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SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, AUGUST 18, 1881.
VOL. I.—NO. 40.
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OMMARY.
Important Intelligence from All Parts,
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Domestic.
IX the races at Eochester, H*. Y., on the 10th
little Brown Jug Avon the pacing contest in
2:15, 2:15 and 2:16.
"a'Loavbix. (3rass.j druggist has been
sued for §3,000 damages for permitting an
inexperienced cleric to fill a prescription
•"vM-hMlledan infant.
The nigfit clerk in the St. Nicholas Hotel at Lexington, Ky., recently checked a
plot to bum the house. The conspirators
lad removed tJbe tips of several gas-jets and
at*v*>-inc'hJ1*'ain-
AEOCSFOrd cm,.)  man has been fined
§35 a****1 costs tar gmng another man liquor
jPeter Dahl diedafew niffhts ago, in the
C.okCounty (III.) Hospital.of hydrophobia.
He was bitten in the thumb by" a dog sis
months before.
The Cattle Commission met at Saratoga
on the llth and effected a permanent organization, Avith Prof. James Laws, of Cornell
University,   Chairman, and J. H. Sanders,
editor of the Chicago   Lii^Stock Journal,
Secretary. Methods of pi'SA-enting the spread
-eontagiousdpagss" among cattle import-
fa and other countries Avere
WeU, and  it  was  decided to make a
■".farcbing investigation at the chief Western
centers to make sure that the live stock at
those points is free from infection.
The first bale of cotton received in Louis-
villa from Alabama this season was sold on
-Change on the 10th, at $3.40 per pound.
The grade "was good middling. The first
bale from Tennessee was sold- at the same
time, and, though grading somewhat lower
than the other, it Avas sold a quarter cent
higher.
The Parry House, Beach Haven, near
Camden, 2s". J., burned early on the morning of the llth. The guests escaped in
their night-clothes.
The folloAving failures were announced
on the llth: Jonathan Cottle, a heavy
woolen manufacturer of Boston, for$132,000;
the Pioneer Iron-Works, of Liuwood, Pa.;
&, W. Marks, a.marble-dealer at Hanover,
Pa.; L. C. Damarin, of Portsmouth, Ohio,
whose liabilities are $20,000, and the Pulp
and Skin Company, of Belleville, 111., with*
§28,000 of debts.
The Kentucky Board of Agriculture reported on the 11th that there had, been on
such shortage in crops in that State since
1S54. Not more than half an aArerage yield
of wheat will be harvested.
It is said the fortneoming report of the
Agricultural Department places the shortage
of wheat in this country at 125,000,009
bushels.
The Coalitionist Bepublican State Convention In session at Lynchburg, Va.,, adjourned on the llth, after indorsing the Be-
adjuster platform. The Straight-outs nomi-
* nated General"*William C. Wickham for
Governor, Samuel If. Yost for Lieutenant-
Governor and Judge Willoughby for Attorney-General, but all declined to accept,
and the Convention adjourned -without further nominations.
At Eochester, 2s". Y., on the llth Maud S.
heather preA'lcus record, making the new
one 2.-10>|.
DuEixGa violent thunder-storm in St.
Louis on the evening of the 12th, lightning
struck the Atlantic "Flouring Mills at the
corner of Main and Plum streets, andin an
instant the whole structure Avas enveloped
in flames. The mills were operated day and
night, and it was believed that four of the
operatives perished in tlie building. SeAr-
eral others were badly hurt and bruised,
some, it was feared, fatally, in escaping.
Two blocks of wooden buildings in the
neighborhood were also burned, involving
a loss in the aggregate of over $200,000,
The Emigration Commissioners of "New
York have commenced suit against the
steamship companies to recover $40,000 Inspection duty, being $1 for each immigrant
landed at Castle Garden during June and
July. The constitutionality of the law under which the suit is brought is called in
question "by the steamship oAvners.
The wheat crop of Nebraska is pronounced a failure. Barley, oats, rye and
flax Avill prove a fair crop. Owing to the
excessively hotAveather and the total absence
of rain recently the corn crop will not be
near an average.
The fatal horse disease which has for
sometime prevailed in scattered localities
in the JSorthwest has made Its appearance
at Camden, Ohio.
The Illinois Department of Agriculture
asserts that In quality and quantity the
wheat crop of the State is the poorest for
twenty years.
Samubl laiER, who was recently arrested at WilHamsport, Pa., on tbe charge
of having poisoned his father In order to obtain the insurance he had effected on his
life, was discharged on the 12th.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska has pronounced constitutional in every particular
the Liquor law which compels saloon-keepers to pay licenses of $500 or $1,000 and give
$3,000 bonds.
A band of coAA'boys recently attacked a
caravan from Sonora on the Avay to Arizona,
killed four of the party, and carried off
$5,000 and the pack animals.
Claims to twenty gold mines, located in
Fulton, Hamilton and Saratoga Counties,
lNr. Y., have been filed at Albany with the
Secretary of State.
ThekE was a marked advance in the grain
and provision markets of Chicago on the
12th. Wbe*t advancid from % to 1% cents,
!S?o. 2 corn four cents per bushel, and mess
pork thirty cents per barrel.
A storm at Petersburg, Va., on the 13th,
in which the wind blew at the rate of sixty
miles per hour, unroofed the Norfolk freight
depot and Cameron Brothers' tobacco factory. The stand at -the fair-grounds Avas
scattered in pieces.
The Cincinnati Commercial's one-cent
subscriptions forthe benefit of tbe man who
slapped the fellow who expressed the hope
that Gareeld avouW die amounted up to the
13th to a total of $334,. being $520 more than
the fine and costs.
AK earthquake shock was felt at Contoo-
cook, N. H., early on the morning of the
13th. The earth shook perceptibly, with the
usual accompaniment of crockery moving,
etc   Animals in the field evinced alarm.
The value of exports from the United
Sf'ites of netroleum and petroleum products
for twelve months ended June 30,1881, was
f«).,8*l5-69B, against $3(5,216,025 for the previous twelve months.
OK the 14th Charles Kolb, of Baltimore,
was struck by an apple thrown by a colored
' !ad. He pursued the offender dOAvn Camden street, Avhen an unknown negro rushed
around a corner and stabbed him in the
back, inflicting injuries from which be soon
died. .,    ,-.
O*rtho 14th a freight trajn 911 tlje Jfeiri-
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?oesas^eSt^ Road^ over three ne-
S*5 on the *■«"** filing two of the
miniber and severely wounding the third.
drmv^T^' a1youa*?Chinaman of Boston,
tajdtadtbtta NeponsetRiver, ok
the 14th, from homesickness.
f1-ntHSfP^-NTOfl202sToman hors<*. des-
13th S' reaClied New York on the
Iff the Monmouth Park races at New York
on the 13th, Hindoo beat Lorillard's Parole,
running the last mile in 1:44. Hindoo had
so far won fifteen races this season, and had
suffered no defeats.
During the week ended on the 13th 276,-
997 standard silver dollars were put into
circulation. During the corresponding
week in 1SS0 the number was 214,999.
William Campbell has served nearly
five years in the Wisconsin Penitentiary for
the assassination of Dan O'Mara, at Chippewa Palls. C. W. Chase, a life prisoner in
that institution, confessed on the 13th that
he perpetrated the crime for Avhich Campbell
was incarcerated.
Peof. Parkhurst-, the astronomer, asserts that there is no reason to fear a collision between the earth and the new comet,
as the latter will not come within 50,000,000
miles of our planet.
During the Aveek ended on the 13th 7,505
immigrants landed at Castle Garden, in
New York.
A BA2TD of Apaches recently made a raid
on a'small village in New Mexico near the
line of the Atlantic and Pacific Eailroad,
and killed twenty-seven citizens.
Personal and Political.
"The first ofiicial act of the President since
the shooting was performed on the 10th. He
affixed the signature " James A. Garfield5'
to a document Avhich extradited a criminal
wanted by the Canadian authorities fox: forgery. He signed his name firmly and suffered no eA*il consequence from the unusual
exertion.
The Virginia Republicans met in State
Conventions at Lynchburg on the 10th, the
Straight-outs meeting in one hall and the
Coalitionists in another. After organization both bodies appointed Committees of
Conference and took a recess. The Conference Committees adopted a scheme by which
the Straight-outs would nominate no ticket
and the Coalitionists Avould indorse none,
the State Committees to remain as formed.
When the Conventions reassembled the Coalitionists rejected the conditions of compromise, and indorsed the nominees of the Re-
adjusters. The Straight-outs adjourned to
the next morning without selecting candidates.
The murder of Spotted Tail seems to have
been done in cold blood. Crow Dog has
been sent to Fort Niobrara to await trial for
murder.
Ho*sr. O. H. Bro-wistxG died at Quincy,
III., on the eA'ening of the 10th, at the age of
seA'enty-five. Deceased filled the unexpired
term of Stephen A. Douglas in the United
States Senate, and was Secretary of the Interior in President Johnson's Cabinet.
One county in North Carolina gave twenty-one majority for prohibition. Seventy-
three others report 98,965 majority against
it.
The National Civil-Service Reform Association met at Newport, R. I., on the llth,
under the Presidency of George W- Curtis,
and adopted resolutions approving the
Civil-Service Reform bill introduced into the
United States Senate last session by Mr.
Pendleton, of Ohio, and calling on members
of Congress and Senators to aid in making
the bill a law; favoring competitive examination at various convenient points in the
United States for those Avho might wish to
be examined for positions in the Civil Service; declaring that the bill introduced in
the House of Representatives last session by
Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, provides practical
and judicious measures for the remedy of
the abuse knoAvn as political assessments;
and urging uncompromising opposition to
arbitrary removals from office and the interference of members of Congress with the
exercise of the appointing power.
O-f the llth President Garfield wrote his
first letter since the shooting. It AATas to his
mother, assuring her of his confidence in
his recovery. He was beginning to take
much interest in public affairs, and in the
morning; asked that the principal items of
interest in the morning papers be read to
him. Mrs. Garfield read to him some private letters and some newspaper clippings.
Secretary Blaine and family leftWash-
ino-ton on the afternoon of the 10th, for Augusta, Me. They expected- to be absent
from Washington several weeks.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention is to be held at WilHamsport on the
28th of September.
Rev. Drs. Jeavett atst> Hatfielb, who
were appointed a committee of the Rock
River (111.-) Conference to formulate and
prosecute charges of heresy against Rev. H.
W. Thomas, D. D., have performed their
work. The charges are brief, and accuse the
doctor of denying the inspiration of the
Scriptures, denying the doctrine of atonement, and teaching a probation after death.
The trial will be held in Chicago in September.
Mrs. Millard Fillmore, the. widow of
ex-Prfesident Fillmore, died on the llth at
her residence in Buffalo, from a paralytic
shock.    She was about seventy years of age.
General Grant has bought a $95,000
house on East Sixty-sixth street, NeAV York.
EXPOSiTO, tne Italian bandit recently captured in New Orleans and taken to New
York in chains, has been fully identified by
two Italian gendarmes who crossed the Atlantic for that purpose.
Ex-Congressman Origen S. Seymour,
formerly Chief Judge of the Supreme Court
of Connecticut, died at Litchfield 011 the
morning of the 12th.
Joseph C. Eldridge, a retired navy
paymaster, died in Brooklyn on the 14th,
aged sixty-three years.
Judge William Allen has been appointed to the vacancy on the Massachusetts
Supreme Bench created by the suicide of
Judge Colt.
Foreign.
IN excavating for a public garden in the
City of Mexico a few days ago Avorkmen
discovered a column from a cathedral erected in 1520.
A LONDON dispatch of the 10th says British financiers were somewhat exercised over
the withdrawals of gold from the Bank of
England on American account. Italy had
been drawing heavily of coin, Avith which to
replace her paper money.
The German Government has taken the
necessary measures to protect the Jews in
pomerania and West Prussia.
A commissioner of the London Time-i,
who has made a tour of the wheat districts
pf England^ estimates a yie|d of thirty bush
els to the  acre, and an increased crop of
three million quarters.
Late advices from Panama state that yellow fever was sweeping off the officers and
men of the DeLesseps Canal Company.
The Cornell crew were defeated at Vienna oh the llth. When half the course had
been rowed over, one of their men sunk exhausted, and they relinquished the race.
The prize, which was worth £250, was won
by the Vienna creAV.
John Hill Burton, the Scottish historian and biographer, died on the llth.
There Avere ninety- eight deaths from
yelloAv fever in Havana during the month of
July, and during the Aveek ended Augusts
there were thirty-six deaths and 200 cases
in that city.
The condition of Mr. Bradlaugh Avas
very serious on the llth. His arm and
face were affected AA'ith erysipelas, the in--
direct result of his struggle Avith the Parliament officials and the police in the lobby
of the House of Commons.
According to a.Berne dispatch of the
llth the drought in SAvitzerland had continued for nearly two months. The grass was
burned, and in the mountain pastures beasts
were perishing from heat.
The British House of Commons adjourned
at daylight on the morning of the 12th, haying finished the consideration of the Land
bill and sent it back to the House of Lords.
Samuel Lord, cotton broker of Liverpool, Eng., has suspended, Avith liabilities
of £30,000.
The Boers have taken advantage of their
freedom by declaring that Dutch shall be
the official language of the Transvaal, none
other being alloAved in the courts.
The National Theater at Prague, Bohemia, was burned on the eA'ening of the 12th.
JLn consequence of an adverse finding by a
Court of Inquiry at Shanghai, in regard to a
collision between a Chinese merchant steamer and the British man-of-Avar LapAving,
Captain Scott, of the latter vessel, recently
blew out his brains.
On the evening of the 12th tbe British
House of Lords restored its important
amendments to theLandbill andfinished the
debate, subsequently appointing a committee to draAV up reasons for disagreeing Avith
the Commons. The supporters of the Government regarded the situation as- very serious.
A Dublin telegram of the 12th* says the
Parnellites were threatening England Avith
active efforts to develop the industrial resources of Ireland, as well as a larger use of
American factory products.
A Paris dispatch of the 12th says the
Tunisian insurgents Avere still operating in
the direction of Algeria.
The International Commissioners have
granted the request of the Porte for a delay
of fifteen days in surrendering the second
zone of territory ceded to Greece.
A passenger train on the Canada Grand
Trunk Railroad Avas throAvn from the track
near Prescott, on the morning of the 13th.
The engineer Avas killed and several other
persons Avere injured.
The Viceroy of India has asked permission to aid the Ameer of Afghanistan with
money to establish himself.
An old building, four stories high, situated in the most frequented part of Vienna,
next to the Grajben, suddenly fell on the
13th. The greater part of the house Avas
occupied by officers and fashionable shops.
Twenty lives Avere lost and thirty persons
seriously injured.
About $150,000 in gold was shipped from
Paris to the United States on the 13th.
Immense frauds have been discovered at
Adrianople, where one Turkish official has
robbed the Government of £17,500,
On the night of the 12th all of the Maxima
lamps at the Paris Electrical Exposition
were seized by the officers of the law on the
demand of the representatives of Edison,
who claimed that they Avere a fraudulent
imitation of his device.
At Genoa, Italy, on the 14th an enthusiastic meeting Avas held in favor of the abolition of Papal guarantees.
IiATEK* NEWS.
The condition of the President was considered critical on the 15th, his. case having
taken a sudden and unexpected turn. A
very formidable difficulty had arisen from
the condition of the distinguished patient's
Btomach, Avhich organ seemed to have almost
entirely suspended its functions, causing
great alarm among the surgeons. Dr. Bliss
saia that, if the President's stomach did not
recoA'erits "tone and resume'its functions
on the 16lh, he Avould die, although
that mournful finality Avould not
necessarily occur immediately. At 6:30 p.
m. his pulse was 130; temperature, 99.6;
respiraiion, 22. The official bulletin issued
at that hour says: "The irritability of the
President's stomach returned during the
afternoon, and he has vomited three times
since one o'clock. Although the afternoon
rise of temperature is less than it has been
for several days, the pulse and respiration
are more frequent, so that his condition is,
on the whole, less satisfactory." At tAvo a.
m. on the 16th he was sleeping comfortably
and the pulse had beenreducedfifteen beats
In vieAv of the alarming condition of the
President on the 15th Secretaries Blaine and
Lincoln were notified to return to Washington forthwith, and Vice-President Arthur
was telegraphed and requested to hold himself in readiness to proceed to Washington
at a moment's notice.
IN the British House of Commons on tbe
evening of the 15th the Land bill, as amended by the House of Lords, was taken up,
and several of the verbal amendments made
by the latter were agreed to. The Parnell
clause, which provided that the tenant's interest shall not be sold for debt pending an
application for the fixing* of a judicial rent,
was eliminated by the Government, and several other unimportant amendments were
made, Avithout touching the vital principle
of the bill. It was then sent back to the
House of Lords.
The United Slates Government hasi n-
vited the family of Baron Steuben to become
the guests of the Nation at the forthcoming
Yorktown celebration.
IN the Chicago market on the 15th there
was great excitement. Early in the day
August wheat advanced two cents, corn
gained three cents, and pork and lard rose
tAventy to twenty-five cents. The unfavorable reports about the President were used
at noon to depress prices below the starting
point. It is believed that thirty million
bushels of corn changed hands.
Reports received on the 15th by the Department of Agriculture at Washington in
regard to the condition of the spring-wheat,-
corn and tobacco crops indicated that the
falling off in the spring-wheat crops would
not be as great as anticipated, that the falling off in the corn crop in the Western
States Avould be less than expected, but that
in the South ihe yield Avould be very poor.
The tobacco crop Ayoiijd not yield as much
as l*ist year,
A New Swindle.
This city seems to be the headquarters oi
a number of scoundrels engaged in swindling the unsuspecting and covetous Grangers throughout the State. They deal most*
ly in patent-right frauds of various kinds,
from pitchforks to machines of more value
©n the farm. The farmers have often been
Avarned against these gentry by the press,
but they readily change their tactics and assume all sorts of protean forms for entrap *
ping the unwary, and scarcely a day passes
that some countryman is not made a victim of the wicked Aviles of the ubiquitous
scamps. The latest heard of is a gang who
go about selling ah alleged seeding-machine, and these have victimized a number
of people. The Enquirer reporter has been
shown a copy of an exceedingly ingenious
document Avhich these fellows use in their
operations, and by means; of Avhich they
have, caught more than one who thought
himself entirely too smart to be duped by
any city sharp. The reader is hereby presented Avith a fac-slmile of the " contract "
drawn by these patent seeding-machine fel-
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and Avhich shortly aftenvard turns up as a
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some paper-shaver in his neighborhood Avho
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and tell him he has been recommended as a
good man to sell" their machines, and ask
him to become their agent. He is persuaded that they sell rapidl y, and that he can
make a large per cent, profit. He is told
that he Avill not be expected to risk any
money or pay anything until he has sold
$325" Avorth of the machines. He is induced
to sign the contract above given, which, it
AA'ill be seen, sets forth this agreement Avhen
read straight across. It looks fair and innocent enough, and soon the farmer puts his
name in  the blank space  just before the
words *' Sole Agent for Company.''
Afterwards the scamps easily change the
document from a contract to sell into a
promissory note by tearing off that part to
the right of the line draAvn through the
agreement as printed. In tlie original presented to the farmers of course no line appears; and it is given here simply to show
where the division takes place, and the separation at which point so radically changes
the nature of the document. It will be
seen at a glance that this* is liable to de-
ceiA'e any one without close inspection, and
a number of Indiana farmers have been
cheated with them this summer. The last
heard of the gang they were operating extensively in Bartholomew County. After
the farmers' notes get Into the hands of
" innocent purchasers" there is no recourse
but to pay them off, as they cannot Avell go
back on th« signatures.—Indianapolvs Cor.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Another Death from Hydrophobia.
Peter Dahl, the Unfortunate Avho was
taken to the County Hospital Wednesday
noon suffering from hydrophobia, died at
7:10 last eA'ening, after suffering great agony.
From nine o'clock on the evening of the
day on which he was brought to the hospital he grew perceptibly worse, and at three
o'clock yesterday morning had become so
violent that three able-bodied men had to
stand guard over him. By ten o'cloolc in
the forenoon he had become almost unmanageable, and a straight-jacket Avas brought
into requisition. He resented this indignity,
as he chose to call it, and threatened to kill
Avhoever should attempt to fit it to his
person. He would not hesitate to become a
murderer, he said, if anyoneeA*erattempted
to put him into a bag like that. His convulsions were so frequent and so violent that
the jacket had finally to be forcibly applied
to him, in order to prevent him from destroying himself. The case Avas a typical
one of its kind. There Avere all
the horrible manifestations of the
dread disease, and the patient remained
almost perfectly obstinate to all treatment.
"Finally, in the afternoon, the doctors concluded to try an experiment Avith curare, or
wourali—the arroAV-poison of the natives of
Borneo and other islands of the Pacific.
Three hypodermic injections of the deadly
drug were given the patient. The first was
a light one of only one-tenth of a grain, and
the twn subsequent doses contained one-
sixth of a grain each. Care Avas taken to
note the effect of each dose, but the result
was entirely unsatisfactory, and the symptoms all the way to the death of the patient
continued unmistakably those of hydrophobia. The curare poison-symptoms at no
time were made manifest, but it was plainly
apparent to every orte present that the
curare had a soothing, quieting effect upon
the convulsive movements of the suffcuer.
This effect was so marked that it was concluded that the curare treatment would be
attempted from the beginning upon the very
next hydrophobia victim brought to the
hospital.—Chicago Tribune, August 12.
—Johan Lauretz Johanson, a shipowner of Glasgow, has received $25,000
for injuries received in a railway collision in Scotland in September last.
—Women may be the weaker vessel,
but when she slirieks she can be heard
further tban a man.
The American Bankers'   Association*
_t*_RST DAY*
Ihe Convention of the American Bankers'
Association met at Niagara JFalls, N. Y*, on
the 10th, and, in the absence of the President and Vice-President, Avas presided over
by E. Q. Spaulding, of the "Farmers' &
Merchants' Bank of Buffalo.
Treasurer George P. Baker reported the
finances of the Association in good condition.
A resolution was unanimously adopted
conveying to President Garfield the hearty
sympathy of the Convention, in his severe
suffering, and expressing its earnest hope
for his speedy recovery.
An address by Mr. John Thompson, of
NeAV York, was read on the subject of
panics. Panics, he said, occurred about every decade 5 this ten-year period is quite
natural * it takes about five years after a revulsion to pay up, compromise, or wipe out
indebtedness"; then follows five years of
prosperity, expansion, confidence in credits
—in fact, a *'boom;" the last panic
was in 1873; the present prosperity commenced in 1878; Ave have now had three
years of extraordinary augmentation of
riches, much of it real and solid, but most
of it emanating from raising prices or
putting up quotations; the signs of an
approaching "blizzard" are numerous,
but yery delicate as yet. When the stock
market becomes ''mixed," and the bulls
and bears become desperate, and Avhen the
courts grant injunctions liberally, andthe
financial knavery of the opposing parties
and schemers is exposed, then capital
and credits insidiously vanish—hoarding is
considered the best investment, or loans secured beyond any contingency, even
at a nominal interest, AA'hich is akin
to hoarding. This species of financiering
involves contraction; distrust folloAVs, and
the credit system is annihilated. At present
there is but one alarming indication of
trouble, and that is in the number and magnitude of neAV enterprises, involving the
issue of millions of obligations. He advised
caution on the part of bankers in the use of
deposits, that they might ahvays have a sure
and speedy controllability over a sufficient
amount of assets to meet any •*' demand obligation," even in the light of a raging panic.
He said: "We are positively going too fast,
and it is the part of wisdom, and 1 conceive
it to be but our duty, to put on the ■ brakes,'
that the wreck, when it does come, may be
the less disastrous. * * * Gentlemen. I
am not prophesying evil, so do not stone me.
I am only ringing the bell to awake the
brakeman, for unless AAre 'slow up'nnd
guard our assets, nothing in the past AA'ill
compare Avith Avhat is In the future. The
negotiations—the issue of stocks and bonds
—lire fourfold what they Avere in 1S73."
After the reading of some other papers
and the discussion of some minor questions
the Convention adjourned for the day.
SECOND DAY.
Among the papers read on the llth was
one from Secretary Windom, on " Government Finances," in Avhich he gave a history
of the course recently pursued by the Government, under the Refunding act of Congress, to provide for the registered bonds of
maturing loans and the interest payments
on the coupon bonds. Under the plan finally matured and adopted $178,055,150 of the
six-per-cent. bonds had been converted into three-and-one-half per cents., leaving to
be paid off from the surplus revenues, $24,-
211,400, for which the Treasury has ample
resources. Concerning the five-per-cents.
the Secretary says the transactions were not
quite complete, but probably there will be
continued by October 1 in all about $400,-
000,000 of this loan, leaving to be paid $39,-
708,050, the remainder of the loan haA'ing
already been paid from the sxu'plusreAenues
under calls previously made. As a result of
this refunding process the Secretary says
the annual interest charge, which Avas,
March 1, 1881, $76,845,937.50, will be, on
October 1,1881, as nearly as can be now
stated, $61,475,842.25.
John Jay Knox, Comptroller of the Currency, read an exhaustiA"e address on.
' 'Banking and the Currency of the Coun -
try." He stated that on May 1, last, there
Avas $699,281,583 of paper money outstanding, all of Avhich Avas and is readily convertible into coin on demaud. There was
on that day $520,000,000 of gold coin in the
country, according to the estimates of the
Director of the Mint, and about $172,000,000
of silver coin, Avhich is still Increasing at
the rate of $2,300,000 monthly. The total
amount of coin and paper currency on that
day, including $39,000,000 of silver certificates, Avas $1,430,000,000. The amount of
gold, silver and paper currency held in the
Treasury Avas $273,379,519; in National
Banks, $223,744,933; in State Bapks, $41,-
930,924; in Savings Banks, $17,072,680. If
the amount of coin and currency in the
Treasury and in the banks is deducted from
the total amounts estimated to be in the
country, it Avill give a remainder of $871,-
382,794, as the amount, May 1, in the hands
of the people outside of the depositors.
The report of the Nominating Committee
was adopted, and George S. Coe Avas elected
President of the Association for the ensuing
year; Lyman J. Gage, of the First National Bank of Chicago, First Vice-President; Edmund D. Randolph, Secretary;
George W. Baker, Treasurer, aud George
Morsland, Corresponding Secretary.
Several papers Avere submitted Avithout
being read.
TniRD AND LAST DAY.
On the 12th E. A. Towles, President of the
First National Bank of St. Albans, Vt., read
a paper on Bank Taxation, embracing a history of the panics since 1837, remedies foi
such evils, and deductions made therefrom.
A paper was also read from Mr.. R. H.
Inglis Palgrave, of London, on the Progress
Of Banking in England, in Avhich he states
that an estimate made in 1840 gives
the banking deposits of London, including
the Bank of England, and the country
banks of Eugland, Scotland and Ireland, as
being from £98,000,000 to £105,000,000; note
circulation at £40,000,000, and the metallic
circulaion at £20,000,000 to £30,000,000.
The most recent estimate of deposits is for
the spring of 1881, as follows: For the Bank
of England, £32,000,000; all other banks in
the United Kingdom, £.60,000,000 to £470,-
000,000. The amounts Avith the discount
houses are not included in these last figures,
which compare, say, £4S5,500,000 in 1873,
Avith £510,000,000 in 1881. "
A report upon banking in Canada was
presented from Mr. C. H. Sorley. of Montreal, in which he states that there are at
present twenty-four joint stock banks in
Ontario and Quebec, with about270agencies,
having an aggregate paid-up capital of $52,-
891,00., or on an average of $2,204,000 each.
The banks having their head offices in the
Provinces of the Dominion, other than Ontario and Quebec, number about fifteen,
with an aggregate capital of* some $6,-
500,000. The banks are required to
make elaborate returns to Government, to keep forty per cent, of
their reserve in Government legal-tender
notes, and the shareholders of nearly all are
liable for the debts of thebank to the extent
of twice the amount of their paid-up capital. The bank-note circulation in Canada,
May 31, 1881, amounted to $22,630,758, a
figure beyond Avhat it had ever reached in
the same iuonth, in any previous year. The
present amount of the paid-up capital of
the banks having their head offices in the
Provinces of Ontario and Quebec is $52,891,-
046; of deposits $73,525,008, and of loans
$115,964,474.
An address by George L. Wright, of St.
Louis, on the Mississippi River trade, Avas
submitted, aud Mr. PoAvell read a brief
address on the resources of Michigan.
Resolutions were|$piiuimously adopted
urging the nccessity^of an International
Bank at Niagara Falls.
A number Of miscellaneous papers Avere
referred to  the  Council, after which, the
Convention adjourned tine die.
~,,  •'•-*■ —
—A Boston critic explains that a certain Tocalisfc sings badly "because his
|**earti is %qo big and. ciwde his lungs,"
Primitive German Tillages.
In a few German villages the economy of primitive times, when the communal system was general, is still practiced. Mr. Aldis, in the Contemporary
Bevieu), draAvs a pleasant picture of such
& village, Gresz Tabyrz. The whole of the
cttltivatable land is divided into strips,
and each strip represents the portion
originally allotted from a clearing of
forest land by the Gemeinde, or commune, to some one family, who enjoy
the perpetual use subject to certain customs of cultivation. In many families
more than one strip is held, as several
such strips may have been accumulated
by inheritance or inter-marriage. From
this land are obtained potatoes, a few
garden vegetables, and the flax, which
forms the raAv material of their linen
underclothing. Everything is very
simple. The agricultural implements
are of the most primitive form, and the
flax is spun at home by the Avomen during the Avinter months Avhen the farm
makes no demand on their labor, and is
woven by the village weavers, the looms
being such as Avere in general Use in
England fifty years ago.
During the months of July and
August the whole population, male and
female, are busily engaged, inharvesti'ng
the various crops Avhich follow one another closely, beginning with the first
crop of hay in July and ending with
the second crop early in September.
The agricultural operations are carried
on by each family working for itself, as
there is but little labor to be hired.
In the summer months all trespass
on the strips of grass is forbidden,
and the cattle are fed on the
mountain slopes, or on land set apart
for this purpose by the commune. In
the middle of September, after the second crop of grass has been cut, the
pasture land again becomes the property of the commune, and the cattle
and geese are allowed to feed over the
Avhole pasture land indiscriminately.
■" Of the actual sale of his rights by a
peasant proprietor no instance came to
my knoAvledge, nor, 1 imagine, does
such a thing often, if ever, take place."
Each family owns its coav and three or
four geese, and they obtain a small
revenue by selling the milk and cheese
of the one and the feathers of the other.
Their fare is of the simplest, and is
such as the American agriculturist
Avould despise; the ordinary meal being
black bread and sausage, with occasionally a rabbit or the flesh of a home
reared kid. It is characteristic of these
peasants that they kill nothing for eating Avhen it can be used for any other
purpose. Hence the cattle are killed
Avhen very young to save the trouble
and expense of rearing, or are reserved
till their usefulness is nearly over, Avhen
their Hesh is sold in the neighboring
markets. They have the right to collect fuel from the forests of the commune, and there is no AVaste. "Not a
stick," says Mr. Aldis, "is allowed to
be lost. Their incomes are somewhat
increased by working* in the ducal forests, but as their wants are very feAV
and easily satisfied, there is but little
need of money." With a feAV slight
alterations this account Avould apply to
the early communal periods as described
by Lavelye in his work on "Primitive
Property." The thrift and general good
conduct of the German emigrant have
frequently been remarked upon, and is
due in great measure to the early training of such a life in Avhich strict economy is enforced by necessity.
Weighing a Hog.
A dog-fight sends the pulse of a village up to 130. and a foot-race or a
knock-down Avill almost restore gray
hairs to their original color; but for real
excitement let a man come along in
front of the tavern about sundown driving a hog.
" Hay, Avhere you going?"
"Going to sell this.hog."
" Hold on a minute! What does he
weigh?"
" O! about 225."
" You're off; he won't go over 200."
Every chair is vacated on the instant.
Every eye is fastened on the hog rooting in the gutter, and every man Hatters himself that he can guess Avithin
a pound of the porker's Aveight.
That hog will pull down jist exactly
195 pounds," says the blacksmith, after
a long squint.
"He Avon11 go an ounce over 185,"
adds the cooper.
"I've got a two-dollar bill that says
that hog Avill kick at 210," says the
hardware man.
" You must be wild," groAA-ls the
grocer; " I can't see over 150 pounds
of meat t-here."
Twenty men take a Avalk around the
porker and squint and shake their heads
and look wise, and the owner finally
sa\Ts:
" If he don't go over 2201 shall feel
that I am no guesser."
" Over 220! If that hog Aveighs 200
pounds I'll treat the crowd!" exclaims
the owner of the 'bus line.
"Idunno 'bout that," mused the
'Squire, avJio is on his way to the grocery after butter. " Some hogs Aveigh
more and some less. What breed is
this hog?"
" Berkshire."
" Well, I've seenspme o1 them Berk-
sheers that weighed like a load o' sand,
and then agin I've seen 'em where
they was all skin and bone. Has anybody
guessed that this hog will weigh 10J."
"No."
*   "Well, that's a leetle steep, but I've
kinder sot my idea on 250."
By this time the croAvd has increased
to a hundred and the excitement is intense. The 'Squire lays half a dollar on
250. and the owner of the hog rakes in
several bets on "between220and225."
The porker is driven to the hay scales
and the silence is almost painful as the
Aveighing takes place.
" Two hundred aud twenty-three!"
calls the weigher.
Growls and lamentations smite the
evening air, and stake-holders pass over
theAvagers to the lucky guessers, chief of
whom is the owner of the hog.
" Well, I'm-clear beat out," says the
'Squire, "ifelt dead sure he would
Aveigh over 300."
"~0,1 knew you Avere all way off,"
explains the guileless owner. " When
we Aveighed him here at noon he tipped
at exactly223, and I knew he couldn't
have picked up or lost oyer a poi,ynd!"~r
Detroit Free, press.; -■*•*.
SCHOOL AND   CHURCH.
—There are 166,000 missionary Bap-'
tists in Alabama.
—In England the proportion of university students to the population is one
to 4500. In the German Empire it is
one to 1,600.
—Eev. John F. Adams, of the New
Hampshire Conference, who is now
ninety-one years old, is said to be the
oldest preacher of the Methodist Churclt
in this country or in the world.
—Over $1,500,000 has been raised already for the Wesleyan Methodist
Thanksgiving fund, and public collections are being made at the principal
chapels throughout the circuit in Great
Britain.
—A Norwegian Lutheran Synod in
IoAva recently decided that it was not
proper for one of its ministers to accept
a nomination to the Legislature. The
Synod unanimously decided in favor of
"no politics."
—The famous old English schools,
Eaton, Harrow, Rugby and Winchester,
are constantly full to overflowing, although their cost constantly increases.
Oxford and Cambridge Avere never so
croAvded Avith students as noAV.
—-The work of education in Armenia
Avill hereafter be promoted by a special
society. This society -has just been
formed in London, and has a numerous
and distinguished committee. The first
meeting Avas held a few days ago under
the Presidency of the late Dean of
Westminster.
—Since the Revisers completed their
Avork on the NeAV Testament a manuscript of the Gosples Matthew and Mark
has been discovered in Italy, dating as
far back as the fifth century. Its leaves
are of purple parchment,and the writing
is in silver ink. There are many illuminations and pictures. Jt is in every
respect a remarkable manuscript. No
authoritative statement is made as to
the light which Avould have been shed
on the Avork of the Revisers if this manuscript had been discovered a year or
two earlier.
—The Society to Encourage Study at
Home uoav has pupils in thirty-seven
States, three in the province of Canada,
and one in Bermuda. Itis conducting
work in English literature, the fine arts,
the sciences, in music, mathematics,
French and German, and it is constantly
widening its sphere. Of the whole number of pupils seventy-six per cent, have
persevered in their work. The leading
library now includes 1,055 volumes.
The teaching grows more specialized
and objective every year. The Society
is full of force and there is no end of
Arolunteers for the Avork. Among the
students is a mother of four children,
from two to twelve years of age, who
takes care of the milk from tAventy-two
coavs and lives at the West.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
  1
—"Let's strip the light fantastic toe,"
said the chiropodist to his patient.—
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
—The Pittsburgh Telegraph has discovered a way of making lemonade without lemons. Pooh! OutN this Avay they
have neither used lemons nor sugar for
years.—Detroit Free Press. ,
-—There* are just two classes of people in this world. Half of them were
the first to discover the comet and the
other, half have been shot through the
liver.—Elmira Free Press.   *
—Smith, who went into amateur
farming this year, says he planted his
bean poles two months ago and has watered them regularly, and for all that
they haven't .-grown an inch, and show
notthe faintest sign of blossoming yet.
He begins to fear they Avill bear no
beans this year.—Boston Transcript.     ■■
—At a convention of dime-novel
writers held in New York the other
day it Avas unanimously resolved not to
introduce in their works of fiction hereafter any boy as a hero who has not
robbed his father of $5,000, tortured
his little brother, served six months in
jail, set-fire to a neighbor's house, committed highway robbery and runway
from home to exterminate Indians and
rob mail coaches.—Norristoion Herald.
—Spriggins, Avho is the catcher of a
Jersey nine, and has hands like an elephant's ears, was prancing around the
other day boasting of his exploits on
the field of carnage, Avhenhe enthusiastically exclaimed: "Noav, do you suppose for an instant that a ball could get
past me after I once got myself into position!" "No, I guess not," said a bystander, glancing, thoughtfully at Sprig-
gins' grappling irons, " unless it Avent
around th rough the next county!" The
convention then,adjourned sine die.—
Wit and Wisdom.
—Ifc now appears, from authentic instances cited in the local papers all
over America that nine-tenths Of the
soldiers wounded in the late war were
shot right straight through the .liver;
that about thirty per cent, of this number Avere shot clean through the liver
and back again; that forty-eight per
cent, of the whole number AArereshot
exactly as the President was, only with
larger bullets- that they all got Avelland
are alive now. It seems that ifc Avas not
considered respectable for auy man in
the army to get shot anywhere except
in the liver. Or neck. The officers
generally preferred the neck.—Burlington HawlcrEye,
Well-FJIIeil Postal Cards.
A month ago J. E. Richardson, of
this city, received a postal card from
his brother in Haynesville, Iowa, containing over 5,000 Avords. It Avas writ-"
ten to him as a letter, and the writing
upon it was so line that it required a
magnifyiug-gl ass to read a portion of
it. Mr. Richardson made up his mind
that he would not be outdone, and four
weeks ago made preparations to reply
inthe same style. He wrote during his
leisure moments au answer, which he
brought to a close to-day, the space on
his card having been entirely oonsumed.
When his task was completed he counted the number of Avords, and found that
he had 6,471, a number exceeding the
one he had received by over 1.000. It
was AA-ritten AA'ith a steel pen and can be
read Avithout the aid of a glass.—Stockton (Gal.J Herald.
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filled the-air like snowflakes Avas seen
recently in South Florida*
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