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Rural Items.

In Southern Kansas bushel of corn
is as cheap as a cup of whisky.
A DAVIS COUNTY, Kan, farmer will
plant forty acres of cotton in the spring.
TEXAS offers as fine land as can be
bought in the world for 81. 80 per acre.
OLMsTEAD COUNTY, Mimi, raised last
year |, $40, 900 bushels of wheat, averag-
ing eleven bushels per acre.
A MASSACHUSETTS, doctor visited his
patients in chaise drawn by an anti
quated bull, during the prevalence of
the epidemic.
FARMERS in Coffey county, Kan, are
urged to set aside a portion of their
rich bottoms for cotton-planting next
spring.
The maple-sugar interest of Vermont
now exceeds in magnitude the wool in
terest, which for long time was SO
prominent.
Mr.. JONES, Nevada farmer, owns
twentv-six camels, and he has to hump
himself TO get fodder for them this win
ter.
MIR. EBERLY, of Durlach, Pa, owns
600 turkeys, 500 geese, 800 ducks, and
200 chickens, to which happy family he
feeds daily fifteen bushels of corn.
A DOWN East farmer says that with
him bean poles have been a better crop
than potatoes. He shelters them III
winter to preserve the sprouts.
A FARMER in Shelby county, Iowa,
raised, this season, from 81 acres. over
300 bushels of wheat The first crop
paid for the quarter section.
FARMERS "Granges," or clubs, are
being organized quite extensively in
Illinois and Iowa, having for their OBJ
ject an examination and discussion of
the reasons why they, as a class, are so
poor.
AT recent meeting of the Centennial
Commissioners the subject of railroad
transportation being under informal dis
cussion, Mr.. Robert Lowry, of Iowa,
said: 1.-The crop of corn in Iowa is inn
mense, but it costs five bushels to get
one to the seaboard.
SAMUEL CoREL, who resides in the
neighborhoOd of Columbus, Ohio, re-
Gently manufactured $50 barrels of cider
from 500 bushels of apples.
A STONE as large az walnut was re-
Gently found in the heart of an Indian OK.
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The Presidential Election.

In the following table is given the
actual vote for Grant and Greeley Presi-
Dental Electors III all the States in the
Union. The highest vote cast on each
ticket has been taken wherever attain
able. In Georgia and few other
States the average vote is given.
Under the head of Scattering" are
included the votes of O'Conor and
Black the straight-out Democratic and
Temperance candidates. Their vote,
however, has not been returned from all
the States. In the cases of Louisiana
the vote is given as declared by the
Lynch-Longstreet Returning Board.
The figures as declared by Warmoth's
Returning Board, were For Grant
Electors, 5S,352 Greeley Electors, Co.
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IIusking Corn.

A correspondent of the ohio Farmer
tells how this used to be done: After
supper the old tin lantern was hunted
up, few candles and candlesticks taken,
and Dad, Jake, John, Jane, Sal and Sue
and half dozen neighbors of the same
ages, went to the barn. Pitchforks were
stuck in the hay NOW, the candles light
ed and hung on them, and then the fun
commenced. And it was fun. You did
not need husking machine nor husking
gloves, nor any such inventions. The
ears were waiting to come out of the
husk. All they had to do was to give
them jerk and it was done, and soon
there was n pile of golden ears waiting
to be drawn up and spread to dry on the
scaffolds overhead. Then, when the
shortened candles indicated nine o'clock,
they all returned to the house, where
were pumpkin pies, sweet cider and
sweeter kisses.
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Growth of Liverpool.

If Liverpool continues to increase az
a port at its present rate, it will soon be
the largest in the world, and there can
be little doubt that this will be the
case, for the growth of American
commerce means also the increase
of every species of commercial activity
in Liverpool. The very large scheme of
dock extension which will probably be
decided upon soon, has greater interest
for others than the owners of ships who
trade to and from the Mersey. 1t is a
question whether application shall be
made to Parliament to carry out all OF
three plans for the enlargement of the
docks, or whether one, and if only one,
then which, of the schemes that are
known in Liverpool as the north, east,
and south extensions. All three will
have ultimately to be adopted for the in
crease of shipping making use of the
docks is at present 236, 900 tons per an
mum. With this very considerable an
nual increase, and a gross revenue which
last year amounted to more than one
million sterling, with enlarged accommo-
dation bringing largsr receipts, the Liv-
erpool Dock Board are in a position to
undertake quite as large an extension of
their dock system as is designed. His
tory presents few, if any, more wonder
full examples of commercial growth than
that of the port of Liverpool. In 1907
the dock dues amounted toy only G336
15s in 1850, very nearly a century later,
they had reached f242, $3.50 las Cd, and
now. in the year 1872, the great neceesi--
tv is still for accommodation. The need
will become greater as the colonies and
independent States of the East and
West continue to develop their latent re-
sources.
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Judges ut Enirs.

The Massachusetts PiOtCDl0n says:
The widespread dissatisfaction which
often follows the awards of premiums at
fairs is notorious. There is growing
distrust in the fairness and impartiality
of these awards, and we know of many
instances where this feeling or want of
confidence has deferred the owners of
fine stock from exhibiting at all, and
with any statement of their experience,
no one can wonder at this decision.
Everybody who has been accustomed to
attend these shows must have noticed
many instances of real grievance which
have arisen from such Partially in max
ing the awards.
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Novel Hanulnps for Walls.

Paper-hangings for walls are known to
everybody. 1t is now proposed to use
hangings made of metal, and an account
of this new invention, which comes to us
from Paris, has been read before the So
ciety of Arts. The metal employed is
tinfoil in sheets about sixteen feet long,
and from thirty to forty inches wide.
The sheets are painted and dried at a
high temperature, and are then decorat-
ed with many different patterns, such as
foliage, flowers, geometrical figures, imi-
tation of wood, or landscapes. When
decorated, the sheets are vanished, and
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Chicken Cholera.

A correspondent writes us that in
many cases what is called chicken chol-
era is not that ut all; that on the hind
parts of chickens are small nits; that the
chickens pick these nits off their own
bodies and swallow them; swallowed, the
nits hatch into little worms in the gizzard,
and these worms kill the chickens. The
remedy is greasing the hind parts of the
chickens. We give this for what it is
worth.
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again dried, and are then ready for sale.
SaNing Clover Seed.

A Canada farmer hit upon the novel
and ingenious method of putting a wire
or sieve bottom in the bottom of q
trough in which he fed his stock, the
wire being two or three inches above the
close bottom of the trough. The stock
in pulling the clover hay from the rack
would scatter the seed, almost pure,
through the wire into the receptacle be.
low. 1t is said to have saved quite a
large amount of good seed in this way.
This may be, but there is room for Il
query on the subject.
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How FRANCE Has PAID GERMANY

How FRANCE HAS PAID GERMANY
A Paris journal states, upon what it
alleges to be the highest authority, that
up to Oct. l, France has made her
payments to Germany in the following
form In gold and silver, 100, 900, OOOf {;
in French bank notes, 125, 900, 000f in
German bank notes and gold, so, 900, 00Of !;
in bills of exchange on Holland, 400, 900
0OOf; on England, 100000, OOOf; on
Germany, 1000, 5000 by the pur-
chase money of the French Eastern
railway, 1876, ZOO, OOOf; in gold and bank
notes, levied during the war as contri-
buttons, 800, 900, 0OOf. If this statement
is correct, it explains the secret why the
effect of these enormous shiftiags in
values should have been almost exclu-
sively confined to England. The direct
expectation of the precious metal from
France to Germany was thus relatively
insignificant when compared with the
bills of exchange.
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A REVELATION or WALL STREET

A REVELATION or WALL STREET.
Smith and Gould logged along pleasant
~ and managed their affairs smartly, to
the CONSERVATION and terror of the
street. One day Smith went out of
town to witness the trotting of his favor
tie horse. While he was gone Gould
saw good chance and sold him out.
The little trick, it is said, cost Smith
half million of money. Smith had his
revenge. He took the private books of his
banking house over to the Erie Company
and placed in the hands of his old enc
mics the proofs of Goulds populations
that led To the arrest, and the restora-
ton of the 80, 600, 900 referred to.
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press. u The lecture was spiced with some
recitals of the remarkable feats of jour
nalistic enterprise and the telegraphic
humiliation of space and time which dis
tinguish the present era of American
journalism. Boston Journal.
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Curious Facts About Iudia.

Strange as it may appear, India, which
has been described AZ IA country where
vegetation grows with tropical luxuri-
ance, and where few months neglect
causes land to be covered with impene-
trable Jungle, many feet in height" has
a scarcity of timber for building vessels
and houses, and does not, even in most
parts of the country, produce enough
fuel for warming houses and for cook
ing, the inhabitants resort to the use of
dried dung, the same as the people of
Northern Africa do. In the northwest
ern portions of the country it is said to
be the chief occupation of the native
peasant housewife, after she has
drawn the water and kneaded the dough,
TO make the cow-dung into pats and
spread them to dry in the sum- 1t is
subsequently stacked, or placed in long
piles, and if not wanted for some CON
siderable time, it is coated with mud
made from clay, to preserve it from the
wet. Tons of it, thus prepared, are sold
in the large towns III the interior, where
it forms the principal fuel of the masses.
In cold weather, when fire at night Oh
in the morning is necessary, every avail
able bit of horse, sheep, or goat dung is
gathered up and placed on the fire.
This destruction of nearly all the drop
pings of every kind of stock is said to
result in impoverishing the land very
greatly, and it is affirmed that this waste
il one of the principal drawbacks TO the
successful cultivation of the plant IL
India.
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HARDENING CoPPER.-All the stone
work of ancient times, and it was inn
mense, was accomplished with copper
chisels, SO hardened as to cut the hard
est stone. Neither iron nor steel tools
seem TO have been known. The art is
lost, but perhaps not irretrievably. A
few years ago it was ascertained that by
gradually sitting finely pulverized emery
with molten copper cutting edge could
be attained so very hard that the expect
alton was entertained that the lost art
had been recovered, but it proved fall
lacy. Chemists have puzzled their brains
over the hardening question till they
have finally abandoned the research rs
hopeless.
1t is certain that long before the days
OF Solomon, gem cutting, extremely
minute and delicate us possible, with the
finest instruments ut the disposal of mod
ern lapidaries, was accomplished with
copper tools. The Babylonians, at n still
more remote period, performed opera
tions on precious stones that now re-
quire the aid of multiplying glass to
see minute workings, and yet there is no
historical account of their having either
convex lenses or n knowledge of steel.
Therefore it must be conceded that the
world in its social revolutions has actu-
ally lost one art, by which the nations of
antiquity accomplished works which
outlived their historical records.
THE Indian Territory contains 80, 900,
600 acres of land and 20, 900 inhabitants.
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THE TRADE OF CHIcAGo.-The fol-
lowing were the receipts and sh pments
of breadstuffs and cattle during the past
Npnr
, 1873-05-19
The Wine Crop In France.


On the nights OF the 26th, 26th, and 9th OF
April, severe frost ruined the vintage for this
year in many parts OF France and destroyed the
hopes OF the wine-grouers in q prosperous
harvest.
At Villefranche, in Beaujolais, the thermoma-
ter sank to four degrees below zero. Not . bud
escaped in many places. In the low1ands all the
vines we're destroyed, but on the most elevated
of the hill Bides, where they we're exposed to the
wind, the destruction was comparatively siight.
The most promising Of the vines, those which
had been trimmed and were the most advanced,
we're utterly loat.-
In this region the apricot trees we're also much
damaged.
At biion, in Lower Burgundy, three-quarters
Of the crop will be lost, owing to this cold anap.
The grapes from which the popular Burgundy
wines, Chzmbertin and Clos Vougeot, ara pressed
were touched by the frost.
In Beaune and Meursault the loss ia estimated
at from third to oue-haH Of the vintage, de-
pendent upon the situation OF the vineyards.
Thoee in the lowlands, that is in the valleys OF
far down On the hill-slopes. suffered most.
Some buds wece entirely b1ackened, while 9TH
ers Of the game size and apparent hardness we're
left untouched by the side Of the Hithered ones.
The vines OF porous nature were as a rule COM
pletely destroyed, whiIa those Of harder surface
made better resistance.
Tn the neighborhood OF Lyons and in Langue-
doc the loss mas great. The same result - to
, 1873-05-19

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The alarm OF fire from Box 1924, at o'clock
last evening, was oecasioned BY some children
tipping oyer lighted oil lamp at No. 1856 Peoria
street. the residence OF Mr. F. Elliott. Damage,
e25. Insured.
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, 1873-05-19

rum G*F HHtuFtA $l1H47s.| 1@E{|AVtCuHs
Within the past few days large numbers Of
pigeon-trappers have been coming into the State
from Illinois, Wisconsin, and other States east
OF us, following up the docks Of pigeons and
trapping them for the Eastern markets. It is
made regular matter Of business, and most
profitable one, too, it the statements Of
can it be otherwise, when it is
estimated that a. hundred trappers
have gone out on the Winona i st. Peter Rail
road within the past week, and still they come
Knsson appears to be the chief centre just now,
although the hunters scatter along at neighbor-
ing stations from there os fnr east as Rochester,
striking of into the woods along the Zombro,
over By Pine Is1aud, oronoco, and vicinity.
Wherever the pigeons are there are the trappers
gathered together with their wi1es, their decoys,
and nets, catching the birds by the hundreds and
shipping them by the barrel to tickle the palstes
OF Eastern epicures. =.
From Mr. Knight, the express agent at this
place, VIC learn that the first shipment OF
pigeons for the season came east by express.
from Kasson, last Thursday, tho 9Th inst, and
consisted Of ten barrels. Since then the ship-
ments have increased daily, justifying the infer-
ence that the trappers are doing q land-oface
business. On Monday, twenty-five barrels came
down; Tuesday, thirty-eight; Wednesday. forty
four; and 80 it will probably keep up for several
days, until the pigeons fly to fields and (mts) )for
tunes new, only to be followed by the "onward
march Of civilization"
, 1873-05-19

State Temperance Convention - DIR.
Fowler Accepts the Presidency OF the
State Temperance Union.
From the Sheridan {iH.) fe,rs-L Letter.
The State Temperance Union Convention will
be held st Jacksonville On the 18th aud 18th OF
July next.
The following letter OF acceptance from DR..
Fowler places the State Temperance Union on 3
sire foundation. DR.. Fowler WAS elected at the
convention held in Springfield On the 25th of
February, but as his time was so fully occupied
he did not want to take any more on his hands,
unless he eaw that much good would result
from it:
EVANSTON, H., 11sy 8, 1873.
j. &. SeacdTd, and Gentlemen of the Executive Commit
tee q tho Illinois Temperance Union:
Allow me to thank you for the honor your Conyen-
oo conferred upon in electng President Of the
Illinois State Temperance Union Nothing but the
pEofoundest convction that every friend Of humanity
Il under everlasting obligations to do his little best to
forward the interehta REPRESENT could induce
to accept the Responsible place rendered NE.
In accepting, with to suggest line Of possible
Hon for the future The state Of thepublc mind and
public morals, the vast schemes Of seldahneas and
fraud that makes this decade memorable the consol-
datIons Bnd uonopolies that threaten the prosperity
and liberties Of country, the deepseated cor1up
ons that canker the heart Of society all call for the
united and persistent effort Of all mofAl and religious
men, to check the tide Of evil md reinstate morality,
Integrity, and honor.
accept the prodcrcd place, hoping that VIC may do
something In the sacred interest Of law and order to
aid IN thts work Of Taforn. Your obediont sarvant
@. q. FOWLER
, 1873-05-19

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, 1873-05-19
Thirteenth JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.

70 the Editor Of The Chicago Tribune:
S1R: At the Peoples Convention held ut Gil
man, in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, on the
! 10th inst, under the united call OF both Repub-
1can and Iiberal-DemocrAtio Central Commit
tees, A. J. Alexander, Of Iroquois County, was
chosen as permanent Chairman, and D. L. Mur-
dock, Of Fairbury, as permanent Secretary.
Hon. n. J. Pillsbury was nominated by acclsma-
tion as candidate for Circuit Judge, after which
the Convention adopted the following reso]u-
tions
R<solped, That whils concede that it improper
to require pledges Of candidates for judicial positions
IN regard to particular measures, upon any specific
question actually pending in the courts neverthe
less hold to be wise and prudent to that they
stitutions andhat the1 shal be In hearty sympathy
with the general mass Of their fellowctzens in their
determination to control the monopoes which do now
arbitrarily and un1ug1y dictate the upon which
the trac and travel Of the country shall be conducted
and We do hold that only ruch men should
tint the Legislative aud judicial departments Of thu
Government have tho legal right and ought to regu-
late and control the corporations which do now,
may hereafter, and operate the public highways OF
Resorsd, Thse the Hon. Nathaniel J. Ptllsbury, BY
this State and hts uniform declarations, both public
and private, upon the subject Of monopoes, and by
his uprdghtness and integrity in all the relations Of
70 the % co1hdsnee & @ of ths people q Ills s judi.
ctal Circuit, and ne do cordially commend
@ e e. ss a = 4SaRt 7a ct ~
Resored, That the Secretary Of this Convention for
thia Judicial circuit and respectfully request their
puhrcation,-and aso the Chicago daily newspapers.
At the County Convention Of Grangers held at
Pontiac on the 18th inst, to send delegates to
the Judicial Convention to be held at Gilman on
the goth inst, on the vote to instruct the dele
Cnfaa the vote TnA almost unanimous for the
, 1873-05-19

play had begun before entered the box. It
was :. Macbeth" and, ss got near the box, the
thrilling tones ct Fanny Kemble, who, As Lady
:Macoeh, was reading The letter from her lord,
vent through me. Never were such sounds.
The rich, deep notes, first heard, produced an
night, cared for nobody but Fanny Kemble.
Strongly as Iatruggled with the feeling, Macready
disappointed me-. The harshness Of his voice, the
ragged7ess OF his passion, his abrupt transitions
from h;eRt Tage to g1sf' % XeEe painful , The next
he positively seemed to rave. But WAS only a
youth. and set no store on those impressions.
AL the grAy-hcaded men who go to theatres tell
me he was great actor, and I am bound to be-
Ieve them. At least know that lie Was high
ike 4'@'e4 n'an' AAo' ~ 'na' feSp0''' vary on-
THE ACTOR OF THE PRESENT DAY,
Who is remarkable for nothing so much as his
mental barrenneBs. have often wondered how
an educated, vell-read man, like Mr. Phelps,
regards the society in which at t1mes he is
but most actors and actresses whom know
have singularly limited range. An actor like
Mr. Irving is. in the oldest contrast. he is
familiar with the literature and art OF the past
little Of either and their talk is very frivolous.
One Of the atrangest things in life Is
the union one sometimes sees OF the
dramatic power with seeming stupidity.
At rahea1sa1s have talked with actors
pretty clearly that they did not understand the
thoughts rhich they would hare to express;
aud suddenly one has gone on to the stage to
take his or her part, aud then yon could have
sworn that all was felt and known. The ges-
ture, the meaning in the eye. the emphasis, were
just what were needed. For the moment the
ideal waa attained. But, when your artist friend
tojoined you, he or she appeared unconscious as
before: Is it, then, one asks, all trick? Is
or natural gift, independent OF the intellect
altogether?
, 1873-05-19

fa''s sAp''& ~ 1e., " s'' 'f'' fo'@ 1
The wedding Of Miss Jennie Butteraeld, now
the Yicomtesse de- Montauban, took plsce Ills
rnor,;nr At tbe Cbnrc| of A. Pbij;n de- RonJe in
tho the Fa1bonrr % I st. Hono1e. The ci4i1 U eeremoniea
hsd airea6T faken nlaca st Mr.. Bnttarfa1d's resi-
dsnee. and those Of today were those that the
Church demanded. 1t noon St. Philip was f1led
With the friends Of the Butter6elds and de Mon
, hridsi nartV entered-Mr- Bntterfiald and the
Comtasse de Palikao. ths Co1nte de- Palikao
and the bride. the groom with his sister,
the Comtesse de Brimont, and the
rest Of the family connection following. who all
entered tho chancel seating themselves in the
red velvet fateuils reserved for this purpose.
The grand old altar Of St. Philip WAS illuminated
in blaze Of wax tapers, while the Archbiahop