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CLEAN LAKE, Ia, Aug. s5-Thc attendance
and Interest OF tho Assembly continues 10 iu-
crease, Tho morning clats ras conducted by
the Rev. 8. G!lbort, Of Chicago. Tho Assembly
lecture was delivered at II O'Clock by Prof.
Winchcll; subject "Dth!e in the 1sQcks." Tho
points to made arc that tic systcm Ut tho world
is unity, that the world lad beginning in
time. It resulted from crcativo rauses, both rs
regards matter anti form. 1ta history covers six
great periods. The creation sccnis to haYo
been by evolution. Tho man Is Of re-
cent oriHin, and his advent was
In the 0rtcnt; TINT tho world was approaching
0nalttr. flo earnestly and eloquchuy arguetl
that these conclusions wefc In perfect harmony
With Tho Bible.
Dr.. Newman requested the lsnrncd Profcs-
sor to consent 10 answe< some questions In
public.
Or. Magoun cayo an ablo lecture Mt o'clock,
referring to tho assaults of some scientists upo,
religion. 1t was listened to With Interest.
Afttrward Prof. Wlnc'lc!l took tho stand to
answer questions handed him IN reference to
his levturo this morning, which he did In mas
tDrly manner. ''"'
Tho Christian Congress holds Its first meeting
to-hlght. Tho Ilpn. j. V. Farxell md other
distinguished men will takn rart. A great
crowd nnd grand tifnc is expected Tomorrow
and Sunday.
, 1877-08-25
JOLIET C1ASIr.NIEETING.

NEW Lsxox, Ill, Aug. a4.-Tho third days
session Of tho Joliet District eamp-mccttnr mas
ended to-day. The interest and excitement is
steadily increasing, and the attendance ia grow
ing daily, somc q ,000 visitors having arrived TO-
day. Tho tants now OH tho grouhn number
fully sixty, and fresh additions aro lclng made
daily.
Tic exercises OF the iay wcro opened at 8
a. m. BY prnytr nt the fan1isy tent u the Rev.
q. +. aforse, Of Manhattan, H.. At q. NJ. a
general prnyor~mcettng mas hcll by the Rev.
DR.. Reynolds, OF aiinooka, Lit. At ~ O.. IN.
an eloquent sermon Was delivered By the Rcv.
William Augustus Smith, Of Kankakcc, III.
The daily chtldtcn's meeting WAS held at ! 100
p. m. under tt.e management Of tho Rc!. san-
ford Washburn, Of Pialnlcid, ILL.,. At 2:10
p. m. thrilling discourse by the Rev. s. II.
Adams, Of Centenary NJ. E. Church, Chicago,
wus delivered.
THO following. partial, announcement for
Saturday. Aug. Is, Is oil that at prosent can be
made: 10 d. M, sermon by tho keY 8. C. Glen
dcnning, Of Joliet, H.; ;7:3o p. ~, sermon By
the Rpv. E. @. Arnold, OF Joliet, I'll.
II Is q gratifying fact that tho deep feeling
manifested In tic proceedings "a growing In
strength daily. somn twenty conversions werc
made Yesterday. and tho Indications arc that
that number will DO q very ANAL average.
Tho weather continues Ill that can bo desired,
being cool md pleasant.
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Sow Glover Seed.

Glover, to succeed well should be
sown early in spring-the earlier the
better. If the land has not yet been
plowed and narrowed and'prepared for
the seed, no time should be lost in do
ingit. The work should not be postpon-
ed till spring, as there may not be time
enough to plow and harrow and SOW the
seed when the land is in proper condi-
ton, when there might have been time
enough to have put in the seed if the
ground had been prepared.
We have written great deal in our
time about raising clover, and as long as
we live we expect to write about it for
no cropis of more Importance to farmers,
It makese esexcellentpastures ndin drouth
nothing equals it for this purpose. 1t
makes good nutritious hay, when prop
erly cured and stored away in sheds or
barns, and stock will fatten on such hay
without grain. An early crop of hay can
be taken, and then a crop ofseed saved
from the same field. And again to
crown all, nothing surpasses it as fer
tilizer. 1t will restore worn-out fields
quicker and better and cheaper than
anything else. So that it pays in four
ways to raise clover. Itpays for pastur-
age. 1t pays for hay. Itpays for seed.
1t pays as fertilizer. Who will 90 to
work now and prepare his land, and
put in number Of acres in early spring
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American and German wives.

We know, says the independent,
that the social position of women in
Germany is bad enough, but We con
fess that we believe that something has
been left out of the story of Prof. Christ
lieb, MS told to Col. Higginson. An
American student, so the story goes,
called on the professor, who received
him cordially, and entered into conver-
sation with him about the United States.
After expressing his admiration of the
natural advantages of the country and
of the enterprise of its citizens, he add
ed that he felt much solicitude for its
future. On being asked his reasons, he
frankly expressed his opinion that "the
spirit of Christ" was not here. Being
still further pressed to illustrate his
meaning, he gave as instances of this
deficiency not the Credit Mobilier or
the Tweed scandal, but such facts as the
following: He seriously declared, so
Col. Higginson repeats the story that
on more than one occasion he had heard
an American woman say to her husband,
Dear, will you bring me my shawl?"
and the husband had brought it! He
further had seen a husband return
home at evening and enter the parlor
where his wife was sitting-perhaps in
the very best chair in the room-and
the wife not only did not go and get
his dressing gown and slippers, but she
even remained seated, and left him to
find chair as he could. These things.
as Prof. Christlieb pointed out, suggest
ed serious deficiency of the spirit of
Christ in the community. How differ
emily things look to Americans! "Mein
trau," says the German to his wife, as
they leave the railroad car of the
dhrosky, shave you got the carpet-bag
and the overcoat and the umbrella?"
"Yes, my DEAR" she replies. "Then
come along" says he, and he marches
before her. What American lady,
boarding with her husband in q private
family in Germany, has not had her
landlady beg her, for the looks of the
thing, not to let her husband carry
bag or bundle while she walked
emppty-handed by his side?
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Incensed TeutOns.

In October, 1876, the German Consu
atLeon, Nicargus, was assaulted by Fran-l
cisco Leal, II Nicarguan' who had mar
ried his stepdaughter. He lodged a
complaint with the authorities, but, so
he AYERS, no action was taken by them.
Some time afterwards he and his brother,
also n Counsel, were walking in the
streets with Mrs. Francisco Leal, when
he asserts that he was again assaulted by
Leal, who was further, helped by the
police to take his wife away. The Con
sui, finding that he got no reparation,
appealed to his Government through
the Charged Affairs, and the German
authorities have in consequence demand
ed elaborate amends from the Nicara-
guans, which include the payment to
the Consul of $780, 900, asa compensation
for insult, and the solemn salute of the
consular flag of Germany by division OF
the army. The payments Of the money
to be made on the same day. Failing
this, large indemnity will be exacted
and a fleet sent to extract it, The Nicara.
guam Minister begs a suspension OF
action pending explanation, and declines
relations with the. German Charge, whom
he accuses of Misrepresentation.
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Negro SuperstitiOns.

The Jacksonville Fla.) Union con-
tributes the following: During the late
yellow fever panic we noticed several
little street Arabs playing about who
wore little calico bags suspended from
their necks as a sort of talisman to ward
off the dreaded disease that was then
supposed to infect the whole community.
Some of these bags contained gum cam
phor, others were packed with mustard,
and one little fellow wore tiny bag fill
ed with dirt. Nanny done fotch it
clear outen de cemetery exclaimed the
urchin, she done got it outen dat gals
grave dat was knocked in de head wild q
axe A curious theory, we thought,
that the earth taken from murdered
woman's grave can ward off pestilence,
and yet it is firmly believed in this
CITY,"
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1866 for each working day. OF these, g.
1882 were mail. and 411,GOO drop letters;
3l3, ,464 were held for postage, G7,3O1 misdi-
rected, 1920 without any address, 1904 con-
tanning unmailable matter, 108,4S6 were re-
turned from foreign countries, 57,1SG were
returned by proprietors of hotels, 24,5SO
contained A0.06241 in money, II ,421 con-
tanned commercial paper to the value Of
Sl,301, ,7S049, 804 contained deeds, mort
cages, leases, railroad and other tickets,
pension certificates, etc., 3S.265 postage
stamps, 271S5 photographs, 263Si contain
ed jewelry, clothing, books, chromos, mu-
sic, etc, 23,03j contained receipts, bills of
ladlng afildavits and abstracts of title, and
the amount Of money taken from letters
which could not be restored to the owners,
was S4,75i. The number of registered let
ters during the year was 4,37S,l27, and the
amount of fees collected was 1857 1880.
The number of mail routes are 1924, Of
which 95S are by railroad, aggrcgating in
length 292, $40 miles, being 147 353,25l miles
annually at u cost ofiSl5, 1904, sos. The in
crease in routes during the year was IL 023
miles, and in cost of carriage SlS3755. The
total number of new mail bags purchased
and put into service during tho year was
937O0, of which 10000 were for transporta-
ton of printed matter and l4,7OO for letters.
The number Of money order offices is i,1ii,
The number of orders issued during the
year was 4,92j ,06l, amounting to S72,S20 500
Tho lnr mid A -fO n7Q SO Ii4
1868, and the charges received for money
orders issued amounted to S623,74S 05. The
report embraces a great deal of valuable
information and is full of interest to any
person who desires to trace the growth of
and extension of the postal system through
out the country. But sing.e newspaper
article can do little more than call public at
tention to the report and elicit IN interest
in its details.
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Fun for the BOYS.
Paris Letter to New Orleans Picayun,

Paris Letter to New Orleans Pieayune.
Some time since Mons Got the we'll
known actor of the French Comedy, prom
ised toappear in "Le Legs" at u Sunday
morning performance in the Odeon thea
ter He went to his dressing-room in the
French Comedy to dress, and as soon as he
had put on costume and wig and painted
his face to suit the part, he ordered cab,
entered it, lowered its curtains and ordered
the driver to take him to the Odeon. All
went well until the river was reached in
crossing bridge-bang!-down fell the
cab; its axletree was broken. Mons. Got
begged and impiored some one to get him
another vehicle. twas Sunday, The sky
was cloudless. Everybody was out No
cab was to be had. There was only two
things to do-get out and walk. The
streets were thronged as only Paris streets
can be on fair Sundays. Mons. Got soon
had crowd at his heels; the crowd in
creasing every step he took, and he had
not gone one square before there was a
chorus behind him yelling: Hey! le chi.en
Ml-the French expression for "Giddy,
giddy gout, shirt tail out, five miles in,
five miles out" Actors of Paris now dress
in the theater where they are to play.
The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-12-13

Atlanta is to be the capital of Georgia by
the same majority.
Female Practitioners.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, an attorney
of Washington, made argument before the
House Committee on Judiciary, advocating
the passage of bill authorizing women to
practice as attorneys in the Supreme Court
of the United States.
The Manchester Consulate.
There are three Missouri candidates
in the Aeld for the vacant Consulate at Man
chester, England, lately held by Newton
Crane, of st. Louis. Their names are Thav-
er, Hodges and Wilde.
Tilden's Tax.
The case of the United States against
Ex-Governor Tilden to recover alleged ar
rears of income tax, in New York, was
again adjourned for two weeks.
Telegraph Dividend.
The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company has declared II dividend of ~
per cent. payable in stock of the Franklin
Telegraph Company, at par, at their office
in New York, January 3.
Pinchback Resigns.
Ex-Governor Pinchback, of Louisiana,
has addressed an open letter to Governor
Nichols, resigning his place AS United
States Senator from that State.
End of Drunken Schoolmaster.
A school teacher named Yarney was
arrested and lodged in Jail, in louisiana
on the charge of drunkenness. The Jail was
set on fire and Yarney was burned to death.
More Per Cents Wanted.
The London Association has advised
the Syndicate that it proposes subscrip-
tion for S1O,0OOOOO four per cent. bonds.
Another. Bust.
The National Exchange bank, capital
stock 100000. has gone into voluntary liqui-
dation.
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AUSTIN Now HeVel1e.
She was from the country, and she
went into Main-street store and asked
to look at some stockings. what num-
ber, ma'am?" inquired the polite clerk.
"What number? Young man amt you
ashamed of yourself to ask such ques-
ton? Do you suppose jest cause I live
in the country that go scootin' around
with one stocking?" Then the clerk
managed to make her understand that
he wanted to know the size of the stock
ing she required, and she said she guess
ed about eleven inches would do for the
foot and as to the rest it didn't matter
much.
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURE.
A Practical Display TO be Made Of Pr
ducts I'm Which America ExceIs.

New York Tribune.
Gen. LIE Due, commissioner of agri-
culture, finds the wording of the Paris
exposition bill relating to the display to
be made by the agricultural bureau SO
indefinite that he is unable to say, at
present, just what the character or ex-
tent of our agricultural exhibit will be.
That some provision of this nature would
be made in the bill has long been antic-
pated by the commissioner, who has
been giving the general subject more or
less consideration. His ideas as to what
we should, and what we should not, at
tempt to show, are subsequently well
defined, and if the appropriation, when
the bill becomes n law, shall prove suf-
ticient, his department will be able to
prepare its contribution to the exposi-
ton with very little delay.
All phenomenal productions of what
ever character, should, he believes, be
excluded, and no attempt will be made
to amuse or astonish the beholder; but
a comprehensive display of those articles
which America produces in excess, or
of which the quality is superior to that
of similar articles produced abroad, may
be made, he thinks, productive of direct
and great prolific our farmers and plant
ers OF cotton, for instance, in the pro-
duction of which, both as to quality and
quantity, our country far excels all
others, he wis as to exhibit the living
plant in all stages Of its developement
from the tiny sprout Just peeping into
daylight to the full opened ball, ready
for the gatherer. He would also show
the different processes through which
the commodity passes, the drying, gin
ming, and baling, until it sprepared for
the market.
In cereals, beside the customary dis
play OF the raw material in all its varie-
ties, the commissioner proposes to show
the American process of converting wheat
into flour, which he asserts is superior to
that in use in any other part in the
world except, perhaps, in Hungary; and
in this connection he would arrange to
have the product Of the mill converted
into bread and buscuit, and placed on
sale in the Paris restaurants. In all
olnJt uePulthieil'S Pi,!. Di !ne proposed az
,:n rl?uivl"n eAnl'iS' unI r''."" ". u,io 'o l
should the election of the persons who
are to be sent to Paris in charge of this
exhibit be left to him, those only who
are :I, GAPeilcnceu IN 'ills iihe T. Industry
VIII r DC Petll,slea m',a 10 TO- ..,
uGn' lie iIIc s''ys ,: nc Is now IN CORES
POhuelice 70 wltl ieaIing n, a9rlculluriStS III
y aii parts oi tlie lallu' l ne NieWsoi Prac-
tlcil men upon many points OF great Ia
IereSI 10 the farmer are peinS ci''Sslneu'
ana Ile results WILL ron time 10 lime'
De DC, summed up ana puoliSliea lor us
Crlpu1loh' besides tilis. ne mas maze
Sc excursions 10 ulilerent parts OF
Ihe South ior personal observation he
OeneVes thaV southern planters nave
Ialrly started On 'he ROAD 10 prosperity;
danos tlllt III otler tiiheS were sou ana
aehcate' lie iounu callouseu ana horny'
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THE POSTAL DEPARTMENT.

The report of the Postmaster General,
accompanying the Presidents message
shows the receipts for the year ending June
80, 1877, to be 1881 1926 and the expen-
ditures S33, ,4S6, ,322,44 being an excess of
expenditures over receipts of $5,054,-
7371s, from which should be deduct
ed the sum Of 81, ,163, $500 paid on liabilities
incurred in previous years and not proper
ly chargeable to the expenditures of the
last fiscal year, which were 222, ,s34S6 more
that those Of the preceding year. The de-
crease In receipts is largely in the item OF
official postage stamps, the amount from
which was only $97O, ,79O47, against 81 ,2s1.-
3S9.43 in the year before. This department,
with which the people at large have more to
do than with any other branch of the gov
ernment. shows some curious features.
For example, the whole number of letters
transmitted through the post Office during
the year were S,2ss, ,29O, being an average Of
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CRIMINALITJES.
The Silk Smupplers.

The trial of Thomas G. Owen and
Alvin Graft in New York, employees Of the
National Steamship Company, for snug
CLING silks into this country, was conclud-
ed Wednesday, and the jury brought in a
verdict of guilty. The court granted an ar
rest Of judgement for the present,
An Insurance President Sentenced.
Robt. L. Case, of New York, presi.
dent Of the Security Life Insurance CON-
pany, convicted of swearing to false returns
made to the superintendent Of insurance
has been sentenced to five years in the
State prison.
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London COr, N, I, Times.
The gossip from Paris just now is a
curious mixture of scandal and politics.
They say the Rothschilds prompted
MacMahon to fight, and found the
money for the elections; and that Lord
Beaconsfeld took the trouble to express
sympathy with the President. Now,
however, it is said the Barons of Finance
and the English Premier advise Mac
Mahon toresign. Grevy, they say, can
not accept the Presidency because he is
separated from his wife. An official eff
fort at reconciliation has been made,
but without avail. There is another
lady whom they call Nine. Grevy, but
French society declines to receive her,
and the President must have n lady to
preside at his parties. A sister or a
daughter might get oyer the difficulty.
Admiral Pothuan is now the most likely
candidate for the Presidential chair. The
popular idea that women have not suili-
cient powerin these days is acurious tic-
ton. The Empress of the French made
and ruined imperialism. The Empress of
Russia precipitated the Russo-Turkish
war. La Marechale MacMahon is the
cause of the present trouble in France.
The Duchess of Salisbury did lot of
mischief ;at Constantinople during the
conference; the Countess of Waldgrave
leads Wing society in England; the plot
against the Sultan Mahmoud was hatch
ed in his harem, and Sultana is chief CON
spirator; in short, what ever occurs that
woman is not at the bottom oft? OF how
much sympathy and goodness she is
capable, history however, teens with
examples, and there is story which
will presently go the rounds of the press
of the very latest example of the kindly
nature of the Queen of England. 1t is
said that on the Sunday before the
Tuesday originally fixed for the execu-
tion Of the Stauntons, for the Penge
murder, the mother of the two male
criminals Travelled alone to Balmoral in
Scotland, where the Queen was staying,
in order to fling herself at the Queens
feet and beseech her clemency. Arrived
at Ballater, the poor woman could get
no conveyance, but the mail carrier, on
learning the nature of her forlorn and
romantic mission, sat her on the leather
mail bags and took her to the castle.
Here, after some difficulty, she got an
interview with Sir Thomas Biddulph,
who informed the Queen of the circum-
stance. Without form or ceremony of
any kind the Queen went straight to
the room where Mrs. Staunton was
and listened with deep sympathy to tb,
petitioners prayer. The Queen promi
ed to do what she could, but she was
entirely in the hands of her responsible
Minister. The painful interview at an
end, the Queen, with motherly consid-
ertion, ordered carriage to be provid-
ed for the poor petitioner, and had her
conveyed to the railway on her way
home. Strange to say the very letter
bags in the mail cart on which the poor
woman had travelled from Ballater to
Balmoral contained, among other des-
patches, the Home Secretary's RECON-
mendation of the reprieve of the con
demned. The Queen indorsing it at
once, sent mounted messenger after
Mrs. Staunton to acquaint her with the
good tidings.
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How A Boy Helped The Growth OF the
steam Engine.

Popular Science Monthly,
The steam-engine has now assumed a
form that somewhat resembles the mod
ern machine. An important defect still
existed in the necessity of keeping an
attendant by the engine to open and
shut the cocks. A bright boy, however
Humphrey Potter-to whom was as
signed this duty on Newcomer engine
in 1918, contrived what he called scog-
gan-a catch rigged with cord from
the beam overhead prformed the
work for him. The boy, thus making
tee operation of the valve-gear auto
matte, increased the speed of the. .engine
to 10 or 16 strokes a minute, and gave
it regularity and certainty of action
that could only be obtained by such an
adjustment Of its valves. This ingeni-
GUS young mechanic afterwards became
skillful workman and an excellent engi-
neer, and went.,abroad on the Continent,
where he erected several fine engines.
Potter's rude valve-gear was soon i'm
proved by Henry Brighton, and the new
device was applied to an engine which
that talented engineer erected at New
castle-on-Tyne in1S1s, in which engine
he substituted substantial material for
Potter's unmechanical arrangement Of
cords.
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Permanent photography is now largely
employed in the reproduction of works of
art especially the old masters.