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Jab Tribting on tbc mart favorsblc ternv. VOLUME .23. PLYMOUTH, 'INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1879. NUMBER 23. Repulb BUSUJESS DIRECTORY.

T. A. BORTON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offlra in Poet Office Clock. Dwelling on East Side South Michigan Street, PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. Or.

J. M-JENNINGS. 1HTSICIAN AND SURGEON, office with Dr. N. Sherman over Lauer IStore.

on aichigan street, Plymouth. Ind. Residence a Center street, opposite Catholic cbureji. bm doc AMASA JOHNS li ATTORNEY AT LAW. Prompt attention given tm collections, settlement decedents' estate tud aadiaiialiips, deeds, mortgage, and other coa-racu op and ackuowledtfiuenta taken.

O. JONES, Attorney atLaw A Notary Public Prompt attention given to all claims and col-ections left in Lin can. Oitlce ia corner ol tSoar brick bloc it Pty month Ind. C. M- REEVE, AT LAW.

Located In 134. Collections couveysuicititf a iMwei- ity. Buys and eils real e.stute on Iru-ures lixea and in A. 1 cum-ttjnles. real estate for ale in the sitr and adjoiitiuft.

Novl-75 DR I. BOWER. 1HYSICIAN A NU SURGEON, will be pleaaed to rre'iro patients at his offlee, Ko. 51 UcuUrau -treet. where be may be Ouiid a all uutt-s.

xcept when profusional-j absent. Hid residence betiui at the same place. July 1st. 1876. ta J.

S. D- et W. PARKS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Notaries Public and Authorized War Claim Amenta; Ortiees at Bourbon and l'ljriuouiii. lnvliana.

Eiecitl attention ffiveu to tb'J settlement of deeedeuts Estates. Conveyancing, and the collection of bolUiera Claim for i'ensious: will attond frompt'y to all professional busings en-rusted to them, and practieeln Marshall afid adjoiniBseoanties. Plymouth office on uano treat between Michigan and Center Htreets. printing C. R.

CHANEY ATTORNEY AT Will prw ice tn all the courts ill the slate. Office in Wheeler's block, over Becker Wall's dry fc-ooda store, Plyiuonth, Jad. aul-tjr RS. E. W.

Dl'NLAf, LTtt Citi tTTTir rstiiui and Dentist. and Dr. J. A. Datihip.

regular physician and sorgaon. respectfully utter their services to the public. CMlce in tiorbiu'a block: rcsi-ileaee on East Guno street. WILLIAM HESS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Plymouth.

lud. tantyl JOHN S. BENDER, ATTOKNEY AT LAW, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, UlCCn ELCCX. PLTK3UTM. UK).

Especial attention given the setttea.et of ee-fruea. an I partition ut lauds; also the collection of Jms and forocioiUra ut mortgage. Kemittaacea prompt. 1 A. C.

A. B. CAPRON, Mtorneys Counse lors AT LAW REAL ESTATE ACE UTS. WnKELEITS BLOCK. IND.

OR. J. M. CONFER, Offer hia Professional Services AC same frier. Ovr Poe A Chapman's Drug Stor idenoavB Michlsan Street.

j. B. II. KL11IGER, rWtary pbll, Couveyaiie. Kxaminer of Titles sud Civil KaSlaer.

Will farnlsa a complete Abstract of Tii! a to landa aarshall cunuty, lud. oOice at Ir resideuce, a Madisoa itreet, north of lourt House square. rLrMUVTM.lMHAXA. JOHN C. KUHN, LT.DIE8' AM) GEIITLEU-ll'S FIn Boot and Shoemaker, Vses th best stork to be obtained, gnaianteea au easy ttl.

Ud rhar reaiouahlc ralta. It A I It I Neatly do ce. tiaJation given in sUla. i. I o.

block, INU. DCHTISTS. F. M. BURKET, Dentist.

Office over t. B-ckf' tre, opposite Post Ofttc. id. 7yz- to lv entire eatis- ii.n In mvmrm r. fT-; spect, Disease TTTTT TTi 'SSr tha roooth and teeth fe-MiW: saccetistullv treated tJLS'J- without pain in use of nitrons oxld All work warranted.

I fas. ConaalUtioa free, aa la ti Is Jiw iisJit of Wd DR. A. C. HUME, DENTIST! Office in Second story.

Post Office Building Teeth from one only, to full set, so cheap that the rich and poor can all CST THEM. Pieservation of the Natural Teeth A SPECIALITY. GO TO JOICLMI'S For First. Claas FARM WAGONS, AMD Agricultural Implements fTaaaaaafaetaresand keep on haad all kinda of Wacoas, Barries. Sulkies, Also.

rroaaptly aad Cheaply Kxacntcd mtrlJif PLYMOUTH, IND. In 1 lie Long Run." Theokl-fashioned saying, Wo lightly And so caielessly uttered, Is one of the heft. Oh, ponder, younjr triftW, With youug lite hegan. The iWp, earut-et meaning Of "iu the long ran." For "iu the long run," boys, The wed will spring op 1 hat as sown in the irardcn Or dropped in-the cup. An'l.

remember, no nses Will sprinr from trn weed, And no beaulifnl fruit From unworthy ed. How many a slr'linjf In trouble Ty riotous liviny with comrade Um g.xp; With character shipwrecked Ami luliea onCone. Will be sorrows harvesting Iu the lougran." And "In the Ion? ran," will The toiler fair bert Who pifoims honest latNr And takes honest rest. ho, coutt-n'eil and hapi'y, Htes not, in a day. Or a year, ti hold richea That Mill pass away! The good and the evil Tha' bide on the earth.

The j-y an I the irriiwr. The pain an I the mirth. The Ita'tle nuhi-et! d. The victories won. Will yield what sown, lads, "lntnclousrnn." Youk-ert Stair man.

Indian tStories- ol Olden Times. In tho olden time Indians did not. as they sometimes do not now, take kindly to immigrants who settled upon their buniing-grounds. Like the Anglo-Saxon, they loved broad acres, revert -ve9ted right," and defended both against the encroachments of white who held to The good old rnle and simple plan. Thai he should take who has the power, Aud he should keep who can.

The relation between tho two was not such as ought exist between landlord and tenanr. The Indian looked upon the settler ns a "squatter," whom it was right to ct, not only from the lacd, but from the earth. The bold "ten int at will" had to be constantly on his guard; for a summary "notice of tjectment" might be served at any moment by a posse of painted savages. About the first thing done by a band of immigrants locating in an Iudian country was to build a fort or block house. Then, withiu a mile or less of this refuge, they scattered their log huts.

One of these old forts now though in a ruined condition, and associated with it is a ro man tie story of front ier life. In those Indian d.iys to which the story refers, the fort wai a substan tUl building, with btkk sides, jn a woodeu'easing. It would have been taken for the large dwelling house of a prosperous settler but for the many loop-holes cut on each side. The family who lived in It, several men and one woman, kept It always prepared to receive "company;" for do one coul 1 tell when the Indians might call. One bright morning, when not a cloud was to bo seen, the men left early to work on tho fields, leaving Betty, the woman, to attend to the fort.

For several hours nothing dis turbed tho monotony of her work, save her own singing of cheerful thoughts as she went to and fro on her household duties. When scrubbing and washing of dishes emptied the water-pail, she went to the well to fill iu ok-ing down the road, she saw af.ir oft a dark object coming toward the settlement. Thinking it was the loaded team of some farmer, she went back to the fort, and resumed her work and singing. In the course of a few minutes, moved by a natural impulse, she poked her head out of the door to see how far the team had progressed, To her horror she saw A band of In- dians only a short distance off maklncr straight for the fort. Not a wLlte man was in tight, for every one, together with the women and children of the settlenent, had been lured by the beautiful day iuto the fields.

In an instant she took In the situa tion. If she attempted flight, she would be captured before she could run a hundred rods. To be captured was death- the surrender of the fort She would stay In the fort, and alone fight the savugea until the men. alarmed by tho firing of guns, came to her aid. With a bang the oaken door swung shut, and down went the heavy wood en bar.

Going from loop-hole to loop-bole, she placed loaded musket by each one. The terrible war-whoop startled htrfora moment. Then her voice rang out loud and clear, "Here, Jim. Georce. Henry.

John, Billi Don't you hear? Bill, stand by that hole I Jim. you take that gunl" Two guns were fired, and then the voice called out: "George, shoot that big Injun! Henry, aim for the chief!" Two more bullets went whizzing among the Indians. They were taken aback. They had supposed the fort deserted, save by the woman. But It was full of men.

Another shout, another bullet, and this time it had hit one of them. They hesitated to advance. Bullet after bullet whizzed, and two more men were wounded. They then turned and and, when the men came running to the fort, tke brave woman had scarcely strength to unbar tho door. it A long time after this brave defense, a farmer living near the fort, started one morning to mow.

As was usual in those days, he carried his musket with hitn. He had a special reason for being on his guard, for a certain Iudian had be-some his personal enemy. Oa arriving at the hay field, he leaned his gun against a tree, threw off his coat, sharpened his scythe and began mowing. As. swlngiug his scythe he drew near the lower end of the field, he saw an Indun crouch ing behind row of bushes.

Tue firmer was a cool man, and swung his scvtlte as if he had seen nothing. Looting again, he saw that the Indiau whs his enemy. In one hand he held a tomahawk, while a. scalp- ing-kiiife wa stuck in his belt. The farmer knew that if ho attempted to run for his gun the swift-footed Iudian would be upon him before he had gone 103 feet.

Self possession wus his protection. He moved up to the bushes, and then turned, a wincing his sevthe as if aLxlous to reach the end of his swath. Waiting until the mower had do- parted two or three rods from the bushes, the Indian moved through the bushes and crept after the farmer. But with every swing of the scythe, the farmer, glancing cautiously over his left shoulder, had taken in the position of his cat like enemy. Nearer crept tho stealthy avuge.

One step more, and he would be up on tho mower, liaising his toma hawk, he' braced himself for the spiing, and-fell on tho ground, dead. The farmer, with all his strength, had swung his with its point inclined up, completely arouud. It wounded the Indian so that he fell dead. Pacific MethodUt. Marshall Couaty SanJay School Con vention.

Tho Marshall County 8unday School Convention will be held in Plymouth, ommenc'ng Wednesday eveniug, Ootober 8, 187D. Wednesday, p. m. Address of the PresiJent Rjv. J.

J. Faude. Thursday, 9 o'clock, a. m. Deyo tluudl service, conducted by 11 v.

J. B. Henry. inday School Muaic. Paper, by O.

A. Little. Discussion Is Questioning an Essential In Sunday School Instruction? Affirmative J. J. McComber and L.

W. McCIure. Negative-lijr. R. Mo-Neely and A.

P. Harsh. lestloa Drawtr. 2 P. M.

Temperance a feature of the Sund.iy schjol. Paper, by. Rev. J. B.

II jury. Suuday School as it Is. Paper by Mrs. John Blulu. Iuftint Cia.3.

Taught by Mrs. M. Bjrtou. Sunday School. Conducted Rev.

G. W. Bower. Evening. Children service.

Addresses. By order of committee. by Committees. Ou Children service Rjv. O.

W. Bower. On place of meeting Rev. J. Ilenry.

Ou music Rev. O. A. Little. Proceed in 7 of the Mar shall County Temperance viiveutlon Held in 8, 1S79.

The meeting was calle(fo order by II. O. Thayer, vice president. Reading of Scripture and rrayer. by Rev.

James Matheny, Trie committee on permanent of fleers reported ns follows: II. O. Thayer president. Mathe Erwine vice president; R. M.

Williams, sec retary; W. A. Bailey, treasurer; which was adopted. A list of the societies in the county was culled and the following delegatef responded. Plymouth, II.

Q.Thayer, II. B. PersMng, W. A. Bailey; In wood.

R. Bright, M. Watklns, D. Hull; Argos, R. M.

Williams, Win. Ailcraan, James Matheny; Tyner, O. W. Boid; Center. D.

K. Wood, Robert Erwin; Walnut. Rjv. J. W.

Loder; Jordon, 1). R. Alle man; Whlppowlll, L. Hudson; Santa Anne, Mrs. Personett, Nicholson and o'Conner.

A communication from Center was read containing a favora ble report of the condition of that so ciety. The following committee was ap- poluted to prepare a constitution and by laws. Williams, Pershing and Bailey. An executive committee was selec ted as follows: Center, H. B.

Pershing; Bourbon, J. D. Thomas; German, W. J. Macomber; North, Kev.

B. M. S. Hutchins; Polk, G. W.

Boyd; West, H. E. Butler; Union, H. E. Overmyer; Walnut, C.

I. Matheny; Tlppeoaooe, J. F. Wood Green, Wm. Dillon.

After remarks by Rev. Bower and others the meeting adj v.rped to meet In mass temperance meeting at Plyra oulb, June 5, 1879. Plymouth, May qt 1879. jj. G.

Thaykb, Pres. B. M. Williams. Sec.

There are in tho Senate fifty-two practising lawyers, seven ex-editor. six merchants and nearly a dozen farmers, The oldest Senator is Ham I lin, tho youngest Bruce Indian Trappers of Hudson Bay, About tne of November, when the animals have got their winter coats, and fur is "in season," the Indian ttapper lays out bis trapping walk for the winter, along which he places a line of traps from ten to fifteen miles in length. Once cr twice a week he makes the round of this walk, and gathers such furs as may bo caught. Most of the finer furs are taken by means of the wooden dead fall and steel traps of various sizes, the larger fur-bearing animals being either shot, caught in snarts, or killed by tho poisoned bait. Toward the latter end of March the Indian trappers leave their hunting grounds, and make a journey to the forts with tho produce of their win ter's toil.

Here they come, moving through the forest, a motley throng. Tho braves march in front, too proud and lazy to carry anythlrg but their guns, and not always doing even that. After them come the quaws, be ndiug under loads, driving dogs, or hauling haud-sleds laden with meat, fuis, tinned deer-skins and lufauts. The puppy dg and inevitable baby never fall" in Indian lodge or procession. The cheerful spectacle of tho two packed together upon the back of a woman is not of infrequent occurrence.

Day after day the mongrel party journeys on, until the fort is reached. Then comes the trade. The trader separates the furs into lots, placing tho standard valuation upon each. Then he adds the amounts together, and informs the trapper he has got sixty or seventy "skins. At tho same time he hands his customer sixty or seventy little tits of wood, so that th latter may know, by returning these in payment for the goods for which he rtally barters his furs, just how fast his funds decrease.

The first acf of the Indian is to cancel the debt contracted for advances at the beginning of the seasoo; then he looks round upon the bales of cloth, blankets, etc and after a long while "concludes to have a small white capote far his toddling boy. The price is told hi in, and he hands back ten of his little pieces of wood, then looks about him for something else. Everything is carefully examined, and with each purchase there is a contest over the appareut inequality between the amount received and that given. In the Indian's opinion, one skin should pay for one article of merchandise, no m.itter what the value of the latter may be. And he insists, too, upon selecting the skin.

Tho steelyard and weighing balance are hi especial obicts of dUlike. He does not know what mediclue that ii. That his tea and sugar should be balanced against a bit of Iron, con veys no Idja of the relative values of peltries and merchandise to him. He insists upon making the balance swing even between the trader's good's and his own furs, until a new light is thrown upon tho question of steelyards and scales by the acceptance of his proposistion. Then, when he finds his due furs balanc against heavy blankets, ho concludes to abide by the old method of letting the white trader decide the weight iu his own way; for It is.

clear that the steelyard is a very great medicine, which no brave can understand. When the trapper has spent all his little pieces of wood, and asks for further advances, he is allowed to draw any reasonable amount; for. contrary to the rule in civilized life, a debt is seldom lost save by the death of the Indian. Ho may change bis place of abode hundreds of mites, but he still has only company's post at which to trade. Tue cotpa ny has always been a friend to him and his, and he pays when he can.

He knows that when he liquidates his old debt, he can contract a new one lust as big. Ito attempt was ever ou le to cheat him, and there never will bo. When he is 111 he goes to the nearest fort, and oared for and attended until he recovers. When he does his duty well gets a present, and he never performs aay labor without receiving fair compen 8ation. Such humane treatment strongly binds the Indian and half breed to the Mt liobin ton.

In Harper's Magazine for June. Siberia. Siberia has Ions been not merely the political, but the universal prison of Russia, capital punishment being now reserved for cases of high treason, and murder punished with transportation for life. But in this transportation there are many differ ent era les. Banishment to one of the border fortresses in the mildest form, usually Inflicted upon the mill tary offenders.

Next comes Western Siberia, which, traveled by several commercial highways, containing many large towns, and In oonstant communication, with Russia, offers so many advantages that more than one criminal whose term had expired has remained there in preference to returning home. Eastern Siberia, called by the Russians, "Za-Balkal-ski" (beyond Lake Baikal), is dreaded by the convicts for its remoteness and sterility, It be(ng a common saying among them- that "one year in tho cast is worse than twq-in the West." More terrible than all, however, is the sentence of hurd labor In the mines, especially those of quicksilver, which, by its corrosive action on the boues, makes a certain and horrible death the inevitable climax of the penalty. Escape is almost impossible, from the countless military pickets, nn 1 tho striotues3 of their surveillance; but, as if to make as- 1 8 iranco doubly flure, the Kassian government is now sending many- of its political prisoners to the newly acquired isluud of Saghalln. lying between the Siberian coast and Japan. In the reign of Nicholas, prisoners were often compelled to march the whole distance with chains' on their ankles; but happily this barbarity has become rare of lato years, though there seem) reason to fear that it may bj revived before long.

rojmlar Fancies. Iluruau nature is fond of mysteries. It will accept whit is improbable because it is inexplicable. Thero is no reason, for instance, why the equinoxes should be peti jJj and rain and changing weather, and systematic observation proves that they are not, any more than the weeks iuun -diute- ly on either sidj of them. But popular faith asserts that they are, and has made popular proverbs and practices, that we may "reckon up by iu attest ition.

A cos-mical Influence is accepted because it can't be discerned. Tho human love of mystery insists on somo P3-culiar effect of the notable phenomenon of equal days and nights, and one storm would bo enough to start the superstition, und ono every five years afterwards, would bo enough to keep it alive in spile of four years of contradiction. The same passion for tin inexplicable gives credit to tho influences of the moon, which no science can discover. In one stage of the nioou seed will rot or grow runts, that will sprout early and grow finely at another, says popular credulity. But, allowing equal conditions of soil, seed And tempeiature.

and the influeuce of the mjon Is not conspicuous. If It were, we should have a wonderful ly ragged lot of crops in this land of Irregular planting, whero one farmer puts in his corn two weeks ahead of another, his potatoes three weeks before the first. The moon would spoil one or the other. Inevitably, but it never does. Still the farmers shut their eyes and believe in the moon, because thero is nothing to make them believe aad mystery is alluring to credulity.

tny old women in the country believe that a new moon ou its back" fortells dry weather, because the hollow of the crescent is a bowl "to hold tho rain." Contrail- wise they believe that a new moon on end means wet weather, "because the water will run out." They'll ad mit the absurdity of the explanation, butiushton the eoundness of the sign. A snake killed aud left belly upwards will make lain, is another fancy which is all mystery and no sense, not even the nebulous senso of thd moon worshippers. It comes from some Indian "medicine' Incantation probably. This readiness to believe iu ocult influ ences, or the influences of nntural conditions and changes that are powerless so far as science can discover, may ea6l produce mischievous and has done so more than once, Tho ineradicable folly which interprets the prophecies with a strained literaluess that sets the earth on flro every fifteen or twenty years, and Second Adventlsts wild, has more than once or twice ruined hundreds of enthusiastic fools in busiuess and property. Not long ago some hasty alarmist, to make a sensation, or teckless humorist to start a big ke, announced that the four major planets would all make their perihelion passage in 1879 and all be on the same side of the sun at same time, a coincidence that hadn't happened before in two thousand years, and then a most calamitous pestilenoe swept the earth.

A conjunction of three of the some hundreds of years ago, madj or accompanied or indicated the great plague of the days of the "Decameron." Inductively the conclusion followed that we should have a horiflo season of death and dire distress this year or next. Now that is the very oort of thing for fools to believe and wor ry over. It is a mystery. There is no reason in it, and so it is credited. Science, however, proves that thero will he at least four years between the perihelion passage of the first of these planets and the last one, and if It were so, their conjunction oan have no effect on the condition of this planet, so far as human Intelligence can see or rationally anticipate.

But the world will believe in mysteries to the end of time, and then thero will probably be none to believe. India' napcUs News. The Congregational Church of Iooa, has been without a pastor for several months. The officers of the church take'their turn at reading sermons from newspapers, and the people like this plan so well that they contemplate continuing it per maaently, and Palling, no minister, Tke Grim ilriutnicr. We published some weeks ago an article from an astronomical correspondent at Decatur, controverting the theory advanced by astrologers and other gentlemen of speculative tendencies, to the effect that the petihelia of the four planets, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn, iu 1880, will produco pestilence, instigate and eneourage wars and conspiracies, and turn things generally topsyturvy.

Our Decatur friend is a mathematician and an astronomer, ami he showed where the astrologers had gone wrong in their calculations, and produced facts to show that planets In perihelion exercised, in the past. no preceptiblo influence on the condition of things in this wortd. Professor A. Grimmer, of San Jose, Califorr ia, thinks otherwise, and he has published a little three by-four pamphlet to- enlighten anol frighten the people. Mr.

Grimmer takes tho position that astrology Is veritable science. He is an astrologer, and he does uot care who knows it. Ho a Iheres closely to the rules of Pleci hu de Titus, and stands by Ptolemy au 1 Pythagoras. Hd writes iu hasto. conscious that the fate of nations depends on what he has to say, and animated by a desire to warn tho country of the coming of tho darkest epoch in the world's history.

He takes it for granted that it is pretty well understood that the perihelia of thj rir great planjls, Japl-ter Uran Neptun-, and Santuru, will be co incident iu ISiJ, and confines himself to stating the effect: which the perihelia will pro luce, uc cording to astrologicol deductions He declares, with tho psitivonoss of a man who knows what he is talking about, that from 1880 to 1887 will be cue universal carnival' of death, and that no place on earth will be entirely free from the plague. As three of the planets are maliQcs, and V.e other one, nlthouh a benenV, under ordinary circumitancos, is ist as bad as the others when in id company, diseases will appear which will baffle tho skill of the rajst eminent physicians. "Every drop of water in the earth, on the earth, and above the earth, will bo more or less poi sonous. The atmosphere will be filled with noisome odors, and there will be fow constitutions able to resist the comics scourge." All this because beneflo old Jupiter loses his head through association with those mall-fie old fellows, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn. When these planets get in perihelion they always get this little world of ours in hot water, so to speak.

Ia 512 trs, iturn, and Jupiter pulled together, as It were, and, as a consequence, from 73,000,000 to 120.000,000 of victims suffered death by the It you dju't bdleve it, read Gibbon. In 1QT), or thereabouts, there wa autlier plague, and In 172), whoa Mtrs ail Situru pulled together or lined team, out of 73,000 iuhabitants of ir-seilles died in loss than five weeks. But when four of tho planets are in perihelion, affairs will be worse. Al the weak and intemperate are sure to die in tens of thousand-. Ancient races will be blotted from the faco of the earth.

Asia will bd nearly depopulated, and A merle will lose of Inhabitants If the sewers of her cities are as imperfect as to day The perihelia, wo are tol 1 by this far-seeing astrologer, will bring other Inflictions, over which man can exert no restraining influence. Storms and tidal wave3 will swamp whol cities, earthquakes will a wholesale shaking business, aud torua does will sweep huudredsof villages from the face of the earth. Mountains will slide down Iuto the valleys, aud val leys will uppear whero mountains formerly stood. And mn will have to stand and take it. Nothing they may do will prevent things from go ing to the demnltlon bow-wows, but Mr.

Grimmer recommends that no flsh nor animal food eaten In Aruerloa from 1882 till 1883, though how this will prevent tho torLadous from sweeping the earth is not dis- oernable. In many countries, according to Grimmer, vast distriots will be deser ted, and in this ooumry thero will be hundreds und thousands of farms with not a living thing upon them. The country people will fide to tho cities, and die by tens of thousands. Neither med oine nor doctors will help them, but if they will drink warm water and eat vegtables, and stop up their nostrils with sponges dipped in oampbor. Grimmer thinks they will pull through.

After the plague will oome fire. Great fl res will burn for two years, or from 1883 to 1887, destroying all towns and villages visited by this scourge. Then the fellows who lived on warm water and vegtables, and plugged up their noses with sponges will have a good time. The earth will yield more, animals will multiply more rapidly, men will live twice as long as they do now, and the goose will hang high generally. But Grimmer knows more than this.

When the plague breaks out in Chicago in J881, tho MouSO-lans will move in a body on California. China will be depopulated, and California be made the scene of carnage. General Orant will bo elected President In 1880, and will be re-elected in 1881, unless all political parties combine against him. But if he takes Glimmer's advice, and avoids railroads heuwill have a series of yeats of peace and happiness, and die idolized by our country, respected and houor- ed by the world." In 1887 the "S'ar of Bthlehm," which only makes its nppearauee once i in every 315 years, wiil be seen und will be accompanied by a total eclipse of the sun and moon. This star Is the ono that illumined the heavens at the nativity of Christ, and will bo seen at noonday 'Tor a' full year.

Mr. Grimmer is sure about this, as is "every educat-d astrolo ger. mle thH star is sr.iniug this country (excepting always the Paeif-j Ic State?) will bo iuvolved in civil strife unless a Napoloon arises to quell it. Glimmer, it will be seen, is a great boon to the world. He, evidently, I a man to enj a faueral ami swing his hat over a murder, lie is one of the fellows who is so miserable that he is almost happy, and it is a great pity that San Jose does dots not ap-pieciate him.

-Inter- Ocean. Item of Interest. More cattl uro pasilug over the Texas and Kifisas trail this spring than ever before. Tho estimated log crop on Wisconsin stream this seai i 1.013,030,-0'JO fjet, agaiust 1.073.00J.OJJ last year. Copious rains throughout southern Michigan have dispelled all-fears crop failures ou aocount of the drouth.

CapL ids has mi le appllo itl for an additional $303,003, clalminc that he has obtained channel at the mouth of the Mississippi 25 feet deep and 200 feet wide. April retirns to the board of agri culture, at Washington, show thai tho acreage of winter wheat is about one and one-halt per cent greatei than that of last year. Garibaldi is how 73, says the New York Sun. It 's 23 years siuce he was soap and caadle miking ou Staten island and, to. ure Lord Bea consfleld's phrase, "a great deal hit- happened since then." In digging a cellar at St.

Paul. workmea unearthed a solid silver chalice and salver of fine work manship, aud thev are thought to be part of a communion servHo taken from father Ueunepin in 1G33. Menominee has the oldest married couple in Wisconsin. Mr. aad Mrs.

Francis Bincroft of that town have lived together as tmn an I wife for seventy one years. The anniversary of their wedding occurred on the first of May. Tho Utba (N Ileral of Thurs day says: "Sixty five years ago yes terday, the British captured Oiwego. Hon. Alvin Bronson, aged ninety six years, now living, was one of the five hostages takon to Kiugstou by Oeu.

Sir George Gordon Druramond." Illinois has a twelve-year old con vict In the Joliet peulientlary. He is a negro boy from Massac county, who killeda playmate- because of a refu sal to pay him a debt of. five cents. If he serves his sentenoe out, he will bt thirty-two years old wheu he comes outside the walls. The once great chesj player, Paul Morphy, Is in uu insane asylum.

He utterly repudiates chess, and denies having ever known anything about it. He imagines himself a great lawyer, surrounded by clients, and is busy at all times settling an immense estate left him by his father. Throughout Minnesota, Iowa, an 1 north-westeru Wisoousin, a reglou whloh annually sends from 33,003,000 to 49.000,(101) bushels of wheat to matket, the weather for ten days past has been cool and moist, with almost daily raius, aud has been peculiarly favorable to the growth of the wheat crop. The number of double tragedies oommltted lately are, or ought to be alarming. Not a day passes but tLe telegraph brings us tho news of a husb -ad having killed his wife aud then himself.

It those emotionally Insane husbands would only reverse the order of their kiti ng, how much more pleasant it would be all around. A Methodist Episcopal paper at New Orleans claims that sinoe the war over 200,003 oolored members have joined the ohurch, 1,000 churches have been built, over 3,000 young oolored men aud women are in the aid schools, aud in what used to be the slave territory nearly 200,000 white members have been gained. The process of tanning a bureau sklu, heretofore uuknown, bus just been accomplished at the morocco faotory of Pevear at Lynn, Massachusetts. Two skins, about one foot and a half Fquare, of white and black persons who were hanged, wero furnished from a Bo6ton dis-ot log room, and the prooess of tanning was rematkably successful, ana the skin, as it now appears, resembles a a i a piece or reqen am. Forty years ago the tomato wa known as the "Jerusalem apple, "love apple, and was cultivated as an oinamentnl plant and the fruit regarded as poisonous.

Now the fruit is as genet ally used, and regarded as healthful a3 any that grows, Ita size and appearance has changed almost as much as the opiuion of it meiits. Tte report of the United, States comul at Bremen shows 17,000,000 pounds cf Atneiicru pork received at that port dining tb past wa generally iu good condition, but some cases of trichina, wbitrh were- found, hurt the fala somewhat. He-urges sotue sort of supervision to prevent the shipment of pork so la fee ted. There Is a dog In Norwich, Conneo-tleu', which is entitled to salvage- I TC tn tlwTa Ynsnrnnori tninoritaa Tn t- cujci mruc.ca uj ueter tans toraiso never an alarm. Recently the straw bod-ding under a horse in the Stahle-oauht fite.

dog Into tho stall, drew tho burning blanket from, the horso and can led It into tho-street, burning himself quite severely Ciehla, a drunken Loburg, Mia-nesotd, fedow, ou a spree made the foolish wager that he could swalloV a whisky flask. The flask was ground up and the pulverized glass swallowed. The ncxtday the man was writhing and screaming in agony. The doctors could do nothing for the poor wretch, and afttr lingering la fearful suffaing for two days he died. A.

post mortem examination' showed, that tho mau's stomach and iutestlnes. had been literaly cut to pieces, The naneles pestilence which ti to be ra iug iu Russian villages, in the Caucasus. Is doubtless the-plague. The Cauoasus is in the direct, i cute of that disease, and this oevr outbreak cf it shows that Its seeds, were widely planted, and are ready to germinate upon tho approach war at weather. The Caucasus la nerally a mountainous and oot country; but it also contain many-deep nad fertile valleys.

In which' fox-the most part lie tho villages. Thestw as a general thlcg are auytbisg but. cleanly, while the clothing of the In. iiabltatits is such as to retain the-seeds of Infection" for a long period Dr. Risers of tie In- saaa Hospital.

The state board of benevolent Institutions met and accepted Even's resignation, unanimously ap-, pointing Dr. Joseph G. Rogers, ofc MadUon, superintendent of the IndK ana hospital for the insane in bis. stead. Dr.

Everts's resignation wiU take effect as soon as his sucoessor ls ready to assume control of the lastl-. tution. Dr. Rgers Is a son of Dr. Joseph H.

G. Rogers or Madison, who. it now nearly eighty years of still il5 an 1 heatty, an has In bis. lime filled no inconsiderable niche la the history of Indiana, noted not only-as a successful surgeon, but for- uaviug in isju rccruueq a regiment. at Madison, with which he fought, through the Texts revolution.

DrK Joseph G. Rogers, the new appointee is il years of and has been actively engaged In the practice of med leine for about 17 years, standing atr. the hea 1 of the profession, la southern! Indiana. II graduated at Bellevue hospital, New York, iu lGl, and pom, pleted his education in Europe. During the latter part of the war La was In charge of the.

United States, hospital at Midlsoa. two years, Dr. gers held the professorship of materia med'oa and theapeutics ia the lato collego of physicians and, surgeons of Iudiina. In his youth, he was for several years a ridden sufferer from spinal compla'nt, andt to pass away the time undertook the-study of music, in which he soon be-o ime profloient, being considered a. master ou the violin, ne is credited with fin) methanicul talent, wblclv will coma lu good servics in his new position.

Tho doctor has for several years made the study of nervous diseases a speciality, ne Is a native of Madison. II) will take his place afi. th asylum Immediately. Harper's Magazine for June, 1879. Harper's Magneine for June begins, the Fifty-ninth Volume and the thirtieth year of that periodical.

To new generation of readers it appears iu a new dress In larger type, and with a wider page. Thl? Is the third change which has been made In the. type of the Magaalne each being an Improvement, The contents of ths June number are especially attraotivo. They bring about the reader tha at mop he re of surarter days. They are bright amusing, and restful Harpen is tha best magazine in the world, and tho Juue number is as good as any ever issued from their press.

In order that new subscribers may have tho early chapters of Miss Mullock's novel (begun in the February number), the Messrs. narper offer to send gratult ously to those remitting to them the pi ice of a yearly subscription, beginning with the June number, and tho four numbers for February, March, April, and Miy; thus giving slxt.HA I a Aa AA numbers for $100..