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AN indication of Xr. Gladstone's ity in Scotland, it is reported as high as $30 were paid for tickets f'idmission to the hull in Edinburgh he a4eUv^red'&n a'drpss recently. ><ltt salary of the Bev. Dr. John , pastor of the Fifth Avenue Pres- Church in New York, has raised from $10,000 to $15,000. le increase is atf indication of the es- , in which the reverend gentleman l held by his wealthy congregation. S%nd THEN; will be little (sympathy felt in country over the death, of Hoag, rho killed himself at a walking maica Glen's Falls, N. X. Walking ches are the concentrated essence unmitigated nonsense, and, if those who indulge in those Schank, of il gambling exhibitions wtf* trolly of the ceuatry in general woul/"1 S",u]ay Iast- ft syT, oldest daugh- SSc?;** wl? |mi8Sioners sustain the chargesV-^-:; -crimination against the Boston bany railroad, and refer the case ir0*- • Legislature for action. It appears V "the company made rates to a certain ru-̂ ral milling firm, in which its officers were interested, considerably lower than those whioh other parties were Able to secnre. ijjjy the body was placed iftd her erics against the dead Mullynne could be heard blocks off. . . . QUITE a fanny scene occurred in the United States Senate recently, which is thus referred to by a correspondent: "A comic paper in New York, Puck, printed a .cartoon with Presidential can­ didates' faces upon the blocks of the infernal gane of fifteen. Grant's face was upon the fifteen block, before Blaine, the fourteen block. Senator Conkling was represented as nearly wild, trying to get Blaine, fourteen, out of the way of Grant, fifteen*x Thurman first had the cartoon, *nd the Demo­ cratic Senators so crowded around hint that it stopped the regular proceedings. Then Mr. Hereford carried the cartoon over to Blaine, who looked *at it long and earnestly, as if he were really trying to solve ̂ the puzzle, while Republican ^ ' 8U®»t S«H»g*. Wfcoti tbeacng'* *«ne out of yonr llfa yoathoi)K>it would last to th«ead-- TkumamM tin heart, TM«oilMuiN|M- Tb» mmg ot tk» wind to tut trtm~ " - • - . ^ To® aoax ot tte wind to the Stoweil-- Ikt M)ii! that the heart t-infta low to itwlf When it wakes in life's morula* boon; T«m can start no other sotipt: Nor even a tremulous not# *••»>, «."« WUi falter forth on the empty air-- f ' it dim In ywtr aching ttiroat, Bin all in vain that you try, • fjfor the apirlt of song h--fled; n* nlxMinjrale singe no more to Wheu the Sower ia a«S!fi • • 8* let silence softly fall On the brnised heart's qnlVerin* striBjts; ' from the loss of all you may learn The i>opi? that the seraph slugs-- ' * Asraud and trloriouM psalm That will tremble and rise and thrill. And All your breast with its grateful Mat Aud its li.-u- ly jearnings still';' [ xno .i recognised BUl-womidedr ill. and Mid, e <11 (faded ateoojj. Finally Blaine este «th a laugh,va^d passed the 'n 1 'Weford, and he d^ried it to He was puxxling over it ing came in. He saw Sen- eery intent over the picture, id looked over his shoulder. Senate was now w;fohing He started when he saw and turned abruptly away, idly back to his seat with- THK New York Board of Imnrigcatfcftl. Commissioners expect that the number of arrivals from Ireland this season wilt be unusually large. Many thrifty Irish men and women have drawn their mon­ ey from savings banks for the purpose of paying the fare of friends to this oountry, and the various immigration societies will promote the movement by every means in their power* MH.¥Watum8, husband of filet* Oates, the pretty little burlesque) act­ ress, took exoeptions to an item in the Cincinnati Enquirer respecting him­ self and Tracy Titus, his matrimonial predecessor, and attempted to whip the •city editor, but the latter, who seems to a knocker, blacked Watkins' eyes, smashed in Lis teeth, broke his watohchain and sleeve buttons, and otherwise damaged him. : THERE is a movement down East to ,, bring Chinamen from San Francisco to ; the Eastern States. The ladies are •••'*' moving in the matter. It is proposed to erect immense wash*honses at Sara­ toga, Long Branoh, and other watering places, and give employment therein to Chinese. The Celestials will also be furnished to do housework in the larg<i ' [Eastern cities. It is thought that 5,000 ... • wm be brought from San Franoisco A MYSTERIOUS society of French So- ' -oialists is causing something of a sen- , Nation in Montreal. Copies of a circu­ lar urging the French to drive the En­ glish and Irish from Canada have been sent to several newspaper offices, ac­ companied by threats of murder and arson if they were not speedily pub­ lished. The editors of these sheets have turned the communications over ' to the police authorities, who are en­ deavoring to discover their authors. • i riff i'Vxj; "Peaeeck Hnery.*r . Whtsa^Pitman George" had become "Old George" to his friends, and "Mr. George Stephenson," the great railroad engineer, to the public, he was noted for his plainness in dress. Though often in contact with Lords and D akes, he fastened his white neck­ tie with a large brass pin, and wore no ornaihent--watch-chain, breast-pin or ring. Mr. Stephenson hated foppery in young men--"peacock finery," he called it--as one youth learned to his sorrow. He was "Old George's" private secre­ tary, and loved to dress in a showy style, though, when in the old man's presence, he restrained his propensity. But one unlucky day, intending to take a stroll with two "swell" friends, through the fashionable quarter of London, he dressed himself as a dandy. HiB costume was patent-leather boots, light-colored trousers, and a tightly- buttoned coat of blue oloth, within which was seen a line of a white vest, with a pink shade under it; white wrist­ bands turned back six inches over the coat-sleeves, a black satin scarf, from which glistened two diamond breast­ pins, connected by a delicate gold chain, light gloves, and a shiny silk hat and a small cane. As he was sauntering through the street, tilled with promeqodeis, who should he meet but "Ola George!" The two friends left* bat Mr. Stephenson, taking bis secretary by the button, turned him round and round, as if showing him off to the passers-by. A crowd collected. At last, releasing the youth, "Old George" blurted out, in his strongest Northumbrian accent: •"Young man, you have lived five years at my house, but I never knew I was harboring an American jackadaw." What an "American jackadaw" was the youth knew not, save that it was something indicative of contempt. Of course he was mad, but as his em­ ployer never referred to the "sight" he was wise enough to remain silent. It worked, however,̂ ohange in his "pea­ cock finery." t A SINGULAR instance illustrating the laws of heredity is noted by a Chicago paper. A young man of that city who had long been wedded to worldly things . -suddenly reformed, married a beautiful girl, and is now the happy father of a yearling boy. The other day, while folding the ipfant on hie knqe, it be- «mme restless, and the father gave it a tract, whioh the child at once destroyed. A deck of cards was then thrown on the floor, whereupon the little angel began Jumbling them over, turned up a jaek and smiled. IM THIS has been a winter of famines. In nearly every part of the globe food tas been so scarce that large portions of several populations have been desti- "tnte of the means of life. In Brazil there is a famine almost a9 terrible as •that in Ireland. In Silesia, in Italy and <m the steppes of Russia hunger rav­ ages the people. In the latter country, bands of starving men and women fight lor garbage and for roots, whioh is all 4hey have to depend on for sustenance. "This is accompanied by diseases, among 4hem the diphtheria, the spread of ^rltich is increased by a belief of the '^peasants that a piece of bread inserted •fa the mouth of a corpse dead from the •disease, and then given to the children, & a safeguard against it. In Persia ! - parents are selling their children for, 'f yjood, or giving them poison rather thaa „. them die before their eyes. A THBixxiKG scene was witnened at •i?§*he crowded funeral of David Mullynne, j Ign Cleveland, Ohio, the other day. The |ieeeased, two years ago, shot and killed 0 young man named Masterson. He was acquitted of the crime on the rZ #<ground of its being in self-defense, but * * If:in the scuffle Masterson's fingers grasped >|iri6 opponent's throat and retained their Iiold even after death. Mullynne's •^ *leath was from consumption, produced, • Jiis friends claim, from the injuries sus- C! * gained at Masterson's hands. Just as the I £ ^clergyman had finished his remarks at f • the funeral, Mullynne's mother started tip, and, pointing toward the corpse in f ^ tragic manner, screamed, "There, Mas- , '^'iteraon, you have at last got your re- f; 4enM." The woman continued in the V : v - ' - If • 'xty'. i4" f How "Ton Jones" Was Soli* We are told of Fielding's "Tom: Jones" that, when the work was com-4 pletecl, the author, being at the time hard pressed for money, took it to a second-rate publisher, with a view of se ling it for what it would fetch at the moment. He left it with the bookscler, and called upon him next day for his de­ cision. The publisher hesitated, and re­ quested another day for consideration; and at parting Fielding oflered him the manuscript for £25. On his way home Fielding met Thomson, the poet, whom he told of the negotiation for the sale of tbe manuscript; when Thornton, knowing the high merit of t^e work, conjured him to be off the bargain, fend offered to find a better purchaser. Next morning Fielding hastened to his ap­ pointment; with as much apprehension lest the bookseller should keep to his bargain as he had felt the day before, lest he should altogether decline it. To the author's great joy, the ignorant trafficker in literature declined,' and re­ turned the manuscript. He next set off wiih a light heart to his friend Thomson; and tlie novelist and the poet then went to Andrew Millar, the great publisher oi the day. Millar, as was his practice with works of light reading, handed the manuscript to his wifd, who, having read it, advised him by no means to let it slip through his fingers. Millar now invited the two friends to meet him at a coffue-house in the Strand, where, after dinner, the bookseller, with great caution, offered Fielding £200 for the manuscript. The novelist was amazed at the largeness of the offer. " Then, my good sir," said he, recovering hi mseh irom this unexpected stroke of good fortune, " give me your hand--the book is yours; and waiter," continued he, " bring a couple of bot­ tles of your best port." Before Millar died, he had cleared £13,000 by u Tom Jones," out of which he generously made Fielding various presents, to the amount of £2,000; and, when lie died, he bequeathed a handsome legacy to each of Fielding's sons.--Qaligwani. • * Hew Men Walts* i* "One man," says the Saturday Re­ view, "waltzes with his head in the air and much the expression worn by a dog when he is howling at the sdund of music. Another has a bend in the middle, which looks as uncomfortable as it is ungraceful. One genuflects at every turn, and slides one of his feet as if to trip up rival dancers. An even more dangerous performer works his left hand up and down as if it were a pump-handle. A tall man, with a top- heavy kind of stoop, leans over his partner, like a great hen taking a chicken under her wing. One man holds his partner as if he were afraid she would slip from his grasp, while an­ other looks as if lie wished he were rid of his bargain.* MB. MAT81>AI*A, a Japanese engineer working in New York, in addition to many inventions of merit, reads eleven has n mathematical three volumes, and is only 30 years of age. fifowaw) Kebukr. John Locke, the English philosopher, was a favorite with many of the great nbfclemen of his age. They liked his robust sense and ready wit, and enjoyed even the sharp reproofs in which ne* oc­ casionally indulged. On one occasion he had been invited to meet a select party at Lord Ashley's. When he came they were playing at cards, arid contin­ ued absorbed in the game for two or three hours. For some time Locke looked oh, and then began to write diligently in a blank book taken from his pocket. At length they asked him what he was writing. He answered: "My Lords, I am improving myself the best I can in yonr company; for, having impatiently waited this honor of being present at snch a meeting of tbe wise men and great wits of the age, I thought I could not do better than write down your conversation, and here I have in substance all that has passed for this honr or two." The noble Lords were so ashamed at the written record of their frivolous talk that they at once stopped card- playing and began the discussion of an important subject. 4 Thomas Carlyle has uttered even a more pungent reproof of idle talk: "If we can permit God Almighty," he says, "to write down our conversation, think­ ing it good enough for him, any poor Boswell need not scruple to work his will of it."--Youth's Companion. How a Good MM Died. To many a good man the bed of death Ms been the couch of life. The spirit contrasted itself with the dying body, that it might more emphatically assert the power of the endless life. On such a couch rested Bishop Haven. Groups gathered round it, to muse over the transition from death unto life. "It is so pleasant, so beautiful, so delightful dying," said the living Bish­ op. "The angels are here. God lifts me up so in His arm?, I canuot see the River of Death. There is no river. It is all light. I am floating away from earth up into heaven. I am gliding away into God." "Good-night!" said an old friend, as he turned away. "Good-night 1" was the reply, "but when we meet again it will be good-morning." And so was fulfilled the word of the prophet "at evening time shall be light." There was no night about that couch, lor the light of immortality had touched it. That resurreotion to the blessed life recalls another bed of death, which also was a couch of life. It was laid in India, and he who rested on it was Sohwarz, the venerable apostle of three score and twelve years. His life was gliding away so gently that the chest seemed not to rise and fall. Even the delicate touch of love could discern no pulse. Thinking him dead, the Taniel pupils began chanting their version of the teacher's favorite hymn: O sacred heao. now wounded, r With grief and ghama welched down; © sacred brow, anrroundod 6,r. ' * tit With thornn, thlue ou!y crcfwil! v' Singing through the eight lines of the first stanza, they paused, as if in doubt Whether the second might not be a prayer for the dead instead of an in­ vocation for the. living. Suddenly from the dying man came the words at which they had paused, in a low but clear chant: On me. as Thou art djtag. Oh. turn Ti>y pitying eye! To rhec, for matey crying, Before Thy exot-s I lie; Thine. Tfaine the bitter paseioB, t'by p»in is all tor roe; Mine, mine the ileey Iran KTCMion, Mr sins art* all on l'liae? The s anza ended, the voice ceased to be he*rd by the Taniel pupils. But angels heard it change from the cry of supplication to the shout of praise to Him whom he had served for eight-and- forty years. "Heaven lies about us in our infancy," may be poetically affirmed of the be­ ginning of human life; how truly it may be said of the closing of a Christian's life 1 The King in his beauty is seen l>7 the dying Christian, for the land is noi, then, very far off. ' «aid No, % " but not bad. Let's git to the r'a*." At whiehjfo. 1 exclaimed: "This is the darnedest fight I've bin in yit. It hain't got no r'ar."--Harper's Maga­ zine. - CIJ8I0US AMI INTERESTfltk ^ * -* ' •* I DUBIKG the period of nearly two cent­ uries l&ta iirat-bom of the house of Austria has been a girl--a singular fact. THE embalmed head of Oliver Crom­ well is in the possession of f daughter of the Hon. Mr. Wilkinson, an English gentleman. It is carefully preserved, wrapped iD costly envelopes, in a strong antique box. At the Bentoratior. the embalmed body of Cromwell wits taken from Westminster Abbey and hung at Tyburn. The head was cut off, a pike driven through the neck and skull and exposed at Westminster Hall. The head is said to be almost entire, the flesh black and sunken, the hair remain­ ing, and even a large wart over the eye. The splintered pieces ot a pike and rusted iron are attached to the he**d. PARADOXICAL as it may seem at frst glance, it is a fact that the top of a wagon-wheel moves, when the vehicle is in motion, twice as fast as the hob at the center. It may bg shown that the top moves the faster in several ways. TaKe two wheels, say a foot in diameter, and let one be station­ ary ; place the periphery together and roll ono wheel around the periphery of the other. It is plain, when the complete circnit has bean made, that the top of the movable wheel has described ^ circle, the radius of which is three feet, in the same time that the bottom has described'one of one foot radius, and, having traversed the greater distanoe in the same time.it follows that it has moved the fuller. THE proportions of the human figure are six times the length of tbe feet. Whether the form is slender or plump, the rule holds good; any deviation from it ia a departure from the highest beauty in proportion. The Greeks made all their statues according to this rule. The face, from the highest point of the forehead, where the hair -begins, to the chin, is one-tenth of thf whole stature. The hand, from the Wist to the middle finger, is the same. From the top of the chest to the highest point of the forehead is a seventh. If the face, from the roots of the hair to the ohin, be divided into three eqiial parts, the first division determines the space where the eyebrows meet, and the sec­ ond the place of the nostrils. The height, from the feet to the top of the head, is the distanoe from the extremity of the fingers when the arms are ex­ tended. BELOW we print a magic square, known as the "Knight's Touj/ tvhich ind Hla Friends KM M(TC on " BOOBM." 1 ao 47 63 5 *•!« -w '« « M 68 p8 | XI 81 . 48 4 » 8 |*1» J 43 M « » 46 ,88. «§>] 7 a 18 90 • 'II 1 .. 84 | «B j SS IS 10 84 01 lo 9^10 j S3 9^10 j S3 •v- • 18 •4 "P" m »'| a» | 11 Thin square is formed by the move of a knight across a chess-board. Starting irom 1, he touohes every square on the board, and no square more than once, bringing up at 64. It will he seen that each horizontal and vertical column* sums up, 2GO. Divide the board into four quarters, and the horizontal and vertical columns of each quarter will sum up 130. Divide the board into 1(5 equal squares, and the figures of each square will sum up 130. Thus: lx30x 48x51=130. Tuke a horizontal oolumn. Add the odd numbers of the left half to the even numbers of the right half, and vice versa, and the result is 130. Thus: 1x47 x 28 x 54 = 1 HQ.. There are hun­ dreds of other wonderful features about this square, which space forbids us men­ tioning. - : .* , Ueorge Wilson'* Inreattyp. George W. Wilson, the manufacturer of line musical instruments in Concord, N. H., after months of patient study has accomplished the feat of perfecting an achromatic objective. Many mechani­ cians in this country have given years of study to the subject without a suc­ cessful result, and where one has suc­ ceeded hundreds have failed. In New England there is only one man who manufactures these objectives, pnd he is not a native of this country. Wilson is the only man who recently has exper­ imented m this direction with any de­ gree of success, and his final triumph is a masterwork of mechanical skill. For many years he has been engaged in the manufacture of telescopic objectives, but during the last six months his whole time has been employed in making a microscopic objective. This objective COXFEDRXT X ItCUUM, 1 (Which la In the State nv Km tacky.) > FebttKMuy 38,1800. S The Corneas is serusly shinned. I lead sich nv the Northern papers ex are •ent to citizens uv the Corners es speci­ men copies (them bein all that the white citizens nv this standi Dimekratic stronghold ever git), and we are actilly alarmed. Wat trabbles us is booms. There is the Grant boom, the Blaine boom, the Sherman boom, and several other varieties, and they all appear to begenooine. A boom in the abstraok wouldn't bother us much, bnt so many booms, and all uv em bein uv one kind, is simply friteful. Espeshly is it alarm- in when we consider that there aint no booms for anybody but the most pro- nounst Badikels, and the bigger the Radikel the bigger the boom. The Sherman boomers base their boom on the assershun that he is the most in­ tense Badikel livin, and Grant and Blaine's boomers show that each lays all over the others in this direeshun. The alarmin feecher is that the Repub­ lican candidates wich ain't Badikel don't boom at all; on the contrary, the men- shun uv their names is reoeeved with jeers and sich. In view uv this condishun uv things, I called a meetin' uv the Dimocrisy uv the Corners, I takin' the chair, es yoofual, and appiuten myself Commit­ tee on Besolooshuns. I reported ex fol­ lows : WAKKAS, The citizens uv Kentucky wioh Sympathized with the patriotic South |u ite ef­ forts to buBt up a oppressive Government, but wuz Mibdood, not coi kei' sd, by the eooperior, broutle force uv hordes' uv hireling are sin­ cerely deuirous uv restorin' amicable jelwuens with their eubdooers; and. WAKE AS, The citizens aforeeed are disposed now, t z they alluz Lev ben, to meet any tender uv consih&shun wich may be offered, it is hereby m Ktmh-rd, That the way to tech tbe 8uthfrn heart &ud bring it back to a oonaoomin'lore for the l'oonyun ain't by boomin' thtm ez waz prominent in hoomilatin' her. Rrsoh't'd, That the Confedracr wants to know how the Confedracy is to be won back to a love foi the Yoonyan when nobody bnt nolgors and statesmen wich opposed the Confedracj is held up in the North ez candidates, espeshly ex it is evident that the more they opposed the Con­ federacy the more they is thot uv. Ursolic;!, That ef tue North wants to con- siliate us they shood nominate men wHoh hex sympathy with us, and not them uv their own way uv tiiinkin. Wat kind uv aacrifis do they make for peaoe, ef they hev things their own wav? JRrsolved, That the South is willin to give tip its oonsoomin d< sirc for a seprit Government, pervidiu it is permitted to run the Fedral Gov­ ernment percisely ez .t pleases, the deatiny uv the South l>ein to rool. Jtcsolved, That the South is generous and for^ivio, and wood not make the faei uv a Northern man's haviu served in the FeJerel army a positive bur to his eleckshen to the Presidency, provided aliuz, that he did his fight in from Dimekratic stand pint, aud hez acted cons stentiy with the Dimocrisy sence the ui holy war. liemh'rd, That ef the Bepublikin party •hood sink its prejoodesaes and nominate Fiiz John Porter or Gen. Hancock, cz re predentin the Fetlerels, and the I>iin<icrit-y shood put up BoivgarU ez a representitivt* C-onfedrit, it wood go a great way to word atlayu] the growin feelin uv seck*hunism. Tha' to strangle sectionalism, the South purposes to take entire poueshun ur the Government, Kexolvcti, That it ia highly time that the North forgets all the ishoas uv the late war, incloodiu the paymeut uv the Southern war di bt, penshonin' Sou'horn soljers, the re-en­ slavement uv the nigg.sr and sich, and porceed bnmejitly to split up on the money question, tariffs and the like. Remitted, lhat we uv the South hev jut one dooty, whioh is to forgit all miner ishoos and atatid sholder to sholder es one man till we •gin Jr.iv that controll nv the kentry which woz Wrested from us in 1HH. Thes# fesolooshnns wos yooosniiBiiB- ly adoptid, after wich we adjourned to Bascom's and spent the remainder uv the evenin in innocent hilarity. Bas- com hed jist reseeved a barl uv noo likker, and Deekin Pogram hed drawd a $50 prize in a lofctry and he had res- cood $20 uv it from the rapasity uv his wife and dawters wich wanted to squan­ der it on cloze and sich. When Bascom saw that $20, he relaxed his liabitvool osterity and jined the revelers, goin so fur ez to treet wunst hisself, and givin me and Issaker Gavitt credit for two rounds each. It wuz really a refreshin season. PETROLEUM Y» NASBT, (Encurridged). I Jersey, North. Carolina have _ to the Democrats, iftd ate likely to re main there, exoept Florida. Tbe new "methods" introduced by the Democrats in 1876, and aanduonsly cultivated. aince» have, been oounted upon as mportaot factors in stealing Democratic success. Bepabhcan States at the Booth were "boMosed"' Into quiet. California had a Chinese scare, Ohio and Maine a Greenback erase, Iowa a "flat" lunacy, and Massachu­ setts had Butler. Nothing but a series of consummate frauds will help now, rind where they propose to work these i rands they give no uncertain sign. They are trying to unsqpt Wash­ burn in Minnesota and Orth in Indiana, in order to hold those States in case the election goes to the House. They tried the game ot "steal" in Maine, and have been de­ feated. The fact that they have made these States objective point* sdiowg that they regard them as Kepublican States, and that they are determined to wrest them from their natural allegiance by any means in their power. It remains for the Republicans only to be discreet and united, and every Northern State, with 231 electoral votes, is theirs. No Bepublican will vote for a Copperhead or a Secessionist. They will stand by the settlements of the war and the men who made those settlements possible. The past is secure, and will not be sur­ rendered.--Brooklyn Union and Ar- Buxmmmoa it '"""fx a full ten*" The Alpine flern. The Alpine horn is an instrument made of the bark of a cherry tree, and, like a speaking trumpet, is used to con­ vey sounds to a great distanoe. When the las* rays of the sun gild the sum­ mits of the Alps, the shepherd who in­ habits the highest peak of these moun­ tains takes his horn, and cries in a lend A , . - voice, "Praised be the Lord." As soon 18 very minute, a one-fourth-inch focus languages, work in tl ; > as the neighboring shepherds hear him, they leave their huts and repeat taese words. The sounds are prolonged many minutes, while the echoes of the rocks repeat the name of God. Imagin­ ation caunot picture anything more sol­ emn or sabhme than Buch a scene. During the silence that succeeds, the Bhepherds bend their knees and pray in the open air, then repair to their huts to rest. The sunlight gilding the tops of these stupendous mountains, upon which the vault of heaven seems to rest, the magnificent scenery around, and the voices of the shepherds sound­ ing from rock to rock the praise of the Almighty, fill the mind of every trav­ eler with enthusiasm and await Getting- to the Rear. The following, related by an officer of the Stonewall brigade, may interest some of our soldier friends: While Jackson's coi p i was cautiously moving to the flauk and rear of the Union army at Chancellorsville, the Confederate cavalry in advance became engaged with the enemy. Soon a wounded and bleeding trooper was seen emerging from the woods in front. Alter looking abound, he moved in the direction from which the infantry were marching, as if seeking the rear, or, as the average gray-jacket would say, the r'ar. Soon afterward rapid firing ex­ plained that the blue-jackets had closed in behind Jackson, and it was not long before the poor cavalryman was I seep coming back again. When oppo- mwm™ achromatic. It consists of two separate and distinct lenses, made of optical flint glass, so as to entirely correct the chromatic aberration. By this an ob­ ject photographed on a space one-six­ teenth of an mch square is magnified 350 times. A minute piece of gold leaf, placed under the microscope, is so mag­ nified as to have the appearance of im­ mense lumps of gold, and a one-six- teenth-of-an-inch photograph of the signing of the Declaration of Independ­ ence is so enlarged in appearance that the drapery stands out in bold relief, and the features of the signera are so distinct as to be easily recognizable. His work is considered a great triumph. THE Emperor of Austria has lately been the recipient of a unique present. It consists of a suit of clothes made from the wool of an alpaca sheep that eleven hours previous to their delivery was still alive. The animal, a superb specimen of its kind, was slain at 6:11 a. m. Four hours and thirty-three min­ utes were employed in reducing the wool to cloth. In two hours and twen­ ty-five minutes the latter was ready for he tailor, who employed the remaining onr hours in making'the suit. IT gives some idea of the trade be­ tween Minnesota and Manitoba that the exports from Manitoba at Pembina amounted Imt year to $448,844, mostly in fur skins, and the imports to $750,941, mostly in lumber, cotton goods, cattle and meats, iron and steel, plows, car­ riages, sugars and steam, vessels. table as an of the re- ' Presidential Speculations. The appearance and forecasts of the political sky will warrant us in ex­ hibiting the following approximate estimate salt of the coming Presidential election. The Electoral College con­ sists of 369 votes; 185 are necessary to a choice. The probabilities of the elec­ tion are as follows: REl-UBLlCAX. Hall form*,. « Colorado 8 Connecticut S Illinois SI Indiana 16 Iowa.. Kansas Maine 7 MassachuMtta. 19 BKUQCKAT8. Alabama Arkansas Florida (iecrKia.... lliKciitm ky 5 Louisiana Michigan., Minnesota. Nebraska.... Nevada New Hampshire New York vbw Jersey Oliin ' »r«von Pennsylvania ItUode Island Vermont Wlkcouain Muryiacd. Ml«KiMKippi. •i . . . . 11 MiBsour: SjNorth Carolina 10 Sjfcouth Carolina..:.... 7 W'i«nne88<!e M Texaa Virginia West Virginia.. Total 8 . . . . .11 6 m- - Cff̂ aum *e Wtafe. - • Now howl! This injunction Is ad­ dressed to the Democracy generally. Cause--the recent dooision of the Su­ preme Court of the United States declar­ ing the constitutionality of the Federal Election laws. An extra session of Con- giess was forced on the country last year, for the sole purpose of repealing i hose laws. Months of time and hun­ dreds of thousands of dollars were ex­ pended in the Democratic endeavor to get rid of those laws. Ttoey were de­ nounced as fiaccrant violations of the constitution. High-handed measures were resorted to to get them off tke statute book. The Democratic major­ ities in both houses of Congress abdi­ cated their right of individual judg­ ment. and subjected themselves to the despotic decrees of an irresponsible caucus. Unusual methods of legisla­ tion were resorted to in order to force acquiescence on the part of the Presi­ dent. It was proposed to starve the Government rather than have these al­ leged unconstitutional laws continue to guard the purity of elections. The Democracy stoked everything on the is­ sue, and what tney did not lose in the subsequent elections they have now lost by this decision of the Supreme Court. In every regard the court holds the laws to be constitutional--Super­ visors, Inspectors, Deputy Marshals, and ail. JV We suppose the Democracy will now want to abolish, or, at least, reconstruct, the Supreme Court. Why not? When it can play such pranks as it did in Maine, as it proposes to do in the Don­ nelly and Orth cases, now pending in the House Committee on Election?, as it is trying to do in the Fitz John Por­ ter case, as it is accustomed to do when­ ever the courts or the people deolare against it, why should it not now attack the Supreme Court, and try to wipe it out as one of the defenses of the nation against Democratic outrages! Call the' Congressional Conventions together and howl, make a noise, swear at the court. Do something to relieve the distress that now worries the revo­ lutionary Democracy. The case is urgent; but then the distressed reaction- ists may conclude that it will be best to wait until after the Presidential elec­ tion. The will is present, but the tour- ,ige is absent. It is not conscience that makes cowards of them all, but fear, fear of the lowest type; of that tney give abundant evidenee.--Burlington Hawk-Eye. | V, iV' To'al. w231'.,. . .. - This gives a Republican majority of 46 over the full vote required. Where i»re the Democrats to get the 47 neces­ sary to carry their 138 up to 186? They may lose Florida and North Carolina with 14, and find themselves with only 124 in all, while the other column would count up 245, or 70 more than is necessary for a choice. There will be no such close shave as there was in 1876. The Democrats make strong claims to Indiana (15), New Jersey (9) and Connecticut (6), but even if tiny get these 33 votes, they are still 14 be­ hind the table as it stands. The state­ ment, looked at in any light, even the worst, is most favorable to the Bepub licans. The motives that changed Con­ necticut and New Jersey and Ohio and New York last year and pronounced the doom of four United States Sena­ tors from these States, exist now, and will operate with undiminished force Give the Democrats the 138 in the above column, and where, as w© have asked before, are they to get the additional forty-seven. New York alone will not answer their purpose, and they will not carry New York, nor will New York help them if either Connecticut or New Jersey is added. They must have Ihdiana alone, or Connecticut or New Jersey to reinforce New York, Con­ necticut, New Jersey, Indiana, and Cal­ ifornia, all combined, will not answer. New Tork is the pivotal State. It is evident that the Democrats must carry New York and on© State, or two or three other States, to nave a majority in the Electoral College. In 1876the Den ocrats oarried nil the Southern States exoept A Fight fer the Standlrd. Shortly after the«oivil war had ended, a young rustic in army blue, with a musket, stopped on his homeward way at our house. That faded dingy blue was the most interesting color in the world then, and, as this soldier, scarcely more than a boy, ate his dinner we felt grateful to him. He had a simple, nar­ row mind, which all his experiences of camp and field had not deeply im­ pressed. Presently he said he'd got somethin' he didn't know but we'd like to see, and pulled out of a breast-pocket a leather case, which he opened, dis­ closing a large bronza medal. We read the inscription; it was to the effect that the Congress of the United States pre­ sented this medalgto Corporal ---- for bravery in the field. Then, of oourse, he had to tell us the story, something after this fashion: "Wal, ye se©s it was down the penin- selar one of them days when we didn't seem to be doiu' notmn' 'twuz any use. We was most up the side 'f a hill an' ez quiet ez a graveyard, but sometimes if a feller on'y showed his head over the top he see and heard enough, I tell ye. I kep' creepin' up an' lookin' down, an' I see a lot of rebs 'twan't doin* any more'n we, an' a big feller in thd* mid­ dle; he stood kind o' careless and sassv, holdin' a hansum flag. 1 told the feller next me, sez I, ' I snum i I'm goin' to get that flag!' He sez, ' Don't you be a darned fool!' But I jest dropped my gun and run down hill, 'n I was right inter 'em 'fore they seemed to notice it; 'n I run right up to the big feller an' says, * Here, yon, give me that flag I' 'n he jest let go, 'n I put it. I tell ye, I didn't wait to say, ' Thank'ee,' not any thin'; 'n if the bullets didn't sing 'round my way fer a while! But they didn't take no sort of aim, 'n I got up to tbe boys all right. I tell ye, that big ftller must have frit kinder silly when he thonght on't ISpringfield Republican. A LIVERPOOL merchant last year took his son, who was recovering from scar­ let fever (i was in the most infectious stage, of the disorder), to stay at a large hotel in Wales. The young man's con­ dition beoitme known, and there wtui a general exodus from the house. The laudlord thus had his house empty at the.busy titre, and, besides, was obliged to go to considerable expense in disin­ fecting it. He brought an action to reoover tbe loss he had sustained, and it has just been settled out ot court by the payment of a large stun --nearly £'4»GU0, inclusive of costs. [ing J tone; in ite liMfiiilr ", \ TH* exodoe _ * * |«V|MUMMII ul « BI^ookhuhkhT perance ticket in FASXKIS in county, have ning insurance etaBJM&j, Champ ,«fw ' farm, adjoining thd' paid $50 per aero for it. DIPHTHKBIA ia 'making fearft! rav­ ages in La Salle, and eld settlers that this is the unhaatthiest spring sin& 1846. | THE Decatur Guards disbanded BW oause it was the only way to settle iff disagreement between Capt. Goodma* and his men. * •, , SAMUEL LOOAS'S farm of 430 aereĵ five miles west of Broadwell, Logs* county, has been sold for f12,300, ef about $28.60 per acre. JAMBS LAKGFOKD, who was a sol­ dier in the war of 1813, died it his residence, in Grandview, the other night, in his 86th year. THW pork-house ot Head tt Hall, ift Danville, is just consumed lty prik Loss on building estimated at Sl,80fc on 'stock, $10,000; insurance, $6,000. V THE Commissioners of the Illindbl and Michigan canal opened that chatl* nel of navigation for the season, frofft Chicago to the Illinois river, M&ndife March 22. ?;"«• THE Moline authorities are putting- the law in force against jumping oi trains while they are in motion. Thjli.; is an act of kindness to the boys and their parents. COL. M. B. OONVKRSK has bean ap­ pointed Clerk of the United Stages Dis­ trict Court, to succeed the late G^sm P. Bo wen. Col. Convorse has been roa* nected with the office for the past twelve • years. TKK Montgomery oounty authorities fear for the timber supply, aud offdr m bounty of 15 per acre for three yesorsto farmers for planting and propefty eofftir vating forest trees, not to apart than ten feet each way. THR Supreme Court of this Stat* hi* decided that the General Revenue pi* of 1877 bss only referenoe to the mode of assessing and collecting taxes, aptd not to the rate of taxation, whioh is fixed by the constitution and the special char ­ ters of oities. TH* button factory at Mendota he* been totally destroyed by fire. Loee about $15,000; insurance, $6,000. Two residences adjoining, owned by Wohlers and Liadersheid, were also bompletely demolished. Wohlers' residence onty ̂ was insured for IS.000. THE Supreme Court of,jJXp&noi8 has decided that a oharivari p^Jps an un­ lawful assemblage. Some twenty years ago a similar decision was Vendem&in the cas© of ex-Gov. Bebb? of Ohio, then a citizen of Illinois, and who waa de­ fended by Tom Csrwin. A party of country louts charivaried his premises up >n the occasion of his daughters maa- riage; he warned the party off; they refused to gd; he shot into the erowa and killed a man. WHJJAM T. GEAR, of Guilford tows- ship, Jo Daviess oounty, has died in consequence of injuries sustained by falling from a load of luqrand striking Ms head^a^m ̂ tUdnot short dine biood issued from Itis mouth , and nose, and infla»o«aeMm aCH fol­ lowed by d<" bility, whioh lasted till deaft. Mr. Gear has represented his lawn In the Bowl of Supervisors forHwmy yeaxe, and held other offices of traat in this State and Wisconsin, where he former­ ly resided. DANVILLE Post: Four or five boy* of this city, whose names, for obvious reasons, we suppress, concluding that the life of a tramp was one filled with adventure and pleasure, slatted out a day or two ago, calculating to visit, fixet» Chicago, and then such other cities as might seem good to them. The day or two knocked all the pleaaweont of the enterprise, not to mention the adventure, and the young scamps re­ turned home hungry, foot-sore, penitent and miserable. They submitted to the usual castigation, and settled down to the quiet of home life. HON. RICHABD DOOLITTIJE, one of the old and highly-respected citizens of Joliet, died last week ot pneumonia. Mr. Doolittle was bom in Vatetoato, N. Y., June 15,1809, and cane to Joliet in 1837. After following tfcegMtny business two years he was elected Jus­ tice of the Peace, and held the office twelve years, and was also swifnrn ia btmkraptoy during the ariatenee of the old United Stateet Bankrupt law. In 1838 he was elected County Jhodget but dtclined to be qualified. In lfc52 he resumed'business and created a three- story brick building on Jefferson street. In tne same year he, with six other citi­ zens, was appointed by the Legislature to divide the city into wardnaaKi eeH a* election for city offtoera. In 1810 ha was Treasurer of the Board of Trus­ tees; from 1863 to 1868 he served aa Alderman; in 1871 he waa elected Jus­ tice of the Peace, which at the time of his death. I - ~:rm ;• '.<4 -1 . ' * "',1 •20 Mi 4*. A, *"- , f '" ** . ^ MB. JCDAH P. BENJAMIN, the new* counsel for the "cluumtm," h s ex­ pressed himself as confident of proviug tne innocence of his chant and the truth of certain new evidence tacently discovered. t" t 'j ^ * " "** mtn, yv • . • ( t* " : •V-,- • • '..'•*•••••- ' ':£v ' 4 a * > * \ r * * ' • v * - " u * * , v ^ W R V ' : •:r L... r ely H z , Drunken Fith. A fcewer of Bavarian beer had aow* accident whioh made 300 tons of hear utterly unfit for use. The brewsty drain was being repaired, and the beer all ran into the pond. In a few hours the whole surface of the pond was no­ ticed swarming Fith big and little fish. They all behaved in the most eoeenteio manner. Thousands of them lay qui­ etly upon their sides, as if to await their recovery, others were rapidly swiaa> mmg aud turning about in SBMU cir­ cles, while thousands again would re­ main stationary, just holding the tops of their heads out of the watar, aaif to snaf up the air. The aarfaoe of Hm water appeared quite dark by the nuaa- ber of fish srith which the lake waa stocked* . ETHAN AXABI, whose misfottwaa ̂ was to have a termagant foa a and deserved a reputattott ieiM of. the leonine thought to frighten him ow*» l mistook their man. One o( rayed in a ahe .̂̂ kq^ad i» him in the xoaa late one vem. he waa on his way Ethan stopped, looked at and without a momenta ] eteaaed, If you eoae don\ fear you. If eome home and w me. I married 39m . -f- :