Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 22, 1875, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY —_— e e e e e e a9 o~y 1875.~TWELVE PAGES. " THE FARM AND_GARDEN. Feeding Soft Coal to Swine- Something About Noxious Insccts. ‘Planting Nats and Cottings---How o Illinois Professor Didn't Blake Them Grow. An Illinols Farmer Instracts Shonlder- Straps In Fasturage---Summers Ripening Seeds of Treos, Garden Crops---Planting for Succes- sion, Prepared for The Chieazo Triduns, EITUMINOTS COAT: I'oft HOOR. Fann Couxsy, 1L, May 1l.—Furm and Rarden 1y bugs are very fond of eating liaseiay coal, I8 th sty mRrment n W3 or, doon it puy L0 let them i onee fta whila? Fama T'here is no nutriment in coal, properly ape in, nnd yeb wwe bavo fouud it & most valuable wijunct to the ordinary food given, especially whon hogs are olosely confined, The carbon contained in tne vogetable ormaniamn of which tue conl is composed, and the bitutinoos matter nlao, together with the sniphur, liwe, and other minaral matter composing the coal, furnish sab- atanees which awina ssam to noed. Wa for sevoral yeara kopt 600 hoga on the ro- fuss of city hotols, and had po cholera or other eorlous disoase smong them. They were ailow. ed sll tho soft coal and rotten wood they would consume. Sometimos thay wonld eat largoly of it, and thon agaln it would be left nntouched for dayaat a timo. Wao should not liemtate ta allow hogs all tha saft coal they wanierd. A BLIGHT MISTAKE. Bome tima sinco, wo stated that Prof. Riler, Siate Entomologist of Missouri, iad given np his European trip. We were misinformed. A lotter just recoived from him says he espects ta sall Juue 2 trom New York. Tho trip ia taken for o thres-fold purnote: DPrimarily, for the bonefit of his hoalth, which Las been sorioasly impaired throogh his persistent and manifold Inbors; sleo, to visit friends, and, at the same lima, onlarge the scono of hifa sclentific knowl- edge. Lo will havo tho best wishen of & host of friends on thia side thoe Atlaute, who fully ap. preciato what ho bian done, not only for the State of Minsouri, but, indeed, the whols West, In the meantims, the duties of his offica ara left iu tue hands of his com;etent asaistant, Mr, Otto Bugger. Dy the way, the Seveath Entomological Iteport of Alr, Riloy s mow out. 1t s fullyup to tho pravious ooes fu vahie, It should bo in the hands of every ono who truly estimates tus yearly damago by inyects to crops in the Weat. APHOTOS OF IXSECTR, Tho arring broods of grasshoppers (locnsts) ara devartating portions of Missourt fn the mon: serious manner, \Will they croas the Missmsipya this year, for the first time? Itia o bo Loped not; and yot, why not? 'Thie Colorado boetles lived, and bred, aad fed, and died, in their native home, untyl advancing civilization.enabled thom o pass (rom one potato-paich to auother, on their way to tho Adantic, snd, perbaps, over tho civilized globe. Tha Colorado past foeds only on onw famuly of plants, solantun, but ot 8o theso locusts ; bardly any greenthing eoema amivs to thew. They will, for waut of better food, est up any articls of clathing tuat may ba loft around, avd will eyen gnaw and run foiX or boe bandies, or other hinplements that from uge hiavo imbibod the perspiration of men or xnimels, Que Individusl in Missouri reports having killed, by trapmug m diches, 120 boshels ut these poxts, aod be s sull bard wt worl, al- though, he admits, ratbor desparingly. Wors away, bravo heart! 17 ovory man was as poud aud true as yournelf, thera nould Lo but httle to Toar from insact-pests. If the Colorado Leotls had besn as syntomallc- ally worked when they firut made thotr sppeare ance as tuls Misaourl farmer hss worked Lue lucusts, there would have been hitle to have been loared from them tn years pust, aw theols Litle uow. And why not now ? it may, porbapa, bo in- ulrod, e suswor1s : Now evary one ueos the means that bava been perfocted for their doetruciion ; tha ompioyment of I'aiis green, by tho vatiows plans fac its distribution. And, ag:un, AYKOTOS OF PARIS GREEY, wo think & clever young wen of Jefferson, near Chicago, & 3r. Gray, uys bit upon tha plan of distribusing Paris grood with water, aud which loaves put litclo morw to be wished for i this die reation, 1t 1s simply & iin can catied upon tho back like ons of the portavle firesexunguishors, snd supplied with a hods ou oach rido, sud with sprinkiers, ous for each band, It is porfectly rnder coutrol, One of the great digiculties hore- tofora 1 applying Pare grecu and waier has been to kooy tue poison, which 1s not solublo in water, mixed theroaith, Tiis, hower, is herg ac- compuislied 10 the most eimplo and yes 1aost ef- fectual manner. PLANTING NUTS AND OUTTINGS, Mr, . %, 1L, Beioit, Wi, writea for infor- matiou relating to the timo of planting the cat- tings ot white willow, cattonwoud, etc,, aud the nuts of biack walnuts. 'The sesson bLemng late, she questivns were answered by letter, But, sincs thore may ba athers nho would like the sawe intorniation, we give it 1 print. All trees, 24 wallow, cottouwood, povlar, or oshars proja- gated by cutlings, should bp planted 1a tho ground early in tha spuug;. tuoy should ba got 10 the autuwn, out inte guitable and uviform Jengths, tied sto buandles of fifty, certainly nat morsibau 100 in oscik bundie, 8ot on their enda in aligut tronches, aud entirely coverad with oarth. Pluut in the spring, on land preparcd tha (31l Lofors, wud as oo &y the front i3 ubt to & suflicient dopth to allow them to bo santly thrust duwpo, Trae-nuta bhaving bard shells, as hickorr, black-walnuts, cheutnuts, acurns, ete., should be £aibibred in the Autumn, and koot . mowt—not wet—naud, and plavted oy oaily in the mpring ay the £ou iu Worliabla ; but note @ DO ¥OU CRAUK THE NUTE befors vlauting, us wu Ihiuaia Yrofas. eor of Mortleulture di), o memist thom [n coming up, or aolso you will have to repert, ws ho did, thut thoy tailed to come, uotwithatunding the pajus Ly took to cragk them. Hice thab sxperimont, he wou't sven ciuck a peach-stone tu help it alung, Thin puts * Lhe Farw and Garden™ 1 mind of a story tuld of the uoaL uxtousive farmer iy linolu during tho War, by which ho made a £ood thing himaelf, aud ut the wame tng taughy b agricuitural lesnon 10 A SBILE-STOCKING WARRIOR, ‘The Gavorument had 8 lot of dissbiod horsas sud mules, woica wora to bs (utuod upou jastisre, Au ofticer. wiss acnb Lo our farmer to make & cous fract for the pgresutege, and fouud the (srmee not uuwilling. 50, 1o folloniue dialogay oo curred a8 prellwinary, Le baving found the farmer iu ons of lis tieidn 3 and, by the vuy, the isrmerin ned ouly s sialwart, but & Bowcwhay purtly, old geutioman : Otticer—> Gong poroing, air. I hayn cowe from Beadquatiery Lo eHUCAYOF L0 BIFAUKS Tup the pusturage ol we Wil eay b,U0) homses nug unlz'hl." x ‘armor—* Yes, I hiad o lettor asking it I equl pasturo thewm," kit 1L o) Q.—* Aud tow much per head, por mouth, will you koep thew furz" F.—*'0h? about §~—" pamiug s good round At O, —**Ig not that ratlier higl 2 I-.——,'ujghl Lusoal) shink uat, Do you sup- pose I'ni guiuk 10 Live iy pasturcs wsuured all over,” uud covervd up, tnd tramiod st by your mules gud hosek, fur nodun: No, wir. 1am willing to da soietbing fur gy coyne Ley, bus thab would b avkiug ratucr too nsueh, O~ b, wy doar Wr," pastyriog tuy sojl is_good for it; ‘st last, 1 Luve teou toid so." F.—»Uoad far k! Just Jock bute "—fickiug o dricd mauad of excrement that Lod beou tait o w1 0%, ** Dy you cali that goad for the laud 7 wu'?t"ynu sea thay uotbg” cau grow under 4 Yes," eald _tho embryo warrioy, roflectively, * It certaiuly ducslook ke it." Aud yet thosa seuen dows ae bioadaquartera certatuly tuld we that }*QM\HIK& wuy guad fur the apil. * Buy Low shonld they kuow. £ will clowo the cyptracs with you, »ir, sud Ishall Lave o goad laualy st the follows at nendguariers when [ get bagk, op what they kuow about latmug,” 3 Bu thoy separated,—the turmer layghing in bt wlogye at Liw wado ; the oflicor layglipng 4o bimae!t as tle Joks L would bave whon Ne gug back to hesdquarteys. Iu tbe outoopye, howesgr, Lo fouud himael! ag badly sold #g the nug-orgeli~ lpg r.olessar, whg, byving basy told that to satofully crack peachi-atyucy aagiatyd tho gurm 1o coming np, reasoned that & nnt was Annt; ergo, whiat was good for one must bo for aoothe er, Dut to roturn to our froeas SUMMER-RIPEXING SEEDS of foreat-trees nhould be sown Immedlntely‘l when they avs mature. Thoy will make a gian growth the same season, Of thens, tho miver and tha ro maplo—dcer clasyearpwn and rubrum—nud the ash-leaved mapls or box- elder—Negundo aceroides—ars beat known. The teadn ate tipeued in May or June, accordiug to tho Intjtudo. Uitea-wood, linden, 18 one of ths 1est shade. trens ssa have, and the latest of our forcet-ticon to blossom. It ham beon called Indapondonce trae frow Ha juflorascenca nceutring about tho Fouttliof July, 'Tho seods are 5ipo in the full ; and, a0 are :hoxs of gilt aahios, which ripen their soeda in October, ALL TUE FARLIER-IUPENING SEEDS of forest-trees mil bo Iate thia Sonr, for tha rens #on that they are fully two wecks later 1 putting farth thoir leavea than nsuaté Vlum teeea at thia wrillng, May 20, are only Just in blossom, Etrawberriea aro only showing # low blossome suyet; ourrants and goorobariies are 1ot yet fully in bloom ; while chierries and ap_los sre only’ Just showinz fho buds. The cottonwood has indesd Lungout its tassels to tho bresze ; slws ato showing their leaves ; the wiple buds af the lilaca are growlug doenor sud gnnp«r every day; Doutzianare rejoiclug in their glosay gicouness, and are bard at wark gatting 1eady their blosgoms; whilo tho shad-bush, or Jund-borry, that earlest harbitges of surfug, whoso Lsautifu] star-like Dblosfoms warn tha flabormen of the Atlauntia rivers that they wmay cast their hacs in especiation of sbind, js just now makiug the Jawn beantiful, s more conservativo oaks, walnuts, eonifars, focusts, and grape-vives, ary only beginmng ta think about buddiug; and tho Oeago-ormuga ladge s walting for roally sarm weathor Lefoia it veniures ost. A peach-trce ou tho Mwu s budless so far as blossows aro concerned, buy ia ndustriously trylug to put forth {{a losves, and will du it, a8 muceh ag to say to those who betieva that 14 dogrecs will ki thems ' Sea Iow I cau stand Arctic wintars1” ‘o fact la, tho condition of the tres WHEN WINTER SETS 1% l1as mora to do With its wintering than most par- sous »uppose, If [ast ontumu had beou mofst and not, foreing the trova into late gionth, we think thore would have Loon but fow fruit-trees to have gloried lu blossomn and fruit this scas.n. 1€ wa liad had sitornations of warm weather wih our froaty nights, the L'oasoms wonld not have eacaped tho spsiug-fronts that ve hiave constant- ly hiad up Lo this time. b, Yegatables alno aro backward, Winter spinach, that was covered with leaves, is fnrgs envugl to use, and bas beow for & week, AspAragus in planty, bt spring-sown spinach hns loaves only an [nrge 88 the Arst joiut of one's thumb, Farly carrots, bosts, and ouions aro handsomely up; peas are 2 to ! fuches high ; pointocs aro just alipwing thamaelves horo and thero in the row whtle corn and beuns are woskiug ulght aud day to get to the surfaca, i Jueky for them, tleyaro atill benoath the aoil. Had thoy bosn up & few dave sgo, thav would have lLeen like those of a lady-friend from Clifton, 0 miles south, who lametited the care sho liad bestowed upoi her early gavden, only to have her corn and potatoes kilied mith the froat. **No,” sald she, **It was worsu thau o miplo froct; they gt have recovered from that, but feo froze A quartor of an inch chick, , and 8o killed the poor things ontiight,” But her potatues, if they wers deeply planted, will come again, and stie can consale hersell with the pleaeant recol sctivn tiias sho has no- o:her patch of corn that will be up in twe or three davs. Commend us, after ail toa lady who foves pardonfng, ‘They aro not to be dis- heartened at svery litiie difficulty that occurs botwaon the plants and the weathor, HAVE YOU PLANTED FOR A SUCCKARION,— we mean of radish, lotune, spinach, peas, and esuccially of coru and beans? If not. losa no time in doing eo. I you have not transplant 4 tomatoos yet to be kilied, there will be plomy of time, up to the let of June st leaat. Thiseea- non,we thiok, it will bardly be safe to transpiant aweot_poiatnos, egz-plaut, peppars, ste., before the 5th or 6th of June, ‘Yhoro is nothivg pained by purting ont these very teoder plania until the daya and rdghita, ang ths sol), get watn, T'he asmie rule will apply to the plantiug of Lima benrss and akra, They are both vers nice to bavo in tho garden, but are #o tender that a night tem potatare of 40 deg., if it doos not kill tham outsight, se severcly injures them that Lhey searcely aroonnt to much afterward, For onrselves, we should hardly bothor with them tliis uotoward seanon, excopt oft » Very wWatal, dry. poil,~npither theso nor sweot potatoes, There is one connolation left to the diligent gardener: If tha weather is untoward for the vory tendwr thingn, it Wil be all 1ho better for the more hardy; snd Ao thews you may havetn profusion. », THE SPELLING MANIA To the Kd Kar of The Chicago I'ribuns 3 Oswroa, 116, May 17, -Lalinll be giad when this spefling fovor ia over, for my wite haa got it In its vicept form, Bhe goes sLout tho houao trom mornfug until night, epoliing-book in hsnd; wdl her couversation {e sbout prim- itives and denvatives, prehxes and suflixes, dipbthopgs and silont lJet- tors; aud plie is constantly referring ta Webstar's Unabridged. I bavou's had & warw meal, or acloan slict, since it Legan. Asacon as she ia awaks in ihe morning, sho cails cu ma to epell; and so it continues thropghout tne dsy, At every mesl I havoto spoll soch Joug, hard words tbat I falrly loso my appetite. My food does not digest, and I am rapidly wastiog awsy., Ofton in tha night sho wakeny me Mo spe)l poms word she bas usppenad to think of, and wy drosws L to he made up a coma of triayliables snd pulysylintion; vowor long shost, regular, aud oceguonul ; lotiers with hard aud nofe sonudy; letterss with sbarp, aud hissing, and flag, and buzzlug souuds,—sll galloping wod- Ly and ohasiug oach other through my bosildered AN, . Now, T dida't come af a spelliag family, and I dow't halieve muca w it, 1can’s say that [ thiuk tusere i suy graat woral wrn;:’;fJ inaty byt I ik the ditliculty of lparuing overbalances the ploas- ure decivad {rom L. But my wifo ssys eho wos brougds up te spall; her father and mothor, sud afl hor, brothera aud sinfers, alwgys slood at the bead of thaclusu ; aad sho 18 gotg (o briug up our childrou to spell. Slio sais she doey not went ta bg disgisced, nor bave bor family divs graoed, Ly belng the motbor of & poor apaller; and »o sbo has provided escu of the children thas {8 large onoygh to haudlo it with a spelliog- books and, ustead of siuing, a8 who used o do, uhe spelle the baby to eleop. It s frioud col's, wbo insists upon having & sonsan af apelling ; or, it shin aicets ouo on the wtreet, sho uqulg‘huny falls to prououncing wordu. And only yestorday tho baby awallowed u dasning-naedie, anud, whei the Lurgeon arrived, sho aciuslly tifed to fudiee lum to spell a_fow words besarg reliaviug (hs fivla suffoser. 3 Sabbuth ab chyrch, when tho hymn wes givi out, to wmy. suriiise and nortinegtion, my wife deaw her muelffug-book out of her ‘packot, aud began to speil ia a loud voicy, * Hl-o-y-a-n-n-n. hosanna!® 1 was toread Lo tafse the Look out of her hund beforo I could make hor reslize that it Wwas uot the piaco for mtthographic oxercizes, What st 1 to do? By wife inslats that T nhsll spoll; and, whila words of threo -{lhblu are o perfoct torrur ta me, sho ukigs lightly from uyllable ta syllable through words that have KOYEL OF a‘t‘;m. and tollg e that her family never condoaconded to u&ell words of Irss than four milables, 1€ i laste much lovgar 1 sball be en- tirely worn oat with trying to romewmber all (he tules about final congonants, and wingle voryels, and words ending in v, and double cqusonants, aud mileut o, aud terminations uuder tho accont, aud Ldon't know what besides, I wish I bad beou boru an Indiau, or gomothing that didu't Luve ta lonw spelling, No SrexLes, ———— “FOLOE) HANDS.? (EBY 5TOKY Q¥ A PICTURE,) Madopng exes Iooked as himn from tho al7, But nover from the piosure, Bl hu [alnted, Tho Loveriug ba'o would nut touch (hy Lalr, The patient salut stll atared ot bim—unsainted. it actor niguty lor v 1t Tt Mgt sy, el 41 was tont ve r° OUFRIAR Ally »va‘lhc bitter sweetness of hls yearulug, Blowly Le xaw bis work : it was not goaq, Ab, hagalevs hapel Al 8ascoly-dying pasion | “1ln o pafider, moaked Lo un be atcou, With folded Lianda tn death’s unconations fashion, “fitand as yon Are, an {natant 1" somns oup criod, Ha (elt tho volea'of a tiviner brother, Tho wau whe i04e s painier, at biv sute, Huawed huw hus folded hands could xerre yootbes, Al, atrangs, 234 world, wlerg Albert Durer tskey Tho bouds that Albait Dazer's friond nad folde.d, Amd with thelr ht\fim Tolp Auck Irimph makes = Wtrange, aince buth wmien of kindred duit were b, wdisy 8,3, B Piatd.in the Abant for June, s 2s A poa onera bunfto, by ffutve, callad Alico de Neviup," hna Le 1 with voy agluvoeal becess les-Dranis ngipias. 3L Cautin p Ay o es: celicpt style, anu Xlly, nzan wug in al, -fura tho thouspuds dizcard it. THE FASHIONS. Jot Supsrsedod by Straw Embroidery--- A 8traw Fever Imminent, A Cosinme of Oriental Magnificence. Marguerites Again fn Favor, == Velvet in Snmmer—Jolored Hase~Parazale, Handkerohiefs, and Qufls, A Novelty in Stationory---The Pree vailing Passion as to Bonnots, Trench manufacturers and modistes, after the first rush of American and English buyera have gona home, ususlly lutraduce some uovelly ontirely diffcrent from that which thoy hinve sold for genoral woar fn tho couniries ropre- souted by the aforsaaid buyers. 'The lady, therefcre, who ia in hesto to get lior srardrobe in order bafora auy special soason, buying an soon a8 thos now gaods aro opaned, if sho wout to Daris would be very apt to find that ber gar~ monte would lock a httle pa<ss. ‘Lhero would bo a differsut alr about the Franch women aud rosident Amerloans whom slio would moot, and ehs would find that a Jitle difference in the falric, a alight alteration iu the cut of tho gar- uient, wsa the causo of it. Before the present scason oponed, much - dis- cussfon was gccasigned upon THE JET QURSTION, Wauld the dszzling beads and bugles bs worn or not ?—and would it ba well to buy thom? It was atated upou authority that Worth eaid ho could nat disponse with Jots for apriog cose tumes ; wnd forthwith as piany as heacd this ro ‘mark—tbe result of profonnd thought upon the part of the great man-milliner—~immediatofy in- vested in Jot embrotderios. It mnst be admittod that the new importations wore very handaome the embroidored granadines had fower beads on ota, sod these wore of a finer quality; but no sooner has the greater propordon of pouple fuvested in thosa garmouta thau we leara that BTRAW EMBROIDEDY HAS SUPERYELED JIET. Mouo of these straw goods have you reachod Culeago, 'Thoy will probably arrive in smali quantities with the late imaariations, and be worn thie year by the few who fool tbat they an afford to supplemant shoir afveady well-filled wardrobe with tiem. Thevara to bo in every wariaty, Straw embroidered bands to spply us trlmming, straw pessementerfos and friuges, will sl coms fu labeled like all the rost, “ Hants Nouvesute." Not only will thera Lo trunmings of straw, but the lobg tubes of graiy will bo callod {nte requisition for s matonal which will be composed wntirely of them, thoy ‘Leing erossed aud fostened g0 an to forma no- work, from whjch cuirassca and {abliers will bo msdo, Monnsts sad btz wil bo ombrofdered with steasw,—blaetk having whito ornsmeuiation, and vios versa. Voils will ba embrofilered with it Coquettish eyes nill look vogutehly from under yparasols of straw, aud duisty hands will loxsen the apparent host of the weathor, should it ever airive, with fans of tho same mateifsl. Gasuzo, grenad ug, avd euwmer eilks, sre to be orna- tenled with staw omurolderies, 1t will b usod on handkereliefs and slippees, Card-coses and portemannaies havo eanghs tho epidenue ; and, 1or a time undoubtedly, alt womsakind will hava AN ATTACK OF SCRAW-REVER, which, howayor, will bo fres from the unpieasant symptomea of the well-kuown bay-fever.” Mouu- tale air wiil not ba the only cure for it. Almoat any fastionable watering-place willanawer to re- main in while it laata: aud, it it atsacks thoeo who must neods rawain in the city, o foabion- able promeusde, or ap eveniug otthe theatro, will be tho necnssaty remedy to alloviais the wors Rymptoms. PLAIDY IN COMBINATION WITH PLAIX GOODS aro still worn; but this fashion is alroady on the decliue. It haareached tho milhon, and tieco- ‘Thcee aro now princl, ally usod ln traveling costunies an i niroet- dreases fgr maming woar ; and, in tbe plain, Kotk culors, and 1nviublo plaids, are docidaily stylish. Amung coaturoes for the fashionablo resoris, ono of thie most curious and striking— QRIEXTAL IN FTB MAGNIFICKNOE— won made tn tho following mauner: ‘The dross wae formed of boultlonees of tulle, until tis wliole was like a flaecy aummer~cluud, Upon tbo right shoulder, attno feft sido of the ocursage, near the waiat, on the postilion of the basgue. where the chatelaine-pociet is placed, and in sev- ora) placea on thaekirt, birdsnosts of tullo were atranged, and in each of them a bright tropical bird neutled. A Cardinal red eash 1@ drsped pracefully around tbe dioss,—an Infant macaw ;nldlng ono end of it in his beak, looking as if hs had just aligbted sod canghs tho gay wilk. Strings "of golden boads, or sequne, paasing mavy timea around the neck, and railing to the walst, sud aléa bindug tho hswr, complets tuia radinnt gostume. ILriliant butierlics aro used ou black tulle, and thn thonesis sre replaced by flawerg, 80 arrguged 14 to contraut with tha cole ors of the butteillica, MANGURERITRE are again coming wnto vpecinl favor, A lavely dreas of Llack gutize was mas: beaatifully deco- rated with thew, Tho trma wie trimmed with three tlouncew, oach eumbroideted vi.h stiaw and Sat, "I'ho overskict wua of tuile, and in the squaro utylo, so prevalont. 1 was cubroiderad all ovur with uttaw and Jet in tiny siace, and edged with s straw (rloge, Al around i, beadlug the friuge, was a gatland of Morguerites and sgrors, wish fuliagn. Thev adorned the pontillion in » long speay, and passed across the watst from the lott ajda ta the tight shyulder. A sma'l wiearh or clueter for tua Lalr, conttivod with aa ostacu- tip. sccompaied it. : There wis ¥ timo when VELYET IN SUMMER would have been coumidered uu apachronjsm, but tbat time bos gone by, Howe of the Lsnd. souenc deesnen aro now inade of 8 combinasion of velvet and gauzp, A wmiuwuve gauze bog the flounco on the traln bound und hended with vel. vat, 88 near the sume phade a8 pogaiblo,—the ditfereucs (o tha waterisl prodycipg the eoptrasy daemod neceusary, ‘Lho slveven uro Lold wity banas of velyst; aud & sleeveless cuirusss of valyet, trimmed with point lace, Is added, to be w;ed or nob av tho wearer pleascs. ‘The avoraiitt 18 1 vertical putfy, divided by sloping Usvda of velvet, edged with partow luce, A ftour-inch-wide rufle of Powt d'Alencon Passed azound tbe cdgo, with o band of featbors apove It. A secand Corsago of gauze, cut docul- lote, sud with short, " pudcd slosyes, sccom« panies the drewa slso. With this w o dainby el adged with lscy and feathorw, snd two targo bucjertios Lo fastea the ends at tho back, .4 BEW ESNCY for thin drogses {s to fauica szarfs of ulip Rauze, or the digss material, to esch shouidor, aud thon form two large Lows of them un thp slart, whero the drapery 1a wlightly bagifuat, JHOBIEDY, to be fashionghle, must no longor bewhitaorun. leachied, vty otnor sbado sud Lng bspermins - ble, 'Lhoyway bostriped verticaily or horizuntal.y; thay togy Do of two sliades ; shey taay bo of ¢ou- trantiug colotd or thay may be of uby kol color, Dogrl-gray and uppicvb color, 1o culoy and black, vioies and Llsg, palo groen sud viv.o;, gcru apd brown, chostuut snd bine, sud wany other varioties, aje ju_vouzue. 'Tlio howo et wately the costuwe. 1t it 1w in 8 elnzlo shade, or e haymonzing tiuts, iy this cose the fool aud anklo of the stocking should be of the dirker slhade, Whep tho dress combinos two colops, theu the foot ia wado of the color whieb is mogt oaitive [n tho costamo. An ombroplered pac- aud o watural colors, winding )l around tho Yoz, Is also a pow and tho latosy vasiety, Ity o130 seen in the sams hio na tho utogkipng, Of course, 10 yaplay Ghls, sH10ky must bo made in tha proper atyls, sa thev are 1oy cut ont acrosy 1ho insten sl kukle, 19 sim. ulnta s{raps or the autique sandat. Besido tho shaaw TARMIOLS montioned, anothar wtyle, of moro utility, will Lo in biaclt wilk bnod Wi » solor that will e wubizo with the costuwe, snd embroidored on ous wde with a slugle spray ot Bowers, which 1aukt watch those worn ju the boyuet. T3 NEWPST HANUKERCUIEYS ary ezquisitcly embrofderod, wud ml(iul with widy Yalayclonues or Voing lace, of oxd bavp eaveral lows of laca around jhom. Those, of courer, for full diess. Othors ara of India ullk embroidersds otiers e:ill, & cumblination of silk, bathito, aud lace, in varlyty, to_be worn outsig & coal qve tight as the vrigs, Are very ueep. 1f i livew, they 'sze ¢dged Wit & 1uilla OF einbroldery, Lath ut top and bote Lo 3 I 1 batiute, shoy ate ny; with pulls sud Lauds, or are covered with laga aud awuraidery, 40 avo boul pavr and caveions Ryad-palo 1 40 iave boils patiar and eavefang -} tod i ¥owoe wiguitieuny deslgo, Tor istaes 4 aprig of hellotrope maans, * Silenco,~do not nolice me nosw ;" a butterily, **1do not care to engaga mivself ; * w dovo with o nnte, L swalt your reply *“ akoy, {am waiting for youy's a waap, * They nro talking about u; ' a fox’ ** Be watchful ;" a rosasbud, contonsion of love far & young glelt a full-blown reso, tho same sontiment for a widow; a yow, ‘[ can fove no more ;™ acypress, You inve my svipathy in our bereavoment ;" fmpr, mischiefs ‘& hand olling a bandkorchie!, * You are ouly thruug with me ;" and s0 on ad inflattum, lu regard to TONNLTS, tha provailing passion at praront seoms to be for Urown siraw or chip, vailomnly trimmed with fleld or gnrdon flowars, Thoy will give way, Iater in tha soason, to white cbip or other fabrics of moro dolicats ms'te, Brown la aluo the yra- valling color for childran's bials, Doy rolioved by white flowers and lace, oth for childron snd adults, the alros ave very much larzer, and seom ra; {dly to bo attafning tiio dimenniona which onr tnuthers thought elegant, OBIEUARY. JUOGE WILLARD HALL, OF DELAWARE. Anedat Correspondence of The Chicauo Tribune, Witstixatox, Del,, May 1l.—Judge Wiltard Hall, who diod in this city last night, waa ono of the ‘most notablo figurcy In tho history of tuis Stato, and Lad charncteristics which give him more than local nterest, 1lo died in his 85th year, having baen one of four or five of tha old- et surviving graduatea of IHarvard College. For fariy-oight yeara Lo waa Unitod Statea Judgs for tho District of Delawsre,~rosigning ot lnst, not whon Lo was 70 (a8 the existing Inw pormits, with continuance of pay), nor at 80, uor oven &t 80, but at the complotion of his 91st year. This was {n Decembor, 1471, and lo was thou, na doubt, the oldest Judgo ou the Bench of any Court, Btato or Natjonal; and, at tho same timo, I mey ssv with equal conlidenco, had sorved for tho longeat term of soars. Judge Hall was from Now England,—{n fact, o carpatsbagger, Yot hiecame upon the mvitation aud encoutngomont of ** the etder " Bayaed, old Jamea A, %ho was one of the Commiesiotera of the Ghout Treaty, Young !all, born at West- port, Maes,, in Decombor, 1780, almost a year befors Cornwallls surrendered, praduated at Harvard 10 1709, and, baving suntied law with Yamuel Daua, of (iroton, decided o como to Lolaware. Monnting bis Lorss, and bidding tinal ndieu to his paronts,~-whom Lo novor eaw again,~0o rode 1o Delaware, with lettais o his vacket from Harrison Qray Otis, of Bostou, Ine trodueing hiln to James A, Bayard and Cesar A, Rudnsy,— the latter Abwiney-General uuder Jeftorson and Madison, sud a nephow of that Ciesnr Hodnoy who sacired Delawaro to voto for the Dociaration of Independence, and ou behall of this Btato afixed lus pamo, with tavso of Read nud Mckeen, (0 that immortal document, Notwithstanding his Naw-Fuiand otigin, the yaug attarnay scon gainod position. 1n thres yaard, hu married tho ‘danghter of tho Chaucol- or of tho Stute; in 1811, by becamo Secralaty of Stato under Gov, Hazlo't; in 1815 and 1818, ho wap sont to Congreas, At flst o tiem Massasbu- tottn {'edoraliat, f1s prosontly Jolned wili Rod. ney and tho Mad.son and Monros party; sud, in 1423, Monroa appointed lum to the United Statos Judli‘ewhlp- Filing the piaco well, il not brll. Inntly, he held it unti) 1471, aud thon resignod siwply bocanse performance of it duties was no longer physically posblo, 1l term was atwout half & century. lle nad, however, be- sidea his judlcial busivess,—which, In this dis- trict, was compatatlyely light uptit within rocont yoara,—performed other impertaut du.ies. In 1822, he rovised the lawa of Deluware, and pre- pared owr flrst Codo; in 1831, lie was a member of the Coustitutional Convention,~the last we liave bad, though badly anew Coustttution is now necdod ; and, iy 1850, ho drow, at tho desite of acommitteo of the Legislature, the Behool law of tho Biate. 1ha wystem was s good one for (bat time, and it has, uufortunately, sure vived, almost' without amendment, to this very present year, 1873, when some urgeotly- dentanded changes have beon mede. Judgo Hall thus becamo, like Horuca Msun in dlassne chiusets, and Thaddens Broveus m Penneylvanin, **tha father of tha schools” in his Stats; and it may bo pald with truth for bimthad, if the Loglslaturo had pugsed lis law in {he preciss form, as to uum‘imlumy axation, in which Lis drew It, it wonld baye'been an szcollent sya- tem, and ave sorved ita purpose admirably for A storo of {onm, thongh, smmasulated na it was, it bad loog boen o fraud ane an incubus whon the Logislaturo of 1875 ameaden I, The old Judge camo of tough stock. Tlo has a brother livinz sgod B0, and o sistor aged 85, Other brothers snd bslaters lived to bo over 80. e was descended, by his fathor's mide, from & daughter of the Willsrds, of Massachunatts, who trace tholr goacalogy, in Bogland, sway vack ta Willism the Conqueror's time, Bimon Whiard, who catne ovor In 1633, waa tho progenitor of a uitino ‘oun family, and his doscendants wro plen- titul thronghous New Eugland, A. G, BRUCE. o tha Eiitmr of The Chicaao Fribvne: Frurrrony. Mich,, May 18.—3r. A, O. Bruce died on the J7th lust,, o his resilonce in Fruit- port,'after a nevern illness of six weaks. Ile was aged 60 yoars. Hiy doath was cauyed by an accident In the planing-mill ot mr. Willlam Jones, in Mnskegon, Mich. 'Tho docoassd wan formorly & reaidont of Chloago, sod wmoved to hite presout rosidsnco about four years ago. Il Jenyes » wifo aui two chyldren, AN EPIGASTRIC EPIC, *T'was ts & restaurant wo met,— Tatill cecal Lo Rlauce aio gaye, And how cathralieit T was, »a 1 "That glance bad mado iy suul heralsve, How quickalio turned snd deeply blushed, As if sh wobld avo'd my eye; And Luug her bead and went 10 werk Upon & plste of chicken-pio, Haw more and more eonfased alie graw, Tt was tny duty aad to note, . Uuth, with such dispatch sha ate, B A chicken-bonu stuck in her throst. Tlow then shn started, chiok'd, snd gagg'd, K roped Bes okttt rof ox tectli— At lua‘l: o ftty-dollar wot, B0 paled my hof Ten the light "tk ¥y ieuds Bor fasey acuuod— Blin grabibodt Ler fvorles np und fled, Aut 1 resnmed my porihaud buaud, =Lrovkiyn Aryus, ————————— fAteroture in Erieuce, c. L'ayis telier ta Londun 7 umes, It i o alitn of nprovoment 1o see that thaete. culastou of immoral litoratiise 18 L presout yury atrongly discountensuced b{ the suthorities in Frauco, ‘Two publishors have recontly heen summaned and heavily fired, the one for 1esning su editon of La Tantae's ** Noutelles,” with tho urigiunl indocout platey, sud tho othor for tho ropubhication of oup of those romances Utuk they wera which dispraced the ara of Louis XV, At tho ommo time, . vaat number of. bopks and publications nppeas which wonld corfaluly uot Lo tolerated in England, while tho comig papers abouad with the coursest carieatures, No botter piool, indoed, of the feciing of persons wih regaid to tho tatter kind of acrials cau Lo given than the mqulry of n Fronch gentloman who, on belng ~told that Punck waa tho Joadne comlo papor of Eogland, with a larga ciroulation among the bester classes, agked, ** And do you sllow n paper of that kind to le upon your drawing-room tablo?® OF course, ibero are wany of biw coumirymen whio would bo ablo to ondighion bim on the gulf lixed between wit and coapseness an tho other wido of the Chaonal, but then they would probably be of tue traveled order, Novor- tholess, thors 18 o vory Iarga class of yesdors in Fraveo who, although affectlng Lyt litaraturo. do not care to wasto thicr tme or thair maney on tha bighlycolored stories, the heroey aud herowes of which are geunoraily con- comed in the lufractlon of the Hevauth Commandwent. But a linted number of zovel- writors supply tho wants of those readers, aud, therafors, (ko worka of Euglish authiors trany. Iated wito Fionich counnahid o large sule, aud any gddition by n well-kuown non Iy eagarly antiel- pated. Infact, all over tho Continent Bugland 18 loukad upoa as tho lomoe of tho yovolist whe can ko et onco moral, domostlo, and awusiyg. Portaps wo Wving noveliss on- Joys & greater reputstion abroad than Wilkle Colliua, aud at thio presont momont his lase story, “'lig Law avd the Lady,” I3 -ppo-rlug, under the title of ** La Pisto dn Crime," au the fouilfe- ton of tho orgau of the Lstremg lladioal party, It Lnghat ilaynoani aro often fudebted to France for tha groundwork of tho {ragedios, cawedioy, or farcea which azo sorved up for thoir amusomant. Fronoh roadors bave equal causo for Doing grateful Lo the voveliste of Luglaud, e T » Fourth street car tho other day a woman potxd sy old man gazing ay hwvnfi attentively. Duving & ride of a wilo o7 waore he kopt bis cyds faateuod ou hiar {ade. wnd lio must at loaet Lave aosw by hier mauner that abe wes anuoyed, sy be bent over sud asid: * Fixcusa me, wadam, bus 1 can't halp looking at you, You' put we in mind of my dead wifa. Mer nosa turned off sidawsyu Sfi“ qxaclly bike your'y doos."—Detrout Fres ress, IOWA. A Lady Ounos a Celebrity, and Who Ad- ded a Word to tho Languago, Agitallon on {ho Subject of Repealing {he Prohibilery Liguer Law, Tho Tomperance Question lo Play an Im- porlant Past In the Coming Political Campaign. Spectal Corveapendence af Tha Chieags Tyibune, Couxciy Brures, la, May 19 —In this fast and sensational ago of vurs, it Is tho misfortone of purely-sousational cliaractars to pnsa aimost into oblivion, evon whore, amid their Idioavn- crasfos, theie is onough of the govd quality to balanco tho eccentrivition that once made them notorlous, Wo are word-coiners evory day, and the word HprooMar Lias become classic in our li:erature, and, when mot with by onr younger readors, 118 origin is as abycuro as tuat of many of tho hiorogiyphics on tho tomalns of burled citics, Few ara aware that tho soures of this purely Loglish word is still alive in the porson of a lady of Councii BDlulls, who, nastly thirty years ago, abandonod $0 Dr, Mary Walker the Bloomar brocches, and rotirod wodently to the sater sotveat of ample rkirts and toen prominont asklos, ** Amelin,"” s #ha §s familiariv ealled, is on tho shady side of 503 and, as tho literary sud personal contempo- ey of Cody Stantou osud the veuerabla Busan D, Authony, who sunuslly make pigrimages to her ghrine, sho takes an active interest {n the rolicaof ths Womag- Baffrago muvement, and writes tempesatico cota- munications to tho local papais. In the lafter cause slio bns spent s Intgo portion of her hife, and, in her younger dayw, mado a good itmpres- sion upon the lecture platform. Of lata vears lio bing lived at ber onso. Iler husband, D, C, Bloomer, for tweuty-five years has practiced law, ncted aw real-eatate agont, and locsl poli. ticlan, In this quarier. 3Mr. and Mra, Bloomor for years Liave been wheel-horses in the e- publican party in Western lows. They aro wenl! iy and cluldlos,—thair only poaterity belng th word they have given to the Luplish lan- guage, ‘Thio awnociation of tha name of Bloomer with thio presant political outlook in Iowa 18 neccava« ry. Iuave justmade a fiyiep vielt to many por- tious of the Htate, aud find tho canidron boiling, Yoars of expesiment bavo boon spent In tosting what {3 known ns the Inw for the supprossion of intemporance,-— THE PRONIMTCRY LIQUOR TAY. When passed, in tho eariter nistory of tho State, it wad coufidonsly belisved thiat ity efficioncy wan unquesidonabls, sud awong tomporance men thera waa ouly une opinlon, and that was, that such » Jaw would tanish thqevih A new Stata hko outR was regarded w3 a mplon ud fold to domausirate the posaivility of making thia sumptuary Ilaw rospected and obeyed. Year after year, in tho light of facty generated bhors and olsewlore, earnckt temperauce men—men who give na countonance ta the tratic in liquor in any way—are jolning tho rankis of thase who holiove that I'rokibitor; fawa aro fneMectual, domorsliziug, and prolilic of perjuty, A large portlon of the population of tho State—~fuil 80,000 voters—are persans af for- oign birth, who bave brought with them customs at voriance with the apirit that seeles to suppress all uso of alcobiolic w.smulauts. For sears, and moroe particnlarly during the War, the majority of theso adliered to thio Republican party, and nAsteted o fly magnificont Erumphs fn this State, Lutlcrlf thoy have ahown o rostivoncss undar the rescrictions of tho Probibitory law, as an wnterforence with their rights to peraonal Jib- arty, Thoy have oxpectod buth the Demoorasic and thoe Repub.lean partisy, forthe last four yoara, to make soma doclsration upou the liquor queation that would warrant thom erthier 1n ad- lering to the ano or attaching themselves o the other. ‘Their complaint thia year is, that the; formerly have been ignored by hotl parties, and that thele peculiar ideas lsve. had no place in any formor political platformn. Thia facling lad, & few weoks azo, ta the formation, at the Stata Capital, of s loo © Pursonal-Liberty League,” with principles which bavo formulaled theneelves In an effort torepeal tho frohubitory imw and subsiiiute n Licensalaw, Thisloeal Porsonal-Liberty Leagua, upon the oocasjan of tha recout meeting of the Htato Browera' Associstion at Des Moincs, form- ed tho nucleud of A BTATE LIDERTY LEAGUE, based upon the same purpose of proenring a wtringent Licensa law aud the shandeninent of Protubition, Tho State was divided into as wany districts a tuere are Rapreseutatives i the Houeo in Congross, snd two Commitica men soloctod in each, for the managemout of tho af- fairs of tho orgenization, and to assist in its aproad. T'bo Herald of Liberty, devoted to the intercuts of the project, has commoncod pulli- cation st Dosdloiues, and i ciroulated in part thraugh contiibutions of the League, in ordor 1o rouch thoso 1caders wvot yeb influnnced apd convinced i fuver of the ropeal. Ifow far the movement will diaw into ita vorlax the elemonts of other potit- leal partles remaing to beacon. It oue may Judge from nppoarances here ia thin city, where there are 160 ealoona kept a In vigiation of law, the prokpact of thorough snd effective or- ganization I8 not very encouraging, Soveral at- temits have poop made, nod nublic mectings called prellminary to organization, but those most iojerestad in the euccess of tho enterprise treat it with fudifferenco, 1t way bo that cach one of thom is #o exorcised by tho_indictmonta iapending over him, that ho has Jittdo tima o think of organizing to provent futuro embarral wents. ‘I'he Des Koinea Register, anticipating an e« fert to briog this voxsd queetlon {nto the TRo- publican Staio Jouveation, which meots on tha $0Uh of June, bas given 10l oxpression to its npinion na to whiat oukht tn bo done, Its lao. Uy 1a B0 torue and porsplescious tat thers is o mintaking Iv whon it says that there is no lto. publican platform broad enough on which T WILL A BANEEL OF WIISRY, In this it cchooy tha voito of tha majarity of tua rural gress who dare speak out on thiy sub- Al tuo candidatos ¥o far nained ag probablo nom« inegs for Governor are pronounced advocates of _Problbition. Hueveral y.aty ago, Juidge ©, 0. Cooley, of tho Htata Buprema Conrt, on- tertainad o docided bias in favor of bhe onforcs. ment of tho Iralibitory Inw, and was an ardent beliver (n its ultimate triunph, 1ls has, how. ever, 8000 raason roaently to changs Lis viows, and fu o late issno of the Wesern Juris), of which ho is ealtor, aunounced s belief that L'ro- hibition would not accomplish ila purposes in suppressing tho evil of \utomparance. Aovaraies of tha Licensa law bave saizod theao ntterances with avidity, as an evidenco of au advanciug clisuge in the polley of tha Btate in this matter, apd an judication that the lnw laoks tbe wmo al sugport of the peoplo and ehasld bo chanyed, Ilavo read Judge Colo's_article with cavo. und faul that hs has met the Licansa advocates per- naps haif-way, inthier that s veamn to tavor tho exporimony of Locsl Optiun. Thore ap- pasrs to by A DANRIER TO Tibs, viewed in the ligat of a recont principle an- nounced by the whalo Court of which lie is a wembor, Local Option 14 lucal logistation st the ol 3 and the Buproma Court, in rassing upon tho Hord law, which was Local Option apphied to another subject-matter, was unanimously of the opimon that tho optionsl part of tho law was unocoustitutional and nugatory s that the Logae laturo alune was tho law-making powes of tho Biate, nivd Lhat this &znnr cauld uot be telesatud 10 subordinate municipal corpoiations, such as countics, citfos, and townships, “In any viow of thls subject, tho outalde world may look this fall for activity in the politieal cirétes of Lawag awl the tomporauce quaation, as tho campaign advancos, will abate nobo of i inteseat, though minglod with that of tho glec- tion of n Tomslatuis wpon whom devolvos tha chioieo of & Unpited Btatos Bonuntos, . w Nuuwy Cizy, Worals Wil Nog je gt Down, Allusiotws to the introdustion aud chaugos of words mee us constanily in our Teading. 'thus, shauter, ** mob,” ** bully,” “*bubble," * gham," o whufiliug,* ond ¢ palming ” were now words the Zatler’s day, who writes: * 1 hiaya douo my utinust for yome years past to stop tho progress of *mob *'snd * bantor,' but have been plaiuly borno dowp by numbery, snd betrayod by thoun who promwod to wusist me” Eeconnoitre, sud asher Franal torms of war, are ridiculod ad in. novatious in tho Speclator, Skale was & new word in Hwifls day. ** Toskak, il vou kuaw whay that means,” hu writes to Btella, M Tuore is & pow wosd coluad whtbin a few months," eays TFallor, “callad fanatics,” Locke ‘was nccuned of affootation In sl fieq inatead of nation, “\Wa bave boen obliged,” sava to World, *'toadopt tho word police from tus Fronch,”" hero wa tead in anothor num- bae, T aauistod st the birth of that mnst sig- nlficant word, fliviation, whieh dronped from tho most beauliful moth th the world, aud which Liw alnco rocoivert tho aanction of onr most ao- curato Lattreale in ouo of W's comeiltes,” Ignore waas onco ancrod to grand Jurlon, *In the mnfer- cat of " has heen quoled in owr Hmo as & elang plieasa <Ym\ coming into meaning. HNore hing warued dtwalf into polite use within the memory of wau. Wrinkle 1a quietly growing into nee tn 1ts socondary alang sotma, Muff wo bavo soml from the pon of n grave lady, wiliing on a erave subfect, to axvrows hor ndrious scors,—2lack- woau's Magazine for April. ™me NO]E’{‘“WEST- A ftcher of Guiney fi dh young hutelier of Quincy haw disnppeared, Itis l.lwmfiu he tina goue nue¥ tho co«v‘.’p T, M, Bells, iving 4 or 5 miles nosth of Arrow. snuth. MeLean Connly, had five curn planters running laet Buuday all day. 1t in rumored Trenident Fallows, of Rtooming- ton Weslesan Univorsity, will wuhdraw from gr .\lfthm.hula aud Join tha Roformed Epncupal nreh, D. Rittenliour, of Stanford, oloped Inst Sun. davmght with a gidd 19 years of age, whons father in deid, d who numbers among her atiractions 120 acres of land. ‘Tho Blsamington Panlaqraph takos excellont carg of 1hio local wowa In ie neigubortood, A good many country popers In this Stste might nitate its oxamplo with prolit, Somes of the younp bloods of BRouthern Cropray, McLean "Couiity, got n prettv mevero acolding [nit 8ablah Trom tho ministor at Prairte Chapel, for laughing in timo_of servics, Tuoy wera sitting near tho girls, and found tho sliustion ticklish, The Judge of the Macon County Judisial Cir- cuit, whn i8 8 Granger, hes adjourued the Deca- tur Cicenlt Coutt so that the farmers can plant corn. The agricultural part of his constitinonas ore greatly pleased with this, aud think they wiil re-cleet lim when his preseat torm exy.iros, Within tho pa-t vear Joliat newapapers have heen favorad wifh $106,000 worth of libel suits, ‘Tha Sun, Kepublican, and Record ech have one ou thair hands, ‘Lhe latter spicy slicet narrowly escaped having nnother to fight tast woek for o rathor disrespec.ful notico of- Low Yem, thoir wastierman, ‘Itho mattor was sotiled Ly an ampio apology. The Fices Preu\:{lerlnn Church of Jerseyvitlo, eatabuished in 183 by tho Jata ‘Fhomas Lippin- cott, father of the nrosent Anditor of Mtate, 15 anid to be tho wealtil.ve congregation in that part of tha State. Their present cburch aceom- mndntions are inadenunte to tho dovandv ot the laree conprogation, and ey lhiave 1esolved lo build a $10,000 edifice sumuwer, INDIANA,S Ground will ba brokon fo- the Custom-Housa, at Evansyula within two weeke, ‘The moveaient for tha establishment of o public hmary in Terre laute prowives to bo ruCCeEs, P, W, Barthalomew, of Indianspo'ls, han Lrought aut acainet the Shen!T of Marion Couuty thas will tost the legality of tha liw pro- viding for tho advertisement ¢f legal notices in German papors, As Frod Lompkin was 11ding home » fow dayn ago {n this county, & dead (rea £+ [ wnd siruck Ine horse just boliud 1he eara o hin neck, milfling bim Instaptly. Straugo as i1t uny appear, Mr, Iampkin was not at ajl sorioualy burt, and walked the balance of the way howe,—Connellon Enquirer. A gracoful ootice of an approachiog event ap- pears in Lho E) thart Obsereer, as follows: ”E'A very poptilar rajlroad employa haa allewed bime molf of Iate to be. ensnarcd in tho matrimonial noose, which will be formally tightened this forcuoon. We can undorstand now why he waa 4o anxiotin to offact a curo of thet carbuncle “h,fch" made {ts appesrauce on the back of Lus neck, A horrible story comes from Greens Connty, to the effoat that recently the Lody of the wife of a wali-knows citizen of thet wectiun, wha ag- parently diod n year and a Linlf aza, was recontly exhumed for butial In auather lof, Somo per- sons presont had the cuviosity to open tho coflin, nnd discovered to thefr Lorror that tho corpuo was turned over, and the houds of tho doad woman wore clutched into the Lair of hor uond, while her burial olothing was tom to shrada in many places. Thete would seam ta Lo little doubt that elio w3 baried slive, and hat sho mot & horrible deaths in hor grave, ' 1owa, A new caneuns of Davenport gives » population of 22.%31—an incrosss of only 2,00 plice 1873, Mins Mary Whitnay, a beautitul young Iady of Lausiug, had one of hoc oyos put out oo tho L(;’rl: l:" an arrow slot from the bow of hior iittle other. ‘Tho Femals Buftragists of Hardin Coanty ye- cently organized a Famale Buffrage Sacioty, and five womon ba=s becomo inyuns within's fow naoks 12 that 0w screly-alilictod county. "Lho Jotc Slale -%:t#nal, which some tima ago called the attontlan of Jo~s farwers to the quos- tion of raimug broom-corn, cays the Des Mones broom-mnkor is puylug $300 pur tou for broom- carn {n Chicago, Frank fleffucr, mate of o tug-boat, had a quar- rel with o dock-hnod tha uther night, swho had darzd {nvade tho aanctity of (he oabio,whera tho mata roposed fn owful atate. He will rapose thero for some time, a8 (ho dock-hand oasaed an ardinanco of ssaession actoss s body with & bouwio-knife Lhat side clean work aa fac as the backbone.~Burlington Hawkeye. Tatber AcNalta, pastor of the Dacorah Catho- llo Church, died last wack, aged 4l, Av tho oponing of the Jate Robellion, Lie abandonad the study of tho ministry, and ontored tho army. He onlisted ju tho Fiftv-soventh Regiment United tiaten Reaerve Corpa, and bora a musket duting throe yoara of the hardest part of tha struggle. 1lo partioipated in & uumber of bat- tlos, and was woonded four thinos ; one of these, roceived at Bhiloh, ultimately torminated in nis death, The bullet ludged in bla jung, noar tha :lh.d"wt;.. t, sug produced beart disoaso, of which 8 die WISCONSIN, A Bunday aftornoon lecturo society has been organized In Milwankos, Two yaung gicle were, canght In the act of burglarfziug a Milwaukes storo ‘Thuraday. Maj. Edward Hasdiog Lias rocontly made o survey of tho routa fora railroad botweon Dlatte- willo snd Loncaster, o distatica of 20 miles, He estimates tho cost of gradiog, masonry, and bridging nat to excoed $85,000, A Ipiuco of coppor ore, uearly pure, was found ou the rarm of Christopher ltunge, 2 miles narth of Iwo Nivers, oua day last week, 'The specis men, which weighod § pounds, waa turned up by the man who works the farm, waile plowing. At Shawano, & girl named Pasena Kast was Toncued fram o watoty grava by a vouug man uamed Iliram Woscolt, uftor having boen under thie wator full tive miuutes, B8la was opj arsutly dead when taken ouf, but by prompt aud ener- getlo troatment was alowly brought Lo life, Tho Dunn County News ssys thst Buwan D). Anthony failed to lécture i Menomuniv, as ad- vartined, becauso of & lameutablo lack of goourwphioa) information on tho part of hor agont, ilo mistook Menomenas, Mich., for Mo. nomopie, Wis., sord tho blundor was dlscovored tuy lato for the nections, MISSOURI, Horre-stealing is quits o tlourishing Industry in thiy Steto. It ls sald that the James boys are nlesgue with Misgouri detociiv The Mayor of 8t. Joseph fa baving s little tronblo with & Muuday liquos law. Ho reoentiy caused tba arceqt of 8 Uormay hoor-sellor for violatiog the law; bub whin asbied by the Ju. tice whetfior the polica tiad not boon mktructod to pormit back-door welnug on Banday, the Alnyur decned to avswer, @ —— MINNESOTA, 1, P, Gotchell and Michael 8bally took n three wooks, nesr Frazen Oity, 1.430 myskrats, wine mink, and snother animal of fine fur, They wira offorad 3214 couts for the rats, A partially blipd horse foll oyer the binff ay sull}ufl.u.ay digtauco of 100 faet, and wediod lumeolf botween she BT sud o biacksmath whop, bug, nn being oxtricated, he haluld off soomingly littlo burt. ¢ Dr. Q. W. Wight, racently appointed by the Governpr, sud contirmod by the Btata Honate, o4 Htate Qaglogut, Les awsured Senator Barpoy that & thorough survoy of tho fulls and vicinity ehall take piaco during tie comwing yymmer, pud » complote roport be made thioreon, Calob Petorman, of Canoou Falls, was arreate Ly i M R Jaut, chavzed with shreatauing and forcing 1w viold to b desives u wowau pawed Filowiui Dirsonet, whom he mot on a bridgo, trial Lo satablishod A 0omslete «;:ggn On the An Albany (Minn.) dispateh brin portant tataliutence (ot CGuorgs Bt of 2y ponota, tlio ownor of tha patent flone prons Smddhnms Jhunfllor), wan arvaeted in that ey o aturday, May 11, ‘and takon vefora the lln’f‘" Hiaten Comm's-loner, The mir utway xnml,‘,‘,'"J tha United ftates Slarshal from nt. {egs Minn, [0 gave bail fur lis Appearanry il suywor tho complint ot Bl Lomi, g1y ‘;’ charged with pcr]ur{ in tha procondings o o curo tho ptont on the purifior, 16 the pie atould Lo act anido on that ground, umpm"' bl bx it o il bo awonden o s G ol aml then thera w 0 uow troubl \ witllein, Folile tur v ‘Th Olathe Progress leatns th 18 Olathe Progress learns that par fout Fowiminp lnte wad 8 maclo &'fl?cii‘.?.:; driva aver a Hold wsud caten hoppy wagun-Juad, orpes byt An editor sarenstically romarks that tha vy, ern oditors rocoved mory reliof than tfnno‘lsi::t orn, houea theis tore geneind nttendance oty cxeursion to Galveston, Agkwnrdness, comblued with luck, s what helpod o Nalina man gat out o tho way nf iy wifo when sho had the rotling-pin poixed ready to wtrike, ({e fall through o colint-daor, myy only brole his collar-bone, L Tho Knnaas grasshoppers are doliphied tha ¢uality of early let uco providod Ltur m‘:,{xl\h and religh 1t heartily withous vizogar or wg. I'iey also Apenk 1 tha bichont terma of tha jihe orality of thie farmers (o providing for thee ene tertaimmont, They do not allow any protracted distuch, at dances in l}herrvvn!uxj Mr. Holliteld ;:I;C:l; Invudnd & seono of rovolry by oight, and went 13 shootiuy ul{l h,in llpulnl(nrl:mmi, month, wheu ho was piomptly knocked doan a siullet o Liwuds of & door-tnanager, < 4l HEBAASKA, The Nemahn @Granger eavs *Mr. Roswent Forter n anperior 1o M, Sukdons in tha elsop walking rceno from Macbeth.” Tho Omala Herald has mala n full rotraction of all th chargea it mado againt tho Bepublican, aud, Ay conaequence, tha contowplated duet bo. tween tha editors is pustponod. 1L 1. T Arnoll is in jail ot Columbus, chargey whth tho scduction of Mary Ranln, 1o 14 o married tan, and It fs rumorod bis wite had gomething to do with tho transaction, Sentence was passod npon Mrs, Grabach iy Lor coll on Salurday, May 8, by Judio Mas. woll, sha Leing unablo to bo takon to blin court. raom. The routonce was one yesr in tho Peni. tontiary, ** rolitary confinoment ™ being no varg uf tho sontence, That eamae night the unfur. tuuate woman auffored a miscacringe, sitce which timo she has bosn very law, it now bomg coneldared vary doubtful if et over rocover, Throa llitle girls, chiliren of Mr. A. McPher. aon, who ilves d milos eant of Columba, worp trned to doath Bunday night, In the ab-onca of thor parents. Tho liousa touk fire from. gomg causs unknown, Yho t1o slder ohildron, a boy 14 vearsold and a gl 12, cscapod, and werg safely outelde, but tha gitl roturned to rescuye two tittlo astora, wan cmothered aud blinded 1y the oo, oud she and tha e ones perishod In the tlamoy. SLAYERY-AUBOLIFION 1IN DELAWARE, fIotw Gorrlt Smlth Sent Steplicn Poar) Andrews on n Mlsvion (o Nozotiate for Such Abalition. Nuw Yonx, May 13.— 70 the Ldltor of the Wil wington (Uel.) Leery Eeening: I mettho other evoning, ut the Liberal Club, tu this city, yuur correapondent, Mr. Bacon, wio couveyed 6 me o roquont, a8 I undoistood bim, from vou, that 1 would communleato for your joarnal o somawhas wora extended acoouns of {he fucidont called out from we iu iy osawination us w witnoe:s in the Tilton-Tlocoher case, relating to a com. misaton L receivod from Uurrit Smilh some years azo, to negounto for the sbolition of vlavery in the Stats of Detaware, upon tho condition of purchase. 3r, Dacon eaid thas vou thought that the roaital of the facts would Do intereiting to the paople of your State. 'Chov aro, howover, vory row and simple, aud mostly coufived townat £ utated 1 my svideucs, 1t was, I tbinl, fu the summer of 1819, possi- bly tu tho year 1830. Tha project arosoina dwecaesion botween Mr, Smith and myself in rolation to tho bost methods of operacing for ths overthrow ut‘?l\unxy. 1le lesned to meroly moral sgitation aud ordinary political actioi; Iad- vacAted stratogy and diplomaoy, a8 woll. I do not vouersbl Huean to make cou-* renowmber, whother it was Lo or myuclf who frst drow sttention to tha suomalous, snd, an it woro, pivotal, {mmnu of tha State of Dolawaro, in respect to tho balance of nower botween tho slavololding and the fres Statew, and to tho fack thiat, poaaibly, hor aituation might bo wade tho key of tha position in the whole anti-slavery warfure. Atall cvonta, wa. jointiy collatad tho Incis that thera wero thon oxactly lifteon slave. holding aud fifteen froo States fn the Uniou, giv- ing thirly Bouators for each uaction of thocouns try, loavlag still a tio in tha Sonato, if all the free H$tatos should coms to act aen unit upon quastions affocting slavery, within the scopa of the powers of Congreas,—as the slayvehalding Htates wero certaiy to do; that the basance would be broken up it a mingle Slato could be detached from Jts cumnmittal by the nataro of ita instici.dons w the Bouth ; that the little Stato of Dalawaro was the oup of Llis slavo Btatoa loast attached in that manuor te tha Boulb, a somi- froe Htate in fact § that its pecunizry and sentie montaf futeresta {n slavory ware vory slight; tuad ita small sizo would roudar it easily awmenas bla to ufluence, and no forth, ‘Tlioso facts, an they wera brought homo to the roind of Mr, Bmith, improssed bim very strongly, and, sftor studying tiie questlou some days, o1 weekn, porhinps, ho surprised mo by the propo- sizton that Lshonld go down to Delawara and cautioualy souud the publio opinion of the atatcamen ond intluontial poople of that Btate with regerd to their willingness to relievo the State completely of its ulaves, on the basis of pocuniary compensation, Ile eatimatod thal thois ware, in round nutnbera, 3,000 slavoa ouly in tho Btate, that 8200, or st most $3i0, & head, would bo ihe couwercisl valug of thosa alaves, including tho youn, i the azed, making an aggregste sum of ¥400,000 or 8600,000, He said that if-I found that tho proj- act would be sutortainod at ail by the poople of tha Stato, I was to eudasvor to ludaco thoe Biata ta ¢o-operata {n the plan by its own sid, by ap- propristing somo portion of thls sum; but thal wuy uus 0 be muine quanon, If the whola smount should havo to bo raisod at tho North he would issuo a mubvcription let, heading it limsell with o subsoription of one-foarth, or eyey, if {4 becama uecewsary, of one.half, the smouut. He anhrfiod groatly on tho moral off¢ct which would be prodaced in favor of tha total abolition of alavory fu tho ollor bordex Statoa by the oxample of Delaware. 1 went first to Wilmington aod lmmudlntclfi made & visit to Bouator Clayton, whom I hu known slightly in Washington, and who was, porhiaps, the tmost prominent citizen of the tte, I oxhibitod my crodontials aud ononed to lim tha paturo of my miesion, 1o was groatly eucprispd, very cautions fa hiw manuée of oxpression [n trostiug of the quanmuu. bug evldeul{{ much intereatod u it ile conld hiardly cradit tue aswertion thal M., Smith wad ready to invest a quartor of 3 nulllon {o tbis wmaiter of more honuvolonce Aud withno viow Lo auy pocuniary setarn. e was courtoous and kind, ~ 1o gave mo ndvico s to bow I should procesd, Il namod sevaral prudineut men whowm it would bo well for me to aco at oneo aud bofore any publio proceoding, und Lihunk that I mot two or thres such per- #ona along with him tha day following, but al this paiut my mamary grows cloudy, I was at- tacked by fever, and thinis_ the fevor was wns alrendr npon me, I waq received into tho hownitsblo household of Mr, Jumea Wobl, of Wilmington, a ci-devant Quabar, and then an Abolitionist, My lifo waa probally waved by tho kindness that 1 ex- perionead i that anisble family, 3ly regovery, ulter thirea or four weoks, was followod by an Immadiate relapen, from too early an altompt to resiimo_my mlssion, end at this kocond attack I wan rpduced to tho bordara of tbo grava, To- mwoing stil in the charge of my good frionds, tho Wobbs, On my rofurn bome £ »tll lnpored for sny’ wmoro wooks, sud i was wmoyo, I think, than fout montha bofors I was abla to visit Alr, Buaith, at Poterporo, and repart ta him iu person, aunounc. iug my rordinean,” If Tequired, to reuow {ho un. dostaking, lhhough my own affaire wuro groatly sufering and voediug my attontivo, 1 found, Lhowover, tiat in thio mosutime othor ovents had ocoursed whilch qugagad dfr. Hmith's attantion, and that his interest n this parsicnin entorprise had somowhat lsgged, 16 wea uat defigitely sbandonod. Lut it nas postpoued 8¢ waa hoyor resumed, Very traly, STEruEN PEARL ANDREWS. —_———— Hize of Slanhatian fstgud. The island I8 135 wiies o leagtl, snd s sy erace width is "1 3-5 miles, alibough o i witest piwoe (disgonally mcross to Corlear't 1faok) It 1w & fraotivn over 3 wilcs. It contalue 4 sguars miles aud 20,42( square yards over, o, uay, o total of 70,189,039 squura {mb. or about 14,000 veras, 'Whio distatico [rom tho Hattory &4 tn City-Hall {8 abont thirco-fourtus of a sjls, snd from City-Hall to Onae Mhindred sud Fuliy~ fourth stropt abont U e