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TORNADO IN MACOUPN COUNTY,
ILLINOIS.
4 DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE.

Special Dispatch to Tbs Chicago Tribune.
CALNvMLE, ILL.,, April PA cyclone Of
wonderful velocity and terrible In its effects
passed half mile north of this city at half
past o'clock this evening. The storm gath
cred in The southwest and took northeast
course. 1t was preceded by peculiar sound,
and lasted but few seconds. The clouds
assumed the shape of an inverted cone, and
came rolling up in a manner that sent a thrill
Of terror to all who witnessed its approach.
Everything was swept before it, trees and
hedges were torn to pieces, and the telegraph
lines. are all down, and mo word
can be received from the north. A
passenger train on the Chicago & Alton at
Anderson, four miles north, was met by the
cyclone and had to stop. The following
houses are reported to have been completely
demolished: The residence OF u. II. Ander-
son. barns and granary, the roof Of school
house west Of this city, large brick dwell,
ing belonging to j. G. Stryer, the barn and
outhouses Of Gen. Richard Rovett, large
barn belonging to William Davenport, the
stables at the Fair Grounds. A house Is also
reported to have been destroyed by lightning.
The damage cannot be estimated as yet It
Is thought the eastern portion of the county
will suffer largely. No life lost as far as
heard from.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-09-03
Haverly's Singular Audience.

At the invitation of Commissioners
Brennan and Hess, Haverly's negro min
strel troupe, mum bering some fifty per-
sons, visited yesterday the public insti-
tutions on Blackwell's s Island. The band
OF the troupe accompanied them, and
when the party arrived at the Charity
Hospital serenaded the patients from the
grounds outside. After passing through
the penitentiary the company came to
the Female Almshouse, where they
amused the paupers with solos and
choruses, passing on to confer a similar
blessing on the male paupers. At the
Workhouse the band again played sew
eral airs and performed some curious ev-
olutions under the direction of the gor-
geous drum-major, Bohee. On the lawn
north of the Female Insane Asylum a
platform had been erected and seats
placed for about eight hundred of the
patients of that institution. After lunch
800 female lunatics were marched into
the inclosure and seated with an order
and precision really admirable. After
an overture by the band, Jim Mcintosh
sang the ''Silver Slipper" in the chorus
OF which the entire troupe Joined, play
ing on bones and on tin plates in lieu of
tambourines. This reused up many of
the audience who had before seemed
sunk in apathetic melancholia. Lewis
Brown sung 'Little Blossom" to calm
them. Bangs followed with stYes, I'll
Meet You, the entire troupe joining in
the chorus with much effect. Then fol-
lowed the amusing limitations of a steam
sawmill, bas viol and steam-whistle by
Hunter, and the ''Bogtown Sextet," de-
lighted the audience greatly with comic
songs and comic antics. Wallace King,
the tenor, sang s'Sally Horner.' Ker-
sands sang Keep in the Middle of the
Road" and the Gospel Raft" and then,
at the request of Mr.. Brennan, the band
played "St. Patrick's Day in the Morn
ing" This seemed to delight the pa
tients immensely, nearly all of them
keeping time to the music with their
hands OF feet, while many got up and
danced. The entertainment was con-
cluded by grand walk around by the
entire troupe. During the entertain
ed an interesting study. Some few be-
came unduly excited, but were promptly
and quietly led off without disturbing
the rest. 1t wrs easy to see that in near
ly all cases only pleasnrable emotions
were excited; nearly all wore smiling
faces, and many laughed heartily at the
more amusing parts of the performance.
The physicians say that such entertain
ments are of great benefit to the patients,
dispelling the melancholia which aflicts
most of them. The minstrel troupe vol
unteered its services and the expenses of
the entertainment were met by Commits
sioners Brennan and Hess personally.
Upon coming back to New York yester-
day the troupe stopped at Bellevue Hos
pital and entertained the patients there
with songs and music.-N. Y. World.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-09-03
Night in the Moon.

At last, however, night sets in. Crate
fully it comes in after the sun has gath
cred up his shifting rays and gone down
to his rest. All at once we are plunged
into comparative obscurity, for again
there is no twilight to stay the steps of
departing day. At one stride comes the
dark. But, looking up into the sky, we
behold vast orb, which pours down
milder and more beneficial splendor than
the great lord of the system. It is such
a moon as we terrestrials cannot boast;
for it is not less than thirteen times as
large and luminous as our own. There
it hangs in the armament, without ap-
parent change of place, as if ''fxed in its
everlasting seat" But not without
change of surface. For this great globe
is painted panorama, and, turning
round majestically on its axis. presents
its oceans and continents in grand sue
cession. AS Europe and Africa, locking
the Mediterranean in their embrace, roll
away to the right, the stormy Atlantic
offers its view, then the two Americas
with their huge forests and vast prairies,
pass under inspection. Then the grand
basin of the Pacific, lit up with island
fires, meets the gazer's eye, and as this
glides over the scene, the Eastern rim of
Asia, the upper portion of Australia, sail
into sight. The Indian ocean, and after
wards the Arabian Sea, spread them
selves out in their subdued splendor, and
thus in four and twenty hours, '.the
great rotundity we thread" turns its
pictured countenance to the moon, and
grandly repays the listening lunarians by
repeating, to the best of its ability, the
history of its BIRTH Nor is the sky less
marvellous in another respect. For the
absence of any atmospheric diffusion of
light permits the consultations to shine
out with distinctness which is never
parallelled on earth. They glitter like
diamond points set in armament OF
ebony. Stars and clusters which we
never see by the naked eye flock into
view, and crown the heavens.
A timorous lady in Providence,
who is always looking under the bed
for a man, went to the post office the
other day with a friend to buy some
postage stamps. As they stood
there one of them noticed man
standing close by, but she didn't
think he looked suspicious until
afterward. She ordered what stamps
she wanted, and, taking her pocket
book from chatelaine by her side,
she paid for them and stepped to the
opposite desk to attach them to let
ters. In moment more she went
back in very excited manner and
inquired for "that man who stood
here" He had gone. SWELL said
she, che has taken my pocket-beok
and all there is in il" and she
pointed ruefully to the open, empty
chatelaine. Chow much money was
there in it?" asked the clerk. She
was too excited to toll, or for some
reason didn't wish TO do SO. whats
that in your hand?' inquired the
clerk. Looking at the hand desig--
mated, she replied, s'Oh, my that's il"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-09-03
What a Prisoner Made.

Solitude seems to be the mother of in
genuity and invention--as the proverb
says necessity is. Most penitentiaries en-
ploy their prisoners n>steadY work, and
wisely, too. for few confined men would
make so good use of lonely cell life as
the convict here mentioned did of his
scant play time.
There is at present confined in the
Maine State Prison, at Thomastown, a
young French Canadian, who is incarcer-
ated for the murder of woman. Dur
ing his leisure hours, with nothing but a
pocket and shoe knife, file and whet-
stone, this prisoner has manufactured q
clock which keeps accurate time, and
which is q great mechanical curiosity.
It has rooster on the top who flaps
his wings on the hour being reached.
There are also figures showing the day of
the week and month. Underneath is a
glass case, three feet high, and two feet
wide, containing two hundred and forty
five figures of men, birds and animals,
etc. These objects go through various
performances, as small springs are
touched, and a music-box plays tunes at
the same. A mouse is made to run out
from its hiding place, and is quickly
caught by cat. A beggar approaches q
man for money, is impudent, and after q
tussel is knocked down.
A snake glides stealthily over the floor,
and at the door sentinel stands with q
small tin cup in his hand, who takes off
his hat and politely bows when coin is
dropped into this cup. Among the OBJ
jects are full companies of infantry and
cavalry, which come out and go through
the manual of arms very finely. The
clock is exhibited by the prisoner while
n his cell, and many are the odd dimes
he receives from visitors.
The Portland (Me.) Transcript, after
relating the above, says: At the present
time another convict in the same institu-
ton is making very handsome doll
house, with four rooms, the furniture all
being In miniature style. One set is
trimmed with red satin, and another
with blue. It is intended as present
for the Lady who has played the prison
chapel organ for several years.
.sJust outr' (at all the libraries)
First Young Lady: How did You like
T Convict Life,' dear?" Second Young
Lady: Pretty WELL We've just be-
gun Ten Years Penal Servitude. Some
Of us like 1t, but Old Lady (men-
| tally: GOOD graciousl What dreadful
creatures! So young. toor
A Brooklyn mother fed her year-old
baby on sliced cucumbers and milk and
then wanted the prayers of the church be.
cause the Lord took II away,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-09-03
FRANKLIN cAUTR0aR, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Corvallis. Oregon.

Special attention given to surgery and diseases
Of the eye. Can be found at his Office, in rear of
Graham, Hamilton 4 Co.'s drug store, up stairs,
day or night.
June s, 1879, 16-2st
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-09-03
Beet Sugar Culture.

A number of experiments have been
made in this country from tine to time
in raising beet-root sugar, but generally
on a small scale, and without any con.
tinuous energy. There seems to be no
reason why we cannot make any quanti-
ty of sugar of this kind, and it is not
unlikely that we shall yet make it as well
and as abundantly as they do in France.
The sugar got from beets is similar to
that from cane; but it contains much
less saccharine matter, the proportion
between the two being usually as 10 to
1S. About the middle of the last GEN.
tury, Marggraf, . Berlin apothecary,
called attention to the sugar contained in
the beet; but Achard, the Prussian chem
ist, was the first person really successful
in extracting it. But as only two or
three per cent. of sugar could be OBJ
tanned, the process did not pay, until
Napoleon I. raised the price and intro
duced improved methods. After the
downfall of the Emperor protective du-
ties kept the manufacture alive IN France.
When manufacturers were enabled to
get five pounds of sugar from 100 pounds
of beet, the industry revived-this was
about 1S29-in France and Belgium, and
extended as far as Russia. It is now
largely imported from the Continent, and
is mixed by refners with cane sugar,
without which the best loaf sugar cannot
be produced. The imports into Great
Britain from the Continent in 1875
amounted to 24O, 900 tons. In France
the increase has been so rapid that in
1878 the product reached Alb 600 tons.
It is estimated that there are now in all
countries some 1900 beet-sugar factories.
A good weld is 20 tons of root per acre,
New-York tribune., 1880-01-16
FOREIGN NOTES.

LONDON. Thursday, Jan. j., 1880.
Feycris epidemic IN tie northern pa.t o. the Former
Kingdom o! Naples.
lie NorJ. Brussels paper, says that Germany cannot
counterbla.ce in the South Sea the jnAuence Of
AmUIlCa.
General Martinez Campos is said to intend quitting
spa,n an act construed expectation OF political
troubles.
TIE Yrs'S Lahore dispatch says the wife ANA mother
Of Yato,b Khan, the exAmecr sre on ther 10 India
rs prl-0ncts.
The N0css Vienna dispatch reports that tie waters Of
the River stula have RISEN go hgh that twenty villages
In the Crcow district nave b,en inundated.
qae Posts Berlin dispatch announces that news comes
from Tehrran thaf Russia IS putting severe pressure
up0a Persia the effort 10 recOYe- her iUst Ihuerce.
Paris dispatch 10 The Times says that 81. Henri
Roclcoft has become the leading contributor to the
Rappe, Republican newspaper
The Rrsan budget for the year $50 shows an exact
balance ceu the income oud cxHoufnrc Of the En-
pre. each boing SO 900, 900 roubes irJ2s 100000
Tie lai gcsi cotton mill Bradford, belonging 10 SUIT
ciihc Sons. las been burned The dnmages ars est
mated AT cbDut S3J0ObO. OLc workman Was Killed
II understood that SIR Hen.y Tyler aud sir C1ales
Young have consented t. act trustees Of the Atlantic
and Great Wcst IN Railroad ConIrny's leased lines
rental trust o. 1878 in the place OF AessIs EaAe ana
HerrnS, who have retired.
The StaHdor"s Caui dispatch says that owing to the
rod weather and exposure, there IS much sickness
among the British Toops There are so eass OF pneu-
mOIIa
An official denial is given TO ths statement published
by The Moseo,r gazette on the oh ius that the police
bad discovered bdin gpiaco Of thc Nhlsts, used
depository Tor revolutionary prOciamatiJns.
Baron Haymerle, President OF the Council reply
ing TO an inquiry from the Foreign A1s Committee OF
the Hungarian elegaton sad he Lad received no of
cial Information Of conflict between the Albauaps and
AOatenegrins.
The fund INSTITUTED by the Duchess Of MARI
borough for the relief OF distress in Ireland
now amounts TO nearly &170O0. The re-
sponse 10 the London Mansion House appeal in
behalf ireland not having proved adequate 10 the
needs of The distressed the Executive Committee OF the
Home Rule Confederation bas determined 10 organize
eomprebensiye system OF subc0mniees Tor the relief
Of the Irish poor.
New-York tribune., 1880-01-16
CIVIL NOTES.

In the Robertson divorce case, testimony
wa. taken yesterday before Referee Putt ;hr que
ton OF the su0stu " Wiuain W. B1 iz.r ior W. -
Van Wrek a. counsel for the defendant Mr.. Van
grk presented ttcmiZed bni 1r 81 20 - TOR STR
woes lIc was srO-.-- xiultnc' at rirra lrngtn.
The suit of Mrs. Selma Bartlett against
Joseph I. Nusiuer and others to recover alleged
dowor right in premises ~ 100 Godst which has been
before Judge Van Worst M the supscmc Court. Circuit,
for several duys accommodated yesterday w verdict
for the paintH. Mrs Bartlett caimcd dover AS the
widow Of Caleb Battcit 2riLd-ou ~ oue OI tr slG-
crs Of the Declaration or Independence.
Many suits have recently been brought by
the Corporation Attorney Of the city 10 recover from
pronery-ouners penalties FOR violations of the corpora
ton ordinance with reference to tue obstruction Of side
walks by boxes awnings, etc. The point was raised
Yesterday before Civi-JHsce LaDgbcp In the seventh
District Court behalf OF property -owners that tho
Board of Aldermen months ago had directed police
oncers 10 give notice tue Pg0prrt OF obsruc
ons; n these removed within twenty hours
they were not io maze complaints. Justice L8nKarn
held that under THE resolution the propcrtv-owuers
were entitled 10 twcUH four hDHr@ nOcc aud accord
iug!y dismissed the cts.h before Him.
New-York tribune., 1880-01-16
nEolSINNN-IAN. IL.

Supreme Chqmber-By Judge Donohue.-
Marofzai art- Branniglu.Dc.Iei on DanIBs objection
nouce for l3h cannot DE -anfeI llt I'D the aaro the
National hur iar tud Theft Insurance cgmpa9r ~ ; Ham
iIon1i Bank agi. the " yo Moou granfea SO memo
r'ndnn sands lgr Acdovern- morton granted la"teace
S1sei4I rs,-Ir Judge Lawronce ela1go and another
By Judge Lawrence Grand aSL Girsud.-Aec'fions
CD'1t-puf TTT-By Judge Donohuc. -Dartoi5 ana an
Other aet Iu,rstrl Findings signed.
>uDerior Copri-SDcc,aI Term Bv Judge Speir.-
SHihiu agt ko'ciGg. order grained. Canheld % al lg
tne Blinrre anl Ohio Railroad Company-Pioposed a'hd
By Jnde Scdevick-Burke ct H. sgt. Elder all Eroc
kOw Walton. orders Of Substitution Kna agt poche
Rel Ir tie sun Printing Publishing Company RYAN
- a ae The conn Mutual Insurance company same ast
The mon Mutual Insurance ComDany same aga ts s
Mutual Insurance Company same igt the Pacific Mutual
tompanY-Ouers 0 acquaintance tsh AT ii- =, a.
Order dlsc9rgng attachnen5 against deiohdah1 lara lara
lIS' @I, sI ,1 nI" As Xxx gt nd NeT.
York Ss Manufacturing Company ct aBond approved and
~ a. agt tunhsoh use anu thr,ptlonS y;
Gates Heltenstn agt B0urko In the matter OF
bers art Applcton Whitman agt Dyck aet
Stenway sous King agt soiomoni Hart agL BencicA'-
Common Pieas-!Spcciai Te,m-By Judce }. F. DAILY.
Grah1m dgt the sterling Fire Insurance Company Notion
iaol Nrwritiy aet NaIlor ct al Nouon erantad
terms opinion LOttimer agt Humo ct al.-PantiHs
Marine Cogyt - ChamJeys-Bv Judge Hawes.-
Tucker at Hyested iMoOn granted order % be settled
agt McEyeu.- Motion granted without costs Cohen agt
Pegsr Motion deuicl sc.wab agt t o9
i H@S ou%.l % s; ri rs t Co-Pplint disnSsed
s'ifi ro. rri@r oyf Is Svishen,eT ,ri spDtov,d sc.
Robbins Bond approved aud attachment Dis
Aoron denied O'-ullvan Duse iburyCo. - sctnei
aius,ed shsehan smart Motion granted sis6ec
AIT. Barr Rob ~ ia not uDheld by late dccislons
New-York tribune., 1880-01-16
TIE cLNcINNATI NYSTERK.
so CAUSE For ThF SUICIDE or HENRY BURGUND
KNOWS BY Ill., sl~GER ~ inns CITY.
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so CAUSE For ThE SUICIDE or HENRY BURGUND
KNOWS BY HIs sI~rER ~ 1HTi CRY.
The report came from Cincinnati and was
Published yo.tclday ~ IuE IHLUNE that Henry Bur
guud, wealthy Iesiiont 81 Cincinnati. uyiHc ~ Free.
iasi ave. in tha city Eod bocD iouad drpd lis room
and was supposf, % have committed snicidc II was
stated that thc u act 0 his NE write lctertn
G.. :. Br,canai, OF No SIS S'cAdiyc, ihis city.
At that number q TRIBUNE reporter yesterday
found lra. g. L. Duriou. sister of Dir. EtiG GIud So.
was oycl houicd vita guct AMI unable g. rye any
res son cor brothels if ~ ruch really
she said Lat lac to tbis country from Carscl IN
Gerlalff. about talTty years ago Ills father was an
offc ~ tnc Government. Mr. BGr-iEd wax dccorg-
tor of glass, asa hc Teputcd 20 b. wealthy. I.s
f,piIy INSISTED Siie and Gyc churcu the cdr.i
son being about twenty years Oil LaJ Spring Mr lui
ciud - cut H. Germany TO sor his her las slstcg
V,s Burton. Was then hving there ana stc
came with MIN hi~ return 10 th.s civ
arriving IA september shc engaged u settling up
TIE M iirs of hes husband an Ancucan rot.n planter
Who dl 1s72 Her mother ass-tcd her IN her rott,
until nr ned ~ ie hon we months AGO. ON jan
uat, she fIt 10 HIM mnaeY-,rdrr fur the nuOuui
lc had Xqcaccd for her and wrote iCicr 10 him.
This is rupp scd 70 De the letter Wn!ch ir BurLund
received Wednesday, tEe fragments OF which his
iiV destruyc Mis Bultln received letter ycsei day
from her ,sfer-lE-aW. But had idea thai her
brother WAS IL any iicnDle.
New-York tribune., 1880-01-16
JAIL MANAGEMENT CRITICIZED.

The Grand Jury went into Cont yesterday,
90; .rrafs y.h .nt.irut a-trst tyon-l johnson
warl,n of tta h. arX ,oun.y J'. Tor the escape from
Ls eust.ay OF c ALLEGED for-cg. Edward Lmdcr, "ile
o i.a way fr.l lr.n'1u on Central Railroad tiaiu.
ilc 't1ud Jury furttar c-o's that Only ut lance
~ discipline and authority eN,s n thc Essex COJnty
JI; tHat Interviews WIN mp .rtaut pii-ouers have
boom obtained without iI,l!t ami "Id scarcely nav
restriction. Iu.t important Information m t4e kuowl-
el-e Df ihe iI officials .ls not heau freely oonmuui
c..d FOO lir u4Dp,r pro>ccufIut officers uad thar on.
efforts ot tur.c officers have hrru 10 some eTi,nt
tI.vauod tucrrJv. Tie Grand Jury, ~ coaclJ-lou.
uui,uG- tnnt the lnttross or iutr. aud the uhc
.o,i demand the removal ot tie ourI'4- n charge,
..url.y hc .rh0rOiuIt-- judge DDl lr .iId l, would
have copy 81 the Irrscntmcnt sent 20 tho Director of
TIE board Ol FgrriOldlrs.
New-York tribune., 1880-01-16
rNIrED sTArEs SUPREME corRT.

WASHINGTON, Jan. l0.-Ihc following buSl-
ncs was transacted BE- tno supreme Court OF the United
statte to-lav;
mo- on Of p l'lps Thomas H. Brenis % Wala Waila,
washington lt.r lory. Na- rdiuffrd 90 IrICticc
l.uIG iue-so q if et IL tips Ius act.
Gia- .upet FROM Li a4,uA mlhIt ed bF a. p.
,.iy d. Llatl ana E b. JCrs ii prl1Hts, and j. T.,
tIu~r u'c, .f i.uic. No ipJf.-ihe loAn-
ship uI EuyIt-, plnt4h in tDi lf >ul,ty darlington
ap1ca isunt Iurts ul lni tot bt La"ivn'c Weldon for
,algu n tfiu. alI - %. tui ur cndant lu
dpr ilc .OtI l.4ir.-lA4 huit ulon bonds and
r.i utri. i.- urd ht ilr IoNIsIip ui Empire 10 the
udilnnnola B.uon,n tun ard western Railway Company.
go ,,--VHi 81 Tf,c.~ plain fT u sgror. Itpbert
o heTf .l; NOM t.Uri. argument continued by
in- t1' tf"sf9lts iI or. aud concluded by
Son, eoucry b'aT foo. ttr lnin. IN D "rf0r.
the d of NtN fors. pIin " IN erfur
the So Eu2isDd Transfer on any . -nss ii 'il COSTS
80 l.G-ILc Town Rob i,s, i lnIn ln "GltI. ar'.
Matthew % NJ. s.. E'hfs from II. noS snoaHi ri hy a.
J. Ben u.sftu 90 error. aud D. feOr-eA tc nt ur
foo ,h!t "A aGt Unon huu1h 4sdcd hy
tho losu EoIrits a. tAo ii inuOn iacon AID Eastern
Eaurotd Cpmparr 80 80
No ~ y En'g;, tlantlG Ia cicr. as Charles VI
Iau1ituu: from tfIpiga. submitted y Z. y Iicu.lc
li ic phth 10 fsri Rnirg Tor the "cf-rd
Tnrf ~iii brrsrht by ICi1aRnlu 8 r.
e0r.r pu ssi & Cnlttcr socitIn "a apd in san ., Fn
Coarry { a.. dla1r.r 'Dr rcicut ON thereof.
NJ 4s-rte CTS 90 NrasburE psIun 10 error. agt John
~ 10 ircm " si-sppi. Afsu4d hy T. hIjIg
for liEtln Il srror ai' 10 w. H. Ptnsu In thr eehtA