Show BY MAIL the public schools at burlington ibave closed The Turners of ottawa are to erect a hall the army worm is doing damage in jefferson Jef TerSon county A foremans firemans Fi remans tournament h to be held at june 22 A cooking club lias been formed at by five young ladies at maroa the other day a man named black was killed by tho cars ono thousand dollars ia the price of a liquor license at lake one hundred and fifty dollars have been realized from a baby show at bloomington recently A louring and grist mill to be driven y wind i in process of erection aan mabon compty lincoln is to undertake the erection afan extensile tabernacle to be used for temporary purposes ottawa with a population of supports fifty saloons being an aver age of to every people Cora planting about rock creek is over atud the chief cry is for rain the look well considering the scarcity of moisture california A aeno paper says the grasshoppers are hatching out o gliick in long valley that nothing short of a miracle can save the crops l COLORADO canyon of the arkansas is nine miles in length being tho narrow winding way of that river through alio walls rising in many places to the height of 2500 rockbound rock bound river pathway was discovered by the spanish missionaries sion aries as early as from that tiniest is not known that any animal lifo passed through it until the summer af pf 1870 last week a train of caraan tho Atchison Topeka fe santa fe railroad made tho f DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA mys irish a young lady formerly of nebraska is quite a marvel fit washington she is only 20 yema oldus is nevertheless an accomplished linguist speaking german spanish and italian almost as readily as english she is assistant librarian of the interior department and has charge of the foreign correspondence of the office her father is now in charge of the burau of engraving and printing though formerly lie was abroad in legation fc ervice at liisi arih got acquainted with the novelist auerbach Au eibach who became greatly attached to her and slie Thas recently translated ono of INDIANA near clinton ard about alie prospects of the them being ob vs w often as three times gessie is a flourishing little village near clinton having a population of two store otilli church two blacksmith shops and four millinery shops an old lady named williams of fatally burned recently while reinforcing lein forcing the kitchen stevo with coal oil her son was badly burned also in attempting ip extinguish alie flames indianapolis lias had a yellow fever scare A doctor mistook some other fever for the scourge and it lias had the good effect of leading the people to see eliat indianapolis is a very filthy city only a few yards from the city two river bayous have been partially filled in leaving the standing water tal breed stench and miasma and seems to be general necessity for a thorough cleansing all through tho city IOWA the old settlers of howard county will hold a reunion re union on juno 18 county farmers report that the chinta bugs are numerous anil A pretty des moines girl was induced to leave her homo and join a circus M a chariot driver by some man connected therewith A each of white and colored girls the diner put staica of the union was one of tho features fea turea of the mount pleasant decoration day celebration A large amount of grain is being shipped from this state to eastern markets at present tho recent advance in price and ho prospect of a good yield this year lie farmers to bring heir grain to market samuel cooper niico 63 bearc and an old resident of clinton was killed the other day by the overturning of a load of corn A rather ludicrous accident bebel a farmer in sioux city recently lie was attempting to get out of his wagon when lip caught hia paints in afook in tha box in such a manner a to nearly strip them from lii person in crawling back into tho box ho boado about the liveliest movements of his life anil wrapping hh tattered garments about him ns bat he could up his yelling out ills orders to the clerks from alie wagon oa |