- Junction. growing hair indicates a vigorous tem-l JAMES NEWMAN, son of ex-Treasuier New- peramont and a decided lomper; coarse hair, obstinacy; lino hair, refinement and erratic tendencies; curly beards appertain to brilliant and sprightly, but superficial persons; harsh, to amiable but cold natures. Btantly killed Jack Clem, at Napoleon, lu self- iletense.

A WOMAN named Johnson, residing In Calhoun county, West Virginia, poisoned step-children and herself with arsenic. FOBBIGN. EVEN earthquakes would appear to! cablegr.im says recent official correspondence relating to Egj-pUan afialrs have Bomdgood-qualitios for those-who-gi made publlWThc loteof instruc- know and study them. In a report to Hons from the to General Wolsc- tho British Association, Professor (ey stated that tho objeHof the expedition was Milne of Japan, tho well-known ses- (o bring General Gordon and Colonel Stewart mologist, plaintively states that the offensive opera, Uons than should prove necessary to serve this last season was a comparatively poor would be permitted. Neither the English ono, there being only fif tj'-soven earth- northe Egyptian govcrnnwDt was prepared to quake shocks between May, 1881, and assume the responsibility of the government May, 1882, as compared with eighty pf the Nile valley beyond Wady-HaUa, though which were felt during the correspond- K.ttl of tho previous year." ing period with Egypt, would encourage commerce and 1 I would prevent the slave trade.

When It was A NEW development has thkt General Gordon had sent Stewart been instituted by Michcla in Italy. He bum Berber, the government directed has constructed a machine by which Kitchener to send a counter order to Colonel signs to corresponding to various Stewart A MONSTER radical demonstration In favor sounds can bo telegraphed. Thus we! lords was re- have practically a telegrhahic short-, held In the vicinity of Hyde Park, Lon- hand to which the name don. Over 100,000 persons were present. A grapby" is given.

Michela's appara- 1 longproceislon with bands, marched tus has now been in regular use for tbe principal streets. Tbe marchers someperiod in telegraphing bates in tho Itahan senate, and it is bMuiers were displayed bearing such Inecrlp- clalmed that by this method 10,000 ttou "Down with the lords," atjd I ifofdfi be transmitted per bour. ibrdtMf pppoieDtsot CITU prostrated him. From this he never rallied, and has remained almost wholly hcIi)loss ever fifth annua, meeting of tho Women'. '(n Home Missionary socicly was held at Boston, scTtlb-busli if lie Wednesday.

The directors- r.port shows ri. brts ra can get it, and thrive on rocks wlion coipts for the year to be the number 1 l.lloits h.uc ijecn made and the bite of missionaries to bo increak.d from s.xl,|.„ successive governors Ki.ssiauizc tseTselly scarcely ap- to twenty-four. The treasurer reported cash pears to incommode him at all wlic resources Sin.uOO; 5U2.00U; the i appearance, and is certain old board ot clllcers was re-elected and Mrs, names and signs have been in- C. U. Bliss 0 presldcnis.

TuE supreme Scott liquor Jorlty holding law. Nearly made bankrupt In pjylng back the amounts "uvu uioy rouieu UUL uic vuuera- equabilities foi-the eciTnomization collected last year. At Columbus Ihc wliiclv the Poles cntcrtaiti for a of city officials are in arrears for tHo mouths '-ity every inch of which contains as' ormore. sociationS calculated to movethedcep- average ancient W.n the fcdcralrailroaJcmi-jest feelings of tho patriot. For the mlssioner, reports that on June 30 the raclllc oidiiKuy Uussian it is a cascof exile tO lines owed the government The him to Poland.

In many instances be a great African traveler, tliough 1 sinking fund held by the trcLsui'cr of tho Siberia would bo preferred. The meandered over a considerable United States Is ebmpo.sed ot to the! Pai.ssi^n has three pet aversions-tho extent of the country. I have shot at credit ot the Union Pacific, mil to the Cerman, and the Catholic olcphant, but I missed him, which, that of tho Central IMclllc. Pole. Warsaw is almost entirely made eonsidenng that my only weapon was LiELTEX.vNT Jl.

STONEV ivUimed up of thcso clcmonts, In tho villages a Winchester riflo of tlio rmi-fire, pop- to San Francisco from the exploration ol the tlie Kiissiau comes iu contact with was prob.aWy as well for great unknown river In bringing sped- sourfacod Polish pea.sants, professing tao as it was for the elephant; and I mens of gold, copper and coal, lie a rcliirion ho bates, and in tljc towns once wounded a bullalo, which turned the river ii dislauce :alLhiLbu3iiio.ss±a3___tQ a black which I lake, and turned back ou account of ihe laic- i with Jews and (iermaus. The Russian not go after for prudential reasons ness of the season. i tlius evorvwhcro in a false position, eiisily be comprehended by O.v account of tho down of mills at He dominates, butit id at tho expeiisc sportsmen to which, I fear, Lewlston, there is cun.iiderablo distress of niuliial detestation. Tho worst is But I have lioen bitten by among the diEchuigici operatives. The over- tiial ho feels he is losing ground.

The tsetse lly, and I remembered that seers ot the poor that ai)plIcatIons for (iermaus and tho Jews are overrun-I bite fof some considerable time snbse- asslstance hayo Increased rapidly, largo iiing tlio country; out of a population qneutly. It is only, however, during number of persons liaye recently left for of "7 ,000,000 OUO.OOO arc Jews, and i eight or nine hot months of the Canada. nearly 500,000 Germans. Thus ono year that these pests really LYDIA, the second wife ot Clawson, the po-' out of every live persons ho meets is a troublesome to man or dangero.us to lygamlst, after spending a night in the Jail at or a German. It can be readily the belt between the Salt Lake for contempt ot court, answered understood that with a large expanse I swamps and tho very higli country is three questions by the prosecution, giving the of country, uncultivated and one need be under no appren- place and date of her marriage.

Clawson was awaiting colonization, strctchino-south sions of loss or inconvenience from convicted. THE Washington mil's, an Immense cstjib- llshraent at Lawrence, Jrassachusctts, after losing money under the high proteetiye tariff ottlio past twenty-three years, have decided to shut down for an indclinlte time. THE Louisville Grand Jury returned four iii- diotnients against George C. Buchanan and six against Andrew Buelianan, charging them with issuing false ware-house receipts. Bail was fixed at lu each case.

TUB governor ot Idaho reports that tho funded debt of the territory has been practically wiped tbe populiUou is and that the people are entitled to the advantages of a state government. LYDJA ot Salt Lake, who is presumed to be tho second wife ot Clawson, refused to testify iu the ease now pending, and was ordered to tho peniteutlary for tho night. THE largest tugboat ever built in this couii of Russia to the Caucasus, the Musco-1 vile should avoid settling aown in Po. land. The climattf and soil of the this post.

This fiy, howovei, is not the only ob- ectionaljle specimen of the animal Stevropol plains being infinitely better kingdom willi which the gold-miner is than Poland, and the land considera- likely to mako acquaintance on his biy cheaper, the overplus of tho middle road to the Transvaal fields. Snakes Russian provinces yearly makes for are plentiful, and most of them are ox- tlio Black sea, instead of moving west cceuingly venomous, and there are the Vistula. To encourage tho lat-; enough tarantulas, centipedes, and iter movements tho Russian govern-' scorpions to furnish an unpleasantly mout enacted in 18C1 that no Polo liberal allowance to countries where should sell ids land to a fellow-country- these horrors are not included in the man. There being no Russian buyers, census. The climate, however, in the liowever, the Germaus have swarmed high country about Moodio is probably in, and Hii.s.sia, liaving won Poland one of Ihograndcst in creation.

Inthe from the Pole, is now in danger ot los-' winter months it is bright, bracing, ing it to tlio German. At tho close of but always dry, and sometimes exceed- the last century Warsaw was a Prus-: inglj cold. In tho summer the heat sian What is now the Vis- i during the daytime is enough to melt a tula province was administered from salamander, but it is a dry heat, and Berlin. Germans have proverbially therefore notliing like so trj-ing as the try wos launched from a shipyard at Kensiug- long memories, and have displayed continual summer on the ton, Pennsylvania. The vessel Is Intended for considerable tenacity in sticking to coast.

There is water in abundance, use In tbe Gulf of Mexico and harbor ot New their programme of extending tho kai- but it has to bo led some distance for Orleans. ser's riile to whatever it was once ae- mining operations. Wood is not over ABOUT twelve hundred Invitations will next knowledged. With Warsaw converted plentiful, but there is coal in the neigh- week be sent out for the wedding ot Orme into a second Metz, Germany would bo borhood of tho mines, and this will bo as powerful on her eas'ern frontier as the fuel of the future. At present most is now on the Olobe.

of tho diggers h.ave to be content to excellent fuel it Joliii Adams. The original of the following inter- by President John Adams, in 1820, i.s in tho possession of the Hon. Charles A. Doolittle, of Utica, wliose wife is a great-granddaughter of John Adams. Ex-President' Adams was nearly 85 years old when tliis letter was written, and it comments characteristically upon his recent election to a seat in tlie Massachusetts constitutional convention and expresses some opinions upon the dangers of the republican government, whicli will bo read with inteicst at this-day.

The letter is as follows: MONTKIZKLI.O, Nov. 5, DEAR SIR I received with pleasure your favor of Oct. 20. A in the convention, as it is the spontaneous evidence of the kindness of my fellow- citizen, is indeed a gratification to my feelings. If I should mako my exft in the'scrviee it will be by euthanasia, but whether my 't'tendance will be of any assistance to the deliberations bf that great assctubly who are to revise the constitution l'know not.

Forty years ago I llatterod myself, I did somogood'iu tho formation of it, especially preventing the sovereign authority i'rom being placed entirely in one reproi-entative assembly. I am pleased to find tliat you think well of the "Defense of tho American I think I can say without vanity that that work contains a greater number aud variety of solemn warnings against the'dangers of republican governments in every form and shape in which they have ever existed than are to be found in any work, ancient or modern, now extant. It was written for that express purpose, as a warning to tlie people of France as well as the people of America, and I hope it will lie so to the South Americans as well as to all Europe. The South Americans have got it translated into Spanisli, and are endeavoring to copy its The Gcrnuiiis li'ave it translated into their own language, and thoy may derive some bcnelit from it if tlioy please. But whether tho jieople of Europe or Aineriea liavo any common principles upon wliieli tlicy can unite, or any cmiiiuon iiitelligeiiee capable of adapting iiei'severing in any regular system, remains to be determined.

My" liivo ti) every branch of your family. We are in daily expectation and tho THE SUN'S IIKAT AND POWEH. of seeing sooner thoy anxiety will liero with arrive tlio our be relieved. I am aflee- tionately yours, JOHN ADAMS. As Chiueso Burial-Grounds, you walk around Sbanahai you A Peculiar Room.

makes, the aroma it pro- A Texas lady called at a drug store duces burning isnot exactly the sort and said of thing that Eugene Rimm'el makes "I want a tooth-brush, a real nice his dollars out of. Life is necessarily one. I want it for a room." of the' roughest, but the life of pioneer the first time I. ever heard of miners generally belongs to this cate- Wilson and Miss Carrie Astor, ot New. at the residence of the bride's parents.

8. 8. 8MiTg be general superintendent of tlie Union Paeillo road, with headquarters ot Omaha. His assistant will be Colonel J. M.

Eddy, who will be located at Denver. MRS. MAKY FALKNER, aged 113. died lu Whitley County, Kentucky, Monday. She was bom In Kuoxville, Tennessee, in the first fort ever erected In the state.

CAPTAIN BEDFOHD, who has Just returned from New York to Panama, reports vcllov fever raging there, and those who are well can supply it with some cood hair would think of giving. However, any klUlng each other off. and "if it is bald headed, we man who is not blessed, or cursed, with TUB supreme court of Iowa has decided can sell you some hair restorer that a gigantic manage to ex- that justices of the peace have jurisdiction In like ist tolerably well on £10 a month, and coses under the prombltory law where the fine sprino-bolts." Is $1,000 or less i Th no -Texas Siftings. TUB reports that nearly all the catllt; ranges on the strip ore burned off Is not The faculty of enlortalulng a houseful of true, only 30,000 ocres out of 0,000,000 being trienco sueeessfully Is a gift of tho burned. b'aturda'j.

CnicAOO grain shippers begin to grow anxious ahput lake freights. The rate on and voracious lu Richmond, fts they are at corn to Buffalo has odvaijced to 9 I the present time I if he can not afford this modest outlay I he is not likely to succeed as a miner. With regard to the quartz I may say that I have seen and handled a great deal of it. Some was fabulously rich. There was actually more gold than quartz in the specimens.

But (bis was stuff and went to Eng- think that about half tho land is waste. You fancy it is left, as large coverts and heather-chul lieatlis arc left wlicre gamc-prescrviug llourisliij.s; but if you look closer, you sue turf-covered mounds. It is a burial-ground. Nowhere el.se iu that ueigliborhood will you see a square vard of land that is not under tillage. Half our little wars with the Chinese came from tresspassing on these cemeteries.

The French at Shanghai h.ad what threatened to-bo-tibigrow-when-thoy wanted to drive a road through one of them. They are "taboo." Sometimes of lin evening you may sec the village elder walking round and explaining to the youngsters that their ancestors of a hundred years ago are buried here, and that five mounds oil' lies that happv father who was raised to tho rantc of marquis because his son came out first classic aud senior wrangler in the final examination. I am speaking ot an old burial-ground. In the now one you sec the solid, fins (often carved) lying on the surface. There they are left for a year or two, after which Ihcy are thatched or bricked over according to the wealth of tho family, tho result being a mausoleum like those set up to several of our royal family.

This soon gets grown over with grass and weeds, and ends by becoming a mound, still hallowed in the recollection of the elders, still visited on annivcrs.arios with tlio appointed offerings. The thing to remember is that in China all is above ground; there is no digging of graves, simply laying down of coffins, and covering in by-and-by. In old times they used to bury beside their dead gold and precious stones of all kinds. They aro more economical uow-a-days; ono remembers how they burn horses, and birds, and furniture, cut out of gold and red paper, instead of the old offerings, which have grown too costly. In their present state of mind, tho Chinese are not likely to take to cremation or to let tlieir grave-fields be desecrated by plow or spade; therefore they are bound to go in for sewage, and if our people out there want to mako life them try to get an imperial edict for deodorizing.

Our residents can not complain much about the unhealthiness 'of the present system. Tho Cliincse are, on the whole, a healthy All Ihe Year Bound. Havana ladles have adopted the South American marmoset as a companion and household pet. The little animal should be worn on the wrist or shoulder, or else inside the bosom of tbe dress. At night he sleeps on the plUow of his mistress.

One of the latest names given to articles with the apparent object of attracting attcn- Uon to them Is "liquid bread," a food supposed to base Its Bustalulng properties upon a malt extract Tho Kesults of Investigation Made by Capt. John Ericsson. In a recent number of Nature tho distinguished engineer, Capt. John Ericsson sets forth some investigations which ho made during the summer solstice of this year upon the temperature of the sun's surfacor These investigations form part of a momorablo series of studies in solar physics, ono practical result of- which has been tho construetJOi of a working appliance for the actuation of machinery by the use of heat derived from collected solar rays. It is certainly noteworthy to find the renowned engineer who, more than twoscoro years ago, revolutionized naval warfare by tlio Princeton, the first war steamer ever built with her motive power protected, and again, twenty years later, dictated recon- soruction to tlie world's navies by the Monitor, the famous victor of Hampton roads, aud who after another interval of twenty years produced tho Destrojor, which is designed to ruin great foreign iron-clads that may at- tack'our harbors, now, in his octogenarian days, pursuing recondite phuo- sophic.al studies, whose fruits will inure to tho peaceful occupations of manufactures and commerce.

The power developed by Capt. Ericsson's sun motor indicated that tho temperature of tho suns surface is very groat. But the cylindrical heater of the motor, constructed solely for the purpose of generating steam or expanding air, is for various reasons not well adapted, as its constructor has said, for an exact determination of the amount of surface exposed to the action of the reflected solar rays. Accordingly, for this latter purpose ho constructed a solar pyrometer, which has been erected in this city during the present yoar. It is an instrument of largo dimensions, a polygonal reflector, composed of a series of inclined mirrors, and provided with a central heat-; er of conical form, acted upon 'jy the rencotcd radiation in such a-manner that each point of its surface receives an cquiil amount of radiant heat in a given time.

The central doctrine which Capt. Ericsson first established any demonstration and then as'sumed as'the basis of tho investigations just concluded is that "the temperature produced by solar ladiation is as the density of the rays." Without; attempting to re- jiroducc tho mathematical processes resorted to, or to describe i detail the apparatus of observation, ii is enough to say thatCapt. Ericsson reaches con- elusions remarkably close to those of Sir Isaac Newton, and totally different from those of Pouillef, Vicaire, Sainte- Clairo Doville, and others, who have assigned a comparatively low temperature to tlie sun's surface. Newton in estimating the temperature to which the comet of 1080 was subjected when nearest tho sun, based his calculations on tho result of his practical observations that "the maximum temperature produced by solar radiation was one- third ot that of boiling water, and he found, that the comet was exposed to a temperature of 1,680,000 degrees, an intensity exactly 2,000 times greater than that of red-bot iron at a temperature of 840 degrees." Capt. Erics.son adds this deduction to the article referred to: "The distance of the comet from tho solar surface being equal to one- third of tho sun's radius, it will be seen that, in accordance with the Newtonian doctrine, the temperature to it was subjected indicated a solar intensity of 2,986,000 degrees Fahrenheit." The results of tho experimental investigations carried out by Capt.

Ericsson correspond remarkably to those just recorded. They are tlnis "briclly stated: of KANSAS stated: "The diffusion Sabine Pass, Texas, Is the great alligator market of tho south. Last week 1,500 hides were sold at that place. tho solar rays acting on the 20-inch heater, being in the ratio of 1 to 10,214, tho temperature of the solar surface can not bo less than 298.87 degrees multiplied by equal to 3,060,727 degrees Fahrenheit. This underrated computation must be accepted unless it can bo shown th.at tho temperaturo produced by radiant heat is not inversely as the difl'usion of the rays." The high temperature here assigned to the sun's surface of course greatly contrasts with the estimates of those French investigators who do not consider that it rciiches 3,000 degrees centigrade.

As to the sun motor, apart from tho general applicability to certain grades ly useful in all regions like those, for example, of tlie south-western territories, tliat arc almost under tho direct r.ays of the sun in daytime. York Sun. IlOAV She Began. It is nothing uncpmmon to be told of writers who have made themselves illustrious that their early cft'orts were hampered by poverty and by a lack of materi.als that almost made tho first expressions of genius impossible. An English writer, the author of the "Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties," thus quotes the childhood struggle of Miss Hannah More.

It will be noted how young not only her instincts ol authorship began, but also her impulses of Christian benevolence, which afterwards made her equally celebrated. Mr. Roberts' history of the first literary performance of his heroine is as follows: In her days of infancy, when she could possess herself of a scrap of paper, her delight was to scribble upon it some essay or pcom, with some well-directed moral, which was afterwards secreted in a dark corner where the servant kept her brushes and dusters. Her little sister, withwhom she slept, was usually the repository of her nightly effusions; who, in her zeal lest theso compositions should be lost, would sometLmcs steal down to procure a light and write them down on tho first scrap of paper that she could find. Among the characteristic traits ol Hannah's childhood, which their mother was fond bf recording, wo are told that she was wont to make a carriage of a chair, and then call her sister to ride with her to London to see bishops aud intercourse which we must concede was very amptly realized afterwards, when wo remember that Miss Hannah during her lifetime, realized by her no less than thirty thousand pounds, or (in American money.) about $150,000.

The greatest wish her imagination could frame her when her scraps of pajer were ex-' haustcd, was that she might oneday be rich enough to have a whole quire to herself. And when, by her mother's indulgence, tho prize was obtained, it was sc on filled with suppositious letters to depraved characters to reclaim them from their errors, and letters in return expressive of contrition and promises of Companion, Washington County licgUier; In driving over to Linn Saturday afternoon wo were more-than pleased with the beautiful and well improved farms, fine orchards, thrifty groves and substantial farm houses and comfortable barns that greet the eye on hands. The heavy crop of corn we all read about must bo seen to be appreciated, and nowhere can it be seen to better advantage than between Washington and Linn. We judge that the farmers along tlio road we traveled are in goodj and prosperous circumstances, but no, more so than in other parts of the' county, and such being the case Washington is certainly tho banner countyj of the state. Linn is a well located town, surrounded by as fine a country, as can be found out doors, and we were pleased to note the prosperity o( its business men and citizens.

They havo I a fine school-bouse, and our Methodist friends are building a beautiful and commodious church, the two speaking volumes for the good judgmbnt ol people of that Vicinity. Leavenworth dispatch, October 26: This morning ab'jut 4 'clock, a man named O. F. Johnson was thrown over the Second street bridge into Three Mile Creek, sustaining internal injuries and having several ribs and ono ol his legs broken. Johnson has, only been living here a short time and: came from Clay county, Mo.

He had, been playing cards in astiloon all night' and was going home when he was mot on the bWdgo by three men, manded his money. He had $90 with' him but refused to hand it over, and' in tho sculHe which ensued ho was thrown over tho bridge railing into, the rocky bed of tho creek, about thirty feet below. His assailants then ran off and Johnson was soon after I rescued by a gentleman passing by. His injuries arc such that he can not I live. Several arrests have been made, I but Johnson fails to identify any ol the parties.

Garnett Plaindenler: In view ol tho fact that horse stealing h.as become more frequent in this county ol late, our citizens arc considering the neces sity of organizing a vigilance com- raittee. A number of energetic residents in tho various townships, thus i organized would do much toward stopping tho crime, and in a short time would become a terror to evil doers. We do not wish to be understood as recommending a necktie party in honor of every thief caught, but we believe I an organization of this kind would be I very effective in ferreting them out and bringing them to justice where the ordinary means fails. It is well worth trying. Osage City Free Frcs.i: A little son of J.

A. Roth, of Seranton, fell on a penknife while at Tho knife entered the up )cr lip, jienctratina until the handle a entered the flesh. The point of the knife passed into the cheek bone and broke ofl'. Mrs. Roth washed tho blood off and dressed tho wound, not knowing the blade was in the lace.

When she laid hini down he complained that his face hurt him. -She then-discovered the blade. Tho doctor was called, and he cut it out from tlie inside. Tho little boy took chloroform willingly, and like a little man submitted to the operation. He is doing well and docs not complain.

Salina Independent: Mr. Joseph Henry's botanical display at the Saline county fair this year was very full and fine. It consisted of ferns and mosses, grasses, of the world, and Saline county grasses. Of ferns, some thirty-five specimens were shown; of grasses, five hundred of Saline county grasses, seventy species and one hundred specimens. jvnd-collcGtivoIy-the-farmers inJCansas realize $60,000,000 annually from the grass crop of the state.

Even this item alone brings an average income of nearly $50 per year to every man, woman, and child in Kansas. Several thousand steam hay-presses are busy tho year round balin'g it and shipping it abroad. Last Friday, a man from Mariadahl, named Johnson, came to Manhattan, and hunted a place where he "could get somethink to drink." At night while crossing the Blue river bridge be was knocked down by two men and robbed. A man named Wilson has been arrested. WaKeeny World: The trial of the miserable Sheridan county murderer, whose work was gotten is-to neth on the 10th of next month.

Sheriff Baker was at Monument and Grainfield tho other day, summoning Witnesses for the trial. A somewhat elderly man, with a 14- year-old son and a wheelbarrow, passed through Newton Saturday. The barrow contained all their worldly effects, and they were en route from Alma, to Comanche county. Within a few months a fine monument, costing four hundred dollars, will bo erected in the Burlingame cemetery to the memory of the lato Hon. James Rogers.

Manhattan Nationalist: Tho Spanish lever has broke out in Polard Carnahan's herd, up the Blue, and filteen ot twenty animals have already died. Watervillo Telegraph: Tue stone has been placed on the ground lor the foundation ol tho Lutheran church, which is to be built this winter. In Books county land that sold lot $100 per quarter section one year ago is now selling lor from $600 to per quarter. Good crops toll. The young son of Hon.

C. B. Hoffman, of Enterprise, bad ono of his legs broken last Saturday, by being run over by a heavy wagon. In the neighborhood of $32,000 was paid to the employe" ol different coal mines in Osage City on tho 15th inst. Work in the mines is good.

Miss Isabella Henry, a young lady residing ten or twelve miles Irom £1 Dorado, attempted to cut her throat with a razor last week. Tbe Blue Rapids Woollen Mill has closed lor the balance ol this year. This is. the first time the mill has closed since it opened. Wellington has recently passed an ordinance requiring all business houses to close on Sunday, and it is being rigidly The Mennonitcs have laid the corner-stone at Halstead of one of the finest churches in tho Arkansas valley.

Garth Brothers, ol Pawnee county, have sold one ol their ranches, the consideration being $30 ,000. has sold his personal property in Biley county, and removed to Norlolk. Virginia. The Israelites ol Topeka celebrated the lOOtb birthday ol Sir Moses fiore. Burglars have robbed the Cherry- rale depot ol The Uigh Ssbool ol 1 taTiiSafine llbrtry,.