3T lie- Ilourf A. rnrsons, Jr., - Editor THURSDAY. NOV. 29, 177. A ppccinl from Hamburg, Iowu, pnys the banking liouxe of V. W. Smith, the largest in Southwestern Iowa, made tin assignment last week to U. A. Dnnforth. The liabilities will reach $100,000 ; assets. $45,000. In reply to a resolution of the IToii9e the Postmaster General says the only objections to making obligatory in all government transactions the metrical nystem of weights end measures are the expense Involved and the appre- hensoii that the practical working would fail to give satisfaction, owing to the lack of knowledge. At the recent election in Wisconsin 175403 votes were polled, divided among the several parties as follows : Republican, 78,753 ; democratic, 70, 4S2 ; greenback, 20,108. The republi can plurality for governor is 8,271 and for superintendent of public instruc tion 8,118. There were 15,000 more votes cast than iu 1875 and 70,000 less than last year. The official majority in New York city for Allen C. Reach, democrat for secretary of state of New York, is 30,224. The majorities for Mr. Olcott and Mr. Seymour, democrats, for comptroller and engineer, respectively are a trifle over 42.000. This will ruaku Mr. Olcott's majority in the state over 20,000 more than that re ceived by Mr. Beach. The majority for the democratic candidate for state treasurer is over 20.000. General Sherman has issued a gen eral order regarding the violation of the thirty-eighth article of war. He says the President desires it to be known that it must be understood that any clemency which may have been heretofore extended, by mitigation or commutation of sentence cannot here after be relied upon as a basis of hope for a like favorable action. After this warning a rigorous execution of the sentences imposed In due course by courts-martial may be expected. The Adjutant General of the Army has submitted.to the Secretary of War to accompany the report of that official to Congress, reports upon the mode i which the army should be increased, which he thinks should be adding men in the discretion of the President to existing companies so that instead of making new companies from recuits those already iu existence should be filled to a proper standard of men. The Adjutant General also recom mends the enlargement of the number of officers on the retired list. Oue Cent a Day. Economy is the order of the hour, and every expenditure, however small, is expected to give a returu in full value. Every family, requires oue good, reliable family newspaper. If such an article can bo procured for less than oue cent for each working day of the year, we are not aware oi'it. A Family Newspajier should contain a carefully-prepared summary of all the news of the day, both Religious and Secular ; and if arranged so that the two departments may be separa ted and read by two individuals the same time, so much the better. The Family Newspaper should have attrac tive reading aud information for the various members of a household. Some portion of the paper should be devoted, every week, to religious aud moral improvement, to current secu lar news, to agriculture, commerce, markets, finance, to general literature, Ac, with a special department for the young. Above all, the Family Netvs paper 6hould be perfectly pure, and free from any contaminating influ ences in its reading matter or in its advertisements. Too much attention cannot bp paid to this feature, when the press is flooding the country with so much that is vile and pernicious. To crown all, the Family Newspapcr should be untrammelled by any affili ation with sect or party, and should be free to give all the good news from and about all the world. If such a Family Newspaper can be had for one cent a day, it shculd be taken by every family in the land. Such a Family Newspaper, in every respect, we find in the New Yobk Observer, now commencing its fifty Hixth volume. Progressive, compre hensive, sound, reliable, pure, it is just what is needed in your house hold. Send $3.15 for a year to The New York Observer, 87 Park Row, New York. Sample copies are sent free. Another Chicago Bank Closed. Chicago, November 21. The Cen tral national bank of Chicago closed its doors this morning. This action was consequent upon a determination at a meeting of the directors and stock holders last evening. The institution did onlya small commercial business. It is backed by some substantial busi ness men of this city, and will, its officers claim, pay dollar for dollar to depositors, and make a good showing towards paying the stockholders In full. Its liabilities to depositors are $2GO,000, and the assets are $400,000 of bills receivable and $75,000 cash re , sources. Its casital stock is 1200,000. W. F. Endicort is president and John Greenleaf cashier. The bank ex perienced a slight run yesterday, and since October 1, although none of the depositors closed their accounts, some $200,000 have been drawn out. NEW GOODS nearly every day at Powell & Klme's Store. They keep a large assortment of Groceries, Cloth ing, etc., etc., all of which they sell cheap. From the Phlla. Times. Living on the Ten-Cent Plan. No topic of the day seems to be more acceptable to the average reader than that of economy in bread and meat, and all the people who write for the newspapers or newspaper waste-bask ets are turning their attention to it with a zeal and industry that ought to solve almost any problem except that of perpetual motion. A few years ago the question was not how to live on as little as possible, but how to spend the money everybody was making so as to mako the finest display. French cookery was all the rage, and thous ands of housewives drove their hus bands to the verge of bankruptcy in the endeavor to follow the directions of Trofessor Riot. Only a few months ago a leading New lork newspaper published a daily bill of fare, showing with great satisfaction how a dinner for three persons or a dinner for six persous might be provided at acostof about five dollars a plate. The reac tion has set In. Now all the professors of domestic economy aud the culllnary art arc rushing into print to show how a man may live on a little more than nothing and utilize the fragments in the next day's hash. Miss Corson has created quite a sensation by demon strating that a family can dine luxu riously on fifteen cents, and house keepers everywhere are trying the ex periment with the natural result of driving the women of the household to the cupboard between meals anil the men to their club or the nearest free lunch counter. A concern in Grand street. New York, however, has gone a step further, and advertises a good square meal for five cents, and a meal to satisfy the most ravenous appetite for ten cents. The bill of fare at this place is a marvel. A small cup of tea or collee with sugar and milk is sold for one cent ; a cup of the ordinary size, two cents ; bread and butter, one cent; soup, one cent ; a slice of corned beef, one cent : a baked or boiled potato, one cent; cab. bage, onecent ; baked beans, one cent; boiled or fried mush, one cent; oat meal, one cent; boiled rice, onecent; a quarter of a pie, three cents. One would think that at this rate a dollar would clean out the establishment but a boy tried it, and after eating corned beef, beans, collee, bread and butier, a cruller, fried homiuy, a po tato, a slice of pie and a doughnut had to be beaten on the back to get his throat clear and recover consciousness, paid a couple of car lures for Iris ban quet and sneaked out of the back door with a confession of the liallowness of earthly ambition. At this rate the problem of cheap living will soon in deed be solved. Meanwhile it is worth while to con sider whether ajlittle of the ingenuity aud perseverance that is expended in the direction of the extremes to which we have referred might not accomp lish more in the line of real economy if otherwise applied. No man with his wits about him, or woman either, will expect people to believe that any family of working adults or growing children can subsist as they should on such meals as these theorizes would provide at infinitesimal cost. A man may keep alive and stir about on three crackers a day and a few glasses of water, and these ten-cent and fifteen cent dinners may give him strength for some sucn ugut occupation as watching a stationary fruit-stand or keeping the stage door of athreatre, but the average human being needs more substantial and, of -course, more expensive provender. The economy that thus trifles with the appetite is dearly bought, for it involves food of inferior quulity, if not dangerously adulterated, and its legitimate fruit is ill torn per, disease and general misery True economy, as upplied to the table, exacts that while there shall be plenty there shall be no waste. The family should look forward to meals for the satisfaction of well regulated, not stinted appetites, with the accompani ment of sociability and good cheer that are entirely incompatible with a carelessly spread board, slip-shod cooKery, slovenly service una a meagre array of eatables At present the tendency is to shorten the allow. ance of food aud to indulge in extrava gance of dress, furniture and out-of- door luxuries that attract the eyes of the world but make no real return iu the brightening of the fireside or the health, comfort and culture of the family. Many a fond mother will put all her dear ones on short rations in order, that the girls may make a better appearance in school, in church, or at evening entertainments, or that the boys may have as much pocket money and wear neckties as gorgeous and collars as high as their fast com rades. Many a father will dole out market money by the ten cent piece, and growl over a dollar a month extra on the grocers' bill, while he gives never a thought to the dollar he spends for a round of drinks or to the quarter ho invests three times a day for cigars. These are the traveeties of economy. We would eat to live rnthir fVinn live to eat, but the purveyors or pro- vlbirma nr not. tliA frit) ntniwn u-hn of. draining the prockcts of the people without giving measure for measure. There are men who make gods of their bellies, but as a rule their deity is ap pcased, not by sacrifices at the family altar, but by hot lunches down town, swell dinners to a few friends at the club, suppers in the restaurants on the way, and potations here, there and everywhere, by the glass and bottle, on the plea of good-fellowship or business, Provision, bills will bear very close watching, and the prudent head of the family or his partner in the matri monial, business will always find oc cupation in fighting against wasteful n oho; but better cut off wine and cigars and substitute beer' and pipe ; Letter wear the old slick-sleeved coat a while longer j better gei a house iu a less fashionable quarter ; better econo mize in either of the many ways that will be called to mind, if you aft) in earnest, then conduct your dinner table on niggardly theories. The Butler County case Decided. Pittsburg, November 25. In the supreme court this afternoon Justice raxson delivered the decision of the ccurt in the quo warranto case involv ing the titlo of George Walters to the office of sheriff of Rutler county. It was alleged that Walters used money for corrupt purposes In securing his office, and committed perjury in sub scribing to the oath Of office declaring that he had not violated the constitu tion or art of assembly, prohibiting the use of money. The case came be. fore the supreme court on a demurrer ; the supreme court reversed the decis ion of the lower court, sustaining the demurrer and Walter is ousted and forever prohibited from holding an offico of trust in the state. For a nicely fitting suit of clothes call on M'Afee the tailor. NEW ADVERTI8EM ENTS. Sates of Advertising. 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