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- Jse'avM 1 wi -i-'--- tx i jr -a t THE RED CLOUD CHIEF. Hates of Advertising. Hw The Red Cloud Chief. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT ... ! ;.- - " ....... K.OB sSwrt t4.rUosi, is-t UnrtlMtti k U l jr. a44t K a ;iJ iwiitn. LoaU J Citwni N'hImi i-ai Us 8 L;vi i4rtt.te- t iitrsi ;?, RED CLOUD, NTJEHASKA M. H. WARNER, Ti war brtit& rU. ajt4 3 l.Mllor ami Proprietor. VOLUME III. KED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. MAY 18. 1S7(. NUMBER 41. aaa -si 7t m rs- . m GENERAL NEWS CONDENSED. James Bennett was fatally stabbed by Geo. Knight a few nights ago in New York cause, jealousy "Win. Braddie has leen hung at Tucumbia, Tenn., for rape committed in September, 1ST! Xew Orleans, a few days ago, was vis ited by a 840,000 fire A few days ago a driver for the National Express Com pany in New York was unloading two boxes marked "Peter .loncs.Plattsburg." when one of the boxes fell from the truck and broke, exposing the body of a colored man. The other box was then opened, and found to contain the body of a white woman. Both bodies had cuts in the neck, into which were stuffed pieces of cotton-wool. Jt was thought they were subjects for medical examina tion prepared for shipment Judge Dillon has issued a decree transferring the Missouri, Kans:is & Texas railroad from Win. IJond, receiver, to the Union Trust Company of New York, and aj pointing Win. Bond its general man ager A man named John T. Xorris, who was in the Ohio penitentiary for dwindling, has been carrying on an ex tensive and systematic swindling busi ness at Springfield and Cincinnati, Ohio, since his discharge. He orders goods and products of various sorts from firms in all parts of the Union and Canada, referring them to bankers and other business men in those cities. When the goods arrive they are immediately taken from the express office or depots and transferred to other parties for any amount Xorris or his confederates can get for them. He has made 40.000 by this style of business Gov. Rice of Massachusetts, has vetoed the bill to legalize the marriage of James Barton with his step-daughter, on the ground that the act is not within the constitu tional power of the legislature The amount of national bank notes issued during April, was $28-1.215; amount of legal tenders retired, .$'227,:172. reducing outstanding legal tenders to S:i70.-r27.870. The United States Centennial Com missioners have decided against opening the Exposition to the public on Sunday only nine States voting in favor of Sunday exhibitions The effort to pass the Barton marriage bill over the Gov ernor's veto failed in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by a vote of yeas, SS nays, 114 A fire occurred at Williamsport. Pa., a few niirhts airo which destroyed property to the value of ' SI 25,000; insurance, S75.000 On the 20th of April New Haven suffered by an incendiary fire to the amount of $00, 000; insurance. $:U!.000 Barnard Bai ley, a young man respectably connected, was found dead in his room a few days ago in St. Louis, with a pistol shot wound in his side. He left a letter in which he describes for the benefit of medical men, religious and moral phi losophers, the physical, mental and mor al feelings of a suicide, and also inti mates that unrequited loVe impelled him to kill himself Two men named Long and Downer were killed and a boy named Inskip fatally injured on the 29th of April in Cambridge, Ohio, by the fall of a stable on which they were working. The public debt statement for April shows a reduction of S2.7S1.1S1; coin balance, S77,G03,42S ; currency balance. S3,1G1,1S0; special deposit held for re demption of certificates of deinisit, S33, 005,000; outstanding legal tenders, S370,- 527,S75 Five cars and an engine were wrecked on the Central Pacific Railroad near Promontory. May l. The fireman had both legs broken, and the engineer received some iujuries Reports are promising for fruit and grain crops in Nebraska. The breadth of small grain sown is very large. James and Randolph Sheeves, broth ers, engaged in a fight at Peoria, 111, April 2d, when James split open his brother's skull with a hatchet and in flicted four knife wounds. The wounded man will die Charles 1). Atllick. cashier of the Bremen Savings Bank at St. Louis, committed suicide a few days ago by drowning himself Nathan Clough, aged 4U, was found murdered in his bed at Seward, Nebraska, on the morning of May 2d. His head had been crushed with heavy blows from an axe, and a deep gash cut in the left cheek. He had S625, in currency, and it is sup posed he was murdered for his money. Mrs. J. O'Neill, formerly- of Colum bus, Ind, was burned to death at Cozad City, Nebraska, a few nights ago. in a fire which destroyed a hotel and an ad joining hardware store Senator Twitchell, of the Louisiana legislature, and his brother-in-law were assassinated while crossing a river, by an unknown party, a few days ago Alout two o'clock on the morning of May 2d a party of 40 masked men appeared at the coal mines near Massillon, Ohio, seized and tied the watchman, and set the coal Bhaft on fire. The mines have not been worked for several weeks on account of a strike, and the incendiaries are sup posed to be the strikers. Anthony Gehring, a newspaper carrier in Chicago, killed his wife and then killed himself, on the morning of May 3d. lie was a German, had been married only about eight months, and was very jealous of his wife without cause John Lawrence's moulding and planing mills in NewT York, burned May 3d. Jfoss, S60.000; insurance, 832,000. An " other fire occurred in New York the same day, resulting in a loss to the amount of 375,000 Twenty buildings were burned in Pioche, Nevada, May 3d The Willamette woolen mills, at Salem, Oregon, were burned, May 3d. Loss, Si 50,000; insurance, SG7.000 It is rejwrted that the road from Fort Laramie to Custer City is strewn with wagons, the owners having lied, or been killed or captured by the Indians A receiver has been apjointed for the Loaner's Bank, New York total liabili ties, 8200,000. Lieutenant Cameron's African Journey. The first object of Lieutenant Cam eron's expedition, it will be remembered, was to reach and ;tssist the lamented Livingstone. Starting from Zanzibar in March, 1S73, he did not reach Unyan yembe the A nib trading-post, lying nearly between the Victoria Nyanza and Lake Tanganyika until August. Here, while prostrated by fever, he received the news of Livingstone's death and the approach of his corpse, guarded by Chumah and Wainwright. Two days after this sad eavarn had left for Zanzi bar, Cameron set out for Ujiji to save the papers which ttie great explorer had left there, and, if possible, to continue the latter's work of discovery. He de scribes the first view of Lake Tangan yika from the brink of the central table land, as something marvelous ; tho vast blue lake appeared to be sky and the mountain beyond it floating-clouds. In spile of severe attacks of fever and ophthalmia, he completed the entiie circumnavigation of the lake in Feb ruary, 1S74. He found ninety-six rivers flowing into it, besides torrents and springs, and only one river the Luku ga, on the western side flowing out. Mr. Stanley and Dr. Livingstone had previously established the fact that there was no northern outlet The Lukuga was discovered at a point about twenty five miles south of that to which Cajn tain Speke crossed, in February, 1STS. The beginning of Cameron's explora tion was thus signalized by the settle ment of a very important geographical problem. He appeara to have followed the Lukuga but a short distance west ward, and then to have taken Living stone's route to the great Lualaba River. This stream he traced to a point but a few leagues beyond that reached by his predecessor, when the hostility of a na tive tribe barred his advance. BuUhe saw the stream leave its northern course Cltltl trill II ltVfjlrui-1, tJ. 1X v.Wvl of its elevation above the sea level con clusively shows that it can have no con nection with the Nile. The drainage of Lake Tanganyika into the Lualaba, and the identity of that river with the Con go, are, therefore, not absolutely proven, but they have reached a degree of proba bility which comes very near to cer tainty. After being defeated In his attempt to follow the Lualaba, Cameron turned southwestward through an unknown region, of which he gives us, as yet, but scanty reports. He represents it :is a land of wonderful beauty and fruitf ill ness, with one of the grandest river and lake systems in the world. There ;ue meadows where the grass grows to the height of twelve feet, and almost pre vents travel. He there discovered an other river, called the Lolame, flowing through a chain of lakes, which Sir Henry Rawlinson considers to be the true Lualaba. Beyond this he came upon a new political power in the cen ter of Africa the great chief Kosango, whose authority is acknowledged throughout a vast extent of country, named Urua. At the capital of this chief he remained four months, and then started for the western coast. His course led him along the watershed be tween the affluents of the Congo and Zambesi Rivers, and the greater part of it was over entirely new ground. He crossed Livingstone's route from Loan da to the latter river, and finally reached the territory known to the Portuguese traders. At Benguela he concluded this remarkable journey of 3,000 miles on foot, during which, in spite of disease, baffled toil, and unceasing dangers, he took nearly 5,000 observations of lati tude, longitude, and elevation. These are now being computed at the Green wich Observatory, and they are said to be elaborate and accurate beyond those furnished by any previous explorer. Sir Henry Rawlinson followed Lieu tenant Cameron in a highly compli mentary speech, at the close of whicl he announced that the society's gold medal for the year had been bestowed on the young explorer. It is also an nounced that the latter will soon be pro moted to the rank of captain in the Roy al Navy. For an Englishman of 32 this is distinguished yet wholly deserved success, and we do not doubt that it will keep alive an enthusiasm in which hu manity has an interest keener than that of science. The complete exploration of Africa is the extinction of the slave trade and there is no other way to that end. N. Y. Tribune. Between the years 1S20 and 1S70, Eu ropean immigration to the number of 7,319,023 arrived in this country. Classi fied by races we find that we have un dertaken to assimilate 3,857,850 inhabit ants of the British Isle, 2,747,935 of the Continental Teutons, and 404,546 of Latin races. These figures do not in clude the Chinese immigration of the Pacific coast x Anna Dickinson, the Philadelphia Press says, made her first appearance fourteen years ago. THE XLlVth CONGRESS. Pkhatz Tntaay. Jtt1117.- Lczlallre cl nttf wu expended and b.- Imprachrcer t uia begin. Mr. I rd nbn med a nio lor mat tbc evidence relailBR to the qaitln ifit Juris miction of tfcr J-tnate be RlTen riMire tb ri mm reltii jc thereto, tim lfrcch p.ea ) orr raled. that tbe dHecdant be itqntred to acwt.-r be article! of im; actimer t within two .). and that tbe t'ial proceed next day tilttz the Joining of lne Mr. I an enter, of the ccnnn-l lor tne accaaea, moT.a trat ine trial : pool- Doned till lfle flrt Monr.rof Decembrr licit. Hpetcben were made In favor of tbl n otloti. bnt the motion wae denied, rbd tbe prep'.d nc cfi'rer announced init tbe duorcluc tbe part or tne rcptondent woald now lw beard un tbc motion eubmitted by Mr. Lord on tbe part of tbe aiani Ki. Mr. Jilulr, cocn-cl tor Hciknap. tore to open tbr argument, but on n Oiion of Stealer An boar, tbe Senate, Mulct; ai a court of Im peachment, adjjurncd till to-morrow at balfpati 12 o'clock. Hot it-Mr. Laphim Introduced an amnd meut to tho corjetiiriion auiborix nj; tbe I're-1 fleut to approve or disapproved! epaia'ec aue of a bill referred. Mr. ilorrlsnu reported bact Senate amendment to the House bill denning 'he tax on fermented liquor. Tbe ameudou-ci add a proviso that nothing in tbc act sbail change tn present rates of iaw reel clnir tM dence In anv prosecution, or suit. llwa eon curred in. The Hous.- went Into rorumlttte of tbe whole on tha legislative ipiropruUon oiil. The terond sectlo vr amended so as to pr- hlblt any mploe of the government from nlv ing to. or r celviug Irom any o her person, di rectly or indirectly, a y meney or thing of vlue lor joi ucai urpeses. tevrat oilier ami nil n cntB were gredto. and omc were rejected, after which the committer rore aLd reported the bill to the ll-ns- Anj 'iirin'il KriMtr. FitiDAV. April 28. The impeachment trial w;ls resumed. The pending ques tion was the motion submitted b the managers to hoar testimony in regard to the jurisdiction of the Senate before the argument in regard thereto. !Mr. Carpenter, of the counsel for the ac cused, addressed the Seuate, charging that the managers were attempting to manage the c;ise on both side. v lie asked for a postponement of two weeks. Ir. Lord opposed postponement, said witnesses were ready, and asked that they be heard. Senator Coukling suIh mitted an order, that the Senate proceed first to hear and determine the question whether V. W. Belknap is amenable to the trial of impeachment for acts done as Secretary of War, notwithstanding his resignation; the motion that testi mony be heard touching the exact time of such resignation, and touching the nature ami purpose of such resignation, is reserved without prejudice till the question above stated has been consid ered. Senator Edmunds submitted a substitute for the last paragraph of Mr. Conkling's order, so :is to insert the fol lowing: And that the managers and counsel, iu such argument, discuss the question whether the issues of fact are material. The Senate then retired to consider the order as submitted bv Mr. Coukling and the amendment of Senator Edmunds. After consideration of the order and amendment, the Senate re turned to the chamber, and the presiding officer announced that se eral on lei's had been agreed upon, which were read as follows: Ordered, That the Senate proceed first to hear and determine the question impeachment for acts done :is Secretary of war notwithstanding his resignation of said oHice; and that the managers and counsel, in such argument discuss the question whether issues of fact are material and whether matters in siq port of the jurisdiction alleged by the House of Representatives in pleadings subsequent to the articles of impeach ment can be those alleged, if the same are not averred in said articles. Ordered. That the hearing proceed on the 4th of May; that the opening and close of the argument be given to the respondent; that three counsels and three managers may be heard in such order as may be agreed on between themselves; and that such time be al lowed for argument as the managers and counsels may desire. The Senate sitting : a court of im peachment, adjourned till Monday. May 1st. The consideration of legislative business was resumed, but no important business was transacted, and the Senate adjourned. Ilonae. The Speaker laid before the House the decision of Chief Justice Carter dis charging from custody JIallett Kil bourne referred. Permission was given the managers of the Belknap impeach ment to examine as witnesses on trial any members of the committee on ex penditures in the War Department, or any members of the House. The House voted on the amendments to the legisla tive appropriation bill. The section transferring the Indian Bureau to the War Department was stricken out, and the bill passed yeas, 20S; nays, 17. Mr. Scales Irom the committee on Indian affairs, reported a bill appropriating $.",000 for the subsistence of the Apache Indians in Arizona passed. The House went into committee of the whole on the private calendar, and after passing a number of private bills adjourned. Hoair. Saturday, April 29. Mr. Ilurlbut, from the military committee, offered a resolution discharging the committee on military aff;urs from further inquiry into the charges against Horace Brough ton, its clerk, because if investigation is pressed a large number of witnesses would have to be summoned from Texas, and as the wrong-doings, if anv such occurred, belonged to a remote time, he would be now barred from criminal prosecution adopted. Mr. H:ir- ns, ciuuiiiiau oi uie committee on elec tions, called up the contested election case of Le Moyne against Farwell. from the 3d Congressional District of Illinois, the majority of the committee support ing the claims of LeMovne, and the minority those of Farwell. Mr. Harris argued in favor of LeMone. Mr. Brown of Kansas, spoke in favor of Farwell, the sitting member. Mr. Thompson followed, supporting the ma jority report. Mr. Baker, of Indiana, ad vocated the minority report, and the matter went over without action. Ad journed. Senate. Monday, May l. The impeachment trial was resumed, the pending question being on the motion of Senator Mc Donald to rescind the order allowing the respondent to open and close the arguments, etc The discussion was continued at some length by Senators Hoar, Carpenter and Lord, "when the Senate retired for consultation. On re turning, the presiding officer stated that the motion to rescind the vote by which the order of argument was made was overruled, and that the request of the managers that four of them be allowed to address the Senate on the question of jurisdiction had been granted. The court of impeachment then adjourned until Thursday, May :th. Senator Boutwell introduced a bill authorizing the Seeretarv of the Treas ury to renew the issue oi fractional cur rency providing the total amount out standing at one time shall not exceed S.v'j.wj0 referred. Senator argent cdh-d up his resolution in regard to Chinese immigration, and spoke in favor of it. A dicussion ensued, pending which the enate went into executive action, and soon after adiouniud. lawwa. Bills uere introduced and referred re lating to the punishment of witnesM .wij,t,,f., , mntpmiit hv piflipr Hmw ! '"IJUOMl III COIUUUpl U; miier llOUe of oilgreSS.and tO repeal the law Which requires the Speaker to certifv to the case of a recusant witness to theDistrict Attorney on criminal prosecution. Mr. Hale moved to. S'isjt.'ud the rules and adopt the resolution directing the sev eral committees ri the House charge! with investigation' to conduct such in vestigations with open .doors white tes timony is bein; Ken rejected, yr:tn V2C; nays, 105-J? two-thirds hi the affirmative. Mr. Morrison moved to mis pend the rules and adopt a resolution directing the several commit tees charged with investigations to conduct such in vestigations with open doors, except in the opinion of such committee public in terest will be prejudiced thereby; but any person accused lefore a committee shall have a right to be heard in his own person, or by counsel, or loth. The rules were suspended and the resolution adopted. Mr. Clark, of Missouri, moved to suspend the rules and to make it in order to offer an amendment to the iost oflicc appropriation bill, to repeal the legislation of last session in regard to third class matter agreed to. Mr. Hol inan moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill to repeal so much of the re sumption act ;is authorizes the rcdemj tion, cancellation and sale of Tinted States ltonds for the accomplishment of that purjiose rejected: yeas iif; nays. ill not two-thirds of the affirmative. Mr. H.'iskins moved to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution instructing the various committees charged with the in vestigation of alleged fraud and miscon duct, to complete the same as early as HiSsible,auil to make reports thereon on or before the 10th of June next, except when otherwise oxpresslv provided bv the House rejected: yeas 120; nays, vS-l. The Speaker laid before the House a communication from Hallett Kil bourne, stating that he was now willing to appear before the House real estate pool committee and answer fully all in terrogatories in regard to the so-called real estate iool. in which Kilbourne fc Lalta. or himself, are concerned, with a view that after a full investigation the fact will appear, as he made oath to, that the government was in no way in terested therein. Communication lafdon the table. The following were announced :is the select committee to investigate the federal olhces at Xew Orleans: Messrs Gibson. Ulackburn, New, Vance of Ohio. Stevenson. Jas I J. Reilly. of Pennsvlvania, Foster, CrajK) and Dar rell. The Speaker asked and obtained leave of absence on account of personal illness, for not exceeding ten days, and MUJtfiYi'iilki.fr' ()V s,wl'ikt-'r pro tem. Friday. May 2. A petition was pre sented from the Society of Friends pro testing against the transfer of the In dian Bureau to the "War Department referred. The bill appropriating S."i0. 000 for subsistence supplies for the Apache Indians in Arizona, and tbr the removal of the Indians of the Cherihau agencv to the San Carlos agency. w:is passed. Mr. Edmunds offered a resolu tion instructing the committee on com merce to inquire what legislation is necessary to prevent the evils resulting from wholesale immigration of paupers, criminals, etc. laid over. The consid eration of the bill in relation to the Japanese indemnity fund was resumed. An amendment was agreed to author izing the President to reserve from the Japanese fund the sum of S125.000, to be used in a manner hereafter provided, and he is further authorized to pay over to the government of Japan the residue of said fund. The chair laid before the Senate a message from the President enclosing the reiort of the Centennial Commission, and inviting the two Houses of Congress to be present at the opening ceremonies on the 10th of Mav ordered printed and to lie on the table. After executive session the Sen ate adjourned. Heaae. Mr. Wells, of Missouri, from the com mittee on appropriations, reiorted a bill appropriating SlO.OOO for the maintain ance of light! on the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers passed. Mr. Wells of Mississippi, offered a resolution di recting the committee on real estate lool to accept Hallett Killxmrne's proj osition laid on the table. Bv unani mous consent the resolution of censure of John Young Brown, of Kentuckv, in the last House, was rescinded and ex punged. Mr. Payne, from the commit tee on banking and currency, retried a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, under such limits and regula tions as will best secure a just and fair distribution of silver coin throughout the country, to issue silver coin now in the treasury to an amount not exceeding 810,000,000, in exchange for an equal amount of legal tender notes; and provi ding the notes so received and exchanged shall be reissued only on the retirement and destruction of "a like amount of fractional currency, received at the treasury in payment of dues to the United States, and that such franctional currency when so substituted, shall be destroyed, and held as part of the sink ing fund provided in the act of the 17th of April. 1S76. After some discussion on the billthe House adjourned. Henate. "Wednesday, May. 3. Senator Mor ton rose to a personal explanation in reference to an ;irticle published in the Xew York TTor7f. The article related to money expended by the State of Indi ana during the war in organizing troops while he was Governor. He gave a lengthy statement of the manner and purpos'es of the disbursement of S133, 302.01 of the quarter million of dollars received from the Government, the bal ance, S11G.G97.00 being returned to the treasury of the United States. Several other Senators made remarks on the subject. The House bill authorizing the transfer of S1000 to pay light bouse keepers and maintain the light house service on the Mississippi, Ohio and Mis souri rivers, passed. Unfinished busi ness, being the Japanese indemnity bill, was resumed, and pending discussion on the bill the Senate adjourned. The Farwell-LeMoyne contested elec tion case was taken up. After argument the report of the minoritv of the Com mittee, that Farwell is entitled to the seat, was rejected yeas, 89; nays, 129. The question recurred on the resolution of the majority, declaring Farwell not entitled to the seat and that LeMovne is, the same was adopted. The House went into Committee1 of the Whole on the Kstoiik-e appropriation bill. tMit without taking action the Committer ruM and tok recess until evening. The evening session x- devoted to general debate on the bill. AdjoiirnuL THE WORLD OF SCIENCE. A Itoa-fonatrtrtor'a Kf(a. A loa-constrictor at the Central Park, New York, recently debited twenty one eggs, about the size of hen's eggs. Seven of the eggs were sterile, the others haingeach a young boa within. One chipped the shell as soon as it was hud, but died immediately. The remain der jterLshed in the v. Tlif 1'urlHratloa of Haoks. All apparatus for washing smoke, and so depriving it of it ch:iractcr as a nuisance, is in operation at a factory at Menilinontant, Pans. A fine shower of water, traveling iu the direction of the .smoke, and at live times its velocity, is projected into the chimney, where it mixes with the Muoke. taking up the soluble gasses ami precipitating the im purities earned up with the smoke by the draught The foul water is dis charged into a ciateni. where it is collected, and a fine black paint is got from it. A Egyptian Dlarcrr. Some A nil digging among the ruins of the gi eat Temple of Karnac. in Jan. bust, came ujon a sandstone cist buried iu the debris, inside of which was the sculptured figure of a female hippopota mus in green basalt The monument, including the slab, is 3 feet high, and is admirably carved and tolishcd. A long inscription in hieroglyphics runs along the back, and another is cut on the slab in front of the figure. The inscriptions contain the names of Psaminctiehus I. and his Queen and daughter, and also of a hitherto unknown Iving. Vitality r MreU. Among the lotanical notes in the Naturalist, there are some interesting facts bearing uion the question of the vitality of seeds. The authority for the data is Prof. Ernst, of Caracas, who re lates that, in lsG7, the market occupying the I'laza Bolivar was removed by order of the Government, and the ground de voted to the purposes of a park. To carry out the plan, six feet of the soil was taken off, leaving a fresh burface exjtosed to the air. Numbers of weeds immediately sprang from this uncovered merable plants oFlhe BrotefoaTfriiner vata. a species growing only in a locality south of the plaza, whence it was judged imixssible that seeds could be borne to the spot where they had so quickly germinated. Tho Professor believes that the setnls of these plants had re mained dormant for thirty years under the old market, and that, on being sub jected to moisture, warmth, and atmos phere, they revealed their unimpaired vitality. The second case in joint fell under the notice of the same observer. During a twelve years" study of the llora in the region round alout Caracas, Prof. Ernst had not once met with the Shepherd' Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris). But two years ago, a jwrtion of the garden of the monastery was graded for the erec tion of a new building. By so doing, a considerable depth of soil was removed, and, in the dense growth of weeds that very soon covered the fresh surface, there were thousands of specimens of the Shepherd's Purse. Prof. Ernst con cludes that the seeds of these plant had remained latent iu the soil for an un known period. Aatroaoaay Ita Memrlmg Crap. The recent investigations of astrono mers through means of the solar spectrum and the excellent telescopes now in use show that the atmosphere of our planet is very sensibly influenced by what is going on among our neighboring planets, and the sun of the solar system. Prof. Langley, of Alleghany Observatory, has lately published some results of his steady observations of the solar atmos phere, which, he states, is a thin stratum which cuts off one-half the heat which otherwise would reach us. From this it appears that the existence of living beings upon the earth is directly de pendent upon the sun's atmosphere, for should that envelope be increased twenty five per cent in thickness, the mean surface of our globe would, it is estima ted, be reduced 100 degrees Fahrenheit in temperature. It has been suggested that the glacial epoch through whichthe earth passed many ages ago might hare been due to a fluctuation in the solar atmosphere. Whatever has been may be again under similar conditions. "Who can tell the immense influence to vegetation by a change in the sun's atmosphere or an extra amount of electric or heated rays that may be suddenly or gradually cast upon our earth? Doubtless the yariety of seasons, and the consequent bearings upon our crops come from Tariations in the sun's clouds or planetary conjunc tions, that some day will be traced, by the aid of science, so as to explain many phenomena now inexplicable to us. Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass, in seven years, a space equal to the circumference of the globe. Johnson. iBdimtrUL TnuKU O Oa ti. Stft f Iatal till low A 1'aTkit llrrii , it W VaMnra. fvporct fl!JiEf V !:2U llUhikl Ul4UfSlsiM. a rnii. it is"a. S.iw-Sh.n-ncr. -Ona Martin. Bk'm- fVM. lown. The file, while ltn rtp. j rocatM vertically, ha imports! to it .i inr:.u iitouou io jenu citu.u"i n iui i me saw -tc.'tn during it lock wan: movement. An .iistomatif .vtting dr ice is altarh'ii. Marhineri for I -nying out SLitr-ILaiL. Alfred I). Palmer. I.on.s low a. Gang-Plows. Kiw.in! . Iterkrihv- mrr and Hugh H tanadar, FairrteKI. io;u i wo ir.im.1 are ?e umi at wieir forward ends bv a common drau-Uir. fnun w hich a chain fvtemls lack to the axle-tnv of the wheels, A levr t mounted in the forks of the tongue for raising the forward ends of the (earn, and alike lever is mounted on the axle tree, to rau the plows clear from the ground. Lightning-KIs Kolwrt S, Cole. Mt. Pleasant lowx hcet iron 1- f !ded to present two inicknesses oi a omcuvi conve.v form in cn-s-seetun ami having a rib ami tuU-s to form a slip-omt. Wire-Fence Tighteners. llliam I. Daniel.. Line Springs. Iowa. Wind Mills.-Win. Ponl. Grrat Ilen.l. Kansas. The ?haf t earner two balance wheels, one on e:ieh Hide of the center, to regulate and control the w heels, and for the application of a brake to stop it when mi uued. Mve-PiH-Thimble. C Inward. Hiceville, Iowa. Karth-Itoring Apparatus. II. Kelley and J. Kelley, Osage. Iowa. Arms cast in one pure on a rotating shaft inter mittently oierato a pivoted lever at tached to the fr.ime.aud connecting with the drill. A detachable derrick frame supjHU'ts the Uirnu; mechanism, whn h is operated by be el-wheels, ami with drawn by a rope pxssim; oer a pulley in the upright oi the frame, and to a windlass. An adjustable collar, upon which a yoked hamMcvcr rests, and en gages with a rack on the frame, regu lates the pressuie on the augur suid a belt-tightener. Hand-supjiorts. Geo. H. Knapp. Vin ton, Iowx A deuce for holding a U-ok and supiKirtiug the reader's arm. Cadf-Weaners.- A. M. McLeran. Otta wa City. Iowx Scries of teeth or ream ers extend laterally to cut and enlarge the bore :ts the augur sinks, Earth-Auger. Ben j. !'. Metz. PitU burg. 1ow:l liullass Water-KJevators. E. M. Kobords. Hutchinson. K:m.-as. L'jhci the rise of a bucket the Ue of the lever ujkjii that side coils up the spring. As the water is discharged, the leer is tripped, releasing the sprint;, the re coil of which throws the sliding bear ing over, brings the jxnver wheel into gear with the other bevel-wheel, therebv reversing the motion of the shaft, hav ering the empty bucket and raising the ful one. tumwa, lov The plungeY i.A periora ted at the top, which allows the water to iass down through it, A valve-seat, and cage depend from the plunger. In the cage is a rubber-ball valve, to fit and clo-H the valve-neat at the down ward stroke of the plunder. ltnrhed Fence Wire, Win. II. Jayne and .lames II. Hill, lloonc. Iowx Uarbs are formed of two pieces of iointed l" or staple-sh iped wire by fohhug their arms within each other and lauding them with their points projecting in four directions, around the wire. Fence Parb Formers. Win. II. Jayne and James II. Hill, Hoone, Iowx At-ol for making and placing the aloTe de scriU'd barbs. We can not part with our friends. We can not let our :uigels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We are idolators of the old. We do not believe in the richness of the soul, its proper eternity and om nipresence. Einereon. They that have read about everything are thought to understand everything, too; but it is not always so. Beading furnishes the mind only with the mate rials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections, we must chew tlium over again. Channing. Thousands of pounds of wild rice are gathered from the rice lakes of Anoka and Mille Lacs counties, Minn., and marketed principally at Princeton. A Philadelphian has sent for 500 or 600 bushels, to be planted in the marshes near the mouth of Schuylkill River. This rice promises to be a profitable crop in Minnesota. THE MARKETS. IIW TOIL Ief Catt! -- ... I 8 la 611 M UojCS lAff. ................ -. . W SbXUv-..... ................ ....... & 35 ft ( T& Flour Good to ebolre. 4 10 felU Wbeat No. J Chicago tt 1 1$ Corn Weatera mixed. t2 Oaia Weatera new jt 4 at it" " TJ0 13 X'U!- . - w ttv Pork New Meit II 40 411 V Lard U 3HHZ CniCAtK). BWTf Choice f 4 25 t S 4 XOf( - -- ' ay t " ShepGooC to choice 4 ( 39 Batter Choice to yellow t SO Kloar White winter ivs fc3 Sprlnjr. exir ............... . Wheat-Spring- No 7 Wsi X Corn No J .. ( M Oata No2 2 JO Ry No T..... ................ .......... "n aS Pork Meat, new 30 SO t30 srv Ilarlry No 2.. St (3 Lam ................-...... ........ .. i i.ti m rr. toriB Beef Cattle-Fair to choice $ 4 ts m 3 lrrf Hoc LlTe,. .... 25 d Sa Klonr FallXX ((' Wheat No 2 Red tt 1 JS Corn No 2 Hit 4S Rye No 1 PorkJfeaa 3135 fiTl so Lard I IJ W CICI5ATT- Floar f W Wheat-Red 1 66 ta I 25 Con w 03U.. - Itariey 1 I Kj ,.- ror lord U 3 vrx.iracxKS. WllMt-0 J ... 1 CJkT- O .................... j. Karler No2... f K Rye No 2. W DZS XOtXXS. Tloar wholesale f 1 23 $ 3 0 Com..... . 3S s X C2 S. ........................ ........ , v Uwlclc'. ........................ .... tv " iJ6 .......................... " v JS3XIC ...... ........... ............ v fiop,a ....... ........... .. v y VV i CwU9... ...... .... " a " KOUKIGN NEWS. Thtf n?f"t Uwi Turk) hA- aAM ti atlhtAry nmktjkm-v of lb Kwruf-" ow"fr to itir U tttmrrT"ta)8 1 (wwtnulk-.ol OmT.il IhAvthMcadr t Uc MnKtt lh$mviJon. inarch! ui .inny of V t; Oamarso w it.Vi; nrtm: .i J- H !l uutr Wh forrun with tb? of Narnajc aih! ! v:ut on MttuScrer A lmlll w til pot aMy take laf at tJ' !'.' d k Mcr ! The- Timw Madrvl riiafwitrh rtw IrtM that Uw t" Worn Una. a ewotra- juhJ vtwl. wan rvraC vu4 at Mn- i . -. ... i. - .. l-. rv ati by piutten reenu airers. ! crew weue BcUtTl 1-cJuw lul rof,i t gt. A MiikK U'kttictMt: to tlibrnltnr xm A lSntl?h ulje-t wic nit. WtHimleAl al left witinHtl help thier lntr. m tJat Ur bled to dentil. Crtt imltlttttlun In Mt b the Hntili mk!c. The matter i.i lit the UiuhU of the Urttl.h .Mmbtnr. . . . Ad lets (ttn ( .tj (". t Cutllo z nl that the King of Dahomey luw ir-ftt.-Ml U tay the line rei'eittly mirl on him for maltreating a lln'Hh ttb Jvt, ami uu :etit an m.-M'lettt tmMgeto the Hrttudi lVmitHKre lttMting him U visit Dahomey, wheru he ptomi.rn to pay the demand In powder and bulleln. . . .The revolt in Algtta htw l-cett com pletely Miltltied. The hviders have lcrn ntptureil mid are held as hostages for the gt) ciuiduct of thrtr trtN-it . J. l (Ir.tham. rniletl Matrs Cotmttl at l"li ence, is ileiul. ITEMS OK IXTKKKST. ItV setthl at l.isL "Shaksjxre" in til correct wa to ih-H it. The Philadelphia Xorth American ts tluMthh'st dmlv jotininl in this country. The Texas wheat crop fr isTtJ l eAtf maled at l.'.i , bushels. The memorial lamp to l-e ere'tetl by the Mat of t'aliforma in thcCtutteitnUl M.iMtion will ct .",u.. Purser t the amount of S.'.oO.Oai t,f the Philadelphia races thissutiuuMriiaw alrtsuly been mitdeiip. Experiments reeently uiiulo in Eng land iinheate that wagons are uul ejtsily dntwn. on all kinds of mails, when the fore and hind wheels are th same Me, ami the pole lien lower thus the ale. During the year ISli then1 w:ls iiiuiiu-f:u-turetl In the city of Kuehcalcr. N. V M.OJ( J barrels of ale and beer, in which I'lT'WT bushels of malt were consumed. The wheat rejxtrts from the W"st or rje'pe'ar'rfrS.'w'nlt'n "ivhi' mftliy fctrmtgwi by the March frts. The J'eiinsyivanio. Central PrnnsviTa nia, and Pittsburg Conference of th Hvaugelictl Asveiatlon haw rewjlvnl to unite in rawing SlW.OOU Uj endow a college. Ijike Ontario is not adapted to Iha propagation of shad. Voting hliad :u thrown by thousands upon lhe shore, dead or dying. Thesame thing happened last season. A KochesU'r gentleman projmifi to give to the Cinvcrsity ;f Virginia, a cabinet of mineral worth $20,000 ;tnd 8l5j"J for a building, providwl $I2,0C Is subscribed for its preparation anl can. Do you go to church? There- are 02. 522 churches in the I'nlU! bUttcv, w 1th sittings for llWtJA'i ieojle. The total value of church property is $34W.610,SO. Enghuid am not afford to bring waUr from the Welsh .MounUtin.n Ut Indon, and yet Fnuice lias just compIcU-! aa aU(-duct 150 miles in length for tii supply of pure water to Pari. The wet coast of South Aineriui ha contributed two new brcjds of uhwp U the English flocks. One is a whiU wooled variety, with long, curved horn. The other is a sjecies of llama and al paca breed mixed, with long, dark browa and exceedingly fine wool. On Sundays, in San Francisco, thirty thousand people crs the bay.adLstanoa of six mile, in order to enjoy picnic in the oak wouls on the opposite hor. The people who go are mainly Germans. The ordinary man at 50 years, accord ing to a French statistician, ha eatea 17,000 pounds of bread. IGjOOO of meat, 4,000 of vegetables, and drank 7,000 gal lons of liquid. A tnie Frenchman all over, he is gallant enough nottomentioa tbe quantity consumed by the other sex. Durnmitt's great grove, between Moa quito lagoon and Indian river, Florida, produced nearly 2,000,000 orangw laat year. More titan half of them rottwl on the ground, and were used in fatten ing hogs. The grove wa formerly ownai by Gen. Hardee. Hhode Island has wisely reduced bar militia force to 1,000 men. Now, wha general muster day come, they'll hara some chance to turn around and executa battallion maneuvers, without tha al ternative of jabbing their bayoneta usta each others rite, or lapping over opoa the sacred soil of Connecticut The foreign journals tell of a younf Arab widow, daughter of a chief, whoa husband was murdered by the Turks. Her father, touched by the prayers and tears of his child, called the Bedouin horsemen of the Beni Kawas to anna. The woman, armed like the men, and carrying their banner, like Joan of Are, was always foremost in her attacks upon the enemy, closely fallowed by her father and her brothers, and a horde of horse men. The Turkish Government has set a price on her head in order to stop thv slaughter of the soldiers. The Antbiam poets have made the heroine the subject of their songs, and she is now the aicet famous personage in the district of Ba-der. -rr-jagssssiS36EiBggSSSg