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J" ' < ' ^f-^; -|| •-*•" A**" ;' • *;. ?.<t;if •.,/ •>. ,_ ;.J^/-^ir^:,\l^tMi;'̂ i« .^.fcafcafc'isr • V-l.v ^«*?V-t "-- 'v i' >s< ^ *>• , *-W. " -' *Wf9"A^* *•£(6*3*^ * V ' \ . : l^lt: Igfgttttg flaitMev 3. VAN 8LYKE 4 BON, POBUtsHxH. HoHENBT, - - ILLINOIS. THE colored Methodist Conference at «ST Louis has decided that when a broth­ er lias preached only forty minutes it isn't proper for another brother to send -a note to the pulpit informing the occu­ pant that he has been preaching an hour and a hall THE oldest lawyerihttei^N^IED States in active practice is Azgill Gibbs, of "Rochester, who in a few weeks will be *93 years of age. He is hale and hearjy. He has had six sons, all of whom have been admitted to the bar, and three of whom are now in practice. THE cotton crop of 1879 was 5,073,531 'bales. It was the largest ever gathered, being more than 260,000 bales greater than that of 1878, and more than 200,000 bales larger than the then-unparalleled -crop of 1859-'80. So it seems that free labor performs more service than slave labor. , ; BARNUM always was an ingenious ad­ vertiser. > His latest exploit was getting Bergh to threaten his arrest if he didn't .stop sending a trick horse through a hoop of fire. Then the crowd flocked to the circus to see him brave arrest, and Phineas T. raked in the assets. The ^arrest didn't take place, however, be­ cause Bergh's agent put his hand in the flames the horse leaped through and found they were not hot enough to burn. WHILE a young man living near Mans­ field, Ohio, was carelessly revolving the loaded cylinders of a revolver, one bar­ rel was accidentally discharged, and the load entered his abdomen, inflicting, as was supposed, a fatal wound. A physi­ cian was sent for, and, on examination, it was found that the ball struck a large brass button, and its force was so much decreased that, although both ball and button were driven in among the viscera, yet no rupture was caused, and the ball And button were readily extracted, and the man will probably recover. His life 'was saved by a brass button. THIRTY years ago the British consump­ tion of American and foreign cheese was not quite one pound per capita; to-day it is nearly six pounds, or 137,000,000 pounds in the last fiscal year, as against 121,000,000 pounds the previous year, imported from America. John Bull drinks more tea, uses more sugar and more wheat flour than ever before. Our choice grain-fed steers are acknowledged by him to be equal to the best domestic beef, far better than the frozen, grass- fed flesh of Australian cattle. The great Atlantic ferries and our trunk lines to the West have practically, as far as food sup­ ply is concerned, annexed the English akireB to our republic. made by the New York Emigration Com­ missioners, has been guilty of this dis­ graceful practice. A party of eighty adults and a large number of children recently arrived at New York, their pas­ sage having been provided for by the Bavarian Government by contract with a shipping agent at Aschaffenberg. These people were a burden on the state and were sent to America that the state might be relieved of the expense of pro­ viding for them. From the statements of the paupers it appears that the Ba­ varian Government contemplates ridding itself of others of ifaj?e|p|ess citizens in the same manner. , CHARLEY LEWIS, otherwise " M. Quad," of the Detroit Free Press, has been subjected, recently, to the pumping process by the peripatetic interviewer, and, in the course of the conversation, said: "I have offers every few days to write plays. I have written several, some of which were a real success in a light way, but I have never realized any­ thing from them. The fellows who have got them start off, and I can't follow them up ; and, if I should, I don't sup­ pose I could collect my share of the pro­ ceeds. They will come here and sign contracts fair enough, and that is the last of them. I am about tired of do­ ing this kind of business. It takes a good deal of time to write a play. It's a matter of a dozen or more evenings, and as many more Sundays. That is too much to give away. I am now writing a play for Gus Williams, which I expect to realize something from ; but my ex­ perience has been that I had better take a few hundred dollars down than to run the risk of getting as many thousands when the piece is brought out." THE best and largest part of Southern Jersey has been laid waste by forest fires. Cranberry bogs to the value of $100,000 are destroyed, and the huckle­ berry crop likewise, which gave employ­ ment to over 20,000 women and children in the summer season. Another item of the loss is thus noted : The fishing vil­ lages and sporting stations along the coast are almost wholly dependent on the game in the marshes, which attracts visitors from the cities in summer ; now the marshes as well as the woods are a blackened waste, and the "dead birds and animals strew the ground by the thousand." It will require twenty years for the growth of trees and vegetation, necessarily slow in that chilled atmos­ phere, to repair the damage of the last month. • MENTION has often been made of the WHETHER is it preferable, to break bad news suddenly or gradually ? A case in White Mills, Pa., shows how a dreadful result may be brought about by the very means taken to avoid it. It ap­ pears that a young man in one of the Southern States for the past two years has been paying his attention^ to Miss Schenck, a beautiful, wealthy and ac­ complished young lady of that place, and was engaged to be married at an early day. About three months ago he started from his Southern home for the North with the intention of fulfilling the engagement, when an accident occurred which resulted in his death. The news of his death reached the young lady's mother, who, knowing the strong at­ tachment her daughter entertained for him, resolved to withhold the sad news from her daughter, if possible. To this end the mother intercepted the letter which conveyed the news of his death, and the daughter was left in total ig­ norance of the truth. Time passed by, and the girl received no tidings from her absent lover. Her only solution to the mysterious silence was that she had been deserted. It so worked upon her mind that soon her reason was dethroned, and she is now a raving maniac. CURIOUS AND INTERESTING. AN ant, three-eighths of an inch long, carrying a burden of one-sixth of a grain, moves at the'fate of one mile in eleven hours. The weight (a small One compared with that they can carry) is eighteen times their own. They com­ pare with a man five and a half feet high, weighing 140 pounds, carrying a weight of 2,500 pounds at the rate of 176 miles in eleven hours. THE hand has a great share in express­ ing our thoughts and feelings-; raising the hands toward heaven, with the palms united, expresses devotion and supplica­ tion ; wringing them, grief; throwing them toward heaven, admiration; de­ jected hands, despair and amazement; folding them, idleness ; holding the fin­ gers intermingled, musing and thought- fulness ; holding them and the eyes to heaven, solemn appeal; waving the hand from us, prohibition ; extending the right hand to any one, peace, piety and safety; scratching the head, care and perplexing THE BEAUTIES OF EARTH. SeraivR Delivered by Frtl. DavM 8wla|, la Central Church, Chicago* Once a year, at least, should pulpit and press pay its most sincere respects to the external world. Statesmen, ed­ itors, men of science, politicians, clergy­ men, and, indeed, educated men of all arts, should, in some sentence or para­ graph, tell all and each other what a marvelous earth is this one where we all dwell for a period only too brief. In our latitude this great pageant of nature comes later than to those living nearer the sun, but it comes after such a marked and long winter that the spec­ tacle of spring and summer is made more impressive by the contrast. Spring and summer in our North are made by our rough winters as distinct as Bacon's embroidery, "which is more pleasing when there is lively color upon dark and solemn ground." Southern lands sur­ pass our zone in the duration and quan­ tity of leaves and blossoms, and warm sunshine, but we, perhaps, surpass these lands in the grand artistic effect, for our winter is a powerful background upon which these decorative months paint their tremendous landscape. What our hearts may want of time they make up by intensity of appreciation. Be these matters as they may, it must be admitted that all the way from the St. Lawrence to the Amazon nature is simply too large to be measured by any of us, and we shall all live and die without having done justice to the hills and val­ leys, the lakes and rivers, and fields and skies around our tents. We shall all re­ semble the disciples who fell asleep while Jesus was in their company. What folly in us to wish to be elsewhere when we have not yet studied one square mile of prairie, or paid to a solemn pine forest the worship of a day ! It is not the wisdom of man, but his misfortune, that he always wishes to go elsewhere, when he has not listened well to his own bird song, nor made any attempt to gather his own wild flowers. Dwellers in cities are to be pitied from May to November, but they need not sigh for far­ away lands, for just outside of all our noisy, dusty streets, ten miles away, this sweet kingdom of nature begins, and colors beautiful as those in Florida, winds as soft* as those in Italy, are to be had by the seeker. God has so made our world that they who seek shall find, whether what they seek is forgiveness or salvation, or only a glimpse of grass or blossoms, or morning dew. Near to all there are doors to all who will knock. The Psalmist found the glory of God all around him, found it in such amazing quantity that he wondered, among such skies, and clouds, and lights, and shad­ ows, and stars, that the Creator could remember man, and have mercy upon him. Measuring Deity by human standards, it seems to this old thinker that, in the demands of the universe up­ on the attention of God, man might eas­ ily l>e forgotten. This natural world, now putting on its summer beauty, stands related to man in so many ways that, instead of its lending us to fear that God may forget man, it reminds us that it is an arena where the Creator especially remembers His children. Indeed, all the material creation seems only a part of the house of the soul--not of the soul of man only --but of that living, conscious some­ thing called soul. We are not empow­ ered to state whether there be any mind besides the human mind that enjoys to­ day our blossoming earth. We natural­ ly consider as myths all these old stories about spirits that lived in the oaks, that rustled in the breeze, that dragged their invisible garments over the grass, myths which gave the ancients their Dianas and Pans, myths which fade away from literature in the "Midsummer Night's Dream," where Puck and Titania and Oberon figure so strangely. But that man is the only form of intelligence that is enjoying the immense world, with its rising and setting suns, with its infinite loveliness, we have no right to say. The fact that no being is visible, or tangible, or audible, except our­ selves would not be a conclusive argument that we have the world in our keeping, for as God is invisible, so there may be somewhere between man and Deity intelligences not within the i domain of human sense. Dismissing I this inquiry because we are not compe- | tent to discuss it, we can safely mark i the fact that our external world is made i largely for man. It used to be objected I to this theory that the earth and sea and ; sky are beautiful where man has never j been, but this would only teach us that I the universe was not made for man only, j God Himself loves the beautiful. The | conclusion will remain that the relations of the world to man are a part of its that npvvETT is hereby anihoriasd to takii i uknsk11 » *or gdvertUMig ana PL*IKI>BAI,EK, receive fullv Wor-k ̂̂ rcceipi for the wuue.-- paii left wttb bin will receive prompt kno*" ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS. hardy "life of a journalist. Unceasing thought; laying the right band on the j final cause. Man does not breathe all , , . .. . . , , . .. heart, affection and solemn affirmation; labor is his lot, and his vacations are , up ^ thumb> approbatiOIl | few. It is seldom, however, that even j placing the right forefinger on the lips in this exhausting profession stjcli an in- . perpendicularly, bidding silence. stance of hardship occurs as is exhibited! SERPENTS are said to obey the voice of in the case of T. S. Dennison, editor and ' their master. The trumpet-bird of proprietor of Hours of Recreation. This America follows its owner like a spaniel, and the jacana acts as a guard to poul- is a monthly of about fifteen pages, most- ; protecting them in the fields all day ly contributions and selections. The editor has had such a tough time of it that the paper will not appear in June, | July and August, as the arduous nature of his occupation renders it necessary to | dtake a breathing spell in Colorado until j September. He hopes then ' 'to produce a spicier, better paper than ever." How | lie must enjoy his greatly-needed rest! [ He really ought to quit journalism or he will die of overwork. THE London Lancet calls attention to j the danger incurred in the case of young prls by prolonged stooping over work and crossing of the legs. Dr. Mal- herbe, with the view of obviating these I evils, has invented a plan which consists lof fixing to the edge of an ordinary ta- 1 ble a sort of cushion, on which the work l ean be easily fastened or spread out, as Ion the knee. A framework of the sim- Iplest description admits of the raising lowering of the cushion, so that the | work may be done sitting or standing^ Ibixt in either case the vertebral column lis maintained perfectly straight, while I the facility of change of position great- lly lessens fatigue. To test the inven- |tion, Dr. Malhe"rbe introduced it at the Communal School of Nantes, and with rood effect on two pupils who had a ten- lency to malformation. THE great influx of Europeans to this country, while gratifying in th^ mam; is lot without disagreeable featu#egsy'ahe 5very has been made in New York Ithat not only are many of the immigrants lestitute, but some of them paupers nithin the legal meaning of the term, nd that these paupers are being sfnt lere at the expense of the authorities of ^heir native country. The Government of Bavaria, it appeals from investigations from birds of prey, and escorting them home at night. In the Shetland isles there is a gull which defends the flock from eagles ; it is therefore regarded as a privileged bird. The chamois, bound­ ing over the mountain, are indebted for their safety in no small degree to a spe­ cies of pheasants. The bird acts as a sentinel, for as soon as it gets sight of a man it whistles, upon which the chamois, knowing the hunters to be near, sets off at full speed. The artifices which part­ ridges and plovers employ to delude their enemies from the nest of their young may be referred to as a case in point, as well as the adroit contrivance of the hind for the preservation of her young; for when she hears the sound of dogs she puts herself in the way of the hunters, and starts in a direction to draw them away from their fawns. Instances of the effect of grief upon animals are no less remarkable. Lord Kaimes relates an instance of a canary which, while sing­ ing to a mate hatching her eggs in a cage, fell dead ; the female left the nest, audi finding him dead, rejected all food, and died by his side. A Spiritual Explanation. Alfred James is a Philadelphia spirit- materializing medium. Some investi­ gators lately found in his cabinet and hidden on his person just such colored cloth as the apparitions wore. This dis- coveiy was accepted by scoffers as proof that James was a fraud ; but Thomas R. Hazard, a leading Spiritualist, says that no such construction should he placed on the matter. The spirits have ex­ plained to him that the medium smug­ gled the cloth into the cabinet because, " when his vital powers were weak and low, the spirits could expand or multiply the same into the drapery and garments that were needed for Uie manifestations, from a nucleus however scanty, with much less effort and exhaustion of his vital powers than they could when they were obliged to condense and manufact­ ure the needed articles wholly from the elements of the air." Mr. Hazard trusts that, after this is made clear, Mr. James will no longer be subjected to unjust suspicion. the air there is, nor drink all the water there is; he can only take his cupful from the rivers, and yet the air and the water are for man. So we cannot see all the hills and vales and oceans ; there are great forests where no human foot­ step is to be seen or heard, and yet, in a great sense, the human family stands as a reason for this vast earthly house. This dumb creation may well come to help us believe in the existence of a Supreme mind, and of a human mind as being distinct from material. To Coleridge, in the vale of Chamouni, all the details of the uplifted Mont Blanc spoke of a God. The crags, the cas­ cades, the torrents, the sea of pines, the play of sunlight and moonlight, the eagles soaring around their nests in inaccessible rocks, the wild flowers in the edge of the snow, the wild &oats "sporting 'round the eagles' nests," the vapory clouds of incense, all are woven to­ gether into an argument for the actu­ ality of a God. Not only do such thoughts suggest a mind that invented and made such a scene, but also a di­ vinely-made mind that can stand in the va'ley and look up " with dim eyes suf­ fused with tears.' Nature bears witness to the divineness of man--to the isola­ tion and uniqueness of man. The countless blossoms of our homes and the fields and prairies cannot admire themselves nor each other. The glorious forests are not happy in their own shade and silence. The fields and woods, with the ekion.--Editor. miiTy W. Bennett and Oscar Joules, of ^^conda, visited frifoda to Richmond Saturday an 1 Sunday. man ; J waiter. Wray t« improving Mi new and Crty When the Besteder barn Is ?cnd%ved frem the north let, and the Man j . uie iftenif- ing of'the house, and gives it such signi­ ficance, sttch high and deep reason, that from this amazing adaptation we pass to the belief in an intelligent Maker. It seems impossible to detach our earth from a creative mind--as impossible as to detach it from an appreciative mind called man. Man gives us a reason of earth, and God a reason of man and earth combined. In addition to the proof the materia^ world brings us of a creator, it lias a wonderful part to play in the daily life of man. Nature helps man in his lan­ guage, in his literature, in his pleasure, in his morals, in his religion. From what impresses the senses in the external world comes much'of language. Nature was the school-house where man learned words. From the sensual came the spiritual. We speak of the flow of eloquence and a torrent of passion l>e- oause our ancestors were impressed with the flow of the river and the power of torrents. Man walked in the night or the fog, and thus learned to think of the night of ignorance or the fog of ar­ gument ; man had seen the leaf fade, and this led him to say that we all do fade as a leaf. So that language was in the outset ouly a transfer of the material world over into the soul, and a finding of similar phenomena within. Thus nature is the school-mistress to which primitive man went for his instruction, and, after those far-off children had gene in and out a long time, they had a strange ' currency of sound, which we call Ayr an, or Hebrew, or Greek--the circulating gold of mighty nations now dead. It took mankind thousands of years to gather up as sim­ ple a language as the Hebrew; more thousands still to make such a collection of symbols as we now have under the modern name of French, or German, or English. So intimate is the relation be­ tween words and the external world that it is, perhaps, true that no one but a lover of nature can ever reach a rich and powerful language. He is out in the field of relative suggestion when he is out with nature. The tongue be­ comes paralyzed soon unless the heart and brain enjoy this great out-door air. Fully in sympathy with field, and sea, and sky, they seem to reward the friend­ ship by helping their admirers to sj>eak. It is time fche words are all in the lexi­ con, but they are not all in our mind and heart. Reading will give us many, but a love of nature will pour into the mind thousands of terms which came from the world of sense, and which are full of the wroma of the fields or lulls. The transition is easy from the rela­ tion of the external world to public morals to its relation to religion. All are aware that the argument in favor of a God may be denied, but the argument in favor of no God may meet as it seems a bolder rejection. The atheists may toil at their part of their debate. Let us prefer to toil at those oars which row our boat toward immortality. We may see in the spring and summer the revelation of a Deity. There is the King in his beauty. From the little daisy up to the oak the distance is great. Only a great mind can pass over it cre­ atively. Upon a hill-summit in Wiscon­ sin, where a beautiful Gothic church overlooks many lakes, and where the branches of trees touched the stained glass of the windows, the worshiper* on a Sunday morning in June read only a short service that they might move from the aisles and altar outside, to be more perfectly in the presence of God. When you see the wood of the oak or the pine you can say that the Creator wished that tree to stand by its own strength, but when you see the vine reach out tendrils you must admit that it must take hold of something stronger than itself. This tendril is straight and pliant until it touches something. It then curls and hardens into iron. This would answer for vines that climb trees or attach to fences, but how are ugly walls to be covered with foliage? A tendril cannot grasp the surface of brick or stone. Behold! along comes the ivy, which spreads out little hands upon a perpendicular wall, and thus will clamber all over castle, or cathedral, or cottage. Thus pause where you may and meditate by any tree however gigantic, or by any flower however humble, and they "combine to say that they were made by a Wisdom quite separate from themselves. Thus the external w. rid, after |ielping us fashion a language, after coming to in­ spire a literature and awaken genius, after ministering to human pleasure or happiness, after inviting us to pursuits that aid morals and repeat the benedic­ tion " Blessed the pure in heart," comes with one more excellence in that it ut­ ters one more impressive argument in favor of the being of a God who is mind­ ful of man, and who, notwithstanding the immensity of the universe, visits the sons of man in their sojourn on this smallest of stars. district--W. H. Barlow, A. P. ered Klgl hear •' State (cmvcntlOM Briefly seau Ssmmarlzcdi VTE8 CHOSEN TO THK NATIONAL CONTKN- tlie 1 TION. tor-arge--John A. Logan, E. A. Storm, O. j D. T. Little, William Mc Adams, Boss t»a>m, Solomon Begun, C. C. Campbell. Ingr district -Jolm Went worth, C. W. ^rd, Stephen A. Douglas, Dr. 8. P. ttofnd district--A. M. Wright, John Baam- *l«tf Tuthill, C. \V. Woodman. id district--John L. Beveridge, Homer ' ttrtiartli, L. J. Kadisli, S. M. Millard. Fourth district--N. C. Thompson, A. E. Smith, H. N. ltawlin, H. K. Talcott. Fifth district--J. B. Brotra, W. H. Holeomb, Miles White, N. Seoville. Sixth district--Henry T. Noble, C. N. Whit­ ing, W. H. Shepard. H. J. Swindon. Seventh district--E. F. Bull, George M. Hol- lenbeck, E. W. Willnrd, Francis liowen. Eighth district--J. B. Wiluon, H. W. Snow, R. J. Ilamut. I. C. Mosier. Ninth district--Joab Mershon, R. H. Whiting. Tenth district--Hosea Davis, E. P. Burgett. Ekwnth district--O. B. Hamilton, Black Ada ins. Twelfth district--George M. Brinkerhoff, C. M. Eames. Thirteenth district-^John HcNotta, Msj. Y. Warner. Fifteenth Greene. Sixteenth district--J. M, Truitt,Lewis King, hoff, E. M. Ashcroft, B. J. Higgin*. Seventeenth district--A. W. Metcifclf, Richard Rowett, F. H. Pfeifer, Jonathan Miles. Eighteenth district--C. O. Patia, J. M. Davis, E. O. Freeman, James A. Viail. Nineteenth district--C. W. Pavey, W. H. Will­ iams, C. Churchill, W. H. Itobinson. RESt pLCTION or INSTRUCTIONS. ResolvM, That Gen. U. S. Grant is the choice of the Republican party of Illinois for the Pres­ idency, and the delegates from this Stat® are in­ structed to use all honorable means to secure his nomination by the Chicago Convention, and to vote as a unit for him, and the said dele­ gates shall have power to till all vacancies. PliESlDENTlAX. ELEtiltHIS. At Ixirye. Geoege Schneider, Cook. E. Callahan, Crawford. For the IHtbrieU. 1. R. T. Lincoln, Cook. 2. J. M. Smyth, Cook. 8. J. A. Kirk, Cook. 4. C. M. Brazee, Winnebago. 5. R. E. Logan, Whiteside. 6. J. H. Elliott, Bureau, 7. Janu s Goodspced, Will. 8. A. E. Sample, Ford. 9. 8. D. Puterbaugli, Peoria. 10. E. C. Humphrey, Mercer. 11. W. A. Grimsliaw, Pike. 12. J. C. McQuisg, Christian. 18. J. H. Howell, McLean. 14. W. R. Jewell, Vermillion. 15. J. M. Sheets, Edgar. • 16.' J. W. Peterson, Clinton. 17. W. F. Norton. Madison. 18. George W. Smith, Jackson. 19. W. H. Johnson, White. NOMINEES FOR 8TATE OrnCKBS. For Governor--Shelby M. Cullom, of Sanga­ mon comity. For Lieutenant Governor--John M. Hamil­ ton, of McLean county. For Secretary of State--Hon. Henry D. De­ ment, of Lee county. For State Auditor--Charles B. Swigart, of Kankakee. For State Treasurer--Edward Rutz, of Cook county. For Attorney General--Hon. James McCart­ ney, of Wayne county. STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. At Large--Robert Bell, Wabash, J. W. Bunn, Sangamon: W. R. Thompson, Champaign; W. F. Calhoun, De Witt; George T. Williams, Chi­ cago; H. L. Taylor, La Salle. First District--J. H. ('lough. Cook. Second--George B. Swift, Cook. Third--H. H. Thomas. Cook. Fourth --M. B. Castle, De Kalb. Fifth--A. M. Jones, Jo Daviess, Sixth--J. M. Beardslev, llock Island. Seventh--L. B. Rav, Grundy. Eighth--Dr. E. A. Wilcox, VVoodford. Ninth--Frank Hitchcock, Peoria. Tenth--H. F. McAllister, Henderson. Eleventh--E. J. Peaive, Greene. Twelfth--J. 8. Nicholson, Cass. Thirteenth--J. Men-ism, TazoweQ. Fourteenth--James H. Clark, Ode. Fifteenth--Col. H. Van Sellers, Edgar. Sixteenth--John R. Tanner. Clay. Seventeenth--W. P. -Bradshaw, MadisOtt. Eighteenth--Daniel Hogan, Pulaski. Nineteenth--Thomas W.Scott, Wayne. father then went to his stable, and, pro­ curing a heavy horsewhip, returned to the house for the purpose of whipping the girl; but in the meantime the mother and married sister had come home, and when he commenced to lash the girl the former interfered. He then turned his attention to her and cut her in a very brutal manner across the back, face, and hands, each stroke making a large welt and drawing blood. Next the married daughter attempted to shield her mother, and she also received a severe flagella­ tion, the father following her into the street, where she ran to escape him, and whipping her there in the presence of a number of spectators. He is likely to suffer for his action, for his wife and daughter, by the death of a relative, in­ herited some $18,000 to $20,000 a short time ago, and he has had a good time spending it ever since, but the wife now declares she will live with him no longer, and intends going to Wheeling to live with her married daughter, who resides there, and was only in Steubenville on a visit. --New York World. THE GRAND OLD REPUBLICAN PARTY. A Famous Clown. Few men in his profession had less of the circus man and the clown about him outside of the ring than James Cooke, the leaper, tumbler, rope-walker, clown, and ring-master, and who died not long ago. He was slender, medium- sized, and erect, with doae-cut, gray hair brushed back from a well-shaped fore­ head, well-cut features, steel-gray eyes, and a short gray mustache. He dressed with care, in clerical black, and a white necktie added to his clerical appearance. | His words were carefully chosen, and he j spoke deliberately and thoughtfully. He ! looked and acte^l like a gentleman al- | ways. He was a religious man. His soiiv 17 years old, is studying for the aU their rich decoration, wait for man. j priesthood, in the Santa Clara College, in He comes, and sees, and admires, and loves, and thus the reason of the earth's existence is complete. In a neighboring city, a few weeks ago, one could have seen among trees in a large area, almost great enough for a park, a half-hundred workmen building a structure of stone. It was Gothic, with many a point and turret. Its main hall ran from a wide front entrance back 150 feet. What rooms ! what parlors ! what library ! what chambers ! what porches ! Suppose, now, the Workmen had informed the curious visitor that upon being completed nobody was ever to live in the house; that it was simply to be built; that no family was ever to move through the halls, never to sing in the parlor ; we think the visitor would have come away with a heart full of ab­ solute pain at tiie recital. The grander the house the more painful this thought that it was for no mortal; that it was to San Francisco, and a daughter is at i school in a convent near that city. ) " He was a perfect gentleman," said j Mr. Nathan, one of the proprietors of i Barnum's circus, where for the last three years of his life Mr. Cooke was equestri­ an manager. " He never used an oath, and he never permitted himself to talk ungrammatically. He seemed always lay­ ing to improve, and to improve all about him. If any of the men in the ring used bad language, ungrammatical language, I mean, he would reprove them, but in such a way that they would not take offense, and could only love him the more for the interest he took in them. He urged the boys to read the papers, and to study when they could. As a clown he was very good; Shakspearean, of course. He was dignified, graceful and witty, and studied hard to invent new things. Democratic Bad Faith* In one way the Democratic party can help the Republican party materially. It hates Senator Kellogg. It wants to make the South absolutely solid in the Senate, and cares not for justice or de­ cency, or the established rules of the Senate, if it can satisfy its vindictive feeling. There was a pledge, it is true, that a Republican and a Democratic Senator should be admitted on the same ground, and not disturbed in their seats, and the Republicans loyally and honor­ ably kept the agreement on their part. If the Democrats see fit to break it, if they please to establish a precedent un­ der which, when the Senate becomes Republican, the right of any Democratic member to his seat can be questioned, the Republicans may well thank them heartily for their folly. It will seem to the people of the North that Mr. Kellogg is illegally ousted, not because he was not duly chosen, but because he was an effi­ cient loyalist and is an active Republi­ can. It will seem to them that Demo­ cratic viudietiveness and partisan greed have once more trampled upon legal and honorable obligations. In the Presiden­ tial campaign this bit of indecency on the part of the Democrats will be men­ tioned often, and we leave the sensible Democrats themselves to say whether it will help them.--New York Tribune. Political Assessments. The report of the minority of the Sen­ ate committee charged with the investi­ gation of the practice of making political assessments is an interesting and entertaining document. It is very clearly shown that the report of the ma­ jority is partisan and disingenuous in character. For example, the rej>oi-t of the majority cited the case of a clerk in one of the de}»urtri>ei)t« v,ho refilled to contribute to a Rcpnl JiMII election fund, and wliotte salary w IF tmlwiequentlj' cut down. The impre-si>>n sought to be conveyed is that this wns done in order to punish the refractory employe, where­ as the fact ia that the whole business was managed by a Democratic House of Rep­ resentatives. The report of the minority of the committee effectually disposes of the hypocritical pretensions of the Demo­ cratic majority. But the whole case could have been dismissed in a single sentence, showing that the main reli­ ance of the Democratic party has always been upon the time-honored custom of compelling office-holders to pay the ma­ jor part of the expenses of a political campaign.--New York Times. A Han [Gtwan & IWB, ta the Illinois BepahHoan Conven­ tion.] We are hen to renew our devotion to the Re­ publican party. Passing by the financial ques­ tion, which has been settled by the resumption of specie payment, the refunding of the national debt at a low rate of interest, the existence of a currency of nniform value and of equal value with coin, and the return of prosperous times, we will demand that the laws shall everywhere be peacefully observed; we will reassert the fundamental principles which underlie our sys­ tem of government, aad declare that liberty, equality and justice shall be established and maintained throughout the land ; that the right of free assemblage, of free speech, and a free ballot shall be maintained wherever the flag floats ; we will select a State ticket that will sweep this great Prairie State as with a flame: we will send delegates to the National Conven­ tion, and, plighting our faith as honorable men and as true Republicans, will agree to support the nominee of that convention. If that true Republican, wise statesman, and great financier, John Sherman, is nominated, we will give him earnest and hearty support; if that great political leader and inimitable par­ liamentarian and debater, James G. Blaine, ia the nominee, Illinois Republicans will make his cause their own ; if that man of extreme mod­ esty, of absolute candor, of extraordinary judg­ ment, of inflexible integrity, of indomitable will, Ulysses 8. Grant, is nominated, remember­ ing his great deeds, and recognizing the con­ stant growth of our debt of gratitude for his matchless genius in saving this country from ita enemies, as we have from year to year, while enjoying the bounties of this country, a clearer conception of the magnitude of our ob­ ligation to Washington, Jefferson, the Adamses and others, for laving the foundation of our civil and religious liberty, the Republicans of Illinois will take the great man in their loving arms, and bear him forward in triumph. This in my conception of the duties of the hour, which the Illinois Republicans owe to their party, State and national. Axe there Re­ publicans so bhnd as not to see that Democratic success is not a remedy for any evil that may beset them V Has the Democratic party done anything during the past twenty vcars to com­ mend it to your confidence?" Has anything i good in the Government received their sup­ port ? Have they attempted to strengthen ftie bonds of our Union? Have theytaken a fetter from the limb of a slave ? Have they enlarged the rights of men? Have they made the life and property of tho citizen more secure? Have they increased the safe­ guards to the rights of free speech and a free ballot ? Gentlemen, I leave you to answer these questions, and I invite you to contemplate the grand achievements and record of the Republican party. What there is to be proud of in our country lias been pre­ served to us and our posterity through the lofty patriotism, courage, wisdom, and integrity of the Republican party. To-day we belxold that party surrounded bv liberty, equality, and Just­ ice, moving forward with majestic tread upon the grand mission of bettering the condition of the human race, led by the hand of progress. Ah, my countrymen, too much of the destiny of the human race hinges upon the success of the Republican party for that success to be en­ dangered by the passion, the prejudice, the unwisdom of the Republicans of Illinois. Ris­ ing above the heat of local strife or personal considerations, let us join hands and go fom**d to victory. ' The Power of Beauty. ' A most distressing affair, says a Wash­ ington letter, recently occurred in the suicide of Capt. Edward Wright, son of Judge "Jack" Wright, who was recently convicted and fined for his assault on Secretary Delano, and then graciously pardoned by the President. Capt. Wright was one of the finest officers in the ordnance corps, and his improve­ ments and experiments in his line have gained him great credit. Two years ago he met at the Arkansas Hot Springs the beautifid Bessie Paschal, daughter of a noted Texas lawyer, and divorced •wife of Frank Gassaway. A more fascinating and lovely woman is seldom seen than she, aud, after a two-weeks' acquaint­ ance, they were married. Three months ago they separated, and since then Capt. Wright had been depressed and gloomy. After a painful interview with her last week they parted finally, she winging UIJNOK 1CW&. BOMVUJUB, Vermillion county, Jbaa voted to build a $10 ,000 school house. THE factory at Piano has mannfa<£> ured 55,000 Marsh harvesters tlie prcsdSI ' season. ." < • • •' /•, V ,3 Six THOMUorodoBam stock baa bem--* subscribed to start ̂ |rpifr4iying estab­ lishment at Yirden. AN establishment for tfce mani&tctu&a of archery, employing thirty hands, is lot ' - ' operation at Rock Island. : n i *' If AT Pekin, on Saturday last, three fsl = * ilies on the same street lost children by * , measles and scarlet fever. In two of tfa^b ?: families one of twins was taken. . < i JOHX B. COHKS, a lawyer at Pekin, I has, by due process of law, been madb < to refund to a client $530 of overcharge $ in a case he had been authorized to set.tlai , £ MRS. SAMUEL CARTER, wife of Engim- \ eer Carter, of Urbana, and sister-in-law of S. C. Ashley, druggist, of Indianap» t oplis, was fatally burned the other night H by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. ; t ^ -,f A DARKY at Danville, offering to drink*. all the whisky that might be furnished him, drank himself to death, and thb •widow, bringing suit for $15,000 dam- * .ages, has now compromised for $150. A FEW days since, in Wayne county, % boy named Willis W. Schroder was gaged in gymnastic exercises on a hori- jt zoutal bar, and had a strap so arranged 3 that, in accidentally falling, it caught him and broke his neck. ]u- THE Hoopeston Chronicle reports:A case of hydrophobia near that place. : lady was bitten over a year ago by a cat, and a few days ago exhibited symft tonis of hydrophobia, and is now suffer­ ing with tortures of that terrible malady. THE annual meeting of the Hlinoia Masons' Benevolent Society took pl&oe at Princeton last week. The old direct­ ors and officers were re-elected. The so­ ciety now has elegant new quarters, and its affairs are in a flourishing condition. A GREAT misfortune has happened to the clover fields. The opening of spring reveals a great portion of the clover roots dead and rotten by the continual freezing and thawing of the open winter. : It will lessen our hay crop by thousands - of tons. THE old American House property at Springfield--a corner famous from jto olden times--has been sold for $33,0W). In all probability a new and magnificent bank building will soon be in progress of erection on the site of that old Inad - mark. A OASB of paft-jftstioe iŝ that of Smothers, the colored thief who stole |25 from Wait's Hotel, at Bloomington. In just eleven days after his arrest for tha offense he Was safely lodged behind th» prison walk of the State penitentiary at Joliet. ILLINOIS will vote, next fall, upon m constitutional amendment extending the terms of offices of Sheriff Mid County Treasurer to four years, and providing that no such official shall be eligible to re-election to such office for four yean after the expiration of the term for which • he shall have been elected. HENRY MULLIN, aged 23, son of Mr. j Fred Mullin, of Meudota, was drowned a few days ago. He left in the morning with a party of others for a picnic at No* grove. It appears that he was amusing himself fishing in the creek, aud, while in the act of pulling out a fish, was taken with a fit, to whicn he was subject, and : fell on his face in the water, which waa i scarcely four inches deep at that place, j His father and others, seeing him fall, | ran to his assistance, but he waa dead when taken up. ! Miss BARBARA AJCOS came near BEINGS drowned near Prairie creekf Marion ; county, last week, while attempting to cross a slough on horseback, the bridge i having washed away. The struggles of : her horse burst the saddle-girths, and, { as she fell off, she became entangled in j the reins of the bridle. The hone ; stepped on her clothing and could not ̂ get out, nor she either, until some of the ' neighbors, who saw the accident, came | to her assistance and rescued her in a | sadly demoralized condition. | GROUND has been broken at Wenona I for the new coal-shaft. The Wenana j people have been working for this fof long time with ill success, mi til a uum- I ber of Oglesby miners offered to sink the i shaft during 1880 for $3,500 donation, ' payable as follows : $1,000 when 100 | feet was down and timbered; $1,000 i when 200 feet was down and timbered; $1,000 when 250 feet was down and tim­ bered, and the balance when coal waa • reached. It is 330 feet to the coal, which, according to the borings, itf a four feet one inch vein. "j MAYOR WEBSTER, of Quincv, filed m bill in the Circuit Court asking for an ia-, . *i i * J * 1 y ^ UUM 1U tuv vuuuitvuuti MUUK her way to Philadelphia and fresh fort- , juliet;on to restrain the Collector frbtt unes, and lie ending his unhappy life by | collecting more than 50 cents on the a pistol shot from his own hand. The j $100 for general citv purposes, claiming career of his wife has been something 28 cents assessed for streets and al- remarkable. Seldom outside of novels THE trustees of the Rev. J. H. Hart- stand, and, at last, decay without an ' ley's church, in Cincinnati, have asked occupant. But suppose, now, he should j hun to resign, on account of his habit of revisit that place next autumn, aad find < borrowing matey and never payiuig. Brutally Whips His Wife and j Two Daogh ters. The horsewhipping of three ladies of good position hi Steubenville, Ohio, has created a great sensation there. A young girl about lt» years of age resides there with her parents, and, being handsome and gay, she has many admirers among the young men. Her father did not al­ low her to receive gentleman callers, but she did so on the sly nevertheless. Just before the whipping took place, her parents and married sister went down the street, leaving her at home. Shortly after their departure a young mau called at the house to see the girl, but had only been there a few minutes wheu the father returned. On finding the two iu the parlor together, the father flew into a passion, threatening to make short work of the young man if he did not make himself scarce, and the caller went it once in donble-quick time. The ley purposes above the former amount ia contrary to the charter and law. Judge Wilson decided to refuse the injunction,' but granted an order to enjoin the Col­ lector from selling Mr. Webster's per­ sonal property to satisfy the real-estate tax. He said that Mr. Webster could test the validity o£ the tax in the County Court when the Collector asked for judg­ ment against the property. BLOOMINGTON Pantagraph: The gî gantic force of the cyclone in Arrow- smith aud Padua, last Sunday night, amy be imagined from the following ; Sterna of timothy hay were driven like arrows into oak gate posts to the depth of two or three inches. The posts were some­ what decayed, but still strong and dur­ able, and so hard that one could not pea- sibly force a steel wire into them to the same depth. There are hundreds of these stems still sticking in the postal That the margin of the cyclone was well defined is clearly proven. A wagon waa lifted bodily, hurled over an adjoining field, and smashed to atoms, while a cultivator standing within six feet of the wagon was untouched. A little hatchet lay on top of the cultivator, which sibly accounts for its escaping. t. £ Zvs tion for the observance and old memoirs do we know of a woman exerting such pewer over men by the. mere spell of beauty. Graybeards and callow youths have worshiped her, and grave professional men gone wild. As a {roung lady she was a belle, and as a ovely widow she exerted a more potent power. Don Cameron at one time was anuouueed as about to marry her, and the list of his comrades is a long one. A graceful and perfect figure, great, sad, Eatlietic eves, fine features, and a most tvely smile, first impress one on seeing her, but the indescribable charm, the strange fascination of her ways, the witchery and magic of her, are too evan­ escent and intangible for prose. Her beauty, her life and her fortunes would need the worldly, gusliing pen of Ouida to portray some sides of it; for others the profound analysis of George Eliot could hardly suffice. As a figure in the social world she is destined to reappear, and those who have watched the amazing incidents of her life since she first en­ tered Washington, a precocious young witch of 16, will not be surprised at any sequel. The Greatest Werk of Goethe. "Victor Hugo never could abide Goethe. Good reason why. The great German said of "Notre Dame" that it was a nice- enough story, but villainously valueless V"". ^ ^ k.- from a historical point of view, "Goethe? ; STATK OF ILLISOIK, EICCCTITK DSPJJITMNRR," ** . said Hugo, scornfully, when his name ~ "" " was mentioned once, "Goethe? Who is Goethe? What did he ever write? What does he amount to? The only thing he _____ ^ ever wrote that is at all passable is ' The i aruiy of the republic to whom, under a Robbers.' " "Pardon me, master," ob- j Providence, we owe the preservation aad con­ serves one of Hugo's disciples; " but ! <£ ouT ^tional existence Saturday. 'The Ttoblw.ra' is bv Schiller " "And !the fJth of May matont, will be utNMrvsd ine Kooix rs 18 "j ..r• Ana patn.)tu. people of thi.« State as Decun- tion day, and 1 call upon them to celebrate it in an appropriate manner, so att to keep ijive the memories of our hemic dead. Our TOUtb, upon whom will chiefly devolve the mtefai tiusk of decorating the soldiern' grave*, viB thna be continued in their love of country " f £*» T* A.1 *** Proclamation* Following,is Gov. Cullom's proclama- of Decoratina SraraoriELB, 111., May 17,1886. f'fS. fafSt*-; i The return of the beautiful spring, 1 wealth of tlowers. reminds u* that the *JK ] pro:tclie» for the annual ceremonies m mcowry and honor of the fallen heroes of that Hleal that is Schiller's! " concluded Hugo, in triumph.--French paper. - "Set" and "Sit.* " This humorous illustration flf an im­ proper use of the word set may remind our readers that hens set, and men sit , , - ^ - -- The members of a country court once j ^iii/for helpf** ° rt ̂ a €Ba debated as to how long they should set j iu testimony whereof I hereto get nyfiaal to dispose of the business before them. ! and cauae the gnat seal of the State to be af~ Three weeks were at last determined on. fixed. •% . ; f purpose--aa they hear the toilBiy atory' ! brave deeds and glorious oacrifieM &ey wilt Jfcfc '«• ; f^'4' "Why, in the name of wonder," re­ marked a wag at the bar, " do they not set four weeks, like other geese ?" Done at the City of Sprisgtield year above written. ? a. M. I Br the GovtMHr: ' Gaoaoft.JI|