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tents fHitiiideiilct I. VAN SLYKE. Editor and Publisher. fklcHENRY, ILLINOIS. •••VIS GBS. ROBERT C. SCHKNCK, who IB now Vermont, is said to be failing rapidly. He is 71 years at age. j Boston because he could not read or ; write, acts as interpreter for a large • gang. They live very economically, and i their bread is bought, several hundred i loaves at a time, by the contractor, while , they do their own cooking. Many of them say tlint they only propose to stay I in the country long enough to earn $100 or so, when they will return to Italy. _ • J - irt THE National Museum on the Smith­ sonian grounds at Washington is nearly ifomplete. It is expected that the cen- |ennial and other exhibits will be placed §» "the building by next January. 4 | MB. W. A. LAWRENCE gave some in­ teresting statistics about hop-growing in ' i speech delivered before the Hop-Grow- lire' Association of Central New York.' Jfe directed attention to the remarkable increase of the hop industry in the United States : CAPT. JOHN ERICSSON, of New York. kas invented a new engine on the caloric- motor principle, which is said to be a very serviceable and economical ma­ chine. It occupies a small space, and Ihe cost of running it at full pressure is only 3 cetfts per hour. ̂ • MR. Cox, who is running as an Indo» pendent for Congress in the Fourth ; Georgia district, is an ingenuous youth, j He talks right out in meeting, saying j recently : " If you see lit to send me to j Congress I will go to the l>est of my | ability. I believe I would like to go. : In fact, I want to go. I have heard that | the salary is ample, and, as I have a j small family, won't insist on its increase. '• As I am fond of vindication, I want to j vindicate myself. It has been hurled at ; me like a thunderbolt that I am too ! young. In answer to this I say first I j can't help it, and it is not my fault. • Second, I am trying to grow older every | day. Third, 1 am succeeding. Fourth, THE FOOL'S ERRAND! What It Was and the Experiences j That Prompted Him to Write I the Book. i The Unconquerable 'JT South as It Was Manifbat̂ ĵ *'?" Toward His Wilis. " Hi Aha Valient 91 order by tike Ball* Not B«wa*ce, feat m . Horrible Trntk* [From the Cincinnati Commercial.] Correspondents have made various in­ quiries, about this gentleman. For their pleasure, some facts about him and his book are here given. The story has made the most profound impression of any political novel writ­ ten in many years. Although it was published last winter, it is still selling at the rate of 2,500 copies a week. They even read it in the solid South. I am afraid I will be much older than I i A gentleman some time ago went into a am before I get to Congress." If other! doctor's office in Greensboro, N. C., so candidates were as candid there would j unexpectedly that the medical gentle- homes of wealth and happiness to Wn*h ignorant negroes. They were moved by the same spirit that annually impels edu­ cated American girls from Boston, from Cincinnati and Chicago to dedicate their lives as missionaries to Japan, to Egypt, and to the famine-stricken regions of In­ dia. It is a spirit Southerners seem as little able to comprehend as Lucifer would be to comprehend the Christian atonement. The fool and his wife found some of these Northern women teaching the colored schools at Greens­ boro, N. C. They minded their own business, meddling in no way with white people's customs or opinions. Yet, for the crime of coming from the North and teaching negroes these good, self-sacri- licing girls were shut out from all pleas dozing, murder and ostracism was then under President Pierce, was the first set in operation with such good effect i Probate Jndge of Lee county, and was that in 1876 Mr. Tilden received a ma- { continuously for twfenty years a Justice jonty of 33,772. Since that time the : of the Peace. ' ' ESS-ISTS! <*'!£%*** ft® i lN the State Board of Equalization, m tj, w} n *4 j tabies have been presented by the Audi- SriSrifr S 7 ,M ! tor showing that the total value of all fell considerably short of 150 000 An ' property assessed in the State for 1880 ^ i18 $739,450,909, or $5,292,937 less than examination of the vote of some of the year. The average assessed value of lots and lands throughout the Stata is about the same as last year, and this fact is of interest, because the assess^ ment of real property will not be changed for four y§ars. The assessed THE MMStm Bam X* Was Applied to * /ill':?"' .... Bahdowm Break V9 WOm lap Md Order Hla U counties will show how this total was | manufactured. Lowndes county has 27,- ! 0(H) ]w>pulation, three-fourths black. In ! 1872 its total vote was 4,864 ; Republican j majority, 3,054 ; in 1876, total vote, j 5,461 ; Republican majority, 3,843 ; in 1880 total vote not known, because not ^counted, Democratic majority, 1,200 ! , . ,- » I Autauga connty, total vote, 2,500, the ant mtercourse with human km£ Worse^ bhieks being nearly two-thirds of the tliat «wrv riamelt'Rs I population; Republican majority in 1872 of 924 ; in 1876 of 742 j in 1880. Demo- be heaps of just such speeches. THE revised census of New Orleans '.Jlives 216,359 inhabitants, an increase of 18,446 over 1870--viz., an increase of 15,029 whites and of 3,417 blacks. The excess of whites over blacks is 101,897, and of females (of both .colors) over males 16,721. SIXTY-SEVEN Russian emigrants, the sole survivors of a party of 330, which left Russia in 1877 for Brazil, lately ar. rived at New York sick and destitute. They found the South American climate nnsuited to them, and, after losing near­ ly all their funds, decided to leave the country where they had experienced so many hardships. THE Baptists in the United States nttanber 2,1133,044 this year, against 2,- 102,034 last year, showing an increase of 31,010. There are 1,095 associations --increase of 20 ; 24,704 churches--in­ crease, 295 ; 15,401 ordaiued ministers-- increase, 447. The additions by bap­ tism were 78,924, a falling off of upward of 33,000 from last year. The exclusions uumbered 20,580. COMMISSIONER LE Due has recently been selecting • sites for tea farms in Georgia, and lias returned to Washing­ ton, leaving an assistant to complete the work. He thinks that he will have no difficulty, as the problem of tea culture at the South, or at least in Georgia, has been already solved. A quality of tea equal to that imported from Asia is raised in quantities in that State at a cost of not more than 20 cents a pound, and readily finds a market at from 40 to 60 cents. | LAST winter the Connecticut Legisla- j ture made a law prohibiting under pen- ; alty the employment of railroad hands j who could not pass an examination as to i their normal visual power and their abil- i ity to distinguish colors. The examina- I tions thus far have been made at the ex­ pense of the railway companies, a charge of $2 being made in each case by the . Yale professors to whom the fat job of ! examination was let by the State. They | have refused certificates to some of the { oldest engineers in the State, men who | have never had an accident in a life-time ; of service, and all the railway employes : of the State are in consternation, and | ' | they, as well as the corporation which , employs them, are demanding a practical j test of visual power rather than that to I which the professors subject them. The | State test is made with letters as to range ' of vision, and skeins of worsted as to | color capacity--the applicant in the lat- 1 ter particular being, required to separate j from a heap not only the skeins of pri- I mary colors, but to classify the various I shades of each. The engineers and | other employes demand that the test • shall be made on the road, and if they ! cannot read the large letters of signs i ®nd distinguish the colors employed in ; light signaling they are willing to sur- i render their places on the footboard. J The companies, which are deeply inter- i ested on the side of perfect safety, are as anxious as the men for a reasonable, not j a fanciful, test, and both will unite to defeat the existing law and procure leg- I islation that shall be more practicable. 'fit NAPOLEON B. ARTHJTB deserted his wife and family at Marysville, Ohio, twenty years ago, to elope with a neigh­ bor's daughter. His wife remained on the farm, and reared their children, while he Wandered about the country. A poor, broken old tramp presented himself at the homestead. This was the wreck of the husband and father. He begged for food and lodging, expressing the utmost contrition for his bad be­ havior. The wife acted with prompt­ ness. She set the dog on him, and he bar^ty escaped with his life. t " . ^BH; ELIZABETH CAMPTON, who was wife* tiearly 90 years of age, committed suicide by drowning in a shallow pool near her house at Metuchiu, N. J. She suffered from many hallucinations, the mofet remarkable of which was that she wti&"*in dtmger of hanging at the hands of Gen. Hancock. She learned from the newspapers that Gen. Hancock had had something to do with the hanging of a woman, and became possessed with the idea fliat, if elected, he would imme­ diately seek out and execute her in or­ der to get her properly. ,A WOMAN at Carson, Nev., is said to have undertaken to refrain from speak­ ing for forty days. The report runs as follows : " She began at 9 in the morn­ ing, and at 10:30 her pulse was so feeble from exhaustion that the physicians reared she would die by noon. At 11 her heart beat but t wenty-six a minute, and her respiration was hardly notice­ able. Her friends here urged her to piscontii}y£ her terrible task, and told her some gossip about a neighbor. On hearing it she immediately rushed from the house, and, going across the street, iiie.t,# iu-dy friend and talked to 6:30 last night, and is now fully restored." How Dr. Potts Polled Through. Young Gluckerson met old Judge j Van Snyder on the ferry, and, after ; shaking hands respectfully with that i venerable friend of the family, said, • casually : j "Did you hear of that terrible acci- I dent up at Potts' the other night ?" man tried to hide a book he was reading. It was the "Fool's Errand." Being rather pushed into the corner by inquis­ itive questions, the doctor confessed that he was intensely interested in it, and that he was really reading it for the third time. The strangest part of all is that the North Carolinians do not fly into a rage over the book, but on the whole are said rather to enjoy it. They take the stories of the Kuklux fiendish- ness and other atrocities as a compli­ ment to the unconquerable spirit of the South. This is a view of the case that is worthy a philosopher. J udge Albion W. Tourgee, the Ohio man who wrote the " Fool's Errand," , did not get his material from the testi- j moiiy given before Congressional Com- j mittees. He lived in. the South many j years, and wrote what his own eyes saw I and his own ears heard. ! He was a brave, highly-educated man, j of the best Ohio blood. He was a Union soldier during the war, and at its close j determined to go South and make his j home there, doing what one intelligent, j honest man might to help develop and build up that beautiful region. He was : young, strong, and chivalrous and full I of hope. " A Southern Democrat" had ! not yet written in the Memphis A,va- i lanche: i "The name of every Northern man ' who, like Eaton and Bigelow, presume i in this community to aspire to office i through Republican votes should be I saturated with stench. We can spare I ail such, and would caution such as | these who think of coming South to keep j away. j "You, Mr. Editor, must hang out j again your smallpox flag, and rid our j community of such vermin. * • * * i The whole lot must be rendered infamous j and odions. : " As for the negroes, let them amuse themselves, if they will, by voting the ' Radical ticket. We have the count." j It seemed to the "F<x»l," in his folly, j that capital and the experience of prac- | tical workingmen were just what was | needed, and would be welcomed in the j South. In time he really thought to ! see tree schools there, and pretty white school-houses dotted among the glorious magnolias and sweet-smelling orange groves in the South, just as they are along the country roadsides in the North. It was a graceful delusion, and one which value of railroad property is about $600,000 less than last vear, and the value of personal property is $14,000,- 000 more than last year. UllnoiN Court »f I'UUMM. The State Court of Claims has comptefr lifts work and tiled with the Auditor its decision and report, addressed to the Oeneral Asaemblj of : t*10 State. The Commission made but one , award, a claim on 8tate bonds amounting to j t4.691.li. The following is its report: To the General Assembly of the State of Illinois: The Commission of Claims, created and eon- ; stituted by virtue of an act entitled " An act to • .. . . cnn, T create a Commission of Claim", to prescribe its a .Democratic majority of 1,600! In : powers and duties," approved May 29, A.D 1877 . .. . 1876, Etowah, out of a total vote of 1,646, ; Comr*wd0f the undersigned, one of the Judges dared to say so in what is supposed to j pol ed a Democratic majority of 1,000, *1,e Supreme Court and two of the Judges be a free country. For this reason he | and now sends in a majoritv of 2.000 ' thi^ Circuit Court of this state, specially &&- without so much as a blush. " clnef Justice" of the TupCTSS o! She J-he above a>e fair samples of the way State of Illinois, be* leave to report questions in which the Democrats carried the State i for the consideration of the Genera) Assembly of Alabama ; and over this infamous re- , >}d<ht>on to the record of acts and doings than that, every tameless indignity that not over-refined white men and vomen could devise was put upon them. Light wasn't wanted in those parts. Like the eyeless beetles of the Mammoth cave, they didn't know what light was. * ' The domestic happiness the " Fool" and his wife enjoyed may be inferred from the fact that whenever Judge Tour- f ie started out to attend court, Mrs. onrgee never dared feel any confidence that lie would come back alive. He was a Northern man, and a Republican, who was universally hated. Attempts were made to kill him. A plot to assassinate him was formed, mucL in the same man­ ner as described in the story. He es- cratie majority, 550. Perry county, the blacks outnumbering the whites more than two to one, gave over 2,000 Repub­ lican majority in 1872 and 1876, and now gives 1,400 Democratic majority ! Chil­ ton countv sends a Democratic majority of 1,800 (!), and in 1876 had but 1,141 votes all told. St. Clair county, which polled but l,6i9 votes in 1876, now gives Democratic majoritv of 1.600! In f t ' * -- v a i l | M U U V f f V l | I I U C * I . I t U V i caped it by following the road his horse i suit of fraud and corruption Northern I &1™ »w»rds made be us and recorded by the i TV - rv Auditor as Clerk of swd commission. chose, A man who knew him well at Greens­ boro, and who lived there when lie did, says he received stacks of anonymous letters from the 44 Regulators," threaten­ ing his life. They were profusely deco­ rated with cofiins, skulls, and cross- bones. Black men, and white ones, too, used frequently to creep secretly to his house, with their backs all bleeding from th« Kuklux bull-whip. They had been dragged from their beds in the dead of night, and thus cruelly lashed. The tragical experience of " Bob Mar­ tin " was a fact exactly as narrated. So was the whipping of "Jesse Hyman," the white youth who was Kukluxed, and who was so crushed by the sense of be­ ing whipped like a negro that he left his native State never to return. A free ! commission. The claims tiled in the several claims. Nog. IB to fiO, inclusive, and Nos. 62 to 83, inclusive, and No. 91, are all claims tiled for damages al- Democratic papers are rejoicing. "election and fair count" nnblushingly and hypocritically snivels the superb Hancock election ished all local self-government in Re­ publican districts and filled up the . sion as being of that character that, are deserv Boards of Registration and Inspection I in8 of recognition and remuneration bv the with Democrats, they could afford to al- I Q^"eral AfsomWy the State, 1™,. * „„ii ^ • i luis act by the Legislature Oar. ChfcJ^ TOMwl * Gen. Weaver itf not the only backer who has found that the cratic party South is the party ai ti|h otrv, intolerance and oppression; Apt the Southern leaders still connect ener­ gy with murder, as they did when they wore slaveholders; still beliefe thai there is no virtue except in tUenee, and that the readiest way to convince a man of his error is to put him to •ay*1fk" d* Gen. Weaver has told his story, and vnm :̂ comes a not-less-distinguished Green- . , backer, Mr. J( H. Randall, and tells his. It reads like one of the pages from that ' :'C- portion of our history the argnmente of V which consist of the hiss of the "wy, w' <, the bark of the pistol, and the clash of S %he bowie-knife. Mr* Randall h* been i campaigning for the Greenback ticket in Alabama and Mississippi, along Alabama line. The National View, the National Greenback organ, contains startling account, over his own signa­ ture, of extraordinary experiences. Mr Randall found that the Democrats every- ' dividing time. '4 u where insisted c r ^ t ^ ^ n il_ upon ^ ^in his letter of acceptance'^The le8c<1 to *««uit7rom dowing lands bvthei'n-j raising the Sk>nth side "Woody was free enough. Havintr abol- i CR^edJ"«ght°f water in the Illinois river, oc- | shirt," and appealing to Southern pre- il,™l ; ^iom>d by the Copperas creek dam. These | judices. The Democrats finally began claims recommend themselves to the commis-1 to disturb the Greenback meetimAt last, at a place with the remarkable name of Shubuda, the Democrats decided that low Republicans to vote without th«ir ' x'im ™ t&e legislature that called into j they could tolerate free speech no long- • P • - - - - thea ?VK^".*-thl8®0",,ni!,?i0n.wc «"»*>«* regard as j er. At the closing meeting, Randall 4- j ports one of the "Democrat* as saying • this : " The Confederacy still exists, my Accident! Why, my dear young j evefi a solid South might pardon in friend, no. Nothing serious, I hope ? said the Judge, much interested. " Well, I'll tell you how it was," said Gluckerson in a mournful voice. " You see, the old doctor was out until about 2 in the morning attending some patients, and, supposing he would be hungry when he came in, Mrs. Potts put a large pan of mush and milk--the doc­ tor's tavorite dish, you know--under the stove to keep warm for him." " Yes ! yes !" said the Judge eagerly, as Gluckerson stopped to light a cigar. "Go on--what then ?" "Well, the doctor came in after a while and went groping round in the dark lor his mush--couldn't find a match, you know--and, as luck would have it, he picked up instead a pan con­ taining bread, put there to raise over night. He was too tired to notice the difference--besides lie had taken two or three nips as he drove round, and so he actually ate up all the dough !" " Gracious !" said the Judge. "It's a fact, though. Well, toward morning the doctor began to swell, and swell--the yeast was just getting its work in, you know--and pretty soon the whole family was up and rushing around generous mind that, a.<f yet, knew nothing about a solid South. The "Fool," Albion W. Tourgee, " Comfort Servosse " of the story, went South liimself. " Verdentown " of the book is Greensboro, N. C. He went to stay. He was, in no sense of the word, a carpet-bagger. He went, as he says, " forgetful of the fact that the social con­ ditions of 300 years are not to be over­ thrown in a moment." His wife, a re­ fined, accomplished woman, accom­ panied him, like himself, full of hope and courage. This is how they lived after tliey got there. When Mrs. Tourgee went along the streets of Greensboro, the women of that town made a wide circuit around her, and gathered back their clothes as if tliey were afraid of touching her. All tlmt impotent female spite could do to poison her existence w:us done. She lived in.an isolation ».s terrible as if she had been the old Indian woman on her Santa B.irbara island. Southern la­ dies often come North, nowadays, to visit here in Cincinnati and tTsewhere, Tliey are made as wclcomo, and made the recipients of as many graceful so­ cial attentions as if there had never been Outrages were committed by the Ku­ klux that were never known outside of the neighborhood in which they oc­ curred. It makes the heart turn sick to find that the awful murder of John Wal­ ters by Southern Democrats is literally true, just as the Fool lias told it. The real name of John Walters was John Walters Stevens. He was a Justice of the Peace at Yaueeyville. A Mr. Nixon, now of New York, was at Greensboro when the awful deed was committed, and is ac­ quainted with the circumstances. At a Democratic meeting at the Court House, 'Squire Stevens was called into one of the jury rooms under pretense of being consulted about forming a fusion ticket. Once inside the room, the ruffians sprung upon him in a mass and threw him upon a table and held him down. Then they cut his throat. They held a bucket to catch the blood, and passed it through j „ wmpri, the window to one of the conspirators i • ~ " outside. They threw the mutilated , body, with one leg broken, into a wood-^f box and covered it with sticks, precisely as narrated in the "Fool's Errand.*" " Those who participated iu this crime were well known, and made claims to respectability." An Englishman or German reading of these things might well ask whether it was true that they liappeued in the United £jfatoe and not in Russia or in the blood stained domin­ ions of King Thebaw. Mr. Nixon informed a New York Trib­ une reporter that "John Burlison," a Kuklux, was a real person well known to him, although that is not hia name. He says : " On one occasion several Northern men were sitting on the veranda of the Benbow House, at Greensboro, talking about the Kuklux. Some of them ex­ pressed a doubt if there were any, in fact; whereupon Burlison spoke up and said he had been one, and 'you,' and 'you,' and * you,' pointing to several men who were sitting around." That Judge Tourgee himself never lost his life, is probably only duo to lucky accident and to the popular impression that he would lie a tough customer to tackle iu a tight. He had no mind to yield up his life tamely, and always trav­ eled well armed. His official position was that of Judge of the S pcrior Court of the Seventh Judicial District. He was plsi > a delegate to the North Carolina Constitutional Convention. In perform­ ing his judicial duties he journeyed from county to county on horseback. He thus usual method of hindrance, such as as­ sault, threats, murder, and other forms ; ture did not intend to commit to this commig' of bulldozing which were practiced in i H'°" authority to act on this character of claims. 1876. It was not necessarv to bullv i PrJ'vio,.,H legislation "nice 1870, by con- bluster or bulldo/e or to ns# »tltutional injunction in the assessment of , mlmoze. or to use klilfe, pis- damages, was referred to a jurv, and thev were loi, and lash, because they had a more , authorized or directed to go upon the land effectual remedy. So the election was ! damaged, except in cases where the State was free to the few Republicans who wanted • hivolved, and in casts similar to these cases to go through the mere empty farce of ! PrC8entt^ the^ Legislature reserved to T-otinrr .iii.I 4-1.. ..,11 „ .. 1 j j itself tllO pOWtT to act tllTOllgh its OW11 COlll- g, idafte l tlu polls were closed j mittee. which was directed to report to the nest tlie Democrats got in their work, and j General Assembly, though this commission was the " fair count" commenced. It was a J then called into existence. very simple process. It merely required j, :Te compelled to regard this action as a some person to put his hand into the ! ?e>rlslatm: expression that the General Assem- tballot-box, take out tity < f honest votes definite quantity of dishonest ones. ~ It I strengthenea by the fact that all previous iegis- was not only an easy, but a safe process, • !atl0U "'lder the present constitution in assess-1 because the counting and examining of ! nrovui!VjlftrTi.«0nlvn0Ctl0tf Wltl1 elni.lu'nt d<?aiai» 1 returns ale in Democratic lmnds, Wl ; ^ the exannnation and inspection of the displacement and destruction of votes could be easily concealed. Even friends, and Jeff Davis, the best friend • we ever had, is yet our President, and # devoted to our interests, and if Hancock V is elected, and we have no doubt he will i be, you will be paid for all the property you have lost through Radical rule, and i itself the power to act through its own com- j you must stand by the-great Democratic ' party, for a solid South will now give us entire control of the General Govern­ ment, and we can redress all oar 11 ms nana mro mp , - -r , wrongs.;' Mr. Randall had not prooeed- 'A- bly intended to reserve to themselves authority ed far in reply to this speaker when it an indefinite quan- to act in this kind of claims rather than suli | he heard, "We don't want no -- 3 *, an} dump in aiVn- j rnit the same to tins commission. This view is ; Yankee to come here and talk to us ; we .**" had better shut him up." "But," says Mr. Randal], "he was pacified quieted by the disciplinary conduct of the absence of such ex-; our friends. We had been talking about the premises, and m if it were done in plain sight, instead of by obscuring the lights in the room, no one would Care to prosecute a fraud where the prosecutor would be driven out of the State or killed and the perpe­ trator could not be convicted. These are the patriots who are whin­ ing alK»ut conciliation Mid who echo Hancock's hypocritical twaddle about a free election and a fair count." If animation and inspection we can readilv see | that injustice might be done; but whether we , have authority to pass on such cluims as these i or not, wo are of opinion that without further j legislation as to the moae and manner of ad- : justiiig the rights of the jvirties claiming to : have been damaged by the improvement made : in the Illinois river by the State, we do not feel j ; that with the present legislation we are or can i j be placed in the possession of sufficient facts to ! enable us to do justice to the claimants or the ! State. But as the next Oeneral Assembly may by further legislation provide a method of act­ ing, we deem it proper to call the attention of Haucock lias any opin-»! t" *' Legislature to the subject, that they may in Alabama, for instance ; what he j claimant by "injury to his canal-boat by the giv- tlunks of counties three-fourths Re pub- 1 *nK awa>'(}t an aqueduct in the Illinois and lican casting Democratic majorities as ' Michigan canal. That suit was brought against laroe us the tot'il vote • what ho thi'»L-Q ' Canal C ommissioners, and judgment re- rnrgt at, tlie total vote what he thinks , covered for $1,257.75 before the Superior Court ot the crowd of bulldozers and ballot- | of Cook county. Appeal was taken bv the Coni- box stuners with whom he is consorting! \ missioners to the Supreme court. That Court This is the first gun from the South, and ' approved the justness of the claim, but ,the. New York H or/rf savs it is "double- ! tho ?1U1W! l'.v lv'lson of having filifVifcu) w iii.Sii. ^ been brought agaiuat Caual CommiBaiouers snottod. les, douUe-Khottea \rrai j whcn it should havo been bronght Against the fraud, perjury and yillajny^ worse than | State Trustee. Suit was then instituted against ! the State Trustee, but before the same was dia- i posed of all the papers were destroyed by the great tire iu Chicago in 1871, and soon after the I office of State Trustee was abolished by the i Legislature. j The case of G. W. Adler vs. the State, No. 90, . is of a familiar character. There was judgment ugaiust the Canal Commissioners for $1,844,42, ! and tnere was the same result in the Supreme Court. We think tneir claims sufficiently ad­ justed, and the amounts arrived at by the judg­ ments and expression of the Supreme Court ] without aav action of this commission. That j no finding of ours would add anything to their i validity, and we respectfully refer them to the I Legislature, not reporting these claims as un- I adjusted claims in the sense these terms are I used in the act creating this commission, and report which class of claims alone this commis- I sion is expected to act. We neither allow nor I reject the same, but simply submit the proprie- ! ty of their payment to the General Assembly. I JOHN M. SCOTT. | ' F. OOODSPEEO. | Jnss J. PHILLIPS. twenty minutes, when the Shubuda band, about 150 feet from the speaking stand, began to play, knowing that we could not be heard while it was kept up. We appealed to the audience that we were at the mercy of the Democratic managers of the meeting, and were to speak at their invitation, but we would not go on. If they couldn't stand our kind of talk we would wait until the ever Tammany conceived. It tells th: story unmistakably that the South is solid, aud that the Bourbon bulldozers will count the vote. This may as well be settled upon first as last--that the Republican vote in the South will not be counted. Against this infamy the North must present an unbroken front. ILLINOIS NEWS. THERE are 30,000 colored voters in Illinois. SEVEN prisoners escaped from the Logan county jail, at Lincoln, the other day. THE Eden House and several adjoin­ ing buildings at Sullivan have been de­ stroyed by fire. BLACKBERRIES are so plenty and cheap in Crawford county that the people are making wine from them. THE chickens are dying very rapidly in and around Murplivsboro from a dis- had perfect opportunity to see the South- j ease something like the cholera. half distracted. The doctor kept on ! a war between the North and South, and groaning and shrieking and swelling, until be looked like a Saratoga trunk. At last they found out what he had done, and the whole family piled right on top of him, and sat there while they sent for a cooper." "A cooper?' as if, indeed, the North had never beaten the South in a fair fight. But Mrs. Tourgee, a lady as refined, as delicately bred as any woman in the land, went among Southern people, and only be­ cause she was from the North was put upon a level with the " niggers." Per- "Yes, you see they saw at mice that ! haps, however, this is a proper manifest IlrssiAN petroleum is gaining a mar-> in Europe. The policy of the huge American monopoly known as the Standard Oil Company has been to depress the price of the crude product •ted raise that of the refined. Thqy have tfcus brought the price of crude down to abotit 21 c<?nt8 and bulled the price of re­ fined to 9 cents. The effect of this ac- tidHi*i l^eli to bpen the European mar­ ket to Russian refiners, and to exclude fupn it the American crude. The ex- p<4t of petroleum and petroleum pro- rfnfts from the United States for the fiscal year ending June30,1880, was 423,691,767 gallons. Jftut the trade is now falling off. yt>r the month of June, 1880, 24,221,291 gallons were exported, and fo: the same month in 1879, 32,940^443 gallons. unless something was done the doctor would burst before morning. So the cooper started in and put nine of those i big half-inch beer-keg hoops around his ! stomach. Of course tliut stopped the j swelling, and, by keeping a tin tube I down his throat for gas to escape, he just j managed to pull through." "Oh, the doctor pulled through, did he?" " Oil ! yes; he's all right now, ex- i cepting--" I " Excuse me," said the Judge grimly, I as he took out his note book, " but will i you favor me with your middle name in j full. They are getting up a medal for I the champion liar in the State, by order of the Governor, and I think I'll send in your--" But the boat had landed and the prom­ ising young candidate had melted away in the crowd.--San Franci*co Post. ation of the unconquerable spirit Caro­ linians plory in. The Tourgees found that to teach a negro to read was still regarded as rttuch of a crime as it was " befo' the wall." It could not, indeed, any longer be imnished by the statutes, but it could l>e visited by social penalties more ter­ rible than stripes and imprisonment. A majority of the people in the North and West of this country honestly be­ lieve that no redeeming and elevating power can be brought to bear on the human race equal to education through good free schools and free newspapers, and through them alone comes the clear lij'lit in which the average mind is en­ abled to see itself as it is. An individ­ ual, a neighborhood, a State can only ju-ige of itself correctly by comparison with those elsewhere. The ex-Superintendent of Public In­ struction of Kentucky says in his report that one-third of the voters in that State are uuable to read the .tickets they vote. Kentucky is probably more intelligent, ern people as tliey are. The knowledge thus gained led him to oppose to the ut­ most the reconstruction measures pro­ posed by the Government. He declared the people were not yet ready for reconstruc­ tion. The measures once adopted, how­ ever, he did what lay in his power to make them successful. It was in vain-- all in vain. Reconciliation was scorned and trampled upon. Rebel Brigadiers despised and misunderstood that genero­ sity which permitt. d tliem to op< n their mouth and blatantly eulogize Jeff Davis u}>on the fit Kir of the United States Senate. Republicans and negroes were once more killed by the score in the South, not now indeed in open, honor­ able way, but by masked men at mid­ night, armed with knife, whip and pis- THE annual reunion of tlie One Hun­ dred and Fifth Regiment, Illinois vol­ unteers, will be held at Naperville on Thursday, Sept. 2. THERE are over 400 now at work put­ ting up corn at the Elgin- canning fac­ tory. This force is able to put up about 200,000 cans per week. THE Supervisors of Woodford county have agreed to settle With the bondsmen of Whittaker, the defaulting Treasurer, at 66; cents on the dollar. TWELVE THOTTSAND dollars has been subscribed for the new- Methodist Epis­ copal Church at Carliuville. Three thou­ sand yet remain to be raised. ABOUT $1,200 have been subscribed ! How an Owl's Head Revolves. { A writer who had read a story about j an owl wringing its own neck off looking l at a man who was walking around it, j tested the matter by experiment. He I obtained a specimen and placed it on top ] of a post. "It was not difficult," says I the writer, "to secure hi- attention, for j he never diverted his gaze from me while I was in his presence. I began walking round the post, a few feet from it,- keep­ ing my eyes fixed upon him all the while. His body remained motionless, but his head turned exactly with my movements. When I was half way round, his head was exactly behind liim. Three-quarters of a circle was completed, the same twist of the neck, the same stare. One circle, and no change. On I went, three times round, beginning to wonder why the head did not drop off, when all at once I discovered what I had failed to notice before. When I reached half way round from the front, which tol. Ho woke from his fond, silly dream ' toward sinking an artesian well at Can- i was as far as he could turn nis head with ' ' ! ton, Fulton county. The city will pay I comfort, he whisked it back through the of a beautiful Southern home, poor fool, to tiud the battles he fought hud all to be fought over again. Discouraged and saddened, he gave up the unequal contest. He retired to a region where men may vote according to the dictates of their own conscience, and wrote for his fellow-countrymen a faithful accouut of his experiences in Greensboro. It will not lessen the in­ terest in the " Fool's Errand" to know that it is a nai ration of fact. Northern citizens who contemplate voting *he Democratic ticket this fall might "find it to their advantage " to read the book before the election. the expense above subscriptions, THE fifteenth reunion of the surviv­ ing members of the One Hundred and whole circle so instantaneously, and brought it facing me again with such precision, that I actually failed to detect Twelfth Illinois Volunteers will be held I the movement, though I was looking iu- Take Care. Phosphorus is dangerous stuff to ^ handle. A young man, in traveling, lit i t<>0, than some of the other Southern a match by scratching it with his thumb ! States. This backwardness of popular nail, and a piece of the incandescent j education in the States lately in rebel- phosphorus penetrated under the nail : lion was not unknown throughout the and made a slight burn, to which he j North generally. paid no attention. But after an hour i The people there honestly believe that the pain became intense; the thumb j if once the knowledge of the "three R's" swelled, then the hand, and next the j could p"netrate tlie deuse ignorance of forearm." He was obliged to alight at a i the Southern masses, white and black, station on the journey and send for a I10 hina earthly would do so much to , at Bradford, Stark county, Sept. 22. j FIVE THOUSAND people attended the old l settlers' picnic at Ottawa. Speeches j were made by Hon. J. D. Caton, Judge T. Lvle Dickey, George M. Bayne, and i others. ] THE following counties in Illinois have j decreased in population since the census I of 1870 : Boone, Hancock, Jo Daviess, i Ivnox, Marshall, Putnam, Schuyler, and • Warren. R THE fourth annual convention of the I State Christian Temperance Union will j be held at Decatur, Macon county, on j Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, | Sept. 7, 8, and 9. j THE building of the new bottle works, I at Ottawa, rapidly approaches comple­ tion. The day set for the first blowing is Sept. 1, and a number of the blowers engaged are already in town. Tlie out­ look as to orders is most promisiug, tently all the time. THE Italians at work on the New Haven dhd Nortliatopton railroad extension in franklin county, Mass., deposit no money in the local banks, but all wear belts, and carry their money with them. They are all numbered and tagged, so that when they are paid off or receive rations it is on presentation of a little tin check properly numbered. A little water boy, who had to give up boot-blacking in medical man, who declared thrft imme­ diate amputation of the arm was neces­ sary. The patient insisted on postpon­ ing the operation for a few hours until the arrival of his father, for whom he had telegraphed. Before the latter, however, could reach liis son it was too late ; the poisonous matter had gained the arm, then the should r, and any operation became impossible. He died in great agony in only twenty-seven hours after the burn. The case shows the danger of handling phosphorus in the manner described. bring about that earnestly hoped for era | of good feebng nnd pri sperity. For the j matter of that, Northern people hold ex- j actly the same belief, devoutly, to-day. With these honest views, numbers of j educated young ladies, from New En- j gland and elsewhere, went South t#;! teach at the close of the war. They lie- j gan their work where it was needed most | --among the negroes. Some of these | teachers were of the best families in the : country. They really and truly had I wen reared to every luxury and refinement civilization affords. They went out from Republican Clubs--National Convention Called. The following call for a National Re­ publican Club Convention has Jbeeh is­ sued : 1 HKAIHJUABTEBS YOCNO MEN'S REPI'BLICAJO j j CLCU OK INDIANA, >• j i I August 17, 1N80. J i I DEAR SI* : For the purpose of promoting j | the organization of Republican clubs and of increasing their membership and influence, it I i h:m been decided to eall :i National Republican j i Club Convention to meet iu the city of Indian- i npnlin on Siondav, the 15th day of Svptenibei. 1-vSO, at 10 o'clock a. m. Tiiis convention has I Itcen decided uj)on tfter mature delibera- I tiou and consultation with gentlemeu i connected with the clnb orpamzatio • ( of the several Stated and with the tuairnjen 01 j the Republican Central Committees of a major- ' itvof the Northern States. Each orgamzeu . Republican Club. Younn Men's Republican j Club or Gartield and Arthur Campaign Club, is ; requested to send one delegate to the Conven- .*• ! tiVli with credentials properly certifying him j A COMPETITIVE examination for the ' ,,f ,!' Vhii< " THE "FAIR COUNT" IS ALABAMA. [From the Chicago Tribune.] The Democratic majority at tlie recent election in Alabama shows fraud upon its very face. Sweeping political changes sometimes occur in States upon some State question and in cities upon local issues, but changes that wipe out one majority entirely and pile up in its place majorities almost equal to an entire vote cannot occur without frauds of the most glaring aud shamefaced description. In this election these change^ have mainly occurred in the districts knowu to be overwhelmingly Republican, that com­ prise the black belt. The d intensions of the ! Father Dixon's decease, died at Dixon. _ _ . .iv general Democratic majoritv, however, I the other night, after a long and painful . the use of smoke-co \i g 11 show that the frauds were iw general as ! illness, aged 71 years. The announce- j on all locomotives, steamWts and tac­ tile eleciou, nnd were not confined to ment of Mr. Morgans decease will tones. If Chicago wi i- any particular section of tlie State. The awaken in m»ny an old settler r.mmiscen- j provision to cin-erthe nienw majoritv for G-n. Gr.uit in 1872 was ces of olden times. Mr. Morgan, for sever- j hve cent cigars Chicago wUi earn tin 10 828." The Alabama method of bull- al years, was Register of the LandOflioe, I world s gratitude. vacancy , at West Point from the Fif­ teenth district resulted in the selection of Austin H. Brown, of Paris, for the place, out of eighteen applicants. A. J. B iveridge, of Sullivan, was selected us alternate. HABVEV MOFOVN, ESQ., the oldest set­ tler in the section of the State since to be a number of the club he repieseuts, signed by the President or Secretary of the club. I mportance demands that all inquiries for information aud other communication* re­ lating to the couveuUon should be addressed to Th maa M. Nieho1, Iudi '.impolis, Iud. JOHN O. HAUDESTY, President Y. M. 1!. C. of IndiMBfu CHARLES F. ROBISS. Secretary. Democrats got done, and hold a meeting under tlie management of the Green- backers. " But the interruptions contin­ ued, so that the speech could not be heard. Mr. Randall thus describes the subse­ quent proceedings: We walked into the business part of the village to get some water, and on tmr hnnt paused through a group of young men. several of whom we at once recognized as players iu the hand we had particularly noticed that start- re_ i ed the disturbance at the time of our speaking , 1 at Kizer Hilt, and they at onee recognised W and commenced witli: "• There's tlie Qreeo- * backer uow, hum"Three ehotn-tar Hancock; " ---- tlie Yankee * hacker, heought to be killed "Let'sgfafeMat and some phrases of a tike chawrtiik quietly passed on, said nothing, got our drink, i returned back through the group to the being followed part of the way oy these j men. yelling at us as they halted about yards from our team. In about ten iqfeM young man, well dressed and perfectly Mber, separated from the group, came up to iff*, at we had, as near as we can remember, the ffl&Hr- ine conversation : > M. B. D. (which means Minaiasipii dozer)--" Is your name Randall V" " Yes sir ** M. B. D. --" Are yon Rsndall, thn grrisl grim back speaker'/" > . • "I expect I am." X. B. £>.--'* I h&ve a note I was requested to givs you ; read it and give me yoar sarnie.* "Very well, sir." We took the note, written an a leaf torn from a pocket memorandum, and - read as follows : AUG. 1, 1880.--DF.AK SIB : We will give you and your party thirty-tive minutes to pick up your dads ana git ont of this town. Yours to death, THE BOYS or BHVBCUU Mr. Randall--" Do yon mean to tell me that an American, law-abiding citizen, oa the way to «• attend to his business, cannot stay in this town to take the tfrst train of cars going 8o«tli ; M. B. D.--" We know you, and yon can't stay; v Vi you must go to tho next station. Mi\ It.--"Who gives this order?"' M. B. D.--" The Boys of Shubuda. Your time * ». is passing ; you better get light right along at [i ; you'll catch -- Mr. R.--"Yon don't mean that they will lay rough hands on me, u peaceful citizen ? Yo«r citizens would n6t approve any such conduct toward a peaceful, law-abiding citizen. Besides, Bee what a reflection it would cast upon your town." M. B. D. (going off)--" Yon better go out# here while you have a chance."' We started directly for the group of taS- dozers, making inquiry of pereous we MMi where the Marshal's house was ; had it pointed out to me, but was told he was net at hooxx. Noticing a man sitting under a store xhed n<*tr the railroad track, we went up and asked him if there was any protection there for a civil citizen from an insulting and meddFesome mob. Then, turning to a group of bulldozers, five of whom were gentlemanly, well-dressed, and sober, he said : " I guess lit* wo »'t do you any harm, bovs; better let him alone.* By thi$( time there had gathered fifteen or twexT black men and two middle-aged vUt The M. B. D. said : " You don't kam vou sav, nor who he is ; we heard hiss ilay." ' Then, turning to us, he said: "TosYe a white man with a black heart, coons down | here to divide the Democratic party, and we ; don't want and won't have rto su h men in this county." The party who had servedtfc* note of warning to leave on us fol'owed with: " He's one of the trump cards of life Greenback party, and yesterday he saved Democrats . him, we can nx heat. We run things here." The result was that Mr. Bandall escorted by the Democratic leader* the railroad station and put on the from which he addressed the via crowd as follows: I am sorry on your account that yoorconduct has been such toward me this day as to oonSrm me in the belief of all that has been S|M 1m other parts of the country about yourjtnftl-* ment of men who honeetiy disagree ' with you. and reflects discreditably is true. I shall take particular pains to tilt your conduct toward me throughout the wfcei*coun­ try ; not out of any ill-will toward yoo, hat he- cause it is not right for any ptMijpt* im WKf State to act as you have acted. Toa endanger, and by 'audi conduct dwllis, personal freedom of thought, pajafir ubertf, the foundations of all our asUhiUaK and annihilate all honesty in cleetioat. I ex­ pect to continue in this cause, and, if the way open-', shall canvass this State for ths <~~ back ticket, for all parties in thia ooantnr arw to V not oubt) but a right to have their votes counted, i be beurd. and have the right not ')ut a right to have their votes eoa quicker you learn this and prepats t< along by standing up for it h<re ta3 among yourselves, the Utter it wiH toaftpr whole country. We don't waut to _ . , i _ ! affairs here, but we want the CHICAGO IS going to make compulsory , that !vn> agjmml to all United fttala« every State in the Uuiuc*and " ia Q&er 8tatca.M £ ' Son people seem to si*r throng* tba nose just to sav« the mouth to graubla with. • r--