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T »' W VOL. 6. Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty and Law; No favors Win u» and no Fear Shall Awe^ M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER,10, 1880. NO.!«. JJeJferoj JkHealw. Published Every Wednesday by J- "VtVIN" SLYKE *0ITOR3AND PUBLISfflJB. ce in Old P. O. Block, --OPPOSITE RIVERSIDE HOUSE.-- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION "IB** Tear, fin Advance,) . . . ' .f l W if not PAM within Three Months .-. . .3 00 | j!n«rli)Uon» rec. Uvedfor threeor six month tae proportion. BUSINESS CARDS. H. T. BROWX.M.D, PHYSICIAN -VXD STTRUKOV. Offire oWr the Post Offlee, opno~<Ue Perry A Martin's ItAri- iiv ftt t ifii , McHenry, 111. C. H. F KG Kits, M. D- |>HVSIClAX AND SURGEON, Johnsburg I Ills.-Office hours 8 to 10 A. M,° O. J. HOWARD, M D. |>HYSIOI AN AND SURGEON. Office at I mv residence, opposite M. E. Church, MeHenrv. III. R- V. ANDERSON. M. P. PHYSICIAN and Surgeon. OAlce nt Besley's Dm" Store, Opposite Parker {Bouse, Me'lfetary, Ill inois. PRATT HOUSE. A. PRATT, Proprietor. Kirst •T c.o-nmo'Htiona. WaticnmH, III. class ac- 'Good Barn in connection F.J. BARBIAN. CIGAR Mtn<ifi"t uror McHenry, 111. i ter* soli 'Mtft ' t . Shop, North East Public Sunare. Or- Cor- RIOHARD COMPTON. JUSTICE of the Peaneind Conveyancer.-- Willtttan l pro nntly to thn'collection of iebta. Volo, Lake County, III. E. E. RICHARDS. HAS a complete Abstractor Titles to land In M Henrv County, tll'noia. Office with Sonnty I lerk, Woodstock, III. ROBT. WRIGHT. Manufacturer of Custom Ma'ie Boots and Shin* N'liio l>'it the beat oti nviteral ••ed an>l all work warranted: Shop North­ west corn r Public S'ju ire, McHenry III. E. M. OWUN. GENERAL Dealer and Manufacturer^ Agent in Lead in ir Farm Machinery.-- Prices low and Terms favorable. McHenry. »• N. S. COLBY. B coder of Spanish Merino $:ien>> Berks hire aiuf Poland China * .vi ' ie. V Ci »i ' ,» l '»t . - f yonnj? Ruck stock for sale. Pleisecallaul examine tfefor« buylf t? elsewhere. " tJKO. SOIIKEINER. SALOON and Restaurant. Nearly opposite the Parker House, McHenry, 111 SS^Klrst class Billi ir . l and Pool Tables. j^gCfTKXKY, Mcllenry C ). . III. JO tiN, H EN DKICKS. Machine as clioip' . ' is t i ie cheapest. Will «la<» tat tire your life and property at reasonable rates. Pleaso sriveiae a cal*. Merchant 'PETER LEICKEM. REP AIRS Watcher, Clocks and Jewelry n' ill kinds. Also ItepMtrs Violins in the best possible manner, on sh »rt notice and at rea- inn*ble rates. Also Violins for Sale. Shop 5r«c door North of Riverside Block, McHenry II. , & 1 ft OUTFIT furnished free with all in- qpl ' l atructions for conducting the most ^roiltable business any one can engage in. The business is so easv to learn and our in - atructions are so simple and plain, „,that any one can make great prollts fr>m the very start. No one can fail who is willing to work. Women are as succes-,ful us men. Roys and gir 's can earn large sums. Many have made at the business over one hundred dollars in a single week. Nothing like it ever known before. All who engage are sur­ prise I at the ease and rapi li ty with which they are able to make money. • You can en­ gage in this business during your spare time at great pro lit . You do not have to invest capital in it . We take all the ri->k. Those who need ready money should should write to ns at once. All furnished free. Address TRUE A CO., Augusta, Maine. % Tis MeHsnry Brewery. / Gottleib Boley; Proprietor. THE best of Beer shipped to any part of the country and warranted as represented.-- Orders solicited and promptly attended t Scott & Co., "Hitters to the Great Northwest." Nos. 135 and 137 Madison St., NEAR CLARK ST. Have a larger stoek and greater variety of styles for you to choose from, than can be foiind in any other establishment in Chicago or the West! It will pay you to call anil see them. Prices the lowest i 'u the land for good goods. BRANCH STORES S. E, Cor. Clark & Lake sts & S. E. Cor. Haisted and Harrison sts., CHICAGO. M A R C U S ' GERMAN Manufactured by F. MARCUS -DEALER IN- PURE WNES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. Woodstock The bast Tonic in the world. PlOt and Quart Bottles. III. PutCupttn BUSINESS CARDS, aje VETERINARY Illinois. C. S. GREEN. SURGEON, Richmond JKSSE A. BALDWIN, ATTORNEY at Law and Solicitor in Chan­cery. Will practice in State and in Fed. eral Courts. Office, 3d Floor. Now Custom House, Chicago. CHAS. II. DONNELLY. TTORNEY AT LAW *ndNotary Public . Wootst ' Drug Store. At - . Woodstock, Illinois. Office over Stone's C. II. TKUAX. CARPENTER and Builder, Nunda, III.-- Will put up 'buildings by theJobor day. ahd guarantee satisfaction. ST B . B E N N E T T , . M . D . , URGEON and Acroucheiv Diseases of Women and all private diseases-of both genes a Specialty. OiKce and Residence on Clay Street Woo Ist-ock III. SIDNEY DlSBllOW, NOTARY PUBLLCAWI Conveyancer. A1 den. 111. The Cele dratdd StalUon Cross" . • * Cm be founft the balance of the season at the stable of A- R. t ioome:, Marengo, where those who wish his services can toe him. For style iind speed, and in fact for every point that constitutes a line blooded horse. Bed Cross has no superior, Farmers and others who wish to unprovo their breed of horses should not fail to see him. -for Pedigree an I other particulars apply at the stable or to KM J AH Bi OK. Crystal Lake. Dated sept. 5Sd. isso. MCHENRY BAKERY, -AND - RESTAURANT. OPPOSITE the Bridge, McHenry. III.-- Warm meals a; all hours. Farmers Liiuch served on short notice. Ovsters by' the Can br Dish. R. PATTERSON. ° F. J. For Sa!e or Rent. I offer my farm consisting of 160acres well improved land, situated two .miles west ot Monaville, and one and one-fourth miles from I.ipoincotts Fox Lake Resort, ' in town of Grant, Lake Co., 111. for sale or rent on easvternis, If sold long time will be given if desired. Inquire of, or ail-Ires*. M. G A V I N . fox Lake, Post Office. Village Property For Sale. For sale, in this village, the following pro­ perty. Six arre*s of land, more or less, 011 the town plot, in the village, of Mcllenry. Is finely located and will be sold, cheap, Also one House and Lot: Is in a pleasant localit v, has a g->«» i Well and Cistein, Barn, and other conveniences. Also one Block containing two Stores, and a line lot adjoining. For further particulars inquire at this of flee D E N T I S T . WIcHonry, III. Full Plates made of-the best material and fully warranted, $8.DO> F i l l i n g oil 9-h alf u s u a l rates. Special attention paid to regulating bad shaped teeth. ' Teeth extracted without pain and free of charge where Artiilcial Teeth are in­ serted hv him. All Work fully warranted. Pure Nitrous Oxide Cas always on and fi»r t!u painless ex. traction of teeth. J. A. SHERWOOD AUCTIONE ER AND APPRAISER, Algonquin, III. ALES of Stock, Farming Tools and Goods arm Post S ' of'all kinds promptly attended to. Farm sales a specialty. Terms reasonable Jfflceadilress A l g o n q u i n t i l . In the store of C. It . Dickinson, East Public Square, aide of WOODSTOCK, ILL. A good Stock of Fine Cloth" for Snitir .gs al- wayeonhand. Suits made to order ami a flt warranted- (iive me a call . W. H. SANFORD. Woodstock 111..Sept. 27th. 1S75. be 150 miles Eastern sMe of itiiinbiteil on «oir) ami of the of the mount populated Dist -via - CHICAGO & H0HTH WESTERS . RAILWAY 2,380 Miles of Road WEST FOR Cedar liupids, Denver, Marshal I to w n, Lead v i 11 e, Des Moines bait Lake, liyijiiiif SJIII I 'randaieli^ Yankton, The lilack llills, . Umalia, Colorado, Coiineil Bltilt's California Columbus, the Territories IT. K. WIGHTMAX, Proprietor. First class n rigs, w ilh.or without, drivers, furnished it reasonable rates. Teaming of all kinds iloneon short notice. M. ENCELN. GUN- I TH! Scale Repairing, (irinilingamt I 'ol- isliing Ra/.ors and Shears and Tahle Cutlery a speciali­ ty. Repairing ol all kinds done in Steel or Brass.-- All work warrant­ ed. Also dealer in Guns. ltcvo!v«rs, Table and Pocket Cutlery, 'Inn m l Fisluntr Material. Pipes Cigars, Tobacco, Violin strings, Ac. ' ' Shop in i store near (he Post Office. Me­ H e n r v , I I I . S?J oi 'TKIT sent frc« to those who wish •Jin ensure in the mint p!ei«ant 'and •»ro;ltahle b<isiii^4.s known. Kvervt 'uing new. Capital not ro fiir ." I. Wo will furnish von everything. #10 a •! iy and u owards i-i easily made without i tavius awav from home over night. No risk whatever. ' M iny new work, ers wanted at once. M.tnv are miking for­ tunes at the business. Ladies make as much as men, and young IH>V . ' ami girls make irreat pay. No one whots willing to work fails to aiake more money in a dav than can he made in a week at any ordinsrv employment. Tliose who engage at once will flu I a ' s ' tort road to fortune. A Idress. H. t lALLsTT A CO., Portland, Maine. Geo. H. Stewart, r Auctioneer, Richmond, III. Has au experience ot 15 years, and wll guarantee satisfaction in all cases, where sales entrusted to my care, are properly ad­ vertised, or n£charge will he made. Terms, from (5 to *10, according to amount 3f sale. All orders addressed to Richmond, III. , will receive prompt attention. Constitution Water. Drone of CONSTITUTION '.V \ TKIt three times a day, cures Bright '* Dis. tnflamation of the Kidnevs, Stone in the Bladder, Catarrh of the ISIad'ler, Gleet, Dia­ betes, Gravel, Brick-Dust Deposit, Childhood Weakuess. For Female Complaints i tipeeiality. For sale by all Druggists. Send for Clrcn iohnASt: 'M:?KC^ EAST FOR Ohleago New Yorjc, Boston, Detroit, i3it-t.sbnr«rli, Monreal, Toronto, New England, Canadas, Buffalo, and all Poiuts East! SOUTH FOR % Cincinnati, .Nashville, Louisville, i\'ew Orleans, 8t. Loris,. Jacksonville, Columbus, and all Points South, --•THE -- "North-Western,"' Is the most DIRECT ROUTE, offering the traveling public Greater Kaciliticsand More Advantages than any road in the West. It is the only line running Pullman Hotel and Sleeping Cars, \ Between Chicago and Council lt l t ifis. Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars are run the on great .Pullman run between Chicago all night trains. This i Line ot llie Nortl 'west. Pa lace Par or Car and MilwHtiRee. First.Class Meals only SO cents at the Eat ing Stations on the North-Western. Sure and do?e connections at Chicago with All Railroads, and at all Junction Points with all roads that cross its J.ines. All Ticket 'A penis can sell you Through Tickets 'and check your Baggage FKEE by this Road. For information, folders, maps, e 'c. . not oh. tainable at Home Ticket Office, address any agent of the Company, or MARVIN HUGHITT GeneralSupt. W .H. STINNETT, Gen'l Passe:,gerAgen Money Made EASY! -BY PURCHASING-- Watches, Clods, Jewelry, Silverware, Musical Instruments, eles, etc.. etc., ot Specta- Jeweler. Woodstockj 111. Repairing of FINE ATCIIES, AND JEW, El.ltY a speciality. If you hate any DIFFI­ CULT JOBS that others tell you cannot be repaired short of Chicago, cake them to BLOSSOM and he will repair them, P. MARCUS, Patentee* a week in your own town. #5 outfit r ' -" l l s- R--vdcr, if voti want a imsines at which persons of either sex can make great nay allthe time thev work, writr for particulars to 1L ALLKTT 4 Co., tort- land, Maine. Mng'raving' neatly done. All Goods sold engraved Free of c h a r s f p . K e i n e n i l i e r h ' i m j o , ^ ' E w. BLOSSOM, Wooda*ock, TLIK BASITO WAIL tks I«nd snd the People Now tat Arttl AgslMtfimt Rrlt«in, From the London Telegraph. Basutolanci may n* doscriliejl n» tli« Wales of South Africa. It Is a Utile province fitted In at th« northeast cor­ ner of Cape Colony, between tlie Or­ ange Free State, the Cape Colour an.l Natal. It is about 150 miles long by fifty broad. Its length running parallel to the Orange Frets State.* or, roughly speaking, nearly parallel at some dis­ tance inlairl with the eons; line, some of its tsible lands are neu'ly it.000 fret above the sea, while its "loftiest moun­ tain is credited wlihu height of 10,(KK) feet. The cold Mir oiighout the 'Whole of Basutoland|b very severe in the months Ot June, ' One of the wings of the-Cape Mounted Utiles marching up from Kokstad. Cu iqiialaiid Kast, to Lascru. the chiefltatifcn in Basuti.land was delayed soi&f days by a heavy full of gtiow. which Rocked tiie passes and rendered niarch| |ig slow and tedious.-- Though Basu^tnud may he said to *>0 miles in size, the breadth is scarcely nut. of the extreme accessalde character The most thickly Is of the little conn- try extend nearly along its whole length, but are ©t' a breadth of about thirty miles ouljf^--the thirty miles to the north\vest-*j!itid lying next, to the Orange Free Stftc. It is from tlie Fiee State, thens|,thiit Basutoland can be most e:isilj | j |kutered. and its chief stations, which 1% w ithin a few hours of the Frea border, most safelv and easily roadwd. There are other routes from th«.*puth. but they present great diflicultl4* to the match of troops, and are o^en to grave objec­ tions from » (Miliary point of view. The Basutoi; |urti mostly remnants of tribes who wele driven before the Kaf- e ceiiturv'they took ountiilu fastnesses of itpe the pitiless sol- ionqurer, Chakn. It ml rocky hill ol Tha- sheslia. the rtrst para'- ' lie Rasutos, ralliHl the perate men of ih« dif- I* race, made a success- the Zulus, and laid, of the Basuto nat ion.-- To speak, Of the pasuto* as equal or^ nearly eq%| ̂ ̂ tin* Zulus it; Hghtiug '^osuVt itn*»s done) is a mistake, The Basutos lack the iliseip line, the reckless bravery and the taste for tight ing possessed by the Zulu gol- d ers. Tiie Basutos have no military organization, merely turning out or being turned out by their chiefs for Ugh ting by tribes or clans. They are not soldiers like the Zulus were before the Zulu army was broken up. but are merely hardy moiintainears. Unlike the Zulus, the Basutos light, .»s a rule, mounted, possessing hardy and active ponies, which make light the ditlicul- tles of the mountain tracks of their country. Almost all the Basutos have taken to clothing, partly from (heir progress in civilization, partly from the severe climate of their land. The military trait to ha remarked in the Basutos is the aptitude for fortifying or enchoncing themselves, and the In­ telligence with which they strengthen any position they may desire lo hold. Indeed, the colonists* chief di (liculties will probably commence when the Basutos. worsted in the open, betake themselves to their mountain strong­ holds, Thaba Bo«igo, the stronghold now held by tho »'liief Ma-upha, is a good example of a Basuto position. It is au isolated hill about 400 feet high, with a flat or table :op, Mn<l with sides scraped away by natural causes. The table is only acces«jt»de by three or.four paths. Some of these paths are said to have been rendered iuacce^ahle. others to be barred by lines of seha'izes, or stone barricades, loopboled and pos­ sessing flanking defense. On the moun­ tain are good pastu'e to graze the cattle, plenty of water and stores of grain ammunition. firs. Ea'ly ty­ re fuge in tint Basutolaud Ue, diery of tlio was on the tt ba Bosigo thi mount chief starved and ferent clang luiJ^Ktand the foundatio' .% FAMISHING FANATIC.. From the Phienix (N. Y.) Register. The death of Joseph Smith's 111 year- old daughter, which occurred Sunday morning, develops a remarkable con­ dition iu that family, not realized by their most intimate neighbors. Mr. Smith owsis a small tarni about a mile north of the village, and 'iS an honest, hard-working man of scarcely middle age. He has a wife and several chil­ dren. The deceased was the eldest..-- Three years ago Mr. and Mrs, Smith came to notice by their txhortatlous in a revival in progress iu the Metho­ dist Episcopal Church in this plase. and in the opinion of .many their minds were unsettled on the suhjest of relig­ ion. They have drifted toward the Free Methodists, ami 'the eccentricities of Mrs. Smith have been of a more marked character. Latterly the belief gained with her that she and tho de­ ceased daughter were filled with sin, which nothing but protracted fasting and prayer could remove, and the girl is said to have been of the same opin­ ion. It is reported that a minister of that persuasion called, and learning of tho contemplated course, gave it his sanction. Accordingly on the 4l1t lust,, at noon, they each partook of a little milk, about a pint, and for live days neither of them took any nourishment, each taking turns in praying, which was aliuoct continuous during their waking hours.. At the end of this time the footl for the infant, which Mrs. Smith was nursing all tills time, failed and under divine instruction site says she resumed material sustenance. The girl continued failing until the evening of the 14th iust.--ten days.-- She become so reduced as to faint with every eflort, and a little nourishment was given her, but there seems to have been liltie effort made to restore her until Saturday evening, when Dr. J. K. llamlll was called. Tho patient was found in a dying condition and soon expired. Some time previous she was in ilelica'.e health, but at the com­ mencement of this fanatical experience was fully restored and was the person­ ification of health. Once each day she carefully wiped out her fhouth with a nanip cloth, and twice during her long i#t»t she washed her mouth with water. On one of these occasions she accident­ ia* swallowed a single drop, and for this sip she ntoued by praying eighteen vonsecutive hours. When she became so weak that she could not get on' her knees, her mother Instructed her fehat prayer was just as effectual while sit­ ting in a chair or lying in bed. and in these conditions it was continued un­ til her physical etrengthjcoukl hold out no longer. The community i6 much exercised over the inagtiitilde of the outrage. The case calls for prompt legal investigation. ... > BUILDING ft' A TKAOK. The family had only lately move* Into the neighborhood. A day or to after their arrival the head of the fam­ ily 'went to a grocery In the neighbor­ hood and inquired the price of a can of condensed milK. "Fifteen cents.*' said the proprietor. ^'Fifteen devils!" said the customer. "Why. man alive, I don't want to buy a dozen cans, but only one. What do you ask for half a can, wholesale figures?" "Never sell half a can." "1 reckon you never arid mortgage gales, am? he itivsiireifc sell anything if you mark your goods j short even on tlietii. One clay In tint y«|*rs gone by his p:ip«'r copied an at- A LIRSRAL KDITOH, We were grieved to read the other day of tiie death of one of MtchlgM^# jolliest pioneer editors--almnat the lai% man of a band who published weeklies In the $fate whoi a enonckln woultl pay for a column "ad," an*] three bush­ els of corn dtiniped on tiie office floor stood for a year's subscription. Never a publisher was more liberal with his space. It was bard work for him to charge for anything except the tax list t&-A horrible murder at Sandwich, shocked every one who heard of it last winter. Mr. II. P. Allen, a wealthy citizen of Sandwich, a uiouev Riauer. while sleeping quietly in his bed, was roused by the sound of some one in his .room. His wife heard him cry out, "You are there, are you?"' then she jumued up. and a pistol shot rang iu the/air. She fled to a closet and then two other shots were heard and Mr. Allen fell dead on the floor. The two trurderers ran to the street and from that time utterly baffled the eflorts of shrewd detectives to And them, until last Monday, when Sherifl Holcombe brought from Chicago, three young men named William Thomas, John Dye and Clarence Woodruff, who are chaiged with the crime. They are three of the bad boys of Sandwich. A cap, a piece of candle and footprints in the earth, proved the principle clues to th"ir guilt. The young men arc bath­ ed \L tears,and protest their innocence OirtVednesday evening two more were arrested, their names are Elmer Em­ mons and Hugh Pifeubery. The evi­ dences of their guilt are not made pub lie.of course, but the officers feel con­ fide ut that they have basrged the right wi*s.--ftefiffl/tteun. * Holiday Goods, in endless variety, a* Besley's frrug Store, West Side. A FKIV llOV'TS When you are out to dinner, or tea. and the hostess in vites you to the table, don't wait for the invitation to be re­ peated, as it is not only impolite on the part of the guest but many of the tempti 'ig dishes los*t their relish. I bad company a few days since, and they were called three times before they made their appearance iu the dining room. When you are out calling with one of your thirsty children--and this is their usual condition--your friend kindly offers to get you a glass* don't say "the dipper'is good enough, don't frouble yourself.*' This is no trouble to the neat housekeeper, lor she has a strong preference that you use the glas£, for various reasons. When you have spent a day with a friend who doe has exerted every nerve for your pleasure, after she has washed her china, and her work done up, dou'tcx- pect her to sit at the piano or organ alj the evening an.I play until she is ready :o fall from the stool. And during the day (unless invited by her) don't go in- Iter kitchen and ask a hundred ques­ tions. There are very few whom we welcome in our kitchen. Old fashion­ ed housekeepers seldom do this. Oi.ly those who depend upon girls know not tlie annoyance of this terrible iutru- • on. up that way. Suppose I take one can, will you come down to a dime?" "Fif­ teen cents is the usual price." **That may be. witli unreliable transient cus­ tomers, but 1 am an old citizen of Gal­ veston, and the store that catches my permanent trade wjli have to be en­ larged within six months. Say a dime, and throw in a pound or so ot soda crackers antl it's a whack." **Do yon buy.H great deal In the course of a year?" asked the proprietor with a sneer. "Do I buy a great deal? I should say I did. Why It won't be more than two months before 1*11 have to get new box of matches. The box 1 am using from now is more than half gone, and I only got it last Feb­ ruary, late In Fehruarjr too. Say dime for tiie condensed milk and one of them stale water-melons thrown iu as a loiter of au inducement, and j'ou can put these two uickles iu your bur­ glar proof safe.M "Fifteen cent* is the lowest price." "I wish you could see in v blacking brush. It can't hold out overCliristiuas and then I am bound to negotiate for a new one. Throw one box of blacking in with the con? densed milk and It's a transaction M won't Jlo It." "All right. Yon won't do it. 1*11 just keep my ejre on you. I'll bet your stock Is Insured for twice what it's worth, and you are go­ ing to have a Are pretty soon. When a merchant don't care to build up a trade he is fixing to fail or to swindle some­ body somehow. Good morning, sir. --Galveston New*. A NKBKASKA 8TOKY. When the last hateli of dog-days had nearly passed. Fletcher Mitchel,a far­ mer. stepped into a saloon in Millard. Neb, Cas he expressed it to the cornes^. jury),"to wet Ills whistle." As he *ii tered the door some one shoutetk '%oqk out! lie')t kill you!" MiteheU jerked his revolver from his pocket, and as quick ns thought flred at »man in who«e hand gleamed a wicked look' ing knife. The ball from Mitchell's revolver entered the man's forehead and killed him instantly. The dead man proved to be James Lyon. Ex­ amination of his body showed that Lyon was clad In a complete suit of armor worn under his clothing. The shield consisted of two pieces of heavy leather, padded with an inch of cotton batting and quilted to form an invul­ nerable protection to the vital parts.-- It is extended from his neck to his thighs, and entirely covered the front of his body, being suspended from his neck by straps. Tiie other parts of the body were protected by similar material. Lyon was not known iu Mil­ lard us a desperado, but it Is likely that Mitchell, who is now on trial for mur­ der, will he acquitted, because tiie murdered man's odd uudersult showed that he expected to take part in des- parate frays' Telegrams from Europe, dated October 29th,give account of a hurri­ cane and unprecedented among the storms of that country for several years. In England bridges have been carried her own work, and she ! away, towns Hooded, traffic suspended and communication Interrupted in al­ most every direction. Five vessels have been wrecked at South Shields, and sixteen persons drowned. Six vessels went ashore atj Whitby and nine persons were drowned. One ves­ sel struck at Dublin and five of those on board of her were lost. Four ves­ sels went down at Sunderland, but all the crews of these were saved with, the exception of one man. Two hun­ dred vessels are ashore on the Lincoln­ shire coast, many of them being high and dry on tli beach. These are but samples of tho accounts which reach us from different parts of Great Britain, and a considerable lo*s of life and property has been occasioned by the flood iu Italy. France and other por­ tions of Europe. tack on a county official, and uh) Mark | was dozing at liis <(et>k when the i»fe| jured parly stalked In ami began: "You are a coward, sip--a--coward!* | '•Mebke I am," wan the editor's placeut reply. "And I can lick you, sir--lick yon of your wrinkled old boots!" "I guess yon could." answered II as he busted(tlie wrapper oil Ids only exchange. "l*m going to wlrite an article calk ing you a fool, liar, coward, eur, slaar derer. and body snatcuer, and go over { to lonla and pay llye ceuts a line have it publishedTf J || "Hey?" queried the old nu ai wheeled around. v ' "Yes. I'll pay Ave cents a Hoe Is J have it published!" 4 j "Say. let me tell you something," re- ! piled Mark. "I've got 300 more clrci»« : 1 lation than the Banner, and I'll putK || lisii yoiifattaek on me for two cents a. line and take it out in mill feed or corn stalks! Don't trot over to Ionia when fl you can help build up your own town!*" Mark would have published it wen] for word, just as he said, and thrown In a cut of a horse or a stump puller free grit Is. but the official cooled oft.-- Free Press. • What I Fend >ly Hens. I saw in a late local in your paper, that you wish mc to inform your read­ ers hyw I feed my liens. 1 will gladly do so. 1 have twenty-five liens; they are a mixed stock, but 1 prefer white Leghorns, and the food that I feed them is corn and wheat, iind two quarts of lliick milk ami black pepper--about ljcents worth of pepper to a quart twice a week; besides that, I give them the offal from the table and grass. In the Winter 1 warm the corn and give them water to drink. The lot thai 1 keep them iu is fifteen feet square ;tnd a light vartn pen. The number of eggs laid is as follows: January, 109; i\iary. 258; March, 306; A pri 1,364; 410; June, 333; July, 308; August. September, 280; total.2,654. The six months 1 had twenty-five hens, next three month- I had twenty-four.-- I am responsible for this statement, which is strictly correct.--Correspond­ ent to the Oennantown Telegraph. Feb- May 287; firs* the The N«w»p«p«r In a lknak«Mtt-:^ People who live Hear the great thor­ oughfares, where they have access to-*< two or three dailies aud a half dozen weeklies, do not fully appreciate the value of a newspaper. They come. In­ deed, to look u|iou them as liejessiliea, and they would as cheer folly tk» with­ out their moruiug meal aaiheir morn- iugluail. But one must be far oft in the Country, remote from the "tntddealiiy crowd,"* to realize the full luxury of K newspaper. The farmer who rseeleee Si tyit one papet a week does not ghuiwg \over its coluuius hurriedly, with an alrtf i and reads to tho eud. not permitting m news i^eoi or an advertisement to es­ cape his t eye. Then it has to be ^ thumbed>every member of tiie flam- •' ily. each poking for the things , V which he orVttj* is most interested.-- 1 The grown up^iug liter looks fur the 'J marriage uoticesf-and is delighted if the editor has treated them to a love i story. The son M^tolVpj about to engage, Z- in farmlng1 with iSq^eiithusiasitt that will carry hi iu far iiV advance of hi* v! father, reads all the crop reports and 4 has a keen eye for Itiut<r»bout improved modes of culture. The younger mem- | bers of the family come In (or the amusing anecdotes and scraps of AM. ^ All look forward to the day that shall 4 bring the paper with the liveliest in- terest, aud if, by some unlucky chauce * itfailstocome.it is a hitter disap­ pointment. One can hardly estimate fj the amount of information which a (te­ ller which is not only read but studied i can carry into the family. They have, week by week spread before their mental visiou. a panorama of the busy world, its fluctuations aud its vast con­ cerns. It is the poor man's library, and furnishes as much mental food ae lie has time to consuine or digest. No one whojhas observed how much those who are far away from the places where men nn;st congiegate value their weekly paper, can. fail to join la invoking a blessing on the inventor of this means of intellectual enjoyment. Thel'iillv Suspijmler , «_r „.Argesy- Brace can be boiight in thistowu only MLauer& Becker's. They are ti»e best thing ou% f&~A Washington dispatch gives flgures comparing our foreign trade for the last month and year as follows: The excess of exports of merchandise for September was $18,000,000; for Sep­ tember. 1879. 821,250,000. For the nine months ended September 30, 973,760,- 000; same period of 1877, 9161^50,000. In the twelve months euded Septem­ ber 30.1800, 9163,819,000; same period of 1879, $257,450,000. This dituluuuioii is in the wrong direction and notwith­ standing the fact that our exports largely exceed our imports furnishes occasion for alarm. BUY THE BEST. When you go to your Grocers call for the Hanly New Process Flour, aud take no other. If he keep it be ought to; ami - I>ry Goods and Notions ftor svery- iMMly ami prices low at FtTZsiXKO^S 4 EVAN SON'S. ?' fortllsnt M IKK IT UXANIHLLTTL A SOUTHERN OKMOCHAT's OPtXlOV. ^ WASHINGTON, Xov. 4.--Ther« |« strong conviction among the poiltlelsne of both parties that the defeat of U«n- cock means the break up of the wild South lu the early future. One of the most popular and prominent Souther* Democrats now iu this city *ays; "If I hid SIIV war 1 would vast tlm )38 elee* torai votes of the South for Garfield, aud make the thing uuauimons. Oar alliance with the Northern Democrats gives them all the ha'pence and' all the kicks. We have (lone promised politically, but our Nc party associates have sold us out or he* trayed us. The Northern Demoeral* always consult their interests, and I am in favor now of the South consult** A-] ing hers.** This feeliug i* not eowfiued to any one, nor to a lew of the South- em Democrats, hut seeuis to be gener­ al. They say that lu the six years the Democrats have had the Uwwf -they have given the Sooth nothing; That when an appropriation fgtr-tltat seetiou is asked the NortfevsgKWttiocrata say; "For God's sake.flo»Vt. or you'll ruls us." HUlierto ltJ|J|M-pe of wlautqg national victory Mifflced to the nai urai divjjnus ot Stmtlwlpli ocrats. out now tiytf JJiey *ea! South is aiway<^£?e to Jm " that nothing yRt be Caiuttd tabling it. it^Mt*ve«fct« soon spit up, : ..."