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MMHMM MB. J. G. FLOOD has just bestowed a ^pleasant little amount of pin-money on his daughter. Miss Jennie Flood; he has registered $2,500,000 in United ^States bonds in her name. This gift provides for her an income of $100,000 a year. s WHKX theEmperor of China goes to bed he is Attended by eight servants who sit by his bedside, and sixteen who •crawl underneath. These servants are pot allowed to oough, sneeze, or even let their aching knee-joints crack, on penalty of instant, execration. THE glass factories at Pittsburgh, Pa., which have been running at barely liv- ling rates for several years, now have all they can do to keep up with orders, -and have raised prices 10 and 25 per cent, on window-glass and table-ware. MB. JOHN FOBTUVB, of Fond dn Lac, Wis., recently became the father of twin girls. When he first looked upon the new-comers he smiled* a sort of ghastly smile hnd remarked, "Well, I suppose it's all right, for it is said Miss Fortunes never come singly." ^ v • " AXDBEW BREEDING, a memfeerof a Revenue Collector's posse, in Tennes­ see, should participate in the next go- as-you-please pedestrian match. While on a raid, recently, he was captured by a party of moonshiners, but, escaping soon after, he ran, pursued by the crooks, a distance of thirty-five miles in aeven hoars, and finally eluded them. IT is related of Gen. Grant that when a lad he Was standing quietly in a group of boys One day, when a big boy threat­ ened to whip another much smaller than himself. Grant said nothing "until the aggressor proceeded to put his threats info execution; then he stepped forward, rolled up his sleeves, and ob­ served that if there was any fighting to be done it conld be done «with him. . '"I'll take the licking," said Grant. And the big boy retreated. t. THK recent hanging of Swift Banner an Indian murderer, at Fort Saskatche­ wan, Canada, was in a temperature of •40 degrees below zero. A gallows had been built out of doors, so that the Indian^ could see too execution; but when the officers and prisoner arrived at the spot it was found that most of the seaffold had been used for firewood by the half-frozen crowd. Swift Runner complacently warmed himself at the fire while the gallows was being repaired When everything else was ready the nervous hangman said he had forgetten to bring a strap to fasten the prisoner's arms and !<%?. He offered to save fur­ ther trouble by killing himself with a tem&hawk, but his proposition was re­ jected, and he ate a hearty meal of pem- mican, with the noose around his neck, while a messenger was fetching a strap. A priest attempted to give him spiritual consolation, but he said that the white man's whisky had ruined him, and so he couldn't believe in . the white man's God. He preferred a death dance by his own people, and while they were performing it he was hanged. THEODOBE TILTON was to lecture at Parsons, Kan., and the committee was at the station to receive him. They stepped up to the long-haired gentle­ man and welcomed him with much en­ thusiasm and ceremony. The long­ haired gentleman appeared surprised and said: " I. don't kndw what you mean by this, but I can remove any wart or bunion in thirty minutes, with­ out pain, or forfeit my reputation." The committee had taken a " corn doe- tor" for T. T. THE faculty of Harvard College Itave greatly offended the lady students by prohibiting them <from entering the class for the study of the Cainese lan guage, which is now taught there. Why should they not be allowed to en ter this class as well as any other is |>est known to the college authorities; 'but no explanation is given, and those most interested are exceedingly angry about it. There seems to be consider­ able " Sex in Education " in old Har­ vard yet. ¥ GERMANY has a standing army of 410,000 men already, and now it is pro­ posed to add to it 20,000 more. It is producing an uncomfortable feeling in Germany, whose people must supply all the soldiers and pay all £he expenses, «tnd it is looked upon with jealousy and distrust by the other European powers Itrho think it portends mischief. It ,«osts the empire about $90,000,000 an­ nually to support the army on a peace looting, and the proposed inorease will 4§dd $4,000,000 more, besides about #7,000,000 for outfit for the new sol­ diers. If Germany does this it will ne­ cessitate a similar increase of the armies <fef Russia, France* and Austria, and the thoughts of the people will be turned to war, and war wjjl be the outoome. THE Ohm Legislature is looking after the heuth of the people by pass­ ing stringent bill^ punishing tradesmen who adulterate food. One of the bills Recently introduced provides that all artificial butter shall have an analysis *V>f its ingredients stamped upon the ^package in which it^ is offered for sale. %hat would be pretty tough on a good 'deal of real butter in the market, and 'would drive some dealers out of the business. It would be a good and wholespme provision, however, to re­ quire every package of sugar, tea, ground coffee, spioes, baking powder, •etc., to be properly branded with the analysis of the ingredients, wholesome and poisonous, of which it is, composed. The adulteration of food and drink is one of tbe crying hygienic evils of modern times. end will, in effect, put an end to many similar suits growing out of the same (MM. \ ' NAILS and other descriptions of goods have advanced enormously with­ in a few months. We select nails as especially notable; very recently they rose from $4.25 to $5 per cwt. Less than a year ago the same classes of nails, now quoted at $5 per 100 pounds, sold for $1.90. But pig iron and steel blooms have advanced nearly as rapid­ ly; still the cost of fuel and labor has not correspondingly risen, showing that the advance is to a great degree speculative. One effect of this phe- nominal rise will be that railroad and ship building will be rendered so ex­ pensive as to prevent their extension m a manner to afford the largest bene fit to the country. Steel rails are now $80 per ton. But »t such a price, whioh is three times their value in Eu­ rope, it is safe to say that so ms^iy of them will not be laid as would other­ wise be the case. A DECISION of interest and import­ ance touching the liabilities of railroad ' -companies for goods destroyed by fire fire while in transit was lately rendered by Judge McKeonan in the United §;;• Btates Court at Pittsburgh. Suit was brought against the Pennsylvania Rail- iroad Company to recover the value of £<>ods destroyed in freight ears by the \ |ncendiary fires during the riots of July, . j.877, in Pittsburgh, and thejeourt held #hat the company was not shown to •|>e guilty of any negligence such as to . Impair the elause in the bill of lading excepting liability of the company for freight lost by fire, and the ruling was, •**p. FACTS AKD FIGURES. POOR'S Manual (1878) gives the total number of miles of railroad operated in the United States as 74,112, and the total cost of construction, $3,715,725,- 000--about an ^average of $50,000 per mile. THE latest statistics in reference to the miles of telegraph lines give the length of various lines in the United Stated as 70,618, and the length of the wires as 16-1,610. We have no informa­ tion regarding their cost. OVER 20,000 car-loads of live and dressed poultry are carried into New York city yearly, and 25,500,000 dozens eggs go t<i the same market. According to the best estimates, the United States produces 9,000,000,0b0 of eggs annu­ ally. THE poverty of Germany, as com­ pared with France^ is indicated by the 'statement that the latter country has 100,000,000 acres of land under cultiva­ tion, with a population of 39,000,000; -while Germany, with a population of 42,000,000, has only 80,000,000 acres de­ voted to farming purposes. Or the 202 minor planets now known, 165 have been discovered by ten astron­ omers. The list is as follows: Peters, 38; Watson, 23; Palisa, 21; Luther, 20; Goldschmidt, 14; Borrelly, 9; Hind, 9; De Gasparis, 7; Prosp. Henry, 7, and Hogson, 7. The whole number of dis­ coverers is thirty-three. THE two towers of the Cologne Ca­ thedral, which is now nearly completed after centuries of work, are the highest in the world. They are 524 feet 11 inches and 415 feet 1 inch high, respec­ tively, while St. Peter's at Rome is but 409 feet 2 inches. The ridge tiles of the Cologne Cathedral are 360 feet 3 inches from the ground, while the top of the dome of St. Paul's in London is only 4 feet 10 inches higher. THE annexed table shows the com­ mercial failures in the country and the liabilities for eigbt years: Year. 1N7S....... 187<J.S 1874 M75 187 6 187 7 187 8 187 9 Failures. Amt. of liuUUttlst 4,069 $121.1 56 000 6,183 5,880 ! ir> 5 , I M M I *7,740 ] *»,OiO.O(W 9,09-2 191,117,000 8.878 l«.K),«i9,»:» 10,478 6.658 9S.149.05S THE last census reports 47,846 per­ sons engaged in 5,204 establishments, making cigars, snuff, chewing or smok­ ing tobacco; the value of the products $72,762,044, an increase of neany 76 per cent, over that of 1860, in tobacco and snuff, and 268 per cent, increase in the production of cigars. Tobacco crop in the year 1840, 219,163,319 pounds; 1850, 199,752,655 pounds; 1860, 434,209,461 pounds; 1870, 262,- 735,341 pounds. .In 1878 the tobacco crop was 392,546,700 pounds, valued at $22,137,428. History Records No Greater Here. Last spring some quilts were missing from Gflmore's livery stable, and Jim­ my Connelly, a little boy. whose father resides on California street, was accused of the theft. He was arrested, but stoutly declared his innocence. He acknowledged that he knew who took the quilts, thotkgh he did not take them. Nothing could induce him to name the culprits. His father, fearing that he was not innocent of the accusation, sent him to the Reform School at Plainville. He wrote to his father whenever he had an opportunity, reiterating his inno­ cence and begging to be brought back home. The father, believing that he was doing what was best for the boy, let him remain. A few days ago the child was sent home a corpse, having died of homesickness. When he knew he was going to die he made a state­ ment of what he knew about the theft, and again asserted his innocence. He hated to give the boys away, he said; they had been his friends, but he did not want to die with such a charge against him. He*named the boys who had committed the theft, but affirmed that he was not with them.--Indianap- « JSjfc V' & kn J /'t> *k "l' , The liook, > 4 Oalkcy at ssersd jfc-ture* manifold.- V" .'--vr The ktarofiypfeta or»cles or ohi. Alon*itstnn* ptMueoIsdaaartjrrsait; ̂ . And tM^rckmil aid*-light* bait acqaafct ss, -i"u" Bat only when on form Mid word ofcsanre PUta from above the white supernal light We fMd the mystic eharaotw* slight. .? • '/ And light informs the silent portraiture. ̂4 Until we pause at last. «w< -held, before » •, TbffTfmir>*g*ble iove» wtm<,er» *ad . A PwiUw Christianity. I once had a conversation \Ath an in­ telligent infidel, who stared me in the face while he asked me if I was posi­ tive that my Christianity was true; to which I replied that I had not a doubt, and that the evidence was fixed in my heart; to which he replied that it had always been a difficult thing for him to believe a doctrine that was a matter of so much uncertainty to so xnanv who call themselves Christians. "Well," said he, " I am in the habit of asking Christians whether they have the assur­ ance that the Lord is with them, and when they answer in the affirmative their faces betray them, and look as though they had been caught in the act of stealing. And, for my part. I never can be a Christian as long as I find such poor representatives of Chris­ tianity. Why, sir, it is the rarest thing that I can find a man that is positive; and, therefore, there must be something wrong. When a business man makes himself known to meVs such, he does not say, ' I think I am a member of such and such a firm,' * I hope I am thus and so.' I do not question his veracity, and rarely think it necessary to ask him for any papers to prove it, because he is positive about it; but the usual an­ swer to my plain question is, 'I hope so,' ' I am trying to be,' 41 used to be,' or * would like to be.' Suppose I was appointed Prime Minister to some for­ eign state, and my business was to rep­ resent the interests of the United States of America, would I leave any room in the mind of the Governor as to the genuineness of my mission? If the Bible is true, and you are the rep­ resentatives of its blessings, why are you ashamed to own it?" 1 was not just then prepared for such a sermon from this celebrated infidel. Although he did not seem to doubt my statement, yet he taught me a lesson I will not soon forget, and that lesson was the awful responsibility of profess­ ing Christians.--Advocate of Christian Holiness. " AU Things Are Now Ready." From age to age the call is still ihe same. As one generation sweeps another off the stage--some heeding, some de­ spising, some not even hearing the be­ nignant invitation, it is still repeated: •All things are now ready." Yes, at whatever moment the poor, sin-sick, starved, exhausted sinner first begins to feel his want, and turns his dim and haggard eyes toward that scene of splendor and festivity, before unknown or madly disregarded--however un­ timely the appeal may seem--though the prayer be breathed at midnight, in the dark, from the beggar's hovel, the field of battle, or the dungeon, or the scaffold--the response is still the same: " Come, for all things are now ready." The resort to this supply can never be too early; it should never be too late. It can never be too early; for the soul is never without consciousness of want --a restless craving for enjoyments, better than the best it has experienced. It should never be too late--as it is, alas! too late for thousands--because all things are now ready; and when all things are now ready, and the opportu­ nity afforded of securing them but transient, it is self-destruction to refuse acceptance--it is folly, it is madness even to postpone it.--/. A. Alexander Religion n Notions. Notions about religion may grow up in people's heads as hair grows on them --without any feeling. Much that we cannot ask of man, we are, O! so glad, if any wise and lriend- ly man will offer. Whosoever examines and enjoys a Scripture story feels that he is brought nearer to God thereby. Whatever, innocently interesting the mind, fills the heart with pure affec­ tionate feeling serves for edification. Christ has both to make Himself de­ sired as a guest, and to persnade those who already desire Him that Ho is most willing to come. It is quite natural and very useful that there should be much homely and simple narrative in the Bible. This makes us feel that "salvation" comes to the house; and does not merely wait in the church till we go to it. The Evangelic narratives domesticate the "Gospel" in our souls; the dignified truth becomes affable, yet remains dig­ nified; wad we love what we revere, because it is so familiar with us.--Rev. T. T. Lynch. Saw the Elephant and Died. /That there is a limit to elephantine endurance was proved long ago by the dismal drenching administered to a cer­ tain tailor of Delhi, whose excessive hardiness with the needle prompted him to offer gratuitous and unprovoked insult to a huge pachyderm which ob­ truded the tip of its trunk upon his. notice as he sat in his shop window. A still more terrific reprisal than this has recently been exercised by a vexed ele­ phant upon an imprudent person who trifled with the colossal beast's appetite until it provoked it to ungovernable fury. The elephant in question consti­ tuted the "great attraction" of a trav­ eling menagerie that arrived in Amster­ dam a few days ago, and was permitted to camp out in one of the publio gar­ dens there. An old gentleman, in­ spired by the elephant's amiable ex­ pression of countenance, with the con­ viction that "Maharajah" would stand any amount of teasing, proceeded to of­ fer a tempting lump of bread to the ani­ mal, deftly withdrawing it, however, be­ yond the reach of Maharajah's trunk each time that receptacle was thrust forth to grasp it. The jocular perform­ ance having been repeated sevopal times, the elephant suddenly stepped forward close to his *ide of the railing, seized his tormentor's body in his trunk, lifted him clean over the barrier interpos­ ing between them, and hurled him to the ground. Having got his enemy down, Maharajah trod upon him with Buch vindictive vehemence that, when the "much-too-merry" old gentleman was finally got out of the inclosure, he was dead.-- London Telegraph. The Pleasure of Doing Good* There is a satisfaction in the thought of having done what we know to be right; and there is a discomfort amount­ ing often to bitter and remorseful agony in the thought of having done what conscience tells us to be wrong, i^kds implies a sense of the rectitude of A* • mmm m- {ffhng ess ihem- tight- inner iuatioe, have, of gaSI. zicvAitutf ch iMm. its I BtoCdadiMt Daring the WMTWHI ITriiiinrtn UOB of Trwswm I'ortrajrei m Eloquent i*m- mm MSiS^ and selves, ~imsp»*i ness, sweet unto the i . man. Maftee, eurv, falsehood, irrespective of their vnofnM of themselves,, the bittpmass and wormwood. " '"-IIL ; jjjfci. Yeftuvisn Tips, At the cone ot Vesuvius one generally finds the same class of men seen at Aver- no, and threats are often employed to extract money. At Vesuvius an able- bodied man requires no help, Ascend­ ing by carriage to the plateau where the observatory stands, he ha» simply to walk on to the base of the cone, and then climb the mountain or ashes as he best may. He is sure, however, of be­ ing followed by the frightful- too king creatures who haunt the seene, and sometimes half a dozen attend him, pointing out the rough but beaten path, and enlarging upon the necessity of their valuable services. Arriving some Morning before the throng of visiters come to drink the vino loco, and make Vesuvius merry, the solitary visitor is impressed by tue loneliness and desola­ tion of the scene. The path to the foot of the cone lies through biilowsof black lava, resembling frozen mud, while in threading tortuous gullies BO prospect meets the eye but fciie sky overhead and the dark pyramid of ashes rising in front, erowndft with its cloud of vapor, popularly supposed to be smoke. There is an indescribable solemnity in the view, especially when it is remembered that but a thin crust lies between one's feet and seas of liquid fire. Horeb it­ self o9ers no such scene of desola ion. It is, therefore, with a sense of relief that the foot of the cone is reached, and the ascent commenced. Here every foot gained enlarges the vision, which ere long takes in the flanks of the moun­ tain, sweeping down and away toward Herculaneum and Pompeii, while be­ yond is the blue Bay of Naples, formed by the promontories of Sorrento and Mi'-ene, and islanded by Capri, Procida, and Isoeia. But who could enjoy any­ thing here while the importunate Vesu- vian is at hand, insisting that the tourist shall have four men to carry him up on a chair, or at le«4ft two men to haul with a rope, which they try to make fast around your waist? If you do not know them thoroughly, you may give them a tip to go away; but the uninitiat­ ed finds, to his dismay, that the only effect of a fee is to make them hold on, the appetite for lire growing with what it feeds upon. Thus the villains pursue you to the summit, where you look into the crater, and perhaps walk on its edge for a quarter of a mile, roast an egg on the brimstone rocks, and burn the end of your staff, to prove to the world that you have actually been there. In mak­ ing the descent, even the guides will not pretend that you need help, since it is simply a swift slide down an ash heap hundreds of feet high, inclining at an angle of fifty degrees. Yourtorment- ors, however, will greet you at the bottom, snd renew their clamors for tips, which they often frighten out of st/ong men. With Italians the tip is an essen­ tial, and must be had. If necessary, a resort is made to cruelty, as when the wretches at Sorrento come daily before your hotel; tormenting birds in order that English and American® may pur­ c h a s e t h e i r e x e m p t i o n . a a f i e r m g by oispensing small earns.'~l£n "Tippem to the police was of no use; but we heard with satisfaction, a few days aftjr, that at Florence a branch of Mr Bergh'a society, the first in Italy, had been established by the Italians themselves. The cruelty of the cotrmon people in Italy is something remarkable. Every­ where in the villages we found the peasants putting out the eyes of birds to make them sing.--B. F. De Costa, in Harper's Magazine. The Speaking Date. The automaton I shall now describe is a huge carbuncle, in form and ap­ pearance, just like an ordinary date such as any one would handle and at­ tempt to eat without suspecting de­ ception. It was owned. and exhibited by a Hindoo ventriloquist, who was also a juggler; and he called his carbuncle "The Speaking Date." Whenever he spoke to it the answer came promptly, and appropriately, as it seemed, Irom the very heart of the date, which lay on a table, several feat from the exhibitor. It was not always, however, an obedi­ ent servant, for sometimes, when the master gave an order, the date argued the point, making objections! offering excuses, and finally yielding, as it were, under protest. It would complain that it was "sleepy," or "tired of doing the same thing over and over," or "the people were not pay­ ing attention." But all this only en­ hanced the interest of the occasion; and when, at last, the rebellious little thing concluded to do as it was bidden the audience was in ecstasies. A tree was made to grow in our pres­ ence, as if from the very heart of the date, putting forth its long, pointed leaves, then the dainty blooms, and finally a clump of the luscious fruit. But of this we were not invited to eat, for it disappeared suddenly, and only the single little golden-brown date we had Been at the first remained* This was, of course, only a specimen of the sleight-of-hand "tricks" that Hindoo jugglers know so well how to perform, while the apparent speaking of tue date was the result of ventriloquism---the juggler being able to make his voice sound as if it came from where the date lay, and so induce the audience to think that the voice came out of the fruit-like carbuncle itself. But, after this, the stone jumped, walked, ran and finally, with head and wings suddenly attached, flew across the stage and alighted between the conjur­ er's joined hands. This was all accom­ plished by means of macliiuery adroitly hidden between the carbuncle and the golden tiipod upon which it lay. Cu­ rious and startling as were the move­ ments, they were wonders of mechanism, and, of course, had nothing to do with supernatural powers, such as the ven­ triloquist pretended to possess.--St. NiehoUur , f L - '<r ̂ -̂ ; -Thoughts. w u When you bury an old animosity, never mind putting up & tombstone. Worrying will wear the richest life to shreds. A sweet temper is to the household what sunshine is to trees Mid flowers. Everything we meet with here below is more or less infectious. If we live habitually among good and pleasant people, we inevitably will imbibe some­ thing of their disposition, says J. A. St. ' .:•? 'Mr -V $*• ,v [Extract tram Hon. f, W. Itotfi Kalogy la the IT. S. Senate.) President Buchanan was surrounded by Csss and Cobb, Jacob Thompson, Touceyand Floyd, Brown and Black Md Chief Justice Taney. Filibuster ..Wrikftf was manenveriag in Son them Waters, threatening by his piratical movements to embroil the nation in foreign war; the Kansas conflict was raging with increasing fury, and Abra­ ham Lincoln, then a quiet country lawyer in Illinois, was carefully noting the situation, and unoonsciously bracing for his herculean labor. Chandler lost no opportunity to express concern for manifest disregard for the welfare of the North and West. Observing this e*rly, in placement on committees in the fint session of the Thirty-fifth Con­ gress, when committees were an­ nounced ha rose, and, in earnest but dignified remonstrance,said: "Sir, we are not satisfied, and we desire to enter eur protest against any such formation of the committees as is here proposed;" and, on one of his first measures--a bill to deepen the Saint Clair fiats--said: "I want to see who is friendly to the great Northwest and who is not, for we are about making our last prayer hero. * * * After 1860 we shall not be here as beggars." Upon the questions of mbre general character in the national polioy he, with becoming reserve, deferred in debate to more experienced members; but when measures were proposed which he could not indorse he was of such a mold that he could not sit by in silence. His faoe was squarely set against the Lecomp- ton constitution and the acquisition of Cuba. His speeches on those projects are among the most telling protests raised in the Senate upon kindred measures. In the fiercer debates which followed, the custom of the duello-- popular at the South, bat deprecated at the North--received new life. Menace and insult had reached their limit. They were no longer to be borne. Chandler, Wade Mid Cameron signed a compact to fight on tl|e first provoca­ tion. It oertainly was a bold step; but it was effectual. Chandler and Wade soon had occasion to act upon their purpose. Seward's " irrepressible con­ flict" drew insult, and Chandler took up his cause. Sumner was smitten down, and Wade repelled the dastardly aot. Whatsoever may be said of the means they employed, the code thence­ forth practically came to an end. Chandler was as ready with words as with blows. When the John Brown raid at Harper's Ferry was under dis­ cussion, his allusion to the fury whioh sealed the fate of those Whose seal for human liberty knew no bounds wss a most biting piece of satire. No one, I believe, ever doubted Chandler's courage to be equal to any emergency, public or personal. I can recall but one ocoasion in my long .ac­ quaintance with him when he Beeped disheartened and borne down by the force of public events. It was when President Johnson, attempting the re­ moval of the great War Secretory Btan- ton, quarreling with the then* famous hero of the war. Gen. Grant, and defying the Congress of the United States, es­ caped impeachment so narrowly. Chandler felt that republican Govern­ ment was then at stake, and impeach­ ment a necessity. Never was there a time when he came so nigh despairing of the republic as at that event. He, however, as others, happily learned that a republic that could survive the tragio loss of its beloved martyr President, and live under the misrule of an ignor­ ant accession, has beneath its destiny a divine grasp which gives assurance of its survival of all humau devices or hu­ man ill. When his Senatorial term expired, his expectation was that the State he had honored and served would mark ita approval by a return to the Senate for another term. Changes, however, of a partisan character had occasioned the alienation of many of the supporters of the Republican party in several of the States of the Union. The Democratic party had thus gained the ascendency in enough of those States to pluce the House of Representatives in their hands. Michigan was more or less affected, and some of its old friends had turned away from the Republican party in that State, as well. The Republican majority in the Legislature was, in a measure, re­ duced. Though he received the nom­ ination of his party friends, yet, in the elective contest, he was defeated', through the fusion of a few members with his political opponents. Never did he carry himself through any struggle with a loftier creBt. He scorned to stoop for so glittering a prise. This defeat did in no wise abate bis real for the party whioh had failed to return him to his seat in the Senate. Chosen Chairman of the Republican National Committee, although then filling the place of Secretary of the Interior, he promptly accepted its bur­ den and actively entered upon the Presidential campaign of 76. It is needless here to mention the causes which had depressed the ardor of the people, and had alienated many from the support of the party in power. Chandler, with a trained hand, organ­ ized the campaign, and, through ali the summer of fear and doubt, his un quail­ ing spirit directed its movements. When the hearts of others began to fail he rose in the might of his energy and infused new courage to all around him. At length, when the decisive day had come and gone, and msny waited in painful suspense weary days for the tidings of the result, he, with the first consciousness of the truth, sent forth from the city of New York that ever-memorable dispatch: "Hayes has 185 votes, and is elected." And so it proved. Through all the tempest of the electoral count, the clamor, outcry, threats, defiance, fierceness and bitter­ ness of contending partisans, rank and file, that prophet sentence brooded in the air; and when the 4th of March ar­ rived the nation joined in the fact, and Rutherford B. Hayes was inaugurated President of the United States, and you, Mr. President, duly installed Vice President and President of this august body, over which you preside with im­ partial ability. The closing days of the late extra­ ordinary session record another chapter in his remarkable history. The debate on the bill to pension the soldiers of the Mexican war brought Jeffenon Davis conspicuously before the Senate. ^Fervid eooaiuaos were pronounoed upon "There seems to be no ca« her*/that dares (Nil treason by lis right name." Wham Chandler read It h* quietly re­ marked, There will be some one before the debate is closed." At 8 o'clock in the moping he ro<* and delivered that philipjne whioh will never oeaseto be famous in the annals of our national polemics. SENATOR BLA1VC. , Gfexsra road bond* Woorooiil stands sew#- stockings. THE eaptois o0™1* ®«t® reward u fan* S. WABm.of Cfoproa*diedafewdays ago, aged 105 yei||g||RI 1* laOBlfep. "• :'Mb was a soldier in of 1811 of Sory, the received their HOO Bla Address to the People of Awgwsta, life, I thank yen most sincerely and most deeply for the manner in which you have received me, and I congratulate you that we once more meet as peaceful oitixens of Maine, under the protection of a legal State Government, chosen by the people, with the validity of its title patent to the world. We have had a long and trying contest with desperate* men, who sought to disfranchise voters by the thousand, and to substitute a false count for an honest ballot as the source of power to a State Government; but, for all our troubles and trials, and for all the wrongs we have so patiently endured, we are this day richly repaid when we remember the instrumentali­ ties by which we have triumphed with­ out firing a gun, without shedding a drop of blood, without striking a single blow, wi thout one disorderly assemblage. The people have regained their own rights through the might and majesty of their own l#ws. Friends at a dis­ tance wondered why we did not use force on the very first day of the ses­ sion, and seat the Republican members of the Legislature who were duly elect­ ed. That might easily have been done, for Republicans were present in the proportion of four to one; but,when we had got through with it, we should only have proved that we were physically the stronger party. We should only have established the fact that our tribe could give the loudest war-whoop, and could assemble the largest number of braves for a given battle; and, after the battle was over, we should have been remanded to the courts for a trial of our title. We preferred to go to the court and have our title confirmed in advance. , It was our belief that as plaintiff^ we could not improve our standing in court by committing a breach of the peace on the threshold of the Chamber of Justice. We remembered that we were a New England community, and we believed that of all the New En­ gland States Maine has been the most exempt, from its origin to the year 1879, from every form of defiance of law. A law student in Yale College, when asked what he would do in case of trespass and an unlawful occupancy of his land, answered that in New England he would proceed by writ of ejectment, but in Texas he would take a double^ bat reled shot-gun. We agreed with the law student, and stuck fast to the writ of ejectment. We went before an hon­ est court, before a non-partisan court. before a court that could not be used to promote the party interests of any set of men, before a court as able and upright as it was fearless, and as learned as any that sits within the limits of the Union, or on the Federal or State benches, and with the judgment of that court in our hands we quickly took pos­ session of the State Government, and firmly hold it to-day. With the right incontestably estab­ lished, with technicalities, evasions, quibbles, frauds, and forgeries all brushed aside, the administration of Daniel F. Davis stands to-day strong in the confidence of the people. T|ie law has again asserted its supremacy. Or­ der rules everywhere, and the people, who but yesterday crowded in our streets in the grim determination that | ciotwng, bedding, ate.. h 1/-: 4^. ^ to be Sir. A. \ J five dams hsPVV (hi^ PlM|l>C4MVt in Salt creek. MKNDOTA SI during the larger amount than any the line. THE Governor has L. CJark, member of to be his own THE 8tudent*at the Industrial Uni­ versity, Champaign, are up in arms against the haaitji and several an likely to be suspended. •' IN McLean county there ai« now nearly twice M mmnj lawyers ae theee were in 1870, and less than one-half the business then in court. THE MeLean County Coal Company is made defendant m four suits* of $5,000 damages each, for loss of life and personal injuries by an UCpioeion of coal-gas, alleged to have beent&e to the company's negligence. THE Chicago and Alton railroad hxve paid the widow of Col. Bond, fonwerty of Gir&rd, who was burned to dedh in the railroad smash-up near B«fdan, Deo. 25, $4,000, when in realty it was not required to pay anything. MARE BEATJBIEN, Chiosgo's old Me­ tier, and now nearly 80 years old, en­ joys the evening of life in a quiet eoun- try home at Newark, Kenddti oounty, and is as jovial and ae ready with tab fiddle as when 1m " kept tavern kkeh--* in Chicago, forty years ago* SCRVETORS are now laying oat a road connecting the Wabash sacleasion with the Pekin and Southwestwn. The route is from Mason, Gnmdjr ocmnty, to and through Braidwood, wqiat the Eureka mine, and thenoe to Wilsrittg ̂ ton, where it will erase the Kankakee, SM1' thence to a point four allies east of the river to join the Wabash. THE Illinois Department of the Grand Army of the Republic held its four­ teenth annual encampment at Chicago last week. There are over 1,600 mem- ' „ bers of this department, and the » union was well attended. IVanî ort* •'*> ̂® presented it was shown that the atgm* lzation in Illinois has more than doubled * -V its strength within the peat yey,be s i d w | | organizing a department in Indiana. A , SOME time in 1863, George Oosover, ^7, then an engineer running On the Osixo ' division of the Illinois Cen •f v ? f t ' • J " v, "Mf". • K *• r " i f * ~ % ^ V ' " * ' -M 4'* m'i r-U *"->0 •j m-i M •: ! t fri*. •«;> ' i*"~ ' * a new silver quarter of a dollar and had •«' it stamped with Ida; same, a annate tmd K- *.« j compass, and the number of hie fi tr" gine. This coin he -wore on Us Dftofceh- ^ guard for a short time and f*-* ~" A few days ago it was by O. H. Cory, who received ft change while ia ago. J mtaais OIITIUM. Cairo, a short j *'•£ '*• j* . , • t f* ' Titi &tale Boaid of" GfcttMfei V its regular quarterly session at Swing- n Ji field fast wedc. ThefoUowingftMMiat,. . . * 91 was.presented. Appropriations. * ' ~\{'4 Appropriation* nadrawn Sept. SO, 1S3 91,904,101.41 Appropriations drawn during the ' • K" "" < ** quarter. *06,164.89 • - „ ir . . •* . { J** ^ Appropriation* undrnwn D o. SI, 187V. 1,U9?,9S&.«1 Expense* cl Attendance ........$ Food -.-•r V4'. .* i • , * .*> ' . _-v; a fraudulent Government should not be put over them, have quietly returned to their farms and workshops, content­ ed, sure in possession of their birth­ right and their inheritance. * * * The conspirators who were foiled in their bad designs are adding great folly to their already terrible record. In leaving tlie State House they have taken away tne seal of the State, and they have also abstracted the returns of the election, which they had pre­ viously falsified. Perhaps m this last act they were endeavoring to murder the witnesses of their evil deeds for the past three months, but, whatever their motive may be--petty and impotent malice, or an attempt to hide the evidence ot their guilt--they may be assured that they cannot embarrass the State Government, and will only add, if that be possible, to the guilty condemnation under which they are now resting. In seizing the great seal they seem desir­ ous of emulating the infamy of En­ gland's worst King; but they will find the act as harmless to the rightful Gov­ ernment as William found the spiteful vencm of James; and, should some lucky fish-net again drag the seal to light, it would only be useful as a lasting memorial of a Democratic and Green­ back conspiracy and its impotent end. Mr. Chairman, the Republicans of Maine and throughout the land felt that they were not merely fighting the battle of a single year, but for all the future of the year; not merely fighting the battle of our own State alone, but for all the States that are attempting the great problem of State Government throughout the world. The corruption or destruction of the ballot is a crime against free government, and when suc­ cessful is a subversion of free govern­ ment. It is this fact which has carried the interest in the struggle far out and beyond our own borders, and it is this fact whioh renders our peaceful and lawful victory of such priceless value. One year ago, in the North American Heview, in discussing a cog­ nate question, and before I had ever dreamed that a crime against the ballot was possible in Maine, I used some words which I venture, in closing my remarks, to quote as apposite to the great subject we are now considering: u The mighty power of a republic of 50,000,000 of people, with a continent for their possession, can only be wielded permanently by being wielded honestly, in a fair and generous struggle, by par­ tisan power, Let us not forget those issues and those ends which are above party. Organized wrong will ultimately be met by organized resistance. Im­ partial suffrage is our theory; it must become our practice. Any party of American citizens can bear to be de­ feated, but no party of Americans will bear to be defrauded. The men who are interested in a dishonest count are units, and the men who are interested in an honest count are millions. I wish to speak for the millions of all political parties, and in their name to deolsre that the republic must be strong enough, and shall be strong enough, to protect th* weakest of its citizens in sU their " 1 V " 1 * *, * * \ 5 ; < ft Laundry rappliea Fuel I-ignt Water Medicine and medical «nppliea.. Freight and transportation Poauge and telegraphing..... Books and atattonenr Prin ting and advsrtitlng,...... Music and amazements. Instruments and apparatus. Household expenses Furniture V Building, repairs, etc. ...: Tools Machinery, ete..................... Farm, garden, stock, and grounds Krai estate-••• L«gal exjifsiiit*. Insurance. Shop expensea. Burial expeuaaa. Expenses not classified 81,474.SI " 5T2 * 'SUc ...J3 I JO " MM* x * •r.."'** • j "*V "1 ."•Sf Total ....f si&ssas? Mr. Capps, Trustee of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Jacksonville, was in attendance to consult the board as to the indebtedness of Cook oonfnty totfcafe institution, and as to the properwethoi ̂ of collecting that debt. Theoooniy of Cook is steadily foiling into arrears wi& all the State institutions, as appears from the following statelnent: Oct. 1, ISTfi, Cook county owed Um State institutions a gsCdl . , Oct. 1,1877 4 oct.i,i87n.... nimit u - Oct. 1.18T9 *,<1(1.8* ' ' -- This latter amount is divided m fol­ lows : Insane Asylum at Elgin.......'...fUMM* Deaf ctsd IHirab Asjrlam School tor Feeble-JUnded Blind Asylum lSt.lt Southern Insane Asylum. 34.SI* Total |̂ 410J» The board discussed the subject at length, but took no On Oct. 1,1879, all the counties of the 8tate owed all the institutions $28,684.69. Most of the counties pay promptly, but some do not. Alexander oounty owes $1,310.16, Williamson oounty and Jersey $68&03. . - V*' Illinois Tax Is*. " The following provisions of law were enacted by the Legislature of this State during the session of 1879: In all asm where any real property ha* heretofore been or may hereafter DO forfeits* to the ti'ato for taxes, it shall be the duty of the Clerk when he is making up the amount of tas due on snch real property for the estrrent year to add the amount or back tax, tntiireet ̂ penalty and printer's fees remaining da* tmch real property, with oae year'i 10 per cent, on taxes heretofore f» 25 per cent, on all taxes levied aad 1 the amount of tax due, to the ta& ot Hie j rent year, and the aggregate am together shall be collected la a ] the tax on other real proparl may be oollected. Provided*1 Clerk shall first eanfatt) an _ f core oat therefrom all make such correotfeas with respect to soch I All real estate apoa wSfcik and unpaid on the lQth dnrfl or at the time the Tfrsa makes return of Mel lector, shall h* such dues sad'W at the rats fit 111 off or forfeited;' sh&l! be rteiheasa aa a „ " -tines «a aoeMatsf MtaMt i into thaotwatr toasts totTwMtl porpossa. It iaxmpgriaat thst thfl gal reqoireoMata - viMttl to the taiiwjs|i »r!~ late to _ * ' ' * " thai tfcftj I?**. c" "!% • v • { X S ••>< j •