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r. >r cnrg f laindealrt 1. VAN SLYKE & BON, oHENBT, ILLINOIS. THK United States Consul General «t Mexico reports that the superiority of American goods is causing them to displace European goods ia the Mexi- market. THE Metropolitan National Bank, of <New York, has taken up the bonds de- vpdrited at Washington to secure its icirculation and withdrawn its notes--a transaction by which the concern makes annual profit of over $90,000. THIS Government wants its officers to put on no airs. Maj. William E. Sweet, chief of the internal-revenue •division in the office of the First Comp­ troller of the Treasury Department, has •been dismissed for extravagant expen­ ditures made while traveling on Gov­ ernment account, THB high price of corn in*1879, as compared with that of 1878, has evi­ dently cut short the hog crop of the "West considerably. Ti e six large pork cities and the interior points, it is now estimated, will pack the present Beason •6,980,000 hogs, as against 7,480,000 last season. This is a net decrease of 500,- •000, in round, numbers, the present season. JUDOE ANDERSON, in the Virginia Court of Appeals, recently gave a novel opinion. The appellant, Mrs. Latham' •sought a divorce from her husband en the ground that he had joined the Re­ publican party. The shock, she said, vt as too great for her domestic happi­ ness. And Judge Anderson thought that she was right. "The husband," he «aid, "had deserted his friends and gone over to the enemy. It was per­ fidy, the moral taint of which, she felt, •attaohed to hiln, and would probably •exclude him from the best society in the State." And so the learned Judge thought that the bonds of matrimony should be dissolved. ' tion. Some authorises put the figures as high as 12,000 miles. For tracks alone, old and new, it is figure^ that 1,500,000 tons of steel and iron rails will be required. The full capacity of our mills is estimated at 1,400,000 tons, leaving 100,000 to come from abroad. But in addition large quantities of iron will be required for cars, engines, bridges, spikes, belts, fish-plates, and other equipments. From all these facte it is evident that the expectations of a larger demand for iron this than for al­ most any previous year are by no means too. sanguine. AN anwritfen page of history came to light at a Boston dinner, a few days ago. The story was told by the Hon. E. W. Steughton, ex-Minister to Rus­ sia, and he gave it as told to him au­ thentically while at his post in St Petersburg: "During the war of the Revolution, in 1780-"81, England at­ tempted to negotiate with Russia and Prussia to combine against France and compel her to withdraw her fleet from American waters, offering as a considera­ tion the cession of the island of Minori- ca, in the Mediterranean. Fortunately for the young American republic, the proposal did not meet with favor in the eyes of Catherine II., and Prussia did not dare to join England single-handed. The legend is of importance only as showing the desire of England to re­ gain possession of her colonies here and the great danger of our country averted by the non-intervention policy of Russia's Queen." CURIOUS AND INTERESTING. TEE printers of lus State prove that the new Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, Mr. Hickenlooper, has a hard name. The New York Graphic says that from a perusal of Ohio exchanges it not only appears that Mr. Lickenhooper has been politically kicked and cuffed, but that Mr. Riplencooker has been sub­ jected to other indignities. In fact, Mr. Pooklenhiper seems to be consid­ erably mixed up in the webs of his po­ litical antagonists. The general opinion is, however, that if any of these prose­ cutors think they have only a day's job on hand in fighting Mr. Loophenkice* they are very much mistaken, as Mr. Hickpoolkener will give them a two- years' engagement. APPROACH OF COMETS.--Although the near approach to the earth of several comets has been known, the least dis­ tances of only two have ever been de­ termined with any degree of accuracy. On July 1, 1770, a comet was within 1,390,000 miles of the earth--the closest approach of one of these bodies of which astronomers have Any certain knowledge. Its apparent diameter was 2| dog., or nearly five times the appar­ ent diameter of the moon. It is not surprising that the apparition of such a monster should cause a panic of terror among unenlightened and superstitious inhabitants of the earth. ABE BEARS LKFT-HAKDID?--Long before the writer tried his 'prentice hand at trapping, says a writer in For­ est and Stream, he was told by a vet- _ eran bear-hunter that all the bears he i the figure of a rooster prominent on its order tfcatth* dnsfiijj|dirt may be shaken dflf Of them. Jpey pass from this oyUnder into tttoffinshes, where every, put receives flatten feet of a braining before it beootiliii free. Then they pass through a shrike-way to the floor below where they are'dropped on an endless Wit, about two and a half feet in width, and passing along at the rate of four miles an hour. On each side of the belt stand eight colored girls, and, as the nuts fall from the sluice un the* belt, die girls, •with a quick motion of the hand, pick out ali the poor-looking nuts, and by the time the belt reaches the end two-th rds of the nuts are picked off, allowing only the finest to pass the crucible. Those that do pass drop through another sluice and empty into bags on the^ floor below. When the bag is filled it is taken away by hand, sewed up and branded, with ILLINOIS HEWBb *7, sides. The peas caught up by the girls are thrown to one fide, placed in bags and carried into- another roojp, where THE HOflE DOCTOR. had taken in traps--and they were a good­ ly number--were caught by the left foot. The statement was discredited, till experience seemed io verify it where I they are again picked over, tlie traps were set at a coop or its equiv­ alent. Several caught in deadfalls also had the left leg as well as the head in­ side of the coop, the bait being jpo far bach as to oblige them to step inside with one foot to reach it. It would thus seem that where a bear is attract­ ed by a lure he, soldier-like, steps off left foot forward. POWER OF SEA BREAKERS.--From ex­ periments which were made some time since at the Bell Rock and Skerryvore light-houses, on the coast of Scotland, NURSING THE SICK. Some sensible person, who has evi­ dently had experience in attending to invalids, thus speaVs of the importance of decision and quietness in the sick­ room : " Consult your patient's wants, but little as possible. Tike CoMert Snap in the History In Potior** American Historical Monthly, Mr. A. A. Graham tells the story of that "sudden freeze" which oc­ curred in Illinois in 1836. There had been an unusual fall of snow iu the West--a fall of snow averaging from three to four feet, causing great suffer­ ing among the scattered settlements on the prairies. That season is remem­ bered as the season of "deep snow." Oh the 2Uth of December, 1836, oc­ curred the "sudden freeze," and the deep snow and Sudden freeze serve to this day, in portions of Illinois, as marking the time of marriages, births, deaths, and various other events in the lives of the oldest inhabitants. The day had been warm and showery, thawing the snow, which lay a few inches deep on the ground, and meltiug the small icicles formed here and therd by the preceding night's cold air. Owing to •he warmth and rain of the morning the snow had melted to a thick, watery slush, and the little gul­ lies in the fields and by the roadside were full of water, which, coursing to the creeks, had swollen them tilLthe;r banks were full. Men went about their daily avocations without their co^ts, though they generally had them near for any increase in tlie drizziing rain or any change in the temperature. The storm oame with a strong wind, a heavy, black cloud, and a roaring consult him as -- , , , . Your decision need not be very obvious j "01Be not unlike distant deep thunder, and positive; you will be most decisive i velocity was tventy-five miles an it was found that, while the force of the ! if no one suspects that you are so at all. j A*® coars® southeasterly breakers on the side of the German j It is the triumph of supremacy to be­ come unconsciously supreme. Nowhere is this decision more blessed than in a sick-room. Where it exists in its genu- ocean may be taken at about a ton and a half upon every square, foot of sur­ face exposed to them, the Atlantis breakers fall with double that weight, ineness the sufferer is never contradicted, !EHK gold and silver product of the Pacific Blope, for 1879, including British Columbia and receipts in San Francisco from the western coast of Mexico, are: Gold,' $32,589,920; silver, $38,623,812 Adding lead, the total is $75,349,501, or nearly $6,000,Q00 less than in 1878. The returns are interesting, from the fact that they show an immense falling off, in the' receipts of the Comstock lodes. These return only $8,830,562, as .against $21,295,043 in 1878. There is a falling off of $13,000,000 in the entire State of Nevada, and an increase of over $8,000,000 in the State of Colorado, chiefly from Leadville. These facts in­ dicate that the uncertainties in mining returns are muoh greater than is com­ monly supposed. TBE war against the lottery compa­ nies is still kept by the Postoffice au­ thorities. Postmaster General Key re­ cently s«nf to Congress the records of his department respecting the extent to which the mails were used by lottery companies and other swindling con­ cerns. The " Texas Gift Concert Asso­ ciation" is described as "one of the most successful swindles" of the day. The managers of the concern divided .the day's receipts among themselves every evening, the unsold numbers being placed in the wheel from which the " prizes" were drawn. The depart* ment also called the attention of Con* gress to the swindling concerns operat­ ing under the titles of the " Denver Land Company" and the M Kansas Land "CompEwy," denouncing them in strong terms. , THE Indianapolis Journal sent oat «ome 6,000 circulars to all the active and pronounced Republicans of lndiana* requesting each to indicate his first •choice for President. Nearly all who were addressed made replies. The final result is as folfcws: «• ...-1.WS ...1,«K) ...1,863 ... K7 •t*r" .....w f For JAU ES G. BLIHT JPor U. S. Grant For JobnStiermau - FOr R. B. Hayes For E. B. Washburne For J. A. CiarUehl For R. V. Thompson.... For Schuyler Colin. Bor Bernamm Harrteon.. For B. H. Bristow For Eoseoe ('oakling For John C. Fremont For Oeorjre F. FdmuntU.. For W. i . Sherman For Alexander Bam*ey... For Jobu a . Logau. i.................. For .Joseph R. Hawlejr For W. A. Wheeler FOrfFrerterick ...... V... For li. t. vglaubjr «.#« For Newton Boot# •••••V. Tor nominee, or expressing oo preference.... *0*4" THE railway interest is the heaviest •consumer of ikon in the country. It * "sow looks as if there would be a larger , demand for iron in 1880 than for many {previous years. In 1879 the total mile- 4Mge of road built was 4,000. But al- ̂ ready this year 9,000 to 10,000 miles projected for immediate oonstruo- ̂ * . Damages for Flowage. A Boston merchant contending in a Connecticut court where a shrewd old farmer had claimed large damages for flowage upon some apparently half marshy and worthless land, was aston­ ished at the evidence produced. There were three or four witnesses who testified on the plaintiff's side to the value of his land and the damage incurred. One spuke of planting a crop of corn there. A second responded similarly in the following examination: Plaintiff's Lawyer--"Have you ever used this land for agricultural pur­ poses?" Farmer--"Hey?" P. L.--"Have you ever planted any­ thing there?" , F.--"O, yes, lots on it; planted two crops o' corn there." P. L.--"Oh, you did? Did any one else ever do any planting there?" . F.--"Yes; the man that hired it arter me for one season planted a big<srop of pertaters." The defendant at this testimony looked extremely blank, and whispered despairingly to his lawyer. That func­ tionary, however, when his turn came to cross-examine the witness, elicited the following: Defendant's Lawyer--"Did I under­ stand you, Mr. Farmer, to say you had planted two crops of corn on that land?" Farmer--"Yaas, sir." | D, L.--" Well, now, I want to be ex­ act. Upon your oath, how much corn did you gather from that first plant­ ing?" F.--"Wall! Yer see, thai- 'era 'first plantin' kinder petered aout, en never grew up to nothin'." D. L.--"How about the second orop? How much of that came up?" F.--" You mean that 'ere second crop o' corn V" " D. L.--" Yes, sir! On your oath, sir." F.--" Wall," said the farmer, with a grin; "none o' that kim up at all." The climax was reached when the other farmer who planted the potatoes, and who was summoned by the plain­ tiff, and had been fuming and fretting in court for two days at being taken away from his spring work, testified as follows: Lawyer--" Mr. Rusticus, you hired that piece of land for one year, did you?" Rusticus--" Yes." L.--"State to the court how large a crop of potatoes you gathered from those you planted ?" R.--"Not a darned one. They all rotted in the ground, oondemn it." L.-- "Ahl But do you know of any thing else being planted there?" R.--" Wall--ye-as, I dew know of one other thing." L" Well, sir, what was it?" R.--" Wall, if yer must know, it was the owner's darned bull-terrier pup that was allers barkin' at every body. He tore my trouse'z one mornin' when I was gittin' over the wall, n' 1 killed the little cuss with my hoe, n' planted him right there in that 'ere lot, where I know'd everything rotted quick and never'd come up." The planting properties of- the lot were not furtter discussed after this testimony. John tiuy and Gen. Cass. In years gone by there dwelt in Washington John Guy, a character in his way, in connection with whom Col. Forney tells the fallowing anecdote: Guy kept the National Hotel in Washington, and among his guests was Gen. Cass, then Senator from Michi­ gan. Gny dressed like Cass, and, though not as portly, his face, including the wart, was strangely similar. One day a Western friend of the house came in after a long ride, dusty and tired, and, walking up to the office, encountered Gen. Cass, who was quietly standing there. Mistaking him for Guy, he slapped him on the shoulder, and ex­ claimed, "Well, old fellow, here lam! The last time I hung my hat up in your shanty one of your clerks sent me to the fourth story; but, now that I have got hold of jou, 1 insist upon a lower room." The General, a dignified personage, taken aback by this startling salute, coolly replied: "'You have committed a mistake, air; 1 am not Mr. Guy; I am Gen. Cass, of Michigan," and angrily turned away. Tlie Western man was shocked at the unconscious outrage he had committed; but before he had re­ covered from iiis mortification Gen. Cass, who had passed around the office, confronted him agaiA, when, a second time mistaking him for Guy, he faced him and said: Here yon are at last! I have just made a devil of a mistake; I met old Cass, and took him for you, and I'm afraid tbe Michigander has gone off mad." What Gen. Cass would have said may well be imagined, if the real Guy had not approached and res­ cued the innocent offender lrom the twice-assailed and twiee-aogered states- or three tons to tlie square foot; and thus a surface of only two square yards sustains a blow from a heavy Atlantic breaker equal to about fifty-four tons. In November, 1824, a heavy gale blew, and blocks of limestone and granite, from two to five tons in weight, were washed about like pebbles at the Ply­ mouth breakwater. About 300 tons of puch blocks were borne a distance of 200 feet, and up the inclined plane of the breakwater, carried over it, and scattered in various directions. A block of limestone, seven tons in weight, was in one place washed a distance of 120 feet. Blocks of three tons' weight were torn away by a single blow of a breaker, and hurled over into the har­ bor ; and one of «wo tons, strongly tre- nailed down upon a jetty, was torn away by an overpowering breaker. How AN OWL'S HEAD REVOLVES.--A contributor to the American Nat­ uralist, who had read a funny story about an owl wringing his own neck by looking at a man who was walking around him, tested the matter by ex­ periment. He obtained a fine speci­ men and placed him on top of a post. "It was not difficult," says the writer, "to secure liis attention, for he never diverted his gaze from me while I was in his presence. I began walking rap­ idly around the post, a few feet from it, keeping my eyes fixed on him all the while. His body remained motionless, but his head tamed exactly with my movements. When I was half way round his he^d was exaotly behind. Three-quarters of a circle were com­ pleted, and still the same twist of the neck and the same stare followed me. One circle and no change. On I went, twice round, and still that watch­ ful stare and steady turn of the head. On I went, three times round, and I be­ gan really to wonder why the head did not drop off, when all at once I discov­ ered what I had failed to notice before. When I had reached half way round from the front, which was as far as he could turn his head to follow my movements with comfort, he whisked it back through the whole circle so in­ stantaneously and brought it facing me again with such precision that I failed to detect the movement, although I was looking intently all the time. I repeated the experiment many times afterward on the same bird, and I had always to watch carefully to det6et the move ment'or the readjustment of his gaze." THB MANUFACTURI: OF SLATE-PEN­ CILS.--The process of making slate- pencils is thus described by the Ameri­ can Stationer: Broken slate from the slate quarries is put in a mortar run by steam, and pounded into small parti­ cles. Thence it goes into the hopper of a miU, which runs into a "bolting- machine, where it is "bolted," the finer, almost impalpable, flour that results be­ ing taken to a mixing-tub, where a small quantity of steatite lk>ur, simi­ larly manufactured, is added, together witii other materials, the whole being made into a stiff dough. This dough is kneaded thoroughly by passing it sev­ eral times between iron rollers. Then it is conveyed to a table, where it is made into "charges " -- that is, short cylinders, four or five inches thick, and containing some eight or fwelve pounds each. Four of these are placed in a strong iron chamber, or "retort," with a chaugeable nozzle so as to regu­ late the size of the pencil, and subjected to tremendous hydraulic pressure, under which the composition is pushed through the nozzle in a long cord, like a slender snake sliding out of a hole, and passes over a sloping table, slit at right angles with the cords to give passage to a knife which cuts them into lengths. They are then laid on boards to dry, and after a few hours are removed to sheets of corrugated zinc, the corrugations serv­ ing to prevent the pencils lrom warping during the process of baking, to which they are next subjected in a kiln, into which superheated steam is introduced in pipes, the temperature being regu­ lated according to the requirements of the article exposed to its influence. From the kiln the articles go to the finishing and packing room, where the ends are thrust for a second under rap- idly-revolving emery wheels, and are drawn neatly and smoothly pointed ready for use. never coerced; all little victories are assumed. The decisive nurse is never peremptory, never loud. She is distinct, it is true--there is nothing more aggra­ vating to a sick person than a whisper-- but she is not loud. Though quiet, how­ ever, she never walks tip-toe; she never makes gestures; all is open and above- board. She knows no diplomacy or Jinesse, and, of course, hGfr shoes never oreak. Her touch is steady and en­ couraging. She does not potter. Sbe never looks at you sideways. You never oatch her watching. She never slams the door, but shel never shuts it slowly, as if she were cracking a nut in the hinge. She never talks behind it. She never peeps. She p«fkes the fire skillfully, with firm, judicious penetra­ tion. She caresses one kind of patient with genuine sympathy, she talks to another as if he were well. She is never in a hurry. She is worth her weight in gold, and has a healthy prejudice against physic, which, however, she knows at the right time how to conceal." TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION. Three millions of persons die annu ally of consumption. Medical re­ sources seem to be baffled by this mal­ ady. Dr. Talbot Jones confesses, in the New York Medical Journal, that cli­ mate is the physician's only dependence foe the cure of his consumptive pa­ tient. The article expresses the follow­ ing opinions: 1. No zone enjoys entire immunity from pulmonary consumption. 2. The popular belief that phthisis is common in cold climates is fallacious, and the idea, now so prevalent, that phthisis is rare in warm climates is as untrue as dangerous. 3. The disease causes a large pro­ portion of deaths on ttajpeashore, the mortality diminishing1 vp|^eyatiou up to a certain point. 4. Altitude is inimical w> the develop­ ment of consumption, owing chiefly to the greater purity of the atmosphere in elevated situations, its freedom from organic matter, and its richness in ozone. * 5. Moisture arising from a play soil or due to evaporation is one of the most influential factors in its production. 6. Dampness from the atmosphere, from whatever cause, or in any altitude, predispqses to the development of the disease, and is hurtful to those already attacked. 7. Dryness is a quality Of the Atmos­ phere of decided value. 8. The most unfavorable olimate pos­ sible for a consumptive is one of uni­ form high temperature and a high dew point (warm and moist). 9. The effeots due to change in the atmosphere are by no means so per­ nicious as are generally supposed, and on this subject present views require modification. Dr. Jones oommends the climate of Minnesota, and thinks those predis­ posed to consumption, or laboring under its first stages, would very likely be ben­ efited or cured by a residence there. Between the pleasant rolling prairie, the wooded lake region, and the dense pine forests of the northern section of the State, they can choose what seems most agreeable and best adapted to them, while the dry, bracing atmos­ phere will enable them to live much of their time out of doors without fear of taking Isold. He insists, however, on the inutility of sending patients thither wto are in the advanced stages of th^disease. " boober*." There may be people in this #trid who do know what a goober is, bat there are none who have not heard of the luscious and seductive peanut. The peanut and the goober are one and the same. There are seven counties in Virginia that make a specialty of grow­ ing the peanut. The crop year begins Oct. 1, and ends the following Septem­ ber. Last year the peanut crop amounted to 900,000 bushels, and this year it will tonch a million. They sell down in Ole Virginia for$l a b shel, which makes a pretty good item when rolled up together. The modus oper­ andi by which the nuts are separated, cleaned and classed is somewhat as fol­ lows : The third story of the building contains thousands of bushels of peas in bags. First, there is a large cylin­ der, in which all the nuts are placed, in Workers In Metals. The Japanese possess wonderful skill in working metals. Copper, brass and iron are wrought in every part of the country. The Japanese swords, for example, have been famous ever since the knowledge of them reached other lands. Beside their excellent temper, the ornaments Upon their hilt3, made of copper, silver or gold, with inlaid work of various metals, are not merely curiosities, but are not infrequently works of high art. In alloying and coloring they certainly lead the world. At the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 their bronze and lacquer work, their carvings on stone and wood, their mosaics, ba^et works, shell work, leather work and the like were more admired than the similar products of any other peo­ ple. In bronee working they stand particularly high. A great proportion of their ornamental bronzes are de­ signed for the use of the Buddhist worship. There is an infinity of bells and gongs, elaborately ornamented; vases, candelabras, altars for incense, statues and statuettes of gods and demi-gods, saints and heroes, tripods; the sacred animals, such as the crane, the stork and the tortoise; and, notably, the Corean dog, holding in his paws a hollow, revolving sphere. Of purely- secular articles there is an abundance. There are cups, plates and platters without end; candlesticks, lamps and bronzes, and what not--all beautiful and artistic in their way. WASHINGTON TEBBITOKT boasts an apple which measured sixteen and one- half inches round and weighed three pounds, the exact weight of a quinoe from Atlanta, Ga. Its course was The cold wa3 immediate and intense, The " strong wind threw the water in­ to waves, which froze as they stood." Mr. Timothy Chamberlain, living near Jacksonville, was working at his uncle's house, and so waim was the day that he had laid aside his coat. At noon he went to a neighbor's to assist in weighing hogs by the old steelyard process. The *' balance" was fixed, when, without • any notice, the wave passed over. His coat was frozen as stiff as a board. In the town chickens and hogs were frozen in the mud. Mr. Washington Crowder, living ten miles from Springfield, started in the fore­ noon for that place to get a marriage lioense. On his way t|Mck he saw ti^ black cloud approaching. His experi­ ence is thus related: ' " Thinking it bes| to lower his um­ brella hejsarriedto protect himself from the falling misty rain, he dropped the reins and, folding it, placed it unde*' his arm; As he reached for the rein, the cold wave struck him. When he drew the rein taut, ice rattled from it. Being a man of iron frame, he went on to Springfield, his horse walking now oij frozen ground and snow. Reaching the city, he rode up to whtre Bunn's Bank stood so many years afterward, but found he could not dismount. He called for assistance, and was answered by sev­ eral who came at onoe to his relief. He was found frozen fast to the saddle, and, cutting it loose'from the nearly-frozen horse, man and saddle were carried in to the fire and thawed asunder. He I was determined uoL io disappoint his intended and her friends,, and, after as­ certaining he was not badly frozen, he procured his license, returned that alter- noon, and was married the next. This event fixed the date iu his mind beyond doubt, and may be relied upon as cor­ rect." A party of men was working in the field in McLean eounty, and one of them nad yith him a heavy overcoat. This had become wet with the falling mist, and as the wave came over them the man hastily undertook to put oil the coat; as he raised it above his head the cold wave struck him, the wind blowing the coat several feet from him. It happened to light " head up and tail down" when it fell, and there it stood, with arms extended, frozen as stiff AM a1 board. Mr. Andrew Heredith, of Spring­ field, started with a drove of hogs to St. Louis, taking with him several wagons of corn to feed the hogs on tlie way. Near Oarlinvilie, Macoupin coun­ ty, the storm overtook them. The party overturned the wagons and drove to a house some miles away, where they ar­ rived with frozen hands, but found shelter. The next day they returned for the hogs, and found a pyramid of dead porkers. The hogs had huddled when the wave struok them, and those underneath were smothered, while those on top were frozen to death. J. H. Hildreth and another left Dan­ ville for Chicago, and traveled on horseback over the prairie. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon th^jr saw the black cloud, 4nd, assuming it to be an ordin­ ary snow storm, directed their steps to­ ward a grove of timber. The country was then uninhabited, except at long distances, and the men had no means of building a fire, and later in the after­ noon they left the woods in search of a cabin. They wandered vainly un until night. The story continues: "About dark, with every hope of shel­ ter gone, one of them proposed to kill one of the horses, take out all his in- sides, crawl into the oavity, and save themselves from a fate they felt sure was certain to come. Strange' and loathsome as this may appear, it had been done before in trying cases like the present one, and it was done now. The remaining horse was secured near, being allowed freedom enough to keep himself in motion. The poor brute seemed to feel his dangerous position, and did not evince any desire to go far awayi " 'About 3 or 4 o'clock in the morn­ ing,' says Hildreth,' we were obliged to leave our place of refuge. It had be­ come frozen, and afforded ns no pro­ tection.' They then tried to kill the other horse, but, being cold and well- nigh numb, dropped the knife in the grass at their feet, and could not find it. At this Frame gave up, and lay dewn, declaring he would go no far­ ther. Hildreth tried every way to rouse him, but to no avail. A stupor oame over him, and unconsciously he passed away. At this time it was near- ing day, and Hildreth resolved to make another effort for his life, which he saw could not endure a much greater strain. By dint of considerable exertion he mounted his horse, and allowed the ani­ mal to go its own way. Presently they came to the banks of a stream, which must have been the Vermillion river, but which at that particular place was running swiftly, and noi entirely frozen over. On the opposite bank Btood a log cabin, from wLose chimney smoke was issuing, and whose shelter Hildreth now resolved to seek. He also saw a canoe, and, chough the experiment of crossing he knew would be very dangerous, he determined to effect it if possible. He hallooed for some time ere he could bring any re­ sponse from the cabin. Finally a rough- looking man appeared, and demanded savagely what he wanted. Being told, directed Hildreth to a cabin, which he said was only half a mile away, and on Hiklreth's side of the river. On going to it he found it empty and deserted, and found, too, that the distance was more than three times as far as the man had informed him. Returning to the bank of the river he noticed a short distance below the cabin a fallen tree extending across tbe stream, over whose slippery trunk he managed to crawl, and from thence went to the fence in front of the cabin he had at first vainly tried to enter." The owner, however, refused to ad­ mit him or give him" aid, though the wife seconded the appeal of the suffer­ er. Hildreth was unable to climb the fence, but in some *vay managed to tumble over it, and then crawled into the house and laid down before the fireplace. Later in the day, a party of drovers searching for stock came to the cabin and found Hildreth, who was then insensible. Thef compelled the man of the house to give him something, and when he had recovered they took him home with them. He never fully recovered his health. His fingers and toes were frozen, and the necessary amputation included the loss of one foot. He subsequently married and lived in Logan county. The inhospita­ ble man who refused him aid and shel- | ter was compelled by the neighbors to leave the country--hospitality being then, as now, .a cardinal virtue the coijntry. • • State Itaoif. THE question of improving county roads looms up as an important question in Illinois. ONE agency at Bloomingtbn reports that since December fifty fanners' loans have been paid off. EAST ST. LOUIS still boasts of two rival bodies callcd City Council, and the Mayor acts with that one which appears to have least to do. ^ THE Illinois State Board of Health elected Dr. H. Wardner President, and re-elected Dr. John(H. Ranch, of Chi­ cago, Secretary. THE death of George W. Sieber, the absconding ex-Treasurer of St. Clair county, is reported to have taken place in the City of Mexico. SEVEN thieves and burglars, who have been committing extensive depre­ dations at Mendota and vicinity lately, were arrested last week. Four of the gang escaped, bu$ were recaptured by the City Marshal of Mendota, and all of the rascals are now in custody, await­ ing passports to the Joliet penitentiary. THE State Board of Agriculture, in session at Springfield, fixed upon November 15 as the time for holding the next Fat Cattle Show at Chicago, contingent upon her citizens raising sufficient money io pay fhe expenses, the Board having lost money by thetwo previous exhibitions. A SPECIAL meeting o! the National Lincoln Monument Association was held a few days ago. Present, ex-Gov. Oglesby, President; Hon. O. M. Hatch, Secretary; Hon. Milton Hay, Col. D. L. Phillips, Hon O. H. Miner, Maj. John T. Stuart, Hon. J. C. Conkliog and ex- Gov. Palmer. Letters were read from Larkin G. Meade, announcing that the plaster, casts of the models for the ar­ tillery group were completed and ready to send to the foundry, and that the fourth and last group, the cavalry, would soon be ready. Letters were also received from the Ames Manufact­ uring Company, of Chicopee, Mass., announcing that they were ready to proceed with the work of casting as soon as the models were received. The Secretary was directed, to write Mr. Meade, at Florence, Italy, urging hiir to complete the groups as soon as pos­ sible, that the}' may be placed on the monument next summer. ' ; .^'vv ft showf-^ MCOIV A MOftSTEK CBUWlte ' J' The Preparation* I'hat Are Making to Take Vara of It in the Exposition Building Daring tbe Slttbg of tike Kepnbltann C«u- readon. [From tbe Chicago Time*.] Mr. W. W. Boyington. architect of the £xposition building, is in Denver, but his assistants are making the draw­ ings for tbe purpose of adapting the south half of the building to the ne­ cessities of the National Republican Convention. This half of the building is to be separated from the rest by a partition carried up high enough to meet a temporary ceiling which will ex­ tend over this portion*of the building. The stage at the south end will accom­ modate 460 Vice Presidents and dis­ tinguished citizens. On a platform lower than the stage, and immediately in front of it, will be placed the tables for the reporters." The central space set apart for the delegates and alter­ nates is 212* feet long and fifty feet wide, and will contain 1,5U0 seats. The half of this space which is nearest to the stage will be reserved for delegates, and the rear half for alternates. The floor of this portion of the hall will be four or five feet higher at the rear than at the front. The seats for spectators will be ar­ ranged in amphitheatrical form around the space occupied by the stage and the seats of delegates and alternates. At a height of six f< at above the main floor, a platform wilt extend around the entire hall. From this platform the seats will rise tier above tier to the leyel of the glass in the semi-circular roof, a height several feet above the gallery, ovfer which the seats will pass, and be­ tween thirty and forty feet above the main floor. The north seats will join those on the east and west by two right angles, but at the south end the bank of seats will follow the curve of the build­ ing. These seats will accommodate 10,000 people, and the intention is to reserve the semi-circular portion at the south end for the ladies, who will thus be placed facing the dele­ gates, but behind all the people on the stage. ' Access to the platform at the foot of the spectators' galleries will be gained by short flights of steps under the seats. From this platform flights of steps will lead through each section to the highest row of seats. In order to prevent crowding and confusion, there will be separate entrances for the occupants of the stage, for. the delegates, lor the alter­ nates, and for the reporters, and there will be a separate entrance for each sec­ tion or pair of sections in the specta­ tors' galleries. The entire hall will measure 400 feet in length by 150 feet in ^dth, and a hall of sucft proportions, cov­ ered with a temporary ceiling, whether of glass or canvas has not been de­ termined, will be perfectly unobjec­ tionable in the way of acoustics. Peo­ ple who are remote from or in the rear of speakers are not likely to hear very well, but all will be done that circum ! Front pf The political; that the Demi rupt, as conscien in New England as isiana, or of fact, the their South. In the rush of fteals tre «§• prone to fprg^i crime*, , . The first great political theft which ws$^<,f perpetrated in the United States oa», currtki in the Empire State. fhsSano* cratic party of New York •Idbtlwisio#^' ̂ toral vote of that State in 1888* Horace Greeley «harge£'t&e chief' gaittd th* •• crime upon Samuel J. TMen, and Tfk den never denied the charge. The in-' 'famy of that crime against the rights of the people of New York has never beejj|: excelled in any cue of the bulldoze# Southern States. The majority of tl|j| legal voters of New York on that occi*-, sion voted for the Grant electors. Til- den, having foreseen that such wonl<| be the case, sent a circular letter to th* Democratic managers at every voting precinct in the State, requiring ft telegraphic report to headqnaiteHI in New York aity of majorities immediately upon the of the polls, declaring that important object was to be Upon the receipt of those reports T»l- den. it was alleged, mstruetwl TwOefi* his then henchman, to stuff the iwOolP boxes of that- city with a irafitaismt ' / number of Democratic votes to over­ come the estimated Republican major­ ity in the interior of the State. T*" tissue-ballot frauds of the Sonth Car»» f lina Democrats in 1878 were no mor» criminal, no more heinous, than New York Tilden-Tweed frauds of 1868. Remove from the Democxatia bulldozing frauds which have disking • guished the elections in Mississippi and Louisiana for several years the feature of assassination, and they are no worse" than those of Tildes ana Tweed. And tne Garoelon-Pillsbary came in Maitte is no whit mom fltrocioas than that of South Carolina or that of New Yoxfc. The country is more shocked became in the present instance the fraud is perpetrated in an old State, and, so far, the criminals have benefited by their fraud. In New York the frattd aid not affect the result of the Presidential election, and the people seemed to loee sight of the smaller fact that the Gov­ ernment of the largest State in the Union had been seized possession of by fraud! It is hoped and believed thai die Democratic crime in Meiae wilt yet foe defeated and the people's re^cnewtar tives secured in possession of tile Gov­ ernment. But suppose it should not t Suppose the conspirators should suc­ ceed in retaining control of their stolen •nnwAr? WhU than? Is? tlw mka at Maine in 1880 any worse than was that of New York in 18681 And is the stealing control of a State Government at the North more menacing to the perpetuity of our free instttafto&i than the stealing of a Southern State Gov­ ernment? • Tbe publio does not realize it, but the fact ia the most stealing feature of the general political ettaa- tion. is the cironmataaoe that power has been usurped by the mmontgr, Bsing forcc, in seireral Southern States, and the usurpation continued now for years. And the Government of the nation confesses itself powerless to prevent or punish the crimes against the right of franchise which these usurpations in­ volve. The Sonth has been made solid|y Democratic by frauds upon the ballot- box, and these frauds have been ren­ dered possible only through the capital crime of murder. And jet tlie coon* try has remained calm.. beoanse,. appar­ ently, the frauds and crimes were com­ mitted in the extreme Sonth. The Northern people in a good-natured way have ?he Sonth is solidly Demo- cratic by fraud; we will make thelfcttk solidly Republican honestly." The Northern people have theughi--good souls--to cure the evil of £ran$| la elections at the South by honest elec­ tions at the North. They seem to haVe forgotten that the first great DemOetatie fraud was perpetrated at the NoMh, that only a dozen years ago the largest State in the Union was stolen bodily* so to speak f by Tilden and Tweed, and that the Democratic party of thf nation sanctioned the theft by accepting as its candidate for the Presidency the chief criminal iu the nefarious Jtasineset He who considers the stealing oi the Government of Main*' aa I sporadio case of I>emoc«atio vil-. lainy is not only a poor student of'*5 political history, but utterly blind to the logic of this particular rot&eiy. When the Democratic party hid ae- cured a solid South, ita managers as­ sumed that the control of the nation was within their grasp, aod ̂ JiMNt spokesmen outlined the party poifcd' ap offensively that the reaoCkm here fore­ shadowed a, solid North. The stealing of Maine is* the Democratic answer to Northern expressions of disgust. "Hj* say they, in their secret eonnsels, "if we can steal Southern State Govern­ ments with impunity, why no&tfartheni Stale Governments as well?* And we have the robbery in Maine. Theatroo- ity in the -Pine-Tree State is not tlie work of Garcelon and Pillsbory alone. It is a part of the Democratic plan to steal the Presidency in 1880. Demo- rats in various parts of the countiy, and the Democratic presses, denoanee the crime of their fellows in Maine; but the criminals hold on to their phm- der. The court decides against them on every point, but they adhere stub-' hornly to their original programme;. Why? Because the Democraticperty, as an organization, does not speas. in­ dividual Democrats speak, but the perty is silent. It is time for the Republican the nation to say that elections free and fair, not only in Mississippi* Louisiana olina. The surrender uf % publican State of the Democracy, without a fession of defeat £ v- • f y ^ ' V' 1, f • j ff ^ - ' i J 'r 1 J 1 r. •j he refused to give him any aid, alleging I stances admit of to snake hearing poe-1 frauds that the river could not be crossed. He 1 sible. f f i cowardly. tbe Democratie Government of the Government Hamnehire, and v secure oontrol ofthe, ment. The committee publicans wUo bean party shall ib Presidential oowtjO Southern State are stealing S _ from the South, to the esttea* shows that * - -